Oh
Right hi everyone. Hello
You know what you don't have up need to
Your face just
Need to go post my little water bottle Um
What were you fidgeting with before is that camera gear? Yeah, you steal camera gear. I mean it's been sitting there for
So the fact that something was so you know if someone took the Statue of Liberty like Carmen San Diego for instance
Her defense would just be well. It was just sitting there for yeah
That's a pretty good defense. We should go steal the Statue of Liberty
What happened to Carmen San Diego I That's not where on the world called not wearing the world, but what happened what happened to Carmen San Diego
But that why did that franchise like die everyone that I know of thinks back to it like very positive
I mean, I feel like it's the kind of thing that did you ever so I watched the first door of the Explorer live-action film with my family
Okay, it's awesome. Didn't know that was a thing nice. Yeah, it's it's like actually awesome
We haven't seen the second one, but apparently it's rated really well as well
Like I really had to twist my family's ARM to watch it. I was like look it's rated really well like
Can we just be a little open-minded and particularly my teenage son was like?
Okay dad sure But like everyone literally the entire family enjoyed as far as teenage son things go that seems pretty reasonable
Yeah, it was legitimately really good
But I could see I could see like a like a modern
A modern spin on Carmen San Diego hitting Millennials and the nostalgia feels like super hard right now
What's up? Apparently there's a show on Netflix. Of course there was it must not be very good then because I had not heard of it
Animated series, okay. Yeah, this looks like it's for babies it does
That's not what to do with uh
With a like nostalgia IP
Apparently it's good though Go figure
89% liked it on google 7.9 on imdb 87% on rotten tomatoes. Nice
Cool. Go go Carmen San Diego. Yeah, apparently it's uh
Yeah, it's still fresh Okay
Carmen San Diego who owns who owns that IP?
Program creators Broderbund software. Wow Broderbund software is still a thing
Was an American maker of video games defunct in 1998
Oh interesting, okay
Mavis B can teach his typing
Prince of Persia Missed
Hmm reader rabbit
Is now the brand name for river deeps graphic design productivity and edutainment titles. Okay. Yeah, okay
Heck is river deep man. There's some like space station game
When I was I've brought this up on wanshow before and I
We weren't able to find the right one the audience and I but
There was some like space station game that I played with when I was a kid Which I'm pretty sure was like a math learning game
And it was awesome space station math learning game
I've ever had something to do with space stuff. I'm gonna ask AI
It was not I don't think it was math blaster
Math circus you were just a really confused child
Yeah, it wasn't math blaster. Okay, does this sound right?
Late to late 90s early 2000s educational game involving space stations and math not math blasters
Very 90s graphics, but not pixel art. It was supposed to be 3d set on a space station
Goal was to complete very basic math problems to do things in space
You could link up pieces of circular portals outside the ship that you could activate and fly through
Does this any of this sound familiar the last bit lost in space math adventure
CD access.com here we go. Hopefully this is oh, hopefully it's not that kind of CD
Nope Definitely not. Definitely not this oh 404 not found. All right, so much for cdaccess.com and
Entire generations of information are going to be lost now that they're not in books
What else you guys got People are saying it was definitely math blaster. It was not math blaster. Okay. All right, like 3000
spaceflight rescue
And this is not the game
Yeah, because this is like freaking x-wing versus tie fighter. This is from that reddit post
They're like not this game, but it had this feel
This is a star wars game
Should we should we go live we should probably do the show at some point
You guys down you guys ready to do it. There's multiple math blaster games. I don't
Your face is a math blaster game got him Uh, yeah, I'm ready whenever
Um Oh, uh, right. I wasn't here last week. My headphones are still messed up. I still only hear Linus in my right ear
Oh, should we fix that?
Got him. It's like actually terrible I did the whole last show with it because like we weren't going to fix it live, but it's it's horrible experience
It just in the right ear still
No, now I hear nothing. Oh now it's just left ear
Uh, it's because I'm doing things down
Math workshop
No, but I feel like it had the graphics kind of feel right, but this is not it
Math space workshop
Hello. Oh, uh, okay. Hello. So it's yeah, it's not left here. It's what's not left here. There's no sound. Oh, there's no sound
Oh, um I only hear it in the right
Um, all right. Forget it. No show today. The streak is over. Luke's left ear can't hear anything. Wow
Give me those headphones. Maybe it's your left ear. Okay, it's not
Operation Neptune this doesn't look right. This is too old
Minor vga, maybe
Quality game Hey, are you coming to whale land this time? Yeah, hell, yeah, that's a plan. When is it? Uh, february something
Have we sold the tickets?
Oh, I don't even know if we ever actually did we ever actually call it out on land show. Yes, we did. Okay
And then there was uh dates for the future ones and they pulled them down. Oh, did they?
Oh, cool
There's an upcoming. Oh, it's back up
All right Okay, but yeah, february 21st 22nd. I should be here. Okay whale vip is sold out
Um regular whale land and whale land plus one foot are both remaining
There's uh, oh, there's still like a hundred tickets left. Okay, cool
Kids math quest this doesn't seem right either
I think the problem with this is my description
I think I like I'm pretty sure it was math based, but like maybe it wasn't space
Maybe it was just a laboratory or something. I knew it math circus
Is that wait? Is that actually a game math circus?
Oh, no, yeah, there's no way it was definitely like sciency of some kind it's math blaster. You're just remembering wrong and you're crazy
Whoa, okay Wow, that's some quality
It's not math blaster guys like I'm actually Pretty maybe I'm not sure Dan. How did you do this and can you undo it? Please where I cannot select my audio output devices
That makes me extremely unhappy. Why is that part of our process? I don't like it
Oh, okay The hell is sound panel jumpstart adventures. Whoa jumpstart adventures sounds that's a
It's a jumpstart adventures
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this might be it Yes, I would like my speakers enabled please
Thank you
Raymond I don't know which version of it, but I think it's this thing. I think it's jumpstart adventures jumpstart adventures this in particular
Oh, does that have a nostalgia feel to it? Oh my god that desktop
Yeah, daemon tools. Yeah, I think this is right. Yeah, this is right 100%. This is it. Holy crap
That's amazing Uh, right. Hello. Hello. No
Just right side. I think the headphones might be like bjorked or something
Oh, maybe it's on that side. Linus. He did. Yeah, he did. Linus unplugged it and plugged it back in and then it just never worked again
Sorry I have that effect sometimes
Does this come out? I thought he did. That's why Von's not in the office today
So is crazy
Um jumpstart sixth grade like I think this one was it
Who Copernicus I think this was it and
You see that like kids are
Behind on like every cognitive test right now
Yeah, it's the first time in recorded history that IQ is going down generation to generation
So maybe they just didn't have enough jumpstart adventures. They need more jumpstart adventures, dude
I loved this game too
I'm start adventures Yep
Oh, well, there's your problem right there. I believe
Try that if not, I'm gonna put you on to four
I don't think that's gonna work. I think it is the
I'm gonna talk Linus. Oh, hello. Keep talking. Hello. Yeah. No
Okay, hear me out math circus wait, there's no sound in this video. You got to be kidding me. Oh, it's muted. Uh, yeah
Hold on
Well
Yeah, I'm hearing in both ears. Yeah Now this isn't the math circus I know
Math circus hold on
Okay, I think I played like a bunch of the jumpstart adventures games
I don't think it's one particular one this guy's showing off
Showing off my jumpstart adventures experience
So good at them Dude, I beat all of them. I'm so good
I'm in like grade 10 playing grade six jumpstart adventures. I'm so good at this game
Oh man, you're smurfing
Just smurfing jumpstart adventures I love that. Oh dude, even oh man. Yeah, I must have played all these because I remember the art for jumpstart kindergarten even
Nice, he was so good at them, dude. Oh kicks bought it jumpstart kindergarten
That was amazing
Look at this look at this face
That's how everyone else felt seeing how good you were at jumpstart adventures. That was me
That's that's how good I was I did that
Oh, Al Linus, I'm told you have to put on your clothes. Otherwise, Jamie won't be allowed to go home
Um, oh, okay. There should be a sweater. Why would I want Jamie to go home? Jamie's cool. He can hang
Yeah, Linus says You're cool
And we'll stay here
Oh my god, I can buy
Oh my god, it's 33 dollars. My goodness
Jumpstart adventures sixth grade brand new in box cd rom
I wonder how much of this I would fail now Uh, because they do they it's not just math. It's probably more than you'd think
What province is Yugoslavia in my son was trying to get me to help him with his schoolwork the other day and I was like
Yeah Yeah, because they have poetry literature world geography estimation geometry fractions. Well, I don't want to be fine
Spelling and grammar art history
No, I'm failing that for sure, dude
Music ancient history biology and life science environmental science metaphors and analogies
percentages critical thinking Oh
Watch out for that one. That's a difficult chapter, man
I don't know. You were pretty critical right before the show
I was Someone's gotta be
Someone's gotta or else we just have unchecked spending all over the place. Otherwise we end up with regular hits
I got a cool, uh, I got a cool picto in expedition 33
That picto. Yeah, don't worry about it. It's a relic
There um cool
And it gives you 109% crit chance. Whatever the crap that means
Is there like critical resistance, but it reduces your, um, maximum hp to one
So you have to dodge everything but you hit twice as hard every single time
Huh, which is pretty cool. That is pretty cool
I don't want to scroll pictures of this thing
All right Oh
I didn't have the toys I had cd-roms
But some of which were very very likely pirated
I already have cheater. No knowing my dad
Cheaters op Is that one of your picdos? Yeah, one's called cheater. Yep
Naturally, I equipped it immediately to my fire god mile
so Yep nice
Which is probably not the like min max way to do it, but i'm not looking up anything
So i'm just doing my own builds weird having you talk about strategies and min maxing in a new video game
And me having no idea what you're talking about. Oh, yeah, and it's not even like some niche ass like no game
It's like literally the game of the year like absolutely swept the awards
I haven't had a chance to play it. That's hilarious. It's really good. I'll play it soon. Yeah
I uh Almost exclusively played it on a handheld up until the third act
and then I um only recently like
Got home and got um, I had an issue with the fan in the system in the theater room
So i've been playing it in the theater room for the last
Very short amount of gameplay time. I'm not that far into the third act
I don't even know if it's a third act so much as i'm like doing stuff now like the world's completely open now
Um, is it an open world game? I don't know. Isn't every world game kind of an open world game
Final fantasy six is kind of an open world game. You know fantasy six more or less is yeah, there's a world
You know you open doors treasure chests
Corners of your soul
I just I saw we'll talk about that later actually that's very specifically tied into the ubisoft topic
So I'll I'll chill for now Yeah
Um, I'm avoiding looking at chat right now because this is a highly spoilable game
So I don't know how much you do or don't know but I just wouldn't be looking at chat anytime we talk about it at all
Understood. I don't know anything about it. So yeah, yeah, and it's better if you don't I've been trying to keep it that way
Yeah, because like I actually do care about enjoying this game because it sounds amazing. Yeah, it's really good
And I just I haven't really you know a little obtuse sometimes but really good
Yeah, they the opening like Like sequence before you actually like like the tutorial
Like sucks you in like crazy. Just gets you super engaged in like the world building. They're doing they don't tell you anything. They just like
You gotta put you in let you figure it out. That's cool. All right. Should we do this thing? Let's do this thing, Dan
Oh, wait, I'm the one who's supposed to do them Oh, why do I always forget?
I Reminded him earlier
Apparently people are playing uh jump start adventure
Heck yeah Can I do that instead of merge messages? No, ah
No, I'm not as good as math as you is luke
Need more practices I kind of want to play oh, I kind of want to like go back to school by
Going from kindergarten to grade six through jump start adventures
I can't believe someone figured it out
I didn't even recognize who it was. Sorry I got too excited
I
Blue wackadoo. Well, thank you appreciate it. I like your name
Okay, all right, okay All right, okay
You Make sure I only ever screwed that up one time Dan one time only telling you this because it changed this week so mean
No Yes, he's trying to be helpful minus. Yeah, so why does he do it in such a mean way? He's not
He is
Oh my god, I prefer a median way
Oh, man
Now on all employees have to be exactly average never mean
New company policy
Sigma employees only
That doesn't work very much Those work too well, but there you go. Yeah, and we'd have to get rid of me
We all know on beta as fuck
That's gonna is it or are new babies beta generation yet?
No, I don't think so. That's gonna suck. Yeah, that's rough. That's gonna be so brutal
Yes, they are really when does it start? um
I think my son's gen alpha. Yeah, I'm pretty sure which makes sense
Does it though? I mean the names are so stupid. No, I well, how could we possibly have greatest generation?
I was saying and then what no generation can ever be greatest again
Like I what about silent? I could be silent. I see how silent my
The worst member of silent generation ever I don't know what you're talking about
Oh Greatest generation two
Greatest generation alpha Greatest generation two electric boo boo like what are we?
I tried to I tried to talk jordan into calling a video something three electric beagle
We're not titling the video that I
Like that a lot apparently gen beta started 2025. Oh, okay. Yeah, it checks out
That sucks Okay, I am resuming the selected. We ready to go
Oh, apparently there's uh, some debate about it and I don't care. So I'm not gonna look into it. Cool. All right. Got him
Dan's ready. Oh good. Thank god Dan's ready
He's locked in look at him go. He is ready. Actually, you know what? I'm sorry. I mocked him. I regret it
This was one of the worst choices I ever made in my life He's very good at lying, isn't he?
Yeah, well, you know True true true
Oh
Interesting am Kerr in full plane chat said I'm the coo of a research institute here in the uk
And I actually got my researchers to stop using generational breakdowns because the academic consensus on when they start and when they end is so
Loosely defined. No, it's it's total nonsense. It just means nothing. Yeah
like there definitely are
kind of like things
But where they start and end trying to just assign a date to it is just obviously stupid to me a lot of it's like
Did you substantially experience pre-internet? Yes or no? Did you substantially experience pre-smartphone? Yes or no?
Yeah, like those are those are create differences and like the experiences that people have absolutely
Did you substantially experience pre car pre television pre radio? Whatever?
And I know like it makes sense for me to tie it into technological leaps
But I think that just actually does make sense because that changes the your experience of your life
And how you consume information stuff, which is going to change
people largely
W culturini and Floatplane chat goes on the last of the boomers 1963 and no I do not have all of your stuff
Before you ask It ain't me
All right, I'm resuming the selected now Dan. Do you want to signal me when we're good?
Okay
What is up everybody and welcome to the wandshow I forget
Which one was the headline title today?
Ah, yes, of course. Thank you producer Dan for whispering my ear
We've got a lot of great topics for you guys today
apple is reportedly working on an ai wearable pin because
That worked so well the times that other companies tried to do it
I mean, who knows apple does tend to do that They take something other people do kind of crappily and they do it better if only anybody wanted that
Yeah, also Uh, sony has given up 51 percent of its bravia tv business to china's tcl and a new
strategic partnership which sounds an awful lot more like a uh
Strategic, uh, well, you know what when you give someone a controlling stake in your business
Look, I'm just saying that sony doesn't control their tv business anymore, which is wild to me as a 90s kid
What else we got that was wild
Speaking of wild uh, and companies maybe like kind of not existing anymore ubi soft just
Are you okay? Yeah, I just I couldn't tell if our chair partner isn't okay ubi soft
I
Can tell if our chair partner razor has their ARM rests at a different level or if I am just a lopsided human
I think based on that they both tuck under the table at the same height. It's me. Hi. I'm the problem. It's me carry on
speaking about Lot lopsided. I don't know youtube blog. What's new for youtube in 2026? Oh, I'm actually excited about this
Yeah, I saw one thing I liked and then I ignored the rest of it and so hopefully the rest is good too
Uh
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They already got a shout out for the chair so they don't get another one
That's all i'm contractually obligated to do What do we want to get into first? How about we jump right into apple?
Reportedly working on an ai wearable pin the information
Great domain by the way great snag the information.com fantastic work with that you guys the information reports
That apple is working on an ai powered wearable pin
The pins tech features are speculated to be many packed with two cameras
Including a standard and wide-angle lens three microphones a speaker and a physical button
Its shell is Rumored because this is all all rumors functionally pure speculation at this point
Its shell is rumored to be aluminum and glass with a magnetic inductive charger like the apple watch
And the target size is apparently a little thicker than an air tag with about the same circumference
Can I interrupt myself for one moment here?
Yes, sure. No problem Linus. Go ahead. Thank you
um I would like to point out that if apple does go ahead and make this out of metal
Aluminum is a light metal, but it's metal um and glass which is rocks
um Thank you for that. Yes. Let's flash our no the ai pin. What are you trying to show the people out there very deep
You really you really send it on that one I mean, is it any deeper than I usually go? Yeah
Well They have these great ads on these fantastic websites about you know
Improving your ability to you know what the point is
That this wouldn't be the first time that apple made a device that needs to be light
For its use case And they just need to make it and they go and they make it out of these heavy more but yeah, and what if it was made of
meddling glass um
Anyway to be clear none of this is confirmed But I hope that they would think to make it out of something really light if it is intended to be worn as a pin of any sort
It seems that apple is wanting this wearable to compete with a product that is coming from open ai's collaboration with jony ive later in
2026 however Allegedly the apple product is not likely to launch until 2027
um, our discussion question here is Apparently apple plans to produce around 20 million units at launch
Is that a realistic number of ai pins?
Given how other ai pins have
Catastrophically failed and maybe the bigger conversation here is what would you even want from an ai pin?
What would be a useful ai pin to you?
I have noticed two separate people
That I know Really deep diving ai stuff recently. Yeah, and I okay. I don't mean
Getting really into like how it all works and stuff like that. I mean really just letting it take over their lives completely
um including like
Some pretty important things just being left to like the ai autopilot as far as I can tell I got to know you got it
You don't have to name any names, but like like what are we talking meals?
Are we talking? Oh, yeah, how to talk to their spouse like like relationship?
Yeah, okay, so these are very important things. Yeah, okay meals
Honestly, I think for a lot of people meals are not a deep dive for ai stuff right right right right pretty common
Like okay, so although it does a terrible job and you probably shouldn't do that right in my experience
Right right right because it recommends something other than chicken which it's obviously everyone knows is the 100 success meal. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, I you know my meal plan might just be actually even more chicken
Moving forward really you're gonna eat more. How could you eat more chicken less rice less rice more chicken? Okay
uh good
Sorry, I'm just trying to I'm trying to find something because I tried to use ai for
Not quite the first time But one of the first times when okay, when is that video coming out?
Oh, no not that one when is that video coming out? I know that needs to come out at some point, but that's a separate conversation
Okay, uh, so I I was in this ultimate fighting bots like robot fight thing and I'm trying to find the freaking
um ufb
What what Hold on okay
Anyway, I was in it and I had to look up who one of the other competitors was
Because they you know, they were super cool. They were super nice But it was one of those things where I like I didn't catch their name at the very beginning
And we were hanging out for long enough that it reached the point where it was going to be kind of embarrassing
If I had to ask again So my brilliant idea was I I took a picture of the of like the the operator
card like little handout that they had and I I circled the person
And I used my oh, oh, this is a video. Good lord
Uh, here we go. Oh, of course. It's a video. Everything's a video. Why is everything of freaking video?
