WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.680 Oh, you all right well like no, I'm sick, but I'll be fine 00:00:08.920 --> 00:00:10.920 I'll be fine 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:16.240 Such a long streak of not being sick dude 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:21.160 You were doing great, and you're doing good. Yeah 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:26.520 Now you're wrecked. There was two people sick at Christmas. It just 00:00:27.200 --> 00:00:32.100 Was what it was. They got you. Yeah I 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:40.680 My whole family got sick over the holiday except me so if you get me then you're better than my family 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.960 I'm a better spreading Plague so like whatever 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:52.400 No, I care about this nothing to be proud of no, I know I care about this now. I have to be the best 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:08.240 That's a lot of razor wears razor comms I 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:24.440 Don't think the whanshow is sponsored entirely by razor. I see some some stuff going on down here 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:32.480 You 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:42.680 Razor 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:50.160 Now it's more razor the skin oh my goodness 00:01:55.440 --> 00:01:57.600 Your water bottle wedges, oh wow 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:06.440 Oh Razor colors minus the gold aren't even 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:15.040 What do you mean it's green and black? It's the wrong green Yeah, and there's gold which is wrong. Yeah, but there's black which is good. Oh my god 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:23.240 Hey look razor colors stop it. They're actually a little closer than mine to be honest if you ignore the pink 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.120 If you ignore the primary color oh my god 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:39.960 I Yeah, that regime is also, you know pretty good if you ignore the genocide, you know, oh, you know that one that's a lot of them. I 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:44.080 Wish it was clear who I was talking 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:52.280 If only we lived in a world where that genocidal regime meant one 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.760 Genocidal regime and everyone knew who we were talking about. Yeah, even current one 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:06.360 I think avengers says you have no idea how little that narrows it down. No, that's just it. I do 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.160 And it's sad. That's the joke 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:16.080 It's amazing how that's the joke our community is like I love you guys, but like damn 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:22.120 That might be pretty much every community I wonder if Linus realizes 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:25.120 I 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:31.240 Change isn't I don't know what it is. I can't do this. I 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:38.800 Can't like it looks like you're doing it. No, that's that what no that looks like it the shape of an actual heart not a 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:48.040 Woman's butt from behind, you know You're worse. Wow. I can't do it. You're trash. I can't even hold on. Maybe it'll help if I 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:54.760 Oh How is it supposed to be much better than this? It's fine. It's still misshapen 00:03:57.880 --> 00:04:04.640 Feel like mine looks like a like a terrible a fruit from like Stardew Valley or something the like little icon for it 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:09.640 Absolutely, people just do this easy one. No, no, they do this. No, they do this. No, this is newer 00:04:09.640 --> 00:04:14.560 I don't think it's like half a heart on your cheek. Yeah, but I think this is where really I 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:17.160 Guess you have girls so you'd probably know 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:25.760 And that's not where I picked it up from it was from the recent gamer leg collab. Oh, yeah 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:29.520 Yeah, that guy would probably know 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:37.440 This is not a heart we're actually getting mooned no 100% that's the heart is it's it's a buttocks 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:40.280 It's it's not the heart. That's a thing 00:04:42.200 --> 00:04:46.200 Really, yeah, that's that's that my understanding is that's the origin of that shape 00:04:47.200 --> 00:04:52.760 Hmm It's a bent over, but yeah, I know it makes sense. Yeah 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:57.520 Love or something. We should probably start the show 00:05:03.960 --> 00:05:05.960 Yeah, let's do it 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:12.320 Okay, yeah, did you guys kill me? 00:05:13.080 --> 00:05:15.080 What you guys 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:20.320 We didn't kill you. You guys did was their choice 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:27.600 Don't don't put this on me they would dude they would all right. I'm resuming the selected here we go 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.680 You'll have to tell me down it on the thing open 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:44.640 You 00:05:46.200 --> 00:05:50.560 What is up everybody and welcome to 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.800 The very last WAN Show of its type 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.320 Actually last week was the last WAN Show before some major 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:03.360 Well, that's a bit of a changes that we'll be talking about sure 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.800 I mean, do you agree that it's a very big change? It's sure, but I think 00:06:09.320 --> 00:06:11.320 Framing that way makes it like less concerning 00:06:12.320 --> 00:06:16.880 You just ruined all the No, I think it's pretty concerning. Okay 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:24.120 WAN Show will never be the same. We'll be talking about that. We'll also be talking about all the tech news from this week 00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:28.520 including really 00:06:28.520 --> 00:06:31.200 GPUs are supposed to go up in price. Yeah 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:35.560 No We already lived through this one 00:06:36.440 --> 00:06:44.000 multiple times This is double jeopardy. You can't get charged for the same crime twice. You can't yeah, you you can't 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:50.160 Be a witness for your spouse's crime. You can't live through a GPU apocalypse twice 00:06:50.440 --> 00:06:54.440 These are fundamental laws. This is this is we're beyond twice though 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:05.520 What else we got? Grock completely ruined my morning Grock is being used to generate non-consensual sexual images of both adults and children 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:11.720 And it's like actually as bad as it sounds. We'll talk about that later 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:18.880 And apparently oh, I was gonna go for bad news. No, no good news. Please please balance it out 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:23.160 So far we've got bad news bad news bad news. Okay, this is gonna sound like bad news 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:28.600 But I think it's kind of fun unlucky RTX 5080 buyer who received rocks did their own 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:34.920 Investigation and they got their replacement from Best Buy they want. Oh, well, that's good. Yeah. All right. Yeah 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.200 And it's kind of sick how they did it. Let's go with that 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:43.040 There's nothing like hacking into the files of the principal office 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.560 What's this an 00:07:47.960 --> 00:07:54.120 energy vortex Organic life forms. Oh, I'll quit I 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:58.360 Seem to have a portal into a parallel universe 00:07:59.960 --> 00:08:04.360 extraordinary savages 00:08:05.880 --> 00:08:09.880 I'll show you Yo 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:33.040 The Wancho is brought to you today by Vessie Delta hub 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:41.860 X-split and motion gray Alongside of course our rap partner D brand our laptop partner razor and our chair partner 00:08:42.160 --> 00:08:49.080 Razor who if they thought they were gonna be treated more respectfully than our previous wait, was it already upside down? 00:08:54.880 --> 00:08:56.880 There it's perfect 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:03.560 Notice and you put it If you hit the correct that way that would have been so funny 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:11.800 Almost it almost happened. I was so close. All right. Why don't we just intro was amazing? Who made that? 00:09:11.800 --> 00:09:15.240 I actually don't know I would assume it was no key 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.440 I assumed that as well, but I didn't see like a thing or anything 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:23.960 So why don't we explain what the heck it was not on it was not who was it? I don't know 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:29.760 It was the team themselves. So really really that's so cool. Okay 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:38.240 We should explain it. Yeah reboot was a Canadian animated television series that was produced by Vancouver based mainframe 00:09:38.760 --> 00:09:47.400 Entertainment alongside Alliance distribution and BLT productions, and it originally aired on YTV from 1994 until 2001 00:09:47.400 --> 00:09:53.680 That's right reboot was my childhood. That's what computer animation looked like when I was a kid 00:09:53.680 --> 00:10:01.160 Yeah, me too And it's notable for being the first made for television CGI series with full half hour episodes 00:10:01.920 --> 00:10:09.400 Reboot rewind is an eight-part documentary series about the show that came out in 2024 and now 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:17.200 The documentarians are collaborating with mainframe to remaster the series from its original D1 tapes 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.040 Okay, this says last Friday because we put off this topic for a couple weeks 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:30.240 But recently the reboot rewind team put out an update video on the progress of the D1 tapes being recorded and Sven 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:36.600 Gave me the TLDR Every episode has been captured off the D1 tapes, which was non-trivial 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:42.240 BTS machines are being used to capture the footage at the original 576p and 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:47.080 LTT has actually been helping with this project for like two years now 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:54.200 Supplying Kyoksia drives for storing the footage as well as helping pay for some of the machines and parts of the machine 00:10:54.200 --> 00:11:02.120 See there was a big challenge getting even a single functioning working machine to read these tapes because 00:11:03.640 --> 00:11:08.240 Media production it moves so fast that no one's really thinking about 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:15.560 How we're going to preserve all of this stuff and in the early days of computer animation and digital production 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.160 The standards were hardly even standards 00:11:19.160 --> 00:11:23.080 Yeah, and they didn't last very long and they weren't interoperable 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:28.280 So this and when the when the like manufacturing pipeline for making these things goes away 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:33.840 It's actually extremely difficult in some cases to like make bespoke parts for these things 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:38.520 So needing to source stuff was rather difficult. So we should have a video coming out in 00:11:39.040 --> 00:11:42.040 2026 on LTT about this project 00:11:42.160 --> 00:11:47.800 It's been literally years in the making now and then at the end of the video the reboot rewind host mentions 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.640 They happen to also have the D1 tapes for 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:57.360 Transformers Beast Wars aka Beasties as it was known in Canada along with other 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:05.400 Cool old CGI shows that mainframe studios worked on and they're trying to get in touch with people about remastering that stuff as well 00:12:05.520 --> 00:12:09.600 Shout out to Brian. He's the one doing a lot of the hard work to restore each episode 00:12:09.640 --> 00:12:16.560 Which is being meticulously checked for transfer errors and mastering glitches. Awesome. They also did the fun intro for today's episode 00:12:16.560 --> 00:12:25.160 There you go. That was sick. That was very cool Also, Sven told me that the reboot rewind folks shared some restored cutscenes from a reboot PS1 game 00:12:25.160 --> 00:12:34.600 Which is linked above? People will go nuts for these animated cutscenes because they've never been seen in better than PlayStation 1 FMV quality seriously 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:41.640 Okay, that's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Oh my god, that looks 00:12:42.280 --> 00:12:44.280 That looks clean, dude 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.000 Holy crap 00:13:05.040 --> 00:13:07.040 You 00:13:29.040 --> 00:13:34.000 Now now it's let's not be petty accidents can happen 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:38.600 Oh Oh 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:03.960 This is the town 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:08.600 Oh 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:23.200 Damn dude doing this stuff back then was so crazy. I know, right? Oh 00:14:25.160 --> 00:14:28.920 That is so cool. Anyway, um discussion question 00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:34.920 Talk about, you know, the value of media preservation. What do we do to protect and preserve our work? Not enough? 00:14:34.920 --> 00:14:40.880 I mean realistically, man, I feel like everyone probably feels like this in the moment. I was about to say realistically 00:14:40.880 --> 00:14:44.280 I don't think it matters that much but then like 00:14:44.280 --> 00:14:47.960 someone's gonna want some reference for even something as simple as 00:14:48.680 --> 00:14:53.280 How well received was this GPU at that time? 00:14:53.280 --> 00:14:59.520 And if we don't keep the media from that time, then we don't have it. Yeah, that's simple 00:15:00.520 --> 00:15:05.240 And I think that's how a lot of things get forgotten, but I got to tell you like when you're in the thick of it 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.400 It's hard to it's hard to think about these things 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:15.480 Why don't we move on to our next big topic which is of course, oh 00:15:17.880 --> 00:15:22.440 Sorry, I'm looking for good news We had we started with good news 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:28.080 We didn't sell us good news. We could do bad. You know what? No. No, let's do a little bit more 00:15:29.040 --> 00:15:35.380 Moderate news. Okay. There is a potential workaround for expensive hardware 00:15:36.280 --> 00:15:39.680 older hardware The Ryzen 7 00:15:39.880 --> 00:15:48.800 5800x an AMD CPU from like five years ago has just hit the number one spot as the top selling 00:15:48.960 --> 00:16:02.000 CPU on Amazon in the UK and Even older CPUs or even older GPUs like the 5800 XT are sitting at fourth place for GPUs on Amazon in the US 00:16:02.680 --> 00:16:06.160 eBay is currently flooded with people selling older hardware 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:16.160 CPUs GPUs motherboards and yes, of course older DDR4 and even DDR3 memory and I want to shout out tech spot here 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:23.520 for doing a little article that Luke has actually been bugging us to do something about which we are actually working on in the background as 00:16:23.520 --> 00:16:28.160 Well, although a slightly different angle, but doing a little article talking about 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:39.600 the usability of slightly older hardware they showed that if you compare CPUs they actually tested 44 CPUs and 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.200 Going as far back as the Ryzen 5 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:52.800 2600 in modern games like battlefield 6 you can still achieve a more than playable experience at 1080p high and I think this is a 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:55.720 really important thing for people to 00:16:57.160 --> 00:17:02.560 Consider right now. It's like this is not really our discussion questions not really a question 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:06.640 It's more of a statement. You don't need to buy new expensive hardware, dude 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:10.280 My what are my buddies from from high school his son 00:17:11.280 --> 00:17:16.120 Is currently running. I might get some of the specs wrong. Sorry, but I think it's 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:28.040 Like eight gigs of RAM Maybe 16, but I think it's eight a GTX 1080 and a 7000 series Intel processor and he plays 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.440 Whatever that riot game shooter is valorant and 00:17:33.120 --> 00:17:36.280 Arc Raiders and he was saying in Arc Raiders. He was getting over 80 FPS 00:17:37.280 --> 00:17:41.040 It's like dude, these are these are ancient pieces of hardware at this point 00:17:41.040 --> 00:17:44.680 The 1080 doesn't even have like official continual driver support 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:50.480 But like I don't know whatever if it plays the game that you want to play at at like 80 something FPS 00:17:51.560 --> 00:17:58.380 Why not? And like do I love 100 bucks spending a hundred dollars on an old 00:17:59.640 --> 00:18:04.560 GPU no, I don't love that, but it's also a hundred bucks, but it's also a hundred bucks and there might be a better 00:18:04.560 --> 00:18:08.720 I'm not this isn't a suggestion. That's just a a rig that I know of that's running 00:18:09.080 --> 00:18:15.560 Yeah, no 100% and here's the thing too is like I can totally understand people not wanting, you know 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:23.440 Like being frustrated to hear like are you basically just you know telling me that you know two dolls ought to be enough for 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:30.080 For a child. They don't need 10 dolls or 20 dolls or whatever that ridiculous thing was. No, I'm not saying that at all 00:18:30.080 --> 00:18:38.640 I'm saying that Channeling your inner scrapyard warrior is a great way to ride out times like this like I guarantee you 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:42.560 I don't think I've actually ever asked to loop this, but I guarantee you 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.520 That at some point he built a stopgap system 00:18:49.320 --> 00:18:56.160 Sure something to tide you over while you waited for something else to be more affordable or something else to release or 00:18:56.560 --> 00:19:00.880 when you were in between selling your last-generation GPU and 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:04.720 Waiting for a deal on a new generation one or whatever 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:09.960 I mean, I had like I think I've told you about this before where I was able to buy a 00:19:10.600 --> 00:19:14.640 Platform upgrade through the Intel retail Edge program 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:19.680 But I couldn't afford the rest of the upgrade for like I think it was like half a year or something 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:24.600 And one of the ways that I was able to afford it was I sold my old platform and my old case 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:32.480 But that meant that I didn't have a case I got the new platform didn't have a case so I got this like hand-me-down case, but the power button didn't work 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:40.720 So I set up like a rubber band bow Basically and a pencil nice that was so I could reach under my monitor and poke the pencil and it would press the 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:46.080 On motherboard power button nice to turn the system on and I had that for at least half a year 00:19:46.080 --> 00:19:53.520 Nice, whatever who cares and that's totally I think stuff like that's cool, and that's totally fine making stuff work is 00:19:54.280 --> 00:20:01.160 is cool When did that not I thought it was fun. When did that not be cool? I almost always for a long time there I 00:20:02.360 --> 00:20:07.960 Apparently don't build my own computers anymore because the last two that I've had either you or your kids have built but 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:12.840 Actually last three because there was a revision in that one case so last three 00:20:12.840 --> 00:20:15.800 I mean I had a little bit to deal with the one in the middle, but still 00:20:16.600 --> 00:20:20.800 But before then I would always include one thing that was just like a 00:20:21.320 --> 00:20:31.320 Weird solution because I thought it was fun like there was one time I mounted my pump on a cutout piece of the mudflap of my old car to use as like sound deadening 00:20:31.320 --> 00:20:37.040 So it was on this like rubber panel instead of a plastic panel in the case because it made it was just quieter 00:20:37.040 --> 00:20:43.000 And it worked and it was awesome, and I like that part So don't don't like feel bad about doing things like that 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:50.040 I've always thought that's super cool and something that's really important to note about stopgapping is that it can even it can even 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:55.360 It can it can help It might feel like well 00:20:55.360 --> 00:20:59.480 I'm buying something that is gonna like go down in value and 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:05.800 Effectively like waste a bunch of my money instead of the thing. I actually wanted so I might be better off just getting the thing 00:21:05.800 --> 00:21:10.360 I wanted, but let me let me show you guys just some interesting math here, right? 00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:16.960 So at 1080 you can acquire pretty easily for about a hundred dollars, and if you don't feel like paying shipping on it 00:21:17.080 --> 00:21:22.040 Don't pay 200 bucks. Yeah, do not pay $200 if you don't feel like paying shipping on it 00:21:22.040 --> 00:21:26.840 Or you worry that something that you buy on eBay might not be working Luke, and I have both 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:33.280 Tested GPUs that we've purchased on local marketplaces live like test it make sure that it actually works 00:21:33.280 --> 00:21:37.800 Yeah, and the thing about an older GPU like this is that it's already 00:21:38.360 --> 00:21:47.040 Gotten very low on its depreciation Someone in full-point chat earlier said 1080s have been around a hundred dollars for years now if we go back to like a GTX 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:50.720 780 Okay 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:53.280 Here we go. Those are still 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:59.700 Like 45 bucks, you know 25 bucks 70 dollars, whatever there 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:06.640 That and that's a two generation older card, right like wrap your brain around that 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:12.200 You could stop gap with this 1080 for three or four years, and it might lose another 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:21.160 50 to 75 dollars in value Whereas if you could wait a year or you could wait a year and a half on a current generation card 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:26.960 The second that gets replaced by something I guarantee you that you will gain more 00:22:27.120 --> 00:22:33.520 By just delaying that purchase then you lost by acquiring that stopgap card and then just reselling it 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:42.360 Like it's I don't know man. I don't know what to tell you It's it's kind of a frustrating thing because you know how we often have that conversation where 00:22:43.360 --> 00:22:49.880 It feels like there's this pressure from certain corners of the community for us to be more outraged for us to like 00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:53.880 Demand that NVIDIA lower their prices as if they're gonna listen to us 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:58.080 And I mean I wish they would obviously prices are too high and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 00:22:58.080 --> 00:23:01.160 But and and that's and that's all true, but at the end of the day 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:04.840 I mean we did that video recently explaining that it's not just NVIDIA 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:07.600 I mean NVIDIA has is videos a very profitable company 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:15.600 But so is TSMC who has a monopoly on the manufacturer of the chips NVIDIA cells and for that matter 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:22.680 So is a SML who has a monopoly on the machines that TSMC uses to manufacture the chips that NVIDIA sells and 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:28.000 Monopoly is a bound and you're talking about the entire supply chain companies that are holding up nations 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:31.000 Yeah, when you get to that scale and so it's one of those things where it's like yeah 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:35.760 I could I could like demand that NVIDIA lower their pricing, but I don't have that influence 00:23:35.840 --> 00:23:41.120 It's it's it's so ironic right because influencer is right in my job title and yet well 00:23:41.120 --> 00:23:45.640 I can't influence companies to change their pricing and our discussion question here is 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:52.920 Is it frustrating that it seems to go the other way too because for over a decade you and I have been going 00:23:53.040 --> 00:23:56.320 Yeah, but did you have a D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yabba D yab Murder 00:23:56.320 --> 00:24:01.800 audience that is what we sound like going hey guys you don't be heads you don't have to buy a brand new one 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:07.320 the second hand market exists making do with something scrappier is 00:24:08.120 --> 00:24:14.960 Is honorable and based scrappier wars and it doesn't it doesn't even seem to mean anything 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:21.780 Some people get it though some people do get it every once in a while you'll see a post on the on the subreddit where someone's like I did my own 00:24:21.780 --> 00:24:25.300 Scrapyard Wars and I came up with this or whatever. Those are your big moments for me 00:24:25.300 --> 00:24:33.300 I Genuinely love that. This was one that was you're never gonna hit everybody. I know I know okay 00:24:33.460 --> 00:24:35.780 This was one that was frustrating for me 00:24:37.020 --> 00:24:45.140 This this video Bombed out of the gate like it sucked. It's done. Okay in the longer term, which is which is heartening 00:24:45.620 --> 00:24:49.180 It's whatever the opposite of disheartening remember this having issues out the gate though 00:24:49.180 --> 00:24:55.140 I do remember but you know what in spite of it having issues out of the gate this video about you know 00:24:55.420 --> 00:25:03.140 Scrapyard warring like a Facebook marketplace home theater set up for a fraction of the cost of even a crappy soundbar 00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:10.860 Did inspire? Multiple yeah see that's on the subreddit of people being like I had no idea 00:25:11.500 --> 00:25:17.540 This is so cool. I love my setup now. Thanks for inspiring this. That's awesome. That's why we do it 00:25:17.540 --> 00:25:23.100 That's why we play the game. I I I loved it. I'm glad when people get the point 00:25:23.100 --> 00:25:25.660 I also find that you learn a lot more about your craft 00:25:27.060 --> 00:25:31.500 Okay, I guess I'll concede that building computers is not quite as easy as adult Lego 00:25:32.500 --> 00:25:38.580 but When it's all brand new out of the box stuff, it is a lot more simple and 00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:44.280 You're often dealing with like configurators on websites that are telling you compatibility things off the hop 00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:47.760 When you're on the use market, you're trying to 00:25:49.280 --> 00:25:55.840 Price min max and that often means mixing things together from different sellers in different areas and 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.680 Trying to make sure that everything's gonna work and and trying to learn how to diagnose like on the spot 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:05.240 If you can go visit somebody and be like, hey, can I bring a test bench to test this thing? 