Hello
What do you want Sammy, what do you want you Sammy we don't dislike you
What video
What short we're doing oh that one
Like wear them I was wearing them in the whole thing. Oh, yeah, that's fine sure
They look huge on your face
You look huge on my face Whoa
Say that like it's a new thing First time seeing when there's no sound and even react. Yeah, that's pretty that's pretty goddamn Jane. There's I mean
Yep
You bullied me
Anymore yeah, probably not
I said update multiple times a day try that is that is that is unnecessary
It can be kind of fun for some that's what it that's something that I would love to understand
No, why like update it you're not gonna agree, but why updating?
My Linux distro feels cool and updating Windows is really annoying
Updating my Linux distro is also really fast and updating Windows is really slow
Maybe that's part of it. I also really like that. It tells you the like net
Like size change every once in a while it would be like it shrunk
All right the package manager was cold
Oh, yeah, probably not
Yeah
I'm alright dude. How are you
Just feeling good what ones nice
Nice nice
Is that up yeah, it's going well it's like
Oh sorts are nuts man Oh
I thought it was the roulette thing
Dropping the steam controller intentionally has a million already already six hours and it has a million
One million views
I
Wow Why is low effort content rewarded so much so highly yeah, like why don't even bother with all the like
Your education I didn't say what what even talking about you didn't say low value. He didn't say non-education. Yeah, I said low effort
Well, I know I didn't say any of those things. Yeah, he does like hot dogs. No, I said low effort
Yeah, it's hot dogs are good. It literally took me one minute to film. It took me one minute
Well, you know, it feels like a can of thing. It's like oh it's expert in a moment. I didn't say it's not candid
I said it's low effort, but that low effort is the vibe you're going for which is more candid vibe
Which people like like you're like the Korean tech mall. It's like you're it feels real just connected, you know
I feel like you're like it's like a million dollar setup stage and you're like, uh, yes
Look, I mean look I I understand the value of authenticity
certainly, I just like It just drives me crazy that I put so much work into other things and very few
People will watch it and then I put like no work into something and they're like
Yay, don't war. I just I just don't know how to deal with that Sammy. That's all right work smart not hard
My motto anyway, sorry, I didn't mean to take too much
Yeah, yeah, you're more than welcome to get a b-roll shot of me. Hold on. Let me see. Do I actually are they on right now?
Which Position is on or off a little wake-up neural band. I didn't charge the neural band last night because the charger was in my car
So I'm not sure if it actually has battery. Oh, yeah. No, she's got battery. She's bootin up. Have you tried these yet? No
They're scary good
I'm excited for brands other than meta. Yeah, that's good and
Unfortunately, it's gonna matter more who around you is wearing. Yeah them anyway, but it was nice
I liked that thought I don't want to be one of those people I guess
It'll be my goal. Yeah
Well neat
Do you want to see the video that you can record off of it? It's like it's like crazy good really good. Yeah, I
Mean cell phone cameras are really good
Here it is no, but like yeah, but it's like it's like on your face so like
It's POV and you don't think about it and I can like play badminton and use it
Like
You can never I can't think of any other recording
View where you can appreciate the speed of this sport and the precision like this. Mm-hmm. Sorry. I'm just I'm holding up a
That'd be cool to show I'm this is me goofing around with
Buddy his name is Jaden saying he's a former junior national player and he's been very graciously
doing some coaching and like It's barring with me
So I was wearing the glasses during one of our sessions. I actually sent him all this footage
So he'll probably post it on like his Instagram or something. He'll probably like cut it up
Yeah, it's like I Wish it wasn't portrait because that's not really what I want
But in terms of like recording like a coaching session or whatever
and The audio is shockingly usable as well
I think I think the audio is more impressive to me than the video that makes sense to me
I would agree if it's good. I would agree. It's very usable
I see a bunch of slashes in the one lens. So this is that for the screen. Yeah, okay
Here did my shoot what are the slashes help with my battery might be my battery might be dead
Hold on kind of remember how to turn it on with the actual on thing. So the slashes are
Oh
Basically they're like late guides As far as I can tell I haven't actually looked in to have the display tech works is the display on right now though
Oh, whoa, okay. There it is. Yeah, there it is You look like such a dork when you're reading it though because you literally like go a little bit cross-eyed
Oh, right in front of you. So don't hit me at all. Oh, no
These are the small medium. Okay, we need the medium large
Which I tried to wear on a trip recently and it was
comical
Anyway, okay. Oh, yeah, my my my neural band
Anyhoo
Yes, these are the small small large is in terms of like the spacing of the arms
Yeah, not in terms of like the thickness with two C's of the frames Emma always points out when people's to me
points out when people's glasses don't fit because The arms like splay out. Hmm. It's the most common form of people's glasses not fitting
Would she notice that my ears are like a centimeter off in terms of height probably notice that this is even
Yeah, my eyebrows and how far above my ear that ARM is yeah, it's like yeah, you show me that last time
Oh, yeah, right, but that wouldn't necessarily that wouldn't like bother her because that's has nothing to do with the glasses
The only thing bothers her is when people have improperly sized glasses lion cat says I got paid to help train these things
It's an interesting experience. Oh Was I mean what'd you do?
Yeah Yeah, tell us about that that's kind of cool
How horrible is the terms of service I was afraid to even read it
Yeah But I have been legitimately enjoying certain features of it. There's some that are not very meaningful for me
I don't I don't need
like a An AI companion to just like ask questions to yeah, I imagine you would enjoy the recording and that's close to it
But like go-karting around my neighborhood
Be recording of that without like holding something yeah or needing to like mount something to the go-kart and then worrying if it's gonna fall off
Yeah, super cool like
What was what was one of the other things? Oh, yeah, oh dude, so it only works on certain apps right now
Like they're still pretty early stages in terms of the the software
Talking about this like oh, yeah, maybe okay. Yeah, sure. Maybe that's just a topic for the show
You know what in that case? I'm gonna wear them just to prompt people to sure yeah, so it's really I was realizing
I was like enjoying the conversation. Yeah, I felt like we were kind of in the show, so we should stop it
Yeah, let's stop that's how a lot of conversations with Linus and I work to enjoyable its content save it
Darn Wait, what do you need my headphones? Where are your headphones?
Wait, what the heck oh Wow
Probably still fine They're tanks. All right
The one good thing about them is that they're
Pretty durable man. I got I got like hat on a hat on a hat situation going on here. I might as well put my hood up
Oh, that's awesome. I don't think I've ever seen a bigger dork this guy does recreational drugs
And does some form of music production yeah
Yeah, yeah, definitely yes, I do competitive
Grandmaster rank
They're slightly fewer hats now
Man it's gonna be a dark day when I need glasses I do look much geekier with them
The size of these frames is not doing me any favors. Yeah
They're they're pretty thick. Yep two C's buddy. All right, should we do this thing?
Dan, let's do it. Oh
I had so many snackies today I had two bags of ruffles all dressed and then I had
One of those Kirkland cookie bags
They were so good, but I'm like I'm regretting it so much right now
I will say in regards to snackie. I know I've I
Don't think I've vocally complained about because I didn't have a solution, but
We basically just have like sugar snacks from Costco because the only things that are like
Effectively non perishable. Yeah, they included unsweetened applesauce
I thought it was pretty cool. Nice
Thanks
Well, I'm gonna regret that in an hour
The water yeah, oh, you have to
It's funny
Aging and seeing the advertisements that you get as you go along dude, I turned 35 and
Nice
Nice You turn 35 and what I turned 35 and like all of my ads were for like Ashley Madison and secret meets
Like all of them and I'm like that I'd be like I'd be like browsing on my phone
And Yvonne's like sitting next to me on the couch. I'm like, yo, yo, I have never been to these sites
I have never I've never talked about these sites except for all the times that I've been to them and talked about them on the WAN Show
Other than that not at all
I think it's funny that this is like This is non logged in reddit on this computer and this computer only logs in with like unique WAN Show accounts
not even And it still knows that you need CLS. How did it know based on like I guess the articles and stuff that we open on WAN
Which is kind of sad
That's rough, oh man
Man that That steam controller short is
Banging it's it's up to 1.4 million. I felt quite proud
I read some headlines somewhere that was like, oh the steam controller like
Plays an audio thing when you drop it and I was like, ah, it's the Wilhelm scream for sure
And then until I watched that short that Sammy showed us. I didn't actually know
Like yeah, it makes sense
BMI zoo town says all the algorithms a hundred percent know that I have rotator cuff issues like
It's so specific Not necessarily if he's looked it up. It makes sense dude, okay
I'm not gonna talk about this on the main show, but I'll talk about it on the pre-show
But like I have like a billion dollar business idea that I just don't think I have the capital and the time and
Wherewithal to start like random search generator, but I just really want it to exist. No, definitely not that
That's that's cool though. It's really easy. Yeah. Yeah, no not that
Okay, what I want is a whole lineup of like
Like Basically like like braces like, you know, like like knee brace or like shoulder brace or like back brace ankle brace
Like whatever, but I want to line up of braces that are basically full
That are they're basically like like a fluid bladder And then they have like fittings coming out the end and then I want like like kind of like the eight-sleep base
Yeah, like like a Peltier like base station backpack that can either do
No, no because it would be it would be for like when I'm going to bed or when I'm like vibing on the couch
Okay, so that I could I could pretty much like put on like my like my elbow
My elbow heat pack, but it's not like I don't have to go up and like go to the microwave or whatever
Yeah, cuz like what I've found works the best is when I can alternate hot and cold cycles
And you could pre-program that and so you could program that yeah
You could basically be like sitting there on your on your in your lazy boy with your foot up with your like ankle brace thing on
And then you've got your little like base station thing You've got just like a couple little quarter inch or eighth inch tubes because you you don't have to deal with a huge
bundle deal where you buy the the base and one
Attachment one brace attachment base and brace is too close, but the base system apparently these exist
Yeah, but are they affordable do they that's my question because I know sleep is far from affordable
No, no not the eight sleep, but there's there's like there's like medical grade ones that are like
Stupidly expensive, but I'm looking at what this is and I'm like no this should be cheap
Like I should be able to get the brace for like 50 bucks per and then the base station should be like at most like
199 retail And I think they're like I'm pretty sure they are way more expensive than this. I think is literally just an icebox
What is a VASCUE firm
Yeah, you'd need a reversible one, but like no, that's what I'm talking about like it would be reversible because you'd just be using a peltier and
This is just cooling somebody linked one. That's just cooling. Yeah, so yeah, basically what I want is like a consumer grade
like like injury recovery
sort of line of like like
Brace how cold would you need it to go like could can can eight sleep style stuff get cold and hot enough a
Peltier. Yeah. Yeah, it should be able to because you're not dealing with the issue is just the thermal capacity
So what you would want to do is you would want to have an extremely low fluid volume
Because a Peltier can have like a huge temperature range
VASCUE therm
So Peltiers 40 to 70 C between the hot and cold side
You
Rapid reboots, what are rapid reboots?
These look really expensive guys. I they don't even
Rapid reboot recovery systems
What is this Rapid reboot ARM attachment
Okay, this doesn't look this is double the price of what what I would want to pay, but it's not that
Far off. It's not an order of magnitude off like some of the other stuff that I've seen. So here's a control unit
I don't think I think that's this only do heat. I I don't think that does I think that's just controls
Pressurizes the chambers in the recovery boots. Oh, no, this is what pressure. Okay, never mind
Yeah, this is not the central unit. All right, it's well over a grand. All right. Well
never mind They pressurize
Isn't anything Peltier expensive no you can get Peltier modules for like next next to nothing
Here Hold on whatever. What are some of the typical sizes? I mean you probably wouldn't need more than like 65 watts
What's a 65 watt Peltier worth helps if you spell right?
Yeah, here we go, I don't know $2 and 60 cents for
Per piece like they're they're like nothing. Okay, so $4 if you don't have the the promo or whatever
So 10 pieces for $33
Like whatever no Peltier's are Peltier's are crazy cheap. There's a bunch of people mentioning knee ice machines
I really don't think that's what he's talking about These look like literally just coolers that have like a pump in them and you just put in cold water and then yeah
So the thing that I'm after is the ability to cycle it. Yeah, so being able to run cold
So you could basically program it you go to bed You've got like your your your pull-proof kind of like fitting lock on there
So that it's not gonna like rip off in the middle of the night and make you think you wet yourself because you totally
Definitely didn't because you're a big boy now and you don't do that anymore. Yeah
And then you basically said it to be like, okay
Do like like a 20 minute cold session and then leave it off for an hour
And then do 20 more minutes of cold and leave it off for an hour because you're not supposed to do it continuously, right?
And then do 20 minutes of cold and then leave it off for an hour or what I've found works really really well for me
Is actually alternating so I'll actually put on I'll put on heat for a while
And then I'll put on cold for a while and then I'll put on heat for a while and then cold for a while
So I'd love to be able to like program something like that like do an hour of warm and then do like 20 minutes of like ice cold
And then like do an hour of warm and then 20 minutes of ice cold
I Think once anything sold as medical device the price shoes up due to certifications liability, etc
That may be true. I saw but I I
Feel like there's got to be a way around that because there's so many like magic pills or whatever that they just say
Oh, we make no claims with respect to the medical efficacy and then they're they're cheap and
many of them useless
Jeremy says why not a tiny heat pump instead of a pelchee way more efficient, but then I have to have a compressor
I don't want a compressor. I want something that runs quietly. That's I mean, that's why the eight-sleep uses a pelchee
I'm pretty sure it uses a pelty. I've actually never torn one down But it almost certainly does because it you can't hear a compressor in it
So a pelchee is a really really simple device and for the amount of heat that I need right because I'm only doing like one part of the body
so that it's like I think a human body is about a hundred watts total and
That includes like any heat that you're losing exhaling so what you're actually losing through your skin is really not that much
So if you're just doing one part of you, you don't need a ton of heat
M. Morris says get a raspberry pi old water cooling equipment and duct tape. Yeah, the the challenging part is the like the bladder filled
Sleeves I haven't I'm not aware of like an easy solution for this
Anyway The human body is 15,000 BTUs according to the matrix. Yeah, I think that's pretty questionable math
Using using humans as a as a source of energy is like
The least realistic thing about the matrix and there's a lot of stuff that's we're not very good batteries
Yeah, I believe it was just like a form of torture
I think that's what it was supposed to be. They had other power sources as well. They're just being mean
They were supposed to be processors not batteries, they're described as batteries
Yeah, they're they're quite definitely described as I'm pretty sure that yeah, right like I'm not okay. Thank you
Okay, you might have taken the blue pill
If you if that's what they changed it for the movie
Oh, really? Oh
Interesting
Yeah, that that makes way more sense. Yeah, oh no, it was a script change man
That's the kind of script change. It's just like that sucks like
Processors makes way more sense. Yeah, especially good like the way that they're hooked up and stuff
Yeah, like what did that have to do with being a battery? That's so stupid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, yeah Remember that time that you and I like suggested some oh, yeah, like
Unfuck this thing kind of script changes and then they just like we're like no
We're gonna be no we want this to be one of the worst movies of all time. Yeah
That just that feels like the kind of thing where I just I can't fathom
Why it was important to the script writers for the movie that the humans be batteries
That's just really stupid
What movie was that don't worry about it NDA
All right, why don't we go ahead and start the show? Yeah, let's start the show
You I think I think the new way is that you just do them probably
Yep Um, let me put it this way
You
What is up everybody happy Friday and welcome to the WAN Show we're back at ya geekier than ever. Yeah
Yeah, sexy, right? Yeah, and we've got some good news today Windows 11 is getting a speed boost and
For some reason they're getting user backlash about this. Um
No, no, please do make Windows faster. Definitely appreciate that
I mean, how else are they gonna compete with Google books? Oh that
The AI sequels to Chromebooks, we don't know a ton about these yet
But they were a huge focus for Google at their recent Android event earlier this week
We'll be talking a little bit about those and some I
Maybe gonna be mad at me. Maybe you're gonna be mad at me But some AI features of aluminium OS that I am legitimately. Oh, no stoked for there's one
That's really cool. We'll see if we have the same opinion
Linux gains more critical Windows apps very important 3d movie maker and space cadet pinball. Those are I
Mean, they're not on Windows now absolute app cinema just another dub
And also, I don't know
This one I think is funny. I don't know this is good news, but it's funny Amazon employees are token maxing due to pressure to use AI tools
It's a it's a it's actually it's funny. It's a funny topic
The
Show is brought to you today by AMD
Kate Motion gray and Explicit along with our rap partner D brand our laptop partner razor and our chair partner
Old-so razor. Why don't we jump right into our headline topic today?
Which is that Windows 11 is getting a speed boost Microsoft is
Testing a new Windows 11 feature called low latency profile that temporarily
Increases CPU clock speeds in very short bursts to speed up things like the start menu app launches and other UI
Interactions mimicking how macOS handles responsiveness and for that matter also Android and iOS and basically any other
Modern operating I I didn't realize Windows wasn't already doing this
Yeah Windows central testing showed up to 40% faster launch times for Microsoft's own apps like Outlook the store paint and file explorer and
Up to 70% faster launch times for the start menu and context menus
The feature has drawn Community backlash with people accusing Microsoft of cheating and using a band-aid solution
Instead of addressing underlying Windows performance issues because they can do both
Scott Hanselman VP for core AI github and Windows defended this change though responding to several critics on Twitter noting that
Your smartphone already does this you've discovered
Dynamic frequency scaling Mac and Linux do this already and you guys aren't complaining
This is probably the most blatant
Transparent admission that Microsoft is like wait a decade behind
But I have ever seen from a Microsoft VP. It's like hey guys
We were just doing the thing that
Everybody else completely lapped us on the track. Yeah doing
Sorry and he's a hundred percent right. There should be zero backlash for Microsoft doing this
There should just be Yeah
Considering it's it's a profile. So it sounds like you can turn it off
Like this is like when my kid is running like the 800 meter and she's like the last one to cross the line like
You know yeah To be clear actually that is not how it went down by the way
So congrats to to my youngest for actually qualifying for the next stage
But anyway, but the point is just that this is a good thing
With that said yeah, they do still have other work to do
Yeah, there's some validity to Microsoft needing to clean up their house because just cranking my CPU in order to make up for your
In a lot of cases fairly garbage decision-making over the years is not
The answer But it can be part of the answer if you do this in order to catch up with other operating systems and you you know
Get rid of react native being part of the start menu and things like that the combination can be really good
And I don't think the order necessarily matters. I know some people are like oh you should fix those things first
It's like no you should do no anything you can yeah as soon as you can yeah to improve the user experience as much as you
Can absolutely and if you really think that turning up the frequency of the CPU a little bit when you launch the start menu or whatever
It's gonna have a significant impact on the battery life of your laptop guys
How long do you think it's actually boosting for like it?
It's for a fraction of a second like a tiny fraction of a second
I guess laptops known for being super efficient yeah, this like you can probably relax and also your phone described as a profile
Yeah, that would tell me I am guessing but that would tell me that you can probably turn it off if you really care
Which you shouldn't it should probably just be the default profile from now on yeah, honestly, I would prefer they
Actually did that and then called the other profile like
Dog profile like something yeah worse profile extreme battery saver
Sure, but we already have that so this should just be that yeah
This should just be in the default balanced and performance profiles. Yeah
Yeah, I mean good I just got a text on what's that I bet you couldn't even tell no yeah
We should we should probably we should probably talk about these yeah, I
Okay, so full disclosure Meta sponsored. I think it's a short. Yeah, it's a short
Just talking about some of the new features I am not on the clock right now though right now
I'm just wearing them because Sammy came in here before the show started and asked if he could just get a shot of me
Wearing them on the WAN Show set and I was like yeah, sure that's fine
Have you uploaded the short yet? No, okay, and then Luke and I started talking about them and
I've been using them for about a week now and there's a lot of stuff that is I
I got to be honest with you pretty cool
I showed Luke the display before the show started and I've actually my my neural band
so the bracelet that you wear that kind of Keeps track of which fingers you're tapping and lets you like swipe you swipe through the menu like this and then you can like write
Texts like this you can also dictate to it
Weird yeah, it's it's super funky. So you wake the device by double tapping here
And then you say yes with this no with this and it can tell
the difference between those
It's pretty cool as far as my understanding goes there's there's ones coming from from Apple and Google and and
Actually a really wide variety of other manufacturers as well. Tell me this Samsung. Tell me this
Huh, if you had to put the various smart glasses brands
into good boy brand and
Timeout brand Which which smart glasses would you consider?
Wearing you want I want I want the honest answer. I don't know if this is gonna sound surprising to you or not
I know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna type it because I already know what you're gonna say like it's so you're so predictable
Okay, hit me Apple
Yeah, of course. Yeah, and
man Apple's a company that I have a complicated relationship with because on the one hand they
Definitely how in order to in order to access the Chinese market have absolutely
Compromised their user privacy Absolutely, I mean is that is a Chinese Apple user like less worthy of Apple's promises with respect to their data safety
Then a Western one I don't really if that's your corporate promise then I don't really see why there would be a difference there
And if there is a difference there then I don't really think you get to stand there and beat the drum about how amazing you are with respect to
User privacy depending on where your lines are but on the other hand
Right and oh and then there's Apple being an obstacle for years and years and years with respect to support for RCS
encrypted Messages across platform because it would disincentivize people to stay locked into the iOS walled garden is like they're highly
financially motivated to just walk away from user privacy whenever it's not convenient for them
I really is often really trash as well. However
They also have gone to bat
Yes for their users. Yeah when it's more convenient
So if there was someone that I was that I also was going to
I'm not gonna use the t-word I'm not gonna say trust. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'll use the other t-word if there was someone I was going to tolerate
Yeah, Apple does seem like an okay
Ish better maybe bet. I'm not really stoked on strapping
Metta or Google or anything else to my face
With visual and audio
Inputs like oh You're not actually recording you right now because my neural band battery is dead, but I just yeah, I don't know
But I have always like hey there you go. Oh, I guess you can do is there physical buttons
Yeah, I so it also squeeze the framers are a button. It all there's a button. So it also supports
Not the neural band But they like beta firmware that I have is neural band only so I'm wondering if you can I'm recording you right now
What if you can cut off that little LED? So if you cover it which sides it on again this side, right? Yeah, so if you cover it
It'll get mad at you and it will stop recording from what I've heard
I've never actually tried to cover it because I haven't used them in public much yet. I've used them
On the court though. So I was I was hanging out with
like a former junior national player and He was really excited about these because he's trying to grow his social media presence
and so I was like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna get some like POV footage of training with you and
Jaden's like, oh, yeah, that's super cool. Can you like send all that to me after so?