I just want a not video video make man
Listen I am doing my best right now. Okay. I am not perfect
I am trying ultimate fighting bots 5. Okay. I'm just trying to find the post. You know what? It doesn't matter the point is
I held the button on my thing. I circled the person and I said who is this and it was like
Sorry, I can't give you results about people
And I was like, this is literally a tech influencer
This is a public figure. I'm not it's not like I'm it's not like I'm discreetly
Snapping a picture of someone at the gym being like give me her home address, you know, like it's it's not
It's not creepy. I just want to know like you gotta use grok for that
Yeah, like like if if someone has hundreds of thousands of followers or whatever
I I would think that it would just tell me like who is this
Sort of broadly speaking and I tried it for myself too. It wouldn't even tell me who I was
Which is Like where so where's the where's the line? It feels like an existential crisis waiting to happen. It just feels it just feels kind of
useless Um And so I'm dude. I I tried to call someone on staff while I was driving
And I I did like hey google called this person and it called some like random grocery store with a somewhat similar name
It's it feels like the same problem as google you've talked about this with trying to call your wife
Um, it feels like a similar problem to like Windows search
Where it's like if there's a close match In my contacts list
Maybe go with that first instead of a random grocery store
I I tried to navigate to a community center in surrey
And it uh, it tried to navigate to somewhere in like the states
When I when I tried to use my voice for ways I I am I am at the point now where I am just I want to
I want to put my fist through the Through the freaking dash of my car every time I have to use my voice to interact with Android auto or carplay
I I just I'm so done with it It's so much slower and so much less reliable
Then just being allowed to type a couple of letters and let the auto complete go and then and then press the thing
I I don't understand the completely
freaking
Wrong Thinking that has gone into these these alternative interfaces
Whether it's the little like like I draw on a touchpad here or I have a knob to go through the letters
Here or I draw on a screen up here or I use my voice, which is just it's it's so
So unreliable that it causes so much more distraction than if I could just
Tap what is usually just three or four letters and it will it'll auto complete wherever it is that I'm trying to go
Um, anyway, so so what would what would we want out of an ai pin?
I guess I guess my issue is that every interaction that I don't believe it's going to work had with it has been so
Unreliable and so useless that I just I don't want anything
Like okay another perfect example And I know that this is something that is tunable by the car manufacturer
So I don't know if this is across the board with Android auto But I'll be having a conversation with my kids in the car and I'll hit my my my voice button on my steering wheel
And I'll be like hey tell me about the
The the battle of waterloo
And it'll be like I'm sorry. I can't do that
f***ing why I can listen to audiobooks
I can listen to the radio I can talk to other people in the car. I can
I I the only successful things I can routinely do through voice controls is set alarms and start music playing
Even getting it to play really specific songs can sometimes be a problem
But I can just get it to like just play music and it will it will generally do it
So i'm just kind of sitting here going I know how some of the people around here use their their metaglasses
For instance, like start recording video stop recording video
I guess that's something but I can't think of any reason why I would want that to be on a pin
Rather than my my my field of view feels objectively faster to be sorry objectively better to be your glasses because pin is
Effectively never going to be pointed or stable exact right spot. Yeah, there's the pro honestly if it weighs
almost any amount And like has a battery in it. So there's like a bit of a floor
It's going to tug down on your shirt if you remember that that ai pin that epically failed
In all of their marketing and all of their test videos and everything they were wearing relatively heavy clothing
And pinned it on that it was like seemed pretty obvious as to why they were doing that
And then the other main use case is that kind of just
Uh, tell me about this. What's the how many us dollars is this?
You know it and it's in some other currency or whatever like like that sort of thing, which again
I would much rather have on glasses
From my point of view rather than like what i'm gonna i'll like hold stuff up to my
pin And hope that I have it framed correctly and it has the you know enough
Situational awareness to understand what exactly it is that i'm asking it about
I don't know this just and I understand like some people aren't going to want to wear glasses
But I don't think the answer to that problem is
Pinnable things we also have to remember that apple has enough r&d budget
To buy the earth and all the heavens so they could conceivably r&d this entire product all the way to
manufacturability And and then just and then just go hey, that was a really great learning experience. Let's make it into our glasses
Yes, that makes far more sense to me personally
Or they can just pull another apple vision pro. What's the what's the last?
I don't think they do want to pull another apple vision pro. I don't think anyone does
What's the last product that apple released that was net new?
That went well. I mean we talked about this is it watch we started to talk about this on the show earlier
And it's been it's been tough apple has been
Tim cook has done a lot of things really well um
Like apple is is a supply chain management monster like they're absolutely incredible
They have they have executed on the yearly cadence for iphone with
Precision so Good, you could set your apple watch to it, you know, like they've they've come up with accessories for the iphone like the apple watch
um Guys airpods 4 is not a net new product. I'm talking new product line
Well airpods, I would say is but is net new. I agree hugely successful
But was that after before the watch but again?
Uh post watch. Yeah, but again, it's it's it's an iphone accessory, right?
It's not a completely new category of product in the way that I think you're you're asking me. Yeah, uh apple silicon is
Unbelievable absolutely incredible Um, it's a component of but it's a component of a mac book which was already a thing that existed and
I I think I honestly ai pin
Just kind of feels like like like like desperate thrashing
Trying to find yeah something new and some some relevance in this ai obsessed corporate world right now
Um frizer says mac mini. Yeah, there's a new mac mini, but the mac mini has not a new existed forever
And it's just a computer. Yeah What when did the first mac mini come out? We're essentially
Drilling down to 2006. No 2005 apparently according to ai
um Yeah, wild Wait, was there a mac mini?
Holy crap. There was a mac mini before Intel
power pcg for mac mini Support dot apple.com is the source. I think I'll take their word for it
That ati graphics brother so
Yeah, mac mini is not it is not what would count as a as a new
A product for for apple apple tv. Yeah, I'll I'll accept apple tv
What it even looked like surprisingly modern
That's pretty cool. Like this is the back of it. That's pretty cool. That's crazy
Huh Okay
Home pod. Yeah, but we were asking for successful products
Like they've they've really struggled to come up with a new thing
They worked for years on that car project and then just canned it the watch came out one year before the air pods
You write air pods came out uh came out uh after air takes cool, but I stand behind that's an iphone accessory
um It doesn't work without an iphone anything that doesn't work. I do
Okay, this is interesting One of the things that I've gone off on multiple times is the way that apple treats
Buyers of their products like second-class citizens if they haven't bought
Enough of their products and I do start to wonder if that's something that culturally at apple could be holding them back
If they're afraid to make something that
Isn't an iphone accessory because air pods don't have to be an iphone accessory
They could have all the same functionality. They could on Android or on a pc. They could
But they decide that they don't they decide that you can't even so much as update your firmware
Unless you have an apple device to connect it to and and so I
You know i'm thinking you know, you know air pods How many more air pods could they have sold if they were cross platform and you you could just use them with anything
I don't think that much more which might be an unfortunate answer
Maybe a lot of people that I know that have androids just also have air pods and just deal with them being crap
Yeah, no, that's fair Um, yeah, I've heard of libra pods super cool project. Um, I haven't actually started using it
Um, correctly But yeah that that whole that whole mentality that they have that you're not really an apple user. You're not
You're not you're not really like a customer that we need to take care of and provide basic
Personality that we advertise for the product or the ability to keep the keep it software firmware up to date
Unless you've you've bought more of our products. You have to buy you have to buy more of our products
You really should have an iphone the fact that you I mean you don't have an iphone
Why would you need to be able to man? What was it? I was trying to I was trying to like cancel a subscription on my apple tv
And it was like a super super tedious roundabout process if I didn't have an iphone for some reason or another
I forget the exact details around it um
uh Yeah, I don't know. I don't think ai pin is the answer and uh, it it really does seem like they're just at sort of a loss
They've become kind of a follower like vision pro has been such a disaster
And I I think I can say that objectively at this point
When's the last time you saw somebody using one?
This is an apple product Like if it doesn't move millions and millions of units, it's it
Was not worth them lifting a finger to to develop it. Um
Yeah, apple mac pro wheels that those were new you're right, but I don't think those are going to go down as a major success
Yeah, I do think glasses would kill
Yeah, assuming they're good if they had good smart glasses they would destroy
I mean, it's not like anyone That I know of
loves meta Yeah, you know, I don't think that facebook slash meta
Slash oculus slash whatever you want to sort of cull what they're doing with their augmented reality stuff. Um
I don't think anyone is rooting for them to win. No, it's just they happen to have a product that
Is admittedly quite appealing like the video quality out of those glasses is mind blowing to me for how compact it is
Like super cool Personally, I haven't
found myself craving Them and I and I do I am starting to wonder if I'm just becoming a bit of a boomer
Because I've been I actually saw there's a post on the red at asking Linus where the heck's your Garmin smartwatch video
And part of the reason that I haven't done the ShortCircuit yet. It's it's going to be a ShortCircuit is that I just
Haven't interacted with it very much
I don't really care about it Um, I it got my attention today because I left my accidentally left my phone in my office and I ran to the washroom to
Pick all of the mucho burrito out of my braces after lunch because that's part of my life. It's a fun experience
Yeah, it's good. That's it's nice. There's a whole second meal in there. Um, yeah
Anyway, uh, so someone called me on teams and I was like, oh, oh shoot
Oh, so my my wrist starts vibrating and I and I realized I was like, oh, I can't
actually interact with this because they're calling on teams and
Um, all I can do is decline the call. I can't send a message. I can't
Accept the call. I just it's okay. So I'll just run back to my desk then so functionally
I it didn't it didn't do much. It didn't change. It didn't really change my life
I use it to set timers when I do badminton training on uh, Monday night
I feel like everything for you and me is like that that uh
Whatever that tv show is uh, where there's a little robot. It's like, what is my purpose?
And for us, it's always just like you set timers You see like all the ai systems just suck at everything else. So we're just like whatever you set timers now rick and morty. Yeah, there we go
Yeah, yeah, uh, yeah, you pass butter
uh Yeah, I I just and the glaces
I feel like it would be the same for me. There's there's there was one time
Uh, well, we're starting a family vlog. So there you go. There's that
Um, so there was one time we were we were playing volleyball at the at the on the beach
And I realized afterward man I brought metaglasses with me on this trip so that I could like try them
This would have been a perfect use case for it. So like like vlogging or something like that
Yeah, I could I could see having a camera mounted to your head all the time being super useful
I haven't seen a lot of Maybe this is my sphere of
of uh content, but I haven't seen a lot of like
Video filmed with metaglasses content
Maybe you didn't realize I don't
Really? I don't think so. Okay It's really good though. Like shockingly good. I was really surprised by how good the quality was when I used it
I just actually don't really think so though
I like are you they just have you guys is there big creators doing this?
Have you guys seen anybody? Yeah, let us know I mean everyone's talking about adult content in chat because classic degenerate chat. That makes sense. Sure. Yep. That makes sense
Yeah, because I just I don't know I'm kind of surprised that I haven't but then I I also wonder if that's more on like the short form content realm
Which I generally try to stay away from
I haven't seen either shorts creators
Yeah, dna. I'm not I'm not like seeking out Um videos from people who have them to be clear. Um
I just haven't actually like seen a lot So if it's if it's mostly just shorts creators that make sense because I kind of avoid that
Yeah
Okay I got a browser add-on
that removes shorts from
My youtube page. Nice. They're just gone. How's that going for you? Great?
cool I tried the I tried the official way which is show me fewer shorts
Doesn't work at all. I I've yeah, I've heard that but I don't think I've used youtube since I clicked the button
So I haven't noticed. Yeah. No, I tried that. I didn't do anything
Uh, which browser add-on is it? I don't remember the name. Cool
Uh, apparently there's a pilot according to dense one in Floatplane chat
That does some cool long form videos with meta meta glasses. That would be awesome
See, that's like a cool use case that I think those are probably particularly good for because like a gopro
In that scenario would be very annoying to wear. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah
In a lot of scenarios, they're pretty annoying to wear. Yeah pain in the butt. Um
Amariah says my show fewer shorts button works for like a week and then they come back. Well, it's probably because the sun came out
Nice
I thought there was a follow-up to follow these Yeah, it
That was a that was a fairly weak ding. I think well listen We need like a ding damper so you can get like the first like bing, but then it doesn't
No No, that would be yeah, like that satisfying gross. Yeah gross. No, that's what that deserves
Great fun Linus
What's the opposite of Pavlov Ah, so now that we've trained you to have a dopamine response to the good ding
What's the opposite of dopamine? Probably like man slaughter
I don't know. I'm not sure All right, I'm not gonna unpack that one speaking of youtube
YouTube CEO Neil Mohan published a blog post on january 21st about new things coming in 2026
Some of the notable ones include shorts feed changes to allow image posts
YouTube tv will be getting multi view allowing users to watch up to four different youtube tv feeds at once
That's right. My friends you can have quadruple the brain rot on your tv. Amazing
There will be updates to parental controls and they will be simplifying parental controls, which I am
Very much in support of there will be more monetization options for vertical streaming
Which actually probably makes a ton of sense right now
Updates to youtube shopping including having purchases baked into the app
Instead of redirecting to another store That'll be really good for people who are interested in selling things on the platform and really bad for people with impulse control problems
Yeah We've got tools for creators to swap out
They're baked in ads and then resell and replace those ad spots at later dates
Which is going to be an absolute goldmine for like very evergreen content creators
I don't know that it'll be as useful for us, but if you make videos that are
About the war of 1812 for instance very good. Then absolutely nothing would prevent you like uh, oh actually a perfect example of this would be um
Oh Man, what's his name? He does the the queue oversimplified
It's a perfect example of someone who could benefit from this immensely because he does those
Like uh, like limited edition merch drops in his videos
So if he could go back and replace his entire back catalog with whatever his current merch drop is
Wow Uh, that could be that could be pretty uh, that could be very powerful
Um for creators like that. Uh, what else we got some ai transparency labeling to help users identify when videos are made with ai
Assuming they can even tell um Combats to ai slot didn't get into much detail there. I like the idea. Hopefully it executes well
They also gave some stats for youtube, uh 200 billion views every day on shorts alone
I really wonder how they calculate views on shorts. Yep, according to a 2025 kantar survey
93 percent of 18 to 27 year old us viewers agree youtube helps you learn new skills
I wonder what the other seven percent are probably not shorts as much. Maybe they've never heard of youtube
Uh 79 percent of us teachers are using youtube to teach students
100 billion dollars was paid out to creators artists and media companies in the last four years
That is a truly astronomical number That's a lot. Uh, and then in 2024 in the us youtube says they contributed
55 billion to gdp and supported over
490,000 full-time jobs
That's wild Almost half a million full-time
Maybe not creators right because there's a lot more full-time jobs than just me like here at LTT
um But like half a million full-time jobs. I could see that for sure. Yeah
I guess but like I just never really thought about it that way
It's interesting creator economy, man I wonder how they calculated that but
I'm not too Stunned by the number egg nog in april says. Yeah, I don't believe half a million jobs. I mean, why not? I kind of do
I know so many creators that have enormous
teams Oh, and when I say enormous, I don't mean like a thousand people, but I'm talking like like 10 or 20
And there's the amount of like so many two to three people youtube teams is like endless
huge Like it used to be Not that long ago
Back in my day man yells at cloud back in my day that you could literally take all the youtubers with a million subscribers
And put them on stage at once and give them giant youtube play button plaques. That was a thing
Whereas now Yeah, like how many channels are there with a million subscribers?
How many youtube channels have a million?
Subscribers Quite a few
You also don't need a million subs to hire people and make a team
Especially in modern youtube I would argue where there are certain like crazy niches where you can be super successful with 20 000 views of video
Um, it's just an audience that like supports really heavily or monetizes really heavily
Like they'll buy the things that you're talking about a lot and you get big affiliate revenue or whatever else
Uh, okay
See I don't know the ai overview estimates
around 69 000 channels nice as of mid 2025, but I haven't actually found
Awesome creator academy says 69 182 as of when uh in 2025. Okay
So Out of date It's 2026 now
The point is a lot Now obviously not all of those are in the us
But as we already talked about a lot of those channels probably are
Either directly or indirectly responsible for the full-time employment of a lot more than one people
One people one person like LMG. For instance directly employs like 100
Plus, I think we're at sitting at around 120 right now. Is that sound about right? Yes. Um ish
But there are also People who are indirectly full-time employed who don't necessarily work for us like for instance, um our
Our third-party logistics company is one of the reasons why I said it to I wonder how they're counting it because we're over half of their business
So by that logic half their headcount is
Is do you count some amount of employment for all the services that support us?
Absolutely internet. I would think so. Oh
Uh, that's not going to be a whole person. That's getting pretty fuzzy, but it's part of a person
Yeah, here it says youtube supported over 490 000 full-time jobs. So it's very I think it has to be more direct employment
Unclear exactly what they would mean, but then you're counting the shipping thing. Yeah, which I think is I think is fair
Where is the line though? Yeah, not sure
Not sure, uh, I think the biggest one for me was actually that um for the parental controls
I can now I have the granularity to turn off shorts or limit shorts directly
for my dependence Which is
That's actually huge. Thank you because I don't mind my kids using youtube at all
I do mind a lot them doom scrolling shorts shorts is a different thing
The different beasts entirely. Yeah
I feel like I I do I do feel a little bit like every generation goes through this
Books were once the devil and and an idle pastime that rotted your brain
And then it was radio And then it was tv and then it was video games
And then and then and then and then and then and so, you know, I'm sitting here going well
You know, I grew up with youtube and I turned out okay
But these shorts these shorts are bad. They'll rot your brain except
I mean they do seem to kind of do that. No, actually though
Uh, yeah Anyways, I I really like the
learning new skills And the viewers agree that youtube helps. Sorry
Teachers are using 79% of teachers using youtube to teach students. I was kind of wondering
Time for business meeting on wansho time
There was a thread on the the reddits recently of
About the vimeo thing No, um a Techquickie episode
Oh being used in a classroom. Yes
I lost it. It's somewhere in here, but that you know that we'll get a little
Reddit post about that every once in a while everyone's been a consistent thing for a long time
Have you ever thought of like working?
with
Content like for classrooms. Oh interesting. That's not where I thought you were going. Um, so youtube actually has features where educational
Solutions can license your content for use in classroom. Yeah, um, we've always opted out just because uh, I don't I don't care
Whatever dude, just use it. Yeah, that's always kind of been my stance
As for like like supplemental materials that are specifically designed in partnership with
with some kind of Um educational institution. I think that's super cool. I'd be there's a neat idea
Yeah, and like obviously, you know, if
The ideal for us would be that it's stuff that we could still upload
Yeah on youtube. So I wouldn't want to go into much more depth than something like a Techquickie already would
Yep, um, but if it was meant to be like, hey, here's the new unit. We're working on today
Here's a fun fast-paced engaging
Top level primer of what we're going to dig into over the next two to three weeks of our coursework
I'd be I'd be super interested in that. Yeah, for sure. Awesome to me. Yeah, that'd be great
You should make a comp to your rival just to troll them. You can certify yourself. No, I wouldn't need to do that
That's that there it is. Uh, I mean look
You've got the paper. It's good enough
Last time there was like a lot of spiders on the back of that just a heads up
Oh Seems like you're probably fine. There's a dead one. Um
Listen, they can take away the actual certification online
But they can never take away this piece of paper that I printed for myself
You should you should pause the video and freeze frame that and then zoom in and replace the name
Linus Sebastian with your name and print your own Nice, you should not we would never endorse such a thing
Um What stands out to you from the youtube blog?
