How you guys doing?
Happy happy Friday, is that a lawnmower? Yeah, what it's January. Yeah, are you sure it's a lawnmower?
We're like no, I'm checking a really unfortunate car. I'm checking
Takes me a really long time to get to work It's a lot yeah a lawnmower at like 7 p.m. On a Friday in January in an industrial park. Is it a lawnmower?
I can't see it's too far. Oh, it's just carrying really well down the complex. It's too far away though. Yeah, that's curious
How you doing floaties?
Happy Friday, y'all. No snow. No. No, yeah, no, it's not like a snowblower or anything. No
We've had kind of a like pathetic winter. Yeah
Have you gone like boarding ski? I took my kids up once and
There was a lot of brown snow Yeah
Yeah, just really has not been has not been much of a winter
I mean Honestly, it's been kind of nice that we've had the occasional clear day because usually it the the cloud cover rolls in somewhere around like October
And then rolls out somewhere in the like May time frame and that's Vancouver winter for you
But yeah, we just we like it hasn't even been wet like it's been like it's wet it's Vancouver
But it's it hasn't been like like just like always raining the way it has been in the past in a super weird winter
All right
Do we have any way I forget do we have any way of telling how many people are watching on
Floatplane no, right? there's indirect ways
And AJ quantum a day can get you like if we observe it it changes a decently good accurate answer now. I'm over it
Sounds like AJ has better things to do if you count. Yeah, people are saying like 1700. So I think they're counting the chatter list which
That's a minimum. Oh Okay, it's so that there are people that do not show up in the chatter list
It's it's if I remember correctly, it's pretty notably higher than the chatter list shows, right?
There's different ad blocking extensions and other weird things that will block the chatter registration
Got it. We've never cared enough to fix it. Yeah, it doesn't seem very important. Oh, I have something special for our pre-show folks
subfloatplane Yeah, the backpack pin from last week is now available standalone on the store
So you guys asked but just for we got you I have no idea what the conditions of that are I
Am just there's conditions. I am just reading the thing I saw. Okay, cool
So I read the thing on there It says the conditions that I remember he said or should we just go off?
Oh, you know you remember conditions cool cool cool the conditions
I remembered that he said was that it's just for the pre-show. I
Think he said it's just to talk about on the pre-show. Oh
So it's like quietly on the store, but we're only gonna talk about it in the pre-show
I don't honestly probably does because we don't have that many so we don't want to just like
That's why I thought it was just the pre-show loose the hounds on the the few backpacks
We have it's meant to be the promotional item for the for the thing. Anyway, you let a bug inside. You got what?
How could you do this?
Well, I'm not what I'm so tempted
I
Need like a lamp and a railing
Anyways, sorry, I'm gonna
I'm not sorry
Hold the pin I thought you meant the bug I did too. I thought you meant me
Oh Okay, okay, so it's kept live until it sells out. Yeah, that's what Dan said. So it's not it's not just pre-show
Okay, it effectively could be yeah, I mean it kind of depends on how things going how things going and spends on how things go. Oh
What a week man. Oh
All right, we just get this thing going
Yeah, maybe yeah, whatever all right
Let me refresh my selecteds here
Oh, let me log into my selecteds in order to do that when you log into my other thing in order to do that
Let me just get my other code. Oh
Modern security is sick, dude. I keep forgetting to how and do you about it more? It's on my
Prepolist now chats and Annals and chats and oh again. There was some feedback on this. Can we kill the sponsored banners during?
The thing that we're totally not doing
Or could we just clip out the section the clean version and
Huck it up. Oh wait, is that not an option? Do does LMG clips usually have the banner in the bottom?
I think so. Oh, okay. Sure. Yeah, sure
Well, no, just put it behind any visuals then it should be fine
You do you do whatever
Yeah, no, no, just any visuals just put them in the very very front layer
Then it should be fine because people were just upset that they couldn't see what was there because the banner covered it
Is that shine and sparkle
So sparkle and shine so if Hypothetically speaking you had a visual that was supposed to go up over top of us
Put it one layer farther so it goes in front of the banner. Is that possible?
They do okay good, then I guess that's fine
This week we will be responding to the allegations from the test-tone society
I Mean you just use a swear bleep hey test-tone society go fuck yourself
Or if they'd appreciate that they probably don't get enough shout outs
I mean, yeah, they want people to speak their language, you know, is there is is there a
Organization that like maintain there's an organization for everything
I actually do believe there are rules for the sensor tone really it has to be a certain frequency and a certain volume Wow
Because you know, it's always it's always be I think it's like I don't know it's like middle a or something
Nice, okay, should we do this thing?
Sure, all right, let's go that's one kilo Hertz, okay, I
Am resuming the selected
And even when I try to speak in a lower pitch, it just doesn't work does it good bass boost? It's kind of pathetic
It's a word that's come up a lot today
It does I will say it does sound like you're trying. Oh, yeah
Like, you know high school kids that are like men my boys totally changed man. Yeah me, too
Are people doing that like are your son's friends doing that I haven't noticed it
But I definitely noticed it when I was in school
Yeah, man, I totally have a low voice. So
Like I never noticed like a Or like we were you know teachers would talk about like oh like there's gonna be big changes
You're going through every other stuff. I remember the whole time. I was just like I don't
What It didn't feel like I came out of the womb covered in hair
I'm starting to show up like they they they talked about it like it was gonna be so like traumatic and I was like
Okay, there's hair. I don't it's down there. Yeah, why do I care like under there? Yeah, whatever. I don't know. I just
All right, so we do this thing I'm ready to resume the selected if you're ready sure yeah
Actually now I drank like half of this before the show start cam gonna no no no no no no I don't I'm not saying I want more
I'm saying you need to go pee
Is the shirt you're wearing LTT yeah, this is an LTT shirt is it still for sale?
A lot of our stuff is sold out so I
We're working on it that stuff's hard
Yes And it is for sale and there does seem to be quantity it is the blank t-shirt select color lavender
If you're wondering, I think it looks kind of nice actually
Like it's unfortunately not at all so I have to do this all
Day and everyone wonders why I have this thing or I have to constantly pull my shirt down
And it's just cuz it doesn't fit you need a you need a TC tugger, but for like pulling it down
TC tugger. It's a real product. It's a real thing. Is it is it? No, it's from I I
Think you should leave I think What
Yeah, I think I think you should leave it's like a little it's like a little button that you put on your shirt
So that you think you should leave. Yes, the name of the show. It's not a joke. It's a real product
Stop making fun of me brand or something
That's a show Okay, I've seen this before I just didn't know the name of it. I think this I think you should leave I
Think you should leave. Yeah, people are tagging me to say leave
Has this ever happened to you, I'm sorry
You bought a house and it was not disclosed to you that there was a termite infestation in the walls and then the molding
So you have to take it upon yourself to call your own termite extermination company
But when the guys show up they immediately ask if they can use your bathroom then for over two hours
They take turns going in and out taking huge mud pies and over flushing
Then they go in there together and you hear a bunch of scrounging around and then you hear a bunch of yelling and one of them
Standing in the bathroom doorway shouting at you that his friend's foot is stuck in the toilet
And he says help him you got to help him and when you go in there to help him
He just pulls it out easily and laughs because his foot wasn't stuck and it wasn't stuck at all
He was just faking it and then they get really serious and say it's turbo time
I hear Linus coming back I
Don't know what just happened That's not a thing to say everything that transpired when you were gone. It's totally fine. Not so none of it
Everything's okay. We call them Luke. Not suss Lafreniere. Everything's all right here. How are you?
Quote the Star Wars you might as well get it right. I was then when the Star Wars was written which
That line up I never remember exactly what he says which is embarrassing because it's like the best line in the entire
Two Star Wars trilogies that exist
Haven't seen that movie in a very long time
Chili you could say it was a long long time ago
You could say it was long long ago in a galaxy but it really wasn't that far away
It was like a short drive from here probably I don't even know where it was
But it was probably a short drive from here wherever it was
But a long long time ago
Just knock out he's away as well. Yeah, this is just a slight. There's a slight difference. All right, okay
All right All right, let's do this thing. Shall we I am resuming they selected boop
You
Good evening everyone My plan was to not discuss the whole situation right now any further like many of you
We wanted to keep this whole thing from dragging out so we set our piece
Steve from gamers nexus wrote a manifesto that could probably be best summed up as know you and
Then it was done or so we thought
Shortly before when show Lewis Rossman released an hour-long hit piece and in a now deleted comment Steve mentioned
He had seen the video before it went live making it clear that at the very least he was involved in reviewing this video before publication
When other creators reached out to us in support we explicitly discouraged any escalation
While Steve seems to be doing the opposite So here we are more or less forced to respond yet again, but we'll keep it much much shorter this time
Steve asked me to direct any further communications about his ethical breach and persistent defamatory statements to his lawyer as I clearly stated before
I don't have a lawyer involved and I don't want one involved
I wrote last week's address myself with feedback from my team and this much shorter wrap-up will come from me as well
The core issue has not been addressed at all because of ethical and process error Steve published false and damaging information about a
competitor right of reply matters both because it is
essential for accurate reporting and because scandal travels much faster and is a lot stickier in people's minds than the oh
Oops never mind that comes out when the allegations are found to be false
There's actually a good thread on the subreddit that you guys can check out that is not the visual for it, but that's fine
The point is that this is so much worse now
Faced with the unavoidable fact that he got it wrong and caused a bunch of damage with his actions
Steve has outright refused to apologize correct or retract any of his false statements
That's that's next level man I am extremely grateful that so many of you are seeing how misrepresentative the original reporting was
both around the bill at lab situation and around the honey thing and I
Want to applaud the maturity of the folks many many folks who have come out and said hey
I'm sorry that I raised a pitchfork while I didn't have the full story
I'm still deeply saddened by the virality of Steve's first video because of that
Many will never hear the truth a fact that is worsened by Steve's
Ongoing refusal to issue any corrections or retractions in spite of the fact that his reporting on me contains clear
Objective errors and misquotes so in summary Steve's response shows that his standards for himself fall far short of the standards
He holds others to and look get look dude stealthily removing the word journalism from the GN patreon changes nothing
This whole thing is getting quite frankly kind of pathetic
Even my and I quote Terrible response to the original hit piece
Acknowledged issues on our side laid out a path forward which we have taken
I'm so proud of our team and it included words like no excuses. I need to own the mistakes and sorry
Steve's response contained no such introspection and no better path forward. His mask is now
Truly off for anyone who used to appreciate him for his ethics and objectivity as it turns out
He only cares about those things when it's convenient On that note just because somebody is running a master class in deflection and misdirection
That doesn't mean that absolutely everything they say is wrong So the last thing I'm going to do today is what you guys rightly expected of me. I will meet my faults and my errors head on
I'm sorry that I used unprofessional language and if I ever said this
Truthfully, I don't recall it, but if I did I take that back 100 percent. I'm sorry and I'll work to do better
So where do we go now? I Don't know guys. I see your calls to end the drama, but I can only control my side in this
My team and I have issued with corrections and retractions where needed. We will continue to do so
There's a couple fixes that we need for the 5090 video. They're pinned under the video. We're getting all of that sorted
Meanwhile, the other side is spitting on our olive branch Lawyering up publicly attacking my credibility with no indication that it will end and now seemingly colluding with other creators
to smear me in public I Don't want to play this stupid game anymore. There are only stupid prizes to be won. So
Yeah, I think I've said enough for now. Obviously. I'm aware of Rossman's video
We alluded to it early and I have some idea what it's about in the lead up
He was corresponding with me But I don't think now it's time for that right now is the time to hang out with awesome people who matter and that's you guys
Welcome to the WAN Show everyone. We've got a great show lined up for you guys this week
some game makers hope that Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to 100 US dollars at launch and
Oh, man, if we want to shout out creators who are doing awesome work
Yeah, and you know make sure we're getting some views for guys that are just incredible good people
Bitwit Slash Kyle his CES 2025 coverage is up. So I want you guys to go check that out. He's kind of had a pretty rough
Rough couple of weeks to say the least. What else we got this week, sir. Wow. I had time again to prep topics
a student built an open-source laptop in six months, and it's actually
Really really cool. It's like the video is awesome. We've talked about sorry, sir. I'll save it. I'll save it and GPU news
But something really big happened this week, and it was a graphics card. Yeah, why don't we talk about that?
Please
The show is brought to you today by Squarespace Notion and oh snap along with our rap partner dbrand and our chair partner secret lab
Why don't we jump right into?
How about student build open-source laptop in six months? I like it
This is actually the coolest thing. Why don't you run us through it because you might think okay?
You might think hearing that like oh, yeah, but like it probably sucks. No
What if I told you it didn't okay? Okay, go go go. So I'm probably gonna butcher the name, but it's
Any on I think it's an yon underscore e
Uh, the specs are 4k ammo led display didn't skimp there at all
The second I saw that I was like oh, we're serious. Okay, sure 16 gigs of ddr4 RAM an rk 35 88 so c
Which has a an eight core ARM processor with GPU and npu which he points out in the video an m.2 SSD
Of some capacity wi-fi 6 at 62.9 watt hour battery which came out to about seven hours of battery life sick
brian huang hope I said that right sorry a senior in high school
Mine completely blown made an open-source laptop from scratch. He called the any on I think it's any on
I originally read it and thought it was anyone but then in the video. I think he says any on
Uh, because whatever i'm just gonna call it the super cool laptop that I can't believe a high school
It's so sick. How about that? We're not going to show the video here because you need to go watch it
But we'll talk about it a little bit and then we'll link it in the chat for you guys. Yeah
Because AMD and Intel don't just give you you know cpus and documentation he instead went with that rock chip processor and
Honestly where he like really hooked me in the video was diving through the specs of that processor and why he wanted it
And things he's going to do for and stuff very very cool Um a very expensive and complicated part of building a laptop are the io interconnects
So brian went with the friendly elec
Som which helps, uh, which has heaps of io on board
We actually use the same board to make a diy nas last year
Uh, the next problem. Yeah, that thing is so cool. Yeah, like so cool. Yeah, the next problem was the display
You can watch the video But uh, it was a huge pain in the butt. Yeah, that's the tldw
This is where like because he didn't skimp out because there was an option
Yeah, he could have just got an external laptop display
Mounted it permanently and then usb ced into the laptop and been like don't worry about that
And that would have been way easier because the thing about mobile display
Standards and I really man. I know I love the finger quotes, but I especially love it here is that oh, sorry
Is that they are the kinds of standards that?
