theCynicalWeeb is live
Oh, what yeah, do you like need to urgently go?
Yeah, do you have a heart out? I mean, I really wanted to be out a hard up hard in hard out
Hard in a I don't know. I mean all sorts of things can be hard
All the prep is hard prepositions. Yeah, are they prepositions? What are prepositions again?
It's been a while since I've been in English class
Oh, yeah on hard after
Here we go preposition list hard above
Hard since
Hard across, huh? Yeah. Yeah, that sounds like man that that could that could be a sling like yeah, I gave him the heart across
I mean it's it's evocative
I think there's a few ways that that could be used. Yeah, I think we all know which one I mean
The slap with a hand obviously
Hard show tonight we go hard
Should we start the show like seriously though? What time do you need to go? I would love to leave it like eight
But that's kind of wow
I suspect I'll say that then we'll go to like 8 30. It'll probably be fine
Okay, ready when you guys are gives me like an hour and a half to do everything check this out
Yeah, yeah smash champs Google rating is
4.9 flippin stars. I checked like a few days ago. Yeah
It was down to four point eight because we botched a stringing job on a racket and somebody on the forum
Do you was like? Oh, no, that's totally fine
So we contacted them we got it redone obviously once the supervisor got involved
And they readjusted that two-star review. I think it was to a five-star
Like reached out and got it taken care of noise
Which seems fair. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I get it. I get it. I get it was mishandled starts bad. Yeah
Feedback given hand properly now good. Yep
This this last one is really confusing Four stars the facility is great and the people who work there provide excellent customer service
My only complaint would be that I had no idea they started charging a $30 membership fee
So when I go to sign up for a drop in I was frustrated that
The drop-in options were not popping up It's like well, okay, so I
Think we could communicate it better, but it's just like, ah, that's not really I guess you can you can knock off a star for
Something being expensive. I guess right
So when you evaluate a restaurant like if it's a premium restaurant
Do you knock off a star if it's like even more expensive or than you thought only if the quality doesn't match
No complaint about quality only complaint about price, but then maybe the complaint about the quality is implicit
We'll try to do better I'm gonna do 20% better. Yeah, we're gonna get that
We're gonna turn up the lights more things
Turn them up 20% higher nice. We're gonna add 20% more bounce to the floor. Oh good. No, that's too much is actually bad. Yeah
Okay, we should we should probably start just badminton on trampolines
Yeah, that wouldn't be good. That would be not you might have some pretty crazy smashes
Yeah, you might also have some pretty crazy injuries
All right, let's get that out of the way. That's a sacrifice. I'm willing to make yeah, I bet you are other people getting injured. I
Mean the way things go for you. It'll probably be you getting no, I just won't play
That's fair. That's fair
All right Okay, I mean I have my chat open. I guess I'm ready to go right
Unique username asks is there a standard for floor bounciness dude? There's a standard for everything look up ASTM
ASTM floor bounce standard gym, whatever. Yeah
ball rebound and Buh-Buh-Buh-Buh, it's a whole it's a whole thing you check all this out
It's AI. So basically ignore that and then click this link right because that's oh
Yeah, target sports. These guys were not our installer, but they are an installer. So there's all these different
force reduction classes and the blah blah ball rebound performance level
Point elastic inclusive range uniformity level dude, there's standards for everything
Standards for everything. I Know you're sorry you asked I get it
Okay, let's do this thing. I'm I'm punching it
Are we ready for me to punch it? Yeah, I'm resuming the selected
Three two one. Oh god. No wait. No, I'm kidding. I'm just gonna resume
It's so realistic. Thanks. I'm a really good actor Lewis Rossman told me actor and
What's up everybody and welcome to the WAN Show we got a great show lined up for you guys this week
Oh There's some Juicy tea being spilled about NVIDIA being terrible to reviewers and partners again and another
totally Unexpected news Nintendo of America wants you to give up the right to sue them and
To give them the right to break your console remotely
Man, these guys are really like they're really trying to win the who can be the biggest
Scuzzbag this week competition, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah, look at that tying it all back to the title of the video like that
What a pro. He really is ladies and gentlemen speak. It's fantastic seeing a professional work like this
Look at the way. He doesn't even give his host a chance to say a word. Just talks continuously. What's happening, too?
Tolerance it's tolerance And in the obviously all good news show we have GTA 6 being delayed by like a year
Maybe and company towns are back on the menu again
Let's go. Oh boy. Oh
Did we both press it? Uh-huh nice
Oh
The show is brought to you today by odu green man gaming and AMD
Of course alongside our rap partner D brand our chair partner secret lab and our laptop partner Dell
Alright, they did a bit more rapping. It seems which oh, yeah, I saw that actually I I like it
I like and when we do after dark it'll glow It won't because we keep the lights on now, but it would have so sick if it did it would have
Who do you want to do first? N or N? Oh
What did you think I was asking I mean why why would one of us wait we could do it at the same time
Let's go with it works for Beyonce. Let's go with shorter in yeah sure and video is allegedly
I'm gonna throw in an allegedly there even though I totally believe all of this allegedly. I believe it
After NVIDIA withheld the 8 Gigabyte variant of the 5060 Ti
Which led to delayed coverage and this is my personal theory
although I think a lot of other folks agree with me delayed coverage as a
Strategy to bury any reviews of it so that people searching for this card would only find
Search optimized coverage of the 16 Gigabyte variant and video has struck again with the RTX 5060
Tech spot hardware unboxed hardware Lux and many more does many more include LTT Labs
Yeah, have confirmed that they are not receiving drivers for the RTX 5060 until its launch date May 19th
The cherry on top is not only this does this delay any non-rushed review of this card
But May 19th is the first day of Computex
Meaning that I mean this says several but I would say many
Reviewers won't be able to test the card at all since they are going to be working on the show floor
Doing coverage of all the cool tech that you guys want to hear about
I do think less reviewers are going to shows these days, but it's still true
I mean, we're gonna be there. Yeah, I'm gonna have some fun. I love Computex
I'm like I'm actually excited to play badminton and also Computex was there
Genuinely though, I do I do enjoy Computex more than CES
I never got to do seabit, which I heard was really good
But Computex is my favorite of the remaining the remaining shows that I have been to me too for sure
All right, here's a very off-topic question. Just
Wasn't done with that topic, but we can come back Are you gonna be able to go to badminton centers in Taiwan without just like inspecting everything?
Oh, don't imagine that I wasn't already doing that for years I mean, I've I've wanted to build my own center for I think my first email to my realtor was over five years ago
So like dude, I've been I've been on it
I've been on it No buddy my buddy over there who runs like
Half a dozen centers when I was there last year and I think was like in the process of opening up two more
Because the year before when I went there. He had just opened one center and I was like
Dude, you did a great job. I can't believe the budget you did this on
The the the demand for this is so high and completely unmet every time I come here
It's like impossible to find a court. You should just like do more of this
But like, you know, that's not advice or anything I didn't want to be responsible for like his whole financial situation
So I come back a year later and he fucking went all in and started up like five more centers
And he was like and I owe you all I owe you for it all because I wouldn't have done it
If you like didn't tell me to do it and I was like yo dog You owe me nothing for one thing. I don't want to be a look for that because if it had gone terrible
You definitely would have owed me nothing in that situation too. This is all on you. You did a great job, but apparently he's
Killing it like just killing it. So anyway, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go see my buddy when I'm over there
But um, where was I going with this? I forget. So yeah, I've been scoping them out. Yeah, okay
Anyway, the point is Several outlets are once again accusing NVIDIA of trying to bury any negative coverage of this card
Before the cards hit the shelves and consumers start ordering. I can't think of another explanation
I have not heard one, but here's the thing like I don't I can't fathom NVIDIA at this point
Because on the one hand They like play these silly games and they will they will swear up and down that they are not playing games in
Situations like this that they that the drivers just weren't quite ready yet or whatever, right?
But if the drivers aren't ready yet, then just delay it. Okay, so we can we can poke
logical holes in any
Arguments around this right? You are playing
Games Right. Okay. So now that we've established you are playing games. The question is why
Yeah, what's the point because every other aspect of your behavior
indicates you don't give a fuck About these value-oriented g-force cards
So why the stakes are so low for you?
just They I've called for this before I'm gonna do it again
Spin off g-force Just spin it off as a separate business unit
Then you don't have to worry about the crappy P&L. That's like mucking up your beautiful
AI the self-driving machine vision, you know friggin
Digits the grid like beautiful balance sheet, right?
It can just sit over there and have like crappier margins and a bunch of retail customers that are like a ton of work and like
Are winding at you all the time and you got this tech media that you basically has a borderline
Adversarial relationship with you at this point. You just go silo that off. You license the chip technology to them
They do they handle all the g-force drivers and everything
Why not? What is the argument against it at this point because they clearly like you look at how botched the 50 series launch has been
They clearly don't have their eye on the prize
They're not on the ball when it comes to g-force because they're demotivated all the money isn't working on this
Other stuff. So you need to have a separate BU or
Even even I dare say separate company
NVIDIA g-force call it g-force gaming corp or something who cares you have this separate company whose entire job is to crush it in
g-force is To delight gamers, you know like you used to
Because I just I just don't understand it they say there's no game right but like
And Way lower importance and it like has to be when looking at their financial statements, but
When you look at like the original CES announcement of the 5000 series you still led with
G-force stuff the vast majority of the presentation a hook. No, I know but if that's still the hook, then I don't think you split it off
I'm not convinced that the average NVIDIA data center
Procureer, you know chief procurement
Person at some you know AI thing. I'm not convinced that they really give two hoots about how good a
RTX whatever is I'm I don't I don't know man for sure, but there might be an expectation that they do
And if you get that chief procureer guy to buy a 5090 I
Do think there's a higher chance that that person will have some type of bias towards that sure
But there's plenty of cases where you have somewhat affiliate a affiliated excuse me
Affiliated companies who cross-license technology between them and they could still they could even call it like NVIDIA Corp and NVIDIA gaming Corp
Right like there's there's no reason not to
Still, you know retain some in NVIDIA, you know branding retain some association the the beginning of that keynote could have been
We're excited to announce with our partner g-force Corp
The based on our all-new architecture that the g-force whatever
Jensen could even hire himself as the CEO of the other company. I don't care
The point is just that they got to get it off the balance sheet so they can get realistic
About what consumers can afford in terms of their margins. I don't think it's gonna change
Well, what do you mean by realistic in terms of what consumers can afford because they're selling everything right now anyways
so like In regards to what they will pay, which is all that they actually care about not what can they afford
They're doing it. So maybe they are really realistic about it
Like if we're just being honest because every time that there's been a GPU shortage or you know
Everybody buying cards for mining or whatever they've flown off the shelves every time and consumers have shown that they'll buy
Scalped GPUs for $3,000 a pop because they want four more FPS in fortnight
Like this
You just can't use the word realistic when they're like out of stock everywhere and
That's the other hole that I can poke in there. We're not playing games story
They're gonna be out of stock anyway. Yeah, so launch it a week
The biggest one for me so launch it a week later or two weeks later. It doesn't matter
Keep keep the production going full tilt, which you obviously haven't been doing anyway
Yeah, keep produce as much as you can and you're still gonna sell it on launch day anyway
Just in case that's confusing for people he means because they're putting production towards data center stuff
Yes, these cards with that said with that said prices have started to creep down a little bit
They're creeping down though. I don't think that's invidious stated prices not as no no no no no because well
They've never officially changed to the MSRP. So yeah, but the street prices are
Slowly ticking their way down. There's not really any pressure on them on the high end, but I
There's none. You know what? I'm taking some validation here. I'm gonna do a little victory lap. I know unusual thing
Go ahead press the button, but he doesn't know. I'm pretty sure well anyway. I
Think that Intel's
Presence in the market is a threat. Oh, yeah, I mean, I hope so dude. That's that's the theory that I've clung to and
Battlemage Seems legit like and seems to be selling legit
That you see how many board partners they have now like that's an indication
I haven't looked into that dude dude We're at the point now where they're like almost breaking into brands
You would have considered buying a GPU from before Intel GPUs like I know it's not like it got a low amount of views
It got it got over a million views, but this video is
Very interesting and if you haven't watched it, you should go watch it
It's not just like oh did I have bugs or not? The conclusion is very interesting and how they both got to their individual conclusions is very interesting
You should go watch the video like you could you can buy an arc B580 from like Acer or as rock as rock
I'd say is like the closest we're getting to like a real
Add-in board partner when I start seeing like, you know MSI Gigabyte ASUS
Putting their necks out to want to be part of the arc train then I'm gonna I'm gonna really be a believer
But at least it's not at least it's not all you know on X
Yeah Onyx does seem to be a significant player for Intel here
So there does seem to be a little bit of Desperation factor, but they're not the only one anymore and that's that's exciting to me
So I I'm gonna say hey, I'm I'm glad I'm standing behind everything I said about the importance of Intel being part of this and
Like we said in the title of that video Luke just popped up
please Please Intel do not can
Discrete graphics, please because the thing is it's not like they're gonna stop development of arc arc is a key
Strategic piece for them continuing to compete with AMD on mobility
So it's not like it's not like celestial and druid are not going to be developed
It's just a question of whether we're gonna get the large-scale more power-hungry ones that would go in and add in GPU and
It is not a good sign that Be 770 the bigger card for this generation is allegedly canceled
Although I did see a rumor that allegedly it is like uncancelled or maybe was never cancelled and maybe is still coming
Dude the rumor mill around Intel's GPUs have actually has actually been horrible
Like it's been way more Inflammatory and also inaccurate than most rumor mill cycles. I'm not gonna name a particular youtuber
But there is a particular youtuber that on like a super regular basis would be talking about how arc is definitely
Cancelled now like repeatedly to the point where I'm just like
Dude even a broken clock is right a couple times a day
Like can you just can you just not even bother anymore at this point because like I just got tired of reading it
Yeah, and other sites would just would just pick up these rumors and just run with them
And I'm like, do you have any idea how stressful that is to the people that actually work?