I mean, I didn't even see it in here, but that thing you told me about shorts and being able to control your kid's feeds is amazing
Yeah, um, that's awesome. I'm
I'm actually surprised that 79 of us teachers are using youtube to teach students
Really like I know we get those posts every once in a while. I didn't think it was going to be effectively
80 percent of teachers. I mean so many teachers are like friggin millennials now like they're
I get it. It makes sense. I'm just surprised that it's that high
Um, and that that number is why I thought of the like man like maybe we should support this more
Um, I don't know if that's a desire from anybody, but I mean it does seem like our videos get used
I have usually seen our videos getting used in
Universities that's usually the the what people are talking about when it when it comes up or technical colleges or whatever
um So I don't know if maybe maybe we'd need to aim differently to show up in in like high schools or whatever
But stay the path says yeah, I have a bunch of friends who are teachers And I'd be very surprised if they never showed their kids youtube videos. Yeah, okay cool makes sense. Yeah
I mean I I used it as a military instructor for airplanes says bordaga sweet. I mean if somebody else did the work
Of no, yeah, I get it. I just like I don't remember
You know, they'd roll out bill nye every once in a while, but it was it was like pretty rare
That we watched things in class
Yeah, I guess that's true, isn't it So like is that more common now? I would assume so probably more ubiquitous now
Our school only had like a handful of like av cards tv. This is my point. Yeah
Yeah, so like I am I I'm just super out of touch with high schools
I guess because they probably I'm assuming do they just all have projectors now or like what's the
I think so. Actually, I think so. I think my kids school all the classrooms have projectors in them
So our schools like a huge client for projectors like when the oh, oh, yeah
Oh, yeah, like Ben Q. Ben Q. My school had none lives or dies on like universities how many school projectors they sell
like big big university And and uh, I was gonna say yeah, like I was I was helping out in one of my kids classrooms
They had like a parent helper day This was a few years ago. My kids are all a little bit older now
But it used to be when they're younger you could go in and you could like help run
Like a unit that they were doing or whatever. It was a nice way to just kind of see your kids in their
environment at school see how they're doing Um, see which are their friends
Probably we like shouldn't invite over, you know
the rabble rousers anyway, like
So I happened to be there when they did the morning announcements and it was like a video
Oh, yeah, so like the principal was like on video in the classroom and I was like, oh, I guess that's pretty smart
Was it a live stream? I don't know. I actually don't know. I didn't think about it. Interesting
But like they definitely all have like You know projectors in their classrooms. Sure. Yeah, and like if you think about it like yeah, why not? Yeah. No, it makes sense
I just I just yeah projectors like back to high school since high school projectors like a few hundred bucks a grand
You get a throw a little screen on there and like some networking like it. Yeah, there's it's nothing that
I mean, you know a person who worked in in school it for quite a few years
It's nothing that guy wouldn't have been able to figure out. I mean he probably did
I just mostly talked to him about like server stuff. So we never got into like what are the like classroom configurations that you have
um But yeah, it's really interesting. I
The the whole story is very long So I probably won't go through the whole thing
But I was recently on a Trip that ended up a little haphazard and I ended up in a location
I did not expect at a very very very small town and I had a
Are you not going to talk about are you not going to talk about the town visit? I was going to ask you about it later on this show
It's just a long story. Yeah, sure fine. Maybe later. Maybe later
Um, but something that I did think of was the internet there was so
So bad That I kind of had this thought like I mean
There was none at the airport. There was no cell signal. There was no whatever at the airport
Solid to drive into town to like get signal solid. I had this thought of like it would be kind of fun to do a
I don't know if it's a series or a one-off or whatever, but you're doing tech house
Could there be like tech tiny town where it's like you are just trying to push this Linus town thing we set up
Oh, I didn't think that's brilliant. No, it's not brilliant. That's a great idea. Great idea. Linus. That's fantastic
This is why you're the mayor of Linus town that makes sense
He's so smart. He's so intelligent That's that might be one of the best ideas you've ever had our greatest dear leader
You could totally just buy a tiny town getting cookies
What a phenomenal idea always one after the other look at them go walking off the stage not running this time
I
Okay, so my my thought was basically like, you know
We could probably partner with somebody we could partner with ubiquity whatever but because ubiquity has those point-to-point dishes
Right, so like could could we make this a little bit better while I was there?
I speed tested which probably brought the whole thing down, but I speed tested and I got 2.4 megs down and it just
Crit failed on the upload Nothing. I didn't give me a report speed test just gave me the download. I've never seen that before
um, and it also had 900
latency to the closest server a second
Yeah, but not only that it felt like it was like on an analog on off switch that was constantly running
Because if I sat there with a web page open on my phone and just refreshed repeatedly it would
load and then Like fail web page not found and then load and just rotate that constantly
Interesting and apps like basically didn't function because it wouldn't have like the continual connection that an app would expect
it was Really bad like I don't think I've experienced internet that bad in
um decades So I was just thinking like is there something we can do to like
Help basically, um, and is this interesting and like to me. It's kind of interesting
I'm I'm trying to get into some home labby stuff recently and whatnot
Um, that's why I thought ubiquity because I was on their website looking at different things that they had
I saw their point-to-point things like really good and affordable point-to-points
They do and I don't have a use case for it, but I find those things fascinating. Um, they're super cool
We have one on the ceiling here still going to I think we might have gotten rid of it
It might be a backup link now um, uh, that makes but for the price
That's like crazy cheap for what you can do with it. Yeah, and this I mean this isn't uh
This isn't a ubiquity add. They also are a sponsor. So are they sponsored right now? I have no idea
Who knows this has nothing to do with that, but they just they have some cool stuff
And I thought it could be an interesting experience to to do some network connection stuff for future linestown
You're still talking about this
I tried to time it for your return
And I think it worked nicely done
Geez Because of you I had to get two packs of cookies two packs of cookies to deal with my stress
Oh
Part of the park benefits of linestown is if you're feeling particularly stressed out you get free cookies
Yes, you get two packs of two too. You had a hard day. Yeah, you have two packs of cookies
Yeah, these will make you feel better very temporarily automatically deducted from your monthly linest bucks
All right, it's double your daily portion of food
All we need to say about The youtube announcement
Uh Then that was topic too. So what are we supposed to be doing now? Well, we've got 10 minutes
We could do merge messages now. We could do another topic that was quick. We've got lots today
Uh, sure. Why don't we do a quick topic? Let's do a quick topic. Yeah
Uh, what's a quick one? Oh, uh, yeah, okay. So I have a proposal
Microsoft needs to have their new coke moment. Oh
Sorry, I read this before the show and got really excited because I like can't agree more they
Think about it Coke was having trouble with coke. Okay
So they come up with new coke. Everyone hates it. They bring back coca-cola classic
Everybody loves it sales go hockey stick. Okay, right brilliant
Microsoft has this kind of problem with their their helper monkeys their assistants
You know back when clippy was their current helper. I mean even I think I think the
Which one came first clippy or the dog the search dog?
I genuinely don't know, but I thought it was search dog was
That was xp and then but I thought clippy was office xp clippy was also
I think they were like that was their characters era clippy was apparently word 97
Damn
Okay, well whatever the point is
At the time At the time everyone freaking hated clippy. Oh, yeah, right everyone hated the dog, right?
Until they gave us cortana and then all of a sudden
I felt nostalgic for clippy You know, I was like, oh the dog
I remember the dog that dog that never found anything that was so cute, right?
The flashlight would go like this and you oh no, the dog was after the flashlight. The point is wow, the dog was first
1995 it didn't get better They gave us they gave us cortana. We hated cortana until they gave us co-pilot and now I'm sitting there going
How much would I love to just have cortana back? Okay, but but seriously, do you think back positively?
Nostalgically for cortana. I think compared to co-pilot. Yes. I think it's all relative easier to get out of the way
I think microsoft just needs to completely new coke this
Throw away the co-pilot branding entirely
And make their big ai push around clippy
I would unironically want to try clippy. I would too and this is why when I read this I was like, no way
AI pin called clippy you clippy it to your shirt if it was just a big paper clip that would actually go so hard
That would be amazing
All right, take out the stream
That's wild. We should make an ai pin. It's not like it's hard
Actually though There it's all just
Do we know or do we know hot glue look if we want to baby
Luke if we want to grift we all know that the answer is an icl minus 10. Oh
The answer is gonna be a coin both linestown and coin and let me tell you something
We've had some conversations lately
We've had some conversations don't be surprised if in the next
You know two months in a bit We have a coin
Don't let it surprise you. That's all I'll say. What is it for? That's all I'll say. What is it for luke?
It's a coin What do you mean? What is it for so it's
It's for rugs. It's a coin. No. No. Oh god. No heavens. No. No. No, it's it's the the unrugged coin
It's a coin. That's all that's all I can say and we'll have an offering. Okay, that will be initial
Stay tuned the first ever coin offering initial stay tuned
Look, you can tell you can tell he's not sold you can tell he's not sold
But he hasn't seen all the details yet. He doesn't know the details. Tell me now. Are you sold?
Yeah, kind of hold on hold on hold on hold on
Oh That's actually awesome
See there's what I'm talking about It was that it was that easy to get them on board. You guys will get on board. I will buy
One Linus coin you'll I mean if you're lucky, I mean, I should have bought one bitcoin 20 years ago or whatever
Not quite. I will buy one Linus coin. Well, I'm not going to lose this hard drive
Oh, damn. All right. Oh, damn
Dan, what are we doing again? I think we're at the whole top of the message. That was the whole topic. Yeah
Okay, let's do this
Oh, okay, so, uh, where's that? At the very top. Okay. We have no main topics today when you hide things from me at the very top
I can't find them down. They're supposed to be in the middle. I didn't write the topic. We talked about this
Is you Why are you so mean?
You gotta put it on a lower channel
This week's launch That's what Luke gets
I like it more, baby, which is so not good
Okay, do you want to fire up the uh the store and then lost screen share? Sure
This week's launch takes the old cleanup wizard from your computer
And gives it a full-on fantasy Makeover the collection includes how cool is this hoodie you guys the cleanup wizard t-shirt in solid black
Plus a limited run tie dye version. Oh, I have that. Hold on one second
Uh Yes, we are still trying to get rid of the last of the LTX tie dye shirts. That's sick though
Yeah, I hadn't seen that one. Yeah, brother
Limited edition only the LTX 23 tie dye shirts that we have remaining we printed cleanup wizard on the rest of them
And uh, so we've got it in black. We've got it in the tie dye
And then we've also got it in our uh zip-up hoodie printed on the back
Um, you can shop the collection. Oh here. We've got luke laptop
You can shop the collection at LMG.gg
slash cleanup wizard So with these photos
The the ones where they actually like try to be a real wizard like oh my god, that's incredible
That's so good, man. Like he he's the one who made our um, who made the trophies for the last grap yard worth
That's so good. Oh, there's another one
That's amazing. Sorry. I really like these
Oh, man, that's great. Now I need to hide my camera so I can buy a tie dye one before they
Really cool design. I believe this one was either entirely or predominantly a lisa innovation who
technically works for the fashion team not the design team, but she obviously has a design background and um
This basically I I think I asked for like a couple small tweaks
But pretty much she showed it to me and I was like
Amazing print it. I love it. It's so cool
Old old microsoft of mascots that were awesome
Everyone loved the wizard. Yeah, everyone loved the wizard. Yeah, even
When it was current and this is like cool gritty reimagined wizard and like I love that it looks like a band shirt or something
I thought okay Dan was walking in in front of me and he was wearing the hoodie
I'm pretty sure and I saw it on the back and was like, huh like
You know Never heard of that. That's a cool concert hoodie. You know when did Dan start dressing will?
It just and then and then I think he told me it's like, oh, yeah, it's like, you know a reference that I was like
Oh, obviously because yeah, I thought it was a band shirt
crazy Now I need to continue trying to buy one. Thank you
before we move on A quick reminder about the LTT true spec cables drop
They're going to be available in usb a to c and USB-C to c with plenty of speed and length options for a cleaner setup
You can check out our sign up page at LMG.gg
Slash cable sign up to get more information and features and to get notified as soon as they go live
I would not probably screw around if you want to get exactly the length that you want
Because we ordered somewhat conservatively on the first round
And I can't guarantee that all sizes will stay in stock unless unless we nailed it and we got the mix exactly right and we
Are you leaving a merch message? I
What the call the call is coming from inside the house like I'm a customer
He's within his right leave a merch message. I mean you're entitled. Yeah, you're entitled to leave a merch
But you could I mean don't sorry don't let me stop you go ahead and leave a merch message
Well, now you know I'm sending it so now I need to send something different
I mean you're not subtle Everyone can tell when you're on your phone on the wind show. I'm not trying to I'm not trying to creep here
It's that big You think I don't know what our own store looks like. I didn't know you could actually see my screen though
Linus, what if somebody else wanted to send a merch message? What did they do?
Right, okay All they would have to do is head over to lttstore.com where they could pick up some great merchandise like last week's
Crash out shirt, which I actually love how how cute how cute is the little sad face here?
Or you could pick up the Clean up wizard collection
Um, just drop something in your cart How about this one? Let's go with this add to cart and then in your cart
You will see this checkbox right here I would like my order to appear as a merch message on the LTT stream
You can do it anonymously. You can change the color however you like
See that one was purple the one that just faded away in the top up there
And then you can type a merch message that merch message will go to producer Dan
Who will throw it down there if it's just like a shout out or something or reply to it himself if
He knows the answer or it's one we've seen a hundred times or he might curate it
That is to say he will put it in a queue for me and luke to address later on the show
We like merch messages because they're a way for you to throw money at your screen
Like you would with any other streamer except instead of just throwing money at your screen and getting
I don't know what Noticing in return you also get high quality products
by the way, I've been using the m word and
We had a meeting this week. Yeah the m word. We had we had a
We're not going to call it merch meeting anymore. We had a product meeting this week
We are officially banning the word merch because it's not merch. What are these things called that? Check out chats
We talked about this months ago. Yeah, we're going to call it something else. Let's call them checkout chats
So it has the same abbreviation as ccleaner I like it. Okay, we could call them. It's good. Um
Okay, what what would be m m help us out here guys?
Mm. Yeah
Money makers says mickabane Well conrad does get final say and he says rambi dans, so
We're going with that. No, we're not calling it that. Um
Mercantile messages, thank you for that market manipulators
Money messages, um stream shouts is kind of cute says when bingo quantified mandatory meetings
Money makers, I think we could go with checkout chats send send your cocks
Yeah, uh elemental exposure. Thank you for that. Perfect. Okay, check. Let's go with checkout chats
So nice. Yeah, well, it might take uh might take a week or two
But let's get the let's get the rebrand in here and let's do uh, let's call them checkout chats from now on
Because we got to stop calling this stuff merch. It's not merch. It's uh, we do we do product development
like they were I think this this might have actually been lisa as well. Um
But she was uh telling an anecdote and someone was getting like a tour through there and they were like
So Was like all this stuff you guys do
Would you consider this more like a like a fashion department? And she's like
Oh
Like wow you guys do like so much testing on like the like the materials and finishes and everything like you get every it's not
Yeah So we've just we've got to just stop calling it that
Yeah We've got to respect ourselves enough to call it what it is merch really does just mean merchandise though
I know but it but it has that connotation of just being
Cheaply reproduced aliexpress stuff with a silk silk screen logo on it. You know all languages cyclical though
People just get like tired of a word so they decide it's bad and then you just make a new one
That does the same thing
Loot messages as long as the words don't start with r. I won't get confused
Calm down
I don't know if his mic was on but I could
Giggling through gritted teeth Uh, I don't want some merch messages to read sorry check out chat. Damn it. Um, show me show me your cock
Shall I shall I show you some of these cocks I got sent?
Talking of this could not go poorly talking of cocks. Can we get a sock update? Oh?
Oh, yes, um, I'm wearing them today. I'm not wearing them today. I'm wearing old prototypes today
I am so happy I'm so happy. Are you excited to do time stamps?
Every week
Curated cocks
I mean at least Dan's best cocks of 2026
Oh
Man Sorry, you keep going. Um, sock up. Sorry. Yeah sock update. Did you work me on the cock? I'm super happy
I'm with how the the latest samples are going. They're really durable. They're really breathable. They're
Not the softest socks in the world. They're they're like a marina wool blend. We found that the
Percentage of marina wool was not what the manufacturer told us that it was
Which is why we do all this materials testing and stuff that makes us. Yes. Uh, like a company with a fashion team
Um, not just a merch, you know off outfit. Um
And so that that was super cool Tatiana full credit for that
And uh, what we decided was that we're gonna stick with the composition that it is because it's great
It's very wearable. Uh, but that just is going to affect the way that we advertise it. I had a meeting with, um
Dave Adam the head of customer care, uh, Tatiana
So the material specialist and then and Bridget who's head of the fashion department not not merch department fashion department
And um or had a fashion design. I can't remember her exact title, but basically the honcho and
We that's the new title. Yeah The honcho the hon. You know
Bridget and I are pretty chill. I think if I was like, yeah, we're printing you business cards that say honcho on them
I think she might actually be down I'm not a hundred percent sure on that though, so I
Riley's she's the kind of person who you definitely get approval before you do something
But if you do the wrong thing She'll tell you in the nicest possible way that you have royally fucked it up
So I'll let her decide what her job title is Riley's badge for cea said the hon. I think it was honorable
That was amazing. I know I'm so charades was doctor
Because of course it was anyway The point is I had a long meeting not long short meeting with those folks and I think the socks are going to be
The third fourth fourth entry in the trust me bro limited lifetime guarantee family
To be clear everything on the store. We stand behind it. Um extremely
You know strongly, but this is one where we're looking at it going. This is going to be a very premium sock
I think people are going to have For the price that it is very high expectations for how long they should last everything is within reason
Just like I've discussed before with the how a limited lifetime warranty works
Whether it's the backpack or the screwdriver or the socks or the cables or whatever else
There's going to be language in the warranty that
Limits it that's what a limited lifetime
So, you know, it's not going to cover things like flagrant abuse of the product
Um When it'll it'll have wording in there that basically gives us the right to weasel out of whatever it is
We don't want to do which is exactly sort of my point on the whole warranty thing in the first place
But what we're going to be doing through calling it that is sending a very strong signal
This is a product that we expect to last for an extremely long time
If it does not get abused and that you will be extremely happy with the value that you'll get out of it
And that we are going to stand behind very strongly. I'm extremely excited for this product. Oh, that's pretty good. Sorry
What do you look at? Check out messages comms I like it being comms. Hmm comms is pretty good
I don't know if we can go long term with cocks
I mean speak for yourself Only if you use the it's just a fling for me
Comms is probably better
Or you could just say check out jets. You could you could have the long one rather than the short one
But there's no way you didn't do that on purpose Yeah, it was on purpose, but okay. It's pretty pretty bit of a stretch honestly. I like it check out jets
Uh, let's have another one for today. They're check out jets. Oh, they sure are
Uh
Let's just do the one at the top. How about that? Hey, wonderful tech bros
I know in the past it's been said that RAM slots on gpus wasn't gonna happen
But with the RAM Pocalypse here now. Does that change your answer sell cheap gpus with bring your own RAM?