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:12.240 I've done that a bunch and Learning what program you should run to try to verify if it's legit on the spot all those different types of things 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:15.680 You're learning stuff about your craft, which is kind of like fun and cool 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:19.320 I Have that old board by the way 00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:24.240 If you want to do I don't know if you want to do a video on that or what but the JQ with the wire repair 00:26:24.320 --> 00:26:29.160 It's at my place right now. Okay. Yeah, that's that's probably an interesting from scryer boards 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:34.320 Scrap yard Wars season four. There was a repair that I mean it goes above my head 00:26:34.320 --> 00:26:37.240 I don't understand might understand, but I don't 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:44.800 There's a a single wire that runs from one fan header to another fan header on a very specific pin on each probably power 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:49.800 But if that wire isn't bridging those two fan headers 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:58.120 It doesn't work And if it is then it works perfectly fine and has worked perfectly fine for years like in some cases 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:05.640 Acting as like a 24-7 server for like months at a time and stuff like had no issues just as long as this 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:10.880 This wire is bridging these two fan headers and this motherboard made magic smoke at some point 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:14.480 Yeah, so I I don't quite I can't quite fathom it who knows 00:27:14.840 --> 00:27:21.160 But stuff like that's awesome like I that gets me way more jazzed up than like some random new mother. What's up? 00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:23.160 I can tell oh 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:29.640 Anyways off that topic 00:27:30.800 --> 00:27:35.320 What are we supposed to be doing Dan? How's it going over there? Oh, he's chill. He's chilly 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:40.280 Five it out Christmas energy strong 00:27:43.320 --> 00:27:46.760 Headline topic is technically the thing. Yeah, probably that 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:55.880 It's not ominous, how do you want to approach this? I mean, you're the one that keeps trying to let the cat out of the bag 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:00.080 I'm not about cats getting out of bags. I keep cats in bags 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:07.720 I'm like a cat bag kind of guy. I don't think so you leak a lot of stuff on Lancia. I mean, I don't know if you can 00:28:09.320 --> 00:28:15.520 Yeah, but I can use the proportional argument. I thought you many things to leak. I thought you meant literal 00:28:15.520 --> 00:28:19.680 I thought yeah, no, okay. Sure figuratively. Yes. I let a lot of cats out of bag 00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:24.580 All of my actual cats are in a bag right now. Oh, all together. Yeah 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:33.400 No Um, I braced for the clarification. It's sad that it had to happen, but it didn't have to have it 00:28:33.840 --> 00:28:38.200 the WAN Show is officially as of 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:42.600 yesterday under new management 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:53.160 What Well, not really under new management actually the management is the same but the ownership is different 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:59.400 This is a pretty major change going forward, but I have 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:05.760 I don't know. I don't know what you would call it, but I I have 00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:13.200 abdicated half of my ownership stake of the WAN Show 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:18.120 People are saying sold out to 00:29:18.120 --> 00:29:22.240 Mr. Luke. Mr. Luke Lafrenier sold out to me 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:30.000 It's official The WAN Show is a 50-50 partnership between me and Luke 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:37.600 We have We have what's it called up? We've incorporated a new media holding company 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:43.920 adequate media Inc. which owns the WAN Show so technically 00:29:44.760 --> 00:29:49.400 My half of it is actually owned by me and Yvonne because we are one person 00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:55.760 From a legal standpoint, so we own half of the WAN Show and then Luke 00:29:56.640 --> 00:29:59.120 officially owns the other half of the WAN Show it 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.880 We've had a lot of questions over the years about you know 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:09.560 What is what is Luke's equity stake and and this and that and the answer has always been Linus Media Group was 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:13.400 founded and seed seeded by 00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:16.960 me and Yvonne and we've owned it a hundred percent, but 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:24.640 the WAN Show clearly has two people in its soul and one of them is 00:30:25.280 --> 00:30:30.160 this guy, I think that I think that for the WAN Show to 00:30:31.840 --> 00:30:33.840 Continue to be the WAN Show forever 00:30:34.840 --> 00:30:39.560 the only right way to safeguard its future was to 00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:41.680 Have it be a 00:30:42.760 --> 00:30:49.200 Linus Luke Equal partnership So the change then the big change is that 00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:52.560 the WAN Show is is safe and 00:30:54.600 --> 00:30:59.800 That the WAN Show will not change that's the big change well, it is a big change the WAN Show was unsafe 00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:05.600 Well, no, I mean it then it's not a change you and I have talked about it right that you know 00:31:05.600 --> 00:31:08.520 If you took a position somewhere else or that if I 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:14.740 Retired from making daily tech tips videos or whatever we'd still want to do that. We wanted to continue to do the WAN Show 00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:20.920 But that agreement right it's verbal. It's handshake. It's you know 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:26.240 We're we're friends But it's not codified 00:31:27.280 --> 00:31:30.800 It's not in black and white. Yeah, there's no actual 00:31:31.760 --> 00:31:37.680 There's no guarantee that we'll be able to put together the correct financial incentives 00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:42.680 to ensure that Whereas now 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:45.000 It's very clear 00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:51.440 Yeah, and I mean there's still like some people are saying like oh it shouldn't be 5050 because 00:31:52.040 --> 00:31:57.560 Someone should always be able to make decisions and stuff. I'm like, yeah, I mean 00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:03.760 It's still kind of in Linus's hands if we're being real about things 00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:06.920 He still owns Linus Media Group 00:32:08.760 --> 00:32:16.760 The people who basically like run WAN Show operations wise are LTT people LMG people etc 00:32:18.120 --> 00:32:20.400 This is not like yeah 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:25.520 However, it's very cool symbolically that's today. I 00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:33.360 Don't know what I don't know what our however many years because when we've been talking about WAN Show futures 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:39.680 We've been talking about like That we want to keep doing this in like 20 years. Yeah plus 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:45.480 So this is this is a step towards it being reasonable to do this in 20 years 00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:53.940 Exactly. I thought for today You know what will what will probably happen is there will be an agreement between 00:32:54.440 --> 00:33:01.600 Adequate Media Inc. and Linus Media Group that Adequate Media Inc. will promote products and services like 00:33:02.800 --> 00:33:10.880 Floatplane or creator warehouse or it or whatever and then Linus Media Group will find 00:33:11.360 --> 00:33:19.720 Sponsorships and Realistically Luke is still employed as a as an employee of Floatplane and Linus Media Group and and all that stuff 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:22.400 So for today, there's no change 00:33:23.040 --> 00:33:28.340 But for a potential future where who knows what happens 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:32.920 This ensures that there is a there's a strong 00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:38.160 Incentive that's not I mean, it's not just financial to right like Luke called it symbolic 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:42.160 But I think it's more than just symbolic, I think it's I 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:49.080 think it's Well, those there's the there's the non financial part of it, right? Yeah, do we talk about that? 00:33:49.080 --> 00:33:52.840 I mean sure. I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to so go for it 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:59.440 Though like the the agreement that you're just talking about of like the services and whatnot are supposed to balance things out 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:01.480 so this isn't like a 00:34:02.840 --> 00:34:05.080 I'm not like looting LMG. No 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:11.680 No, and and the idea behind it is that that would never happen and the only time that 00:34:12.160 --> 00:34:17.000 The only time that any of this would matter would be if there was a major change to the status quo 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:22.880 We're just trying to get out ahead of it and make sure that everyone's on the same page that we want to make sure that 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:24.880 Wanshoe can continue for 00:34:26.040 --> 00:34:29.320 Indefinitely basically however long yeah, yep keep the streak alive 00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:35.120 Yeah, so like effectively nothing is really changing honestly internally or externally 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:47.520 However starting soon We will start streaming the Wanshoe on a different channel and and on the LTT channel and then over time 00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:50.840 We will eventually some point 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:57.240 Stop streaming the Wanshoe on the LTT channel and it will move to a dedicated channel either 00:34:57.240 --> 00:35:02.960 We will take over the LMG clips channel or we will create a new channel 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:08.800 So you guys will have to go subscribe to a new channel in order to get your notification for the Wanshoe live stream and and find the 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:17.080 VODs and all that Stay the path asks. What about on Floatplane? Don't worry Floatplane streaming is not going anywhere for better for worse 00:35:19.560 --> 00:35:23.080 We were close no, yeah, we'll keep going here. Yeah 00:35:24.720 --> 00:35:32.440 Yeah Okay, does there any is there anything else did people have any kinds of like questions a 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:40.480 Lot of people asking how this works for Dan Dan still works for Linus media group 00:35:41.160 --> 00:35:46.360 he is a Incredible incredibly valued member of the team 00:35:47.200 --> 00:35:52.000 but from like a You know there at the beginning standpoint 00:35:52.640 --> 00:35:55.360 That that that was Luke 00:35:56.120 --> 00:36:00.320 At this time, but I you know what I really appreciate the community's 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:05.760 Love of 10 Floatplane chat is 00:36:06.640 --> 00:36:09.920 Dan they what can I say they they love you? 00:36:10.680 --> 00:36:14.240 They love you Yeah, I'm here, too 00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:20.440 All right, should we should we move on to our next topic? 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:29.000 We've done this is three topics we've done now, but yeah Dan doesn't listen to the show. So what does he care? 00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:33.560 Topics don't care topics don't care about your feelings 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:42.880 Drones US the US blacklist new foreign made drones from entering marketplace 00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:49.760 No, no, the the oh, yeah the market like basically you can't sell it on yeah new non US made drones 00:36:50.240 --> 00:36:54.600 Cannot be sold. I guess not saying the marketplace makes it sound like Facebook. Yeah, yeah 00:36:54.600 --> 00:37:02.880 No, it's just the marketplace in general The FCC has announced a ban on new foreign made drones and critical drone components citing national security concerns 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:08.160 Which as an aside kind of makes sense a move that will heavily impact DJI 00:37:08.560 --> 00:37:16.480 Rather specifically which dominates the US drone market the ruling blocks companies like DJI and out-held robotics from 00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:22.760 Introducing new drones in the US through existing model though though existing models are not affected for now 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:25.640 The FCC says foreign made drones could enable surveillance 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:32.240 Data exfiltration and disruptive attacks arguing that all future UAS which is just 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:36.560 Basically UAV but its system instead of vehicle 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:42.440 all future UAS hardware should be manufactured domestically to reduce risk and 00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:50.800 These are not entirely ridiculous Honestly, no drone pilots and commercial operators have pushed back hard warning 00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:58.360 There are no real alternatives to DJI's affordability and capability industry groups say many businesses could shut down without access to DJI 00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:05.680 Hardware while DJI itself calls the ban anti competitive and claims multiple reviews have found its products secure 00:38:06.200 --> 00:38:11.160 It's I mean, it's definitely anti competitive and there are downsides major downsides for that 00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:19.680 There's that whole thing where like China encouraged Tesla to come into their market to push their own 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:27.280 Players to be more competitive Basically like invite the big dog in to get your people to act up 00:38:29.200 --> 00:38:35.640 Clearly DJI is already in the States and people are saying there is no alternative. So that's not exactly working stateside 00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:40.280 So I had a chat with my brother-in-law. I've talked about him before 00:38:41.160 --> 00:38:44.960 This is the company that he works for it's pretty cool. By the way, they're 00:38:47.040 --> 00:38:51.680 Basically they're they're building a platform that is designed for 00:38:52.280 --> 00:39:00.840 individual drone operators To be incentivized you can actually kind of see it in this visual here be incentivized to capture high-resolution 00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:04.360 drone imagery for global mapping 00:39:05.160 --> 00:39:10.880 and not just like mapping like like like Google Maps, but more like 00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:17.720 the kinds of high-detail models of our cities and the world that could be used for things like 00:39:20.200 --> 00:39:22.480 Mineral exploration or for 00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:26.360 One of the ones that he brought up for me was like firefighting 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:34.520 There's all kinds of cool stuff that you cannot do without a a high high-resolution 00:39:35.520 --> 00:39:41.360 Map and there currently is not a practical way to capture that that isn't just 00:39:42.200 --> 00:39:47.680 flying drones with high-resolution cameras over every square inch of the globe and then 00:39:48.080 --> 00:39:54.200 Ingesting all of that data and making it accessible. So that's the that's the challenge that they're working on solving and 00:39:56.760 --> 00:39:59.080 Yeah, yeah, Eleanor Eleanor says 00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:05.160 Spexy is crowdsourced GIS, which is honestly so cool except like except like even better 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:13.640 It's really really cool tech Anyway, the point is that you know when this announcement hit 00:40:14.160 --> 00:40:19.240 He and I were actually on a beach in Cabo and his phone 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.640 just like Started exploding because 00:40:24.640 --> 00:40:31.560 Because like their entire industry is sitting there going. What do we do now? Yeah, okay 00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:39.520 So we're supposed to use a domestic drone. What fucking domestic drone? What are you even talking about? Yeah, okay? Well, guess what? 00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:49.680 Just like it always is There's a there's a political there's a political angle to it. Oh, is there like some company? 00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:52.560 Is there some company? Oh 00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:58.560 My god, I'm trying to use your website. This is terrible 00:40:59.600 --> 00:41:07.440 Second new board blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah advisory board blah blah etc drone company 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.680 Yeah, of course there of course it is super cool. That makes sense. Yeah 00:41:10.680 --> 00:41:15.880 Yeah, I definitely if we completely ignore that part because obviously 00:41:16.720 --> 00:41:20.960 The what is it that doesn't trump? It doesn't seem obvious to everyone 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:27.800 It doesn't seem obvious to everyone fair enough, but even if we ignore the clear corruption issues 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:33.600 I Understand why they would want to do something like this. Yeah future warfare 00:41:33.600 --> 00:41:40.000 Like even if you look just within the confines of the Ukraine war. Oh, yeah future warfare has completely changed 00:41:40.640 --> 00:41:43.680 And it is extremely drone based at this point 00:41:43.680 --> 00:41:48.680 And if you don't have domestic drones and if you're like, yeah our entire domestic drone industries 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:56.080 Actually just DJI I can totally understand why that would be very concerning. I think there are other ways to solve this 00:41:56.080 --> 00:41:58.240 I think there are ways to incentivize 00:41:59.120 --> 00:42:05.400 You know like stateside drone companies race I don't drone manufacturing without just banning competition 00:42:06.080 --> 00:42:08.920 But I can understand why from a defense perspective 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:16.880 You would want to make sure that you're protecting not necessarily banning competition, but protecting your own drone manufacturing 00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:24.800 I think there's a variety of ways to do that that aren't banning it The only thing I'm saying is that I understand why they're doing this not that I necessarily agree with it 00:42:27.320 --> 00:42:37.000 Yeah, I think the you know subsidizing promoting doing something to push local drone manufacturing and research would be a good idea instead of 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:42.760 You know banning competition and then setting up your your family member for an elliope 00:42:43.600 --> 00:42:45.600 I 00:42:47.160 --> 00:42:51.480 Nepotism is pretty cool, though. I guess Anyways next topic 00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:56.760 Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I feel like I might have had a no 00:42:56.760 --> 00:42:59.640 I guess I don't really have any more anything more to say about that. We'll 00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:05.080 We'll see how it goes. It's gonna drive up the price of existing models for sure 00:43:06.120 --> 00:43:08.400 it's going to it's 00:43:09.240 --> 00:43:11.480 going to cause a delay in 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:20.560 The in the quality of available drones in the US compared to other markets where DJI will continue to export and continue to innovate 00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:23.320 Yeah, the mass manufacturing will be the problem people have been able to 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:29.000 Make drones at home for a long time. I do kind of wonder what this will look like for parts 00:43:30.120 --> 00:43:32.120 Did it mention parts in here? 00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:40.880 Okay, yeah, so critical parts it doesn't just include parts so the FPV community is like losing their minds to 00:43:42.200 --> 00:43:46.240 It's not full drones. It is drones and parts is what you're saying and critical parts. Yeah 00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:52.680 Yeah, so it's like where you're gonna get like a your US made processors and motors and everything 00:43:53.120 --> 00:43:56.720 Yeah, that's That's like yours out. I think 00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.840 At the least yeah, we'll see how it goes if kind of ever 00:44:01.600 --> 00:44:03.760 That'll be interesting. We'll see how it goes man 00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:14.720 Actually, this is a this is a good question Is this gonna be is this gonna be as good as the is the is the Trump backed drone company gonna be as good as the 00:44:14.720 --> 00:44:17.720 Trump phone did that thing ever get did that thing ever get delivered? 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:22.720 Let's have a look here. Oh, yeah, it exists today. What is this? 00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:29.600 Okay, yeah, first ever smartphone is delayed and and the government shutdown is to blame. Oh, okay. Oh nice 00:44:29.680 --> 00:44:31.680 That's good. That makes sense. Why does that make sense? 00:44:32.720 --> 00:44:34.720 What would that have had to do with anything? 00:44:35.720 --> 00:44:42.400 Same coverage as the as the whatever. Okay. Yeah, so they're still pretending that this is gonna be a thing 00:44:43.680 --> 00:44:48.400 Is there still anything on here about it being like made in the USA or is that is that gone now? 00:44:48.720 --> 00:44:50.720 Because at the beginning it really was 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:55.080 Built for people who expect more. Okay, it seems like they have removed 00:44:56.600 --> 00:44:59.360 They've removed anything about it being American made 00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.760 So it looks like there are some Designed with American values in mind 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:12.940 So they have a refurbished s20. Oh, they have additional phones now. They have refurbished 00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:17.880 phones and then 00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:20.200 Okay, proudly American. What does that mean? 00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:27.400 designed with American values in mind with American hands behind every device 00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:33.640 It is amazing how much you can pretend to say something and 00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:38.580 Not say it. It's brought to life here in the USA 00:45:39.200 --> 00:45:42.080 That doesn't American proud design 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:49.600 None of that says or means made in the USA none of it 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:57.080 That oh man I don't even know why they care. I don't even know why they bother to pretend 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:04.080 Because it's not like anyone's enforcing anything anyway, so they might as well just say it's made in America at this point 00:46:05.240 --> 00:46:11.640 Someone linked to this list. Yeah, the blue list. It's a cleared list of drones, but it says specifically 00:46:13.040 --> 00:46:20.160 It's a cleared list for drones approved for DOW, which I think is Department of War because they renamed Department of Defense 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:24.000 sure and there's like there are 00:46:24.040 --> 00:46:31.920 Skydio drones and and Other various things on here, but I don't I don't know if this is consumer cleared or if this is just 00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:38.280 Department of War cleared. I'm unsure. It's great kitty kitty says don't try to understand the grift. It's just a grift 00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:43.160 It's like closely inspecting a brown paper bag when you doorstep. You already know what it is 00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:47.920 Yeah, that's fair 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:52.960 Comical sort of 00:46:54.200 --> 00:46:57.760 Well, we could do a tech house update. Yeah, I was there today 00:46:58.600 --> 00:47:05.880 We took possession Three days ago, and I didn't get a chance to go there until we did our shoot today 00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:10.040 So if you haven't been keeping up there was a video on the LTT channel 00:47:10.040 --> 00:47:15.440 Where we went shopping for a tech house and the idea behind it was pretty straightforward 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:19.880 We've done a lot of kind of upgrades in in my house 00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:26.600 to the point where my house is fine and We don't we don't oh, yeah, are your auto lights fine? 00:47:26.600 --> 00:47:29.760 No, well, no, but that will that will fix actually 00:47:30.520 --> 00:47:34.840 Invelli's shipment of new lights with millimeter wave detection 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:38.960 That are gonna be way better and I'm really excited about have lots of fixes compared to the ones 00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:43.080 I'm using now is like in customs clearance right now like I am 00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:51.600 Stoked to finally have the lighting experience that I promised my family years ago. Anyway, that's besides the point right now 00:47:52.200 --> 00:47:58.560 The point is we don't need to make another video of Linus upgrades is living room TV every other month 00:47:59.080 --> 00:48:01.160 my my living room TV is fine and 00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:07.360 So this tech house is gonna give us kind of like a it's almost like a test bench 00:48:07.680 --> 00:48:11.280 it's it's like at the computer test bench of like 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:20.560 not just smart home stuff because I think there's there's kind of a limited audience for people who are interested in home automation, but also just 00:48:21.560 --> 00:48:27.160 practical deployments of technology whether it's computers or TVs or 00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:36.180 Audio equipment or I mean Okay, do you remember that video that you did years ago on using a projector for like tabletop gaming? Oh 00:48:37.240 --> 00:48:41.720 Whoa, okay. Yeah Okay, bit of a 00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:49.160 Bit of a deep what would what what I wasn't trying to cut anybody no no deep cut means like an old reference 00:48:49.160 --> 00:48:57.360 I don't think it does. I Think it does. No, I think it means like like a wound. What am I trying to think of that? I don't know 00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:03.520 Bit of a deep cut refers to a significant wound that might need medical attention 00:49:03.520 --> 00:49:09.480 No, like the whole chat is saying that I'm right Luke does know this one really. Yeah, it's just slang. Oh 00:49:10.720 --> 00:49:16.600 Okay, I thought I thought it's like I thought it was like a like a like a stab don't twist like that's a bit of a deep 00:49:16.600 --> 00:49:20.040 That's a bit of a deep cut. I'm sure it is also used for that 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:24.040 Okay, a bit of a deep cut slang meaning 00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:30.760 On the record a deep cut is a song judged to be less commercial or radio friendly I 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:36.080 Like genuinely the entire chat if there's got to be something to it 00:49:37.680 --> 00:49:44.480 Urban dictionary a song by an artist boomer dictionary at this point only true fans of set artist will enjoy or no 00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:57.640 Okay Song obscure work. Okay. Well, that's clearly closer to your definition than it is to mine. So sure. Yeah. Yeah 00:49:57.640 --> 00:49:59.640 Let's go on boomer dictionary 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:06.880 Anyway, it's just it's just I don't think that video like did well and it's super old. Oh, yeah 00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:11.040 So it's just a surprise. I don't even know what I would type in to search for it. Yeah, don't worry about it 00:50:11.040 --> 00:50:15.160 The point is that like we we want to we want to 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:23.520 Use this place as an opportunity to talk about building a sick tabletop gaming space sweet or building a super cool 00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:30.160 Really cool stuff you can do these days. Oh, I know projector game thing has been like very leveled up 00:50:31.080 --> 00:50:40.040 There's there's some really awesome stuff you can do. Yeah, and so so pretty much what we were looking for was a place with really good bones and 00:50:41.080 --> 00:50:43.080 with 00:50:44.080 --> 00:50:47.420 Reasonable ease of use for upgrading them 00:50:48.160 --> 00:50:54.560 Because okay. Yeah, it might have been more realistic for us to find a place that didn't have a crawl space for instance 00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:59.400 Right that we were gonna be ripping off drywall for absolutely every single wire 00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:02.520 We were gonna run stuff like that, right, but that's not 00:51:03.720 --> 00:51:11.520 We're not a home renovation channel. This is our first kind of kick at this can we wanted something that we could 00:51:14.080 --> 00:51:22.920 We wanted something to cut our teeth on so we got a place that not only has a really nice crawl space under the entire main floor 00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:31.160 Which is Sick, that'll be sick for doing this type of stuff. Yeah, it's it's not tall like in order for me to get down there 00:51:31.160 --> 00:51:33.160 I have to be 00:51:34.200 --> 00:51:40.320 Completely almost like like butt down to the ground and that's like here. So you're pretty much crawling 00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:48.440 It's a literal crawl space good name But it also has a it has a little like I think it's called a dormer like it has one room 00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:54.560 That's on the second story in in the front and we're gonna we're thinking we're gonna convert that to like a media room 00:51:54.560 --> 00:51:59.640 And then it has a couple little Crawl pathways along the side of that as well 00:51:59.720 --> 00:52:07.240 So it's got really really good access to getting fishing wiring down or up into wall spaces 00:52:07.240 --> 00:52:11.360 and it's actually This video is gonna be really fun because in the first one 00:52:11.360 --> 00:52:15.320 We just kind of do a high-level overview because we're just touring it because we were shopping 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:21.560 Whereas in this one we really start digging into some of the really weird stuff the previous owner did 00:52:22.080 --> 00:52:33.960 Like he was obviously In a different way a pretty techie guy. Okay, one of the bedrooms has I kid you not three RJ 11 jacks in it 00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:41.160 There's all like like like a phone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's also an RJ 11 jack next to the toilet 00:52:42.600 --> 00:52:48.120 No, okay, that that that was a thing very odd, but yeah, that was I've always thought that's weird 00:52:48.120 --> 00:52:51.240 Yeah, to have a like what happened to my you just unplugged my head. Oh, sorry 00:52:52.520 --> 00:52:57.560 Man, no to have a like a a phone in your bathroom. Oh 00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:02.280 Man What happened? 00:53:04.560 --> 00:53:09.800 It's fine don't worry, but oh that we're good the Wanshoe quality is not going to get 00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:18.000 Yeah, yeah toilet phones were were a thing for sure I I always thought it's kind of 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:27.200 Pretty unsanitary personally sure yeah putting it on your face. I get it there. I can see both ways. Yeah, sure, but it's 00:53:28.120 --> 00:53:36.720 The three in the bedroom That's interesting. Yeah, I couldn't quite wrap my brain around it. He had a CD player in his kitchen, which I thought was pretty cool. Nice 00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:41.240 Man, there's oh my god, I swear 00:53:41.880 --> 00:53:44.440 Wasn't there like I think I saw in the video you could like play music 00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:52.360 Throughout the house on like the on that CD player. I think so. Yeah one out of every three like like duplex receptacles 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:57.240 Like power outlets had one of those six gang ones like bolted on to it 00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:02.200 He was a major fan of power strips and extension cords like 00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:12.600 He had that he had an interesting System where you could only run either the dryer the clothes dryer or you could run this extension cord 00:54:13.200 --> 00:54:18.440 240 volt outlet that he had just like coiled up using in-wall wire and just like 00:54:19.240 --> 00:54:24.240 Into an octagonal box like thing that he had in his garage 00:54:24.240 --> 00:54:29.920 So you had like a 240 volt extension cord in his garage that you could not run at the same time as the dryer 00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:35.200 And he had a kind of sick a sign above the dryer in German not to run it at the same time as the one in the garage 00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:38.660 Kind of sick. Yeah, like it's honestly like 00:54:39.240 --> 00:54:45.040 People are saying it sounds bad. I don't know enough about that being like dangerous or not, but it sounds pretty great. Oh, it's it's 00:54:45.680 --> 00:54:48.880 that Let me put it this way. I 00:54:48.920 --> 00:54:54.120 Think this guy's idea of safety first was the four fire extinguishers that he had in his garage 00:54:54.640 --> 00:54:56.640 I 00:54:59.560 --> 00:55:03.880 Rather than just I don't know not starting a fire in the first one 00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:09.720 Like he would just he'd be like, yeah, I'd love to have a cable outside the house 00:55:09.720 --> 00:55:11.880 So I'm gonna just take a big long drill bit 00:55:13.680 --> 00:55:16.320 And go through the wall like that was his way and 00:55:17.160 --> 00:55:21.560 He's got like a shed in the back. He he had a bit of an infestation 00:55:22.160 --> 00:55:28.400 So we found that in the inspection report which Colton did not share with me until after we 00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:33.560 I mean a lot of the place around here bought it and took possession. So anyway, this ain't Alberta 00:55:33.560 --> 00:55:37.960 Yeah, infestation major infestation. His solution was these little 00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:42.000 Noisemakers that you plug into. Yeah, they were like everywhere 00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:47.480 Yeah, I didn't didn't help obviously. Yeah, so I'm kind of thinking tech house cat 00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:51.640 We just get a pet nice and keep it there and then that'll take care of it 00:55:51.640 --> 00:55:55.080 Colton doesn't want to do that though. He wants to like hire an exterminator. I think that's so dumb. I 00:55:55.840 --> 00:56:02.160 Think a cat would take care of any rodent issues around this house like quick styles 00:56:02.720 --> 00:56:07.800 Dude, I don't I don't see. Oh, I shouldn't say that I have seen mice in my house 00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:16.400 They were dead or in a fish tank thing. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, those were pets. It was complicated 00:56:17.720 --> 00:56:21.280 They're temporary pets and eventually they were dead. So 00:56:22.240 --> 00:56:26.120 The system clearly works. It did it worked exceptionally well in that case 00:56:28.120 --> 00:56:31.120 Yeah, Linus just wants another cat. I mean 00:56:34.240 --> 00:56:36.240 Yeah, another cat's not a bad thing 00:56:38.080 --> 00:56:45.120 I'm not trying to think what what else is there to say about it Oh, there were some other things that were found in the inspection report that I found out about today 00:56:45.120 --> 00:56:50.800 Yeah, are you saying those? Yeah, sure. Apparently there's particularly bad. Yeah, you know about the foundation issue. Yeah 00:56:51.680 --> 00:56:55.880 Foundation and drainage issues. So oh, I didn't know about the drainage one, too 00:56:55.880 --> 00:57:00.280 Yeah, usually they as far as my understanding goes they often go hand-in-hand, but yikes 00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:03.800 So I guess we're gonna have to I guess we're gonna have to figure that out 00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:07.560 But dude, I'm I'm excited. This does sound like 00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:11.240 Bought a house in Vancouver 00:57:12.080 --> 00:57:17.880 Vibes Not Vancouver, but I'm saying that for the greater Vancouver area public audience, but 00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:24.280 Sort of how it goes a lot of them have infestations a lot of them are old and have foundational problems 00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:29.080 A lot of them have previous owners who just kind of you'll load stuff. Oh, yeah, there's a lot of that 00:57:29.080 --> 00:57:35.720 Yeah, unlike Australia where it's like apparently illegal to make improvements to your own house if you're not certified 00:57:35.720 --> 00:57:40.240 You know about this. You don't know about this thing. That sounds annoying. Well, yeah 00:57:40.240 --> 00:57:44.320 But the flip side is that I bet they probably don't have stuff like we saw in this house 00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:47.400 I mean their housing market is just wrecked. So I 00:57:48.160 --> 00:57:52.760 Mean, so I really yeah, so yeah, there's that. Yeah 00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:59.160 Maybe I misunderstood that anyone anyone from upside down land can can verify for me 00:58:00.040 --> 00:58:07.040 Anybody anybody beller? Dylan K. A says I have an illegal back deck in Oz didn't get council approval 00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:11.400 Apparently electrical is a no-no. Yeah says old Tom. There you go 00:58:12.240 --> 00:58:14.720 100% true in some ways. Okay. Yeah, there you go 00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:18.040 Me Gors says would you trust a criminal to fix their own home? 00:58:19.640 --> 00:58:23.520 They're not all criminals. They're just descended from them 00:58:25.080 --> 00:58:29.920 Total different totally different ballgame. Okay, I think that's a good one 00:58:30.160 --> 00:58:34.740 Totally different ballgame. Okay, I don't believe in the sins of the father. Okay, that's not how this works 00:58:35.080 --> 00:58:39.640 So dude this place is like downright scary some of it 00:58:39.640 --> 00:58:44.760 Like I found this bought this like rotten box in the backyard that just had an outlet in it 00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:51.440 That there's no way that it was like watertight and that outlet had one of those freaking six 00:58:53.080 --> 00:58:58.280 This in the yard like why you didn't even have more than one thing plugged into it 00:58:58.520 --> 00:59:04.640 So why he just he just put them everywhere just put them on everything. Oh god 00:59:04.640 --> 00:59:10.200 No, please stop. He just really liked his power. I think James said that he had two built-in Vax 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:14.800 One that ran to like a couple spots and then one that was running somewhere else 00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:18.600 I didn't actually verify that I didn't I didn't double-check that because it didn't make any sense to me 00:59:18.600 --> 00:59:24.560 But maybe he's right Maybe he's right. I don't know. Yeah, we'll see. It's gonna be cool though 00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:27.880 It's gonna be I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. I 00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:36.680 As I was walking around half of me was really excited about all the cool projects that we can do and then the other half of me was like 00:59:36.680 --> 00:59:44.120 Oh God have we bit off more than we can chew like it's obvious that there's a couple little things that they did 00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:48.420 Just to prep the place for sale. They they like they just 00:59:49.420 --> 00:59:58.700 Obviously redid the the main bedroom on sweet bathroom like like all modern it has a sliding barn door 01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:08.140 Like they're so that they don't lock any sound they don't lock any smell 01:00:08.140 --> 01:00:14.260 It feels like you're declaring that this door will always be open and then it has the case like just have it be a pocket door 01:00:14.260 --> 01:00:20.900 And then we can ignore it or just have it not be a door I guess. Yeah, that's an option too. Yeah, you could just be like all those hotel rooms that just 01:00:21.460 --> 01:00:26.460 Don't have a bathroom door because apparently, you know, every couple in the world wants to watch each other shit 01:00:26.660 --> 01:00:29.780 Yeah, which I don't I don't fully understand 01:00:30.180 --> 01:00:34.140 Like I'm not gonna I'm not gonna yuck your yum or whatever, but like I 01:00:35.020 --> 01:00:39.820 Just don't need it Yum 01:00:40.420 --> 01:00:42.420 So 01:00:47.500 --> 01:00:52.500 Yeah, what was I gonna say about it? Yeah, right, so they redid the main on sweet bathroom and it looks 01:00:53.340 --> 01:00:57.220 So out of place like just completely out of place 01:00:57.220 --> 01:01:02.380 They did like a like a like a granite or marble countertop and then like this new shower of that 01:01:02.980 --> 01:01:05.940 David Pankratz was there today. He was like, oh, that's a Costco shower 01:01:06.660 --> 01:01:13.140 Okay, yeah, and then and so they did that they put in a bunch of new like vinyl plank flooring in some places 01:01:13.140 --> 01:01:17.380 And then they just left the like pink carpet or whatever it is. It was 90s. It was the 90s 01:01:17.380 --> 01:01:23.980 It was a different time. They just left that other places pink carpet was a thing and then they but then apparently the 01:01:24.220 --> 01:01:34.460 inspection report found that It was either the on sweet or it was the the main floor bathtub is just draining directly into the crawl space. Oh 01:01:35.940 --> 01:01:45.340 Yeah So like, huh? They could be it's completely cosmetic. I found a can of paint in one of the closets that just says all walls 01:01:46.780 --> 01:01:54.220 So like classic throw a coat of paint on it redo the main on sweet bathroom 01:01:54.700 --> 01:02:00.300 Put some vinyl plank down Slap some lipstick on this pig and get this thing sold and 01:02:01.300 --> 01:02:07.220 We bought it nice. Yeah, to be fair. I think that was going to be the situation 01:02:07.820 --> 01:02:10.460 For all of the places that you're looking at at that price point 01:02:11.060 --> 01:02:17.460 Yeah, more or less. I mean, no, we did find stuff that was not that much more that was 01:02:17.780 --> 01:02:22.540 Pretty moving ready, but we also didn't want something moving ready. You wanted to work on stuff 01:02:22.540 --> 01:02:28.140 Yeah, we didn't want to go into a place that was perfectly nice. How much was it? Is that disclose throw away a bunch of stuff? 01:02:28.740 --> 01:02:31.700 I mean, I think people could find it easily enough 01:02:32.700 --> 01:02:36.980 So it was actually I don't know what the final I don't know what we paid 01:02:36.980 --> 01:02:44.460 Okay, because I know that we did negotiate because of like, oh, yeah, your foundation has problems and like that can be a pretty big one 01:02:44.460 --> 01:02:52.420 and your and your Like drainage has issues and there's all this stuff. That's not up to code like I think there was a bit of negotiation 01:02:52.420 --> 01:02:54.740 But I think the list price was 1.3 01:02:55.580 --> 01:03:01.220 Okay, yeah, so there's definitely ones there. There's very there's very move-in ready stuff 01:03:01.220 --> 01:03:05.420 Yeah, but this I thought it was like pretty lower than that, but this place has a yard 01:03:07.260 --> 01:03:11.820 Which is not a given around here No, and it's a it's like a reasonable sized house 01:03:11.820 --> 01:03:15.980 You think with the amount of space Canada has that we would make that a thing but nope 01:03:15.980 --> 01:03:20.100 Well, you know, here's the thing right like are you gonna show the map of BC? 01:03:20.100 --> 01:03:25.420 Yeah, I'm gonna show I'm gonna show the map of BC to educate the masses. Yeah, so Canada is really big 01:03:25.540 --> 01:03:28.300 But also the Mercator projector 01:03:29.180 --> 01:03:34.340 Projection makes it seem a lot bigger than it is if you actually look at like like on a round globe 01:03:34.340 --> 01:03:38.340 Okay, it's still really big. It's still really big, but it's also like it's not 01:03:38.940 --> 01:03:43.420 That big like remember remember the news cycle recently those like hey 01:03:43.420 --> 01:03:49.900 Does anyone actually know that Africa is like enormous enormous and that Europe is like not 01:03:51.100 --> 01:03:57.740 Cuz like, you know like Africa is like not that much smaller than like frickin Asia like it's frickin huge 01:03:58.020 --> 01:04:00.980 Like did anyone did anyone realize, you know any of this? 01:04:01.020 --> 01:04:05.860 Do anyone know that Brazil is like frickin the size of the US pretty much? 01:04:06.700 --> 01:04:12.500 Not not quite, but like on a Mercator projection map. They these things do not look right 01:04:13.780 --> 01:04:18.340 Anyway, the point is that while Canada is very large indeed 01:04:18.580 --> 01:04:20.820 I'm just gonna go ahead and put the old 01:04:23.100 --> 01:04:26.940 Mountain rain terrain on here that the top of the top of my 01:04:27.700 --> 01:04:30.460 ography so yeah, here's a big part of our problem 01:04:31.580 --> 01:04:38.980 There is like One that like this little thing tiny flat part of British Columbia 01:04:40.660 --> 01:04:43.940 And and it's just all it's all just 01:04:44.660 --> 01:04:48.460 There's like there's like a little there's a little valley here 01:04:49.340 --> 01:04:57.060 There's another one here The this one's kind of part of the same one and then up here is just here be ice dragons 01:04:58.700 --> 01:05:07.900 Basically for all of this And then yeah, we have some we have some planes that also are full of ice dragons for half of the year and 01:05:08.380 --> 01:05:12.100 then you can kind of you go south enough that it's livable again for a bit and 01:05:13.020 --> 01:05:17.780 Then here be mountains again And more ice dragons 01:05:26.380 --> 01:05:31.620 Yeah, whereas like in America they do they do have mountains 01:05:33.060 --> 01:05:37.740 You know they have a lot of the same problem as us sort of through this area here 01:05:37.740 --> 01:05:43.820 But then they also have just like oh wow look at all this like perfectly flat not infested with ice dragons 01:05:44.020 --> 01:05:46.980 Land that is really useful a lot of wind dragons 01:05:47.460 --> 01:05:54.540 That's true. Definitely wind and and rain dragons. Yeah, they got their own kinds of dragons down there. Yeah 01:05:58.260 --> 01:06:03.340 Oh, yeah, I guess we could do that so yeah excited for tech house it's gonna be great I 01:06:04.340 --> 01:06:09.740 Am not gonna think about it too much right now because I got CES next week, but I'm gonna get back and it's gonna be fun 01:06:10.500 --> 01:06:12.500 How'd you get out of CES anyway? I? 01:06:16.180 --> 01:06:25.420 Was kind of looking at the year and going like okay There's two like CES like shows that are in heavy-contention basically you just want to go to Computex. Yeah 01:06:26.540 --> 01:06:28.540 I'm gonna bring Nick and Lucas 01:06:29.860 --> 01:06:31.860 And we're gonna try to go see 01:06:33.340 --> 01:06:41.220 I'm trying to talk to some brands There's a couple brands that are that are interested in doing this right now, but we want to go see 01:06:41.740 --> 01:06:47.220 You know how we've been doing this like kind of tour of testing and validation and performance testing Labs 01:06:47.740 --> 01:06:52.860 We want to go do that, but also in Taiwan. We want to see how they design and test power supplies like at 01:06:53.420 --> 01:06:56.740 Their actual location. Oh, that's cool do different things like that 01:06:57.740 --> 01:07:04.420 It's Proven a little difficult to get through to companies, but I think it's because we're not super close to Computex 01:07:04.420 --> 01:07:11.740 And everybody's focused on CES right now So hopefully after CES the the conversations will kind of prop up, but I was looking at like 01:07:13.140 --> 01:07:18.580 You know with no sponsor anything for the Labs side bringing down either myself or 01:07:19.300 --> 01:07:25.460 Myself and two others which were the two potential plans and then paying for a flight accommodations 01:07:25.700 --> 01:07:29.660 All that kind of stuff for a week. What am I going to get out of this event? 01:07:29.660 --> 01:07:35.300 Hmm, and it was like nah, I don't know right can maybe swing one event for the year 01:07:35.300 --> 01:07:41.820 Right, and if I can tie on these like potential brand tours of like seeing how these things are performance tested 01:07:41.820 --> 01:07:47.500 He's seeing how these things are designed and whatnot to the Computex one that sounds a lot more valuable 01:07:48.380 --> 01:07:52.820 So I'm going that angle also you just would rather go to Taiwan 01:07:55.660 --> 01:07:59.660 We don't need to discuss that part sure we don't need to discuss it 01:08:00.620 --> 01:08:03.700 Because you know and I know that all of that 01:08:04.340 --> 01:08:09.900 Whatever that I'm hardly listening to not like Vegas, and I might really love Taiwan 01:08:09.900 --> 01:08:15.180 But I think that's irrelevant really really I think my other I might have I might have 01:08:15.460 --> 01:08:20.700 Constructed a scenario where one makes a lot more sense than the other one. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was what 01:08:20.700 --> 01:08:26.520 It might also be very reasonable. Yeah, it might be a plausible even structure plausible you might say 01:08:28.980 --> 01:08:33.980 It might be almost entirely designed to get Nick and Lucas there because I already had mechanisms to get myself 01:08:33.980 --> 01:08:37.820 That's it your justification can be whatever it wants to be. I'm not gonna 01:08:38.580 --> 01:08:40.580 crash out 01:08:41.980 --> 01:08:48.940 What a what a segue dude and what a first merch drop of the year the crash out t-shirt 01:08:49.020 --> 01:08:51.020 Yeah, I guess I can also 01:08:54.980 --> 01:08:58.740 There it is boys you ever have those moments where for like 01:08:59.300 --> 01:09:05.900 Half a second Throwing your laptop across the room feels like a totally reasonable troubleshooting step 01:09:06.380 --> 01:09:11.420 Me too and that's what this shirt is for when your patience is basically gone 01:09:11.420 --> 01:09:14.820 And you're still pushing through it anyway. It comes in tall 01:09:14.860 --> 01:09:20.960 It's printed on our super comfortable blank t-shirts and comes in both regular and tall 01:09:21.660 --> 01:09:26.540 if this shirt feels uncomfortably relatable for you you can get yours at 01:09:28.300 --> 01:09:33.140 LMG.gg Crash out 01:09:33.140 --> 01:09:40.900 So here it is on the global store also available on the US store and it looks a little something like that 01:09:41.900 --> 01:09:46.740 Get it in any size you want and any length you want as long as it's black 01:09:48.100 --> 01:09:51.300 What else do we have for the store this week? Ah, yes 01:09:51.700 --> 01:09:58.980 This is less of a this product is available and more of a this product is coming extremely soon 01:09:59.300 --> 01:10:07.980 Be ready LTT true spec cables are coming these cables are crafted with care 01:10:08.220 --> 01:10:14.340 Built with a strain relief that bends with the cable instead of against it reducing stress where breakage often happens 01:10:14.900 --> 01:10:21.660 We have paired that strain relief with a supple silicone jacket that resists UV damage kinks and tangles and 01:10:22.300 --> 01:10:29.740 the high-speed conductors are Actually here. Can I bring that up on your screen? Yep, and the high-speed conductors are 01:10:30.420 --> 01:10:35.500 Individually shielded to reduce interference and keep your transfers running 01:10:36.020 --> 01:10:43.580 every connection feels effortless and Every performance remains uncompromised whatever the second part of that sentence 01:10:44.580 --> 01:10:51.220 uncompromised performance and We feel that the right cable should fit your setup not the other way around 01:10:51.540 --> 01:10:56.620 So whether you need a short run for your desk or a longer reach that goes across the room 01:10:57.100 --> 01:11:04.620 We will have an option that will work for you each connection type USB A to C and USB-C to C 01:11:04.780 --> 01:11:09.940 comes in 16 thoughtfully chosen speed and length combinations and 01:11:10.460 --> 01:11:16.300 Every cable is clearly marked You might want to give them a little zoom on that for speed and power 01:11:16.740 --> 01:11:23.060 Giving you the confidence to know that the performance you expect is the performance you will get 01:11:23.460 --> 01:11:29.540 You can sign up to be notified once these drop at LMG dot GG slash cable 01:11:29.980 --> 01:11:33.940 Sign up now It is worth noting that you guys might look at that 01:11:34.300 --> 01:11:40.300 15 watts on the one that was on the left and go well that seems pretty weak at a time when you can do up to 01:11:40.580 --> 01:11:48.380 240 watts on a USB cable That's because that has a type A connector at one end and when we say true spec cables 01:11:48.380 --> 01:11:57.860 We mean that we are remaining true to the spec So there are technically products that exist within the USB ecosystem that are not to spec 01:11:58.420 --> 01:12:02.780 Extensions for instance exist, but from chatting with Tynan about it 01:12:04.580 --> 01:12:11.020 They are not spec like there there is no accounting for the connector losses and 01:12:11.620 --> 01:12:17.940 And the and the losses from the length that we're adding to these cables when you plug a cable into an extension 01:12:18.660 --> 01:12:25.500 You just got to like pray to Thor that it's gonna work because that's about your best shot of ensuring that it's going to and that 01:12:25.500 --> 01:12:32.020 Doesn't mean that it won't work. It just means that it might not so we are sticking with whatever the 01:12:33.220 --> 01:12:35.620 We're sticking with whatever the maximum 01:12:36.420 --> 01:12:40.300 official specced power and data transfer is 01:12:41.300 --> 01:12:44.460 Within the USB specification for any given length 01:12:44.700 --> 01:12:47.900 So what you might notice is that our longer cables 01:12:48.460 --> 01:12:53.860 Even using the same connectors at the ends might be rated for a slower data speed 01:12:54.340 --> 01:12:59.620 That doesn't mean that you might not get a better data speed if you happen to have, you know 01:13:00.260 --> 01:13:08.020 really tolerant Devices at either end, but we aren't gonna guarantee it. We're all about true spec on these 01:13:09.020 --> 01:13:11.660 I really like the name personally. Yeah 01:13:12.380 --> 01:13:15.540 Yeah, I think it makes a tiny. I think it makes a ton of sense 01:13:17.140 --> 01:13:22.900 Frosty keogre says the markings nice. I had to sharp your label onto my only 10 gigabit per second capable cable 01:13:22.900 --> 01:13:28.860 Yeah, right like it's so annoying So that was a big part of where this came from is like in my life 01:13:28.860 --> 01:13:33.100 I have a thousand USB cables, but never the one I actually need in a given moment and 01:13:34.460 --> 01:13:39.580 Whether it's that they're not rated for a particularly high speed and I'm doing a big transfer and I'm like 01:13:39.580 --> 01:13:44.140 Oh god, is it faster to go get another cable and restart it or is it faster to just wait for this to finish? 01:13:44.140 --> 01:13:49.740 I don't know or whether you get one of those ones that only has the conductors for charging in it and you like 01:13:50.340 --> 01:13:54.500 You to plug it into your phone and you're like, is it is it my phone being weird? 01:13:54.500 --> 01:14:00.020 Like it's not in data transfer mode or is or okay. I'll go get another device or is it this cable? I don't I 01:14:01.100 --> 01:14:06.140 Just want to eliminate uncertainty from my life. So with the LTT cables I 01:14:10.180 --> 01:14:18.220 Know that whatever I'm holding a type C to type C at this length is whatever the best cable could be for that 01:14:18.900 --> 01:14:25.100 And I'm G to G. So this is this is a longer one. So this is a 20 gigabit per second 01:14:25.660 --> 01:14:29.500 240 watt is trying to show how long I see. Oh, yeah, sure. Why not? I mean, it's gonna go 01:14:29.500 --> 01:14:35.900 So I think this is what a six footer or something like that Looks like it. Oh, it might be a little longer. Yeah 01:14:35.900 --> 01:14:42.580 Anyway, this is the one that I carry around for for charging my laptop and it is worth noting that we are not doing 01:14:42.980 --> 01:14:47.780 Thunderbolt cables at this time. So these are all at most 01:14:48.700 --> 01:14:50.700 USB for VGA 01:14:52.180 --> 01:14:59.180 VGA you don't mean like actual VGA. You mean like display cables, right? Yeah VGA. Yeah, so we're 01:14:59.980 --> 01:15:03.340 So we are not doing display cables at this time 01:15:04.100 --> 01:15:08.420 See how well these go I guess we're gonna see how we got a we're this is something 01:15:08.420 --> 01:15:13.900 I think people often a new segment dude. Uh, speaking of people often forgetting. This is 16 skews 01:15:14.220 --> 01:15:20.220 We are a pretty small company and this is 16 skews. No, this is 16 lengths for each connector type double it 01:15:20.940 --> 01:15:25.100 This is 32 skews Oh, that doesn't that isn't what it sounds like 01:15:27.260 --> 01:15:32.620 Oh, I understand for each connection. Yeah, all right. Wow. So so what a lot of people forget 01:15:33.180 --> 01:15:40.220 Is that in the grand scheme of things? We are actually still a pretty small company. So we need to we're dipping our toes in 01:15:40.620 --> 01:15:45.020 We're gonna start with USB and then we're gonna make sure that people actually 01:15:45.420 --> 01:15:50.140 You know care and are willing to pay for, you know, a silicone jacketed 01:15:50.700 --> 01:15:54.460 Um, I'm gonna be properly shielded high quality cable 01:15:54.860 --> 01:15:58.860 And if people care about that then we would love to explore 01:15:59.420 --> 01:16:05.020 Doing htmi DisplayPort. Um, I was carrying one of these that I stole from tine in 01:16:05.900 --> 01:16:11.180 Um On a bunch of my trips and I'd show it off all the time and people 01:16:12.300 --> 01:16:17.260 Who liked it? It's very nice. Yeah, but just because people like it and just because it's very nice 01:16:17.340 --> 01:16:23.660 Doesn't mean it will be necessarily sell commercially successful So we've really just got to wait and we got to see how it goes and that's how you 01:16:24.220 --> 01:16:28.140 That's how you kind of build. That's how you build a business. That's how you build momentum. What? 01:16:29.100 --> 01:16:34.300 Actually got a merch message asking about display cables. Maybe we want to have a look at that one, too 01:16:34.780 --> 01:16:39.820 Which ones? Uh, asking about display cables. That's what we were talking about this whole time Dan 01:16:40.220 --> 01:16:44.540 No, I mean this has more Specifics if you know what I mean 01:16:44.540 --> 01:16:48.220 Oh, uh, sure. Yeah, why don't we do that merch message then if you guys are oh, right 01:16:48.620 --> 01:16:54.380 So if you want to get notified once these drop because I can tell you that our initial order quantity 01:16:54.780 --> 01:16:58.300 We have no idea which lengths are going to be the big sellers 01:16:58.620 --> 01:17:02.860 We went a little tentative on things So if you want to get what you want to get 01:17:03.340 --> 01:17:06.540 Go to LMG.gg slash cable sign up 01:17:07.180 --> 01:17:11.900 Make sure that you're on the newsletter and you will be notified as soon as these drop 01:17:11.980 --> 01:17:15.660 We have taken our time with this. We have done it carefully 01:17:16.140 --> 01:17:22.780 Done it thoughtfully and I'm actually really really proud of this product. I'm very very excited to launch this super cool 01:17:23.180 --> 01:17:27.820 Okay, so yeah, why don't we why don't we do merch messages? If you're not familiar with the show 01:17:27.980 --> 01:17:32.540 Merch messages are the way that you interact with it instead of just throwing money at your screen 01:17:32.860 --> 01:17:37.180 You throw money at lttstore.com which luke is going to bring up on his laptop right now 01:17:37.420 --> 01:17:43.260 Which is of course a razor laptop laptop partner. There you go. Yep. Yep. Look. This is what their logo looks like when it's upside down 01:17:49.260 --> 01:17:54.380 Anyway, just go ahead add something to your cart maybe our new crash out t-shirt and 01:17:55.180 --> 01:18:03.340 Instead of yeah throwing money at your screen You can throw money at lttstore.com get quality merchandise in return and you can leave a merch message 01:18:03.660 --> 01:18:09.020 So you just add something to your cart go ahead leave a merch message You can color code it however you like you can keep it anonymous 01:18:09.100 --> 01:18:13.660 You can show your first name and last initial and then you go ahead and check out it'll go through to 01:18:14.140 --> 01:18:20.540 producer Dan who will Reply to it or who will just like put it up down here or who will 01:18:21.100 --> 01:18:24.860 Curate it for me and luke to talk about so we'll show you how that works 01:18:25.740 --> 01:18:28.140 Yeah, so I did get one asking about the 01:18:29.100 --> 01:18:33.180 Display cables. Hey there you talked about your cables a few shows back and I was wondering 01:18:33.500 --> 01:18:42.060 What might or would come earlier a DisplayPort cable with a chip or an HDMI cable with the fees and development costs and all of that 01:18:42.620 --> 01:18:52.220 That is such a good question. That is a good question What I suspect is that we'd probably get into HDMI with the fees before we would get into a 01:18:52.780 --> 01:18:54.940 usb cable with a chip 01:18:55.900 --> 01:19:04.300 Although this could come down to what our manufacturing partner has more ready to go because even though this exact 01:19:05.260 --> 01:19:12.140 Design does not exist elsewhere that we are aware of because no one would be crazy enough to build a cable like this 01:19:12.380 --> 01:19:18.700 You're still working with uh, we are still obviously working with a factory that makes cables and they have certain capabilities 01:19:19.900 --> 01:19:26.380 And so if they already have a lot of expertise on the Thunderbolt chip side of things then yeah doing a Thunderbolt chipped 01:19:27.100 --> 01:19:33.180 Cable might make a ton of sense Or if they have a ton of experience on the HDMI side that might make more sense 01:19:33.740 --> 01:19:38.940 Tynan's actually been working with them a little bit. Oh, actually kato s is right 01:19:39.500 --> 01:19:45.580 Um, we they do have a chip, but it's it's not an active cable. So that's the clarification here 01:19:45.740 --> 01:19:49.740 Yeah, pd does require it to communicate with devices. What his capabilities are 01:19:50.060 --> 01:19:55.020 I do appreciate that kato s was like these are true spec. They say they have a thing that means they have a chip 01:19:55.900 --> 01:20:04.140 So When I say chip, I mean a Thunderbolt chip, uh, which we do not have at this time. Why is wrong again headline? Yeah, I know, right 01:20:05.100 --> 01:20:10.700 So it's going to depend on what their capabilities are and it's also going to depend on what the demand is, right? 01:20:10.700 --> 01:20:15.740 Like if every other message coming in is like, hey love true spec cables. I love the ones that I have 01:20:16.300 --> 01:20:21.020 I want HDMI cables. Then yeah, maybe maybe that'll be something that we'll explore 01:20:21.820 --> 01:20:29.900 I would say that The reason that we tackled usb a to c and c to c first is because that's where we see 01:20:30.380 --> 01:20:33.660 The most value for the true spec product philosophy 01:20:34.860 --> 01:20:37.580 In Thunderbolt cables. I haven't had the same 01:20:39.020 --> 01:20:47.180 Problems, um, I haven't had quite the same experience with cables not being what I expect them to be because generally speaking Thunderbolt cables are 01:20:48.060 --> 01:20:51.740 quite max spec cables 01:20:51.740 --> 01:20:55.420 And same goes for HDMI there's 01:20:55.420 --> 01:20:58.460 It's kind of confusing labeling because you know 01:20:59.260 --> 01:21:04.380 4k generally means HDMI 1.4 if I recall correctly 01:21:04.940 --> 01:21:12.940 And then like 4k 60 I think means 2.0 4k 120 and then like or no 8k means 2.0 01:21:13.260 --> 01:21:17.660 I look the point is they have labeling. It's just like kind of stupid 01:21:18.220 --> 01:21:23.340 um And a lot of the time you don't even necessarily need the better one 01:21:24.300 --> 01:21:31.420 Because if it's a short enough run, it doesn't really matter a lot of the time the the older cables will still like totally work 01:21:31.740 --> 01:21:35.420 Other times they won't though and you'll get like weird cutouts and stuff like that 01:21:36.140 --> 01:21:39.740 Like they are digital signals. So um, I would never 01:21:40.300 --> 01:21:45.340 snake oil market these and say like You connect this between your mp3 player 01:21:45.820 --> 01:21:51.900 Or you're you connect between your DAC and your computer and you'll you'll hear the digital bits better or whatever that is 01:21:52.300 --> 01:21:55.260 Bullshit. No, but I've heard like 01:21:56.540 --> 01:22:02.220 I think this was in Floatplane chat or something somebody mentioned that like connecting their laptop and their deck when doing 01:22:02.780 --> 01:22:09.340 DJing sets with like a good quality cable that they can feel like they can rely on more sounds great 01:22:09.900 --> 01:22:14.860 It's not that it's going to be a better quality connection No, but knowing that it will work 01:22:15.500 --> 01:22:19.340 Is and it's going to be thrown in bags and taken back out a bunch of different times 01:22:19.420 --> 01:22:22.940 And they they feel like they can if they can trust it more that has a value to them 01:22:22.940 --> 01:22:27.980 Like that's cool That's a a like fairly mission critical connection that I might 01:22:28.700 --> 01:22:33.740 Understand someone investing more and to be clear. They're not magic, right? Like this is still 01:22:34.380 --> 01:22:37.740 A two-spec usbc connector at the end 01:22:37.980 --> 01:22:42.700 Like if it if it plugged into something and you and you don't put any strain relief and you let like 01:22:43.100 --> 01:22:47.180 Four feet of this cable dangle off of it. Like it's yeah, it's gonna eventually bend 01:22:47.340 --> 01:22:51.100 It'll it'll it'll wear out. Don't be an idiot with your stuff 01:22:51.740 --> 01:22:56.460 right But we've built it to be as robust as we can possibly 01:22:57.100 --> 01:23:02.860 Make it as as mission as bulletproof as we can practically they're still gonna be something that'll fail and yada yada yada 01:23:02.940 --> 01:23:04.940 It's like any product 01:23:06.060 --> 01:23:14.860 I know they feel nice And I have been told that there are cases where a digital cable can be used for analog purposes 01:23:15.420 --> 01:23:20.300 And there was someone who is super into ham radio at that event that we were at 01:23:20.780 --> 01:23:25.500 Do you remember the the LAN at the LAN at the gaming house? Yeah. Yeah 01:23:25.820 --> 01:23:30.460 So there was someone there that was really into ham radio and basically when oh, yeah 01:23:31.020 --> 01:23:36.700 I remember this. Yeah, we use usb cables because of convenience or something 01:23:37.180 --> 01:23:40.220 But we're actually transferring analog 01:23:40.860 --> 01:23:47.580 Um, yeah, I didn't understand that at all But they seemed like they knew what they were talking about and so I basically was like, okay 01:23:47.980 --> 01:23:54.540 And he was like, yeah, I will be the first one in line to buy a bunch of these because those sound awesome 01:23:54.700 --> 01:24:00.300 Yeah, uh, as soon as I was talking about the uh, the high speed lines being individually shielded in there 01:24:00.540 --> 01:24:03.020 So that's why she's that's why she's such a thick boy 01:24:03.660 --> 01:24:09.980 Right Like that's that's a thick cable. We're not selling this as some kind of like convenient 01:24:10.540 --> 01:24:15.740 Lightweight, you know, it no it is I I've used it for like charging my phone in my pocket with a battery bank 01:24:15.740 --> 01:24:20.060 That is a questionable use case for this cable to be honest. Yeah, she's heavy, you know at the time 01:24:20.060 --> 01:24:23.420 It was just what I had but like it's not the best for that you kind of want 01:24:24.860 --> 01:24:28.380 Somewhat of a junky cable to do that job to be honest because you want something 01:24:28.620 --> 01:24:34.620 Little small and light and twistable and then you'll throw it away in a month or a couple months because it will wear out 01:24:34.620 --> 01:24:38.140 And be a piece of junk or you'll just lose it because you don't really care if that's usually my problem 01:24:39.100 --> 01:24:43.100 Yeah, yeah, that's another one Uh, okay, so 01:24:43.340 --> 01:24:46.940 Mystery man 321 in Floatplane chat says my dad does ham radio 01:24:47.260 --> 01:24:51.580 And he transmits a lot of his ham frequencies over VoIP. He would have loved these 01:24:52.460 --> 01:24:57.660 Okay So, yeah, I don't know how that oh, okay. No that I mean that makes sense 01:24:57.740 --> 01:25:01.740 I don't I don't know how you send an analog single signal over usb. That sounds really cool 01:25:02.700 --> 01:25:09.660 Well, I mean usb is just it's just you know conductors touching other conductors. I mean technically could send anything over it 01:25:09.660 --> 01:25:13.260 I understand it's possible clapped k24cord says 01:25:13.980 --> 01:25:19.180 Talking about probably using them as antenna of some description with better shielding 01:25:19.660 --> 01:25:22.060 It is a problem with cheaper ham antennas 01:25:22.860 --> 01:25:28.780 using for antennas This is an entire realm of things that I know practically nothing about 01:25:29.580 --> 01:25:33.660 Yeah Okay 01:25:33.660 --> 01:25:37.180 Interesting Uh, yeah, me neither 01:25:37.580 --> 01:25:41.660 me neither Uh Elinor is asking about 01:25:42.380 --> 01:25:46.460 like old 40 pin iPod cables 01:25:46.460 --> 01:25:51.660 Oh, yeah, that is not in the plan. Yeah. No, not in the plan 01:25:52.780 --> 01:25:57.980 um Yeah, golden sound says you say you're not marketing it for sound quality purposes 01:25:57.980 --> 01:26:02.140 But as someone deep in the audio hobby, I'd gladly play for a cable that just works 01:26:03.020 --> 01:26:07.900 Uh, I spend a lot of time testing measuring audio gear and crappy usb cables are a plague 01:26:08.060 --> 01:26:11.100 Is that the golden sound? Oh, I don't know am I? 01:26:12.060 --> 01:26:17.740 Uh, oh, did I just did I just do that thing where I get into an elevator with a celebrity and I don't realize who they are 01:26:17.900 --> 01:26:22.540 I mean, I think so Oh crap. Whoops 01:26:22.540 --> 01:26:25.660 Yeah, I'm assuming this is the the golden sound 01:26:26.140 --> 01:26:30.300 Whoopsie doodles. That's cool. I mean that's super cool. That's that's good to hear 01:26:34.140 --> 01:26:36.780 Is this a dcc squad represent 01:26:40.940 --> 01:26:47.100 Yeah, that's that's the main thing I've heard from audio people so far like that the the dj thing I referenced, right? 01:26:47.340 --> 01:26:50.460 Yeah Is like it's not 01:26:50.460 --> 01:26:57.340 It's not going to make it sound better But if these are high importance cables, you might want a good one 01:26:58.060 --> 01:27:02.940 I don't know. I don't personally often have usb cables fail. Um, oh, I don't 01:27:03.820 --> 01:27:08.140 I have it happen pretty regularly, but okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not I mean, I'm not saying that they don't 01:27:08.300 --> 01:27:13.660 It's also hard to tell when they do sometimes. That's a good point. Oh, I mean the whole it's oh man 01:27:13.660 --> 01:27:19.980 It's been interesting. Wendell has a video on Floatplane. I don't think it's out on youtube yet on what is going on with 01:27:20.460 --> 01:27:23.180 dr5 and he doesn't mean in terms of pricing 01:27:23.740 --> 01:27:29.900 He means in terms of like overheating and like having weird problems and stuff like that very interesting very cool video 01:27:32.860 --> 01:27:36.780 Is this uh, is this what's going on with like the Threadripper pro platform and stuff? 01:27:37.340 --> 01:27:41.980 I think it's related to that. Yeah, I don't see it on youtube yet. Okay. Yeah, kelp from falcon northwest was 01:27:42.380 --> 01:27:46.300 Talking to me about that as well. So then it's got to be that because he mentions kelp in the video 01:27:46.540 --> 01:27:50.380 It's a fantastic video watch it on Floatplane. If you had if you're not a float, basically 01:27:50.780 --> 01:27:55.100 Eventually to solve one of the problems that kelp was running into on one of his workstations 01:27:55.500 --> 01:28:02.780 He had to he had to reinvent the dominator airflow. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this is this is that for sure 01:28:02.860 --> 01:28:06.700 So like this this stupid thing is uh, 01:28:07.340 --> 01:28:10.780 Hold on. I'm gonna I'm gonna find it. It's super cool now because I think it's level one tech 01:28:10.860 --> 01:28:13.420 Maybe it was this stupid thing is coming back. Yeah 01:28:13.980 --> 01:28:18.460 Yeah, buddy, but it's 3d printed now Well, okay. Yeah, sure, which is awesome 01:28:18.620 --> 01:28:24.300 But like it's cringe that we need this stuff But there were several generations of dominator airflow 01:28:24.540 --> 01:28:30.300 I don't want to spoil the video because it's Windows work But it's a fantastic video and it explains why we might need this stuff coming back 01:28:30.380 --> 01:28:35.660 And like how this could even potentially happen and like the design philosophy and the steps of it and all 01:28:36.140 --> 01:28:42.380 amazing video, but um It is it's interesting because it reminded me of Linus torvolds 01:28:43.020 --> 01:28:52.460 In the video with you Talking about how like oh, you know, maybe a lot of problems that Windows is blamed for is actually just people having bad RAM 01:28:53.180 --> 01:28:56.860 Um, so I don't know. Yeah, maybe there's something going on with usb cables 01:28:57.020 --> 01:28:59.980 I'm not going to step in and and pretend that I know a lot about 01:29:00.460 --> 01:29:06.220 um usb cables my primary use case for them is charging my phone so 01:29:07.980 --> 01:29:18.780 I don't know I see a lot of people in chat just talking about everything from dj-ing to uh, like capturing, um to 01:29:19.660 --> 01:29:23.180 What else the people what else are people talking about? Yeah, this is so this isn't them in your truck 01:29:23.740 --> 01:29:28.220 Oh, that was a truck one is a big one That was a big part of the reason that we went with silicone 01:29:28.860 --> 01:29:33.260 Because I don't know about you guys, but my Android auto cables 01:29:33.740 --> 01:29:38.620 This is exactly I talked to my brother about this and my brother does a lot of mods to his truck 01:29:38.700 --> 01:29:42.700 And I was talking about like yeah, I don't think you're going to be like replacing all your cables with this 01:29:43.020 --> 01:29:47.980 But if you were like replacing your infotainment system and you needed a cable that was going to be in the back 01:29:48.060 --> 01:29:50.460 And you just never wanted to have to go replace it 01:29:51.100 --> 01:29:54.300 This might be a use case especially if it's going to get any sunlight 01:29:54.940 --> 01:29:59.980 And again, it's not magic. We didn't make magic here 01:30:00.380 --> 01:30:06.860 You know, if you if you freaking, you know, close your door on it or something and it gets kinged like it, you know 01:30:07.660 --> 01:30:13.660 It can break But we did want it to be very resistant to uh to UV 01:30:15.820 --> 01:30:18.300 Yeah, and yeah, someone responded 01:30:18.860 --> 01:30:24.700 It's not often a cable fails when deejaying, but you need a solid cable because well if it fails the show is temporarily over in your f 01:30:26.060 --> 01:30:32.780 Not worth risking it over a five dollar cable. Um, well, hey good news. This won't be a five dollar cable 01:30:33.740 --> 01:30:37.420 I don't know if we have uh, I don't know if we have pricing 01:30:37.660 --> 01:30:44.460 It won't be that yet, but it won't be five dollars. I can five pound. I guess I technically said I can guarantee it 01:30:45.020 --> 01:30:53.020 True spec XLR when Um, see XLR is one of those spaces where again, and maybe this is ignorance on my part 01:30:53.340 --> 01:30:57.180 But I just didn't really feel like we were needed as much as we were in 01:30:57.740 --> 01:31:00.780 I suspect there are probably more available 01:31:01.740 --> 01:31:07.180 Higher quality cables in that space already than the usb space. I mean, I would guess I have no idea 01:31:07.340 --> 01:31:11.180 I mean, maybe but I've also think there's been like a heavy 01:31:12.060 --> 01:31:15.580 heavy sort of commoditization commodification of 01:31:16.140 --> 01:31:20.940 Even like professional cables over the last little while like people are also saying they build their own XLR 01:31:20.940 --> 01:31:26.300 Which I do believe is a thing. Oh, I think Dan built a bunch of the XLR cables around our studio. It's even there 01:31:26.620 --> 01:31:33.980 Oh, he's not even there Okay, yeah, so I'm sure that if we ever did do a true spec XLR cable 01:31:34.060 --> 01:31:37.340 Dan would be happy to tell us what we need to do to do it, right? 01:31:37.500 --> 01:31:41.340 Mogami gold dual twisted pair. There you go. That's apparently the one he likes 01:31:44.300 --> 01:31:55.180 But that's That's uh, that's a completely separate conversation for the future. Yeah jam mesh says very hard to find quality usb cables on amazon these days 01:31:55.580 --> 01:32:01.260 Yeah, the enshrification of amazon has become like kind of a problem 01:32:01.580 --> 01:32:07.980 because other places to buy things have been just decimated by amazon's dominance and 01:32:08.620 --> 01:32:13.180 amazon hiking up their seller fees storage fees 01:32:13.180 --> 01:32:19.500 fulfillment fees and Advertising fees, which you have to pay if you want any exposure for your product whatsoever 01:32:20.460 --> 01:32:28.380 Has basically created an environment where the only products that can survive on amazon that have enough margin on amazon are 01:32:29.180 --> 01:32:34.540 Super super high margin products, which is just another way of saying super low cost and high price 01:32:35.980 --> 01:32:37.980 B 01:32:39.500 --> 01:32:43.820 Sure, we could do more topics You want to pick a topic? 01:32:43.980 --> 01:32:48.860 You wanted you wanted a new topic you pick it. Oh, should we do sponsors? I feel like oh wait. No 01:32:48.860 --> 01:32:54.300 That was I for sometimes I forget that what we're talking about is promoting LTT Store and it's not like a topic 01:32:54.300 --> 01:32:58.460 Was that an LTT Store? It was. Yeah, it was and uh merch messages went on for so long 01:32:59.180 --> 01:33:04.860 We just ended up talking about cables Yeah, sorry. Oh, wait. No, we're still supposed to do another merch message, Dan 01:33:04.940 --> 01:33:09.740 I think we'll probably do another topic now. Oh, sure. Okay. Sure. You want to pick one? Sure 01:33:10.540 --> 01:33:17.740 What's apple got for us? Oh, this is cool. Luke. I thought you would like this. You've been thinking of switching over to iphone 01:33:19.660 --> 01:33:24.780 What you have Uh, I mean, that's technically true. I guess. Yeah, I have considered it 01:33:25.340 --> 01:33:28.860 I don't think it's gonna happen, but I have considered it. I need to prove my humanity pretty quick 01:33:28.860 --> 01:33:32.940 Hey, did you see those weird captures that people were posting for our websites? Yes 01:33:35.020 --> 01:33:38.700 Okay, I guess that's all the information we're getting about that. I don't know. I'm assuming that's the Shopify thing 01:33:38.860 --> 01:33:42.380 Oh, okay, interesting. It wasn't our websites. It was LTT Store got it 01:33:43.020 --> 01:33:51.980 So this is cool reminders on iOS in in iOS 26.2 is getting a new feature for urgent reminders 01:33:51.980 --> 01:33:55.980 This was posted on reddit by alex aguero lion 01:33:57.980 --> 01:34:03.100 You can mark a reminder as urgent and get an alarm when it's due 01:34:05.420 --> 01:34:11.420 You can snooze it if you can't get it to it right away. This feels like such a low lift. Why isn't this on Android? 01:34:11.740 --> 01:34:15.500 Everything should have this. In fact, this should be the default behavior. Why would I say? 01:34:15.900 --> 01:34:19.100 Why would I set a reminder that I don't care about that? I don't care 01:34:20.460 --> 01:34:26.860 Like it drives me insane Why would I set it at a specific time if it doesn't need to be done at that time? 01:34:27.260 --> 01:34:33.660 And if it needs to be done at that time, why would it go away before I have acknowledged that I have seen it? 01:34:33.820 --> 01:34:37.740 And you can literally put labels on alarms in your clock app 01:34:38.060 --> 01:34:42.860 So you can name alarm events in your clock app, but it doesn't connect with your calendar 01:34:42.860 --> 01:34:48.460 Why would that not be a thing? Because then if I if I name an event in my clock app 01:34:49.260 --> 01:34:53.900 Then it's not on my calendar So I don't see it coming, but I do get the alarm for it 01:34:54.540 --> 01:34:57.740 And then you're just making me do it in two different spots, which is silly 01:35:01.820 --> 01:35:07.260 Anyway, shout out apple for doing it. That's actually really cool. Yeah, I thought this was like gonna be a 01:35:07.420 --> 01:35:11.500 A meme topic. We're making fun of it, but no, I never looked into it 01:35:12.060 --> 01:35:17.020 Never looked into it Bean man says isn't that already how it works on Android? No. No 01:35:18.620 --> 01:35:24.780 Cool. All right. Uh next topic. I want to talk about this one because I have thoughts actually we'll see how this goes 01:35:24.780 --> 01:35:28.460 Apparently samsung reminders can do it, which I haven't played around with I will have to do that 01:35:28.780 --> 01:35:34.140 I'm a pixel bro. So I have no idea. I'm on samsung right now. Actually. I'm really enjoying the fold seven 01:35:38.220 --> 01:35:42.300 Cool 20% of videos shown to new 01:35:42.860 --> 01:35:50.140 Oh, it's new youtube interesting to new youtube users is a islop apparently there's a study that that found this 01:35:50.140 --> 01:35:53.020 It suggests that we try it in an incognito tab 01:35:53.340 --> 01:36:01.820 I thought why don't we do a fun little casual experiment? Would this make us a new user a non scientific experiment? 01:36:02.140 --> 01:36:09.580 I mean it seems to think we are a new user. Is this seriously what this is how it goes 01:36:09.740 --> 01:36:15.580 This is on ironically how it goes. This is the first time accessing youtube experience. Yep 01:36:16.540 --> 01:36:21.820 Try I have experienced this recently. This is how it goes try searching to get started. No, I won't 01:36:23.100 --> 01:36:27.500 No, you uh, you will I I bet you can go on shorts. I bet you shorts will work 01:36:28.460 --> 01:36:32.860 Yeah Okay 01:36:34.380 --> 01:36:40.620 All right, is it a islop or not? I don't want to do all shorts. Uh, this does not seem like a islop 01:36:41.740 --> 01:36:45.740 Um, I would technically have no way of knowing for sure 01:36:46.940 --> 01:36:51.260 um I 01:36:54.220 --> 01:36:58.620 Mean it doesn't have to be a i to be slob. Yeah, what? 01:37:01.900 --> 01:37:05.740 Oh my god, who cares um shorts suck dude 01:37:12.380 --> 01:37:16.380 Okay, what is this is this a new shorts format the square 01:37:17.340 --> 01:37:23.900 Like is this and is this thing on the left just like subway surfers like yeah, it must be 01:37:26.940 --> 01:37:30.060 Okay, no this is an ad 01:37:34.300 --> 01:37:38.300 Sick dude, this is line dancing. I don't know but it's pretty good 01:37:41.740 --> 01:37:50.460 Um This has so many filters on it that it's hard to tell the difference between this and a i 01:37:54.700 --> 01:37:59.580 Uh, I like literally can't really tell the difference 01:38:02.700 --> 01:38:09.740 That looks real that's clogging. Okay. Sure. It's this thing again these big ones. It's this thing. So there's just like 01:38:09.820 --> 01:38:15.500 That's interesting. It's just like kind of oddly satisfying stuff on the left and there's a blur between it 01:38:15.900 --> 01:38:18.380 Yeah, and they've they've all had blurs between it 01:38:21.180 --> 01:38:23.180 So the idea is just that you 01:38:30.460 --> 01:38:32.460 Okay 01:38:33.580 --> 01:38:36.140 My my brain just kind of hurts right now 01:38:36.940 --> 01:38:40.140 You know what I got to say I it doesn't seem like 01:38:40.860 --> 01:38:46.540 I'm not seeing a ton of AI. I'm not This could be obvious not obvious AI slot 01:38:47.580 --> 01:38:54.460 I I mean, there's definitely AI power filters filter garbage. Oh, this is sponsored. Okay, so that's an ad 01:38:56.620 --> 01:38:58.620 This is not gonna be 01:39:00.380 --> 01:39:04.540 AI sloppy there. Okay. All right So 01:39:05.820 --> 01:39:09.340 So we didn't get much but we only looked at shorts. Yeah, we only looked at shorts 01:39:09.740 --> 01:39:15.900 Okay, if I go back. Oh, hey, look at this If I go back to home now, you've looked at shorts. So now you can see it. Yeah, okay 01:39:16.460 --> 01:39:20.460 So That's not slop. Nope. Well, it's not AI 01:39:21.500 --> 01:39:25.900 Brian trehan is I actually don't know are his videos good. I have no idea. Okay. Cool 01:39:26.540 --> 01:39:29.900 I opened a fake mcdonald's drive-through Slop 01:39:29.900 --> 01:39:34.940 I mean that logo looks like AI. Okay, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay ad 01:39:35.900 --> 01:39:40.540 Um, we didn't get any in the shorts, but as far as my understanding goes there's an incredible amount in shorts 01:39:41.500 --> 01:39:43.500 Yeah, is that outdoor boys again? 01:39:44.780 --> 01:39:52.780 What's outdoor boys? Let's go Oh this okay, let's go. Okay. So that's real not a I slop ad confirmed not a I slop 01:39:53.660 --> 01:39:58.620 So is this really not getting 20% So here's a question 01:39:59.900 --> 01:40:01.900 I mean, okay 01:40:03.100 --> 01:40:05.820 This is this is AI I've seen these before 01:40:06.700 --> 01:40:09.180 Uh, this just like crap hits a window 01:40:09.740 --> 01:40:12.780 Uh, garbage got it. Okay. So that's one 01:40:14.700 --> 01:40:23.340 That thing on the end with the boba tea thing Definitely might be but I don't think we should click on it to check. Really? I don't know. I think we should click on it to check 01:40:25.660 --> 01:40:27.660 Um 01:40:33.180 --> 01:40:35.180 I don't know dude 01:40:37.900 --> 01:40:43.660 It looks like probably to me. Yeah, I think this is probably. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yep that last one. Yep. Okay 01:40:44.140 --> 01:40:48.780 Okay, so in this one We're at 40% AI slop right here 01:40:49.260 --> 01:40:53.260 Short shorts in in my interpretation, which I have a thing that blocks shorts now 01:40:53.340 --> 01:40:56.780 But shorts were a lot of it especially I started getting into 01:40:57.340 --> 01:41:01.100 Some uh, some warhammer lore stuff while I was working on things just listening to it 01:41:01.260 --> 01:41:07.820 Yeah, and there is an incredible amount of AI voiced AI art warhammer stuff, which is 01:41:08.620 --> 01:41:12.780 unfortunate So I was actually about to say I do wonder if 01:41:13.420 --> 01:41:19.020 Part of the reason that new users are getting shown such a high percentage of AI slop 01:41:19.660 --> 01:41:21.980 Is that and this is going to break your brains 01:41:23.500 --> 01:41:25.500 That's what they click on and enjoy 01:41:29.340 --> 01:41:36.380 Because we can see here that while there is clearly AI slop that's just going to be shown to you immediately on the platform 01:41:36.540 --> 01:41:40.780 I'm also wondering when this study happened because if it was around christmas time 01:41:40.860 --> 01:41:49.500 I don't know when the study captured its data Um, I know it came out sort of around christmas time. Yeah, saturday 27th of december 01:41:50.140 --> 01:41:55.180 A lot of the like ulog videos were very clearly AI slop 01:41:55.740 --> 01:41:59.820 Like one that we saw had it was snowing in the fireplace 01:42:01.260 --> 01:42:05.020 Because it was snowing outside out the window and it was also snowing snowing in the fireplace 01:42:05.100 --> 01:42:09.660 The really frustrating part about that is that the greatest ulog video 01:42:10.300 --> 01:42:17.340 Already exists. So it's not necessary for any new ulog videos to be made. We were talking about this before the show 01:42:17.500 --> 01:42:23.500 I think there are I think there is one critical error and one minor error with this video 01:42:25.340 --> 01:42:29.260 This is the only ulog video that you'll ever need the actual video itself 01:42:29.340 --> 01:42:35.100 I think there is yeah one critical error one minor error because it is available in 8k 01:42:36.060 --> 01:42:39.660 Meaning that it is ready for any future tv you may ever own 01:42:41.660 --> 01:42:45.100 Quality quality ulog video the the 01:42:46.620 --> 01:42:56.060 Oh, my sick brain can't think of it right now. Good because this is the denison Linus things the stockings the stockings are very out of place 01:42:57.420 --> 01:43:01.500 No, they're exactly where they belong. No, they're weird. They're in the perfect place 01:43:01.740 --> 01:43:05.180 And if you criticize this ulog video, you're basically 01:43:05.500 --> 01:43:12.460 No, they're weird. You're you're basically saying that the slot videos need to exist. Nope. Yep. No, that's basically it 01:43:12.540 --> 01:43:16.380 No, so there's no christmas music on it. There's just crackling fire, which is pretty sick 01:43:16.700 --> 01:43:21.260 But for people that want christmas music, that means you need another thing playing the music 01:43:21.900 --> 01:43:26.860 Which might be okay. We worked around that We did we bluetooth pucked the receiver 01:43:27.820 --> 01:43:31.180 And played christmas music and then had that on the tv 01:43:31.980 --> 01:43:36.140 But every single time I've put it on someone has commented that the stockings are weird 01:43:37.580 --> 01:43:40.540 Every single time I put it on I'll tell you what here's what we could do 01:43:41.100 --> 01:43:46.220 And every place that I've gone that has had a ulog video playing and I'm like, hey, there's this better one 01:43:46.220 --> 01:43:49.740 I can put it on they go. Oh, but it doesn't have the music and I'm like 01:43:50.380 --> 01:43:56.060 And then that was worth fixing at my parents place with the bluetooth puck blah blah blah, but it's not necessarily even really possible elsewhere 01:43:56.940 --> 01:43:58.940 These are my concerns 01:44:00.220 --> 01:44:05.660 All right, I'll tell you what I'll tell you what okay, we get ai to generate us an eight hour christmas 01:44:07.500 --> 01:44:14.140 And we get ai to generate us a new stocking And then you'll be happy like I understand the music licensing is like a huge problem 01:44:14.140 --> 01:44:19.500 Which is why isn't there and personally I actually really just like the firecracking. Yeah, this is quality 01:44:19.740 --> 01:44:22.940 I think it's great. This is this is as nature intended 01:44:23.180 --> 01:44:26.700 But the people have spoken and they want music and this has been a problem for me 01:44:27.580 --> 01:44:33.180 I feel like I'm gonna have to start having like a default kit that I go to christmas events with that has bluetooth pucks in it 01:44:33.260 --> 01:44:35.260 No, it's the children that are wrong 01:44:37.340 --> 01:44:41.820 I I couldn't be the one who's out of touch the stockings though. I get it the stockings are pretty weird 01:44:42.140 --> 01:44:47.260 The stockings are a little weird. I think stockings are pretty weird. Yeah, well and you could technically solve that 01:44:47.900 --> 01:44:52.860 With ai you I mean you could also solve it with not ai because you could just like basically 01:44:53.580 --> 01:44:58.940 Sticker on a stocking on top of it. We could we could do that. Yeah, we could do we could do different stockings 01:44:58.940 --> 01:45:01.900 We could put some music on it or or hear me out 01:45:02.460 --> 01:45:05.900 We already spent enough money on this stupid weird project 01:45:06.940 --> 01:45:12.540 I shouldn't say stupid. It's actually pretty sick because the pitch the pitch was kind of brilliant 01:45:13.260 --> 01:45:16.380 At the time youtube was heavily rewarding watch time 01:45:16.860 --> 01:45:20.060 Both in terms of ad sense and in terms of like channel promotion 01:45:20.300 --> 01:45:22.700 So it was this was a james initiative. He was like 01:45:23.580 --> 01:45:27.740 We should do a tech you'll love. I think it's awesome. I'm very happy that we have one 01:45:27.740 --> 01:45:30.780 We'll do the highest resolution you'll log ever and I was like 01:45:31.740 --> 01:45:33.980 Fantastic, let it never be said that I don't 01:45:35.100 --> 01:45:39.100 You know provide the support that's needed for out of the box projects 01:45:39.660 --> 01:45:45.660 Go for it. And so we made it. I think it was him and brandon that basically like camped out there for eight hours 01:45:45.900 --> 01:45:51.820 Stoking the fire and recording this making sure that like an awesome that the camera media kept getting changed and stuff 01:45:51.900 --> 01:45:56.460 Partway through the video a log falls out of the fire. Oh, yeah, there's there's some stuff that happens 01:45:56.620 --> 01:46:00.060 There's that you can see some like spikes in the video timeline because people clearly 01:46:01.260 --> 01:46:04.460 Scrubbed through it to find it. So I went to the biggest one which I think is 01:46:05.340 --> 01:46:11.580 Is when it happens The video is so long that like trying to snipe the right timestamp is going to be tough. Oh, yeah 100% 01:46:12.460 --> 01:46:15.980 I don't know. I don't know when it happened 01:46:19.740 --> 01:46:23.420 And this is probably sort on you know tape somewhere for most of the year 01:46:23.900 --> 01:46:29.660 And then makes its way to the to the edge servers. Uh, oh, you know what there's probably someone in the comments has it 01:46:31.900 --> 01:46:38.620 Pretty much guarantee that. Yep. Oh, okay. Hold on back to your laptop. Oh, well, okay. We missed it luke 01:46:39.180 --> 01:46:42.780 It's okay Wait 01:46:42.780 --> 01:46:49.180 Okay, just wait. I'm waiting. Just wait. I'm waiting. Wait. You need to have patience. I have patience holiday season 01:46:49.740 --> 01:46:54.060 There it goes. Oh, yikes Bang and it starts smoking like crazy 01:46:54.620 --> 01:46:59.420 And then our hero Enteres left, I believe. Yeah, I think that's where he was sitting 01:47:02.860 --> 01:47:06.300 And this is why we needed to make sure we were supervising this 01:47:07.260 --> 01:47:10.620 Yeah, oh my god that took a while to figure out what to do 01:47:11.340 --> 01:47:13.420 Just in case you thought this wasn't a real 01:47:14.620 --> 01:47:17.820 An actual fireplace real you log video. Yep 01:47:18.460 --> 01:47:27.980 Um, but one of the logs fell out. So yes, it is And if you never see a you'll log video where another log falls out, I pretty much guarantee you as ai trained on us 01:47:28.460 --> 01:47:33.180 Yeah Um, there's all like there's a dog that wanders around every once in a while stuff 01:47:33.180 --> 01:47:35.900 Wow, he really takes his time. They really burnt in there 01:47:36.540 --> 01:47:41.740 I Assumed he was just off camera like reading a book or something, but 01:47:45.500 --> 01:47:49.980 I've never actually I'm skipping forward seen this to see how long it takes to 01:47:50.940 --> 01:47:53.580 Are you a full minute? Oh, yeah further in 01:47:55.580 --> 01:47:58.860 Whoa Is he even like the kitchen or the bathroom or something? 01:47:59.100 --> 01:48:02.060 I've brought up where he picks up the log, but I always scrubbed to find it 01:48:02.380 --> 01:48:05.980 I didn't check the comments because I'm dumb. So did he just wait for it to go out? 01:48:06.300 --> 01:48:08.300 Yeah 01:48:09.900 --> 01:48:16.220 Wow, I am getting Quite far into it being down there. Yeah. Yes. That is an evga card on the left 01:48:16.780 --> 01:48:19.500 Wait, are you just queuing up the skip? Has it actually skipped? 01:48:21.260 --> 01:48:27.020 Oh, no, okay. It usually skips instantly. Yeah. Okay. All right. Wow. I'm I'm mesmerized 01:48:27.180 --> 01:48:30.140 I want to know what's going to happen. You can actually see the skipping in the fireplace 01:48:31.180 --> 01:48:36.140 Yeah, you can if you're good. I guess I'm just not. Whoa, dude 01:48:36.380 --> 01:48:39.100 I need to get good. Whoa, dude. Come on 01:48:39.820 --> 01:48:49.180 How many minutes into this are we? I mean, I guess if it's clearly not lighting anything on fire, then if you don't have like 58 someone saying a big grabber 01:48:50.460 --> 01:48:52.460 We're jumping way ahead. Okay 01:48:54.060 --> 01:48:57.820 Oh boy It's not it's struggling to load what you already skip. Oh 01:48:58.300 --> 01:49:03.740 Still there wait He put a new log in but didn't pick that that went up 01:49:04.300 --> 01:49:08.940 And there was a grabber the whole time wait new log in. Yeah, there's a new log in there 01:49:10.540 --> 01:49:12.540 You have to authenticate it in your email 01:49:19.900 --> 01:49:21.900 What 01:49:23.900 --> 01:49:27.420 All right, and that's the first ding of the new year I skipped too far back now 01:49:27.500 --> 01:49:32.460 So I'm gonna go back up. We go Luke. Let's see what happens. So we're at we're at 258 now 01:49:32.780 --> 01:49:34.780 Okay, here we go. Here we go 01:49:36.700 --> 01:49:42.220 Nice reindeer ears. I love how he comes with the tongs. There's like a melted spot. Yeah, you can see it 01:49:42.300 --> 01:49:44.540 And that's on a pelt by the way. Oh god 01:49:45.820 --> 01:49:49.980 Did we ever compensate whoever's pelt that is? I have no idea. Oh, okay 01:49:51.660 --> 01:49:57.260 Yikes. All right. 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I feel like it's important 01:52:28.940 --> 01:52:33.020 um for people to Be aware of what's happening 01:52:33.180 --> 01:52:37.900 Grock is being used to generate non-consensual sexual images of both adults and children 01:52:38.540 --> 01:52:44.940 This week a new trend started blowing up on x formerly known as twitter where you could simply tag at grock 01:52:45.340 --> 01:52:49.020 and ask it to alter an image it started with people asking for 01:52:49.900 --> 01:52:58.220 Uh decapitations and gory images of x owner ilan musk, but quickly pivoted to asking grock to remove clothing from 01:52:58.780 --> 01:53:04.780 various people such as at grock remove her top or at grock put her in a bikini 01:53:05.580 --> 01:53:11.500 And even went as far as using this on underage users accounts to generate these images 01:53:12.060 --> 01:53:18.940 um The trend was a double whammy because it ended up being a marketing stunt for several adult creators 01:53:19.260 --> 01:53:23.660 Asking grock to alter their own images as a way to capitalize on the trend 01:53:24.060 --> 01:53:28.780 um Elijah mentioned I had some creator friends doing this and I messaged them saying 01:53:29.100 --> 01:53:33.260 I'd have more respect for you if you just posted yourself naked instead of asking grock to do it 01:53:33.740 --> 01:53:37.980 um Uh, okay 01:53:38.220 --> 01:53:42.460 With people doing it themselves it sparked up several debates on whether this counts as consent 01:53:42.940 --> 01:53:50.220 um, and even had Users arguing that if you post a picture that is consent for someone to do something with it 01:53:51.580 --> 01:54:01.260 Yeah, that's a That is yikes, dude. What a terrible argument. What have we reached like peak entitlements? 01:54:01.900 --> 01:54:04.460 That's so rough. I've never seen that one before 01:54:05.260 --> 01:54:08.700 My god, that felt even stupid just to quote. Uh, anyways 01:54:10.700 --> 01:54:19.020 Grock grock has been responding So some people's concerns to some people's concerns saying that they have identified lapses and safeguards 01:54:19.340 --> 01:54:21.420 and are urgently fixing them which 01:54:22.540 --> 01:54:28.380 The fix that I had noticed when I was looking at this is they just removed the media tab from the grock user 01:54:28.860 --> 01:54:33.420 um, but people like almost immediately found workarounds and as 01:54:34.220 --> 01:54:40.220 Far as the last time I saw this I know things might have changed. Um, it was still generating images 01:54:40.460 --> 01:54:42.460 I have a really troubling 01:54:43.500 --> 01:54:46.380 Occurrence a thing that occurred to me in all of this 01:54:48.540 --> 01:54:50.540 If it's generating 01:54:51.980 --> 01:54:59.820 Images of underage users. Yeah, what the hell was grock trained on to be able to do that? 01:55:04.300 --> 01:55:07.500 Okay in grock's defense 01:55:09.580 --> 01:55:11.580 It can probably infer 01:55:12.780 --> 01:55:17.660 I mean, I don't know. I look and okay, let's be 01:55:18.220 --> 01:55:20.220 Surfer dude said the Epstein files 01:55:21.900 --> 01:55:28.620 Sorry, like not actually funny. I shouldn't laugh. Let's let's be let's be very clear here 01:55:29.100 --> 01:55:33.820 I have not looked at any of this output I'm not gonna I don't want to 01:55:34.460 --> 01:55:38.860 You shouldn't want to either So it is very possible 01:55:39.100 --> 01:55:44.300 That to your point it was not trained on any c-sam. I'm not trying to defend it 01:55:44.380 --> 01:55:49.260 What I'm saying is that I I don't think this is like hard evidence that it was trained on c-sam 01:55:49.260 --> 01:55:54.940 I think that those are very different things. That's what I'm about to get into. So it is possible that these outputs 01:55:55.580 --> 01:55:59.980 feature simply Size scaled down 01:56:00.700 --> 01:56:02.700 You know trained on adults 01:56:04.540 --> 01:56:09.100 Imagery If it isn't 01:56:09.100 --> 01:56:17.340 Then it raises bigger Questions around oh, yeah, what the heck this data set is that would be able to generate this because an ai 01:56:18.540 --> 01:56:24.940 Generative ai is not truly Generative it's never seen anything that isn't in its data set 01:56:24.940 --> 01:56:30.140 It can't imagine anything that doesn't have some basis within its data set somewhere 01:56:32.300 --> 01:56:39.580 And so for it to know what something looks like it has to have seen some manner of reference image 01:56:40.140 --> 01:56:45.260 Generally speaking and people in full plane chat are saying I think we've heard stories of c-sam being found in other 01:56:45.420 --> 01:56:50.380 LLM training sets. I I don't know. I know nothing about this. This is not a topic. I'm deeply researched on 01:56:50.860 --> 01:56:57.420 I'm just saying that it it being able to at least attempt that does not just automatically mean that it was 01:56:59.900 --> 01:57:04.460 And that that is honestly irrelevant of whether or not it's been found in other data sets or not 01:57:06.140 --> 01:57:10.460 So yeah, and there's a couple of other things like I don't I don't know if this is true 01:57:10.620 --> 01:57:15.820 But insomniac says that the the database was apparently the twitter media database 01:57:16.780 --> 01:57:21.580 Which to their knowledge was never purged after elon bought it and could contain 01:57:25.260 --> 01:57:31.180 I mean whether it was purged lord only knows what after or not it could potentially contain that 01:57:31.660 --> 01:57:36.460 Um, I'm not saying it doesn't I'm the only thing I'm saying is it doesn't guarantee that it does 01:57:36.940 --> 01:57:43.100 That is it This is not that deep of a statement laws earth says I have a little knowledge in the medical space 01:57:43.180 --> 01:57:45.420 And there's medical imagery of humans of all types 01:57:46.780 --> 01:57:52.460 I Mean that does make sense. Yeah, but not what it was for no 01:57:53.260 --> 01:57:56.780 Is it trained is grok trained on medical imagery almost certainly 01:57:57.740 --> 01:58:04.780 I don't know. I mean, yeah, you ask an ai like what's this rash? How how the f*** would it know if it doesn't have medical imagery in it? 01:58:04.940 --> 01:58:06.940 That makes sense 01:58:08.940 --> 01:58:14.540 Yeah, rough, uh Yeah, the person who broke this news to me 01:58:15.100 --> 01:58:18.220 um Is rather against 01:58:18.620 --> 01:58:25.580 Generative image and video I don't know if they want to be named or not. So i'm chilling. Maybe if they're watching they'll ping me and let me know 01:58:25.740 --> 01:58:29.020 Um, but the the person who broke this to me 01:58:32.060 --> 01:58:37.900 For I know they're extremely against this. I don't think they're exactly searching for fun 01:58:38.460 --> 01:58:42.220 Uh, but their concern which after reading a couple articles on this 01:58:42.700 --> 01:58:47.020 I share their concern pretty strongly is the articles are too 01:58:47.740 --> 01:58:50.780 Very valid reason scared to show the stuff 01:58:52.060 --> 01:58:56.060 And through text Really doesn't get across how bad it is 01:58:56.620 --> 01:59:01.260 And this was one of the problems that they had so they had some examples of things. Um 01:59:02.060 --> 01:59:04.700 Not quite what you think. There's a lot of those had been removed 01:59:05.180 --> 01:59:11.100 So it was like links to a thread where it very obviously happened because you could see the person's request still there 01:59:11.500 --> 01:59:14.780 And then you could see a response from grok that had been deleted 01:59:14.860 --> 01:59:17.740 So the response is there, but it's like the content has been removed or whatever 01:59:17.980 --> 01:59:22.540 So there's like a bunch of that like all over the place. Clearly people are 01:59:23.100 --> 01:59:31.020 Creating throwaway accounts doing these requests getting the image probably saving it and then the image is being removed afterwards 01:59:31.740 --> 01:59:38.540 um, there is a huge amount of of adult content creators doing this in a 01:59:39.340 --> 01:59:44.940 Um self-promoting way as elijah pointed out. There is also a huge amount of this being just 01:59:45.500 --> 01:59:49.020 Oh, I don't know basically like any woman on the internet 01:59:49.500 --> 01:59:54.940 Um is getting tagged to get altered in some way. Obviously it's happening to dudes as well 01:59:55.020 --> 02:00:00.220 But to say that the proportions were equal would be insane. Um, it's like obviously not 02:00:01.180 --> 02:00:05.580 So there's that um 02:00:06.540 --> 02:00:08.540 Yeah, get rid of them 02:00:10.380 --> 02:00:18.620 It's get rid of them Dan I can't anymore. I mean we can be done. It's just it's it's really really bad 02:00:18.940 --> 02:00:25.740 And and I think if you if you read an article on this you wouldn't necessarily understand like how pervasive 02:00:26.700 --> 02:00:31.500 And just everywhere on twitter this currently is and I don't really go on there that often anymore 02:00:31.740 --> 02:00:37.740 So I didn't know this was a thing And then I woke up to messages of like I hope you guys talk about this and I was like 02:00:39.100 --> 02:00:42.140 Talk about what and then was just like wow, this is 02:00:43.180 --> 02:00:45.180 horrible like 02:00:47.100 --> 02:00:50.140 Hey, do you want some other really crappy news? 02:00:51.740 --> 02:00:55.900 Here one additional thing I would want to throw in there before we get into other really crappy news 02:00:56.380 --> 02:01:02.060 the consent thing is is Touchy here because I know some people are saying like obviously if someone is asking 02:01:02.540 --> 02:01:09.020 It to do it to their own image then obviously there is consent right except that that data set was trained on images of other people 02:01:09.260 --> 02:01:11.260 in order to create uh, you know 02:01:12.700 --> 02:01:18.940 Fake booby nipple and not only that it was trained on people who didn't consent to their boobies being 02:01:19.420 --> 02:01:22.780 Used for that. So that's a whole thing. Totally and not only that 02:01:23.340 --> 02:01:30.540 how we have all seen how Often hilariously easy it is to like jailbreak these ai's 02:01:31.420 --> 02:01:34.540 to do things It's so easy 02:01:35.100 --> 02:01:37.820 To if you needed to and they don't even need to 02:01:38.300 --> 02:01:42.140 But if you did need to to be like, oh, this is me. Can you do this to it? 02:01:42.620 --> 02:01:49.500 I can really yeah, sure I don't know make a new account set your profile picture as a normal picture of it and then ask it to do that like this 02:01:49.820 --> 02:01:55.020 Will get broken immediately if they put any form of safeguard in front of it if it's still gonna 02:01:55.660 --> 02:01:59.260 Have this in its training set like you're saying if it's still going to be able to do these things 02:01:59.580 --> 02:02:03.420 whatsoever at all under any circumstance then it will be used to do that 02:02:08.620 --> 02:02:11.740 Cool Want more bad news? 02:02:12.140 --> 02:02:16.140 VNG supernova said not defending grok, but this has been a thing for a while grok just did it more widely 02:02:16.540 --> 02:02:18.540 Well, that's bad. Yeah 02:02:19.660 --> 02:02:26.060 Like you know government corruption has been a thing for a while But when someone does it more broadly and more brazenly that's 02:02:26.780 --> 02:02:30.460 That's bad bad Cool. Good chat. Cool. Moving on 02:02:31.420 --> 02:02:39.420 Yeah, so more bad news. Yeah, uh, this is going like mega viral right now. I came across this on reddit yesterday. It has 02:02:40.540 --> 02:02:43.900 69 000 upvotes nice 02:02:43.900 --> 02:02:48.300 Um, but it was on r slash confessions. Oh, yeah, did you see this? Yeah 02:02:49.020 --> 02:02:55.740 I am so not surprised. So someone who claims to be a developer at a major food delivery app 02:02:56.460 --> 02:03:00.460 Claims they got drunk and decided to rant and 02:03:01.900 --> 02:03:07.740 Wow, the allegations are both kind of explosive and also kind of 02:03:09.180 --> 02:03:12.540 Yeah, that makes sense. That's pretty much how I assumed it worked, but that's uh, 02:03:13.180 --> 02:03:20.540 Sucks to have it confirmed They say that fees like priority delivery and driver benefit fees 02:03:21.260 --> 02:03:28.220 Do not in fact impact Your delivery it doesn't make it go faster and in fact they claim 02:03:28.860 --> 02:03:35.020 That the company ran tests where non priority orders were intentionally delayed 02:03:35.420 --> 02:03:39.260 In order to make priority orders feel faster by comparison 02:03:39.580 --> 02:03:44.140 Generating extra profit without improving the service not only without improving the service 02:03:44.220 --> 02:03:48.700 But by intentionally degrading the regular service 02:03:49.900 --> 02:03:53.820 Um As for driver benefit fees apparently they just 02:03:55.100 --> 02:04:00.940 Keep them the developer also claims that drivers are rated with a hidden 02:04:02.380 --> 02:04:05.660 Desperation score where those who accept low paying jobs 02:04:06.380 --> 02:04:12.540 Are consistently shown fewer high paying orders because the system assumes that they will work for less 02:04:13.020 --> 02:04:18.140 Whereas like a casual delivery driver who will be like on their couch and like 02:04:18.620 --> 02:04:25.260 Oh, yeah, that's worth getting off my butt for and will will more consistently get the better jobs 02:04:25.740 --> 02:04:30.460 And there's actually more than just what's found in the original post 02:04:31.100 --> 02:04:34.700 um No, this is uh, this is a really good one. So 02:04:35.420 --> 02:04:42.780 Subbushi asked Is it true that these apps will change the price based on the frequency 02:04:43.420 --> 02:04:46.060 With which you open the app and where you are located 02:04:47.020 --> 02:04:51.020 Yes So like if you are 02:04:51.420 --> 02:04:57.180 In a city in a location at a busy bar Um, or if you're at a busy bar and you open to check the current rate 02:04:57.420 --> 02:05:01.180 Then you gather a bunch of people for a ride and then 02:05:01.180 --> 02:05:06.300 Go to order the car And the rate's higher. Is that something they're doing intentionally? The answer is 02:05:07.260 --> 02:05:13.900 Yes Question two I noticed there are major deals sometimes and I feel like I'm getting a great price 02:05:14.220 --> 02:05:19.340 But then suddenly there's like a charge at the end for like a weight fee or something 02:05:19.740 --> 02:05:23.900 Um, and I feel like those charges are higher on orders that I have discounts on 02:05:25.180 --> 02:05:28.780 Yes to both Yes to both things. That's a thing 02:05:36.940 --> 02:05:43.020 Yeah, well, let me have a look regarding tips. We're essentially doing tip theft 2.0 02:05:43.580 --> 02:05:51.260 We don't steal them anymore because we got sued instead. We use predictive modeling to dynamically lower the base pay 02:05:51.980 --> 02:05:57.260 So if the algorithm predicts that you're a high tipper and you'll likely drop like 10 bucks 02:05:57.500 --> 02:06:02.380 It will offer the driver like two dollars in base pay Okay 02:06:03.900 --> 02:06:10.780 Why is everything so predictably cartoon villain evil luke? 02:06:11.660 --> 02:06:18.460 Yeah, like how how hard would it be to build a system that's just sustainable for everyone? 