Hello? Oh, hi, Dan.
Who dropped?
Was it me or you? You, I think.
Okay. Are we going to come back?
Yeah, there you are. Because if it was us that dropped, you would have kept streaming, right?
I thought I would have. I thought I kept streaming and just lost you guys.
Okay. Cool. Oh, no.
All right, have fun. We back.
We're back. We're back. Okay, cool.
That's pretty neat. Hey, guys. What's up?
Cool. So apparently the last thing they heard was zero users.
So long story short. Yeah, basically by cutting those people off who, in their mind,
they were doing a favor to by allowing them to continue to use this service.
They hadn't even acquired users for free. They were like being bros.
I don't like how any of this went down.
The whole thing is like sucky. But that is more bad on the company that's sold.
Yes. Versus the company that actually acquired the VPN.
And I, it adds some nuance to the situation that,
I felt we should definitely follow up on. Oh yeah, that's fair.
Yeah. All right, cool. This is unrelated to the topic, but if we want to correct things from last week,
I have something to correct as well. Oh, what now? I had said this is important.
Okay. Like I got to come true with the audience here.
Come true. Okay. Is that not a phrase?
Is that not a saying? So why don't you correct that phrase?
Is there something close to that? Be real.
Maybe that's it. Come clean. Come clean.
Come clean. That's the one. Yeah.
I got to come clean with the audience here. That's not how that works. The cleanup is after.
Anyways. I lied last week. Did you?
Yep. Not intentionally. But I did.
I did. I did. I did.
Not intentionally. But I was wrong.
Okay. I know. I was making fun of that.
Dan, His isn't no thing. Yeah.
I said that I had a character in FFX VI.
Oh. And I only thought I did.
You thought you had a character. Because I've done some. So you don't have any characters?
Are you high? The whole game is like that you have tons of characters.
No, I don't even remember their name because I renamed them.
Tara. There we go. Yeah, sure you imperial magitech. When do they talk about last names? How do you know their last name?
Why would I not? I don't think I've ever seen their last name. Why do you think it's called in the whole game?
Figaro Castle Okay, yeah, sure fair. So what do you think Edgar's last name is smart guy?
Branford's castle. I Just when did they talk about her last name pathetic?
Okay, well, I renamed some characters while I was playing literally don't yeah, just have to like
Know the cannon. Okay, sure. It's like my favorite game of all time. So I just like know things like you okay
Yeah, sure. Um, so I had renamed some characters. So when he asked me if I had
Tara Tara, I thought I did but I had a different character. Okay. I did not have a character. Did you even have? I
Don't sets her or something
How could you possibly I didn't know the names how could you possibly think the old
Bushido guy with a mustache. Oh is named Tara. That's not the old Bushido guy
You're wrong about your own game the gambler. Sorry
I only know that because that's one of the characters I didn't rename How could you possibly think the white haired gambler dude is named Tara?
Honestly, I never ever had them in my party ever and I forgot anything about them at all
And I had just gotten them iconic
Oppressing and everything and like that. What do you mean? You just got him. No, you've got him in the world of balance
Oh, no, no, I in the world of ruin. I had just gotten them
Oh, and I never had them in my party ever. I can't believe I just brain farted
Look before the show started, okay, I had to go back to my room to get my headphones. I
literally Went up instead of down and then literally didn't realize it and tried my key card on someone else's room before I went
Oh my god I'm on completely the wrong floor just to give you some idea of where my brain is
Is it is that but yeah, I have Tara now, okay?
Are you sure? Yeah, okay actually in the party hair white. I don't know
How can you play? How can you look at characters for this long and not know what they look like?
Do you even are you even playing the game? Are you just having an AI do it? I do it like it should count pink or something
If he doesn't know what the main when you have her go trance, it's definitely like white and pink
Okay, anyway, I know the blitzes, but I don't know the characters names or what they look like
There you go, okay, I can like do the blitz inputs by memorization
I love that I literally lent him a SNES controller to play this game
So he could have the authentic experience and an adapter
I went and he went and he took his hand he went I know the blitzes and you use the arrow keys. I played with the SNES controller at home a little bit
I didn't want to take it traveling so I don't want to break it. It doesn't matter. That's cheap. You can also just not carry it
That's fine. You can just play with your keyboard like a pleb
Truthfully the first time I actually beat the game because I didn't beat it when I owned it as a kid
I was a kid and I was too dumb And then I lost my super Nintendo when I moved between my parents houses. I didn't have it anymore
And so the first time I actually beat the game was on Zed SNES on a computer
So I 100% used a keyboard for that Yeah, it's not that bad. Oh, it's actually way easier to input the blitzes on a keyboard. I could see that
Yeah, yeah For whatever reason like the most powerful ones are incredibly easy though. That's just like going a circle. That's a remaster thing
Oh, and they're they're much harder on the controller. Okay. Yeah, like I said, they're they're really easy on a keyboard
But one of them is literally just one way around the circle the other one's the other way around the circle
Yeah, but if you if you get pressing it Or no, it's not the other way around the circle. It's just the continuation of the circle if you get pressing it wrong
Like if you accidentally start at an angle instead
It's it's a lot easier to screw up on like a d-pad that literally doesn't have diagonals, right?
