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Are we live okay, let's do it. I'm going for it
going I
Like to move it move it. I bet you the chat would do it. Oh
They do it a hundred percent. It's not even a challenge
Chats easy. Yeah Chat does it on the first date
Yeah, see they'd even get like the whole build up. They just did it anyway
All right, we doing this thing. Yeah
Chat you gotta you gotta watch for it on the stream There's a spider bro hanging out in the USB port of this laptop
He climbed up onto the table and I couldn't like find an implement in time
And he just ran right into the USB port and is hiding under the little tab the little USB finger. Yeah, he's in there
Yeah, a rack no bro indeed hanging out. Okay, I'm doing it
We're just gonna go straight to the show because I got stuff to do tonight. Yeah
resume selected now I Would like the first words I say to not be cut off this time
Oh, I've been told that the last couple streams. We've done the first words been cut off
So are you too fast? I gave myself a longer millennial pause
And it is gonna be a great WAN Show worth waiting for
Yeah, a couple of seconds We are gonna be doing a video soon on kind of tech gripes and so that's where the title comes from
I've got 99 problems and I'll make a video on some so we're gonna be giving you guys some of the gripes that we found
We'll be taking suggestions from you guys getting some verification from you guys cuz hey if there's an easy work around then
We don't want to waste anybody's time in our tech gripes video. We are looking to have things actually solved here
In other news HP is downgrading printer features when you don't buy genuine ink
It's not as bad as it sounds, but given that it sounds so bad. That's a really low bar. What else we got this week
We have an update on FTC banning hidden fees from hotel and ticket prices
I believe last time we talked about it. It was a possibility and now there's a date
Okay, which is good. That's three topics though that are like not gonna keep people engaged for a whole show
Can you pick one good one?
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It's gotta be away. All right, so we are making a video with complaints about tech not big complaints like the ongoing
March towards zero ownership and liking it the complete disregard for the ecological impact of AI or the
Inshification of absolutely everything. We're talking small things like how cookie settings are
Specifically designed to be user hostile and intimidating. So you'll just click invade my primus primacy
Invade my primacy do it now Invade my privacy or how power saving mode on Windows 11 renders the battery icon useless
You ever noticed that no power saving mode comes on you get the little icon. You can't tell how
We've got other good stuff to do with the notification tray on
Windows like how if you have a bunch of them queued up and you're trying to click something behind them well
They one after another come up and get in your way. It's actually impossible. The search has got to be in here
Yeah, no, no, we want this is supposed to be like nitpicks. It's supposed to be little specific details major
Yeah, it can't be major problems. So one of the ones one of the ones that bothers me a lot
For this one, we're gonna go and so the goal here guys is for you to tell us. Hey, there's a super easy workaround to that
All you had to do was this so we can make sure we don't waste any one's time
You guys are you guys are being our our fact-checking
Department here. So we're gonna take a little trip to my inbox going to Linus laptop. Here we go. Boom my spam folder
Let's go. Oh, I'm getting some info from Scientology. Here we go
So this is something that drives me absolutely knocking futs if I find something in here like oh
Oh, oh this zoom meeting or here. Let's find something. That's just absolutely like the worst
Sure bright HR, I don't even know what bright HR is but I don't recommend it because they spam me, okay?
So I'm gonna click on this. Okay, if I say not spam watch what happens watch what happens
What
Happened Luke it went away it went away. I'm still in my spam folder. I don't do you know where it went?
I'm assuming to your unread it went to my inbox. It did not mark unread. Oh
It goes in a red state
To your in so it disappears so it disappears no longer on your screen and it's now marked red
Which I have been which I have been which I have been meaning to deal with
Which I've been meaning to talk about for a long time because this is the kind of little thing that drives me absolutely nuts
I haven't replied to this. I haven't actioned it in any way
All that happened was I saw something that I was like. Oh shoot
That's not spam and and the reason this came up was an introduction that Narav the CEO of framework
Wanted to make for me. So he emails me. He's like, hey, here's someone who's working on something cool that might interest you
Are you interested in an intro? I go? Yes And then he says okay, sure thing. I'll make the intro and then nothing ever happens
And then the intro never happened a week later. I get a ping. I think it was from Narav
I don't remember but he's basically like
I thought this was hey, I thought I was making an intro and you said you were cool with it
You don't reply to people maybe he didn't maybe I just maybe I projected all that onto myself
When I found a weak old email in my inbox from buddy who's working on the cool thing that just
Went to my spam and get this get this it gets even worse
Because I did realize that this would happen because I've encountered this before and it annoys me
So I so I found it. I marked it not spam and remember how gmail used to have a function to mark a sender safe
Yeah Well, that's gone. So I've had people multiple times
Email me and end up in my spam because because there's no obvious way to mark a sender safe
So anyway, so anyway, I I go I dig it out of my inbox
I make sure I remember the name of the person who sent it, right? So I can go search for it in my inbox because I use my inbox like a to-do list
So I have like sometimes 100 unread items in my inbox and anything that's red is gone
I'd be okay if it doesn't exist basically reload like if it moved it and then reopened it for you
Sure, I'd be fine. That would be fine. I'd be fine with that if it had to be that
So I went I remembered the name I went I got it and I replied to it
I was like, hey, can you have your people schedule a time with my people and I cc'd my people get this
But he replies. He's like, here's some good times for me
Vance had to go to his spam
So he only saw it to set up a time
Because he happened to check his spam. What is what is this person sending from it? Sounds like their domain is
I mean, I I can I can check now
I can check now. It's probably a relatively new domain. I can tell you that
No, it's a gmail account Amir a in full plan chat said read the notification. It does mark the sender safe
So maybe it's just like a combo button now except if it didn't
I've I swear to you I swear I swear on my mother's grave that I have had it had my mother's not dead
That I've had it happen where I have said this is not spam
And anyway, we work in a google we work in a google g-suite domain
I marked it safe So why is it going to vance's spam then that just happened?
Like just just now just happened. Yeah, I don't know if like marked safe senders is is workspace wide. I mean
Should it be a an indicator? Uh
Maybe from uh, I don't I don't know to be honest. I don't think so. Yeah, because I mean, okay
I could see because while it could be a good indicator for safe senders assuming everyone is like savvy and does it properly
Yeah, that might not be but it could also it could also amplify bamboozlement
So that's potentially dangerous. You're right. Yeah, and if you if you like
Yeah, I don't know if you if you convince someone through social engineering
On a completely unrelated team, but within the same organization that you are a safe sender
And then you send garbage to other people on the team knowing that you're manually flagged as safe
Yep, that's fair from this random person in the company assa 400 says happened to me this week marked not spam same sender went to spam
Um, also other emails from the same sender still stuck in spam each needing to be manually put in the inbox
So so that's that's mine. That's my contribution to the the tech tech gripes video
We've got a couple of other ones Here's one. There's still
still No good way to transfer files from Android to iOS
Android has quick share iOS has airdrop But there is no like rock solid way to share files between devices
Furthermore, it can be a challenge to get files to a pc as well
That should be with wi-fi direct
That should be such a solved problem and there are there are ways to do it
Like it's not like you can't pair your Android phone to your uh to your Windows pc
It's it's a whole thing when you're setting up Windows it prompts you to do it and everything But that's not what we're talking about we're talking about luke snaps a quick picture on his phone
And is like hey, can I send this to you? and i'm like
Yo, I just turned on my sharing airdrop style and it just
farts over onto the laptop that
Uh That that that needs to that needs to be a thing google quick share that works. I love it. Isn't that more uh
Android Android not
Kde connect i mean i can already tell you just from the name of it
That that is not going to be what like my aunt is going to use
um Sale ash says share it used to be the app to do it until apple removed it from the app store
Oh, man. I love that. It's Android Android to Windows. Yeah, it doesn't solve the problem. I love that
I'm gonna put down i'm gonna put down a few of these for us to look into i've got local send here
Someone's like I just use discord. Oh, that is so sad
That should not be the way that is that is largely what I do though. That is actually sad. I agree actual ass
I fully agree that is ass and I don't mean like But I don't mean like attractive like thick ass. I mean like like with hair everywhere
Oh, yeah, like everywhere like long like like on your head long like just like shaggy. Yeah shaggy ass
What else we got
Window settings here's a good one Why is Windows settings limited to a single window?
Have you noticed that the modern settings menu you can only have one window open
Yeah, yeah That's annoying. Yeah, what the heck? Yeah, it's not like game breaking, but it's annoying. Okay. I think I'm I'm think
I'm starting to embrace the theme and since we're in the settings menu since since we're talking about it
Why exactly is it that? time and language is deserving of space here when
display sound
power and battery These are all things that do not merit the top level of the sidebar
Are you kidding me?
That's pretty rough. How often do you change the time on your computer?
In the age of You've got it knows the location and automatically adjust your time zone your time and everything because obviously
I do find that to be kind of weird too the amount of times that I have to uncheck and then recheck
Automatically set time zone to be like hello, and then it wakes up and does it for me. It's like, okay. Thanks
Ugh eternal griever says this is actually something that's been grinding my gears recently, right?
Okay, what else we got? App section is the most random assortment of settings offline maps video playback
The Windows 11 context menu right clicking now has show more options
You click it and 80 percent of the options are the same because it just goes to the old menu
Just show me all the options. I actually really really hate that there's that's two clicks now to get to a lot of the
Right right click context menu stuff. You can do that like god mode thing
Okay, so I do think that's solvable. Okay, you can also remove it as well
I think we talked about that earlier in the week. Yeah, there are solutions here. They're not default
So it's still annoying, but there are solutions. So that's a registry
That's a big part of the tech gripes video is we want to present solutions and if the solution is here's a quick registry
You know d-word that you can reconfigure then that's great
or if the solution is Hey, if you could just add like three lines of code
Hello, anyone this is not going to make it into the video because no one cares because no one uses xperia phones
But I I saw a post recently asking Well, why none of the big tech tech youtubers review xperia phones and the answer is because no one cares
They're super expensive and limited availability outside of japan in certain regions
But for me, I can tell you the reason that I don't daily one is because
Even now after all these years all these years
Sony still hasn't added like the like three lines of code that it would take to swap the back button
And the task switcher button or whatever the whatever the square one is called
I prefer the back button on the right I have homunculus hands. I am right-handed. I cannot reach back all the way across on the left
I use back a lot. You might say everyone's going to I like back
I'm a back enthusiast. Okay. I like it. I like to be able to reach it
I like to be able to get my thumb weight. Okay, the point is just that I need that button a lot
And if it's over on the other side, it's really hard for me to reach to reach
I could reach around
Sorry, let's just continue That works if anyone from sony is watching and didn't get totally
bothered by all of that
I will immediately So I want the headphone jack. I want the taller form factor. Yeah, I want the gorgeous display
I want the camera. I want everything that is really good about the experience. Just allow me to swap it
Just let me move the button. You don't even have to do it by default. Just let me If you get the Hong Kong one, we can root it and just switch it over. Panthomas. Pathomas says they're never going to do it
Yeah, I know. I know. I know, but they're they're never going to do it
Oh, man. Yeah, I think center start menu. That's more of just like a design thing
Sorry, I'm just going through some of the stuff in my dock. We've got oh man. This is amazing
Anyone here on macOS? Shout out if you're on macOS in the chat. Okay. Hit me up
Apple finally added window management with snapping
Finally, they didn't have snapping. No, you could get it with a third-party app for like three dollars or something
But I it'll be a cold day in hell before I pay three dollars for
Basic window management functionality that's been in Linux since I worked at ncix like no
So they added they added window snapping
But it has a border For no apparent reason Jake showed me this and my mind was blown
It has a border around it where you can see that your desktop wallpaper. Wait, what for no reason
Oh, no, that would bother me so much for like no reason. I am I thought you meant it was like framed
Like a photo and I was like, that's weird, but it doesn't bother me that much
It's so you see the desktop background would constantly make me think that it's not actually there
You can turn it off. Okay. You can turn it off. But the fact
The fact that that is the default behavior that they show the user is absolutely
Mind-blowing to me. That's so annoying. This next one
Oh, no, this is great on the uh on um on max that have the um
The the the gaping wound in their display the
Island, sorry Oh, dude, it sounds so much more metal called the gaping wound. I was uh, sorry wrong phone. Where's my oh, right?
I put it away because it was buzzing the mic for some problems on my iphone
I was uh, I was looking at some meme like one of those like, uh
Like four pictures from lord of the rings with captions and style memes
And I literally couldn't read the top one because of this stupid
Island thing and then I was watching I was watching a movie
I was watching a movie on my phone and
My my choices were basically because plex is not perfect not a perfect application
I either had like giant black bars around everything
or I had a hole in the movie and I was like
I can't I actually cannot watch a movie with a hole in it. That's
Impossible like I'm not going to be one of these pretentious hollywood directors. That's like
My movie is mastered for the theater. Well, if it's not watched in the theater, then I'm afraid it simply cannot be enjoyed by your
Primitive eyes like I'm not like that about it, but you put a hole in the screen. Are you kidding me like that? I have lines
I have standards Anyway, so on on max that have the island
You can uh, you can like full screen like like mac full screen like like distraction free mode or whatever
But your taskbar goes away at the top
Only for it to be filled with black pixels
Because of the because they have to have a border for the entire top because of the stupid hole in the screen because there might be content there
Uh, really funny. I don't I don't know if that's one that'll make it to our gripes because nothing could really be done about that
Other than make better hardware in the first place. Um, this is a good one. This was almost an entire video
And maybe it still could be at some point just like diagnosing. Um
computer sleep issues Like sleep wake screen turning off issues. So I was having a problem when we set up the land center in the basement
I had five identical machines With five identical monitors with five identical sets of peripherals and I couldn't figure out
Why half of them? We're going to sleep properly and half of them weren't
That's annoying. You know what it was Yes, technically
But no, yes, thank you for enlightening me. Thank you for not ruining my setup for once
I appreciate you. Thanks, man. Um
So I almost made a whole video on this So that we could just as a springboard to talk about how to diagnose these issues
But what it ultimately was was I got into the administrator level command prompt power config
It was steam But it was specifically because I had steam open on all of them
And what I found out was that steam will not let your computer go to sleep if you are open to the store tab
Even if steam is minimized So you had so the ones that were sleeping were on library because I I read that and I was thinking like
I always have steam on like all my computers on your library probably, but it's probably on library
It's probably on library. So the reason it's a good reason
The reason is that it's something to do with video playback
On the store page and how if you're playing back video your computer doesn't go to sleep
So if there's any video playback or a video player that is open
The system won't sleep it blew my flipping mind
blew my mind Or sorry not sleep display display unwaking. Maybe it'll still sleep. Sorry. Sorry, but specifically what I was working on was my displays wouldn't blank
So I was thinking like it's to have never been because my computer always goes to sleep. Yeah, this current
iteration of my computer is has no sleep problems. It's very nice. It's nice. I'm used to having some weird sleep issue
Yeah, so so if there's anyone here that is like
Oh my god, sometimes my display doesn't turn off. Yeah, that's cool
I bet you it's that because if you think about it the steam store page is just a browser. Yep
And any ad for any game or whatever is just a video
If you have a video open in your browser, even if it's in the background
Your screen's not going to turn off. I wonder how much bandwidth
uh Just leaving the steam store page up on your screen for like a week takes. I have no idea
Because it's a pretty solid amount of video actually
It's probably very like low res but still but yeah, I was I was thinking of making that an entire video
Just as an excuse to talk about like sleep and and screen timers and all that kind of stuff
But then we just kind of never got around to it and we didn't have a great title for it and
Anywho uh smart TVs LG lets you go offline and not get ads, but if you want to use an app it asks you to update
You can use the app but have to navigate around the prompt You must log in to update and then our second one is the entirety of ties in os. I think that's too broad
I think that's too broad adam. I don't think we're going to do that one. They're supposed to be they're supposed to be nitpicks
I feel like I feel like adam has A tv with ties in os um monitors personally bothered
Why do certain presets lock me out of certain features without any rhyme or reason?