No, it doesn't change the answer unfortunately because the reasons that they are doing things the way they're doing them
Are economical or sorry are technical reasons not economical reasons
In order to get that memory running at the kind of speeds that they need it running at
The traces need to be extremely short and every time you add trace length or you add an interface
so so a a pin and a spring or
anything like that you are you are
Contributing to signal loss at that will ultimately result in not being able to run it as high of a speed
That's why the faster the GPU
The more important it is that we bring the memory closer and closer to it
So you look at something like hbm where they're bringing the memory right onto the package versus a typical GPU where your memory
um Dies are laid out around the GPU and you notice they're never far away like they would literally rather
Have it double-sided on the pcb, especially look at like um some some higher capacity cards
Where they'll have memory chips laid out around the GPU and you flip it over and there's memory chips all over the back
Excuse me, um It's the same reason that
That AMD requires strix halo to have the memory soldered to the board. So that's their Ryzen ai
ai max 300 but whatever the actual brand rise an ai max an ai max plus if i recall correctly is the the branding for it
But framework took some flak for making the framework desktop with strix halo and having soldered memory on the board
But the cold hard truth is the reason that that memory is soldered is because to feed that high performance integrated GPU
It has to be You could put socketed dims in it, but you'd be giving up so much performance
That you're basically defeating the purpose of the product in the first place
socketed GPU's were a thing
but It just got to the point where
It just wasn't worth it. It didn't make any sense and the vast majority of the time
It was pretty clear Pretty much how much memory was needed for that GPU performance in
The kinds of applications that it would be running. There are certainly exceptions
We're just having way more could allow you to run a way larger ai model for instance now today
But from a gaming standpoint NVIDIA and AMD Intel they have a pretty good idea
How much memory that GPU could really benefit from before you're getting into games that need way more memory
But would also just need way more GPU horsepower I also think they have a pretty good idea of how they can push people into higher price bands through manipulating that
Absolutely, but that's a separate conversation. Not a wrong conversation
totally valid point but is not
The reason why we don't have socketed GPU's
at this time
Was that two merge messages sure was okay slew by time flies and you're having fun sure did you want to pick one?
um yes
I do I do want to pick one sony gives up 51 of its bravia tv business to china's tcl
In a new strategic partnership very very odd. This is done with the aim of leveraging sony's high quality picture and audio technology
Which includes some class leading image processing? Sorry, I didn't wince to that statement. I wince because it's like interesting that is going in that direction then
um Which includes some class leading image processing and tcl's and then this is crossed out
Um advanced display technology global scale advantages. Oh, okay. I see
industrial footprint end-to-end cost efficiency and vertical supply chain strength
Also known as cheap manufacturing In a joint press release sony said the joint venture will
Will operate globally handling full process from product development to design to manufacturing sales logistics customer service everything
Sony has partnered with numerous other companies to manufacture their TVs in the past
Um, maybe not to this degree. I'm not necessarily sure on that one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is to this degree. Yeah. Yeah, okay
They gave up 51 of their business. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, but like they they they have
Had other factories oem manufacture their TVs. That's not yeah
What I was talking about was giving up 51 of their business. Uh, because doing that repeatedly is
confusing Sony has partnered with
They partnered with tcl's own china star opto electronics technology csot
Um, at least for now the bravia navel continued to exist But in this new arrangement tcl will take full control of the manufacturing process of sony's tv's
And likely their soundbar speakers avr's and turntables
The aim is to have definitive binding agreements signed by the end of march 2026 and for the new company to commence its operations
in april of 20 27
Dang does this new surprise you personally? Yes. Yeah big time. Definitely
This was a major surprise to me because Sony's tv business has has been seemed pretty strong in dire straits at times
But not right now, right? But it didn't seem like it was right now. Now admittedly like it
admittedly Every time i've gone out shopping for a tv
In the last little while whether it was you asking me for a recommendation or whether it was my grandparents needing a new tv
And me just like going and buying one
Sony hasn't been in my consideration at all
So sony has been in kind of a weird place for me where they have a lot of mindshare with me
I I see it as a high quality product But i'm not willing to open up my wallet
to pay the premium for it but
Sony's been in that position for the better part of my adult life
So I guess what i'm just trying to understand is
What changed is it maybe just is it just even further
tighter Pressure to to consolidate like it's I think that the tv game for a long time has been raced to the bottom with prices
Well, yeah, and they just probably can't compete that way anymore You look at what we saw in that high sense factory tour
Where they were talking about how important it was that they had this new automated glue dispensing machine for adhering the thing to the thing
That saved some percentage of glue and i'm like was it expensive glue? They're like no
And i'm like well, then why does it matter if you save like a few milliliters of glue and they're like well
because We make a lot of tv's and i'm like, oh, yeah
That makes sense. Yeah, like they're they are squeezing
Every penny that they can save out of these things
In order to keep tv's getting bigger and prices staying similar or in many cases
Going down here's a question. Have you found that?
I'm not much of a tv guy. Have you found that tv failure rates have been going up?
I haven't experienced it personally. I've heard people anecdotally talk about it. Yeah, okay, but
Like I don't I can't remember the last time I heard anyone say that their tv died of like natural causes
Like actually so that doesn't seem to be happening because I I have a
My my fridge at home is having a problem and just because I everything is in my place apparently right now
Um, we had an appliance guy come in and he was basically just like okay Yeah, I mean I can fix this but realistically this thing's old enough. You should just buy a new one to that
I was like, huh? My parents have had two fridges that I can remember my entire life
This fridges does not seem that old. What are we talking about?
Um, and I did a bunch of research also known as I looked up threads on reddit
Um, and this is like a thing now. Oh, yeah people are like, oh, yeah fridges last like five ten years now
Ten years on the high end five on the like average and I was like what wild it's a big box of cold
Now there are there are tv
Longevity issues So for instance ratings did that really great investigation into edgelit tv's finding that especially if they were on for very extended periods of time
At high backlight power What was happening was it was like melting and discoloring the diffusion layer behind the lcd screen
and That was like a widespread issue with budget tv's for instance
But what I was going to point out was that you and a lot of people in your social circle are probably
More middle class. Yeah, and therefore
Have not the the cheapest tv that makes and so
It seems to me that you still can buy a quality product that lasts for a while a lot of my friends that aren't necessarily
um A lot of my friends
The two that i've been in their living room and seen what they have
Have not opted to go buy a cheap tv from the store. They've opted to
get used stuff Um, so they have higher quality things that might be slightly older
um But like and they let someone else pay the initial
Depreciation cost which on a tv because they're so cheap
It seems to be like you got that crazy tv for what was 100 bucks or something crazy for scraphead wars
No, it was more than that I don't remember what it was, but the the deal was crazy. Whatever. I think it was four
I want to say 400 canadian dollars and it came with a free soundbar or 600 dollars and it came with a free soundbar
Whatever it was for the quality of tv that you got. It was fine
fantastic totally acceptable Our scapid wars tv was 550 with a hundred dollar free soundbar, but it was worth way more than thanks bank rats
So like the use market for tv seems pretty good
I think you'd really we bought that one new though as a one. Oh, wow, which puts pressure on the use market as well
When new tv is just goodness. Yeah. Yeah, we bought it from like open box warehouse, but it wasn't open box
I know right crazy
I was going to say was if you're going to buy a tv use check for bernand, but um eddie coltrick says tcl
Is probably one of the very cheapest tv brands available in the uk
It's weird to see them taking on what I would consider as a luxury tv brands
especially sony bravia pro line and
This is one of those things that I think
I think i've been guilty of many times in the past as well this perception
That chinese brands or chinese manufacturing or or or low end brands
can't Make something better a lot of the time. It's that they choose
Yeah to make like a budget crappy one. Yeah
um Sometimes it's because they can't make something better, but a company like tcl like I was
I was blown away When I first got that 115 inch tv like two years ago or whenever it was and I was like this is not only the biggest tv
I've ever seen. This is one of the best tv's I've ever seen. I was not
Expecting that and it has still held it spot in my theater room to this day in spite of
Heating up competition in the ultra-large tv segment. Yeah, which is
Crazy kind of wild right? Yeah um
And and like going back even further Remember how we used to go to ces in the early days
And hyacinths always had the booth right next to Intel right at the entrance of the central hall
And I'd be like who the f*** are these guys like I know who Intel is every year for a while
But who the f*** is hyacinths? Why does the why does the
Perspective back then Relax. Yeah, like junk tv company have this like massive booth
I didn't even know who they were at all the first time I saw them because my first ces was like 17 years ago now or something
Like that. I literally didn't know who they were. I had to look at other like and it was like
Oh, it's like a weird chinese tv brand that literally doesn't exist in north america at all
What are they even doing here? And now they're battling it out with tcl another brand that I wouldn't have heard of at all at the time
For number one number two if I recall correctly is samsung is samsung still up there?
top tv brands Brands us. Is it hyacinths and tcl now? Are you measuring it by sales? Yeah, would be the volume of sales or or like
Total dollars
No, I don't want best
Yeah, top selling tv brands from accio accio statistics
So Average star rating last month sales volume hyacinths tcl sony
That's a cheap sony. So I guess that makes sense samsung at algae visio samsung samsung sam. So oh, we're into
What are these? I don't know how reliable this is last month sales volume. There's no way. What is this?
Okay, you know what? I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to be able to find this But the point is they absolutely have a very strong presence in the u.s. Market. We can say that with certainty
and uh I guess where I yeah where I was going with this is that there's nothing about tcl's
budget low-end tv's and them not being very good
That means that tcl doesn't have the manufacturing expertise
And and facilities to make a high-end tv
And that's how a lot of these brands ultimately make their way it to having a retail presence is their
oemming for Much more recognized bigger brands
And then they eventually kind of go. Sorry. What do I need these guys for and they start making their own stuff and their own stuff kind of
Sucks, um, not because they don't know how to build a better one in many cases
Sometimes that because they don't have the color science down or they don't have the good processing chips or whatever the case may be
and then other times it's because they just recognize that they're going to have to
Lucky gold star it and start at the the bottom of the quality and perception pile
And work their work their way up until their manufacturing volumes get higher and their expertise raises and then all of a sudden they're lg
And they're like a globally dominant electronics brand
As for how I feel about buying a sony tv at this point
There things are a little bit more confusing sony still owns 49 percent from my understanding
So sony is still going to be literally
Like very invested in bravia tv is being
Really good
But would I pay extra would I pay the bravia premium
For a tcl tv with sony's special sauce knowing that I already
Wasn't willing to do it and also that nothing's really changed
Because tcl may very well have been manufacturing them before anyway. Like the whole thing is
It's funky. It's changing. But is it changing most people aren't going to know that ever happened?
Oh, yeah Yeah, a hundred percent
I I think this might be somewhat Sony throwing in the manufacturing towel
I mean this is talked about a lot where people would be like, oh apple apple or coca-cola coca-cola is not a
Not a pop company. They're a logistics company whatever
Tcl I think if you're making that argument about other companies
I think you can make the argument of them being logistics and manufacturing and
Efficiency and stuff like that not necessarily a tv company. So if at a certain scale, it's it's very true though. Totally. No
I'm not I'm not even countering that I'm just saying that you might also I don't know enough about tcl
But you might also be able to apply that same logic to them And if so, sony might just be like look, we just want to step back and be like a really premium technology and rnd
group That can contribute that to really good tv's that these other people can pump out
Um, and if they're getting, you know, if they own 49 percent of of the joint venture
Big part of the pie, especially if they don't have to mess with the manufacturing side of things
Logistics and everything they leave that alone. Like it it might be fine. I don't know if I want to be too doomer about this
Um, as someone who has never purchased a sony tv. It doesn't necessarily matter that much to me
Yeah, sony was always like an aspirational brand for me even going back to like
Like portable cd players and stuff. It was like they're usually quite premium. Actually, hold on. No, I did have us
I did have a discman I remember I had a discman and panasonic was actually the the more premium brand around the time that I finally got one
I didn't get an early discman like I didn't get one when they were square I got one when sony had kind of started to have their
Their ability to compete in the premium space eroded when they had the rounded ones
The conversation we had on when about rechargeable batteries reminded me that I probably needed a few more
um, so I I treated myself to one of those like
The in a loop kits nice comes with the the charger and the adapters and stuff
It showed up. I'm pretty happy about it. I wonder which one I had this looks a little bit too squared off
To be mine, but this display looks extremely familiar
Uh, this this branding came way later
I don't think it's there anymore But I remember when there was a sony store in the willowbrook mall
They used to go through there all the time and never owned anything from sony, but I always thought it was cool This was absolutely directly competing with like panasonics. Uh, look at the time
These uh, these early, uh square ones were pretty pretty wild. Oh
I think this is the one. I think this is the one I had scroll downs like one row digital mega base
One row right? What yeah, what do you have to like orange and black one at the top of your screen?
Oh, yeah, this guy. I don't know if I've seen that before but that looks awesome
Is that relatively new like is that like going for like a retro vibe?
Can can this not be here? I'm trying to oh my god. It moved stop
2023 what wait no vintage vintage. Yeah, okay
It looks awesome late 1980s. That's pretty wild. That's pretty cool. That's quite a vibe going on there
The kids the kids whose parents loved them more had had panasonics though with their better anti skip
It's true
Did you have a panasonic? No My parents love me then your parents didn't love you that much. I don't know about that
That sounds fishy to me
I remember there was this one kid in my class who had uh, like I don't remember exactly what we had
But it was one kind of like the c Dan's parents loved him. Yeah
Well, I'm pretty sure they didn't buy it. It's probably a repair. Nice. We never bought anything electronic ever
It's like, oh, this is too much of two repair. We'll just fix it I remember this kid in my grade seven class showing off his panasonic shock wave
And basically his demo was that he would like give you his headphones and then he'd be like, okay
Now start shaking it and you'd like you'd shake it for as long as you could before you like got tired
And it would keep playing the whole time because I think it had 45 seconds of read ahead
So like you would you would have to like You'd have to shake it for almost a minute to get it to finally skip which was probably
Terrible for it Like probably awful for it. Totally but a fun demo, but it worked. Yeah. It was a cool demo. He didn't buy it
Yeah, what does he care? Yeah, I don't know how to feel about this
It might be fine It might not be fine. Cool. Good chat the 51% of its bravia tv business is also interesting because as far as my understanding goes
If you're a foreign company and you want to work in china, you just have to do that
And they said the new company will start operating. Oh, yeah, hold on a second. Um
definitive binding agreements will be signed by march of 2026 for the new company to commence
So they didn't just like sell part of their company They made a new company and in china if you're going to make a new company a chinese company has to have
Uh Majority they have to have at least 51 percent. So this is this I don't even think this was like a negotiation
They wanted to start a new company in china making tv's and they just had to partner with somebody and they partnered with tcl
Well, I wish them luck with that. This is part of
Do I want to talk about this because I don't know enough of the facts
Uh You might know some of it This is part of carney's plan as far as my understanding goes is 51 percent for
The canadian side He's trying to do effectively the same thing they're doing when uh when an outside foreign company wants to come to canada and do business
Especially like natural resource extraction. Yeah, it's been it's been a real problem for canada for a long time
That we have foreign entities coming in setting up shop um doing a bunch of mineral
and um natural resource extraction and then
Funneling the profits outside of canada where there's
Uh, no contribution to the canadian taxes historically been extremely permitted by canadian leadership
To the point where there's like almost certainly backroom deals happening
Um, but yeah, this is this is a discussion about car companies coming in from from china to canada potentially setting up
Manufacturing and whatnot and a canadian company would need to have
Majority ownership it's it's and that's that's not a you know, amazing new playbook idea
That's just hey china did that it worked really well for them. Let's do the same thing
so Yeah, I mean I I see nothing wrong with learning from our geopolitical rivals
Hardly rivals. Yeah. Yeah From the big dogs. I mean
Listen every pokemon game you meet your rival. I know i'm gonna crush him still a rival
Fair enough um
All right. Hey, what do you want to talk about next? How about
Tesla's robo taxi service actually goes full robo for the first time in austin
Since launching in the summer of this year, tesla's robo taxis have come with a safety monitor
In the car who can hit a kill switch in the event of an emergency
But now they've started offering unsupervised trips in austin texas
Nice, they apparently plan to phase out these safety monitors and move to a fully autonomous fleet over time
I mean, yes that that has been the plan for That's that's been coming in two years for quite some time now. It's coming in two years. Is it? Yeah
There have been approximately eight crashes in the five months since the service launched despite the safety monitors
Which depending on how you interpret that number is either really great or really not as great
um, I remember reading about some college student who
Created an app that pings their service constantly from a bunch of different locations to find out
How many robo taxis they actually have deployed and it turns out it's not very many
Um Which was pretty interesting
Good job. Anyway, the cyber taxi program still has a wait list for new riders
But the company is pushing to open in more cities soon
um There's a full play i'm asking for a source, but there's a full plane chatter that said this is not true and supervisory
Safety monitors are in following cars. That's hilarious. I don't have like a source for this or anything yet though
At what point do you think it would be easier
For tesla to just Do the things they say they're gonna do instead of pretend to do the things they say they're gonna do impossible
I'm just wondering impossible. I'm just wondering there'll be two uncharacteristic
Like what like would it be easier for them to actually make a useful humanoid robot? I can change him energy
I
Mean for a trillionaire it's worth at least trying luke
Yeah, this is a futurism dot dot com article says there's reportedly a car secretly
Following every tesla. So this is not like I don't know if this is real or not
um And it says when elon musk said there would no longer be a safety monitor in the car. He didn't mention the other car
I don't know. This doesn't necessarily mean anything. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not the whole thing
Basically, doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's been pretty clear that this rollout has been a desperate attempt to prove
That they're actually definitely for real definitely actually gonna do self-driving this time
Meanwhile speaking of which are we transitioning to the same topic?
Yeah Tesla autopilot comes to an end in north america
Tesla has quietly removed autopilot from all vehicle purchases
Based on what elon has shared in the u.s. And canada replacing it with traffic aware cruise control or tac
TACC as the default driver assist feature the change follows tesla's recent announcement that full self-driving
Supervised is moving to a subscription first model
Existing owners won't lose autopilot But new buyers now have to pay for fsd or full self-driving if they want features like lane steering
Oh boy Tesla is offering a longer 90-day fsd trial
But after that, it's it's 99 bucks a month or a one-time purchase is available until
February 14th of 11,000 canadian dollars or 8,000 u.s. Dollars
Autopilot has been a core part of tesla's value proposition and removing it means even basic lane keeping is now pay walled really
Something many cheaper cars include by default yokes. Is there gonna be comma ai kits for tesla's?
