Sorry, I'll be there in a sec.
I think that's going to work.
Yeah. Like for the sides?
No, no, no, no. For the audience, too.
Oh, I have no idea.
Just gotta try stuff.
Alright.
Everything matched today, too.
Prism shirt at the prism underwear.
Nice. Solid.
Now it's all ruined. Solid.
My ability to can is gone.
Oh, yeah. Nice.
Nice. Solid.
No, not prism underwear.
Prism. Prism.
The heck is going on with this thing? Oh, it's upside down. That makes sense.
That's how it should be.
Yeah. No, mine's definitely way worse.
Yeah, no, I know.
That's a solid like four seconds of wobble.
Oh, man.
Okay, my brain.
Let's go to turn it on. I had like a glorious
three hours of brain functionality today. It was like off this morning
and now it's off again and then it was working for a bit when I was
doing a script review with Sean and then it...
Did you have like four? Is that right?
I heard there's like, you have like four hours of like peak performance in a day.
Something like that. You may not like it, but... It doesn't mean you can't do anything
outside of those hours, but like... Oh, I don't know. I think it does.
I'll do my best. I'll do my best.
We want unhinged Linus anyway. No, the world needs less of that. It's not good for
everyone's morale and job security
around here.
Elijah was talking recently about the... The hard hour incident
made another round like on the internet. Had like another wave.
Yeah, did it. And so Elijah was talking about how he like was watching that.
Not sure if he was going to have a job on Monday. Like just...
I think... It's all good.
And I think at that time, if I had actually been a user of the
word people thought that I was talking about, that could have been career ending
for me. Yeah. I think it could have been.
At that time, not now? I don't know, man. The rules seem different
these days. The rules do seem a little different. I don't mean me. I just mean
like, in general. People on the internet. Yeah, like
not even on the internet. Just like, they're just... People just
come to... The
cycle, the news cycle is so fast. And like streamers
in particular can do the most
abhorrent things and...
Probably just gain viewers. Just go live on kick. What's his
nuts? The Lux Maxing guy
like overdosed on stream and then just was like streaming the next
day. Did he? Apparently. Like actually OD'd? Apparently.
On what?
Dude, I don't know. Overdose.
Hold on. TMZ. Yeah. Okay. The New
York Times reports what we know about Clavicular's
overdose. After a parent
overdose, he's back at a club. This is from yesterday.
The New York Times, sir. But like
hospitalized after suspected overdose
swears off drugs after live stream overdose.
PR dropped him after hospitalization.
I really just... Rolling Stone has an article about
this. Is this guy that big? Like am I
missing something here?
I don't know. Do you follow
him? No. You look very Lux Maxed.
I just mean you're a very beautiful man. That's all. Oh wow. Oh wow.
Oh wow. Yeah, no key says even NBC has an article.
I'm gonna start obsessing over Min Maxing that and start smashing the
bones in my face. You gotta
smash some bones, dude. I think it's
a little late for me, dude. If you're not smashing your bones, are you really trying?
If you're not destroying your bone structure regularly, I don't know
if you're really trying. Oh man, I
don't think that anything I do would qualify to him as trying.
I mean I do stuff. You did the thing, the pokey thing?
Yeah, I did the pokey thing. I don't know what that was. Yeah, microneedling.
Yeah, I've done microneedling and I've done like energized microneedling, which is very
painful. Very
painful, very unpleasant. Have you ever
been in so much pain that instead of being more awake, you're more like
you just want to sleep?
No. I don't
think. It goes on for a really long time. It almost reaches
the point where sleep seems like a reasonable alternative.
I have a hard time with
pain that I can fight versus pain that I can't fight.
I've noticed that I've had conversations with Emma about this, where I'm like
kind of confused about it, but like I will run
into a wall for like a good joke
and like be completely fine, but that's like under my control.
I inflict it to myself. I get to decide when it ends, all that kind of
stuff. If it's just like, oh yeah, just sit here and we're going to do this thing and it's going to hurt
and we'll be done whenever, then I'm like such a baby.
I don't know why there's like a difference in my head.
What about something like hair removal?
Where you're the one inflicting it. You can technically
end it whenever you want. If I'm pulling it myself. But the job's not done until
the job's done. If I'm pulling it myself, totally fine.
If someone else is doing it, not okay. Not okay at all.
This is what I mean though. Interesting.
If I'm in control of it, the pain doesn't really bother me very much at all.
Interesting. But if someone else gets to decide when it starts, when it ends, when they're going, when
they're not, then again, I'm such a baby.
It's funny that you used your face as an example because I actually
plucked my cheeks. Oh yeah, you'll get straight ones up here. Yeah, I prefer to pluck them
rather than having to shave it all the time. Sure, yeah.