I actually adam I can probably I can explain some of that at least
There are certainly ones where it's like no, I don't get that at all
But like filmmaker mode for instance will lock you out of a lot of the tv settings because it wouldn't be filmmaker mode
If you were allowed to change a bunch of stuff. However
Most tv's in filmmaker mode will allow you to set the white point
Some of them will lock you in warm because that is like a filmmaker. I do not like the warm preset
I prefer 6500 kelvin and don't don't touch my white point
but Anyway, the point is that some of them do make sense some of them absolutely don't
If there was one that we were going to if there was one that we were going to rant about when it comes to monitor settings
Then I would say it's the one where you're not allowed to change any settings if you don't have an active input
Yeah, why not old monitors used to let used to let you have them on
And play around with all their settings and everything. Yeah, whereas now
You you you can't tell sometimes if your computer is broken and not outputting or if your monitor is not on and not receiving a signal
It drives me absolutely Crazy, I didn't know that was an issue, but I have used that to try to diagnose if my computer is
Properly sending out display or drives me Flipping really annoying crazy
Bell tricks says well the settings are tied to signal type. There are plenty that aren't
And I just want it to be on so I know it's on so that I so that I know
What input it's on and that it's looking for signal. Give me something give me something
Okay, uh, we've got a lot of teams ones. I feel like I I'm
Hesitating I could add so many more, but I feel like it would just take up it'd be a whole video
So like one of these is notifications steal input focus for some reason teams notifications have gotten me killed in deadlock
Don't ask me why I'm on teams and playing deadlock
Teams notification is separate from Windows integrated pop-ups. That's actually super annoying especially because they're in the same place
Yeah, come on microsoft. You literally make this software
um Why can't I schedule a message to a group chat that I haven't messaged before
So if you have like a shoot in the morning or something like that and you put together everyone
That's on that shoot and you just want to like schedule something you you just can't because I don't know whatever
I don't want to keep going. I I can I can send a bunch of stuff later
I I mean I've ranted about this on the wancho before and I think people are a little tired of it
So I don't want to go through way too many of it But like my the the main two that frustrate me is that I can't schedule a message to a group chat that I haven't sent a message to
Before yeah adam added and this is super annoying. Why can't I schedule a reply to a thread?
just like And I understand some of the theory of not being able to schedule a reply to a thread
Because I think they're worried that like other things will be sent before that one. I could see that my team's general
Like etiquette for this is just put scheduled in brackets. This is super normal. Everyone does this
We're not this brain solvable. This is extremely solvable. Stop like not allowing us to do okay. I'm gonna relax
The other primary annoying thing that I have is the amount of times that I'm in teams calls and people go
Is my mic working because they can't see it light up. Yeah
Just whoa the spider. Oh, he was there
He might be he's a he's a crafty little guy
For people that weren't part of the pre-show there was a spider that climbed up onto the desk and went directly
There was a spider that crawled up onto the desk went directly into one of my usb ports and hid under the little usb finger
And then he he took off like I think it was like a minute into the show
And maybe went into Linus's headphones. I would strongly prefer to not put these headphones on if there could be a spider inside them
Yeah, he's definitely small enough to crawl into your ear
Yeah Oh, okay. No, no now. I'm really I'm really creeped out right now if there's a spider in my head for you
I uh, I would be I would be super super unhappy words could not describe
The level of unhappy that I would be if a spider like crawled across my face
Another I'll add another one too. Dude. I know it's not poisonous. I don't care. I do not like it. It's not the poison part
It's the digging into your ear part. Anyways, um
It's not even that I just I don't need a reason to not like spiders
That's fair from an evolutionary standpoint a fear of spiders and snakes and like dead things and all the stuff that I kind of phobia
Yeah, is what kept my ancestors alive and dammit I'm gonna uphold their legacy here and continue to be afraid of those things however irrational it might be
they're all watching down on you not wanting to put your headphones on and
Cheering the glass you like yeah, no, I'm okay. I have thoroughly searched them Dan was gonna bring me new headphones, but it's okay Dan
I'm ready I'm ready the the last thing I'll say about teams is if I'm in slack and I attach something to a chat message
Or even just attach something in general. I could just press send right away before it finishes attaching
Yeah, and the message will just send when it's done attaching you try to do that in teams
And I don't remember it like opens it or something It does whatever it does. It's annoying and it doesn't send it
That's all right So I have to sit there and just wait for it to attach and if it's like a video it might take a little bit
Dude, I've never I've never really used iMessage because no one that I know uses iMessage. So why would I?
um But man the reply function is awful
Oh Like you like you when you when you hold on something to like reply to a specific message
You know, um, you don't use whatsapp But you know how it works in any sensible program where it just gives you like a preview of the original message
And then just has it indented and like has the reply to it It creates this like new pop-up window
And then like getting out of it is like
Like like you have to like click somewhere else entirely on the screen and it kind of has like these like reply threads within the thing
it's ridiculous I was like how
How did a trillion dollar company design this I couldn't I couldn't believe it that seems not awesome. Um
Yeah, I never used it during my during my time with the iphone
But it was something that I encountered like just the other day because I was chatting with
John from esh tech About some hexo s thing and I had I had to reply to something specific because we kind of had two threads going
We were like talking about Christmas plans and also talking about like future hexo s plans
And you know, you know how those things could get a little bit confusing, right?
Because he could be like, you know, oh, I had a close relative die. So this will be our first Christmas without them
Also, we've got this great feature plan and I could be like, wow, that's so cool
Which one was I replying to who knows? Yeah reply reply threads are good. Yeah reply threads are good. Anyway, the point is yeah
It's it's off. Yeah, we've got a couple people backing me up in chat here. So apparently this isn't just me being crazy
Um, I think we could actually adam who's obviously watching the show right now
I think we could even steal some of the stuff from the uh, the iOS time video
Uh, oh dude youtube music. Don't get me started on youtube music. Okay adam. Here's one. You probably don't know
Um, if you if you have your main google account on your phone
For some reason as a different account from the one that has a premium subscription. It has youtube music
You will not be able anymore. It used to work
But you can this is what ultimately made me switch from my like g-suite account as my main account on this device
To my like personal random gmail that I don't even really use other than to have youtube premium on
um You in with Android auto you can't use voice control to play a specific song on youtube music
unless Your google account Like your main one that you're like mainly signed into the phone with is the one that has premium
So just like having another one you can't select which account you have
And and oh, oh, it's so annoying. I really wish like
I think this would be a pretty cool feature is if you could like
Claim your like network of google accounts basically
So if like I could have a personal google account
And then branch under it like okay, this is my personal account. This is my work account. This is my whatever blah blah blah blah
um And then I if I buy premium
I want it to give it to all of them. I don't want to see youtube ads I don't want to open a youtube at youtube video that I need to watch for work in my work browser thing
and then get an ad and go uh And copy the url and bring it over to my personal browser. Watch it. Okay. Watch it there
And it's the same with youtube music. That was actually what adam was talking about
Yeah How if he's youtube music and youtube must be logged into the same account on the browser
You can't be like yeah, I have music here and I have this there
Oh, so annoying So he has to open youtube music an edge so he can be logged into two separate accounts. Um, you can also use I think
brave has really good support for multi google accounts across, uh
Different things or you can use incognito mode. There's other options technically most of them do like even even firefox does firefox
This is just clunky compared to chromes. Chrome has extremely
Good and easy to use multi account stuff Um, like profiles firefox has them as well. It's just not as clean
Um people are saying it's great. Maybe I just wasn't good at it. I don't know dude. I just other people are saying it's clunky
I don't know it is what it is. I wouldn't care about anything
to do with youtube music. I would accept Everything that's kind of crappy about youtube music in a heartbeat if they brought back quick painless casting to my sonos stuff
But ever since google and sonos Got at it. That's gone. It was perfect in google play music. It was literally
Perfect on the on the player page There was a cast button like how a cast button works
And then it would just bring up the pop-up for what you want to cast to and you would go
This one this one this one and this one and press go and it would just
Oh my god This is incredibly and then it would just go I need to I need to stop using this phone
But it's uh, it's so tedious switching phones
Mine's below the table Well, it was happening when it was above the table too. I'm just gonna put it under my thick juicy thighs. Nice. That should block it
Thanks, taylor immediately stopped. It's a lot of water. What can I say?
Like no joke the second he put his leg back down it was over
Anyway
Dude, I've been hitting the stermaster lately and the owing machine. Yeah, dude
These thighs are getting firm. Yeah, they're getting to be firm thighs. Yeah, I I actually like go to the gym now
He's never gonna get me to lift anything because it's just like you looked at things. It's not what did I lift your body?
That kind of what the stermaster. Oh, I mean, yeah, sure
Uh, oh dude, it that's stermasters. Uh, real. I've never been on a stermaster before. That's a real workout, man
Dude Like I've been meaning to send you like pictures of what the machine looks like when I'm done one time
like Dude, I'm in that I'll do like half an hour of cardio
And I I can't do one thing like at the at the like
Go hard like level that I want to do it for the full 30 minutes that I like to do
But you know my thing where I like to do 30 minutes of cardio like every day ish
I try to do every day, but it doesn't happen every day So the thing that I've been so the thing I did the other day was I hit the
Uh, the rolling machine for 10 minutes Then the is this at the smash gym. Yeah, then the bike for five. Do they have the cleaning stuff yet? Yeah, okay
Then the stermaster for 10 and then finished off with another five on the bike
So the in 30 minutes the the 40 ounce bottle I had drained two of them
To give you some idea
It's insane Yeah, that's nuts. I I'll I'll go to the gym and I I tend to go for like a while like I
For whatever reason I'm not really into like the When I'm doing weights and not really into like the 30 minute workout
I like going for like quite a quite a bit of time Um, and there will be like there'll be some chick on the stermaster when I walk in
She's like not moving that fast, but she's on the stermaster I'm noticing like I'm close to wrapping up my workout like an hour and a half later and I'm walking by like she's still
on there like
Oh my god, like I would fall over. There's no there's no possible way
It would not happen. I could do it at a low pace for a long time
But um, I I don't know what the settings are probably like two hours. I don't know what the settings are equivalent to but um
I'm trying to think like what's the what's the what's the pace that it's at?
I'll have to check sometime, but it's it's at 16 whatever that is
I that's going to be machine-dependent. Yeah. Yeah, so I forget how many stairs per minute it is, but it's oh dude
It's a lot It's painful it it hurts a lot
Okay, what else we got here someone said I would like to hear more about luke's fitness habits as a fellow lifter. I'm trying to get a
Full plane exclusive. Oh, yeah, that would be cool Where we get a bunch of not me but a bunch of different of the people yeah including myself
Uh, but a bunch of different people at the company that that like to gym often
To do like a round table discussion thing we film it for flow plane. Cool. I think that'd be pretty sweet
Cool, none of it's none of us are like I'll participate trainers or anything. That'd be cool. I don't I
Oh, wait, well does it count if it also includes like badminton stuff? I think so. I don't know like can I just do me?
I think it's just like a fitness discussion. I think dude. I had a I think it'd be neat
I like did not realize how hard I destroyed myself yesterday because I wasn't in the gym gym
I was I was playing badminton. But what I did was we played a format called box game and
I don't worry. I was playing with my wife
My goodness anyway box game
Makes the in front of the service line is out
And behind the double service line is out So it's like a shortened court and typically you play on a half court
So it's a little bit wider than half of a singles court because you use the doubles line
And you play directly across from each other directly across from each other or diagonally or diagonally
But I'm playing a format with Yvonne to help even things out because I'm
A bit of a stronger player than her Where she takes half a court
Right half a half a box and I take a box that is the entire width of the singles court on the other side
so I put on A 20 pound weight vest yesterday and I played that against her
With dude, I could barely emerge from my bed this morning. I
Destroyed myself. I am in so much
I'm in so much pain today. Like it's
It's actually awful. There's yeah, there's a certain level where it's like
Okay, that might have been good, but it might not also be worth it. Well, it's hard because when I'm having fun
I don't yeah, I don't realize I don't notice. Yeah, I'll sometimes get in a zone where like I don't
Register the level of strain properly and then like the next morning or that night. I'll be like, I'm really tired and then we'll be like, oh
Yeah, radon man says pain is weakness leaving the body
No, sometimes it's just sometimes it's just overdoing it
um We've got one here that is why can't I just plug a usb a to a usb a and transfer files between computers
There's a lot of security reasons for that. I don't think we'll include that one
I mean, there are some good points here you can plug in a phone Which is just a portable computer and copy files from that but but also I don't know
I'm sure there's I'm sure there's reasons for that. I'm sure there's reasons for that
Google gem and I just in general. Okay, that's too broad Adam
I don't know if we'll do that either but google gem and I replacing google assistant can't do 80% of assistant functions
But can hallucinate google sheets?
Yeah, and I can't I Okay, I admittedly I haven't dug too deep into this but it switched to a default male voice
And I don't know I just don't like my phone talking to me in a male voice
I don't like it. I had um, I did this whole gambit like years and years ago where I set up a
.co.uk email address To get like a specific voice from oh just to get like a british. Yeah, like a sexy
Like cool lady voice really even the goal. I just thought it'd be like a neat
um And then yeah, it changed it
I was like, that's annoying I don't even it doesn't really matter that much. It's just weird. I don't know
All right, let's uh, maybe jump into our second topic
No, we have to do a second topic. I'll do a quick one. Okay, Dan
My hero All right, let's go
My hero. Yes, my guy terry
Will be featured on canada's five dollar bill. Okay. This is not really tech related
But we have talked we have talked about the actual
rightful king of canada terry fox before on this show
He is a he's a canadian hero And the only reason he's only a canadian hero is because most of the world doesn't know about him
If you don't know who terry fox's go read about him He's actually the most coolest wholesomeist
awesomest most inspiring guy like ever
And he is finally Finally going to be in his rightful place on our money. Damn it
Uh, so he's going to the five dollar note The process of replacing wilfred laurier began almost five years ago apparently and the bank of canada got more than 600 submissions to their open nominations for the honor
They made the right choice. Yeah after losing part of his right leg to cancer
Uh terry embarked on his marathon of hope and attempt to run across canada on his prosthetic leg raising money for cancer research
His run was tragically cut short in 1981, but he was still able to raise
24.7 million dollars That was a dollar for every person living in canada at the time. Yeah
Since his death annual terry fox runs have been held all over the world and have raised another eight
100 million dollars for cancer research. That's canadian dollars. Unfortunately, but still it's a lot of money
Not a ton of amazing news coming out of canada over the last little while. Yeah, this is cool. This is cool
We're finally doing it properly. Um and putting terry on the money. So that's good. Yeah, it's finally time
Uh, okay, fine. We'll explain merge messages Dan merge messages are the way to interact with the show
You can have your merge message pop up there. You can have it go to produce
What the You can have it go to producer Dan
Who will reply to it? Uh, he might forward it to someone internal to better address your question
Or he might curate it and it will go to me and luke to reply to you live on the show
Dan, do you want to show the fine people out there how it wakes? Sure. Hey dll question for Linus primarily
You've mentioned before that you like to see employee candidates personal projects. What are some of the coolest projects you've seen?