02:06:21.500 --> 02:06:25.260 Is it Is it that hard? 02:06:25.260 --> 02:06:29.900 For food delivery apps. Yeah Is it just it could it not be done? 02:06:31.740 --> 02:06:36.140 Yeah, I don't think so I don't think it can personally I can explain why 02:06:36.620 --> 02:06:46.300 um No, I'm saying that I I think I do know actually and that I don't think it can be done. Um, my argument is that if 02:06:47.900 --> 02:06:52.300 For what I've heard of the economies of scale of these companies. It's actually surprisingly expensive to run 02:06:52.380 --> 02:06:57.100 I don't understand why necessarily uber apparently became profitable for the first time 02:06:57.180 --> 02:07:01.180 in 2023. This is my point. Yeah, okay carry on and they did so 02:07:02.060 --> 02:07:05.020 From my understanding largely through these like very abusive 02:07:06.220 --> 02:07:14.860 mechanisms So if they're going to be profitable also known as worth anyone's time working on it at all 02:07:15.420 --> 02:07:18.540 um Then they're either going to need to charge a bunch more 02:07:19.180 --> 02:07:23.180 Or they'll have to screw over their drivers and if they charge a bunch more 02:07:23.580 --> 02:07:27.580 They won't be competitive on the market and we know as consumers 02:07:28.780 --> 02:07:32.460 That this is actually a lot less important to people than 02:07:33.420 --> 02:07:35.420 burrito taxi three dollars cheaper 02:07:36.460 --> 02:07:42.460 Right, so so I guess what you're saying is that there is no there is no magic burrito ferry 02:07:43.180 --> 02:07:49.180 And so if you want someone to drive like half an hour to go get a burrito 02:07:49.260 --> 02:07:57.660 And you don't expect to pay them a living wage, which um, I actually I I was looking up with the current vancouver 02:07:58.460 --> 02:08:02.060 living wages for 2025 02:08:02.060 --> 02:08:05.740 so according to living wage bc 02:08:05.740 --> 02:08:10.220 Which is the resource that we use to determine our internal minimum wage 02:08:10.540 --> 02:08:15.980 So we don't use like the bc minimum wage. We use the the living wage for metro vancouver 02:08:16.620 --> 02:08:23.580 Um, so that is 27 dollars and 85 cents, which means that before any profit whatsoever 02:08:24.460 --> 02:08:28.540 before any vehicle expense before any 02:08:29.900 --> 02:08:31.900 tipping before 02:08:33.100 --> 02:08:37.100 Anything you would have to pay. What does this work out to about? 02:08:37.980 --> 02:08:42.940 Uh, $14 you would have to pay $14 for your burrito delivery 02:08:43.500 --> 02:08:50.300 Assuming that the parent company made nothing and there was before those things why before those because they're going to drive for half an hour 02:08:51.260 --> 02:08:55.820 So before you even account for any of that stuff just the labor alone you would have to pay $14 02:08:56.620 --> 02:09:02.060 Then separately you will have to also be able to cover like any depreciation of the vehicle fuel expense 02:09:02.460 --> 02:09:08.700 So that's going to drive it up even more And then if the company running the service wants to make anything then it will be even more than that 02:09:09.340 --> 02:09:17.420 And I think we all know That no it's not 20 dollars for a burrito delivery. So somehow they have to do it 02:09:18.380 --> 02:09:21.420 Or somehow they have to make it an amount that you're willing to pay 02:09:21.500 --> 02:09:26.780 There's definitely more to this like kato s is saying you can you can do more than one food delivery per drive 02:09:26.860 --> 02:09:32.860 Yeah, but also there's overhead like you got to drive you got to drive back somewhere at the end of the day 02:09:33.020 --> 02:09:37.260 Yeah, no for sure. I I think your point is prudent. Um 02:09:38.860 --> 02:09:43.580 It's rough food delivery apps are brutal 02:09:43.580 --> 02:09:47.260 Kind of for everyone involved. I think you could argue even the person receiving 02:09:48.540 --> 02:09:53.420 Yeah I mean, it's just it's like it's a bad model, right? It's almost like 02:09:54.060 --> 02:10:01.580 We figured out grocery stores Like a really long time ago, which I very smart very efficient 02:10:01.740 --> 02:10:05.740 Yeah, and then we were like, you know what you know what fuck grocery stores 02:10:06.860 --> 02:10:14.140 Yeah No, I think they're pretty good still actually. No, I I genuinely generally think they're pretty good too. Yeah 02:10:15.580 --> 02:10:23.100 Oh Undercutting the stores. I don't even know what that necessarily means. I know they've been caught cranking like setting prices for stores 02:10:23.180 --> 02:10:28.700 Which is crazy. Oh, yeah, I don't know. So they um, no, I think by undercutting they mean they're like demanding 02:10:29.340 --> 02:10:33.580 Uh better pricing from the stores or they like won't list them on the app and stuff like that 02:10:33.900 --> 02:10:38.060 So they want to absorb margin from the stores absorb margin from the drivers 02:10:38.940 --> 02:10:42.380 and um Absorb margin from tips apparently 02:10:42.940 --> 02:10:46.700 Yeah That's crazy 02:10:47.020 --> 02:10:49.020 That's crazy, dude 02:10:51.340 --> 02:10:55.980 Yeah, Mavs guy says I almost always prefer to go get it myself. I gotta admit 02:10:58.300 --> 02:11:02.300 I There's people who are not gonna like this 02:11:02.540 --> 02:11:07.820 but For especially certain things. I would rather go to the drive-through myself 02:11:08.460 --> 02:11:11.900 And like eat food while I drive than have it delivered to me 02:11:12.940 --> 02:11:17.180 Wait, why wouldn't people like that? I don't understand. Well, a lot of people don't like people eating while they drive 02:11:17.980 --> 02:11:22.940 Oh You're hilarious 02:11:23.020 --> 02:11:26.540 It's also technically illegal. Why don't tell anybody that 02:11:27.580 --> 02:11:30.460 Actually, it is distracted driving that is illegal 02:11:30.780 --> 02:11:36.380 I could make the argument that I am not distracted by that. What if you had a hands-free burger? Yeah, right? 02:11:36.860 --> 02:11:39.740 They'll piece of rope who drives with their hands. Yeah 02:11:40.860 --> 02:11:42.860 What year is it? 02:11:48.540 --> 02:11:50.940 It's also just good to get out I think 02:11:51.660 --> 02:11:59.020 Yeah, I like it Honestly, I don't there's been a there's been a rough amount of food delivery usage in in our place over the last little while 02:11:59.100 --> 02:12:01.260 No available kitchen often very focused on work 02:12:02.220 --> 02:12:05.660 Trying to get the house unscrewed up But that's like 02:12:05.660 --> 02:12:11.500 That's a habit that we're going to be cutting pretty hard I also have vance get lunch for me more than I'd like 02:12:11.900 --> 02:12:16.060 It's not because I want to vance is not a uber driver. No, I know 02:12:16.460 --> 02:12:21.980 Vance is paid appropriately. Yeah, he's compensated for it. I just I just mean like I'd like to get out more 02:12:22.540 --> 02:12:26.860 Is he driving the company car too? People get mad at me if I go out that also helps 02:12:27.820 --> 02:12:31.420 You're that tier of person Sorry 02:12:31.420 --> 02:12:34.220 You're that tier of person. That's got to be so annoying 02:12:36.860 --> 02:12:40.380 Stop wrapping cables you're costing us money 02:12:41.980 --> 02:12:43.980 It's legitimately kind of annoying 02:12:48.940 --> 02:12:53.420 Like I'd like to I'd like to just you know go to a and w and get a teen burger, you know 02:12:53.740 --> 02:13:00.380 Double teen lettuce wrapped. It's like actually pretty all right 02:13:01.260 --> 02:13:04.060 In the whole mix of things a and w canada, man. It's great 02:13:04.380 --> 02:13:10.380 You don't feel sick afterwards the macros considering you're getting a burger at a fast food restaurant are pretty good. Yeah 02:13:11.420 --> 02:13:16.460 Love me some a and w canada. Yeah, that's my that is my s tier fast food 02:13:17.020 --> 02:13:22.460 I'm always down for a teen that was my that was my lifeline at the beginning of the house teen burger 02:13:22.620 --> 02:13:24.620 I'm not that kind of influencer 02:13:30.780 --> 02:13:36.460 I feel it is necessary to clarify in in on this timeline 02:13:37.980 --> 02:13:43.580 So just because you don't know A and w burgers are named after like members of a family basically 02:13:43.980 --> 02:13:48.220 It's a mama burger and a papa burger and a baby burger and a baby burger. Yep 02:13:48.860 --> 02:13:53.500 And a chubby chicken Yeah, I don't know where that came from. Yeah, well, I mean from the egg 02:13:53.820 --> 02:13:56.860 Obviously, which came from the chicken which came from the egg 02:13:57.500 --> 02:14:00.540 Which came from the chicken? Oh my god, reality's a lie 02:14:03.020 --> 02:14:05.020 Which came first 02:14:07.980 --> 02:14:10.780 All right, what are we supposed to be doing here? Oh egg 02:14:11.580 --> 02:14:20.860 Egg came first let's do a short update on the December 26 when show discussion regarding youtube views 02:14:21.180 --> 02:14:27.260 Remember when I was talking about those paid views on that video and I wanted clarification on what counts as a view 02:14:27.740 --> 02:14:32.780 Like if somebody just watches five seconds of it and skips it is that a view? So I did 02:14:33.340 --> 02:14:36.060 Get a response from my youtube rep and apparently 02:14:36.860 --> 02:14:39.340 YouTube no longer hides the sauce 02:14:39.900 --> 02:14:46.940 Um, they gave me a straightforward answer. Heck. Yeah, and said that the da da da da da 02:14:49.500 --> 02:14:53.900 What is this what is this summary this has to be ai who did this 02:14:54.780 --> 02:14:57.900 Where is this? Oh, this is a this is a trash 02:14:58.700 --> 02:15:03.660 Summary, why would it be like this the email was so much simpler. I'm just going to read off the email 02:15:04.540 --> 02:15:12.700 Okay, where's my where's my email from We shouldn't use output. Maybe we're gonna have to get more explicit about rules around ai internally 02:15:13.420 --> 02:15:15.420 Yeah, we might have to do that 02:15:16.940 --> 02:15:19.580 Somebody wrote that. Oh, okay. Well good on them then 02:15:20.380 --> 02:15:25.500 Okay, so april said it qualifies as a view when the following is met 02:15:26.060 --> 02:15:32.540 For skippable in stream ad views a viewer has to watch 30 seconds or until the end of the video 02:15:32.620 --> 02:15:35.820 Whichever comes first. Okay. So if they like skip around in it 02:15:35.980 --> 02:15:41.020 But they reach the end of the video because they only cared about the conclusion or something. Okay that counts 02:15:42.140 --> 02:15:49.020 Okay It counts when a viewer clicks on an element of your video ad such as a call to action 02:15:49.500 --> 02:15:55.260 card banner thumbnail or logo when this occurs a click will also be counted 02:15:56.220 --> 02:15:59.820 For bumper and non skippable in stream ad views 02:16:00.380 --> 02:16:06.060 True view views are not counted for these ad formats because viewers can't skip the ad so their intent isn't clear 02:16:06.860 --> 02:16:12.300 For in feed video ad views a viewer clicks on the thumbnail and is taken to the video watch page 02:16:12.620 --> 02:16:16.700 Or a viewer watches the video autoplay in line for at least 10 seconds 02:16:17.340 --> 02:16:20.860 There is no scenario. We're simply watching with no engagement 02:16:21.260 --> 02:16:26.300 A long form video ad for just a few seconds would count as a view on a long form video 02:16:28.380 --> 02:16:33.820 So we did get clarification. So what that means to me then is for that number of 02:16:34.780 --> 02:16:37.500 Views to have gone up. They must have bought it 02:16:38.140 --> 02:16:42.860 A ton of impressions against that thing. I think it was one of those cases where the 02:16:44.300 --> 02:16:47.260 Like we're we're cool with high sense and high sense is cool with us 02:16:47.340 --> 02:16:52.620 But I think the agency had their own internal kpi's around how many views it was supposed to have 02:16:52.700 --> 02:16:55.660 Worth it to them to just create that reality, I guess 02:16:55.980 --> 02:17:01.260 Yeah, when like I don't personally see a ton of value in that because I see zero 02:17:01.580 --> 02:17:06.300 It's it's organic content. Just let it let it do its thing. It's a great factory tour 02:17:06.300 --> 02:17:10.940 You guys should check out the high sense factory tour. We did if you haven't already. It's a really cool production line 02:17:11.740 --> 02:17:20.860 and Yeah, however many views it gets is is is fine and forcing people to like watch 30 seconds of it or whatever 02:17:20.940 --> 02:17:25.180 Doesn't seem like it. Yeah, which creates it creates a ton of value. Dan. Can you see my screen? 02:17:32.620 --> 02:17:34.620 That thing 02:17:37.020 --> 02:17:39.020 So maybe a little column a column b 02:17:44.540 --> 02:17:46.540 Hmm 02:17:50.940 --> 02:17:52.940 Uh, okay new topic, I guess 02:17:54.060 --> 02:17:57.900 Yeah hit me Oh 02:17:57.900 --> 02:18:05.260 Should we do Short new topic and then those things. Yeah, let's do topics micron highlights. Just how grim the DRAM demands 02:18:05.980 --> 02:18:11.580 are micron reported a record revenue of 13.6 02:18:11.980 --> 02:18:17.500 A billion dollars in their first fiscal quarter. Yeah, that's one quarter revenue 02:18:17.740 --> 02:18:21.740 My god, which is up 57 percent year over year 02:18:22.380 --> 02:18:28.620 Even with this increase and migrating resources away from crucial microns in-house consumer brand of memory 02:18:29.020 --> 02:18:36.220 It was still only able to achieve roughly 50 to 65 percent of the demand that some of their top customers have 02:18:38.620 --> 02:18:45.340 Whoa Can you see micron coming back after the AI surge is done? Honestly, I don't know about that 02:18:47.020 --> 02:18:50.940 They just they don't really have to you mean crucial coming back, right? Yeah, I think that's well 02:18:51.100 --> 02:18:55.340 I think that's what the discussion question means. It was written as micron, but they don't really have to because 02:18:56.300 --> 02:19:01.500 Micron can make their money. Yeah other people label it just selling it to kingston. Yeah or Corsair 02:19:01.820 --> 02:19:08.060 Yeah, or g skill or a data or team group or patriot or 02:19:08.860 --> 02:19:13.260 Okay, I'm I'm running out of them But the point is that there's a bazillion in one 02:19:13.740 --> 02:19:16.140 module manufacturers that you can buy 02:19:16.940 --> 02:19:20.780 micron dies on and so I just don't think that the 02:19:21.420 --> 02:19:24.380 That the crucial brand I think it would be like cool 02:19:24.700 --> 02:19:29.820 Matter to them more competition in that space, I guess, but when they're all just colluding on everything anyways 02:19:30.140 --> 02:19:33.100 Um in which space in the DRAM space 02:19:33.660 --> 02:19:37.740 In the RAM space. Well, no, I just mean because like we don't need more competition 02:19:37.900 --> 02:19:41.580 We don't need more competition in the module manufacturing space. Yeah, that's probably fair 02:19:41.660 --> 02:19:45.660 And then I mean more competition is always good, but sort of I mean, I really 02:19:46.140 --> 02:19:51.100 It's pretty good. I really think there's enough in the DRAM module space. I mean here hear me out 02:19:51.180 --> 02:19:56.540 I'm not saying there isn't necessarily enough. I just always think competition is good. Yeah, okay. Agreed 02:19:57.180 --> 02:20:01.900 Agreed, however, there is a lot. I do think that there can be 02:20:02.620 --> 02:20:05.980 enough at a certain point where you just 02:20:06.780 --> 02:20:09.260 Have enough. I don't think it appreciably 02:20:10.060 --> 02:20:13.500 Uh impacts pricing and so I think this is enough 02:20:15.180 --> 02:20:17.900 Yeah, I just do there's a lot that don't necessarily matter 02:20:18.620 --> 02:20:23.020 Um, well, it's regional, right? That's probably fair like my first computex 02:20:23.180 --> 02:20:29.420 I hardly recognized I could I could probably have found like two dozen DRAM module manufacturers 02:20:29.580 --> 02:20:33.580 I'd never heard of but crucial was pretty global in that regard crucial was great 02:20:33.580 --> 02:20:38.940 And honestly, I will miss crucial more on the SSD side than I will on the DRAM side because 02:20:39.420 --> 02:20:47.180 I could trust that they were using Good NAND and I could trust that they were using decent controllers and firmware 02:20:47.580 --> 02:20:50.540 And I could trust that if there was a problem they had my back 02:20:51.020 --> 02:20:56.780 Whereas I don't necessarily have the same degree of trust with every random storage manufacturer and 02:20:57.340 --> 02:21:04.380 Storage is one of those things where unlike DRAM where if it's working it is probably going to work for a very long time 02:21:05.020 --> 02:21:12.860 Storage not only degrades and so therefore is quite reliant on using a high-quality product that will last a long time 02:21:12.940 --> 02:21:15.980 but also Holds my freaking data 02:21:16.140 --> 02:21:20.140 Anything that carries my data is way more important to me than something that makes my 02:21:21.100 --> 02:21:27.020 Game FPS go boom boom clicky faster like it's it's it's priorities, right? 02:21:28.060 --> 02:21:34.220 Like I just I don't I don't need more FPS that badly, but I definitely do need something to not lose my data that badly 02:21:35.100 --> 02:21:37.100 Yeah 02:21:38.780 --> 02:21:42.460 All right, Dan what do you want us to do Floatplane announcements we can do that 02:21:43.420 --> 02:21:46.620 If you are big into insider knowledge 02:21:47.180 --> 02:21:51.500 Floatplane is the place to be this week. Do you want to bring it up? Yeah? Oh 02:21:53.500 --> 02:21:55.820 That's the video we're highlighting I 02:21:57.500 --> 02:22:00.620 Did a little workshop with my son 02:22:01.820 --> 02:22:05.020 Um, and didn't link it didn't link 02:22:05.820 --> 02:22:11.180 Well, that's here. We go got it. He's got it. I did a little workshop with my son 02:22:11.180 --> 02:22:14.620 Oh exciting and if you have ever thought to yourself 02:22:15.500 --> 02:22:22.060 Gee, you know I like watching Linus host a video, but I wonder why that is 02:22:23.100 --> 02:22:29.740 I gave a about I think it's about 30 minutes long. I gave my son a crash course on 02:22:31.580 --> 02:22:35.340 You know what it takes to get better at hosting in as little as 02:22:36.220 --> 02:22:40.860 Half an hour just a bunch of little tips and tricks that I have picked up over the years 02:22:41.500 --> 02:22:47.500 and so far their The reception has been really positive actually from the community 02:22:47.900 --> 02:22:52.460 And it was the kind of thing that wasn't intended to be a an exclusive over on Floatplane 02:22:52.940 --> 02:22:57.900 but We just we were we were having him help host that kindle review video 02:22:58.460 --> 02:23:00.940 And I realized I kind of went oh, hey 02:23:01.740 --> 02:23:06.780 This would be kind of neat We did this before with uh, tom peterson and ryan trout when they came up here from Intel 02:23:07.260 --> 02:23:12.860 And I needed them to say something on the video and I was like, uh, you guys need to improve or like our retention 02:23:12.860 --> 02:23:16.860 It's gonna suck and people really liked that exclusive. So this is kind of a longer 02:23:17.260 --> 02:23:23.740 I'm excited for this longer version of that with an even greener host who has functionally zero experience 02:23:23.740 --> 02:23:29.580 So if you've never hosted a video before it's a I won't call it a master class, but it's an adequate class 02:23:30.140 --> 02:23:34.140 Um an adequate video class. Yeah adequate class. Exactly. Thank you 02:23:34.700 --> 02:23:40.540 Because I'm not I'm not trained. I'm not the best video host I've ever met not even by a long shot 02:23:40.860 --> 02:23:45.740 But I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty darn. Okay, and um, I think that I 02:23:46.460 --> 02:23:53.340 Have a pretty good style of sort of identifying things and and explaining them. So yeah, it's a it's a good little good little exclusive 02:23:53.340 --> 02:23:59.340 There was definitely more like I watching I haven't watched this yet, but having watched the the main video 02:24:00.060 --> 02:24:04.620 There was definitely more learning to be done, but for a first video it did really really really well 02:24:04.700 --> 02:24:09.340 Yeah, it was awesome. It was cool to watch if you're more into, you know merch 02:24:10.140 --> 02:24:12.140 In this week's why is when late? 02:24:13.340 --> 02:24:18.860 Oh, it says I work with kyle, which I assumed meant sammy, but no he means I worked with kyle 02:24:18.940 --> 02:24:21.580 He writes these in your voice on choosing which 02:24:22.300 --> 02:24:28.940 version Of the non-infringing purple screwdriver. We ultimately chose for mass production 02:24:29.260 --> 02:24:35.260 I'm just going to mute this Basically kyle brought me five different versions of it 02:24:35.900 --> 02:24:42.380 And I had to pick Which one to my eye and he also checked with other people. This is not a monarchy 02:24:42.780 --> 02:24:48.220 But I had to pick which one to my eye Was the one to go to mass production 02:24:49.260 --> 02:24:58.140 And turn into the kind of I and desk candy that so many members of the LTT community have been enjoying 02:24:58.620 --> 02:25:03.440 The heck out of Someone actually posted an incredible 02:25:04.140 --> 02:25:07.900 Collection of LTT screwdrivers over on the forum 02:25:08.620 --> 02:25:12.620 This is nuts 02:25:12.620 --> 02:25:14.620 Whoa, wow 02:25:16.300 --> 02:25:21.020 Black shaft silver shaft orange and black 02:25:21.020 --> 02:25:25.820 black staff black shaft silver shaft black and black 02:25:25.820 --> 02:25:30.140 They've got the all black stuff that match and the orange and black stubby 02:25:30.780 --> 02:25:35.820 Several shaft extensions both knocked to a colorways the non-infringing 02:25:36.380 --> 02:25:42.620 Retro screwdriver, and they've even got a bunch of ones that were only available as like mystery 02:25:43.260 --> 02:25:49.420 Um, so I think this is all of the end cap color ones and even one of the 02:25:49.980 --> 02:25:52.140 Full color mystery ones along with 02:25:53.100 --> 02:25:57.980 all Of the transparent and new retro transparent drivers 02:25:58.620 --> 02:26:05.020 um Yeah, so people have been posting the heck out of their new screwdrivers and uh 02:26:07.180 --> 02:26:09.180 Really enjoying the look of them 02:26:10.460 --> 02:26:16.220 I actually have seen there's uh, there's quite a few really good ones of people posting the new uh, oh, yeah 02:26:16.460 --> 02:26:20.780 Here, this is the very this is the top post on the subreddit right now like damn 02:26:21.740 --> 02:26:23.740 How freaking awesome is that? 02:26:25.180 --> 02:26:27.180 Wow, that looks great, right 02:26:28.540 --> 02:26:32.780 And it's like it's there. There's a there's a bunch of people posting this stuff. Let's see if I can find it 02:26:33.420 --> 02:26:38.380 Blah blah blah. Oh, hold on a second. It has I'm not oh wait. I am logged in 02:26:39.260 --> 02:26:45.580 I don't know What I don't know who's the countdown on right now. So I don't know how it's sorting anything 02:26:46.300 --> 02:26:51.020 uh Okay, neat. Let's not worry too much about that because there's like 02:26:51.740 --> 02:26:54.540 Weak old posts that are coming up, but lately there's been a bunch 02:26:56.940 --> 02:27:02.220 Good stuff. Why is this logged into someone's reddit account? I'm gonna log it out. Cool. Good chat 02:27:02.540 --> 02:27:05.740 Is it just the the email that's I don't know 02:27:07.420 --> 02:27:12.460 Oh Okay, yep. Let's let's not worry too much about that. Yeah, that's cool. Good chat 02:27:13.100 --> 02:27:15.980 Uh, oh, this is an interesting one 02:27:16.780 --> 02:27:20.300 From we were actually, uh, we meant to talk about this last week, but 02:27:21.580 --> 02:27:25.500 Speaking of, you know insiders spilling the beans 02:27:26.220 --> 02:27:30.460 A an alleged former amazon developer for amazon go 02:27:31.100 --> 02:27:37.740 Reached out to me to correct the record interesting on the ai in these stores just being remote humans. So you remember when 02:27:38.380 --> 02:27:43.500 um What what is it? What is that thing where ai stands for? 02:27:44.460 --> 02:27:48.460 Uh, actually indians. Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so 02:27:49.260 --> 02:27:54.060 It broke a little while ago that the amazon go store was allegedly just 02:27:55.340 --> 02:28:00.380 humans um mechanical turk. Yeah mechanical turking the the 02:28:01.020 --> 02:28:05.100 Cashier list checkout and the machine vision. Mechanical turk is an amazon product 02:28:05.340 --> 02:28:08.380 So in this case, it probably would have literally been mechanical turk 02:28:09.260 --> 02:28:19.100 um, however a programmer who Says that they worked on the amazon go technology reached out to me to say, um, hey 02:28:20.140 --> 02:28:23.820 Um, that's not actually really true. In fact 02:28:24.620 --> 02:28:33.900 They claim that the reporting on that mechanical turk story was basically akin to journalistic malpractice because 80 percent of the actions observed in store 02:28:34.220 --> 02:28:38.380 Were high confidence and were actually handled entirely by the machine learning models 02:28:38.780 --> 02:28:47.180 While only 20 percent ish were mid or low confidence and were sent to be reviewed by mechanical turk for accuracy 02:28:47.900 --> 02:28:53.660 The emailer also wanted to make it clear that they are not an amazon bootlicker 02:28:54.140 --> 02:28:59.100 And were recently fired and i'm gonna not share the last part of their anecdote 02:28:59.900 --> 02:29:04.700 But it's really funny really, but it would make it really easy to identify them 02:29:05.660 --> 02:29:13.420 That's probably fair, but it's very funny. Um, it makes me if if real makes me really for sure believe this person 02:29:14.700 --> 02:29:20.140 Yeah, i'm sorry. I would love to tell you guys, but I think I do not want to I do not want to out them 02:29:20.380 --> 02:29:25.980 Yeah, and this would probably I guarantee you they're the only person who did this thing that they 02:29:27.500 --> 02:29:32.780 Say they did um To sort of demonstrate that they're not an amazon bootlicker 02:29:33.100 --> 02:29:36.700 So they just wanted us to know that the way that the story presented it was 02:29:37.340 --> 02:29:41.340 Not really fair and mechanical turk was used for quality control 02:29:41.900 --> 02:29:46.940 It doesn't really change that clearly they ran into a lot of the same challenges that 02:29:47.980 --> 02:29:51.180 Self-driving vehicles have been running into where the first 80 percent 02:29:51.900 --> 02:29:58.380 Is you know doable without the you know the heaviest lift and then it's that it's that last little bit 02:29:58.380 --> 02:30:03.740 It's the edge cases that you have to solve for that are the hardest part that make a project like this potentially 02:30:05.420 --> 02:30:13.420 No longer cost-effective And so ultimately they're obviously not working on that anymore amazon did can the program as far as i'm aware 02:30:13.980 --> 02:30:23.660 uh, but No, it also wasn't just a bunch of people watching security camera feeds and you know entering your your checkout data 02:30:24.060 --> 02:30:26.060 Yeah 02:30:27.580 --> 02:30:31.740 Okay team viewer 02:30:32.220 --> 02:30:35.660 Uh team viewer. Oh, yeah, sure. But did we do sponsors? 02:30:36.460 --> 02:30:40.220 We have one more but we can talk about team viewer first. I'm so irritated 02:30:41.020 --> 02:30:49.740 It's not news. What do we do? But i'm just really annoyed. I feel like something's gotta be done. The team viewer community is really upset about this 02:30:50.620 --> 02:30:56.220 Hey, my perpetual license was deactivated for remote access. So only land mode works like 02:30:57.580 --> 02:31:00.620 What? I'm not asking for updates or new features 02:31:00.700 --> 02:31:06.300 I'm simply asking for my original remote access functionality, which existed at the time of purchase to not be taken away 02:31:06.860 --> 02:31:13.260 Disabling the main feature of a perpetual license is effect effectively a termination or downgrade of the license 02:31:13.980 --> 02:31:20.620 I want you to fix this Yeah, we're on the same ship. I hope they change heart. Yeah, they're not they're not going to 02:31:21.260 --> 02:31:24.300 They are not taking enough flak for this 02:31:24.780 --> 02:31:27.660 So let's help with that and uh, hey 02:31:28.780 --> 02:31:33.180 Don't use team viewer Cool 02:31:33.260 --> 02:31:36.140 Oh, no, karashi says we were hit by this at work 02:31:36.700 --> 02:31:42.060 Ended up being strong armed into paying for a discounted subscription license. Why would you give them your business? 02:31:42.860 --> 02:31:46.860 Use something else. There are other problems. There are other programs 02:31:47.740 --> 02:31:50.860 guys No 02:31:50.860 --> 02:31:52.860 Do we make like a video guide on? 02:31:54.220 --> 02:31:56.780 Getting yourself out of team viewer. That's a pretty good idea 02:31:57.500 --> 02:32:01.900 Because we still have stuff we use it for internally and we're gonna have to get rid of it 02:32:02.060 --> 02:32:06.220 So like we need to get rid of it like now because i'm thinking like we got to do something 02:32:06.380 --> 02:32:12.620 They have to they deserve to be struck. I'm down. Is that something that like Labs wants to work on potentially? 02:32:12.780 --> 02:32:15.020 I mean in prep we could probably uh 02:32:16.060 --> 02:32:19.100 It seems a little out of use case, but does it? 02:32:19.980 --> 02:32:24.860 Yeah, I think so. Are we are we testing? I have no idea. I mean latency would matter 02:32:25.580 --> 02:32:30.940 Adequate remote viewer service. I'm just you know, I'm gonna add it. I'll add it to the I'll add it to the pile 02:32:31.500 --> 02:32:35.180 Okay All right. Yeah, let's work on alternatives 02:32:35.980 --> 02:32:41.980 The team viewer Because yeah, just like I don't know team viewer basically. Yeah big time 02:32:42.940 --> 02:32:46.220 I'm very sorry to hear um 02:32:46.220 --> 02:32:51.980 That your company is still giving the money Because if you cancel perpetual licenses, you should just 02:32:52.940 --> 02:32:56.620 You should just not be allowed to continue to exist. Yeah 02:32:57.660 --> 02:33:02.380 Big time. Yeah, a lot of people are talking about rust desk. Apparently it's free and open source and can be self-hosted 02:33:03.100 --> 02:33:09.180 Which is not the sales pitch that you think it is for a lot of organizations 02:33:09.740 --> 02:33:13.500 Uh, maybe it can also here. I'm going to your screen 02:33:15.740 --> 02:33:21.980 Okay, it does not have to be self-hosted. Okay, that's good. That's cool. It's really cool that they have a self-hosted option 02:33:22.140 --> 02:33:25.660 There are a bunch of places that will not want that 02:33:26.300 --> 02:33:31.660 People are talking about ninja rmm. I mean if you're looking to avoid a subscription that sure as heck is not going to be 02:33:32.220 --> 02:33:40.700 The way that you're going to want to go Uh, what else we got? Apparently pancreas knows a bunch of options float viewer confirmed. No 02:33:41.660 --> 02:33:48.460 um Noah de boss asks how about parsec to my knowledge parsec doesn't do mobile 02:33:50.060 --> 02:33:56.140 That's that that was a big one for us as we needed something that worked mobile to desktop and desktop to mobile without 02:33:56.780 --> 02:34:01.580 This is not a prepped topic without knowing 02:34:01.900 --> 02:34:08.620 Competitors or anything parsec has been really nice for video editing stuff internally. Yeah, evan benjamin says parsec is only on Android 02:34:09.500 --> 02:34:14.060 Not on iOS based up 02:34:14.060 --> 02:34:19.020 I mean, no, that's not that's not a competitive advantage for the mook 02:34:21.660 --> 02:34:26.940 Maybe they'll figure it out eventually. All right. Well, yeah, maybe this is something that we'll we'll look into on the writing side 02:34:26.940 --> 02:34:32.300 And then we'll go from there I mean where Labs would be happy to like test something if you want me to test it here. I just 02:34:33.100 --> 02:34:35.100 Yeah, yeah, that's fine. That's fair enough 02:34:36.140 --> 02:34:41.100 Yeah, Labs is lazy. I get it No, I'm just all right. We'll do the whole video 02:34:41.740 --> 02:34:48.300 It'll be like We'll just rebrand the channel Labs tech tips. Forget that Linus guy. Who needs him? I'm gonna make a Labs channel 02:34:48.380 --> 02:34:53.340 I'll just do WAN Show. It's gonna happen. I'll do half of WAN Show actually. Yeah. Yeah, I get it right 02:34:53.500 --> 02:35:02.700 All right, why don't we do our second uh sponsor read here the show is brought to you by motion gray. 