Right because it's just across d-pad. So you have to like you have to nail it
And you'll screw it up for I have I have been annihilated because I like kind of screwed up a blitz and put the remaster really
Screws up a lot of the balance of
The original game like the the sword techs or whatever Bushido abilities
They were called sword tech. That wasn't a brain fart on the original the Bushido abilities
You can just use anyone you want now. It's like you had to wait before so if you were playing in the active battle mode
You'd be like getting hit while you waited for him to like queue up quadra slice. Oh, yeah, so like I never really run him anyways
I he sucks the the weird thing for me right now is I have way
Harder of a time with like the random encounters that I do with bosses. I
Wipe bosses like no problem
Often like two three turns in done took very little damage if nothing
And then I'll just die to random encounters by getting like one shot out of nowhere
Like first move random encounter characters dead
What and this is like happened multiple times have you considered that you may be a bad gamer I have I
Have never lost to a boss in the game so far. Okay. I have party wiped multiple times
Just like random encounter trash, which is so annoying because it's less likely that I saved recently
Wild Alright, why don't we talk about the other cool thing in a separate case?
The Hanover administrative court has confirmed a judgment stating that cookie banners must not
Be designed to encourage users to consent and that website operators must offer a clearly visible
Reject all button on the first level of cookie consent banners if the banner includes an accept all button
That's huge for me. That's so cool
The judgment came after lower Saxney's data protection officer demanded a redesign of a media company's cookie banner because it didn't obtain effective informed and voluntary
Consent before setting cookies and processing personal information
the company disagreed and claimed that the data protection authority was not responsible for monitoring illegal provisions concerning cookies the court found that
Rejecting cookies on the banner in question was much more complicated than accepting them and that the banner used misleading wording such as
Optimal user experience and accept and close while the term consent was completely missing
That's super cool. It's just awesome
Cuz like sometimes Man, there are so many bad cookies. Sometimes there are cookies that do enhance website experiences
We would be no go ahead almost never do I care though?
And I just reject everything but it's still but it's still
This is so I love it. Yeah, that's great. I hate that. It's only gonna be in Germany. Yeah
Yeah, but hopefully, you know these types of things hopefully they bleed out over time. Yeah, I hope so. I mean
Apple is certainly doing Absolutely everything in their power to slow roll any of the the antitrust and regulatory stuff that's hit them over the last little bit man
Fortnite is back on the app store and it's pretty crazy our discussion question for this topic is
Is Apple the most childish corporation on the planet or does that award go to someone else because?
Wow, have they ever engaged in some like peak-level malicious compliance over this whole third-party payment processors on the app store thing
It's almost like the only reason they ever cared about any of it
Was so that they wouldn't have to compete and they could take their enormous cut acting as the sole
Monopolistic payment processor on this platform. I feel like there's got to be worse ones
This is the one that's like most in our own. It's just hilarious. Yeah after Apple lost the court case regarding in-app third-party purchases
Epic submitted for tonight for approval to the app store
Apple this is so funny. This is so Apple too. Oh
Man Apple refused to either accept or decline the application leaving it in limbo
Because if they declined it well, then you know, they'd get in trouble, but like
I don't know. Do we have to have to accept it? I mean we're like we're looking at it. I don't know
US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers who by the way is an absolute chad from everything that I've seen about it
Seems like it wrote in an order that Apple has to accept or decline the application and this is a quote
Apple is fully capable of resolving this issue without further briefing or a hearing based
Apple has since accepted the application and fortnight is now back on the app store huge
for real though actually like
Super okay. I feel like I always have to disclaim this right because not a fan of everything Tim Sweeney does all right
but this Genuinely benefits every well, this was massive developer. Yeah for iOS. I'll also give them a show
I don't like fortnight I think I played it one time ever and did not enjoy it and never played it again
I mean in fairness fortnight changes a lot, so you might like it more now
I think you're doing probably like see you type stuff where you can make all kinds of new game modes and stuff
We have to look cool. Look the point is either way the point is be open-minded. Okay. Try anything twice
It's it's currently number one in adventure games on the app store and already has over 20,000 ratings and has been up for like
Days so clearly doing pretty well. Yes. Jim mesh says yes
Sweeney is doing this for the future of games, which is like his company's future, you know, I think a lot of it is like
Personal vendetta. We're just benefiting from it, which is great It's a huge win for everyone. Yeah, and realistically. He's one of the few
Company leaders who has the money and not just the money, but the absolute
Iron balls to do this. Yeah. Yeah, because Apple is a vindictive
Company if you step out of line very NVIDIA ask they will never
Engage with you again to NVIDIA's credit They actually do let bygones be bygones eventually they they we were we were black-balled for two years over the hard-run box thing
Yeah, we'll see and we are officially on black-balled now. Ah, we could be black-balled again
But I'm really wondering how much of it was just like clear the field before 5,000 series comes out
And then who cares after no, I think it was more a specific person who was asked her. Yeah. Yeah
That's that's we'll see how things go in the next like six months
I'm reserving judgment until Yeah
There's been some bad that I don't even think is
Not super public yet. It's not mine to release. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Oh, yeah
Like real bad more
Okay, why don't I talk about something good while he types that up steam OS moves one step closer to a wider release with a new update
Valve has released steam OS 3.7 point 8 which comes with official support for third-party PC handhelds
This is so cool So you could just go install it on your ally or your I a neo or whatever
Along with a bevy of other upgrades This is the first version of the software to offer an official recovery image with explicit support for installation on devices with
AMD hardware, okay, so not just anything just yet and an NVMe drive although valve does
Specify that is targeted towards handheld devices and is not final so you can basically install it on like
Whatever as long as you've got AMD hardware and an NVMe drive
There's also explicit installation instructions for the Legion go and ROG ally
Is it the year of the Linux desktop actually though this time?