Nobody seems to be able to agree on and it can it can just be it can be as simple as like
The connector looks right and the receptacle looks right But if you plug them in it just straight up won't work and the getting your hands on the wiring diagrams or anything can be an absolute nightmare
So working with like edp displays is
Super not the easiest thing in the world a couple corrections already. My bad. Apparently it's any on e
Cool that makes sense and it's Byron not brian
I'm gonna use dyslexia as my excuse there. That actually works. It is spelled right in the dog. Yeah
I don't know. I just read it wrong But yeah, the display portion was crazy because honestly when I first saw it
I assumed he was just gonna go that route, right? Yeah, just use the i o. Yeah, that would be easy
Make it easy. Yeah, sad sad magician in chat says calling that a standard is
saint like generosity Yeah, it's a it's a mess. But yeah, the just the display portion is super cool
He also just want to design the entire power system to allow for charge and discharge of the batteries
In total it has 62.9 watt hours of battery capacity and seven hours of battery life. Okay, that is so
cool like handling lithium battery charging and discharging
Safely especially is is not a high school project. Uh, that's so cool
This was a little above and beyond I think, uh, but he went ahead and made his own wireless keyboard with cherry mx low profile switches and custom 3d printed keycaps
That's where you know, he's just having fun when you have when you have q levels of skill then you just you got to flex it
Why not? Why not? You got to you got to flex it brother
Um Byron then designed his own cnc'd aluminum chassis and got it anodized
the hinge For the screen uses framework hinges. That's cool conveniently available shout out framework investment disclosure framework
But like just making parts available for their laptops love to see it
All said and done it boots up faster than his m3 macbook. He does like a drag race near the end of the video. It's cool
I I don't the the same actual performance, but it boots up quickly, which is sick
And there's a line in here that says I suspect apple had a bit more of an r&d budget
This is a note from alex clark from our team. He says seriously watch the video
I learned things about how laptops are made and I think I have and i'm gonna editorialize here
I agree alex and above average understanding of laptops
Yeah, I learned a lot to the point where like i'm planning on Watching the video again because there was parts in there that I thought were like really interesting and I want to absorb it better
Okay, now our first discussion question. I am hijacking this completely because you and I have talked
Many times yes about building your own laptop and how it kind of used to be a thing
Yeah, like you could buy a bare bones laptop and you could you could pick a
Socketed CPU and RAM and storage and in the case of the one that I
Yes, di wide for myself for first year university. You could configure it with alternative battery packs
So I had like a like a caboose ass battery pack that stuck out of the bottom of my laptop
And actually put it up at an incline. No, no not that one That was the ace or aspire one that I've extended battery. I got later. Sorry. No, this one came out the back straight
It was an m5ne like bare bones ASUS laptop. Anyway
And you and I have talked about it and we've kind of talked about how like that's that's dead
You know, everything is so integrated now that building your own laptop is dead
We'll stay dead the fact that companies like NVIDIA are actively hostile towards it by trying to kill the mx
m Like mobile graphics card standard over and over and over again at every possible opportunity makes it
Guess not because someone's senior high school project is just going to demolish that except here's something that I didn't see coming
Instead of having modularity, right and generic chassis and socketable CPU's and socketable RAM and
And socketable storage or you know slotable storage or whatever, right?
So we saw all of that go tightly integrated and we lamented the death of a you know, diy laptop
But then it got so much more integrated
That now you could take a full system on a chip or system on a module in this case
And build a chassis around it and holy crap you could build your own laptop again
And now that Windows on ARM is a thing theoretically
like you You could run like full fat freaking
Windows and and not and hand it to someone and have them not even notice
Right and like okay eventually someone would probably you don't notice they go to run an app that the emulation doesn't work for whatever else
But I'm just saying like this could be a computer that you could hand to your auntie
And she could just use and you've built it. Yeah, this is so cool
I I just I didn't see this coming and honestly like yeah, you don't you don't have crazy GPU power
Like he's talking about some of the limitations. He played this isn't in the notes But I'm just trying to remember from last night
So I might say some things that are slightly wrong because I watched this video, but um
He was he was playing minecraft on it like it can play and I know yeah minecraft plays on your phone
But it can play games. So what that's so cool. That's where the hardware is at now
A big flex for him as far as I could tell was the npu more
I don't I don't feel personally like he really made this thing as a gaming machine
And not every device that you have has to be a gaming machine. He's got that npu in there. He can do some ai stuff with it
That's cool. Um, it's it's highly functional a lot of like what I use like my my work desktop
My worst desktop just needs a functional CPU and some RAM like
I'm on the browser all the time Um
Yeah, but does it play crisis all this is so cool
Second discussion question should we throw some money behind a v2 at the end?
We're listed as one of the inspirations for the project
That's sick. I mean sure he did shout out the nas in the video. That's so cool. Yeah, no, I mean the song. Yeah, uh
Dan do you mind just throwing a we don't we don't know if he wants that. Yeah. Oh, yeah
We have we have absolutely no idea and he might not even want to do a v2
I mean he it's clearly might be moving on to something else. Clearly a super talented kid
I'm sure you could figure out something else cool to to create but like
I would I would absolutely be down to do like uh, like a like a small sponsorship
But I mean even if he's just like, yeah, could I just like Get a mod mad and get a bunch of like LTT gear or like, you know, whatever else or you know
Dude, I'd Yeah, sure. Cool. This is awesome. I I I'm pretty sure I commented on the video
Like this is this is the type of stuff that I really like finding on youtube
Yeah, like this is this is the the like a little rewarding nugget that youtube's like you watched a bunch of garbage that I sent you
Here's a here's the thing that you want now Um, I I really hope he keeps making content of some kind
Or just keeps making cool stuff like if someone like an apple or a dell or
Framework dude, somebody's got to pick this guy if somebody if somebody picks this guy up then I just I want to see him
I want to see him create something amazing Dan if you could just fire it over to I think, uh, Sean C
Is handling like sponsorships and stuff like that
So just fire that over there that I consider it green lit for us to you know, do something if he if he wants to do something
So cool though. Yeah, I think I think
You know the video especially because it's his second video. I think video was hosted really well
I think he has creator chops he could go that route or yeah, if like a framework or someone else wants to pick him up
Yeah, this this dude's going to kill it
What do you want to talk about next My next one was, uh, the GPU stuff man. Really? Oh, okay, sure. We can we can jump into something
You haven't talked about gpus enough this week
It was a pretty exciting week that 5090 review was
Thick, yeah, like it's I think it's 22 or seem killed it 22 or 23 minutes long or something like that and
Not a dull moment at all. Like I was doing script review with adam
Um, I ended up reviewing probably about 80 of the script before I went in for my procedure
And uh, then they finished up the rest when I was in the twilight zone
um And I was going I was going through it with them like good lord, dude
Like a lot of the time my job as as an editor is to is to cut just cut cut cut
Keep it focused. I mean I talked about this at length on the colon and smear podcast
But like what is our point? Don't waste the audience's time
Like all of these things are so important to the way that we create content and the way that we communicate
Our message whether it's you know, is this GPU any good or you know, how do you how do you scrap yard war together yourself?
Like a cheap gaming pc The 69 dollar gaming pc is making a return. Nice and it's better than ever
Pretty exciting. Anyway, we're shooting that interesting. Yeah. Anyway
Um, the point is that that's my job is to go through and and edit down for clarity for conciseness
I think I ended up adding word count because I was just like, oh my goodness. There's dense
There is so much here and I applaud
Anyone in the audience who managed to make it through the whole video
Because the thing is there's a ton of nuance in it and there's a ton like it's a
I I watched it back Twice actually wants to review it for release. Um, and then that was at like
I want to say like three in the morning or something like that. So I like I got the call and I'm like
Yeah, I had my laptop next to my bed because I knew it was coming. I'm like, okay
Yeah, here's a couple notes and then and then once again when I was in my right state of mind and um
And what I noticed about it was Good lord was the cognitive load of watching that video. Yeah. Hi. Yeah
Because you had to not only just like kind of listen to us say yeah, this is good
You had to listen to our opinion about whether something was good or bad or somewhere in between
And then you had to listen to the nuance and the explanation for why that opinion is not black and white because
I mean, we talked about this a little bit. I think last week, you know
Fake frames versus real frames that whole conversation
It's complicated, man before that. But yeah, it's complicated, man. It's not as simple as like
High fp, you know a high FPS number more better more good or or low more worse or like we had that one chart
um That kind of we like we kind of like drop. It's almost like this like
We put this chart on the table that all of a sudden has a four x multi-frame gen
On the same chart with the regular 50 90 that was nuts. And one of the things that in my
In spite of being not in a very good state of mind because it was in the middle of the morning
One of the things that I noticed I was like, dude, we've got to like highlight more
that this is This is mfg and that's kind of our point is that this is clearly ludicrous and not comparable to everything else that's here
um, and so it's it's just it's one of those videos that um,
I really enjoyed It made me think and understand even though
Like I'm kind of having to put myself back into if I hadn't already script reviewed and looked at embodies materials and all those things
But it made me think and it made me understand better and I thought
The thing that stood out to me the best was what an incredible job the team did
In spite of my relatively minimal involvement
I did review most of the script I did work on titling
intro angle Um, I obviously hosted little bits of it including
By the way, I have zero recollection bonkers bought that really nothing
Absolutely nothing. Uh, we have a we have an exclusive on Floatplane like a behind the scenes
um Of me having my procedure done, which I guess we can talk about a little bit more later
But I watching this back is wild dude because I'm just like I haven't seen it
You know, I don't drink and I don't drugs so I don't have any experience of watching myself do something that I
Have absolutely like I've definitely watched myself do stuff
I don't remember because it's a video from 17 years ago or whatever, but it's different
It's like watching myself do something that I don't recall. But yeah, that seems plausible enough
Whereas here I'm behaving in in a way that is just
It's me, but it's like
Loopy me. Anyway, interesting. Yeah, I was I was I was watching back. I was I was telling Yvonne man. I'm I'm pretty funny when I'm high
Anywho the um, did she appreciate the humor?
Yeah, I mean she was trying to wrangle me and also make a video and like keep me safe
So I think she was a little stressed, but I think after the fact maybe
Um, anyway, what I was going to say was what an incredible job the team did putting that together that
Man, that makes this place feel less like Linus and more like media group
Um, yeah, I I had a weird
In watching it and I don't know if this is going to land with everybody but it landed with me for whatever reason in watching it
It felt Man, I don't want to pay fan service to this idea. Um, not in quality. It felt incredibly higher in quality to be very clear
but it felt uh Old LTT ish because you intro it
And then we went to people that were specializing in that at the time
Because that's what we used to do. Yeah for GPU videos when I first started hosting GPU videos
I did not solo host the video Linus would intro it and talk about the features
And then I would jump in and talk about the benchmarks. That's how we started
So jumping in and having it go like like Dan for instance talking about the ai part because Dan does ai things and like all the like, uh,
David talking about the the dlsf stuff because he just made a video on force dlsf in indiana jones
Like all these things are just like wow, this is really cool. This is what the vision has always
Supposed to be dude, all of her over killed it killed it
Like I he did such a good job section. I was just like wow like this is really pro
He absolutely killed it. Yeah
Man, I I don't know I I am having a proud dad moment right now. This was this was this was very cool for real
This was really and and it's one of those things where I sent this message internally already
So I'm not saying anything that any staff won't have seen already or if they didn't see it
Then I'm glad you're seeing it here. Uh, but what I said was like this is the vision
This is what this company is supposed to do when absolutely everything is firing on all cylinders
Yeah, and I will I'm gonna step in and Linus kind of said my line in the intro, but there was there was errors with it. Um
Most of them were pretty minor. There was one that really kind of sucked. Um, we're working on fixing them and they're pinned in the comments
Yeah, um, and we've never we've never seen video was fantastic and we're gonna have some amount of problems
Yeah, we've never claimed to be perfect, but what we will do is we will keep doing better. Yeah
We will keep working hard. We'll keep doing better and the error rate will not be zero
We're gonna have some kind of problems till the end of our time, but that's just you know, we'll keep working on
improving. Yeah, it is what it is Super cool. I'm very happy with it. Um
We managed to pivot the discussion to GPU's and not actually talk about the GPU at all
Instead we just patted ourselves on the back for six minutes. So do you want to talk about the GPU at all?