I thought maybe I was the only one who does that though. I thought that was a weird thing.
No, I don't know. There'll even be like, I'll have a weird one
on my eyebrow and Emma will go to try to grab it and I'll be like, okay,
just let me do it because I'd rather
deal with it myself. That's pretty funny. I don't know why this
is a thing.
Yay, can just thaw your face.
What? You can just, okay, I don't know what thaw means,
but I think the first one is you. Okay. You can just thaw
your face.
I'm lost.
Yeah, dude. Oh man, like thick coarse facial hairs
are really, really, really painful. I don't do any more of them than I absolutely
have to. See, if I just do it myself, it just
doesn't bother you. I'll have like a brutal, those like quadruple
thick grays that you get every once in a while. I'll rip one of those out, it's totally fine.
But if someone else does that to me, I'll be upset.
The first time a girlfriend plucked an eyebrow hair on me,
I cried. Not gonna lie. But you can probably do it yourself, no
problem. Yeah, it's fine myself. Yeah, it's weird. I don't know what's up with that.
Thaw your face, use the hammer. Oh.
Is that what they call it? That's that bone smashing thing?
Oh no, this is a different person responding. They just both have green names.
Thaw your face looks maxing. Okay, I'm looking this up.
The world's shortest looks maxing guide.
I thought this was PewDiePie for a second, just looking at the thumbnail.
I don't feel like he would do that. No, I really think he's too based.
It's so obvious that Thor's looks maxing. Okay, so
hammer is something to do with this? Well, they literally hit themselves in the face
with like a hammer. Okay.
When I said bone smashing, I wasn't kidding.
I only know about bone smashing because someone tried to like
make a joke about it to me and I was so confused and then they had to explain it.
This is so bizarre.
Hard maxing trend. Here are dangers.
Thank you, University of Nebraska.
Just have such a hard time with this. Like imagine, if you're
wondering whether you should hit yourself in the face with the hammer, the answer is typically no.
Thank you, Forbes. Why do you need to
write that sentence? Bring deep wisdom. You shouldn't need to write that sentence.
Deep wisdom, dude. Alright, we should do the show because I think I got to go
at 5.30. Is that the time?
Alright, let's do this thing. Oh, my back.
I heard that. Oh, I heard that one too.
Oh, I'm good. I'm good. Okay.
I'm alive. Have you been training your back? No, my back is just stiff.
Is that okay? Yeah.
Alright. Okay, there is one
thing that I did. Would you do? Yeah. Well, I trained my back. I was like sit and it was like
I was like lie down and it was like, oh, I'm too old.
Okay, sorry.
Yeah, go for it. Do it.
Okay.
What is up, everybody? And welcome
to Friday. It's Friday, which means
it's Friday. It's the WAN, stop it right now. It's the WAN
show. We've got a great show lined up for you today. There will be no
singing of that song, but what there will be is talking about how
YouTube has yielded and finally is allowing
not just kids, but all users to limit their YouTube
shorts to zero minutes, which is pretty
flipping incredible. Another incredible piece of news
I don't know if this really falls in with our
positive news WAN Show thing that we've got going on for the month of April,
but it's certainly hilarious. Struggling shoe retailer
Allbirds has made a bizarre pivot from shoes
to AI, which has caused their stock to absolutely
explode in value. I don't know if
that's a good news WAN Show topic. It's funny. Fair enough.
Fair enough. California bill would require long term support
for server connected games. Cool. That's
freaking awesome. At least it seems on the surface. Yeah.
Other than that, I don't know. I'm going to go with this one. DaVinci Resolve
21 is now a Lightroom alternative with raw editing, tethering, masking
and more, which is great because it's free. This is so cool.
That's great.
Music
The show is brought to you today by Zero Bounce, AMD, MSI and Square.
Alongside our rap partner Dbrand, our laptop partner Razer, and our chair partner also
Razer. Why don't we jump right into our headline
topic today, which is that YouTube is now allowing you to hide
short. So if you're the type of person who just plain doesn't
enjoy them and doesn't want to see them, or if you're the type of person who's on
completely the other end of the spectrum and enjoys them
too much and wants tools to help you with your self-control,
YouTube has... is
moving in the right direction. Yeah, because I don't think what they're doing hides shorts.
I think saying it hides shorts is actually just incorrect, is it not? So
it seems a little complicated. I haven't done it. Depending on the coverage
I've seen of it, either it sounds like shorts will still appear
within the interface, but they will be treated like regular
videos rather than just allowing you to swipe endlessly
hard time believing that too. Or it sounds like
if you set it to zero minutes and then actually fully like close the app and reopen
it, they should just be gone. Maybe people didn't reload their app.