That's a thing. Oh really? That's that's a thing. Yes
This is pretty wild to me because a huge part of the
The tesla package From my understanding has been the
the advanced software and it seems like this
This push to making it all a subscription
Is either Oh my god, it is it either means that they're actually ready this time and it's actually working and they're finally like
We can actually charge money for this because it's not just
alpha level software running on beta level hardware
um, I shouldn't say beta level hardware, but
It's not working as advertised. They've been they've been making claims about full self-driving for many many years
With respect to the capabilities and the timeline that have simply not turned out to be true that we can all agree on
um so either
Secretly they're like really ready this time and they're like, yeah, we can charge for it now
or This is a desperate attempt to phomo people
Into buying a bunch of full self-driving right now so that they can juice the numbers
For their next investor call and talk about how much people love full self-driving and how much they just bought of it
I I can't I can't tell
if if every move in this chess game
is um Just a way of staving off the ultimate crash of this stock for another quarter or if it's something else
Can't tell
Um, yeah, it's uh I don't know it's it's it's it's interesting because they I mean they've got something like I
I sat in a car with somebody who was driving a tesla and driving is like
in enormous air quotes because their their legs were crossed in their seat and they were like
clearly on their phone and uh showing me the the how they know the limits of
When autopilot will get them to like pay attention again
And how they like play within the limit so they just never have to do anything
And it drove them all the way from where we were to the next location with no intervention whatsoever
Yes
Yeah
I don't want it to come back to that person But there was other stuff going on as well like it was uh, it was honestly quite impressive
But then that's still not technically the advertised full self-driving
But the thing that gets me is the removing of of even things like lane keeping like that's
Crazy because clearly they have something like that was that was quite an impressive experience to be honest
um But to just rip it away it's like yikes, man to be clear everyone who has
autopilot which is Advanced cruise control with lane keep not without it. Um
Everyone who has it in their existing vehicle already will still have it
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So they're not taking it away from anyone who does have it
They're just not providing it as an included option on vehicles
Going forward. So you'll have to pay a subscription to unlock it. Okay. Just like
You've had to pay to unlock the heated rear seats in the past for instance. Yeah
I mean that still kind of sucks them, but that's not as bad as I thought I I misinterpreted this
I thought they were taking it away And I was like what like if that was my experience which you know, maybe you shouldn't do that
But if that was my experience, um, I'd be kind of pissed
Going back to like a fully manual car. No, definitely not. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool
Uh more Elon news
Yeah, let's do that instead that sounds like a better idea
Mm-hmm
Floatplane announcement this week on Floatplane. Do you want to bring it up? Sure
Is all about what Linus does when he's not in Linus youtuber mode? Oh, okay. Interesting
The tonight show behind the scenes vlog is finally out
showcasing what happened during the event including the parts where the laptop did in fact work
And a quick meeting with Jimmy Fallon himself
Um, yeah, Luke got to meet him too this time. Yeah, it was cool. Uh, here he is
He didn't chat with us for as long this time as he did the first time
It was pretty short, but he's a he's a busy man. I'm trying to find the laptop opening
Uh, you'll find it We didn't end up capturing how frustrated I was right after the segment
Uh, but you did get to see how depressed the room felt
So that's something. Oh, yeah, he must have been filming in there
I talked to sammy about it and he was like, yeah, I was
I I've never actually seen you like really upset before and I was like scared to film you and I was like sammy
You still have it You you well, I didn't say that
um I was like sammy
Even if I say don't The right thing to do is to film me. Yeah, because later. I don't use it. Yeah, we can always
I can always tell you later when I'm like not upset anymore
Let's not do that. Let's not upload it But we can never recapture a moment and the example I gave him was when wanik server
suffered that enormous data loss incident and I was like
Actually, like I I think I snapped it. I think it was taryn van hemert
Like put away the camera like like was like
Not okay in that moment And he basically was like I disagree. This is very important
In that way that he sometimes did
Which I didn't have time to argue with him about and ultimately I came to him afterward and I was like you were right
You were right to capture this moment because this was really great very real
content that I wasn't in the mood for
Making at the time, but I'm very grateful that we have captured now that I can look back on it after the fact
And so I basically I told sammy that story about how like even if I tell you know
The better thing to do is capture it. We can always not use it. We can always even delete it
If anything, I would take it a sign to maybe be
Less intrusive with the filming but keep filming. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah
Um Anyway, what else was I gonna say? We also had sammy following follow me around during my day at ces
To see what it looks like when I don't have 12 shoots at the show floor
This ranged from troubleshooting and inconsequential laptop all the way to some behind the scenes of us at the robot fight event
Also funny moment at 1919 to 1929. Okay. Okay
1919 oh hold on hold on hold on
Uh, okay audio Dan. Do we have audio?
I'm not gonna yuck your young
That's a fire quote
Oh my god Wow, that's a huge yikes. Um
If you
If you prefer riley though Riley and bjorn sat down to talk about the behind the scenes and some insight on how to make their fun
Creative sponsor spots. I saw that. I'm excited to I haven't watched it, but I saw the thumbnail
I'm excited to watch that stay tuned because next week we have a Floatplane exclusive product
Not clothing that is very cool. That's launching LMG dot gg slash fp
When go check it out Do you know about this?
I my brain just went to like cables. Nope. Okay
Oh, I love that you don't know about this. This is gonna be so much fun. It's gonna be a great surprise
I wonder I can't speculate though. I'm not gonna tell you nothing right now. Absolutely nothing stone cold poker face
Um, how do I
Okay, I can't no I can't
Yeah, I'm gonna try again. I'm gonna try again. Okay. You can't put it on me Dan. You can't put the camera on me
I saw I saw you do that. No, you can't. Okay
This is gonna do it again I'm actually really surprised you can't do this. Are you are you are you throwing for content?
But no, why would I do that because it's so easy
Fine, you do it
You're so smiling
Stoic when zoom in on him
I saw I saw twitch. I didn't laugh at you though. That's not fair
I did not laugh at you. I got I got I had a more difficult version
Sure
Uh It's actually a really great trick for uh
Photographing kids when you have uh, when you have a bunch of kids and like like they won't smile or whatever else
And you just try to fit the love of god. Can we just be serious? Yeah. Okay, everybody
Everybody make the most serious face. No I'm telling you you've got to be completely serious right now. That's not that's not serious enough. Hey, I'm warning you
They'll all crack up. I guarantee it every time super cool hack
I remember um, I was probably a teenager So I still had young siblings and a photographer
Pulled that move on us for like our family portrait that year or whatever
And I was like i'ma file that away because that's gonna be useful
I don't know why this made me think of this, but I saw somebody recently who fed
You know pills to their dog and they did so by
Accidentally dropping like a piece of meat off their plate
But it was the like it had the pill in it. I don't remember what it maybe it wasn't a piece of meat
But like something off their plate, but their dog is like super fast about getting it. Yeah
It's actually pretty smart. That's really smart
It was pretty good Okay
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wan All right, a couple more topics shall we?
Yeah, what do you want to talk about mr. Lafrendo, what do I want to talk about? What do you want to talk about?
Ubisoft Do you really want to talk about no to be honest?
But I think we should after announcing a sweeping company restructure that includes the closure of two
studios The delay of seven titles yikes and the cancellation of six more yikes including the prince of persia sands of time remake
No That was oh, I was uh, I love prince of persia sands of time that one
I mean, I wouldn't have given you bisoft money for a remake of it, but whatever
It was off lowered its financial year expectations by 330 million pounds euro euros now euro
It's singular fun fact really yep Why did they do that? I don't know because they're a bureau
Now a 1.5 billion euro
With an operating loss of around 1 billion euro
Shares dropped 34 in value on thursday an approximate 95 loss from five years ago and the lowest point in 14 years
How do you get to keep your job as ceo at that point? Well, you're the family that owns the company, I think
All right, so oh the same reason I I've kept my job. It's pretty good. You're not the ceo anymore though. That's true
Mm-hmm
That's uh, wow, that's a wow
Huh, how about that that decline doesn't exactly look like it's stopping either
Well, I mean, that's the thing about you know stocks is they can you know, they stock they can stonks or they can stonks
They can kind of they can upside down stonks. Yeah
Wow discussion question ubi soft ceo yves guimÃ³n
Is calling you right now and says i'll do anything you say to save this company. Please help me. What do you tell him to do?
Uh, he could try um
Oh man, what would I do to save it would be soft at this point?
I gotta say I don't know necessarily enough about their problems
Like obviously they have the problems with the product that they're delivering
But I don't know enough about their product I don't know enough about their problems internally because you can
You can have like a super toxic company that's hyper dysfunctional behind the scenes but manages to
To churn out good product even for like a very long time with that dysfunction
And you can have a company that is very harmonious behind the scene
Behind the scenes but has bad luck and and is not ultimately
Successful obviously there would be a correlation between companies that are operating harmoniously and are executing and are making money and succeeding
But it's not a guarantee. So I don't I just don't know enough
about How
I don't know enough about what's wrong with them like obviously i'm playing expedition 33 right now
And it seems like the kind of game that ubi soft could have made. Yeah, it really does externally like yeah
So much Like where where those where those guys from anyway
33 yeah, they're from france
Yes, I know from france. Uh, hold on team
But where's the uh Oh, no way
No way Okay wikipedia the ideas behind expedition 33 originated in 2019 with guillombrouche
An employee of ubi soft not long before the covet 19 pandemic began
I I can't I can't just keep taking all these w's from my videos that no one cares about on on flow plane
My my little series on gaming things. Have you watched any of them?
My whole point is that way back in the day with atari and stuff like atari's
Slow death was the thing that spawned companies like activision and my whole argument is we're going through that again right now
Yeah, and this is my example as to why is these types of things keep happening
This is an offshoot from ubi soft in bark studios the guys that made arc raiders another game of the year, but for multiplayer
Uh winner this year is an offshoot from
A dice right like all these companies that are releasing like
He's like new feeling companies that are releasing amazing games are very often people leaving these giant
No longer properly functioning companies of of effectively the past now right and making new
Uh, it's hyper successful often. It's basically what happened with zip-tie tuning
Oh my Oh my
Are you the activision of youtube? In relative years it might make sense
I think i'm still doing all right get owned We've got a fun collab coming with them by the way. I'm very excited. I shot it monday. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, that's sweet
Yeah, we uh, that's exciting. I think I think
I think this is uh, I think I think it's going to be a very exciting future
Is you know what I won't say more than that. Yeah, it's going to be an exciting future
Yeah, I mean I could talk for way too long about all the things that I think ubi soft could do to to fix themselves
I have lots of opinions on this I don't know if it makes sense to talk for an incredibly long time on that topic
Um, but I think I mean some of it feels like really obvious to me
Um, like we can start with skull and bones. It was like clearly an obvious massive failure when everyone on the
F***ing planet told you exactly what to do and you were like, no
Like maybe just listen to people. Maybe you should have just made another
like And I think they're remastering it as well do that Assassin's Creed 4 was one of the best things you ever made
Remaster it sure, but also make another one
Make a single player pirates game. That is awesome
No one cared about the assassin's creed portion of assassin's creed 4
All they cared about was the boats Make a single player boat combat game. It was sick. Just do it again. Oh my god
You're you're obviously best assassin's creed games were two and then the brotherhood and and ascension
I think I got the names right
Go back to Ezio make a like return of Ezio. It's been I think over a decade. I think it would be okay
I'm sure you can find a way to slot another story in in his like some age gap
He got he got a pretty old the fireman correctly between brotherhood and ascension
Find some stories in the middle there. It's probably fine. You can do it again
There's there's like a version of this for every single franchise. You're telling me you can't make a far cry game based around
What's happening in america right now? Are you kidding me?
Far cry was always the like political tension game. You think there's political tension right now in the states like
Find a way. There's a way for all of these things. It feels so
Obvious they made any like rayman games recently. I'm not sure like I they did some weird collab with mario like forever ago
Rayman they did already one of the Far Cry's was said in america. That's not current year problems
I mean a lot of america's current year problems are not exactly new
Mostly fair There was some there was a little bit it was a little bit
Yeah, I kind of like that one. I still have one of the figurines from oh, yeah, okay
Mario plus rabbits spark of hope it doesn't even have rayman in the name of the game rabbits just rabbits
Oh, whoa Seriously
Yeah, they haven't done like a mainline rayman game in
Freaking forever who cares about rabbits
I don't know that's crazy
Splinter cells seems like a huge dropped ball lots of potential there
um Well, am I missing something here? Yeah, rayman legends
Apparently was was the last one 2013
Whoa I
Just I'm looking at like some of their franchises right now
And it's just there's like so much potential and it just feels like they've like wet noodled every one of them
Like far cry when far cry was like banging with like far cry 3 far cry 4 around that area
They were very topical right very topical and they've just ditched that
um What are their other ips just kind of curious
Uh, you be soft the new anno doesn't seem like it's reviewing super well
I do wonder if that has like an expansion fatigue problem where the previous AI and
Things a lot of the like I don't know if they've fixed this yet But it came under fire a lot because all of the like loading screens and stuff like that
Uh, the painted backgrounds seemed to mostly just be AI generated. Um
Um It might have changed, you know
But a little disappointing It feels like a classic ubisoft decision though. So it's just like
I don't know
So here's some here's some ubisoft
ip's Man a lot of these have weakened
A lot all of them. I think I think pretty sure every single one anno was strong until the very most recent release anno 1800
Was an absolute yeah, the one in the photo was wicked
um Man beyond good and evil has been I don't know if that's been relevant for a really long time
If I was I I understand this is like literally not the point if I was running the steep project
I would probably do like, uh, uh, I don't know what you would call it like a remix version where you go back to like
SSX tricky style gameplay and release one of those remember when they released that far cry
That was like blood dragon. Yes I would do like a blood dragon for steep and make it more like, uh, the like old snowboarding games like 1080 and ssx tricky
And release a version of that If for no other reason to like just get people talking about your studio in a potentially positive way
Like there's answers all over the place. They have so many legendary ip under ubisoft and it just feels like every time
They just have to piss them away and it makes me want to scream
Um, the the skull and bones thing was such an insane disappointment
It was such an auto win that they just spent
Incredible amounts of money on making sure it would fail horrendously
So frustrating Okay, we're good. Do you want to talk about Bethesda now?
You seem like you're on it
I don't know Maybe we could talk about the decline of blizzard. Oh, am I like, oh, no
All right
Oh, you're not serious. Okay. I thought there was a Bethesda topic and I was like, I'm gonna
Vane's gonna pop out of my head. No. Okay. All right, test six is actually set in the starfield universe
Oh, no, my mic was unmuted I was
You get to the end of the game and you have to just delete your entire save and start over again because
For some reason that was a good idea. It takes you do that again into starfield and then you have to play that
Nice. Nice. And then it's a prequel. It's a prequel. Yes. Good. Good. Good. Good
Hey, that hey the worst mechanic in the entire game. Let's make them do that again. Let's let's do that another time
The microsoft ceo microsoft ceo acknowledges that they will lose
Social permission to waste electricity on ai unless they do something useful with it
Wait
In a surprising moment of self-awareness Microsoft ceo satcha nadella admitted at the world economic forum that ai risks and this is a direct quote
Becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies
He also said that ai companies will quickly lose the social permission to take something like energy
Unless it's used for improving health outcomes education outcomes public sector efficiency private sector competitiveness across all sectors small and large
More quotes For this to not be a bubble it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread
And he also said that the a telltale sign that ai is a bubble would be that only tech companies were benefiting
So it turns out they do hire really smart people to be CEOs of tech companies
Way to go. They just never say the quiet part out loud except when they do except for this time
man Davos and the World economic forum this year where just absolute fire a banger
Who needs the real housewives of beaverly hills when we have
Davos in the world economic forum
What a wild couple events I mean, I guess that's what happens when you hire a reality star to be the head of the world's largest economy
You end up with reality tv in your politics. It is. I mean the ratings are high
Everyone's watching. Yeah, they have the best ratings
My friends told me they said you've never seen ratings like this. Did they have it? He's right
Way to go um All right, so this comes after microsoft reaffirmed investments of tens of billions of dollars into building ai data centers
And after nadella asked the public To stop calling ai slop slop
To which the public responded by changing microsoft branding on things to microslop
Because of course that was going to happen. It's so easy now that they can just do it with ai. Ah, yes
Yes, anyone can meme on microsoft now
Our discussion question is should big investors into ai be sweating?
Yeah
Unless you think you can time your exit really really well
I mean I like I think we talked about this on wancho before and I've heard this argument elsewhere as well, but like
I don't think a lot like a lot of like the the the googles of the world
Whatever man, they have so much revenue flowing in
um They're gonna be fine the microsofts of the world. They're gonna be fine. Oh, yeah
Because they have they have real revenue. Do we have a real business ad thing in here an open ai ad
So open ai is talking about putting ads into their
Like free tier and stuff, but there's a for chat gpt There's a quote there's a quote from sam altman talking about how putting ads into the service would be like
a last financial resort and that quote was like
Not that long ago and now they're adding ads into the service
um and The discussion around this is is a little bit nuanced because some people are going like, okay
Well, he said last financial resort. So are they failing?
Like is this is this the beginning of the end? Here's a source from pcgamer dot
Whoa, what site am I on again? Which one just in case you I didn't know
Yeah, one's called it a last resort, but chat gpt is about to get stuffed with ads. Yeah, but
the the counter
Oh, sorry, oh my god. Yeah, it's a pretty good one
Oh because sam altman is such an ethical person that he was always
Never otherwise Even if they don't sell the data of the companies, they can still target you to all hell. So just be ready for that
um But uh, there is a counter argument that while it might actually genuinely be a last resort
It doesn't mean that they're necessarily failing
Um, if you look at I mean, they might have been
But this move might literally be significant enough that it actually solves their problems
Because there is just so much freaking money in ads
And like if you look at this is a direct argument from
Uh dug dug, I believe um
Which was basically like if you look at if you look at facebook and google
Clearly ads be banging. So like this might actually be enough to just bring them all the way up. It'll be interesting to observe
um Because I I really wonder how they're going to implement it because
And
Will this open the door for all the other ones to do the same
Absolutely as soon as I mean, this is why I always go off about apple doing something that's anti consumer
Because the second apple does it it gives everybody else permission to do it. It's not because I will even necessarily use the apple product
it's just because Everyone else blindly follows once something becomes a norm because there's another dollar to be made by
Not including a cable or a charger or whatever else is in the box. So if the household name
LLM service Then everybody else is
It's it's easy and they don't have to tank the reputational hit because opening. I will just do it somebody else did it first. Yeah, yeah
Yeah, um Our next discussion question is haven't these companies already lost their social permission to burn energy?
No, no, I mean, that's the thing. So this was written by david who I think is a very
He's a very dialed in person. He knows
He knows stuff about a lot of stuff and he's he's got a high high awareness level
You know, like, uh, high high awareness intelligence. You might say ai
um Sorry david, I would never say something that rude about you without it being a joke clearly a joke
Uh, but anyway, like david has a high level of awareness and um, I think that
I think that often We
And I mean I'm talking to you guys too right now. That's right. You I'm talking to you. Whoa, you guys very serious
We we live in our bubble We we hang out a lot of you probably work in in the tech industry a lot of you
Probably gravitate towards people in your lives who who keep up with and are interested in talking to you about the tech industry
You're watching How how long have we been how long have we been live?
You are you're two and a half hours Into a podcast that is at least loosely I was gonna say loosely like
Maintains a facade. Yeah, there you go. I'm being about technology, right?
And so I I feel like we end up with this inherent
I don't know if I would quite call it an echo chamber because I would like to think that we are open to new ideas
But it's definitely a self reinforcing
Perception that the things that we are knowledgeable about are
The same things that everyone around us is knowledgeable about and more importantly cares about
but no like My sister-in-law doesn't know how much power chat gpt is using
She doesn't even know it wouldn't even occur to her to ask
I I think there's a lot of people that are just going to be like, you know what I am invested in
the The stock market in general. I my pension is invested in the stock market in general
I want these companies to do whatever they're going to do to make money And I I think yeah a lot of people aren't going to say that out loud
And that's even a tier of awareness above Yeah, like what we're what we're talking about here where we where we care about the the technical details of
which NVIDIA accelerators and how much VRAM they have on them and what impact that has on the supply of silicon wafers
That's going to micron or sk hynix for the production of consumer memory and how that's affecting the pricing of the steam machine
Like that's the kind of stuff that we're talking about on this show with the assumption that you guys are all kind of saying
They're going yeah, yeah, I have all the context to kind of follow along with this
um but there's Other people who are like way more interested in nutritional supplements or in
The in in in min maxing the performance of their truck or whatever else it is that they do and they're passionate about and they care about
I'm not saying that these are not aware people. I'm just saying they might have a lower level of awareness
This particular topic. Yeah about this particular topic. I don't know what's going on and probably whatever they do
be either I couldn't I couldn't tell you who makes the best
Drill right now. Yeah, I don't know
Milwaukee Mekita. Yeah, DeWalt
I'm on the team of the probably not ryobi company that I have the battery compatibility with. Yeah, exactly, right?
