WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.460 about it. Some people were incorrect spending. We should spend it on other 00:00:04.500 --> 00:00:08.240 things. They were spending like a tenth of the total like it was a lot. 00:00:08.860 --> 00:00:12.540 Oh, I'm getting a snack. Sorry 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:22.940 my bad just for just for the full plane audience. This will be my screen for the 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:28.240 for the day. I have this like paddle on the left where I'm going to stay tuned 00:00:28.740 --> 00:00:31.500 I can't hear it though. So 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.540 if you guys can keep me informed on important things that happen in the audio 00:00:37.540 --> 00:00:43.340 Oh I'm assuming from the clapping that is the front porch then and they got all the 00:00:43.340 --> 00:00:45.140 people out now. I don't I don't know 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:48.040 jubilee 00:00:53.440 --> 00:01:02.640 Okay, I'm going to turn that off. Oh, some of the terminology they use is amazing. Not all of them, but literally 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:06.840 just now. Okay, so front porch is just now. Okay. Okay. One person. Should we do 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:11.640 this thing? Yeah, let's hit it. What was your snack of choice today? I went for 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:15.440 Miss Vicki's sea salt and malt vinegar. I feel like it's a rip off that those 00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:19.940 multi packs don't have jalapeno in them. I think that's ridiculous. I 00:01:20.940 --> 00:01:26.840 generally think Costco does a very good job, but I do have one conspiracy theory 00:01:26.940 --> 00:01:35.340 about Costco. I believe that variety packs at Costco contain all the words 00:01:35.340 --> 00:01:39.840 that two thirds to three quarters of what you want and the rest something 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:46.340 nobody wants. Both flats of bubbly have two flavors that I like and one that's 00:01:46.340 --> 00:01:57.440 horrible. It's like, oh, I get mango and raspberry, but also really grapefruit and 00:01:57.440 --> 00:02:04.440 then the other ones like lime and blackberry and like really cherry. Does 00:02:04.540 --> 00:02:10.840 anybody like Chick-a-Cherry Cola? Maybe they do. Maybe they do. Maybe I'm maybe 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.640 I got it wrong. Maybe I got it all wrong, but it just feels like it feels like 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:21.640 there's always one that sucks. All right, there's some people out there that 00:02:21.640 --> 00:02:25.740 like cherry bubbly. Two crew members out. Let's go. 00:02:30.040 --> 00:02:36.740 That's pretty cool. Yearly cadence begins. Artemis three next year. Artemis four 00:02:36.740 --> 00:02:42.040 year after that, as long as you know, nothing crazy happens in the world, 00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:45.540 Linus. I'm not ready to assume anything. As long as nothing crazy happens. 00:02:46.040 --> 00:02:51.440 Things that are scheduled no longer are scheduled to me. Yeah. 00:03:04.440 --> 00:03:08.040 Do you want me to hit it or are you hitting it? Go ahead, Dan, hit it. 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:10.640 Look, are you ready? Yeah. 00:03:46.640 --> 00:03:51.640 Welcome to the WAN Show. We got a great show lined up for you guys today. It is 00:03:51.640 --> 00:03:58.340 week two of the positive WAN Show. I had more fun last week than I probably have 00:03:58.340 --> 00:04:03.640 in over a year doing WAN Show. Maybe we just keep it this way. I was skimming 00:04:03.640 --> 00:04:06.640 through the dock today and I was just like, yeah. Yeah. 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:10.140 Awesome. I want to talk about all these. We got a lot to talk about. One of the 00:04:10.140 --> 00:04:15.540 big ones is that I have spent about the last week with my MacBook Neo 00:04:15.540 --> 00:04:20.540 I am ready to talk about some of my experiences with it, both good and also 00:04:20.540 --> 00:04:24.840 not as good. And in other news that I got right before the show started, you bought 00:04:24.840 --> 00:04:30.240 one. Technically, not for me, but yes. I freaking called it. So I can't believe 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:34.740 how hard I called that. Yeah. I don't know. Usually you're the one who's predicting 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:39.140 things out here like freaking Nostradamus and now I get to do it. Yep. It's a 00:04:39.140 --> 00:04:44.940 small win. Yep. But it's a win nonetheless. Speaking of wins nonetheless, the French 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:51.340 government is ushering in La Nadelineux, which I assume is how they would say it, 00:04:51.340 --> 00:04:55.740 the year of Linux. We'll be talking about that. What else we got today? I mean, 00:04:55.740 --> 00:05:00.840 there's more Linux news on top of that. Dear John Deere settles US right to repair 00:05:00.840 --> 00:05:06.140 lawsuit agreeing to a hundred million dollar fund for farmers and other things 00:05:06.140 --> 00:05:09.540 that I think is arguably like more important, but we'll talk about that 00:05:09.540 --> 00:05:15.340 soon. Also steam. Just this is actually so exciting to me. There's going to be a 00:05:15.340 --> 00:05:18.940 I can't find the topic, but there's going to be a frame rate estimator for games 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.040 when you're looking at them in the store. So you can tell how well it might 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:28.540 perform on your machine, which is so sick and they would have the data. They would 00:05:28.540 --> 00:05:31.040 have the data. That's awesome. And I would have the intro. 00:05:39.540 --> 00:05:56.540 The show is brought to you today by D brand. Oh, dude. Squarespace and proton 00:05:56.540 --> 00:06:02.740 alongside our rep partner D brand and our chair partner and laptop partner, 00:06:02.740 --> 00:06:08.540 which is razor and also razor. Do we need to have a policy that you're only allowed 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:14.240 to sponsor the WAN Show like once at a time? You know what? No. No, I don't think 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:20.340 we do. Let's jump right into the headline topic, which this week has just got 00:06:20.340 --> 00:06:25.540 to be, I mean, it's MacBook Neo mania out there. And now that I've switched over 00:06:25.540 --> 00:06:32.940 to it, dude, I got to say it's, it's the real deal. Yeah, it's funny because the 00:06:32.940 --> 00:06:36.140 one that I purchased, which again, wasn't for me, but the one that I purchased 00:06:36.140 --> 00:06:40.740 is the same color. Yeah. Okay. So you're one. You like the, you like the, the, 00:06:40.740 --> 00:06:44.840 the yellowish, yellowish fun. There's so many things these days that are just 00:06:44.840 --> 00:06:48.940 either black or white. Yep. And it's like, okay. So it's fun to just have 00:06:48.940 --> 00:06:53.940 something else. I don't want to bore you guys. And I know that, you know, the LTT 00:06:53.940 --> 00:06:58.640 audience tends to swing a little bit less. Hey, I'm so excited about Apple. 00:06:58.640 --> 00:07:02.040 Please tell me more about Apple. So why don't I talk about some of the challenges 00:07:02.140 --> 00:07:07.140 that I've had with it? It turns out that while the MacBook Neo has been an 00:07:07.140 --> 00:07:13.740 absolutely fantabulous sort of daily driver machine, web browsing, word 00:07:13.740 --> 00:07:19.940 processing, chat, you know, all the things that I mostly spend my days doing 00:07:19.940 --> 00:07:26.240 have been, I don't know how to describe it other than enjoyable. It's just such 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:31.540 a nice machine to use. Every aspect of it that you interface with directly is 00:07:31.540 --> 00:07:38.440 so good. But there have been a few challenges that have reared their head 00:07:38.440 --> 00:07:42.440 over the last little bit. And the one that's probably been the most disruptive 00:07:42.440 --> 00:07:48.240 to me is the limitations on the IO. If you're the kind of person that never 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:53.440 connects your laptop to anything, I think I could recommend the Neo without 00:07:53.840 --> 00:07:59.040 hesitation. Unless you use software that you, you know, you know, you're going 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:02.740 to need more RAM, you're going to need more performance for. If you're just 00:08:02.740 --> 00:08:09.340 someone who uses a browser on your laptop, heck yeah, if you dock, I've had 00:08:09.340 --> 00:08:16.440 some issues. Really? Interesting. We got a, one of those like dual USB-C port out 00:08:16.440 --> 00:08:19.440 into a big breakout box that just runs along the side. I think there's one 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:23.140 from Anchor, Ugreen, a few different brands. Yeah. And it's been totally fine. 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:29.840 But it's not a dock fully. Kind of is there's HDMI out and stuff. In fairness 00:08:29.840 --> 00:08:35.640 to Apple, the display that I'm connected to, not the most compatible. It's 00:08:35.640 --> 00:08:40.240 that Dell 6K one that we did a video on a little while ago and there's two 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:43.940 problems. So first of all, it doesn't run at 6K obviously because that there's 00:08:43.940 --> 00:08:48.740 no way that this would be able to drive it. It runs at 4K, which would be fine 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:59.540 except that macOS is native handling of non 16 by 9 and non the same aspect 00:08:59.540 --> 00:09:07.140 ratio as their displays displays is frankly unacceptable. There's already 00:09:07.140 --> 00:09:10.640 the weirdness with how Mac handles your like where you're setting your 00:09:10.640 --> 00:09:16.740 resolution rather sets your DPI like it sets your scaling is how we would 00:09:16.740 --> 00:09:21.340 sort of think of it on Windows and that can already be a little bit 00:09:21.340 --> 00:09:26.640 confusing. But on top of that, when you go through the list, even when you 00:09:26.640 --> 00:09:30.240 say expose all resolutions or show me every resolution or something like 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:35.740 that, when I'm connected to that Dell, even when I close my lid, which from 00:09:35.740 --> 00:09:39.540 the last time I did a MacBook challenge, if I recall correctly is the only way 00:09:39.540 --> 00:09:43.540 to fully disable this display. You can't just like turn it off in the display 00:09:43.540 --> 00:09:48.340 manager. And if I'm wrong about that, guys, hit me up in the chat. But even 00:09:48.340 --> 00:09:53.640 if you close the lid and you're just only using your ultra wide display, I 00:09:53.640 --> 00:09:57.640 don't get a single ultra wide resolution. There is a tool that I downloaded. 00:09:58.140 --> 00:10:03.740 It's called better. I think it's called better display. Yeah, better display. 00:10:04.740 --> 00:10:09.340 But frankly, after spending about three minutes on it, I didn't figure it out 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:18.040 immediately and it is seems pretty pretty obtuse. So the stretching for my 00:10:18.040 --> 00:10:21.840 display has been pretty freaking annoying, not nearly as annoying as the 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:25.740 occasional complete disconnects. Oh, weird. It'll just disconnect, go back to 00:10:25.740 --> 00:10:31.340 this for a second and then fire the display back up. I haven't messed with 00:10:31.340 --> 00:10:35.340 external displays. I haven't ran into any of that. Another big one is that I'm 00:10:35.340 --> 00:10:41.040 getting occasional Wi-Fi issues that I don't know if it's related to Apple's 00:10:41.040 --> 00:10:49.940 Wi-Fi chip or if it's related to our ubiquity access points or what it is. 00:10:50.140 --> 00:10:54.540 But I'm going to fire this over to Dan just so I can show you guys. But 00:10:54.540 --> 00:11:00.440 occasionally, I will just run into a situation where I can't stream video. 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:05.440 Yeah, I was trying to review a video today on frame.io and I just couldn't 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:11.240 and I was like, okay, that's really annoying. But maybe it's frame.io. I 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.940 have seen it before. I've seen it on YouTube as well. But I was like, okay, 00:11:14.940 --> 00:11:19.140 maybe it's maybe it's just frame.io being a derp. And so I fired up YouTube 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:24.740 and I had exactly the same issue. I literally could not watch a YouTube 00:11:24.740 --> 00:11:31.740 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 00:11:31.740 --> 00:11:39.740 and for me, for me, just while he's figuring that out, there was some 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:45.740 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 00:11:45.740 --> 00:11:50.040 and stuff was just a little weird. But it wasn't that bad. It's just kind of 00:11:50.040 --> 00:11:53.340 different. And you know, coming off of being on the Linux challenge for two 00:11:53.340 --> 00:11:56.940 months or whatever, like learning new things about an operating system is kind 00:11:56.940 --> 00:11:59.840 of fresh right now. So not a big deal. You might say you're more used to 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:08.640 thinking different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The thing that really got me, though, 00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:14.240 was installing stuff. It's very strange. If it's not in the app store, the 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:20.040 drag and drop thing, it's like, oh, drag and drop. Give us one second. It's like, 00:12:20.040 --> 00:12:23.940 oh, oh, drag and drop, but you drag and drop and nothing happens. You have to 00:12:23.940 --> 00:12:29.640 like drag and hold and then like put it in an open spot in the folder and then 00:12:29.640 --> 00:12:33.040 it sort of happens. It's like, what? I don't even think you have to do that. 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:36.140 I think it's I think it's already doing it. And then you're just fidgeting 00:12:36.140 --> 00:12:40.040 around more and it's doing it in the background. And then you're like, oh, 00:12:40.040 --> 00:12:45.640 it's done. I was also a lot of like ghost loading where that's what I want to 00:12:45.640 --> 00:12:49.140 call it is where like you'd go to launch something. Nothing happens. Your 00:12:49.140 --> 00:13:02.440 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 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:06.840 just launches. People are saying wrong and stuff like, yeah, probably. I have no 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:10.740 idea what I'm doing. It's just those are the things that kind of felt weird so 00:13:10.740 --> 00:13:15.240 far. And I mean, to me, it's like, I get it that that's the Mac way. You drag 00:13:15.340 --> 00:13:19.940 the thing over. Why? Yeah, I already double clicked it. Yeah. That was the 00:13:19.940 --> 00:13:23.040 weirdest part for me. It was like, what even is this step? Why? What is the 00:13:23.040 --> 00:13:27.840 point? Yeah. Why? Just how about just know I'm willing to bet. This is one of 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:33.040 those things where I understand why other people are used to it. Totally get 00:13:33.040 --> 00:13:39.740 it. But hear me out. Would you notice or care if that step just went away and 00:13:39.740 --> 00:13:43.540 then nobody ever saw that ever again? Yeah, probably not. Why does it like 00:13:43.640 --> 00:13:48.540 mount the installers? Maybe I was doing something weird. Very likely I was 00:13:48.540 --> 00:13:55.240 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 00:13:55.240 --> 00:14:01.540 store. That too. Discord. Yeah, wasn't in the app store. Why wasn't discord 00:14:01.540 --> 00:14:05.340 in the yeah. Why isn't discord in the app store? And maybe that's on 00:14:05.340 --> 00:14:08.940 discord because I went to install something and then realized like, oh, 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:12.840 I'm probably being such a boomer. They have an app store just like Linux as a 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.840 package manager. I should just go use that. And then yeah, it just wasn't in 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.040 there. It's very odd. I thought that was one of the steps where I was like, 00:14:20.040 --> 00:14:23.440 this is for sure a me problem. So I checked that I spelled discord right. 00:14:23.540 --> 00:14:31.940 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 00:14:31.940 --> 00:14:38.540 many things and like because people will take advantage of of vacuums in 00:14:38.540 --> 00:14:42.840 available apps, there's all these things that are kind of similarly named 00:14:43.340 --> 00:14:46.940 trying to entice you to download them in the app store. It's like, no, it's 00:14:46.940 --> 00:14:50.740 obviously that's not what I want. Obviously, I just want teams and I just 00:14:50.740 --> 00:14:56.840 want my discord. Yeah. Other than that, it's actually been wonderful. Like I did 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:00.440 the the body flex thing. I did that as like a demo to show them like, no, it's 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.940 actually made really well. Yeah, didn't budge. Let's let me show you how 00:15:03.940 --> 00:15:07.440 wonderful the experience I had earlier today was made laptop. Yeah, but you 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:14.640 don't know that this is. Oh, no, no, I rebooted it and the issue went away. Okay. 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:20.340 And it's happened a few times. Got it. I don't think we ran into this. I wonder 00:15:20.340 --> 00:15:23.840 if this is a problem with your unit or something. We'll see if other people 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.940 in chat have experienced this. We're not going to be able to watch this whole 00:15:27.940 --> 00:15:33.440 thing. It's a minute of us watching this YouTube video, not load. Yeah. So there's 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:38.240 definitely been some just wasn't working. It just it was not working. It did. It 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:41.540 did not want any part of any of this. I don't think we can go back down. But yeah, 00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:45.940 there you go. Let me just see if there's anything else that's kind of stood 00:15:45.940 --> 00:15:52.240 out. The performance is really great until it's not great. Search is incredible. 00:15:52.740 --> 00:15:56.440 Oh, spotlight. Oh, oh, you're he's not like now. I don't think I've ever used 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:00.740 spotlight before. It's made me just mad again because I'm like, why is it 00:16:00.740 --> 00:16:04.740 window so much better? But spotlight seems awesome. The funniest part of this 00:16:04.740 --> 00:16:09.240 is that correct me if I'm wrong. But over the last few years, I feel like the 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.840 Mac community has soured on spotlight a little bit and feels it's gotten worse. 00:16:13.040 --> 00:16:21.640 Wow. It used to be even better, like God tier. And now it's still like a tier 00:16:21.640 --> 00:16:28.540 in my it's way better in my opinion. But from my understanding, Mac users are 00:16:28.540 --> 00:16:32.540 a little bit like, come on, Apple, we can do better than this because they know 00:16:32.540 --> 00:16:40.440 they can spotlight is like I really, really like spotlight. I find the navigation 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:45.140 of like, you know, your local storage and stuff to be pretty simple. Like none of 00:16:45.140 --> 00:16:49.140 it feels like too bad. It was kind of nice coming in with a little bit of 00:16:49.140 --> 00:16:54.240 preexisting knowledge, knowing that if I had like my active window, the controls 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:57.640 for it, we're going to be up in like the top bar, whatever you want to call that. 00:16:57.640 --> 00:17:02.640 Like knowing that ahead of time was kind of helpful. Learning how to use the, I 00:17:02.640 --> 00:17:07.240 think it's called the dock, the bar at the bottom. Learning how to use that in 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.140 different ways, like what things mean, like if it's to the right of the vertical 00:17:11.140 --> 00:17:15.440 line, it's not actually on your dock, it's just there right now. And okay, I 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.240 want to actually pin that to the dock and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:17:18.540 --> 00:17:22.740 I continue to be annoyed that Apple just kind of gets a free pass for some of 00:17:22.740 --> 00:17:30.440 the included software that is basically an ad. Like the fact that Apple TV is 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:33.440 just literally front and center. 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:38.840 That's okay. Apple TV is probably fair. I did think it was kind of neat that games is there 00:17:38.840 --> 00:17:43.140 though, and there's like chess preinstalled. There's like some fun stuff. 00:17:43.340 --> 00:17:47.440 Like when you want chess, you don't want bejeweled with microtransactions. 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:50.940 See, this is my point is like Microsoft used to come with cool stuff. 00:17:50.940 --> 00:17:54.140 They used to get pinball, table, free cell. Yeah. 00:17:54.340 --> 00:17:57.440 And now it's just like ad garbage. My job. 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:01.440 And I get the Mac open and I'm suddenly like excited to check out some of the 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:05.540 apps. I'm like, oh, I wonder what the chess app is like. I wonder what some of these other things are like. 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:10.440 Yep. I appreciated that not to already pivot it to Linux, but when I did my switch 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:14.340 to KDE, KDE came with a bunch of preinstalled fun little games. 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:17.240 I was like, oh, that's pretty sweet. They're so tiny like. 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.440 Katowice says you should try the Windows power twice equivalent of spotlight. 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:30.140 It's so sad. It's not built in. No, it's infuriating that I'm not it's good news when show week. 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:33.340 I'm not going to be infuriated today, but good call. 00:18:33.340 --> 00:18:38.940 Good call. But the number of times that I've read that comment in Floatplane chat is more 00:18:38.940 --> 00:18:42.640 than a dozen over a span of at least a couple of years. 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:46.340 At which point it's not on me for not installing it. 00:18:46.340 --> 00:18:50.540 It's on Microsoft for not implementing it like if Windows is good by 00:18:50.540 --> 00:18:55.540 come on guys, I will likely be inspired to do things like that to mod it to 00:18:55.540 --> 00:18:58.540 make it even better, but Windows has to be good by default. 00:19:00.340 --> 00:19:04.940 If Linux isn't quite there, I'm much more willing to do stuff. 