Uh What's in these notes here the 5090 reviews are out. I watched a bunch of them
Super interesting just like I expected a lot of people took different angles with it tested different things
This is a generation that i'm going to say again. Go watch other people's reviews
Um go read other people's reviews go do whatever, right? Um, it's uh,
It's it's very interesting. The whole story is not out there even with all the reviews that are out there in my opinion
I think this is gonna evolve and show its head more over time
Um as these different technologies are used more as we're able to see it in more scenarios stuff like that
Um, I also think as the as the continuation of card embargoes come we'll learn more and more
Um, but yeah, it's it's super interesting reviewing GPU's is changing significantly because of all these
um You know ai software features and everything else, but anyways
Uh AMD rx 90 70 is delayed. It is apparently releasing or launching march second
The company sites software optimization for fsr4 as the two reasons
Oh Uh good old brain, uh the company sites software optimization and fsr4 as the two reasons why
It most likely decided to delay the launch of rdna 4
Did you see some of the ad campaigns that went live? Like in like non-north american regions that were like, no
That's rough. Yeah, I mean honestly though
This is one of those things where it would be really easy for us to dog pile on them and go like oh
AMD software not ready AMD this AMD that but like
good Let them cook. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like some of the leaks that i've seen seem to indicate that this is going to be a really
Valid card like it might not be it might not appease every possible buyer at every price tier
But it looks like it will be hopefully a really valid option
And if that's the case then Let them cook. Yeah, get it done. Yeah, and then when it's done, let's have a look at it and hopefully it's awesome and we
I support the delay for sure. Yeah, because I mean here's the thing like i'm rooting for everybody in the GPU space
I'm rooting for Intel obviously who's been bringing it at the low end
I'm rooting for AMD who has been the only force even
Remotely sort of keeping NVIDIA honest and i'm rooting for NVIDIA too
Because I want better GPU's and you need that competition
I don't want anyone to be in a completely dominant position because that's bad for the whole industry and it's bad for the consumer
So this is exciting. I will also say uh in in support of them delay
Uh, what I what I heard from the team all week was that
The the driver in the card everything felt very stable
So it wasn't it wasn't a problem, uh, which you know, I I appreciate that
um AMD's vice president and general manager of the Ryzen CPU and radion graphics division explains more in
this tweet
This one I really appreciate the excitement for rdna 4 we're focused on ensuring we deliver a great set of products with the radion 9000 series
We're taking a little extra time to optimize the software stack for maximum performance and enable more fsr4 titles
We also have a wide range of partners launching radion 9000 series cards
And while some have started building initial inventory at retailers, you should expect many more partner cards available at launch
um and then there's
There's some indication that late january was the initial plan for the rx 9000 series launch
It's possible that AMD might also have wanted to see how NVIDIA's
rtx 5070 ti will fare when it hits the market in february
Now back to invidia invidia removed the hotspot sensor for the 50 90s video cards reported on this and um
der bauer spoke about the issue in a recent video and reached out to invidia for comment
invidia first told him that the new rtx 5000 series GPU's now report memory temperatures instead
But this was already possible with earlier cards including the rtx 4090 and rtx 30. Yeah
I thought that basically happened once we got temp probes in the memory chips
I think so as well. Okay, uh after further probing they reportedly told him that API changes mean that the hotspot temperature is no longer accurate or
relevant for Uh gamers, but didn't go into further detail. That's this is something. I really don't like um
I mean, it's one thing if they you know want to put a disclaimer on it or something like that but
Clearly invidia saw fit to put that
Sensor in the chip at some point and as someone who has personally
Relyed on hotspot to diagnose issues in the past. I I really I really don't like this. Um all
I shouldn't say all I mean technically the 8800 gtx had an ihs on it, but but functionally speaking
All GPU's are bear die chips
And if you have even the the slightest mounting error
Um, they can they can not only you know run a little hot or not perform properly or whatever
But they they could they can cook himself um
And like if there's if there's an area where there's like an air gap which which will act as an insulator and so
When you have the hotspot temp It tends to be from from my experience a little bit more sensitive to a slight mismount
Um, and it can make it and if you see a huge disparity between the die temp and the hotspot temp
It can indicate Um a mounting issue so you can kind of quickly get the card pulled off
I get get the cooler remounted and then get back to it. Um
I I don't have a lot of experience because I was out of the testing game for all the generations that had hotspot sensors
Yeah, um, but they seemed cool
Um
I don't know what this comment is necessarily about but i'm going to just go for it
First the 5090 die size itself is huge so the oh yeah
So the temperature you'll see reported by tools such as GPU z will be an average across the die
Meaning the temperature recorded won't be the same across the entire surface. It's just the the average
um Moving on NVIDIA shows off a weird prototype a
Titan design which some people have been calling a 5090 ti
Uh with pcb on the oh that
No, yeah, 5090 ti. I thought this no this was rumored to be more of like a I think there's a different rumor about a 5090 ti that I saw
I saw yeah, no, this was a 40 series slash titan prototype. Okay, so yeah, this is not what I thought
I think we talked about this on wanshow, but I just want to say
um This is pretty cool
This leaked like ages ago and was the first indication that we saw that at least to my knowledge
It was the first indication It's it's one of the first indications that we saw that NVIDIA was considering an unconventional
PCB design for an upcoming card and this was rumored to be uh like a 4090 ti or like a 40 series
Titan card of some sort and um
Yeah, there there we go. So it put a vertical Vertical pcb in it so that it could make much much more effective use of the shape of the GPU to blow air up this way
Okay, so they're blowing air up this way I mean the idea is is pretty simple, right?
If you're if you've got a flat thing and you're blowing air against it
You are effectively working against your own cooling fans and you can do things like you can you can angle
What you're blowing against so it kind of goes this way and you can you can lift the heat sink stack
off of the pcb So it can kind of make its way out and through and around but at the end of the day
You're blowing air into a flat surface, which is going to significantly harm your ability to cool your fin stack
um So this seemed like a really cool way to tackle that by
Here you go, uh putting the card on a little like daughter pcb
And then you can see here the frame for where the cooler is just kind of blowing through it like that and then using some combination of
Like heat pipes or vapor chambers to move all the heat out into the fin stack
um When this first leaked it was like, whoa, that would be that would be super super cool
I guess but like good lord our GPU is really going to go to four slots thick
And it seems like NVIDIA Did the same introspection. Yeah
And was like could there possibly I mean if we're going to do this daughter board thing anyway
Could there possibly be another way and floating in the middle was a wild move very cool
The answer is yes, and I think it's so cool I don't know why
The 5090 surprised me so much because if you go back to some of their older designs, especially their dual GPU designs
Like do you remember the 7950 gx2? I mean, yeah
This thing this thing was flipping wild. Look at this thing. Here we go. Let's pull up some
Let's pull up some images. Look at this thing This thing's cray-cray. So it's got the main pcb here that plugs into your PCIe slot
Um, and then it's got a built-in sli bridge
Which if I recall correctly is like back here somewhere and then it's got a second
7000 series GPU on here And then you can actually it has a an sli finger still so you can run quad sli with two of these
I didn't know that at least you could it's crazy. I never realized that. Yeah, that thing was freaking wild
Okay, I knew it was it was too sandwiched. I didn't realize you could I mean it makes sense
But I didn't realize you could just buy two of those and have four Okay, dalxy here brings up a really interesting conversation that I'd love to pivot to if we kind of think we're done talking about
The cool. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, essentially the conclusion is this generation is wild go watch everybody's video if you have time
Yeah, cool. So dalxy asks
At luke at Linus. Can we bring back sli for the 5090 lull?
Okay, here is a wild take that i'm sure is going to get clipped out of context and get me cancelled
Not again the 5090 For NVIDIA's most affluent game and customers
The 5090 is is a great value
Here wait for it wait for it wait for it Think of the 5090. I mean, there's no there's no process node shrink
Right, so it's you could kind of think of it as as as 40
More more er like kind of 90ti plus plus plus an extension of the previous generation with some extra stuff bolted onto it
And if you think about it that way well
For the people that are like yo bring back sli
What are you better off with a second 4090?
Or a 5090 If all you're gonna get is about 30 more performance, wouldn't you rather have it for another 400?
Would you rather have it for another 400 bucks compared to another 1600 dollars?
All right, I don't even think I need to miss quote you to get you cancelled for that. I think i'm leaving. Have a good night guys
Yeah, have a good one Dan. Bye. I'll give you a reference. Anyway, but but kind of back to back to serious
Yeah, yeah For for the associated for the people out there that were buying, you know
239 ti's which was the last card that supported sli or going even further back for the people that were buying, you know
228 ti's or you know two two titan blacks or whatever in sli
um Honestly, I think I would I think I'd rather have a slightly bigger monolithic GPU that consistently gets me better performance than one that will
Occasionally nearly double my performance but more often than not
More often than not run at the same performance for double the power consumption and microstutter all over the place
I guess what i'm trying to say is no sli isn't coming back
And that's probably an okay or even good thing put more transistors on this chip
But with that said it's not that NVIDIA has completely abandoned high speed interconnects between their GPU's
Like if anything nv72 like their data center stuff is doubling tripling quadrupling down on what they started with sli
It's just that now in order to build that high speed connectivity into the GPU
In order to have it operate fast enough that those GPU's can act as one
It takes up so much die area and is so therefore expensive that it makes no sense to build it into every single consumer card
knowing that only a tiny fraction of the people who
Luke just mocked for being willing to spend
That much more for a slight performance gain. Well, no, it does depend
I it was I think it was said well in our video right if you're using money to make this thing then sure
No, no, no, no, I was talking about the sli argument. Ah, like the same people who would go and spend double for that
Yeah, I'd much rather they go and spend a little bit more for 50 90 100 percent
100 percent so for those small handful of people that are wild enough to go and do that
Yeah, I'd rather they haven't seen probably what they're buying anyways and for everyone else
Yeah, honestly, I think I would rather NVIDIA doesn't just make the thing more expensive
Um, and and it sucks, right? But the reason sli worked was because with the old interconnects and the old bridges
They weren't that high speed the cost wasn't that high
But as resolutions of our monitors went up as the amount of data flowing between the GPU's increased
astonishingly It just couldn't keep up. It just couldn't do it without the cost not making any sense anymore. So that's my that's my conclusion
no sli is gone and The 50 90 for those folks that would have bought sli I stand by this way better value
Uh aj not rj, but yeah full plane
Yeah, anyways, uh said instead of sli I would rather see the ability to split a single card across multiple users either in vm environment or multi user game pc me too
Um, that's there that thing. No, no, it's totally a thing GPU virtualization is a hundred percent. I think what's the name of um
There's a particular piece of software Oh, I know the one that does something hot seat something
I can't remember there's a piece of software that allows you to do it. We haven't really played around with it too much. Yeah. Um, there's a
People are saying someone someone had it at uh at whale reference at otx. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's it's a thing. Uh, we
Okay, I don't want to give away too much, but we might have a new multi gamers
Like kind of thing coming and maybe as part of exploring that again and kind of seeing what the state of things is
We could we could explore that as well. I think that'd be cool But yes, there is there is some really cool slicing stuff
Even though NVIDIA doesn't officially support it on their consumer cards
That was something that I actually chased Intel about a lot back in the lead up to the release of arc alchemist the the original arc
dgpus was like, hey if you guys made this available
To consumers I'd really appreciate that not because I necessarily think
You know the a770 is going to be powerful enough that anyone would really want to split it to two gamers running off of the same
GPU but because I would love to see some pressure on the incumbents to just
Make this feature freaking accessible because there is so much
That consumers can do with CPU virtualization and I would love to see the same kind of
Innovative use cases be possible with GPU virtualization, especially now that they can do
So much other than just you know push FPS in counter strike or whatever
Yeah, so yeah in conclusion Dan. Yeah a hundred percent. It's a thing
And no NVIDIA has absolutely no intention as far as I can tell
Of probably making it accessible on their consumer facing cards a bunch people have said different names of of software solutions in philoplane chat
I don't remember which one and I I don't know anything about it really. I just remember it was in that video
Of last year multi-seat. That's the one. Oh tim in chat says I was the guy at the land. It's astro multi-seat
Okay, there you go. Yeah, so I was remembering him
And and his computer Did he die? Oh my goodness
F Yeah, everyone now. Let's go pay respects
Dan kicks it off. Love it. Love it taking advantage of his lack of stream delay
This guy this guy winning internet points like that. That's dirty pool, sir
All right, what's next mr. Dan I would never be able to tell if the stream went down. Yeah, well, that's no we we have a we have a thing for that
Is it named Dan? No
I guess merch messages. Okay. Well, why don't we explain what a merch message is?
Merch messages are the way to interact with the show just like ryan a
You can head over to lttstore.com and instead of throwing your money at the screen to send a message into the show
You can throw your money at lttstore
In the cart there will be a little box that will leave you a spot to type up a
Merse message a merch message It'll go to producer Dan who will reply to it or will forward it to someone internally who can help you out
Like say for example, apparently sammy or he will curate it for me and luke to respond to on the show
And uh, we've got a a few probably pretty interesting things for the merch message inclined to check out today
We are delaying the launch of the mon mat for now We'll update you guys as soon as we have further information, but we do have some other new stuff
We're launching four new Labs branded items including a zip-up hoodie t-shirt hat
Oh, I did not resize the hat way to go Linus way to be ready for your own show
fantastic Hat and a lanyard that show that sometimes
Simple is best We don't have any data to back up that claim
You will just have to take our word for it I blame arty arty wrote that I just read the thing off of the thing go f*** yourself san diego
Okay, the zip-up hoodie and the t-shirt are simply black with a lab's tag
No flashy logos or outlandish designs just quality cozy materials the hat features an embroidered Labs heat sink logo and
And there it is a little something like that Oh man, and your head will feature hat head after you take it off
And the lanyard is inspired by the Labs phase collection that we released a few months ago with a sleek but colorful design
I really like the phase stuff. Do you have the lanyard here? Uh, it should be oh well. It's on the site. Do you want to pull out the site? Sure in the meantime?