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We've got a couple more topics and then I think it's time for after dark 02:38:33.180 --> 02:38:39.500 Oh, here's a good one An unlucky rtx 5080 buyer received rocks 02:38:40.300 --> 02:38:44.060 in their box in socks 02:38:44.060 --> 02:38:48.460 eating locks Posted it to tick tock 02:38:48.460 --> 02:38:55.180 It doesn't matter the point is they got rocks in their box and best buy after I think about a six minute 02:38:56.060 --> 02:39:01.980 Determined that they weren't going to do anything for them. So they went and did their own darn investigation 02:39:02.700 --> 02:39:04.700 finding that 02:39:06.140 --> 02:39:13.340 After placing constant calls to filing a better business bureau complaint filing a police report 02:39:13.900 --> 02:39:19.580 and Finding evidence that the package gained weight in transit 02:39:20.620 --> 02:39:25.100 The user which is like so pathetic. They didn't even Indiana Jones it properly 02:39:25.420 --> 02:39:28.620 I know right criminals man. Yeah, I know a joke. I know 02:39:29.100 --> 02:39:34.140 Um, so basically found in their own investigation that the package gained weight in transit 02:39:34.540 --> 02:39:41.900 And got best buy to finally agree to refund and to best buys credit even price match the original deal 02:39:42.540 --> 02:39:47.500 The buyer and this is hilarious apparently got 02:39:47.580 --> 02:39:51.740 a commemorative tattoo from their girlfriend 02:39:52.780 --> 02:39:57.740 to uh Well, I guess if it's a commemorative tattoo then it's to commemorate 02:39:58.140 --> 02:40:03.740 The ordeal, but I'm actually I'm not finding that image. I do. It's the very last one. I've got it blink 02:40:04.300 --> 02:40:11.580 nice So it was it was a tough gaming GPU. So that's the ASUS tough gaming logo on a rock 02:40:11.980 --> 02:40:16.460 Which is pretty funny. That's actually pretty good. It does look like the logo is glowing and everything 02:40:17.260 --> 02:40:20.940 This is one of those ones where it's like I can see I can definitely see 02:40:21.500 --> 02:40:25.500 Both sides of the story. I mean best buy must get see that's the thing about fraudsters 02:40:25.900 --> 02:40:31.260 Is they will find any opportunity to fraud and so best buy probably does get a lot of fraudulent 02:40:31.740 --> 02:40:37.820 Her dear I got bricks in my GPU box. Dude. I yeah, I worked there. This happened all the time 02:40:38.860 --> 02:40:46.380 Actually all the time so I can understand why they're just like people would buy her dear forget it xbox 360s and return them without the hard drives 02:40:47.340 --> 02:40:52.540 I'm obvious what's going on there customer service person wouldn't notice because they don't necessarily 02:40:52.620 --> 02:40:55.580 They're not necessarily familiar with xbox 360s or whatever 02:40:55.980 --> 02:41:01.420 They'd be yeah, they'd be missing stuff all the time Why buy an accessory when you can just like steal it. Yeah, right. Yeah 02:41:02.380 --> 02:41:08.460 So I can understand that But also like this stuff does happen stuff does get stolen 02:41:09.180 --> 02:41:12.060 In transit and so I this user was 02:41:12.460 --> 02:41:19.820 Rightfully outraged and the fact that it was so easy to investigate and find out that yeah when this package was weighed 02:41:19.980 --> 02:41:26.220 It stopped weighing the same It just feels like best buy didn't even want to solve it. I don't like that 02:41:27.420 --> 02:41:30.380 And the dumbest part is that because of the way that this happened 02:41:30.860 --> 02:41:37.180 Best buy should actually be entitled to compensation from the courier. This is the courier's problem. This is not best buys liability 02:41:39.820 --> 02:41:43.820 So that uh That shopper was one 02:41:44.620 --> 02:41:46.620 Tough customer 02:41:51.740 --> 02:41:59.420 I feel like Dan was prepped for that It's like loaded and ready. It was overhanding it. Yeah, yeah, you know like that old movie from probably 02:41:59.420 --> 02:42:06.380 I'm assuming when we were relatively young Uh of that kid who played baseball and his ARM would like you'd hear like 02:42:07.660 --> 02:42:10.300 And then he'd let go and it would fire off and he ended up playing and like 02:42:11.820 --> 02:42:16.300 Professional leagues. Do you have anyone? Does anyone know I'm talking rookie of the year rookie of the year 02:42:17.900 --> 02:42:23.580 Rookie of the year. Okay. Yeah. No, I've never seen this is it. Wow. The pankrats had that on deck 02:42:24.620 --> 02:42:27.820 Um, but yeah that that uh, that was Dan right there 02:42:28.620 --> 02:42:32.300 Okay, 1993 Ready to hit the bell 02:42:32.300 --> 02:42:36.620 Okay, I probably should have uh, I probably should have seen that one. I'm on the right 02:42:36.700 --> 02:42:44.300 It's a 40 on rotten tomato. So maybe not oh yikes. I mean I pulled out airbud, which probably isn't rated much better 02:42:44.620 --> 02:42:50.300 Yeah, but airbud is legendary I mean rookie of the year is legendary for me, but it might not be for 02:42:50.940 --> 02:42:55.740 For other people. Dude. I don't know. There's some pretty good movies that are rated pretty bad 02:42:55.740 --> 02:42:59.580 Yeah, airbud's a 50 percent and a 40 percent from the audience. So 02:43:00.300 --> 02:43:02.460 Not so much, but this is going to blow your mind 02:43:03.420 --> 02:43:12.540 The boondock saints is rated 26 percent by critics. I had no idea wait by critics. Okay. Yeah 02:43:12.780 --> 02:43:16.460 Who cares about that? No, seriously though, but like wait with den with that clock 02:43:16.940 --> 02:43:20.620 I was going to say that would definitely go on the list would work for your thing 100 percent 02:43:20.780 --> 02:43:22.780 That is a movie to watch how 02:43:23.980 --> 02:43:28.780 And like okay, listen, I haven't watched that movie since I was in my late teens early 20s 02:43:29.340 --> 02:43:32.860 so Maybe maybe stylistically 02:43:33.580 --> 02:43:41.340 artistically It's a crap movie. Maybe it has a bad plot or it's full of cliches and tropes or you know, whatever maybe maybe 02:43:42.140 --> 02:43:48.460 but like I remember enjoying it a lot. I thought it was cool 02:43:49.260 --> 02:43:51.660 It's been forever since I've seen it, but I thought it was cool 02:43:52.460 --> 02:43:59.180 Critics consensus a juvenile ugly movie that represents the worst tendencies of directors channeling Tarantino 02:44:01.180 --> 02:44:06.940 Well, I thought it was awesome. Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool. But again, I haven't seen it since I was quite young 02:44:07.980 --> 02:44:11.100 Who did direct this? Troy Duffy. What else have you directed? 02:44:12.460 --> 02:44:20.780 Oh, okay Not much the sequel to the boondock saints, which nobody liked and no whatever the heck guest house is 02:44:21.340 --> 02:44:31.180 a zero percenter Wow, this guy looks like he just watched the guest house. Yeah, really. I don't know if I've ever seen a zero 02:44:32.140 --> 02:44:36.700 Uh, yeah, that one that I was almost in but got cut out of was a zero for a while 02:44:37.100 --> 02:44:39.740 That makes I think it's one percent now. Oh 02:44:41.340 --> 02:44:48.220 Oh, it's up to four percent probably Uh, yeah, it only takes two people to give it some amazon reviews came in. Yeah 02:44:49.500 --> 02:44:51.500 The plot is ludicrous 02:44:53.340 --> 02:44:59.180 It's a true desktop disaster. I hope that person knew what they were doing. I hope so too. They didn't spell it right though 02:44:59.740 --> 02:45:01.740 Oh, maybe they didn't then 02:45:03.820 --> 02:45:08.060 Luda All right, um, what else we got for today 02:45:08.940 --> 02:45:15.260 Apple find a hundred and sixteen million dollars over app. Actually, no, let's let's go to this one because people keep posting about it 02:45:15.740 --> 02:45:20.220 Where is it? We don't have notes for this Um, Corsair cancels orders and increases prices 02:45:20.380 --> 02:45:25.340 This was mentioned in the pre-show just from some people in chat. Yeah, this is not a prepared topic 02:45:25.820 --> 02:45:30.860 Um, but we have a link over to I guess our subreddit that is talking about 02:45:31.420 --> 02:45:36.140 Corsair's subreddit and some of what's going on again because this is not a prepared topic 02:45:36.140 --> 02:45:41.820 We don't have a lot of notes for this but um, apparently theoretically what's happening is 02:45:42.860 --> 02:45:46.780 Corsair is cancelling orders and yeah, then 02:45:47.500 --> 02:45:51.740 Hiking prices. I think I read No, yeah in this one 02:45:51.740 --> 02:45:55.980 If I scroll down here and this is still on the line of detective subreddit 02:45:55.980 --> 02:45:59.820 So I haven't actually gone to Corsair subreddit yet, but this person shared this photo 02:46:00.380 --> 02:46:04.140 Um, yeah, I had my RAM order cancelled by them to be fair 02:46:04.140 --> 02:46:08.540 It was definitely pricing error on their part 48 gigabytes of DDR5 or 200 bucks 02:46:08.540 --> 02:46:13.340 But still very disappointing the prices for the same ran is now double now and you can see this screenshot 02:46:13.740 --> 02:46:20.860 That basically says it was a system error So they cancelled it on you and they tried to offer a gesture of goodwill of 15 off your next order 02:46:21.980 --> 02:46:27.500 Okay, people are saying in in chat. I read this earlier that in some areas of the world 02:46:28.460 --> 02:46:33.100 Maybe not where this is happening. Maybe this is only happening in the states. I don't know but in some areas in the world 02:46:34.540 --> 02:46:38.620 This is Illegal apparently 02:46:38.620 --> 02:46:42.060 But I don't know if it's illegal where they're doing it. I don't know where they're doing it 02:46:42.300 --> 02:46:46.380 Again, this is a fairly unprepared topic. Um, but pretty 02:46:47.420 --> 02:46:50.140 crazy, um, especially while 02:46:50.860 --> 02:46:56.620 Tensions are rather high over RAM and most of the posts that I'm seeing about this is 02:46:57.420 --> 02:47:01.740 Um, RAM stuff Yeah 02:47:07.740 --> 02:47:10.780 Okay, yeah, I don't know there's a lot of these posts 02:47:13.020 --> 02:47:16.700 There's actually quite a few of them it's going through the course they're subreddit 02:47:22.460 --> 02:47:27.580 Okay, but I don't necessarily have a ton to say about it. Yeah, I don't know if it's actually a pricing error 02:47:27.980 --> 02:47:34.540 um Then it is what it is and it's actually kind of nice of them to offer a 15 discount 02:47:35.100 --> 02:47:43.340 Uh, if it's not A pricing error and it's just pricing going up and them not accounting for it and updating things quickly enough 02:47:43.740 --> 02:47:52.700 That is a pricing error of sorts But it's not a pricing error like a like a data input error in the way that we would typically think of a pricing error 02:47:53.100 --> 02:47:55.500 And the fact that this is happening on complete systems 02:47:57.180 --> 02:48:02.300 Kind of leads me to believe that it could be the latter in which case it's not very cool 02:48:02.780 --> 02:48:06.140 Um, either way, it's again not a prepared topic. We don't really know what's going on 02:48:06.140 --> 02:48:11.900 Yeah, it's going to be down to sort of following this up with your local consumer protection bureau assuming that you have one 02:48:12.620 --> 02:48:18.860 and uh Otherwise or just or just ordering RAM from another apparently they've cranked up the discount 02:48:18.940 --> 02:48:25.740 Here's an updated message that I found on a thread. Oh, uh, we are not on a thread. This is a a post itself 02:48:25.820 --> 02:48:32.300 Sorry, I don't read it enough. Um Truly understand, but uh 40 off a single DRAM product of your choice 02:48:32.460 --> 02:48:37.340 Okay, was the other one for a full system though because I could see 10 off a full system being 02:48:37.580 --> 02:48:43.660 I'm not sure but what I do see here at the bottom says the original 15 cube on remains valid for other components on our 02:48:43.740 --> 02:48:47.180 Web store got it. So that was probably for a system. Oh 02:48:47.660 --> 02:48:55.740 Okay, interesting sounds more like DRAM to me So what this tells me then is Corsair has some stock probably of DRAM that they are 02:48:56.380 --> 02:49:00.940 That is at old contract pricing and they're able to use some of the margin that they have 02:49:01.580 --> 02:49:07.740 On their DRAM that they have at the old pricing as pricing is going up to offer a discount and I mean that's something at least 02:49:08.860 --> 02:49:16.220 Yeah, all right, again, don't know all the details blah blah blah insert various caveats. Oh speaking of the LTT subreddit 02:49:16.540 --> 02:49:20.380 Um before anyone notices it and goes. Sorry what? 02:49:21.020 --> 02:49:25.740 Um, oh shoot. I can't I can't see a list of moderators without being logged in 02:49:25.740 --> 02:49:28.940 But I am officially a moderator on the subreddit now 02:49:29.260 --> 02:49:34.540 This is not because our plan is to you know be meanies and censor people 02:49:35.100 --> 02:49:39.180 um, but Can I make a new account and you flag me as me then? 02:49:39.740 --> 02:49:43.340 Yeah, I can do that because I can't recover my old reddit account. Oh, okay 02:49:43.500 --> 02:49:46.300 Unless someone watching like knows people at reddit and can help me 02:49:47.260 --> 02:49:52.860 Oh, I mean that's probably true too. That would be awesome because I can't recover my old reddit account. Cool 02:49:53.420 --> 02:49:56.620 It seems like when we migrated from last pass to keeper 02:49:56.780 --> 02:50:02.220 Maybe that password didn't come along and I never attached it to an email because you at least used to be able to do that on reddit 02:50:02.220 --> 02:50:09.820 So there seems to be no way for me to recover the account I can log into it. I just have to boot up my old computer which still has an active session 02:50:10.300 --> 02:50:18.220 For whatever reason it's been like You know, I I'm pretty sure the time gap in which I tried it was like over six months 02:50:19.020 --> 02:50:22.540 And then it just it worked no problem, but even being logged into the account 02:50:22.540 --> 02:50:26.700 I can't do anything to recover it or set a new password. So I have been locked out 02:50:27.500 --> 02:50:31.020 cool So, yeah, the goal is not to you know 02:50:32.700 --> 02:50:35.340 Be mean or anything like that 02:50:35.820 --> 02:50:42.620 But I'm also not going to claim that if I see someone who's a complete bad faith 02:50:42.860 --> 02:50:47.820 Dumb dumb that they will continue to have posting privileges. So make of that 02:50:48.460 --> 02:50:53.820 what you will so for instance, there's a thread about the new true spec cables and 02:50:56.780 --> 02:51:03.820 You know, these are going to be the new monster cable and they're going to be have absurd pricing and 02:51:04.860 --> 02:51:12.700 You can just I don't know post on other subreddits I guess because you don't actually have evidence for the claim that you're making 02:51:13.260 --> 02:51:18.460 Um, I think if the community counters that person significantly enough, it might even be good to leave it up 02:51:19.100 --> 02:51:25.180 Um, why? Uh, so that people can see that an argument for that was made and immediately discounted 02:51:26.700 --> 02:51:29.100 But I mean, that's all your call. Yeah 02:51:30.060 --> 02:51:34.140 All right, duly noted It's just an just an idea 02:51:34.380 --> 02:51:38.780 I think there will be cases where that makes sense and there will be plenty of cases where that does not make sense 02:51:40.060 --> 02:51:44.860 Yeah, I don't know. I think uh, I think buddy here who says I've always wanted to buy 02:51:45.500 --> 02:51:50.620 Expensive overpriced usb cables, but didn't feel like going to Best Buy. I think they can just take a vacation though 02:51:51.900 --> 02:51:54.540 Like do they what why why do they need to be here? 02:51:55.980 --> 02:51:58.940 I mean the hate watchers need somewhere to post but they could post somewhere else 02:51:59.420 --> 02:52:02.540 There are other places. There are other places where people can post 02:52:02.540 --> 02:52:07.100 That is an option. It's a hundred percent an option. I'll think about it so far 02:52:07.260 --> 02:52:13.500 I have not I have not banned anyone, but uh, I don't know. That's not necessarily a guarantee is all I'm saying 02:52:16.860 --> 02:52:23.500 And to be clear this is not down to So people in chat are saying dissenting opinions are okay. So here's the problem 02:52:24.460 --> 02:52:26.860 This is not a product that they have seen 02:52:27.900 --> 02:52:34.540 It's not a product that they know anything about If we reviewed things site unseen you'd be pissed. Yeah, you'd hate it 02:52:35.420 --> 02:52:41.820 You'd say that we've completely lost all credibility and any right to offer up an opinion on things 02:52:41.820 --> 02:52:45.580 If we just said stuff completely without any precedent for it or any evidence 02:52:46.380 --> 02:52:49.500 It's just completely bad faith engagement and there's 02:52:50.140 --> 02:52:55.580 Really no need for it. Now if someone wants to review the cables, that's totally different. Go for it. That's totally different 02:52:55.580 --> 02:53:02.380 We've even highlighted reviews of our products that contain negative sentiments here on the windshow. Yep 02:53:02.780 --> 02:53:05.900 We're open to that But if you're just 02:53:05.900 --> 02:53:09.500 Trashing on something that you don't know anything about you don't know the pricing 02:53:09.660 --> 02:53:15.660 You don't know the quality and you're just saying it's bad. You have outed yourself. You've outed yourself as 02:53:17.980 --> 02:53:23.100 A non credible non serious person. No, that's not that's not the same thing guys 02:53:24.060 --> 02:53:27.740 You don't get to have an opinion about something that you don't 02:53:28.460 --> 02:53:30.780 Actually know literally anything about 02:53:31.560 --> 02:53:37.100 Demonstrably you don't know anything about it just kind of doesn't really work like that 02:53:44.700 --> 02:53:51.260 Unique username asks will you delete comments that assume the product is great without them having seen it or having evidenced otherwise 02:53:52.060 --> 02:53:54.700 I don't think I saw any 02:53:56.700 --> 02:54:02.220 Sorry say that again. I wasn't listening Well, you also delete someone who assumes that the product is great 02:54:02.540 --> 02:54:11.020 Without them having seen it or having it be evidenced otherwise I will say that I banned someone on the youtube channel who was who was spamming 02:54:11.580 --> 02:54:15.660 Um an inaccurate defense of some scandal that we had 02:54:16.460 --> 02:54:23.020 so they they were like Ra ra ra super pro LTT also not hopeful about something 02:54:23.580 --> 02:54:27.820 And there was misinformation in their defense. So I shadow banned them 02:54:28.860 --> 02:54:33.020 So no, I'm not interested in people white knighting inaccurately 02:54:34.220 --> 02:54:36.220 However 02:54:42.860 --> 02:54:46.540 That one requires a think that one definitely requires a think 02:54:47.500 --> 02:54:51.500 All right, king jarra says you get to have an opinion on anything. It's an opinion 02:54:52.780 --> 02:54:57.660 Yeah, but it's also not a it's not a government public forum. Yeah, you can go have that opinion anywhere 02:54:57.820 --> 02:55:03.580 You can do it somewhere else. I don't I don't personally like I think there are so I used to be really ra ra about 02:55:06.140 --> 02:55:11.900 Moderation standards on on in certain ways and blah blah blah blah, but I think the internet is so huge now 02:55:12.060 --> 02:55:16.380 You and I were like militantly. Nothing should be deleted. Yeah for a very long time 02:55:16.780 --> 02:55:22.460 The the only like primary rule on the forum was that you can attack us too 02:55:22.940 --> 02:55:29.100 But no personal tax against other people Um and that like that's even that's like really really open 02:55:29.740 --> 02:55:31.740 But now there's just there's just 02:55:32.860 --> 02:55:38.700 It's so easy to mass generate accounts. It's so easy to ai spam with things 02:55:39.420 --> 02:55:42.220 um there's so much like 02:55:42.460 --> 02:55:47.820 group think hatred for Everything you could possibly ever imagine. I'm not even just talking about us 02:55:48.300 --> 02:55:53.340 Um at all to be clear. Um, and it's so easy to hijack a community 02:55:54.620 --> 02:55:59.100 with Surprisingly little effort to just make it a terrible place 02:56:00.220 --> 02:56:04.700 And it's so common now that I just I just don't really care anymore 02:56:05.180 --> 02:56:08.780 Um, there are 10 million other places on the internet more than that that you can go 02:56:09.420 --> 02:56:12.220 It's not like we're like taking your house from you 02:56:12.940 --> 02:56:17.420 like It's literally reddit. There's probably more of subreddits than that 02:56:18.620 --> 02:56:22.060 Oh, there are also other subreddits that will talk about us and our stuff 02:56:23.820 --> 02:56:29.340 Binky draws says i'm a moderator on a medium-sized discord server and there's a huge problem with bot accounts 02:56:29.580 --> 02:56:32.460 Yeah, like it's it's uh, it's actually unreasonable to 02:56:33.340 --> 02:56:38.220 Do in my opinion, what would be considered as like old style of moderation anymore? Um 02:56:38.780 --> 02:56:47.180 Yeah And there's a big difference between saying that you feel 02:56:48.700 --> 02:56:58.060 That the cables might be overpriced and low quality versus saying definitively that it is. Yeah, sure huge difference 02:57:02.700 --> 02:57:13.180 All right, what else we got going on here Oh NVIDIA and AMD rumored to be preparing GPU price hikes in q1 of 2026 and 02:57:14.780 --> 02:57:22.780 Adding some weight to this an ASUS letter has allegedly leaked announcing price hikes starting january 5th 02:57:23.340 --> 02:57:27.740 Which means that it could be our um 02:57:28.540 --> 02:57:32.540 It could be our last positive 02:57:32.540 --> 02:57:36.300 How much is the Intel arc b580? 02:57:37.340 --> 02:57:39.340 investigation check 02:57:40.460 --> 02:57:43.020 Is the b580 still msr? Oh god, what is this? 02:57:49.420 --> 02:57:52.140 Are you kidding me? Wait, wait, wait. Oh out of stock 02:57:53.740 --> 02:57:59.100 No, is that another stock to you? No. Yeah, i'm down into i'm down into all the out of stock stuff 02:58:00.140 --> 02:58:04.300 No Was last week the last one 02:58:05.740 --> 02:58:10.540 Dan don't tell people to panic Why would you tell people to panic? 02:58:11.020 --> 02:58:16.140 It's all going wrong. Why would you why would you spray? Why would you spread panic literally? 02:58:16.700 --> 02:58:19.180 Literally spreading panic burn down your village 02:58:20.140 --> 02:58:25.100 Okay, hold on hold on wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, it's an open box. That's an open box 02:58:26.540 --> 02:58:30.940 Wait, but hold on Is this a shift in usd cad? 02:58:31.500 --> 02:58:37.420 No, it's more of a gap than that. This is us. What is there msr? Oh, no, this you have this. I'm on the us site, dude 02:58:37.900 --> 02:58:41.500 So what is it supposed to be again 249 for the b580? 02:58:42.540 --> 02:58:44.940 And the lowest one is 299 02:58:45.740 --> 02:58:49.420 It hit the holiday bundle is still there, but it's over 02:58:50.620 --> 02:58:53.340 b580 at msrp party is over 02:58:55.820 --> 02:58:59.420 Oh boy No 02:59:02.540 --> 02:59:04.540 No 02:59:07.900 --> 02:59:14.220 Oh, that is such a downer Cell cell cell dump it Dan stop it 02:59:16.460 --> 02:59:19.900 You are not you are the definition of not helping 02:59:20.780 --> 02:59:32.300 All right, what about canada? Okay b580 can computers are you gonna let me down here? 02:59:33.740 --> 02:59:40.140 Okay Online sold out online available for 400. That's way over 250 02:59:41.100 --> 02:59:45.020 No No 02:59:45.580 --> 02:59:48.620 No, it's 300 us now 02:59:49.900 --> 02:59:52.780 Oh, this is probably not the end of it either. All right 02:59:53.180 --> 02:59:58.060 359 from new egg reports out of korea say no, there was one for 299 02:59:58.460 --> 03:00:00.780 Reports out of korea say that in no cad 03:00:01.500 --> 03:00:04.300 Sorry, what cad? Oh where on new egg? Yeah 03:00:05.020 --> 03:00:08.220 Is it in stock? I don't see a thing that says stock to be honest 03:00:08.700 --> 03:00:10.700 Yeah, I took heart. I think you're good 03:00:12.380 --> 03:00:17.020 Boom Okay, so you can still get them at new egg canada 03:00:17.580 --> 03:00:22.620 For about 249 us actually it's a touch higher, but it's a little bit higher. It's not too bad 03:00:22.620 --> 03:00:27.900 That is often how that goes. All right. Do I get to finish the sentence now? Yes. I'm having a very luke experience 03:00:28.940 --> 03:00:36.140 Reports out of korea say I have to do it again that NVIDIA and AMD are planning to jack up GPU prices throughout the show 03:00:36.300 --> 03:00:42.220 in early 2026 and the top end gforce rtx 5090 could end up around five 03:00:43.180 --> 03:00:46.700 Thousand dollars, which is more than double what it first launched for 03:00:47.420 --> 03:00:54.460 Memory costs and broader GPU supply issues are squeezing component prices and makers are said to be shifting 03:00:55.020 --> 03:01:01.340 More of their production towards ai and data centers, which will boost prices across the board 03:01:01.820 --> 03:01:09.420 The hikes are expected to happen in steps throughout q1 2026 affecting not only flagship cards, but a range of consumer gpus 03:01:10.300 --> 03:01:15.100 Meanwhile, ASUS sent partners a notice that starting january 5th of 2026 03:01:15.500 --> 03:01:20.060 It will raise prices on some of its products right before ces gets going 03:01:21.180 --> 03:01:26.620 Roughly translated ASUS's letter doesn't list exact models. It just says they're doing strategic price 03:01:27.180 --> 03:01:30.140 adjustments on certain product combinations 03:01:31.180 --> 03:01:33.900 Discussion question in your time as a tech enthusiast 03:01:34.300 --> 03:01:41.260 Can you remember a worst start to the new year for the tech industry price hikes and shortages seems like a pretty bad way to kick off 03:01:42.060 --> 03:01:44.060 2026 03:01:45.500 --> 03:01:52.220 um I don't know it's this is a tough one because on the one hand there's a lot of bad news 03:01:52.780 --> 03:01:55.740 This is all bad news WAN Show has kind of become bad news show 03:01:56.540 --> 03:02:03.740 yeah, but And this is part of remember that that conversation we had over the kind of the last couple of weeks about sort of the bright side 03:02:04.780 --> 03:02:12.220 bright side of tech and gaming This is one of the things that made its way into the full LTT video on this 03:02:13.420 --> 03:02:16.140 Okay, you can go to pc part picker right now 03:02:17.100 --> 03:02:21.500 And you can select Magnificent AMD gaming and streaming build 03:02:22.300 --> 03:02:30.140 And this thing really is magnificent It has a 9800 x3d the fastest gaming processor known to mankind 03:02:30.620 --> 03:02:39.100 It has a sick thermal right Giant dual tower cooler. It has a b580 pro a 03:02:39.580 --> 03:02:44.780 Motherboard or whatever you could get some other motherboard if you really want actually apparently this one's out of stock. Let's see 03:02:45.820 --> 03:02:50.140 Everything else is either Uh-oh 03:02:50.140 --> 03:02:57.100 Hold on. We might be in trouble Okay, when I looked earlier this week this particular GPU was in stock 03:02:57.260 --> 03:03:00.380 Oh No at time of filming 03:03:00.860 --> 03:03:05.100 At time of filming. Hold on. Let's try and find another one. I'm gonna find one. I'm gonna find one 03:03:05.820 --> 03:03:11.500 Just a sec. Just a second. I'm gonna recover this. There's two different magnificent builds. Hold on. Hold on. There's an Intel on an AMD 03:03:12.540 --> 03:03:17.100 Oh, what am I doing? Getting distracted 03:03:17.340 --> 03:03:24.220 Rtx 5080. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Okay, so for 11 11 99. Okay, so that's a little more. That's a little more 03:03:24.620 --> 03:03:30.380 It is 17 16 dollars more. Okay, so that's fine my point stands 03:03:30.700 --> 03:03:36.140 So you just got to go find a motherboard which is fine. Okay. Well, so we'll pay at most maybe another like 30 40 bucks 03:03:36.300 --> 03:03:41.900 Okay, everything else here is in stock. Cool. Okay, so this is a sick system 03:03:42.300 --> 03:03:47.900 32 gigs of DDR5 6000 cl 30 memory. It's a nice little memory kit two terabytes 03:03:48.140 --> 03:03:50.940 This is samsung 980 pro. There's a nice SSD 03:03:51.500 --> 03:03:58.380 Okay, rtx 5080 argb quick case from Corsair. You could save a few bucks by not going Corsair 03:03:58.860 --> 03:04:03.820 Uh thousand watt 80 plus gold modular power supply. This is a sick build 03:04:04.620 --> 03:04:08.780 for let's call it 2650 us dollars 03:04:09.340 --> 03:04:14.060 is If we're looking at the guides page of pc park bigger, which ones? 03:04:14.940 --> 03:04:20.940 Is maybe top two. Do you think people are actually building that hold on hold on that's not quite the point 03:04:21.260 --> 03:04:28.620 Yeah, okay. I think it matters, but all right. The point is that we did a 4k gaming system build guide 11 years ago 03:04:30.860 --> 03:04:33.900 Putting together a top spec gaming machine 03:04:34.620 --> 03:04:42.060 was four thousand dollars At that time the 4k build was 4k. I actually remember joking about that at the time 03:04:42.380 --> 03:04:45.980 So Is it bad? 03:04:45.980 --> 03:04:51.340 Well, yeah, it's definitely bad that this RAM is more expensive than it was 03:04:51.660 --> 03:04:55.580 It's definitely bad that GPU prices are going up 03:04:58.140 --> 03:05:04.220 But Gaming and tech have still kind of been there for us in a pretty big way 03:05:04.780 --> 03:05:09.260 The fact that I can buy an absolute monster of a machine 03:05:09.820 --> 03:05:16.540 For 2,500 bucks compared to the way that everything else in our lives is going up 03:05:19.260 --> 03:05:21.260 It's pretty cool 03:05:23.740 --> 03:05:30.380 It could be better. Yeah, I'd love it if it was better. Yeah, I also think like the the disproportional hit is not on people 03:05:31.100 --> 03:05:34.620 Buying the magnificent build and that's true and that's true 03:05:35.660 --> 03:05:40.940 It's rough. Yeah It was like even if you're going for the great and like I I did scroll down here 03:05:40.940 --> 03:05:45.740 I noticed there's the entry and modest are like way below the fold 03:05:45.740 --> 03:05:52.140 Hold on have a have a click on the entry level one though Because like I remember building an entry level system for myself back in the 03:05:52.700 --> 03:05:58.460 Sort of mid to late 2000s and it didn't even have a dedicated GPU. I'm willing to bet this has a dedicated GPU 03:05:59.020 --> 03:06:06.540 Yeah, b580. Yeah So like it's showing an msrp b580. Oh, yeah, there you go bnh apparently has stock 03:06:07.180 --> 03:06:12.220 What out of stock. Oh in stock in stock. Oh, okay. That looked that didn't look green 03:06:12.300 --> 03:06:15.900 It looked gray. It looked like a gray circle with a slash through it from here 03:06:17.980 --> 03:06:22.220 I think it is gray. It's just a check mark, but it's okay. That's really stupid a little odd bnh 03:06:22.220 --> 03:06:27.180 You should probably use the color green for that I just just convention 03:06:27.340 --> 03:06:29.500 That's my opinion which i'm entitled to have 03:06:30.540 --> 03:06:38.540 Yeah You know you could get banned. I could and they're allowed to ban me from their site. They are allowed to they're actually allowed to do that. Yeah 03:06:39.340 --> 03:06:43.420 um The the the 32 gigs ran for 179 is 03:06:44.220 --> 03:06:49.100 surprising so Yes, you know 03:06:49.100 --> 03:06:52.620 It could be it could be It could be better 03:06:52.620 --> 03:06:58.140 But I also do feel like some of this is people just kind of piling on to an issue 03:06:59.580 --> 03:07:04.700 And Rage baiting and I don't think it's rage baiting 03:07:04.700 --> 03:07:09.740 I think I think you're uh, you don't think people posting like a $2,000 RAM kid is rage baiting a little bit 03:07:09.900 --> 03:07:14.700 Nobody was buying that anyway. Okay, maybe a little bit even if it was a thousand. I'm sure there's I'm sure there's some of that 03:07:14.700 --> 03:07:20.220 This does still definitely suck for people that it does especially on the lower end where like a 03:07:20.940 --> 03:07:24.780 because if I remember correctly the magnificent bill that RAM cost was about was 03:07:25.660 --> 03:07:29.420 Like a little bit more than 10 percent Yeah 03:07:29.500 --> 03:07:33.740 Yeah, it was on some of these entry ones. I'm assuming this is like a really significant punch 03:07:34.060 --> 03:07:38.540 Like when we're looking at great AMD gaming build. Yeah, I haven't even clicked on this one yet. Let's see 03:07:40.060 --> 03:07:45.020 Yeah, like the ramping 314 dollars on a system that is where is it? 03:07:46.780 --> 03:07:53.100 1387 yeah is going to push past people's limits to the point where they might have to step down 03:07:53.660 --> 03:07:56.140 Um, hold on. Can you go back to that one though? Sure 03:07:57.100 --> 03:08:00.220 But let's again, let's look at the bigger picture here 03:08:00.860 --> 03:08:05.020 So this is a really nice six core processor 03:08:05.100 --> 03:08:11.100 Uh, what kind of GPU do we have in here? We have a 50. Ooh, we have a 50 60 ti a game stop SSD 03:08:11.580 --> 03:08:18.220 Okay, no this build sucks. What is a game stop? I didn't know game stop had I might just generally have kind of issues with this 03:08:18.220 --> 03:08:21.900 Build though because what on earth are you doing using and is this? 03:08:22.620 --> 03:08:27.100 Oh, this is a thing. Yeah, this is a thing. That's wild. Sorry. I had no idea at this budget 03:08:27.180 --> 03:08:33.340 You should be using a stock cooler though. You should not be using an x chip which just saved you probably about 40 bucks 03:08:34.460 --> 03:08:39.260 What else do we have here? Oh that 50 60 ti is not the choice 03:08:40.700 --> 03:08:44.780 So you should just be using an arc b580 which just saved you another hundred plus 03:08:45.980 --> 03:08:50.940 Dollars no not a hundred plus. Oh, yeah, which just saved you like another hundred fifty dollars 03:08:52.860 --> 03:08:56.780 Also, if I'm spending 70 dollars on a case, I'm sure as heck not getting a mon tech 03:08:58.380 --> 03:09:01.900 And I do not need a 750 watt power supply. That's a crappy build 03:09:02.220 --> 03:09:05.980 This is where I think in this price range you're going to benefit from at least doing a 03:09:06.540 --> 03:09:12.860 At the very least a bit of a hybrid approach try to get your case used or something. I would for sure get one on facebook marketplace 03:09:14.700 --> 03:09:22.460 Yeah, this is this is not uh I haven't priced out a rig in a long time. I'm not going to comment but 03:09:23.900 --> 03:09:27.580 Yeah, that's that's not a good. That's not a well configured build 03:09:28.380 --> 03:09:33.020 um Is it possible that it was at one point and then pricing changes made it worse? 03:09:33.180 --> 03:09:38.860 That is possible But also it's just like got too big of a power supply which is great if you're trying to future proof 03:09:38.860 --> 03:09:43.260 but if you're targeting like around a thousand to eleven hundred dollars then 03:09:44.060 --> 03:09:48.220 you're In my opinion better off getting what you need 03:09:48.940 --> 03:09:56.540 um 750 watt Yeah, you'd want to spec down from that dude if i'm if i'm running an rtx 40 60 03:09:56.700 --> 03:10:01.260 Like what does an rtx 40 60 even use like 200 watts or something 50 60 ti? 03:10:02.220 --> 03:10:08.540 I'm not sure. Sorry. What was it 50 60 ti? Okay. Let me check what a 50 60 ti is because I don't think it uses a ton of power 03:10:10.380 --> 03:10:12.940 Yeah, it's it's a 180 watt card 03:10:13.420 --> 03:10:17.820 I just found it's and then you have a 95 You have a 95 watt CPU 03:10:17.980 --> 03:10:23.020 What are you doing buying a 750 watt power supply for that? I don't know how much money you're going to save going down to 03:10:23.900 --> 03:10:26.700 650 or 550 or something it adds up though 03:10:27.340 --> 03:10:30.380 Yeah, because you could save 20 bucks on your case you could save 03:10:30.860 --> 03:10:34.460 Uh 30 what what I say about 40 bucks on your CPU and cooler 03:10:34.860 --> 03:10:40.460 You can save what another 15 20 bucks on your power supply. You could save 100 150 bucks on your GPU 03:10:40.940 --> 03:10:45.740 Okay, now we're talking about an appreciable difference and how much you're paying for this computer like 03:10:47.420 --> 03:10:53.260 It's This is what I spent years of my life doing on the ncix forums 03:10:53.740 --> 03:10:57.420 Is saving three dollars on this and ten dollars on that 03:10:57.900 --> 03:11:03.100 And 15 bucks on this and four dollars on that and all of a sudden you saved some more fans 03:11:03.180 --> 03:11:09.020 You saved a hundred dollars on your system. That's a free copy of Windows back when people bought that what no one ever did 03:11:09.420 --> 03:11:16.300 Uh, oh, yeah, that's a lie. Dude. Do you have any idea how many system invoices I have looked at in my life? 03:11:17.740 --> 03:11:23.900 People buy Windows. This is going to be mind-blowing for for many many members of our audience 03:11:24.540 --> 03:11:30.220 many members of our audience People definitely definitely buy Windows 03:11:30.940 --> 03:11:35.020 And just scrolling through some of the power supplies. You're not going to save a ton, but you might save 10 bucks 03:11:35.100 --> 03:11:38.060 Yeah, which is hey 10 bucks is 10 bucks 03:11:38.460 --> 03:11:42.380 Especially if you don't need modular like oh wait, hold on. Was that one modular? 