00:19:04.940 --> 00:19:09.740 Well, I didn't pay for it because this is free. I didn't pay for this is a very different. 00:19:09.840 --> 00:19:17.340 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 00:19:17.340 --> 00:19:23.640 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 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:26.840 then just use that, I would rather do that than fight something that 00:19:26.840 --> 00:19:31.640 actively seems to hate me. It's extremely different vibes. 00:19:32.140 --> 00:19:35.040 Oh, Dan, I have another fun one for you. 00:19:35.840 --> 00:19:41.340 I don't think this is really like actionable in any meaningful way. 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:48.440 But I just thought it was so funny that here, let me let me send this over to 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:51.840 you, Dan. Let's do a topic really quick that is related to the MacBook Neo and then 00:19:51.840 --> 00:19:54.240 we'll come back to something really funny. You're going to love this. 00:19:54.940 --> 00:20:00.640 The Neo has apparently been so popular that Apple is running out of the A18 pro 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:07.740 bend chips that were not quite iPhone 16 pro ready, but work fine for the 00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:11.040 less constrained thermal situation in the Neo. 00:20:11.540 --> 00:20:14.840 Apple reportedly only plans to make five to six million units with the 00:20:14.840 --> 00:20:19.540 leftover supply they had and are now scrum scrambling to get more chips. 00:20:19.540 --> 00:20:23.840 I mean, freaking. How does it don't take this the wrong way? 00:20:23.840 --> 00:20:29.840 I mean this in the most respectful way because Apple is a modern day master 00:20:29.840 --> 00:20:36.040 class in supply chain management and forecasting. How the f**k did Apple think they were only going to sell five to six 00:20:36.040 --> 00:20:44.340 million units of these things? I, Joe Schmo, who can't make enough cables to save my life, could have told 00:20:44.340 --> 00:20:50.440 them triple it. Like this thing is an absolute game changer and that's probably before 00:20:50.540 --> 00:20:54.240 the educational institutions have even validated this thing. 00:20:54.740 --> 00:20:58.340 Like dude. There's going to be a lot more. 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:03.840 How can they not? How could they that this is the kind of thing that I just I find so baffling 00:21:04.040 --> 00:21:07.140 like you remember back in the days when you were always working on 00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:13.040 like some review of some CPU or some GPU and we'd release our video where 00:21:13.040 --> 00:21:18.140 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 00:21:18.140 --> 00:21:25.140 be like, what do you mean? And we're kind of sitting here going like, you can run the same f**king 00:21:25.140 --> 00:21:31.840 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 00:21:31.840 --> 00:21:38.040 of those cases, they did. It was the technical teams totally understood. 00:21:38.140 --> 00:21:41.440 Yeah. And it would end up, they would just end up being like, I don't know. 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:45.140 It got to marketing and then they just said some stuff and like, that's not 00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:48.340 what we found. And this is like, this is the opposite of that. 00:21:48.340 --> 00:21:53.740 This is like, how could they possibly not have known that they had the 00:21:53.740 --> 00:21:58.240 product launch of the decade on their hands in at least in the laptop category? 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:03.140 Seriously, name a laptop from the last 10 years as impactful as this one. 00:22:04.540 --> 00:22:08.540 I am not trying to shill. I don't have an investment in it. 00:22:08.540 --> 00:22:15.440 I think framework has been very impactful. I think if you'd said M1 MacBook, I would have accepted that massive. 00:22:16.140 --> 00:22:19.240 I still think this takes both of those though. I think so too. 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:25.940 Just because of the accessibility. I think both of those are up there for different reasons because to me, the long 00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:29.740 term picture is also really important. This is not just today. 00:22:30.140 --> 00:22:36.540 This is a $350 laptop on the second hand market two and a half, three years 00:22:36.540 --> 00:22:44.340 from now. And the thing is with its build quality, it'll last probably going to be fine. 00:22:44.540 --> 00:22:48.340 Like you kind of had it slip a little bit early in the show and it bonked 00:22:48.340 --> 00:22:53.540 the table. Yeah, whatever. Part of me went like, and then I was like, actually it's a tank. 00:22:53.740 --> 00:22:59.740 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 00:22:59.740 --> 00:23:04.140 battery life that I'm getting. It's not class. Well, it is class leading, but it's not. 00:23:04.140 --> 00:23:08.740 It's not game changing battery life, especially for a MacBook, but it's 00:23:08.840 --> 00:23:14.540 outstanding, especially when you consider the size of that battery. The fact that it's cooling isn't stellar is kind of fun. 00:23:14.940 --> 00:23:17.940 Yeah, like Alex's video, just putting the thermal pad over there. 00:23:18.040 --> 00:23:21.840 Like that's cool. That makes me want to go mod a laptop. 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:28.640 I, um, I've always kind of wondered, um, like, you know how there's laptop 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:31.840 docs that are supposed to assist with cooling by just blowing another fan 00:23:31.840 --> 00:23:35.940 at the bottom? Turns out they don't really do that much, at least for any laptops 00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:41.440 that we've ever tried it with. But I've always kind of wondered if there could be a thermal interface 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:46.640 material that's non-goopy sticky enough that you could like, you could add 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.340 a bit of surface area to something like, would that be a good product for 00:23:50.340 --> 00:23:53.940 just a machined aluminum thing that you sit your MacBook Neo on? 00:23:54.840 --> 00:23:58.040 Are we on the same wavelength? Did you get this from someone? Did you hear this from someone? 00:23:58.340 --> 00:24:05.340 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 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:09.740 in that you have to have like almost press it into like a switch to and 00:24:09.740 --> 00:24:12.640 then kind of, but flat. 00:24:12.840 --> 00:24:18.840 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. 00:24:18.840 --> 00:24:26.440 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 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:32.340 type of cooling surface. And I was thinking it would be really cool if it was like an actual 00:24:32.340 --> 00:24:35.640 thermal pad, but they're probably all going to be too goopy. 00:24:35.740 --> 00:24:39.640 And when you pull it away, it's going to pull some material off of it. So like you, we need some way. 00:24:39.740 --> 00:24:45.440 And then I kind of came down to like, um, what are they called? 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:51.440 Uh, uh, uh, basically a piece of metal with, uh, one of those frick, the 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:54.140 electrical coolers that create heat on like a Peltier. 00:24:55.040 --> 00:24:58.240 Peltiers are cool. Probably not the answer. 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:02.940 They're super inefficient. Yeah. Yeah. And you've got to get rid of the heat somehow. 00:25:02.940 --> 00:25:07.840 And so you end up with a fan and it ends up, see, I would want a passive 00:25:07.840 --> 00:25:10.840 solution for this. And I don't think I would need active cooling. 00:25:10.840 --> 00:25:17.640 I think that as long as I could get more. Just don't know how you, and this is ignorance, not impossibility. 00:25:17.840 --> 00:25:22.540 I don't know how you transfer that heat super effectively without goop. 00:25:22.940 --> 00:25:27.340 Yeah. What, what my ideal, my ideal for something like this, cause like we've, 00:25:27.340 --> 00:25:32.240 we've dabbled in improving the cooling of passive Apple devices over many, 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:37.840 many years. I remember water cooling, the original USB-C MacBook back in, what was it? 00:25:37.840 --> 00:25:44.840 Like 2013, just a tray of water or something like that. Yeah. Using plasticine or like Play-Doh or something to shield the ports. 00:25:44.840 --> 00:25:47.840 Yeah. And then just putting it in a nice bath. Yeah. 00:25:47.840 --> 00:25:51.040 Um, it made a big difference. Made a big difference. It was pretty cool. 00:25:51.340 --> 00:25:55.740 Um, but ever since then, I've always felt like the best solution would be 00:25:55.840 --> 00:26:01.940 something more like a, um, like a hot cold pack, like a freezer pack, like 00:26:01.940 --> 00:26:08.340 some kind of like a bladder that, um, that you could, in a perfect world, 00:26:08.340 --> 00:26:12.440 you could actually circulate fluid through so you could like water cool it, 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:14.940 but without actually having the water touching it. I think you could. 00:26:15.840 --> 00:26:19.740 Yeah, probably. I just, we've never, we've never put the development cycles into making 00:26:19.740 --> 00:26:23.740 something like that. Yeah. Cause I, what the market, I have always adored the idea. 00:26:23.740 --> 00:26:27.240 Like I was pissed with the switch one that the doc didn't offer any potential 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:32.540 performance improvements. I have always adored the idea that like it works when you're mobile, but then 00:26:32.540 --> 00:26:38.140 you can, there's like an incentive to plugging it in that isn't just big 00:26:38.140 --> 00:26:41.340 screen now. The incentive is like, this is performance mode. 00:26:41.340 --> 00:26:45.440 I always thought that was really cool. Um, and realistically, yeah. 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:50.940 Uh, Avian's, this probably is an example of the type of device that you could 00:26:50.940 --> 00:26:55.840 just have a, a laptop stand with a fan on it and would probably get you 98% of 00:26:55.840 --> 00:27:01.340 the way there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the idea of like a big machined piece of aluminum with fins in it or 00:27:01.340 --> 00:27:04.840 something like that, that you like, that you put it on in order to get max 00:27:04.840 --> 00:27:11.440 performance and document, that's pretty cool. It might make more sense once we get something with an A19 pro, maybe a year, 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.340 a year and a half from now or something like that. Anyway, back to our actual topic here. 00:27:15.540 --> 00:27:18.940 According to Tom's guide, Amazon seems to have the best availability of these 00:27:18.940 --> 00:27:22.140 things, which matters because if you're ordering direct from Apple, apparently 00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:25.440 you're looking at up to four week delays. Wild. 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:29.340 I got, I got mine from, oh man, this is kind of unfortunate. 00:27:29.340 --> 00:27:37.140 I got mine from Best Buy. Um, they were totally sold out on the lower capacity, no touch ID model. 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:42.240 Um, so got the higher capacity with touch ID model. I think that was especially touch ID. 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:46.940 I think that was a good move because I was ended up being kind of happy about it 00:27:46.940 --> 00:27:52.840 because touch ID is pretty sweet. I have not only ended up missing touch ID just cause it's like convenient and 00:27:52.840 --> 00:27:58.640 nice, um, but I've noticed that there are some software flows that Apple or their, 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:04.640 their software partners don't seem to have, um, factored in, um, for devices 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:10.640 that don't have touch ID. So you'll like get prompted to, to do touch ID and like, I don't have one. 00:28:11.040 --> 00:28:15.540 And it's not like, if you search in settings, um, for like touch ID, it 00:28:15.540 --> 00:28:18.240 doesn't just tell you, you don't have touch ID. 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:24.540 Like it just, if you don't understand that you ordered one that doesn't have 00:28:24.540 --> 00:28:30.540 touch ID, okay. So that could be confusing to, to like an average user. 00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:36.140 So speaking of confusing to an average user, we, we didn't know that the, so 00:28:36.140 --> 00:28:39.740 that the touch ID, see how yours has like a power button or a lock button or 00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:42.640 whatever it is on that key on the touch ID one. 00:28:42.740 --> 00:28:46.140 There's no logo. Oh, right. Cause it's a fingerprint sensor. 00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:50.040 So we were trying to have her to touch ID and she would press it in. 00:28:51.040 --> 00:28:54.040 Like why the heck does the computer keep going to sleep? 00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:59.840 Like trying to do basically anything and the computer keeps just shutting itself 00:28:59.840 --> 00:29:03.740 down. We're like, what is happening? Why is this thing so buggy? 00:29:03.940 --> 00:29:07.240 And then yeah, no, it's, we were pressing the power button. That makes sense. 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.740 Well, I was going to say, oh yeah, man, the best way experience dude. 00:29:13.140 --> 00:29:16.440 I walk right in, tell them exactly what I want and they're like, okay, I'll 00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:19.940 get it from the back. I'll meet you here in a couple of minutes. Okay, sounds good. 00:29:20.340 --> 00:29:24.540 Goes and gets it from the back. Like, uh, can I tell you about our service plan thing? 00:29:24.840 --> 00:29:28.440 And I was like, I mean, yeah, but I'm not getting it. 00:29:28.840 --> 00:29:33.240 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 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:39.140 of a one time buy. Um, and he keeps going through the details and I'm like literally just sitting 00:29:39.140 --> 00:29:45.140 on my phone. I come not buying this and it goes on for so long and every once in a while 00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:48.840 look up for my phone and he's like, oh yeah, you can bring it into geekswad 00:29:48.840 --> 00:29:52.440 anytime and they'll, they'll repair it for you. And I'm like, you guys just ship it off, right? 00:29:52.940 --> 00:29:55.840 He was like, what? And I was like, you're repairing it through a depot. You're not repairing it here, right? 00:29:56.040 --> 00:29:59.640 He's like, yeah, but we give you like a loner laptop while yours is out 00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:02.640 for repair. I'm just like, wow, that sounds bad. 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:09.040 Like, okay, back to my phone and it was like a long time. 00:30:09.640 --> 00:30:12.840 Yeah. I mean, let him do his job. No, I did. 00:30:12.940 --> 00:30:17.340 Yeah. You know, no disrespect to the guy. You got to, you got to do what you got to do. 00:30:17.840 --> 00:30:23.240 But product service plans. Yeah. Yeah, especially on, yeah, I don't know. 00:30:23.340 --> 00:30:27.040 So to address the availability shortfall, Apple is reportedly considering 00:30:27.040 --> 00:30:34.140 asking TSMC to restart a 18 pro production, which is wild, but TSMC is 00:30:34.140 --> 00:30:40.840 apparently all already maxed out on its three nanometer process. So other options that Apple is rumored to be considering are dropping the 00:30:40.840 --> 00:30:46.240 base model entirely and only selling the higher end model to hopefully slow 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:54.140 down sales. That's not going to do much. Even at $700, it's an incredible value or accelerating the release timeline 00:30:54.140 --> 00:30:57.140 of the MacBook Neo 2 with a 19 pro silicon. 00:30:57.840 --> 00:31:02.840 Interestingly, the MacBook Air M5 is readily available, but that's probably 00:31:02.840 --> 00:31:09.040 because it starts at nearly double the price. The cheapest Neo. So it's not exactly, you know, filling the same niche. 00:31:09.040 --> 00:31:13.840 The Neo is kind of eating Apple's own lunch, but that's what, that's what 00:31:13.840 --> 00:31:17.740 hungry companies do. They eat their own lunch. 00:31:17.740 --> 00:31:24.840 They compete with themselves. If, if a series silicon ultimately makes the lowest end M silicon kind of 00:31:24.840 --> 00:31:28.140 redundant in the lineup, so what? That's fine. Great. 00:31:28.140 --> 00:31:32.740 No problem. That sounds fantastic. Apple, like they're going to get serious market share for it. 00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:37.540 macOS. If, if they can keep up, this thing destroys, like there's no, there is no 00:31:37.540 --> 00:31:41.040 other option that would have been even close to as good for the person. 00:31:41.040 --> 00:31:46.740 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 00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:52.140 option for her that would have even competed. One thing that has been kind of nice is on a, on a hunch. 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:57.540 I thought it might have been better for her because she, uh, adapted to iPhone 00:31:57.540 --> 00:32:02.040 a lot easier than she adapted to Android iOS and macOS have so little in common 00:32:02.040 --> 00:32:07.640 that it's kind of shocking to me. They come from the same company, but widgets on the desktop. 00:32:07.940 --> 00:32:11.140 I was off like working on something else for a second and she just 00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:15.140 like set up a ton of widgets for herself and kind of like organize her desktop 00:32:15.140 --> 00:32:18.240 the way that she wanted. I was like, okay, cool. That wouldn't have been natural to me at all. 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:23.640 Um, and there was one of her apps where the like native app support for Mac 00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:31.640 OS is kind of crap, but, uh, when you click on the widget, it just launches. 00:32:31.940 --> 00:32:35.840 Um, I don't know what it's actually called, but it just launches like her 00:32:35.840 --> 00:32:38.740 phone on her Mac. Yeah. Screen mirroring. 00:32:38.840 --> 00:32:42.840 Yeah. And it just launches that up and then she just uses the phone version of the app 00:32:42.840 --> 00:32:46.540 and it's totally fine. And it's like, okay, she figured out all of that on her own. 00:32:47.140 --> 00:32:52.440 Sweet. So that, that part kind of worked. There are a couple of things with macOS that weren't entirely intuitive, 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:59.440 but we ended up figuring it out. Um, and then the, just the laptop itself, like dude, if you, if you hand 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:05.240 this to either of us three months ago or whatever and ask how much it costs. 00:33:05.840 --> 00:33:08.840 Minimum minimum and probably more than that. 00:33:08.940 --> 00:33:12.040 Yeah. Like got him. Damn. Okay. 00:33:12.140 --> 00:33:15.340 But here's a funny one. Dan, roll the clip. 00:33:20.340 --> 00:33:28.940 If I had a nickel for every time this has happened to me, I'd have two nickels, 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:32.840 which isn't a lot, but it's funny. 00:33:32.840 --> 00:33:36.140 It's happened twice. How dude? 00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:47.240 How is that even possible? I don't know. How do you do this? 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:48.740 I don't do anything. 00:33:54.140 --> 00:33:56.240 Oh my God. 00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:01.240 Oh man. I don't know how to deal with this anymore. 00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:07.240 It's like, I have this reputation, I feel for like being a hater, you know, like 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.840 complaining that everything's a buggy piece of shit. 00:34:12.040 --> 00:34:17.840 I'm so legitimately happy that it's working great for you, but it doesn't 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:20.240 change my experience. 00:34:22.240 --> 00:34:25.240 That's so funny. We even installed steam. 00:34:26.740 --> 00:34:30.640 I'm sure you did. Oh man. 00:34:30.640 --> 00:34:34.540 That's really funny. SofaTux says, thank you for getting footage. 00:34:34.640 --> 00:34:37.640 I have a pretty good footage. 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 00:34:42.340 --> 00:34:47.740 phone, registering clicks offset by about a centimeter as well, like regularly. 00:34:47.740 --> 00:34:53.140 Like dude, I just, I get so much weird stuff. 00:34:53.140 --> 00:35:00.440 Here's a fun one. And someone I know pulled up there Samsung, was it Samsung? 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 00:35:03.940 --> 00:35:09.640 folding phone and compared, oh, okay, LTT Store. 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. 00:35:15.940 --> 00:35:18.440 You click so aggressively. Sorry. There you go. 00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:22.740 I get duplicates of our product photos on our site. 00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:26.340 And his folding phone didn't get it. 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. 00:35:32.140 --> 00:35:34.540 That might not be a problem for as long. 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? 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. 00:35:42.640 --> 00:35:45.640 Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a new LTT Store site. Yeah. Yeah. 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. 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:53.640 Um, yeah, in like semi classic fashion. 00:35:54.740 --> 00:35:57.640 Development on the old site is not super attractive right now. 00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:01.440 Oh, I get it. So I get it. It is what it is. Yeah. 00:36:02.040 --> 00:36:04.940 Anyway, we can move on to another topic. You want to pick one? 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. 00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:14.540 This is so sick. Steam client files point to frame rate estimator feature in the works. 00:36:14.540 --> 00:36:18.840 Data miners were sifting through a recent Steam client file release and they 00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:23.240 uncovered references to a new feature called the frame rate estimator, which 00:36:23.240 --> 00:36:26.440 would let you pick a game, input your CPU, GPU and RAM. 00:36:26.440 --> 00:36:31.940 I also suspect eventually if you do the hardware survey, it will just already 00:36:31.940 --> 00:36:35.340 have that information and your display resolution. 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 00:36:42.940 --> 00:36:45.540 from other Steam users running similar hardware. 00:36:46.040 --> 00:36:50.340 The groundwork appears to have been laid two months ago when Valve added an 00:36:50.340 --> 00:36:55.240 opt-in option in the Steam beta client that let users share anonymized frame 00:36:55.240 --> 00:36:59.340 rate data initially focused on Steam OS devices like the Steam Deck. 00:36:59.740 --> 00:37:02.840 Um, at the time, Valve said that the data was meant to improve game 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:08.740 compatibility and Steam performance. Valve is not officially, Valve has not officially announced the feature 00:37:08.940 --> 00:37:12.240 confirmed a release timeline or really anything at all. 