So what I'm thinking is, hey, f**k it, we'll do it live.
I like it. Let's pop over, let's pop over on here. I'm going
to fire up my YouTube app. I've got... yep, okay cool.
I'm on my account with premium here, so instructions.
Where do I go? I go into... Show the camera a little bit more.
Yeah, well I'm trying to be careful just in case something incriminating comes up. That makes sense.
Linus watches Spider-Man and Elsa content.
What is it? How did you know? Can't show that to the camera.
Okay, you might have to actually find instructions because I thought this would be
really straightforward. I don't actually see it.
Purchases of memberships. Oh, time management.
There should be a shorts feed limit menu. Okay, I got it.
So I'm here in time management and then all I got to do is go to my daily
limits. Shorts feed limit and...
Mine is still 15 minutes. Well what
the crap? Okay, I'm going to close the app. Do you need to update the app maybe?
I mean, this wouldn't be the first time that I've run into
issues where foldable devices do not necessarily get the
best version of the app. Let me get it installed just in case.
Daily limits. Nope. Alright, well
good news everyone. As long as you're not me, then
you may have the option to limit your shorts to 0 minutes.
Wow.
That blows. Okay, how's it going for chat?
I'm updating and checking mine. Rocketman619 says
I'm doing it on mine. I don't see the option either. Nullifier says
isn't there on my graphene pixel. Crystals got it though.
Okay. Mine is at 0.
How does it behave though? Headline says not me on latest iOS.
I don't have the option. It worked for me. It says Blake Mavericks on a
Pixel 10 Pro XL. So it looks like it depends.
So a lot of people are speculating that this might be a regional update
but I suspect less than being regional
it's probably just a slow rollout because when you operate at the
kind of scale that Google does... You do percentage rollouts for sure.
You do not roll something out to 100% of users
all at once because you never know what something might break
and it's way better to break 3% of your users
than 10% of them than 20% of them
versus just immediately breaking 100% of them. It gives you a lot more
flexibility to stop the slow roll that you're doing
like trying to take these back seas like catastrophic global rollout.
So unfortunately we don't get to
try it today unless of course Luke's works. Nope. It did not.
Nope. Dan?
Did you try it? Oh yeah. Oh you got your phone right there. Yep. Alright cool. He's mute today
I suppose. No it's not working. Dan doesn't talk anymore. You know what I like it better this way.
Don't forget it. No I'm good.
Why did you attack him?
Yeah why did you laugh out at him?
Alright thanks Dan. He's saying he has too many buttons
and he just accidentally pressed the wrong button because he has too many buttons. There's so many things to do.
Either way
I look forward to this being rolled out to me because
I just don't want to see many shorts
if it actually works I look forward to it as well. While I don't necessarily
know how useful this is going to be for people who find themselves
quite addicted to doom scrolling and quite addicted
to shorts because I don't know if you've ever set a time limit on an
app in your phone how easy it is to say. It's too easy to bypass. Add more time.
That's why I just uninstall them now.
I also found that that was the only thing that worked for me. It worked for a long time
and I just didn't do the bypass and then there was I think I was using
YouTube for work reasons and bypassed the timer
and then you get the brain worm of like that was easy.
It was. It didn't hurt at all. And then it's like oh no
they just have to be uninstalled now. You know what was really nice for me
do you remember I was talking did we talk about it on wanshow how reddit got rid of r slash
all? Oh no I don't use it enough to notice.
Okay well reddit got rid of r slash all for reasons that
the sort of you know community conspiracy theorists
seem to believe well the homepage is more algorithmic
whereas r slash all was just top surfaced topics
from all subreddits. Okay so now the homepage is like curated for you
so the prevailing theory is that it's to it's to get you more
algorithmically hooked and siloed and deliver more personalized
content to you rather than just have a convenient no sign in
required spot that you can go and just check what the top
upvoted stuff is today and it has actually been
a blessing in disguise because I was spending a little bit too much time just like
browsing stuff on reddit and them removing r slash all
has pretty much completely killed my habit. Nobody tell him. Yeah I'm
actually very very thankful. Don't tell him. Good job
reddit I have. Don't tell him. Probably cut my time on your site by
about 90% because I'll just check on you know what's going on in
our most relevant subreddit. I also quite like WallStreetBets
just because I find their attitude
delightful. Yeah. I enjoy a good loss porn
as much as anybody else does. And then that's about it.