This is so cool other upgrades include new Mesa graphics drivers base
Bluetooth might support in desktop mode still no gaming mode
Battery management tools and the ability to turn a steam deck turn on a steam deck via a Bluetooth controller
Which was previously only possible on the OLED so this is super cool
If you have just like a steam machine in your living room remember and they used to call them steam machines
So if you just have one as like a like a living room console, you can just use your Bluetooth controller to be like boop turn my steam
I'm so excited I'm so excited and I'm excited for competition. Look at the way Microsoft has allegedly
Woken up and is like, you know Allegedly partnering with ASUS on the ally to and you know trying to make Windows a better or like gaming platform like
Basko conversation. It's always good. Yeah. Hell. Yeah, literally competition is always better than not competition
I think if there's a time that competition was worse I guess if you had like a super fragmented market and then like like
Okay, I think there's a there's probably a middle ground between businesses. There's a middle ground. No, no
I'm even thinking businesses. Okay, so so imagine a world. Okay, you don't want there to be one bank or
One insurance company because that's terrible because then there's no competition, but you also don't want there to be
10,000 banks and 10,000 insurance companies because those will be very small companies and those types of institutions
need scale in order to absorb the sometimes
One-time large one-time losses that they can experience. There's a middle ground
I think there's some debate there on the bank side of things. No, dude when you have like a thousand tiny banks
It's much easier for there to be a bank run Because it can be in like a very localized when you have Omega banks. Well, that's no this is bad
They cause recessions due to bad practices. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm saying
I'm saying that more is not always better
Sure, but you're not saying that infinite competition of infinite parties is good. You're saying that competition is always good
Is that what I said? I don't remember my exact wording. You said competition is always good. I said it's always better
Yeah, I think but that doesn't have to mean that there are thousands and thousands of players competing. Sure
I'm just saying there's a middle ground of like
Like like peak competition goodness. That's all I'm saying. I think we do this as a company
I know I do this so I'm not trying to exclude myself
I think sometimes we're like We get and this is why I say I don't know all the time. So I'm 100% on board with this
We're so worried about people just taking crap that we say and twisting it that we run around in so many circles
We're not saying that we end up losing the plot part went through
Oh man, we're just saying black and red is a cool color combination. That's all
That's all we we like it for gaming PCs who made their uniforms aren't they like still around hugo boss
Yeah, and super famous. I don't want to get that wrong. I don't want to get that very fashionable
Uh Nazi uniforms. I think it was hugo boss
um Yes, hugo boss apologized for nazi past
Uh, yeah, okay. Okay. Yep. There you go. Yeah, so hugo hugo boss. By the way
Uh
Really? Yeah, I saw it
Like there's no belief here. I saw it. He showed me
All right, he's gonna deal with it in his own way or whatever so I can they be actually that stupid
I think is the question. But this is my like I don't know man. We'll see we'll see
Over the next while when I was digging up all the times that we've criticized NVIDIA in the past
I came across some stuff that I had forgotten about
um, and one of them was the an LMG clip where I
um, I basically came out and I was like
I no longer believe they are playing 4d chess
I believe very idiots um
Past line is smart guy
I beard I saw that Yeah, I saw that and genuinely like kind of laughed because it was just
So dumb. Yeah. Yeah, and it yeah, yeah
And like the timing of it. It's terrible. Holy dude. Um, hey more good news though. Yeah
Remember that nas company that I invested in. Yeah, remember? Yeah, remember how people were like
Hating on the launch and the comments were all like this is pointless
No one would ever buy this if you're excited about this. You should feel bad Remember how they had a really really great launch and lots of people gave them a bunch of money
Want to hear one of the cool things that they are already doing with that money. Yeah
zfs any raid Sponsored by esh tech. So that's the the nas company that I made the small investment in
um, this is so cool earlier this week, dude, I've
I have wanted to talk about this so hard because I have known for a while
Because they basically immediately when they're when their first couple days of sales were bonkers. They were like
Oh my god, let's do something. There's opportunity now. There's stuff that we had on the roadmap for like
Like the future that we could just Immediately start fixing because there's these projects that are just like
Super cool, but just not funded so people can't work on them and we could just we could just do this cool stuff, dude
Oh, I've wanted to talk about this Basically since they're freaked they freaking went out from cover whatever whatever blue cover whatever it's called when like
Um, the when the when like a startup stops being stealth unstealth mode. Whatever. There's a term for it. Doesn't matter
Yeah, the point is earlier this week esh tech the creators of xos investment disclosure introduced to the world
Zfs any raid developed by clara ink sponsored by esh tech
Zfs any raid will introduce two new pool layouts any raid mirror and any raid z1
Any raid mirror will be available first and will ensure that all data will be written to two different discs in pools of more than two
discs of differing sizes, so Um, this is a little bit out of order
But the point is you can raid discs in zfs
So so so raid z not like hardware raid like software raid z like zfs
So you can you can create pools with differing discs and you were always able to do that
But there would be a huge loss in total capacity
You would basically go lowest common denominator. So if I had a 10 terabyte drive and a two terabyte drive and I
Raid Z1 to them or whatever whatever. No, I think technically raid z1 is not a mirror even though it like kind of operates like a mirror
If you just have two drives, don't worry about it. The point is if I used them
I would get a total of four terabytes of usable capacity out of my 12 terabytes. That's not a great experience. No, so
um Any raid z1 will take the same concept and and features as zfs raid z1
So where you can lose any one drive and it will add support for mixed drive sizes
Uh, this is so cool. So how much space can we gain? Here's some examples
Okay, we have a pool with a four terabyte drive a six terabyte drive and an eight terabyte drive
Okay, so we are this is some this is some mix and match here. All right
Okay, check this out. Oh wait, I can't screen share Dan Dan. Can you show them the table?