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:18.840 Um, but yeah, it exists as unreleased code and it sounds awesome to me. 00:37:19.040 --> 00:37:26.740 This would legitimately, okay, I was about to say in a vendor agnostic 00:37:26.740 --> 00:37:29.940 fashion, but it's not, it's not vendor agnostic. 00:37:29.940 --> 00:37:35.240 It's, it's Steam. But actually technically very specifically now have their own operating system, 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 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:49.540 requirements and what graphics card should I get and what CPU should I get to 00:37:49.540 --> 00:37:52.740 play this game? This is amazing. Should I, should I buy this? 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 00:37:58.940 --> 00:38:02.540 that I gave Valve a little while ago on the Steam hardware survey. 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 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 00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:18.140 now. If the goal is for developers to understand what hardware they should be 00:38:18.140 --> 00:38:22.740 targeting and if the other goal is for users to understand what kind of 00:38:22.740 --> 00:38:28.440 performance they can expect, then only reporting things like the number of 00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:32.040 cores, the frequency that they run at. 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. 00:38:37.740 --> 00:38:41.140 The granularity is fairly limited from what I remember for core count and then 00:38:41.140 --> 00:38:46.040 especially frequency, what I pointed out to them as I gave them examples of CPUs 00:38:46.040 --> 00:38:52.140 that were released 10 years apart that have the same core count and the same 00:38:52.140 --> 00:38:56.040 frequency, but vastly different performance. 00:38:57.640 --> 00:39:01.740 And kind of laid out why we need a little bit better granularity with respect 00:39:01.740 --> 00:39:05.440 to the generation of the hardware that we're looking at. 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, 00:39:16.740 --> 00:39:21.440 you know, we will often lean on Steam hardware survey data in order to bring 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 00:39:29.640 --> 00:39:33.440 up the Steam hardware survey at some point to just, just to have the right 00:39:33.740 --> 00:39:37.340 reference points like, oh, okay, you know, blah, blah, blah, let's do this, this, 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:42.640 this and this. Holy crap. 6% of people on Steam are running a 3060. 00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:47.040 We should throw that in just for context so that 5% of the people watching 00:39:47.040 --> 00:39:51.140 can go, oh, this is how it compares to exactly my GPU right now. 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. 00:39:58.340 --> 00:40:02.440 Realistically, Valve has very smart people working there and I'm sure somebody 00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:04.940 thought of it, but you know what? 00:40:05.540 --> 00:40:09.040 I'm going to give myself 0.1% of the credit. 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. 00:40:16.740 --> 00:40:19.840 0.1%, 1, 1, 1,000th. Can I get away with it? 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. 00:40:27.140 --> 00:40:31.040 Yep. This is not super helpful. 3.7 gigahertz and above, really? 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. 00:40:42.340 --> 00:40:48.240 2.7% of users with 24 cores, but I believe that's logical. 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. 00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:55.640 Oh, is that physical? Oh, okay. So those would be thread rippers then. Yeah. 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. 00:41:00.940 --> 00:41:04.040 No, that would be Intel, Intel 24 cores. 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:10.240 Yeah, that's Intel. So that would be like 1,400Ks and stuff. 00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:14.640 Oh, yeah. 8 performance cores, 16 efficiency cores. 00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:20.640 Yep. Oh, see, but even that, bundling in efficiency cores with physical? 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. 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 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. 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 00:41:47.540 --> 00:41:51.440 OS X numbers in the near future. 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. 00:41:56.540 --> 00:42:02.140 Sure. But I like the, the pan. 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. 00:42:08.140 --> 00:42:12.040 Cause these are selling like freaking crazy and they can run a ton of stuff. 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. 00:42:17.340 --> 00:42:20.540 Like it can actually run a lot of different random Steam games. 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. 00:42:27.340 --> 00:42:30.940 Yeah. That's pretty good. It's good for what it is considered. 00:42:30.940 --> 00:42:34.640 Yeah. It's good for what it is. Um, hold on. 00:42:34.640 --> 00:42:38.540 I'm going to go worldwide, uh, last, uh, I don't know. 00:42:38.540 --> 00:42:40.840 Sure. 2004 to present. Here we go. 00:42:42.540 --> 00:42:48.240 Damn. Oh, put her perp, perp, perp, perp. 00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:53.140 Wait for it. Wait for it. 00:42:54.140 --> 00:42:58.240 Ready, Dan? Dang. This is what I'm saying, man. 00:42:58.340 --> 00:43:02.840 Yep. Dang. So like it's like these laptops matter. 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, 00:43:08.740 --> 00:43:14.140 really interesting for the overall like because when I'm looking at it now 00:43:14.140 --> 00:43:20.340 for March, 2026, Windows saw 4.28% drop in user share and the vast majority 00:43:20.340 --> 00:43:23.440 of that went to Linux, but 1.2% of that went to Mac. 00:43:23.740 --> 00:43:27.240 And then we have these laptops coming out and there's the Linux surge 00:43:27.240 --> 00:43:31.040 seems to be continuing. I see threads about it constantly talking about pal people. 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. 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 00:43:41.740 --> 00:43:44.540 Windows, at least for gamers is getting hit on both sides. 00:43:44.740 --> 00:43:49.440 I think there's a chance that Windows falls below 90% of the install base 00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:53.240 for steam in the next. Yeah. Do you think it could happen this year? 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. 00:43:56.740 --> 00:44:00.440 If they had an unlimited supply of a 18 pros, I would say yes. 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. 00:44:09.340 --> 00:44:12.140 I'm not as sure, but that is wild. 00:44:13.340 --> 00:44:20.240 That Windows might be less than 90% of market share for, for, for steam. 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. 00:44:27.040 --> 00:44:34.140 That tentatively is titled the humiliation of Microsoft Windows or Windows is year 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 00:44:39.540 --> 00:44:43.740 of the Linux desktop, but it definitely is the year of Windows humiliation. 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:50.440 Yeah. And just kind of talking through how, how tenuous, how, how dominant their market 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:55.440 share still is and yet how tenuous their position is becoming. 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 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. 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? 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 00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:38.740 and physical game pricing. 00:45:41.640 --> 00:45:44.440 The complete quote is from a games radar article. 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 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. 00:45:55.540 --> 00:45:58.940 Nintendo tries to do right by their customers and I think they do also 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 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:12.140 be decoupling physical and digital pricing. 00:46:12.240 --> 00:46:16.040 We don't know that this means that digital pricing is going to go down 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. 00:46:19.240 --> 00:46:25.240 It could be that hardware that physical game pricing will go up, but given 00:46:25.240 --> 00:46:29.340 that they already increased pricing for the switch to generation, given 00:46:29.340 --> 00:46:35.440 that given that they've allegedly cut production of the switch to my guess 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 00:46:42.040 --> 00:46:44.540 for switch to they're very expensive. 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 00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:54.140 doesn't devalue our software, which Nintendo never wants to do. 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 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 00:47:06.240 --> 00:47:09.740 hopeful, good news, April Wanshow Linus reading it this way. 00:47:09.740 --> 00:47:14.440 But the way that I'm reading this is that Nintendo is going to be the 00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:23.240 first to blink and go, all right, digital is cheaper and I'm here for it. 00:47:23.640 --> 00:47:26.740 Or maybe not, maybe not the, maybe not the first to blink. 00:47:26.740 --> 00:47:29.740 I mean, there's certainly no doubt that you can buy a PlayStation 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. 00:47:34.740 --> 00:47:38.540 I mean, it is pretty cool that Nintendo for the first time going. 00:47:39.740 --> 00:47:42.940 Okay. Yeah. It's, it's cheaper online. Yeah. 00:47:42.940 --> 00:47:45.440 And it always should have been. Probably. 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 00:47:51.940 --> 00:47:57.440 infrastructure was so new and the investment in it was so colossal and the 00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:02.240 value and the value of cloud save and the convenience of just downloading it 00:48:02.240 --> 00:48:05.940 whenever, you know, maybe there was an argument to be made at that time, but I 00:48:05.940 --> 00:48:12.840 think in the years after that, it's been pretty hard to justify the price being 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:17.540 the same for a digital copy of a brand new title versus a physical copy. 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 00:48:22.940 --> 00:48:28.340 because there is expense in keeping the infrastructure up of distributing digital 00:48:28.340 --> 00:48:31.740 copies and stuff like that, but like, man, they are not even sort of close. 00:48:32.640 --> 00:48:36.240 Aromene actually brings up another kind of, I don't know about good news, but 00:48:36.240 --> 00:48:42.040 certainly funny news. Nintendo lost the patent covering character summoning and battle mechanics. 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 00:48:47.240 --> 00:48:48.540 added the mechanic to the game. 00:48:51.540 --> 00:48:58.840 Look, I have my relationship with Nintendo as a brand is deeply complicated. 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 00:49:03.540 --> 00:49:10.740 anyone but them, I would, I would just patently, pun intended, refuse to buy 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 00:49:23.540 --> 00:49:26.340 for their IPs with that said, I haven't seen the new Mario movie yet. 00:49:27.740 --> 00:49:30.440 Many of the reviews I've read of it were very negative. 00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:36.840 However, however, however, I did my due diligence and I went back and read 00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:41.440 the same people's reviews of the first one and they were also negative, 00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:45.040 which to me is just an indication that they're probably not a lot of fun 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. 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. 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 00:50:01.240 --> 00:50:04.340 I'm going to be pretty happy with it. Nice. All right. 00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:08.840 I want to go see a movie in theaters for the first time in many years. 00:50:08.940 --> 00:50:12.340 I want to go see Hail Mary. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 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. 00:50:17.240 --> 00:50:19.940 My son really wants to see goat. I have no idea. 00:50:20.340 --> 00:50:23.840 Sports movie, but like animated with a, with a goat, like greatest of all time, 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:26.340 but also a goat. No, I put that together. Yeah. 00:50:27.240 --> 00:50:31.440 Oh my God. Is it like this generation's airbud? 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, 00:50:36.740 --> 00:50:37.640 is cool, I guess. 00:50:41.340 --> 00:50:44.640 Where's it done by? Sony Pictures Animation. 00:50:44.940 --> 00:50:46.640 Man, where the heck is Disney? 00:50:48.840 --> 00:50:52.340 Yeah. Like all these other, it's anyway, sorry, we can move on to someone else, 00:50:52.340 --> 00:50:55.140 but that's as a. We can talk about Netflix. 00:50:55.340 --> 00:50:57.740 Here's a fun one. Netflix. 00:50:59.740 --> 00:51:04.240 Get owned. Luke and I have talked about this extensively on the WAN Show. 00:51:04.240 --> 00:51:11.940 We've taken what I feel is not necessarily, it shouldn't be an exceptional 00:51:11.940 --> 00:51:15.140 approach to the subscription fees on Flowplain. 00:51:15.740 --> 00:51:20.140 Whatever you agree to when you sign up is our agreement. 00:51:21.140 --> 00:51:28.440 And while technically, for some reason, platforms are within their rights to alter 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 00:51:36.840 --> 00:51:42.340 that in Italy, you're supposed to do it the Flowplain way, unless you explicitly 00:51:42.340 --> 00:51:45.340 say that you have the right to do it your way. 00:51:45.540 --> 00:51:50.440 An Italian court in Rome has ruled that Netflix's subscription price increases 00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:58.240 between, get this, 2017 to 2024 over a span of seven years were illegal under 00:51:58.240 --> 00:52:02.440 the country's consumer code, which requires companies to provide a stated 00:52:02.740 --> 00:52:06.140 justified reason before raising prices. 00:52:07.040 --> 00:52:13.040 Netflix now has 90 days to notify its roughly 5.4 million Italian subscribers 00:52:13.240 --> 00:52:18.740 of their right to a refund or face a 700 euro daily fine. 00:52:19.340 --> 00:52:25.840 Lawyers for the consumer group, Movimento Consumatorio, sorry, I'm 00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:29.240 sure I butchered that, estimate that premium subscribers who have been paying 00:52:29.240 --> 00:52:35.940 since 2017 are entitled to roughly 500 euros each, while standard subscribers 00:52:35.940 --> 00:52:44.540 are owed about 250 euros. That's like tidy little tax return territory. 00:52:44.540 --> 00:52:48.840 Yeah. That's not pocket change. That's freaking crazy. 00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:52.440 That's go get yourself something nice or pay a bill, unfortunately. 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:56.140 If every eligible subscriber claims this, Netflix's total liability could 00:52:56.140 --> 00:52:59.240 exceed 2.3 billion dollars. 00:52:59.740 --> 00:53:03.840 On top of the refunds, the court ordered Netflix to roll monthly prices back 00:53:04.040 --> 00:53:11.040 to the 2015 launch levels. 11.99 euros for premium, 9.99 euro for standard. 00:53:11.040 --> 00:53:13.440 Sounds like a lot of people are going to be VPNing to Italy. 00:53:14.040 --> 00:53:18.340 Netflix says it will appeal and insist that its terms have always 00:53:18.340 --> 00:53:21.440 complied with Italian law, but the ruling could have a knock-on effect 00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:25.840 across Europe. Consumer groups in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland have 00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:29.840 filed parallel challenges on the same legal basis and German courts in 00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:33.840 Berlin and Cologne have already struck down the same Netflix pricing 00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:38.140 clauses. Now it is worth noting that Netflix has updated their terms of service 00:53:38.140 --> 00:53:43.440 now and any price changes that they implement going forward will be 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 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 00:53:56.740 --> 00:54:02.440 consumers in Italy who are tired of, you know, getting squeezed on every 00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:06.940 freaking stupid subscription service under the sun, just casually, 00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:11.340 casually raising prices all the time. It's good news WAN shows. 00:54:11.340 --> 00:54:15.740 So this isn't one of the topics for this week, but YouTube had a 00:54:15.740 --> 00:54:19.840 premium subscription increase that, you know, just, I don't know, 00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:23.040 it's that premium subscription increase like last time. 00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:27.340 They say it's to improve the service and like last time, it seems to be 00:54:27.740 --> 00:54:31.940 more aligned with just general inflation and less aligned with any 00:54:31.940 --> 00:54:37.140 kind of meaningful improvement in the service. So make of that, whatever you will. 00:54:37.140 --> 00:54:40.240 I still, even at the new price, I still think YouTube premium is one 00:54:40.240 --> 00:54:44.940 of the best bang for the buck subscriptions out there. YouTube is full of incredible content. 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. 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. 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 00:54:59.540 --> 00:55:02.140 and share it with up to five family members. 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. 00:55:09.340 --> 00:55:13.040 All right. You want to pick one? Oh, wait. Nope. Oh, I'm good. 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, 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. 00:55:25.140 --> 00:55:29.240 It is the flex and flow collection. 00:55:30.140 --> 00:55:35.140 The first item from this collection is our multi-pocket leggings. 00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:41.140 They're finally here. We started development of LTT. 00:55:41.540 --> 00:55:45.040 Um, I don't want to call them yoga pants, but they're yoga pants. 00:55:45.240 --> 00:55:50.540 LTT leggings like, I don't know, three years ago or something like that. 00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:56.540 Um, I am constantly reminded of this project because Yvonne loves her 00:55:56.540 --> 00:56:02.840 prototype ones so much that I fold them every week, even though we never actually 00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:06.440 made the product. Um, so you're going to get more now. 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 00:56:11.540 --> 00:56:14.240 stores that sell these leggings. Let's be real, right? 00:56:14.540 --> 00:56:21.640 Except they've got seven total pockets, two on the thighs for your phone and five 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. 00:56:27.240 --> 00:56:31.840 The fabric is soft, breathable and moisture wicking with lycra spandex for 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. 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. 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 00:56:48.340 --> 00:56:54.040 moment to kind of go, Hey, are women viewers out there? 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 00:57:00.540 --> 00:57:07.140 LTT Store. Here's your chance to help us invest in this category. 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 00:57:14.540 --> 00:57:17.640 reviews to come in and then spread the word. 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 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. 00:57:32.240 --> 00:57:36.240 There's also, I saw people in fully chat earlier asking about like, oh, I fit, 00:57:36.240 --> 00:57:39.440 uh, whatever size from whatever brand. 00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:44.740 Yes. Um, will I fit these ones? There is a size guide. 00:57:44.940 --> 00:57:49.940 So, um, right here, some people don't see it because it's just like hyperlink 00:57:49.940 --> 00:57:54.040 text, but under the sizes on pretty much every product on the store, there's a 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 00:57:58.640 --> 00:58:03.940 and stuff are generic, but this grid will be for the specific product. 00:58:04.340 --> 00:58:08.940 So you can see your inseam length, your hip width, your, your pants, blah, blah, 00:58:08.940 --> 00:58:12.940 waist, relaxed, whatever, something and all your sizes that go along with that. 00:58:13.040 --> 00:58:15.740 Yep. Very important. All right. 00:58:16.240 --> 00:58:18.840 These ones are for the guys. These are great. 00:58:19.240 --> 00:58:23.940 The flex pants. They're kind of inspired by like mountain biking pants. 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 00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:34.940 do not drop draw cord that can be tied on the outside or the inside. 00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:40.240 And they've also got seven pockets, six with YKK zippers. 00:58:40.240 --> 00:58:44.840 So you can carry basically everything and not worry about anything falling out. 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. 00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:53.140 They're like, um, here, right. 00:58:55.740 --> 00:58:59.040 I don't really know how to describe them. They're like, uh, interesting. 00:58:59.140 --> 00:59:02.240 Yeah. And they're on the inside. 00:59:02.340 --> 00:59:05.540 They're like, uh, I don't know. 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 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 00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:16.940 they're, they're soft, but they don't sit like right on your skin. 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 00:59:24.540 --> 00:59:27.840 it's, it kind of, it kind of holds off your skin a little bit. 00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:31.640 So it makes it feel more breathable, uh, but still not not cold. 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. 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 00:59:41.840 --> 00:59:46.440 length on all of them is 29. Um, sorry, these are not in tall. 00:59:46.940 --> 00:59:51.540 Yeah. It's pretty normal to have a 32, but okay. 00:59:53.240 --> 00:59:56.240 All right. So those are, those are pretty exciting new products. 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 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, 01:00:12.440 --> 01:00:15.440 I don't know, hoping Senpai notices you or something. 01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:19.140 Uh, we don't do Twitch bits or super chats or anything like that. 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. 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. 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. 