You know when everyone around you is consenting and cool with it like man, this is a perspective
that No, there's there's no other
Way to capture like this and it's yeah, really cool
I mean, there's is Carter and flipping chat said what about the recent news that met us having humans watch and categorize videos without telling anyone
Yeah, and there was also news in there that like a ton of it was accidentally recorded
nudity and other various stuff
And from what I've heard of various ages
So like it's Yeah, there's there's
I heard nuclei says orgy glasses. I hope that yeah. Yeah. I
Promise you. Yeah, I I hope you know Apple sticks to their yeah, usually pretty decent privacy guns
Yeah, because from what I've rumors that I've heard and maybe these are real. I don't know. Yeah, is there a ditching vision pro?
Yeah, I heard the vision pro team has basically
Yeah, don't a glasses on all in on these because because the vision pro had a lot of good things about it
Oh, it did. It was really did it was the coolest product that's ever been so irrelevant. Yeah
Yeah, that's a cool way of saying it. Yeah
so like they could be really good and
I I
You know sometimes you just have to listen to people and accept what they say and
When you look at Google and when you look at meta, they're not hiding it
Just listen to them We will take as much data as we possibly can use it in every way we possibly can and sell it to absolutely everyone
We possibly can for as much money as we possibly can. Yep. I mean, they're literally advertising companies. Yeah
Like they are they are it's not even saying the quiet part out loud
It's saying the really loud part as loud as they possibly can to everyone that will listen and at a certain point you have to be like
Okay, and they're really good at it. Yeah, so we we traditionally have relied almost
Exclusively on our own videos and our own sort of social media
Profiles to promote LTT Store for instance over the last it's funny. We had an all-hands. Yeah, this is recently
And Dave who is heading up operations or I forget what his actual job title is whatever
He knows he's he's definitely heading up marketing. He's Dave. He's Dave. He's kind of a beast
And he's been doing he's been spearheading marketing for LTT Store off-site
So we're doing things like influencer affiliate programs and things like that
We've got an oh, I don't know if he's past probation yet, but we've got another really
super smart guy who is Who's working on that with Dave and then Dave has been running like reddit ads
Meta ads more recently. We did a Pinterest when we were promoting the leggings which sold out like
Crazy fast. Thank you so much for your support. We're hopefully gonna be able to do like more women's styles based on that success
But he during the all-hands He had this line that really stood out to me where he's like, okay
How many of you in this room have seen an LTT Store ad? Yeah, lately and
Two-thirds probably about their orders. Yeah, like most of the company was like, yeah
and Like I have I put my hand up a bunch of family members of mine knew about the leggings because of ads
The leggings were one of the first times that like I
Got requests to get something usually I'll be like, oh, we have this cool new thing
Are you interested in this and the leggings were like multiple people are like, hey, I
Want the pockets? Yeah Yeah, and so what we're what we're discovering is that oh
I forget the exact numbers but like for every dollar that we're spending with these advertising giants
Like it's something that I've always known like obviously they're running profitable businesses, right? Yeah
and obviously, you know people like like Ridge or
Vessie or whoever like would stop giving the money if it wasn't working. Yeah, right?
So obviously it's working, but this is my first time really seeing firsthand like oh
My gosh the more we spend Just like marketing with meta or with reddit or with Google just like the more sales we have and
It's like I wouldn't say it's an infinite money glitch because you reached like a point of diminishing returns
Yeah, but if you have a good product
they are Crazy good as we saw during the all-hands at taking you know an LTT product that a tech-interested person might be interested in and
Putting it in front of them wherever they go on the internet. It's like I don't know
Everything I'm saying is like yeah dull line. It's common sense ever since like double-click, you know
Like back in the 90s or whatever and it's like yeah, yes, I know that advertising is just kind of a solved thing. It's just I
Don't know. It's been weird to see it from the other side. Yeah to experience it from the other side and go
Oh, this is just like pouring gasoline on the fire of your business
But
Dude, we're we're fucked Like just like just everything I
Know it's good news when I'm showing everything, but like
Yeah, it's just it's crazy because and I go right so right I'm coming back to it. These are so good now
Okay, that like people are gonna wear them So whether you choose an Apple one or like a cool open-source privacy one framework
Yeah framework does a glass. I mean the the branding's already there the framework frames. Come on man
Replaceable ARM sure whatever right
Or like or or graphene OS, you know makes an OS for you you might wear that one
But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which one you're wearing people around you
It matters which one the people around you are wearing We've already got multiple people here at the office that regardless of any sponsorship deals
We do or don't do around like meta AI glass display, whatever things are just wearing them
They buy them and wear them. We thought there was a lot of tribalism around like consoles and like PC versus Mac
The your choice of electronic compromises my personal security is gonna be wild
I never even really thought about that too much
We're in we're in Apple glasses
Group of friends. Yeah, I'm sorry. You don't use eyeglass message. Do you have a meadows? Excuse me?
You don't belong here One of the things that on the subject of like cross-platform communication is a shortcoming right now is
It supports like messages
Instagram what's that Facebook Messenger like it's basically all meta ecosystem stuff
But one of the things that oh
Okay, but things might change at some point
Sorry, I don't know when we're publishing our short and I don't know if anything we're saying it is under embargo
So got it But yeah, like it's hopefully the ecosystem will expand at some point for apps that you can use because right now
They're not that useful for me day-to-day like I have to put them on intently to to use them because
maybe 90% of my text-based communication is
teams and then Another 5% is WhatsApp and then another 1% is discord and discord is basically just you and then so astonishing to me
That no one else in my life uses it. Yeah, cuz like I reached out to someone
Literally like last week on a different platform and they were like, yeah, sorry. I like really never check this
Can we jump to discord and that happens to me at least once a month
Like everyone I know seems to be moving to discord. Okay, so above the fold
So this is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
There's 12 chats here above the fold. Tell me how far back that goes I
Mean four down in your back a month By the time we get to 12, that's from that chat. It's hidden by the chat
Icon is from seven months ago So there's like a dozen people that I talked to with a frequency of
Twice a year my entire screen. Yeah, when you get to the very bottom one it finally gets to two days. Yeah, so
Discord is just discord. Oh man teams is teams and slack are obviously the lion's share but like
Discord is next after those ones and discord a bunch of discord is work. Do you think that's a generational gap?
Like your cohort is five years younger than mine like yeah, because then once you go far enough down below mine
I don't know if it's still discord. It might be something else
I have no idea but probably But like even even a lot of creators
Oh, yeah, most the vast majority of creators that I talked through is through discord
So nobody wants to hear anything else. We've got Ludwig
I saw a couple of them in here. Yeah crowd finster
Yeah, um at boucabola. Yeah, lyjah and you I think you count sure and then the only work ones in here are
Eshtek, so I'm not on raid the the other thing that they're making hexos. That's embarrassing
Uh hexos, so that's the nas software that I invested in so their CEO
Messages me on here, and then it's just like yeah a couple couple friends a couple youtube
contacts Work ones make up at least a quarter of my within the last day go figure like
Anyway until we get Until we until there's like more cross-platform chat
I'm gonna get like a small percentage of my notifications on here. Anyway, which means I'm far more likely to look at my watch
um, but I can kind of
Through these frames luke dude the I can see freaking out about finster. I can see the future
Oh to be clear. I don't so I talked to I talked to finster once five months ago. Basically
um just saying uh
Hey, it was it was cool that you came to visit our office. I think people are just surprised. Yeah
Elijah introduced me um
Yeah, I I don't I don't know I don't know very much about a lot of the people that I that I message
But I've heard that she's pretty cool. Sure. So and I think she came up for LTX once or something. I think
Visiting the LTD camera department something something
Something oh no friend met you Yeah, I don't know I got introduced and from what I've heard. She's pretty cool. That's uh, that that's all that that's all I know
I just thought it was funny seeing the chat. Yeah. Yeah, I and apparently very popular with our audience. Yeah. Yep. Yeah makes sense to me
uh
I'm gonna take these off now. They're pretty uncomfortable with the with the headphones and stuff headphones. Yeah
All right, is there is is there any leaks with the apple ones?
Yeah, lots No timelines though because they were kind of all in on the whole
Like vr headset that we insist is not a vr headset and that we stubbornly refuse to acknowledge
The the two main use cases for vr headsets for is this from the pressure because of the headphone you have like big
um, whatever those are called Oh, yeah, is that the pressure because the headphones or does that always happen with no
It just always happens with them. Wow, they're they're not like pretty heavy. Yeah, they're not they're not super light
But also like I don't have nose calluses
Like because I don't wear I guess you get more use them especially when they're heavy
Yeah, and also just people who just like wear glasses will take off their glasses and they'll have like the mark there
So I I wouldn't read too much into that. They're not uncomfortable. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. Um
Okay Google book Oh, yeah, we could do that google book
Google book the ai sequel to chrome book on tuesday of this week
Google gave a sneak peek of the google book which is kind of like a chrome book
but with more Android support and deeper integration of
Gemini obviously google books can run Android apps directly on the laptop
Or can access files and use apps from your Android phone. It's expected that google books will run uh
google Google's upcoming aluminum os aluminum os excuse me
Google didn't discuss the core hardware in the announcement But Intel and qualcomm have both made announcements confirming their partnerships. So yeah, okay
google vp John millettis later told chrome unbox that the upcoming notebooks will ship with processors from
Okay, Intel qualcomm and media tech. Oh and media tech
Interesting Wireless i'm assuming
No, no, no, so okay from my understanding and i'm gonna get some details wrong here because I don't remember and it was a while ago
But from my understanding the whole Windows on ARM thing being qualcomm exclusive with their snapdragon x chips
Is like a timed thing and uh, that's one of the reasons that qualcomm has been so cagey
Around people calling it Windows on ARM. They want it called like Windows on snapdragon
because they want to like like Plant their flag in the in the Windows on ARM
space yeah, uh before You know some of the lower cost chipset makers can can come in and well do what they do best which is be lower cost chipset makers
and um So while we haven't seen any meaningful traction for media tech on the Windows side yet. Yeah
I can't think of any reason that a media tech soc
Couldn't power a google book and so having that choice right out of the gate could be very interesting
Uh pug boy says media tech has been in chromebooks for years now nothing surprising there. Yeah, so um
What I haven't seen though is a media tech chipset that would be like
High performance. Do they have something new that's coming that could be more of a competitor for snapdragon x that I don't know
I remember I have a vague memory of maybe at some point
They're being like uh like a media tech laptop grade chip that was going to be not like an absolute
budget tier solution so Uh, yeah hit me up in chat if you guys uh, if you guys know if there's if we're going to get something high performance because that would be pretty cool
Yeah, carry on google is establishing strict hardware standards across memory storage keyboards and overall build quality
Google books will come in a variety of shapes and sizes from the usual hardware manufacturers of acer ASUS dell hp lenovo
Okay, but this this is the big one. This is the big feature. This is the exciting differentiator
This is why you need a google book sir
tell them the news google books feature a
Glow bar on the exterior. We don't know what it does. We don't know what it looks like
We don't know anything about it, but google says that it is both functional
And beautiful. Okay. I'm actually only sort of joking
Because how quickly would you get a mac book that went back to having the glowing apple logo on the back?
just saying You do it. I do you mac book owners if if m6
Brought back the glowing logo on the back. You'd consider an upgrade
That's how apple is going to get all the people running m1 m2 silicon to finally upgrade
You'd love to have it. You've got the glowing red dot and you love it dot is actually genuinely helpful
You love it because I can tell what my laptop's doing based on the glowing red. He loves it. He loves it. Here comes the glow bar
I'm derrick says holy true I am actually okay with it just being a little red dot though. So like I don't know what that means. Well, um
Axios writer ena freed
Hopefully probably called the most visible change with the google book the magic pointer
Which calls up gemini. Oh, right
I don't know about that, but okay It's not yet clear. Okay. When you you didn't finish your sentence. Yeah, you did the thing the magic pointer
Which calls up gemini anytime you wiggle the cursor and I mean
The amount of like Miss prompts for that is going to be wild, but yeah, it's not yet clear what this means for the future of chromebooks
So the the wiggle the cursor thing
The amount of times that i'm just thinking and i'll like kind of shake my mouse
I have to consciously When luke is reading the doc
I have to consciously Not do this. Yeah, exactly because it interferes with him reading because I just like I just do this as I'm reading
Well, and it's it's not just that it's highlighting it. It's that the man if I can no keep doing it keep doing it
Oh, keep doing it. Oh, I can do that all day because on my screen
See how it actually says like wancho one. Oh, wait. I need my screen. Yeah. It's the little flag
So as I'm reading so that will actually like physically cover up entire words sometimes
It's like yo I like actually can't read this now. They're both doing it. They're actually moving the text around. Yeah, dad
You've pasted the text. That is not fair. Sorry. It's like looking drag thing. That's even worse. Yeah, but yeah, I'll I'll even literally just like
Shake my mouse. So like the amount of times that I would
unintentionally bring this thing up and then I I think it looks like it kind of like overlays your screen
Almost like a a snipping tool. Mm-hmm kind of thing. So like it's it's going to be really annoying. Um, however
There is one AI feature of aluminium os that is also coming to Android that I am like so
Freaking jazzed for hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. I'm trying to contain myself luke
I'm trying to contain myself. Okay. It's hard to contain myself. I typed it down because I suspect this is him
Yeah, it's the like AI widgets. Yeah They're actually really cool. They look so cool. This is such a
perfect application of like AI
slop crap coding that Nobody else is going to need like, okay, uh, a perfect the one that I want is like a, um
Like like an ultimate like time zone tracker
Just for me Like I I just want particular information like I also want maybe a little bit of like weather in there
Um for I like to have something in southeast asia like taiwan so that I I I know what's going on
Like I know what time zone it is for anyone that I'm corresponding with in asia ish
I like to have one in europe So like usually I'll pick like paris or something like that just so I know about what time it is in europe
And then I'll do the math myself for east coast north america
But I'll have like a local one and just the ones that exist are so bland
And so boring like you can see the one I'm using now. It's just like I don't know. Here's three times
This could be so cool What if I could long press on one of the other time zones?
I don't know if it's going to be able to do this but I I I can kind of I could kind of see
Where we're headed like what if I could long press on one of the time zones and then I could
make an event on my calendar according to that time zone because I know because like
Creating events across time zones sucks so much like when I'm over in taiwan for computex
And I want to make a make a note to
Remind myself the evening of the tuesday when I'm back to go to whoever's you know band recital or whatever
I then have to do the math for what Time it is now that it will be there
And and if I could just like integrate like calendar and like like cool stuff like that
Then I'd love it and I know we're not there yet. Don't think you have to do that though
Yeah, so I think on desktop you can set your time zone. I think
Yeah, so I can like I can go do that But if I could just if I could just like long press here and basically just go
Yeah, great. Let's go and like as it is now like I can go in here and then I can set my time zone
I can do this like super tedious flow But I want to be able to do it quickly and that's the whole pitch of these like custom ai widgets
Is taking the things that you do all the time that almost nobody else does all the time and making them like one or two presses
Oh Chef kiss can't wait. I'm so excited
If if I could put it on like one of my side monitors
I I actually thought of this while we were Sitting here and now I just want to do it anyways, and I'm pretty sure I can
Uh, but I would have something on my side monitor not my main monitor
That warns me about things that I might need to be prepared for for tomorrow
And it should start generating that at like yeah five p.m
Yeah, or like because this the calendar is going to change all day
And then at around five p.m. It's probably going to decently lock in and if it can let me know of like oh you have like an off-site
Or something yeah, and like it let's say it's not even just for work stuff. So it's like
Oh, you're going hiking tomorrow. Make sure you like
Have the right clothes that are clean
And then Connor and then Connor you're missing the point
The beauty of widgets is that I don't have to open my google calendar. Yeah
He's like you can it's like it's literally a giant button on my google calendar
I don't want to open my google calendar I I want to just stay on my home screen like I actually
Have uh like I used to maintain like a whole bunch of like constant tabs
In my in my mobile browser, and I've got it down to four
And I have found that just that action of like opening up
The chrome app less and having like fewer tabs and fewer things to click on and go into is making me use my phone
Like way less nice, um, and I'm I'm stoked on anything that helps me use my phone less
That was one line from the google event that really stood out to me is
We are Everything what we're doing for the future of Android is with an eye toward
using your phone less And doing more with the help of your phone now. There's some stuff that's just obviously horse
the uh the assistant You like they did this crazy demo where you snap a picture of like a concert poster and then you just like
Tell gem and I like hey, can you just like book me two floor tickets for that?
I'm gonna like take a girl with me And set a date for that and then you like go on your date and then you're just like hey
Make another date for next week No girl wants to hear from your f***ing ai assistant that you're asked her out again. Are you are you kidding me right now?
Stop it. Just stop it. Stop it. Don't even pitch this. That's not how this works
That's not how any of this works. Maybe in silicon valley
Maybe maybe if it's your ai assistant, maybe but like
Just just no probably work. No um
Like oh dude, I I said I said in the script
Like when I in the video that we did on the google event. I was like, yeah
Even just setting an alarm has about a 80 to 90 success rate for me. Oh, yeah, and
since then I tried to set an alarm for something
and it uh and it screwed up the
um What did it do? No, it timed out. So I and I was on wi-fi. I was on wi-fi at home
So I was on like two and a half gig internet. So I didn't even want to hear it and then
This is a this is a funny one um
I was dictating to my uh to my notes because I was actually thinking like just because
Meta sends these glasses over to me for a sponsored short doesn't mean I don't still have them
I could I could totally just do an editorial video on them after the fact
So I've started making some notes from my time just using them now and
I I was reminded of a super annoying thing
That dictation just does that drives me absolutely crazy. What is up with this word square being capitalized?
The the so the so the sentence here is
And the video quality off of these things is just is is capitalized
Is just mind-blowingly good period also the fact that
Sometimes it writes the word period and comma and other times it just puts in the period for me
Come on man. Uh, I would love to see meta use a sensor that's square
Kind of like the selfie camera on the latest iphone so that I could choose to crop landscape if I want to it capitalized square
And it capitalized is Why?
And then the next sentence not everything that I do is best portrayed in portrait
Not that's the beginning of a sentence not is not capitalized
The word portrayed is is capitalized and then between in and portrait. There are two spaces. You can't convince me that that
Should ask out Someone that I Potentially want to spend the rest of my life with you got to be kidding the stakes are too high. I'm afraid
I don't use dictation very much. Yeah, when you just showed me square
I was like, oh, they it thought the company sure but in that context and no it did not no
It did it to portrayed and all this other stuff is portrayed a company. Is that like a like a prominent silicon?
Hold on here. Is that a prominent silicon valley company?
Portrait brands. Nope forget it. We're you're done. You're cooked. You're out. You're
You're you're you're fried
So there are definitely things that are exciting and there are things that ai is really good at
I tried to I was looking for um
A moment from an older video a little while ago and I just couldn't remember
I was looking for a time on ShortCircuit when I had used
Ai to try to find our desk pad. I wanted it to send me to LTT Store
To the northern lights desk pad by taking a picture of it I was using like the circle to search or google lens or something like that one of their image recognition search things
And I couldn't remember what video it was from and gemini just kept gaslighting me
over and over and over and over and over again that it was from
I think it was like the pixel 10 or something like that or pixel 9 9a or that it was from
The galaxy s24 ultra or something and finally, you know how I ultimately found it was um
um YouTube Transcript search. I'm trying to remember what that said filmot filmot. This is a really cool site
So it just kept insisting and and the craziest part is was I felt so gaslit by it
Because it would give me a timestamp and it would describe the thing that happened
It was like you searched for the thing and it just brought up other desk pads of like landscapes
Or something or like it it brought up like the mkbhd store or whatever like it was like I was like, yeah
Yeah, that's what I remember happening But it kept telling me it happened in this video when I was like no
It's not in that video and it would keep insisting that it was in one of these couple of videos
And it just couldn't find it and the way that I ultimately found it was by
Um going here on filmot. This is a super cool tool by the way, and I just searched for uh northern lights
Yes, yes, yes, I'm human. Oh my god relax. Hey, uh, yeah, you go here
Uh verify I'm smarter than an ai. I never seen that one before
Okay It was from
here google 10 pixel pro
A google pixel 10 pro fold Was what it was from and the ai could not check this one it just
Insisted that it was on a different one And but it knew it described the way it went down perfectly
It just linked me to the wrong video. Yeah, and then chat gpt tripped over itself as well. It couldn't do it either and so
Man, but then there's but then there's things that it does so well
like I I don't know man. I don't I don't know how to deal with this anymore
I don't know how to deal with this like I like I well, okay. What what have you used ai for that's been useful recently?
Yeah, fair enough. All right, we can move on. I've used it in the same way for a super long time
I'll use it for I I never use it to actual output. That's been a rule for a long time. Yeah, I
Use it for brainstorming every once in a while. I'll be like here's here's a topic
I need all the basic Like fundamentals of this topic and then it'll give me basically like headline things not headline things
I don't know if I'm asking about a mouse it'll say latency
You know like like things like that like it'll give me all the different things to consider
Oh, and then I'll and then I'll dive into those Another one probably my like a checklist to make sure you don't overlook anything. Yeah. Yeah, okay
I want to learn about this topic. What are the different like?
Subcategory type things. I don't remember the actual verbiage because I just copy paste it
What are what are the things within this topic that I need to care about?
And then it'll let me know and then I'll dive into those usually myself or I'll ask it to
Expand on one of them and then dive into it from there But I try to usually make it so that my final information does not come from it
Because I'm relatively aware of how consistently wrong it is about things
Um And then probably over all time
I don't know if they're in the last month or two But over all time my most commonly used prompt objectively is going to be the sentiment analysis one sure where I'll be sending a message
And I'll be worried about how it's going to be interpreted. Yeah, so I'll kind of rubber ducky with
The LLM and just be like what what sentiment analysis would you get from this message kind of in a vacuum?
You know, what's funny is I actually uh, I use it very rarely
But that was something I used it for pretty recently I pasted in an argument that Yvonne and I happened to get into over text and I was like whose fault was it
And basically it it crapped out that
It was kind of both of our fault and it legitimately did help us resolve it. Yeah
And I was like, okay Well, I'm sorry for that thing that I did that I didn't really like notice or realize I was doing
And she was like, well, I'm sorry for that thing that I did that I Didn't really notice or realize that I was doing and then we were like, okay. I want to make out
Through through wanshow. I have told you know quite like that
I have told a very large number of people about this whole sentiment analysis thing
And I find so few people ever try it and every single person I've ever known that has ever tried it has been like
Oh, it's actually pretty good Because like if you really sat there and really break it down for a while you'll find those things
But often it's like, I don't know. This is this is the message that I would send
If this was a normal day, I would just click send But I want to be a little bit more careful copy paste blank and then it'll be like
It'll it'll say some stuff and it's like, yeah, I could see that so then you make the adjustment yourself
What are your personal tells for when you know that you're probably cranky?
Mine is eating sounds If people if people eating near me is annoying then I know that I'm in a bad mood
Even if I didn't realize it before because eating sounds normally I won't even notice them
but when I'm like when I'm Low blood sugar or I haven't slept enough or there's something that's just kind of been agitating me or I have a headache or whatever
if someone is In the same room as me
And I can hear that like lip smacking. I just I like I want to I want to punch them and I'll like I'll be like
I'll be sitting there going like Why am I so agitated right now?