Within that department that are just rough
What what what what and then and then it turns out to not even be true and we 100% get arc battle major. It's like, okay
So what was this based on? Like I don't know man. I don't know man
Anyway, no, I'm not no, I'm not gonna name and shame. I'm not interested in naming and shaming but
Apparently b770 is anticipated to you know what? I'm not even gonna read these specs, but I really hope I really hope it happens cuz
Battlemage man Let's go. All right. What else we got? What else we got you want to talk about the other big one? Sure
Why not can Nintendo just like be likeable? No for once like I just dude. I just want to it's kind of like, okay
Okay, what's it like? Okay, it's like if you love KitKats, you know
And you just you just want to enjoy your KitKat
Without thinking about all the fucking water. This company is stealing from all the poorest people on earth
Nestle yeah, and you're just like I
Can't even enjoy this. I just want to guilt-free enjoy Mario
Okay, I just I just I don't want to I don't want to think about the beast that I'm feeding
Can you even like with something like this? Oh, no, I'm sorry. Cobbie KitKat is Nestle. Yeah
Right, I know so many things are nice. I love KitKats. Turns out it's easy to be profitable when you're just objectively evil
Oh, yeah, yeah, dude. I mean look we're pretty profitable
And I don't I don't think I don't think we do imagine how much more profitable
Think about all the gambling sponsorships right all the like all the alcohol all the alcohol sponsorships we could have taken over the years
Yeah And the number of people that hate us anyway, it's like what what was even the point
Oh, apparently KitKat is Nestle in Canada, but Hershey in the USA
Oh, what? Really? Uh, I think already you said that. Oh, yeah, I did not know is what what?
Oh Thank goodness says copy
Oh, man Yeah, anyway, okay. Well, I just so I just have to go that well
Nestle does not own the Hershey company Nestle does have a licensing agreement with Hershey to manufacture and distribute KitKat and
Rolo products in the United States. However, Hershey is a separate independent company. That's a AI overview from the L Google
Okay. Well, hopefully that's uh accurate either way
It's okay. Yeah, KitKat. Okay. So all I have to do is go down to the states
buy a ton of KitKats Get to the border
Hope that I can cross the border
And that they don't have any questions about the mountain of KitKats in my trunk
Apparently there are many products that are owned by Hershey's, but they are still licensed and produced by Nestle
Oh, I see. So Nestle is probably profiting in some way. Nice
nice Anyway, Nintendo is under fire once again after adding a clause to their end user license agreement
That asks users to waive their right to join a class action lawsuit
Joycon driftgate anyone Users can still sue individually
Or they can waive the arbitration notice by sending a written letter to nintendo of america's office
But nintendo is instructing users to contact customer service instead as
Most matters can be quickly resolved in this manner
Um to our customer satisfaction Which is fair enough
In which case you shouldn't need An arbitrage uh, you should uh, sorry, uh, you shouldn't need to um
Have a thing that waives arbitration. Yes. Thank you. That's the words. I was looking for appreciate you
I knew you were here for the reason why I do all the talking Does that hold up in court like ever? I know you can't answer this but like
I think if you give people the right to waive it, there's a solid chance and I mean realistically
Realistically. Oh my god. I can't believe we're doing this again. Realistically. It's kind of like the whole warranty thing
It's not about whether nintendo is allowed to do that. Okay, apparently legal eagle said no as well. Yeah
It's about it's about what are the obstacles and what are the
This will muddy the waters for sure It'll muddy the waters it will make it take more time and it will make it more expensive
Yeah, so even if you could go out and get like an outstanding lawyer who could be like
Actually, nintendo know the barrier to entry is going to be higher right to break through this
And that's what nintendo is doing That's what creating it almost feels like a reminder of who they are because we already know
From personal experience That lawyers are scared of nintendo
Remember We do know that. Yeah We do know that so this almost feels like a reminder or like a you know, um
Don't open the gate. There's a dog. You know, you can see the dog. You can hear the dog, but there's also a sign
This feels like the sign It's just man. It's it's frustrating and I think I think it's also one of those things where they're creating an environment
Nintendo is the gorilla Yeah, that's a fun the the hundred men, which is the lawyers. Anyway, sorry
Yeah Can a hundred lawyers defeat nintendo? It also feels like they're trying to to make the individual user feel like I mean even
Even the simple fact of us Talking about this is going to make nintendo's users feel like oh, it's pointless
Because they're doing this arbitration thing. I'm not going to send no letter ain't nobody got time for that
So realistically I've agreed to this so you know, whatever and the stupidest part is what nintendo said is completely
True. They could satisfy people by just sending them a new stupid joy con
So then why don't they need this clause? Just in case they decide they don't want to
And that's where I get back to the whole warranty thing. That's why every warranty has outs in it
Because it's written for the protection of the company and has nothing to do with protecting the user
And it doesn't matter how good guy they are and how trust me bro
They are at the end of the day It just comes down to their willingness in that moment with that current leadership team because those change
To fulfill to honor your request So nintendo knows that they could fix this problem by sending you a new flipping joy con
But they're putting this clause in to make sure that if they are ever in a position where they don't feel like it
They don't have to the interpretation or these people will think they don't have to read elsewhere was that this was
like is this It's actually really about joy cons
So I thought this was um, no, it's probably not modding switches
I don't think it's about joy cons them them being able to brick your switch. Oh, no, that's a separate one
That's the other one separately They have updated the account agreement to reserve the right to make your console
permanently unusable Aka brick it if you lease
rent sub-license publish copy modify
Adapt translate reverse engineer decompile or disassemble all or any portion of the nintendo account
services Bruh
Nice This was the topic I was reading that's why I was confused
One thousand percent Do not own the nintendo console you buy anymore, which would be fine
It or it would be more fine if we were still in the era of like
carts that actually had all the game data on them and that actually
Worked completely without nintendo's online services
But is way worse In the era of carts that don't have game data on them and that nintendo can just decide at some point
Or could stop existing at some point however unlikely and they just like don't work anymore
And it's like illegal or whatever to try to get it working
They can probably ban individual carts too. Dude, this is this is crazy
This is crazy. I wonder if they detected that a cart was being used too many times if they would ban it
Ah, I don't know if there's a uses I do I do think this is one of those things that again
They they'd probably want to be too trustworthy a bro to just do this all the time
But it does definitely give them tools to go after
The modding community, especially you know anyone who's
Trying to unlock homebrew gaming on their switch too
In a way that they potentially haven't before and especially anyone who tries to enable any kind of online functionality
I think that's the thing that this is mostly going after
Especially because they they make it clear that this is part of the account agreement and they are specifically referring to nintendo account services
um Either way
It is very clear that nintendo is tightening the news when it comes to emulation
console hacking
Look as someone who buys my nintendo games
Like this doesn't impact me financially
But as I suspect this will change the purchasing decision of extremely few people
But as someone who really likes emulation for lots of other reasons and as someone who cares about
archiving and preserving game history
I am not stoked is is what i'll kind of say about that
um, this is a great great comment in chat from uh
Oh, but yeah hathos says a million plus people playing tears of the kingdom before launch on yuzu really
set nintendo down a harsh path and I guess I can I can I can understand that to a degree
I mean, it's not like nintendo doesn't have evidence like real
hard evidence to point to That they have been impacted and if you're going to pull out that tired argument that there's no proof that piracy
Ever affected the the the income of the those million people wouldn't have bought the game and stop
Really you're gonna tell me out of a million people
None of them. It's yeah, it's not it's not a one-to-one. You can actually stop now. There was
uh cases
Back in the day, I think with like napster and stuff. Oh, yeah 100 where where they the the the lawsuit was based on a one-to-one loss
Which is why people quote that which is legitimate obviously stupid. Yes, nintendo did not lose out on a million sales
I think it's but it also wasn't zero
Yeah, I think it's somewhere in the middle But I think it shifts closer towards the zero side than the million side and significantly closer towards either way
If it was 10 percent, then it's still if it was five percent
It's still a lot. It was a big number. Yeah, and that's that's the bottom line right a large sum of dollarinos
Is companies will only ignore this stuff until it hits their bottom line hard enough that the cost
of dealing with it iron fisted Is less than the cost of absorbing these activities
And that's where we're at. I think I think um
nintendo's opinion on that is a little bit more
On the rather deal with it iron fisted side. Oh, yeah 100 percent given their precedence unique username goes
actually With the correct spelling a c k s c h u a l l y
Pirates helped nintendo sell more copies by word of mouth
Oh that that that argument is also exhausting. It's like it very good. It literally makes me tired immediately
I know you're kidding. I know I know you keep it up. I know you're kidding
But that it when I see that when I see that kind of stuff unironically. I'm just like you gotta wear them down
I'm so tired. Also, if you think that nintendo cares at all about word of mouth marketing
um, may I present Exhibit a every games streamer that they've ever stomped on
Who's like speed running their games or like
Doing something really cool like collecting all the corox seeds or whatever that nintendo has dmca nintendo don't give a f***
At all about word of mouth marketing. I tell you what uh, all right. What else we got today
Dan Oh, are you are you like you've got lots of topics? Are you buried in merch messages or something? No, I've got like three
Oh, okay, cool. I'm just dealing with some other stuff. Um If you've got lots of topics you're like 15 minutes ahead, so you could move on to another one if you want
Okay, we do another topic. Yeah, it's not like a real job or something. Yeah, I'm trying to do it at the same time
So, oh, okay. Hey, did you fix my air table issue?
Did you submit a feedback request I emailed in for
Which one? I just like when I get a notice for email infra
That's all I know how to do emailed infra. Yeah, not only is that the wrong thing to do. I'll fix it right now
That's not even the right thing to do if you're trying to contact infra about an issue
Which isn't what you were trying to do here. Yes, it was no
I was trying to contact them about you're trying to submit an air table when did you send every single air table page?
All of them have a button on it to submit feedback. Are you sure? Yeah, it might be some of them
How sure are you because I when did you submit this feedback?
Uh, I've done it twice now Once was at some point and then the other time was today
Uh today. Yeah Well, I don't know man. I'm just I got a thing
I got a thing. I got I got a link in my email. It was like, oh, you got a
Somebody mentioned you on air table and I was like, oh, okay
And I clicked it and then it sent me to this page and I was like, what is this?
What is what is this page? I don't understand this page. Look, I clicked view comment
I want to view the comment And I don't know where this one's gonna go. Maybe it's gonna go to the and I just goes here. I don't know what this is
That's not particularly helpful. I just scroll infinitely and did you open a ticket about I scroll for no, I emailed infra
I don't have access to that email Well, maybe you should
Again, that is just Has I think literally never been the right way
Diademy me says I love the parts of when that show the realities of medium-sized company life
Did you just be there yet? No No, we have an infra alias for LMG
I I meant that one. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, that's can you send that to me
I'll have to dig it up because that's not
Well, I just sent me to it sent me to the look look look this is not user air
I clicked a thing and it sent me to the like this random page that just has a bunch of random
No, I understand the user error. Sure. We can fix stuff, but it's just well you made it sound like I should
I should automatically know that I should submit a ticket through here or something. I'm like, there's no ticket on the desktop
I know why that I'll punch you. I'll punch your ticket. Let's go
On the desktop site, there should be a button in the top right hand corner, but also desktop. What year is it?
Do you not have phones? I know why that happened desktop. I know why that happened. Luke. It's fine. I my problem is he's like
I don't know at least at least when you look look Luke Luke Luke and that's okay. Luke. I'm gonna let you finish
I'm gonna let you finish, but I do not even know how to submit a ticket. I know I have no idea. I know nobody even
Onboarded me to air table That literally has not happened yet and that's fine
But if you have a problem you can don't don't just like send an email to a random. It's not random
It's in but there's official ways to send in tickets to infra, which is not that
Nobody ever told me that. Yes. We did. No. No. Yes. We did whenever I email infra
They just deal with my problem because it's you not because you're doing it, right?
I'm just telling you they don't tell me to do it differently. They just deal with my problem
Linus and future just DM me and yell at me, but they tell me not to DM Dan
You you get special rules special. Oh boy
I gotta scroll through the general chat for like a million years until I find the post where we tell everyone how to do this
Oh, there's I don't read that. Why would you read that? I only nobody reads anything. Luke. No, no
It happened today with the group chat. I don't want to talk to you about it right now
But we're gonna talk after the show. Do you have any idea like how many channels I'm in?
I think I know what you're talking about. If you don't tag me I don't read it. If you email me. I don't read it. You had a DM me so I go. Oh god. No
If Dude, if all I ever did
Was just or sorry if I read everything that anyone ever
Sent me every channel that I'm in I would literally do nothing else all day. I can't
It's actually because normally you you email me
No, yeah, but no you have no idea how often I email in for it. The
The last the last air table issue that you had you ccb on it. Oh, yeah, I just felt unnecessary
You need to read it. It's just a random. It's it seems like just a linking issue because it is it is. Yeah, because you're not
But they'll hold it for me. Yeah, that is the marching orders
But it's still not proper
Because I can't like I want to go home
You'll go home when you're done with air table. I can't do this anymore. He's never going home that
It feels like it already I clicked the wrong single sign and I love that no from like from your presentation
It's it's never over. Yeah. Yeah, that's what Dan said He literally got up in front of the entire company at an all hands and was like when is air table done?
Never And everyone was like
Cool That should be what people want
Yeah, because it'll always get better. No, no, we understood. We understood what you meant Dan Dan
Oh, no, oh dad. You see you don't understand because you don't see all the communication about air table. Jesus christ. I can't
You can't let's just stomp on the single person more. That's a that's a good idea. That's why I'm here
I'm the boot goop. Hey, how else are the boots going to get clean?