01:00:38.240 --> 01:00:42.440 And once you place your order, it will either go up there. 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 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? 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. 01:01:01.340 --> 01:01:05.140 As for my question, what's the worst part of dealing with asbestos removal? 01:01:05.140 --> 01:01:08.740 The price. Besides the price. 01:01:08.740 --> 01:01:11.840 Was that in the checkout message? Yeah. 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. 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 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. 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 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 01:01:38.340 --> 01:01:42.140 like that, it's definitely from doing that, but I don't think there was really 01:01:42.140 --> 01:01:46.540 anything in the way of asbestos down there. Yeah. And I didn't really disturb anything. 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 01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:57.440 break any, uh, like, like, um, uh, break any materials apart or anything. 01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:00.240 I just like hold like soggy carpet and stuff out of there. 01:02:02.340 --> 01:02:06.140 Okay. Up next just finished a computer vision project for school. 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:10.240 What is a project that felt super rewarding after completing? 01:02:11.640 --> 01:02:15.640 Ooh. I have a pretty critical version of that, which is the mineral oil computer. 01:02:15.640 --> 01:02:19.740 That thing got me everything. It got me grants to go to school. 01:02:19.740 --> 01:02:22.440 It got me friends when I was at school and it got me this job. 01:02:24.340 --> 01:02:26.440 That was a highly rewarding project. 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. 01:02:36.540 --> 01:02:39.940 Hiring Luke. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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. 01:02:43.540 --> 01:02:46.540 It was a very long interview. Yeah. 01:02:47.040 --> 01:02:52.340 That's true. Yeah. Super a project that felt super rewarding. 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 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. 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. 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 01:03:16.340 --> 01:03:21.840 leaked out, um, the batteries like died, died, like not just were drained. 01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:27.140 They, they died and, um, uh, there were some broken parts on them from 01:03:27.140 --> 01:03:30.740 the little that they were used cause I was reckless and he didn't 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. 01:03:36.040 --> 01:03:42.640 We learned how to, uh, strip apart, uh, reseal and, uh, fill a, a 01:03:42.640 --> 01:03:46.240 diff on an RC car. We fixed up the shocks. 01:03:46.240 --> 01:03:51.840 We replaced a bunch of like broken pieces and then, um, with everything repaired, 01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:54.840 we went out and made like a makeshift ramp and, uh, we're playing around 01:03:54.840 --> 01:03:56.540 with it last weekend. It was super cool. 01:03:58.540 --> 01:04:05.940 After two races around the yard, I crossed the pool cover with some water 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, 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 01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:20.840 you're working on repairing it with your son, which is like so valuable. 01:04:21.040 --> 01:04:24.240 Yeah. He's learning a little bit. Really cool. Um, we, we had to three D. 01:04:24.240 --> 01:04:27.840 We had to make like design and print some three D printed parts in 01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:31.240 order to finish the repair cause it was like, did he like leave that portion? 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. 01:04:36.340 --> 01:04:39.440 You know, just to, I don't just father son stuff. You know, sweet. 01:04:39.540 --> 01:04:41.240 Yeah. It's good stuff. I like that. 01:04:42.540 --> 01:04:45.740 I like that. Should we do one more down? 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. 01:04:48.740 --> 01:04:50.740 I don't want to. We'll do it later. Good. Got it. 01:04:52.240 --> 01:04:55.040 Hey, let's talk about La Née de Linux. 01:04:55.740 --> 01:05:00.940 The French government is apparently accelerating plans to reduce reliance 01:05:00.940 --> 01:05:05.840 on extra European software in an effort to achieve digital sovereignty. 01:05:06.040 --> 01:05:09.840 And when I say extra European, I don't mean super duper European. 01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:14.940 I mean outside of European like, like extracurricular that like that sort of 01:05:14.940 --> 01:05:18.440 extra workstations at denim din. 01:05:18.440 --> 01:05:22.140 Um, the French government's digital agency will be the first to be moved 01:05:22.140 --> 01:05:25.040 to an as yet unnamed Linux distribution. 01:05:25.640 --> 01:05:29.340 My notes say insert holy war here. 01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:34.740 Yeah. And other departments, including the national cybersecurity agency will be 01:05:34.740 --> 01:05:38.340 following suit. Okay. All right. Let's start it. 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. 01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:50.240 Um, hold on. 01:05:50.240 --> 01:05:58.640 Hold on. Um, I'm going to go with, um, 01:06:01.140 --> 01:06:05.240 Okay. 01:06:05.640 --> 01:06:11.640 Go ahead. Um, hold on. 01:06:12.140 --> 01:06:15.740 Hold on. Mandrava. I think that was it. 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. 01:06:21.140 --> 01:06:25.040 I was like, are there distros that are either popular in France or largely 01:06:25.040 --> 01:06:28.340 maintained by French maintainers? That's hacking. 01:06:28.340 --> 01:06:31.040 You can't search stuff. I had to just guess. All right. Fine. 01:06:31.340 --> 01:06:33.940 Well, I don't know. I could still definitely be wrong. I have no clue. 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 01:06:37.840 --> 01:06:40.640 roll their own. They wouldn't be the first government to do that. 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. 01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:50.540 Yeah. Can you just show me this word? No, I, What is this? 01:06:52.540 --> 01:06:56.440 Oh. M-A-G-E-I-A. 01:06:56.440 --> 01:06:59.540 I'm not any closer than you. Magia something. 01:06:59.540 --> 01:07:02.740 I don't know. Um, I, I read something. Yeah. That's the successor. 01:07:02.740 --> 01:07:05.940 Whatever. I don't know. Classic Linux stuff. It's not Mandrava. 01:07:05.940 --> 01:07:07.740 I can, I can say that. 01:07:08.940 --> 01:07:12.340 Um, I have no idea what it'll be. 01:07:12.340 --> 01:07:16.340 If you look at user-based installs, it's very likely that it will be, 01:07:16.940 --> 01:07:21.040 you know, Debian based or Arch based. 01:07:23.240 --> 01:07:28.640 People are suggesting names for a French government own role Linux 01:07:28.640 --> 01:07:32.140 distro. We've got Baguette OS. We've got, 01:07:32.540 --> 01:07:36.140 Distro of Liberty. Linux, Linux Arch de Triomphe. 01:07:36.540 --> 01:07:39.940 We've got, Um, Distro de Liberty. 01:07:39.940 --> 01:07:43.540 Bestie OS. That's pretty good. 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. 01:07:47.740 --> 01:07:51.240 I'm liking a lot of these. Libuntu. Libuntu. 01:07:54.240 --> 01:07:55.440 That is pretty good. 01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:01.340 Oh man. Oh man. Um, 01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:07.540 That's fun. Uh, yeah, I wouldn't mind Sacre Boon too. 01:08:10.640 --> 01:08:14.140 I hope they don't roll their own or if they do roll their own, 01:08:14.140 --> 01:08:18.840 I hope there's a lot of up-the-chain development that happens. 01:08:19.140 --> 01:08:22.740 I just, man, we don't need more fragmentation. Oh my God. 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. 01:08:26.340 --> 01:08:27.940 If you look at the Steam hardware survey, 01:08:29.440 --> 01:08:34.640 in regards to distros that are like on the more simple and easy side of things, 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. 01:08:39.240 --> 01:08:41.540 My guess would be is that they don't end up on Mint, 01:08:43.040 --> 01:08:47.240 but we'll see. I could see Red Hat something like that. 01:08:47.240 --> 01:08:52.540 There's something, something with actual Red Hat Fedora, like real support grunt behind it. 01:08:52.540 --> 01:08:58.140 Totally. Yeah. That would probably make the most sense, something along that line. 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. 01:09:05.640 --> 01:09:10.940 Yeah, that might be fair. I'm not sure if it matters as much. 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? 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. 01:09:25.240 --> 01:09:28.840 Oh, that could get it. Yeah, I think there, I think the origin there is German. 01:09:29.740 --> 01:09:31.940 Don't quote me on that. That could definitely get it though. That's interesting. 01:09:32.940 --> 01:09:36.140 I don't know, but it's exciting. And there's, there is a question here. 01:09:36.540 --> 01:09:39.540 We've seen similar programs elsewhere in Europe with the city of Munich's 01:09:40.540 --> 01:09:45.640 Limmux project running from 2003 to 2017 01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:49.540 before they ultimately decided to reverse course. Do you think France's efforts will be successful? 01:09:49.740 --> 01:09:54.740 And I think they actually could be. 01:09:55.540 --> 01:09:59.840 The difference between, I know I've said this probably every WAN Show for a month, 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. 01:10:05.340 --> 01:10:08.340 Astronomical. Whoa! 01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:13.940 Linux Mint has a French founder. Really? 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. 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. 01:10:21.940 --> 01:10:23.540 That would be so cool. 01:10:25.240 --> 01:10:28.340 You are actually rooting for distros like a Linux do now. 01:10:28.340 --> 01:10:30.740 No, I just be happy. You clapped. 01:10:31.640 --> 01:10:34.940 You clapped. Happy little clapped. That is the definition. Happy little clapped. 01:10:34.940 --> 01:10:38.440 That is the definition. I'm genuinely happy with whatever they go with. 01:10:38.740 --> 01:10:41.340 I don't actually care, but it would be neat if it was Mint. 01:10:44.440 --> 01:10:47.440 I'm not a hater of other choices, 01:10:47.440 --> 01:10:51.040 but I get a little happy when people use Mint because Mint is cool. 01:10:51.040 --> 01:10:55.840 Speaking of Linux, patches to the Linux kernel and KDE 01:10:55.940 --> 01:10:59.140 should give a noticeable performance boost to gamers 01:10:59.140 --> 01:11:03.440 with limited VRAM, which in 2026, 01:11:05.040 --> 01:11:09.040 apparently includes cards that have only eight gigabytes 01:11:09.040 --> 01:11:12.240 of dedicated memory, and that really has been a trend 01:11:12.240 --> 01:11:17.440 over the last couple of years. Developer Natalie Vaugh has refined kernel level memory 01:11:17.440 --> 01:11:20.740 management and introduced a KDE plasma component to enable 01:11:20.740 --> 01:11:24.040 VRAM prioritization for the foreground application, 01:11:24.440 --> 01:11:30.040 i.e. your full screen game. The patches are out now, initially for AMD and theoretically 01:11:30.040 --> 01:11:34.340 Intel, on CacheOS and on other arch-based distros. 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 01:11:40.140 --> 01:11:43.740 scope compositor. If you're after the technical details, you can check out 01:11:43.740 --> 01:11:51.740 the developer's blog post, which Dan will not be posting 01:11:51.740 --> 01:11:55.540 in chat, so you'll just have to go Google PixelCluster's 01:11:55.540 --> 01:11:58.940 GPU blog. I can post it in Floatplane chat, at least. 01:11:59.740 --> 01:12:01.940 Thank you, Luke. That's wonderful. I appreciate you. 01:12:03.340 --> 01:12:03.840 Excellent. 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... 01:12:10.340 --> 01:12:13.640 Oh, you know what? Yeah, we'll do sponsor spots. Oh, wait, I can't. 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 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... 01:12:21.540 --> 01:12:25.040 Cache and KDE on my desktop PC for modern features and 01:12:25.040 --> 01:12:29.940 performance and power and raw. And I'm running Mint on my laptop for simplicity and 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 01:12:35.440 --> 01:12:38.240 the Mint side than a Cache side. 01:12:38.440 --> 01:12:41.540 But I do think there's plenty of other solutions that would 01:12:41.540 --> 01:12:46.040 make a ton of sense. Fedora, Red Hat, things like that being among them. 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 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 01:12:53.540 --> 01:12:56.940 probably still not go that route. I've got a micro topic. 01:12:57.040 --> 01:13:00.840 This one isn't so much good news as it is hilarious. 01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:05.640 Redditor underscore underscore 30 underscore underscore 01:13:05.840 --> 01:13:09.840 posted a couple of screenshots showing an AI summary with 01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:15.640 some facts about the company that acquired us nine days 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:19.640 ago on April the 1st. 01:13:21.340 --> 01:13:26.740 FOMO Foundry. This is great. 01:13:31.240 --> 01:13:34.640 So apparently my browser thinks that FOMO Foundry is a 01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:39.840 real thing. FOMO Foundry is an entity that acquired Linus Media Group in 01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:44.340 April 2026, pivoting the tech media company toward a product 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 01:13:50.540 --> 01:13:55.540 large language models. Following the acquisition LMG launched the Linus coin, a 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 01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:03.540 redemption rate to maintain financial solvency. 01:14:05.640 --> 01:14:10.240 How could anything be so accurate and yet so fundamentally 01:14:10.240 --> 01:14:10.640 wrong? 01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:17.740 We did it. We did it. Reddit. We did it. 01:14:17.740 --> 01:14:21.840 We bamboozled. What is this? Is this is this Gemini then? 01:14:22.040 --> 01:14:25.240 Yeah. It looks like Gemini to me. What's goggles? 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. 01:14:30.940 --> 01:14:35.440 Yeah. My browser thinks so this is it's some LLM somewhere. 01:14:36.440 --> 01:14:42.240 So what's see what seems to have happened here is that 01:14:42.240 --> 01:14:46.140 DNS records indicate that FOMO dash foundry dot com was 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 01:14:52.640 --> 01:14:56.940 OS with our new corporate overlords or it's also possible 01:14:56.940 --> 01:15:02.540 that it just ain't that deep and it's easily confused. 01:15:03.740 --> 01:15:08.540 If you're wondering, by the way, we did register FOMO foundry 01:15:08.940 --> 01:15:11.340 dot AI. It's not Gemini. 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 01:15:19.840 --> 01:15:23.540 try it for yourself to see where it goes. We worked on that for a while. 01:15:23.540 --> 01:15:29.540 It's pretty good. I actually I I think the developers who worked on that 01:15:29.540 --> 01:15:32.940 aspect of the approfus joke are the unsung heroes of this whole endeavor. 01:15:32.940 --> 01:15:36.140 So it was like actually a lot of effort and so few people 01:15:36.140 --> 01:15:39.840 went to it and like won't necessarily have legs, but we 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, 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. 01:15:52.840 --> 01:15:55.940 They did a lot of work make bringing the whole video together. 01:15:57.340 --> 01:16:00.640 Elijah died for this project. So that's true. 01:16:00.740 --> 01:16:03.740 That was that was unfortunate, but it still might not 01:16:03.740 --> 01:16:06.740 equal the effort, but FOMO foundry dot AI. 01:16:06.840 --> 01:16:10.640 I think was more effort than all of those things combined. 01:16:10.940 --> 01:16:16.040 Like Elijah's parents raising him for over 20 years. 01:16:16.540 --> 01:16:21.940 I still pales in comparison. Don't think equaled how hard the developers worked on FOMO 01:16:21.940 --> 01:16:27.640 foundry dot AI. Yeah. Yeah, but they'll be remembered by us. 01:16:27.640 --> 01:16:32.640 Um, I mean, I'm never going to give them up. 01:16:33.140 --> 01:16:35.640 Yeah, or let them down. No. 01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:44.140 Uh, okay, Skoda develops a bike bell that can bypass speaking 01:16:44.140 --> 01:16:47.940 of bells that can bypass noise canceling headphones and then 01:16:47.940 --> 01:16:50.940 gives the technology away for free, which is awesome. 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 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 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 01:17:07.640 --> 01:17:13.640 Salford, the car company points to a 24% Ryzen bike pedestrian 01:17:13.640 --> 01:17:18.740 collisions in 2024 partially blamed on the explosion of ANC 01:17:18.740 --> 01:17:26.440 headphones drowning out traditional bells. Researchers found a narrow safety gap between 750 and 780 01:17:26.440 --> 01:17:29.640 Hertz where ANC algorithms struggle to suppress sound. 01:17:30.340 --> 01:17:34.340 So the bell rings at that exact pitch. 01:17:34.540 --> 01:17:39.140 It's a range, but whatever. Uh, a second resonator at a higher frequency keeps it 01:17:39.140 --> 01:17:42.540 sounding like it keeps it sounding like a normal bike bell 01:17:42.740 --> 01:17:47.040 and, uh, and an irregular striking mechanism produces sharp 01:17:47.040 --> 01:17:51.140 sound bursts that ANC processing can't really react to in 01:17:51.140 --> 01:17:55.540 time. Uh, the whole thing is fully mechanical with zero electronics. 01:17:55.540 --> 01:18:00.140 That's the coolest part. That's so cool. So just so awesome. 01:18:00.440 --> 01:18:04.540 Uh, and in real world, in real world tests with delivery 01:18:04.540 --> 01:18:08.140 couriers in London, which I'm assuming is like, I don't know 01:18:08.140 --> 01:18:12.740 like Uber eats or something. Yeah. Uh, I actually don't know pedestrians with ANC headphones 01:18:12.740 --> 01:18:16.840 detected the duo bell from up to 22 meters further away than 01:18:16.840 --> 01:18:21.940 a normal bell. That's awesome. Giving cyclists a critical extra reaction window and a pretty 01:18:21.940 --> 01:18:28.840 decent one. Let's go to 22 meters in the context of like traffic movement. 01:18:28.840 --> 01:18:32.440 That's, that's awesome. That's huge. That's life, life saving. 01:18:32.540 --> 01:18:35.640 Yeah. That's pretty true. It's called Skoda. 01:18:35.640 --> 01:18:39.040 Good. Okay. Thank you. Cool. Uh, neat. 01:18:39.240 --> 01:18:43.340 Uh, Skoda is publishing all the research and findings publicly 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 01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:53.140 years ago before it ever built a car. 01:18:54.940 --> 01:18:56.940 That is so cool. 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 01:19:04.340 --> 01:19:09.940 without trying to lock it behind a patent? Uh, I can't think of anything. 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. 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. 01:19:20.040 --> 01:19:23.740 Yeah. But I don't know if that helps pedestrians. 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. 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. 01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:34.940 Yeah. I mean, to the extent that the original Volvo even still exists 01:19:34.940 --> 01:19:39.840 as a car manufacturer, but I'm just, I'm just saying who knows. 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. 01:19:46.040 --> 01:19:49.540 Yeah. Geely. I mean, everybody's, as far as I can tell, basically everybody's 01:19:49.540 --> 01:19:53.340 been sold to somebody since back then. No, no, VW is still VW. 01:19:54.140 --> 01:19:57.140 They're out there ford still ford for better force. 01:19:59.240 --> 01:20:00.040 That's something. 01:20:02.940 --> 01:20:05.940 You know what else is something is our sponsor, Vessie. 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If you've watched any LTT videos in the last six to seven months, 01:23:00.740 --> 01:23:05.440 David has been an unsung hero in probably at least one of them as 01:23:05.440 --> 01:23:09.540 he has been really helping out the writers in their push to getting 01:23:09.540 --> 01:23:13.040 especially some of the more technical aspects of things over the line. 01:23:13.740 --> 01:23:17.640 This week's Floatplane exclusive has him building a PC for Red Bull 01:23:18.040 --> 01:23:22.940 showcasing scripts for setting up our PCs and being part of the 01:23:22.940 --> 01:23:26.240 do writers at LTT. All think the same video. 01:23:26.240 --> 01:23:31.640 You can go check that out at LMG dot GG slash F P WAN. 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. 01:23:38.740 --> 01:23:43.940 Pretty cool. He, um, he is aware of many, many, many hats. 01:23:45.140 --> 01:23:47.140 All right. More topics. 01:23:49.740 --> 01:23:54.640 Uh, yeah, there's a one I want to jump into where to go. 01:23:55.140 --> 01:24:00.240 It's on the dock. So Samsung Electronics fires first shot and departure from ARM 01:24:01.140 --> 01:24:07.740 develops proprietary SSD controller based on open source risk five. 01:24:07.840 --> 01:24:11.340 It's happening. More risk news. It's happening. 01:24:11.340 --> 01:24:20.440 Good. Samsung is launching its BM nine K one cool SSD lineup with a custom 01:24:20.440 --> 01:24:27.140 in-house controller chip built on the open source risk five architecture. Marking the first time Samsung Samsung has shipped a commercial product 01:24:27.140 --> 01:24:29.640 using risk five instead of ARM. 01:24:30.140 --> 01:24:35.740 The move let Samsung skip arms licensing fees and customize the chip. 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. 01:24:42.340 --> 01:24:45.840 Samsung says the new design is 1.6 times faster. 01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:49.240 That does not mean your SSD will be 1.6 times faster to be clear, 01:24:49.340 --> 01:24:52.840 but still that's very cool and 23% more energy efficient. 01:24:52.940 --> 01:24:55.940 That does not mean your entire SSD will be 23% more energy efficient, 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 01:25:02.040 --> 01:25:05.540 own risk five chips in SSD controllers for years and Samsung has 01:25:05.540 --> 01:25:09.240 played around with risk five and other projects since 2020 sorry 2019, 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 01:25:15.940 --> 01:25:19.740 because any commercial product products that ship with risk on them 01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:22.840 just makes it more normal to be clear. 01:25:22.840 --> 01:25:26.940 Which is ARM is also risk, but he means risk five. 01:25:26.940 --> 01:25:31.740 Yeah. Yeah. The I have a theory. 01:25:33.040 --> 01:25:36.740 It's just a theory. That's not trademarked and he's retired. 01:25:36.840 --> 01:25:39.840 Nope. He's retired. A computer theory. Sure. 