To the project farm Yeah, yeah, to be honest
Exactly, right? So I'm um
so none of this really Surprises me that or none of this surprises me that
No, people Haven't gotten fed up with what ai companies are doing unless these companies are operating in their backyard and
and Emitting a bunch of you know toxic gas and smoke into the air that's like drifting over there over their house or whatever
um, and no, it doesn't surprise me either that david probably
lives in enough of a Technological bubble that to him it was like obvious that this is bad and to a lot of you guys like a lot of your your
Your adamant opposition to ai is based on understanding exactly what's going on right now
Um and being kind of powerless to stop it. I mean we talked about this in the um in the bright side of tech video
where it's like, yeah, you're you're 100 like
We got the I got the messaging wrong when I talked about it live on the WAN Show where I was like
We need a perspective adjustment a lot of people bristled at that wording
And so we we avoided that wording when we did the bright side of tech video, but it was thank you for beta testing our video
I know right it was but it was it was the same it was the same point
The point was that you're 100 right to be mad
100 um You're 100 right to feel powerless and frustrated 100 but just
Okay, can we direct it to the right places?
That's all can we just can we point it in the right direction?
um was kind of what I was trying to what I was trying to get across and
and and directing it at this at this
At this all in bet for the next
The next 5g the next iot the next big tech trend that will make the stock
Go go go hockey stick higher um at the expense of
You know anything else getting better for the the average consumer
um Yeah, definitely be mad about that, but you know, maybe not
Maybe not everything we I don't I just I don't think we have the energy to be angry about everything
I don't it's also just like really bad for you Well, yeah objectively
This is this is this is based in true. Yeah
Pick your battles and avoid the ones you don't have yeah Andre B says the bright side of tech video was a somewhat surprising video really appreciated it. Yeah, I
I um I wasn't sure how it was going to go It was one of those ones that we talked about a lot in the writer's room and we kind of
We knew that we were doing something a little bit risky
It's a lot easier to go. I am a consumer advocate. I am that was on paper mad on your behalf
Um, uh, that is effective. It's not effective. It doesn't do anything. It can be
It can be if it's done in a way that is effective, but
I haven't I haven't seen it With respect to anything around
What's going on with AI right now like being mad about micron
Shuttering the crucial brand is not going to change that decision I think the biggest impact we've seen actually is in gaming with a few companies coming out and saying that they'll
Limit their usage of it or whatever. Yeah, um, which is interesting and
Also, I don't know how much I don't know if I believe it's gonna last man
And I also have heard that that is
causing Some issues within a couple studios not one. I've heard more than one
um Where some of the workers are actually really frustrated
By not being able to use it. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all
Because there was certain cases where the higher ups didn't even know
To what degree it was being used and then made statements being like whatever dude
I I found out I found out about an AI tool that we were using
Yesterday in a meeting with an external company
I had no idea. So apparently, you know, the the safety pass on our videos
Where we check for exposed email addresses. Oh, yeah, IP addresses
Um physical addresses phone numbers Are you doing an automated run of that as well?
Apparently there's an automated run of that before a human goes in and checks it
Yeah, so you do the classic you don't actually remove the human step
But you added that one to help and we we we've tuned it to be extremely sensitive
So out of 20 positives probably only two of them will be real
Sure, but then when the human check happens, I can just verify those things But I literally didn't even know we were doing that and uh and and um a member of our a member of our team
James was telling this this other entity that we were chatting with and sort of sharing
Exchanging trade secrets basically. Yeah learning from each other
um He he was like, yeah And like the best thing about it is that for a 20 minute video it doesn't take 20 minutes to watch it
It can do it in like a few seconds and then you can just be surgical about what you're then reviewing as a human is like
It doesn't surprise me at all then that the leadership at these companies literally just had
No idea what the employees were doing because at the end of the day as long as the work output quality is high
The way we're going it's just gonna it's gonna be another tool whether you like it or not
Yeah, and for a lot of people already is and for a lot of people it has been for a long time
As well like there's nothing you could do as you know, let's say larion
There's nothing that you could do as larion to prevent your concept artists from generating a bunch of ai slop on their computer at home
Being inspired and then being inspired the next day when they come into the office
You literally can't Yeah, you can't actually technically control it
You can you can set uh
Like a tone for your company you can you can try to set like a general expectation
And then people would have to work around that and be sneaky and dodgy about it
Which will significantly reduce it potentially to zero
But you can't actually guarantee that it will be at zero the the cat's out of the bag
This is this is the same argument i've made in the past about like
Um the ai regulation stuff is like i don't know what you can do at this point
Um, and i'm a very open to ideas to be clear. I'm not saying don't do anything but
Like the the models have already been trained and then open sourced. They're out there
There's no we're you can't turn this off. There's no turning the faucet to close. It's it's
It's out there people are are running this in home Labs. You cannot take it fully away anymore
And in fairness a lot of the ideas are really good like look at this tiger polar bear
Can you imagine can you imagine star wars?
With creature design of this caliber that is what ai's
It's just so sad man. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry
Pond crackers goes. Oh, no not again
It's so sad for so many reasons because like that obviously just in and of itself is
Depressing but then just seeing what has happened to star wars and then seeing that that is
A genuinely like praised idea coming out of that camp just is so sad. That's not even the worst one
This is the worst one. Yeah, this is by far the worst one
They're all so bad though
So
He looks he even looks He scrolled down like he actually just looks sad. He's like, why did this happen to me?
This one is this one is upset that he has to wear that costume
It sounds like why did they why did they put weird dots on me? I would never show this
Just show don't show it to no WAN Show it to no one and talk about it
Not at all that would be the solution pat them on their head and tell them to run off to their cubicle again
And go do more productive things
RIP star wars um Speaking of open sourcing algorithms
Elon musk has been talking about open sourcing the recommendation algorithm behind x
Since before he bought twitter and attempted to rebranded x earlier this week news broke that it was finally happening
But the story evolved rapidly with the target date shifting from next week to march 31st
No There is an existing github repository
Purporting to be the code behind the algorithm But most of the code is from before x was x with the latest changes coming back in september of 20
25 I wonder if when they open source it if they ever do
We'll be able to find the part where his tweet is always at the very top of my feed regardless of whether I follow him or not
Yeah, probably not probably not
Probably not Google begins rolling out
Personal intelligence beta for ai pro and ai ultra subscribers
Gemini with personal intelligence hopes to combine the data from across many different google products gmail youtube photos drive search calendar
Etc to provide highly personalized answers Google's pitch as to why you don't have to worry about privacy is literally
And because this data already lives at google securely you don't have to send sensitive data elsewhere to start personalizing your experience
Which love it. I have to insert
Is just true They already have it all anyways
They're not like it's Maybe this is a quiet part out loud thing, but like I read that and I was like, yeah
They also promise that gemini doesn't train directly on your gmail inbox or google photos library
But they will train on prompts and responses within gemini. Okay, and I think a key word there is directly
For example, when prompted gemini will tell you where it pulled the information from so you can verify it and you can correct it on the spot
i.e. I don't like golf or I just dropped my son off there for work
It will also filter out or obfuscate what it deems to be personal data. I don't good luck with that
Yeah, sure it definitely will definitely do that also ai's have no history of gaslighting
You're telling you things that are false ever they definitely would never do that. This is not a problem
I'm kind of tempted to try it just to see if like it does anything useful at all
But I also just feel like it's gonna end up being a waste of time probably set an alarm for you
It's just one Just one, yeah
Oh the fact that like set timer and set alarm were not just like running locally on my device
And I have to wait around for the cloud delay is nuts in 2026
I I didn't have networking on my phone and I tried to set an alarm and it just sat there spinning and I realized why and I was like
Oh my god, I want to smash this thing It would be so simple to process that locally
But no But no
Okay, our next topic gigs in space
And the first note for this from mr. Jordan block is sorry. I've been rewatching old muppet shows
That's kind of based really good. I uh, I forget how old I was but I was an adult
I didn't watch the muppets as a kid because it was a little before my time
Um, but I I did watch the old the muppet show. It's so good
It's like so funny and subversive and
I am old enough that I at least know who a lot of the people they're making references to are
Um, yeah, it's uh, I don't know that younger people would enjoy it. I think
Like mid to to elder millennial is probably about as young as you'd want to be but it's it's really good
Yeah, and the reboot movies were good too. At least the first one or two were
On wednesday this week blue origin the bezos founded space technology company announced their upcoming
Terra wave a network of more than 5 000 satellites in low earth orbit that they say will deliver
Symmetrical speeds of up to six terabit per second anywhere on the globe
Uh, well, I'll believe that when I see it the new network is expected to serve up to 100 000 customers globally and will offer both rf
144 gigabit per second and optical six terabit per second connectivity options
Current low earth orbit constellations are serving millions of customers with asymmetric speeds up to 1 gigabit per second download and 400
megabit per second upload with the main one being of course
starlink, uh, there is another one. What is it called? Um
Galileo Galileo, um, how many satellites?
But I think starlink is like way ahead of the others
AI overview says as of
late 2025 the Galileo
Figaro
What is this a is this a reference to yeah, I heard about
Oh, you got I got duped by a Floatplane Kerbal space program mod
That was a good one chat. I like that That's good. Dang
You got I haven't had egg on my face for a while tastes good
Yeah, apparently there's really not a lot of Galileo satellites up there yet. Um, no Galileo is also, um
People are saying Galileo is gps equivalent. Well, hold on a second. What does um
Hold on hold on I'm gonna figure this out. Um
I mean, it's definitely it's definitely a thing
Leo satellite go go Galileo broadband connectivity for every airframe like it's
Definitely internet connectivity high speed low latency internet to business aircraft. Um
I don't know how many I don't know how many satellites they have
Apparently Galileo is europe's gps. So maybe it's just a double naming thing maybe there's two
Go go Galileo uses the utel sat one web low earth orbit satellite constellation which consists of somewhere around
600 satellites according to the ai overview. Okay, so it's the utel sat one web
How many one web satellites are in orbit?
As of early march 2023 according to wikipedia, there are 584
Okay, got it got it got it got it got it got it got it got it Okay
Well Anywho a discussion question. Could this be a viable solution for remote ingest of footage when we're shooting on location?
I mean potentially, but it's all going to depend on like starlink what the power requirements are and the the fixture requirements are for the
Uh for the base stations, which I haven't seen yet
What is starlink operating over?
Like what frequency or uh, well this was saying rf or optical
Starlink's definitely not optical Yeah, I feel like optical is going to be tough and they're they're trying to talk about the the six terabits per second
But optical so it's like
Yeah
I don't know dude sounds pretty awesome, but like I I wonder um,
does your Does your transfer get cancelled if a plane flies overhead or if there's a cloud or a
What if a complicated flies overhead
It's very interesting to me though, that's crazy like it sounds
Kind of uh pretty epic. I would like to know more. I'd like to know what the complications are and stuff like that
How much of a difference is it in latency if you're at like 40,000 feet versus if you're on the surface of the earth
For like a for like a low earth orbit internet connection. I wonder
Huh like how high How high in feet
are Satellite to satellite is optical for starlink that makes sense
But am I am I misreading this is is their optical just satellite to satellite? Oh, okay. They're like
1.8 million feet, so it wouldn't make that much of a difference
Are the notes of this like kind of weird is it not optical down to earth?
Is it just optical to each other's satellite? Yeah, it can't be optical down to earth
So then it's our
The way it's worded is anyways, whatever we're moving on
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Us muscles in the back get real weird The u.s. Government will be taking a 25 cut of AMD and invidia's ai sales to china
Uh, the u.s. Government has decided it will take a 25 cut of revenue for certain ai chips that AMD and invidia sold to china
As part of new tariff rules. This isn't just a tax It's tied to a broader export policy that now lets those companies export advanced ai processors like invidia's h200
And AMD's mi 325x to china after importing them into the us first
So basically, yeah, there isn't actually a problem with our geopolitical arrival having access to these advanced processors
They just need to like pay a bit more
And be shipped around for no reason or chips only qualify if they meet specified
Specific performance and technical thresholds exporters must prove to the
Prove that the us market is fully supplied first and that shipments to china can't exceed half of what's sold in the us
All of which limits how many gps will actually move the idea behind the cut is to let us firms get back into china's ai market
While the government extracts revenue instead of outright banning the sales
This policy is unusual and it is meant to survive legal challenges because it applies only to certain chips that meet specific
Criteria. So good luck everyone with all of that. That seems like a
Perfectly good plan Meanwhile, the us department of health and human services is worried about the dangers of radio signals
And has removed web pages that assert that cell phones are safe
Really Nice So at the highest level
Of the world's largest economies government
We're actually like 5g
Paranoia really nice. This is this is this real this timeline that we're on
Nice. Yeah, mu says uh back to this again
An hhs representative Directed by the maha initiative said that they removed the web pages that had old conclusions that required more research to
Identify gaps in knowledge and radio wave safety
A lot of the 5g hate that's out there is based on a handful of studies
Like one that showed a link between the persistent use of cell phones
Which resulted in the formation of tumors and nerves surrounding the hearts of male rats, but not female rats or mice
Um Optional editorializing says our notes from mr. David gochie most scientists see this study and say that the field requires more research
But many conspiratorial social media health influencers see that as the most convincing proof they've ever seen
Because they've never seen real scientific proof before
Or if they have seen it they wouldn't recognize that I added the last bit
I kenneth our foster phd professor emeritus of bioengineering at the university of pennsylvania said in a 2018 article that
People have been using cell phones for decades and so far there's been no noticeable increase in brain cancer
Dr. Foster said this means that the risk if it occurs at all is too low to detect with any reliability
so it's basically where we're at on that and um
We have apparently moved backwards now in terms of
understanding of all of this which is
Pretty neat tylor says there was a lawmaker in florida posting about chem trails this week
So here's the thing it's so chem trails is one of those ones that's super easy to logic your way out of because
the conspiracy theory is They put chemicals in the air for mind control to which you reply
Okay, then why isn't it controlling your mind and how are you able to see through it?
Ah, I have superior lungs
I guess You should test that
Try putting a plastic bag on your head. Nope, and then seeing how long you can breathe in it for I can resist that
Because I have resisted the mind control
I am undefeatable You will never win see that's the problem with using logic to argue with illogical people
They're impervious to it. It's it's remarkable because I am undefeatable. I can mute you
I am impervious to the mute. You would have to mute yourself as well. I cannot be defeated
Maybe I should just give up on all of this and go be a gay frog somewhere
I Did not see that coming at all. They never see the gay frogs coming. Oh my
ASUS smartphone development is apparently on pause while the company shifts its focus to AI
ASUS chairman Johnny Shee has stated that ASUS will no longer add new mobile phone models in the future instead
ASUS will focus on developing AI products such as robots and smart glasses
With that said existing phones will continue to receive software updates and warranty support
Our discussion question from mr. David pan crats is has there really ever been an ASUS phone that you would actively recommend?
Anyway, is this a huge loss? I strongly believe a significant amount of companies are branding
fairly obvious company and operational and directional changes as we are pivoting to AI in a hope that that gets enough attention to pump their stock
That's it same thing as people branding layoffs has returned to office
Um, I think it's the same thing. I think it's just companies doing company stuff and just
Branding the company stuff in the most stock pumping way possible. And I think that's it
Mi gore and Floatplane chat says Is he still made phones? Yeah, but this is my point
Like why were they still doing that? I don't know. It's a good question. So if you're on their side, maybe you want to stop
Yeah, and maybe the way to stop Is be like we're gonna do uh AI stuff instead right right when you probably could have done both
Yeah, it seems to me red magic has sort of like a monopoly on gaming phones that actually make any sense at all
For sure. Is there is there anyone i'm missing? I think uh, I don't think there's a massive market for it. I mean
Red magic exists and as far as I can tell they don't have they don't do anything else. Sure. Yeah
I've also never seen one in the wild
I have oh, I've actually also seen an rog phone in the wild and not one that someone won at our christmas party
um I was quite surprised to see it Someone took a picture like at a taiwanese tech mall or something and they like had an rog phone. I was like what?
There you go. It feels a little unfair that it was at a taiwanese tech mall. Well, I don't make the rules
Yeah, yeah, um anyways, I think that's all this is personally
I don't blame them for the change and I don't even blame them for trying to market it in a way that pumps the stock
Is just companies doing company stuff
So what will be our AI pivot?
We don't benchmark anything anymore We tell the AI the specs and we tell it the historical performance of various things
We inform it that companies generally go after price bands
We tell it what the cost of the device will be and then we ask it how it performs. That sounds really cheap. I'm in
I'm convinced. Let's do it. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice
Okay Vimeo is laying off staff globally after it's 1.38 billion dollar sale to bending spoons
After being bought by italian tech firm bending spoons for about 1.38 billion
Vimeo has cut a large chunk of its workforce with former employees saying it felt like almost everyone was let go
Including reportedly the entire video team, which isn't that like what Vimeo does video
Established in 2004 a year prior to youtube. Vimeo has carved out a niche as a high-end video hosting platform
Catering primarily to professional creators and businesses rather than viral entertainment
It's actually the second set of job cuts in a few months back in september
Vimeo trimmed about 10 percent of their staff before the acquisition wrapped
Bending spoons has a bit of a history of buying tech platforms like we transfer evernote meetup
Bit of a history and then making deep cuts afterward, which makes this feel a little less surprising
I think you could I think Calling this a bit of a history is completely fair for the person who wrote this but I will editorialize a little bit and say
This is what they do Um, they they they enter into spaces
Purchase companies up Consolidate simplify
Layoff fire Take profit and then who knows after that
Yeah
Acquisitions I'm just trying to see like who they Products vimeo evernote event bright we transfer meetup
Komoot aol stream yard is
Sue Mile IQ harvest break cove and remony
Apparently they have a thousand employees
Wow Wow indeed
Private equity go ber Yeah, no kidding
So Here's a question
Doesn't drop out use Vimeo. Yes
They do should they use Floatplane That'd be pretty sick
Um
That'd be pretty sick. I've always seen getting them on full plane as the like
I don't know the special artifact the holy grail whatever
I always thought that would be really cool I really like what they do over there
Are we ready, I don't know I think we could be
We need to do some work to make our thing more like what I think that they want
I'm not sure Like that'd be
I wouldn't obviously think that they would just upload to Floatplane that would be stupid
But well if they were to do something like sauce plus where they had their own
But they they do I think yeah I haven't dove into this in a while, but I would make the assumption that Vimeo is just delivering their video
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so their site is actually just theirs anyways
Man, they have so much cool stuff. My goodness
They make so much content. It's actually mind-blowing
They're an extremely interesting company. It's it's it's funny because they have a crazy amount of subscribers from what I've heard
I don't know if it's real or not But they have a they have a wild amount of subscribers claimed at least
They have a insane amount of like shows and originals and different things that they make
But they're so like Not super
Public because all their stuff is paid access. Yeah, and it's it's just fascinating how like successful they've been at this model
Um
Yeah, I don't know they're a cool group
I wonder what that would even Look like
Like us just doing info info and not doing the platform
It would look like yet again something we've never done before
We could do it we've we've like Theorycrafted scenarios where it's something like that, but that's not a
Like becoming Vimeo was never a target because Vimeo exists
You know like it was oh wow. Yeah, this was just linked by max o drive in Floatplane chat
Websites using Vimeo Download a list of all two million one hundred fifteen thousand seven hundred and one current Vimeo customers
Oh, yeah built with is a really cool website. Oh, that's super cool. Yeah built with is awesome actually
Huh I mean is
At some point should we like try and make it fly or should we just like not really bother, you know
One of the problems Um
And this is like it's a problem and it's also a big part of the reason why we still exist
So I don't know you want to call it but some of the original tenets of philoplane was basically like
It should always be either neutral or pa or real I mean
The philoplane was basically like it should always be either neutral or pa or profitable as much as possible
Oh, yeah, you better believe it It needs to be as independent and and self-reliant as possible all these other types of things all of those pillars that we initially laid out
Strongly resist explosive growth
You how do you how do you how do you build to scale when you can't out hire your profitability?