I'll do whatever you want. Just be nice of me Anything for a head pat? Oh my god
What are we supposed to do? You're in the middle of a topic. What was it? I don't remember
I don't think we are dealing with emails. I don't think we started a topic. Um
Why don't we do why don't we do the thing? Let's do the let's do the thing with the merge messages. Sure. I need some merge messages
Um Oh, we have deals and new items on LTT Store this weekend
What What? No, I want to know I want to know what it is. We're going luke cam until you explain
You're supposed to explain merge messages. You said let's do the merge messages thing in the middle. Oh
Oh, yeah, well, okay, so luke luke made a startling discovery that his co-host has adhd
Congratulations, luke. There's a reason why I didn't stop you
Uh, okay merge messages
We don't do super chats. We don't do twitch bits. We do merge messages
All you got to do to interact with the show and send a little message over to producer Dan
Is head to lttstore.com add something to your cart You'll get a little box that'll pop up when we're live
You can leave a merge message and Dan will either reply to it or forward it to the correct person internally
Or he will curate it for me and luke to answer on the show
So i'm Supposed to now let Dan read one merge message. I this is hilarious. You guys check this out in the doc
Okay in the announcement section. There is this block of text
I have been told that this block of text has existed for well over a year
Yeah, it doesn't sound right to me. I had never read it. It sounds a little hyperbolic Dan
Did you did you tell did you tell us this last week or two weeks ago? It's been there for many weeks
Are they considering last like I did there for over a year and it was there in 2024
Okay, well, I I don't know. I was told it has been there for a I have never seen it
I have never noticed it because I have this thing where I just sort of filter out irrelevant information
And it seemed irrelevant when everything's bold Nothing is bold the thing is you know what i'm saying
We had talked about this a couple weeks ago and I think I clarified that it's actually for me
And I was not really expecting you guys to ever read instructions in the doc because that's not your job, right?
So so so we've been given a hard time about doing all the merge messages in the wrong order and the announcements and whatever
And we're like what order and they're like, yo, it's right there and I was like, oh, okay
So let's do one merge message Go ahead Dan hit me. No, I was just wanting you to read the Floatplane announcements because I'm I'm with you guys
Okay, fine fine fine No, I'm making it more effective. No, you said when everything's bold nothing is bold
So I'm making half of it there now everything's bold and nothing is bold
My amazing work has been overwritten
It was so beautiful I guess I guess it was
Stop
There i have some zelgo techs I hate working here
Hey Any chance you can provide an update on the status of custom LTT cables
I'm planning on overhauling my setup and I want to wait so I can buy cables made by your team. Thanks
They are in certification the samples I've seen are flipping
Awesome, they're not going to be cheap, but they are going to be
Flipping awesome. Um, I think
I think the certification is being done like post production of the raw cable but pre
Cutting of the lengths and putting Terminations on them So I think a lot of the production is actually done with that said even though the company that we're working with
Is not in china The productions in china because we started this project like two years ago or something like that. So um
For my american friends The cables may be out of the reach
For the price but
Cool For the rest of the world we are we are doing some serious work on
Um Getting our global shipping rates down that is something that we're we're working very hard on
I've been informed that I misspoke last week when I said that we have been subsidizing global shipping with us shipping
What the situation actually was was we consolidate our shipments from canada and send them to the us because it is cheaper to ship from the us
So our shipping is more expensive now because we are shipping directly from canada
Not because anybody was subsidizing anyone but what I said about the about the um, the more urban postal codes
Subsidizing the more rural postal codes. That's just I think that's how literally everything works. That is true
And that is how literally everything works. That's why your internet plan in rural missouri
Costs an affordable amount of money theoretically. Maybe what but you probably get terrible service affordable amount of money
Instead of just not existing at all. You still probably have terrible service. That's just how it works
Um, so yeah, I just wanted to I wanted to clarify that anyway. We're working on our shipping rates worldwide and um
So hopefully we'll be moving a lot of cables that are super high quality
But I don't know how many of them are going to go to the states unless we can
Maybe we can figure out some way to highly
Transformatively do something to them here in canada whether I I don't I don't know I don't know but right now
It looks like that's going to be a made in china product and it could be a real challenge with that said I think that the
um I think the tariff situation is highly highly fluid and I I don't know with sort of how things are going
I mean people are already starting to talk about the mid-term elections, right?
So with how things are going and how public sentiment is on the tariffs
Even now before the real impact has really been felt
I think there's a solid chance that they will be reduced but
I need to There you go. Nice. Yeah, there you go. Who's even gonna run? I don't know. Well, no, no, no mid-term elections are for
Senate in the house And and it tends to be that you know, whatever the president's popularity is tends to impact that makes sense the other races. Yeah
Um, so now that we've read a merch message, do we want to explain them? This is hilarious
Kumo star says no, it's actually cheaper to run your own fiber in bum. M. Missouri
Yeah, that's uh, that is so that's why I said you get bad service. Yeah, you'll be on like very
Yeah, yeah, yeah Sorry, did I not explain them the monthly? No, I don't think so. Yeah, I explain merch messages
They go in the cart and they pet the merch message and then Dan does a thing. I totally did it. You tuned out
Okay, see that's the thing. He doesn't talk, but he doesn't listen either
He's he really is like silent bob like he was that one time
I love that you actually have done what you said you were gonna do and you just only wear these shirts now
Yeah, so we need to get some graphic tees in the lungs. That would be wonderful. Yeah, okay
I was packing for my trip and I was like, um, oops all black shirts dude
I touched a sample
From south america For our t-shirts that was quite good. Oh, yeah, we're still
Months away from being able to transition I have no idea if it holds if the if the dyeing holds up over time
I have no idea if our prints are going to hold up over time There's a ton of validation for us to do before we just like
Roll a new t-shirt product or whatever, but if
If they are as good as they seem on the surface then that that could be a good source dude. Nice. Um
Sorry All right, just don't do it fine
For you, it doesn't even matter what doesn't matter. No, there's a person
Doesn't even matter. Uh, anyway, if they're anywhere near as good as they seem then, um
That'll be that'll be super cool. Maybe in the future at some point. Yeah, can I help you?
I don't know. Okay. Okay. So we had a bit of a mix up
I don't know what's going on anymore on a wancho a little while ago
So remember how it was all like, yeah The cargo pants the cargo pants are back in stock and I was all on the store and I was like
And we have a new inseam length and I was like Where the fuck is the new inseam length? I guess we don't have it. You just leaking stuff again, bro
They just like weren't on the store for some reason. We got we've had a lot going on
There has been a lot going on with that team
So we have had a lot of work. We have two inseam lengths of our legendary cargo pants now
lttstore.com You can get them there and you can send a merge message there. Is that what I was supposed to say
Dan uh already. I have no idea if I did a good job
Uh, they're the same cargo pants you love just with a 32 inch inseam for non-line as sized people like luke
Yeah, uh, so what am I looking at? This is the 34 r 30. This is my size and then what is this?
You don't care anyway. Do you just brought two pairs of cargo pants?
It's longer. Is it on the tag? Yeah, this one only says 34. It doesn't say the inseam length
Oh, um, that's uh, that's production. Oh, this is a pre-production step. Okay. Okay. This is the longer one. Okay, cool
Uh, we also added a new colorway for big nerd gaming t-shirt now. Oh, what? Oh, it comes it
Oh, that's even better. Oh, dude. That's really good. That color is fantastic. Actually, that's actually awesome
Dang or or or you can get in black like you could before sky feels like the way to go. That's super cool. Um
Okay, all right. Is there anything is there anything else that I'm supposed to say in the announcement section?
Am I am I supposed to be doing announcements right now? Oh, okay
Oh, what? Oh first the deals. Oh, we have deals
Uh, what what am I supposed to be doing this in that's still I can't even read the thing
I can't read it Okay, fine. What the heck? I'll fix it. I'll fix it cheese
Okay
I swear to god, dude
Okay, all right, it's fine. It's gone. Okay
First the deals Script I seriously I can't read it Dan are you can you remove it?
It's not even on mine. What it's gone. Okay. It's gone now. Okay. First the deals
Screw tariffs. We are offering pre tariff pricing on the us store for the commuter backpack and the precision screwdriver bundle
Or just the driver or bit set just add any of these items to your cart and the discount will automatically apply on our us store
Uh, okay Nobody talked to me about this. I believe our old
Price was below our current cost on the precision screwdriver bundle. Is there something I don't know already
Feel free to tell me that there's something I don't know and we will just continue going here
Well, they get to save a lot of money Well, I know that
Is there something I don't know
I think you know everything Really? Wow. Okay
Also On both the us and global store. We've got a killer deal
We have mystery screwdrivers for just 49.99 shipped without a box
So if you're shopping on the global site, this will actually
Be cheaper than what we offered during the shipstorm sale event because now it's in canadian dot was shut up
It is not Okay, hold on a second
Okay, nobody talks to me about these things. Are you okay? Which one is this?
global Okay, global dot Okay, am I am I on the global site right now? How do I tell? No, I'm in usa. Okay, so hold on global
This is in the euro. Is this 50 canadian dollars? Have you people gone mental?
Okay, well
As long as you don't care what color screwdriver you get
I guess now's a good time to buy them for all your family and friends for christmas. Um because
Oh my god, both of these deals are until sunday may 11th at a midnight pacific time. So
Okay, okay, uh
Cool Dan
Okay, the mystery screwdrivers are knocked to a
Okay, either beige or brown. Are they okay? It says possible colorways knock to a beige knock to a brown. Okay
Okay, if you buy one of those things, please get something else as well
Just anything else Maybe a pair of cargo pants
Is there something I don't know I think I know as much as you do
Okay That's a pretty fair answer. Uh, okay, uh, Dan. Do you want to hit us with a couple more merge messages?
Is that what we're supposed to do? Uh, yes. Okay. All right. Thanks already. Have a wonderful weekend. Have a good one
I don't know what's going on anymore. I don't think we do either. Uh
Hello minus mook and Dan and man, uh, how do you guys always have so much energy every week?
What do you do to stay excited even when you aren't feeling it that day drugs?
My answer is also drugs luke Uh
Not that I heard tech ceo's like ketamine
Yeah, no, I wouldn't know no
It's not good. I don't know man. I think it's a combination of things. I've always been a little bit excitable
Um, and then you combine that with this being my job for the last I don't know
Seventeen years or whatever it is and I just I you know, I get kind of I get kind of amped up on camera
Also, luke and I have talked about this extensively on the show other than on the show. We don't talk extensively. So this is like
This is actually The time in the week when I get to catch up with luke
So I'm like genuinely happy to you know
Talk at him And he nods sometimes sometimes he laughs even that's fun
That's enjoyable Sometimes loud even
It's great. It's a good show. You should you should watch it
Uh, we're sorry was that a merch message? Yeah, good. Good job quality merch message and now the Floatplane announced good
Uh, sure. Uh Floatplane announcement
luke Dan i'm about to spike your stress level. Are you guys ready? I'm over it
I don't care anymore. Open the secret shopper cms. You want to torpedo everything. It's it's your call. Let's go boys
Secret shopper coming early to Floatplane
Two support technicians gave up on us and I'm gonna I'm gonna throw you guys for an even bigger loop on this one
One of them. We totally deserved it
How does that end up in the judging we want
You guys handle it pluf and I Realize when we're shooting
That we flubbed it in the call and so we account for that in our evaluation. Okay, cool. Yeah. No, no, don't worry
Don't worry. Everyone gets a fair shape. Make sure it's fair Yeah, everyone gets a fair shake or they get at least an adjusted evaluation of their shake
You know, it's a good shake, you know like that sort of thing
So, uh, anyway, that's live right now
You can be one of the first to watch episode three where pluf and I watch how brands do their tech support calls
We unseated everyone's GPU's except dell who actually got a different tech support challenge
And the reason is that their bracket for holding their GPU's in during shipping is so good
That we could not unseat the GPU. I mean, that's kind of cool
Which is almost a win by default, which is great because that's the only kind of win that dell who by the way
Did I mention is the laptop partner for the WAN Show?
That's the yeah, sorry That's the only kind of win that dell can really hope for in in secret shopper
It feels like these days, you know what though, you know what though? I I believe in them
I believe that next season next season is going to be their season. Anyway, uh,
It's going to be going live to the general public on may 13th
While you're over on Floatplane, you can check out Colton's vlog of jay's two senses
SoCal tech fair. He didn't want to vlog, but he was given
I'm told a very big nudge to do so and we're watching the first 22 seconds together. Let's go
Colton potter shared a folder with you got it so cringe. I hate vlogging. Please help
Okay Well, then Colton needs to get better at vlogging
Uh, oh, is this oh, okay. This is user error. Nice
But sure
Good website I just want to be a little bit more enthusiastic. I just hate bothering people sammy. Why are you making me do this?
I hate talking in front of people. Hey, is he on a green screen? Why does this look so weird?
It's kind of weird I'm heading to the
People are looking at me. It's so awkward. It's so awkward, dude. I think I'm gonna get arrested watcher. You're gonna say me
Look, look at this. Hey Floatplane. This is Colton. I'm at yv. I'm at the jay's. SoCal tech fair 25
Oh poor man. Oh man for the ride Let's get on the plane. He's talking so quiet because he doesn't want people to hear him filming
Dude Colton, I love you, but you're actually great. You're so awkward. I love it. You're great
He also got a last-minute invitation from funnily enough. I buy power to check out their factory and see what goes on in their factory
Oh, cool. Uh, no, i'm not gonna look at that right now. They can go on Floatplane
But if you want those on top of really access and other sweet benefits check out LMG.gg slash Floatplane
All right, Dan. What are we doing?
All right, luke you want to pick one? I feel like I picked them all so far company towns are back on the menu
And i'm saying again because I think last time we were talking about amazon or something
And now it's spacex because of course it is they both have to compete with each other on everything
But this company town Is on mars?
No, no, okay. Sorry texas carry out. Uh, yes, okay
Just about as big. Well, that's kind of another planet in some ways. Yeah
Uh, because of the size. Cameron county in texas had a vote to incorporate a new town for spacex employees
The vote was overwhelmingly approved
With 283 votes four and only six against the city is about 1.5 square miles
And has just under 500 people who live there 300 adults and 120 children bobby pedan
Vice president at spacex was elected mayor
He ran unopposed
Several bills are also working its way through texas state
Which will give the city the ability to close highways and beaches during rocket launches or other company activity
Wow Cool from both a company and employee perspective. Can you list pros and cons of a company town?
um If if you knew all employees were on board would you think it's worth the effort to establish an LMG town
How does this keep being a conversation? If I knew everyone was on board would I be oh would I think it's worth the effort?