I have another update for you guys Seven months ago
We promised that if you got a hundred thousand likes on the ceo pc build video
Which is here That we would actually make this stupid poster
Oh, no Oh, no, they did it. Oh, no. Why do they keep doing it? I don't know they did it for the rivian
I know they did it for this thing. I know it's it's almost like here
Just hear me out here It's almost like our community might be a bunch of stone cold memers
That I I know I know this is again my second controversial take so far
Going to get me cancelled second second one. I feel like we got to be above that second one
I think they might be stone cold memers anyway
You can get it now at LMG.gg Slash hope it is available in a small art print or a larger print to order poster
If I get one of these and I put it behind my desk it'll just make him like super embarrassed
Yeah, see this this right here really
Like we could put them over all of the Windows
I'm messaging arty
Don't do that just because it's a It's a that sounds expensive and wasteful
Anyway, so that's a thing is the art print in stock. I actually don't know. There's like a little small one you can get
Yeah, yeah, the small one is probably the way that most people are going to want to go. See that's the that's the thing
Uh, I I think Hold on. Yes. Yes. The small one is not back ordered
But the large one is a is like a like a pre-order. It's a print to order
So I like the they do the size reference. They show the small one amongst other things on like the the grid
That's cool. Okay. The last LTT Store thing. I'll get this out of the way really quick
In response to this comment from last week, please sell the carabiners like the replacement zipper pulls as a standalone product
There's so many I want to replace I forgot why we said we wouldn't do it
We said we were never going to do that because deforming the zipper pull to change the carabiner
Can damage the pull and may cause it to break especially on low-grade zippers. It is even a risk with ykk
We don't want to be accountable for zippers breaking on a variety of random products
We are only covering breakage that happens on our own bags because of the failure of the original carabiner zipper pulls
We could technically sell them with a massive disclaimer that it could break
But and this is uh nick light from free to warehouse I think that's a massive risk and sets a horrible precedent and I think that's right. We should
Create products that we can stand behind being used in a way that we can
Realistically anticipate that users are going to use them. Um, okay
Jen hit me Sure thing. Hi Delo. I'm soon leaving behind a decade-long tech career on my own terms
What hobbies or special interests would you recommend to somebody who still wants to keep their feet wet in the tech world?
I mean, that's that's not keep your feet wet. That's keep your feet like in the ocean drenched
I mean, yeah, I think I think that's totally valid. I mean the loves are sick
I want to get a cut my apartment too small. Not enough space. You know what? I
I need to finish. I have plans. I need to finish painting my stupid bike
Um, but like I I think I think painting stupid cool stupid cool. Yes. What's gonna happen first?
I the bike or Final Fantasy 6
Bike I will be you. All right. Yeah, there's no way
I know how far you are and I know how kind of broken the balance is in the pixel remaster. So good luck
Wait, that makes it harder In my opinion, I have I have some strong opinions about the place that made it easier. Yeah, it well depends
Like if you just use cheats, then yes, it's much easier. Oh, I haven't cheated
But if you try to play I haven't cheated and I haven't wiped yet. Yeah, if you try to play properly
Then yeah, it could be boy. Howdy. It's gotten close. Yeah, I think
In pushing to not wipe. I've probably done bad things with my economy
It could be it might not matter. It's been money on potions and stuff. Uh, it shouldn't matter. Okay. Yeah, but any who any who, um
Yeah, painting. It's super cool. You should wipe. Oh my god. I meant, you know, no, not that. Um
He means be annihilated anyway
I kind of want to Me after Chipotle me trying to keep the show on track. Good lord. You guys this guy this guy
What do people even tune into this thing for I don't know anymore
It's monkey circus
Okay, sorry, I just that just caught me off guard
So I want to get into casting Oh, yeah, what?
Yeah Like I I I did it. I did a class once in high school
And it was super fun and super cool
Oh my god Yeah, I'm taking up a pornography. That's going to be my new career. What?
That's not what I thought. Oh, okay. Well, what did you say casting? I thought you meant like, uh, like game casting
No, not that Okay casting looks like pornography be the next option
Linus don't answer that my client has, uh
No understanding of what that means perfect
I was like, this is such a weird metal casting. What are you even gonna cast like anal casting?
Yeah, okay. Okay. Yeah. So anyway, that's sweet though
Yeah, I took a class in high school metal art and jewelry and I had a lot of fun with it and I'm
I'm at a Good lord and anyway, I've gone there. You know what I give up. I'm not even gonna. I'm not even gonna try you go ahead
You do the show
You want to get a word in edge wise have all the words
Oh
Man, okay. Sorry anyways You're casting metal casting. I've seen a bunch of people have have relatively solid looking home setups for that
There's cool things. Yeah. Yeah. And so I don't know. It just it looks like a lot of fun. It looks very
Um, it looks very or not I shouldn't say it looks because I have done it before it can be very cathartic
Like taking something from like a rough cast piece to
Seeing the finished product. Have you seen the earrings that Yvonne and I made?
I believe so. Yeah, so we didn't actually do the casting for those
We just carved the the like lost wax Like like casting wax
Things right and then they did the casting for us and then we did all the like finishing and polishing and everything
And that was super fun. And so yeah, I'm just kind of looking at going. Yeah, that would be really fun
I need to get my stupid Motorcycle finished painting. I'm so stressed about it though. I did a I actually have made progress
I did I've primed almost everything now And I think what I've discovered is that because I'm using like a candy like a like a translucent coating
on motorcycle parts which are so
multi-surfaced and multi-faceted That I basically took the difficulty level to 100
Out of the gate and I'm probably just doomed
And I think what I might need to do is either
Change my base coat color to something that can be a solid with just a clear coat on it
And I don't have to worry about getting the layering
Perfectly perfectly even because I could do a hood of a car today
No problem. I could I could do that But when you're working with a piece that has all these different surfaces and angles and divots and everything
Getting it perfectly covered is really really really really really difficult
So maybe I should just find maybe I should just find something else or if I fail again
Then maybe I'll just drop off all the parts and get the paint I think but that would feel like that would feel like giving up because it would be do you guys drink
Like pop like cans cans specifically cans of pop
complicated answer I like cans of soda pop
And I often have them in my house So my my easiest way to control my urges is to just
Not have the temptation nearby. Yeah, so for like years and years
We just wouldn't have any soda in the house But because we entertain so much more now that we're moved into the bigger place and now that we do like
Work functions and like badminton friends functions. I know that work functions. You had them
Like that was our whole that was our whole thing is like why why would we need a why would we need to place this big if we're not gonna like
Bring everybody over and like hang out in the pool and stuff. Oh my we call it pop up here. Whatever it's soda
Doesn't matter everyone relax leave it alone relax. We're gonna be the same country soon anyway
My my point was because I I believe sure fine. No, sorry. I thought you're done. I wasn't done
Honestly go for it. The point is we have soda pop
In our house soda pop coke because we entertain now and I found myself drinking it again
Okay, so I would just like have a craving and it's in the house. I'm like
And so so I started drinking it again And like the quickest way for me to put on a spare tire is to start drinking soda regularly
And and so what I what I what I did was I
I I tried this like boobly bubbly thing
They're f***ing awful. They're terrible. They're like the worst It's the it's the worst balance between like salts or water and soda
It's the worst of both worlds memories of cherry, but
We dipped a cherry in the water. We waved it around near a bottle of soda. Specter of line
But I I drank one and I like had opened it and you know what a cheapskate I am
If I have it and I started I'll finish it. Oh, you might as well. Yeah, it might as well
I mean I paid for it. So I might as well drink it. Yep And what I realized was
I could make myself when I go to the fridge. I could make myself take that instead
And that's the way that I'm conditioning myself to not even bother at all
And then you don't like it So I stock I stock bubbly in my fridge and I'll I'll drink probably a solid like three or four a week
And it's just like having it there as an alternative makes me not drink soda
So in response to your question, I keep soda in the house. I enjoy soda
95 to 98 percent of the time that I'm craving a soda
I grab a bubbly and I choke it down to punish myself for wanting a soda. I'm fairly certain
I've seen people build like aluminum
Yes, it's my methadone soda pop coke dr. Pepper can
Crucibles where they have like a plunger and they put the can in they they plunge it down into the crucible
And they use the the cans of pop as their material for their casting
Oh, that's pretty cool. And I I thought you might like that because it's like a it's a way to reuse, right?
So, yes, you can Effectively recycle aluminum cans, but you're you're now directly doing it
Which is which is pretty cool. So maybe like if you were going to involve the kids in this project and stuff. Yeah, yeah
Dalxy and full planchette said I built one. They're awesome. Yeah, so this I'm pretty sure is the thing you can do
Super cool. Yeah I'm kind of more interested in making like jewelry though. So we'll see yeah fair enough
I got one more for you hit us Dan I got a screwdriver in the initial wave and it has a nice gloss smooth finish
However, I noticed that my second one is more matte finish
Was this a material change or a nice patina from constant use the truth is I do not 100 know the answer to that
I can give you my best guess um One yes, it does gloss out over time
um two While we have not changed our molds for the og screwdriver
Molds do not stay exactly the same over time. They wear we did buy extremely high quality molds from
Uh innovation tool and dye innovation or innovative whatever itd
We bought extremely high high quality molds that should last for
Like a million plus parts is my understanding But that doesn't mean that they don't change a little bit. So
um both Possibly, but probably we didn't change something like the surface finish
Oh, sure more topics. What do you want to talk about luke? Should we talk about should we talk about the
gaslighty rambling
Ridiculous full of misdirection response to our video
From airs tech Uh
Here it is We did a video earlier this week on the airs tech. I have to give you
Scanulate I keep interjecting today. I'm sorry. No, that's fine. I mean starting to annoy myself. I mean, it's like
It's it. This is like having an out-of-body experience for me
It's amazing you haven't punched me yet
No, um the intro to this video. I mean look at this face
Look how punchable it is. This is what I was gonna say though. The intro to this video was
gold Full credit. It was so good full credit to alex clark. Yeah
I was like it was actually amazing. I was like really dude. Are you sure? Oh, absolutely? Really? It was very good
Thank you alex and then he he kind of pitched it through
I walked on to the set and I was like
Because I've done a lot of kind of embarrassing stuff on camera, but dawning that get up
Sitting in the incense Dude, and and he was like sitting there with
Uh, dude the outtakes of this are so funny because I think you know, I don't do accents very well
Yeah at my best I will I will shift between accents like the sands of the desert like I just I can't I can't maintain them
I don't actually have any training. I don't actually practice it
Um, so what alex was doing was he was sitting there on set kind of directing and then he just had
a random interview of russell brand
And he would just play a clip and then he'd turn it off
And then I would try to deliver the next little bit of the line kind of trying to mimic it
Dan were you on set For that? No. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Uh, man. Oh, no, I know who it was. It was andrew who was on set
um And I the reason that I wasn't sure it was someone it was someone from the uh, the the british aisles that was on set
And then we were we were talking about my atrocious accent. So andrew andrew is irish and um
Having to see his face Sitting there
So disappointed at whatever it was that was coming out of my mouth
That was hard That was hard
That intro was so freaking funny though I I saw the I saw I think
Does it allude to the intro in the thumbnail? Like can you are you in that get up in the thumbnail?