On it
So in a in mirror, so this is a traditional mirror
I can't see that any In a traditional mirror, uh, we would get 10 terabytes only out of our total
What is this 12 plus 8 20 out of our 24 terabytes? That is that is an awful amount of storage to give up two parity
Okay, in new any raid mirror
We get 12 terabytes. Okay, that's not a lot more
But if you can see on our table that Dan maybe has on the thing
I can't tell you can see on our table that if we add a four terabyte drive
We actually get half of the capacity whereas with the old mirror. There would be no change
Okay, so a little bit exciting. Here's where things get really cool
In raid z1 versus any raid z1
Our pool capacity goes from literally half. Okay, 12 terabytes to 16 terabytes out of our initial 24
And then if we add four terabytes, we get two and a half terabytes instead of
Okay, actually that works out a little bit better on the end of one. The point is more
The point is more When is it coming? Esh tech says they won't even say soon
But they will keep the community updated as the project progresses and hits key milestones
Key milestones. I am I am pretty
I am pretty excited
Getting more of your user space out of mishmash of drives is a very consumer friendly feature
That has pretty much no benefit whatsoever to enterprise customers who are just always using matching drives
Which is why this has never been worked on and just like how a lot of people were like, oh like
As a homelab enthusiast, this isn't necessarily something that I would want. Sure. Um, cool. This caters to
Not necessarily homelab enthusiasts as well where it's like, this is just what I've got
And I want to make something out of it. Yeah, so this is in my opinion. This is a very like
Informed thing for them to back early
Super I think it makes a lot of sense super cool. It's for people who are just you know building their first jelly fin server
Yeah, who are Who are who are got some old desktops that have been in the garage for a few years that have some drives in it
Let me throw these in here and do what I can Super excited for this sick
And I'm super excited to see them Taking that initial money that they got from their from their like
alpha, you know, hey, trust us. We're gonna do cool stuff with this
Uh, like launch and then actually doing cool stuff with it
Just because I'm starting to see this already. No, we are not saying that nothing else can do this
No, but zfs
This was not a feature of Zfs and so that's what's really exciting is you get all the zfs goodness, but also makes a match
It's just Awesome Awesome. Yes. I know drobo existed ages ago. That's not the point the point is and there's yeah other ones
zfs one thing we have until your cutoff
that you defined 18 minutes
We have until your face 18 I'm good. Whenever I'm already checked out of the hotel. Um
nerd, yeah
And I was well, we can go a little longer we'll go a little longer. All right. I will we'll do our best
We always do our best. Hey, do you want to do want to go through the um, the the computex roundup from someone not computex?
Apparently it's supposed to be wacky stuff So Dan, do you want to just like pop them up on screen and sync with us? We'll go through an order
Uh, yeah depends how fast you want the doctor
All right, so I'm gonna click the first one
It's a pulsar x knock to a mouse. Okay 100 I saw this and just thought someone was trolling with like ai models. I didn't think this was real
Oh, yeah I saw it in person. It's real
Are they actually gonna like sell these? Or was it a part of real? Do you not understand, sir? That therm will take
Oil case thing. Yeah, they've had a different
Dramatically different iteration of it every year. I don't know if that's ever gonna be for sale. It's I love going and seeing
What they're currently doing. I don't know if they're ever gonna sell it We'll see
It weighs about 20 grams more than the the regular
um I forget what model of most this is uh fine fine men or something like that. Hold on
Uh, yeah the fine men most um the the weight distribution
Felt a little different to me as well. It's got a fan in it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so it's probably yeah
I feel a little bit. I definitely had some ideas for a v2 right now
The fan is just on and I was like, oh, it'd be kind of cool if it had like a moisture sensor
So that it only turns on if your hands are actually sweaty
um Because sometimes I'm a pretty warm boy, but other times, you know in the middle of the night in particular
I get to be a pretty cold boy. Yeah, pwm it basically, you know, there's like um
The the single button that just cycles through no sensitivities. Uh, it may be controllable
I'm not sure actually look It is controllable. Okay, so it's controllable, but it's always on. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, anyway, it's it's pretty cool
It's pretty light. It's like 60 something grams. It's not bad considering. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah pretty cool. Okay next up
3000 watt psus
More than one brand was showing off power supplies that were 3000 watts or more
Basically ai. All right, let's move on. Um
Inwin unveiled whatever this is. Yeah, they say this case is trophy inspired
It is over a meter tall and will support full-size 50 series GPU's. I should certainly hope so
Imagine it didn't Yep in wind back with another signature case. They do that. They do that and um
Apparently it weighs like 40 kilos or something like that. Nice. I don't I don't remember the number don't quote me on that but
Apparently it weighs a lot. I was talking to someone from my team who saw this in person
I didn't actually catch this Uh ShortCircuit the thermal rate frozen creator
Okay, okay, this actually looks extremely legit
Dude AMD strict's halo is I swear the coolest CPU
In the last I don't know 10 years. I can't I can't think of anything cooler in that time frame. Yeah, uh, I get apples
I'm silicon. It's really cool. But like on the pc space on the pc side, dude
I interpreted that way. It is so cool. Like that is a gaming pc in alex's hand
That is capable of like playing black myth mukong. Yeah
And the fact that thermal rate is getting into pcs. I mean, obviously they know the cooling for pcs. So like why not?