No, I would not think it's we don't operate at that kind of scale. That is line of speech for yes
That is not if he was fully convinced that every single person was on board
And that he could buy more real estate in bc
Would we have our own brand of cheese? line is cheese
It would melt the best on burgers. Who is responsible for that getting posted publicly that was for internal consumption only
Wait, what was you don't know about this? No, okay, so
Uh, you remember in the wen show teams group chat, which he doesn't read which
What do you mean? Oh, that's right. Luke doesn't read it. Yes. I saw the picture of your cheese. Okay, okay
So yes, I do read it in the wen just don't read it necessarily when you post like right before red show and change the whole plan
um On the weekend. I posted uh, I posted a picture of my grill with a bunch of patties on it
Uh that I had just put cheese slices on
And then I was like melt cheese on a burger challenge begun or something like that because of the conversation we had on
wen show recently where I evidently do not understand how cheese melts and I'm not capable of melting cheese on a burger
Then I posted shortly afterward All the cheese melted deliciously on top of the patties prove that he's the best at melting cheese on burgers. No, I did
Oh I swear
your contribution and your contribution
Is a huge part of why I was not able to get my point across in that whole thing
So I posted a bunch of patties with non-american cheese melted on them
Just normal kirkland cheddar and then I posted like a ura wizard harry jiff
Okay, it was intended for internal consumption
It was a joke and then sammy got hold of it somehow and he's in that chat
Oh Yeah, why is he in that chat the wan chat? Yeah, why would he be in the wan chat?
Drax when it's gonna go live. It's like a notable part of his job
Also like as far as I can tell like a third of the company is in that chat at this point
Anyway, yeah, there's so many people that need to be informed about when the time that wan is starting
It's less critical now than it used to be but Anyway, I'm just gonna call you. So now it's front page on the LTT sub reddit
I was not trying to poke this bear
It wasn't you I don't believe you
Wait, look who it's posted by that's from the chat
That's from the chat. No, look. No, no, no, no the reddit wait chewy posted this. Yeah
He putt
I'm sorry chewy what wait up
I'm sorry that I'm sorry that sammy's bad influence
I'm sorry sammy's bad influence turned you into such a bad egg
Because I thought that sammy had posted it and it had got picked up on the subreddit. I didn't know chewy just
Like oh my god. Okay. All right, chewy. Uh, whatever your name is sammy. You're off the hook
Whatever your name is. This is just the episode where all the employees lose their mind
Did he actually leave? Yeah, he screamed and then slammed the door. I mean it is 6 30. Oh, that makes sense
Oh my god a chewy really you were the you were supposed to be the chosen one
Anyway, I think it was good the burgers were delicious and not american cheese definitely melts on a burger patty
Which is all I ever said
Seriously, dude, have you seen some of the comments on this?
No, it's crazy. I find it's so hard to care
Your comments on cheese and I don't even mean because like I don't care what you have to say
It's just like man. It's the same argument made the other day of like when people were
Uproarred about the placebo thing. It's like why are you here? Why are you here for that?
Why are you here for medical stuff? Why are you here for cheese opinions?
Like really wow you need other things to do
Dude, it's been it's been wild the way people care about it. Um
Anyway, so if you like american cheese
Tell you what eat american cheese
Nice nice Congrats. Um, enjoy it. Okay. What were we talking about?
Company towns. Oh lord Um, no, I I know it would not be worth the effort to establish an LMG town like a we're not at nearly the scale
Where it would make any sense for the number of people that would need to live in it and b
um Like our operations do not in any way require a company town
Which could only have downsides compared to just living in an urban center that has like
Amenities and stuff But what if you could shut down all of the streets to roll around in your
Fire truck your customized fire truck with the lights uncovered because you just make the laws
No No, no, no, no upsides. I'm sure there are upsides and it's not like when a ghost town goes up for sale
I don't see that in my news feed and go
But it if the company was big enough and if every single person was on board
Every single person wouldn't be on board people have lives might they have families that they might go to school
And what if the schools were were better and what if they're housing is more affordable? Why would it be more?
Of course, it would be why because trust me bro. No my god
Um, so yeah, I guess if you're asking what the downsides are of a company town
That's exactly it is the deal is better
Only until the company that owns the town decides it like shouldn't be better
And like man, is that ever a lot of eggs to have on one basket?
Like I remember probably the wisest thing that the owner of ncix ever said to me was on the day that I quit
And he like kind of tried to negotiate and keep me on board and I went no I've decided to move on and he kind of went
Okay, um, and I kind of went oh well that like, you know your demeanor your your
Your tact here changed really suddenly he goes well look. I mean nobody works at one company forever
so like Let's figure it now that we're at that point now. Let's figure it out and I was like steps. Yeah. Yeah, and I was like that
That is experience. That's wisdom right there
And uh, that is why it wouldn't have been good for me to live in the ncix town because
Now maybe your life would have been so much better Instead of just my livelihood like instead of just my my paycheck
No longer being at the company now all of a sudden impacts where I live it impacts where my children live potentially
A dude, uh, I mean and I guess technically you could live in that company town if you don't work there
Maybe I mean the children clearly don't work there I mean, I don't know with what they're trying to do with labor life and they're not allowed to leave
uh well You know if you don't work there, you know, that's a good way to make sure that the funding for the the necessities of life
Yeah Stay in the town and the specifically regimented education system doesn't get
Like you can have a airport where they fly up in the air and then like go
Around and they like look at vancouver or look at some other destination then just come back
This is where all the heathens live. Yeah, you just look at them from up above
You spit on them from the Floatplane. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Why are you looking?
This is hilarious
This is apparently gordon ramsey struggling to melt cheese
And someone saying it's okay to admit defeat about the cheese
So you're better than gordon ramsey now. Nope. Yeah, all I said was yeah, all I said was
Oh The only thing I ever said
Was that melting cheese on a burger
Ain't that hard. That's all I said
That's all I said
And I got receipts now So whatever
Uh, okay, uh, yeah company town topic gone. Okay. You want to pick another one or what are we supposed to be doing?
What even is this show? Uh, yeah
Datino sent guys says this has been a topic for like three shows
Yeah, because people leave a lot. I man the stuff people care about I will never understand
I had blown chewy speaking of things to care about gta 6 for being bad influence on him has been delayed
Oh, yeah gta 6 you watch a trailer. Of course you watch the trailer. What do you think of the trailer? No, what?
You got to be kidding even I watch the trailer
I mean I read the comments, but I think it's for me. No, I actually I watch it
I watch the check. No, I watch the trailer. I watch the trailer. The thing for me is is that 95 million views?
Oh, dude, dude Dude, this thing is popping off
I don't I don't know if there's ever been more hype for a game ever What is gta 6 like two mainstream for you? You're too cool for it. No, is that
Is that what we're witnessing? No, because I feel like that's what we're witnessing. I'm excited to play it
Why are you not one of those 96 million people? Because
It's probably gonna be like two or three years before it's on pc
And I'm not getting a console just you
I was gonna say bought but what you really did was borrow it from work
You got a playstation 4 pro once to play a specific game. Yes. Okay. So you wouldn't do that for gta
I don't think so Really? Why not gt? What was the other game? I forget horizon
Oh, and at the time horizon. Yes, zero dot at the time horizon was not coming to pc
Whereas gta 6 Will be coming to pc just a question of when so i'll just wait
I did the same thing with uh gta 5
Just waited So this trailer is not for me
I see and that's okay. I see okay
I mean, but you can't just enjoy the jiggle physics same as everybody else
I heard they're a thing, but no, I don't don't forget the I've heard it's actually like and I haven't actually looked at the trailer
It's even just as like a tech demo. I've heard it's pretty stunning for what's possible
Rendered real time on what is like Functionally like a 6000 series radion card or whatever
Damn, I've heard that's pretty cool. I heard that like today though. So I have no time to watch it 5000 series
It's like a 5700 x t or something like that. I think like
Huh, huh? Damn, it looks real good, bro. Yeah, it looks real good. Yeah
I'll very likely watch it just for that Because people mentioned like I okay a new trailer came out whatever. I'm not gonna play this game for two three years
What do I care? Um, but then people are commented specifically the bubbles is the main comment that I saw in the beer. Yeah
Yeah, that's like amazing beer physics. Yeah, which is pretty wild. Yeah, so like that's cool
I'll watch it from like a interested in tech perspective. I mean, it is one of those things where I feel like we see this
Time and time again where the trailer
prominently features the main character or characters and when you're like walking around in the world
Everything else still looks like a video game um
But with that said like there's I saw this thread from um from a
Uh A graphics artist who was our video game artist that was basically just like here's a bunch of stuff that like people might not have
Like realized is is so cool about this and it's just
I I don't have the link on me right now, but if you just like
Kind of google that maybe I'll look at that or dude. There's so many little details
Like they have like raccoons rummaging in trash bins just like to make the world feel alive. It's
I didn't think it would be possible for me to look at the trailer and be like
Yeah, that's why they spent 10 years on this But I looked at the trailer and I went oh perfect. That's why I was hoping this was gonna exist
I will watch I will watch this
This is what I will watch. I will not watch the trailer. I will watch this
Okay, I mean, you know what fair enough. I'd say I'd say game trailers
Are a perfect example of a time when react content is 100 ethical
Yeah, 100 because basically
And the funny thing is we've actually been copyright struck on wandshow for showing game trailers and like reacting to them live
Which I always thought was wild marketing materials
Like I think if we went to I think if we went to court on that one
We're probably going to get off scott free because it's pretty clear that what the impact is on the original content
And it's pretty clear what the intended purpose of what we're doing and how transformative it is and you know
Whatever, whatever, um split scream and full plain chat said the that liquid bubble
That liquid bubble in liquid tech is from half-life alex the dev made it public. That's cool
Neat Neato very cool. Anyway, so yeah, yeah, sure fine fine watch that but sure just watch the digital foundry thing
Just just watch it because it's super cool And it really does look like kind of amazing even with crappy youtube compression
All right, what else we got
Oh, you want sponsors? Uh, we could do that. Should we do one more one more topic first?
We got yeah, we got lots man. Do I know a lot of dev response the Linus is macOS gripes
Oh A very blurry iOS developer. Okay has responded to my macOS is great unless you try to use it
As a desktop operating system segment on february 28th edition of wandshow. Yeah. Oh, that is very plurry
Is that a shot at our It's anonymous video. No. No, it's anonymous reviews is the channel name. Okay. No, that's intentional
The youtuber anonymous reviews has been an iOS developer for about 15 years
Says they're not a fanboy and uses Windows for gaming and editing the video gets off to a bit of a rocky start
Excuseing the poor multi monitor behavior by saying it's better than it used to be and we get a detour later on
teasing that I That I don't know about the control key
All right, I mean, you know what I think that's a criticism that you're gonna see
From any power user on any platform
Of anyone coming in going I can't do
Yeah x, you know, right and it's like well, I can open up linked in if I put in an incantation
I could cut if I combine that x with my control
Or command or whatever, right? Um and hotkeys
Really are the answer to something being not crappy
um Like truly though not just like in a in a gatekeepery get good scrub kind of like awful sort of way
But they really can be the answer in a lot of ways. Anyway, sorry carry on
Otherwise we get some interesting explanations of how and why apple does things uh too long didn't
write uh W watch
Some things are inconsistent and that's bad apple should take me up on my offer to consult for a week for free apple and the
Community should be more open about outside input if they want to improve the os and ecosystem
Uh discussion questions. Did did things get better for you as you used macOS?
Um also a note that part two of our switching to apple in 2025 should be out next month. Yeah, things did get better
Absolutely. Um, I'd say the first like the first hour my
In infuriated level was here
By the third day It was here
And then by like, you know the end of the month
You know, it was like kind of down here. Did you have much of this?
Like did I oh like did I kind of come up against challenges that sort of raised the fury for yeah?
Yeah, definitely. So I remembered a couple things like not first day where you were like genuinely yelling in your office about it
But I think you were also filming clips. So yeah But like the thing is and and I feel like oh, I don't know man. I
I've been doing this so long That I've kind of had a take on anything
That will annoy someone about something. Oh, and I think that's I think it's really challenging because um
I I think I end up kind of getting misunderstood a lot
Because when I criticize macOS
I am not Saying that if you like hot dogs, you're basically a big idiot
If a million people hear you say anything, it's going to be misunderstood by some amount of them
I'm just saying that this is something that hamburgers do better
That's what I'm saying and I'm not saying the other thing
I'm only saying the thing that I'm saying And so I I feel like and and it's it's really interesting
And you can see these kind of these silos of viewership that exist where the people who watch only our iOS stuff or only our
You know Apple stuff will have a certain perception of me and the people who watch only our Linux stuff will have a certain perception of me
And people who watch only our Windows stuff will have a certain perception of me like these flyby viewers that only watch occasional content
When it kind of peaks their interest huge percentage, right? So so so anyone who who's listening to me kind of rant about macOS because they only tune in
Whenever i'm going to talk about macOS is going to have this perception that I like hate macOS
But the reality of it is I have entire
videos griping about how things are in Windows
and like there's a lot of gripes an unintuitive
design or Inconsistent design is the word that i'm using
Synonymously with unintuitive here because something that is inconsistent is inherently
unintuitive Inconsistent design is something that exists across all of these platforms and that we as users should demand be reduced
um And so where I get where I think I end up getting sort of
adversarial with the community sometimes is when people take the position that
It's perfect the way it is and anyone who doesn't agree is just a hater
And so that's where and I tend to find those people
In the apple and Linux communities more than I do in Windows because
The Windows community is almost in a way more like humble if that makes sense
We all know Windows south hatred going on. We all kind of hate it
But we accept it because all the applications we want all the games we want to play
They just run it So whatever it is what it is and there's pockets
Of the apple community in particular that are like that. They just accept it because it's like well
I need final cut and it's interesting I kind of acknowledge that this is a very imperfect system for it
But I need final cut so I guess it just is the way it is if you had no idea what an operating system even was
Sure, and you had generalized sentiment from each community
I think you would think that Windows was the least popular operating system
Yeah, I think you could easily come away with that conclusion
um I think you would think like apple is for everyone
Linux stuff is for nerds and techies and nobody uses Windows
Yeah I I don't even I don't even think that's like, uh, I don't even think that's like a crazy take
I yeah, I think that's probably what you'd come away with but the reality that is that Windows has the lion's lion's share of the market
um So I don't know man. I I forget where I was even going with this, right? So yeah, yeah my my
My anger level absolutely went down over time
But there were definitely things that are just wrong that are just incorrect in apple's implementation
And that should be fixed and I think that as users we should demand better
And the whole the whole pushback that I get sometimes that's just like well, you just criticize everything
Why don't you just enjoy it? It's like well like that but
But But it could be better like if it if it wasn't like this it would be better
That would be good. Is that is that not something we should strive for so then why even why even listen to me at all?