Uh, I don't think so. I think we left a little bit. I don't know. I noticed in the thumbnail
I'm gonna go to your laptop. Yeah, I noticed in the thumbnail that your your your shirt is like
Yeah, very wide and very low I think that's Photoshopped. What's going on and I clicked on it and then I couldn't stop watching the intro
Okay, we'll show it. We'll show it Oh
The incense too at first I was like did they like add that in in post? Nope. There's incense. They're burning. Yeah
The whole set everything's just it's it's amazing. We have a world-class team. Um, there's there's no doubt in my mind about that
Anywho, oh man, uh, let me see if I can where's the uh, yes, okay, so
Uh, they actually man When you're down sometimes it's better to just stay down, but they apparently decided yeah, they responded not to stay down
Uh, so they posted a blog post debunking Linus tech tips misconception about aries devices
Good gravy Man, this is uh
What is up with like people writing extremely long responses
Oh Man the device does not block claim number one the device does not block rf signals, so it's ineffective
I mean it doesn't interact with them at all. That's
Anyway in short
No wearing a special amulet does not make the 5g boogie man
um Less scarier. Um, and also aries tech. This is embarrassing at this point
You're not going to win over anyone who has even a remotely functional understanding of how
electromagnetic waves work That's not happening. Um, I don't realistically think that any of the people that you are ripping off with your
Scamulate are going to be deterred by like a proper explanation of why it obviously doesn't work
Um So why are you why are you even talking? Why are you even stricent affecting our video? I I really think this is just such a
Such an obvious tactical error
um So anyway here I will read through the I'll read through my notes instead of just talking about how this is ridiculous
Earlier this week we posted a video on the aries tech life tune and how it doesn't do anything that the company says it does
In response, they posted on their blog debunking our claims about the life tune
Um, nothing that we hadn't previously discussed in our video was brought up and there was no new information
Because we had already reached out to them as part of our process for making our video
They do bring up their eeg testing as a way that they've proven the life tune works
Although we watched the video during research and the test seems to be fatally flawed
And fully allows the test subjects to be swayed by the researchers
Did they measure a change? Yes, but in all likelihood this was a placebo and a placebo is a perfectly
Cromulent way to register a change in someone's behavior even physiologically. Yes. Yeah
Now we could spend a bunch of time picking apart their arguments, but fortunately reddit saved us the trouble
eagle falcon phd in physical chemistry
jc calhoun and alundra 828 have all posted about
This whole Situ malation. Let's go. I think this is a pretty good summary, but um, you know, hey, that's their word. That's their word not mine
Alex the the writer's thoughts here. All I want is a simple
Replicable test to show that it does literally anything
Ares tech can you give us that? It is normal for companies to show us their internal testing to demonstrate how to independently test and verify their claims
Ares tech didn't give us any of that and instead just threw techno babble at us. There is of course a chance that
Alex says he just didn't understand it But we were able to figure out how the machines at asml work and this little amulet certainly isn't more complicated than an euv machine
Yep
Agreed alex absolutely toasted
Ah What else do you want to talk about
We've got we've actually got a fair bit today. Oh, I want to talk about gta 6. Sorry. I'm gonna hijack. Yeah, let's do it
Let's talk about gta 6. So the headline here is some game makers hope
That grand theft auto 6 will cost up to 100 us dollars at launch and let's get through let's get through the whole thing
I'm gonna i'm gonna blow through this pretty quick here And then we can open it up to discussion
Industry analyst michael ball wrote in his state of video gaming in 2025 that some game makers hope gta 6 will be priced at
80 to 100 us dollars breaking the 70 dollar barrier and helping 50 dollar titles move up to 60
60 dollar titles moved to 70 70 to 80 etc He stated that game prices have never been lower in real terms than they are today
Larry and michael dowse responded on twitter saying you're not supposed to say this out loud
That's that sounds like something you would say here's a graph of gta prices corrected for inflation
In real terms a 70 dollar gta 6 would be the cheapest ever gta, which is uh, yeah
I mean when you account for inflation pretty interesting here's a graph of us prices for packaged video games
Shockingly shockingly flat
So this is nominal prices. This is what it says on the sticker And then this one right here is the like adjusted for inflation versions
So it stands to reason that today one equals one and in the past one equals a lot more than one today
Redditors we're quick to point out that simply adjusting for inflation doesn't tell the whole story and that is true
Inflation is so much more complicated than just price go up some things do not go up some things actually do go down
Um physical media had real costs not just for materials, but also for duplication packaging manuals shipping etc
sticking with the SNES example Um, we found an old pricing breakdown from super play magazine. Oh, oh super cool. Okay. Here we go
Breakdown of cost for your average game 1 freight 4 marketing
1.7 duty 4.6 developers royalty
30 retailers margin. So that's where uh valve got their number from
15 tax 33 nintendo and 15 publishers margin
Shockingly little going to the actual developer. I mean, I guess that shouldn't really shock us at this point in the games industry
But hey, there it is So we know that about from other sources that about half of nintendo's charge was manufacturing
So about $10 of the $60 cartridge Now the bar to entry is arguably lower these days
Anyone can publish a game and there is no sort of shipping and all of that
But and sales are also significantly higher in 2020 elden ring sold 13 million copies in its first month of release
Back in 2002, excuse me the year's best-seller gta vice city sold less than six million copies by the end of the year
The the plain simple truth is there's a lot more gamers out there than there used to be
Publisher revenue is also massive
Um, I like here's just like uh, you know casual look at the kind of revenue that these companies are doing on
On gaming sony interactive 10 cent revenue though. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. We'll get to it
The list doesn't include private companies like valve
Or activision blizzard who reported 8.8 billion in revenue before microsoft bought them for 68 billion dollars
Okay, there's a lot to unpack. So with all that in mind
Would it be a good thing If gta 6 was priced at let's say a hundred dollars even though the original article from michael ball says 82 a hundred dollars
Let's let's stick with a hundred dollars for the sake of you know
Following up our sensationalist, you know headline Regurgitation here. Uh, I don't I don't suspect rock star exactly needs to do it
Um, I think they are going to Completely kill regardless
Um, it might be good for other people in the industry I think the examples of like this nest cartridge are not necessarily fair because we have been in a predominantly digital distribution
Environment for a long time now. Well, I think that's part of the point is that that is a big part of why we yeah
We shouldn't have to pay for Physical manufacturing and shipping that we don't have anymore. I think you can make that argument for a certain period of time
But eventually that margin is eaten up. We've been in predominantly digital distribution for a very long time now
It has it has not been a couple years not on the console side. I would argue even consoles
I think have been very predominantly digital for a while this generation. Yeah, we're downloading stuff, but ps4
I uh, ooh Truthfully, I don't I don't have the numbers. I don't know. Yeah, I'd love to hear from you guys. Uh Floatplane chat
I mean, let us know like we're gonna have predominantly peasy people. But yeah, that's fair enough, but like
Man, yeah, I I know 360 ps3 was the start
Um, people are saying ps4 was pretty split. Yeah, um, whereas like I think it's I think it's pretty
Oh man, some of these folks. I mean, yeah, it makes sense that like our super
2013 buddy here is like I was 50% digital on the 360 which
You know for our like hyper connected audience That might not be that representative. I had a 360 it was all physical
I'm pretty sure that normies have taken a fair bit longer to move digital
Especially especially with the inherent advantage as a physical media on consoles. The fact that you can resell them is so
Huge It's huge Yeah, but game stores are closing all over the place
Well that I know because they can't say and that's not new news. That's true. That's very true
Like it's been big enough impact for stores to close Since pre-covid. Well, I think what we can agree on is that we aren't sure
Which is at least five years old But we do know that digital distribution has been a huge thing for a lot longer than games have been stuck at around $60
Yeah, so I don't I don't personally think that the reference back to the SNES cartridge is
Entirely fair. I think it was fair at a point in time sure and then game prices didn't change at all for like
Over a decade, right? So then it stops really being fair in my opinion
I think also like some people are pointing out like there's way more sales now
It's like yeah, okay, but if you look at the development teams at these companies
On average, I'd say they are way bigger now like way bigger now
The the amount of work that is going into making some of these games is
Incredibly immense. Um, so I think that's another like kind of yin yang situation. Can I can I throw in a pitch here?
Would you support the move to 100 us dollars?
If it meant hold on 140 right now canadian
If it meant That we could as an industry move away from so many
Like microtransactions. Yes, absolutely. I would unquestionably agree with that
so if the excuse from the industry is that
Well, we had to do microtransactions because it was the only way to run our businesses sustainably with the stagnation of video game pricing
I don't believe that we'll take both Yeah, I know that's where we were headed, but um
it You couldn't allow me to imagine a blissful future for just a few moments. I would I was genuinely 100 beyond board
it I used to really really like
doing Kind of like more difficult things in game in order to earn
Uh, you know some cosmetic or whatever. Yeah, um, I really really liked that and then
Like, uh, you know trying to trying to get skins in cod
By doing certain things with that specific firearm was cool. And then now you can buy cooler ones and it's like well
I don't know. It genuinely takes away from the game for me
So if you can put that back in that has direct value for me, um, well, they won't
But they I think we all know that's not gonna happen. I also think as much as I honestly think a lot of this
Can be Justifiable in regards to price increase
Um, but to a certain degree, I don't know how much it's gonna matter. Yeah looking at the economy right now
I don't know that many canadians honestly that can just drop 140 bucks
That wasn't my next point is that at the end of the day They can theoretically raise the price to whatever they want
But the price is gonna be whatever the market will bear and as we've seen
Especially on the pc side where the promotions come so fast. We're just gonna wait and they go so deep. Yeah, um
It's going to end up Whatever it starts at whatever msrp is unless you are nintendo
Unless you are rock star unless you are one of these these triple a
developers or publishers You are you are not going to be able to draw a line in the sand and say undone no further
You know, this is it. This is our pricing. It's not gonna it's not gonna happen
You're gonna you're gonna get whatever you're gonna get and you're gonna do your steam summer sale and you're gonna do this
you're gonna do that and I just I just I don't see the um
I don't see it having a huge impact because a 60 dollar game already isn't 60 dollars a 60 dollar game is already
You know 38 99 on steam, you know black friday or winter sale or summer sale or spring break sale or whatever
Some games hold out longer, but it ends up being pretty quick and so and that's exactly it
So so we can have this new higher ceiling
But basically I think what's just going to happen is it's just going to go down to the price the market will bear
And that will be that neither of us are claiming to really know anything about the actual economics behind this
So like, you know, maybe that drop maybe most people have crazy FOMO and buy it right away
I'm just looking around in our environment. And you know, the if you know anything about it the economic environment in canada right now is
Dire it's really rough So it's not as it's uh as far as my understanding goes the economic environment in the states is genuinely not as bad
So, uh, if you're feeling it down there, it's really bad up here
Um, and a lot of people that I know are just that are doing pretty well
Comparatively genuinely like people with really solid jobs up here are not going to be dropping 140 dollars on a game
Well, it's compounded by the fact that our currency is taking an absolute
Yeah, but that's part of it right beating right now. So anything that like is imported from well anywhere
Um, effectively our purchasing power has just been
Yeah, so like as speaking as canadiens, which is the only thing I can realistically do
This is crushing for us to be honest
Like, uh, yeah, it would be it wouldn't even he's rounding
It would be more like 146 dollars at a straight one-to-one conversion
Like it's one of those things where I will often see, uh, you know, canadiens complaining about the pricing on our store
Is like, why is your canadian pricing so bad because our pricing is in us dollars our costs are in us dollars
Our markup is a certain amount above that
And then that that's it. That's how much the product costs us and that's what our markup is
So when it's so high in canadian dollars because the loonie is like
In the toilet, um And if I just did a one-to-one conversion out of the goodness of my heart
We would be just losing money on every transaction on LTT Store. That's not that's not realistic. That's not viable
The the wily and full plain chat said no luke should try speaking as a spaniard
Um, I yeah, I I'd like to hear that. I have no idea
I I'm assuming it's a joke, but even if it's not I can't imagine what the economy is in all the places around the world
We're just talking about canada if you want to see some insane graphs just look up like
Costs of living versus income Uh
Charts over time for for canadiens if you look at a macro trend
Um graph it won't look much better across most of north america, but we're having a particularly
Acute with like housing go of it right now
Yeah, yeah, it's it's rough and it's rough. It's it's rough everywhere as far as I know
I just know that it is particularly rough up here. Jocie says here in the uk. We're not doing much better than you guys
Yeah, I've heard that too I don't think a lot of people have the disposable income to jump up to this rate that being said in times of economic crisis
As far as my understanding goes entertainment stays an expense for a lot of and gaming is still one of the best
Value dollar per hour dollar per hour things you can spend your money. So I could just be totally wrong
Yeah, I mean, maybe people will cut out. They'll cut out travel. They'll cut out eating out
Which we already know it's happening even when I was over it when I was when I was overseas
um My news feed started to slant more like, you know, british and irish and all and all of that right and uh, I read this just like
Devastating article and I forget the exact number which makes me feel even worse because it's just it's disappearing
And nobody even can be bothered to remember the rate at which it's disappearing
But it pretty much was like talking about the rate at which irish pubs are closing
Oh and it's like terrifying because
What's going to replace it? What's going to replace the small independent dude? They're so unique
With that character and that history Yeah, nothing nothing like what a what a tim fucking hortons like
Honestly, I don't I don't drink. You don't drink. No, I don't drink but it's neither of us are probably frequent
But it's not just the it's not just from my understanding. It's not the drinking. It's a social thing
That's your that's your they genuinely kind of your town square. You know, it's your it's your place to go and and
They're often warm and genuinely pretty inviting. Yeah, it's a public house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly there. Thank you
That's a really good way of putting it. It's it's right in the name
public house and They're just disappearing
Um 603 says people don't socialize like they used to the drop in the last 20 years of people gathering is astounding and
Man, did covet ever not help with that? Oh, no, not at all. Yeah
Sure didn't help I used to go out to eat with people
Like all the time that was like how I socialized and now I honestly can't remember Yvonne and I asked him out
No, you don't even remember. Was it Earl's? With you guys was the last time I ate. No, we went to Boston Pizza. What was that? Oh, yeah
It wasn't a memorable dinner at all. I guess
He knows why that's funny Anyway, I was I was maybe a little focused on other things. Okay
I forgot about the food and when Yvonne reached out when Yvonne reached out to him to get some dinner with us
he was like Like immediate response. Why what's wrong? Yeah
And like that's partially On us for not spending time with our friends often enough apparently
Wasn't actually what I said something along those lines. It's partially on, you know, luke for not, you know
Just being in that mindset and I think it's partially on just like all of us
We're just getting out of the habit of just spending time together. You know
Why are we seriously the excuse at this point? I don't know
I think it's habit forming. It takes what is it? It takes a month to form a habit
And covet for a lot of people was a lot longer than that. So yeah
No, he didn't get fired and if he did we'd do it somewhere much nicer than boston pizza
You'd fire me at a nice location. We put him down real nice
Wow, it's so interesting. I need to like pay attention to pay attention to where you invite me to go
Yeah, so if I like ever invite you to gophins or something
Oh, no, no
A nice last meal No, I said, yeah, sounds great with a big smiley. Okay. Well, it was right away. She got a vibe
Yeah, I did follow that up with a different message. Yeah, I've been like, uh
So I stand behind I stand behind the vibe representation. I definitely might yeah
I get I get away with the first message excuse, but yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, no
Yeah, but yeah, it was uh, it was a detectable vibe for sure
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Hit me sure in the past AMD and video competed across every price
Now each price point is segmented by a brand until low AMD mid and NVIDIA high
Does the consumer benefit from this similar to how cars are?
Well, the thing about the automotive space is that at every price point there is competition
Like even if you're buying a a two million dollar hypercar
You could choose you could shop with pin and farina. You could shop. I'm probably butchered the pronunciation
But don't worry about it. What the heck is that? Uh ferrari lamborghini. You could shop with ramac. You could like you've got
You've actually got all an entire smorgasbord of options for like
Ridiculous hypercars and then at the low end things are super competitive and are only going to get more competitive as china continues to export more
inexpensive evs when you've got
like Three semi monopolists almost at each price band
I think the argument that you have competition gets a lot weaker now NVIDIA does compete across more than one price bracket
They do ultra high end ultra ultra high end
ultra ultra ultra high end
And i'm a little bit below that they also do high end and like mid high
um And then AMD is competitive that I would say like the high end down to the mid range
Especially if we go back and look at their sort of previous generation products that they use to fill the gap sometimes
Intel meanwhile. Yeah low end only uh like low end
But gaming is what I would describe Intel as because low end used to mean like $60 gpus that are used as a display out
I mean the arc b580 is still a You know $250 GPU like let's let's be real. This is a gaming card
But it's at the low end of the of the like legitimate
modern current generation gaming cards
No, I don't think the consumer benefits from this until we have more direct competition
At least not enough
Yeah Highlights. That's mostly it. No other videos on the tonight show comes close to the number of views yours has
Not even bad bunnies. Why do you think that's uh, what do you think that's a sign of?