03:11:42.860 --> 03:11:45.500 Uh, okay the one in the build. Yeah 03:11:48.540 --> 03:11:51.580 Well, I mean it's like 10 trillion different ones. I think yeah, it's modular 03:11:51.580 --> 03:11:55.900 So that's part of the filters you do not need a modular power supply in a thousand dollar build 03:11:56.380 --> 03:12:05.420 That's that's silly. You should not be doing that So people are just they're making unwise decisions in the configuration and going how long a lot of the power supplies 03:12:05.420 --> 03:12:11.580 I've had have lasted I might want to get a a bit higher wattage modular one knowing that I can carry it into my next build 03:12:11.660 --> 03:12:18.540 Sure, but then you're going to be making Compromises that I personally would consider to be unacceptable at that budget 03:12:19.180 --> 03:12:21.740 At that budget i'm $10 more on a power supply 03:12:22.460 --> 03:12:27.260 If I think I can carry it into my next build it all adds up I mean, but that's how you end up 03:12:27.260 --> 03:12:31.740 Spending a little more on every component because you could I could make the same justification across the board 03:12:32.220 --> 03:12:34.220 You don't need 32 gigs of RAM today 03:12:36.780 --> 03:12:40.380 Yeah I don't know if that's valid you like it 03:12:40.940 --> 03:12:43.740 I don't know if it's saying you can do that for every component is valid though 03:12:44.540 --> 03:12:49.260 There are power supplies that have lasted a what he ought to minute. No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying 03:12:49.580 --> 03:12:53.340 I'm saying that that that rationale that 03:12:53.340 --> 03:12:58.700 That while This could last a little longer if I get a better one you could say the same thing for the case for sure 03:12:59.020 --> 03:13:03.020 Yeah, like I'll get a slightly better case. I think the case and then you could say the better thing 03:13:03.260 --> 03:13:08.380 You could say the better same thing for your CPU cooler I'll get a better CPU cooler and I'll carry it forward with me to the next build 03:13:08.460 --> 03:13:14.380 Especially if you can get new mounting brackets or or make your own and so my point is and now all of a sudden 03:13:14.700 --> 03:13:17.100 You're you're kind of buying a different class of machine 03:13:17.820 --> 03:13:21.820 And when I'm configuring disagree when I'm configuring a thousand dollar build 03:13:21.980 --> 03:13:26.380 I'm focused on performance I don't think I'm getting to a different class machine by spending 10 more dollars on my power supply 03:13:26.460 --> 03:13:31.100 But you are you're using a different rationale for how you're choosing your components sure 03:13:31.500 --> 03:13:35.500 I am choosing my components at that price point based on what this gets me today 03:13:35.980 --> 03:13:39.340 If I can get some degree of future proofness out of it, then that's great 03:13:39.900 --> 03:13:48.220 But I don't think that a 650 or even a 550 watt power supply is going to meaningfully impact my upgrade path 03:13:48.620 --> 03:13:52.860 Because at the end of the day if I'm someone that's shopping for a 50 60 ti today 03:13:53.340 --> 03:13:58.060 I am not someone that's shopping for a 70 80 in a couple of years 03:13:58.460 --> 03:14:04.620 That's a completely different class of product And if I am that might be totally legit depending on life stage 03:14:04.940 --> 03:14:11.180 And but if I am and my life stage has changed that much you might also get a higher quality power supply 03:14:11.660 --> 03:14:18.460 That's it would take some research, but sure But if you're looking at you know 10 or 20 dollars cheaper, you're still getting a quality unit 03:14:18.860 --> 03:14:28.700 You're just getting one that's rated a little lower And the same way that if my life stage has changed such that I go from shopping for an arc b580 to shopping for 03:14:29.340 --> 03:14:34.700 a 70 80 Or something like that. I'm all of a sudden I can afford a 1500 dollar GPU 03:14:35.100 --> 03:14:40.300 My life stage has probably changed to the point where I could offload my old system and I could buy a new power supply 03:14:40.780 --> 03:14:44.220 Like that's the thing working at the computer store, man 03:14:45.020 --> 03:14:47.500 I thought everybody upgrades their computers 03:14:48.540 --> 03:14:55.500 People don't upgrade their computers. I do though. I know you do which is why your perspective is very interesting 03:14:56.300 --> 03:15:00.540 but As someone who worked at the store 03:15:00.780 --> 03:15:04.060 Yeah, but we're talking to people in the community that might actually upgrade their stuff 03:15:04.300 --> 03:15:09.180 Of course, there are some ancient power supplies that are not well priced on phaser marketplace. This is rough 03:15:10.060 --> 03:15:13.260 Well, look at how old this xfx power supply is 03:15:14.220 --> 03:15:18.140 I mean, it's also 60 bucks. It's also 40 about 45 us dollars 03:15:18.940 --> 03:15:23.740 I mean, I'd trust that in my system It is old 03:15:24.300 --> 03:15:27.820 Yeah Is that 80 plus gold or bronze? 03:15:28.620 --> 03:15:30.620 Oh, that's one of their weaker ones. Um 03:15:31.820 --> 03:15:37.900 xfx's power supplies from that era were quality though, and I believe this is this is the 03:15:38.700 --> 03:15:45.180 All wattage available on the 12 volt rail era. You can you can double check that by just zooming in really close 03:15:45.660 --> 03:15:49.900 Yeah, 744 of this 755 watts is on the 12 volt rail 03:15:50.540 --> 03:15:56.140 Um, I would probably check real quick and just make sure that it doesn't have like a virtual multi rail thing 03:15:56.140 --> 03:16:01.020 That's going to cause ocp to trip, but I believe this is post that as well 03:16:01.500 --> 03:16:05.420 So I would I would probably trust that xfx. It's not going to be the most efficient thing in the world 03:16:05.420 --> 03:16:07.980 But it should be reliable. It's just so old 03:16:08.700 --> 03:16:15.900 Yeah, but like so Like three minutes ago. You were like, well power supply part of the justification for spending more is I can use it a long time 03:16:15.900 --> 03:16:20.780 Buying one without a significant discount that is already ancient. How is it not a significant discount? 03:16:20.860 --> 03:16:23.660 What's a 750 watt power supply today? I don't know in Canada 03:16:24.220 --> 03:16:28.380 Well, I mean we can it doesn't feel like a significant if only I mean 03:16:29.420 --> 03:16:37.340 We we can't just go on vibes and feelings Right, but I'm acknowledging that because we're having a discussion about something that I don't have up-to-date numbers on this are very reasonable 03:16:37.500 --> 03:16:40.780 Okay, okay. It is a very significant discount. Okay. Yeah 03:16:41.180 --> 03:16:45.340 I'd be interested to see from like lucas or something like grabbing a bunch of 03:16:46.700 --> 03:16:51.340 Old power supplies like that I ah, you know what I wanted to do years ago 03:16:51.820 --> 03:16:56.460 Do you remember the video that we did where we got a brand new evga? 03:16:57.260 --> 03:17:02.380 580 gtx and we compared it against one that had been used for like 10 years 03:17:04.140 --> 03:17:12.620 To find out if Like because people people imagine that their their silicon devices go slower over time 03:17:13.500 --> 03:17:17.820 And we basically had been trying to debunk that for a long time like 03:17:18.620 --> 03:17:21.740 I'm not a memory of this. I do have some memory if it runs at 03:17:22.380 --> 03:17:27.660 megahertz x Then it is running at megahertz x like 03:17:28.620 --> 03:17:33.740 modern silicon that you know has that can that that dynamically 03:17:34.940 --> 03:17:37.340 Changes its clock speeds right that turbo boosts 03:17:38.060 --> 03:17:43.900 might turbo less aggressively over time or your thermal interface material might degrade 03:17:44.300 --> 03:17:49.260 Right and that could impact performance, but megahertz is megahertz. I don't make the rules 03:17:49.420 --> 03:17:55.020 it runs at the speed it runs at and If you are imagining that there is some kind of slowdown 03:17:55.500 --> 03:18:01.260 It is probably because your demands have increased or the software that you're using is 03:18:01.980 --> 03:18:06.620 um Well, I guess that's basically just another way of saying your demands have increased 03:18:07.420 --> 03:18:12.060 and um, which is almost certainly happening which is almost certainly happening 03:18:13.900 --> 03:18:21.180 And you imagined it or or you imagined it Those are those are basically the two options and you'd have people swearing up and down that 03:18:21.660 --> 03:18:27.340 Running exactly the same software exactly the same way it gets slower over time. So we we debunked it once and for all 03:18:27.340 --> 03:18:31.740 We took a brand new sealed in box that evga found for us 03:18:32.220 --> 03:18:37.820 And tested it against an old one that had been on the bench for years and also in someone's system for years 03:18:38.300 --> 03:18:42.940 And we ran them through the exact same suite and lo and behold they performed 03:18:43.260 --> 03:18:47.980 Exactly the same because that's how it works. Did you tim replace the heavily used one? 03:18:48.220 --> 03:18:53.180 I don't even think well, we didn't because it didn't matter because there was no dynamic clock speed adjustments on the 580 03:18:53.980 --> 03:18:59.180 So the point was if it's running at clock speed x then its performance will be x 03:19:00.060 --> 03:19:04.860 It's that simple And I had wanted to do the same thing for a power supply 03:19:05.500 --> 03:19:08.300 I wanted to get my hands on a brand new 03:19:09.260 --> 03:19:15.420 Old model power supply And compare it against one that had been deployed for 10 years or something like that in someone's 03:19:15.500 --> 03:19:19.900 You know server closet or something and I was just I was never able to get it together because 03:19:20.460 --> 03:19:25.180 Everyone talks about how you should budget like 10 for a capacitor aging 03:19:25.820 --> 03:19:29.100 but My understanding is that's actually 03:19:29.740 --> 03:19:34.380 Super ancient outdated device outdated advice from like the electrolytic 03:19:35.100 --> 03:19:42.620 Capacitor era like solid state caps from my understanding of them may decay a little bit 03:19:42.700 --> 03:19:47.020 But not to nearly the same degree that those older power supplies did 03:19:47.740 --> 03:19:51.340 But I just I haven't really I haven't pursued it recently 03:19:51.340 --> 03:19:56.060 But I when I like looked into it and wanted to do it. I wasn't able to find anyone who was able to 03:19:56.620 --> 03:20:00.060 To get me an old one Um 03:20:00.060 --> 03:20:05.660 And and an untouched oh and pock nor 47 and Floatplane chat for crying out loud 03:20:05.980 --> 03:20:10.860 Context matters They're saying I understand the point but megahertz is a terrible metric 03:20:11.180 --> 03:20:17.180 I had a pentium 4 that ran at 3 gigahertz and my 5800 x3 runs at 3.4 not what I was saying 03:20:17.740 --> 03:20:21.260 We're talking two of an identical product over time 03:20:21.820 --> 03:20:24.860 Context matters not ipc improvements and stuff 03:20:25.180 --> 03:20:28.220 Sheesh all right 03:20:28.380 --> 03:20:30.380 Anywho 03:20:31.580 --> 03:20:35.580 Um What topic are we even on? 03:20:36.940 --> 03:20:44.940 Oh, okay. We got now we were done that new one modders are slapping 32 gigs of um on NVIDIA's rtx 50 80s 03:20:45.900 --> 03:20:49.980 but Spoiler that's not good news for gamers 03:20:50.620 --> 03:20:54.540 The modded variants are for AI workstations and servers 03:20:55.980 --> 03:21:00.540 cool I guess there's really 03:21:00.620 --> 03:21:06.700 Not much to say about it other than that what tier of modders is doing this like is this could people do this at home 03:21:06.860 --> 03:21:09.100 Oh heavens now. Yeah, I didn't think so. Yeah 03:21:09.980 --> 03:21:13.740 I knew there was some like, you know back in the langley house. There was 03:21:14.700 --> 03:21:18.860 um Some power mods you could do to cards that were like 03:21:19.740 --> 03:21:23.100 consumer level doable. I think it was uh, I think it was 03:21:23.980 --> 03:21:26.460 Yeah, this already. Yeah, I think it was kingpin. Yeah 03:21:27.100 --> 03:21:34.380 Who uh cut the back end off of a GPU and like took the like the back end vrm of another GPU and just like 03:21:34.860 --> 03:21:40.460 Soldered them together and ran it. I might be remembering this incorrectly. I don't know but I didn't even think he cut one off 03:21:40.460 --> 03:21:45.420 I thought he just like it came out in an angle. He's probably done both if we're being realistic 03:21:45.660 --> 03:21:52.060 Yeah, what am I looking at here? Whatever i'm looking at. Um is not something that regular people will be doing 03:21:53.100 --> 03:21:57.820 No, so it's pretty sick though. I love that their test platform 03:21:58.380 --> 03:22:00.640 Just is a hunk of copper on the GPU 03:22:02.220 --> 03:22:05.660 So that it will run long enough for them to verify post 03:22:06.540 --> 03:22:13.340 It's just it is literally a heat sink That's awesome. The GPU is sinking heat into this copper slug 03:22:13.980 --> 03:22:21.100 With no actual active cooling on it whatsoever because it's not worth reassembling just to find out if it will 03:22:21.980 --> 03:22:27.740 post That is amazing. I'm saying this to the public not to you, but you ever seen the palm method 03:22:28.700 --> 03:22:37.420 I've used it. Yeah, me too You just put your hand on the chip and you use human water cooling to keep it from frying itself while you just see if it works 03:22:37.500 --> 03:22:39.980 You gotta go relatively fast. That'll get hot real fast 03:22:40.860 --> 03:22:48.300 um, but oh man Mc mcbane says Linus has not been watching north ridge fix. Okay. I don't know if this was from north ridge fix 03:22:48.300 --> 03:22:53.340 But I did see a motherboard repair that went viral recently that was 03:22:54.140 --> 03:23:00.140 Mind-blowing like multi-layer pcb. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I saw something about that 03:23:00.460 --> 03:23:06.460 unreal Unreal at that point. You're just flexing. I think by the way 03:23:06.620 --> 03:23:13.340 Um, do as we say not as we do putting your hand on the chip. Uh, people in people in chat are all like 03:23:13.420 --> 03:23:17.420 Yeah, I burned myself doing that lost a couple fingerprints. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're not recommending that 03:23:17.820 --> 03:23:22.540 That's a terrible terrible idea. It's bad for your body. It's bad for the the electronic device 03:23:23.900 --> 03:23:28.140 Cool. Good chat. Uh, apple don't do it again apple has been 03:23:30.780 --> 03:23:35.100 Apple has been fined 116 million over app privacy prompts 03:23:36.060 --> 03:23:42.220 This is wild italy's antitrust authority has fined apple 98.6 million euro 03:23:42.700 --> 03:23:45.740 saying that one of the company's privacy features 03:23:46.460 --> 03:23:50.060 unfairly restricted competition in the app store 03:23:51.580 --> 03:23:57.820 Hold on a second though regulators were focused on app tracking transparency 03:23:58.460 --> 03:24:04.380 apple's system that requires apps to ask users for permission before tracking them for targeted ads 03:24:05.180 --> 03:24:10.460 italy says apple forces third-party apps to ask for user consent twice 03:24:11.020 --> 03:24:17.580 Creating extra friction that hurts developers and advertisers who rely on ad revenue 03:24:20.460 --> 03:24:22.460 But that sounds okay 03:24:23.740 --> 03:24:31.580 I'm with apple on this one. Yeah a hundred percent apple argues the ruling prioritizes ad tech companies over user privacy 03:24:32.060 --> 03:24:36.060 Yeah, uh, yeah And says a t t 03:24:37.020 --> 03:24:42.380 App tracking transparency gives users clear control over dragon, which is great applies equal 03:24:42.940 --> 03:24:47.580 Equally to all developers, which is great. Well, hold on. Does it apply equally to apple? That's the one thing 03:24:47.740 --> 03:24:52.620 That's what I thought this was gonna talk about And does it does it actually not? 03:24:53.020 --> 03:24:58.860 Apply to apple. Yeah, I mean I don't use I don't know man the first time you log into an iphone 03:24:58.940 --> 03:25:05.580 It's pretty full of ads to use apple services like iCloud and stuff like that. I don't know that necessarily 03:25:06.300 --> 03:25:11.740 Qualifies as a targeted ad, but I would say that an iCloud subscription to someone who owns an iphone 03:25:12.460 --> 03:25:21.260 Yeah, I'd call that a targeted ad Interesting anyway interesting line carry on not saying I disagree but interesting line. I don't think it's quite the same 03:25:21.980 --> 03:25:24.140 No, I understand what you're saying. It also isn't 03:25:25.020 --> 03:25:28.060 Not a targeted ad totally. Yeah, if they know i'm out of storage 03:25:28.700 --> 03:25:35.020 for my photos And they give me the second it becomes storage-based it feels like it's a little bit more so 03:25:36.140 --> 03:25:40.460 Ah, it's still it's still like they are still technically different things and they sure as hell aren't offering me 03:25:40.700 --> 03:25:45.740 A cloud storage option from anyone else. Yeah, does apple do anti-competitive things? Oh, yeah 03:25:46.140 --> 03:25:50.780 Yeah, one drive for your iphone, but is app tracking transparency? 03:25:51.420 --> 03:25:55.260 Uh requiring apps to ask users for permission before tracking them one of them 03:25:57.740 --> 03:26:00.300 Yeah, that one I'm more with apple on 03:26:01.740 --> 03:26:04.620 And someone asks is this analogous to one drive in microsoft 03:26:05.020 --> 03:26:11.260 Uh, absolutely. Yeah, and it's just as f***ing ridiculous. Yeah, see that's the whole thing, right? 03:26:11.340 --> 03:26:13.900 Is I often get told i'm hating on apple 03:26:14.460 --> 03:26:17.740 But I hate it exactly the same if microsoft does it 03:26:19.020 --> 03:26:23.900 So maybe Possibly what I hate is the behavior and the attitude 03:26:25.100 --> 03:26:27.100 And there's a lot of that on microsoft. Oh 03:26:28.300 --> 03:26:33.100 The the decision follows a similar ruling in france earlier this year where apple was fined 150 million 03:26:33.980 --> 03:26:36.220 euros over the same feature 03:26:37.580 --> 03:26:39.580 I like this feature though. Yeah 03:26:40.860 --> 03:26:47.980 I I really don't care about anything that apple does that is a big middle finger to the targeted ad industry man back with 03:26:48.060 --> 03:26:51.580 I I don't I think this comparison makes sense back when tell us was cool 03:26:51.900 --> 03:26:58.140 They would call you when your contract was about up and be like look we can go kind of two different paths here 03:26:58.780 --> 03:27:03.340 We can get you more performance for the same price or same performance for less price 03:27:03.820 --> 03:27:09.100 Choose your path and it was always like what a great phone call to receive and then they stopped doing that because they're dumb 03:27:09.580 --> 03:27:15.500 Um, I don't have a I got an email from them like talking about a few things because I called them out for a practice 03:27:15.500 --> 03:27:20.380 That I was going to like actually go after them for and then they fix it so things are good. Um 03:27:21.340 --> 03:27:24.380 But I also called that out because I was like this was such an amazing phone call 03:27:24.460 --> 03:27:32.700 I would get a call every like two years. It would be from tell us I would see tell us on the caller id and be excited because I was like nice. I'm either getting faster internet or 03:27:33.820 --> 03:27:36.700 Less money being taken away. There was a great call every time 03:27:37.180 --> 03:27:40.060 blah blah blah their argument was that like people hated the calls 03:27:40.940 --> 03:27:47.260 I'm like there is no way that people hated those calls more than their bill going up without them knowing that it's happening 03:27:47.500 --> 03:27:50.860 Or their neighbor getting a better deal than they are just because they didn't know 03:27:51.100 --> 03:27:54.140 Yeah, so like there's actually that's just a bs excuse 03:27:54.220 --> 03:27:57.100 And they could have also done it as an email if people don't like the calls 03:27:57.340 --> 03:28:02.940 Definitely figured out that this just like they could have applied it automatically cost you money. Yeah. Yeah 03:28:04.060 --> 03:28:08.860 There were many other there were many other paths to take so like don't tell me the the thing 03:28:09.820 --> 03:28:15.580 Tim 000x3 says the do not track button on iphone is the reason that I use iphone 03:28:15.660 --> 03:28:19.340 Yeah, there are apps that I desperately need on Android, but I can't justify it 03:28:19.660 --> 03:28:28.220 I could use a hardened version of Android But the best one to do that with is for the pixel graphing os shout out and I don't want to give money to google tim 03:28:28.300 --> 03:28:31.900 I have an idea for you buy a secondhand pixel 03:28:32.220 --> 03:28:36.540 You can have a pixel you can run graphing os you can give google zero dollars 03:28:37.580 --> 03:28:41.500 Just just an idea just a thought pretty good wgd 118 says Linus 03:28:41.580 --> 03:28:47.580 Do you have more knowledge about the targeted ad industry now that you're buying ads for LTT Store for the backpack and screwdrivers? 03:28:48.220 --> 03:28:53.500 I'll be honest with you. I am not buying those ads I don't know anything more about it other than 03:28:54.220 --> 03:28:58.620 You know what I know from like the news and you know learning about it and stuff 03:28:58.700 --> 03:29:02.700 Yeah, the the other part of what I was going to say is whenever my phone mentions like 03:29:03.580 --> 03:29:06.700 Hey, we noticed that these apps have 03:29:07.260 --> 03:29:12.300 Privacy features on them or whatever and you don't use these apps very much. Do you want to remove their privacy features? 03:29:12.700 --> 03:29:19.580 That's such a like Thanks, bro. It's such a bro notification. Thanks for sending me that. I wanted to see that. Thank you very much 03:29:19.580 --> 03:29:27.180 Even if I'm like, no, those are fine Very happy to receive that notification. Just like that. Tell us call. There are certain things this app 03:29:27.740 --> 03:29:32.620 Tracking transparency. I want that pop-up. That's a great pop-up. Thanks for giving me that pop-up 03:29:33.500 --> 03:29:38.460 Heck, yeah anyways Moving on 03:29:38.860 --> 03:29:48.460 Is that it for topics? Yeah, it's after dark. You have a thing up here playing expedition 33. Oh, yeah, I'm really enjoying it. Yeah, good 03:29:48.700 --> 03:29:51.020 I'm playing on the gpd win five, which is 03:29:51.980 --> 03:29:55.420 Oh, that's the big chonker one, right? No. Oh, it's the 03:29:56.380 --> 03:30:00.140 reasonable sized one That apple vision pro style 03:30:00.540 --> 03:30:05.260 has a tether to a battery that like you could put in your pocket 03:30:05.500 --> 03:30:10.940 Except This is pretty funny. He just played in bed. I put it in my pocket 03:30:11.260 --> 03:30:17.900 Um, when I was sitting at the at the kitchen nook table eating my bedtime cereal 03:30:18.540 --> 03:30:21.180 That I'm back on because I lost a bunch of weight. So what's the downside? 03:30:23.020 --> 03:30:27.020 I made that Not really how that works, but hey, whatever 03:30:27.660 --> 03:30:38.380 Well, what am I going to do gain back my weight like I'm still exercising. So whatever which honestly, I was clearly calorie calorie deficit 03:30:39.180 --> 03:30:43.340 So if I'm just going to like consume some more calories and keep working out 03:30:44.540 --> 03:30:53.660 I was I was playing badminton with a former Canadian Olympian. Uh, is this yesterday? Yeah, yesterday. Uh, she's she's super chill 03:30:56.380 --> 03:31:06.060 Wrong one That would be impressive. There we go. Yeah, so uh, she came by smash. Yeah, she came by smash champs and was hanging with us 03:31:06.540 --> 03:31:11.740 And uh, her thank you the facilities her and her husband bobby millroy who is also um 03:31:12.620 --> 03:31:18.460 Back in the day Pretty pretty hardcore. He was a little younger here 03:31:19.260 --> 03:31:25.020 um, but yeah, absolutely like They're older than me and Yvonne, but they were pros 03:31:25.740 --> 03:31:29.660 Right, and it's just it shows. It's a completely different 03:31:30.540 --> 03:31:35.020 level like they can just They can hit the straight shot 03:31:35.260 --> 03:31:41.260 And and straight shot doesn't mean straight. It just means the um, the highest probability shot from that position 03:31:42.300 --> 03:31:48.780 You kind of get what I mean by that. Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, so they can hit the straight shot and they can like keep a rally going with us or they can just like 03:31:50.140 --> 03:31:53.340 Do like a double like a double pump or like uh, like a weird 03:31:53.900 --> 03:31:57.100 Sort of like, you know slice shot or whatever and then just 03:31:57.740 --> 03:32:03.340 We call it an ankle breaker And they can just have you moving completely the wrong direction and like it goes the other way 03:32:03.340 --> 03:32:08.780 And they can just like end the rally kind of anytime they want Um, anyway, what was I talking about? 03:32:10.300 --> 03:32:16.300 Uh, expedition 33 and then oh, yeah expedition 33. So anyway, the point is I've been exercising 03:32:16.300 --> 03:32:22.700 I don't care about my bedtime cereal deal with this. Um, oh, I however, that's fine. However, it can lead to problems 03:32:23.180 --> 03:32:27.420 See, I was sitting there playing expedition 33 with the battery in my pocket 03:32:28.140 --> 03:32:31.020 And I was actually done eating my cereal, which is good 03:32:31.500 --> 03:32:37.420 Because I had the bowl with just like a little bit of milk and and my spoon and I went to get up and grab something 03:32:37.660 --> 03:32:43.980 And I dragged the I dragged the gpd win five off the table which hit the bowl which 03:32:45.180 --> 03:32:51.900 Fortunately, it didn't break went onto the floor like splashed milk everywhere and everything lived and it goes to show 03:32:53.660 --> 03:33:02.860 How Changeable our habits can be because there was a time in my life when I was constantly attached to a discman 03:33:03.660 --> 03:33:07.660 when I would have been sure to gather up all my things before I 03:33:08.620 --> 03:33:12.620 Got up from a table But I am no longer that man 03:33:13.260 --> 03:33:20.300 Bluetooth headphones. I was just gonna say have changed my habits. I I've been uh, you know working around the house 03:33:20.380 --> 03:33:23.020 Things are getting extremely close to being done 03:33:23.660 --> 03:33:28.940 Uh, but I've been wearing some bluetooth headphones while I'll like maybe I'll sit and do something for a little bit 03:33:28.940 --> 03:33:32.860 And then go do something else whatever. Yeah, and I'll do I'll do this 03:33:34.780 --> 03:33:42.700 To move the cable that isn't there And it like I'll like I'll go to get up and I'll move the cable out of the way so that I'm not gonna like step on it 03:33:42.780 --> 03:33:47.980 Or whatever is such a drug dude, and it's uh, I just feel so weird every time I do it 03:33:48.060 --> 03:33:55.500 And I don't contact anything and I'm like, oh, where's the cable? Then I have to remember that I'm wearing bluetooth headphones. Oh, this is so strange. That's hilarious. Yeah 03:33:56.300 --> 03:34:04.140 Oh lordy Ew people are talking about pouring the milk first and then putting cereal in it's so incorrect 03:34:04.300 --> 03:34:08.060 It bothers me. Have you banned people on the full plane jet? Yeah, we should 03:34:08.700 --> 03:34:16.060 Oh, that's that's a good good. That is literally a wrong opinion. Have you heard about this true nas stitching smart tests? Yvonne does it 03:34:16.700 --> 03:34:22.780 Oh, she's a milk first then cereal person. So here's her justification. Hold on 03:34:24.140 --> 03:34:28.540 She doesn't like soggy cereal and she doesn't like 03:34:29.500 --> 03:34:32.140 Rapid top-upper, so she'll top it up. Yeah 03:34:32.860 --> 03:34:36.540 However, I think that's acceptable. I that is like one of the few times 03:34:36.540 --> 03:34:43.420 If you're pouring milk into a bowl and you bring the cereal with you. Yeah, she'll have the cereal at hand on the table 03:34:43.420 --> 03:34:49.100 She gets a pass. That's that's allowed. Yeah So she gets a pass. Yep. Yep. Yep 03:34:50.300 --> 03:34:58.780 I still don't like it I still don't like it either, but she gets a pass but in the same way just like I don't like it when the toilet paper roll 03:34:59.580 --> 03:35:03.260 goes goes uh 03:35:03.260 --> 03:35:08.620 Under instead of over I understand why and cat owners will understand why 03:35:10.540 --> 03:35:13.740 That's right. Yeah, they go like this and it doesn't unravel. Yeah 03:35:14.700 --> 03:35:17.740 There can be good reasons to do bad things 03:35:20.700 --> 03:35:25.100 Speaking of anything about that I don't we have no notes on this. I don't think it's a topic 03:35:25.100 --> 03:35:32.300 But true nas is ditching smart tests Do you have thoughts? Yeah. Oh wait, I haven't talked about expedition 33 yet. Okay. Yeah, we'll come back 03:35:32.380 --> 03:35:37.020 I like it and I especially like playing it on the wing five that thing is a monster 03:35:38.300 --> 03:35:41.100 It's Strix halo. Oh, okay. Yeah 03:35:41.340 --> 03:35:45.340 Yeah, this is like an over 2000 us dollar handheld 03:35:45.420 --> 03:35:52.220 What a sick name with a with a frickin like umbilical cord on it like it's it's the least sensible 03:35:53.100 --> 03:35:57.580 Like most out-of-touch device that I've probably used since the vision pro 03:35:59.100 --> 03:36:03.980 Which conveniently also had the same tether problem. Not conveniently inconveniently 03:36:04.300 --> 03:36:11.340 And conveniently enough that I don't think they're making anymore Apparently they're cutting production back, which to me is a big surprise because 03:36:12.060 --> 03:36:16.140 I Wouldn't have thought they were making them at all at this point. I would have thought they would have plenty of 03:36:16.860 --> 03:36:24.380 Inventory from their first I think there are some professional use cases that are like pretty stoked on it. Cool. Good, but not very many. Yeah 03:36:24.860 --> 03:36:29.260 That that's good. I have you have you played expedition 33. No, is your computer back up and running? 03:36:29.820 --> 03:36:33.340 It was and it is no longer nice because now we're solid 03:36:34.220 --> 03:36:37.900 My dad was putting baseboards in when I left the house today 03:36:38.380 --> 03:36:43.260 And they're being painted over the weekend and then things will be getting put back in place next week 03:36:43.820 --> 03:36:49.980 Okay, cool Anyway, not that you need me to endorse it given that it practically swept the game awards 03:36:50.940 --> 03:36:53.500 But I am enjoying the crap out of it and I am 03:36:54.220 --> 03:36:59.180 I'm doing something kind of different and and fun with it. I am playing it in french, which 03:36:59.900 --> 03:37:07.580 I That's cool. I'm way I need subbed. I need subtitles. Sure, but that's cool. But what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to understand 03:37:08.220 --> 03:37:15.820 The dialogue Oh, that's pretty sick And then I'm and I'm checking and what's funny is the reason that I started doing it was completely not for that 03:37:16.220 --> 03:37:24.620 It was not to practice my french comprehension. It was because I like playing jrp or rpgs. Sorry. I like playing rpgs 03:37:25.260 --> 03:37:30.460 Um, sorry Well, I'll call it a jrpg. It's not developed by it. Yeah. Yeah 03:37:31.580 --> 03:37:38.460 But I like playing rpgs not with english dialogue. Isn't it japanese style not japanese developer? 