Oh, dude, I haven't been a job interviewer in like years and years luke's probably seen some cool stuff though
Sean's homelab was sick
That was cool. Yeah our it guy. Yeah, um, uh, if I remember correctly nick harris had some cool stuff
I remember someone showed me a cool plex server at some point. Yeah, they like cobbled together
It was like very janky and I was like
I've had a surprising amount of like software dev applicants that you know
Would just have nothing to do with anything to do with hardware here. Show me their like computers or own servers or whatever
Just like, you know, I I often get into those types of questions
Like what kind of stuff are you into and then, you know, it'll it'll naturally lead to showing into those things. Um
Had some really cool software projects the um
The first this was this was way too tough of a project
We've significantly toned it down since then but the first developer hiring wave that we did for Floatplane
Do you remember this the game make us a game? I was way too big of a ask. It was also way too open-ended
We were new Did not know quite what we were asking of people at the time, but um, the developer that did get hired and is still with us
um From from that wave
Um, we we basically asked make us a game and then we listed like some things that would be cool for it to have
um, I don't remember the exact details and they made what was essentially like
pvp asteroids And it had a chat
I remember that and he like set up some notification things So he would be able to know when I connected to it
So when I jumped into it, it's supposed to be pvp asteroids
He also jumped on and then we like fought against each other and were able to talk in the chat and I was like
Whoa Okay, that's pretty cool. We have some people who work here who are like
Probably too good
What can I say? What can I say? Luke's a great boss. Yeah
Thanks for sticking with me. Oh, man
But yeah, I don't know. Yeah, someone's like I want to play that now. It was genuinely entertaining. Oh, yeah
I you showed it to me. I tried it. It was really fun. It was pretty sick. It was like super fun
Um Hey rod piping up in the chat. He says some freaking amazing people
Heck yeah, rod rod knows a lot more of the team than most average Floatplane viewers would because he's come up and hang out
Hung out with us a few times rod. You're coming up for softball night this spring, right? I know it's a little early
It's december still but you're gonna come join us for at least one softball night, right?
I want a commitment. I want a commitment today. I'll make it out. Let's see it. Yeah, you better. He says for sure
All right. Heck yeah, rod. I still probably can't bat or throw properly, but I'll make for those of you who don't know
rod is um Was uh on the bs mods episode of scrapyard wars. He's an incredible pc modder and has been a long time
Uh, just sort of awesome supporter of the show. I didn't remember this
I don't know if it made it into the cut because I haven't finished watching the video yet. Uh, but we did
Is that me? No, it's you. Uh, we did nick
From creator warehouse. We did nick lights AMD ultimate tech upgrade recently
And he reminded me of the time that we had to get seven gamers one CPU to ces
For a sponsor And the only way for us to get it there safely
Was to drive it down to bob and rod bs mods in seattle and nick took it down there
And then they Took it down to ces for us because they were driving to las vegas because they had all of their system mods
For all of their sponsors. So I totally forgot about that. That was that was the early days when everything was like
Just like get her done by any means necessary
You know, it was in the trailer. Wasn't it or something something? I don't remember because I remember I was telling someone this story recently
But I couldn't remember why I went down there, but I took a train
Down there to pick up the the old suv, which is probably what nick dropped it off in
Oh, that suv was a piece of crap. Oh, yeah, it was a little rough
I still remember when I realized on the highway that it didn't have a bit abs
I still remember my parents telling me what great condition it was in when we bought it from them
Anyway Never buy a car from a family member
All the other company vehicles have asked it a long time. Well, yeah, because like I picked them
Anywho, um Oh, it's not nick light as opposed to like nick full fat or whatever. It's nick ligh ght. It's his last name
Yeah, yeah, it's definitely not the opposite of wait. Sorry. Um
Oh, what are we supposed to be doing? Oh, yes good
nick dark No, not bad either. Just nick light. Oh dude, man. I made I made the funniest jokes
about about nick light I was like, I don't need uh, I don't need a filming light because I've got two lights
But he was like holding his baby. You should have seen the two lights
Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah A lot of light jokes. Yeah, can I get a light? You know, okay, it doesn't matter if I remember correctly. There was no
No, I'm not gonna use names, but there was someone else's name that went well with it
That's all I'll say. All right
Oh, no way Yeah
It's finally here. I yeah Introducing the chocolate. No wait. Sorry. Introducing the backpack rain cover
You should all know it's always best to protect your load
Especially when things get really wet outside
seriously That's the marketing spiel
That's why we designed this rain cover for your LTT backpack
This is one of the times that size really does matter. Okay, so it's on purpose. It's on purpose since most rain covers
Are not big enough to accommodate the sheer girth of the LTT backpack. Is this you now? Is this in the writing or you just doing this?
Okay, it's an extra layer of protection to keep your stuff dry while also adding visibility to your bag in the dark with a
snazzy mountain landscape Inspired reflective design genuinely looks really sharp
It also packs neatly into a zippable carrying case that you can attach to your bag's carabiner or accessory loops and is now available
at LMG.gg slash rain cover
It's also durable. That was a surprisingly long project
To get the costing and the quality and the reflectiveness right and the printing quality and the just oh my god
Anyway, are you looking for a last-minute gift? It's never been a better time to purchase an LTT Store gift card for that special LTT
Enjoyer in your life. Why? Because nothing says I didn't leave this to the last minute better than an excuse that you had to wait for the brand new
LTT commuter backpack to launch the day after Christmas
Since that's why you got the gift card and not an actual gift. Yeah
So cover your ass at LMG.gg slash not a last-minute gift
Yeah question that you might not know the answer to yeah, I see there's a pull thingy on this
I don't know if they can see it very well. Yes, uh, would this fit on the commuter?
Uh I doubt it, but we can find out it's probably a little big for the commuter. Probably a little big
It was designed before the commuter was like a sparkle in
The eye of our designers like it. We actually started on the rain fly
or the rain cover, um, I think almost immediately after the launch of the backpack. So like
It's been a while Already said it would but it would be loose. That links goes to the forum. Oh, hey
No, no, I got my commuter bag on me. We can check it right now and we can have a look. Um
Are you gonna fix that link? That link broke. Oh, apparently the link already the link goes to the forum. Already the link's broken
Okay, so, um, yeah The link is not broken. Okay. So now I just got to find out if there's two layers on the rain cover
Someone get me a knife
The link's working fine, dude, I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend this too loose. Yeah, this is
This is not It's this is like clown level. Maybe and in a pinch situation, but don't buy it for that
No, don't buy it for that at all. Not even in a pinch. No pinch. Um, it's not for that
Oh, no, I mean like if you have both bags and you just need something and you already have the cover anyways
Like you could use it, but you shouldn't buy it for that reason. Just take your other backpack. Yeah. Oh, yeah
I just I just wouldn't no. No, I don't like it
So we'll we'll work on a rain cover for the commuter bag
Eventually now that we have a good supplier for them and now that we've got like got most of the hard stuff out of the way
We've got good printing quality and everything. It shouldn't be too much work for us to to get on something
um, okay Also flow plane announcing eve on week. We're supposed to watch a video
His wife my wife
Oh, wow What they got her to do this
Look at the look on her face. You can tell exactly how thrilled she is about being dressed up as burger king
um That's the closest resemblance. I think uh, wow. Okay. Well, um, sorry burger queen. Excuse me. Sorry. Sorry my bad. Um
Oh, I do want to mute that first. Sorry my bad one sec. Uh, but but
But it but where where did I put it wait? She's the thumbnails of all the
Oh, that's funny. I didn't put that together. They replaced me in all the thumbnails
I was like she hosted the ferroelectric RAM video. She really didn't um, this is this one's the best
Okay, here we go. We're ready Hey, everyone, it's eve on week and to start we're gonna clean up some of the LMG stuff on here
Let's get rid of some of this controversial stuff Perfect. Okay. Now we're gonna add the best house
Awesome. Okay. Now to celebrate here are some of the Yvonne for clean exclusives this week
Halleram says do you want your husband to grow out his beard again? Yes
So we're actually up to five cats now. This is panda over here and this is missy. I feel inadequate
How do you deal with people with short attention spans?
Okay, five minutes per ornament if we need let's say what like 20 ornaments
That's a hundred minutes. What did I say? It was gonna take us an hour
Best relationship tip that you always follow and why at first my answer was communication
But then I realized as I was thinking that through that it's commitment
You might not want to compromise or effect change. You're just talking to somebody about how you feel
That is his unhappy I want to get out noise
That'll be fun. All right, so it's Yvonne week
I like the people weeks three special Floatplane exclusives a q&a
Decorating a tech tree and meet the cats Yvonne may also appear on a video or two outside of Floatplane next week
So keep an eye out as we celebrate one of the ogist of the og's two fantastic comments under the video
Steve j3d says finally the real owner of LMG getting some screen time
Another one is basaken said an entire week of avontent. Yes, please avontent
I thought those were pretty you know what I actually I like it. I like it a lot. That's uh, that's very good. That's cute
Okay, more Floatplane exclusive merch. Oh, we have merch
For LTT Floatplane subscribers our second Floatplane x LTT Store collab drops today
Second image after the backpack rain cover on LTT Store. Okay. I'm gonna have you show me that
I haven't seen this included in this drop are two shirts the content cosmos tea
Which was designed by sarah live on Floatplane fueled with ideas from chat
Legally distinct firefox pyro kitsuni. I don't know what that means, but that's on there
And the Floatplane exclusive tea a simple Floatplane logo on a light blue t-shirt
Which you all have requested Whoa
There you go. Oh, that's super cute Does it really have a flying fox?
Oh legally distinct firefox pyro kitsuni
I get it now. It looks like those old comics
An adventure through the content cosmos. This is sick. That is actually very cool. Good price too. Nice. Yeah
Um, nice these fly out onto the store on january 1st 2025. Oh wait, they fly off the store
So if you're interested buy yours before then at LMG.gg
Slash fp exclusive very cool. All right there. That's all the announcements. We are done with announcements
Dan sure you want to show us how merge messages work. We already did one, but let's do another one. How about that? Sure
Hi, ldl. I'm gonna be setting up my very first nas. Yes. I'm considering hexos
I just want to set up a system to manage my Linux isos as there been any
update to the issues you've had with plex Um, I have found that
Downloading is a little better Uh, in general, I I have found it to be a little improved
They have not addressed all of the issues that I kind of laid out as my requirements for us to work with them in an official capacity again
I still am a plex user But I won't do sponsored stuff with them until they actually fulfill all the like stuff that bothers me about
The software that was part of what I supposedly
Have as a lifetime plex pass owner um
Yeah
Cool it is what it is it is what it is for now
Uh Just asks do you transcode down on download? That's the part that really sucks. Yes, that's exactly the point
I don't want to copy full-size files onto my phone for like the plane or whatever. I want to put like
like 320 Kilobit or whatever per second like just the crappiest possible thing as long as the audio is listenable because
I'm just like I'm on a plane. I don't care. I don't want to take up a ton of space on my phone
I'd rather have a bigger library to pick from especially if it's for kids or whatever so they can
It's not sort of browse and stuff. They're not gonna care
Yeah, they'll care about the library. Yeah, they won't care about quality, especially video quality. Everyone cares about audio quality
Up to a certain point
Oh, it says two more topics Dan doesn't talk to us anymore. He just puts paper on the monitor. I don't blame him honestly
We're awful I mean, do you want me to yell at you more? I can yell at you more. You can yell at me all you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm into it. Yeah, I thought you were still doing the uh merge message
No, I'm done. That's all I have to say about that. Do we talk about gaming industry stuff? Coffeezilla do it
Coffeezilla known for his investigative videos on scam topics including crypto related scams released a video going after the csgo gambling scene
I think we all knew it was Just an amount of time until that would happen uh in the in the video
Coffeezilla says that he was paid an embarrassingly low amount of money by csgo empire a csgo gambling site to investigate their competitor
csgo role Well, so you just put csgo and then anything after it uh for scamming users in the csgo gambling scene
Coffee then decided to flip the script denying the offer but still making a multi-part series. I'd like to interject for a second here
um What were they thinking? That was really dumb drawing attention to their whole grift and their whole deal
By involving coffeezilla in it Like there's so many things so many things going on in the crypto world. They they could have just
Let him focus on the radar like forever and they could have just
Done their skins and their gambling and their holographic
Whatever damascus not paid. We didn't wait
Yeah offer he was offered to be paid. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Yes
He didn't take the offer. Did I not say the denying their offer part? It doesn't matter the next line. It doesn't matter the point is
I will clarify. They made an offer to pay him to investigate their competitor. He didn't take it
Um, so it was yeah, it was just it shouldn't have said paid in the first part
Uh, but still making a multi-part series about the csgo gambling epidemic, uh that uh, but
That for a ton of you watching Thanks for a ton of you watching. Uh, Elijah did this one. It's okay. He tries
Anyways, we really like him. He's kind
He's a kind person. There's an elijah note here as well that says youtubers have been getting in trouble since at least 2014
I mean this is probably since youtube existed. Uh, people just don't care anymore. It has become so accepted in our society
It's crazy. This is a literal multi-billion dollar industry that sofu people even know about
But like coffee zilla highlights in the video It's really dangerous to try and go after these companies because they will literally hire hitmen and writers
Okay. Wow. That sounds like a Interesting video to watch. Yeah, this is uh, this is sort of to go along with um to go along with elijah's commentary here
This is such a great question
Why Why was this a slap on the wrist legally speaking?
And why has everyone just kind of like forgot about it forgotten that these that these two people
Were pretending to gamble on a site that it turned out that they owned
They claimed to have a sponsorship But actually they owned it. No financial settlements. No fines
No jail time as they promoted this this gambling site that they owned and were pretending to win big on
two minors
What yeah wacky Um, the same week award-winning indie game balotro, which is a roguelike poker game, but with no actual gambling
uh, well It's fine. Just read the thing it it got an 18 plus rating for including including gambling elements
It's got roulette in it yet games that wait, what I know but the
Pokemon game has a casino in it. Yeah, pokemon blue has a casino in it. Yeah calm down
Yet games that have actual gotcha mechanics with actual money tied to them
Continue to be rated three plus for example, uh, ea sports fc
Is is a three plus rated game that you can like buy i'm assuming you can buy some form of like, uh,
card opening thing for their, uh What is it called?
loot boxes Yeah, no, I know not loot boxes, but I think you get like player cards and you use them in their like pro league thing or something
I don't play it. So yeah, whatever. I they don't I don't need to contribute to their billions and billions of dollars
Yeah, you buy fifa points to open card packs
Just none of these people heard of a roguelike. There we go. Yeah
Um discussion question. How do you think the games industry is able to skirt around traditional gambling laws?
I don't know. I genuinely have no idea. We've been talking about this. I don't know. I don't understand it
It doesn't make any sense to me. I mean that whole thing with syndicate. I remember talking about it
at the time Because like this was this was one that like
Kind of I don't know it felt closer to me than this was huge at the time because because I know the guy
Like I've met him a couple times. I think yeah, and I'm just like
I've I've actually run into him since then and I just like had no idea what to say because I'm just like
How are you still here? Well, right? Yeah
Well, yeah Dude, and I hate to like, you know pull an ellis for narcissist and make this about myself
But are you f***ing kidding me the kind of flak that I took
Maybe you should have gone harder Maybe that's maybe that's your lesson. Maybe I should have run pulled a crypto coin
Yeah, and people and instead people have been like that guy. Yeah, maybe that should just be my shtick
Maybe I should do it every six months and then nobody would bat an eye Linus coin, dude
Should have done it Should have done it
Next question is do you think the rating on Bellatru is fair?