Look at them like they're they're eating. Do they know do they know how much noise they're making? Oh, this is me
Oh, no Togekibi says I get this hearing you with the braces. Hey, I have good news on the braces front while he thinks
uh Hey, look
All right, this one I it's not that zoomed whatever there's one tooth here
that's still quite twisted and
From what I can tell When we untwist that one we're pretty much done
So I am hoping fingers crossed that we are like
Two and a half to three months from the end here Which would put us at the low end of the time estimate. They gave me they said about 12 to 18 months
And that would put us at around the 12 and a half 13 month mark
we wasted like An entire cycle with a tie on this one that wasn't secure enough and wasn't moving it and I I felt it right away
I was like Should I go in and tell them to like like tie that off better because I can tell it's not moving
And I know that this is the focus But I didn't and when I came in they were like, oh, yeah, that wasn't doing anything
So we have to put in the same wire again, but we're gonna like tie it different reposition the bracket
And I was like no that sucks Uh, I think for me it's like speed
Speed if I start noticing that I'm just like
Like off the dome just rifling It's usually not a great situation. Oh, so you're doing things no longer controlling my pace
If I'm no longer really thinking through what I'm saying if I'm going more impulsive animalistic autopilot brain
It's like I'm probably tilted right now
God I need to and the the main way that I can try to get out of that is to how to force myself to slow down
How often does that happen on when show Not not that often I think
Um Do you believe him?
Dead knotted I tried to cut him off. I tried to cut him off because that was that was so perfect
But yeah, I think I think that's my answer to that there's there's a few other things as well
The eating thing I think is pretty common. I think I get that too. Um, I don't think I get it as bad as you
I've seen you Reactor that before
But but yeah, I I'll I'll like
And I'll start noticing that like the the non automatic part of the brain
Is now focused on what happened a few seconds ago instead of what I'm going to do next
Because I'm going so fast that it's like
Oh, I didn't like that I didn't frame that well
And now I'm thinking about that instead of what I'm saying next and then I start kind of falling behind
And I need to go like no, no, no, no, no, let's let's slow down and get more control over what's happening
Um, what is the actual aim of this conversation instead of being right about the next statement?
How do I how do I come out the best possible way out of the conclusion of this scenario or conversation or whatever it is?
Uh, so I try to pull myself back into like
You know larger picture thinking I don't know whatever it's uh
Yeah It's not easy though. It's not easy because like you have to count on
One of your tells like one of your cues to to come up you have to
slow down enough To think which I need to slow down really difficult which can be very difficult
I don't remember even recognizing that you need to slow down
Is difficult but then the like really difficult part is actually pulling it back
You know what I'm the opposite I can pull it back once I have recognized that I need to then that's actually relatively easy for me
But the slowing down for long enough to go wait a second
We've gone off the rails here or we are completely focused on the wrong thing right now is not always
Not always easy. Yeah for me. Yeah
Floatplane chat Y'all need to stop flaming each other and y'all gonna y'all gonna get some timeouts pretty quick. What's going on?
I don't care how much tenure you have relax. Thank you everybody
Uh, all right. Why don't we jump into a new topic? Oh, no, we are explaining comms. Hey. Oh, oh, dude
Dude, okay It's not launching with the same amount of fanfare as like the screwdriver or the cables or the backpack or whatever
But this Took a similar time frame to develop
Really
Okay So it was in it was in development hell for a couple of years until we finally found
Exactly the right fabric for these garments
And uh, this is our UV protective polo
Which is made with sea wool fabric that's derived from reclaimed oyster shells. Yes
Oyster shells that have been turned into a lightweight performance fabric that has mic antimicrobial properties
It has because of the weave excellent
Moisture wicking excellent breathability not to mention upf 30 plus sun protection
The inside collar has a pop of blue and we also added a dedicated deeper chest pocket for your sunglasses
This is the one that i've had a sample of of using like an older fabric that we found
We actually did a full production run of this thing But what we found was that the older fabric could not be manufactured consistently
So the sizing of the finished run was All over the place. It is not very often that a chinese manufacturer
Will tell you hey this thing that we made is not of acceptable quality. We don't want to ship it to you
But that's what happened and they were like we literally don't want to take your money for this the sizing is
All over the place. So we had to find a new material This is made of the same sea wool fabric blend for lightweight upf 30 plus sun protection
Anti odor performance and breathable comfort for your beach days summer commutes are those moments when your friends somehow convince you to do outdoor activities
I have gotten a shocking number of compliments on my sample of this over the last couple of years
It is genuinely one of my favorite garments that we have ever made
And it is like if you are like me if you're a vampire and you burn in the sun
And you want something that you can wear but that
That doesn't make you feel sweaty. It's like the it's like wearing like a robe
Yeah, yeah, like it's it's like wearing an umbrella. It keeps you out of the sun
but You can like go in the sun and you can even like you can go swimming in it and dry off and because it's antimicrobial
Then you don't have to worry about like stinking so much
Um, like it's not magic, you know, obviously you get dog dew on it or whatever you're going to smell like dog dew
But like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, dude. These are so exciting with some minor odors or whatever and then finally finally
Uh, oh, do you want to bring up the site so we can show people? I'm sure they they're they're like a fun in the sun
product So I'm sure they did like a fun photo shoot and then finally to go with them
We've got the uv protective cap which uses a separate lightweight moisture wicking performance fabric with up f 50 plus protection
While keeping the same familiar LTT hat fit
I'm so so Excited about these you can check them out at LMG.gg slash uv collection. I think this is something that is going to
uh Really resonate with our audience because
Hey, let's face it. I can't be the only one of us that is a bit of a vampire and want something that
Helps me Be stay out of the sun while being out in the sun
Eco conscious sea wool from oyster shells
Sounds uh, this is the kind of stuff that tachiana just like
Goes and finds No, that's super cool. It's just so
She's really passionate about this kind of stuff as as a as a
Someone who's completely ignorant in that world. It sounds fake. It sounds like jonathan talking about kubernetes to me
If I don't know anything about it
Like what that's a really really really good description
Like what do you even talk about? How does that even how is that possible at a cloud service micro orchestration?
What are you talking about? It sounds super cool. It's it sounds awesome
I like the fact that it's not uh some form of like petroleum plastic derivative thing
Also, that's cool. I would love to shout out the fashion team. Did you notice something crazy about this launch?
Uh It's at a time of the year that makes sense
I don't even know if that's where you're going, but like that's been a problem for entity store historically. Yeah
Yeah, oh my god. Oh my god. Good job Linus. No, not me not me not me. Good job then for stepping out of the way
Oh, I mean I was not in the way Uh, if anything, I have definitely wanted things on time. Let's let's let's be real here
What it comes down to is the execution of the team
So I've got to give like a massive kudos to Bridget. Yeah, she has been she she
I don't it was a weird thing her coming to work here
because she like Worked at a real company. I was gonna say she came from like
Yeah, bootlegger. Yeah, like you know like an actual, you know, like fashion company and she's been here for
Like going on five years now. I think so like this is a very substantial like
Portion of her career now and every once in a while I kind of check in with her and I'm like
How's that going for you? You know
Does that seem in hindsight like a good decision?
and um And and I mean I don't want to put any words in her mouth, but she's still here obviously
And she's been she's been pushing the team Really hard to start acting like what we are
This is not merch This is apparel. This is this is clothing. This is fashion. This is
This is a really this is I really like the feel of these. This is a highly technical garment
And and technical means a different thing shells in it, dude
Yeah, it means a different thing in the fashion world But what it means is that it's not pure fashion. It's not just for the looks. It's a highly functional
piece that that achieves its function in a way that is really just not as simple as
Finding some off-the-shelf thing and then you know cutting it and sewing it into the shape that you want
Oh, I misspoke. I misspoke. There is polyester in it. Oh, okay. There you go. I misspoke. Yeah. No, it's a blend. It's a blend
And so, you know I've got to give uh, I've got to give
Um, I've got to give credit to the because I think the seawall is mostly responsible for the antimicrobial
elements. That makes sense. Yeah um
And so, yeah, I feel very nice. I've got to give credit to the team. It has almost like a cooling to the touch. Yeah
I can you can I'm not even wearing it. I'm just I'm so I I have mine like down here
It's a fidget toy. Um, and and you can tell that it would not
Like I'm gripping it and it feels cool in my grip if that makes sense
So the hand isn't really heating it up. So uh, bridge it came from like the traditional fashion world where
on time was the only thing that mattered And you just like you shipped it. Yeah, you didn't do another sample
You just shipped it because on time is the only thing that matters You you literally would never put the wrong season thing on the shelf
It just doesn't work like that and then she came here Where the only thing that mattered was winter jackets in june make it make it the best it it can be
And when it arrives We try to sell it
And she's been kind of Don't balance a little bit
Bring those mentalities together Not completely the other way. Yeah, not completely. No, absolutely not
In fact, that's a big part of the reason this took three years not because it took three years necessarily but because we went, okay
Now it's done So we're going to ship it at the next opportunity that is a proper season for us to for us to ship this thing and um
And so yeah, I've just I've got to give her credit for having the discipline
And having the the vision to to basically go. Okay. Look, I'm going to take what I learned here
That's really really important from this, you know from my my past career
And I'm going to use that to kind of elevate our strategy here and I'm just I'm I'm really excited about what they're doing on the apparel side, dude
We have like 80 plus product launches coming between now and the end of the year
Like think about that for a second. We will be launching
Almost two new products a week
Yeah, more than two new products a week for the rest of the year. It's pretty wild. Yeah
That's a lot and and it's not with an enormous team. It's just a small team of people who just care a whole freaking lot
Um, which is yeah, which is pretty cool Uh, hold on a second
And Oh, uh, gilmore d says I saw an instagram reel before about the new shirts
Am I remembering correctly that tachiana said something about part of the process making it safe for people with shellfish
Shellfish allergies. My wife has a shellfish allergy
um Uh, you know what I normally wouldn't bug tachiana during
WAN Show but I'm just gonna I'm gonna see if I can grab her here because we gave people the afternoon off anyway
So if I bug her for like two minutes at
Quarter after six, it's probably not the end of the world Let's see if she picks up
Uh, it looks like um, oh shoot Sammy just posted in chat. Apparently she's on vacation. Okay. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bug her then
well Sorry, I uh, we'll have to find
I will have to find that out for you and and we'll get someone we'll get someone to post it on the product page. Okay
Dan, do you mind sending that to um, yeah to maybe bridge it to to check into
That would be that would be amazing. Sure. Roman says get work zoned. Yeah. Well, you you know how it is. You know how it is
um All right. Anyway, so that's the new products that you guys can check out at LTT Store and
If you are looking for a good reason to do it Then why not so you can send a calm? Uh, calms are checkout messages
They're something that we created because we don't really believe in people just throwing money at their screens and
Getting maybe nothing in return from streamers. So we don't do twitch bits. We don't do super chats
We don't really do any of that stuff Instead we do checkout messages or calms. So what you do is you head over to lttstore.com
You add any of the cool stuff that we have on there to your cart
Like say for example the uh, I don't know the polo shirt. Luke's just shopping. So, you know, whatever. No, I was noticing
You go in here and there's a polo shirt and then you go under apparel and you go to shirts
Okay, uh, Dan. That's another note if we could uh, I already sent it off. Oh, okay
That's what I was doing with all my phone stuff. Wonderful. Um, yeah, we can we can let's go to something else. Let's do this
Yeah, multi the the new uh smaller multi bit precision set
So this one, uh, doesn't have the in handle storage
But it does come with the torque bar so that you can uh, you can drive things harder if you want it comes with fewer bits
Anyway, okay, throw it in the cart and whenever we're live, you'll see this interface to send a checkout message
You can choose your color. You can choose whether to show your name or be anonymous
Joshua C chose to show his name up there. Uh, after you place your order, it will go to producer Dan
There he is who will reply to it or who will
Curate it for me and luke to respond to so why don't we do a couple curated
Checkout messages. Yeah, sure. We've got a quite a few come through already
Really doesn't roll off the tongue like merge messages. It does it No, I just I can't call it merch anymore luke. I can't call it merch
I mean, I'm open to a rebranding again because it's really maybe the messages are merch not working for me
The the the merch was the friends we made along the way. Yeah, are we even something like that? I don't know man
I liked whale words It was kind of fun. Yeah, I don't know
Let me faster on it a little bit more. Please do consider something else. Yeah. Hey DLM
Love the products as always. I like the new site, but I'm wondering when slash if the archive slash retired products page was
Talked about uh, still gonna happen. Yeah, the plan is still for it to happen. It hasn't happened yet
We were hard at work getting the new site up and running. Um, I gotta say like
Shout out cw and dev team like the fact that our new site went up and it has as few game breaking bugs as it had
Like it was I think zero game breakers and like
maybe one or two Things that I would consider high severity and then like a handful of low severity things like
As far as new site launches go, I don't think I've seen much smoother than that like I was actually really impressed with the team
Um, oh something. I haven't checked yet
Uh, remember I showed you that weird bug on my fold where our imagery on the site would be duplicated
I haven't tried it on the new site yet Let's see. Okay, so I'm gonna click a product. I'm gonna click the uv protective hoodie
No, it's fixed now Cool. So the image scrolling is is sideways now, which honestly is like probably better anyway
Yeah, all right, cool. So yeah, good job. We inadvertently fixed my stupid folding phone issue. Um, yeah, there's
Trying to figure out if things are a bug or not. There's a new gallery style that we have
Um, it's it's more prominently noticeable in other products But like on this one uv protective hoodie, it's selected on ic blue by default. I scroll down and all I see is ic blue
and then they end Oh, if I want to see the other one I click on cactus and then okay cactus ones. This is apparently
Uh-huh very normal Other like fashion brands are doing this. This is not like we're not the only ones doing this. I think I might be
Out of touch. I don't shop for things online a lot guy by being like, uh, I don't like that so much
Right, you want to see all the different Just see all and then have clicking the thing just scroll me to the other color. No, it's tough
No, I think I can already give you the answer to this and I think the reason is that we have there's other places that do this
No, no, I just mean even for us though. We have evergreen items like our our blank t-shirts
are um They're on again trying to be more like like a fashion brand. We have seasonal colors now
So we have our evergreen colors like black and then we will do
like new colors and so
When if we were to do all of if we were to do a photo shoot with these five colors
And then we were to launch these three colors Then what would happen is you would have this weird
Like photo gallery that contains these five colors incredible amount of some of which are gone
And then all these new colors wouldn't be represented there So you've got a for me go to the party shirt for a sec. Yeah, sure. And like I'm I'm more than happy to
Uh, accept that I may be wrong here. No, I'm not saying you're not wrong. You're just
You know, this is where it gets a little cray-cray for me
Mm-hmm, because now you have the series as well
Hmm This one's out of stock. Oh, we should remove these ones that are all out of stock
I Dan, do you mind sending a note? Please
To whom? Um to but but hold on Dave. They're not wait. What click on the other series
Oh shoot. Okay. I would say that's a bug
Oh, okay, that's a problem. Okay. We need to figure that out
Uh, yeah, we definitely need to figure that out because it doesn't say that it's out of stock
What it's saying technically is that like frutiger era does not have the hostel of vista. Yeah
Design, okay, we need to figure that out So, yeah, there's some there's some stuff, but it's it's it's not that bad. I think it looks and feels great the site in general
By the way, check out one of the party shirts Curtis B from Madison
us 10 out of 10 the shirt changed my life
Okay, that was the solitaire large, but there's there's lots of other variants of our tremendous
party shirts
Do you look half this cool right now? I doubt it. No
I doubt it. I just a strong doubt That's all. Okay, Dan. Do you want to hit us with a couple comes? Sure. I've got one more here for you
Thank you for the more polo shirts. Please add even more colors, especially for premium polo
What's y'all's opinion on polo shirts and what do you look for when designing a polo?
I'm gonna I'm gonna lean on Lisa from the cw team and the big thing that she
Talks about to the point of like, oh my god, Lisa. I get it. Yes. I know this is important to our design process
You are a hundred percent right But she harps on this and it's really important like to be clear
What she's saying is so valid and so right and it's important to say it over and over again because you should never lose track of it
is she always talks about our customer and what they
need not what they want or what they think they might like what they need and
The way that one of the things that she really tries to emphasize is
Um ease of wearing And like what does she mean by that what she means is that
for better or for worse The people who have chosen to
follow the exploits of Linus and luke over the last
You know 14 years or however long it's been
um Can be a little bit like Linus and luke who are wearing what today?
A black t-shirt Why are they both wearing a black t-shirt? It goes with everything because it's easy to wear
And so that's the thing that lisa is always
Hammering on is when she's looking at okay. How do we help our customer?
Who we know is going to make their choice based on what is very easy to wear
How do we help them up style a little bit?
And so that's where you've gotten innovations like the pop of color in the uh in the color
Where we're not trying to overwhelm you when you look at your clothes in your closet in the morning or in your drawers
But we're trying to You know help you make a choice that is easy
Oh, that's cool and that elevates your style a little bit and that's exactly
You know what they try to do with the uh with the polos also comfort
Like that's one of my things is i'll always tell them look i don't care
I don't care how many oysters it has in it, right like that is not i actually think that's really cool
No, no, no, I just mean I don't care how many oysters is in it if it's not comfortable or if it shrinks in the wash
Yeah, I will say my my my interest in it being made with oysters
Spiked dramatically after I touched it and was like wow it feels really nice
And then and then now that's really cool and now i'm interested in that
And I want to figure out like i'm gonna go home and try to learn about
Uh Ocean
Wool or something sea wool sea wool. I want to figure out how that how the heck they make that
Yeah, I'm gonna go like watch something or whatever. So that's where you see the inputs
From all the different members of the team come together during mile hands address
I made kind of like a joke. Um, I forget what did what did I refer to our our size as a company as did I call it
An oil tanker or something or something like that. I called us
What what did you remember what word I used Dan? Let's see if he was listening
Uh
Oh, we're both trying to turn on Dan at the same time and the ends are turned off by it. You're better at it. Um
I don't know it's I can't remember what you said was it mass. I don't know it was something it was something along
It was something along those lines. Um, no, I don't remember But but one of the things that I was kind of emphasizing is that that's a key advantage for us is that we have
So many different inputs that go into our outputs
And sometimes that can feel like a too many chefs situation and it can feel like bloat
But I think that when it's done. Well, it actually really elevates everything that we do whether it's video or whether it's
physical goods or whether it's a streaming platform or whatever else it is that we're
Creating so like in a product like this You can see Bridget's influence it launched at a freaking reasonable time season wise you can see like tony and dave's enter
Their influence in the in the marketing and the fact that it's available
Concurrently at both of our distribution centers You can see like Tatiana's influence in the materials choices. You can see a llama day's influence in the fit
Um, you can see like Lisa's influence in just the ease of of wearing it and all that stuff
You can see my influence in that it's going to be comfortable and not shrinking the wash
Or at least, you know, not much
It's yeah, it's just it's it's lots of it's lots of stuff. It's lots of stuff
Was it mass? Yeah, it was mass. All right. Okay, apparently it was mass
I feel now I feel like I have to double check. I have my I have my all hands address
Speech here It's the kind of thing that I I wonder if there's some kind of an outlet where we can kind of like talk to the audience a
Little bit about some of the stuff that we talked about like the Floatplane update was so cool
And I feel like you know the viewership of jonathan's like
Yeah, you should give context so okay, so jonathan from the Floatplane team Floatplane was part of our all hands for the first time
Uh, was that this week? What a what a week?