We would like to hear your comments on that. Cheers. I think that is as simple as um,
Me being youtube native youtube Yeah, like where are you going to find bad bunnies audience? You are going to find it
Um, I don't I honestly don't even know what the most popular
Yeah, sure spotify for sure But I was going to say like even like social like social media platforms
I don't know what's most popular in the latin world. Yeah, I have no idea
But you know on those platforms instagram or something. I'm sure I'm going to be getting 26 views
For every million that he gets like it's it's it's a completely different. We're running on different, you know tracks
Essentially and this is home turf. I'm going to perform best on youtube
I'm going to kill it on youtube and anywhere else. I'm going to I'm going to struggle by comparison with that said
um, you know credit to their team um credit to credit to uh, jimmy and um and bad bunny himself and I did a pretty good job too
even off youtube, um Especially the clips with the glasses
Actually is performing really well like on facebook the color changing glasses or the screen on facebook
Dude that segment. I think it actually includes both of those that segment is changing glasses or performing
cray cray And I think it's actually doing pretty well on instagram as well
Which are both platforms where I am not in a in a particularly strong position. Yeah
Oh, let me see if I can let me see if I can find it. They upload so much stuff
That's another thing too is a lot of the time It's hard to evaluate how successful one of their clips was in the first
You know week because you'll have stuff that will over time go viral like there's there's clips on the tonight show youtube channel
That have a hundred million views We have never uploaded anything with a hundred million views
So you've got to you've got to give them you've got to give them time to cook
I do think like Especially five ish plus years ago
Um that type of content was getting hyper pumped by youtube. This is true
And like like I said, I think I did a great job But um, you've also got to just understand that it's a completely different
It's a completely different model. It's like a like a scatter gun
Right. Yeah, a lot of them were uploaded like at the same time as far as I could tell
They're not optimizing for the youtube platform at all and we threw our weight behind it too
Like we made sure to throw social promotion after it
To give ourselves the best possible chance Apparently the top video has 493 million views. Yeah, there you go
There you go That's a lot
Let me see if I can let me see if I can find Like this is yeah, this is wild. I can't even find the one that performed really well
There's one that has like millions of views or something and these these are these are not them
I love can you scroll down a little bit? I love that you guys sent that photo in as your
Your official. Oh, yeah, buddy
We had a backup we had a backup in case they didn't like it the other ones are just so they're so serious
So professional. Yeah, and then it was just like wide-liners. Our backup was sad liners
It was a bit of a half measure backup Yeah, we wanted we wanted to we wanted to uh
Put them very firmly in a corner of we can publish a meme picture or we can publish a meme picture. Oh my god
Alexi's right, dude make another poster. You should do wide-liners as a poster. No, no text on it even just
Huge liners face. No, we did some like meme products with that in the past and honestly, I regret it
I wish we didn't do it the people who bought it. They seem to like it
It didn't actually sell that well like I was opposed to it in the first place
It didn't sell that well and more importantly. I want LTT Store to be I think you're doing like the sequin pillows and stuff
Yeah, we also did a desk pad. I didn't like those. We did mouse pads as well. Yeah, but that would have been white background
Wouldn't it? Um, no, no, we did we did like liners face like liners selfie the the the wide one
We did that as a mouse pad. I gave one to my dad. Yeah
He hates it. He has to have it turned away because the liners scares him. Yeah, so I I don't know
I I I don't want us to become like a like red bubble, you know, like first-party red bubble store. No
Yeah, I I genuinely thought a poster of it would be funny. I didn't like the sequin pillows either
um but anyways
I want LTT Store to be taken seriously Linus 2025 also LTT Store
Well, I can't do anything about like Elijah making promises
Is Technically you can yeah, I was gonna say I mean once it's out in public
Well, okay, but I shouldn't I shouldn't like that's I think that's the strength of our organization though
Is that we we allow fresh ideas? We don't disagree with this. I'm just saying fresh ideas
And sometimes those fresh ideas are just sort of awful and
We live with those consequences
They can come out moldy. It's the the curse of
Growing as an organization. Yeah Dan Dan 160 and Floatplane chat says at Linus. We are still your boss. Yeah
I mean, that's the thing right a weird thing is like you think about how how connected you are in
You are to the company, right? You have a lot of feelers and a lot of things that are going on
You definitely don't know more than half the things that happen in a week at the company. No
Like not even close not even close. Yeah. Yeah, um you can't anymore. You got a hundred people presumably like
Working an entire work week like these are these are
More than that when you count the contractors and remote even though, you know in the grand scheme of things
You know compared to the kinds of companies that we are talking about right? We're talking about an AMD or an Intel or an NVIDIA or whatever else like compared to these these behemoths
We are tiny peanuts, but these are still
Unfathomable numbers on a weekly basis. Let me let me just do the math here because it's 40 hours a week per person
On a weekly basis. We are doing 4 000 hours how you supposed to keep up with that of work
Like it's it's on the on the one hand sometimes you look at sort of the organizational inefficiencies
You go it's a bloody miracle. We can get anything done And then on the other hand you look at some of the things that we accomplish and you go, holy crap
How is this even possible? This is incredible Sometimes in the same meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually pretty common. Yeah
Oh What else we got?
Yeah, let's maybe do one more Hello, lld. I'm looking into getting a 5090 and possibly doing a giveaway for it
Or a system when I launch my pc themed card game later this year any advice on hosting a giveaway or things to consider
I will say this Hosting a giveaway is not something that we have found is a particularly effective
Promotional tool. We've had some really good success with charity auctions. Those have done really really well in terms of resonating with our community
Um, that makes sense. But the thing about giveaways that we found is that you think man
I am making one winner. I am making one lucky winner. Yeah, what you're actually doing because people are mostly
self Centered which makes sense
And and I mean this in the context of compared to strangers
I think that if you talk to the average person, they are probably extremely generous
If their buddy wins it that they know they'll be stoked. Yeah, but everybody else in the pool is not their buddy
They're just a stranger and they would much rather have it for themselves
So what effectively you've done is if you have a thousand entries into the draw is you have created
999 losers and minus one. Yeah, and that's it. That's their experience with your brand. That's their exposure to your brand
You might get people just like signing up for the giveaway But I doubt that they are going to have any kind of long-term
affiliation with you or your brand and I have personally not had great experience with just like
Doing giveaways to you know promote a thing we're doing or whatever else I it doesn't it hasn't been very effective for us
Some brands still do it though and clearly they're getting some kind of ROI like AMD
They they are really into doing the giveaways as part of AMD ultimate tech upgrade
Just as a way to kind of drive engagement. Although I do think a lot of the time stuff like that pretty much comes down to
like A team trying to create a kpi that
Proves that somebody interacted with the media that they sponsored
And so it probably comes more down to that like hey here is provable
demonstrable Evidence that this this piece of content we sponsored this AMD ultimate tech upgrade
Was viewed and people interacted with our brand even if the giveaway itself has absolutely nothing to do with
you know what their What their desired outcome is like it's it's mostly an exposure campaign AMD
Exerts Functionally zero force on the content of these videos all they ask is that there's an AMD product in it and you guys like
You know in good faith don't completely freaking ignore it
That's that's all from my understanding. That's pretty much all that they ask plus the the giveaway call the call outs
I used to stream a bunch and when I did that
Um at one point in time My stream was almost functionally a giveaway stream
I would buy humble bundle keys and other people in the community would buy humble bundle keys
And we'd put them all in a pile and we'd give them away And it got to the point where we were giving away so many keys because I was like almost trying to buffer against this whole
You're just making losers thing that it started making losers anyways
But the losers it was making were people that only won one game
versus other people that won more than one game And it got to a point was just like this is this is just stupid
So we stopped and then I converted my whole stream to almost effectively
Charity streaming for like two or three years and we raised like
I think in the end over those years we raised over 100 grand for bc children's and that was cool
And that community was really cool. And then I moved and stopped streaming
But sick, but that was like that was the correct pivot is basically what I'm saying
Yeah, Graham's nice guy Okay, what's next mr. Dan?
Oh, we get to do more topics. Whoo. We have been bamboo zold
bamboo Labs maker of some of the most popular 3d printers for home users has announced a security update
In which they update they are limiting third-party tool access
For example certain slicer programs bamboo claims this update will ensure only authorized access and operations are permitted and mitigate risks of
Remote hacks or printer exposure issues. We talked about this a little bit last week
The 3d printing community quickly became outraged by this worried about the long-term effects such as
Um that this might allow bamboo in the future to restrict filament types add a possible subscription
They also raised many more concerns
bamboo did put out a response titled setting the record straight about our security update
In which they denied the claims about some people's future concerns like restricting filament or possible subscriptions
but They don't seem to have addressed and they said that this is this is security related only but people are basically still
Super not happy about it. And I think this is a pretty
unnecessary stain on their reputation um, I'm going to leave this to the people who
Kind of understand the tools that they're using and and the impact better before I weighed too deep into it
But I will say the reputational damage has obviously been
Very very high as someone whose household almost exclusively uses the bamboo handy app already
Yeah, I know right um, it's a great name It's not going to impact me until they like screw it up even more potentially
But I definitely want to throw my support behind our brothers who want more open
tools Samsung has quietly removed
Bluetooth connectivity from the galaxy s25 ultra's s-pen
This change takes away air actions, which lets users open apps navigate through galleries or use the s-pen as a remote camera shutter
Over the many years that I used a note 9
the camera shutter remote control
was Probably my most used feature with the stylus people talking about all the time
It is so everyone that I know that has an s-pen It was so handy. This would be enough for me to not consider an s25 and to just get an s24
uh, samsung explained that the decision was driven by low user engagement and pointed out that similar functions are available in the galaxy watch
Starting at $60 and the galaxy ring starting at $300. Whoa interesting. Sorry
Rest assured in full plane chat said we are in the dod supply chain or department of defense
I'm assuming they're american And had to throw out all of our bamboo printers because it requires an account hosted in china now
Adam whoa Crazy so, uh, I guess what he's saying is you should probably sneak onto dod property and dig through their dumpsters
Slash s slash s good. Good. Good. Good luck. Do not do that. Don't even try
If you do log it poor chat poor chat
No guys if you do vlog it. It's just a prank bro contact shy. It's just a prank. Um, anyways, um
A redditor has written a script to put words in my mouth
Little did he know he doesn't need a script for that. He can just misquote me
By snipping out context a redditor lab tech 901
Wrote a script that takes clips of me saying specific words in wandshow vods and rearranges them to make me say whatever they want
Let's have a look at some of the results here
Dan do I have audio?
No Yeah, that's fine a twitch chat open in a tab by accident. Who cares?
You know, I haven't attacked twitch chat much lately
Yeah, I kind of miss my favorite punching bag. Love you guys. You're awful. All right ready Dan
Hello, my name is Linus today. I want to talk to you about something very important to me
I do not like the viewers. I do not like luke and I definitely do not like Dan
I do not like Dan so much that's I'm helped he goes away and never returns
I also want to talk about
It reminds me of um
Homer simpson with the that episode. No, there's uh, there's uh, okay, so
Apparently it was kind of quarts from back in the day. We're kind of like that But then there's another there's a I do want to just drop the link if people want to check it out
Yeah, sure. There's a youtube creator. I don't know how many people are going to like these songs
but uh his youtube creator called young scrolls that makes
What now that makes elder scrolls music
Uh, st gm. I I genuinely really like this ep
Uh, but they he makes elder scrolls music based on voice lines from the game
um It's a daggoth wave is legitimately a six song has 13 million views. I'm not surprised it is dope
It's But it sounds some of it can sound kind of like that because it's it's lines taken from different parts of the game
Um, and I I kind of like they're they're incredibly good at what they do to the point where like they make it sound good anyways
Um, and I I did appreciate I saw someone when when AI music started kicking off a bunch
People were like, oh like you can use this now Like you don't have to just pull voice lines from the game and like stitch them together and make your music that way
You can make it like flow better by making them speak the lines out properly using AI voices and they were like no
The reason why I do it the way I do it is because I like it the way I do it and I was like sick
Fair enough nice, but yeah, it immediately listen to that immediately
I reminded me of young scrolls Dan, do you know what spider web cables are from that last merch message that popped up?