But this looks awesome Uh, oh, I don't know. I guess investment disclosure since framework also makes a strict halo thing
Oh, okay, but like, uh, that's sure. Okay. I don't know the right way to handle this because that seems dumb
Like why am I bringing up framework if all I'm saying is that something else looks awesome? No, it's good
But yeah, it's good for framework. But is that actually good for the audience? I'm not 100 sure probably not
But it's good for framework and it's the law
Got them
I love it you legally have to advertise for framework. I think that's hilarious. I genuinely think that's very funny
I
Like I That is thoroughly entertaining to me. Um
In other news Hey
Do you need a monitor on your CPU cooler? Um
Because there's a lot of them Wait, is this real?
The first one the first one's not real. I don't think so. It looks like a tablet. Uh for
Is this real? This is the zygmatech one real
Do you know Dan? No idea
It slots into the zygmatech pump by sliding into what looks like an alien's shoulder socket
Okay, apparently it's real Uh, I did not catch this that it. Wow that boy. That is something. Um, that makes
Cooler masters and thermal takes look downright reasonable
um Lee and lee also has a curved display on their aio check this out
I don't
Hey sequel to the all-screen pc let's go
I guess I just I think the yeah, I don't know. I don't want to be I don't want to be too negative after spending a significant part of the show
Talking about how we need to be more positive, but stuff like that makes me feel like we're running out of ideas
I mean Maybe it's just not for me. Didn't all of computer x kind of feel like we're running out of ideas. It sure did
it was this was
Knock twist booth was super cool. Um, they're evaporative thermo siphon cooler
um If it performs anywhere near like what they think they can achieve it will be a remarkable piece of kit
Um at a astronomical price probably
um So like there's some innovation there
um
Seasonic I liked
But like basically they're just like fixing someone else's problem, you know, so
It's hard to get excited about that Uh, oh this card no one can afford won't blow up anymore if I add this thing
That isn't out yet. Yeah, um cool ASUS has an ergonomic keyboard
With a split in the middle Okay, that is not an ergonomic keyboard. That is just a keyboard that separates in the middle
But I think people do still categorize that as ergonomic really because of your shoulder rotation
Okay. Yeah, all right. So it's not ergonomic in all ways, but it's ergonomic for your shoulder rotation
Uh keyboards like this have existed for a long time. There was many of them at the show
I'll allow it Um, the silver stone retro case is legitimately cool. Okay. This was actually cool, but it's not a new idea. That's for sure
Specifically an old one. It looks sick though
Uh I genuinely really like it
Yeah, and unlike the first gen one it gave more thought to like cooling and putting modern hardware in it and stuff
Like you can you can really put a top-of-the-line gaming machine in this and build a sleeper without doing any of the actual
Fabrication work of building a sleeper. This looks amazing. I wonder if this would be a theft deterrent
Like if you did up if you'd like did up your setup
like retro style and put like like if you like 3d printed like a bigger bezel on your monitor and like
Used uh used like like beige keycaps on like a sick mechanical keyboard and like like if you did it up
Would anybody steal it that? Okay, hold on a second. Hold on a second. Could there be a way for us to like
Social experiment this can you like? You know how like bait cars they can kind of like bait people into trying to steal them bait a whole computer
Bait a house Because someone would have to like go into it and then we have to like see if they take the computer
Work with mark robert
Like is that a thing there's got to be a youtube channel that like does this
Well mark robert did the porch pirate thing for years. Well, yeah
That's porch pirating though. I mean not every porch pirate is just gonna like weigh significantly more common
Yeah I have no idea. I think baiting someone to break into a house is
probably Pretty hard to predict gilmore d in Floatplane chat says whoever did that bait would be a master
All right on that note um
PC world scented thermal paste our question from the writer is would elijah eat this? Yeah
Uh
I feel like if you if you paid him like 20 bucks, I think you'd send it scented thermal paste
Wow Uh, we're definitely not out of ideas. We've we've started sending thermal paste. Yeah
I'm gonna I'm gonna close that topic
Um, cool. We've got an announcement. It's not it's not like
Innovation is impossible. This isn't new But like we saw a fractal go with those the the like wooden and that dramatically changed the case industry
Yeah, yeah that new anti like is there there is still the new anti case is interesting
Like there's there is stuff that people can do I meant it as wood like the fractal one. Hmm. Oh, I thought you meant the
Did they do a collab? Yeah, they did it has wood on it. Oh it does. Yeah, because like, you know trends. Yeah
This week on Floatplane, we've got a ton of behind the scenes from our time at Computex
And some more firetruck slash april fools behind the scenes as well with a new why is when late episode?
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You can't show a Floatplane clip. You'd have to log in. Well, I think the question Dan
That is on all of our minds is why are you not logged into Floatplane? Yeah, don't you care?