Floatplane was part of the all hands for the first time this week So we got to show people like what we do
And I had the I thought it would be a lot less interesting to have me just kind of stand up there and talk
So I mostly just introed like What Floatplane is just in case someone works in a business unit that's really far from Floatplane
It doesn't really know um and and and
What we do on a at a very high level very quickly and then try to get out of the way
Because I thought it would be much more interesting to have you know, the developers speak for themselves as to what they do
What they have contributed what things they're doing on the platform
um, and then also have The infrastructure side get presented from from jonathan who is currently the the primary for infrastructure on Floatplane
um, and it was really good, but
jonathan's first video Was if I remember correctly almost 11 minutes long
Um, he recorded it Uh, well not re-recorded he re-rendered it with cutting a bunch of the the like gaps between talking out
It came down to I think it was like a minute and a half minute or sorry nine and a half minutes or nine minutes and 45
It's still pretty long especially in all hands context and it was dense
It was dense and it was pretty deep in the weeds and it was really really cool, but I was like we're gonna lose
90 people with this Can we get a more like slimmed down version that we're still gonna lose people with
And I think at a certain point I had some some comments on this of like, oh, yeah
It was like it was too technical and it's like at a certain point that has to be okay
Because I can't make it. Yeah Like if it just is really technical
So like we you know try to make it approachable try to give real world scenarios
Like he talked about like what our infrastructure did when a power supply died in one of our servers
And how the service didn't go down and how that blah blah blah blah blah
So he tried to make it like relatable. It's he tried to basically I think the way that we described it
If my memory serves me correctly is we tried to take
Um like a math or physics problem that was just numbers and we tried to make it a word problem
So like you try to try to add context instead of an object flying through the air with gravitational force and whatever else
It's a catapult and they're trying to hit a target and they have to figure out the math for it
Like it makes it makes it you can understand it more easily. So we tried to take that approach
But we took the like uncompressed
You know jonathan version, which was much longer and we put it on like an internal
Uh thing so people could see it and that actually got a decent amount of youth
I was worried that maybe no one would watch it. Oh, they did like I I watched it real fast
Really? Yeah, that's super cool. I got messages before I had settled down at my desk being like
I I thought the Floatplane team did a great job of their presentations overall actually
Yeah, and I just I was very happy. I feel like this was probably
the Most eye-opening all-hands we've ever done for the people who work on the media side of the business
Because it was I think the first time that we haven't really talked about the media side of the business at all
and it's um It's not to be clear. I don't you know, I'm not going to say that the media side is not important
It's extremely important. It's the foundation upon which everything else was built
Let's be real here but I think sometimes
um It's easy for the media side because I work in the media business day to day
It's easy for us to kind of go. Hey, we're the center of the universe and
like everything else is
Is outside of our tunnel vision, you know what I mean? And I like I felt like there were moments when I kind of like looked out over
Over the the crowd and I saw people like really engaged
It did seem to be I'm really interested in learning what like
Entire departments of people who have like been with the company for three to five years
Have been building all this time Um, and so I really you heard donathan and peter right eight plus
Like they've been around We don't see them because a lot of the a lot of people in the other be used uh, even creator warehouse
Um, they have their own unit. They a lot of them are off-site
um So We literally don't see them a lot of the a lot of the folks on the media side don't even talk to them or think about them
um, but they're really really important to
Keeping the lights on and keeping thing keeping things going right keeping the ship sailing
um
Yeah, yeah, it was really cool. I was I was pretty excited about it. I was a little nervous about it because again, I I'm I'm
Well, you had multiple teams presenting you had infra and Floatplane. Well, it was it was Floatplane infra
Right. Okay. Sorry, which does some stuff for local
Okay, so there was like the little shout out at the end of like we also do
All of this which was like the hosting of all the services for for internal things
Yeah, because the the Floatplane and internal infrastructure slash it teams blend a little bit now
Um, like like jonathan does work on both sides
Um, and and aj does work on both sides
jonathan's more Floatplane leaning aj is more LMG leaning these days
Um, but like there there is there is shared resources across the or like smash champs or whatever
The whole the whole inter inter tangled web of companies
Yeah, and and the infrastructure is like right at the heart of the inter tangled web of companies
So like there is there is a as it would be right? Yeah, but that was predominantly a presentation on Floatplane infrastructure
Right. Um, yeah, this is good though. It was awesome. Yeah, I thought it was really good
and like the feedback that I've gotten on the long version was also like
Whoa, the partners of one of the people who presented on the dev side
um watched jonathan's full version
Before the presentation and was just like vaguely interested at the beginning and ended up watching the entire like 10 minutes
And was like, whoa, that was really cool. Like it's pretty good. It's it's tech tips. Yeah
It's like Real tech tips though. Um, and they had also watched the the dev version, but the dev version was
um, I think If you told people you were going to show them each one
Most people are going to default to expecting the dev version to be more interesting. Um, so I think that's why
The infraversion being really interesting is getting so much attention. It's not that the dev one wasn't interesting
It was really interesting. It was very good I've had minecraft footage for attention
There's a lot of attention tricks. Yeah, which I I didn't coach any of those. That was great though
That was all them. That was amazing. And I mean all three of them like yeah, here. Do we actually do do we uh,
What channel were those published to was it patet? I don't think I have access to patet. It's Linus been your group internal
Uh Oh, okay
Oh, this is great. I mean these are these are multi
Upload posts so you can see the different versions if you scroll down
Uh, maybe I can I don't see it. I can't scroll down
Uh, that's fine. That's fine. I just need uh
Let me see. Okay, so this oh the development one just has one version. That's why the infrastructure one has two versions
Uh, so this this will give you some idea of what apparently our internal presentations look like during our all hands meetings
Um, so showing the oh, yeah, these are some of the new, um user badges. So here's some minecraft footage for attention
um
She's saying stuff during this time, but you're not hearing it. You're watching minecraft
jk jk
So, yeah, this is that literally played on the projector at our all hands for 100 people
Oh, man, what a we are
Sometimes we're boring and corporate and then other times we're like still a really weird company like we had uh, we had a um
A barbecue today in the rain with like axe throwing
Like what the f***? You know I
Yeah, this was an initiative from our new like HR guy who's like
I would say a first impression of him. No offense tim
But would be like, you know, kind of stuffy and old-fashioned
But like there was cornhole um
I don't know what to say. I thought it was cool. Cool way to kick off a long weekend, too
Yeah, yeah, so we did like an extra long weekend, which um, yeah, that was that was a tim initiative
He basically like brought it to me. He's like, here's the budget
Terry numbers for the for the friday early dismissal
barbecue Yeah, okay. He's actually a lot more charismatic than that, but uh, martina d said, please release them to flow plane
Uh, uh, they'd need a scrub to make sure that there's they would need to scrub
They weren't intended to be shown and then Linus just ripped it, but uh, that was probably fine. Um, it's it's also like
You know, these people didn't necessarily sign up to be shown to the world
They signed it to be shown internally and when they were making them initially that was the goal
So it might be possible that we could do
another pass And make them. Yeah, maybe
Maybe we're not committing anything now. Yeah, and especially because these guys like have
A lot of work to do and already put a lot of work into this and so already a fairly undersized team
So yeah, like they they're they're very busy. I prefer the word talented
sure They do a lot of output per person basically very talented
Yeah Um, oh
Did we actually do a comm yet? We did one. Did we do two? Yes, we've done two. We've done two. Oh, sure. Should we pick another topic?
I honestly have zero memory of either of them. Nice. That's how you know
It's good because it sparks a good conversation. Yeah. Yeah, I always feel good when you do a comm for like an hour
That does happen. Um, yeah, it makes me feel good. Yeah, okay
Oh, I'll get right because that means he curated a good one And yeah, sometimes I get it wrong and you're like, yeah 30 seconds and then we move on
I'm like, what? We've done this before
Way to go Dan. You've done bad and you should feel bad. I do all the time. No
No, no too much Now we're tripping over each other on the Dan button again. No
No, it's fun. I think cute Uh, all right amazon has decided that same day shipping
Is not fast enough They've started rolling out amazon now a service aimed at delivering your order in 30 minutes or less in a handful of american cities back in december
and 15 minutes or less in parts of brazil, mexico, india and the ua e
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Micro-fulfillment centers also known as dark stores for the deliveries and these sites can stock thousands of items closer to customers
than amazon's typical warehouses The company said that 30 minute deliveries will be available
24 hours a day in most areas where the service is available
Prime members will pay a 399 fee for amazon now and an additional
199 fee for orders orders below $15 while customers without a prime membership will pay a $14 delivery fee along with an extra $4
For orders below 15 bucks. This is
crazy Like it's basically uber eats, but for like kind of anything on amazon
I guess that is popular enough that it's Stocked in one of these micro-fulfillments probably a lot of stuff considering if you look at amazon statistics
It seems like people just sort of all by the same sort by overall pick
Yeah, yeah, which and and you know what we've built pcs using the overall pick
Using the top rated using the amazon. What does overall pick mean?
We did a whole video about it. I forget I did my thing where I
I do a bunch of research and learn about it I write a script
I host the video and then that part of my brain withers and dies
And hopefully a new part grows in its place
We're talking very recently about how I mean, I mean
I was like trying to learn something ended up watching my own video to try to learn it
um, yeah, it was about the um DirectX 12 and SLI stuff and Vulkan. Yeah, and I end up watching the whole thing because I was like
Oh, yeah
I had no memory that you could you could SLI four of those cards after they turned off four-way SLI
You could still do it but only for benchmarks. I had no idea that was a thing completely forgot that like just tons of stuff
That's just Gone and no figment of a memory of it. It's just
Gone. Yep, and then I can remember
So many stupid things. I've hosted like 8 000 videos
I regularly come across a video and go
I have no recollection of that Like at all at all
And you know what sometimes that's the most fun way to enjoy it. Are you okay?
I had a very bad realization Uh, AI generated videos being able to potentially like convince you that your past is different than it is. Oh like gaslight you? Yeah
It's good news WAN Show. Yeah, we're moving on let that part of your brain shrivel and die. Yeah
Uh, anyway You are pretty adamantly against using amazon
Would you consider if you needed something right now amazon now if you could get it in 30 minutes?
Depends on mission critical it is but I mean, okay. It's toilet paper
No, you're on the toilet right now. We have a bidet at home. Nice
So is it the Ludwig one? No. Oh, okay. Just I got it before that some other one. Yeah. All right. Cool. Did you spring for heated?
Yes, yeah, but I sprang for heated
Before like north america got really into them and it wasn't that expensive
And then they went Really, I haven't I haven't shopped for one recently or heated bidets. I got it before the the covid toilet paper rush
Oh, so you were like way ahead of the curve. Yeah, got it. And then the covid toilet paper rush happened and everyone went
Oh bidets and then they went Um, I don't know if maybe they've come back down, but like it's it's been
Naturally if you follow that timeline, it's been years. So like I don't I don't know
I just remember like talking to people about how it was good
and then It'll be like, oh, yeah. Well, they're like way too expensive and I was like, huh?
Does Ludwig still do bidets? I don't think so. I mean his site's still up. Oh sold out
Sold out sold out. Okay. Never mind doesn't doesn't do them anymore. Okay. So just I don't know bye bidet
Uh, okay. Tushy still does them. They do know that that's that there's a very different website. And you know what?
It doesn't matter. The point is um Where's a heated one?
Oh my good. Oh, I hate it when dude websites like this
It just makes me want to leave the website. I clicked on something
I was trying to look at your product and you popped up this whole page that just f*** off
I am trying to use your website and look at your product
Shop by model Oh my gosh, how many models of bidet do you need?
Shop by feature warm water. Here we go. Oh my god. Go away
What just happened? I clicked warm water
Okay, now it goes dude. No, I am no longer showing this website because it's too obnoxious
Yeah Yeah, and my my amazon thing to be clear. I don't I try not to like
No preach it to other people too much or anything, but I have
I have my reasons. I try to go to
Practically anywhere else obviously I try to make it like smaller
Smaller outfits smaller stores directly from the company if I can is generally ideal
um But sometimes there's not an option, but like I I often would even rather go to like Best Buy
Just something but uh
Yeah, the thing that drives me nuts is when there's a company that is just an amazon company
They only sell through amazon That's very annoying because then it's like well, I think you need to find an alternative or
Uh, get it from amazon anyways
I needed a uh an irrigation line adapter for my garden hose
I
Wanted it in 30 minutes. I would have done it Because I had to wait like three days or something like that to get the stupid thing
And then that means that I had to go and manually water
Stupid hanging baskets and there wasn't like a home depot
Thing I don't have time to go shop. I had to order it online. I had like can you order online from home depot?
Uh, yeah Their shipping is pretty expensive in canada though like it generally doesn't make a ton of sense
3d print it so the plastic one that I had before was exactly why it failed though
So I wanted to brass one But good idea though. Good idea. I like where you're going with it
um All right, it's way easier for distribution. I understand it's way easier to for distribution might the like elevator pitch
portion of why I I don't really like it is the
mass crushing of small business whether that be
Retail outlets that resell things or honestly just places making things like you look at
people trying to make stuff in in western countries and the insane amounts of patent infringement
That is on amazon and amazon's just complete blind eye to it happening
And then amazon just watching what sells really well on their platform and then just making an amazon basic
Sure lock all the things and just completely crushing competition. They are
Ruining people's dreams. It is like it's like a very uh
Uh fancy way of saying it but like shutting down small business shutting down medium business
Completely replacing like somebody puts their life's work into a product and then amazon just goes and there's an amazon basics version
Making it the default for all the things reorganizing their website to take out things like frequently frequently bought with
and basically only surfacing the top sellers in a category so that it is more well tuned for them to do something like an amazon basics
Or more well tuned for them to sell those top spots
it's You hear about what they do to their workers like just everything
Everything about it feels just really bad for society and everyone involved including all of the customers
To me again, you can pick your own battles. It's all good
Does not bother me when other people use it or whatever. I just I just try not to I try to put at least some amount of effort into into not
Everyone's got to have their own battle. I uh, I went to an event recently
Um where I met oh man. I hope I don't get her name wrong. Was it maya?
Conservation maya maya. Yeah, here we go. Here she is better than teamie. Yeah, I don't sure
So so she talked at an event that I was at recently and she actually uh, it's really funny
She was here in vancouver. She did a ted talk. I was gonna say didn't she do a ted? Yeah, here it is. Um, so super cool
her thing is this animal sanctuary
that Probably the coolest thing about it is that humans don't go into it
Uh, no, I don't want to sign up. I don't okay. Whatever the point is. Um
Because they don't have to accommodate parking lots and walkways and safety
For humans and a gift shop and like all this crap
Uh, she's uh, she's able to take all the money that comes in
To her I forget how to how to pronounce it alveas sanctuary. She's able to take all the money that comes into it
And just spend it on supporting the animals and she's she's got these. Um, she was explaining how she's kind of um
Like personified uh, or she's she's created these sort of um
What's it what's it called when you give human-like characteristics to an animal personification? Is it called personification?
Help me out if it's called something else. Let me know alveas is apparently how it's pronounced. Um, so yeah, she um
She she kind of personifies the animals anthropomorphic. Is that is that it anthropomorphism? Whatever one of those two things
Either way, uh, so people can like people can like give
This cow that you know has a name and has kind of like a like a personality like a treat
And she's raised like millions of dollars at this point. It's uh, it's super cool
And I think it's very easy to look at anyone whether it's your personal cause of sure amazon being kind of bad
Or her personal cause of animals and go okay. Well like hey luke. Why aren't you doing anything about animals and maya?
Why are you buying stuff on amazon or whatever? But it's like
I feel like um, she made a really good point at the end of her talk
Which is just like can we just can we do something anything a little bit?
to just be like a little bit better in some way and
And and get away from the attitude that is
Well, I'm causing all this damage in this other place. So it's it's therefore everything is fine
Therefore everything doesn't matter consumerism under capitalism. Therefore. I will abuse everything I can therefore nothing matters not
So not in my opinion the way to go Maybe maybe uh, zack says I think you mean human eyes. Yeah, either way something basically she just uh
She she she helps people form
And I'm putting these are my words not hers But it's like almost form like parasocial relationships
But instead of with her with like the animals at the sanctuary a cow who likes treats and want to support them
And her theory is that if people Like care a lot about this one wolf that's like super cool and has this great personality
How do they know these these details that when that when you know, this type of wolf is now endangered
Like critically endangered that people will go. Hey, no not those. That's like that's like my friend
The wolf that I really like and that I feel a personal connection to and I just I just I thought it was I'm sorry
I'm completely butchering it. Just go watch her ted talk. Okay. Yeah, there's there's a live webcam
Okay, so you can't go there and you can't like walk around. Yeah. Oh ads
Well, she'll take like like influencers and streamers and stuff there
Just to help raise money for it and help the general infrastructure for it
Yeah, the general infrastructure for the public doesn't have to be built so she can just spend everything on
On doing their conservation work. I just think I think it's super cool. That's sweet. Yeah, right
Animal ambassadors. That's what she calls them That's awesome. Anyway. Yeah, go go watch her ted talk. Don't listen to my version of it, but um
I just had a chance to say hi to her and what a what a great job she did during her talk at the event that I was at and
Evan and Caitlyn were actually the moderators for her like fireside chat. They did a great job, too
Um, I was just like wow, you guys did a great job. That's a rough act to follow
I had to give my talk like right after her
I did my best
That could be pretty tough. Yeah I mean, I mean, I'm a pretty good. I'm a pretty good presenter, but it just yeah
It's always nice when you follow an easy act, you know, that's all that's all I'm saying. It's all I'm saying
Um Well, what what what else? Uh, what else we got here?
What was that even a topic? How do we start talking about that? Another single clue unitary. Oh sponsors. Yeah, let's do sponsors
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Well, look we released two fan favorite LTT videos early on Floatplane this week
Uh, the tech houses. I think this is actually the fourth video Sammy
But we we did another tech house video this time. It's spring cleaning in the backyard of the tech house
No, the excavator is not clickbait
We actually rented a little excavator so that we could tear down the shed
Move a bunch of like wood ties figure out the situation with the pond
Yes, from my past life. I do know how to operate an excavator fun fact very few people know that
Um, and then also Uh, well, okay. He doesn't say which one the other one is classic sammy now. We're gonna release another video
Right now live on wancho. I'm gonna go into the cms. I'm gonna release a video. It's gonna be great
Oh, I'm gonna use the beta version of the cms should I use the beta version luke?
Uh, no not for that. No. No not for that
Okay, not for posting. I guess I won't then uh, it's oh, it's another episode of setup doctor
Featuring our very own reese who you've probably seen in many of our videos as the production assistant for
Many other people's AMD ultimate tech upgrades and other upgrades. He's uh,
He's kind of an always uh, always the bridesmaid never the bride of our upgrade series
But he's finally finally getting his bride moment and I had two people
Internally, so just like people who review out of the handful of people who review the video
Reach out to me and be like this is the funniest video we've done in ages
I was like Okay, I really didn't actually notice it that much when we were shooting
It was like a very chill shoot. It was just like me david and reese who
Are our kind of recurring Uh outside cast members of upgrade series
So david has been the writer for quite a few people's upgrades
And then reese is often the production assistant slash
Set of additional hands on these shoots and then i'm often there
So without having to carry the energy or like adapt to the energy of whoever the subject was
It was just kind of core crew and we didn't really have anything to do
All we had to do was build a desk And then just like kind of organize a room
So we didn't really have much of an objective and apparently the just like vibes of it were
Like peak LTT. I haven't actually watched it yet, but I will it vibes. Yeah, so definitely go go check that out
So that video is live um
Finally we have a video that sammy is calling his magnum opus of Floatplane exclusives
Tech roulette an actual original concept by sammy where you put two people head to head in tech trivia
The loser gets a bullet in their nerf gun and has a chance to pop their full water balloon above their head
This is probably going to be a recurring series
And the first episode is Linus v
Luke it's a jump 30. So oh, yeah, perfect. Oh wait. No, that's not it jump the 30 seconds in okay
I think I should be allowed to spin it three two one
I was actually pretty convinced I was gonna go Vesa
I think the party foul I think the party foul Go on it's fine. I forget what it stands for anyway. I'm asleep you too. The s is standards. I know that
He is engineering V is Is it versatile incorrect video electronic standard association? Okay. All right. Give me all I got was the s in the a
Oh, you pull that back this way. Okay. I think that's on it's hard to tell
You're so far off. It's gonna get you keep right there off when I let go
So now it's going like yeah, it'll probably hit it three two one
So lots of fun we did three rounds. Um
Feel free to go check that out over on Floatplane. Get all this and more at LMG.gg slash fp when
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AMD has another question for us this month
With GPU's getting more powerful every generation is 4k gaming finally worth it?
Or do you still think 1440p is the sweet spot for high refresh rate goodness?
Ooh
Man, I think this is gonna be such an unfortunate answer
Yeah, I mean yep. The rest of the system is so much more expensive now
But I think it just doesn't matter
1440 still reign supreme Because like with the amount more that you're gonna have to spend on your storage
The amount more that you're gonna have to spend on your RAM with the amount more that you're gonna have to spend on basically everything
Uh, the overall we've talked about this before right if you want to look at the price of an of uh
You know, uh, the performance per dollar of a GPU. It might be more accurate to consider
The performance per dollar of the entire system At the lower GPU versus the performance per dollar of the entire system against the higher end GPU
And how that shifts and how that relation works. I got him boys
It's that continues to apply both perspectives are valid
Looking at the performance per dollar of just the card
Because if you already have an entire system, then that's the outlay. That's what you're considering
However, when you're buying an entire system. Yeah, the performance per dollar of the entire system is what actually matters and chasing 4k
And you you might be interested in the performance per dollar of the delta
Like if I sell the card that I have and then buy this new card
It the end the resulting price is this many dollars. How many more frames does that give me?
Um, like that might be interesting to you. No one asked me, but I'm gonna give my answer anyway
I said this seven years ago and I made that face
That's a face that of me exists on the internet
It got 5.1 million views because that's the message that resonated with a lot of people
And I still stand behind it
Unless You pride unless it is a priority for you the difference now seven years later is that 4k gaming
Is good. Yeah, if
You want to lay out that kind of money for it? Yeah at and and
deal assess 4.5 Let's be real here
If you have a 4k monitor, which has gotten a lot more affordable since I made that video
Okay, if you can run it at 1440p
Then you can turn on dls s 4.5 and you can also run it at 4k
So it's less dumb But I still think that to my eye
A high refresh rate High contrast we're talking about gaming at a computer with your monitor at a reasonable distance 1440p monitor is still
the sweet spot and
Especially for competitive and they did have the word competitive in their question for competitive
1440p is the max I'd go. Yeah, I'd even still consider 1080p, but I'd prefer not to 1440p is uh
Showed out counter strike gamers playing at 720 and below
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Uh How long have we been live for?
Holy crap. We've done like three topics
We do we do we have so many topics
What the crap is going on here? Okay quick burn through a couple topics
That's the new steam controller screams the wilhelm scream Which i did not just do if you drop it if it's turned on and if you're in big picture mode
That's cool. We have a short about it. You can check the short out on the youtube's
Uh This is uh
I can I can shamelessly just play it because it's my channel. Yeah
audio Is it seriously not on by default? Sorry. Oh, it's but it but hold on. No wait for it
Unmute it. I'm unmuting it Okay ready apparently if you drop the steam controller, there's a chance. You can hear it. You can they can hear it
Yeah, okay if they can hear it. I'm happy. Yeah, it's it's on now. Good. I wasn't expecting a good production value show
Apparently if you drop the steam controller, there's a chance that you'll get a wilhelm scream out of it
I came to elisha's house to drop his controller. What?