It totally has gamble elements even though there is zero monetary gain. It's a roguelike. No, it's not fair
Dude like oh man like I sort of maybe understand
I do but you got to have consistency in the enforcement. That's the big problem
If it was just Bellatru that got hit by this which it is that's a problem
Yes, if it was like everything that has gambling elements gets hit then it's like, okay
Well, that's that's a different thing. Uh, because I could totally see someone getting into
Bellatru was blackjack based, right poker. No poker base. Um, it's made up
Sort of yeah, but it's based on. Yeah, basically. Yeah So I could see someone getting interested in real poker based on and then probably getting really bored
But tinen brings up an excellent point in the chat tinen from creator warehouse
Who if he's still at work before you leave, do you mind bringing us an update for mayor mck cheese here on the
Bitholder just if you could bring over the the finished one. He's not he's being super. Oh, is he not here anymore?
Okay, I'll go get it later then. Okay mck cheese
Chill stop being cheesed Um tinen brings up a good point
By that logic is rolling a die to see the damage you hit not gambling then I think no
My reason there's lots of dice games boys. My reason for this is that oh
Is there any dice game that's specifically based on that though that isn't just dnd
Because like Bellatru is specifically based on poker
I don't know. I don't know every dice game, but I do know that just like
Rolling dice and seeing if you'll win said craps is a hundred percent gambling. It's a it's like a gambling game
You just you just you just dice Yeah
Either way quite literal actual gambling being rated as three plus while Bellatru is 18 plus is just bad
Yeah, that's not good. I haven't tried Bellatru. Apparently it's phenomenal. It's like one of the best world likes ever made
I Like it and it doesn't matter that it's poker hands of other people like but I like it. Okay
Finally getting my kids into cards Yeah, we just we just never did it. We just like never played cards
We've uh, we've sat around and we've had like family hearts night twice this week
Um, have you ever played hearts? I like hearts. Yeah. Oh, I love hearts. It's fun. It integrates a lot of the
Cool things about like card games in person. I think it's a nice
It's a nice mix of luck and strategy Yeah, because the rounds are not the rounds but the game is long enough that if you're a good player
You can give yourself a much better chance to win But obviously a little bit of an element of luck is fun. I also like the card passing
Um, yeah, the card passing element and the strategy involved if it didn't have card passing
Honestly, it just wouldn't be anywhere in here as good of a game. No, that's a hugely important part. Yeah
No, I uh, no and and it's been it's been really interesting to see how super like hyper engaged the kids have been with it
like They it's like, hey, do you guys want to do you want to do hearts night after the first night?
It's like, hey, do you want guys want to do like hearts night? And they were like immediately at the table. Nice clean up the table. We got some really nice cards. We went to Hidden Wonders again
Local magic show absolutely phenomenal if you live in the Vancouver area if you're visiting soon and you haven't been to Hidden Wonders
It's pretty great. Take your hand. Okay. Just bring it like watch this. Just put it right here and then
It's pretty good like that. Okay, because you're doing yourself a disservice go to Hidden Wonders
The point is I bought some of his cards because he claimed
Sure, and I would never trust a magician, but he claimed that they were the best playing cards in the world
I love them. So I was looking for an excuse to play with them. Sure. So we went last weekend. So anyway, I was so anyway
Afterwards, I was like, hey, do you guys want to play you want to have like hearts night again? They were like cleaning up the table so that you keep our nice cards like nice and cleaning everything
Like getting ready like like absolutely stoked on it and uh, yeah, I was blessed
I used to when I was considerably younger my my best friend's family would bring me out
Fishing for like two weeks in the summer, which was awesome. We'd camp and fish and it was great
Yeah, and one of the things that like the the boys would do at night was was play hearts
Yeah, and it was awesome. It was very fun. Newt says get them into crib. It's great for math and counting skills. It is
I find cribbage to be a Little bit luck based for me to enjoy it as much as I enjoy hearts
We I played if my my grandfather loves cribbage
And so I would play that with him when I was a kid and it was it was pretty cool getting to see my my eldest and
um Learned to play it with him like we went over and we kind of like learned to play with my grandfather
And um, it got to the point where I could be like kind of helping in the kitchen and and they could play a game
So it was that was that was pretty cool But I can't say that I enjoy crib as much as uh, as I enjoy hearts my my main issue with hearts
I also love presidents and assholes. Uh, that's that one's a lot of fun with the big group
My main issue with heart says you got to have four players
Can't have five can't have three. Yeah Um, oh, yeah, binky draws says bluff is a great game to play if you have a bunch of incomplete decks
Uh, yeah, we um, we call it cheat that that's that's what I always knew it as if you played cheat
Cheater bluff or uh, bullshit is it's also called. I don't think um, it's it's not as much fun with a small group
But with a big group like probably Five to eight. I would say would be your your optimal group size and then you play with a couple of decks
Um, oh you claim how many of a card you have is it that game and you put them down face down
Yeah, I've never played it, but I've heard of it. It's a lot. It's a lot of fun If you've got if you've got a like a good vibe
And uh, and people are kind of in a high energy state because it gets really ridiculous because there are wild cards
Plus if you've got two decks, you'll get people making just utterly wild claims like 11 kings
And you'll be like Cheat you pick it up like holy s**t
It's like six kings and five wild cards like
Oh, okay And then when you when you call it and you're wrong you pick up the entire discard pile and bring it into your hand
So when you've got like two decks and someone gets a couple bad calls wrong
They've got like 48 cards in their hand and it's just anything at that point. Yeah
Yeah, the I think that's called a bunch of different things
Um And you can play it with like dice or or I
I think I think people do it with like serial numbers on bills and like all this other type of stuff
Yeah, cheats cheats a lot of fun. Um Sop cannon says uno is fun. I've only played uno once. I what? Yeah, I unironically agree. Uno is actually a super fun game
And it's like I think maybe it gets a bad rap for being kind of like for kids or whatever
Oh, no, I just it's basically crazy eights. We just never had it. Yeah, it's crazy eights
But there's like more there's like more cards and the cards are tailored for the game rather than just being a standard playing card deck
Yeah Yeah, uno is actually like unironically a great game
Buy giant uno decks one of my biggest problems actually with uno is buying the first party cards
They suck The quality is so low
Like it's it's low enough that it that it impedes
My enjoyment of the game. Wow, it's like it's hard to deal them. It's a car
They're sticky like and I'll take a brand new deck out of the box
And they're like they kind of get stuck on each other and like
They just suck. I don't remember them being like that when I was a kid uno cards didn't suck
and so Yeah, yellowjacket zack says I have vintage ones that are probably older than me
And you know what they're probably way better quality because when I was a kid I don't remember them having having costed them down so much
Like it sucks to see stuff that used to be good
Steph dut says phase 10 is the same issue where the cards suck now. I've never I've never heard of phase 10
I don't know what that is, but yeah, just come on man. I just I want quality stuff that lasts
How how much is that to ask? Apparently a lot apparently a lot. Yeah
Um, yeah crystal says they didn't used to suck, but they changed distributors or something
It's like well, they then they shouldn't they should find a good one
Just uh, yeah, anyway We used to play the the main board game that we used to play was called malarkey. Oh, yeah
Have you heard of malarkey before can't say I have I don't know if it's like still a game that's sold, but this is like the exact box that it was on its wikipedia. So I doubt it
Oh, thank you This game malarkey is a trivia game that incorporates bluffing into the gameplay
And it was it was super cool because you would so everyone that's canadian af. Is it is a canadian game?
I don't know. Um, you would get handed out cards. Yeah, and one person would get a thing that just is like
Figure it out. You're gonna have to like make up a lie and everyone else will get facts
And then it's like about a thing Oh, that sounds similar to balderdash
Where you are given a word that people are unlikely to know what it means. Oh, you have to say the definition
And you have to make up so it sounds super similar to that. Yeah, and then you have to like sell
Your thing and why it's correct and man, it was like it was pretty fun. Yeah, that those types of games are a ton of fun
um Do you remember this?
I don't know if anyone else remembers nightmare the board the video board game
um I feel like I've heard of this
It was so I know this frame for sure. Oh
Apparently it was called atmosphere somewhere else
Well, it was called nightmare in north america and it had this like the it had these creepy like video
It's a vhs tapes that would go along with that would go along with it. Uh, yeah, here's the uh, what?
$350 are you kidding me? No, no, no, here's one for 60 bucks
Nightmare the video board game dude. I would I would totally play this
I would totally I would totally play this thing. Hold on Nightmare I I bet it sucks, but I played this with my family like a bunch of times when I was a kid
Why am I on? Oh, how am I doing? Ka-fra. Oh, canadian french. Well, whatever. I'll deal with this another time. But yeah nightmare
Is it any good you're going for it tonight?
Uh, is what any good nightmare? Yeah, I don't know. I I I don't remember. I've probably like
Nine or whatever when I played it. So Who knows?
Um, all right. What are we supposed to be doing? Oh shoot Dan's gone. Um
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Oh, no, wait, sorry Pulseway go fuck yourself San Diego. We had a
No, we had a topic we were gonna do a while back Which was like your favorite land show moments and I still I still have bookmarked
um when Adams on guard wrote that thing in the script and I was just like whatever and just read right through it
The like yufi smart camera thing. Do you remember that? There's uh
With your what was it your tainting balls or whatever?
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For those of you in San Diego who are upset. It's an anchorman reference. It's not I don't actually
I don't actually care enough about the city of San Diego to have feelings about it
I mean, which maybe is worse. I don't know who knows
Oh, no, it was good. I don't have the link anymore. I had the link when we were doing the topic
Well, we didn't end up getting into it for whatever reason, but it's it's it's a very funny clip
Um Okay, okay, Dan hit us
Hi Linus. I was sad to hear that the tall wan v3 hoodie was off the table
What's the minimum order for it to make sense? I have a silicon valley money. Uh, how many do you need me to buy?
Oh man investors, uh Okay, I like you
You're cool. I mean, uh
Here's the thing Minimum order on something like a full custom design hoodie can be a little bit all over the place because it depends on
how many, um Embellishments you're getting that are like custom sourced
So let's say you're getting a custom drawcord or you're getting like a custom
Zipper pull or you're getting a like custom this custom that Depending on whether it needs to be injection molded or depending on whether it's machined or depending on who the supplier is
And what your negotiated terms with them are it can be all over the place
But if I was to say if I was to give you a rough number of how many we would need to produce of a hoodie
Like a kind of quite custom hoodie like the wan hoodie
I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000 to 3000 units
That's for all the sizes combined. Well, it's complicated right because
Depending on whether your limitation is a custom
Died role of fabric or whether your limitation is how many you have to buy of some weird carabiner zipper pull
Or whatever it is, uh, that can impact it. So if if the limitation is fabric, well, you can get around it
That's one of the ways that we're able to do so many different prints of the underwear
Because we can make onesies out of them and we can go through a bunch of the fabric by doing onesies
Um, and that's the reason why I'm trying to think of um of something that was quite limited by
By a custom thing instead. I can't think of anything off the top of my head But there's areas where you can kind of you can kind of account for that
in your product mix By by using it here so that you can just do a few, you know, of that kind of fun underwear pack or whatever
So so so what I'm trying to say is it's all over the place But in general for a custom hoodie, I'd say somewhere between let's say two and three thousand units to get a run done
All right, so a crop. Oh, yeah, right. So I was going to say another thing is sizing
So if you think that it's a design that's going to skew quadruple XL
Then you don't have to produce that many of them to use up like a custom die lot of fabric, for instance
So back to wan hoodie wan hoodie tends to skew pretty standard for for our size mix
So we'll probably go from I think small to triple XL on that one
Don't quote me on that because I don't remember exactly. But here's the issue. We don't have a tall hoodie
um We don't have our tall hoodie grading done yet and grading refers to
The process of taking your reference sample, which is often created as a medium
Because I'm deeply involved in the development process
And I like to be able to try it on in order to give feedback and also because medium is the best selling size obviously because that's why it's medium
um So we have other mediums try them as well to make sure that it's not just made for me
But we start with a medium and then grading is the process of taking that medium and
Building it up and building it down to accommodate different sizes
The issue is that we don't have our grading done for a tall hoodie
It also means that we would need to figure out ahead of time
What our mix would be when we order these thousands of hoodies so across our sizes
Let's say we go small medium large XL double XL triple XL that's six
if we add tall sizes, right
we just doubled our skew count is brutal which is brutal
Okay, then we have to make sure that we get the mix across all those different sizes in the regular and the tall variant
We have to make all of that fit into some reasonable order quantity. Let's say, you know
Let's say 2,500 units for something like that
Then we have to also balance that with that if we absolutely
Completely flub one of them It's going to be out of stock for like six to eight months while we wait for a restock of all the little
Bits and bobs that go on it and production and shipping
It is a lot to manage from a logistic standpoint and I think that often people do not
Consider or they don't have experience with how difficult inventory management can be the number of times that we've had people say
Why don't you just have an eu distribution center? So I don't have to pay as much on shipping
When I'm kind of sitting here going. Yeah, we think we didn't think of that
We've thought of that But now I get to take that
Let's say a 3,000 unit order because I can sell more because I have tall sizes and I have better shipping to the eu
I now take that 3,000 unit order and I have to get the size mix right and then I have to nail
I have to nail Size might be different to Of course it will and so I then I have to nail how many of them I send to our eu distribution center
Or to our na distribution center or you're going to end up paying more for shipping anyway
Because we're going to be out of smalls in europe where people walk everywhere
And we're going to be out of triple xls in the u.s. And it's like crap
So now all we have is an inventory management nightmare because you got to understand
We're a small company still in the grand scheme of things. We are not
Uniclo Yeah, we're not lululemon. Yeah, we aren't producing a style on the order of you know 50 000 units in one shot
We're not doing that. Yeah, we're making maybe 2 000 units. So splitting that across all these distribution centers
Is just it's not it's not feasible for us right now not at our current operating scale
And I know it's easy to say well your operating scale would probably be better if you guys accommodated larger sizes
And if you had multiple distributions, you gotta be careful though. Yeah, but how much investment do I want to take?
I will say I will say do I want to take vc money?
Do I want that to impact our product development and the way we run our business?
We don't want to do that But I will say yeah the tall blank shirt is sold out in long and short sleeve in every single possible size that we have
It's very very very strongly rated five stars the top review on it and I'm gonna cut luke off
I actually muted his mic. I've muted your mic I'm I'm gonna cut luke off right now
Because I have good news for you When we bring in our new colors of t-shirts, which are coming soon. I think we've got five new colors of t-shirts
I want to say They will be available in tall sizes. Oh, that's cool. So not just black
But you got to give us time. No, that's awesome. That's awesome. I'm just I'm not I I understand it all takes time
I'm just saying the most recent review says please bring back more to the store. I need 20 of them. I know I'm aware
I'm aware Frostblade says yes
um A lot of people underestimate how small
LTT is Yes, it's bigger than the two person coffee shop in my town
But even a company like critical role is maybe 10x LTT and even then they're small compared to something like a mr. Beast
we are any creator company is
Insignificant, you know compared to the the multinationals and honestly even then I see comments all the time that are like
How can they not do this? They have a hundred employees. It's like, okay, but do you have any idea how much stuff we do?