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Floatplane's actually really fast. So that took like no time at all
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We will also have secret shopper part four the finale
Which will be available next week up early on Floatplane. So go check it out
And then we have a final rog rig reboot reminder There are only a couple of days left to get your submissions in for rog rig reboot
We're picking three winners two from north america one international to be flown to our studio to build a pc with me on camera
You just got to submit a video showing us why you need a rig reboot
Whether your system's unable to keep up with your workflow or you can't run demanding games or it's just absolutely cooked
We need all the deets. Uh, this is a competition that rewards creativity and originality
So make sure your video is unique and not like a past submission. Yes, we will know
30 to 59 seconds show us your current setup tell us why we should pick you and again
Be creative submissions are open until 4 45 p.m
Pacific time sunday may the 25th and Dan is going to post the submission link in all of the various chats
um Merch messages. Oh good lord. We haven't talked. Oh, we did talk about vo3. Okay. Good. Uh, oh, yeah
We should do a couple merch messages Dan want to hit us with that
Yeah, i'm sure thing. I've got a couple here DLL i'm a late joiner into the LTT cult about four to five years ago
So this may have been asked before but what are your favorite colors? Is Linus is pink or orange?
I Don't know if anybody has ever asked that before I have never had what are your colors merge message before a favorite colors
uh I don't know. Maybe like uh, like a cool
Like a cool bluey green It depends. There's certain things that I like some colors and there's certain things that I like other colors
I'm painting my bike pink Well
I'm trying to paint my bike pink Attempting. Yeah, historically. I was always red
red and black These days I've been an enjoyer of browns and greens more really. Yeah brown is uh,
Unusual favorite color Like uh, it's certainly like a decor trend. Yeah, everything tan and brown
But I don't know if any I don't know if even those people say yes My favorite color is tan and brown like I bought some uh, some shorts recently that are brown
Right, I think they look nice. Yeah, but brown like again people buy brown shorts because they look inoffensive
I don't know if they buy brown shorts because I think minecraft block is a cool aesthetic
Yeah, yeah, okay
Slimming you know it's slimming
You gotta wear the brown pants and a green shirt
Just embrace it. Sure, Dan
Hey taiwan show. What's the best non AI tech you spotted at Computex this year?
Uh ps Linus. Have you learned nothing from the last time you played with gold?
Also, I'm charged shipping on gift cards now
Hey, the last the last time I played with gold the controller appreciated a lot
That ended up being a tremendous investment pun intended
Get it. Yeah Nice I don't think I saw
Anything on the show floor that said it was AI enabled that I was excited about
At all one funny thing that I ran into though. Did you see the AI golf booth?
No There was a big AI golf booth. I haven't talked to any I've talked to a bunch of people that saw it
I haven't talked to a single person that saw it work Um, I saw them working on it for a pretty considerable amount of time
We were standing there with sammy trying to wait to see if they're going to get it working And then they they claimed they got it working
They had someone go up to like test it and they they they took a really long time trying to get the golf ball in the
T they finally got it They whiffed hard
Took a really long time to set it up like they missed the screen They hit the the ball, but they missed the whole screen which is like
Almost everywhere the ball could have gone Um, they took a really long time setting it up on the tee again
Hit it again whiffed the screen again
And then the system stopped working again
And we just left
That kind of encapsulated a lot of the AI enabled this that at least I saw at the show
But I was only on the show floor for one day. So maybe maybe you saw something I doubt it, but maybe
Um Boy my my favorite thing is probably um, I'm gonna go with the boiling cooler
I I like I like cool. I like cool cooling stuff. It was AI enabled. No, what that wasn't AI enabled was what they asked
Oh, yeah So I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with the boiling cooler. That looks sick. Nice. Um
Hey Kind of related to AI
Signal is blocking Windows recall microsoft's AI enabled constant logging of everything that you do on your computer
Signal messenger is warning users that the privacy of their communications is being threatened by Windows recall
Microsoft's AI tool that will screenshot index and store pretty much everything a user does every few seconds
They have updated signal for Windows to by default block the ability of Windows to screenshot the app
Signals move reduces the possibility of recall indexing indexing private messages, but doesn't eliminate it because
Users can change the setting within the desktop app For example, if they want to make use of accessibility tools like screen readers
Signal officials note that microsoft has made many adjustments to recall in response to critical feedback over the last year
But recall still places any content displayed within privacy protected apps like signal at risk
We've actually got a video coming up about recall. Uh, we kind of
totally on purpose Have a laptop from back when recall was first announced that we did the like hacks ring to make it work
even though it wasn't an AI enough laptop and Uh, we left it disconnected completely from the internet as a time capsule of
Windows recall when it was first launched And we take that
Out of the mothballs and a brand new signal a signal. Excuse me
Windows recall laptop and show the differences in behavior
How they how they log how it's encrypted or not encrypted and interesting. It's a really cool video
Yeah, that's cool that we totally on purpose definitely kept that laptop disconnected from the internet for a year
Nice happy accidents. Happy accident. Yeah. No, we just like a lot of recipes are made
We were originally planning to make a video about recall and then for soft bailed on the launch
And so we were like, oh, okay. Well, we can't really make this video. So we just like they're not even releasing it
Yeah, so it was like written. Yeah, but we just like put everything away and so it ended up working out
So we'll we'll do the video now Our discussion question is is anyone excited about recall?