That's like my whole job. It's like here's something that's good about it. That's fair
Here's something that's not good about it because like across the course of a video
Uh, I'm sure you praised macOS in that video at some point
On the wancho. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did because that that's I think what we're talking about. Oh, not the video
Uh Yeah, wancho
It was the segment of on the february 28th wancho. Okay. Sure. But like part one of switching to apple in 2025 came out
Uh, yeah, but he wasn't really responding to that. Okay. Yeah, it was the wancho segment
Um, I don't know how much we were still on the original topic to be clear. Yeah, I don't know
Anyway, but either way, I don't think it's fair to just say that you complain about everything
Well, no, I of course not but that's the thing is when people have an emotional connection to it
That's what they hear slap a label on. Yeah, that's what they hear. Yeah, and and so it's just like it's one of those things
Where I feel like this is part of why As uh as a media personality
It's really hard to survive over a very extended period of time
If you have anything more nuanced than a yes this no that take because it's really hard
For people to be aligned with everything is shades of gray
When they get yeah when when these when these issues are so emotional for people
And I under I've I've kind of come around over the years to why these issues are so
Emotional to people and it's because we invest in them. We are literally
invested In them we put we put our money down and we go
I am team pixel You know we we put we put our money in that was like mean and our money
Oh, I've got a dbrand case on it. Doesn't matter poor phone. Yeah, whatever. It doesn't feel anything. Um
And to be clear I am not team pixel. I actually had a really funny interaction. Yeah, why are you using a pixel?
What's going on David today? Well because I was using that nothing phone the 3a pro
And I was just having like a bunch of just weird annoying bugs with it like when I'd get out of my car
It would it would keep playing on my like my music from my car would like play on my phone for a little bit
And then it would like nod and then So I was just like ah man, and there's a ah there was something else
Oh, yeah, it was really hard to get it out of my pocket Which was kind of annoying because I had like giant camera bump on it
There were there were a handful of things and so I was like, okay screw it, you know, it's a couple hundred dollars more
I'm gonna get the pixel 9a. I love I went the complete opposite direction
It has like almost no camera bump, which is really rare these days
And dude, I've had so many annoying issues with this thing
And I was I was actually standing talking to David in uh in the writing room today
Just about something unrelated. I got on the topic somehow of how like everyone's like, yeah, just
You haven't experienced Android until you've experienced the pixel. Just get a pixel. You'll love it
And I was like, I've had a really hard time with the pixel I pull it out of my pocket and one of the issues that I've had with it, which is that the um the ambient light sensor
Just sucks on this thing happened I was like look how dim this is and then I was trying to pull down
You know how you have to pull down your shade like a second time to get your brightness and stuff because
They did away with swipe and look or just bring it all the way down
It brings down the whole thing like it freaking used to which was way better
Anyway, so I went I tried to swipe it down the second time I tried like six times and it wouldn't do it and no no my oh dude that drives me crazy
Anytime i'm on speakerphone with this thing. I try to interact with the phone. It's like
Screen goes away. I try denied because I'm a multitasker, right?
So I'll go to pull down my notification shade while I'm on a call. It's such a pixel problem
And it'll be like, oh, do you want the screen to turn off? No, I don't I just want to interact with my phone
So I have to like I have to like ninja in there from an angle where it can't see me coming
Um, oh, I literally cannot classic pixel. I cannot access my Plex server from this phone
Oh, um, I don't know if that's because of Plex's
Dog s**t new app, uh, which is also super slow on my iOS
So I I literally use my iphone That that's that I was using for the challenge
I am still using it every day for my earphones when I go to sleep
Because I can't access my Plex server from this phone for whatever reason that's weird again. That could be Plex
Uh, man, what are the other issues I'm having with? I'm expecting that's Plex, but I don't know. Uh, it's it's probably Plex
Oh, dude my keyboard Constantly doesn't come up
like Constantly doesn't come up and I use I use swift key
So my my voice input button will just like randomly not work in especially in certain apps
Like I can almost never use a voice to type with you in discord. Oh, it's working right now. Look at that. Okay. Well, whatever
It often doesn't work. That's weird. I'll go voice to type and then it'll just be blank down here
That could be a swift key issue. That could be an Android issue either way It's not an issue that I had with my samsung phone before and it's not an issue that I had on that
Nothing phone that I was using slightly before this so I um and I it still drives me absolutely crazy that I can't swap the navigation buttons
I have reached out to the pixel team and um, I don't I don't want to I don't want to update you guys until I have a final final answer
But what I will say is I'm extremely f***ing unsatisfied with their response so far
um I've got a jump in here. I've got an update from arty. Oh, yeah, he spoke to the mythical powers behind pricing
And um, excellent. I am actually very interested to hear this
Maybe I'll give you the the real technical explanation It appears the global pricing on the mystery screwdriver was incorrectly priced at 49.99
The conversion was not applied correctly and this has unfortunately been fixed
So if you got one for 50 bucks, good on you. Otherwise, it's now 69.99
Okay, that makes more sense. Sorry
I think Linus is happy if you guys were ever wondering
um Oh, no What it looks like when I am legitimately perturbed about a price on the site versus when I'm
You know, we're doing an aggressive sale being an actor and I am I am a little bit stressed out
But I'm hamming it up a little bit That was the difference serious Linus is a very terrifying person. Oh come on
but it's also uh Extremely useful. You can't use you don't terrifying like that and then not explain. Okay
Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Sometimes it's very difficult to you will explain now that he is terrified
I'm sorry Yeah, you know, he riffs. He riffs. He gets angry. He gets mean and it's not real and then you know
Hey, I need you to do this thing and I'm being extremely direct
What? Please do the please do the thing. Do I get me? Do I what? No, no, no. It's not mean. When have I ever done that? It's just
Direct what's going on? Okay, okay. No, no, no. I want I want to
Okay, okay. Now now hold on a second
I think I know what we're talking about. Are we talking about the time that I explicitly said not to do a thing?
No, no, no, that's very different Okay, no, this isn't necessarily anything that you've done to me. This is like well well documented. It is
Yeah, like what no, no, I I would I would like to know
Oh, maybe maybe you haven't seen the videos because it's like a behind the teams thing. Oh
Is this the what do you think about your boss stuff might be?
But I've seen he's never gonna watch those. No, I said I wouldn't yeah, I don't know it's stuff like that
It's completely fine But yeah, it's mean not mean who have I well you said mean you know no no no mean it mean is the the the playful version
Oh That was super unclear. Oh, I'm so sorry. Wow. No Linus is never ever mean like ever now
They're not gonna believe you. No, it's too far
Oh, I think you just misheard mean no, I really don't think I did chat
Uh, can can you help me out here chat because oh no
Oh Boy
They say they understood it for the most part. Okay. Yeah, so, uh, are they just covering for you? I don't think so
Okay, I hope that uh Okay, Dan started by saying Linus is mean when he's playing it up as a joke. Okay. Yeah
I thought you meant it's mean when I like
Act like things are a joke. I did too. I don't know. No, okay
See the vast majority of chat I've been defending you the whole time
The whole time Okay, jeez
Anyway, so yeah, that's that's what I look like. I'm not talking again. That's what no no no. No, we like because he was too mean
Was he was he too mean? No Shut up
There there was a time when I was very direct with Dan
Yeah, and and that's it. It's very very useful
Okay Useful the word
I think it's important. Um, yeah, okay. All right
But I I would I look I would like to think that I'm not mean
But what I discovered what I discovered this week is uh horoscopes for mba's thing recently
So he got his color blocks. Oh, did he so that I think that's probably part of what he's like
No, no, this communication is good because
Is that is that not it? No, no Because we were literally talking about before the show how you like shorter and more direct
Communication. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I just think it's it's interesting that you pointed out that that was an example of like
Actually, no, you need to go and make sure that this is accurate. I'm not just oh my god
It's so it you sold it for too cheap already. What are you doing? You're bad at your job. Get out of my sight
It was like no, can you go and please check this?
I say did Okay, it's different shoot my 80d brain did a thing there and uh, this show is awful. I I'm sorry
Now you're following my show awful. Thank you very much, Dan. You're the producer of it. So no, it's my fault
Okay, shoot. I was gonna shoot. I was gonna say something there for a second. Then I completely lost it. All right. Well, good luck everybody
Uh, yes, Luke's phone just just rang. He's got places to be and chicken to cook
um So anyway, yes, that was that that was a that was a situation where um, I actually did was not consulted on the pricing
And it really did seem very wrong Um, oh right. I remember so I'd like to think that I'm not mean or at least that's what I used to think
But I actually filmed the Floatplane exclusive earlier this week
where Uh sammy had me reacting to
Employees here talking about their first interaction with me
So here's the So here's the thing that was hilarious. He's definitely not mean. He's not me. He's never he's never been mean in a professional context
So here's the Watch any of the wan shows that we have ever done in a very mean
So here's the thing. Here's the thing luke
Every one of those interactions at least the ones that I can remember or remember some version of
There's a whole bunch of context In my brain that makes whatever I said
a light-hearted joke or banter
You're hearing them Recall what they were thinking on their side. I was like, oh
I may need to alter my approach
I think I think sometimes you don't fully grasp the
When it's like a new person at the company and you are owner guy
Can you imagine that no this is like a flatter structure and like they don't they don't know
But the people who've been here forever taking full weight, which is the context that I have they don't give a fuck like they just
Maybe you got to consider it's a new person. I look
So so I don't know sedans was hilarious
Emily sedan from editing sedans was hilarious because she she she goes on this whole long thing talking about how like
it's her first day and it's like her trial day and like
The ceo the company comes by and is like, who are you? It's kind of a big deal. I'm here for my trial day. Lu Lu Lu
Um, and apparently I was like, oh good luck and then I left
That seems fine. Yeah, but you know me
She doesn't wait, but like what were you supposed to do?
Maybe I'm not good. I
The way she tells the story was very perspective broadening for me
Just like I don't know it almost uh-oh It almost seems like uh, maybe I'm a horrible person. Maybe you are. What were you supposed to do? I don't know
Not talk to her at all. Like that's the thing is like that's my natural thing to just be like, oh, who are you?
Or you know, uh, ha man, you're on a trial. Okay. Good luck. And then you Andrew
I apparently asked i'm in trouble on no less than three separate occasions if he was going to introduce himself
Andrew Moore from the shooting department. He asked on I asked him on three separate occasions
If he was going to introduce himself because I had forgotten him
Oh
That one's that one's a little rough and then and then vance our executive assistant
Um, who was hired for to be a general executive assistant, but was like mostly assigned to me
At the beginning, especially he does other stuff. Uh-huh. What are you talking about? Follows you around. Well, sometimes all the time
Do you have his task list because I do it has lots of things that are not for me
I wonder why only you have it. No, I'm not the only one who has it coltums is managed. Okay. You're actually being unhelpful right now
He is not exclusively my ea. I know for a long time. It was kind of that way this now. It's not
Yeah, anyway, so it's been kind of sometimes one sometimes the other anyway at the beginning
He was mostly assigned to me And his first assignment basically was to just like kind of shadow me and you know, I don't know
See if there's a way ways we can find more efficiencies or ways that he can like kind of help me optimize my time better
whatever else and apparently
After some amount of time of him kind of sitting in my office like, you know, I don't know helping take notes for calls
I'm not a hundred percent sure what he was doing. It was like his first couple days or something
Apparently I just kind of like turned to him after like some kind of
period of awkward silence and I'm like So am I supposed to like talk to you or?
Okay, so wait, wait, stop stop. So in my mind, so in my mind
Maybe I'm doing fine. I've never had an ea before I was concerned. Maybe yeah in my mind
I've never had an ea before I don't know how this works
I literally don't a hundred percent know what your job is because I like didn't hire you and I didn't really define the role
um, I I feel kind of awkward just like having a person in my office while I'm working am I supposed to like
Bantor so I so I tried to turn it into like a lighthearted joke
Didn't didn't land. Yep didn't land at all. Um, I mean clearly clearly he made
It uh, he's still here. So, you know been a couple years now. I think um, so that's something
And uh, yeah, so there's a there's a bunch more LMG.gd slash Floatplane. It's a banger of an exclusive
So I may have to reevaluate a little bit I don't I don't think you will the reality of it is I am a very awkward person
And a lot of people assume that youtubers tend to be extraverts
But it is not I think most of them aren't necessarily the case. I have certainly met ones that are oh, yeah
But what I have mostly met is introverts who
who um
I don't want to say fake it because
Most youtubers that I've met are super real like they're real
It's just that what they have learned to do is channel their
introversion and awkwardness Into being very personable to a piece of glass
um You you put them in front of a crowd though and it is it is the more oh dude
It is the exception rather than the rule Yeah, that can like do crowd work and handle like public speaking and stuff like that
Like those are those are generally like the superstars
um, and even then even some of the superstars
Are not comfortable with it. It's not it's not what they would prefer it just it happened by accident because they happened to be
Really really good at appealing to a piece of glass while they're alone in a room
Yeah, so I may just be an awkward
Introvert guy Taryn asked me if I wanted to have lunch with a rep from a company at computex or a dinner or something
and I literally I I've told him before
That I this is literally why I hired you so that I don't have to talk to people
At some point. Do you think it's funny? Do you like making awkward scenarios?
um It's I mean I tell this to my kids all the time and it's it's really like
It's something I generally generally genuinely believe
A joke is funny as long as everyone's laughing and if the other person is like genuinely deeply uncomfortable then no
It's not funny right, but but it is it is funny that
I could go this long and not realize it. That's funny
Like that's a funny thing. It's a funny observation
Um, it's it's funny that someone can make a career out of I don't it's ironic
That someone can make a career out of somehow having their personality be appealing to millions of people online
I don't think this is fair I don't think this line of thinking is fair and yet be like this line of thinking is fair at all
And yet be catastrophically awkward person opposite of this
And it's not working You're not not charismatic. I think you like no, but it's comedic sense awkward scenarios
And when other people like it as well, dude, you love it. Yes So you like going out of your way to create them because when the other person enjoys them you find it very fun
I love not everyone receives that energy. I love the office the same way. I love faulty towers
But I know I genuinely this doesn't mean that you are necessarily awkward
You don't think so. No, it means that you like creating awkward scenarios because sometimes they're really funny
That doesn't mean that you're oh, I see what you're saying. No. No. Yes a hundred percent. No. No. Yes. Yes
Yes, you're saying that it's ironic that someone who
Is awkward was success, but you're not but you haven't you haven't watched the video yet
Like no, I'm I'm being I'm being real right now. Like it was creating these scenarios
Yeah, but I didn't know that they took it that way Like I I genuinely there's no way you didn't know the advanced one. Have you watched it?