We do we do so much all of those people are incredibly busy
It's not I actually don't know if critical role is 10 times our size
I don't know how big critical role is but I'd be pretty surprised. That would be very surprised
I was reading the comment verbatim. I mean, how many people
How many people work at critical role? Uh, honestly, we assume they're smaller, but I don't know. Yeah, I have no idea. I mean they have like
eight founding members. So they they definitely
Have some stuff going on or something
Uh, yeah, does anyone know like how many people worked there? I legitimately have absolutely no idea
I'm over it, uh, okay
What do you want to talk about next about another merge? Oh, yeah, right merge messages
Celebrating getting a new job at an aws data center coming from it at a k to 12 school district
What are the biggest mindset shifts or skills I should focus on for success in a data center
We don't work at a data center Oh critical role is about our size
LinkedIn says um
50 to 200 people so they're they're somewhere in the same kind of neighborhood as us
I don't care cool Nice, uh, what exactly was they went from they went from teaching and now they're working in a data center
It from it like elementary high school to working in uh, okay, so it at a school to
I do you for a school district. I should say um
Man security Yeah, probably I mean there's a lot of privacy and security concerns and something like a school
but man compared to the stories you hear people telling about like
Like man, seriously going to uh going to equinex
And like hearing that there's cages that literally if anybody even touches the outside of them like they have touch sensors on them
Like the head of the head of security get to call like immediately. It's like that's like that's wild
Yeah, I feel like the stakes are going to shift Yeah, if if the tv's in the hallways of the school aren't receiving the thing that you're trying to send over them
I'm sure somebody's going to be upset about it. Um
But now you're working at a data center that is serving data for
any number of different types of businesses um
And it's it's likely going to be a more intense environment. I suspect. I don't know though like again, neither of us
Yeah, neither of us have worked in a data center. Um, Dan yeah, Dan
Danny says I had to get an fbi background check to get a tour of the switch data center here in vegas. Yeah
Like that doesn't surprise me at all I've heard
Now you're working in the data center not the software development side. I've heard the software development side of aws is quite the the meat grinder when it comes to
employees um so
I don't know keep your head down All right, Dan one more. Yeah last one. Hey dll
I've had my backpack for one and a half years to which my kid and significant other both wanted one
Which are already under our tree. Would you ever sell LTT colored carabiners to help a family differentiate bags?
That is so funny. Uh, do either of you have your LTT backpack on you? I do
Uh, can I can I borrow yours for a second Dan? Do you still have your thing on it?
Yeah, the thing the name thing. Yeah, so here's our solution
Uh, we gave them away at our christmas party one year and um, here hold on line is cam. There we go
We put um, there we go We put little tags on them with little laser engraved tags with people's names
Because we did foresee that it was going to be a huge problem that literally everyone in the entire company
Had the same backpack all of a sudden overnight Yep hasn't really helped
Really? Not really. So, uh, my new solution. People just don't look at them, I guess
Is to find some little that's heavy. You got some stuff in there. I know I always do
Find some little embellishments or something to hang off of yeah to hang off of your poles
And help to differentiate your bag. That's really that's really all you can do
I've got my dopamine beaker and I've lost my little whale
From lttx I still have the little gold chain, but the whale has gone and I've got a couple little things on there
The the Floatplane team went on a Floatplane So I have the like luggage tag from when we did that still on my bag
um, and I've got the the like
Uh morphologists the like architect stars isn't a guy
He gave me a pin for his like stars isn't clan or whatever it is. Um, and I have that on my bag
So I think it looks cool mine is a mighty car mods lanyard nice from our recent collab
And then I also have my little Linus
Sebastian thing I stole that from my full-size backpack. Yeah, mine's still on my full size and this is a snake
Um, yes that my daughter made for me
I'm I mean, yeah, it's kind of a snake
Hold on she actually gave me a new thing that I might have lost uh-oh bad dad
Oh Oh shoot. I might have lost the little lizard. She gave me well neat. Whoops
Is there anything important in there? Because you really flop it around. Oh, it's all my screwdrivers
Yeah, I have like five screwdrivers in there because I I put all my different bit sets in my different screwdrivers
They're all color-coded. Oh, can I do a can I do a business pitch to you?
Live on the show business pitch aka a
Yeah, can I do one of those? Yeah, you can get me cool nice, uh, so open sauce was amazing and
Some of us are going to go again. Just like regardless. Yeah, um, but I was thinking it's a maker event
What if we had a make your own screwdriver booth?
Don't pitch it to me No, no pitch it to pitch it to someone else because that is going to be a b***h
Is it so what is it? Is it do the? Machines become a problem or like what are what are the downsides here? Uh tine and is saying
Yeah, I already kind of somewhat so there's a number of issues issue number one is
Getting the dyed plastics There's minimum order quantities often for getting dyes
So we cheated on a lot of the ones that we had for the make your own screwdriver booth at ltx
where we were able to piggyback on top of The mega pro red that they already are buying in bulk and we were like a little bit of it from them and some other colors
They had a blue already that we that we borrowed
There were a couple where we had to like buy too much dye. It goes bad. It's like great and like plastic dye goes bad
Like okay sure that sucks. Oh tine and says it's an excited e. Uh, okay. I am not committing to anything
Um, so there's gotta make sure it makes sense There's then there's the like getting the production time for it because you're basically you don't know what you're gonna make
Yeah, so you have to make like extra of everything and have a huge bin of garbage at the end of it essentially
Well, we we made not really we made lemonade out of garbage Because we made the mystery screwdriver the random color screwdriver. So that's fine. We got rid of it all that that's okay
We could solve that But the other issue is transportation. We have to carry. We have no idea what we're gonna make
Everyone at open sauce might make an all-orange screwdriver
We don't know And obviously you can kind of run out of something but if you run out of like half of it that sucks
That's that's that's taking a w and turning it into
Two l's, you know like that's not That's not good. Did you come with that on spot? I know I've used it before but it is a me thing
It's pretty good. Yeah, taking taking a w and turning it into l's or taking two l's and turning them into a w
I love it. It's pretty good. Um, so you got to so you got to carry a bunch of stuff down
Um, so that's that's a real pain in the butt and and otherwise, you know, you have people show up at the booth
And it's like, oh, yeah, I mean this would be kind of cool
It doesn't have the right colors for me. You don't want to create negative experiences. I wait in the line now and there's none of this left
Um, and then there's also the fact that that would mean that instead of our cool team
Of cool people hanging out with other cool teams and cool people. They're like manning a booth
Which I don't know. Maybe you guys are super into it and you just want to work out a booth at open sauce
But like are you sure? Just all I'm asking is that you just think about it. Are you sure?
Because it's not something that I would that I would assign to people. I wouldn't be like, oh, yeah
That show that you really like attending. How about you work at it? They want us going again anyways. Um, so that's cool
So we're gonna have some kind of presence there regardless when it happens whenever the date is. I don't remember
Diego san says that's why you have employees. Duh. I'm talking about the employees
The the shit doesn't just what roll down a hill
Indefinitely at some point somebody has to work. What did you say?
Lou can do it. I I honestly somewhat agree with him. I don't want a man to booth
I don't want to do that part maybe for like a little bit. I don't want to do it for the whole get volunteers to help
No, you guys don't understand what's so cool about the screwdriver booth as you get to talk to the people who designed it
What's cool about the screwdriver booth is that they like know it inside out and what's safe about the screwdriver booth
Is we have people who are really familiar with the arbor presses and that can make sure that nobody squashes a finger and all that important stuff
um Yeah, so I I I don't know I
What I would rather do what I'd rather do in the longer term or the medium term
Is figure out how to do like an xbox controller configurator, but for the screwdriver where you can just configure your own custom one online
Yeah, that's where I'd like to get to but we are we can build the configurator. No problem, but
We even have a 3d version of it. That's like semi made already. Have you seen that?
I think so actually the 3d hovering screwdriver in a in any background environment you want the logistics of it
Are tough. Yeah, that part's way harder. Yeah for sure because one of the big challenges
Is that we have to stock the entire ratchet assembly with the selector ring on it already?
if that were not the case it would
Significantly simplify the lead times of that part because we have to have the injection molding done here
Then we have to have it assembled onto the ratchet assembly in china
Then we have to have that assembly sent back over here for final assembly of the driver
And handling that across like six or eight different colors or whatever
It's just like buh, it's going to mean that for extended periods of time
You're going to have certain colors out of stock It's just it's a lot of logistics to manage when we're already having trouble keeping t-shirts in stock
So and that doesn't mean that the team isn't smart and doesn't work hard or whatever
It just means that the logistics of managing a store with like over a thousand SKUs is is really tough
It's also like if you if you look at Customized versions of products on stores. Yeah, I can think of a couple where like, I don't know you can get your name
Etched onto it or whatever. It's usually surprisingly not that cheap. Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, it's it's a lot
Oh, dude, we've got um, we were looking at what the pricing would probably have to be if we ever did the resin infused
Wooden screwdriver or the sorry. Yeah, the resin infused wood
screwdriver And those screwdrivers instead of being like buying a resin infused wooden screwdriver, you would probably buy
that one And it would probably be listed on the site for like
seven eight hundred nine hundred dollars because realistically it would have to be like
Hand monitored like we would take that piece of wood
Like that one and then we would probably do it here
And it would have to be like hand assembled by someone on our engineering team as opposed to just some random
Or whatever because of still has to meet specs, etc
Yep, and and the cost of of those things like it's
Like when you look at like knives and stuff that have this resin infused wood in the handle and stuff like that
They're they're like a thousand dollars They're because the getting it is is really expensive on top of all the other complications making the thing
You can't get them at volume, right um
citizen 5391 says bespoke screwdrivers would go crazy for the whales
I know I know you could sell like Five of basically anything. Oh, yeah. Oh, oh probably it's just a question of like
It's it's balancing whether that would even be worth spending our time on like the opportunity cost of it
We also have this the whole thing with the store where we're we're trying to
Make something new and better and while it might be expensive
It's really good and and it's somewhat reasonable that stuff
It also has to be somewhat within expensive but reasonable like yeah
We had a six hundred dollar backpack But everyone who bought it was thrilled with the luxe backpack because the materials are great
It has all the functionality of the regular backpack and it's a head turner
Um, like when I was daily driving the luxe backpack, dude, I saw you get questions about it
People are like wow, what is that because not everyone's into it and that's totally fine
But the people who like it like it like one of my friends in taiwan like badminton buddy
Tried to buy it off of me and I was like dude This is the only sample like I have to wear test it. You can't he's like, uh, what's the what's the retail price?
I'll buy it for full retail price. I'm like, dude. I look I would give it to you if I could
It's not about the money. Yeah, you just can't have it. It's the only one that exists
Yeah Top Gear asks have you guys surpassed a million screwdrivers yet stubby and full-size combined? No. No, I think I think we're close to
300,000 or so which is a time which is
Unbelievable. Yeah, and I think our Shopify order number
Is over a million now But I don't think we actually have a million orders because there can be like cancellations and stuff. Oh, that makes sense
Yep, so we're getting we're getting super close to a million orders through Shopify
We we apparently are actually like a very sizable
Like store for the Shopify platform, which is something I never would have thought I never would have thought would happen
Citizen 5391 asks how is the gold controller doing?
It's doing great appreciating Actually, yes
If anyone wants to buy it You could buy an appreciating asset
I would be very open to selling it. I don't actually have any kind of emotional attachment to it
It's actually kind of annoying to use. Yeah, it's not great to use it weighs so much
It is but it's cool and you'll look cool in front of all your cool friends. Yeah
if you wanted to um
Yeah, if you wanted to I don't even know I have a big and tall label on it
I'll engrave a little way okay, I'll engrave away
Okay How crazy would it be?
Like to celebrate a million screwdrivers to do like a golden screwdriver
Or something like that. I actually I don't even know I don't even know I don't even know if we'd have to wait that long
I think that doing a golden screwdriver for like the metal screwdriver
Launch or something like that would be kind of cool. Wait, what? Oh, you mean to sell it? No one's gonna buy it. No, no
Metal screwdriver launch. I don't know you're talking about
um anyway What are we supposed to be doing Dan topics hp
Downgrades printer features when you don't buy genuine ink
according to a post on r slash Whole design an hp printer owner named mitch had multiple features of his deskjet
2700 removed or revoked because he lost his hp plus benefits when he installed non hp replacement ink in his printer
Some hp plus benefits include cloud-based printing automatic updates and fixes
improved print quality Advanced scanning features extended warranty and enhanced security features
Now hp's version of this is
That hp plus is a free upgrade available on many hp printers when you set up an hp account
Use genuine hp ink cartridges and keep your printer connected to the internet
Additional benefits include the optional hp instant ink
Oh, so you pick a plan based on how often you print not how much ink you use starting at 189 a month for 10 pages
Of that whole thing is that whole is that still a thing? I guess
See you don't get to just spin, you know you can't just spin you can't say hey
It's an upgrade if you do all this stuff
No, it's not it's a downgrade if you don't do all this stuff. You have a gun to my head. This is a stick not a carrot
Uh Uh
brutal $1 89 cents a month q u not $189 since oh you just
Luke's on it in the chat just 100 believable. I don't know what to say about that other than
Yeah, I was just like that sounds about right for hp brutal. Let's move on to our next one. Somebody found our geocache
Yeah, at the end of tuesday's video. Oh our original here. We might as well. We might as well show they uh
Hey They found it and they look exactly genuine smiles exactly as wet as I would expect them to look
So that has a $500 LTT Store gift card on it or something like that. I think
Um, so this was really cool at the end of tuesday's video the most expensive usb drive on earth
Per gig we revealed that we had hidden that ferroelectric usb drive in a geocache somewhere in the vancouver bc area
With $500 of coupon codes on it and we left clues throughout the video
A flurry of activity in the comments our forums and reddit followed and the device was found about six hours later
Near a geocache in port coquitlam
Here is the solution If you uh, if you don't want spoilers and you want to try to solve it for yourself by watching the video
You can totally do that. Um, I'll put both hands up when you're good to tune in again. There you go. Um
First the video had four quarters of a qr code hidden in it
Connor was responsible for hiding the qr codes and he determined the spots the timestamps are 502 543 643 ish
It's a single frame and 1012 in the outro
Once you assembled the pieces of the qr code it led you to a picture of a broken fence
The fence was a rail fence which references the cipher used to encode the text
Surrounding the qr code since the fence in the image had three rails. So did the rail fence cipher
I added space and line breaks to the encoded message which makes things a bit more difficult
I did not include an offset. So here's an example of a rail fence cipher
Was this connor's idea because this was sick, uh
I know I believe this would have been adam working on this
Good job I had intended to have an extra step using another ciphered message within the rail fence cipher
The next hint would have been liberty freedom Tierney is dead aligned from shakespeare's julius caesar to indicate that the next code was using a simple caesar cipher
a to b b to c c to d etc Even when only a portion of the message had two layers of encryption
It made it very hard to know if you were on the right path Also, I ran out of time to make it more complex. So we didn't do that
Instead I just included the name of a geocache that could be found near where I stashed the drive
To avoid too much disruption to the geocache. I didn't actually hide the drive inside of it
Just nearby to get the exact coordinates. You had just had to solve the geocache puzzle, which I will not spoil here
Um adam says I did my best to be hands off But did end up providing hints by reacting to comments on the forums when it seemed like people were getting really far off
Like thinking that we hit it in enderby or started calling phone numbers
adam Oh boy. Yeah, okay. That makes sense. Congrats to redditor betty brat and her husband
It was great to see the teamwork of the community many viewers outside the vancouver area
We're helping out those who were close enough to have a chance at the prize
We did manage to generate some mild controversy in the geocache community
Uh geocaches are created by community members and are meant to be done for the fun of it
Rather than for any sort of prize and introducing a bunch of normies to any hobby is usually met with a bit of resistance
Um as new folks might not understand the culture or best practices
Um Some people did point out that plugging in random usb sticks is a bad idea. You don't know what's on it in this case
I um I really doubt that someone was able to find it flash the firmware program something malicious to put on the usb drive
Then put it back where it was supposed to be as possible. It is possible. However, very unlikely
I'd also be surprised if someone decided to purchase similar looking usb keys with malicious stuff on them and litter them around geocaches in the lormand land
Um, it's like needles in candy apples. It's not really a thing that actually happens except when it does happen
Um, so yes, that is a really good point But it was also a very distinctive looking usb drive with very distinctive functionality like you
Yes, good point would have been tough But also very very unlikely the level of the level of gatekeeping that was going on with a couple of members of the geocache community
Yeah, actually comical. Yeah, um, and y'all need to calm down
Uh, but yeah, it was it was fun. It was fun. We had a lot of we had a lot of fun with it
And uh, the team has a lot of fun creating content like that. I saw a lot of people
That were angry about the sort of detective interrogation
and like the lawyer conversational skit that took place in the video
And anyone who said it wasn't their cup of tea I kind of noted that and anyone who got super angry about it is now officially shadow band from the channel forever
Because guys we gotta we gotta do stuff. Don't don't get mad. Just express your thoughts. It's so exhausting sometimes dude
Our comment section is legitimately. It's getting better
Like way better. I don't know whether it's the threat of shadow banding or the or that it was just a very
Because I haven't actually done it to that many people Or whether it was just a very small number that we're creating as far as my understanding of the
Nonsense a lot of these are actually very small numbers. Like oh, yeah
It's a lot of communities are often ruined by a very small group of people
Yeah, because it doesn't take much to taint the bunch
Nope, it really doesn't and you know what? I um, I had an interesting conversation at the uh, the smash champs the badminton club
At the smash champs christmas party. I now have to attend multiple christmas parties running too many companies
It's a very relatable problem. I know um, so we had a really interesting conversation because they finally dug up a data point that i've been asking for
And you know how I can never turn off work. So we're at a christmas party. We're talking about work. Anyway, the point is that um
Because we've been offering it for free. We've had free drop-in for our soft opening
There have been people who have been signing up
And then not showing up because there's no consequences for not showing up and what we discovered that there was a group
of repeat offenders who had done it
over 30 times In a span of just a couple months that we've been soft open and so we were having a conversation about you know, what?