Is this loss? It can be. Sometimes it
is. I'll check like the LTT subreddit see how Lucas's posts are
doing. Two people's comments on the mar. Hey why don't we jump right into
that. Sure. In yet another what is becoming a common
LTT Labs win. Yeah. Lucas
uploaded an awesome article this week here if you want to find the topic I'll
load it up on the site. Sure yeah I'll read what the notes are I'm interested
I don't know if yeah Lucas didn't write this okay so in a new article from LTT
Labs this week we examine testing for a minimum display brightness
something that's becoming a selling point with a variety of different brands
it's not part of our current test suite when we're like reviewing phones or anything
but we are equipped to test down to fractions of a knit so we
tested a half dozen common phones and found that they were all capable
of impressingly low brightness dimness whatever you want
to call it of a single knit or less we found that one of the phones tested
was able to get down to just a thousandths of a knit
and if you want to learn more about our test equipment the process see the results all that kind of stuff
go to the article it's on lttlabs.com you can navigate to
lttlabs.com and then it's just in the sidebar
if you want to see all the articles that come out it's in the sidebar if you want to feed
of them there's a variety of different feed options for getting
notified about them or they also get
posted sometimes Lucas generally posts them to the reddit to
like the LTT subreddit but some other people post them on other
subreddits around the reddit and the internet
and all those fun things but yeah check it out we're trying to do cool stuff over there so
yeah it's really cool I mean I don't know about you but really low
minimum brightness is an absolute game changer for me in terms of like
my wind down late at night I like to have all my lights down
it's light emission from devices it's supposed to be bad for your brain trying
to fall asleep right so if you lower it your circadian rhythms get kind of
mucked up from from light supposedly look I'm not going to make
any kinds of health claims I will I know this for sure
it is it is definitely a fact we personally
actually ran a peer reviewed study of 400,000
people and their sleeping patterns for two decades and know
this for sure this is a health podcast we are
experts and scientists and doctors
for anyone listening right now I was furiously
mashing the doesn't know button
so everything that he just said was completely nullified by that I just want
to make sure I get out there yeah as Noki said as well every single one of those
test subjects only ever have used Firefox they've actually never used
chrome never used edge they would install Firefox off
of like USB drives they might not use edge but
do they edge when using Firefox yes okay
that that makes sense using
Firefox can be very exciting yes
any who was that was that it for that topic I think so
we're just kind of pointing people there we can talk about the
article if we want but I also think it's just like you know go give it a read
okay I'll spoil one thing I'll spoil one thing with a certain combination
of settings it was the latest iPhone that was able to reach
a thousandth of a knit and actually I learned something
reading that article because I already knew about some of the tweaks
that you can use to push the display brightness even lower but I didn't
know about all of them and so one of mine and Yvonne's like
wind down is we'll sit and play wordscapes in bed sometimes
and I honestly it doesn't work for me as well
as it does for her but like if we play wordscapes in bed she's usually snoring
within about like four minutes afterwards so we'll sit and we'll play like a few rounds of wordscapes
and having it any higher than absolute minimum
she's on an iPhone right now and then also
turning down the like white point there's like a white point setting and accessibility
it's just a stupid word jumble
it has really obnoxious ads I'm not recommending it
I play the every once in a while we'll dabble with we use one phone
and collaboratively play the New York Times games
like Wordle and all that kind of stuff
Crystal apparently tested the time limit
New time limit doesn't hide them
it just gives you a limit that you can
immediately bypass yeah so I'm just not going to have the app
installed still well I guess because it's like
a Google device it's still installed but it's disabled
yeah let's see okay so there's a short
if I click it you've reached your limit so when
you go to scroll it says you've reached your limit and there's just a big glowing button you can press
them anyways yeah so they didn't do
jack that is useless but it's good news
so on to more things and you can also just not have it installed
so that works cool
Talon says no it actually worked for me it's not showing shorts
inconsistent okay Talon
Crystal can you close the app and restart it
you can actually even restart your entire phone
HunterDOS says my app shows no shorts
not showing the short would be enough
if it's not enticing you
there's a number of people saying it shows zero shorts
I'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic
not because I think Google suddenly developed a conscience
but because I think that the recent ruling determining that
they had created their apps intentionally in a way that harms
the development of miners we talked about that either one or two weeks ago
maybe pushing them to swing the pendulum back
the other way a little bit in terms of how aggressively
attention sucking their app design is and you know
we should be encouraging of anything they do in this direction no matter what
incentivize them to ultimately move this way
if it behaves the way it did in crystal screen capture
then I don't care about it at all but if it isn't showing shorts then that's fantastic
and if you like click a link to a short and it opens up in the
YouTube chat in the YouTube app and then you decide to scroll
I don't know whatever if it then warns you like hey you're out of time
you set your time limit to zero and you decide to bypass
you've done so many things to go around the setting