Whoa did it first try Oh
There we go. Okay one in five
Okay, it's about one in four apparently if you drop the steam controller. Um, this short is doing
Numbers and I was talking about content, dude. I was talking to Luke about this on the pre show
But I'm just like I don't know how to deal with this man
Like that was the lowest effort video that I have made probably in the last five years
It's getting more views than like scrapyard wars
There is why do I try there is something why do I try anymore? There is something interesting in tech right now
There is a something interesting in tech right now
Look at look at your historical 1.1. Yeah, I mean
That one's actually that one's actually that one's achieving escape velocity. Very good. Yeah
315. Yeah, yeah 3.4
Same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
I mean, yeah, no, I get it. I get it. It's just like
That is short to use they don't really count. Yeah. Well, except they're still measurable and comparable
Yeah, yeah, yes, it's shorts versus shorts. So he's not wrong. He's not wrong and I mean look
you can say they don't count but I
sample size of of not that many I went to a
I've chaperoned a banned event for one of my kids and
The young kids know who I am
And I pretty much promise you it ain't the long-form content. Yeah
And so us having a foothold in shorts is us is us having
that FaceTime with That demographic of viewers. We can't ignore it. We like we're we're I mean sort of, you know
We're basically a product company at this point But we're we're a media company like at our core at our foundation
And so we can't just look at shorts and go like oh who cares if we get
300,000 views or three and a half million views, you know, it doesn't matter. It's not real views anyway
No, we have to get out there in front of in front of viewers
And we've got to get them familiar with our style and with our content and
We have to have a strategy there and it's something that I I'll admit that we've kind of struggled with what now
Oh, hi, josh and full point chat in all capital letters. Oh my god. It just made my controller scream
Yeah, you have to have big picture mode open if if anyone missed that before so big picture mode
It has to be on and then if you drop it, it'll yeah, it'll scream
Pretty funny looked like about one in four. I got it to scream three times in 11 or something like that. So
The greatest phone ever is real and also
American After numerous delays and even rumors of being canceled
Trump mobile says the t1 phone will be shipping next week
We have a full video planned on this So we won't comment too much. However, what we can do is we can watch this
Add together. So there's also a community note. I will get to that
I don't know if you remember some of the some of the earlier
shenanigans around the t1 phone, but
The first I believe it was the first launch image was actually just a photoshopped iphone
Then they had an image of the supposed t1 phone that was a photoshopped
Galaxy phone in like a spigen or spigen case that was just like photoshopped gold
But actually or maybe the spigen case was cool. I don't remember the details, but
But it was just like an image off of like spigen's website
But like trump phone or something
So there have been a there's been a lot of people
Yeah, the spigen logo was visible. I think I remember that Yeah, I think I remember there's been a lot of people looking at all of the obviously fake pictures of this phone and going
Yeah, this thing is never going to ship but apparently
apparently something Definitely not those initial
Uh renders because it's obviously not going to be an iphone
Something is apparently going to ship and I don't know what twitter is doing right now, but I cannot play this. Oh there it goes
t1 phone. Oh lordy So
This is apparently it except
Readers added context to this video video is ai
us flag has 11 then nine stripes
Back texture is inconsistent That is just that is just two of the things that are wrong with it
There's another really good moment a little bit later here. Hold on wait for it there here
What is happening here? What the yeah, what is is it on a lazy susan? Is it what what is what is going on right?
now Um
I I put down a deposit ages ago. I have no idea if I'm actually going to get one necessarily because
I don't know if they exist. I'm obviously not going to sign up for trump mobile service. I mean, I'm in canada
They don't even have service here. They're they're they're using t-mobile for their um, they're mvno
They're but they're mobile virtual network operators. So they don't they don't have cell towers or anything and they don't
Uh manufacture phones. They just um and the phone looking completely different now
Then originally is crazy. Like I don't even recognize we're in the way
But I don't even recognize this this the phone
Like here that doesn't Yeah, what you can just buy a random samsung. Yeah
Because they did the mobile carrier does work It's just an mvno on t-mobile. Oh, you can buy iPhones and stuff too. Okay. Yeah, sure the deals aren't good
But like yeah, I mean, yeah who expected them to be
Um Wild here. I'm from phone original photo. I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I can find the original photo
Uh Yeah, here we go
Here we go. So it has changed
Yeah, that's what I remember in appearance multiple times This one was funny because this is just like what even is this? Yeah, like that's this is clearly nothing
That's not and I don't mean nothing like the phone brand. I just mean that's not anything
um Yeah, I think that's the that's that's most of the various iterations of it
Here's what was shown to the verge a while back So the finished version does seem to look pretty close to this
And it has gone through two rounds of certification now. So there is pretty credible
Evidence that this phone will be a real
Thing. Uh, here's the spiggan thing Anyway, we're we're planning a full video on the
Um on kind of the the whole history of this we actually
Uh got an got an interview with the verge writer who's been
Like a dog on a bone like
On this every single week
They have uh They have posted an update they've requested comment from trump mobile been like hey
So what's going on with the phone because it's been delayed multiple times when back when they announced it and I think it was june
Of 2025 they said it was going to be shipping in september
And that's when I kind of went well, this is obviously a complete scam and will never ship because there's no way
That you could ship anything resembling a mobile phone
In like three or four months or whatever and they didn't it looks like it's going to be more like 11 months
Oh, here's the spiggan thing lawsuit incoming they humorously tweeted because this is a
This is an image of supposedly the trump t1 phone that still see it in the background still has their logo on it
The whole thing is just an absolute clown show
Um, and it'll be it'll be hilarious to see
What we ultimately get delivered
Um cartoon brat says i've been keeping track of this saga through uh, uh penguinsy
apparently
So good luck everybody uh by east one says the trump phone is definitely shipping in september
We just don't know which september or if it's in this dimension here
Six or three says I got to stay Linus. I do not care about this news like even if it sucks. I don't care
It's funny. Um, yeah, I mean sometimes you just got to laugh at stuff. Yeah, it's
It's just it's it's What else are we supposed to do at this point sir or ma'am?
Like uh, you know
The the head of state of the world's largest economy
It it launched a scam phone
It's definitely interesting if nothing else
Having a head of state be super active in business
While serving is very interesting
Um, wasn't there something with like a peanut farm and some previous president? Oh, I don't know
Oh, yeah, yeah some or to sell or something. Was that uh, george bush senior or I have no idea
Who was it jimmy carter jimmy carter. Okay, not forced to sell he had to put in a blind trust. Yeah
Um, and it's not even my country's I think I think for him blind trust did not mean my sons are doing it
Greater degree of separation Um
Zen toxin though brings up something that is not in the dock that I'm super excited about the new sony xperia
Looks so freaking amazing and and because google apparently is making moving the back button part of core Android
I am like, I think I think i'm going experience. Are we gonna be experience. Headphone jack
Micro sd flagship phone all yours for the low low price of I think it's like 1800 us dollars
us Whoa
Cook
Yes, the xperia one eight price hold on here here here here. Let me look it up. Let me look it up
No notch, uh, which is my favorite feature. It's so expensive Dan. Are you getting one? No, I just I just got this
Seven yeah, I still owe you my six stop letting me forget
15 100 euro
Okay, what what what about it cheap what's what's cool everything sony camera pull up a gsm arena and have a look through sure
Okay, what is its name exactly sony xperia one v111?
Seriously, yeah, there's very a one eight
But the foot eight understand the eight is in roman numerals. Yeah. Yeah, but it has a one in front of it
Like there's the one in the five and the one is the better one and then it has roman numerals
So it's like arabic one and then roman so yeah glass front and back victor's two on the front
Bro, it's just two grand canadian. Don't worry about it ip68. Okay
Uh 120 hertz display, uh 1080p class
Okay, sorry. You can't sorry. I'm interrupting you again. My bad. I went to the sony store
I can see the two grand canadian in the background. They're like, do you want five dollars?
Hey, listen. Hey, listen. I've done more for less
You can save the five dollars to wipe your tears. Yeah, I just sorry. I just thought that was really funny
I can I can just tell that you're gonna like oh man. It's only 256 at two grand
Oh my god Yes, but you can put the one terabyte is
2600 Are you gonna let me finish you can put an sd card in it?
Yeah, so you can get the cheap one and put a one terabyte sd in it cheap
Cheap is a word that I don't know if we should use you can get the poor people one
And put an sd card. That's crazy case
Too spicy too spicy. Damn. I'm obviously being facetious. What is wrong with you Luke? You're not letting me finish
Android 16 with up to four major Android updates
Up to don't worry about it Qualcomm snap dragon 8 elite gen 5 so so cutting edge chip. So that's that's good
16 gigs RAM They look good. Wow triple camera system all 48 megapixels all the things
I don't see the selfie cameras 12 megapixels with sdr support
Stereo speakers that's good it better be a wi-fi 7 tri-band
Okay
Oh, oh dude. Oh side mounted fingerprint. Oh, take me now. Oh
Oh, that's pretty fantastic. Just like they look really good. I don't you they're good. Do you get it?
I get naked for side side fingerprint scanner. Yeah. Yeah the like stone wash looking finish
I will disrobe for you. Sony looks fantastic
5000 mAh battery 30 watt wired charging 15 watt wireless reverse wireless bypass charging
Dude bypass charging underrated feature. Very cool. Bro the ability to plug in the headphones is so sick
You guys get it I've always gotten it Dan. I just they haven't had the ability to move my freaking back button, which I need
I have small hands Dan And we're all just gonna have to deal with that
Up to two days of battery life
Four years of health battery. What is it?
Uh, I think that just means that based on simulations of repeated usb charging and discharging with the same type of battery
Battery health depends on usage. Yeah So up to four years of two days worth of battery
I mean that I I mean if it's if a device doesn't have like a solid four years of the battery not sucking
Then that's pretty terrible. I'll torch that
Okay, that's fair Oh, whoops, okay. I mean
I I was gonna say I bet I could get two days out of my fold seven if I really tried
I don't know if I could get two days, but like I'm at 71 percent today right now
Like I I feel like Android battery life as long as you are careful about which apps you install and how many notifications
You allow has actually been pretty good for a while now. This phone is is torched
I have done effectively like nothing on my phone today. I was desktop the whole time at 64 percent
I didn't I didn't open pokemon go. I didn't do I didn't do anything
All right 64 the the battery on this if I could do like a battery life assessment. It's
done I don't which is like, okay. It's it's not so pastor would be great for you then
Maybe even worth two thousand canadians
I couldn't even finish the sentence
Oh man, that's so much money for a phone. Yeah
It's this is just this is just it like they do they have another phone this generation that isn't insane
No, you can have my last generation one. Okay. Look at look at this. Look at this video. Look at the finish
They're really pretty it looks really nice. Yeah, I want one. I don't often feel that way about phones
I want one. I really want one dude. What phone it's a it's an eight pro
But but it's not I don't I do not think it's the eight pros fault. I have done
You know, we know sony people Things with this
I mean, I'm already trying to convince sony to send over a bvm 31 10. I don't think uh, I don't think I had sony sign my phone
You had sony sign your okay. Sorry. What's story time? All right, ltx. We had a sony booth. Yeah, and I went. Oh my god. I love your phones. Can you sign my phone?
I had all of them sign it with their sharpie. It's actually pretty sweet
And then I also met them Uh, what's the what's the one in vegas that we do in january?
CES I also found a bunch of them at a party and was like sign my phone and they
They liked that they thought it was weird and and really enjoyed it. It is weird. Yeah, they remembered it. Yeah
That's cool. Why do you want this? Wait, what's this for color correction? Oh, okay. It's just the coolest monitor on the face of the earth. What does it do?
It's a real monitor. What does it not do luke? I don't know anything
It is give me the tips. It is the god king of displays
Why? Because it takes any input
in any color space with functionally perfect
accuracy It's the room temperature room. Yeah of monitors. Yeah, it's the room temperature room. Yeah, it's like the it's like the reference
You don't see all the awards. I see the awards. Yeah
My god She's thick
Oh, I like buttons. I like knobs. I'm getting sold. Wow. That is a lot of crazy inputs. Okay
It's Until you've seen it. You've never seen
content Wow, it's um, it's like, uh
It's like putting on glasses when you needed glasses and seeing the world for how it was supposed to look
4,000 nits peak brightness. I love trying to sell. Yeah, I love trying to sell
monitors through like video that someone's watching on another monitor because you have to try to like
Try somehow to explain the difference, but there's you can't really
No, but I mean this is a pretty good representation because you can you can see that instead of blowing out the details you can like
See the light. Yeah, you can see the light luke and the color. Oh the color
Oh Oh, I'm getting chills. Just thinking about it. It's beautiful. So what what will you use this for?
To make a video about it and then I don't know
I mean, they're probably not going to let me keep it. So you're gonna game on it
I That's fast pixel response ass. I'm gonna game on it. I mean like is this gonna become your monitor at home
Uh, I think that probably that's pixel response. Probably the production team would riot
If I took this home selfishly, that's that's why I mentioned like so they would use it for color correction, I guess
Um, oh, we could use it as a playback monitor for you guys at wandset
Jeepers Piss off every single department and us probably. Yeah, no
I just I just want to make a video about it because it's so cool and it's uh, it's better than anything
That exists. All right. Yeah, it's it's pretty cool
Have you seen reference monitors before Linus? Yeah, uh, we did a video on one from uh, Flanders
A little while back and that was Flanders scientific. Yeah, that was quite eye-opening for me
And this is this is a new this is a new generation
Um of of reference display and it's it's it's unreal dude. I I've seen it in person once now and I just
um, we have this unlisted footage on ShortCircuit that is just like
HDR footage shot in like this weird tree house thing in the woods
And I I put it on the reference monitor and I was just like
I've never seen this footage before Not like this like it's just oh
It's like it's like and even they can have a normal
power connector. Yeah Um, amazing
It's my favorite things about it is that it has buttons and knobs and a normal power connector
It's like an experience. I had fairly recently
where Listening to a particular headphone was like hearing familiar songs for the first time fairly recently. Yeah
Is this a So unitary built an absolute unit of a mech
Check this out Unitary is kind of a crazy company. Yeah
um And w canada you've already got me like I'm gonna go I'm gonna go eat there probably this weekend just chill
um Freaking what?
Yes, that has to be like a seat. Yeah, it is a seat Or you cannot you can also operate it with nobody in it
Or you can get in it. Wow. Um, it just
The ports itself while you yeah, so go watch the video. This is unitries. This is unitries story
Let's let them tell it but
I um, I said recently on wanshow that um
There's a certain north american company that seems to be betting its entire future on
humanoid robots The battle is already lost
Like I can't believe how
Affordably unitry is making its robots accessible. Have you have you looked at the price of the mech yet? Okay, cool
So Obviously, it's a lot of money
Obviously, yes, but their humanoid robots have already like leapfrogged
Many other competitors in terms of accessibility in terms of price per performance
How much would you guess? That that mech costs just based on the little that you've seen of it and with a little bit of information
It being strong enough to punch cinder block walls over
It can walk on not just two legs It can also walk on four legs and can be operated both with and without a pilot
What would you guess that something like that costs?
It ought to be north of 100k I
Have no context at all for it for any pricing of any of this stuff
um Part of me is going like north of 250, but then it's unitary
So i'm trying to game the system a little bit if I had no context of the company
I think I'd be going north of 250 because I have a modicum not that much
But a modicum of context of the company. What if I told you boeing made it
You know or like north rob grumman or whatever like one of the big like military guys 750
If it's american military complex
I jump there like immediately no matter what
What do you think unitary is charging for it 199? Okay. It's actually closer to your initial. Okay. Okay
But you can like buy it apparently
For 650 000 us dollars, which yeah to me
seems pretty Pretty cheap
I like I think your estimates for what like uh like an american military industrial complex company
You're probably on the low side 1.5 to 2 million per at least
um Apparently none sold
I mean That's that's the reason why I think it's so expensive is there's probably like four
Uh, can like where where where would you even if they were mass making this? I bet you they could get it cheaper
Unitary mecca. Okay. Like can you even buy it yet?
unitary Mecca like I don't actually
I don't actually see it for sale yet
gdo 1 Gdo 1 like are you guys sure that nobody bought it yet?
Hori says I mean nobody could buy it launches gdo 1 starting from okay
It's like a giant transformer come to life a blah blah blah
If you have 650 000 dollars and don't buy this giant mecca robot. What are you doing?
Uh, does anyone actually have like a an availability timeline for this thing?
Oh my god, this site. What just happened? I was scrolling and then the whole article in a way. Well, anyway, no, yeah, I know
Good luck with that. Yeah Is it is it indexed on gulu yet?
important question asks on hi cash uh
Who actually even needs this robot? What would you actually use it for knocking over unsecured cinder block walls is not a valid use case
I could see
Uh, okay. Okay. Oh here. I could see like a performance spectacle
Like arena or something having one of these like if I was like a monster truck
Traveling show or something. I could see this mecca being like part of our like intermission show monster truck over
Or it does something, you know, or we we like
We jump a truck over it or whatever like I could see it being a like a fancy set piece
um Digital b11 says construction. Maybe I give it another like 10 20 years
And then yeah, I could I could totally see something like this being used as just like an avatar style like
Like just grab stuff and move it around or whatever, but not not today
Not today What else we got cranes do be pretty good for that
Even because of like clearing obstacles
This is true cranes or cranes are like pretty good You don't always need to move like a whole pallet of whatever it is though
And sometimes it might be sometimes you need to go like down into a pit that doesn't have a ramp. Oh, definitely like there's there's
I think I don't think it's going to be instead of a crane. Yeah, I think this will be in addition to a crane. Yeah
Orklift also do be pretty good Sir soy descent says as an oil field knuckle boom operator
This would be a way to disassemble structures Now that's interesting. So for construction. Yes, crane for
Deconstruction strong mecca actually May be pretty useful. Yeah, okay
Sure, that makes sense Now wily giraffe says to unload the crane. Oh, yeah
Actually, that's like super valid like the final
The the last mile I could see that more so the last few meters
Carrying something with this could be very practical
um
What else Beggy says 650,000 us dollars just for a set piece sounds like someone has fu money
Yeah, I don't think there's gonna be a lot of that if you're if you if you're using it to make money
And it's like you're the only place where someone can come see it or you charge people
Like if you charge people a thousand dollars for the experience of trying it and you could manage to make a viable business model out of that
I You only have to put 650 people in it before you get your investment back like it's
I could see some commercial
Use of it possibly making sense if I had more context of i'm on the
Robo store official partner of unitary now Yeah, and i'm seeing some of the the prices of some of the things
I think I think I would have been more accurate Yeah, I could tell you would have done the shift for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because I think uh, like what's uh
What was tesla saying that they anticipated optimist was going to sell for when they were doing their like revenue projections face at a hundred k
I mean they've thrown different numbers around but I I also have no idea
And I also lightly based it off of the optimist being a hundred k thing, but I don't know what it's supposed to cost
Projects the eventual retail price of optimist humanoid robot will be between 20,000 and 30,000 at mass scale according to ai overview
Um, and I mean like good luck with that But part of that problem is the whole mass scale thing
That's what i was saying like if unitary's made like four of those of course they're going to cost that much or way more
But if they're trying to go through like mass manufacturing it, okay, they have their own store. Cool. Uh, I got it
Meanwhile, unitary has already leapfrogged them in terms of price to performance like it's
kind of comical that um Anyone is taking that kind of pricing estimate seriously
Uh, where is I don't think this is a store. I think it's just their official site. Yeah
I don't see the I'm not getting the pop-up to translate the page. I don't know
Oh, just go, uh, the the dots top right dots
And then most of the way down is it there is yeah
in english Hello english
There you go. There we go
So I will just I will literally just I I've never tried to find it. I just reload the page and then usually it comes up. Yeah
Okay, user square action library. Where the bloody heck are the products? I don't think this is a store
I think it's like you have bought the thing and now you need to like do stuff with it place
Oh interesting you can like get Yeah actions and stuff. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, I have not I've not played around with a unitary robot yet
I should I I want to there's ones on the robo store that look pretty cool
Or I shouldn't say I haven't played around with them at all. I did fight one
There's one on sale right now What you got the g1. Yep the low low price of uh, 10 of those phones
nice Solid
Um, I think they have a uh, I think they have a new one coming that looked pretty exciting. So I'm
Is it
I can't remember it came up in um, it came up in writer's meeting a little while ago
Three kilogram ARM load
So you can do a lot of like chores around the house like that
But sort of not really not a ton more you could do the dishes
I mean, well, I was sure with that strength of like motors. Yes, but not with the dexterity that they have now
Ah, yeah, and like the capability they have now. I was specifically only talking about its ability to
like Bear load. Yeah, sure
I did this though. This was fun Yeah, didn't you win this?
spoilers oh So this is the control scheme
Oh, we made it look a lot more exciting in the edit than it. Um
Really was but not not many people watched this video. This did not resonate
I I thought it was kind of a fun video, but anyway
I think it's like space travel. I guess I'll just drop steam controllers instead. Yep, apparently
I think it's like space travel though if people aren't involved. It's like, yeah, but I was involved
Yeah, but you were just outside Oh, so you want me to actually boxing that guy. It probably would have gotten a bunch of views
I see Well, yeah, I know float playing crowd. Of course, you guys watched it. You guys watch all the things
But it's the it's the broader like youtube audience that just did not
Engage with it while he draft I'd pay five dollars to watch it
Okay, all right, so now Now hold on a second. Oh my god, if we could raise 20 grand for me to fight a g1
I bet we could raise 650 grand for me to fight a mecha. Oh, I mean it would break you
But I what a way to go how would it be to knock over an unsupported cinder block wall?
Uh, I mean it would it would it would be hitting pretty hard
Like if you got hit by something that size
That was moving with enough speed and coordination to knock over suck. Yeah, it would not be good
Yeah, like it would like break your bones Maybe like if if they were your face bones
Maybe oh, I don't think that's a maybe sir. I think that's a pretty solid
Yeah, I would break your break your face. Well, it depends like is this thing hitting
I'm losing the physics terms for this
Moment of action is stuck in my head
But it's like can it can it like do this in order to push the cinder block wall over or is it like?
Oh like uh, like uh, like a momentary application. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Because that's what is going to break your bone, right? Impact force impulse force kinetic momentum
Is it more of a push? Yeah, is it more of a push or is it more of a strike?
Here it's in the video. Okay, let's find it. All right here. We're just gonna we're just gonna cheat and watch it
Okay, ready? Yeah. Oh, hold on. Hold on. No, I went to the wrong spot because I am kind of interested
Okay, you're interested in me fighting it notice how no no notice how high up the wall they interacted with
Yeah, like there's a lot of different things. Hold on. Hold on. Here we go. Here we go
Yeah, okay, that's a strike That is a strike, but it's also like the very very tippy top of a very tall and thin wall
It's not it's not that it's not really cool. That would break your bone. It's not that it's not really cool
That would break your that would break your jaw. It's not that it's not really cool for sure. So it's not really cool
I just I wouldn't want to get hit by it. No, I'm not saying I want to get hit by it
Yeah, like it it it struck it. It did not push it over
That we can say for sure and yes, it was very high up. You guys are 100 right? Um, all right. What else we got today?
Oh Dan wants me to do more sponsors now. Guess what Dan? No
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Install a russian language pack on your computer
Uh, we were talking about lori wired a little while ago and she's she's super based
Um, so I was just reading a tweet from her. Um
Earlier this week microsoft threat intelligence posted to twitter that they were investigating the mistral ai
Now the devil do I pronounce this?
Uh, oh jeez. I've only read it pipey sure package. Uh, i'm gonna go with pp
v2.4.6 compromise in their post they noticed
That the attack avoids russian language environments
lori wired retweeted the post with The most low effort high reward thing that you can do for security is installing the russian language pack
Not even joking. It's ridiculous. How often this prevents execution
This was also something that was noted by brian krebs previously with ransomware samples
discussion question luke Do we need to install the russian language pack on all work systems immediately?
Uh, as far as my language goes or as far as my understanding goes
We're probably fine, but
It's not a bad idea. It's not a terrible idea. It might also be super freaking annoying
Why though because you can install a language pack and then just never look at it or think about it again
Is that one of those ones where it can change? No, the language pack wouldn't change your keyboard. Hey, would it change your keyboard?
No, okay And you can just set Windows to your primary language being what it is, but they'll just
Apparently These malware's will just be like, oh is russian
It may be maybe do not install whatever i'm camp not gonna try and do a russian actor in in soviet russia malware installs you like
Whatever don't worry about it
So I just wanted to I just wanted to throw this out there for the wanshow watching people according to according to lori and brian krebs
And also microsoft thread intelligence
Install a russian language pack, which back in the day used to be something that you had to pay for
But nowadays is something that you can just go into Windows update and you can just select a language pack and install it
And apparently it will it will reduce your
It will reduce your exposure to cyber security threats, which
Seems like a zero hassle High reward potentially
Thing to do so and I can't wait for people to start getting viruses because they start googling
Russian language pack for Windows
Okay, just just get it in Windows update. I'm okay advanced options. Maybe
I don't really use Windows much in okay here Sorry, it's not Windows update. It's in time and language add a language and then you just go for there you go
All right, there you go add a language. It's it's that easy. It's that fast
Go for it Hey, here's another cool one
We had an LTT Labs article go up. I think it was either today or yesterday
It's sick. Um, they're all sick
What's up with ups We have one since the ups
Our company has always had many ups is around for the convenience and business case of not suddenly is losing a ton of work
Thank you. Lucas. That is a very matter-of-fact observation
So blah blah blah, etc. We uh, we want to check them out further
But have been wary of connecting them to any measurement equipment considering the high voltages involved
Despite that we're throwing caution to the wind to check out some ups from around the office
So it's not a comprehensive
look at you know Which ups is the the best ups, but it's more of a like
Laying the groundwork for what are they?