no Really incredibly draconian it teams
Cool. Yeah, but they already have tools like that. So it's not even like microsoft's just reinventing the wheel
From that perspective Well, maybe they could save money on their tools that they have that already do that because you're right
Man Floatplane chat is hilarious any
Any excuse to mention that you use firefox
Every single full-plane user uses firefox. I know that I know that I know that this is this is just fact
It's like it's a law of The universe. Yeah, um, even the ones that use chrome
This is super cool. They still use firefox coach a small french company sells a product called infinite battery
Which allows users to swap individual cells inside in order to have them the battery last longer
The company explains that most e-bike batteries are made up of collections of 18 650 cells
Which are wired together in series in parallel and often an e-bikes battery will fail and stop working
Even if only a small handful of these individual cells stop working
The product is a fireproof casing and some documentation that allows users to swap in fresh
Cells with only a screwdriver. It also has a built-in battery monitoring and other stats that can be seen through your phone
And is currently compatible without with about 90 of existing e-bike brands
This is super cool. That's awesome. Yeah, we did a video. Uh, man, this was years ago at this point
where um, the title is this should be illegal battery repair blocking and uh
It was when I discovered that not only will brands
Not enable you to replace the cells in your battery pack
But some of them will actively block you from doing it by detecting a change in voltage at the bms
and then self-destructing if at any point that voltage goes outside of certain parameters and uh
This was back when collin was working here. He told me that apparently some of them are so
So bad that not only will they self-destruct if it like goes to zero
But they will self-destruct if you charge them
and it's like It suspiciously charges like too much more better. You must have changed the cells in here
And they'll turn off Just go to sleep forever. Oh
That is brutal. I still believe everything that I said back then that should be illegal
And I think that this e-bike company sounds super cool. Yeah, that's awesome
There's some microsoft announcements from build 2025
Microsoft has made their Windows subsystem for Linux lsx open source with the code up on github now
LSx allows Windows to natively run elf executables and implement Linux syscalls inside the Windows kernel
Very cool microsoft is also adding model context protocol support Windows 11 for tighter integration with ai
All right from an official statement the mcp platform on Windows will offer a standardized framework for ai agents to connect with native Windows apps
Which can expose specific functionality to augment the skills and capabilities of those agents on Windows 11 pcs
Okay, and finally microsoft has announced the newest web syndication standards
nl web designed to make it easier for ai to crawl the internet and add tighter ai integration into web pages
Cool
And in other hooray news open ai buys one of joni ive's companies io for six and a half
billion dollars. Oh good I am happy they had that much money. I was reading an article about this acquisition
that um highlighted products that uh the the x design chief at apple
um was working on with his like love from or
io company like whatever whatever it is that he's doing sure and and one of i think two
projects that they highlighted was That he's designing his company's headquarters
And i was like Okay, like right, but isn't that just like
Like a necessary thing that because people need a place to sit like what are you actually
What do you actually do? I'm actually i'm a hundred percent not sure and maybe i'm missing something here
But i i i haven't seen anything that love from or io have done that are worth six and a half
billion dollars
Like can we Can we contextualize this?
at all um like this must be this must be a game changer
Like absolute game changer. Can you guys can you guys let me know like what love from or and or io?
Have done to be worth six and a half Bees apparently sam altman has been working with johnny ive already on some like
i'm assuming ai enabled smart wearable necklace thing
Uh, because apparently we didn't learn anything from the ai pin
um So maybe
No one's giving me anything in here. Well, I don't think they've done anything
So I think the the value is this stuff's done stuff. They've done like design work for companies. Yeah. Yeah, it's not like
But I don't think they've released like a product. It's not like johnny ive's just been like sitting there
Wouldn't be surprised. I mean no, I would I would he seems like he seems like a go-getter. He's a grinder. I just um
What The 6.5 billion
Yeah What what is your what to sorry? What's it? Sorry. Sorry 6.5 billion. What about the 6.5 billion?
No, you said what no, no, no, don't worry about it. It doesn't matter. Okay. I must have misheard you. Okay, cool
I I think I think it's the the whatever they've already been working together behind closed doors on a
Device sure, but for six and a half billion dollars. Oh, yeah
Like how many units have said device could you possibly be hoping to sell?
Such that you could amortize over that number of units the 6.5 billion dollar acquisition of your partner
I really you know the um, you know the analysis that happened when
Elon like bought and sold his companies to each other
Yeah, and people were like, oh, it's it's because he's like effectively moving money around
So that he has more stock control of a higher percentage of whatever blah blah blah
I really wonder how much of that is happening
Unmass in the ai space as there's like all this funding going in and then companies are finding like
Oh, everyone kind of hates it and there's a lot of free models
And there isn't actually a ton of money in like developing LLM tech
uh, let's just like
Buy companies and do this other stuff to like move the money around
I mean, I guess um
Well, hey, congratulations Johnny
um That's a lot more money than you would have made hanging around at apple
So, yeah Good job
Yeah, sure
Unless just moving money around I mean, I like really feel like it might be there's all these rumors about open ai and microsoft kind of breaking up and
um I don't know the last thing that open ai did that was big in the news that wasn't drama
Compared to other companies that are like
pushing big models and arguably more effective models and open ai's models
Many of which are just open source which just like
Largely removes the need for them to exist
I don't know it's an interesting field of your open ai right now, but
Yeah, um Our discussion question, which I actually do want to discuss for a bit is let's say this isn't a necklace
Let's just speculate, but it's not a necklace
What wearable ai tech
Can you think of that would actually be something you would consider buying because I have felt a little
Left behind By current hardware trends
I don't want Smart glasses at least not in their current form. I don't know how many people do well. Some people do. I mean that is selling some glasses
Um, I don't use I actually don't even this is not a co-pilot enabled pc. I don't even have a co-pilot button
This one isn't here. Yes, it is. It's right there. Ah um
Okay, so you're clearly in the same situation as me. Oh my god, it does do something when I press it. Well, I'll have to kill that
I'll find a way. Yeah, it's not you
It doesn't the point is I have used co-pilot enabled PCs and have only ever pressed the button by accident
I I I don't ever even pressed by accident. I don't use ai. You know, is there I blocked it out like you blocking out ads
nice, um But but people are you like I don't I don't really use it as part of my workflow like occasionally
Uh fire up, you know chat gpt or you know, whatever to like when I was brainstorming
um names first mash champs I I I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, what would you call a badminton center? I ultimately went with something that was different from anything
Yeah, but I use it as a sounding board. Yeah, I used it as a sounding board. But like I almost I will never rely
on it I shouldn't say will never I don't mean that future looking maybe someday I will rely on it
But I I never really nothing tension right now. Um
And and so I just feel like like all the new products that are coming out are like not for me. I like to write things myself
um I don't want to wear smart glasses and I'm just like
can I just I don't know. Can I just have like earpods?