Um, am I supposed to talk to you? There's no way you didn't know that the way I don't believe you
I thought it was I thought it was funny Right because you like you find awkward situations funny. Well, yeah, but I I thought he'd be I thought he'd think it was funny too
But that doesn't mean that you're awkward But that's the awkward means that you thought it would be funny the awkward part is that I thought he would think it's funny
Right, but you interact with people constantly and the fact that some of them are awkward interactions does not mean that you're an awkward person
People don't tell me this Because by the time people are able to have that conversation with me
We've built a rapport and we're like, I guess they're over it or whatever like said and I are good
Yeah, Vance and I are good. Yeah, so this only came up
Because I'm watching this exclusive at a time when they're comfortable talking about it
But they didn't bring it up to me at the time. I didn't know that it was actually uncomfortable for them
How would they have done that? No one's going to do that. I know maybe you're not knowing that makes you awkward
Yes, that's what I'm trying to say But you did know that you just said that I know
That I know what? That they're never going to bring that up
Well, yeah Yeah, but you're gonna do it anyways and not because you're awkward you're gonna do it anyways because you think it might be funny
Well, I'll do it if I think it's if I think it they're also gonna think it's funny
I just thought you're gonna think that they're gonna think it's funny every time because you don't know these people
And you would prefer that they would think it's funny. It's not that you're awkward. I'm not gonna. Well, that's pretty awkward
Hold on i'm trying to find a thing Oh, man, um
This feels reminiscent of the cheese combo I mean I can
I can imagine what I would feel like if I didn't get Linus's who the f is Dan Besser
Well, yeah, but there was so much actual real context around that
Right, it wasn't just I'm in a room with him or anything like that the series of events that would have led him to just
Give me the master key with no context is hilarious, but I have context around that not everyone necessarily has all the
That's what I was trying to say at the very beginning of this Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not everybody has the context that I have in my brain
When I make an offhand remark like who the f is Daniel Besser and so that was our first conversation
So what I realized watching this is that yes, I intentionally create these awkward situations
No, I did not consider the lack of context that made it genuinely uncomfortable in some cases. No, I didn't
You're fishing in a in a lake with a lot of different types of fish. Oh, yeah
And just because you catch the wrong one sometimes you're still gonna keep casting
I will I will try hard or not to I mean I had um, I we didn't talk about this on I talked to you about this after the party
But not on we haven't talked about it on the show So I was at a party recently where I ended up in a very socially awkward situation with um, someone who
Is a big fan of a particular figure in the tech space
Um, oh, yeah, I remember this that was that was me completely
Misreading a situation ending up in a very awkward
Encounter that like turned heated on me in a way that I didn't anticipate. I got very passionate and enthusiastic the way I'm
Apped to what um and no, I will tell you that I ran into a situation
Uh, it's either Yesterday. Oh no, I oh you were there for it
I ran into a situation with a salesperson very recently
With you where I was saying something critical about the thing that they were selling
and They escalated extremely quickly
Yeah, he doesn't talk about right now. I I was I believed you but it's taking me a second. That was wild
If I hadn't if I hadn't had the recent experience that I had
Arguing with someone whose convictions are clearly so strong about something that no amount of logic or reason
Or anything is going to change anything about it. I may have continued engaging with that individual as much as it shouldn't have
That played a non insignificant role in the final decision to not. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah
Um, yeah, that was that was like super weirdly aggressive when nothing was personal
And I was just talking about the product that was for sale See, but that's almost an argument against you being awkward. No, no, I what what I'm saying is I'm learning
Yeah, but everybody I think honestly honestly if anything I think this revelation means that you're probably less
Awkward than the vast majority of people and more charismatic because you're only starting to realize this now
Corporate right there
Because I think most people are more awkward way more often so they're aware of it
Oh, man, I don't know dude I don't think you're saying that your your awkward is legitimate or would stand up. Well either way. I am definitely
Everyone has awkward moments. I am learning There I will say that and ideally everyone is and that reaction video was eye opening for me
I will try to be more cognizant of the sorts of jokes that I make with people I am meeting for the very first time
That is what I learned I'd say lean into it
Lean into it let this be a known thing you start here your boss is going to say something incredibly offensive
See, but this I used to literally do it in interviews
This is not the first time you've learned this or adjusted part of the company culture
It's a form of hazing But we are not that company anymore and we can't be we're too big now. No, I know but that's this is what I mean
It's just another step. Well. Yeah. Yeah, but everyone's learning all the time
Right and it was awkward when I did it in interviews and it's awkward when I do it on the first day
And some someday maybe years from now. I will figure out that it's awkward when I do it three months
Linus, you're not awkward. You're just unprofessional
Thanks, Dan
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Okay, luke get it over with so line or a j apparently pointed out that Linus asked him to introduce himself like four times
And also at the first ltx Linus thought a j was a fan to be fair
I think that was the first time you guys met each other So it kind of makes sense given the context of the situation because I don't think a j had one of the the shirts
um And I will pair it with
Uh, the awkwardness of me hiring a j to bring things off of Linus for a second
Um, I think you probably remember this story, but a j was the first person that I hired like by myself
Um, yeah, and I thought it was really weird that someone was like joining the company and had never talked to avan
Um, which doesn't matter anymore and is like totally normal, but at that point in time was genuinely weird
Yeah, she um She handled like onboarding and a lot of stuff like she was part of like every hiring before then I think to a certain degree
Yeah, yeah, so I was like, yeah, she even helped me review resumes back when I hired you at nci
Yeah, yeah, like she was she was and like now there's just there's no way right like we're such a huge company
Not even just avan like most people aren't gonna know anything about it when you're brought on because we're so big
But back then it was weird So I I just like I was on the phone with him talking about it
And then I was just like, oh, yeah, you should like talk to avan and I just handed the phone to avan
And they both just sat there and were like, uh
And you know both their personalities would both do that and it's like didn't really say anything
It was incredibly awkward And I just threw them both into this scenario with no prep no planning no instructions on like maybe what they should talk about or anything
Eventually I just I don't remember what happened after that, but I think I eventually just took the phone back and was like, sorry
So Yeah, my bad
Yeah, you you actually can be quite awkward too sometimes
It's in a different way though. He's like an aggressive kind of awkward and I'm like, uh, like an offensive kind of awkward
Because like Okay, a big part of my sense of humor
Is saying something that I think is so
ridiculously stupid Or so ridiculously outlandish or offensive that nobody could possibly take it seriously
And then where I run into trouble Is that a lot of people take it seriously either because they
Have no idea anything about me. So And and they just know the position and they have people in their lives who are that stupid or that mean or whatever
And so they just like assume that that's actually my real
Thoughts or my real demeanor or or you've got people that just don't pick up social cues
And even when I like laugh after are just like
Oh, he's mean or they suddenly think that you are totally on their side and this is something that they are totally for
Which one was that? Oh Oh, yeah, well
Yeah, so anyway, and then it's like, uh-oh Yeah, so a lot of the time I accidentally say stuff that is like plausible to people
Even though to me It's like ridiculous, right? Like you'll you'll I use verbal irony a lot
You know where I'll instead of and it is not quite the same thing as sarcasm sarcasm is cutting
Whereas verbal irony is just saying one thing and meaning the complete opposite
So I will say something like we'll be talking about nestle and I'll say but obviously water isn't a fundamental
Human right anyway. I mean what makes humans more entitled to it than fish?
So Realistically if people are dying because they don't have access to nestle then they should prioritize their product watered nestle should prioritize their profits
I suspect that the wanshow audience of any audience that you have will understand that more
Probably more pretty often do that on because they see me free flow it more, but they also like miss it sometimes
Yeah, absolutely. I'm just saying Clipping that section to repost on red curiosity says nestle. What's that pronunciation that pronunciation is nestle the pronunciation?
Do you buddy think that accent a goo is? um
That that it guys that is the that is the that's how you pronounce it. I'm I'm pretty a dude
Man, if I'm wrong about this, I'm just I'm done with the show today. I think they're saying it's nestle
Is that what they think it is? No, they think it's nestle
That's how I mess Lee. Yeah. Is this like them saying niche instead of niche. Have you never heard nestle?
Um nestle. Yeah, there's no way you've never heard that. It's always nestle
Don't I don't talk to Americans Apparently I think most Canadians call it nestle as well. Maybe maybe I was just hearing
Nestle when they said nestle probably I'm pretty sure like like my brain go speak in canadian say nestle. Yeah, I just
Assumed apparently in the english-speaking world the ads do pronounce it nestle
interesting Uh, however the actual spelling of it
um This is this is a french accent which is present in the branding. Let's play it here. Hold on. No, no, no
That's fine. Oh, no, are we going to be wrong for the first times in our lives?
No could never happen. Yeah, so if you look
This is an accent a goo and it means a
Uh, like, okay. I was going to say terminÃ©, but that's actually with two e's instead of an accent. I think
Anyway, like so like a french word with an e at the end that has that accent or even if it's not at the end
It sounds like a jay saying that he pronounced it that way Well, yeah, well because he's french and because it's a french word with a french accent on it, but um
English doesn't have accent a goo. So we just say nestle apparently even though that would be pronounced nestle
Um, which is an actual word. So why we pronounce it nestle?
Maybe nestle did that on purpose so that we wouldn't think their name was nestle
I'm not sure. I don't know the origin, but apparently
Apparently they uh, they do use nestle in their marketing according to float plain chat people don't believe me
They're like look it up on an actual product like like nestle quick
It's there look
Uh-huh, see accent they flatten it They flatten the accent because they are they also have it over the other letters
I thought it was just a design thing. No, they sometimes don't have it over the other letters here. Hold on. Yeah here on this one
Uh, oh, no, no that one is over the other letters. Yep. No, you're right
Uh What about I don't think it always is though fred said on float plain. What about fiance?
fiance uh, I think it does have an accent it does
But but so many but so many english words have french origins
And that's why we pronounce them the way that we do But unless you actually like took french in school or whatever you don't recognize
those things that were either part of um part of the french and english languages
Simultaneous development and sort of came from the latin origin versus things that were just kind of picked up from each other in our dialects. Um
Yeah, there's there's there's a there's a there's a ton of words
That are english words, but we kind of pronounce in a french way just because like originally they were french words or like whatever
Also applies to multiple other languages 100 percent. I do know that in england back in the old days
They used to say nestles um And even the commercials had that too. They also came up with the word soccer and then are now mad at other people for using it
So I don't know but the big question is why are we giving any airtime to an evil company that steals people's drinking water?
That's a good call. Yeah, we should just keep pronouncing their name wrong. Yeah, let's call them nestle from there
Yeah, I'm going with no one will be able to find any information about them because they're gonna look up nestle
They're gonna be like birds getting in a little nest
Nestling in there. Yeah They won't even find chocolate drink
Uh, what are we supposed to be talking about just more topics until you're done with the topics, uh
VMware stuff
Liquid cooler innovation Uh, sure
Oh, yeah, we talked about did we even talk about the did we even read the notes on the gta 6 trailer? No
Oh My god, I don't think literally at all
May 2nd rocks are announced the release date for gta 6. No, no, that's fine. There's that we talked about it enough
Don't care. Cool. Yeah, all right. Well, it's not that we don't care It's just that we like did kind of cover most of it not coming to pc for a while. It doesn't matter to me
Cool. All right. I'm gonna collapse some of the ones we've done already. Do you want to do the ai roundup?
Good lord is there for a lot this week. There's some spicy stuff
There's no spicy stuff. No, I said there's some spicy stuff. Oh good because yeah
Wow, I was not I was not on the same page. The first one is wild
Yeah, hit me so the first mini topic is judge accepts ai testimony from dead man
Christopher pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in 2021 where he was shot in the chest
An ai avatar created by the victim's family who was seeking the maximum sentence
Remember that for later was allowed to address the court and the ai's testimony included forgiving the accused
And saying they might have been friends
The hollander says nitpick since there are a lot of words in english from french
But english is germanic and nordic in origin not latin the latin influences came later. Thank you
Carry on. Okay, uh, the judge seemed to be moved by the testimony saying to the victim's family
I heard the forgiveness And you allowed chris to speak from his heart as you saw it. I didn't hear him asking for the maximum sentence
But then the judge handed down the maximum sentence anyway of 10 and a half years
What did we just witness here there are so many layers of f***ed up to unpack what?
So So the victims so the prosecution side
The the relatives of the murdered guy make an ai based on presumably some kind of record
His brain's broken some kind of records of the guy who was killed, right?