What our reaction should be to something like that and uh, the team I want to get out ahead of this the team
already Made their case and and and I gave in I gave in they said they wanted to give a warning to these people
Before issuing any kind of suspension or or anything like that
but what I told them I wanted to do was just
Just permanently ban them forever
Because doing something like missing missing a booked session once in a while that happens
It's gonna happen that happens. Yeah doing it dozens of times over a span of 30 times over a span of a couple of months
Yeah Knowing that by booking the session somebody else can't sign up for it because it's a limited number of slots
That just means you're a f***ing asshole if they're gonna do that. What else are they gonna do?
I just don't want them around. Do they really want them on your course? And here's the numbers
2.5 percent
It was two and a half percent
Of the total people who have come to play that were engaging in this sort of egregious level
of abuse of our online booking system
And would you let people appeal?
Why? Yeah, why? Yeah
No, why? Give me a good reason. Yeah, that many times is tough because that means you spent a month in the how long two months?
How long it's been over? So you spent half of the time since it's been open booking and not showing up
so like, you know, maybe you have a slew of
Unfortunate events and you end up not making like a few in a row even and it like looks kind of bad
And you're like, yeah, like I just I wasn't trying to be a jerk I just I thought I could go and then you know just like it's not right now and I just kept not working but
I Spending a month out of
Two to two and a half months doing that is is too much. Yeah, chris 429 says honestly
It's crazy that two percent of the time you've been open. You couldn't rent that space. That's crazy
That's not how that math works. The way the math works is that if you have
two and a half percent Of the people of the people that have come and played
Doing this 30 plus times We would have sessions that are fully booked and have like a third of the people there because two-thirds of them weren't there
That's that's what this kind of egregious repeat offending does to a community. It destroys it
Yeah, it actually yeah, it makes it less interesting and when there's less people there, it's less interesting
Yep, because in my limited experience with badminton people, you'll kind of jump the courts a little bit sometimes
Yeah, absolutely play with other people do whatever especially during drop-in. Yeah, it's it's very much a community thing. So having
Such a reduction in the amount of people that are there can be bad. Hazafia says there has to be some advanced payment for booking
Yes, yes, and once we once we're taking payment absolutely there will be but we're soft open
And we wanted people to be able to come and try the courts and and enjoy some free badminton. I mean
This is why we can't have nice things. We actually we're trying to like do a solid
Obviously, there's an advantage for our business, right? Like we're getting we're giving people that first that first hit, you know
Um, uh smash. Yeah, the first first first smash, right? Yeah, but like
Yeah, like I don't know. Yeah, so obviously we're gonna figure it out But no it was free. So people were taking a free thing
It's it's and so it was like the two percent of people were showing up at the door where the bowl of candy is out
Please take just one and just taking all of them
ruining it for everybody brutal
Um, so yeah, I don't know. I just I I just my state of mind Yvonne disagreed she supported the smash team and
You know, they ultimately have decided to issue a warning to all these people and even that
That's like a manual process that's creating unnecessary work for us
To go and like tell them to not be a f***ing asshole, right? Like why?
So they're gonna do it. They're gonna do it. We're gonna give them a warning or whatever
But honestly, I'm not I don't support that. I think we should just not bother with I don't need them
I'll take the other 97 and a half percent of good eggs. Yeah, because I don't think you're gonna have intended problem
Most people are pretty awesome Most people are pretty chill
It just takes a so that that was what I thought was interesting. It was that number
Two and a half percent was the number of people who were just egregiously just jackasses. I bet you it's really not that far off for like
Most things. Yeah, yeah genuinely
Yeah, like looking at communities that I've modded before and stuff. It's like or like really a small sitting in the theater watching a movie
It's only it's only like two people that won't shut up or have their phone on or whatever. Yeah, apparently
I was reading an article about this. Is this true? Apparently disruptions in movie theaters are becoming like way more of a thing
Yeah, because people aren't used to not being on their phone. So they'll just be on their phone the whole time
What? Yeah That's crazy
Yeah And they don't do anything. They don't just like kick these people out
I guess not like that's the that's the thing that really blows me away
Because as the proprietor of the business, I feel like it's my job to ensure that my customers have a good time
And I don't care about one person
If they are impacting the other 99 that are not able to enjoy
My facility I am wondering a little bit like I've heard this as well. You've heard this
I've heard this you can have us really go to movies that often anymore. So we haven't experienced it
Is this we're all hearing about it or have people in the chat actually genuinely experience this because like Elijah said
Uh, yeah, people cheering. It's so true people cheering sometimes also
Is this from Elijah going to the theater or are you hearing this? There's no way Elijah ever went to a theater
no way And Elijah says it's hard to kick people out. It's a bigger disturbance to do that than to let them be annoying. No
No, no, no, no, that's the thing Because you you only have to kick them out one time. They will be a disturbance
forever You're here once a month. Wow. Oh really? Well, then why haven't you ever seen any movies?
What are you even doing there modern bad ones? I don't know man
Um
Maybe just theaters the staff is just a person for popcorn. Yeah, I'm not dude. I don't know
As a moviegoer and I used to manage one in the 2010s
Uh, there's way more talking during the movie and phone usage than there used to be. Yeah, okay avid moviegoer. Okay. Yeah
Yeah, apparently it's more of a thing
Huh, okay, I don't know dude
Um, okay. I think that's because it's the new lord of the rings movie kind of
That's my take on it What is he said? Nobody goes anymore. We went to go see the new lord of the rings movie and there's only five people there
What new lord of the rings movie? Is there a new lord of the rings movie? I don't know, which is the whole what are you talking about a whole part of the problem
There's no new lord of the rings movie. No, you're drunk
Hold on what? No Oh
Animated The war within
Oh, I don't know if it's not not the war within the war of the roe heron
Is is this cut off? Is this like actually based on anything tolkien rhoda? Is this just like
Gonna have final season of game of thrones syndrome
Uh plot 183 years before the events. It's animated and not promoted. Well. Yeah, this doesn't seem like a fair comparison
necessarily oof oof 11 and a half million box office on a budget of 30 million
Oh, that's not that I have a budget though. Uh animated movie
That's that's a high budget for a like not pixar animated movie. Yeah
Like I don't know. I don't know who the heck this is. Oh pierre jackson's involved though. Interesting
Don't I mean animated movies don't do well you can't really say that because like inside out too was low-key like huge
And sort of too was good. Yeah, also mario movie. I'd like there
There are yeah, there are big there are big animated movies. Yeah, the big ones do really well
All right. Yeah, I honestly had no idea there was this
Final fantasy seven rebirth directors have asked fans not to make inappropriate mods again
They told the epic game store while the team has no plans for official in-game mod support
We respect the creativity of the modding community and welcome their creators though
We ask modders not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate
Community developed mods can provide everything from bug fixes and quality of life features to entire expansion for games
But can also add less wholesome content
Some pcr Some pcmr members question if this is a genuine request or a clever way to market the game based on potential mod content
And that's a hundred percent what it is. Luke seems to be Luke seems to be
On that side, but I'll say this I bet the bank on it. I'll say this
if if this was
Um, if this was ubi soft, I would agree with you
But it's not And they've done this before
This exact person I think has done this before okay, and the
Results were exactly what you would expect sure and they're doing it again
Probably because last time it got a ton of press
And a ton of people talked about how the game was moddable. I'm like, oh my god, of course, there's gonna be inappropriate mods t. He hooray
And I'm sure they know the same thing's gonna happen again
what if What if there are potentially
cultural differences And this may genuinely be a case where they are just respectfully asking again
knowing that nobody listened last time And hoping that someone will actually listen. Do you think that is possible? I think it's possible. Yeah
I I do agree that that's possible. I think at the same time that if if that is the case
I hope that they realize that it is doing
Completely the opposite thing. Maybe they do maybe they don't
But either way there are currently over 1400 mods to ff7 remake on nexus mods
And at least a couple hundred of them are not safe for when
Yeah Uh tine asks could it be both? Yeah, it could be it could be both
It could be a little bit of both this particular individual or there could be members of the team that that
Really are actually offended by
Like I'm sure at least someone there doesn't like that those are happening
Yep, and I'm at least desecration of their beloved characters and art and you know, whatever else
And I'm sure that at least someone else there is seeing dollar signs
And it's like wow this works really well last time I bet you we could do the exact same thing and the news media will do the exact same thing and it will be great
And then that's exactly what happened Revivers
digital license plates hacked to dodge tolls and tickets
I had no idea that these were a thing until I saw this in the wan doc stop it stop it
Okay, okay, okay, okay so
digital license plates had no idea screens
How is that illegal who could have possibly foreseen
That somebody would hack them and change what's on the screen nobody who could have who could have foreseen it
so so the
Topic here is all about what's happening with revivers
digital license plates that is like completely besides the point from
How do these exist do these exist? How are they legal at all? This is so
Oh my goodness dude You're not even allowed to put like a piece of plastic film
Over top of your license plate here because it makes it more difficult for the traffic cameras to photograph them
Yeah, people do it anyway, but technically you're like not supposed to
Who the fuck thought this was a guy? Why?
What is even the point of it? It doesn't even look that much different
And it like would take some amount of energy It seems very weird to me like they're super cool
Like you can change the like outer You know a border of it for like a vanity thing or whatever like yeah, they're super cool
I can do that anyways. I can understand why somebody would want one. Oh that unquestionably
No doubt all the license plate flipping motorcycle people. Yeah, definitely
But how anyone in any kind of position of authority could look at this and go that's fine
Gee, I don't think anything could go wrong with this
What? Yeah
I was I was stunned. Here's what's going on
Somehow I don't I don't know how this happened Attackers can replace the firmware on reviver brand digital license plates, which are currently installed on 65,000
attackers The new firmware allows an attacker
To change the number on the plate at will via a phone app potentially sticking other drivers with their tickets and tolls
The hack may also enable users to access other plate features without paying revivers monthly subscription fees, which are apparently
35 Oh, okay
$35 a year Yeah, $35 a year. Why?
Um, why why why would I want to pay $35 a year?
Well, you don't want to which is why you hack it for my life So reviver says the hack voids the warranty and requires
fancy tools and rare expertise
But researcher Joseph Rodriguez counters that now that the hack has been discovered a bad actor only needs to plug in a cable and
Upload a new firmware. Yeah, sounds about right Reviver plates will send a notification to the owner if they are detached from a vehicle
So attackers may need to jam or overcome that feature in some way
Uh, there's apparently no way for reviver to update the software to prevent the jailbreak
It is apparently in hardware and this is not the first time their system has been compromised in 2022
Vulnerabilities and revivers web infrastructure allowed attackers to gain administrative privileges on their backend database allowing the ability to track and change plates at will
Digital plates are currently legal to buy and register in california, arizona and michigan
Wow Our discussion question is I didn't know automated speeding tickets didn't exist there anymore
What problems are being solved with a digital license plate? Nothing. I don't understand its point at all
Okay, other than getting away with speeding tickets and tolls that I completely understand vanity themes
But like is that even What are you really allowed to do because like in the picture that we have it's just a super normal license plate
No, you can you can put like cute things on it Anyway, there's a is that any different that is like putting a sticker on your normal license plate, dude. I don't know
Custom banner messages. Oh my god at 75 dollars a year. They limit how many custom banner messages you can put on it
Why are you allowed to put custom banner? messages
Like that's is that not like distracted distracted driving dude. How is that okay? Well, no, you would do that while you're not driving
It can pay your tolls display amber alerts and track your location. I think you can also use it for um
You can use it for like anti theft. I don't think it can track your location. They have a they have a statement specifically saying
um Reviver reached out with us with a statement saying that the license plates do not have gps capabilities
Okay, maybe this is a different uh, maybe this is a different startup then
So I don't know what this is Anyway, okay. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, oh, yeah, revivers plates though. Don't come cheap at it
Oh, yeah, did I mention the plates 500?
If you want to give it a cool border buy a plastic one that have existed for a trillion years
And if you want the little cool banner things just put stickers on it. Sure thing grandpa
She's She's Okay with being old if that's the line reboot rewind has started their crowdfunding campaign
It's over on go fund me I just wanted to promote this real quick because it's a super cool
Super cool mission. Uh the the show reboot
Um Was like kind of part of our our childhood, especially here in canada
Yeah, and the original tapes have been found, but it's a lot of work to
Get them fixed So, um, I think we could I think we could probably throw a thousand bucks at it
If you guys want to throw a little bit of money at it, um, that'd be that'd be super cool
I'm gonna just gonna forward this to accounting if there's anything else for you to say about that topic
Go ahead, but I need to do this. So yeah
YouTube announces slash changes this week clickbait slash voice reply slash third party ai training youtube announced
Starting in india will be removing egregious clickbait
Defined as videos where the title slash thumbnail don't match the content. Wow interesting some examples
They use are in quotes the president of the usa steps down where obviously that didn't happen
What if it's a skit though?
I have heard And I haven't experienced it personally, but I have heard that misinformation
Is a particular problem like especially in india
in like whatsapp groups and apparently
I don't know this. I have not experienced this but apparently
It is It is it just spreads like absolute wildfire and it's caused some serious problems
That's all I really have to say about that. That's that's all I've heard interesting
YouTube also allows creators to opt in to third party ai
Training what are they training question mark? Who knows?
But at least creators have the option to opt in it's not on by default. This is just youtube announcements this week
So this is completely separate from the other so no. Yeah, for sure. That's just so weird
YouTube is also testing a new voice reply feature in comments. This can only be done by the creator of the video
That's actually really cool. It has to be a reply to someone else's comment and only on iOS. What?
For select channels why only on iOS?
I don't know man. This is kind of based on something that I had asked them to do a while back
I definitely didn't ask it for to be only on iOS But you got to understand iOS is probably if I had to guess I'd say it's like 90 of top youtube creators
But it's not their own thing. I know doesn't matter
They at the end of the day look look I could make this argument the other way to
Should they serve their customers or should they serve their own platform do both well be sure but just release on Android and iOS
That's not the question of this Yeah, and when you're when you're trialing a new feature that might not ever even go full of release like
Do you do the 50% of the work that reaches 90% of your users?