What do they do? What might be characteristics of one that could be
More desirable and it's kind of like a like a primer on us taking the time to grab some measurements
make some cool visualizations and
Maybe expand on it further if this is something that people are interested in learning more about
The first thing that I said when I saw lucas's preliminary work on it was like, oh, that should be an LTT video
Like we always say on LTT. You should have a ups
We never tell you which one to buy Because I've never been comfortable enough other than saying like yeah, I don't know get an apc
Or an optu ps or an eaten like it'll probably be fine like any of the big three brands are probably okay
But I don't actually know Which one is better
Or like how much you have to spend to get like a good one
I don't know if we're actually doing it We do we do lots of different things and we change our mind and direction often
But I was talking to lucas in relation to this article about how scrapyard wars used to be such a nightmare
here Because you and I would test in the offices
And be working on our systems in the offices then have to come out into the warehouse usually the workshop set
but let's just say warehouse in general and Like you know benchmark them against each other and then they would start failing
And you and I would both always swear that our systems were stable
Then we'd go back inside to work on them and they'd be stable again The biggest one was when it happened with austin evans
Yes, his system was apparently stable when running off of a ups
And then well it was stable when running off of the wall power in the office. Was it?
Okay, and then was stable when running off a ups in the warehouse, but not when running off of the wall power in the warehouse
Okay, yeah, so I was I was I was poking and being like it could be kind of interesting to go check out
Those plugs because I doubt they've changed much
Uh, yeah, I don't think that transformer has ever been replaced. I doubt it. So I'm assuming the in-office ones are still
Yeah better Because we always refer to it as like dirty power and that was enough for me to understand
That power bad this power good, but that's it. I don't understand beyond that really what's going on
Yeah, it's the like purity of the sine wave. No, like I get I get the vague concepts
How long of a how much of a delay there is in the switchover to battery power?
Like there's a bunch of things that like why is it
Better in there and worse out there. Um I think those two spaces are running off of different transformers
Because that office space is two blended units
And one of the transformers is more loaded than the other one if I recall correctly
It was just when we were converting it rod said and I had a crazy boot issue during scrappard wars and all of a sudden
It started working. Yeah. Yeah, like there's something
Going on. Well, we that was that set has a ups that lives on it permanently now
So the power to the table is always running through ups now So we haven't had any problems in a long time, but yeah, I'd be very curious
Man, maybe maybe if the ups content goes well, we can move into a building transformer content
So we can find the best building transformer and replace them
Yeah, probably not for the seven people that would be interested. Yeah
I mean, hey, like if I was a contractor, then I'd be very interested to know, um
How bad the cheap the cheap transformer that I'm still definitely going to use
That's the problem. Anyway, go check it out at lttlabs.com. It's a really good read
And we've even uh launched an article since then
Oh, what seven hours ago? I I missed that. What's the what's the new one two is better than one? Oh on the b60
You knew about this one. You might just not have known the time Because it released today
Yeah, there's the Labs articles are are coming strong and fast. So so check them out. Yeah, this thing's cool
It's been a long time a long time since I've seen a dual GPU card like this
Until arc pro b60 dual 48 gig turbo
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subscription Speaking of streaming and subscriptions and stuff. Elijah came into my office in like a major huff over
apparently there's some drama with like The plugins for twitch chat like stuff happening on the stream or something like that. Does anyone else have any context for this?
No, not even slightly. I have no idea what you're talking about
Is it is it what's twitch? Um
Stream elements is that is that it stream elements? Okay stream elements drama
Stream elements is stream elements in trouble stream elements shutting down
Yeah Yeah stream elements and talks with potential acquirers to avoid impending
bankruptcy And he was like pretty upset about it because apparently the alternative to it is like not very good or something and
A lot of people are like, oh, well, I would have given more money to stream elements if I'd known that they needed money
but then like They clearly didn't but then like stream elements apparently
Raised like and this is from Elijah. So I don't know if this is true But they raised a hundred million dollars and they've burned through that in the last like three or four years
So I don't know how they managed to burn through that much money
doing like I don't know things that like happening on your screen with twitch chats
Um, I mean, I guess the API cost would probably be reasonably high
there's But like the whole thing seems like uh seems like a giant boatload of fail
So feel free to go look into that if you want to rabbit hole But it's not it's not in our notes today because it's not good news. When
in other good news though MIT researchers have revived a 40 year old
Triangular zipper concept that is now made possible by 3d printing
Researchers at MIT's computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory built the y zipper
A three-sided zipper that snaps three floppy 3d printed arms into a rigid triangular tube
Using a flex rigid transition mechanism enabling the zippers to interlock
The concept dates back to 1985 patented by MIT professor William Freeman
But manufacturing Couldn't be done until modern 3d printing caught up
It works because triangles are inherently rigid. So same principles like bridges trusses and cranes
Software lets users design what the zipped shape becomes and you can make a straight rod and arch a coil or screw
Like twists. So come I'm not gonna lie. I don't really understand check this out
Oh my god, what for and I would love to see an application of it. It's really cool
Yeah, here we go Here we go
The y zipper. Oh, there's some cool example Luke Luke's first question. Why why
There is a there is a pretty cool example at like uh one minute ish almost one minute
50 seconds. Uh-huh the tent
Yeah, you just kind of zip down the rigid poles. Yeah, it's kind of neat. I don't know man
It seems it seems pretty cool. You stuff like this is just neat
I don't I'm not saying like it has to have like a really strong reason
But I would just love to see someone find like a really good
Application for it just to see what they do. So the entire system arms and slider is 3d printed from colman polymers
They tested pla for better load bearing and tpu for more flexibility
And the video demo includes an adjustable wrist cast that can be tightened or made loose easily
Mechanical blooming flower for art and design a quadruped robot with legs that retract
Lowering the robot's body to get it under obstacles in front of it. Interesting and as rods to deploy a tent
Our discussion question is if a 40 year old zipper concept can be revived today
What other failed or forgotten historical patents? Do you think are waiting for modern tech to bring them to life?
Let's break out Leonardo's drawings, dude. I know right I think probably my favorite
um My favorite old
um Technology idea that didn't work out is this thing
This thing is crazy Yeah, and this is a I think this is I think this is the video
Yeah, yeah, this is a great video and you should go watch it
Because this thing was real the why was working the why for this one was
Efficiency right because you have less wheels on the ground so there's less friction. Uh, no, it was cost
Well, because yeah, it's uh, it's cheaper to lay a single rail
Oh than two. I thought it was like
Effectively fuel conservation. Uh, no no not that it was it was the initial laying of the track
And the way that they do like cool animations and everything for how all of this worked
Um, like you can here you can see like hints as to sort of how the thing worked. Yeah, I'm not going to show you everything
It used like pneumatics and stuff. It was so
Flipping cool. You guys should go watch this video on primal space
uh incredible video, but Pretty much the reason it doesn't work is it used uh to self-balance. It used a giant spinning mass
That's like
Okay, yeah, a lot of energy. Yeah. Yeah, scary amount of energy
So the opposite of what I was thinking because now you have to spin this giant freaking thing
Um, it's more just like if anything goes wrong. Yeah
Train crash now. There's this enormous mass flying around. Yeah
Yeah, I um, someone was talking about gyroscopically stable things
I am probably Getting my motorcycle in like a week or two. There you go. Maybe two the um the part that was supposed to arrive
I think I gave you guys an update on this a little while ago The part that was supposed to arrive was like sea and seat overseas
And the guy calls me um earlier this week and he goes
I like I texted him. He's like, hey, do you have time for a call? Which is never good news
and he goes look The part that I've been waiting for like for two months to finish this project
It arrived and the hole for like the ignition is in the wrong spot. It doesn't work
And I was like, oh, well like how complicated is this part? Like I have like a $40,000 cnc and like a handful of operators for it. He's like
You got to be shitting me I'm like, yeah, no, no, like I got my guys and like we've got like a like I think it's like five axis or something
he's like You got to be shitting me
And uh, and I'm like, yeah, no I mean, do you want me to just put you in touch with one of my guys and you can like show them the part and like
So Sebastian uh from the creator warehouse team
I was like, hey, look just like, I don't know. Give me like your contract or rate. This is not work. So, you know
It's not work. So whatever. We'll we'll work it out outside of work
Um, but like is this something that you want that you're able to tackle? He's like, oh, yeah, sure. So he um, so
Like vance went and got it So that was one day by the next day
Sebastian had 3d printed a mock-up of like a fix for it to like make it mount properly
And then Sebastian on his way we had we had an early dismissal friday today
Um, so he like stopped by today and is like talking about the solution with the motorcycle shop
And then figures he can probably like make it by like next week
And so then they just have to do final assembly. He says it looks like I haven't seen any in progress yet
Because I was like, no, no, I want to be surprised Sammy's apparently going to do a Floatplane exclusive of me taking delivery of this bike after three years
And I want to make it really really clear. This is not the shop's fault
Yeah, it was mostly painted. Yeah, mostly it just took me forever to paint it and I did some stuff wrong
And I got some paint and some threads and various things. Um, they have probably contributed a handful of delays
But the vast bulk of it was me and honestly, I'm just impressed that they've stuck with me for this long to get this thing done
Um, so I'm very excited to have my bike back
Uh, do you want to pick a topic? Yeah, let's keep it in the 3d printing world innovative startup pioneers 3d printing with recycled glass
New binder jet process combines powder with adhesive agent in layering technique
Uh Vitreform 3d is a Knoxville startup tackling the 8 million tons of glass
us landfills receive yearly by 3d printing with recycled post consumer glass
Unlike conventional recycling their process skips energy intensive melting and isn't picky about color or grade
Really it's not picky about color. Well, you can be you can sort by color, but you don't have to so you could just do this
Uh, okay neat. Um, they're they're patent pending binder jetting technology
But what a sentence uh works like this the waste glass is ground into a fine powder
There's a thin layer of glass powder spread across the build spectrum
Platform Not sure where you got that word from but not a single clue
Inject style nozzles deposit a binder slash adhesive only where materials should bond based on that 3d model
Uh, and then repeat layer by layer to build the 3d object
The finished piece is then fired in an oven like that makes sense like pottery to set its final shape
The end product is classified as engineered stone
I mean, yeah glass is just wrong. Yeah, no that makes sense. It's just interesting roughly 90 to 95
Recycled glass and 5 to 10 polymer binder turning the binder's chemistry
Tuning the binder's chemistry was the core of the r&d challenge
And the process works with almost any powder metal ceramic or glass. Wow interesting
They're backed by the u.s. Department of Energy to develop fire resistant cladding as a next-gen building material neat
Actual recycling is cool
there is a lot of We're going to recycle this straight into the landfill
So yeah, or straight into a container that we try to ship overseas that they then send back. Yeah, or that. Yeah
Yep, there's a lot of that going around. There's a ton of that going on. So
Actual recycling sounds awesome Our discussion question is given the severe health hazards of handling microscopic glass powder
Is this something that should probably stay an industrial technology as opposed to trying to scale it down for consumers
Oh, like 3d printing at home. Yeah, I think I think this is maybe not for general consumers and that's probably okay
That's that's fine. Not everything has to be in our home
Garage. Yeah lab. Yeah
Um, but maybe all over dk. Yeah in Floatplane chat
based take Glass in general pretty cool. It is pretty freaking cool. Glass is amazing. Yeah, did have you ever done like glass blowing?
No, but I've always thought it's pretty interesting. Do it. I always thought it must be insanely hard
Is it insanely hard? Well, yeah. Yeah, but like if you if you
We did like we we did one that had like an introductory like friendly for kids kind of thing where you just
You may click a little bobble and and you should you should do it
I saw there was a I don't remember what type of content this was but I saw somebody doing glass blowing where they would get like driftwood
And then they would do like a big
I don't know bulb While doing glass blowing and then would droop it over the driftwood
And then it would be like a a vase that would kind of morph itself around the driftwood. It looked super cool
I have no idea how I would find that um
But it looked awesome
Hold in glass on driftwood that is not
What it looks like, but it looks like it's the same concept
Yeah, this is not this is not it. This is not it. Okay. Well, I mean it's a it's a similar concept
Amazon was unlikely to be the solution you were gonna. Yeah. Yeah
Okay, I wasn't even just being biased against amazon though. Do you see anything here that resembles more similar to me?
Not really More similar to that one to this one. Yeah, and that is on amazon
but It was like more of a branch like thing not like a stump of wood. Okay
I don't know whatever glass blowing is cool
All right. Yeah, no. Yeah more like those a little bit more like those like still not really like those. Yes more like that
I think okay It's just kind of neat. I mean, yeah, that's cool. These are cool. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, we're getting more close to what I'm okay. All right. I'm trying I'm trying
I'm cooking I'm cooking that looks very much closer to it
Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Cool. All right. We've kind of apparently it's apparently it's a thing
I didn't know that driftwood glass thing is a thing
I mean we live in the world of like pinterest, right? Basically everything's a thing because of because of that. Yeah
Um, there's this is a new thing. There's a new star link policy that requires a passport check
a live portrait And these are for international use
Uh update the travel registration support page is 404 now. Okay, interesting
So star link just rolled out a new travel registration policy requiring customers using the service outside of their registered home country
To submit their full legal name nationality date of birth passport number a copy of their passport and a live
portrait selfie Failure to register within 25 days results in the service being disabled abroad
The pop-up has been appearing for u.s. And canadian customers including some who have never traveled internationally
And it's reportedly triggered by owning the portable star link mini which works with the rome plan
60 days per trip internationally SpaceX has not officially commented
But the move is possibly a crackdown on malicious actors like scammers and mianmar
latin american drug cartels and this is a
Given SpaceX's uh sort of History with the conflict in ukraine. Yeah, russian military forces
This seems like a likely one who have all been caught using star link
Some customers suspect that this is kind of a know your customer compliance
situation Concerns about this however include confusion for users without passports
Fears that the pop-up is a scam given the sensitive info that's requested and
The inverse are the inverse or the opposite of that or a related
Concern is that if this is something that people know to expect
Then scammers going and pretending to be SpaceX and asking for this information could be pretty scary. This I
Sorry, I thought you're done No, there was also a situation where at least one boat user bruce toll reported that his service was cut off
Before the 25 day deadline mid voyage and he was only able to restore it because he still had cell coverage
Luckily And then also just a general privacy concerns like in general
What else we got? Uh, well, I just I think
You know how there was there was a lot of stuff recently there was some about ubiquity there's some going on right now about a
canadian firearms manufacturer making sniper rifles and their sniper rifles were found in
Russian military hands There's the ubiquity thing and stuff like that and people are calling for like hey, you need to better control
You know the distribution of your products but
I mean, are we asking for government overreach?
Yeah, it kind of feels that way to me, but then like sometimes it is also like well. Yeah, you probably should
But not have canadian sniper rifles killing ukrainians. This is maybe the pendulum swinging too far
But then at the same time starlink in russian military hands right now would be benefiting them tremendously and it was a
big deal when it was shut down for them. So like
It's tough, but what's the what's the famous quote those who give up their freedom for liberty deserve neither
And is that is that is that the quote did I get it right?
I think it's we'll get neither Those who give up
Freedom for security deserve neither. That's that's it apparently
Are those who give up liberty for safety quote, okay? Ben franklin the exact quote is those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
Um, yeah Yeah, it's not relevant here not at all. I think it is irrelevant and it's not the equivalent of a sim card
I can get a sim card with no identification at all. Yes
Yes, you can land at an airport and buy a sim card and just slap it in your phone and have no
This is one of those times when the slippery slope argument is not a fallacy because
it becomes not a fallacy when there is solid precedent for
The slope leading to a particular destination and in this case
Giving a government
The ability to decide whether crucial communication infrastructure works or not
Or never mind the government also a commercial entity that could be controlled by another government or other entity
Giving somebody else control of crucial infrastructure is like
bad And it often leads to very bad things and if luckily you happen to live in a society that is free enough
That that hasn't been a problem for you personally then that's really good and
People around the world. I'm sure are very happy for you
But there are plenty of folks in places like hong kong who would love to have a word with you about how
How awful it can be when their ability to communicate and organize
I can be turned on and off at a whim. Um, and I'm sure the iranians would
also agree that this can have
Very negative outcomes
And the more that you give up, uh, the greater the likelihood of those outcomes
Yeah, Iran has starlink service. Um So did russia
Yeah, until someone turned it off And uh, I was talking about the government, uh, limiting internet access in iran. Also, I believe owning a starlink
No, I'm sorry. I'm responding to full-point chat. No, no, I know. Yeah, but I so I yes starlink does allow service there
But from my understanding owning a starlink dish. There is a crime at this point in time
um, so Giving another outside entity the ability to turn on or off your communications infrastructure
I think hopefully most people can recognize
Given that there are concrete examples where that has been a very big problem that that is
Not something that we generally want um
Yikes, uh, yeah persian tech guy says owning starlink is indeed illegal in iran right now
Um, curious bread says iran is actively jamming starlink signals domestically as well
Um, yeah persian tech guy. We iranians do agree
so Just because you're lucky enough that you are not being
um Oppressed enough yet does not mean that we should just kind of go. Oh, well, this is fine
The flip side of it being do I want canadian rifles killing ukrainians? No, no
But should we put a chip on every gun? That has gps tracking and you can't pull the trigger if it's in certain geographical regions
Uh, I mean that sounds wildly draft. You're saying russian military was killing people because of starlink ukraine military
Is currently killing people with starlink? Yeah Lots of i'm sure they're not you want to shut off too
Like this is like where is the fact that the line is not set by you is the whole part of the reason
The whole part of the the problem that we're currently discussing
Yes, and it's and it's it's an uncomfortable conversation
Yeah It's a western network
Okay, I mean we're we're never going to see eye to eye here and that's okay, but like
Yeah, I mean what does western mean?
The west is the west until the west isn't the west. I mean, it's also not a western network
The the nato the nato alliance is not exactly as concrete today as it was
It's a company ten years ago. It's not a government service It's it's it's it's not I don't think you can necessarily say it's a western network
He's saying like should we enable our enemies? It's like well whose enemies it's up to
Whose enemies? Yeah, exactly. It's up to a company. Yeah
And like and and what does western even mean right now?
Nothing is that simple right now
Sorry Good news wandshow
Yeah, we should move on Linux gains some more critical Windows apps including 3d movie maker and space cadet pinball
To classic mid 1990s Windows apps have been officially ported to Linux space cadet pinball
Which was originally part of the microsoft plus pack for Windows 95 was decompiled and rebuilt by musicchenko andre
And ported to 14 different platforms the Linux build is now available on flat hub
And uh oracle Linux developer steven brennan also recently blogged about getting it running on Linux
This is In a word based
Also, you guys should edit a movie. There's an even well. Uh, have you ever used 3d movie maker? No
Yeah, uh, not how that works. Um
In even bigger news 3d movie maker has come to Linux microsoft open sourced it back in 2022
But it sat mostly untouched
Until registry readers mark cave island and ben stone spent roughly 15 months on a fork
Called 3d mm e x wow after the original 3d mm
3d mm f forever project stalled beyond a native Linux port they added 64 bit support
Bug fixes ARM 64 Windows builds native file dialogues midi music via fluid synth and a g streamer powered video player
A raspberry pi version is in the works
Uh, so is is i'm looking at the video now. Is it like source movie maker?
Where you like have to use their like little characters and stuff? So I actually am not
Sure because one of the problems that I had with 3d movie maker was that at the time almost nobody had a microphone
So I could only use the handful of audio clips that were included
And maybe it had other capabilities props sounds
Yeah scenes So maybe it had other capabilities if you also had other accessories, but we couldn't really like do that much with it right
Um, but yeah, there's like walking animations and like
Wow Yeah I don't know if I ever saw anything that was the output of this
I I definitely like never even opened that. Uh, oh it was not included. This was like paid software. Oh, wow
Yeah, and there was like, uh, there was like quests and stuff like you could click on
Like you could go to different places and like kind of the like the the the the studio campus and like
Find collectibles. Um
Here, let me see if I can find
Um Here's a video from DOS storm
That says there's there's still nothing like microsoft 3d movie maker
um 23 23 000 views
Yeah, this guy this guy was funky And you could do all kinds of stuff. Yeah, like you could set up your scene
And yeah, I remember I remember these stock characters, man They had like a handful of outfits each you could have them talk to each other and like
You could make them you could make them die and stuff you could make them like like grow really big and then explode
There was like an explode effect. There's all kinds of all kinds of cool stuff
And now you can run it on Linux for the dozens of people who want to do that
I just it was uh, it was a part of my childhood. I have multiple core memories
Sitting around the computer with my siblings making the you know, the baby explode or whatever after it
Does something just goofing goofing around. It's a it's a fun creativity tool that in some ways
Encourages additional creativity due to it being so rudimentary and so limited
If you kind of get what I mean like in some ways the ability to do anything
um It's like like like ai the ability to just kind of say yeah make this
Is less rewarding than using a crummy tool to to try to make something good if that kind of makes sense
Speaking of um You know crappy ai outputs. Uh AMD put up a pretty horrible ai generated ad
Which is not good news. So instead we're going to talk about an AMD related thing that is good news
AMD listened FSR 4.1 is coming to rd na 3 and then later to rd na 2 the feature is going to be enabled through a driver update
Bringing support to older cards supporting int 8 instructions as opposed to the fp8 version that was used on rd na 4
It's expected to drop in july for radion 7 000 cards and then sometime in early 20 27
For our dna 2 cards an int 8 version of fsr 4.0 was leaked in 2025
Which users were able to get running using tools like opti scaler
But AMD had until now not committed to bringing fsr 4 to these older cards
This change by AMD will bump that support to fsr 4.1, which does improve image quality versus fsr 4.0
Our discussion question is Everyone liked that
What are some other times that a company back ported features to an older product and it was pretty cool?
um You know what i'm going to throw microsoft a bone. We've given them a lot of flak for the last couple of months
I think it was pretty cool when Windows 8 sucked and they said okay
Here's Windows 10 for free Here's a free upgrade
That's kind of it's not really like back porting a feature. It's kind of back porting a feature
It's taking your old computer that was Windows 8 and back porting all the Windows 10 features to it
So i'm you know what i'm standing by it. You got anything?
Maybe chat can let us know if they can think of anything
I'm rapidly typing in chat. Can you rephrase the question?