The ai the judge allows the ai avatar
to Um, did they question like a live llm that had an animated avatar or is this a video? I believe so
That's my understanding correct me if i'm wrong. Please chat jump in there jump in there
The judge allowed the ai avatar to be interviewed to to testify
And then the the ai
forgave the accused saying they might have been friends
And then the judge said i didn't hear him asking for the maximum sentence
But then handed down the maximum sentence anyway, which apparently the prosecution was seeking
So this whole like ai testimony thing could have backfired on them super hard
It's a statement written by the person's wife as the ai avatar is is that what it was
Video for impact statement, okay hold on Stacey wales pelkey's sister and his brother-in-law
Both work in the ai field when wales suggested bringing her late brother to life like that
She said her husband was more than hesitant
He recoiled wales told nbc news and he said stacey
Do you know what you're asking me to do? This is my best friend
And i said i know it's my brother And then he said if this isn't perfect if this doesn't go out and really embody the spirit of chris
I'm not going to let this be shown
Okay, so it's just an ai avatar reading the impact statement. Yeah
What Whoa, okay. It's less stupid
That's still i thought that was the only way it would ever happen. That's still okay. That's that's okay. We gotta
Okay, I have who was was allowed to dress the court. Okay, it would have been nice to have that detail in here. Um
I don't think that makes it less nuts
The defendant's attorney called the presentation Inflammatory and said it created a strong issue for appeal. I actually like kind of agree
Which is sort of unfortunate because obviously I would just you know, if they found the guy guilty
I would just like to see justice served at this point rather than us dragging this out. Yeah
Um, but I feel like you're setting precedence almost. Well, I mean this whole thing is precedent setting like
So you reanimate it was post conviction but before sentencing but then hold on a second
Why so if they see the victims family who was seeking the maximum sentence remember that for later
It was allowed to arrest the court and then the judge was moved by it saying
You allowed chris to speak from as hard as you saw it. I didn't hear him asking for the maximum sentence
So did they just like and then gave the maximum sentence anyway? So they just wrote a victim statement that
contradicted the sentence they were seeking and
And the sentence that was given They're like they already found him guilty. I know I know but this is like sent sentencing, right?
Like sentencing is part of just seeing justice served out as according to our current system
Whether you agree with it or not
I want to move on uh Meta's ai app lets you see what others are doing with generative ai the verge calls it a mash-up of pinterest and
everything annoying about threats
With a with a sprinkling of generative ai on top. That's a great comparison. Um, it's hard to explain. Look at these examples
Mixing food in fashion Gary v. What so gary veiner check? Yeah tells a 98 year old that he still got time to make it on meta
Uh, is that mixing food in fact? No, you that's the second. Sorry. I was more interested in this one
I I saw I saw him that one's listed as Gary v yelling at an old man. Yeah
Okay, I'm gonna go with can't escape the clown
Imagine a room without a clown in it. You can make the room however you want in whatever style you want
But do not put a clown in the room
Um Wait, so what it like always puts a clown in the room
There's always a clown in the room. Why is there luke? Why is there always a clown in the room?
Whatever could have had a pre prompt or something. That's weird. I don't know. I don't know
Uh, okay. So what's the point of this?
I mean, I guess if our social media is just all going to be ai generated slop then it might as well
We might as well just be forthcoming with that
Yeah, apparently people are in are cheating in like counter strike now, but they're not even at their computer
It's just ai is playing the whole game. So the ai is aim-bottling, but it's also just entirely a bot
It's not even someone playing the game This is happening in lobbies to try to get like I I don't know. I'm assuming drops or whatever. I have no idea
Cases, I don't know something
And it's like it's fairly widespread in public matches apparently it is clear
You know what I actually noticed the last few times that I was playing counter strike
Like for videos That just dropping into a public match is flipping hard now
Like I'm just getting I am getting like blown away
From all over the map in a way that like I'm not gonna counter strike like I'm not good at counter strike
But it seems like a new level part of that is I think a lot of people don't play multiplayer games for like fun anymore
But I'm just I'm just going into like public lobbies though. It's a competitive career
But like the amount of people that literally just sit in aim trainers trainers for hours
Dude, but my mmr is trash. It was on like the LTT benchmark account. Like there's no way
You know, maybe maybe john is just a killer at counter strike. I mean that's possible. You never know
Um, could be just in there popping heads Oh, man, it's clear. We need to bring back land gaming like faster and harder than ever
Like let's go whale land. Uh, wait, did I update people the city of Surrey seems very amenable?
And they're like like super duper working on it. I know you told me but I don't know if it was on the show
Yeah, I can't remember Uh, whatever we met the mayor. We had a really good chat about like let's let's go gaming esports badminton
We're gonna make it happen. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. Next one has ai broken university multiple stories of game traction this week
Calling attention to the trend of students relying on ai to complete university coursework
And the struggle of universities to adjust to the new reality headlines
Uh, new york mag or ny mag, you know, whatever
Everyone is cheating their way through college and new yorkers other headline was will the humanities survive artificial intelligence
Quotes from students. This is a oddly written article. Um, quotes from students college is just how
Well, I can use chat gpt at this point Another one is I spent so much time on tiktok hours and hours until my eyes start hurting
Which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. This is very honest
With chat gpt. I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12
Wow, dr. Mike Perkins a generative ai researcher told the guardian that ai detection software is unreliable
Yeah, and they are very easily tricked. Yeah Has research has research found his research his research welcome
That ai detectors could detect ai text with an accuracy of 39.5
But with minor manipulations of the text and other simple evasion techniques accuracy dropped to just 22.1
A tool that is 22 effective is not a tool. That's a novelty
Can we stop live editing the doc by any chance? Um, it keeps bouncing around not me
I literally just had to scroll to find where I was at. Um, oh my goodness. Is that you Dan?
And researchers at the university of redding
I believe conducted a blind test in 2024 submitting chat gpt written answers through the university's own exam system
And 94 of the ai submissions went undetected and received higher scores than those submitted by the humans
Oh, no, we're cooked. The discussion question on this is actually the main reason why I wanted to talk about it
Are you going to insist your kids go to college?
No The one thing that I want my kids to do is pursue
entrepreneurship Because and I've had this conversation on when countless times so i'm not going to rehash the whole thing but basically
There is an unlimited ceiling on, you know
Pursuing something better and newer and different
Whereas there is always going to be a finite ceiling on
Doing the same task over and over and over and over and over again
And I think part of that comes from being an entrepreneur and part of that comes from working in a creative industry
Where even even our mick jobs for the most part are not mick jobs because there is there's no such thing as like
Just you're you just move the thing you move the thing from point a to point b in accordance with the way that corporate prescribes
There's room for user input on Literally i'm trying to think of a job here that this is not true for
Like literally every position here requires you to engage your bloody brain
And so I would I would like for my kids that they that they not get bored and this is actually something that I learned from taryn
He basically goes look When you're not learning anything anymore, that's when it's time to leave
Yeah, your current place of work You know for him obviously, you know other factors like location and pay these are all these are all considerations
Obviously But the red line
Is when I am not learning anything anymore
It's time to go Um, and so I would I would like for wherever they land
I would like for them to have that always learning always pursuing something higher mindset. That's I hope that's good
I don't think because some people are going to take this all as advice And I think some of that is probably good to take as it as advice
I don't think necessarily pushing every single kid with every single set of opportunities into
Entrepreneurship is Okay, it's not what he said. It's not what he said. Yeah. No not necessarily my kids have my kids are privileged
They have a safety net. We're not let's let's not it's a lot easier to experiment with entrepreneurship
And I mean, let's not show you the best possible route. They should go. I do agree
Yeah, I'm just saying some people are going to take this In a way that it wasn't which is it's not advice. It's the question was what he will do
And and you know what like it it might not they might not even pursue that right like
One of my kids wants to be a vet You can't just like be a vet by not going to university
That's not how that works. You actually like need to go to veterinary yet
You are going to medical school just for animals instead of for people
um And so, you know, whatever whatever they want to do, you know, we want to be supportive, right?
Maybe they'll do something with turquoise
All right, uh next one new ai model. Let's robots clean up homes. It's never seen before
Oh, the pi-05 is a vla vision language action model
General enough to be useful in entirely new environments
The model enables a cleaning robot to understand semantic context and to infer the structure of a task
For example, when cleaning the kitchen knowing what items are appropriate to pick up and put away and where to put them
So I guess I could look in a cupboard and see if the plates are there or whatever Um, it's also possible to coach the bot through multiple steps of a complex process with natural language
This is the kind of stuff I think people want from ai
in its defense ai recruiter glitching goes viral tick tock user it's keno 4 posted a recording of part of a job interview
Her first meeting with a prospective employer in which the ai recruiter repeats vertical bar pilates
More than a dozen times
Stop looking over the words The ai was part of a platform called apropria or sorry
apriora, whatever Which claims to help companies hire 87 faster and interview 93 cheaper
Comments on the video were almost universally against the use of ai interviewers with one noting that if they're not taking the time to interview me
I'm not taking the time to try to work there. This is a huge thing. I don't know how much you've heard about this
I haven't heard anything a lot of places are using this stuff and people
Okay, tell me this tell me this and i'm about to find something out
So i'm i'm i'm f***ing around right now and I might be about to find out
Do we use ai for our hiring? No
You don't have to like give me the like corporate puffery version like do we no
at all Not as far as I know Okay, and well you like have hired people in the last like weeks. So like if you don't know then I assume
Okay, well, I maybe I think my no is a pretty good answer
I'm not involved in all the hiring, but I've done hiring recently
We have a person who's still under probation, so I'm not gonna name them
But we have a person on the Labs team that is new so clearly within the last 90 days no part of that involved
Okay, all right, and do we do we feel that that is the best path as of right now?
I would say yeah, yeah, I don't know if I'll hold that line forever, but I mean I
I think I mentioned last week that like almost every interaction I had with
Like chat-based LLM recently had hallucinations in it
Despite the fact that people are saying hallucinations are going down Um, I decided to try to push that even further and that record is still standing. I don't have an example for you
Okay, I thought um But it's it's nearly constant the one that I started running into recently was that it it can't get dates right
Really? I was trying to get it to deal with a uh a timetable
Basically like not not a check-in check out thing But like what is the plan over the course of this week?
And it kept saying like like let me look at the calendar. It would say like
Saturday May 11th
Wait No Yeah, right. Okay. It doesn't look immediately wrong though. Yeah, and this is my big problem with the whole
uh People's perceptions on AI hallucinations is I think a lot of the times they're just looking at its surface level
And a lot of the things that it's going to be wrong on require at least one step of looking into it
And people don't understand the whole part where it like it's it's a really great kickoff tool for research
It's a really great like Writer's block solver. Yeah, it's a really great like bouncing off. Yeah, I used it to help name the smash champs badminton center
I sweet had it helped me come up with just like
combinations of words But it still requires you and I think a lot of people are just trying to take its output and just crap it out
And it's like man that is not You're not gonna have a good time like there's so many things that are just slightly wrong
Like if you if you go with that like Saturday May 11th thing
And then book something using the date of the 11th. You just horrifically screwed up right
neat And in like such a basic way and when someone questions like how did you book this on the wrong day?