you know at a certain point we have to be accountable for
our choices yeah exactly so like I don't expect them to go way above
and beyond but if you say hey I don't want shorts it shouldn't
advertise them to you it should actually stop there
in other good news it removes it from the main feed but you can see it in a creator's channel
if you go there I mean I think that's fair I think that's also fine
yeah in other good news DaVinci Resolve 21
is now a lightroom alternative raw editing
tethering masking and more black magic design announced this
at NAB 2026 and the biggest surprise
is the dedicated photo page that turns Hollywood's go-to
color grading suite into a direct lightroom competitor
the update supports raw files from Canon, Sony, Nikon
and Fujifilm and brings Resolve's node based color tools to
still images for the first time the tool
the photo tool includes album management with ratings and filters
AI magic mask for one-click subject selection, AI ultra sharpen for upscaling
tethered shooting with Sony and Canon cameras and the ability
to import existing lightroom catalogs most of the
photo page features are included in the free version only AI magic mask
and film look creator require the $295
one time studio upgrade one time
one time dude that's so good
one time is no problem black magic dude they don't do everything
right but they are pretty
based while they do some things wrong and most things right and that's okay
and they've been winning with DaVinci for a long time I've had a number of conversations
with people in the video creative space that are talking about how
like and I think I've talked about this on my show a couple times but the kids coming out of school
are all using DaVinci
so like the industry is shifting pretty heavily right now
and why shouldn't they for context here Adobe charges $10 a month
for lightroom which adds up to $120 a year with
no end in sight and that's just lightroom and with the way that Adobe is going
no realistic future where that's going to become
cheaper rather than more expensive DaVinci resolves free version
now covers most of what lightroom does and the full studio license is a one time
purchase that never expires for hybrid photo and video shooters
having everything in one app with matching color tools across stills and footage is a genuine
workflow game changer and
man I'm almost afraid to say it
feels like finally we're getting to the point where maybe Adobe
is going to have to start to acknowledge that they have competition
like do I go to our production team and basically say
like okay hey are we getting close now? I have asked
it was four, almost five years ago I think that I did that video
where the thumbnails like me holding out all the money and I'm like I pay $10,000
a month to Adobe dude yeah if I remember correctly it's like more than
a full time employee you're paying to Adobe a year and it's not
like I'm getting a full time employee's worth of like attention from
Adobe that's for sure hold on let me see if I can find this line
as Adobe
and you can see how many people this message resonated
with like 4.7 million views
why do I pay Adobe $10,000 oh was it a year back then?
it's a lot more than that now sorry it's not $100,000
a year but I think it's is it closer to like 60 now or something like that?
I think it's around there or above I don't remember
when we did how does LMG spend money? I remember it being either number one or number two
for the software solutions that we pay the most for
very highly up there and that's US dollars if I recall correctly
so it's pretty yucky the number I've seen
would be CAD okay so that would be like a 40% uplift on yours
either way it's a butt ton
it's crazy it's a ton that's so big I don't even know if it would fit
in your butt anymore it's a greater than
greater than butt ton it depends on the domination of it
oh yeah right that would make a big difference $100 bills would be a much bigger
butt ton than fives anyway
Petricor Imperial asks the chat
not the point the point is I'm always going to root for
a disruptor coming in and making life more difficult
for a monopoly or a de facto monopoly especially one that
I frankly feel has abused their position
I'm not the only one who feels that way Adobe recently had to settle
that thing around their billing practices and I still remember
how outraged I was when I found out that you can't just
they treat it like signing a contract with them every seat that you
add to your organization absolutely ludicrous and I think they might have
changed some of those practices now but not until they were forced to
yeah hiding fees preventing customers from easily cancelling software subscriptions
it's like don't you have enough money can't you just have the customers
who willingly pay you
coffee as s*** you know
I'm getting the number oh it doesn't matter that much it's fine
it's more than 10,000 less than 100,000 I think that's a fine enough
sort of nebulous spot to leave it
alright
we're still moving what are we doing that just says headline topic
Dan we finished the headline topic like 15 minutes ago
he's gonna put up two more topics he's just gonna make us yeah
you guys can't see it but he just put up
a sign that just Ross says more topics
oh it's pretty good
yeah it seems right to me it seems totally right to me wow
wow wow forget it I don't even want your cue cards
for it I think they're very informative let's talk about
a California bill that would require long term
support for server connected games stop killing
games is backing California bill AB 1921
introduced by state assembly member Chris Ward and expected to be up for
debate in the assembly soon to him the protect our
games act proposes new regulations that would apply to digital games released
after December 1st 2026
I don't like it but I do understand
it yeah I know I get that I get it I get that there's an entire
there's an entire epoch of games that could end up
lost because this will only go into effect for new games going forward
but I understand why you can't just change the rules
midstream after companies have already this will still be