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 01:25:50.340 --> 01:25:54.140 or not even transition because they're very much still coexisting today, 01:25:55.240 --> 01:26:02.240 but as long as that took I think risk fives rise will be. 01:26:04.040 --> 01:26:08.440 At most a third of the amount of time we're going towards a very 01:26:08.440 --> 01:26:15.240 interesting future because with the like mind shared divestment that's 01:26:15.240 --> 01:26:19.440 happening from Microsoft and Windows right now of people interested in Mac 01:26:19.840 --> 01:26:25.140 and people interested in Linux and just kind of moving off of off of that 01:26:26.740 --> 01:26:33.640 and hardware just getting a little funky like pricing has been really crazy 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 01:26:39.940 --> 01:26:43.140 especially if pricing is going to be 2000% higher than it used to be 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 01:26:51.540 --> 01:26:53.340 and it was even three, four years ago. 01:26:55.240 --> 01:27:03.040 There's you know, Google making their own stuff Intel interested in being 01:27:03.040 --> 01:27:06.440 a fab potentially more than even their own like speaking Intel. 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 01:27:11.840 --> 01:27:15.940 when I said that I thought it was looking kind of cool and laid out 01:27:15.940 --> 01:27:19.540 all the reasons I thought it was kind of cool in the medium to long term. 01:27:20.440 --> 01:27:26.140 You're doing pretty good so far. Just throwing that I don't know man. 01:27:26.440 --> 01:27:31.340 I it's it's real tempting sometimes when I can just kind of like see 01:27:31.340 --> 01:27:40.740 the tea leaves and I'm like this is the direction me being invested 01:27:40.740 --> 01:27:43.440 in Intel would be pretty bad though. That'd be pretty bad. 01:27:45.040 --> 01:27:48.440 Anyway, yeah. 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 01:27:54.840 --> 01:28:01.040 towards open source setups for things which is very based interesting. 01:28:02.340 --> 01:28:04.940 It's cool. I don't know what that future necessarily looks like. 01:28:05.640 --> 01:28:08.040 Probably a lot of fragmentation, but I think it'll be fun. 01:28:08.640 --> 01:28:11.640 I'm excited. Okay. 01:28:13.940 --> 01:28:20.440 Next topic. Stay the path says yeah, that almost be as bad as like the President 01:28:20.440 --> 01:28:24.640 of the United States shilling a ticker or like a crypto or NFT or something. 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. 01:28:30.040 --> 01:28:33.840 That would never happen. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's pretty far fetched. 01:28:34.540 --> 01:28:39.540 I wouldn't want to live in a world that's so corrupt that the politicians 01:28:39.540 --> 01:28:43.640 at the highest level would shill stocks and also almost as bad. 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. 01:28:52.740 --> 01:28:56.040 Speaking of far fetched Apple approves drivers that let AMD and 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. 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. 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 01:29:14.840 --> 01:29:19.540 AI accelerator and Apple's approval means users no longer need hacky 01:29:19.540 --> 01:29:23.540 workarounds like disabling system integrity protection to get eGPUs running. 01:29:24.540 --> 01:29:28.040 This is specifically for AI workloads, not for gaming. 01:29:28.240 --> 01:29:31.540 The drivers are built for running large language models. 01:29:31.740 --> 01:29:34.940 So if you were hoping to plug a GPU into your Mac and fire up games, 01:29:35.140 --> 01:29:37.640 that's unfortunately not in the cards. 01:29:38.340 --> 01:29:41.540 Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding solid solid. 01:29:42.640 --> 01:29:46.640 Tiny corp first got an eGPU working on Apple Silicon back in May. 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 01:29:53.140 --> 01:29:57.940 unofficial methods. Now with Apple's blessing installation is straightforward. 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 01:30:04.140 --> 01:30:09.140 dollar box with four AMD ninety seventy XTs all the way up to a sixty 01:30:09.140 --> 01:30:14.040 five thousand dollars system running for RTX Pro six thousand 01:30:14.040 --> 01:30:14.940 Blackwell GPUs. 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. 01:30:22.340 --> 01:30:29.040 Is that this is the first step sign of a potential future. 01:30:30.140 --> 01:30:35.140 Faw in the frosty relationship between Apple and NVIDIA. 01:30:36.140 --> 01:30:38.840 I would love to see at some point. 01:30:40.540 --> 01:30:45.840 You know, I think asking for an NVIDIA GPU baked onto Apple Silicon in 01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:50.740 a multi die package, that's probably unrealistic, but I'd love to see a 01:30:50.740 --> 01:30:57.340 future where I could hook an NVIDIA GPU up to my MacBook Neo three 01:30:57.340 --> 01:31:02.840 or MacBook Neo four and run serious games off of an iPhone CPU. 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 01:31:11.040 --> 01:31:16.640 driver and this was a number of years ago and Apple intentionally 01:31:16.740 --> 01:31:19.840 blocked it from working ever since bump gate. 01:31:20.340 --> 01:31:25.340 Things have been frosty between between the two. 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 01:31:30.340 --> 01:31:35.340 that you would think it would be time to bury the hatchet. 01:31:36.340 --> 01:31:44.240 You know, maybe maybe maybe when pigs fly and you know me and gamers 01:31:44.240 --> 01:31:45.440 Nexus make up and kiss. 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 01:31:55.940 --> 01:32:00.140 what it was. I have genuinely that for an image in your mind. 01:32:04.940 --> 01:32:06.940 His hair just draping around your face. 01:32:09.240 --> 01:32:11.640 Hey, what makes you think I would be on the bottom? 01:32:12.940 --> 01:32:16.240 So many things. Ha ha ha ha ha. 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 01:32:27.740 --> 01:32:32.140 allowing anyone to design or 3D print parts for their devices. 01:32:32.540 --> 01:32:37.540 This is so cool. They published a GitHub repository containing production grade CAD 01:32:37.540 --> 01:32:40.440 files for 83 of their keyboard and mouse models. 01:32:40.840 --> 01:32:45.340 Files are available in step for 3D CAD work, DXF for 2D plate 01:32:45.340 --> 01:32:49.440 cutting and DWG for engineering drawings, meaning that owners can 01:32:49.440 --> 01:32:54.540 3D print enclosures, CNC replacement plate, even in a new material 01:32:54.540 --> 01:32:59.440 like brass or carbon fiber or design their own mods without reverse 01:32:59.440 --> 01:33:05.240 engineering any of the measurements. Despite widespread reporting, though, calling this open source, key 01:33:05.240 --> 01:33:09.240 cron founder Nick Zoo has clarified it's actually source available. 01:33:09.640 --> 01:33:14.640 So personal builds, hobby projects and educational use are fine, 01:33:14.940 --> 01:33:18.540 but commercial use is strictly prohibited and you can't use the 01:33:18.540 --> 01:33:21.340 files to manufacture or sell competing products. 01:33:22.140 --> 01:33:26.140 Key cron had already published QMK and ZMK firmware source for 01:33:26.140 --> 01:33:30.240 many of its boards. So this adds the physical hardware dimension to an already 01:33:30.240 --> 01:33:35.240 pretty open stack. They are miles ahead of basically every other keyboard and mouse 01:33:35.240 --> 01:33:38.640 brand as far as this goes who all seem to treat physical geometry 01:33:38.640 --> 01:33:41.140 as proprietary and lock it away. 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. 01:33:46.340 --> 01:33:49.540 I don't know if I would have the stones to follow this step. 01:33:49.740 --> 01:33:52.040 This is incredibly cool. 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 01:33:57.340 --> 01:34:02.440 that we've had people ask for the CAD for and I think upon request 01:34:02.440 --> 01:34:06.640 we've provided the outside dimensions, but we have never 01:34:06.640 --> 01:34:09.340 provided the drawings for the entire thing. 01:34:10.840 --> 01:34:16.340 I think if you're a if you're a manufacturing shop in wherever 01:34:16.440 --> 01:34:20.640 and you want to rip off their keyboard, I think you can take it 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 01:34:25.640 --> 01:34:26.640 steal it from them. 01:34:28.940 --> 01:34:32.740 So I think there's probably some amount of recognition there 01:34:32.840 --> 01:34:36.340 and them just being like, hey, the people who wanted to rip this 01:34:36.340 --> 01:34:41.840 off already could have and we can be really cool guys to a lot 01:34:41.840 --> 01:34:44.740 of the people that that just want to do good things with this. 01:34:45.040 --> 01:34:48.340 So I mean, it sounds sounds like a great move to me and I don't 01:34:48.340 --> 01:34:51.740 really think they're setting themselves up for anything super 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 01:34:58.040 --> 01:35:01.240 first step in a move like this becoming conventional. 01:35:01.440 --> 01:35:03.840 That'd be cool and pretty sick. 01:35:04.440 --> 01:35:08.240 I'll have to do some reflection on it. You know, maybe someday. 01:35:10.040 --> 01:35:12.740 Deity willing. I could be this based. 01:35:16.140 --> 01:35:20.740 Speaking about things that are based dear like John dear that 01:35:20.740 --> 01:35:23.740 dear. Yeah. Like like go for yourself. 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 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. 01:35:35.740 --> 01:35:39.940 Dear settles us right to repair lawsuit agrees to 99 million 01:35:39.940 --> 01:35:43.140 dollar fund for farmers couldn't couldn't make it one more just 01:35:43.140 --> 01:35:45.240 make it a hundred, but I guess that's fine. 01:35:46.140 --> 01:35:49.640 They put that into a settlement fund to resolve the 2022 class 01:35:49.640 --> 01:35:53.740 action lawsuit that accused the company of monopolizing repair 01:35:53.740 --> 01:35:57.540 services and conspiring with authorized dealers to force farmers 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 01:36:04.040 --> 01:36:07.240 for large agricultural equipment repairs dating back to January 01:36:07.240 --> 01:36:12.540 of 2018. More importantly, and this is where I got actually excited. 01:36:13.040 --> 01:36:16.340 Dear has committed to providing the digital tools software and 01:36:16.340 --> 01:36:20.740 manuals needed to diagnose and repair its tractors combines 01:36:20.840 --> 01:36:24.140 and sugarcane harvesters for the next 10 years on a license. 01:36:24.140 --> 01:36:29.040 Oh, I only read the first half on a license or subscription 01:36:29.040 --> 01:36:33.040 basis formalizing a memorandum that had previously existed, 01:36:33.140 --> 01:36:36.640 but was never legally binding license or subscription basis. 01:36:36.640 --> 01:36:39.240 Ah, that feels like that's going to be abused horribly. 01:36:40.140 --> 01:36:42.640 This is better than them having it under lock and key. 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 01:36:48.740 --> 01:36:53.040 subscription basis exists on the high seas. 01:36:53.340 --> 01:36:56.340 Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully that gets on the high seas like immediately. 01:36:57.140 --> 01:37:00.840 Dear insists the settlement comes with no admission of wrongdoing, 01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:05.940 but right to repair advocates are calling it a landmark win that 01:37:05.940 --> 01:37:09.240 could set precedents for similar cases against automakers and 01:37:09.240 --> 01:37:11.240 consumer tech companies and hopefully it does. 01:37:13.640 --> 01:37:17.440 Our discussion question is, dear had to be dragged through 01:37:17.440 --> 01:37:21.040 four years of litigation and a $99 million settlement to let 01:37:21.040 --> 01:37:26.440 farmers fix their own tractors. How many other industries are running the same playbook? 01:37:26.440 --> 01:37:29.940 Oh, tons of them. Most importantly, I think is in medicine. 01:37:30.740 --> 01:37:37.740 Like the fact that fixing people is also bound by these same douche 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 01:37:42.940 --> 01:37:49.140 something is so important that it keeps a person alive. 01:37:49.740 --> 01:37:53.840 I am not saying that just any random schmuck should necessarily 01:37:53.840 --> 01:37:57.540 be working on it with any random schmuck parts, but there's 01:37:57.540 --> 01:37:59.740 got to be a middle ground. Yeah. 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 01:38:05.840 --> 01:38:11.140 nonsense in it. My uncle showed me a light bulb, a little incandescent bulb. 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 01:38:14.440 --> 01:38:18.840 this big. I get it for aviation because if you're, if you're totally 01:38:18.840 --> 01:38:24.840 average size, light bulb this size, it's $20 because you can 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 01:38:29.840 --> 01:38:33.340 certifies that you can put it behind like a little illuminated switch in a dashboard. 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 01:38:38.840 --> 01:38:43.340 the sky to necessarily have an easier time when it could result 01:38:43.340 --> 01:38:46.440 in that big, shiny metal object smacking into somebody. 01:38:46.940 --> 01:38:51.040 And, but I mean, that's the, oh man, see that's the dangerous 01:38:51.140 --> 01:38:54.440 sort of territory that we end up in because that's the kind of 01:38:54.640 --> 01:38:57.540 justification that's given for locking things down. 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 01:39:04.040 --> 01:39:07.540 the only person who could be harmed by it not operating correctly 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 01:39:13.040 --> 01:39:16.340 to it, it's your own liability that you are ultimately creating. 01:39:16.340 --> 01:39:19.640 Yeah. And it's sticky because I, I very much support rate to prepare 01:39:19.640 --> 01:39:22.840 when it comes to cars and cars has a similar problem to the plane. 01:39:23.040 --> 01:39:26.040 I think I'm just a lot less worried about protecting people who own 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 01:39:30.540 --> 01:39:33.840 happened to me that you'd be sad. Thank you. 01:39:33.840 --> 01:39:34.740 I appreciate that. 01:39:37.740 --> 01:39:42.140 You know what I'm worried about though is that the flat 01:39:42.140 --> 01:39:47.040 earthers are going to have a field day with how good those 01:39:47.040 --> 01:39:50.140 photos of the solar eclipse look from Artemis 2. 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 01:39:55.540 --> 01:39:58.440 through the thing? The full mass of galleries based, so I'll go there. 01:39:59.740 --> 01:40:03.940 The Artemis 2 crew took a bunch of photos of the moon during 01:40:03.940 --> 01:40:07.140 their lunar flyby and the images look like something out of 01:40:07.140 --> 01:40:11.340 Asimov's foundation series. So I honestly, even, even some of the ones who are inside 01:40:11.340 --> 01:40:13.640 the ship like that is such a sick photo dude. 01:40:16.440 --> 01:40:20.140 Absolutely. This is about as based as a photo can be while there isn't yet 01:40:20.140 --> 01:40:23.640 a moon base. This is probably the coolest photo of someone taking a photo. 01:40:25.940 --> 01:40:29.140 But okay, we get to, we get to the real ones. You can download these. 01:40:29.340 --> 01:40:33.340 They are really high res, fantastic background bait for, 01:40:33.340 --> 01:40:35.740 for people who want to make cool stuff. 01:40:37.340 --> 01:40:40.940 Some of these are just, yeah, wow. Isn't that incredible? 01:40:42.340 --> 01:40:45.640 Um, okay, that one to the right there. This one? 01:40:45.740 --> 01:40:51.240 No, uh, left, left. Yeah. Oh, I, I love this one. 01:40:52.540 --> 01:40:56.540 That is so just like OLED friendly background. 01:40:57.940 --> 01:41:01.940 Yeah. Wow. Maybe there's a little bit too much contrast along the bottom 01:41:01.940 --> 01:41:05.540 left, but still. Oh, that's so cool. 01:41:05.940 --> 01:41:09.340 There's a recreation of the iconic Earthrise photo from Apollo 8. 01:41:12.340 --> 01:41:15.340 It's, it's, it's, it's, yeah, hold on, this one. 01:41:16.340 --> 01:41:19.940 They're very similar. I mean, they were taken, they were taken a lot of photos. 01:41:20.040 --> 01:41:23.140 They were taken a lot of photos. This one specifically called out as it, but yeah. 01:41:23.540 --> 01:41:25.540 Uh, here's an eclipse shot. 01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:29.740 Oh man. So good. 01:41:29.740 --> 01:41:33.340 It's so cool. So good. Oh man. 01:41:34.840 --> 01:41:37.840 The moon and nighttime is visible in the background as the 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 01:41:43.040 --> 01:41:46.240 astronauts were able to observe at the end of their lunar observation period. 01:41:46.340 --> 01:41:51.340 Ah, ah, it's just, it's just the, the write ups are just 01:41:51.540 --> 01:41:55.340 exactly what was happening. And yet they sound so cool. 01:41:56.740 --> 01:42:00.040 Commander Reed Wiseman told Mission Control it was a surreal 01:42:00.040 --> 01:42:03.140 experience and said he'd need to invent new adjectives because 01:42:03.140 --> 01:42:06.640 no existing words could describe what they were seeing out the window. 01:42:07.340 --> 01:42:13.440 NASA has shared the full metadata for the photos to prove that they are real, unprocessed captures from the Orion capsule. 01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:17.340 They're not renders. They're not composites. Just breathtaking photos. 01:42:17.540 --> 01:42:21.740 And yet I, I firmly believe photos of a set. 01:42:22.140 --> 01:42:27.140 I firmly believe that because they look too good, someone 01:42:27.140 --> 01:42:30.140 out there will believe they are fake sponsored by blender. 01:42:30.140 --> 01:42:34.740 I believe that they're real and I firmly believe that I don't 01:42:34.740 --> 01:42:38.340 care because I choose to live in a world where it is real and 01:42:38.340 --> 01:42:40.540 that is more interesting and more fun and more exciting. 01:42:42.240 --> 01:42:50.840 It was, um, I, I, I made the mistake of watching a small 01:42:50.840 --> 01:42:55.740 amount of a reaction video of someone watching a stream of 01:42:55.740 --> 01:43:01.040 some flat earthers watching the launch and like talking about 01:43:01.040 --> 01:43:06.140 how they were faking it. And, um, taking the launch like fake. 01:43:06.140 --> 01:43:09.840 Yeah, of course. Just go because a rocket launch has to be fake. 01:43:10.440 --> 01:43:14.640 If, if the earth is, you know, flat and stuff, you can see it 01:43:14.640 --> 01:43:19.040 from so far away and you can go not that far away. 01:43:19.140 --> 01:43:22.440 Dude, they start talking about like how many camera angles 01:43:22.440 --> 01:43:27.040 there are and how many cuts there are to conceal like the, 01:43:27.140 --> 01:43:32.640 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 01:43:32.640 --> 01:43:37.040 cuts there are in a soccer game? Does that mean nobody has ever played soccer? 01:43:37.240 --> 01:43:44.340 What are you even talking about? Like it's watching, watching these people twist themselves 01:43:44.640 --> 01:43:49.640 into mental gymnastic pretzels to continue to believe something 01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:52.240 that is just so obviously not true. 01:43:53.440 --> 01:43:55.040 Like you can just think any of its bait. 01:43:56.940 --> 01:43:57.740 I wish it was. 01:44:00.240 --> 01:44:03.240 Like some of it's got to be bait. Some of it. 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. 01:44:09.440 --> 01:44:13.040 If 100% of them are grifters, right? My NASA paycheck came in. 01:44:13.640 --> 01:44:18.640 Sure. So if 100% of the influencers in the space are grifters, 01:44:20.340 --> 01:44:24.640 then if nobody actually believed it, who would be following them 01:44:24.640 --> 01:44:24.840 then? 01:44:29.940 --> 01:44:34.040 Like I'm saying, even if the people who are, who are most 01:44:34.040 --> 01:44:37.040 active in propagating the conspiracy theory are in on it. 01:44:37.140 --> 01:44:41.240 Okay. Obviously somebody's not because they wouldn't be watching this. 01:44:42.640 --> 01:44:45.940 So, so I can't, so I can't accept. But you watched it. 01:44:46.640 --> 01:44:49.340 No, I watched someone watching it to make fun of it. 01:44:49.840 --> 01:44:52.840 But I think there's a lot of people that will rage watch stuff like that. 01:44:53.340 --> 01:44:55.540 Okay. I'm going to say something sadder. 01:44:56.640 --> 01:44:59.640 A peripheral family member. Oh, no. 01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:04.640 I ended up in like a fairly, I don't know about heated, but 01:45:04.640 --> 01:45:07.840 definitely firm conversation with about it at some point. 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. 01:45:12.540 --> 01:45:15.140 They were like, I'm just kidding. 01:45:16.840 --> 01:45:20.040 Like, you know, there, there was emotion. 01:45:21.140 --> 01:45:27.540 So no, no, I'm sorry. I love commitment to something so sad. 01:45:28.540 --> 01:45:34.540 It's almost admirable. It's just a, no, it's not a less interesting world. 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 01:45:43.040 --> 01:45:46.740 amidst all the other round planets is pretty interesting. 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. 01:45:50.740 --> 01:45:54.240 We've never, you know, mankind never took that step. 01:45:54.840 --> 01:45:58.240 Like it's just, it's smaller. It's narrower. 01:45:58.240 --> 01:46:06.840 It's a, there's so much darkness and like sadness and negativity 01:46:06.840 --> 01:46:09.940 in the world very heavily right now. Not on the land show. 01:46:09.940 --> 01:46:14.740 And there's, there's these, there's these moments of like human 01:46:14.740 --> 01:46:17.940 brightness that happen and to deny that is just so sad. 01:46:18.440 --> 01:46:21.340 I, I, that's why it's like, I fully believe that it's real. 01:46:21.540 --> 01:46:25.240 And even if I didn't. I would want to. 01:46:26.340 --> 01:46:30.140 Okay. This might not be a topic for when show, but would you extend 01:46:30.140 --> 01:46:32.640 that logic to. 01:46:33.840 --> 01:46:36.040 I do a placebo things. Dragons. 01:46:37.940 --> 01:46:42.040 Do you choose to believe abominable snowman is real because that's more interesting? 01:46:42.040 --> 01:46:45.240 I think abominable snowman is pretty interesting. It's not good though. 01:46:46.340 --> 01:46:49.440 That's interesting, but it's not good. Part of this is that it's good. 01:46:49.440 --> 01:46:52.240 I mean, the vacuum of space is not good, but it's interesting. 01:46:54.540 --> 01:46:57.540 There's nothing to lead me to believe either of those things 01:46:57.540 --> 01:47:02.440 are legitimate. Okay. So you want some evidence. They're vaguely interesting. 01:47:02.440 --> 01:47:05.740 I don't think they're anywhere even in the same stratosphere 01:47:06.440 --> 01:47:10.140 as interesting as, as, as this and I don't see them as good. 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. 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 01:47:20.740 --> 01:47:24.140 any evidence for whatsoever, you choose to believe the more 01:47:24.140 --> 01:47:27.040 interesting and exciting version and good for now. 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 01:47:34.740 --> 01:47:38.440 something, I will like push into my brain repeatedly. 01:47:38.440 --> 01:47:41.540 Like it's good that I'm taking this cause it works. Right. 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. 01:47:50.040 --> 01:47:54.040 So like, yeah, I think I do that with more than just NASA stuff, 01:47:54.040 --> 01:47:58.240 but the house, I mean, I've, I've, I've seen a rocket takeoff. 01:47:59.340 --> 01:48:02.540 I don't know, bro. You can just go. 01:48:02.940 --> 01:48:04.240 The ducks are free. 01:48:06.240 --> 01:48:12.440 I don't know, man. In other space related news, the FCC is set to supercharge 01:48:12.440 --> 01:48:15.740 satellite internet performance and potentially lower costs. 