Like it was obvious when it was supposed to be and you're like well
That's not gonna stand up. It's on you
I don't know. Anyways, unless everyone else involved in whatever that occasion was also relies on
an LLM for daily tasks and they're like, oh, yeah, yeah
It's possible. Yeah, but it's a lot of mistakes. Um, we'll see we'll see how things go
But as of right now, no, this is cool having a perpetual license for software now means that you can get a cease and desist
Excuse me I've talked about this in the past
How team viewer kept soliciting me to buy a subscription when what I actually had was a perpetual license for team viewer 12, which
By the way, I still own and no, I do not have a team viewer subscription
Um, they have stopped by the way So you don't need to like hate team viewer anymore or less than you already do right now
But I have talked in the past about This strategy that companies have where they will sell you a perpetual license to their product
And then in order to get out of that they will introduce a new product that is that product, but
Version number a plus a one
And then they will force you to buy a subscription for it
Um, I politely told team viewer to F*** right off with that and stop trying to sell me your subscription because I bought a perpetual license and I'm gonna keep using it
Um, but it looks like that strategy
Might not have worked here Over the last several weeks vmware users have been receiving cease and desist letters from
Broadcom who purchased vmware back in november of 2023
after the acquisition vmware ended
Sale of the perpetual licenses including
Ending support for those users. This was done
Drumroll, please to push their subscription model, which
Also increased by 300 percent or more after the acquisition
This cease and desist letter states that any implementation of updates
past the expiration date must be immediately
Removed slash Deinstalled adding any such use of support past the expiration date constitutes a material breach of the agreement with vmware
And an infringement of vmware's intellectual property rights potentially resulting in claims for enhanced damages and attorneys fees
This left some users confused since they technically haven't received any updates or security patches since the support ended
anyway So I guess um a f*** you a broadcom like oh, yeah continued. Yeah
It's funny because like wasn't vmware already like kind of hated
I don't think they were particularly well liked Maybe not, but I don't I don't think I would go as far as to say they were hated. I don't know
I think it was one of those things were like, uh, okay chats, uh
Hold on chat. Let us know because I don't know. I I thought that was a I thought that was a thing
Uh, people say a bit. I think it was a bit like people didn't like it But I think people didn't like it in the way that like I don't think people didn't like it as a tool
I think people love it as a tool, but didn't like the uh
And the fact that that is so much more now, uh, okay. Yeah
On a catch says vmware has been up to some shenanigans for a while
That's the the acquisition was a while ago. So I don't know if they
I don't know Uh, okay
Yeah, okay, it seems like either yes or meh
Um, someone says they're not bad not that bad till they got acquired. Okay
Uh, either way. Yeah, that sounds terrible and this like man, how this can't be legal
You know perpetual license That perpetual has a meaning and I get your t's and c's or whatever. You can change your thing or
Liquid cooler innovation is about to skyrocket
famed cooling innovator and also patent troll ace attack has had a stranglehold on the aio water cooler market for years
20 years ago They patented integrating the pump into the CPU cold plate in an aio cooler aka the design that basically everyone uses
Since then they have become less of a cooling innovation company and more of a patent trolling company
successfully taking cooler master Corsair and coolant systems to court and winning
Last year when they were unable to get a patent extension their stock price dropped 40 percent in one day
And if you have a look at their stock price over the last year, it's
Rough things are looking so bad for ace attack. They might be getting acquired soon, which is an ouch
This could potentially lead to a bunch of innovation in the cooling space Though or at least just price drops in the aio cooler market because any company can now make a CPU cooler with the pump
And the cold plate integrated and do whatever they want with it. It'll probably just lead to cheaper coolers though, which is also
cool Ah, what else we got this week? Uh, oh my goodness. There's so many. Okay eb games back from the dead
I thought I said no for this topic. That may have been a misclick. Sorry
Whoever prepped that I'm so sorry game stop Canada is becoming eb games again or something. Uh, oh
Delete me a sponsor we've worked with in the past gets mildly controversied
A privacy focused youtuber named reject convenience released a video titled
What delete me and incognito aren't telling you and it just received some attention from the youtube slash tech community
It's actually a great video y'all should go watch it the video dives into how your data is collected
Who holds it and the difficulty involved in trying to remove that information and the limitations on services like delete me
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Using delete me has actually made noticeable improvements for me as a public-facing creator
I've actually seen a reduction in spam calls since using the service And it does make it that much more difficult to find my personal information if anyone really put their mind to it
I'm sure they could find more about me than I even want to think about But often just making something a little more difficult makes people less likely to do it says adam
Oh, okay. That was from adam. I thought I was from the video. Yeah, I thought it was from the video as well
I was like, I don't remember this. Uh, okay
Oh, okay interesting
I should Okay, yeah, we should come up with a way he did actually put a paragraph break there. So there yeah
We should have realized that that was just adam's notes
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All right, what else we got here we can leave out is dead
Yeah, it died. Okay. It's died 22 years after the launch skype is dead. Cool. That was a short topic. We should upload that one as a clip
Uh, we have some deeds about the rog ally two photos and specs of two pre-production models of the new rog and xbox co-branded ally twos have leaked from an indonesian
certification office and fcc listing Looks like we're getting the same 120 hertz lcd screen a new shape reminiscent of the ps portal with full controller grips
And a fairly significant bump in performance for the higher end model
Specs we know with fairly high certainty
So here's a little uh, here's a little table. Let's go. Here's the black version 35 watts. Oh
Zen five zen five. Let's go radio on 890 m. Let's go
Similar to an AMD hx 370 with four CPU's disabled pretty impressive benchmarks. You can find the benchmarks elsewhere
We still don't know when they're coming for how much or how tightly integrated the xbox functionality will be
All right, that's it for topics. It's time for after dark
Yes More like after dork. I think we just I think we I think we surprised him with that one. It's going to take a second
Now he's got it. I believe it. I'm just saying let's watch him. Look at that. It's already after dark. Boom. Got him. Yeah
Boom got him How dare you I was in the middle of messaging chewy to turn that into a way
LMG clip How dare you doubt this man
For the WAN Show now you're just being patronizing has done so much for my reputation
Just because you have social awkwardness issues. He made sure people would not think I mean does not mean that that interaction was bad
Now he's just being mean. All right, take everything I say back. I hate it here
Wow, that sniff was synchronized. Oh, sorry very cool
I'm really not feeling a hundred percent. Oh, I should have given you a heads up today. I totally forgot
Okay. Well, I'm not feeling a hundred percent. At least he's not leaving the country
Yeah, right. It would be pretty funny if Luke got sick on a trip again
Cool every time every time every time. Uh, okay. Well, um, congratulations on being sick
Thanks now that's good or later. But like not very much later probably
like Right when I get there
Cool For what it's worth. Um, I think it's bacterial. So if I had antibiotics, I'd probably be better by now, but
I didn't really bother didn't want to get those the same way as last time
Um, oh, I haven't really I don't think I've acknowledged that publicly how I got those drugs. Have I no
There's there's ways to get drugs that are not
A doctor stealing there's all kinds of doctors. Yeah. Yeah, there's lots of different kinds of doctors
You know, they got all kinds of doctors
All right, what are we talking about? Loved the recent video on diy batteries of all the projects you and the team have worked on which one made you gain the most
Quote on quote unexpectedly useful knowledge and skills stuff that you end up using a lot
Oh Oh, man, there's so many videos now that I have a really really hard time
like coming up with A video sometimes
One where I gained skills Unexpectedly
Oh boy unexpectedly useful not not that you gained the skill unexpectedly
Yeah, but the skill ended up being useful in the rest of your life and you did not expect it
Maybe that helps but I doubt it
Yeah, uh Wow, I mean, yeah
It's cool though I mean, here's one. Yeah, here's one. Okay. I'm I'm gonna get my license to drive the fire truck. Are you actually? Yeah
It turns out it's it's not that bad. Um, you just you just have to get like the air brake certification
You don't actually have to get like a class three Because it's it's only dual axle
Yeah, so it's it's like really not that bad Apparently we thought it was going to be like a 20 hour course, but it's like a one day thing
So I'm I think me and the alex's and anyone else who wants to do it are
Going to like do it at the same time. So I haven't seen this. I haven't seen it on the schedule yet
But we're going to do it pretty quick. Cool. So that's that's something I unexpectedly
I'm going to learn but I didn't like learn it from that
You know what? I'm standing by it All right, hit me
Sure thing What has been the most unexpected piece of feedback or insight you've gained from your audience that influenced your approach to creating content?
So many unexpected things. Yeah, I didn't realize they were all this today. Yeah, um, it's an unexpected
I You're I I think something that changed our approach over the last 10 years or so
Was realizing how important the role of this oasis where we can just talk about and think about tech was for people
Um, I think that there have been times when we have delved into other issues that people
Have just told us point blank not because they sit on one side of the issue or the other side of the issue
Or whatever, but have just told us like hey You guys are my respite from thinking about everything that's going on in the world right now
Whether it's then or now or whatever and can we just not and I I guess that one's top of mind for me because there's been
a lot more of that feedback lately as we've engaged in conversation on the
Changes from the recent us administration with respect to import tariffs
um, and I think the thing that's really that's really tough
Is when people say hey, can you not talk about politics? It's like well
It's kind of hard to avoid sometimes, you know, it's like when we're talking about
Net neutrality or right to repair or hey all your it's going to cost way more
um, those are not In my mind sometimes political conversations. They're just some facts
um, but Over time more and more things feel like they are becoming
Politicized if that makes sense. Oh, yeah, it's not because they're inherently everything is inherently political even like liking
A certain activity that has deeply nothing to do with politics is politicized sure like you're talking about like like going to the shooting range
For instance sure I could see that
It it can even be like More chill than that like liking a certain type of sport
Really? Yeah
It's pretty wild that's lame It's not cool. No. No, I'm not chill with it. Yeah
I just wanted I just want my tech videos. Yeah, so I'm basically I'm trying to say I hear you loud and clear and we try
but there are situations where You know when you've got a particular political party that is like
Not doing anything useful for right to repair or obstructing it or whatever
Um, or you know, she's not even calling when I'm out that just happens on both sides. Yeah, that's that's a very both sides thing
I intentionally chose that. Yeah, um, then like we have real or when you have a particular side that is, you know
Not handling privacy very well or is enacting like super stupid legislation. That's objectively stupid
We can all just agree is stupid if we're not being brainwashed
Um, then we've got to call that out, right? Like that's that's that's how democracy works
That's the whole point is that regardless of what team, you know, and they're on my team or they're on your team or whatever
Regardless of what team someone's on we're supposed to be able to call it out when it's like. Oh, yeah, our solution to
uh, gatekeeping, um explicit content online is to
create a giant honeypot of everyone's personal information in a super
Unsecured way. It's like, well, no, that's objectively a bad idea
And we should push back on it no matter who's in charge, right?
So But I just feel like there's less and less room for that
I don't know why this whole thing like just somewhere to not talk about politics or whatever
Maybe think of this but every once in a while I think about threads like this on the forum
um Yeah, this thread has all almost 60,000 replies. It's 11 years at the point now where it's actually like costing
significant amounts to like store the data for it
Not that well measurable amounts. How about measurable we could measure it
Someone could someone could we won't wouldn't be worth it. Yeah
um, but yeah, and it's just I mean you look at the rules and it's just like
I don't know Do the thing that makes sense for this post
Who is number one and number two number three is have fun and number four is just keep it civil and it's like cool
Nice that last one is becoming harder and harder. It is
But just have fun and keep it fun and that's the rules. Keep it fun
All right, Dan hit me. Can you have maybe not a downer this time? Can you do that? Linus? What's an unexpected? Oh, no, wait
Hey, um Sure, this one's not a downer. Hey, lld Linus. You often announce things with a sing songy way. Where do you think you picked that up from?
I think that's pretty normal sing songy Or song songy. I'm yeah song songy the song songy way
Uh, I don't know. I never really thought about it. I did sing as a child
Uh, I am good enough to know that I suck so I don't often sing
But I am capable of it a little bit. So maybe it's a thing that I do just naturally
maybe I had some childhood influence that I never noticed. I truthfully have not really thought about it at all
Okay, cool Yeah
There's no way I'm doing any singing right now. I have a sore throat
He's not listening. That's good. Okay, Dan hit me
Uh, hello Linus. I'm trying to resist buying a motorcycle. Don't what got you into it
Don't resist it. How do you stay safe on the road and how does Avon feel about it all the gear all the time?
Avon hates it Um, oh by the way speaking of motorcycles. You're not done yet speaking of motorcycles. Are you ready to
Lose I know you're not done yet. Are you ready to lose though? If you aren't done. I haven't lost yet
Uh, okay. Hold on a second. I gotta I gotta I gotta send a thing to Dan. I gotta send a thing to Dan. He's not done yet
I Have to send a thing to Dan. He's not done yet. Uh, how do I do? I'm not even concerned share. Hold on
Share with daniel. Just email it uh to info
That is not what i'm going to do good. That is not happening
Walked into it also rude Rude. I'm not mean. Uh, just this one. Yep
I do have one more. Oh, this is just a different angle. Actually, this is a better angle, but whatever. Okay, fine
It's starting this to daniel basser okay
You want both of those? Uh
Oh, man, I found a third angle. That's like the best one. Yeah, just use the second one
Okay Drum roll, please
He's not done yet He's not done yet, but
Hey progress That is nice progress. It's starting to look pretty good. That's progress. It's definitely not even everywhere
Uh, hold on part of that is the light and part of that is that it is uneven
So I went hard mode and used like a candy style coating which I have discovered is
Pretty much impossible to coat evenly on something as
Irregularly shaped as a lot of pieces of a motorbike. That makes sense. Um, some of the more uniform pieces
I've actually got it reasonably uniform
Um, the wheels are going to be horrible. Don't look at the wheels. Um, there's a fleck like right on the top of the gas tank
That i'm so upset about. Um Like a little piece of dried paint that was on some of my masking tape to keep paint out of the gas tank
Came off and landed there and it's like a little white spot
It's like right on the top like right underwear I'm going to be looking at all the time so upset and there's nothing I can do now
I would have to completely blast it again Prime it again white again pink again. Like it's not it's not happening. Um
At this point, I'm just accepting whatever result I get so make of that what you will
um So it's gonna look pretty bad is what I've kind of come around to
And I'm gonna ride it anyway because sunk cost fallacy goes hard
Anyway, um Yeah motorcycle lots of fun. It's a totally different experience from driving
There are definitely things about it that are more dangerous like the fact that if you get in an accident, you're dead
Um, but there are things about it that in my opinion make it if you are a very attentive and defensive rider
Make it easier to avoid getting into an accident. You are more nimble. You have bigger buffer zones
I'd say that's the bigger thing. Um, I mistakenly said once on the wind show that you can brake faster on a bike
It feels like it apparently you can't in its physics. So I'm like, okay. That's good to know
Um, but what you definitely can do is have more buffer space
So you can position yourself so that you have a bigger cushion side to side from other vehicles
You can if you are braking you can go beside something to buy yourself a little bit of extra space
Sometimes not always because if you're braking hard you cannot steer while you're braking on a motorbike
um
J2134 says it's literally the most unsafe form of transportation. Okay. Yep fair enough
But uh, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not talking about lane splitting. I don't lane split
Um, and that is a very good way to be in trouble and get dead
Um, anyway, what got me into it was uh, my dad used to take me on his bike and it was awesome
There's I don't know. It's like wind, you know going past you and like the
you know the gear and the I don't know man. I'm not much of a petrolhead when it comes to cars
I literally just want my car to be as quiet as possible and just like the quiet zoom zoom machine
Um, I drive electric and I love it, but like something about the motorbike
I I test drove an electric bike. It sucked just soulless. I love the I love the sound of the bike
yep bike room room
Hi LTT guys Why didn't you include pre-built systems from the likes of microcenter memory express et cetera in secret shopper?
It's a good question. Um, we just don't really think of them as system integrators and we haven't included them and it's arbitrary
Yeah, that's a very good question. We very well could we just uh, we just didn't
Microcenter would be a little tougher because we'd probably have to go in person. I would think
Like we're not american so that's tougher Uh
To all three of you Do you think
Canada will bring home lord stanley's cup this year and which team do you think has the best shot?
I was oilers going into it. Um, just because I feel like they got robbed last year
um And I I really want I really want I think uh, there's there's
You got a core with that kind of talent You just got to like you kind of kind of look at it and go like come on like you guys
There's no way like they got it. Um, but man
Have you seen That winnipeg jets come back? I've been watching it
I don't know what's happening over there, dude I mean
I I it just it makes you want to root for them the fact that they staved off elimination
With 1.6 seconds
left And then managed to manage to get it done in double overtime like
How can you not how can you not root for these people?
How can you not root for them? It's the love of the game right there, man
um Man it looked like they had Nothing going on like they weren't set up at all that pass
That is like one of the most heads up plays that I have ever seen ever
Just getting it across. He could have just shot again. He could have just shot again
It's been like a a few years of really good hockey like 500 IQ like what's going on, dude
Oh It's been a good time. Yeah
Speaking of a good time And dude, oh man, I didn't I didn't catch the entire game
But I was like at a sports bar eating dinner last night and I caught like the first five minutes of the oilers game and like
Right off the opening face off End to end just non-stop actually don't know who won that
I should probably check
I am vikas Oilers five four
Dang, that's a high-screen game. That's a super high. Well
From up from the little bit of that. I saw I'm not surprised
Like I'm sure the first thing that both coaches said at the first like tv timeout was yo, everybody settled the f*** down
Because there's just who needs defense. Yeah, just go
Oh Anyway, um, all right
Anyway, good luck for everyone else's team. I guess no one else answered
Oh, apparently winnipeg's killing it tonight. Sorry. So who's who's yours?
I don't know oilers. I need to go Then get out of here. What are you waiting for you?
Oh, all right. We'll see you again next week. Same bad time. Same bad channel. Bye
All right
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