changing the rules midstream for some people yes but I get it
at least they get a little bit of heads up under the act digital game operators
would be required to provide 60 days notice before they shut
down any services or servers that are necessary for the ordinary
use of the game they must provide details about which features will stop
working they must explain how the user can continue to play the
game after the shutdown and warn of any security issues
that might arise from the shutdown notice would need to be provided both
in-game and on the operators website and as originally written
the game operator would also have been required to seize sales and distribution
of the game at the 60 day notice but this has since been changed to the shutdown date
as the bill has worked its way through reviews which I actually I
think I kind of get because if for whatever reason you're still able to use it
in some way afterward then I if I was like
oh that sounds pretty good I want to buy it I wouldn't want to be prevented from
doing that that it should be my choice if I want to buy it or not sure I could
see making a warning mandatory hey this game is shutting down on this day these are going to be the changes
but just telling me I'm not allowed to buy it I mean that seems
like it's punishing me I can even think of certain games like a
Titanfall to I don't think I think there's a
community server mod but I don't think it naturally
had community servers on launch I could be wrong with this I don't really remember
but it costs like four dollars now when it's on sale and it's like always
on sale and I would highly recommend people buy it for the single player
and if the multiplayer doesn't work like whatever like it's still worth buying the
game so like yeah as long as there is some flag like by the way the multiplayer doesn't work anymore
if you want to make that decision I think that's still fine it's 40 Canadian
dollars right now that yeah it's just on sale like practically all the time
only buy it on sale for sure yeah it goes it goes on like 90% off sales
all the time so I'll just wait for one of those
starting on the shutdown date the operator would be required to provide
purchasers with at least one of a new version of the game
that can be used without the operator services
fantastic a patch for the existing version of the game that
works without the operator services fantastic based
a full refund of the purchase price that also works
that also works I don't prefer that one but
what this does is it gives companies an
out if they're in an absolutely desperate situation
can't do the previous two for some weird legal reason or whatever else or for
cost reasons sometimes that might not be practical what was that
Sony game concord or was that the one
one of the games the enormous game that they had that they shut down after
like a couple of weeks one of them I feel like they did it to more than one but that is one of them
yeah so like for a game like that where the entire problem
with the game is that they've poured all this money into it
and then practically no one bought it
it may actually make more sense because practically no one bought it
for them to just issue like a few tens of thousands of
dollars of refunds or even a few hundred grand worth of refunds and basically just go
okay forget it we just we put this in the dustbin of history
but in that case we're talking about a game where there's not going to be
nearly the same degree of like loss of
shared experience and loss of gaming history necessarily compared
to something that people played for many many many years and then just
you know is turned off and can no longer be accessed
well there is still loss but not the same scale I guess it's scale of loss
importance importance and so and so having that
having that that pulse that pull cord that they can basically
just go okay for whatever reason we cannot do this
if it is because no I don't think any company
would want to choose to refund every copy
of a game they ever sold yeah like if you were to tell rockstar
so yeah GTA 5 you can do a new
version of the game that can be used without your services a patch for the existing version
so it'll work without your services or a full refund of the purchase price which one
you think they're going to pick this is also like just just as a note this is
long term support I don't think this is necessarily forever support
of course there are exceptions these new rules would not
apply to subscription based services that are clearly
advertised as only offering access to a game for the duration of the subscription so something
like wow would not be covered by this MMOs in general
it does not apply to free games and this is where things get
a little bit hazy for me because if you've spent
$300 on say for example league skins
sure one skin okay are yeah is that
a free game
yeah exactly yeah a lot of
free games people spend more money on the games
yeah so I'd be interested as this makes its way
through the drafting process I would be interested to see
how they're going to tackle that and then the third one is that games
that the seller can't revoke access to after the sale
seems that the seller can't revoke access to
I'm not quite sure what that means but the first two were pretty I don't know what that means for games that require
server connected yeah yeah
yeah okay so maybe that's just for games where it wouldn't be relevant
in other stop killing games news the EU parliament held an introductory
hearing yesterday on the European citizens initiative stop destroying
video games organizers were able to present their initiative to parliament but
a parliamentary response is not expected to come before July you can find
video of the hearing on the European Parliament YouTube channel
this is far more momentum than
I expected stop killing games to get
oh yeah I'm impressed it's yeah on the one hand
you know maybe my pessimism was partly
rooted in a belief that there are
really important other things that the world kind of needs to deal with other than
like video games and stuff and maybe I just even though
it's something that's very near and dear to me I expected