Um, what are other times that a company back ported features to an older product and it was cool and everyone liked it
Didn't aim uh
Has an AMD done this in the past
Um, yeah I'm not going to be able to name like super specific examples
But I think AMD has done this in the past AMD has a a bit of a precedent of
Supporting platforms for a long time and bringing things to them bringing things back to them
NVIDIA also brought some of their newer features back to older cards
They've done. I think uh, I think they've made a pretty good faith effort to
support the rtx Promises of the 20th of the 20 series even though the hardware was just like not there yet
um They haven't always done a perfect job, but I think they've done pretty
okay solid b uh, there was uh
There was something there was something in the chat that I had wanted to
That I wanted to talk about No, I missed it. Oh, right. No, you reminded me. Yeah AMD's uh track record of supporting products for a long time
We've got a really cool video coming We're gonna put the newest am4 processor in the oldest am4 board
And then we're gonna like benchmark it against that same processor in the newest am4 board and see if if you bought the right am4 board
10 years ago Can you literally buy a chip today?
And upgrade your computer and what are the downsides of that?
It's gonna be pretty cool. Yeah, that is pretty sweet. Yeah. Uh, one of our newer writers, uh, michael's working on that project
So it's uh, and then uh, pancrats is helping him out with some of the testing my Labs might be actually helping out as well
I'm not sure about that. Are you still arguing with Floatplane chat? Yes
It's okay. We'll make me time you out. We'll be friends in the end. I'll put you in time out. It's okay. We're fine
Okay, if you type anymore to Floatplane chat right now, I'm putting you in time
I've put other people in time out today Floatplane chat spicy today. I don't know what's going on
It must be a full moon or something. It's been interesting. Yeah, and and for once this is this is why I'm not arguing with anyone
Yeah It's like I feel like the kid like mom dad stop fighting for the first time ever so Dan, this is what it feels like
You do get used to it. Well mom and dad fighting or or yeah, oh, okay, and then you have this like
Smugness you have smugness like and you're like like you're just watching like you're watching. Yeah, big smugness
Yeah, big like I mean, he's the one doing the gesture. I'm just
Right pair of smug. All right. Thank you for that and you're just watching you you
the fastest missed um meta employees have launched a protest
Against mousetracking technology at their u.s. Offices. This one is
I want to say you got to stay tuned on this one because at the beginning it's like you're thinking
It's like mouse jigglers or something like that. No, no, no, it's so much worse
Stay tuned and the reason that this belongs in good news whan show is because
I have massive respect for the meta employees that are speaking out right now
For reasons that i'll get to in a minute. Okay, so on may 12th
Metta employees distributed flyers at multiple u.s. Offices to protest the company's recent installation
Of mousetracking software on their computers pushing for colleagues to sign an online petition against it
The tracking tool is called
Model capability initiative or mci and it logs mouse movements
clicks keystrokes and occasional screenshots of work related applications in order to
Not monitor if you're working, but in order to train meta's ai models
Metta's justification for this is that it is building agents to do everyday computer tasks
So its models need real examples of how people actually use computers
spokesperson Andy stone added that the data isn't used for anything else with safeguards in place for sensitive content
With that said employees expect that the data is used to train the models that will replace them
This protest is landing just before meta lays off 10 of its staff or about 8 000 people on may 20th
So that's in five days while also cancelling plans to hire for another 6 000 open roles
All of this is happening while meta plans to spend up to 135 billion dollars on ai infrastructure this year
Building toward what zuckerberg calls personal superintelligence for its three and a half billion daily users
The protest has also spread to the uk where users are organizing through the united tech and allied workers union
With organizer elinor pain accusing executives of pursuing speculative ai strategies
While forcing staff to endure quote draconian surveillance and quote to train the very systems meant to replace them
Boy is there ever a lot to unpack here. So pretty wild on the eve of mass layoffs
People are speaking out and taking action against this draconian surveillance
massive respect there um
the fact that meta is treating their employees as like
As like as training data is sort of next level unhinged
um Like i'm trying to
Okay luke hit me with something here stop arguing
Hit me with something here What would be what would be where
I don't need to see the screen
Can I put another admin
I'll time out the people you're talking to no no no no no okay. All right. All right then stop good people
Okay, we just we just got confused. They're good people. What's worse
luke What's worse
If meta was doing this to their user base or doing this to their staff who at least they pay
Just doing it to both Well, I know but no no no no no just for the sake of for the sake of having a moral argument right now
Like I just I want to hear your perspective. I value your perspective. That's all I respect you
What okay, let's say it was me Okay, and our hypothetical scenario. It's me. I'm I'm building I'm I I need
I I just need footage of people You know wanking it. What's better
if I If I record my staff who happen to be paid porn performers
Okay, okay, right because they were gonna wank it anyway, right?
So you're trying to train an ai bot because you're gonna be selling sex robots in the future or my users
Who are wanking it at home and it's in the to s like it's
Either way, you know, I was allowed to do it. Which one's worse?
That's what I want to know I think it depends on how
603 in the chat says say no more. I'm your man
A gilmore d. Why did I know you were gonna say that line is because you've been watching my head show for too long
Yeah, um
It would jiggle all the things yeah
Which one's worse? I think it depends on how explicitly communicated it is because if it's yeah, if it's a meta service
and they explicitly communicated the user you can just not
Sorry, did you say nut or not?
In this case both realistically you're you're picking one or the other
um, but you I mean I have a really hard time believing unless you're an influencer of some kind that instagram is a requirement to your life
Okay, yeah, I can see that but you need a job, but you do need a job, but you could work somewhere else
Maybe job market's really bad
Economy is wrecked and the job market's really bad. Can I tell you can I tell you and maybe maybe this is
Maybe if I was going to put on my lizard brain hat, right?
I
I would feel ickier about my employees
Because if you had to watch someone wank. No, no, no, no, no, no, I don't mean the watching
I just mean the like The the using of them
Well, that's what they're doing They're using their employees to train some data set because they know that it's one of the only clean
Clean data sources as a reminder
Poisons now they provide the tissues to clean the data
As a reminder in this scenario, I have to pick one of them. So I can't just yeah, you have to pick one bad
I'm just re giving that context because some people are gonna be like, oh
like I Because with an employee even if I've never actually interacted with them because let's say I work
I I run a company that has tens of thousands of employees or whatever
Like like with them there was there was at least a pen and paper version of a handshake
That exists between between me and them we have like a we have like some level of mutualism
In our relationship whereas I feel like well, I guess the user's that too
But like I I don't have to look in the whites of their eyes at an all-hands meeting
I Don't know. I'm just to me. It feels ickier to use the people who are directly benefiting you every day through the laborer
That they contribute to your organization But then again, the users are directly benefiting you as well and that's pretty icky too. In fact
Like they could be more dependent on you like an instagram influencer
Such a great example that I wouldn't have thought of but they're super dependent on the platform. It's a job
Yeah, it is a job and you don't have to like that job. You could think it's stupid or whatever and that's fine
That's your opinion But like that doesn't change that for some people and more importantly where your argument falls apart
For the people who work for those people. It is very much a job
You can argue all day that my job shouldn't be a job being youtuber blood blood blood stupid go get a real job
But everybody who works for me has a real job like dent
Well, he had a real job. He apparently left it. Don't worry about that. The point is
People with very real jobs work for Linus media grouping and the same would be true of instagram. That's a really good point
Yeah, like so it's it's hard to it's hard to
So for most users I see instagram is very non essential right not only is it non essential
But there are alternative platforms that do like almost the same thing
so But then it's not true for everyone and it's not always possible to just switch over not every viner
Succeeded on another platform. Oh, no, I'm talking uh, pure viewers. Oh, pure viewers. Sure. Yeah, sure
Okay, like I don't think you can argue that any of those things is like
Essential although I have heard that a lot of people are using tiktok as search now
That's a terrible idea. I've no I don't have it. I have no idea, but I mean based on how much like horrible
AI slop misinformation we found the last time we did like a tiktok tech hacks video
You shouldn't search anything on tiktok. So somebody recently was asking me like, what's my primary
Media source and I said that it was youtube and they're like, oh, what do you mostly use it for it? I was like, honestly, I think
Like learning things
most the most the content that I watch is like Information or education included
My goodness. Oh my god What is this?
Uh, it's me doing a tiktok dance. Oh, yeah, this is some this is some crazy next level crazy adam intro energy here
Don't worry about it. Yeah. Don't overthink it. Um, yeah
And and they were like, oh, yeah, I do that too like like uh for like fixing things and whatnot
I was like, oh, yeah, sure like I you know, we were taking apart my washing machine and I just watched some youtube video of a
of a Appliance repair person taking apart the washing machine and they're like, yeah, except I don't use youtube for that anymore and I was like, huh?
They're like, yeah, I use tiktok the videos are like faster
Oh That's weird to my brain a person who doesn't use tiktok
But yeah, I don't know the children are actually wrong this time
This was not a I know I just mean like the the Seymour Skinner quote. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's the children who are wrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah This person was similar age to me, but um
I also I also understand what you're saying. Yeah, I I don't know both of them are I think inherently evil. Um
You have to pick one though. Which one's a gear?
I think it really comes down to How much it could you said to s if it's just to s?
yeah Then I kind of want to say user base they had it coming
What? Oh my god
Just because lying to consumers is like a yikes and it would be I think much harder to hide from employees
Hmm, but if it's if there's like a pop-up when you load instagram, that's like
We're stealing everything the camera is always on please wank
Then I mean What you do is your own
If you if you decide to keep using it or it belongs to mark. Yeah either way either way at that point
I would be more upset about the employees because I feel like the employees are more trapped in that scenario
And then we come back to the cyclical argument of instagram creators and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Um But yeah, I think I don't know this might be a terrible argument
But I think where I'm going to land on how much of a disclosure there is and the more of the disclosure the more I
Um, it's not that I'm more okay with it the more I become less okay with the employee side if that makes sense
Uh, let's talk about Because sorry at a core of the argument if you tell that to a bunch of employees
There's going to be a ton of people that cannot leave because their life situation won't allow them to
And if you tell that to users people could just decide in the moment to uninstall instagram
So then we both agree that employees is ickier
Because they're stuck I think so in the relationship
I think so unless you're not disclosing it to consumers because and that's such a huge consumer rights violation that like
That the employees rights come second
amazon employees are token maxing
I'm actually so excited for this topic
Due to pressure To use ai tools and this is good news because it's just really really fucking funny
On may 12th the financial times reported that amazon employees are using an internal ai tool to automate non-essential tasks
That's important non-essential tasks
Just to show their managers that they are using ai more frequently. This practice is being called token maxing
Which I think is going to take me a while to be able to say with a straight face
This pressure stems from amazon setting a target this year
requiring more than 80 percent of developers to use ai tools each week
Plus internal leaderboards that track each employees ai token consumption
Employees told the financial times that there is quote
So much pressure to use these tools and that tracking usage creates perverse incentives, which is one of luke's
favorite pet peeves amazon said that the stats would not factor into performance reviews
But several employees said that they believed that managers were checking anyway
amazon has since Limited team-wide visibility of usage stats
So only an employee and their manager can see them and is reportedly
discouraging managers from using token consumption as a performance metric at all
fake news Token maxing has also surfaced at meta and microsoft where meta's internal ai leaderboard reportedly only lasted days after going public
NVIDIA CEO jensen wong said he would be quote deeply alarmed if a $500,000 a year engineer wasn't consuming at least a quarter million dollars in tokens annually
Meaning that the entire ecosystem seems to be incentivized for consumption
And for it to continue climbing even if a lot of that token consumption turns out to be performative
No way, dude. This is a whole new layer to the financial
Circle jerk that is going on around ai infrastructure building out and ai company valuations
If they're all what if we record the circle jerk for training if they're all just using their own
ai tokens and using as many of them as they possibly can to juice their token consumption to juice the revenues
That create the valuations to holy freaking crap
A fun one that i heard from a from a dev friend in silicon valley is that not only are people unnecessarily using it
Just to make sure that their numbers stay high Some of them are setting it some of them
Are building their own tools that will just automatically use it in order to just sit there and like token virus basically
To just consume tokens without them even interacting with anything in order to try to juice their numbers
So so they have built bots That just use ai time, which if you think about the impact of this stuff
Is like tons of water tons of energy tons of various forms of pollution
massive amounts of expense So that they don't lose their jobs
Which is just at a certain level ban
Listen at a certain level
It's it's just it's so it's it's part of me wants to laugh that we've gone from mouse jigglers
to auto ai token scripts
Just burn your tokens So that you can look good
This arms race of like are are these people doing their jobs?
Is getting crazier Oh, man, Luke
There are days When I think everyone
You know struggles to like go into work
I have my days like that. Yeah, sure Today is a day that I am extremely
happy and proud To work at Linus Media Group Incorporated where this does not exist
For now No Next week
No No token leader board
Next week Next week for sure
Uh, yeah crazy. I just thought it was really funny that guy telling me the story about
Building a little tool that just consumes tokens. Yeah, I mean it makes sense
No valuable output because like if if all you're being tracked on is like how much you're using ai because
I don't like like what is it that they don't have
ways of Of putting together meaningful like quarterly goals and performance metrics. It's just
We're back to we're back to lines of code luke. This is oh
The lines of code argument has come up a lot in ai land because
Ai enjoyers some ai enjoyers a subset of ai enjoyers will brag about like, oh, yeah
Well, my agents output 37 000 lines of code today
What are you doing small boy? Look at me and it's like, uh, is it 37 lines of good code bro?
I don't know Maybe probably not
well um Fun world very fun world
uh renegale Renek renegale says in Floatplane chat. It'd be like tracking truckers performance by gas consumed
It's like, yeah Like kind of it could be a proxy for like them doing stuff, but it also like
Definitely couldn't for the ones that just led foot it or literally just dump gas out onto the gravel in the parking lot
Because they know that they're going to get a good performance review for doing so like that's the perverse incentive
Put a brick on the pedal and leave it in neutral overnight. Yeah
just just Send it. Yeah, send it nowhere. Yeah
Like it's just obviously bad Uh, oh man
Yeah, and then like, you know the arms race is just going to continue So now managers are going to start getting reports like there
I'm sure there's going to be some way that they can ask the
The whatever system they have what this user has been using it for
And then they're going to find that it's a bunch of junk data. So then the other side is going to
Build more sophisticated waste tools Context aware waste tools where you are informing the waste tool of what various tasks you have going on at the time
And then it will just research and generate garbage output based on those things and then it will and then the arms race
Will get to the point where the tools actually do productive work. Maybe just kidding
Yeah, it's uh They'll be so good at hiding the fact that they're not doing anything useful that they will start to do something useful
Sounds like it sounds like a lot of corporate life. It sounds like a great short story. Like yeah
um Yeah, it's uh
It's wild man, but hey, here's something cool uh
On may 4th Boycey state announced that a team led by electrical engineering professor Chris Campbell
And pearl hill technology CEO Bama del
Omotoa has built a portable device that detects forever chemicals or PFAS in water samples in real time out in the field
The device called the environmental optically gated transistor
Uses specialized transistors paired with machine learning to detect PFAS down to one part per trillion
The threshold set by current epa regulations
Current epa proved PFAS tests cost about 300 dollars per sample take weeks and require
Label in the equipment like liquid chromatography paired with mass spectrometry
The new device aims to do the same job on site in real time and at competitive prices if scaled
PFAS or Per and poly fluoro alkyl substances are a group of over a thousand chemicals found in drinking water food cookware and clothing
The most toxic ones are linked to multiple cancers infertility developmental delays in infants and
compromised immune systems The breakthrough started as an accident in Campbell's lab
undergraduate researchers Leaning over microscopes noticed that their breath was causing weird variations in transistor results
Which turned out to be the transistors reacting to different chemicals in the air
In methanol tests the team has had accuracy rates between 86.7 and 97 percent depending on the PFAS molecule
The next step is reaching those numbers in real water samples which have other contaminants that can complicate detection
Our discussion question is do you think a higher awareness of PFAS will lead to stronger regulation around it?
I'm going to go ahead and say no because awareness of tooth decay has not led to good decisions around fluoride for instance
but hey Maybe we'll figure it out
Yeah, I was I was watching a video a while ago somebody testing
water um Around where like hikers would go
Versus areas that they didn't I found like massive increases in PFAS content
um Because like a lot of hiking gear is just covered in
um
Oh rinske at rinx 8 says I thought this whole time was PFAS maybe
Yeah, whatever. It's one of those things. I've only ever seen written. So there's so much stuff like yeah
I I read predominantly as my source of media ingestion. So
Sorry, I've heard it called PFAS before. I don't know what's correct. I know
Uh In Linux, I know it's like the
because file system whatever whatever so it's um
Like fs tab I like calling it f stab
Nice it just sounds cooler. Oh apparently derrick from veritasium says it the way that I say it so
Yeah, I've heard it called PFAS before either. We're both wrong or uh, we're both right. Yeah, let's go
I mean you call it jiff. Yeah, which is correct. The creator says it's jiff. Therefore, it's jiff. I mean, it's that simple
If I if I create something. Mm-hmm. That's like four a's
And then I say it's pronounced potato Yeah, that's fine. That's how it works. I like that. I mean, it's it's one of those things. It's like, um, it's like, uh
Like names names are like that like someone someone's name will be like, uh
Uh, I've this this is a story my mom used to tell all the time because uh, she overheard a conversation where this lady with the last name
scremin Uh, insisted that her name was or
scremin scremin, yeah, uh, insisted that her name was pronounced
Scremin and like rules of english it could just as easily be screaming
But she was like really mad that someone pronounced it screamin
And my mom just thought it was funny like that screamin family those screamin kids, you know
Anyway, uh, the point is just that if you have a name that has an ambiguous spelling
You decide how it's pronounced and everyone kind of rolls with it
It's true I mean look ashley
ash leigh. Are you fucking kidding me?
But I have to play along That's ashley
I love the framing of I have to play along with arms
I have been assaulted with this information my whole life
Oh man, okay. Anyways, let's move on. I mean I
And battle battler gun in Floatplane chat says Linus got rejected by ashley. No
I was rejected by ashley with an le y
Okay It was a long time ago, and I'm totally over it. You can tell
All right China's new 800 cycle lithium sulfur battery could nearly double drone flight time on may 12th
A research team at xinghua shenzhen international graduate school
Announced a new lithium sulfur battery design that nearly doubles the energy density of current drone batteries
The prototype pouch cell hit an energy density of
549 watt hours per kilo compared to the under 300 watt hours per kilo that today's commercial drone lithium ion batteries typically deliver
lithium sulfur batteries have long been viewed as the obvious next generation alternative because sulfur is cheap
Abundant and theoretically stores way more energy than lithium ion
The catch has always been that the chemistry is hard to stabilize
during repeated charging The new design dropped the battery's internal resistance by 75 percent compared to conventional lithium sulfur designs and in lab tests
It ran stably for 800 charge discharge cycles while still retaining nearly 82 percent of its original
Capacity and our discussion question here is every few months we get a battery breakthrough that never escapes the lab
What are the odds that this is the real deal? I'm gonna I'm gonna tell a story and then say something and flip and chat be me to it, but I had the thought before I read it
Um one is I remember ces a very very long time ago
I saw a a booth that was talking about battery technology
And they told me all their claims and I told them wow
If you guys do this and bring it to market, you'll all be billionaires
And they looked a little bit uncomfortable with that
Because i'm pretty sure they knew it was never coming to market right and it never came to market
Right, I don't remember the name of it or anything But like I was following it for like a few years afterwards and it kind of just petered off in the carbon nanotube
Yeah, um, and then the other one is and flip flip playing got to this before I did but again
I thought I've been independently. I don't see the message anymore
Uh, but war do be great for innovation and drones do be crazy right now
um, so Maybe there's a little bit more potential expectation that there might be some form of battery technology improvement
I'm not surprised at all that they mentioned drones in the text because it is probably very pointedly related at that
um, I mean, it's never a guarantee, but um
Billions and billions of dollars and national defense
Being at stake does tend to Incentivize certain developments governments around the world have been paying a lot of attention to the like
just incredible things ukraine has been doing with drones and
Are kind of starting to wake up that that might You know all those random people on battlefield strapping seaforded drones and then flying them into tanks and stuff
Might have made sense in the real world too. Um
Yeah Yeah
He does know I'm not going to press the button
And you know what I know Is it's time for Dan to uh, feed us some comms
Sure It's after dark, baby
Hit me daniel basser Okay. All right. What do we got? Hi ldl. My parents are getting remarried soon and I'm going to be the efficient to each other or
To to teddy here Any advice on giving a speech that is genuine and heartfelt without being cliche or sending a weird message?
um Man, what would I do so genuine and heartfelt without being cliche
so What is the context talk about talk about the people I think that's the best way to avoid cliches
is make it specific To the actual people and how you think that they are a great fit for each other
I think that would be my my best advice for writing like a like a wedding
speech of any sort
A ldl you looked like you were gonna say something I thought that I thought
I was I was gonna basically say that I think it's almost hard to be cliche at a wedding
Really? I think people might let me look up
Yeah, I don't know. I think weddings are cliche
Interesting so you would actually even say it's okay to just play it safe say the bride has never looked better
The groom is so lucky, you know, just the you know, I think all that's probably fine
Yeah, just stick with the I don't think anybody's gonna be bothered by that stick with the basics. Um wraps around
I also think talking with the people all like everything that you said is is great
Yeah, I think that's good advice too though because trying to be too creative can hit real hard, but it can also miss super bad
yeah So if you're not sure just fall back on the like
These things are obviously good and it's fine. Schraff 2k says just go Corinthians can't miss
Quote is ekeel 23 20. Okay. I gotta know what is ekeel 23 20 is this is according to curious bread
Uh is ekeel 23 20 is one of the most infamously graphic and shocking verses in the bible
It uses explicit metaphorical language to describe the spiritual unfaithfulness and idolatry of israelan juda
Comparing their alliances with pagan nations to illicit sexual lust
So
There she lusted after her lovers whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses
Why did you have that at the ready? Oh
For a parent's wedding, let's move on
Hey lld just bought my first pool for the upcoming summer
Linus as a pool owner any maintenance tips for a newbie. Yeah, don't get a pool. Sorry too late
Same here. I would also say the same thing also. Thank you for the ev chargers bc it
Will put them to good use as training aids
Um, yeah, so any maintenance tips for a newbie. Um, oh gosh
Sell it. Yeah
I mean you um
Uh, I do not let the chemicals go out of spec
You're gonna spend a lot more money and time getting them re in spec. That's good. That's good
That's good stuff and and when you change the temperature that totally changes the chemicals
Even though you didn't change anything other than the temperature watch out for that one. No glass near the pool. Yeah
Uh Oh, um
Before you get a pool make sure that you have anyone to share it with you because it costs exactly the same
If nobody swims in it as it does if everybody swims in it
Good chat good chat
Thoughts on the specs of the steam machine. Oh man
I mean, I feel like I've talked about it a fair bit in the LTT videos that we did on it
But I guess we're getting pretty close to potential delivery of this thing. So it's kind of on everyone's mind again
I um, man It all depends on price
If it comes in at a really reasonable price, which is feeling more and more unlikely the longer we get
The further we get into this round pocalypse Then I think that the spec is a really
fine target that That valve went for but if it's really expensive, then that's going to be a really tough pill to swallow because
There are benefits of the steam machine like being able to wake with cec
Having the integration with the dongle for the steam controller the super quiet compact form factor. These are all really good things
But You know, it's always hard for me to recommend something that isn't a great value
And so I'm just I'm going to have to compare it to a diy machine no matter
No matter what happens There was there was an article on vice that I didn't fully read
Nice solid. I just kind of saw the headline
But yeah, I really don't know but
Yeah I hope not. There was like this thing. So I saw this
New update to the source code suggested the machine frame will
Exceed 1000 euros. Uh, that could be anything though. It really could be that just looks like placeholder values. It could be
I doubt it I think that's too high. Yeah, I don't think so
Hopefully not. Yeah, I doubt it hopefully not
We are a mixed mac and Windows business environment
We'll switching our users to mac improve our company's overall security posture
Oh, I think switching everyone one way one way or the other
would hold on possibly be better because you'd have fewer
um surfaces
But possibly be worse because if anything does go wrong, it hits everybody there. That's my uneducated take
So to chat that sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, we do that
Yeah We also have Linux machines. Yeah
Yeah, we do It's bad We're a shockingly small organization for like
The complicated nature of everything that we do. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, we have like everything from like enterprise equipment in the cloud to enterprise equipment on prem to
Extremely not enterprise. Yeah. Yeah, all of it. Yep with weird rules. This is a desktop workstation
But I have it under a server rule banner
Right so that it does an update and I get to choose and right. Yeah, there's like
Every single little tiny computer that we have around
Uh Yeah, because a small part of Dan's soul goes into a horcrux every time the wancho crashes. So he's really like
Tries to stay on top of that. Yeah
Whoa, so are we pretty sure it was it was mbank?