01:48:16.040 --> 01:48:20.040 They just announced they'll vote on April 30th on an order to 01:48:20.040 --> 01:48:23.040 overhaul satellite spectrum sharing rules from the 1990s, 01:48:23.040 --> 01:48:26.340 replacing the old equivalent power flux density framework that 01:48:26.340 --> 01:48:30.140 limits how much signal, how much signal power, low earth orbit 01:48:30.140 --> 01:48:35.840 satellites like Starlink can use. FCC chair Brendan Carr said that the change could boost 01:48:35.840 --> 01:48:40.640 capacity for space based broadband by as much as seven times current levels using the same number of satellites. 01:48:40.940 --> 01:48:46.440 The rule change would mean faster speeds, potentially lower costs and better service for rural and remote users 01:48:46.440 --> 01:48:50.240 with the FCC estimating more than $2 billion in economic benefits for the U.S. 01:48:50.240 --> 01:48:53.340 alone. Space X, which has lobbied heavily for the change, 01:48:53.340 --> 01:48:57.940 stands to gain the most. Starlink accounts for about 65% of all active satellites 01:48:57.940 --> 01:49:00.940 in orbit and they have more than 10 million subscribers worldwide. 01:49:01.640 --> 01:49:04.940 The timing is pretty excellent for them right now too with the rumored IPO coming. 01:49:05.440 --> 01:49:10.740 Interestingly though, not everyone's on board. Geostationary satellite operators like Viacet, SES and 01:49:10.740 --> 01:49:14.140 Direct TV opposed the change, arguing that loosening the power 01:49:14.140 --> 01:49:18.140 limits could cause interference with their existing fleets. 01:49:20.540 --> 01:49:25.140 In other NASA news, that's a fan testing video that we released 01:49:25.140 --> 01:49:28.240 this week. It took a long time, which was not great. 01:49:28.540 --> 01:49:31.840 Like I think Adam's trip was like a year ago, but the timing 01:49:31.840 --> 01:49:35.140 ended up being really good. To the point where a lot of people thought you guys didn't 01:49:35.140 --> 01:49:37.240 intentionally. Nope. Don't think you did. 01:49:38.540 --> 01:49:41.840 Definitely not. There was just a lot of math and a lot of coordination and a 01:49:41.840 --> 01:49:46.040 lot of just things taken a long time and we eventually got it 01:49:46.040 --> 01:49:49.640 done. Dr. Lewis Edelman, former NASA scientist, delved into the 01:49:49.640 --> 01:49:54.440 detail. Of the fan testing equipment and methodology in an article on 01:49:54.440 --> 01:49:57.040 the LTT Labs website. 01:49:57.540 --> 01:50:04.140 How freaking cool is that? We have a special guest writer. 01:50:04.940 --> 01:50:08.940 Awesome. You guys are definitely going to want to head over there and 01:50:08.940 --> 01:50:12.440 read this because there's only so much that we can cover in a 01:50:12.440 --> 01:50:16.540 video format and while keeping it, you know, not a snooze fest 01:50:16.540 --> 01:50:19.240 and you can see as I go through this clearly. 01:50:19.540 --> 01:50:27.340 Not all of this was in there. And just because it's not a snooze via text or sorry, just 01:50:27.340 --> 01:50:32.040 because it would be kind of snooze worthy and video doesn't mean that it's snooze worthy via totally. 01:50:32.140 --> 01:50:35.440 It's an excellent read and you guys are going to want to check 01:50:35.440 --> 01:50:41.440 it out. We also have another LTT Labs article to promote and that is 01:50:41.740 --> 01:50:45.540 power supply, turn on and turn off timings. 01:50:45.840 --> 01:50:49.140 It's something that I had never thought about before and don't 01:50:49.240 --> 01:50:54.440 get scared by this because Lucas actually does a really good 01:50:54.440 --> 01:50:59.140 job breaking stuff down of explaining all these values and 01:50:59.140 --> 01:51:04.240 why they exist and why they matter, which is pretty cool. 01:51:04.240 --> 01:51:08.140 There's a lot more to the ATX specification than just like 01:51:08.940 --> 01:51:18.640 12 volt go burr. It's really cool stuff and once you understand it more, 01:51:19.840 --> 01:51:24.940 you properly appreciate just how smart the folks who design 01:51:24.940 --> 01:51:29.540 these standards are and how important they are like Intel. 01:51:30.540 --> 01:51:34.740 Telerious like Intel never Intel never made a power supply for you to put in your gaming rig. 01:51:36.440 --> 01:51:40.840 But here they are start foundationally involved in the 01:51:40.840 --> 01:51:43.940 design of functionally every single one you've ever used in 01:51:43.940 --> 01:51:47.540 your lifetime unless you're very, very old. Pretty cool stuff. 01:51:47.540 --> 01:51:52.140 Definitely worth a read as well. LTT Labs has been doing some really neat stuff over the last 01:51:52.140 --> 01:51:57.640 little while. Anyway, our discussion question is have you ever made a really 01:51:57.640 --> 01:52:02.340 poor fan placement decision in a previous build that this video 01:52:03.740 --> 01:52:05.940 from the collaboration with NASA would have prevented? 01:52:07.540 --> 01:52:10.540 I don't think so, but mostly because I haven't had a lot of 01:52:10.540 --> 01:52:15.740 builds that had glass in them. There are a ton of cases out there that this would have 01:52:15.740 --> 01:52:19.740 actually potentially impacted where I put my fans, but I 01:52:19.740 --> 01:52:21.040 haven't built in a lot of them. 01:52:22.740 --> 01:52:27.540 The only case that I've ever had that had like front panel 01:52:27.540 --> 01:52:31.140 glass is the one that I currently have and there's no 01:52:31.140 --> 01:52:36.040 fan slots there. I think for me it's less front panel glass and it's more bottom 01:52:36.040 --> 01:52:44.240 intakes. There have been many cases that have short enough feet that 01:52:44.240 --> 01:52:48.340 their bottom intakes, now that I understand how much spacing 01:52:48.340 --> 01:52:54.440 we actually need, simply just are not intaking air efficiently. 01:52:54.740 --> 01:52:59.240 That doesn't mean that I wouldn't still put the fans there, but I might not rely on them as much. 01:52:59.240 --> 01:53:02.740 I might opt for a different configuration of the fans in the 01:53:02.740 --> 01:53:08.340 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 01:53:08.340 --> 01:53:12.840 lower speed knowing that they're going to have an outsized 01:53:12.840 --> 01:53:17.340 effect on the overall noise of my system because of all that 01:53:17.340 --> 01:53:18.640 turbulence in their intake. 01:53:21.540 --> 01:53:26.140 I am trying to find something. Sorry, give me a second. 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I need another second to actually bring up the actual video, 01:55:38.340 --> 01:55:45.940 but we're talking about power supply timings and it made me think of a video I watched recently from Lori Wired, which 01:55:45.940 --> 01:55:48.940 is this one. Your RAM has a 60 year old design flaw. 01:55:48.940 --> 01:55:55.640 I bypassed it. That was sick. I watched that recently too. This is an incredible amazing video. 01:55:55.640 --> 01:55:58.740 It's so awesome. I didn't know it worked this way. 01:55:59.340 --> 01:56:03.140 I don't want to go way too deep into it, but the storytelling is really good. 01:56:03.340 --> 01:56:07.240 Her work is really good. I personally like long format videos on YouTube. 01:56:07.340 --> 01:56:10.440 It's just an awesome watch. If you're into that kind of stuff, usually I'm pointing 01:56:10.440 --> 01:56:13.540 you guys for these types of things to the Labs website and 01:56:13.540 --> 01:56:18.140 you should go check that out for the NASA fan video and the power supply timings thing, but you mentioned timings were 01:56:18.140 --> 01:56:19.840 writing me of this amazing video. 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 01:56:28.540 --> 01:56:33.440 out how to do PC memory, has your RAM modules effectively 01:56:33.440 --> 01:56:39.140 like kind of turning off so capacitors can recharge and then turning back on and that is technically a performance 01:56:39.140 --> 01:56:44.240 loss and then diving into like why that is required and 01:56:44.240 --> 01:56:47.740 blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a very, very good video. I don't want to say too much, but check it out. 01:56:47.740 --> 01:56:51.940 It's fantastic. Is this the one where it involved having multiple copies of 01:56:51.940 --> 01:56:55.340 the same data on the RAM and then hitting the one that had 01:56:55.340 --> 01:56:58.540 the lowest latency or something like that? Or was that a separate RAM? 01:56:58.640 --> 01:57:01.640 I think that's a separate thing. Oh, okay. Dan, do you remember? 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. 01:57:05.440 --> 01:57:08.740 There were like two copies though, but I don't know. 01:57:08.840 --> 01:57:09.240 Yeah. 01:57:12.940 --> 01:57:16.440 Sorry. One of the top comments is randomly absent memory and I just think that's really funny. 01:57:18.040 --> 01:57:21.140 They got to play with trains. Yeah, it's cool. 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. 01:57:25.240 --> 01:57:29.840 It feels like I watched this weeks ago. I would have said like two weeks. 01:57:32.440 --> 01:57:38.140 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 01:57:38.140 --> 01:57:40.540 it out. All right, cool. Anyways, that's it. 01:57:41.540 --> 01:57:47.440 Hey, another good news. It's real. The five terabyte Google one upgrade Google has bumped 01:57:47.440 --> 01:57:51.340 Google AI pro subscribers from two terabytes to five terabytes 01:57:51.340 --> 01:57:54.640 of cloud storage at no extra cost with the 1999 per month 01:57:54.640 --> 01:57:59.040 price staying the same. The extra space works across Gmail, Google drive and 01:57:59.040 --> 01:58:03.240 Google photos. This only applies to AI pro subscribers standard Google 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. 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, 01:58:14.440 --> 01:58:16.440 confirmed it on Twitter. 01:58:19.540 --> 01:58:22.840 Part of me kind of goes, yeah, are they just trying to get more 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 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 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 01:58:40.840 --> 01:58:44.340 days that is just a subscription service from a big tech 01:58:44.340 --> 01:58:48.140 company that got better instead of worse spontaneously is more 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 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. 01:59:01.640 --> 01:59:05.640 Yeah. Say the past said heads up though. Home lab is an enormous rabbit hole. 01:59:06.340 --> 01:59:09.640 Yeah, yeah, there's, I think there's, I think people have 01:59:09.640 --> 01:59:14.140 a tendency to dive in further than they necessarily need to 01:59:14.340 --> 01:59:17.540 and I think you can start with home labby stuff without really 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, 01:59:25.940 --> 01:59:29.840 your desire to invest time or your desire to invest money. 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. 01:59:34.640 --> 01:59:37.940 So just don't lab is for sure one of those. 01:59:37.940 --> 01:59:41.940 I have so many AI GPUs in my in my house. 01:59:41.940 --> 01:59:48.740 I don't even use them because I just and that's cool. 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. 01:59:53.140 --> 01:59:55.940 You can keep it pretty simple. Yeah, you don't have to do that. 01:59:56.940 --> 02:00:02.440 Do not do that. Hey, oh, you know what? 02:00:02.440 --> 02:00:07.040 I'll save this one. Our last big topic, neural compression speaking of AI is 02:00:07.040 --> 02:00:11.040 coming for your VRAM and both NVIDIA and Intel are racing 02:00:11.040 --> 02:00:15.040 to ship it. They both showed off new neural texture compression tech 02:00:15.040 --> 02:00:20.840 this week. NVIDIA's approach neural texture compression NTC had their demo 02:00:20.840 --> 02:00:24.340 showing VRAM usage dropping from about six and a half gigabytes 02:00:24.540 --> 02:00:29.340 with traditional compressed textures to just 970 megabytes 02:00:30.340 --> 02:00:33.140 all while keeping image quality close to the original. 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 02:00:39.040 --> 02:00:43.440 approximates them. NTC uses a small neural network that learns a much more 02:00:43.440 --> 02:00:47.840 efficient compressed representation of the texture data and reconstructs it on the fly during rendering. 02:00:48.440 --> 02:00:51.840 Yeah, I'm a little skeptical too. I'll need to see it in action. 02:00:51.840 --> 02:00:54.840 Just relax. 02:00:56.540 --> 02:00:59.240 You're brow furring. I can feel it from here. 02:01:02.240 --> 02:01:05.840 Meanwhile, Intel's approach texture set neural compression 02:01:05.840 --> 02:01:08.640 TSNC had Intel showing two variants. 02:01:08.940 --> 02:01:12.640 Variant A delivers up to nine times compression with minimal 02:01:12.640 --> 02:01:17.340 quality loss. They say around 5% perceptual difference while variant B 02:01:17.540 --> 02:01:20.940 pushes to 18 times compression but starts showing artifacts. 02:01:21.940 --> 02:01:27.240 Intel's approach works at the texture set level. Instead of compressing each texture individually, their 02:01:27.240 --> 02:01:32.440 system looks at all the textures for material together, colors, normals, roughness, etc. 02:01:32.640 --> 02:01:35.840 and trains neural network to learn patterns across all of them at once. 02:01:36.140 --> 02:01:39.440 At runtime, a tiny AI model reconstructs the full set from 02:01:39.440 --> 02:01:45.540 that compressed data. If these results hold up in real games, if the practical 02:01:45.540 --> 02:01:49.340 impact could be significant, smaller installs, lighter patches 02:01:49.540 --> 02:01:53.240 and more headroom for higher quality assets on the same GPU hardware. 02:01:53.940 --> 02:01:57.740 NVIDIA also showed a companion technology called Neural Materials. 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 02:02:03.640 --> 02:02:06.840 representation that a small neural network decodes at render 02:02:06.840 --> 02:02:10.340 time. In one example, a 19 channel material setup was reduced 02:02:10.340 --> 02:02:15.040 to eight channels with a 1.4x to 7.7x improvement to render 02:02:15.040 --> 02:02:19.540 speeds at 1080p. Our writer says, I had to look up what channels meant in 02:02:19.540 --> 02:02:22.440 this context. I'm going to drop a definition here in case you need it. 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, 02:02:28.140 --> 02:02:32.040 etc. One key distinction guys, this is very important. 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 02:02:39.740 --> 02:02:43.440 on the final image. There's a little bit of muddying of the waters there 02:02:43.440 --> 02:02:46.840 lately. So let's see what DLSS5 actually ends up being. 02:02:47.440 --> 02:02:49.840 But as far as we can tell, that's what it is. 02:02:50.840 --> 02:02:56.040 These neural compression techniques are embedded deeper inside the render engine, handling specific tasks like 02:02:56.040 --> 02:03:00.440 decoding textures and evaluating materials rather than acting as a big Instagram filter at the end. 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 02:03:06.240 --> 02:03:09.240 DLS5 on the original artistic intent. 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? 02:03:15.140 --> 02:03:18.140 Well, it depends if the original vision is for them to use 02:03:18.140 --> 02:03:21.740 this at the start, then I guess it was the original vision. 02:03:21.740 --> 02:03:25.140 Maybe, but this is even like, okay, fair enough, but I don't 02:03:25.140 --> 02:03:29.640 know that that's happening. And also it's going to be inconsistent for each user. 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 02:03:36.940 --> 02:03:40.340 every texture in my game or something like that, then obviously 02:03:40.340 --> 02:03:44.640 I'm going to be pretty against it. I'm... 02:03:45.640 --> 02:03:50.140 Layers and layers of interpretation is a bit of a scary thing. 02:03:50.140 --> 02:03:55.640 I wasn't sure that DLSS super sampling or super resolution, 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 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. 02:04:09.140 --> 02:04:15.140 So while I fully understand and I'm on board a lot of the 02:04:15.140 --> 02:04:19.140 hesitancy and a lot of the skepticism around NVIDIA's 02:04:19.140 --> 02:04:22.940 marketing of their DLSS various technologies and AI, various 02:04:22.940 --> 02:04:25.940 technologies, I'm going to take a wait and see approach. 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. 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 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. 02:04:39.140 --> 02:04:42.140 Forget it. We don't like it. Turn it off now. 02:04:42.140 --> 02:04:45.140 It feels like a telephone game problem. Oh, sure. 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 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. 02:04:59.040 --> 02:05:02.740 Have you seen that like looking at the Ubisoft logo from the side thing or whatever? 02:05:02.740 --> 02:05:05.340 Oh, yes. It's a turd. Yes. Yes, I have. 02:05:05.940 --> 02:05:09.040 Intel says that an alpha SDK is planned later this year 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 02:05:14.040 --> 02:05:17.240 roadmap alongside DLSS five. 02:05:20.740 --> 02:05:24.940 Right now, it's hard for me to reflexively hate on 02:05:24.940 --> 02:05:28.240 anything that makes it so we don't need quite as much RAM. 02:05:29.240 --> 02:05:32.140 I guess I'm just concerned. You should be. 02:05:32.440 --> 02:05:36.840 And I think I would have been concerned already and then 02:05:36.840 --> 02:05:39.440 having seen that stuff from DLSS five. 02:05:41.240 --> 02:05:44.640 I am concerned. I don't remember if I mentioned this back when we did 02:05:44.640 --> 02:05:47.740 that segment with Riley, but one of the one of the first 02:05:47.740 --> 02:05:51.640 things I said to NVIDIA about the DLSS five demo is that 02:05:51.640 --> 02:05:58.740 like I think the worst thing that they did was show it 02:05:58.740 --> 02:06:06.040 before it was cooked. I am usually the kind of person who enjoys seeing things 02:06:06.040 --> 02:06:09.240 be developed in the open and watching the progress in real 02:06:09.240 --> 02:06:15.740 time. In this case, I think they I think they did so much harm 02:06:16.140 --> 02:06:20.540 and so much damage to what maybe will end up being better 02:06:20.540 --> 02:06:23.840 than what we saw by showing it to us in that state because 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. 02:06:27.240 --> 02:06:31.340 Yeah, like it's it's months away. Oh, Rod. 02:06:31.540 --> 02:06:34.640 Rod said they're sharing DLSS five demo at PDX land tomorrow. 02:06:35.740 --> 02:06:38.940 Oh, interesting. Okay. Well, Rod, are you going? 02:06:38.940 --> 02:06:42.440 I assume you're going. Are you going to? Are you going to report for us? 02:06:42.440 --> 02:06:45.440 You can be our correspondent. Yeah, you can. You can be our DLSS. 02:06:46.840 --> 02:06:48.440 I in the sky. Yeah. 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? 02:06:54.740 --> 02:06:57.240 Watching you're watching Wancho from a crack out loud. 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. 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. 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? 02:07:16.640 --> 02:07:19.740 That guy. He's coming to the next wheel. Can't take these guys anywhere. 02:07:20.540 --> 02:07:24.040 I think Tarkov right now have one in the background. Nice solid. 02:07:24.040 --> 02:07:26.840 All right. All right. You know what? I'll allow it. 02:07:27.840 --> 02:07:30.840 You know what else I'll allow? Wow. Wow. That's bold. 02:07:30.840 --> 02:07:33.840 I know. That's very bold. 02:07:33.840 --> 02:07:36.840 True gamer. Verified actual gamer. 02:07:37.340 --> 02:07:41.340 Viewer Wolfgang has the solution to my Xbox pairing issue. 02:07:41.340 --> 02:07:43.340 Remember I was saying I had Xbox pairing issues. 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 02:07:48.840 --> 02:07:51.840 that to update the controller firmware on the Xbox accessories app. 02:07:52.840 --> 02:07:55.840 They apparently tried it in a VM and even that didn't work. 02:07:55.840 --> 02:07:58.840 And of course you also have the Xbox app installed and signed in so you can 02:07:58.840 --> 02:08:01.840 download something called gaming services and after updating the firmware, 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 02:08:07.840 --> 02:08:12.840 more of their products in order to update the firmware on their products. 02:08:12.840 --> 02:08:13.840 It's bad. 02:08:15.840 --> 02:08:19.840 Apple folks always get mad at me about this when I say it is completely 02:08:19.840 --> 02:08:23.840 unacceptable that I have to buy another Apple product in order to update the 02:08:23.840 --> 02:08:26.840 firmware on my AirPods and they say that it's some kind of double standard. 02:08:26.840 --> 02:08:31.840 It is not a double standard. It's unacceptable when Microsoft does it too. 02:08:31.840 --> 02:08:35.840 I already paid like 70 Canadian dollars for your controller or whatever they are 02:08:35.840 --> 02:08:41.840 these days. Yeah. I should be able to maintain them perfectly fine on any platform. 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. 02:08:49.840 --> 02:08:52.840 I find it very interesting because usually I'm a proponent of like, you know, 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 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 02:09:02.840 --> 02:09:05.840 with their like Star Wars animals thing. That was horrible. 02:09:05.840 --> 02:09:09.840 And then DLSS5 and I just keep running into there's been other examples as well. 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? 02:09:15.840 --> 02:09:18.840 Yeah. Like the Disney one especially was just like, what? 02:09:18.840 --> 02:09:21.840 Like you thought this was cool? Like if they had just... 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 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 02:09:32.840 --> 02:09:38.840 anything about it. Look at our creators. Here, Disney, AI demo, awful. 02:09:38.840 --> 02:09:41.840 It's just so bad. 02:09:41.840 --> 02:09:46.840 Like it's the like audacity to be like, yeah, this is awesome. 02:09:46.840 --> 02:09:49.840 It was wild. Yeah. 02:09:49.840 --> 02:09:52.840 You know this? Like... I do. 02:09:52.840 --> 02:09:56.840 What? And I'll remember this for longer than I will remember them doing something cool. 02:09:56.840 --> 02:10:05.840 Yeah. It just, it's just kind of weird. 02:10:05.840 --> 02:10:08.840 Strange. Anyways. 02:10:08.840 --> 02:10:12.840 Oh man, I forgot how horrible these were. 02:10:12.840 --> 02:10:15.840 They're so stupid. They're so bad. Yeah. 02:10:15.840 --> 02:10:18.840 They're just so dumb. Yeah. 02:10:18.840 --> 02:10:21.840 Geez. All right. Anyways. 02:10:21.840 --> 02:10:25.840 Anyways, it's time for After Dark. Dan, let's do this thing. 02:10:25.840 --> 02:10:31.840 Good gravy. There's a... 02:10:31.840 --> 02:10:35.840 There's a lot of... There's a lot of checkout messages today. 02:10:35.840 --> 02:10:39.840 They love those leggings. They've been asking for them every week for years. 02:10:39.840 --> 02:10:42.840 The leggings are moving. Okay. 02:10:42.840 --> 02:10:45.840 All right. All right. Let's do it. 02:10:45.840 --> 02:10:49.840 Let's... Sweet. I'm glad to have more of those products. 02:10:49.840 --> 02:10:56.840 Do you imagine that the Creator Warehouse team, which is predominantly women, would 02:10:56.840 --> 02:11:00.840 like to make more products that they could wear at home? 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. 02:11:08.840 --> 02:11:13.840 We need our 97% male audience to evangelize these. 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. 02:11:17.280 --> 02:11:20.280 Women has pockets. Like I don't... Women has seven pockets. 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 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 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 02:11:39.880 --> 02:11:43.080 help this time. That's all there is to it. 02:11:43.080 --> 02:11:47.000 And it looks like it looks like you guys are responding to that. 02:11:47.000 --> 02:11:51.600 And once these, like seriously, we've actually moved quite a few of them today. 