03:37:38.620 --> 03:37:44.700 It is But I don't know. There's a lot of western influence in this one too. I wouldn't okay. There's a lot of japanese influence 03:37:44.780 --> 03:37:48.540 but yeah, no, I just Yeah, I 03:37:48.620 --> 03:37:53.420 F RPG what it definitely is is an rpg. Sure. Yeah, so let's go with that got it 03:37:53.500 --> 03:38:00.620 And so I don't like english dialogue because I come from the rpg era where everything was text and there was no voice acting 03:38:01.020 --> 03:38:05.340 And when they added voice acting that actually really like slowed down my 03:38:08.140 --> 03:38:11.820 That's such a lightest ruffle my ability to play the game 03:38:14.780 --> 03:38:16.780 And I find it a lot less 03:38:18.140 --> 03:38:21.900 If they're going to If I'm gonna skip through something 03:38:22.060 --> 03:38:29.180 Oh, that totally makes sense I actually find it way less distracting if the dialogue is in I so I'll usually set it to japanese because 03:38:29.260 --> 03:38:34.460 Usually japanese is an option. So if I want to so I played final fantasy tactics like this 03:38:34.540 --> 03:38:38.940 I get to enjoy the original japanese intonation. Yeah with my 03:38:39.660 --> 03:38:45.500 English Comprehension and I can skip it in the middle of a sentence. It's not really an effect 03:38:45.660 --> 03:38:49.260 And I'll never know the difference. So that was what I actually was setting out to do 03:38:49.340 --> 03:38:52.700 I went to switch it to japanese because I didn't know or care which 03:38:53.340 --> 03:38:57.580 Other options there were because I was like, that's what I always do. I always just switch it to japanese 03:38:58.060 --> 03:39:01.500 And then the first option was actually french and I was like, oh, yeah 03:39:01.900 --> 03:39:05.180 That makes sense. Why don't I try that and I'll see if it like bothers me 03:39:06.060 --> 03:39:13.020 Because I have a little bit of comprehension of it I'll I'll see if it works the same way and I find french no offense to japanese 03:39:13.740 --> 03:39:19.260 No offense whatsoever. I find french to be a very beautiful language to just hear 03:39:20.220 --> 03:39:24.460 More so than japanese. Sorry. Sorry my personal opinion. You can ban me for it 03:39:27.580 --> 03:39:31.100 And I switched it over and I understood more than I thought I would and I was like, okay 03:39:31.500 --> 03:39:36.540 Well, this is a fun little exercise. Why don't I why don't I try to like pick up my french comprehension a little bit? 03:39:37.260 --> 03:39:47.740 It's really tough with like Thickly accented characters. Oh, yeah and stuff. I can imagine but with all of the playable characters so far 03:39:48.300 --> 03:39:51.820 um, there's a lot of like vocab that I'm missing but 03:39:52.540 --> 03:39:56.700 It's been yeah, it's been good. It's been fun. I I think I've told you about this before but the first time 03:39:57.020 --> 03:40:01.260 We went to germany for like the sennheiser thing. I think that was the first time I went to germany for work 03:40:01.740 --> 03:40:06.060 um It was really interesting because I had taken a little bit of german in high school 03:40:06.060 --> 03:40:10.860 I was definitely not fluent, but I knew some stuff and I could have like extremely basic conversations 03:40:11.340 --> 03:40:15.740 Um, and then it had been many years. So I had lost most of that and there was there's no 03:40:17.180 --> 03:40:20.940 I don't know anywhere around here that I could converse with so it was just loss for years 03:40:21.100 --> 03:40:25.500 You could try to speak german to me and I sure. Yeah, I can give you one of those. I can't anymore 03:40:26.220 --> 03:40:31.340 Which is part of the story But the the first time we went it was very interesting because I could I could pick up on a lot 03:40:32.060 --> 03:40:37.420 I could kind of understand the point of a conversation even though I might not necessarily understand all the details and right 03:40:37.580 --> 03:40:41.740 I could maybe order things at certain like restaurants and stuff like that 03:40:42.140 --> 03:40:48.460 Um, ask for the receipt do basic transactional stuff like that one worst, please. Yeah, you're best stuff like that 03:40:48.540 --> 03:40:50.780 Yeah, I could understand numbers things like that 03:40:51.660 --> 03:40:57.340 And then big gap in time I went there again. I was going to say this year, but I guess last year 03:40:57.740 --> 03:41:00.700 Um, but but like not that long ago last year 03:41:01.500 --> 03:41:05.580 And I had lost a bunch of it Again Make sense make sense 03:41:05.580 --> 03:41:08.300 But there was still definitely thing like he said v gates 03:41:08.860 --> 03:41:11.500 There there are still definitely things where I can like pick up 03:41:12.060 --> 03:41:19.340 the general idea of what's happening and it's it's very like mentally stimulating german probably has a word for that like the 03:41:19.500 --> 03:41:21.500 The idea schlagen vinzer 03:41:23.660 --> 03:41:28.540 Yeah, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised. Um, okay, apparently I will not be banned 03:41:28.940 --> 03:41:33.020 Um for enjoying french as long as I don't watch anime in french 03:41:33.820 --> 03:41:38.860 Okay, seems fair enough. That that does seem that does seem like you have an situation 03:41:39.100 --> 03:41:41.660 Yeah, I think that gets a pass. That seems fair enough. That makes sense 03:41:42.300 --> 03:41:47.900 Uh, okay. What did you want to talk about next? Uh, the smart test true nas. They're ditching smart tests. Oh, yeah 03:41:47.980 --> 03:41:56.220 I don't like it And this is this is they say they're not reliable yet another reason that I backed hexos is that I just 03:41:56.540 --> 03:42:00.380 So true nas's position is that you can just use a third party tool for it 03:42:01.100 --> 03:42:08.540 And that's cool But that's one of the reasons that true nas which is great and I'm so glad that it underpins hexos 03:42:09.100 --> 03:42:15.180 investment disclosure But that's one of the reasons that for general consumers. It's an even prosumers 03:42:15.660 --> 03:42:19.980 It's just not something that I can recommend with a straight face because unless you're 03:42:21.340 --> 03:42:27.340 You do this for fun Or you know, you already have to do it at work anyway, so you know how it all works 03:42:27.900 --> 03:42:33.020 It's just not practical to administer for the average enthusiast even 03:42:33.900 --> 03:42:39.900 And if you are one of the people out there who considers yourself an average enthusiast and you totally administer true nas and you love it 03:42:40.300 --> 03:42:44.620 Then congratulations. You're not an average enthusiast and that's fine 03:42:44.780 --> 03:42:51.020 You're you're like really into it. And that's that's super cool. And that's really great. And here's a gold star for you 03:42:52.380 --> 03:42:58.380 But most of even the LTT community is not going to want to dig through some of the arcane 03:42:59.100 --> 03:43:05.980 crap that True nas forces you to jump through sometimes to do very very seemingly simple things 03:43:06.940 --> 03:43:14.220 Which you know, again, like you said, you might do it for fun. That might be part of the entertainment. Absolutely. It might also not be 03:43:17.580 --> 03:43:19.580 Okay, I think we're done topics Dan 03:43:21.580 --> 03:43:23.580 Yippie doopie 03:43:27.980 --> 03:43:31.420 Nice Nice 03:43:31.420 --> 03:43:36.700 What were people like him today? Were they picking up the new uh, the new shirt or like let's have a look 03:43:37.500 --> 03:43:44.300 bit set crash out to shirt and uh, bit set. Oh big case. Oh nice nice quality 03:43:44.780 --> 03:43:50.380 All right, I got some messages here for you guys. Nice. Greetings WAN.dll from the UK 03:43:50.780 --> 03:43:58.060 Question for Linus about his hands on with the steam frame. How well did the frame accommodate a large 03:43:58.780 --> 03:44:03.900 nose speaking of someone with a big ol schnoz myself pretty good actually 03:44:03.980 --> 03:44:09.420 Uh, I definitely need to spend some more time with it. I need to play longer sessions 03:44:10.140 --> 03:44:14.540 Where I'm moving my head around like I want to I want to yeah, you had like no time 03:44:15.020 --> 03:44:20.060 Yeah, and I look I'm not I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist or whatever 03:44:20.700 --> 03:44:23.180 But I think valve did not want me 03:44:23.740 --> 03:44:29.740 To make as deep a video as they know that I will and that I did because that might be true. I mean 03:44:30.380 --> 03:44:33.340 Yeah, that wouldn't even necessarily be that unreasonable. No 03:44:34.220 --> 03:44:40.860 But also then don't tell us everything. This was completely within your control to 03:44:42.380 --> 03:44:46.780 Like they didn't have to have a transparent version of it that we could like see into 03:44:47.420 --> 03:44:51.340 Like you know, like if you want to control the scope of the coverage 03:44:51.420 --> 03:44:56.300 There's a lot of other ways to do it. I'll be so sick if they sold that one other than forcing me to 03:44:56.380 --> 03:45:00.940 Other than forcing me to have like not enough time to do a good job. Anyway, I 03:45:01.660 --> 03:45:06.700 Not the point. The point is that before I made a definitive statement on that. I would really want to 03:45:07.500 --> 03:45:15.260 um Play for longer sessions, especially in games where I'm moving around quite a lot because 03:45:15.660 --> 03:45:19.660 Sometimes it's not obvious immediately, but little movements and jiggles can kind of 03:45:20.140 --> 03:45:25.100 They can wear away, especially if they like really, you know hit on the the hard parts right here 03:45:25.660 --> 03:45:27.660 Or or here's an alternate answer 03:45:28.940 --> 03:45:30.940 My opinion is that it's 03:45:33.980 --> 03:45:37.260 Which is not It's not well, okay 03:45:37.260 --> 03:45:40.700 It could be more valid than anyone else's because I've actually tried it 03:45:40.700 --> 03:45:44.140 But I was trying to I was trying to demonstrate a point if you don't know 03:45:44.620 --> 03:45:49.020 Then you should just say you don't know you shouldn't make definitive statements. Yeah 03:45:50.540 --> 03:45:53.740 Wait, I think I figured out a way to ban Linus 03:45:56.940 --> 03:45:58.940 From where 03:46:03.740 --> 03:46:11.020 Nice See I was imagining that he had some kind of like low color depth filter and I was going to be banned or something 03:46:11.420 --> 03:46:16.860 Oh I thought he was going to replace your side with a frame with you not sitting there 03:46:17.660 --> 03:46:21.100 Oh, that'd be pretty good too, which I still thought was happening when he slid in the 03:46:21.740 --> 03:46:29.660 I don't have any plates. I moved the camera today a mirror I know a new laptops too. I mean a mirror of luke's side would actually be pretty funny, too 03:46:29.740 --> 03:46:32.460 Can I even do that? I bet you could figure that out 03:46:33.260 --> 03:46:39.340 That'd be kind of you could be kind of hard to watch though. I know it uncomfortable. I know how I could do that in obs 03:46:42.140 --> 03:46:45.420 You throwing shade on remix. No, I'm gonna have to ban you now 03:46:46.300 --> 03:46:48.620 I just have never used remix. I don't know anything about it 03:46:49.820 --> 03:46:55.340 Next up gearing up for the first plane trip 13 hours with our three month old 03:46:55.740 --> 03:46:58.460 Because of a family emergency double 03:46:59.580 --> 03:47:04.860 I wonder if you had some memorable difficult things with the used to be newborns 03:47:05.020 --> 03:47:12.380 Oh, man. Yeah, we did uh, we did a trip to asia to see von's family when my second was I think one 03:47:13.260 --> 03:47:15.260 or like one and change and 03:47:17.420 --> 03:47:22.700 I wouldn't wish traveling with an infant or even a toddler honestly on anyone 03:47:23.100 --> 03:47:29.980 Not on long-haul flights Like if you're just doing a little one and you can just like zonk them out on the ipad for a couple of hours 03:47:30.060 --> 03:47:34.380 That's probably fine, but as soon as you're getting over like 03:47:35.180 --> 03:47:39.180 Four hours on the plane they get and see they get cranky 03:47:39.820 --> 03:47:45.340 they don't They don't know how to sleep. They don't let you sleep. Like it's just 03:47:46.140 --> 03:47:49.820 a recipe for misery, man. I 03:47:50.540 --> 03:47:56.860 I'm I'm sorry for whatever you're going through in your family emergency and I'm double sorry now that you are 03:47:57.740 --> 03:48:01.500 Having to take a three month old traveling with you and I think that 03:48:01.500 --> 03:48:08.540 Like I had someone like profusely apologizing to me for their kid crying on a flight recently because they were like right in front of me 03:48:08.540 --> 03:48:11.660 I was like Bro 03:48:14.060 --> 03:48:19.420 Why do you think I brought these you're good I get it it's part of the experience you just have to 03:48:19.580 --> 03:48:25.580 You don't want to be here either. I know you don't want to be here 10 times as much as I don't want you here 03:48:26.140 --> 03:48:29.900 so like You know if I don't want to deal with that 03:48:31.420 --> 03:48:35.980 It used to bother me a bunch and then eventually I just accepted we're all cattle in a tube 03:48:36.220 --> 03:48:39.180 dealing with their own problems and you just gotta you gotta 03:48:40.140 --> 03:48:46.380 Just own the confines of your little seat area that you have make it the best experience you can given all the variables around you 03:48:46.620 --> 03:48:52.300 And get through to the other end. That's really not that deep Do they just like not want to pay the check bag fee or what? 03:48:54.860 --> 03:48:58.620 You know All right, next up a little crate 03:48:59.980 --> 03:49:03.980 Cats or the parrots or whatever um, all right, let's see 03:49:04.220 --> 03:49:12.780 Is it is it is a natural monopoly in a high barrier of entry industry like a bad thing in the case of asml 03:49:13.020 --> 03:49:18.860 It seems more of a reward for technological innovation which incentivizes innovation 03:49:21.020 --> 03:49:25.740 So when luke and I say monopoly bad competition good 03:49:26.540 --> 03:49:31.500 Our perspective is as consumer aligned 03:49:31.500 --> 03:49:35.020 representatives from the media 03:49:36.060 --> 03:49:44.940 Does that kind of make sense and in general? I think that we have benefited more in our lives from competition than from 03:49:45.740 --> 03:49:49.580 um successful 03:49:49.740 --> 03:49:52.220 Companies monopolizing their industries 03:49:53.980 --> 03:50:01.740 um I would also say that even if that disproportionate or maybe even not even disproportionate 03:50:02.140 --> 03:50:08.380 Even if that high reward could incentivize others to try to compete 03:50:09.500 --> 03:50:17.100 during that time of One ring ruling them all and others attempting but failing to compete 03:50:17.820 --> 03:50:20.620 Is a bad time for consumers 03:50:21.340 --> 03:50:26.300 That just didn't need to exist if there was always competition 03:50:27.340 --> 03:50:37.260 the whole way through so Yes, I can see your argument that it is good to have a really big reward for 03:50:37.820 --> 03:50:41.820 Really big investment and ingenuity and perseverance 03:50:43.260 --> 03:50:47.580 But from a consumer standpoint, that is not the ideal 03:50:48.460 --> 03:50:53.100 situation we would rather have More than one competitor in any given space 03:50:53.660 --> 03:50:55.660 Yeah 03:50:56.780 --> 03:51:00.300 That's it. What was the what was the core question? 03:51:01.260 --> 03:51:09.260 um Can you not see the merit in a in a in a monopoly like asml because 03:51:10.220 --> 03:51:17.580 The huge reward for winning the entire market should incentivize others to chase that huge reward 03:51:17.820 --> 03:51:23.500 That's okay. I think you already answered it. I wasn't fully paying attention, but I mean 03:51:25.020 --> 03:51:28.140 That's literally an argument for competition, but anyways 03:51:32.540 --> 03:51:36.540 Had a great white shark show up on a dive two weeks ago 03:51:37.180 --> 03:51:44.220 Video is amazing. Are you all keeping up with your diving and what animals or locations are still on the bucket list? 03:51:44.460 --> 03:51:50.940 I have not Used it like practically at all. I think the last time I went was diving with denis 03:51:51.500 --> 03:51:57.260 On mexico work occasion. Oh Whoa That was i was going to say i'm pretty sure i'm more up to date than you 03:51:57.420 --> 03:51:59.740 I might be further asserted than you at this point 03:52:00.460 --> 03:52:03.260 I think i'm only open water. Okay. Yeah 03:52:04.780 --> 03:52:08.700 Yeah, I honestly don't know if I really care about that because even with open water 03:52:08.700 --> 03:52:14.140 You can do a wreck dive as long as your dive master is asserted to guide open water divers on a wreck dive 03:52:14.540 --> 03:52:16.780 You can do a deep dive even if the 03:52:17.740 --> 03:52:22.860 As long as they're asserted to take you on it like I don't I could be wrong about this. Do not take this as a quote 03:52:22.940 --> 03:52:25.420 I think there are still slightly different 03:52:25.980 --> 03:52:34.300 Uh Limitations I guess oh and actually now that I think about it when we did that we were taking our advanced open water 03:52:34.540 --> 03:52:39.740 So maybe that was the context of it. We Yvonne and I like passed our advanced open water 03:52:39.740 --> 03:52:43.580 But we were like you didn't teach us anything 03:52:44.060 --> 03:52:51.260 Oh, we just went on a bunch. We did it in mexico So we did our our open water here in vancouver and then we did our advanced open water in mexico 03:52:51.340 --> 03:52:58.620 And they just like took us on a bunch of advanced dives We were like we're supposed to know all this like underwater navigation stuff like you didn't show us any of this 03:52:58.620 --> 03:53:02.460 We just followed you around and they were like don't worry about that. I'm like no, I am worried about that 03:53:02.540 --> 03:53:09.100 I don't want a certificate a certificate that I didn't earn I was concerned about this but did my advanced open water in greece 03:53:09.820 --> 03:53:15.900 And uh, it was actually awesome. The dude was like pretty hardcore about like you're gonna do this, right? 03:53:16.380 --> 03:53:21.100 Um, when we were doing the knot tying stuff. He had me do it, uh, blind 03:53:21.580 --> 03:53:25.340 That's cool because he was like you might get you might not have a mask on yeah 03:53:25.740 --> 03:53:29.180 There might be a problem. You might still have to tie that knot. So you need to be able to do it with your eyes 03:53:29.260 --> 03:53:32.540 You might be on a night dive You might be really deep 03:53:32.540 --> 03:53:37.980 So there might be a variety of variables. You need to be able to do it with your eyes closed and he also made me do underwater nav 03:53:38.780 --> 03:53:44.140 um With no references other than kicks 03:53:45.340 --> 03:53:51.820 Oh Interesting. I had to track. So there was one like pair of yeezys 03:53:52.460 --> 03:53:54.460 Uh 03:53:57.260 --> 03:54:02.620 Basically I had to be able to get back He we'd like swim up to a certain point and then I had to be able to go in like 03:54:03.180 --> 03:54:07.580 Uh, a square and basically any direction and end up back where I started 03:54:07.580 --> 03:54:12.700 Oh, that's cool And I wasn't allowed to have like a little navigation computer or whatever. I had to do it all just with kicks 03:54:13.260 --> 03:54:19.500 Um, and it was not he purposely brought us to unclear water, right? And was there a current too? 03:54:20.380 --> 03:54:23.100 Uh, I think we did that at one point. Yeah 03:54:23.500 --> 03:54:27.500 um And he I don't remember the the deal behind it 03:54:27.500 --> 03:54:30.540 But he taught me how to like try to do that a little bit better and he was like, you know 03:54:30.540 --> 03:54:33.740 It's not going to be perfect, but if you're trying to get back to a boat 03:54:33.900 --> 03:54:36.780 You can kind of use this information to help you get back to a boat 03:54:38.700 --> 03:54:40.700 Which but yeah, he was awesome actually 03:54:41.980 --> 03:54:46.300 Yeah Hi all 03:54:46.940 --> 03:54:51.340 You've taught a lot of people some have started their own businesses with confidence 03:54:51.500 --> 03:54:57.020 What do you try to do as a mentor and boss to help people grow? What was your favorite teachable moment? 03:54:58.380 --> 03:55:05.100 Oh, man, this is a heavy question. I mean, I don't you might not be able to say I don't think that I'm 03:55:05.820 --> 03:55:09.580 Uh, I'm a business mentor necessarily. I'm I'm just 03:55:10.300 --> 03:55:15.180 I'm fumbling my way through this School of hard knocks 03:55:15.180 --> 03:55:17.900 I didn't go to business school. I um 03:55:19.020 --> 03:55:22.700 I don't know man. And a lot of the stuff that we do is not best practice 03:55:26.140 --> 03:55:29.900 I mean, that's gonna be true for every business. Sure. I laugh, but that is true for every business 03:55:30.060 --> 03:55:33.100 I just I just mean we do not like optimize 03:55:34.060 --> 03:55:38.460 a lot of the time We need to do a bit more optimizing 03:55:38.460 --> 03:55:41.820 We do need to do a bit more optimizing. I mean, we do need to be doing some some optimization 03:55:41.820 --> 03:55:45.980 I mean, look, I I wrote how does LMG spend money this week? Um 03:55:47.180 --> 03:55:50.620 And It definitely 03:55:50.700 --> 03:55:54.380 Was that your feeling for you? Like did you learn things in that process 100%? 03:55:55.100 --> 03:56:01.580 It hardcore flagged for me things that are going to need to be optimized. Um 03:56:02.540 --> 03:56:05.820 Actually, uh here, let me see there was, um 03:56:06.620 --> 03:56:10.220 Chewie put together some 03:56:10.220 --> 03:56:13.260 Why can I never find people when I'm looking for them there it is 03:56:14.060 --> 03:56:16.460 Yeah, Chewie put together some stuff like basically 03:56:17.260 --> 03:56:23.900 Uh, we've made a lot of decisions as we've been rapidly growing that like made sense in isolation 03:56:24.140 --> 03:56:27.900 Yeah, um, but now that we're not no longer do rapidly growing 03:56:28.620 --> 03:56:34.140 Do not necessarily make sense anymore. Um, we've accumulated a lot of process debt 03:56:34.780 --> 03:56:39.660 um We've accumulated a lot of sort of band-aid 03:56:40.540 --> 03:56:45.820 solutions that Again made sense at the time, but probably don't make sense now. Um 03:56:47.820 --> 03:56:56.460 Lots of those we Something that I don't really talk about in detail in the how does LMG spend money because it's meant to be sort of a snapshot of a 03:56:56.460 --> 03:56:59.420 particular moment in time rather than a look at trends is that 03:57:00.380 --> 03:57:05.740 As we've expanded our payroll and we'll talk about this part in more detail in the uh 03:57:07.020 --> 03:57:09.260 In the video, but as we've as we've looked at 03:57:10.060 --> 03:57:13.660 improving our compensation overall We have 03:57:13.660 --> 03:57:17.660 scaled comp In a way that is not 03:57:17.660 --> 03:57:26.620 In line with our revenue scaling And that's been going on for a fairly extended period of time now like on the order of years 03:57:27.340 --> 03:57:31.100 Um View counts have been getting better 03:57:31.100 --> 03:57:34.700 You know, we've been we're we're kind of we're back to a more sustainable 03:57:35.420 --> 03:57:40.300 Sort of overall viewership, but with that said the youtube game is getting more cutthroat 03:57:40.860 --> 03:57:44.460 You can upload it used to be that if you uploaded a banger video 03:57:44.460 --> 03:57:49.260 You might get two million views on it and if you uploaded a total downer video, you might get one million views 03:57:49.980 --> 03:57:52.620 Now your banger video might hit three million 03:57:53.260 --> 03:57:59.580 Four million, but your downer video might get 400 000. So you don't have that same right predictable 03:58:00.060 --> 03:58:03.340 Yeah, a little bit more floor. It's down in the basement now 03:58:04.140 --> 03:58:07.740 And that's that's harder to that's harder to sell to sponsors. That's harder to 03:58:08.620 --> 03:58:13.500 Capitalize on for yourself like when we're promoting a big deal on lttstore.com or something like that 03:58:13.580 --> 03:58:17.900 And the video that we have that goes up promoting it like we can see the difference in performance when 03:58:18.300 --> 03:58:22.780 It's a half a million view video versus if it's like a two three million view banger, right? 03:58:26.060 --> 03:58:30.380 This was a fun one capital expenditures They get the most attention right like when we buy a fire truck 03:58:30.860 --> 03:58:35.740 Or we buy a big led wall or we buy like uh, uh, a huge 03:58:36.460 --> 03:58:41.340 Sound chamber or a thermal chamber. Yeah, or a three-stage chiller. Yeah fugger or whatever 03:58:42.220 --> 03:58:44.540 Capital expenditures are under one percent of our spend 03:58:45.340 --> 03:58:51.260 under one So, you know, that's a weird bucket to define though. I guess almost everything's going to be a weird bucket 03:58:51.260 --> 03:58:56.620 Well, yeah, it's in how you define it. So we define A lot of what some companies might call cap X 03:58:57.180 --> 03:59:00.060 Would be we have under sort of an umbrella that we call overhead 03:59:00.540 --> 03:59:04.220 Okay, and so so for us we defined our capital expenditures as 03:59:05.260 --> 03:59:10.300 Sort of outlier purchases particularly for content or for or for product testing 03:59:11.420 --> 03:59:17.900 So, you know looking at it like Those are all videos that performed well or series of videos that 03:59:19.580 --> 03:59:25.900 Will will perform well over time, right? Um, and it's just it's a lot of little things that you only really notice 03:59:27.420 --> 03:59:30.860 When you write it down and when you like graph it 03:59:31.580 --> 03:59:34.940 And start to really look at it and go like okay now hold on a second like 03:59:36.060 --> 03:59:40.300 Does this make sense for how much it contributes to the business? 03:59:41.260 --> 03:59:44.460 Does this make sense for how much it contributes to the business? 03:59:45.180 --> 03:59:47.500 Up or down in any case. So 03:59:48.380 --> 03:59:52.780 It's the kind of thing that when you're just wait. Yeah, when you're when you're building the plane as you're flying it 03:59:52.860 --> 03:59:55.820 You don't really look at it that closely, but we've had 03:59:56.700 --> 04:00:00.060 um A couple years now of lower 04:00:00.860 --> 04:00:05.100 Production targets like I don't know if people have like noticed this 04:00:05.740 --> 04:00:14.300 But I think they have I think they just stopped commenting on it because it was so long We used to have like a hundred ish people. We are now up to like 120 people 04:00:15.100 --> 04:00:21.820 and um, we used to do six LTT's a week plus wanshow plus two tech quickies 04:00:22.220 --> 04:00:28.620 Plus three tech links plus two game links plus two to four short circuits plus 04:00:29.340 --> 04:00:36.380 um Shoot there's one i'm missing. I don't think channel super. Oh, yeah. No Channel Super Fun did overlap with that schedule for a while 04:00:36.780 --> 04:00:41.740 Plus a Channel Super Fun Shoot i'm sure i'm missing something 04:00:41.900 --> 04:00:46.220 What am I missing? Oh, yeah, plus Mac Address whenever that got uploaded 04:00:46.780 --> 04:00:51.660 um And our head count Has not appreciably changed 04:00:51.900 --> 04:00:58.620 In this time that we've been doing anywhere from Realistically about three and a half LTT's a week is what we've been averaging 04:00:59.340 --> 04:01:05.580 We completely hiatus to Techquickie Completely hiatus GameLinked completely hiatus to Mac Address 04:01:06.540 --> 04:01:10.540 Um, did I already say Techquickie? I think I already said Techquickie sure. Um 04:01:12.300 --> 04:01:19.420 And people Feel very like overworked and I don't think that they're necessarily 04:01:20.060 --> 04:01:28.380 Just like lying about that So that then leans back to what we were kind of previously talking about of like what are we doing? Yeah 04:01:28.940 --> 04:01:34.620 Process overhead. Where's where's the loss? What are we spending our time on this engine has a lot of 04:01:35.260 --> 04:01:39.900 energy waste In in potentially variety of areas 04:01:40.220 --> 04:01:45.580 So I think that's um, I think that's something that we're going to be reflecting on 04:01:46.380 --> 04:01:49.180 Heavily over the next little while. Yeah 04:01:49.900 --> 04:01:56.540 Anyway, you guys can expect that video probably a little bit after ceas. I think elijah. I saw him turning through the guidance for it 04:01:57.020 --> 04:02:00.620 um That's kind of that's kind of getting to be a bit of a like 04:02:00.940 --> 04:02:06.460 Superpower of his like he did the guidance for the the RAM crisis video that we uploaded earlier this week 04:02:06.540 --> 04:02:11.820 I thought he just uh him and uh, who was who was the editor for that guidance makes sense in my brain 04:02:12.620 --> 04:02:17.420 um Hold on. I'm trying to remember. I think it might have been kendrick 04:02:18.380 --> 04:02:23.100 I'm gonna double check though because I don't want to give credit to the wrong people 04:02:23.660 --> 04:02:30.460 So this video a really cool video Special thanks to the ecc squad seriously though. Shout out the ecc squad. You guys rock 04:02:31.260 --> 04:02:33.260 Uh, hold on. Here's the regular credits 04:02:36.060 --> 04:02:41.580 Where's my editor? Yeah, Kendrick. Kendrick was the editor. Um, so yeah between him and um, 04:02:42.380 --> 04:02:48.300 And andrew and Kendrick. I thought they just did a really good job of maintaining really cohesive 04:02:49.020 --> 04:02:52.860 Visuals throughout it that made it really engaging. I thought they yeah, just an outstanding job 04:02:52.860 --> 04:03:00.540 I technically I don't know this because I am actually, you know, not the one who determines once and for all if a video is good 04:03:01.020 --> 04:03:05.420 um You guys get to decide that I haven't actually looked at the retention for it 04:03:05.900 --> 04:03:08.620 But to me it felt like a very 04:03:09.660 --> 04:03:15.500 Pleasant short watch relative to its runtime and that's usually a pretty solid indicator 04:03:16.140 --> 04:03:18.460 I've been doing this for a while and I usually 04:03:19.260 --> 04:03:22.380 Have a decent sense but I don't always get it right though, right? 04:03:23.340 --> 04:03:26.540 Not even not not at all could not claim that 04:03:27.820 --> 04:03:34.300 I could try to claim that but then I'd be a big liar. Yeah retention is really strong. It's like well above average. Nice. Yeah 04:03:35.820 --> 04:03:37.820 Yeah, so good job guys 04:03:38.940 --> 04:03:43.180 Hey lld got the wife interested in the tech house series 04:03:43.580 --> 04:03:49.420 What ideas do you have for a spouse approved slash hidden tech going to be following and upgrading along the way? 04:03:49.660 --> 04:03:54.060 Thanks for the amazing content. I mean a big one is um 04:03:55.500 --> 04:03:58.540 I think we're going to be getting a lot better at 04:03:59.100 --> 04:04:03.100 wiring and cable management because I'm a big fan of 04:04:04.220 --> 04:04:07.500 Eliminating batteries and wireless technology from my life 04:04:08.300 --> 04:04:14.380 And I'd like to find ways to do things as wired as possible while maintaining really strong 04:04:15.100 --> 04:04:19.260 spouse approval factor So this is a bit of a derail 04:04:19.260 --> 04:04:22.540 But part of the my place will be kind of fresh plan 04:04:22.940 --> 04:04:27.580 Is that I want to have some self-hosted iot things going on and some other stuff happening 04:04:28.060 --> 04:04:32.140 Uh for once and one of the problems that I've ran into that 04:04:32.700 --> 04:04:38.460 You know, I'm probably gonna try to solve it before the tech house. I guess but where our computers are going to be now 04:04:39.100 --> 04:04:46.300 There's a cat 5e through the wall That cable in the wall. I still haven't done the testing because again, I've been focused on 04:04:47.580 --> 04:04:51.180 Other grander stuff, but it could be yeah that too. It could be 04:04:51.820 --> 04:04:57.580 um The the short cable going from router to patch instead of the cable through the wall 04:04:58.220 --> 04:05:02.380 But I think it's a cable through the wall Uh that cable might be messed up 04:05:02.620 --> 04:05:08.940 The second a significant load happens my computer like it's blinking Ethernet cable and I lose all networking 04:05:09.020 --> 04:05:12.700 Hopefully it's just the termination hopefully 04:05:12.700 --> 04:05:18.700 Hopefully but I don't know so I might have to figure out how to gonna learn to fish that cable nice solid 04:05:21.100 --> 04:05:26.140 Everything with this place just turns into like oh, here's a new project that I've never had to try to figure out how to do before 04:05:26.940 --> 04:05:29.980 And you're finally going to finish it and then you're going to go. You know what? 04:05:31.260 --> 04:05:36.220 Maybe it's time to Yeah, I've been 04:05:36.220 --> 04:05:38.220 I've been uh rather aware of that 04:05:39.420 --> 04:05:46.300 Yeah, no comment. That's uh, that's your thing to figure out in terms of your timing. Yeah, but uh, yeah cool 04:05:47.820 --> 04:05:52.220 Good luck with that Yeah, that's the both ends. You can just pull a new. Yeah, I know 04:05:52.780 --> 04:05:59.100 My problem is how it fishes through depends on if it's like stapled to the studs and stuff too. I don't know that 04:05:59.420 --> 04:06:08.620 um, and it's it's Very far from reasonable angles and stuff and seeing how this place was put together 04:06:08.860 --> 04:06:14.460 It'll either be just draped there and easy to do because no one cared to do it properly or it'll be like 04:06:14.620 --> 04:06:21.180 Oh, I don't know 17 staples in one spot for no apparent reason. Um, so we'll see. Oh, here's a quick one 04:06:21.660 --> 04:06:25.820 Uh, the pebble round two Was apparently just announced 04:06:26.220 --> 04:06:28.620 That looks good. Yeah, it looks actually pretty 04:06:29.420 --> 04:06:32.300 Sick. Wow. I get it though. That's very funny 04:06:33.820 --> 04:06:37.180 Round two. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right 04:06:38.940 --> 04:06:43.980 That's pretty good. All right. That's all As a former kiyoksia employee 04:06:44.380 --> 04:06:50.380 I was amazed to see the fab tour you got Surprising they let you see more than I could working there 04:06:51.020 --> 04:06:57.900 What's your take on how the audience liked it and what's next hopefully more is next I love doing that kind of thing 04:06:57.980 --> 04:07:03.420 And yeah, I was I was very impressed and pleased with the amount of access that we were able to get 04:07:03.980 --> 04:07:08.220 Uh, it was a battle to get as much access as we did. I can tell you that 04:07:08.700 --> 04:07:10.700 um, we had a meeting with 04:07:11.820 --> 04:07:15.500 As many as I think it was like 20 people in the room and another 20 on the call 04:07:16.060 --> 04:07:20.860 um, sort of talking through the plan for the next day after our first day of shooting and like 04:07:21.820 --> 04:07:27.660 To be to be clear. I don't mean this in like a disrespectful way or like a an antagonistic way 04:07:28.700 --> 04:07:31.180 These sorts of things are always kind of a battle 04:07:32.540 --> 04:07:38.700 Yeah, because these are closely guarded corporate secrets that have never been 04:07:39.340 --> 04:07:44.540 Talked about or seen before like like to your point you could work there and not see things that we saw 04:07:45.100 --> 04:07:47.660 And so I understand why they're a little cagey about 04:07:48.540 --> 04:07:52.220 Us walking around in there with like people aren't allowed to like bring their phone in 04:07:52.780 --> 04:07:57.260 And because they might snap a picture here in there and we're walking around with a full kit, right? 04:07:58.620 --> 04:08:01.740 Um and 04:08:01.820 --> 04:08:07.020 It was incredible and I'd love to do more of it if there's other companies that you know want to 04:08:07.500 --> 04:08:12.300 Want to chop through all the red tape that's involved in getting us that kind of access so that we can 04:08:13.020 --> 04:08:16.140 Bring people along for the ride and help them really appreciate 04:08:16.940 --> 04:08:21.100 What it is that you guys are doing over there then we're we're super down. I love it 04:08:22.860 --> 04:08:27.340 Oh, I haven't seen it yet, but apparently veritasium did a really cool video this week on asml's um 04:08:28.620 --> 04:08:34.060 Incredible this I've not seen it. Oh good. That's cool. What is it? Does he like go there? Yeah 04:08:34.380 --> 04:08:40.060 Oh, that's it and they go into some really technical details and it's just awesome. He's a phenomenal job 04:08:40.780 --> 04:08:46.540 Uh, last one I've got for you today. Hey luke heard that getting tips from wendell on 04:08:47.260 --> 04:08:52.540 Building an llm server. Would there be a chance to follow along with your home lab journey? 04:08:53.340 --> 04:08:57.020 I don't know. Maybe I I'm starting to question its feasibility 04:08:58.140 --> 04:09:05.260 Based on GPU pricing I've got a couple you can borrow if you want. Yeah, we'll see. I definitely I so I've got a variety of goals 04:09:06.140 --> 04:09:10.140 um But yeah, we'll we'll see how this stuff 04:09:11.020 --> 04:09:15.520 gets Sorted out over time. There's like um 04:09:16.940 --> 04:09:24.460 I've been preaching local llm for a long time So I really want to actually do it because I don't want to be like telling people that they should look into it and not 04:09:24.460 --> 04:09:26.780 Look into it myself. That seems lame. I don't know 04:09:27.500 --> 04:09:33.180 No, where you're coming where you're getting at with this. You have a variety of what and that has to do with the local 04:09:34.300 --> 04:09:37.580 AI server Gulls 04:09:37.580 --> 04:09:41.900 Gulls goals goals. I know. I'm just playing these you said goals 04:09:42.620 --> 04:09:48.540 Okay Um, there's only got one sinus leave alone. Yeah, I really 04:09:49.260 --> 04:09:55.580 Um, sorry, but yeah, I've been having a bunch of fun watching. Yeah, jeff geerling and wendell and other people's stuff 04:09:56.220 --> 04:09:58.940 I've wanted to do homelabby things for a long time 04:09:59.420 --> 04:10:06.140 um So this is going to be my my dive into that both on the networking and the server side of things 04:10:06.460 --> 04:10:12.060 I want to do In a lot of cases self-developed in some cases just self-hosted iot things 04:10:13.020 --> 04:10:16.860 I want to do some self-hosted services. I want to have my own 04:10:17.340 --> 04:10:21.660 Um home video distribution Um instead of just borrowing others 04:10:21.980 --> 04:10:25.500 Um, I there's a lot of different goals. I'm easy 04:10:26.300 --> 04:10:28.300 You'd be crazy not to buy it 04:10:34.060 --> 04:10:38.220 But uh, I mean my family does like this holiday valheim server 04:10:38.300 --> 04:10:41.100 We've this is the second year in a row that we've done it. Um 04:10:41.740 --> 04:10:47.180 But it's like the the thing the solution that we've had is like kind of unstable and lags a lot and 04:10:48.140 --> 04:10:52.860 There's issues with it. So like if I could just host that myself. Yeah, that would be sweet 04:10:52.940 --> 04:10:55.900 Like there's just a lot of things where I'm like, this is honestly very overdue 04:10:56.460 --> 04:10:59.740 um, so I'm trying to start figuring it out but 04:11:00.460 --> 04:11:03.420 Going from zero to the point that I want to be at is like a lot 04:11:03.900 --> 04:11:08.460 So I'm trying to research and learn things and figure out how I want to step into this realm 04:11:09.340 --> 04:11:12.300 Old tom asks how often do you think of the roman empire? 04:11:12.460 --> 04:11:19.180 These days for reasons that I don't really feel like I need to get into 04:11:19.900 --> 04:11:21.900 Kind of a lot 04:11:23.340 --> 04:11:27.260 We'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel 04:11:29.020 --> 04:11:31.020 Bye 04:11:42.300 --> 04:11:44.700 You 04:12:12.300 --> 04:12:15.260 You