Has it been causing problems now?
No, there was the one stream that we did where you're like, oh, I went back to nbank and that one had a couple problems
Are we on CPU encoding right now? No, we were for two shows and then I fixed the problem
Oh, and nbank. We're on nbank right now and have been for the last couple weeks
Okay, what did you do? Do you swap the GPU or something? No, I just rolled back the drivers until they're like a year out of date
Wow If only we could just airgap this system except that we have to stream from it. So
Well, we could use wi-fi. Oh Wait, but that's not airgapping
Is the gap he's trying to yeah, he's trying to just bait me. Yeah
Mostly look look has a real masterful job. I do masterful job. I was gonna say he was he's kind of a bit of both
Yeah, truly a master baiter
Update if you record and you can use that You can use that information to train. Well, I mean the camera's running all the time
Uh, hey lld the lioness you mentioned after announcing smash champs
You will never do another large scale like that with your stance on e-waste
Would you make a company like free it to keep e-waste out?
Oh man free it like kind of like freaky. I um
I Think that a potential like future era of the media side of our company
Could be that we run like a free geek like electronics or cycler
I think it would be an incredible mind for content and I think that if we also
Like we're a retailer and you could like buy systems and stuff. We would never have to search for a reason
to Uh build a computer again
Because we would just have like customer systems and stuff. We'd never have to search for
Uh, you know a system that needs to be fixed or trouble shot again because there would just always be a constant flow of them
Um, we wouldn't have to go out looking for cool weird old tech to to make videos about because people would just bring it to us
Um How much of that actually turns into content though?
I wouldn't really matter because you could if you can build a sustainable functioning business
I don't know if you can I don't I don't know if you can either. I kind of
I don't know if you can either question that a lot because the space required
Versus how much you'd make off that is a really bad relationship. This is true
Um, and there's a reason why like universally loved free geek
Well, apparently the reasons it died. I actually had a longer chat with uh mark from disappearing ink a little while ago and
um You know, I'm not going to name any of the names that he named or anything like that
But he he was very close to free
physically and uh and also in terms of his relationships and um
He made it seem like Or at least my understanding of it was I'm hedging a lot here because I don't want to get anybody in trouble
but basically He made me feel like somehow that free geek could have survived if if not for
Stuff that was preventable and avoidable
Yeah Okay, interesting Good to know free geek was like because of like donations and stuff or were they actually making enough from the storefront?
I don't want to get into the details. Okay, but sure he made it seem like to me that it could have been
Workable because you you ain't getting donations if you do it if there was enough will
I mean, I mean you can set up a separate organization. We could set up a nonprofit. I just
People would uh would like oh donate to it. Yeah, I mean it depends it's um
It would have to it would have to have its own separate
Boundaries which it should if it's operating as a nonprofit like I wouldn't be able to like profit from it, right? So
And I think you'd have to have like you'd have to have like there's a lot of stuff that nonprofits have to do to be compliant
Like you'd have to have like people would expect you to solely fund the entire thing. Oh, they'd expect it
But I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to and then for forever like for that reason. I feel like it would
Fail. Yeah, I don't know. It's like it's uh like it's a funny thing. I have sort of like a weird
I have like a weird way of Contributing back to the community like smash champs is a for-profit business
but it has not made a profit and it might
Might not ever pay back the overall like investment in it
But I certainly am like open to the possibility of it making money
And just to be clear just so that this is not in conflict with things that I've said internally smash champs is not a cash flow drain anymore
But that's only because smash champs has a really really nice landlord that doesn't charge it rent
Um, then someday at the very least I would like smash champs to pay the landlord rent so that there can be some
possibility of some kind of repayment of that investment ever
Um, but not not not for now Um, so like I could see I could see something like an lltt free geek being kind of like that where we put in the initial
Basically go, okay, here's the space guess what now you have a really nice landlord that doesn't charge you rent
But you're gonna have to find a way to make it break even month to month aside from that or something like that
I could see that being a possibility, but if I bought another building, I think my wife would divorce me
um We have too much of our total assets in greater vancouver real estate
Which has taken an absolute pummeling in the last couple of years as you may or may not have noticed
So that's been cool Which to be clear I have I've been rooting for my entire adult life. I've been like the crash must come
Um, I just you know feels a little bit more real over the last few months. Oh, it's I can tell you it's fallen
It's very real. Yeah, like it's been real for a long time
I just like it's taken a long time for sellers to clue in how real it is
Yeah, and and adjust their expectations for what I think it's necessarily that they are becoming
More solvent, which is like sad
Uh Sorry, which is more solvent the sellers. I think they're running out of money
I think they have to move less less solvent then less. They've they've reached insolvency like they are
I don't think we're quite using it right, but basically I don't know. Whatever. They're getting desperate. They're running out of money
there's been the the rate at which Canadians have been defaulting and
Having places get Foreclosed and whatnot is like massively ramping because people have been holding out
Trying to sell it at higher values and just people aren't buying. Oh, hi, josh says
Slightly less tactfully all the boomers are realizing their houses aren't worth what they think they are
Youp That's a I would like to say it that way except they were selling at that amount for a really really really long time
It was crazy up here. Yeah, so like they were right honestly
which sucks And so there's a lot of like not boomers that bought in at the peak
And it and and that really sucks for them because they're they're underwater now at this point. Yeah
Um, I'm just gonna kind of look uh
Here I know I talked about this a little while ago, but the number of quarter ordered sales in here is freaking crazy
Uh, like I don't know here's like a freaking Large-scale retail and commercial space for
For lease. This is a wait court. Oh, no, this is court drive. Okay. No, no, no for sale by court order though in Kelowna
three acres Uh for sale under court order in court order in victoria. It looks like a landmark commercial property
A hundred prison 115,000 square feet. Look at this thing. Wow for sale court order
122 parking stalls. You want to move to victoria boys?
Look at this thing like on the island. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be sweet. Yeah
We're not moving to the island. Oh Uh owner occupier or office investment opportunity
Um, yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be a pretty
Fairmont le chateau 925 acres
Whoa Damn We can work there
Yeah, I bet you'd like that How where is where is this? Montabello, Quebec. You want to move to kbeck if we've got the last name for it then? Yeah
Yeah, it would be super annoying because everyone's gonna speak to me in french. Hello. I am monsieur la friendiÃ¨re
I don't know how to speak this language. I'm so sorry and I'll be like, but your last name is french and I'd be like, I know
Just say I know I just be desolÃ©e
May we
All right
Sup bros and
Sparky from the better coover
Stop leaking our tax haven. Thanks. Do you uh, do you think Intel will start pushing
Pursuing rnd in hillsboro with the recent spacex visit or will my bros stay sad sans job?
um I think Intel's investments into Intel fab business are very much like made right now and wherever they were going to do it
Is where they're going to do it?
However, uh, I I I do
I do think that that's something that is going to be come as I've said before on the land show
I think that Intel's fabrication
Capabilities are going to become very important geopolitically
I don't know if y'all have noticed but uh, trump and president g are having a summit right now
Or is it a state visit? It's some kind of there's a thing that they're doing right now
And mr. Z z has made it very clear that, um
taiwan will become a flashpoint between china and the us at some time in the near future
which puts tsmc's situation in a
Pretty different light compared to even 12 months ago 18 months ago, and I have said before I think that things are going to be really important
Oh, apparently he flew back today already. Okay, so it was just over the last couple days. Um
That I think Intel's, um Fab business is going to become very important to western interests
Say that much My fiance and I are starting a business together a cafe downtown any suggestions on first time co-owned business
We both have complimentary experience, but are hesitant on hiring full-time staff
um Oh, it's tough, man
You need to be aligned on what your goals are. I think
90 percent Of the fights that evan and I have had about LMG and its related companies have been because we were not aligned on
What we wanted to put into it and what we wanted to get out of it
So hopefully you guys have done that and yes, I would be hesitant on hiring full-time staff because
Um, a lot of them work out really great
some of them like really don't and sometimes it's
You know, it's always a spectrum, right? Sometimes it's more your fault and sometimes it's more their fault and um
And it can people are the best part and they're the hardest part
um pre marriage or common law
You are more stuck with an employee than a partner
Which is crazy But actually like not well, it depends. I mean you're somewhere else in bc. Um, we have extremely strong
Worker of protections, which can be a very good thing and they can be a very challenging thing
They can be they can be both of those things
Keeps me employed up next. No, that's not what keeps you employed. Damn
Um, hi, you don't have the spine to come after me
The lawyers are very expensive here. Hi lld. I switched to
Linux around six months ago And have been getting nervous from all the latest vulnerabilities like copy fail dirty frag and frag nas
Do you have any security tips for Linux? Don't worry about it too much
Everything is cyclical Do your updates
Windows has its times when it's in the news for vulnerabilities. So does apple software. So does google software
Don't overthink it. Don't freak out. It's gonna be okay
And install a russian language pack
Any joggers coming out anytime soon. I loved the pair. I bought a while ago, but was unable to get another pair because of the demand
I don't think there's any on the roadmap right now. There are some up right now. Am I crazy?
What are these flex pants? Can you oh the flex pants are actually really great? Yeah, pick up some flex pants. These are super nice
I know they they might not look a hundred percent like it, but they've got the little thing at the bottom
And I think I think you could have a good time jogging in these. Yeah, these are the only concern. Sorry ldd store
29 and seem like yeah, so I would I would also point out
ldd store they're aware and they're working on it. Okay
Because they're working on a 32 shorter than the regular
Yep, I know So they are meant like you can see the like the style they have. Yeah, okay. That's fair
I hadn't considered that before Lld why are all the hats so deep? It pushes the tips of my ears down making me look like dumbo
Outside of that. I've been loving the many new arrivals recently purchased, especially the new polo shirts. Interesting
We have two sizes. Did you order the big size?
Do you maybe not need the big size because uh
Like My ears are well clear of the hat by like by like an entire finger width on both sides. So that's uh
Our land hat Here's another anyone And we we did specifically do two sizes so that we wouldn't have that problem
um Yeah, I'm not sure what to tell you. Maybe we need maybe we need more sizes
Uh, it's interesting Yeah, I haven't heard that feedback before like we did have um
Like we did have earlier samples that would hit my ears and we and I'm not the only one we've tried these on just to
Be very clear. It's not like oh it works for Linus. Therefore. It's good for everybody. Uh, if anything
We are to Luke's point about the inseam lengths
Um, there's an upcoming pair of bottoms that specifically will not fit me
Because they use like a more industry standard inseam length and they're like a um like a straight leg
Um, they're going to be the super soft pants
So matching the super soft hoodie, we have some pants coming that are like a very gen z straight leg fit
I I even I have short legs for my height
And I I have a trouble with our store sometimes
Could stick a couple Oreos under the hat and just keep it up off your ear
And then if you get you get you have snacks terrible advice for later
Is there like sizing information probably yep
Yep, there is sizing information on the hats The large and the medium is your conference and hat size. Okay
I was I was thinking before like I don't think I've ever checked
Like that height. I'm not a hat guy, but I've never checked that height on a hat and it's never been a problem. It's interesting
Hi Dan Linus and Luke. I've been debating for a while on buying a pc slash Linux handheld
I'm leaning towards the steam deck should I continue to hold off in hopes of a steam deck too or just buy one now
I'm doing that steam deck two probably isn't coming for like at least two years three years. Maybe
Um, I'm not expecting it anytime soon. I'm holding out because I have a switch two and I'm kind of just deciding
I'm not gonna flip it So I have a switch to now you're committed. Yep. I'm just gonna run with that for a while and then when steam deck two comes out
I'm getting one Hey DLL, what's the most recent piece of tech in your house that generally annoys you every time you use it?
But you haven't replaced it because it still technically works
Oh, man Uh Might be easier to list the stuff that my light my light switches
I I actually have the box of innatelli switches in my garage and I need to just start putting them in every time
You still haven't done that one of those switches ticks me off and yeah
I still have those stupid ge jasco switches
They need to go but they technically do turn the lights on and off
But like some of them the little tab to turn them off is like broken off of them
And like I can't I can't add them all to our to the z-wave controller because it just gets too overwhelmed and like
It's a whole thing. I uh, yeah yikes. Uh, oh, yeah, someone uh magnetic flux and chats is printer
Yeah, our printer has all kinds of problems And I I'm gonna make a video about it
But I haven't gotten around to replacing it because I was like Yvonne can it wait until I make a video
Elijah needs a printer too. So we're gonna go printer shopping for a video
So it's been it's been like months now That's funny
And what did an answer
Uh, I don't know
I don't have a lot of like I have no home automation
I think it could just be anything and it didn't necessarily say Like how much tech do I have in my house? I have my computer maybe that table phone battery
You complained about your phone battery today, but it technically still works
And anything else like that TV's totally fine
And now it is don't yeah Got broke a while ago. I don't think that was a problem with it though. No
Computers fine
I think I find
Yeah, my my my my mic interface, I don't think it's an actual problem with
The thing I just haven't bothered to go through the work of like fixing why it sounds like crap
Because I open the menu and I just go ah, and then I want to put it away
Because I don't know what any of the things do
Oh, man, I have uh, it's it's not even the device's problem as far as my understanding goes. They're they're good
Uh, but I have a what is it roadcaster duo?
My gox l r Gave up the ghost
Um, it it finally just stopped. Uh, so I was like, okay, I gotta get something else. Um went for a roadcaster duo
It's nice to use interface and everything's really good. It looks really nice
Cool. It doesn't do the cool thing that gox l r did when it would boot up, which is
genuinely a loss That sucks. I really wish it did all the RGB like leds and yeah, and having the faders just go like
It was cool. Um, so it doesn't do any of that which is sad, but it also just
Sounds worse, which I'm fairly certain
Is a settings thing Because I did dial in the gox l r
um But gox l r made it easy to dial in I find the roadcaster does not feel as easy to dial in and it is probably
A like user problem, but the user experience on the gox l r felt easier guided you through it. Yeah
And you know what maybe I skipped a menu or something. I don't remember. I don't feel like I did
um Why didn't you just get another x l r?
They're like kind of dead There's there's some community project that's kind of keeping them alive and stuff, but I didn't want to
Invest into a what is effectively end-of-life product that I can't get support for
Or any of that kind of stuff So
All right hit me mr. Dan the last one I got you for you tonight. Oh hey ldl
What's been the biggest year-over-year leap in consumer tech since 2020 outside of ai
Also iMac g3 colored translucent screwdrivers when I think the prismagic colorways are doing pretty well
So we might do more colors, but no no guarantees no timeline on that right now
Most things I can think of relate to ai in some way. I was I was going to say like
um You know dlss style things. Oh, yeah dlss is
Relates to ai though. Yes um
I've got a couple if you want to think about it I didn't I I I see it is in full-plane chat, but I thought of
Batteries batteries have improved a fair amount um
But maybe go for it because those are the only two that first jumped in my head
A couple big ones for me tandem OLEDs like the first time I saw the ipad pro with that tandem OLED display
it just flipping Blew my mind just displays in general displays have been moving really fast in ways that
Maybe we're not a good answer appreciating as much right now
Because they had already had like a big burst of improvement
Yeah, and then there was like a Short lull where they were like these are like all good enough now and not moving that fast
And then they've been like taking off again, but maybe we're not appreciating this
development cycle as much because
You know the ones from last time are like still pretty darn good like it's not like when we went from
TN being the norm to like IPS being the norm now
We're going from IPS which is like good enough to like OLED to like tandem OLED
quantum dot OLED like all these these these great
incredible technologies um And then my other big one is noise cancellation active noise cancellation is like
World's better today in consumer tech products than it was five years ago like like decades better
If we if we compare it to all the advancements before actually I
I want to see how good it is in commercial products
One of the one of the things that the tech jet
Gives me an excuse to benchmark is aviation headsets
So I actually asked one of our one of our pilots I was like, hey, can you give me a list of every like good aviation headset brand?
and then whichever one we'll we'll test them because
Uh, we we have a we have a guy who we know who I think would be pretty good at testing something like that
um And answer our question once and for all for the dozens of people who care
Who makes the best noise canceling headset because wouldn't you care more for like
Cessna style thing Oh for both that's way louder. Oh, they're all super important because the um
Like the it's the long exposure that can be uh, that can be damaging to your hearing and uh, no matter out in the in the jet
It's pretty loud, but yes, you're right like a prop plane would also be really loud
But maybe we could collab with the with the airport and be like, hey, are there any pilots that would want to like
Want to try out some of these or would they would they take a microphone up with them so that we could get some test audio
I'd be really interested to like
You know dms is testing versus the anecdotal opinions of the pilots
um Ryzen 979 69x says the aviation standard is Bose
Which I know But what I want to know is okay, but what about these upstart companies?
Yeah, are they quietly Pun intended better
And everyone just buys bows because bows has always been the best or is bows still leading the pack?
I don't know and it's it's been something that I've been curious about ever since I learned that bows is like pedigree
Was aviation headsets and that technology is what made its way down into consumer products
Like I don't know if you remember this, but we actually did a video
um where we rented a plane so that we could
Um, so that we could Do an intro for like a noise canceling headset. No, I don't think I know this
Here let me see if I can let me see if I can find this
uh Man if somebody knows
by all means Let me know because uh, I I don't actually remember while while you look what an intro look at this
I'm in a turtle outfit While you look another one that I think here it is like yeah, we rented a plane so that we could
Wow cool plane you ride on top of the plane
This is actually kind of a cool ad It's uh, it's like it's a show
Except it's like just travel to montreal Montreal's sick
Yeah, wow. Yeah So it was yeah, it was just so that we could do the intro and then we just stood on the tarmac and uh
And did the a-roll Right. I don't know. I think it's kind of cool. I think another thing that's advanced really nicely. Yeah since 2020 has been like
the ability to build things at home
With not a tremendous amount of skill and relatively cheaply. Oh, so like 3d printing and the derivatives of it
um At home level tools. Yeah, I've been dropping in price and dropping in sea and sea
Area of entry in general just everything slicing softwares gotten a lot easier to use
Oh, that's a topic that we didn't touch this week
The whole bamboo. Yes prusa. I don't know a ton about bamboo versus the world
situation basically the summary version sparks notes is bamboo bad
Well, no, I already knew that. Yeah, no that for a while. Okay. Yeah. Well, basically that I I don't know fully
bamboo more batter or prusa mad
Yeah, prusa justified mad See, but I thought all of that was already known. Yeah, but so the thing that I don't know now is what happened to change
um Bamboo was going after someone who was doing something with did they sue someone? I don't think they sued them. No, okay
Um, but basically bamboo bamboo not being a good citizen. Okay, not being a good open source citizen
I haven't looked enough into it, but I know like I think it was like and being kind of a bully
Rossman got his hands on some code or something and like yeah, it wasn't hard to get his hands on it was like just out there
I don't know anything about it. Yeah
But yeah, I don't know I was already kind of in the bamboo bad camp
So it didn't really change anything for me. So I didn't pay much attention to it. Yep
I'm not going to throw away my bamboo printers. I already have
Um, but I don't see myself buying another one. Yeah, so that's where I'm at
Yeah um
I was going to say something shoot. I think I I lost it
bummer It was interesting. There's a cease and desist of the rippa owner of orca slicer
um Then I thought I read somewhere that it was a fork of or orca slicer
That received the cease and desist, but I am not read up on this. So like I I don't know
It was a fork. Yeah, it was a fork not orca slicer. Yeah, so that that's part of the problem
It's like I haven't I haven't dove enough into this to get like the actual for sure
Things and I know that there is some that's not a hundred percent correct like statements like that
Um, it's all a fork. That's the point. I don't know whatever
Basically, I don't know what's going on bamboo being a bad boy. Yeah
Is is the bottom line prusa's got some really cool stuff. They sure do. Yeah, it's not cheap. Nope
But uh, they actually have some really cool stuff that I'm looking forward to checking out very soon
Nice. Yeah, we're like, uh, we have someone on the writing team who's like very 3d printing now
Yeah, um, so we've we've got some pretty cool 3d printed stuff in the in the hopper right now and I'm I'm pretty excited about it
Um, yeah, he he appeared in the video
about, um Oh, that's crazy apparently bamboo's own software is a fork of prusa's. Yeah, that would be why prusa's mad. Oh, yeah
Prusa big mad. Wow Um, crazy. Yeah, so shawn worked for all 3dp back in the day. So he's like hardcore hardcore 3d printing
Yeah, I know he's been in a couple videos talking about it. It's cool. Yeah Looking forward to it
All right, and I'm also looking forward to I guess that's the end of the show. Hey, thank you guys so much for tuning in
We'll see you again. Uh, we hear you on the whole the WAN Show channel. Um, not being a good place for the live show and the clips
um It's been a very messy transition. Yeah
There's precedent for people doing it. The everything goes on one channel way. There's also a lot of precedent for people doing it
the other way Um, luke and I have to schedule a meeting basically to kind of go. Okay. Do we do
Yet another channel and then like what do we move all the clips over?
I don't actually know the right answer right now But we're going to figure it out and we do hear you guys that you don't want to subscribe to that channel
As long as there's clips if all you're really interested in is the live show. So yeah
Good to know kind of tough See you next week
Oh, I don't know it might be a different time. Okay same bad time same bad channel. Bye
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