Or do you do the 100% of the work that reaches 100% of your users?
I understand it. I don't have to like it, but I do understand it
Yeah
Discussion question now and click team green act and sus
A user posted this week on x that they were experiencing up to a 15 percent penalty in performance while having the invidia app installed on their computer
several other users and publications also tested this claim with a variety of games and
While some may reach up to a 15 percent penalty It seems that across the board every game that was tested stopped between two and 12 percent on average
I think there was some solution here. I think you just had to like turn a particular setting off
Yes, and invidia is working on fixing it So we just wanted to make sure people know to go ahead and uh, do we know what the setting is though?
I don't remember go google it. Yeah, it's you'll figure it out. Definitely googleable. It's a very easy and quick fix
It like it sucks, but it's not difficult to solve citizen 53 91 asks
How much flexibility do you have with accounting you gave away $500 and now a thousand dollar donation?
I mean, how do I how do I how do I put this?
It's all his dollars. Well, it's not sort of it's all yours and avance dollars. It's
It's mine if I decide to give it to me, which means it's yours
But it isn't yet right until such time But you have full control of it as I decide to give it to myself means it's yours
But it isn't yet, but you own it which means I don't know you do though because you own the company
I own the company that is a separate and distinct legal entity
But you own that that owns it and it owns that I do
But that entity With its board of directors through inheritance. You own the money
You own the company that owns the money. You're being very literal right now. You're being very literal. Luke. I could stab you
I just haven't yet Yeah Yeah, same thing. That's I have a knife. That's no, it's not the same thing. No, it's not the same thing
Yeah, it is the same thing the government has to get involved after I do it
It's not the same thing Elijah enough
um Anyway, the the point is that
At the end of the day if it's just down to money
As long as i'm not doing something that's going to get Yvonne mad at me
Or that is going to affect someone on the team's goals or like they're like their kpis or their quarterly bonus or whatever else
If it's just out of the profits of the company, then I have
Basically to luke's point Full discretion to do whatever the f*** I want with it. No, you could technically do all those things anyways
That's self-control. Oh, well, no, no, no. I just mean I just mean in terms of like what my rules are
Yeah, that's what I mean though. It's self-control because you own it
So I I know that Yvonne's not going to be upset about us
donating That amount of money to a cause that we think is cool
And I don't think accounting is going to be bothered It's it's another check. Yeah, like it's it's yeah, so whereas if I was doing something like
In the middle of wandshow I took a brand new product that we launched and I marked it down 90 percent
Right the creator warehouse team now has to scramble to get a new order in
They now have to figure out what the heck they're going to do about all the sales that were cannibalized by this new product
That is now priced way under it. They have goals around profitability for the store and inventory management that I've now just completely screwed up
Self-sabotaging your own company. That's it and and and and the people within it and the people within it
If we're creating a bunch of work for people, that's not okay, but if we're
contributing some cash that isn't mine because I haven't decided to give it to myself yet
Um Then Towards a like a project that's kind of cool and is aligned with our corporate values and with mine and Yvonne's personal values
Then that's not a problem. Yeah, that's fine
Um citizens just wait till just wait till
I'm not saying you're gonna do it, but this is pretty normal. Just wait till he starts up a charity
Then you just yep
It's I
It's more of a thing in the u.s. Yes, it's not as applicable. Yeah, it's it's it's less of a just like
Infinite money isn't it weird how when especially american but business people in general get really really rich. They suddenly become philanthropists
Wow I wonder why
It's a whole thing. It's a whole rabbit hole and it's not all conspiracy theory nonsense
There is a lot mixed in with it, which is kind of annoying and frustrating, but um
Yeah, it basically
Yeah, like okay, mckenzie scott seems to be actually doing it
Which one's that that's the one that used to be bezos. Uh, yeah, but it turns out he prefers like nice 400 pound lips
So i've genuinely no idea what you're talking about. It's fine. Don't worry about it. I didn't follow that at all
I was like wow this has No relevance at all to my life jeff bezos's ex-wife seems to be like actually giving away
A ton of money in a way that's legitimately actually helpful. Nice. Um
Okay, not buying all the farmland in the states
Yeah, well we can move Oh, they want me to fix my sleeve. Sorry about that. All right, uh rancho after dark merch massages. Let's do it. Sure
Oh We all we also gotta go purple
There we go. Nice. Nice. You didn't do it within three seconds. No. I just I just I was trying to help
Yeah, why do you get a ride people like he's gonna stab me now? Well, I don't blame him. I might
Has it yet i'll do it for reboot
Look I
I just got a blivion on sale from steam. Do you have any suggestions for greatest enjoyment? Should I wait for sky blivion?
You might want to wait. I don't know. Uh sky blivion's different, right? Like there's there's new voice actors
There's been changes to some of the items. There's all this stuff going on
It's also not out yet. It is it is theoretically releasing in the year that's going to start in a couple weeks, but
um We we don't technically know how good it's gonna be and it will technically be a different experience now
If you just got it and you're gonna play all of oblivion and then play all of oblivion again when sky blivion comes out
That sounds like too much. That sounds like a lot of oblivion. Yeah, I played oblivion
Approaching on two decades ago There's probably been enough time for me
Um, but yeah, I might wait if I were you, but I don't know make your own decision
Go watch the sky blivion videos and then figure it out. Yeah, and whatever you do
Don't mod sky blivion with not-safe-for-work character models
Yeah, yeah zero hot coffee. There's none of those those don't exist for sure
Will there be a luxe version of the commuter backpack
I doubt it People would uh, yeah, people would probably like it super limited run
So Our relationship with our previous backpack supplier
Got a little strained We haven't been a perfect partner either
There have been some projects that we started with them that they did work on you know sampling and and stuff like that
That ultimately did not make it to mass production with them
But we did move forward with and and create as products
um, you know, they're not Understandably thrilled about that
um There however were some things on our side that we were not
Thrilled about either like the fact that we bought 40 000 backpacks that were supposed to have a double layered bottom and instead did not
Um, we weren't thrilled about the design flaw with the carabiner things like yeah, could we have caught them earlier?
Yeah, sure that would have been nice, but we like didn't design them or validate them
That was supposed to be you know the backpack making experts that we were partnered with
um, so so so so so
The luxe products were made in cooperation with our previous backpack supplier
So you have to like redo it is possible that we could do another luxe something
um, maybe with an apple leather maybe with apparently banana fibers are like super cool
There's some really cool stuff from there. Uh, this came up actually during our last merge medic meeting. We were having a conversation about this
Um, the problem is that the volumes are really small and the opportunity cost of working on a luxe product is very high
There's a lot of other stuff that we could do instead of faffing about making, you know, a couple hundred backpacks
So will we ever do it? I'd like to I'd like to have a luxe commuter backpack
um And the people who bought the original luxe backpack are very happy are extremely
Um, they're extremely happy with it
Like look at this thing 19 reviews this is a six hundred dollar bag
And like the nice looking best functioning backpack i've ever owned
um Okay, someone hasn't got it
Okay, well we'll have to get that sorted out. I mean customer service should be looking into any tickets or um any reviews that are
That are particularly problematic. Oh, they got a refund. Oh, I got a refund exchange rates. Oh
I mean Uh the accounting of that is very complicated and i'm not going to get into it here
But i'm sorry that it worked out that way basically Um, my daily six days a week bag five stars. The point is the people who have it
Flipping love this thing Five stars five stars easily the nicest backpack of our best-looking bag. I own people talk about
Just getting comments on it and people asking where it's from. It really is it really is an attention grabber
um But we just didn't sell that many of them and
Yeah, I I don't know. I don't know if it's gonna happen I'd like to I'd like to it's a cool product, but
We gotta we got to work on stuff that somewhat, you know has a has an opportunity to scale
Yeah, what technology would you like to see become more widespread than it is now?
Hmm, I don't know technology. It's like pretty widespread
um Oh, man
I'm trying to think like I mean one of them i'm not i'm currently investing in
I want to see nas become more widespread. Yeah, like I think the vision behind
I think the vision behind some of the storage coins and stuff
Was actually pretty cool. I jumped on that man
Um, I really wanted that to be a thing for those of you who don't know the idea was that you would contribute
Like you would mine the coin that like whatever the storage coin was. I forget what it was called
But some kind of storage coin by providing space
to like a decentralized cloud essentially and um
Then people could pay they could buy coins in order to back up their data to this decentralized cloud
I you know, I'd love to see a future like that where where nas is just mainstream and like kind of everyone has one and you
Just kind of you don't have to just surrender your data to cloud providers
um, I Hacks os hopefully is going to be a step towards it being easier to easier for
I wouldn't say necessarily normies normies yet But kind of tech savvy people like content creators and gamers to
Bring their storage on prem Um, yeah, I'm gonna go with that. I'm gonna go with nas
Hi, mr. Tips it recently came to my attention that most of the data usb cables. I have our
What is the status of your usb-c launch? I need like a 10 gigabit per second cable
Is he gonna do it or he's gonna do it
I
Had a quick chat with tine in before the show today. So we were talking about
Spec versus real world observed results and talking about where the line is going to be
for um for our c to c's
Where we switch over that says don't talk too much. Oh
Don't talk too much to be specific
He says it's a bit more complicated than I thought. Oh
Okay, well anyway, I was chatting with tine in and this is a cable
It's a nice cable. It feels great. Um, I really
Love that the speeds and feeds are printed on the plug
Mm-hmm. That is so I'm not really printed. It's like stamped. I guess on the on the bust embossed sure. Um, it's
It's so cool because a ton of different usb cables
They don't even tell you when you're buying it what the specs are at all
Uh, and then if they do tell you when you're buying it, it's just on the box
So you take the cable out of the box and it's gone. You'll never know again. Yep. Um
So it's just permanently on there. We just have the watts and the speed embossed on to both ends
Awesome. So you can never mistake what the capabilities of the cable are
This one, which I'm not going to show you the full length of because I don't know if we'll be able to deliver
This length at this speed. This is a 20 gigabit per second
240 watt cable as you can see She is thick
Like she like I've got this I've got this cable
Like she is she's thick boys. So I've got this USB-C
Um Width wise and length wise here. So you could see
It is like as thick as the entire housing is going in there like she's so thick
We don't even need a strain relief necessarily like we've got a little bit of one kind of built into the the molding for the housing
but she's just She's just only got so much turn radius, but it still
does that Fairly nicely. Well, the reason for that is that we're using so in spite of the fact that they are they are coaxial
Conductors inside here rather than twisted pair because
only the finest for our for our
Loyal customers
Where was I going with that again, right? We have coax in there something something shoot
I was talking about how it it it looks around nicely, right? So the way that we managed to make them
supple anyway And like like flopsie doodly is that we're using a very similar like silicone
Style sleeving to what you would find on like hobbyist grade wiring
So they're they're just going to have like like that really nice kind of soft touch feel and they should be extremely resilient against
uv As well as just, you know, the the ravages of time
As for some of the very very detailed questions
Um, I am going to leave that to tinen. Yeah, he's in full plane chat
And maybe maybe we can talk more publicly about stuff
Later when things are a little bit more locked in but not right now So anything yeah anything tinen is willing to kind of talk about in the Floatplane chat
I'm willing to let him talk about because realistically. He's probably going to be a little more
conservative in terms of you know, what he'll say
And he also is the most knowledgeable one on the team about this project
All I'll say for now is I'm really excited because they're nice
I think there's I think there's room in the market for this product. I think that from what I've seen
There are premium cables, but I don't think the pricing is reasonable
There are a lot of cheap cables that I think are being marked up
Extremely high and the build quality of them is extremely low. I think that there is room
For an extremely premium cable
It's not the last thing you'll ever buy to a degree cables are consumable. Yeah, they the connectors are they're rated for insertions and
And and and you know strain and like all that stuff nothing is going to last forever
But I think there's room for a very premium manufactured cable very high quality materials
good shielding good design choices cable that is not
Ridiculously expensive due to an extremely high markup
We're going to mark them up in such a way that this will be a sustainable business for us
But I think that much like our magnetic cable management, right which seems like an obvious product for someone to clone
Right like why wouldn't you just clone it? It's just a plastic arch with a magnet in it
It's really hard to clone it Because the cost is in the neodymium
So unless you just make a worse product, you're not going to be able to clone it and outcompete us on price
So in much the same way Yeah, you can build a cable that's like cheaper or you can whatever but these are
There's just a lot of copper in them There's just a lot of shielding in them. Yeah. Um, so I think I think this is going to be something that's going to be really appealing to
The folks who Are willing to sort of buy ones cry once with their cables and everyone else kind of need not apply
Yeah You might not need super fancy cables is what it is top gear says order double your initial predicted quantity
You will blow them out in the first week. That's what I think but I have um, I have not
Had a lot of success communicating my confidence to some of the other members of the team and this is where this is where like
You know consensus is important and it's not as simple as me just like
Whipping it out
And being like just buy it right because other people's kpis are tied to managing stock on the store and it could be
Running a reasonable business. It just is because of personal rules, which is good
Yeah Yeah, I mean I did kind of pull it a little bit with this one. Yeah, because they wanted to order fewer SKUs
Instead of having more granularity in the lengths and I was like
What's the dollar value on this Just fucking order them like I don't want to talk about this anymore every once in a while
I will pull that card just because time efficiency to me part of the value of this product is that we're going to have
Different lengths and I want it to be a really good companion product for our cable management products
So I want when we're doing stuff like setup doctor. I want us to have the right length like a cable
Right, so there's there are business reasons for it aside from just like sorry, how many
Dollars is this just you put it on it's just put it on the corporate card. We'll deal with it later
You know, it's not it's not entirely that like I did have reasons for it. But um
Yes, yes canceled Netflix for this we're gonna have we're gonna try to have lots of different lengths so that you can have a nice
tightly managed That's their username Cancelled Netflix for this. That's good. Love it. I thought for a second
I was like did they cancel Netflix to save money for the cables like what are they talking about?
Anyways um Couldn't you just do a pre-order thing pre-orders are tough because it means we're taking your money now
You're not going to get it until lord knows how long like what if we run into an issue
Like what if our supply or completely screws us over like we had with the ratchet on the screwdriver or not the ratchets
No shielding. Yeah. Yeah, what if we get the initial order in and it's like, oh my god
They they produce the whole thing wrong or something like that like it's just
It's so much my life is so much better if I just don't have your money, honestly
I don't need it yet. I only need it once I have something of value to exchange for it
I don't I don't need it now. I just need it later. Yeah. Yeah
I'm never mind. I'm so excited for this though. I just they're very nice
I just people are gonna people are gonna see the price and they're gonna be like that's insane
Who'd be insane enough to buy a cable from LTT? LTT's overpriced their their garbage their youtuber tax blah blah blah blah blah blah
And then the people who get it are gonna order it and they're gonna touch this thing and they're gonna be like holy crap
Are you kidding me right now?
Have you ever held a usb cable like this? No
That's because no one is insane enough I'm so curious to know how much they're gonna cost. I have no idea today's today
This is not right now, but yeah today is the first day that I've seen these
People are going to hold these And they're just gonna be like this is beyond compare. It might seem stupid, but the embossed thing on the plug
Uh is like worth money. There's other brands that do it. We're not the only ones
We're one of the only ones, but we aren't the only ones who do that. I haven't personally seen it
But there's there's there's more to it than just that. Oh, of course
I just like that part a lot because I find it super frustrating digging through cables
I mean like I have no idea what almost any of these really are
It's just that the cable industry expects like ridiculous margins. Yeah. Um, and so we're coming in it
We're coming in and we're kind of going okay well like we have a model where our margin is sustainable and we think that
There is uh, there's room for us to take our margin model and bring it to a category where no one's really building a
product that meets our quality expectations and
Yeah, yeah, see what happens. See what happens. Cool
See what happens Um tinein says we aren't looking into lightning even though I have an iphone that uses it. That is true
lightning is the past and I think that probably
um We would have other priorities like HDMI and DisplayPort beyond usb that would come before lightning
Yeah, yeah, I know usb cables are cool, but you get some like really sick HDMI and DisplayPort cables
Yep, don't worry. You'll still sell some of those even though. Did they just say what they are on them? Oh
I know, right? Oh It's gonna be good. I'm excited vga cables one as someone who's going to start hosting game servers and other
I ask what would you like to see out of cloud providers?