02:11:51.600 --> 02:11:55.680 Once these are in people's hands, leave a review and don't sugarcoat it. 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 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 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. 02:12:15.000 --> 02:12:18.000 All right. Wow. 02:12:18.000 --> 02:12:21.160 How many did they, two leggings excited. 02:12:21.160 --> 02:12:25.120 These are out to share the LDD quality with my wife. 02:12:25.120 --> 02:12:30.920 What are some tech related hobbies that your significant others have been interested in? 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 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 02:12:45.560 --> 02:12:50.840 them. She's been getting really into, um, 3d modeling and 3d printing. 02:12:50.840 --> 02:12:57.640 Um, she definitely still has some, so she understands 3d printing a bit and she understands 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. 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 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 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. 02:13:17.440 --> 02:13:21.280 Um, oh wait, significant others. Sorry. 02:13:21.280 --> 02:13:24.600 I thought you meant I read it as other significant people in my life. 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 02:13:31.080 --> 02:13:34.480 to do with like vinyl plotting, like 2d, 2d cutting. 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. 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 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, 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. 02:13:52.680 --> 02:13:55.920 It's fine. She's just like that though. 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 02:14:00.920 --> 02:14:02.920 dived into. Cool. 02:14:03.920 --> 02:14:09.680 Was this both of us or was it just, uh, tech stuff? 02:14:09.680 --> 02:14:13.520 I mean, she got into streaming for a bit there. She did. 02:14:13.520 --> 02:14:16.520 Plenty time. Plenty time. She liked streaming. 02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:20.640 That was fun. She hasn't been, she's been knitting. 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. 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. 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 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. 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 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 02:15:10.320 --> 02:15:13.840 again and didn't touch it again. So I don't know. 02:15:13.840 --> 02:15:18.080 Hey, didn't she do some stuff with like vibe coding or something? 02:15:18.080 --> 02:15:21.080 Okay. Yeah. There you go. 02:15:21.080 --> 02:15:24.080 You got that. For like her old job or something like that, right? 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 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 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 02:15:40.080 --> 02:15:43.080 this type of coding? Oh my God. Does that fair? 02:15:43.080 --> 02:15:48.480 Uh, it doesn't have this type of coding. Does it have whatever who knows various? 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? 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. 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, 02:16:00.720 --> 02:16:05.480 she built this like form that could help you flow through that a lot more easily. 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 02:16:11.040 --> 02:16:16.200 and she was actually quite successful with maintaining that, which can be really annoying. 02:16:16.200 --> 02:16:19.520 And she had some frustrations with it because it's really annoying. 02:16:19.600 --> 02:16:24.160 This was a bit ago when it was worse. Um, so yeah, that works pretty well. 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 02:16:29.520 --> 02:16:33.360 being able to vibe code. I remember you talking to me excitedly about it. 02:16:33.360 --> 02:16:37.320 It was very impressive. Like this is, this is something. Yeah. 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 02:16:43.520 --> 02:16:46.980 used since then, but it's available. It's there. 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. 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. 02:16:57.220 --> 02:17:01.060 They were never going to hire someone to do that. That was never going to happen. 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 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. 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. 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. 02:17:27.300 --> 02:17:30.860 They just like picked whatever I, yeah. 02:17:30.860 --> 02:17:34.260 And then Noki says, knitting isn't tech. 02:17:34.260 --> 02:17:38.420 Yvonne got that by the mirror. That's an embroidery machine. 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. 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, 02:17:51.820 --> 02:17:55.420 they like share their patterns and stuff. It's like actually sweet. 02:17:55.420 --> 02:17:59.940 It's, it was really interesting to see how much crossover there is, but yeah, 02:18:00.100 --> 02:18:02.100 life is, life is strange and it's cool. 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 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. 02:18:12.660 --> 02:18:14.340 Um, 02:18:16.740 --> 02:18:21.300 he did you, and she's been getting into like different blends of different 02:18:21.300 --> 02:18:24.380 yarns and all these different things. And it's, it's cool. 02:18:24.660 --> 02:18:28.340 It's pretty sweet. It's not for me necessarily, but it's pretty sweet. 02:18:29.500 --> 02:18:30.620 I'm excited about the output. 02:18:33.300 --> 02:18:36.220 Yeah. Anytime. Yeah. 02:18:37.140 --> 02:18:40.460 Yeah. So, uh, this was done on the embroidery machine. She made that. 02:18:40.580 --> 02:18:44.460 Well, I mean, everything else was done on the sewing machine, uh, but yes, 02:18:44.460 --> 02:18:47.140 she's super into making stuffed animals right now. 02:18:47.620 --> 02:18:50.660 Uh, and then the eyes were done on the embroidery machine. 02:18:50.860 --> 02:18:54.100 That's pretty sick. Yeah. This is a gift for a family member. That's cool. 02:18:54.140 --> 02:18:57.460 Yeah. From, she makes them from, from just fabric. 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. 02:19:01.180 --> 02:19:04.420 Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like it looks great. Yep. That's awesome. 02:19:04.500 --> 02:19:10.380 Yeah. Pretty cool. That's really cool. Noki Fox, Firefox, give me. 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 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. 02:19:24.860 --> 02:19:27.940 For it to be, that would probably slam for it to be worth her time. 02:19:27.940 --> 02:19:31.380 It would have to be pretty expensive. They take a long time. 02:19:31.420 --> 02:19:33.940 It's a, it's a hobbyist thing for sure. 02:19:34.660 --> 02:19:38.180 Yeah. Well, everyone watching on Flowplain is using Firefox. I know they are. 02:19:38.180 --> 02:19:40.620 There's a lot of Firefox. Every one of them. Yep. 02:19:41.180 --> 02:19:49.220 Hit me, Dan. Linus, with the Tesla, with Tesla heralding the imminent arrival of unsupervised, unsupervised, 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 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. 02:20:02.780 --> 02:20:05.540 Unfortunately, hold on. 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 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 02:20:22.180 --> 02:20:25.940 in the way that they have promised it here. 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 02:20:35.260 --> 02:20:40.620 said by this date, it will be more safe than human drivers. 02:20:40.940 --> 02:20:45.020 And then the, the writer of the article actually didn't get them all. 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 02:20:51.980 --> 02:20:58.780 that he had used exactly the same puffery language to describe the progress that they 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. 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 02:21:09.700 --> 02:21:18.180 misled for all of these years, at many times in ways that Tesla and, and their 02:21:18.180 --> 02:21:23.460 leadership must have known was not true. 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. 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. 02:21:37.860 --> 02:21:42.620 And the timelines have just, I mean, they've just become a meme at this point. 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. 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 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 02:21:59.660 --> 02:22:03.260 any peer reviewed data that backs that up? They don't. 02:22:03.620 --> 02:22:06.180 Waymo does, but Tesla doesn't. 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 02:22:12.900 --> 02:22:16.420 disengagement, for instance, is that it's not flattering. 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. 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 02:22:27.780 --> 02:22:30.020 obfuscate. It's that simple. 02:22:34.020 --> 02:22:37.580 Hey, DLL love the show. Question for Linus and Luke. 02:22:37.660 --> 02:22:39.980 If I made an LTT video game, what would you like to see in it? 02:22:40.980 --> 02:22:47.860 I would like to see gameplay first and not an LTT video game. 02:22:47.860 --> 02:22:50.340 I just don't think an LTT video game would be very good. 02:22:52.060 --> 02:22:54.500 What even would an LTT video game be? 02:22:59.060 --> 02:23:06.420 Like I, like, uh, like I'd see something like PC building simulator, like a simulator 02:23:06.420 --> 02:23:09.500 type game, maybe. Is it, uh, man, what was that? 02:23:10.620 --> 02:23:15.060 Name of the game, video PR crisis management simulator. 02:23:15.420 --> 02:23:20.300 It makes sense. Video game creation simulator or something. 02:23:21.300 --> 02:23:24.220 What was that? Game Dev Tycoon. 02:23:24.540 --> 02:23:29.500 Oh yeah. Okay. It was like Game Dev Tycoon, but PewDiePie already has YouTuber simulator 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. 02:23:34.060 --> 02:23:38.180 Game Dev Tycoon isn't, isn't just the like Game Dev version of YouTube simulator. 02:23:38.180 --> 02:23:42.980 It's, it's different. We could like Game Dev Tycoon it, but with YouTube channels. 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 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, 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. 02:23:57.220 --> 02:23:59.380 Hold on. Here it is. Yep. 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. 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. 02:24:11.500 --> 02:24:14.500 Yeah. All right, Dan, hit me. 02:24:15.060 --> 02:24:19.940 Hi, Linus, Luke and Dan looking for the best thermal adhesive to apply rocket 02:24:19.940 --> 02:24:22.700 cool copper IHS to a 12700K. 02:24:23.140 --> 02:24:26.420 Any other advice? Found a working chip on three bay. 02:24:27.580 --> 02:24:32.220 Excuse me. Just a need to assemble. Uh, also, how's your steam build? 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? 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? 02:24:50.100 --> 02:24:51.980 I'm trying to remember, does Intel solder them? 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. 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. 02:25:09.060 --> 02:25:13.900 But, uh, it's Intel solder the 1200, 12,000. 02:25:13.900 --> 02:25:18.140 Excuse me. Um, series chips. 02:25:19.580 --> 02:25:22.940 That's what I would probably want to know. Yeah. 02:25:22.980 --> 02:25:28.020 Oh man, if they're soldered by default, almost anything you put on them is not 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 02:25:35.940 --> 02:25:37.180 their copper IHS? 02:25:39.020 --> 02:25:42.820 I would just, I would just raw dog it bare die personally. 02:25:44.980 --> 02:25:48.660 Be fast, be cool. Products. Here we go. Instructions. 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. 02:25:52.860 --> 02:25:56.540 Delid, relid. Hair dryer to soften. This video is unavailable. 02:25:57.260 --> 02:26:00.580 What the. Really? You guys. 02:26:01.020 --> 02:26:04.660 Okay. Well, I can see what the problem is then. Artemis two suggested in his suggestions. 02:26:04.660 --> 02:26:05.100 Let's go. 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. 02:26:12.340 --> 02:26:17.220 But I, huh, man, I see people are saying liquid metal and that would be maybe 02:26:17.220 --> 02:26:22.460 the most effective, but it would be pretty dangerous to apply there when you 02:26:22.460 --> 02:26:29.300 don't have a way of, I wouldn't trust just silicone gluing an IHS back 02:26:29.300 --> 02:26:34.620 down and hoping that I have enough, enough contact for liquid metal personally. 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. 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. 02:26:49.380 --> 02:26:52.300 It's a good thermal pad. 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. 02:26:59.580 --> 02:27:03.780 Sorry. Hey LDL, been a fan since I was a kid. 02:27:03.980 --> 02:27:10.060 I was tasked with making one to two mill photos, million photos, be 02:27:10.060 --> 02:27:15.100 viewable to far away elderly family members considering Google photos or a 02:27:15.100 --> 02:27:18.260 home lab solution. What would you suggest? Oh my God. 02:27:18.300 --> 02:27:21.380 Well, it depends. Do you want a fun project? 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 02:27:30.780 --> 02:27:33.140 think about it anymore than Google photos? 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 02:27:43.020 --> 02:27:46.180 stuff and them being far away. 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? 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 02:27:53.180 --> 02:27:57.340 okay? Now that doesn't mean that they're going to have no problems with Google 02:27:57.340 --> 02:28:00.820 photos, but the blame shifts. 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. 02:28:12.100 --> 02:28:12.820 I'll be right back. 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 02:28:26.620 --> 02:28:29.860 depends how, how, how, how friendly are you with those relatives? 02:28:30.140 --> 02:28:34.020 How much time do you want to spend being the blame for everything? 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. 02:28:39.380 --> 02:28:43.340 But anytime you provide the solution, I've had this talk with the infrastructure 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 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 02:29:02.180 --> 02:29:06.740 it, whatever else, and it goes down, then people get angrier, I find, and 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? 02:29:15.420 --> 02:29:18.220 Of, of you trying to do it yourself? 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. 02:29:24.900 --> 02:29:27.500 I'm pretty confident my family would just think it's like cool. 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. 02:29:32.340 --> 02:29:34.980 So, I don't know, it depends. 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. 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. 02:29:44.740 --> 02:29:48.140 It's your fault. Why did you pick something that went through the cloud flare dummy? 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. 02:29:53.340 --> 02:29:56.540 Yeah. And then again, with certain people, that won't be a problem at all. 02:29:56.780 --> 02:30:00.620 And with others that will, I would try to analyze which, which they might be. 02:30:01.660 --> 02:30:07.500 And go from there, print them out and just, just mail, have a, have a requesting 02:30:07.500 --> 02:30:11.340 service, service where they can just get tons and tons of boxes full of all the 02:30:11.340 --> 02:30:14.420 photos at any time and people just ship them around to each other. 02:30:14.540 --> 02:30:18.100 What about just having an external drive with them and like a sync thing so that 02:30:18.100 --> 02:30:22.700 you can just like give them to them, like mailing it with extra steps. 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. 02:30:28.500 --> 02:30:33.260 Um, and it was faster and more efficient for him to just mail us a drive. 02:30:34.100 --> 02:30:39.100 What is it? The pigeon per second kind of thing, like pigeons and, and truck. 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. 02:30:44.100 --> 02:30:46.940 Yeah, duct tape, micro SD cards to pigeons. 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 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. 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? 02:31:05.620 --> 02:31:09.500 A lot, a ton, these days, even more. 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. 02:31:15.380 --> 02:31:18.420 Sorry. And you are, you are moving data. 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 02:31:23.700 --> 02:31:27.340 their recovery system is we'll just ship you like a box of hard drives. 02:31:27.420 --> 02:31:32.580 Yep. Yep. Is there, is there a discussion question we can do? 02:31:32.900 --> 02:31:37.140 No, I'm looking for one, uh, how about this one? 02:31:37.300 --> 02:31:40.260 Uh, Hey, loop, Lenas and Laniel. 02:31:40.700 --> 02:31:46.420 What would you say are some examples of lower, lower power tech that has far 02:31:46.420 --> 02:31:51.660 exceeded your needs and expectations on Earth's lower power tech? 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. 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 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. 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, 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 02:32:14.780 --> 02:32:17.820 to the, the, the chip, um, but it's really good. 02:32:17.980 --> 02:32:23.020 Also, this was not low power, but would probably be considered low performance. 02:32:23.020 --> 02:32:27.500 I guess now, uh, but something like a 1080 people are still rocking 10 80s to 02:32:27.500 --> 02:32:31.500 play modern competitive games and doing fine with it, which is wild. 02:32:32.060 --> 02:32:36.860 The fact that people are playing, um, even like graphically great games, people 02:32:36.860 --> 02:32:39.980 are playing arc Raiders on 10 80s and having a totally fantastic time. 02:32:39.980 --> 02:32:43.020 And the 10 eight has been around three times. 02:32:43.980 --> 02:32:48.460 Oh, no ding for that. 02:32:48.460 --> 02:32:52.460 I'm back. 02:32:52.460 --> 02:32:55.820 I'm going to turn 360 degrees around and walk away. 02:32:55.820 --> 02:32:59.260 Hey, oh, um, it's story time. 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. 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, 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, 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. 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. 02:33:21.500 --> 02:33:26.460 So we went into one of their, um, one of their like experimental cages. 02:33:26.700 --> 02:33:29.820 You got in the cage? 02:33:29.820 --> 02:33:35.900 Nice. And it was in their like test platform cages. 02:33:35.900 --> 02:33:39.020 Uh, they had, um, a lot of it was actually like older stuff, 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, 02:33:44.380 --> 02:33:48.780 you know how direct liquid cooling is like totally a thing for servers. 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 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. 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 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. 02:34:13.820 --> 02:34:17.820 So we, we checked that out. Anyway, that's not the story. 02:34:17.820 --> 02:34:21.660 The story is that there's a particular member of the writing team who was, 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. 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, 02:34:32.780 --> 02:34:35.820 oh, well, as long as we have a business meeting, then it's a business expense. 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. 02:34:40.780 --> 02:34:46.700 And so he pitched the lowest hanging fruit possible, uh, that we would build the highest 02:34:46.700 --> 02:34:49.980 PC ever, but like, haha, get it. 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. 02:34:56.060 --> 02:35:01.020 So, uh, what we did is we worked with, uh, pancrats, who has his, um, 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, 02:35:10.860 --> 02:35:15.740 but one of the most, uh, efficient gaming PCs. 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 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, 02:35:27.100 --> 02:35:31.020 1080p, like very solid settings. That is very cool. 02:35:31.020 --> 02:35:38.540 Anyway, it's how it was supposed to go until we had finished meal service. 02:35:41.100 --> 02:35:43.980 And we went to get everything out of the luggage compartment. 02:35:46.060 --> 02:35:52.220 And realized that one certain writer had left the case on the ground. 02:35:53.660 --> 02:35:54.220 Oh. 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? 02:36:01.500 --> 02:36:04.380 So we devised a plan. 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 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. 02:36:14.700 --> 02:36:18.220 Anyway, uh, so he was, he was on, we was with us on the whole trip. 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 02:36:25.500 --> 02:36:31.260 because the equinex tour started at, started at eight o'clock in the morning Eastern time, 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. 02:36:38.860 --> 02:36:45.420 Um, and so I wanted to work all day and then sleep on the way back. 02:36:45.420 --> 02:36:51.340 But instead we devised a plan, uh, while Sherrod and I went to equinex with, uh, 02:36:51.340 --> 02:36:54.540 Sean, one of our new, one of our newer guys, he's a camera op actually. 02:36:54.540 --> 02:36:57.740 He's, he's awesome. You guys will meet him at some point pretty soon. 02:36:57.740 --> 02:37:03.580 I think, uh, we went to do the data center tour and, um, screw it. 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, 02:37:11.180 --> 02:37:14.140 Oh, did I, in the announcement video, announcement video. 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. 02:37:22.620 --> 02:37:26.380 And, oh, did we already have this video planned at that point? 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. 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. 02:37:35.740 --> 02:37:38.940 It's pretty light and it's super low power draw. Okay. Yeah, it was Elijah. 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. 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 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? 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. 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. 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, 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 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 02:38:29.260 --> 02:38:36.300 time to rally. Okay. Let's do this thing. Um, smelling salts just to film videos. 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 02:38:44.300 --> 02:38:47.420 or like in the dark, not at night, but in the dark. 02:38:47.420 --> 02:38:51.340 And what we've learned so far is that that would not work. 02:38:51.980 --> 02:38:55.020 I don't think we can film in there other than daytime. 02:38:55.980 --> 02:39:00.060 But we not only got it working, we got everything going. 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 02:39:06.300 --> 02:39:11.980 we forgot to put OBS on the drive before we took off. It took forever. 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, 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 02:39:26.220 --> 02:39:30.060 in a solid six months. Not very grounded, you could say. You could say that. 02:39:31.100 --> 02:39:33.180 You could say that. So aggressive. 02:39:35.340 --> 02:39:38.380 I will give you guys one, I will give you guys one hint. 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. 02:39:42.780 --> 02:39:47.020 Just throw this on the, just throw this up on the stream. 