Oh, okay, like they could be headphones already. I love how effective apple's branding is man
The fact that you've called them earpods is like
Mind-blowing to me. I I go out of my way consciously
to call these my earphones These days because it just it bothers me that my kids call any earphones AirPods
Like it just bothers me AirPods are not
Monopoly even though they basically are And uh, sorry. Sorry. It just bothers me the reason why I
Do like calling them earpods. I know they're the only ones that I hate all the other ones
I mean you're wearing ones that seem to be staying in okay Uh, they like hurt because I had to jam them in
Like my ears will be sore for the rest of the day. Oh, whoa is me. Yeah
I mean The other parts they're gonna be
Okay, sorry, I don't know why I said that
But okay, if you look at like airpod fours, they got actually pretty significantly smaller. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah there
So there is room to have some expansion to fit a little bit more tech in there
Um, especially if it's just like reporting out to your phone or something
Okay, so and then you could hear because they they have the ability to talk to llms
Okay, so so but then let's let's let's ask the usual question right and that is
Why would that need to be in my earphones? Why wouldn't it just be in my phone which is connected to my earphones?
Yeah Okay, so
Let's try again There's no wearable then though. That's the problem other than glasses like what the heck would a necklace do nothing
Well, it could have a
You
Camera on it
You laugh but it's basically that stupid google thing. Yeah that google
No camera that would take pictures with ai at like the right times or whatever
Everyone's like completely forgotten about this. I bring it up every once in a while. It's so bad
Uh, do you guys remember what that stupid thing was called chat?
um You're like Pretty hyper out of time. I can help you go pack up your room if you want
Uh, sure. Um What else do we need to get through? We got a couple immersions. There's one more really important thing. Okay two brave souls
our Clip says hold on hold on. Yeah, hold on google clip. I think that's it or wait was google google clip software
Uh, i don't remember this at all clip on camera device designed by google
Uh two and a half stars from the verge nice
I think that might have been it Anyway, hold on hold on you're gonna like this two brave souls are fighting to preserve the lost art of GPU boxes
Oh Okay, check this out
It's like uh, it's like a table book. Oh, that's cool. They went around look at what we had
They went oh man. I knew you're gonna like this and painstakingly captured
Cool GPU box art From back in the day and just made like a table book of it. Look how like this is a crazy card
And how like normie and plain that looks yeah compared to all this stuff. Look at this
This is so awesome Dan. Are you getting this on screen at all?
As your hopes up then
Uh overclocked. Yes, I can see it an archive of graphics card box art is a new book showcasing the most radical
GPU box art from the bygone era of bombastic branding and is being being released by publisher lock books on may 31st
Curated by mike mccabe and sam bailey it will feature over 300 retail boxes from the late 1990s through to the early 2010s
Plus over 50 GPU print ads from the golden age of gaming magazines
um That's all that's cool. I like it. There's a couple of messages. Sorry. We should get one for the office. I'd be down
All right a couple left here. Hi dll recently upgraded pc after years. Why in 2025 does it seem like Windows?
Is Windows unable to migrate apps and settings seamlessly?
For example, i Android iOS upgrades do resetting up apps explorer pinned items is still so manual
That's a good question. I mean, I I actually find the process pretty darn manual on
iOS as well Windows really sometimes you upgrade Windows
Isn't it pretty seamless or do they mean moving a device like a fresh install?
That's what it sounds like to me like when you know migration and and like
I I guess for me, I would say um
There's a really really fine line between carrying forward settings that will be helpful to the user and
carrying forward Prud that might have been like
Bunging up your previous Windows install. I often want to install. Um
So I just don't know. I don't know how you'd fix that without making a lot of other things worse
Yeah, and You might say okay. Yeah, but i'm the user I could decide what I prefer
But a lot of users would probably use this convenient option and then have their system be
Bunged and then blame microsoft for it. So I can see why a fresh install is a fresh install. I I get it
Last one i've got for you today Linus have your badminton friends over there reacted to smash champs yet?
Uh, yeah, yeah, I I I had told them last year that it was coming. So uh pretty much everyone
I showed them some of the pictures on like google maps and stuff like that and uh, they're they're mostly like
What really? Yeah, yeah, I mean I told you I was doing this. They're like, yeah, but like it looks really good. Yeah
Thanks Appreciate that
Yeah, it's been good. I got together with um
Most of my like badminton crew this year. I played every day. I'm dying
I think one of my toenails on my left foot is probably gonna fall off. Um
My tennis elbow is back full force. No, but it's um
I have like no grip strength right now from just like using it hard all week
I I'm and I think I lost uh about six pounds
I've got little man doing five different things for his forearms. Oh, really? Yeah
Five different things. I mean at his age, there's probably a sixth, but that's the that's on his own. Yeah
And I guess we'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel. Bye
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