Yeah, it's like it's we we set up the pillars to be the least silicon valley company possible
We really did while still making a software tool. So the team's like tiny yeah and incredible by the way
Yes, the fact that it exists at all at the size of the team is like fascinating
And I've had long conversations with people that have talked to me about how it actually doesn't make any sense and I'm like well
It is a thing. So I don't know what to tell you
Gibbarim says their platform website is a Vimeo website with a dropout skin
They need active platform support rather than just a back end Interesting, okay
And Rysau says dropout allegedly surpassed a million subscribers recently
Yeah, like a whole B I mean, I don't see any reason why we couldn't scale to accommodate it
We could scale to that, yeah Like philoplane is it's small but not because it has to be
It's small because it keeps costs manageable
I don't know what features they have and stuff though Like I deep dove this a while ago but it's been a while
I would think they would have a lot more in the way of like analytics and tracking than we do
Like we're pretty loosey-goosey about that They can give subscriptions
Yeah, we should really have that
We should do that, yeah And also trial subscriptions and stuff
There's things we would need to do Whenever you get to a look
We're not ready this second I would have loved to be
I wish this happened a little bit later Because I would love to work with them
Not even because the million subscribers thing Obviously company had on, that's really cool
But like I just think like
Man, they're such a unique I find talking to creators at events fascinating
Like OpenSauce is one of my favorite events to go to
And just hang around with a huge variety of different creators all the time
And just talk about like what they're doing and how it's working And man is dropout unique
Like, my god Rysauce says they've been getting some flak for a low quality merch
Maybe you could help them there too I don't know, we're like
We're in this weird We're at this weird kind of inflection point
Where I think we kind of have to decide where we're going
We We're continuing to
Scale the way that we used to Years ago
Just on our own And we're not really
It would require a large investment
And a huge leap of faith To become
Like a service, a creator services company
In the way that I think you guys are kind of Envisioning as a future for
For LMG CW
Floatplane And
It's not an easy decision Right, because I've gotten
Pretty comfortable Do I want to
Bed it all again Do I want to convince my wife
To bed it all again For what?
I don't think it would change My
Quality of life If
LMG CWFP was A ten times larger company
And that's the thing like we could I don't know
I don't love the idea of bringing in venture capital To take a chunk
To inject the cash To build and scale this thing
Managing people is the thing I like least About my job
To be clear it's not that I don't like the people Actually I
Love the team that I get to work with Everyday that's one of the most privileged
Things about my life actually Turns out managing people is not
Hanging out with people So lean
I hate doing that And nothing that I can
Yeah, I don't know Hyobiz as a company I worked for
I hit about 60 employees and stopped growing And it worked well
I don't think chasing more and more is always the best I really liked working there, yeah
But I bet you outgrew it So
That's another thing, there's never a perfect answer There's people on the team that will
Not want to grow I mean I've
Been rather outspoken About not having wanted to grow
And then I think we've felt the pain of that growth
We've also reaped the benefits Of that growth, it's not a simple answer
But there's some people that won't stay If you do that forced growth
And there's people that won't stay if you don't Yeah, so it's like
Steve and Jay asks have you ever thought of Putting CW outside of the merch space
Not that we call it merch anymore You have such quality products
I just bought a bunch of the plain shirts And when they arrived my thoughts were like
Why aren't these just a product And they are from our point of view
And yeah we'd love to But it's not that simple
Like from a logistic standpoint From an economic standpoint
Like you'd be Like on paper, right?
It seems simple Luke
Luke underscore Laffer Yeah
Twitch streamer Yeah Right?
I mean well like yeah
Not lately Yeah Okay
Sure Sure Luke gets this clean up wizard
Shirt from LTT Store and he goes oh Sorry who makes this and
Do the labels say CW yet or do they say LTT still? It looks like it does
Yes Yeah so he sees this label and he goes oh
Wow creator warehouse I'm a creator And I wear things and I'm in a house
Wow it's like it's a match made in heaven And he goes I'd love to
I'd love for my My Luke Laffer
I'm gonna make a burb shirt And it's just gonna be a budgie on the front
And the budgie is gonna be looking like this And it's just gonna be thinking
It's gonna have a thought bubble and it's gonna be like burb It's gonna be like war
Sure Do you know what? Love it
Burb war Burb war shirt And yeah yeah 10 of 10
Jeremy says I would buy One sale
Okay Yes Now what?
Luke has this idea He has this shirt that he's like this is pretty cool
How do we get that graphic on the shirt?
How do we get it onto a website where you will buy it?
How do we manage Luke's exposure to this inventory?
I don't want any exposure No he doesn't How do we manage the lead times of the inventory that we will
I guess we what we have to carry now
So that he has blank shirts for him to print bourbon once in a while
Whenever he feels like it What will be the minimum print quantities for the print shop that we work with
We don't own our own print shop We work with the local company and then there's another print shop
In the states that we work on next to our US US 3PL
That's gonna be helping us out in the near future They're actually some really nice prints recently
I'm gonna be the chat Just print on demand dummy
Yeah okay who Who will do it
What will be the costs of that Times
Yeah Like silk screening is way more cost effective over a certain quantity
And print on demand direct to garment printing
Is way more cost effective for very low quantities
But these are gonna be really expensive shirts And that's just
Oh I meant like lead times Like how long will it take you to get the shirt
Oh yeah oh dude It'll take Way longer
Take a minute
It's hurly time says just open your own print shop
I mean yeah if I had a casual I think the last time we looked into it is around $400,000 to $600,000 worth of equipment
Plus we need to space If I and people here are gonna be managing it
It's gonna need to be a space around here Which is money
Staff like nothing is that simple
How will we make sure that the customers that are buying from Luke
All paid the taxes correctly
And all the like customs and whatever nonsense on their shipment
And we make sure that are we handling Luke's accounting now
Will he remit all of those correctly and properly
Is that our responsibility or is that his There's also like Wanshoe Bingo said print to order is the only real solution
Have a three to five week time on all orders Like yeah I'm sorry
I don't know if I want the shirt that I just bought to show up in two months
Like Huh
I uh That's always been really frustrating for me about print to order stuff
Is like I don't know Am I a spoiled I have it now dopamine machine
Maybe But
Like five weeks lead time I'm assuming that's just production
And then they actually have to ship it and stuff like I
That's a really long time to wait
Yeah and and to be clear These are all things that are solvable
So everyone who's suggesting solutions
You are a hundred percent right But the question is
Is that where we want to invest our time And is that where we want to invest our capital because we have a limited amount of both of those things
What if instead of doing any of that
I just made another video Every week
That'd be kind of cool Probably higher profit margins
And we have room for that And I already know how to do that
We have upload slots Yep
Or we just Make another really cool product for LTT Store
And then we don't have to split margin with another creator
We do another podcast
Yeah we'll do the white dudes with facial hair podcast
There isn't enough white dudes with facial hair
Podcasts You're right We should add another one
You're a hundred percent right That's what the market needs The market is asking for us
I agree with you so completely that like
If I agreed with you any more we'd probably start beating each other off
We need more white dudes with facial hair circle jerking
In the podcast space Maybe we could
We could innovate by having three white dudes Yeah
I mean we could get another chair I could sit in the corner Yeah
Well no you can't be in the corner Because we'd have to be in a circle Obviously
It's just physics Dan Yeah but I mean technically like a triangle
Fits into a circle Oh he wants a cock chair
Thanks Dan Yeah
Didn't get it Didn't get it
That's okay I got more cocks for you later
Ugh Anyways
Yeah I mean
I mean we had a conversation about like how cool it would be to
Be the back end for Dropout like a month ago
In like a Floatplane staff call And everybody was like yeah sick also
Not quite ready for that right now But like that would be sick
We want to focus on our app We want to actually get a TV app out there
Like we're not blind to the people To the things that people have been asking for
We want to get those things figured out We've been having some trouble with our app
Where there's a new head of
Did I talk about that? I don't name them
But I can say that it exists The new role that was hired
Go for it now There's a new head of HR in here And I've already talked to them about
Hiring for app dev for Floatplane
Like it's we want to figure that out If that's figured out though
There isn't like a ton left
Like we're not ready But we're not far from being ready
And we spent like a solid like two years
You know dealing with a bunch of the Like early days tech debt and stuff
To the point where we're pretty modern
In terms of like the tech stack We're pretty scalable
The team like I said is super smart
And I think would be like ready for a challenge
As long as they're as they're resourced appropriately
Like I'm We're just small
Yeah it's small Yeah We have one more topic
By the way David's answer for what was the last Relevant Ubisoft game is
He thinks other than 2023's Principles of the Lost Crown
Which was great And then the team behind it was disbanded
The last great or majorly relevant Ubisoft game in his opinion is
Assassin's Creed Odyssey back in 2018
Which is rough Assassin's Creed Odyssey was sick
And in my opinion underrated Last topic for today
New leaks show NVIDIA's N1X gaming laptops
Are reportedly set to debut this quarter With N2 on its way for 2027
A new Digitimes report says that NVIDIA's N1X Windows on ARM laptop chip
Is back on the internal roadmap With a Q1 2026 consumer launch
Followed by three more variants in Q2 Likely aimed at the enterprise
This lines up with reports of an unreleased ARM based N1X CPU being spotted
In a shipping manifest for an unnamed Dell laptop
N1 and N1X is Confirmed to be the same silicon used
In the DGX Spark NVIDIA's AI workstation That kind of looks like a Mac Mini on steroids
Considering the sources say that The next gen N2 series is already on
Its way for your... Q3 2027
It seems a little strange that N1 wasn't Even mentioned at CES 2026
I had a little off the record Conversation with a fellow
Tech Journalism bro
That I respect a lot I'm not going to name him
Because I don't know if he was at Liberty To talk about any of this
But basically apparently This
Silicon has been an absolute cluster Bomb over at NVIDIA
And None of the
None of the external Unimpressedness with the DGX
Spark was a major surprise To my bro
I remember Carmack Pretty much the first thing he said about it was
Does this thing overheat? Something like that
That was a pretty epic burn Yeah, so DGX
Spark has Not been quite as impressive
And these ARM on Windows
Gaming laptops have been The first time they were supposed to launch was
Like CES 2025 Or was it Computex before that?
I can't remember the first time they were supposed to launch But they've been punted down the road
M-m-multiple Times at this point
Lullenverse says DGX Spark is great for concurrency Lol
Well, there you go
I think it's time for After Dark Should we do this thing?
Wow, you guys are loving the Cleanup Wizard merch
Products!
Got em
Yeah, Cleanup Wizard t-shirt is killing it
A lot of people picking up Linus Cat Tips pins Pins are great
They are, they're so cute I requested a couple of the
Mouse pads as well For a friend of mine
I might still want to Nice
Talking of mats Hey DLL, question for Linus
Will the mod mat have ESD protection? If so, what are you using to test it?
Yes, and I'm using Tatiana to test it
Also, I think the CW Engineering team Was involved in that as well
Linus, how often should one paint The walls of their home to maintain it for selling later on?
And are there any renovations That provide a lot of value to a house
Buyer Mom renovating house right now
So this is a funny thing, right? Because
There's a lot of different There's a lot to unpack here
So many people Wait until the moment that they're moving out of their home
To freshen it up for sale And
I have to imagine that people do this Because it's a tried and true
Strategy to maximize the value of your home I have to assume that
I don't know that for sure
And if it was me And I was shopping for a house
I would actually much rather they Didn't paint it
I would actually much rather They had, as I walk into
This house with scuffs And dings everywhere on the walls
One of those paint chip books And it just included fresh paint
Because then I could pick the color Which would obviously
Be more likely to be a color I wanted Oh wait, interesting
So you're saying like we will paint it for you Before you even get the home
Because I'm paying for it anyway So I might as well get a color that I actually want
Nope, you get white I think that painting a house
Right before you sell it Is causing an epidemic of blandness
Yes Because resale white is the only color
That's going to want to paint on it To make it look fresh and open
And bright And as soon as you move into a new home
And I've done this That's been freshly painted
You kind of go well It was just painted
I'd be an idiot for painting it now I'll do it later
You're never going to do it until finally You move out having spent the last 10 years of your life
Living in like dinged Dented
And only to go Oh wow man, this place looks so great
I wonder if we should have just lived here for longer Maybe we should have just
Spent money on the house At a time when we would be the ones to enjoy it
Instead of these new people who are moving in And they don't even like that color
Yeah Nice
I'd say the most important thing In terms of what I'm looking for when I shop for a home
Is that I'm not going to suffer From like death by a thousand cuts
But I don't know that that's the norm Like I'm looking for
You know, hey, is this a place that looks like They didn't just slap a coat of paint on it
Oh my god, sorry I saw a Reddit thread that
I think is actually a brilliant idea They said that you should get
Electro Boom out to come check out the tech house I did see that
I don't know that another video like going through it Again would add a ton of value
But I think with him it would be frickin' sick Alkins, I'm considering it
Oh, I think it would be cool Very cool
Love Mehdi, always love collaborating with Mehdi He's awesome
He is a walking content machine And he's such a nice guy
Just like the most genuine guy You guys
Love Mehdi
What happened to the Linus Does Vibe Coding video? It's coming
Good question I actually don't know
At some point It will happen
Our writers have a lot of Balls
Predominantly male department They do
And they gotta juggle them Sometimes you gotta
How many balls did they have? Terrible, stop
Don't take the paint Move on
Hey Hey, LLD
You do a seated floss
What is he even doing? What is he even happening?
What is happening? He's planking
This man's planking I genuinely did not see that coming
They never do
Hey LLD Linus, since Final Fantasy Tactics
Remaster has sold a million copies Do you think there is hope for a sequel
Or a prequel to it? Maybe pick up Orlando's story
And would you play it? I'd play the crap out of it
I mean the fact that it took this long For them to
It's good, but like Not super high effort
Remaster it is remarkable And gives me no faith
But also hey, they sold a million Friggin' copies, so that seems like
For a financially motivated company Like Square Enix
Like hello Maybe you should do more of this
Kind of signal, but maybe they'll just completely ignore I mean don't
Yeah, that's in Square Enix The one that has that activist investor
That's like hey, you guys are being really stupid And like you actually need to stop being stupid now
So maybe they'll listen, maybe they won't
Maybe Ubisoft needs one of those They do, won't be me
I mean I probably afford to buy A significant chunk of the company at that share price
But would I want it And to be clear, no I can't
That is, is joke Ubisoft is still worth
So, so, so much more than I If you own world or IP, we could do some cool stuff
Ubisoft Total value
What's their total value? The bar's pretty low, Luke
Exactly Yeah, so good
Linus Studios Sure
Would not call it that I would not call a company my name again
If you had Ubisoft you could probably employ Enough people
That it would make sense to do some form of like Stop it
Housing development Okay, Dan, next one, I've given you
Linus Town maybe I have given you frameworks in the past
Or just that Linus And he ignored me
Ubisoft
So what, we do all X-rated games?
You'd make some money, dude Oh man
Dang That's good
Hi, DLL, question for Linus Which LDD merch item do you think
Didn't get as much love as it deserved? I love some of your one-off products
That was so cute I saw mine the other day because Yvonne and I
Were getting ready for the ski season And we were sorting our outdoor wear
And I was like, the Ramsticks scarf That's
Well, probably a little depressing to look at For people these days since it's the only RAM
That they might be able to afford But it was so cute
It was so cute What didn't get as much love as it deserved?
I'm going to answer this even though it was specifically asked to Linus But that
3D printed down jacket Oh, the 3D town
Is genuinely like an incredible jacket And
I think it was like too expensive For a product that
People don't get to try on first Because everyone that actually tried
That jacket on was like, oh This is very nice
I love that jacket The Dropout hoodie
The Dropout hoodie is legit I love this hoodie
They don't let me wear it Because it's not for sale anymore
In any Sizes that matter
But I freaking Love that hoodie
And I love the idea behind it The multiple layers
Of the meaning, how it looks like University or college
Hoodie, but I didn't graduate So it just is LTT
And it's like I don't know, I love it
So just like in the tech space That whole
Dropout but be successful anyway Thing is such a thing
And also LTT is Sure, entertaining, but also
This may surprise Some people on some corners of the internet
But we do actually teach people stuff It's edumacational
It's definitely edumacational So I just loved all the layers of
LTT school of hard knocks Exactly charge nuclei
Hoodie and it was also just such a quality Garment, I love the fit
And the feel of it And I just
Yup Wanted that to do better
We ended up having to liquidate a lot of them Which hurt because it was
Just such a good product These are like burn them rather than like melt them
Nice Hi Dilo No, no, you gotta do it for yourself too
It's low quality ding Get out of here
Hi Dilo, what is the new Completely new hardware that you are excited about
That's not just an improvement On other hardware
For example, for smartphone For smartwatch
Is this asking us to like invent a device? I don't think so
I think this is like What is a new thing
Can you name a new thing? Kind of a Apple topic
I think the valve Steam frame
Is kind of a new product It is sort of
But it's like It's a stand alone headset
But also it's a It uses the onboard computer to do wireless streaming
Better than it's ever been done before For VR and it's a
It's a PC VR headset But it like
Has like really good quality And mobility
And you can also play like Windows x86 games on the ARM CPU
It's like Okay fine, it's an improvement
Yeah Because there's the first smartphone
First smartwatch Theoretically I'm still excited about smart glasses
But I just like Can't motivate myself to put a pair on
So I don't know how to reconcile If ASUS figures it out it makes some cool ones
That'll be kind of neat but ASUS on the software side though
Yeah, I kind of doubt it, sorry guys We've done some stuff that's been better than expected
Like their software on the ROG Ally is much better than I
Expected it to be Their overlay stuff, it just works
And from my understanding It's not that simple
I think if there's a robot that can do my laundry and do the dishes That would be huge
And not like fall over or smash things While doing so and not be
Not be remotely pirated Piloted, my goodness
That's also A fairly important one
I'd also really like it to not be Calling home about every single detail of my entire life
Including the layout of my house and where I am At all points in time
A home kit smart robot See, yes
It could turn off your lights For you, properly
Walking over to impressing the switch That is so smart switch with extra steps
That's so retro It's so vintage
Literal steps But yeah, if it's a home kit
I control it It doesn't phone home
Everything that ever happens And it's a robot that can do my laundry
Do my dishes and other various annoying things like that If we can take out the garbage, stuff like that
Huge You could ask it to set an alarm
And it would grab your phone And then just do that for you
See We just need
Like More Boston Dynamics robots
Because they can just do everything that the things can This is where we're going
How much do you think the robot that isn't just Adware is going to cost
And then everyone buys the one That's just spying on you
And serves you ads $25,000
There's no way, no shot, Luke I did cheap car
It's really, really hard to buy A non-smart TV right now
I'll put it I'll save that
That's the only way they reach these prices It'll probably be impossible to buy
A non Always internet connected smart home robot
But I would like it to be a thing Because I don't
Know if I can That's how you break it
So much fun though I was wondering why it was broken at that spot
Of all places There's no way I did that to
Or the chair, one of the two Then why isn't mine broken
Scale issue
Alright What do we got next time?