02:39:47.100 --> 02:39:54.780 This is so funny. Normally the video would be hosted by like me and Elijah, right? 02:39:54.780 --> 02:39:58.140 And Sean would film it, but we actually had a special guest 02:39:58.860 --> 02:40:00.220 for this video on the way back. 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. 02:40:06.940 --> 02:40:09.900 You got a sec. I, oh yeah. Oh yeah. 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. 02:40:21.820 --> 02:40:25.580 What am I looking at here? He was napping the whole time. 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. 02:40:35.500 --> 02:40:40.060 Oh boy. It's sheer dumb fun. It's, it's complete dumb fun. 02:40:40.060 --> 02:40:44.940 And if you thought that the, you know, not being grounded joke was terrible, 02:40:44.940 --> 02:40:49.740 we've got whole new depths of depravity to, you know, 02:40:49.740 --> 02:40:53.340 what else I'm actually really excited about is we've got, 02:40:53.340 --> 02:40:56.540 we've got a video coming where I finally do a build with Sammy. 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, 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. 02:41:13.580 --> 02:41:20.220 Subscriber. Yeah. That video drove 18,000 subscribers. 02:41:21.260 --> 02:41:30.220 So I was contractually obligated to build Sammy a workstation for $18,000 with a caveat. 02:41:31.340 --> 02:41:33.820 I got to pick the hardware. I mean, I'm when buying it, right? 02:41:34.380 --> 02:41:39.820 So, so Sammy and I build a machine together and James was watching it. 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. 02:41:44.940 --> 02:41:47.580 And also because Sammy is, 02:41:50.460 --> 02:41:54.060 like has built a computer before, but like not well 02:41:54.620 --> 02:42:00.380 is actually full of like really good solid like tech tips for beginners and intermediate builders 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. 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. 02:42:17.340 --> 02:42:20.780 There we go. Thanks, Dan. I thought you were still talking about the Sammy. 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. 02:42:29.100 --> 02:42:33.180 I, I was looking at, what's the video that we have coming out this weekend? 02:42:34.140 --> 02:42:36.380 Let me have a look here. Train. 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, 02:42:43.500 --> 02:42:48.860 we had our electric chargers cut, our EV chargers cut and the copper cord stolen. 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. 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. 02:43:04.300 --> 02:43:07.500 We make an upgrade to the car chargers. We talk about the process. 02:43:07.500 --> 02:43:11.820 We talk about like the value of the copper that was stolen. 02:43:12.700 --> 02:43:17.340 By the way, for you like copper thieves out there, it's not a lot. 02:43:17.340 --> 02:43:21.020 It's like not actually worth that much. Like really don't do that. 02:43:21.020 --> 02:43:24.620 It's not, it's like not worth it. I was talking to- 02:43:24.620 --> 02:43:31.100 This is a side quest. I was talking to Alex, Alex Dick, our logistics manager guy. 02:43:31.100 --> 02:43:35.340 And I was like, dude, what would you think of just like putting a little sticker 02:43:35.980 --> 02:43:39.100 on the car chargers that's just like, hey, if you need it that badly, 02:43:39.100 --> 02:43:42.380 there's 10 bucks in a tin can behind the building. Just go take it. 02:43:42.380 --> 02:43:45.340 Like this is not worth it, man. 02:43:46.140 --> 02:43:50.620 It's crazy, like what people will do for 10 bucks. 02:43:50.620 --> 02:43:51.740 I don't know how to deal with that. 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. 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. 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? 02:44:11.420 --> 02:44:11.740 No. 02:44:15.820 --> 02:44:18.700 Yeah, anyway. All right, cool. 02:44:19.900 --> 02:44:23.020 Oh, sorry, Dan, we can go back to check out messages. 02:44:24.140 --> 02:44:28.620 Hey, Nat is going to any updates on the tech house? 02:44:28.620 --> 02:44:31.260 Any fun or interesting things you want to include in the house? 02:44:31.980 --> 02:44:36.140 Oh, man, I need to go there and just kind of 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. 02:44:42.860 --> 02:44:43.100 It's 02:44:46.220 --> 02:44:50.460 it's large enough that it has like all the rooms. 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 02:44:56.220 --> 02:45:00.620 and a family room and a dining room and a living room, right? 02:45:00.620 --> 02:45:03.020 Like it has all the rooms and it's big enough for that, 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. 02:45:10.460 --> 02:45:14.620 The kitchen is really small. Gotcha. And so to expand the kitchen, 02:45:15.980 --> 02:45:19.980 I actually think that it should get more of like a condo layout 02:45:20.940 --> 02:45:24.700 where instead of having a formal dining room and also an eating area, 02:45:25.340 --> 02:45:30.460 it should just be one. But unfortunately, because of the sunken living room, 02:45:31.500 --> 02:45:36.940 where you would do that without the floor plan just being super weird 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, 02:45:45.340 --> 02:45:48.780 I don't think our hypothetical homeowner, Guy, 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, 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. 02:46:00.220 --> 02:46:03.900 And if he wanted to like expand the sunken living room or something, 02:46:03.900 --> 02:46:08.460 like make a major change like that, it probably wouldn't be feasible. 02:46:08.460 --> 02:46:12.220 So I want to try to find a way to make it make sense 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 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 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. 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, 02:46:32.220 --> 02:46:35.260 well, we can't go this way and we can go this way. 02:46:35.260 --> 02:46:38.460 But unless we go this way like a lot, it's really weird. 02:46:38.460 --> 02:46:41.900 And then also sorry, where is the dining area supposed to be? 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. 02:46:48.620 --> 02:46:50.380 Fester, yeah. 02:46:52.380 --> 02:46:57.020 That's a choice. I have a ShortCircuit hoodie and I love it. 02:46:57.820 --> 02:47:01.900 Why did you switch from cotton polyester spandex to 100% cotton 02:47:01.900 --> 02:47:06.380 on most new hoodies, which new hoodies have lots of pockets 02:47:06.380 --> 02:47:07.820 like the ShortCircuit hoodie? 02:47:10.860 --> 02:47:14.940 Generally speaking, people sort of are of the mind 02:47:14.940 --> 02:47:20.380 that more cotton content is more better. I like you do not necessarily agree 02:47:20.380 --> 02:47:23.260 that it provides a better experience for me. 02:47:24.380 --> 02:47:26.140 So trying to get away from micropostics, right? 02:47:27.980 --> 02:47:33.340 No, no. And just in terms of just like quality, not necessarily even like ecological concerns. 02:47:33.900 --> 02:47:36.940 The WAN hoodie though is the closest to the ShortCircuit hoodie 02:47:36.940 --> 02:47:40.780 in terms of having like all the fun pockets and stuff. 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. 02:47:46.060 --> 02:47:49.100 Here's a pocket in the back because we put a pocket there. 02:47:50.380 --> 02:47:53.980 This is sort of the spiritual replacement for that. 02:48:01.340 --> 02:48:05.100 Hit me, Dan. Hey Dan, Luke and Yvonne's husband. 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. 02:48:10.220 --> 02:48:13.580 Assuming that's true, when are we expecting storage prices to do the same? 02:48:14.700 --> 02:48:19.260 I mean, what I said was I think the worst may be over. 02:48:19.900 --> 02:48:24.220 I don't know that they will in short order go down to where we started. 02:48:24.220 --> 02:48:29.180 Nothing happens overnight. Like you won't, this increase didn't happen overnight 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, 02:48:34.860 --> 02:48:40.220 I don't think the worst has hit us yet for storage. 02:48:41.660 --> 02:48:44.780 I wouldn't go out and buy a million dollars worth of SSDs 02:48:44.780 --> 02:48:49.740 and hoping to flip them in four weeks or whatever because of that sort of intuition. 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 02:48:57.740 --> 02:49:02.540 of how much later SSD prices started to skyrocket compared to RAM. 02:49:04.860 --> 02:49:09.180 I also haven't seen any solid evidence that 02:49:11.260 --> 02:49:14.140 there's anything that would ease storage demand. 02:49:15.820 --> 02:49:19.100 I think there's a very, very strong incentive to 02:49:23.420 --> 02:49:28.300 to find workarounds to just needing infinite memory. 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. 02:49:36.940 --> 02:49:41.500 It's still pretty bad, but yeah, for sure. I'm not talking about for consumers. 02:49:41.500 --> 02:49:43.820 I'm talking about for the data center builders. 02:49:46.620 --> 02:49:50.060 Amarilla in Philippine Chat was like, I wouldn't buy it right now. 02:49:50.060 --> 02:49:54.140 I'm paraphrasing slightly. I'd sign a letter of intent to buy them. 02:49:54.140 --> 02:49:58.780 Nice, solid. Hello, LLD. 02:49:58.780 --> 02:50:02.140 Recently found out my 11 year old made an Instagram account. 02:50:02.140 --> 02:50:05.260 Would love to hear Linus' approach to parental controls. 02:50:05.260 --> 02:50:09.900 iOS screen time is mega broken and isn't cross-platform. 02:50:09.900 --> 02:50:15.660 Any practical tips? This is a big part of my problem with Apple's approach. 02:50:16.940 --> 02:50:19.740 They are not cross-platform. 02:50:21.180 --> 02:50:24.780 I don't think FamilyLink is especially cross-platform on the Google side, 02:50:24.780 --> 02:50:30.060 but I have found it to be, at least to my knowledge, reasonably reliable. 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 02:50:41.500 --> 02:50:43.740 in a way that I think is pretty darn intuitive. 02:50:45.740 --> 02:50:50.140 I wouldn't recommend going and buying an Android phone in order to do that. 02:50:51.100 --> 02:50:55.980 One of the things you could do is if you have a router that supports it, 02:50:55.980 --> 02:51:05.100 you could check the services that are being utilized by your kids' phones IP. 02:51:05.100 --> 02:51:08.940 I doubt they have the sophistication at 11 years old to install a VPN, 02:51:08.940 --> 02:51:12.220 to obscure which apps and which websites they're using. 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. 02:51:17.180 --> 02:51:20.700 Okay, you made this account without permission, 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. 02:51:29.180 --> 02:51:32.700 At the end of the day, though, it comes down to your relationship with your kid. 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. 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 02:51:45.660 --> 02:51:50.700 for just over half of the time that they've existed again, right? 02:51:50.700 --> 02:51:56.620 So good luck, parenting is hard. 02:51:59.100 --> 02:52:03.340 At Linus, what are you thinking for for your next car after the take-in? 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. 02:52:10.220 --> 02:52:12.620 Tycan seems pretty good. 02:52:13.900 --> 02:52:17.180 Second Tycan. What about second Tycan? 02:52:17.180 --> 02:52:18.060 How about a BYD? 02:52:21.100 --> 02:52:23.260 One of those 10,000 horsepower ones. 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. 02:52:31.820 --> 02:52:36.060 Yang Wang is awesome. Heck yeah, that looks hot. 02:52:36.060 --> 02:52:40.380 Dude, have you rode in Linus's Wang yet? It's a Yang Wang, sir. 02:52:40.380 --> 02:52:43.500 Not a Wang, okay. Number Wang. 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. 02:52:52.060 --> 02:52:56.140 How much is this thing? Yeah, 236,000 US dollars. 02:52:56.140 --> 02:53:00.060 Man, Linus is not as expensive as you would think. It's always like, oh god. 02:53:00.060 --> 02:53:04.220 Yeah, but it's a hyper car. It costs like two million US dollars. 02:53:04.220 --> 02:53:09.340 It's still, it's also a USD, so it's like 42 million Canadian dollars. 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, 02:53:19.100 --> 02:53:23.500 with Gullwing doors, with all the like super angular styling and stuff. 02:53:23.500 --> 02:53:28.300 Like it's priced like a Chinese car compared to the Western alternatives, 02:53:28.300 --> 02:53:33.260 but like a top tier hyper car. It's, there's cheaper places to get way. 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. 02:53:40.460 --> 02:53:43.900 What? I don't agree with that either. Dude. 02:53:46.460 --> 02:53:48.700 C8 Corvettes? I think they look pretty cool. 02:53:49.580 --> 02:53:53.260 I, I, unironically like the Z06 or Z6. 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. 02:54:00.380 --> 02:54:02.780 I don't like it's butt. You don't like it's butt? 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. 02:54:07.660 --> 02:54:10.700 Sorry. What made it? I gotta disagree. What mid-year? 02:54:12.060 --> 02:54:15.980 Is this the 2023? Oh, that looks, yeah. That looks good. 02:54:15.980 --> 02:54:19.340 2026 looks good. Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna take it back. 02:54:19.340 --> 02:54:22.380 All right. Good. Chat doesn't like it. 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. 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. 02:54:31.740 --> 02:54:33.500 Yeah, I, okay. It might not matter. 02:54:34.860 --> 02:54:37.420 What would it take? I'm thinking, I'm sizing you up. 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. 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? 02:54:49.020 --> 02:54:52.860 What, what happened? And then it doesn't happen. 02:54:52.860 --> 02:54:55.900 And I'm like, oh, cool. Car's still fine. 02:55:02.780 --> 02:55:08.140 I don't think you will literally ever replace it. 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 02:55:14.060 --> 02:55:17.340 would be if you had a repair bill 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. 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. 02:55:27.260 --> 02:55:32.620 If that happened. If that happened, what would you, what would you get? 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, 02:55:39.260 --> 02:55:41.740 it flashes through my mind is cause I don't really know. 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 02:55:47.900 --> 02:55:51.980 plug-in hybrid TL variants, but they're just not. 02:55:53.180 --> 02:55:56.780 Yeah. Honda and Toyota seem to be like publicly melting down 02:55:56.780 --> 02:56:00.620 right now about how weird, like doomed they are 02:56:00.620 --> 02:56:03.100 if they don't immediately change everything. 02:56:06.860 --> 02:56:10.060 To be clear, I think there's a long-term market for plug-in hybrids. 02:56:11.180 --> 02:56:14.700 And I think them, like if China is just going to completely 02:56:14.700 --> 02:56:18.620 own the electric car market, which they might, maybe not in America, 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. 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. 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, 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. 02:56:40.380 --> 02:56:45.580 Tim03. Like that a lot. Says, okay, you're cheap, but like, what about saving money 02:56:45.580 --> 02:56:49.100 over time because of gas costs? Okay, so here's the thing. 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. 02:56:53.820 --> 02:57:01.020 Yeah. Like anything that's like this date or mileage, 02:57:01.020 --> 02:57:04.140 whichever one comes first, it's always the date. 02:57:05.900 --> 02:57:09.820 That car has literally never hit the mileage count before the date. 02:57:09.820 --> 02:57:13.340 And I have done like road trips down to Portland and back. 02:57:15.180 --> 02:57:17.340 Still not going to hit the mileage first. Yeah. 02:57:19.020 --> 02:57:23.260 Yeah. And I really like the look of the new TLXs and stuff. 02:57:24.140 --> 02:57:30.460 But would you get the same model year and make? 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. 02:57:34.940 --> 02:57:37.500 Yeah. But now they do integras and the integras are pretty sweet too. 02:57:39.100 --> 02:57:40.860 Like it's not the technical like type R. 02:57:42.940 --> 02:57:46.140 It's S for this generation. 02:57:48.460 --> 02:57:51.420 Or do they have an R of the Integra? I have no idea. 02:57:52.300 --> 02:57:57.420 They had a type R of the, I think it was like TLX 2023 or something. 02:57:57.420 --> 02:57:59.740 And that was a sweet looking car. Damn. 02:58:00.700 --> 02:58:05.500 Damn. But yeah, they're just still fully iced, I believe. 02:58:06.380 --> 02:58:09.420 Is this the one you're talking about? TLX type S? 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. 02:58:13.820 --> 02:58:19.500 Got it. But yeah, I would be very interested. 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 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. 02:58:28.620 --> 02:58:33.020 And they just won't do it. So I'm not 100% sure, to be honest. 02:58:37.660 --> 02:58:41.420 All right, here we go, Dan. Hey, litmus-duke and flan. 02:58:41.420 --> 02:58:46.140 Artemis Mission Photos are releasing and have brought people together. 02:58:46.620 --> 02:58:49.980 Do you remember a piece of media that had a profound impact on you 02:58:49.980 --> 02:58:52.300 or inspired you to dream bigger? 02:58:53.660 --> 02:58:57.340 Ooh, dream. Ooh, okay. My first thought was not dream bigger necessarily. 02:58:57.340 --> 02:59:01.500 How about inspired you? Or how about profound impact? 02:59:01.500 --> 02:59:05.020 Profound impact and brought people together. I think it's really hard to ignore. 02:59:05.020 --> 02:59:09.020 Lord of the Rings. Okay. I'm just answering for you. 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. 02:59:12.620 --> 02:59:15.340 I like that. I was going to say the original launch of Pokemon Go. 02:59:16.860 --> 02:59:20.140 If you want to talk about brought people together, like, holy, 02:59:20.940 --> 02:59:25.260 it was years where if you saw people walking around in groups outside on their phones, 02:59:25.260 --> 02:59:29.980 it was like- You just point and nod. Even now it's like still a thing. 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. 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, 02:59:40.140 --> 02:59:46.700 I mean, I saw Puget Systems at Pax with a mineral computer, 02:59:46.700 --> 02:59:49.020 and that's what inspired me to make my own. 02:59:50.220 --> 02:59:54.380 Watching the making of, I think it was Morrowind, 02:59:54.380 --> 02:59:59.100 and the making of the original Halo were like super impactful and wanting to 02:59:59.100 --> 03:00:00.540 get me into software development. 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. 03:00:09.100 --> 03:00:12.620 I think at one point in time there's over five million people just watching 03:00:12.620 --> 03:00:15.900 just the streams on NASA's YouTube account, 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. 03:00:21.740 --> 03:00:26.460 There was many, many millions of people watching the Artemis launch, landing, 03:00:26.460 --> 03:00:32.540 everything in between, and looking at the chat as divided as the world is right now, 03:00:32.540 --> 03:00:37.100 looking at the chat on YouTube, which is often like a pool of- 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, 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, 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, 03:00:54.220 --> 03:00:56.940 like this is so awesome, look at what we can all do. 03:00:59.500 --> 03:01:04.700 Really awesome moment, anyways. This is gonna, you know, probably upset someone, 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- 03:01:14.460 --> 03:01:20.460 The Davos speech? Yeah, was the first time that I really felt like 03:01:21.420 --> 03:01:24.700 Canadian politician in my adult lifetime 03:01:26.940 --> 03:01:31.100 actually understood the problems that we have here, 03:01:31.100 --> 03:01:34.540 and actually had some semblance of not just a plan, 03:01:34.540 --> 03:01:40.380 but the will to try to at least solve them. 03:01:44.540 --> 03:01:48.620 There's one line in particular that I've used multiple times, 03:01:48.620 --> 03:01:51.340 and that's nostalgia is not a strategy. 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, 03:01:59.340 --> 03:02:04.140 but I've spent too much time looking to the past for our solutions, 03:02:04.140 --> 03:02:05.340 and they're just not gonna be there. 03:02:07.820 --> 03:02:13.020 Yeah, I've shown people on many parts of the political spectrum, 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. 03:02:23.580 --> 03:02:27.020 Yeah, even people that don't necessarily like him or whatever else. 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. 03:02:37.740 --> 03:02:43.660 What's a computer product that is super necessary, but it's very useful to have? 03:02:45.260 --> 03:02:49.260 Ah, I'm gonna, the one on the right's gonna answer this one first. 03:02:49.260 --> 03:02:52.540 Nice, solid. I still love it, man, power play. 03:02:53.420 --> 03:02:58.140 And I've heard the new one is worse or something, 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. 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. 03:03:07.500 --> 03:03:11.100 It's just great. And yeah, the default mousepad is too small. 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. 03:03:17.500 --> 03:03:20.940 And it's totally fine. That's a good answer. 03:03:20.940 --> 03:03:24.220 It's awesome. They are expensive. 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. 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. 03:03:34.380 --> 03:03:34.940 It's awesome. 03:03:37.820 --> 03:03:42.060 I'm going to go with my AirPods. They are not necessary. 03:03:42.700 --> 03:03:45.260 I could use, I could use wired. 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, 03:03:51.900 --> 03:03:54.780 I could take the little squishy ear things. 03:03:55.500 --> 03:04:02.540 But man, I use them every day, literally every single day I use my AirPods. 03:04:02.540 --> 03:04:06.620 They aren't necessary, but I absolutely love them. 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. 03:04:13.820 --> 03:04:17.500 They still, like I still haven't managed to mold my ears to them. 03:04:19.900 --> 03:04:23.100 But the, the superior active noise cancellation is just 03:04:25.100 --> 03:04:29.420 it's unavoidably better and worth it after, 03:04:29.420 --> 03:04:31.180 after the amount of time that I've spent with them now. 03:04:34.060 --> 03:04:37.740 I have run out. You have run out. What do you mean you've run out? 03:04:37.740 --> 03:04:40.780 You're right there. Thanks. 03:04:40.780 --> 03:04:43.660 We'll see you again next week. Same bad time. Same bad channel. 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. 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. 03:04:54.220 --> 03:04:57.420 Yeah. People are migrating faster than I expected. 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 03:05:02.700 --> 03:05:06.540 rather than on the LTT channel and people are getting like double notifications and stuff. 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, 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. 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 03:05:24.140 --> 03:05:27.420 again somewhere else or do we? 03:05:27.420 --> 03:05:31.260 I'm not asking them that. Let's take it offline. 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. 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 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 03:05:46.380 --> 03:05:50.380 click the clips, you will stop getting the clips because YouTube is all algorithmic now. 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. 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. 03:06:00.780 --> 03:06:04.300 Totally. Okay. We'll figure it out. We'll see you again next week. 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. 03:06:09.660 --> 03:06:10.460 Bye.