I don't know stability and price sure that's a that's a
Fairly solved game. I think all right archived
Sorry gone. Hello my parasocial friends. Linus. How is your bike painting project going?
Yeah, finish it up, dude. We want the beard. What's going on? I haven't touched it in ages
I didn't touch it. How could you be that rude to von?
What?
She wants the beard, but yeah, what she said in her video. Oh, I forgot that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I thought you meant like
Yeah, I thought you were going like uh, like and I haven't like jacked it in ages
So that's like disrespectful to her or something. I was like, what are you talking about? No
Okay, that makes sense in the a von week thing we watch today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Okay. Yeah
um Yeah, I'm
I'm in a lot of pain right now. Uh, I have tennis elbow. I still have residual sprained ankle
I pulled my back in that tournament Um, I need to go easy on my body for a little bit. Yeah, and I'm kind of thinking maybe instead of hitting the gym
And badminton so much do some bike paint. I might do some bike painting for a bit. Cool. Yeah
Nice Hey dlo, are you guys excited for any of the booths that will be at ces?
I always enjoy watching the videos of the new monitor technology. Love the show
I can't tell you anything. I'm excited to see because I'm excited probably barcode multiple things that I can't tell you about but um
Yes, oh, I'm going For the first time in a while quite a while. Yeah, not
Super excited about that part. Let's go las vegas. Don't like vegas
Viva viva las vegas. Yep. I'm going to
Dan's going. I'm going for vacation. Oh, what? I've never been before. I'm super excited. Okay. All right. Yeah
Yep, sure quote unquote. Yes. I assume luke was like don't bother. Do you like shows though? Like do you like
Theater and shows I want to go to ces. I'm into I'm into technology. I work here
I want to see the super micros branding material Oh
Shut up both of you the show floor is like so disappointing if you really want to see one of those shows you should have
I did nab which was super dry
It's cool. You know what I have never actually attended ces as just like an attendee
So maybe that's part of the problem for me. There is cool stuff there. Like if you're just
Going around and just like oh And because he gets to wear a Linus media group badge. Nope. Nope. I'm not going for the company has a different invite
What? Because I'm not going on your behalf
Oh, I just assumed you would just badge up with Linus media groups so people will talk to you
I don't want to get talked to. Oh, I just want to hang out. It's also vegas. You guys don't like vegas
Any idea what percentage of the people watching this show are going to be at ces Dan like you're not going anywhere
I need to buy a mask. Oh crap. I keep forgetting. I work here. I think I'm realizing
I don't think I've ever traversed the ces show floor when not like either speed walking or tactically maneuvering through a
crowd like I haven't really When I see things it's because I'm glancing at them when I'm walking by but when I see things it's foam cases
Dan That sounds cool. Oh, why I spent a lot of development in that sector lying
It's also vegas. I don't know. You like vegas. It's okay. It used to be better now. It's what does that mean?
I don't know. It's not as adult anymore Oh
Oh, yeah, they tried to family friendly it up because
like post post covet They lost a lot of money, right?
It used to be more like bars and like gambling and now it's like things to do with your kids because please come to vegas and spend money
You know what I mean? That seems weird because a lot of other places go in the opposite direction
Like people are talking about how disneyland is like for adults now and stuff. Yeah
Apparently child free spaces in like south korea are like huge
It's weird. Yeah, I mean that makes sense looking at their population. Yeah, just stats
Okay, cool. Uh, why does my company only allow us to use wi-fi with vpn and not Ethernet for quote unquote security
I have no idea That does not make any sense to me other than that. Maybe your network administrator is just like
Stupid, I don't want to deal with The cable runs or something
You'd have to well it's that they won't let them use the vpn when they're connected with a wire
But they can use it when they're on the wi-fi What like maybe just like whatever their infrastructure is they've taken some kind of shortcut that's built into their like
Wireless management thing instead of doing it as at like a router level or something like that's the only thing
I can think of is if it's if it's only if they've only implemented something
at the like wi-fi controller level
Or something I don't know. I I understand you're just trying to figure it out, but that would be so weird
I have blog. No, I don't I That's the only reason I could think of sure. Yeah, I know I I why did all hotels rip the Ethernet jacks out of the room?
They were already f***ing there Yeah, why did they take them out? They it's just copper
Just leave it there so I can have a reliable connection
I don't know. I don't know. I don't I don't understand it
Hey edlo, is there a type of video you would have made 10 years ago that you wish you could make today?
But it wouldn't perform well on youtube Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean just like the
The low-key like hey check out this like random thing. I'm working on like okay. Here's an example
um Cool it boreus
Like check this out um
Oh man, I can't even I can't even find this
Oh, yeah, here we go. We're saying like yeah Like our firewall doesn't let you connect a VPN from inside the interface and it's like okay
But then it shouldn't let you do it on wi-fi either like I can understand that use case
Like I was just like oh, yeah, here's like two tech coolers and I like
Hook them up to like a weird thing. Why no this would totally work now. No
This would a hundred percent work now You just need to do it with alex and it would need to be like yeah
But this is just me holding it and like just like showing what I'm like Yeah, but this is the this is the like
Filming quality and the production quality not the concept this concept would do just fine now
Yeah, I don't know they would do fine
You know us could do it
Hybrid technology zip ties Yeah, we've never really changed have we 14 14 years ago. Yeah
Any tech tips on cleaning the bearings in the precision screwdriver mine has a 60 plus second spin
And quickly went to 30 after adding a tad bit of oil is recommended to a hybrid bearing. It's now
I don't know if it's better or worse Cut cut off just stops there. It's it's no it's now
Character capping. Uh, okay
No, I don't know
That's a good question for Tynan Tynan said it's a struggle or tis a struggle to be exact
Yeah, I mean bearings are That's there's a reason we don't guarantee a particular spin length
And we do definitely know that there is some variance and yes lubrication can be helpful
Um Tynan said cleaning that bearing is a struggle the amount of inertia for the end cap means that anything in there will slow it down
Yeah, like we don't have our like we want to do like heavy like more fidget spinnery end caps at some point
But we haven't done that yet and those ones are pretty light Yeah, even dust I guess
I lld Linus is the rog ally still your main portable gaming console current games on it checked out rog ally when
um It's my main in the sense that it's still the one that sits on my nightstand, but I haven't really been using it much lately so
What did I fire up the other day it was this weird game where you're like on a boat and you like manage stuff
And you like fight stuff or something? I don't know But I got a bunch of stuff in the steam still that I've been meaning to to pick up
But I just haven't had time like I haven't even had time to paint my bike. How can I justify playing video games?
I went out to a little what is the most ding? Oh hold on and just to clear something up
Um, yeah, I think it is called dredge. I was just saying a ton of people just said dredge. Yeah, uh, just to clear things up
Um, it's not because necessarily the ally is the best like if I was picking the thing that I like the most
Steam deck. Oh lid is is sick or if I wanted more performance. I like the ally x right now
There's also might be some new stuff coming soon
But just the ally like has my stuff on it. And so I haven't bothered changing it. Okay
What is the most dangerous moment you've had showing off a piece of tech like a hoverboard that shot out from under you or something going haywire?
Oh, I mean Remember them at this point like there's definitely been some dangerous stuff. I've never had something just like
Almost, you know hit me in the head or something like that
I had a Dremel saw blade get stuck in the face mask that I was using
Or strike it or something it broke and it
Did something with the face mask was so long ago. I don't remember the exact details
I think I probably could have killed myself working on this though. Oh my god
Self balancing unicycle v3 get a little balance in your life. I used to try to put like a fun tagline after the title
You know I felt a lot less stable than I look here and I don't look that stable on it and like you can tell I'm I'm moving
Nine years. I don't remember this at all. That's because you didn't work on it. I did
Yeah, but still This was when I would do a lot of the um
Like basically this video was entirely me other than somebody like setting up a camera like I wrote it
Uh, this is oh my goodness. That's baby my boy
Wow, I know right that's kind of weird now. Yep. So that was Yvonne filming that for me. So I I basically
Did most of the like b-roll and stuff for this and then we just had uh
We set up a quick Uh shot in the kitchen. I scripted the video
Um, but yeah, so I I learned how to use this and you know, it's not the hardest thing in the world
But there's a little bit of distracted operation going on when you're trying to film yourself using something that you're not necessarily a total expert at
Yeah I don't know. I really liked the whole like e vehicle thing, but it just doesn't get start. It just doesn't get views
um, can't really justify the time spent on it
And I understand why like they're they're niche. They're inherently niche. There's all these like different types
they're skateboards and scooters and bikes and
Unicycles and when I was in France a very surprising amount of people in Paris use them
A variety of different e vehicle things usually scooters
And I don't just mean the like rental ones. They had their own remember when you could just like fly drones wherever you want
Yeah, that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. Remember when we sucked at operating drones?
Yeah That was pretty cool, too
Is the backpack ring of a motorcycle wind speed approved?
Motorcycle winds be okay. Got it
Uh, I'm gonna say no Probably safe to say no
Yeah
It has a little I know But I'm just but we're not I'm just gonna say no. Yeah
Good way to go. I saw somebody mounted a metal box with mcm on the back of their bike and like all the comments were like
Don't do that
Oh my god, what? Oh, I didn't I I thought that they had a metal box that they attached to mcm too
No, that's very dangerous If you attach it with the mcm
Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah It it like
It looked cool, and then you think about the ramifications of it like being on a road and bumps and wind and stuff
And it was like, oh boy Magnetic cable management not mighty car mods, by the way
Ah, yes Okay Linus and look, how do you fare making friends at work while being in a position of quote-unquote power?
It's gotten harder. Yeah Like it's uh, some people
I find that it comes Down to a lot of the same things as anyone else like the
amount of time you spend working in proximity
the Kind of enjoying successes together experiencing failures together, you know a lot of the things that people just sort of bond over in general
but I find that For me like I can kind of be friendly with anyone, but I only I don't like anybody. I only have
room in my My social battery, you know for a handful of of closer
relationships for you know and And that that room is, you know somewhere between
zero and And you know our total number of people on our team just like a hundred plus and it's probably closer to zero than it is to a hundred
so You know a lot of it is a lot of it is just that proximity
And a lot of it is people's willingness to
Like be a friend with me because I can't I can't dictate that like I'm me. I'm just I'm just kind of me
And um, I'm kind of a lot sometimes as you guys could
Can probably imagine. Yeah He's a handful. Yeah, that's regardless of being in a position of power or not a position of power
and um And for some people, um, you know, that's an impediment for for other people
Just my position in the company is uh, is is a problem for some people just, um,
You know me being a one percenter
You know, right could be a problem Well, no, I'm serious. I know it's just funny here. You say well, I try to be a realist, right?
um, and and some people like I I have experienced, um
I'm not going to name any names obviously, but there's people who work here now that
You know, obviously Treat me extremely differently that you know, I don't think I would be able to be friends with just because of the amount of like
Kissing that takes place. Like I I I personally don't like that. I don't like to be treated that way
But for some people it just it's just something that they
You know that they do naturally or that they feel is important for
You know advancement in work or like whatever perception they might have like everybody is so
different and um, you know, so there's people that
That you know, I wouldn't be able to be close to because they don't treat me like a friend
There's people that wouldn't be able to be close to me because they just couldn't see me as a friend
and then there's people that just don't give a f*** and uh, you know
well hang out and and bro out and kind of talk about anything and
and and just like be a normal human being with me and I I very much like
hang in with those folks and uh And that's great. And I don't have any I wouldn't say I have more difficulty with that
Today Then I ever did but I will say that the percentage of people
Who are able to just treat me like a normal human these days is lower as a function of how many people work here
What about you? Because it used to be you used to very much just be like an employee
a rank and filer and now you like run like three departments and
And I think can be a little bit intimidating and you're naturally more intimidating than me
You're just like bigger and have a deeper voice and taller and stuff
I get that I I literally get that as feedback is that I'm unapproachable
Usually people on my own teams don't give me that feedback. Yeah, um, but I I get that feedback externally sometimes
Not as much as I used to but still still sometimes Um, I don't know. I've I've questioned
I don't think I've talked to you or anyone else about this to be completely honest, but I've questioned
Uh, like is this a problem with me?
Because I find that to be an issue But then you and I became friends
When I was employee to you boss
And now it's like I don't know
But then some of it's like the company's also just sort of changed. Yeah, it's different things are different now
um We're we're a real company now kind of yeah, and that does create barriers. Yeah, um
To be honest because like when you when you work closely with everyone at the company
You kind of know where people's boundaries are and stuff whereas like if I act like
Myself in a group setting now, I could easily say something that is offensive to somebody like
Maybe we have very different positions on say for example
Religion or politics or whatever else when you have six people
You could say something like, you know f some politician
And know with a pretty high degree of confidence that everyone's yeah, everyone's kind of on the same page
Whereas when you have a hundred people, I guarantee you there is no single issue that every single one of them could agree on
There's also Politicking and there's people that like might
You don't necessarily know them well enough and it might make sense for them to hold a certain position publicly
But they don't actually feel that way internally and if you really knew that person, you might kind of know
But now you might only know them on a certain level that you're unsure about and yada yada yada and uh, I don't know
Yeah, willing spy says lies. I bet they all like tech
Actually, no actually I like definitely no I hate it with a burning passion. Well, not even just not what we're talking about. Yeah, I know
Yeah, I know what you mean. So there are there are people that work here that like genuinely have no interest
At all. Yeah, they got hired to do the job that they do. They like the job that they do
They do that job well, or maybe they don't even like the job that they do but they're good at it, but they do it well
We're good enough to be honest It's technically all right
I mean, we're like any other company like think about your company think about where you work
Is everyone passionate about?
Refrigerators or like whatever whatever the crap it is that your company did not necessarily
Yeah, you know and we like to have passionate people that's something that we care about and that's something that we try to foster
But it's it's not reality, right?
More yeah, sure move it on
Would I see much of a performance hit on a GPU?
For example the RTX 50 series PCIe gen 5 on a PCIe gen 4 motherboard at 4k resolution?
Probably not, but we won't know for sure until we have a PCIe gen 5
Graphics card to put in a slot And then we have a PCIe gen 5
Probably not, but we won't know for sure until we have a PCIe gen 5
Graphics card to put in a slot and I assume that your question is based on both the slot and the card being by 16
That can change once we're looking at cards that are by 8 or even by 4 because if you put those in an older gen
You can run into some performance Differences. Yeah, this is all something we've we've already talked about diving into
Yeah
Well, and last one I've got for you today Hello deal
L I run on raid so I can upgrade one drive at a time just heard about raid zv dev expansion
Can you talk about this does this give true nas the same upgrade ability?
All I can say about that for now is that there's a lot of exciting things probably maybe
That have been thought of for zfs
Um, some of which are kind of being actively worked on some of which are not being actively worked on
Many of which are good cool ideas and um, I'm very excited to see what the future holds
Is all I got okay, and I'm very excited to um talk about
the future wancho you might watch because
You sure as heck won't be watching anymore of this one
See you next time same bad time same bad channel. Bye
Oh Oh
I'm so excited for our cables. I have very little support for these internally, but I um, I don't care