you know stuffy octogenarian lawmakers to just
look at the whole games thing as just
video games and not care about it but then on the other hand
there's enormous amounts of money at play
there's a lot of money at play art is important and I think I think
there's different people that do different things there's different people that have different expertise
and you can you can do more than one thing at once
yeah no key says and all it took was for one guy to
speak out against the movement that's what popularized it I
don't think it's that simple although it did I do think it had
a pretty big impact it definitely did shine a lot of light on the movement
speaking of big impact against your will I got the numbers
it's before tax $62,000 for creative cloud
just creative cloud and before tax
and then before tax just for adobe acrobat pro
it's $4,500
why do we need $4,500 worth of it
who's doing pdfs
I know we get pdfs signed
both of them
that shouldn't be a
controversial statement we do get pdfs signed though
I think it's very convenient to have like the cloud version
of pdfs signs
is it convenient enough to be $4,500 a year
I don't know I don't know what people use them for I don't use it I mean if it's an alternative
to like fax then I suppose
I haven't used adobe acrobat in a long time
I've recently been using only office
it's pretty easy right seems fine it's free
is that that website where you just go and it's pictures of people in suits
no it seems to be like
that was canadian dollars by the way the like Linux bro open source
there's a thing that isn't libra office there's like
both of those exist people in chatter saying libra office
someone said some other thing up above I don't know where I saw it
I don't remember what it was called but there's like there's lots of options for pdfs
you can sign pdfs with the free version I think people at work
have yeah pdf-exchange I've never heard of that
but a few people are saying that
it's a pro one I suspect it's for the you can email someone
the link and then they can sign it digitally in their browser
and it gets like receipts for everything in both directions and stuff and it's just
I will admit it's very professional I would have to guess that that's probably the business
team that uses that or accounting business accounting HR for
like getting people hired and signing employee contracts and stuff like that
yeah 4500 to like seem professional to people
you do outreach to in those contexts probably it might matter
probably maybe possibly makes sense I suspect one of the reasons
why it might be so expensive is we probably have a bunch of dead subscriptions
because they do they do the seat thing right it's supposed to be good news mind show
well the good news could be that we might get away from that
yeah you might maybe possibly save money that's a reach
that's a reach good news everyone
another good news okay Dan I
apologize for what I did before can I please have them back thank you
alright we're supposed to do the CW announcement
this week we've got oh lordy I scrolled too far
we're hiring
we've got a few open roles on our site including a junior fashion designer
and a purchasing manager both for creator warehouse as well as a contract
role in inventory and warehouse management based out of Atlanta
Georgia if you think you'd be a good fit for these roles we want to hear from you
head over to linusmediagroup.com slash careers to apply
yay this week's product launch
has the variety and has quite the
pop you know what this week's product launch is
pretty exciting for me personally this is something pretty
different from what we've done in the past if you love motor sports
the Moto T is for you I'm gonna
what are you doing over there you shopping for adobe subscriptions
I saw I saw those adobe subscriptions
we're supposed to be going to LTT Store
this show is such a disaster oh look it's really cool
if you love motor sports the Moto T is for you
it's a race inspired jersey but instead of sponsored patches
they are tech inspired patches and 3d puff prints
it's designed on a 100% cotton top so it's breathable
and feels premium and you can get yours at LMG.gg
slash Moto T
very very different kind of design from what we've done in the past
super cool the pink and green is obviously inspired
by the old Lambo color scheme isn't that cool
I know right of course you should never ride your motorcycle
without a layer over top of a cotton T or long sleeve like
this but hey you can you can still look the part
when you are not actually on your bike
is that just actually her bike did they actually bring Natalie's bike into the
studio it looks like maybe
that's pretty sick cool okay
next up is uh that's a great
shot sweet next up is the shirt that Luke is wearing
if you're a frequent viewer of the WAN Show you might recognize this character
sir ability to can
he disappears whenever something really ridiculous happens
and I can't anymore or I lose my ability to can
he's super cute it's a it's bleach printed so it has kind of
this vintage washed look and is very crack resistant
and you can get yours at LMG.gg slash ability
to can do you want to show the back of it Luke's actually wearing this shirt right now
there you go missing sir ability
to can it's a bird don't worry about it it's more of just like
a WAN Show inside joke but it's also kind of a fun shirt design
pay line is for making puns pretty much I mean
yeah I mean it wouldn't be the first time last but not least for those
who just want something basic we have our blank baseball cap
it's the same design as our LTT had is adjustable doesn't
have the top smarty or button whatever you want to call it
see are you gonna he's gonna bring it up he's working on it he's working on it
there we go no no is it
is it missing LMG.gg slash blank cap oh there we go
it's adjustable and it's in medium and large sizes it doesn't have
the top smarty so if you ever like you know bump it on anything you won't have
that to deal with it's really comfortable and is now available in black and kangaroo
you can shop now at LMG.gg slash blank cap and this
is one of yet another products that