Because I am super interested in fiber splicing and stuff too. I've wanted to do a video on that for a while
We just don't really find an expert to kind of walk us through it
Um, and then we'll basically just kind of stand there and go Yeah, and then we'll try it and we'll probably fail and it'll be fun
Yeah, because we have a little tiny baby, you know fusion slicer. Yeah, I would love to I'd love to do that
I want to do that. Can we can we can we can we do that? I want to do that Linus post on the forum in the video suggestion
You did you just tell me to post on the forum? Yeah, okay, uh, maybe uh instead
I actually don't know how to uh tell people that we have a video idea
Uh Internally, I mean oh internally. Oh you can just send it to um
Dance, okay. Okay, cool
What else we got bye bye blu-ray according to tom's hardware
Sony announced that it will end production of recordable blu-ray discs also mini disc
They still made mini disc um md data and mini dv cassettes in february
The company had already discontinued recordable consumer blu-ray and optical discs in mid 2024
And at the time indicated they would continue production for business and corporate clients until it became unprofitable
I guess it is this day Some media outlets are mistakenly reporting this as the end of blu-ray
But professionally replicated blu-ray movies are not affected by this announcement
And sony is not the only producer of blank media pioneer even has discs that are good for 100 years
So that's just a quick little bit. I wanted to uh throw in there and then finally tiktok is back on january 18th
Two hours before the official ban came into effect tiktok began shutting down its services in the us including cutting live streams that were currently
Active and force rebooting the app for users who had it open
Once it was reopened they were met with a message explaining the situation and the ban
Less than an hour later the message was changed to explain that they are hopeful about working with president trump to change this ban
And then less than 12 hours later services were restored in the us with the following message
Thank you for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties for providing tiktok to
Over 178 million americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive
um So tiktok is back
But it has to have 50 ownership be under a us-based company
So We will see how that goes
I think mr. Beast is bidding for it Oh boy. Yeah, right
Why don't we do Windshow after dark. I'm not gonna lie. My mouth's getting a little sore. So uh, you are feeling it a little bit
I'm feeling it a little bit that makes sense. Yeah, I uh, overall it went really well
I'm very surprised. I had the uppers this time. I had the lowers last time and I didn't go under
I just had local numbing and they like
Basically dug in there and got them because they were impacted so that is to say they were covered by the gum
Um, it was a pretty awful experience. I was knocked on my butt for a couple days
I needed the pain meds. It was got a little bit infected. No no dry socket. Thankfully
Um, but yeah, it it sucked and then this time
Because the experience was so awful last time when they asked me. Hey, do you just want general anesthesia?
I've never gone under before and I've always been a little bit uneasy about it. Um,
Just because like very very very occasionally you can like not wake up and stuff like it's still, you know chemicals in your body
Which is not a thing. I'm a huge fan of overall um
But the cost difference was like negligible because
Contrary to what a lot of um, people think we have an imperfect health care system, but it isn't um,
You know just completely horrible. There are a lot of things I do like about it. There's a lot of things that it's numerous flaws
There's a lot of things that are bad about it But there's a lot of things that are not that bad about it
So the the the cost difference for going under general anesthesia was
Pretty minor and I was like, you know what? Sure
Let's uh, let's go for gold. So they basically injected the one thing into the IV
Injected the seventh thing second thing into the IV and I kind of went
Oh, yeah, is that it and I woke up. Um
Hours later. It was shockingly fast Um, so anyway, yeah, so I went under general. They removed the whole thing. Um
And then we posted a Floatplane exclusive of
me Coming at me heading in and then me coming down
This is this is me before because I wouldn't be driving if I just woke up from general anesthetic still before
Uh, yeah, this is me extremely high
Uh, anyway, that's on Floatplane right now But you're but you're smiling and walking around so it must not have been that bad like right off the hop
I don't know. I don't remember Fair enough. Uh, so yeah, that's but I know you were you were in voice chat playing games with like employees
I think on like a day or two. Oh really? It was Wednesday. Yeah, I think no
I think so no Tuesday Tuesday. You sure? Yeah. Anyway, I was at the gym
Anyway, after I woke up from sort of like my twilight sort of first day. I uh, it's been really good
They did an amazing job. The sutures are super clean
Um, nothing's really gotten infected or anything and so now I work. No, this was an after work
Just people having fun thing Now I'm sitting here kind of going like man, I should I have even bothered going under because it was yeah
It was overall pretty good. I saw a lot of comments that are like, what is he going under general for for this?
It's it's relatively common here for people to do it Um, and the only reason that I did it was because the experience the first time was
Pretty uh was pretty not very good. Um, but yeah, the tops are supposed to be easier
I just I guess I just was like, yeah, but like how much easier and if it doesn't change things that much
I guess I'll just do it. So yeah, yeah, I basically had a really really fit full nap
and uh, and then Was this guy for a bit
What's so out of it? Oh my goodness. I'm excited to watch that. Oh man. Oh man. I'm assuming there's some of on commentary to you
Uh, she's filming right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's she's the one who filmed it. Yeah
All right after dark. Yeah, let's do it. Yeah
There we are. All right, you ready for some merge messages? Yes
Hi DLL building a new pc soon But not sure whether to go with a 9800 x3d now or wait for the 9950 x3d benchmarks
What do you think about AMD's claims that the 9950 will match the 9800 gaming performance?
I think it's pretty likely. I mean most games are not going to be touching more than eight cores these days
And so as long as they're steering everything to the right die and we're not splitting the load across ccds
There's no real reason that a 9950 x3d that I can think of should not perform about like a 9800 x3d would
As long as they, you know, give it all the power and thermal headroom that it needs as long as you have adequate cooling on it
um I mean, it's basically got a 9800 x3d
There and then it has like another die with eight more 10 five cores, but no 3d vcache. So
It all comes down to how well AMD through, you know, microcode working with microsoft
All that stuff can can manage the load and make sure that all the correct load is following on all the correct course
Hey lily luke and Dan after your last tooth removal, you said you didn't want a risk
Of going under what changed your mind this time? Um, I don't know yolo
It's pretty bad last time. Yeah, I kind of sucked last time the chance of risk
Is pretty low. It is pretty low. It exists. Yep
And I would I don't know if I'd ever recommend someone do it just because I wouldn't want to be responsible for that
But I went in saying that I I didn't want to do it But then he was like, um, yours are growing in like sideways and stuff
You need to go under and I was like, well, and I do wonder if me going under general
You know made me a compliant enough patient that they were able to really get in there and do a better job
Like I I actually do kind of wonder that was also mentioned Mine were like really far back and they were like, we're gonna have to torque your jaw around like a lot
So it's better if it's kind of droopy
Nice and the tongue as far as my understanding goes Right can be really annoying if you're like awake
Right. Yeah, anyways, I don't know. I don't know what I'm talking about
Linus the short Luke the tall and Dan the man Is there any decision that you have made recently that
I don't know That you from 10 years ago wouldn't agree with or vice versa
And why can't staff swear even in flow plane exclusives? Sure
I'm gonna take the easy cop out answer and I wouldn't have gone under general 10 years ago
But I'm just like, yeah, whatever screw it Go for it. I'm I don't know as I as I get older in some ways
I'm getting like way more conservative But as I get older in some ways, I'm also getting way more yolo. So
I don't know how to reconcile to clarify
Conservative as oh like in in terms of being risk averse. There you go
Any who would just sit on that for a minute as for whether staff can't swear they absolutely can we just bleep it
Yeah, yeah people people People swear all the time in this office. It's fucking unprofessional is what it is
my bad I learned from luke. I'm trying to get I'm trying to get better. I'm actually actively working on it
It's not working very well, but I'm trying. I think it's more punctual now. I don't think it's important
I don't think it's a Good thing. I also don't necessarily like I don't there's a point really against it. Yeah, but I think like
For me, I think it it can limit the use of language sometimes because you use they're often used as like
multi-use words And uh killer words. Yeah, you can you can stretch your vocabulary more and stuff by not using them as much
I think that's one of the reasons why I want to do it um her chance I'm never gonna like
completely stop but uh Yeah, I think also being better at reining it in around a certain company like kids or whatever else
Um would be good Yes, it would. Yeah, my kids are gonna be old enough that it's not gonna matter by the time you get that sort of dope
luke really Yeah, it's not
My biggest problem is generally when we're like playing games because I'll you get hype
Well, and I'm just like like on wancho. I don't because my brain like switches into this mode, but when I'm playing games
Gaming with my bro. I'm in gaming with my bro's mode. So my brain isn't like thinking like oh, yeah
I don't say that. Um I don't know
It's not great. It doesn't feel like a good look
Decisions you made recently that you from 10 years ago wouldn't agree with
um
Decisions I made recently I feel like I'm gonna twist this and go with like observations. I think
10 years ago having self-recognition that there's like really cool things about being a what I know understand were
Barely out of small, but what feels like huge company um
There are like benefits to it. You were like adamantly. Oh, yeah against like any about growth sometimes
There are still parts about it. I do not like oh 100 um 100 and I think I probably do feel strongly
More strongly about that than most people here
But there are more things that I do like about it than I would have expected for sure
Yeah, and certain of my decisions have
Contributed to leading us down a path of continued expansion over time
um so like
That would be very surprising for me, I think
Hey Linus, I remember you mentioned a while back that you wanted to make more women's clothing and was wondering if an LTT skirt was in the pipeline
Not that I'm aware of I've also got some other merch messages
About women's clothing in general and if it's not selling well and if you're planning to do more at all
Uh, no, it hasn't sold particularly well. I don't think we've lost money
But I think overall we have not made any money on it. So there's a a significant opportunity cost there when our team is
Working hard and building what I believe are really good products. Like our our women's clothing was really
good And it not selling. I mean that just
It's it's discouraging across the board right both for the being counters and for the people that poor
You know, you got to think about it, right? Like they pour their life, you know into what they create
Um, we we take that kind of thing really seriously
We don't want to we don't want to waste our time, right? And so if we're if we're making something really great and ultimately, you know, it's not it's not resonating
You know, it's not resonating enough then we'd rather create something that makes
You know more people really happy. It's it's just it's a natural thing and whether that's you know, whether that's right or not
You know, uh, yeah, we could we could debate about that till the cows come home
But at the end of the day, like think about your own dopamine hit, right? Like if you post something on reddit and it gets four upvotes or you post something on reddit
It gets 40 000 upvotes, which one makes you feel better So, yeah, I I still want to you know, try to support it as best we can but it's just not really it's not really flying as it is right now
Hey, alina slick and who again if you had to choose whether to turn off the taps for hardware or software development forever
Which would you choose? Thanks for keeping it positive you guys in the context where you say hardware and software
It really makes it sound like you're talking about electronics hardware in which case
To your knowledge, we aren't doing any of that
And we certainly can't turn off software development I don't think he means I got the company. You know in general
Oh, I think this is more like a oh, well, I traditional would I'd rather have all the hardware we have today forever and continue seeing software develop
You find new innovative ways to use it. No question. That's not even
I mean, unless you disagree hit me. No, yeah, I think so. I guess like really do you want to play all the same games that you play today?
On like faster and faster hardware. They would have to optimize the games
I actually pitched a I pitched a video internally today called game developers are not lazy
Because this is just a completely f***ing bull s*** argument
Yeah, sorry. I probably shouldn't stare up my own drama
Dude, I just keep I keep seeing people just video dance just mindlessly parrot
Having seemingly no understanding whatsoever of the actual dynamics that are at play in the games industry
Even I understand just a fraction of it having never worked in it
But I understand it well enough to know that if a game has a problem
It almost certainly doesn't boil down to that every f***ing developer who worked on it is a lazy f***ing s*** hole
Like it's there's there's no way
Yeah, nerdle and chat says uh as a back-end developer can confirm everything I do takes 0.001 seconds slash s
No, like come on. Does it use php properly?
Gerald says what about spaghetti code? There are
Organizational issues. There are workflow issues. There are management issues
There are tons of issues that can lead to sloppy work
And you know what sometimes it's because a developer is an absolute just complete f***ing idiot and sucks
And they and they should not be doing that job and they and they totally suck
I would hazard a guess that that is
Overwhelmingly rare. There's also people that aren't really developers that somehow
You know fumble their way through managing to make a game. Yeah, but the game is good
It might just be like coded terribly Undertale
Famously is like 10,000 nested ifs. It's crazy. It's actually bonkers incredibly famous game. Yeah super successful people love it
It's made by artists. They're making art Yeah
Maybe they do need ray tracing to actually get it to function the way that they want the the elitism so much
Is the game fun? Just make fun games. Is the game fun? I want that as a tattoo
If the game not fun, then who cares anyways, who cares if a spaghetti goat if the game's not fun
Parasocial friends Linus, I see you on reddit often
Which social platforms do you all like or use regularly versus just having them for work? Oh like in usage? Okay
Um, I don't actually use reddit that often I've been I've been on it a little bit lately just because it's um, I tend to like to keep my finger on the pulse of you know
What the heck is going on? sometimes um
As for social platforms that I use man, I barely touch twitter these days. I use facebook almost exclusively to
uh, you know, just look at user comments on
smash champs and to just Browse marketplace because I just I think marketplace is hilarious. It's full so much crazy stuff
I I almost never open tiktok. Um
I use youtube obviously
I don't know man. I'm just I'm um, I don't I don't have a lot of time for it
Like I read the news. That's one of my that's one of my vices
Like I'll I'll just get like buried and like reading articles and stuff. That's my like doom scrolling
But I I don't prefer video I've talked about this so much over the years in spite of the fact that I'm literally a video creator for a living
It is not my preferred method of digesting information
Um, and that's still true today
Hello, lld. Oh, well no one else answered that question
Luke are you guys just trying to get me out of here because my mouth is so I'm good
What was the question what social platforms do you use?
I know you I would side of work. Yeah. Oh
Uh Most of them are begrudgingly
YouTube I like youtube I like um
The one thing I don't like about youtube right now is I don't know what's going on with my phone
But it'll get in this thing where every time I unlock my phone
If youtube is one of the things that is open not even if it's the most previous one that was open
If it's one of the things that'll open The second I unlock the phone it will bring it to front nice and got him
It will bring a short up nice and start playing it. Wow
That should actually be illegal. I wasn't watching shorts youtube was not the most recently open. Can we bend dark patterns like that?