Oh yeah, my job Hey LOD, Luke
My wife wants to know how your Birds are
I don't, but she wears the pants Thanks for all the fun
We'll cover your ears, I'll talk directly to your wife I wouldn't let him do that
Especially don't let him make the chicken There's birds involved, get out man
They're doing alright You can sit on the chair in the corner
Yeah, we can be friends Yeah, they're doing good
Actually the One of them was recently sick again
But it was very very short lived Which is great
The bird or the sickness I can infer
I'd hope so But yeah, they're doing good
All three of them now For people that don't know that update
Which I think is a decent amount of people know that one But maybe not everyone
There's three birds now One which was
We had already purchased it From a breeder to be a buddy
For our previous bird and then our previous bird passed away So then the time window from having a bird
To having a bird again was really short Because there was a bird that we were already receiving
As we bought it We bought that bird a buddy
And then There was a bird that was out in the wild
Was in the park in Langley, right? No, it was in Richmond
But it was in a park And this would be the
Second bird that Emma recovered
But this one No one claimed it and we
Tried very hard to Scream from every rooftop possible
That we had this bird and no one ever claimed it We talked to our vet about it
And they said it was Fairly tell-tale situation
Of someone just kind of threw it out a window Because they didn't want it anymore
There was other reasons why they thought that And it did make sense
But I'm not going to go into all of that And now we just have third bird
But third bird is female bird And other two birds are boybirds
So birds Cannot mix
I don't know how they can necessarily tell They look pretty similar to me
But the second There is a female bird in vicinity of the boybirds
It is party time They are very excited
And go a little Nuts
So it is very obvious that we can't Necessarily let them all kind of
Hang out together too much So that adds some complications
But yeah anyways long story Birds are good
Follow-up Luke question You mentioned earlier that you are building out a
Home lab. What kind of things are you Thinking of setting up?
Dude I want to do lots of stuff A decent amount of this is just like
I feel like it is hyper overdue I want
To know more about the people on About what the people on my teams do
So some Of the goal is to use similar things
That we use here So I can get more experience
And have a better understanding of what they are talking about And the like
The issues that they run into And just things like that
Good keep going Just making adjustments
It is a why It is like a better this way
No one is not perfectly level though It is fine just relax I like it this way
Stop it It still works that is fine
They are both crossing They both have a high point
It is very nice I want to get a
Plex server up to Livestream home videos
To my family Sure
Yeah I would like to do some local LLM stuff
There is just a lot of things I want to do I feel like I am very overdue on
Really actually pushing Yeah
As a student and IT worker At a university
I have noticed that the newer generation Is less tech literate
Do you think The oversimplification
And hand holding has contributed to this issue
Hold on I have got something
Yeah I have got something
To share with you guys A great meme I came across
And sent to Yvonne Phone or tablets because
I heard like what is a file system For a lot of people
Because they are mostly interacting With like a phone
Or a tablet or an application They do not have to know
What is a D drive Or a C drive
What is a network share Okay Dan I just sent you
My favorite meme from the last week
I want a YouTube app on my computer Shut up pug boy
Get out
I actually do Why
I wish less things were just browser Here is Linus' favorite meme
Favorite meme of the week
I am training a zoomer kit To use the computer at work
And it is exactly like training a boomer There is exactly one generation
To rotate a PDF and there will never be another The knowledge dies with us
So good It is kind of true
Go jellyfin and swim upstream Yeah I don't know if I want to do plex
Or not but I want to do like Video, home video distribution
To multi houses
Yeah
Hi WAN.DLO Hold on I just want to jump in and say
Generally speaking our staff has actually been Really good
We have younger people on staff And there are absolutely
Zoomers and younger people Who are
Very capable technically I just want to throw that out there
That these generalizations are just generalizations They are not universally applicable
Okay carry on Very good
Hi WAN.DLO I am a high school chemistry teacher
The Green Brothers Have a bit of an empire with YouTube
Education content via Crash Course Do you have connections with them
Would love education focused collapse I don't think I've ever met either
The Green Brothers I admire
Them from a distance
One of the ways that I can find out Is just checking my inbox
No I have never Corresponded
With either of the Green Brothers
Downer maybe I should try and do that You never know unless you try right
Thanks Luke
Very deep Hi DLL
Question for Luke As a software developer I come across
Other developers who see Errors as something only
Others can solve Any tips on how to encourage them to see
Errors as opportunities to learn This was
A little bit confusing Any tips on no no I understand
I understand it too That's a tough one
Some people I don't know if you'll ever Get that through to them
I think if you are Leading or managing those people
I think you make it very clear That this is a required part of career progression
But to a certain degree That's just a performance issue
Some people will never resolve that And it will make their careers
Halt in progression And that's sometimes where people
Just sort of stop Because they can't get their minds around that
It's a very difficult Thing to have as a programmer
I find a lot of people That
No, that train of thought doesn't make it Make any sense
I think like Solving errors is a natural
Constant state of a software developer So if they can't do that
They're going to be hyper limited in their career And if you try to communicate to them
That to them, hopefully they absorb it And grow, I've seen this happen with people
It's not that it doesn't happen I have just also for sure
Seen it not happen with people And
You can't save them all So do what you can
But yeah, I think I would tie it Pretty directly into like, look
You will stop progressing If you don't figure this out
So you have to figure this out Apparently John Green said that I gave him a computer recommendation
I don't remember that But I recommend computers to a lot of people
So That would be a little embarrassing
It's like, oh yeah You like built a server for Santa Claus
You don't remember? Like, oh yeah, sorry Just slip my mind
How do you forget something like that? I don't know That's a big you'd have to be more specific moment
Yeah Like the villain is like
Or the protagonist in a movie Or whatever, it's like you killed my dad
And the villain's like you'd have to be more specific You recommended a computer
You'd have to be a lot more specific
So Are there programmers that just
Program and then don't fix It when it doesn't work?
Is that what this is talking about? You used a lot of software in your life Dan
Do you think there are programmers who just Program and don't make sure it works? That's what I was a little confused
Because it's like, okay we have Errors or like doesn't compile, well would you just
Haven't done your job then? No, it's like If they're struggling to accomplish something
They'll just give up Oh, yeah that's
So much worse I think that's the crux
This is how I'm interpreting it So they'll be like I mean problem hard
And then they'll try to just go to someone else And I mean sometimes
That might make sense We try to
Do a thing where like you should try to grind on it for a bit And try to solve it yourself, but at a certain point
You should seek help Because you're just kind of wasting time
You heard it here first, at a certain point You should seek help, Luke 2026
The extremely deep
But you should try to Solve it yourself
Not wrong words Do you see a need
For wireless TVs that they had at CES
Wires are still needed Regardless of what they say
Well you answered your own question didn't you This is kind of like
Okay, this is my favorite thing, hold on I'm just gonna search for
We're gonna go on a little journey together Are they like battery powered?
I'm gonna search for projector, what the hell are the Bigly brothers
Anyway, that doesn't matter The point is we're gonna go to like
A mainstream type of Projector brand
Seriously Okay, let's
Pick on LG
Cinebeam, okay Let's pick on LG Cinebeam
So I'm gonna click Shut up
Trying to use your Stupid website, okay
Let's click this thing Wow, what a great design
That I'd love to Look at
Wow, this is such a Oh wow, this is a shockingly honest
Deployment, except it also isn't Because where's this cord going
Where's this going This is, your couch is there
Like you're Completely ignoring the fact
Look at this This, it's not plugged in
In any Of these situations
It's also not one of those times In a position that you would actually want
Minimal Q design, right, but It's all bullshit unless
It actually runs wirelessly Which, as far as I can tell
It doesn't There are so many
They hide the cable behind a coffee machine A coffee thing
I don't drink coffee What are you talking about? That?
Oh yeah Behind what, is that like a battery bank?
So they show, yes, so it can Be used with a battery bank
But they don't even show the cable going into the battery bank But like, where is the
Where is the projector in this shot That's awesome
This is clearly just complete Horse shit
And so I have a very Similar issue
With whatever you were talking about Yes, wireless TVs
I have a very similar issue with wireless TVs As I have with this type of
Projector marketing, it's all fantasy It's all pie in the sky
What if everything was Well, it isn't fucking wireless
It's not wireless, so what are you even talking about I'm gonna play on my switch
Well, I'm gonna have to have power for my TV Because I definitely need that
I'm gonna have to have HDMI into some box Somewhere, because as far as I
Can tell, the switch doesn't have Magical, lala
Wireless Display transmission
I'm gonna have to have power for my switch So I'm gonna need a media console anyway
So I might as well just have one then Yeah
So basically they're stupid And I think they're stupid
I do Glan and Dinus I could totally see myself putting one in the tech
House though, just because we can Yeah, drill some walls
Drill some walls Hell yeah
I do Glan and Dinus Is there any tech you'd like to see
Added to modern car suites Shout out to my wife for letting me do some gear shopping
Honestly? Dials?
Some switches More piano black
Maybe a slider Don't need them
We need less actually Please less
My car is almost all glass And I love it
Oh, I know, I don't like it I don't
It's interesting to me because I hear a lot of people talk about
How desperately they need Climate controls for instance
To be physical switches And I'm sitting here going
Why are you touching it? The fan is set to auto
You set a temperature you're comfortable with And then you never touch it again
You also Have discussed how
Your significant other Will change the things
Then you have to change them back So just because you think her opinion is wrong
Does not change the fact that you still Have to interact with it
It's so little though It's like I just
I'm just saying the point doesn't really land That's fair, that's fair
But it also just it's still I don't know man, I don't know what to tell you
It just doesn't bother me At all to do it on a touch screen
I was a Rivian not that long ago And
Had to interact with the touch screen And it just felt like the dumbest thing in the world
Why are these not buttons? I don't know
I don't think it needs to all be buttons again I think you can have some stuff in the menus
But like All I would want to see is just
Sort of more thoughtful I'd love to see Android Auto
And CarPlay be more reliable That's something
I'd basically I would just love
Like a minor feature and bug fix Pass on my car and otherwise it'd be perfect
So for example I have a couple of programmable buttons I have one on my steering wheel
And I have one that's like up on the dash here If both of those supported
Alternate functions with long press and double press I would be happy as a pig in sh**
That'd be pretty sweet If my Android Auto
Didn't occasionally just like Fail to Bluetooth pair and have my audio not work
Or if Depending on the
Audio source on my phone The volume wasn't either
Way lower or way higher So I would just send
Portia A list of all those sort of
Various minor Tiny insignificant inconveniences
Like the fact that I can't have it just automatically start up the car
In the driving profile that I always use I always drive in sport mode so why do I have to
Turn this dial every single time I get into my car It's stupid just don't do that
Then I would just I would just love it
I wouldn't want anything else I wouldn't want my car to really do
Anything other than when I press this thing It goes that way and when I press this thing
It stops going that way except When I also press a different thing
And then sometimes it goes that way When I press this thing sometimes it goes that way
When you press a different thing can you do that one again Do you press a different thing?
I don't even know what I did Okay don't worry about it
Yeah I want a dumber car And I want to pay a lot less for it
Well you're never going to get that second thing so No it's a thing
I mean well the slate looks pretty cool And there's like a bunch of them globally
Toyota has some truck that Is not sold in North America but it's very affordable
Well that's what I'm talking about though But it's not sold in North America because of
North American regulations on lane assistance stuff Really?
It has nothing to do with Toyota's decision making Interesting
There's like a certain reason with Certain safety laws that
A bunch of cheaper cars Globally are not allowed to come to North America
So irritating Especially because like an insane amount
Of cars on the road don't have these things Yeah because they're just older
And like dude oh my god Driving Emma's car the lane assist
Is dangerous Oh it can be
Like it's not okay And not just a lane assist but the emergency automatic braking
I've had At least three times
That my Taycan has almost killed me Because
I decided to go To turn left
And it was like there's a car in front of you I'm gonna stop and it stopped
In Oncoming traffic
And in a really jarring startling I need a second to figure out what the heck is going on
And why my car isn't moving And I need to hit it again to get out of the way
Absolutely insane I don't want these things
I understand they might make it better But it's like
There's a lot of drivers out there somewhere I think a lot of people on the road it's not helpful for
And I know a lot of people just turn them off So like
And my lane keep there's a particular spot between Smashchamps and my house
That it's just like And just tries to rip me out of the lane
Dude I don't want any of this stuff I don't want any of it at all
So like The fact that I'm not allowed to buy one
In North America that doesn't have those things Super cheap
I'm hoping this brings it up Toyota
Truck sold outside America
Is it the Hilux? That's what people in chat said
I think it's a Hilux Champ Yeah this thing
They have a bunch of different versions of it Um
It looks a little You know like a Lego truck
Um You can configure it in a bunch of different ways
And look $10,000 pick up
Wow Like
Let me buy the cheap truck thing That people do crazy stuff with
Whatever It's a $10,000 platform that has an engine in it
And you can drive around Cool
There's a bunch of these things It's not just this Toyota truck
There's other variants as well Oh
frustrating More TV focused questions
Howdy when? With TVs being so competitive
Nearing a race to the bottom economics Creating millions of pounds of e-waste
Should we have a minimum price floor On certain electronics?
Is quality the winner? Generally speaking I'm pretty pro free market
A regulated free market That prevents monopolists from taking advantage
Of their position But I don't think
You're ever going to get me advocating For
Minimum price? For a minimum price on something
I think that You know my job
Is educating people To make sure that they buy something
That is going to meet their needs For an extended period of time
In hopes that there will be less waste overall If people consume
As they will consume But consume the right things
So that there's less trial and error involved And I just
Don't see how you implement this Like it's not like
It's a terrible idea On the surface of it
I'd say You'd be better off creating
Like a warranty minimum So a minimum amount of time
That they have to support the product To incentivize them
To implement things Rather than regulating it directly
I like that, that should also spread to more products The more I'm learning about washer, dryer
Refrigerator Dishwasher
Holy crap dude The sheer amount of waste
In not even the electronics portion But just the metals and everything else
That is involved with this People just have to toss out
Because it's not worth repairing Is crazy
Yeah It comes with the house
Like how Is this turning into something that I'm going to replace more often than my TV
We were going to get new appliances When we moved into our current place
And the guy who came in Looked at one of them
When we were The motor and the washer went or something like that
And basically Yvonne was like, oh yeah I don't know if we want to bother
With repairing it and the guy's like, yes you do I will put a new motor
And this will last for another 25 years If you bought a new one
You would be replacing it in 5 to 10 Yeah
So like I said earlier in the show My fridge is going so I was like alright
Time to do some research because this is a pastime What can I buy
What should I get All of everything
Like there was literally I can't remember the exact comment
I could probably find it on my phone But there was like an appliance guy
Who says ending and I hate everything Because like he can't recommend
Something that's actually good Yeah I forget what brand it is
But my mom bought a new fridge From someone that like for me growing up
Was like oh that's a reputable appliance brand And they've been out I think half a dozen
Times To fix it
And she's been like at what point Is this a lemon you guys have spent more than
The cost of this fridge coming here And fixing it over and over and over again
And it is broken and that you're Not able to fix it and
It's just like The whole thing is so
Grossly inefficient
The comment was Appliance tech here
It's all plastic disposable crap Life is pointless and the planet is doomed
Because of the waste we produce Refrigerators within your budget are not by it for life
And it was like Oh
So then I was like okay Well this person's listed budget
On this particular reddit thread Didn't seem super high
Can you spend More than this and get
Something that's not just portable E-waste
Apparently yeah Nice
Is it like commercial basically You're talking subzero
And stuff which I've only like Heard of
Like subzero wins I don't know if I've ever actually even
Opened a subzero fridge Myself but I've heard of them
There's another one that I don't Remember the name of it but there's another brand as well
You do have to be careful sometimes because Not
Manufacturers just make for all the manufacturers Yeah
I mean if you want like commercial Commercial
But those go No listed price
Very interesting Qualifies for luxury
Kitchen savings event Required accessories
Excuse me I have to buy my own drawers for
A thousand dollars each Well what if you wanted it in
Stainless steel By now with live chat
You need to discuss your purchase Flush inset door panel
With tubular handle Man
Where's the No you have to buy now with live chat
You have to discuss your purchase What the hell is Fisher and Paykel
I don't know never heard of that What
Buy now with live chat But where's the starting price
Does it not have one
Can't remember the name of the other brand But it was
There's wolf for stoves I know Pretty typical like a high end install
I don't know if they're actually worth it How much does a sub zero fridge cost
Oh What
Oh my god But there's a ton of people on reddit
Saying that these things last 25 years And are highly repairable
That's like how much a fridge should cost For how insanely complicated
Some of them can be Called true
Those were the two that people were talking about True and sub zero
So do you spend No
$11,000 to $20,000 on a fridge Or do you replace the same
Genuine piece of garbage And fill landfills with
You know a thousand dollar Bridges I'm guessing I don't know what the price is
Especially because when you sell your house With that sub zero fridge
The new buyer will not Have additional value to it
So you're basically just paying for yourself To use it
Most people are not going to Be in a position in their life
Where they can afford a $25,000 fridge And have enough of their life left
That they're going to use it for the whole time And that's just
The cold hard truth Now for some cold hard truth
About b580s Being available at MSRP
They're not How am I supposed to do that
Do you have the gun year Intel arc Didn't think so
You have this one right here Always a versioning thing
Cool Don't worry
We're working on that and it's going to be awesome I don't know if we're working on that
Someday we will Lowest price in 30 days
Whatever It's not
And this one doesn't have the holiday bundle For some reason
So I don't know what's up with that Maybe contact new egg before you buy this one
LMG.GG slash new egg right Do I remember this now
The asrock steel legend is It was $259 for a long time
And it's $299 now But the Intel holiday bundle is still there
So free battlefield 6 I think you could say with a straight face
If you wanted battlefield 6 And you get battlefield 6 with it
It's pretty close to MSRP But it's not what it was
Just a couple weeks ago Where you could get it for $249
$259 And get the holiday bundle
Which was an outstanding value Man, what about 50-70 TI's
Are they just Dad, are we cooked? What's up?
Dad's in the chat He said take it with you when you move
Stop problem Nice
Assuming your new kitchen layout accommodates With the fridge
Yeah We ended up having one option
For oven When we needed to get a new oven for our kitchen
At our place because we didn't want to Completely redo all the cabinets and everything
And they weren't wood They were like some kind of
Mela, whatever They were like that kind of plastic covered thing
And so they're not like easily Modifiable
And it was like a top bottom stack one One option
So a lot of the time it's dictated by Like the space you're in
More than the Oh man, 50-70 TI's are really expensive
Dad, if you're continuing to comment I can't tell because my computer is restarting
Because Security or something
Nice It's your dad's username
Liquidus
Take it with you when you move I would make it work
Well, we know you would, but I'm not as handy As you would
He TVI, he would Alright, dad hit me
Okay Last one I got for you today
Were any of you impacted by the telecom bubble And the fall of Nortel
Loving the mechanical pencil I'm so glad you like it
No, I was, man, I was still I was still a young boy
When did Nortel fall? The history of all that
Super interesting Yeah, I was 14
So I wasn't really like Workforcing it up yet
Sleeping on those investments Yeah, you should have bought a house
And invested in Nortel very temporarily And then sold right before the crash
Right, right, right, right, right, right Hindsight, thank you captain
Captain Hindsight, that was really appreciated 2009
Um And now it's time to put this
Wanshow in Hindsight Thanks for watching, we'll see you again
Next week, same bad time, same bad channel Bye
Thanks for watching