What the heck is going on? That is wild. I don't know if this is a specific like I don't know
I'm only the one having this problem. I haven't seen it. I have no idea
But that's been happening to me a bunch and it's been really annoying
Um, I've also had situation. Yeah, I don't know. I've had stuff like that. That's very frustrating, but um, I do
Generally like youtube. Um, I begrudgingly use twitter saying they've seen it. Yeah, same issue. Yeah, I don't know what that is
But that's really annoying especially when like
If I'm out in public and it starts randomly playing some short of some dude like screaming something like I don't that's wild
What do you mean? Like I don't want this to happen right now
Anyways, um, I begrudgingly use twitter. I begrudgingly use facebook
There's like, you know, old high school contacts family members stuff like that facebook is the new phone book
Yep, yeah, especially like extended family like like there is no white pages anymore
So what the heck am I supposed to do if I need to like contact somebody if I'm messaging you one time every five years
It's probably on facebook. Um, I have like most of the annoying
text messaging apps because everybody has their favorite flavor
um Discord and youtube are probably the only ones that I'm like fairly happily using. Okay. Yeah
Hello lld within videos showcase at c. Yes, do you ever think that ldd will ever integrate robots into the staff?
And if so, how ever is a big word? I mean ever is a massive word
Yeah, I I have a hard time imagining a future where we would be sophisticated enough to have like, uh
Like a digital twin version of our warehouse that our you know, AI robots use to navigate the real one to like help jamie lift things
like it just It feels science fiction and like comical, but you know the flip side of that is 10 years ago a lot of
What we do today would have seemed completely out of reach like the way that led lighting has changed the cost calculation for media production
um Didn't see that one coming. Oh time. It says depends on what you call a robot. That's a pretty good point
What do a 3d printer? That's a very good point. I mean, yeah robots are everywhere
What about a robot vacuum? Sure
I oh dude, I would totally deploy robot vacuums to this place if I thought that they could actually navigate our mess
Oh, yeah, would like a standing robot just be like a cnc humanoid
Because technically all robots are cnc machines One of my pet peeves is is people saying just cnc instead of cnc router or cnc mill. It's actually
Uh, a hilarious pet peeve, but that bothers you. Yeah, just a little bit
That's your like
Dan Besser pedant
He knows it too It's yeah, okay fine. I accept
Automation on mark bench. That's a pretty good argument. Yeah, literally a robot ARM that's already deployed. Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff in Labs
Yeah, there's other examples other than that too
Hi dll have you seen the 3d benchy?
controversy interested on your thoughts about enforcing copyright after years of being so lax. I've only peripherally noticed it
It seems kind of annoying So basically someone owns the prop the copyright for the benchy model that everyone uses is their kind of benchmark for 3d printers and
Finally someone either like did they acquire it or they're like finally after so many years they're they're enforcing it and like not letting people
freely distribute it Yeah, yeah, and it's just like apparently the controversy is not true. So there you go. Oh
It's misunderstood. Give me a sec to find the links as Ry saw. So there you go. Let's just my understanding
It has something to do with modifying it and then redistributing it
Because then it's not a benchmark anymore, but now we have bodi. I don't know. Oh my god. Who cares because like yeah, exactly
It's it's a it's a bench That is now the new benchmark called bodi. Okay
Sure Now I need to see it
It is
Bodi It's such a wonderful community. I love I love all of them
Bodi 3d print. So what am I? What do I even look 3d bodi? Yeah, 3d bodi. There you go. Okay, 3d bodi
It's got same same sort of overhang bridging test like yeah, okay
Bodi the bench
All right, sure If there was anyone who was gonna if there was anyone who was going to maliciously comply this hard
It would be the 3d printing community. So good on you guys that really that makes sense artistic nerds. That makes a lot of
Sense the best. Yeah. All right. Let's see
You should really have you talked to
Lab's web Dan Not really maybe just occasionally you two should chat at some time. That would be nice. Yeah
Hi DLL as someone currently watching their country burn down
Are there any steps someone can take to prepare for moving without having a job lined up?
Honestly, not really I have people reach out all the time like wanting to move to canada to work at LMG and every time I'm just like
Yeah, I can't explain this because it seems like especially over the last few years
We were importing people at a historical rate. I shouldn't say it seems like because over the last few years
We've been importing people at an historical rate and yet
If I have like a qualified international candidate, I have to go through all this like paperwork and lma and
Yeah, I spend a ton of money and like freaking can't get people in here and I'm just I I've never been able to kind of
I've never been able to kind of bridge those two
Facts in my mind And so whenever people reach out to me from somewhere else and basically just like dude
I got no idea because as someone who's already here
I have flipping no clue how to facilitate getting people here
It's it's seemed incredibly complicated even in some cases for people with you know
That are that are young and able to work and have decent credentials and it's just like no, I'm like, okay
So then just randoms then okay, sure fine
Cool Hey lld question for Linus. What was it like for you during the procedure for getting your wisdom teeth removed coming from someone
Who's going to have the same procedure later this year or next couldn't tell you don't remember any of it
Um, I mean really the best advice I can give you is to you know Talk to your dental professional and ask them what it's going to be like because they're going to be the ones that know your case
the best and My sample size is of two. I've had this procedure twice both times
It was different so really it's two sample sizes of one if we want to be very Dan about it. Hey, I did the same thing
I had no no be pedantic about it
Don't don't that's okay. No, what you actually meant to say was no
You're getting anything. All right. Thank you. Um, anyway, talk to your dental professional
They're gonna they're gonna have the big the they're gonna have the best insight in the most experience to share with you
Hi DLL, what's the one most impressive thing someone has done in a non-technical job interview with LMG
I haven't interviewed anyone in like seven years probably so every single interview. I've done has been a technical interview. Cool
Sorry Hey, my big L's I know you guys are no longer in the underwear business
But me and my fiance love them and need more any brands you would give an approval for a similar fit and feel
Prove we're not in the underwear business. Uh, we've actually got new samples from a new supplier that I am
Wearing yesterday, um that are looking really promising. So there you go. Yeah, friday's long day
Let's see. Hey Linus, you sometimes use the phrase
Exactly one for emphasis. Is that a reference to something or did you make it up?
It's kind of inspired by John Cleese's character in faulty towers when he
Like puts on a german accent when he's talking to the germans that stay in the hotel
I it's I don't know. I just think it's funny, you know
precision and germanness Oh
My homelad but got hit by ransomware last week and I lost terabytes of raw video and photos
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that any advice on possibility on the possibility of data recovery cleanup and future security enhancement
I mean at the end of the day data safety comes down to three two one, right like three copies and at least two locations
Bloody hell. What's the one hit me? One off site two formats
One off site two formats Yeah, one off site three versions. Yeah. Yeah
um Yeah, as for recovery man
That's a challenge, right because there's lots of smaller recovery places that
might do a great job Or they might be a fly-by-night loser that's going to do more damage than good
There are like, you know, your reputable data recovery guys
But I I promise you even they could end up doing more damage than good
So that's number one and then number two is you will pay
Unless that footage is like, you know of the orchestration of the jfk assassination or something
Like you're going to pay more for it to recover it than it is worth
um other than just You know saying I I I get it and I've gone through data loss before and it really sucks
There's not really a lot that I can offer you That blows, um, you know, obviously I made that investment into hexos
To make it hopefully easier for kind of techy people but not necessarily, you know networking command line people to
To have like a buddy backup and cloud backups enabled really easily on diy hardware
But that particular feature is not rolled out yet. Hopefully I'll have exciting news to share in the future
But for now not much Yeah, I take my most important files to the cloud nightly
Uh, let's see. What else do we have here? Hey DLL, how is the glow in the dark holding up on the tycan?
Is it just as strong as when the wrap was first applied? How long does dbrand expect it to last?
Should last as long as pretty much any glow in the dark thing that you have
Which is to say that I believe the effect does fade a little bit over time, but no it still works pretty good
Do you still charge it like when you leave your house? No, that was that was really cool fun project and like it looks really cool when you first pull out of the garage
But realistically there's enough Um, if I was somewhere else it would be super cool
But there's enough light in my area that within probably like five minutes
You can't make it out too. Well anyway, so I was like, okay Well, this is kind of an obstacle in my garage right and besides I have some other cool plans for those black lights
Um, I want to take them to smash champs and set them up in the lighting grid
Or not grid but in the in the side lights for the courts and I want to do like disco badminton
You know like disco bowling. Yeah. So yeah, the the nylon shuttles do fluoresce at least the yonex ones do and oh sick
So if we could maybe put a fluorescing top transparent coat over the court lines
Uh, the tape on the on the nets also fluoresces already. So that could be freaking cool
That's it was not the kind of thing we'd do all the time But it's like like once a quarter or something doing like disco badminton night or something. I think people would come out for that
Yeah, I suspect it would be pretty popular You might really do it more often than and then I would do it over on the land party side
So that if we wanted to switch out the house lights and turn on all black lights for the land then we could
Which I think would be pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah Get some chauvet hexpars in there. It'll be fun
Uh, I've got a couple more. Yeah, I've got I assume that's a really cool light
Yeah, they're like the moving head things and they swing about grand clubs and stuff
Hi lld first time buying from LTT since I started watching you in 2020
I'll be traveling for the first time to tokyo. What would be your musty shops or sights and favorite meal and drink?
Oh, uh, it's not in tokyo, but my highlight for sure was when we took the shinkansen to um,
the deer park in No, uh, oh
Okay When I traveled with my family
I'm not really like a travel guy. I'm just there to like help wrangle kids and
Make life less stressful for everyone else if we're saying nara. I do yeah, nara. I do whatever
um, so I just like I go where I'm told to go and do what I'm told to do and
You know Yvonne and the kids they like do lots of cool stuff and that's super cool
But uh, nara was nara was really great. So that was really cool
Um, I'm sure you'll get lots of great recommendations by the way in you know the Floatplane chat
But in terms of of my recommendations. I uh, yeah, sure deer park. It's pretty sick
It's not in tokyo. So sorry about that the uh, the mario kart
You know go karts on the street things overrated I'll say that. Yeah, I kind of always assumed that. Yeah, just um, whatever. I'm here. Yeah, sure. Yeah
Hey tech napoleon laugh and yeah, and I guess dad
Linus, what's the last video you've fully written which wasn't a challenge video?
Also, what are a few projects or videos you've canceled?
Last video fully written. Um Oh, I don't know canceled projects. Yeah cancel things all the time
Uh, I I honestly do not remember it's going to be a lot easier for me and try and figure out this
Last thing I've written one
Uh, oh no not title contains. Why don't you have luke do one in the meantime?
And then I can I can try and
Bring up a list of videos only one left only one left. Hey dlo
I broke a four thousand dollar printer at work due to poor documentation from the manufacturer
Are there any things you broke or damaged because of this?
No But what I can say is that uh, we at Floatplane
um As in I think actually most of the teams at this point have found and corrected software documentation for
Other companies before. Um, nice I can think of honestly quite a few right off the top of my head
Where we'll be like, hey, this thing doesn't work. We're following your documentation. Here's all the details
We think it's like maybe this other way and they'll get back to us and be like, uh, that documentation is wrong
Cool. Here's the stuff. Cool. It's like, oh cool. I'm so happy we spent all that time trying to figure that out
Turns out Even massive
Multi-billion dollar companies make mistakes. They do they do because it turns out they're staffed by people and people are
They do their best for the most part. I think for the most part. Um, there was one that I accidentally archived. It was something about, um
How to help people like set up parental controls and stuff and honestly the best advice I can give you is stay out of it
Let them figure out their stuff And if they're not willing to put in the work then you shouldn't be giving them tech support on how to manage parental controls
Because at the best of times they're an absolute
Cluster bomb. They are terrible. Um, I still remember
Spending like an hour trying to figure out how to join a minecraft dungeons game with my kids
In spite of the fact because they're miners and I'm not in spite of the fact that I am literally set up as the parent in our family unit
You said you'd think that would allow it so annoying
Um, okay. So yeah, let me let me get back to let me get back to your question
So here's our dashboard Celebrity tech scam. That's alex
Nintendo switch to that's david 20 000 server. That's Jake
Ray tracing his mandatory now. Oh, that was that was a team effort
But I think it was adam that got it across the line Every rtx 5090 at cES that was collaborative my new tv sucks again
This was written by me and alex's sections were written by him with a little bit of me kind of laying out which beats I wanted
Unreleased AMD thing. That was me first a game on the rtx 5090. That was me
I've never been this angry and confused before this was
Uh, I believe this my oh, this was ploof
Stemos this was, um, jordan
Let's still let's see. Let's find a not let's find a not cES
Content piece that I wrote start to finish
I'm sorry. I'm gonna use a tablet life through a gaming thing
We have a we have a really talented writing team and they they do a lot
AMD upgrades are very, uh ad lib
So you could kind of think of those as being largely kind of written by me
But also like not really not really written in that sense
This I wrote a lot for I wrote a ton of notes because I was the tester for the project
And jordan used some of my notes verbatim in the final script, but ultimately he was kind of tasked with
Uh operating in the role to kind of get it over the board
Yeah, let's see. I uh, I think probably the last one. Oh
dbrand, I don't know
Yeah, no, I mean, yeah very again very like kind of written by me in the sense that I was there
Uh Jake did a great job of the the xos reveal
I think probably the last one that I wrote start to finish would have been the um
Equinix tour
Yeah, let's go with let's go with equinix tour. Yeah, there it is. So this one I basically got briefed by them. Um, wrote it
Hosted it and then came home That's all I got
That's all I got No, that's all I got. That's all I got to you. Yeah
That's all we got. That's all we got Hopefully next week is a little less ridiculous. What are the odds?
Uh, I think most betting sites would not say favorable
40 to 1 interesting. What about the magic eight ball? What does the magic eight ball say?
Is there there's got to be a web magic eight ball?
Magic eight ball. Come on. Here we go Ask the eight ball
Here we go. What is your question?
Uh, I don't have to type it to me. No, you just you just ask. Oh, look at the ads on this site. Good lord. Wow
Okay, so hold on you just oh, okay
Sure, so will next week's WAN Show be less
Ridiculous. There you go. This is this is Linus mode. You can't see the ads
Here we go You may rely on it. Oh, all right. Well, we'll see you again next week. Same bad time. Same bad channel
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