is coming into the LTT Store with creator warehouse branding
that could ultimately hey if you're another creator out there and you're looking for
branded apparel opportunities be rebranded to
something else ooh interesting
Anywho if you're looking for a good reason to
send in an order to LTT Store as always the best way
to do so is to wait when we're live
oh man my brain is so fried today um when we're live go to the
store go to a product find the one you want click add
to cart then this little thing will show up this is the easiest way to do it but you could also
just click on this and then this box will be here probably
looking like that and you can click this little check box and be like oh I want
to say something you can make a name anonymous or not and then you can be like
whoa car shirt cool
thanks man smiley face and then change your color
because you feel like doing that opt in for email communications because you're like
by the way where my order screw
driver no show up please help thanks
and then the customer support people can message you because you did this thing
and then you check out and then it shows up on the stream
to producer Dan who will either show it up on the stream
or reply to it or he will curate it for me and Luke to respond to
we feel this is way better than just people throwing their money at their screen and then hoping something good will
happen um we like you to get high quality merchandise in
the mail instead or in addition to Dan do you want to show them what a curated
check out message looks like did I call it a did I call it a
large message yeah I know you're not saying anything because you're
in the same room as me Dan am I allowed to say things yet
yes of course fine hey LLD but mostly
Luke everyone else can answer I guess what is your favorite
version of boy kibble simple carb plus high protein
other than just chicken and rice oh well
actual actual kibble I know I know people
go really hard they'll make they'll make like a like ground beef
mixed with like egg and
maybe some maybe some spice and that'll be like
the predominant portion of their meals for a week they'll just make one big
trough of like meat
something I've been going for lately is sticking with the
chicken or really or potentially
having steak instead but try to make that more rare I find
cook it less oh my god I did I didn't mean
that but you know don't overcook me whatever you don't make the chicken rare
yeah I don't do that but then I've been mixing
the the other things up so go for like a sweet potato instead
of rice or or instead of broccoli do like cauliflower
or spinach or kale or something else
and just keep changing things up a little bit
I have heard that if you just eat the same thing all the time
and it's really boring that it can act as an appetite
suppressant so if you're trying to lose weight maybe that works
maybe it doesn't I don't know contrary to what I said earlier
in the show not a scientist not a doctor but yeah I've been
I've been mixing up the the carbs that are included basically
but keeping the proteins pretty basic
yeah yeah
hopefully that's an answer. Nipolas Cage in Floatplane chat asked us to make
the hat that Jay wears in Jay and Silent Bob it's a baseball cap without
a brim and literally no one sells one sell me one
are you sure are you sure we need this
wait really there's no brim yeah I never noticed
it I think I always just thought it was on backwards
yeah no this is the seat of the this is the car seat behind him
there's no brim on it how did I never notice that
oh my god
that's just a beanie say people I thought
this is what Americans call a beanie yeah like
this is a baseball cap line things in it
without a brim it has the seams and everything. Scrappy DP says we do
not want that I don't think anyone
does
we want a double brim hat too says Minji no you don't you are
so lying you do not want a double brim hat
that is not a thing you want alright Dan hit us with another checkout message
hey LLND for the same price oh my god hold on there's a
full company that sells them of course there is no brim
co oh my god
that kind of has a brim though it really does yeah it has a full
brim do they sell this squeezy jibs one original no brim brimless
hats what about the long brim I saw a long brim on there
wait long brim that was somewhere what
I think you made it up might have been the previous
one I think you're a liar
that's funky speaking of funky hats
I searched for double brim trying to find what I think
obviously would have been one in the front and one in the back
but instead I found this that's the one I saw it on your
screen super brim dude
I love how the dude wearing the hat just looks completely normal
I don't think that's this hat there's no way that that's this hat
I was actually working on my notes
for the megane x8k
VR headset and
I know it's one of those things that doesn't really affect
your ability to make a good quality product but
bad or not even necessarily bad but like clearly
fake product photography just really puts me off of
something and this is a classic
example where is she
where'd she go dang it
okay well oh here she is
she is not wearing that headset
at all like
this
somebody tried a little bit though this is the fakest she's not wearing the headset
this is not even a picture this is a render of the headset
on her face and it gets worse they put a little shadow on there
oh no here it is
this is the exact same photo you can tell from the pixels
of the hair that this is exactly the same photo
you can see it in like the little flyaways and stuff
he's a pixel scientist that it's the same picture
and here's the same picture three times
three times the same picture on one page
two more times the same picture
come on man
it feels so low quality
I don't like that
I haven't actually tried the product yet so don't take this as a judgment on the
quality of the product itself it just the quality of the product page
though the quality of the product page is not great
anyway in other news I had to go to AliExpress
but I did find a double brimmed hat and it is exactly as amazing as
I hoped yo inspector line
should we do one of these inspector line
you could wear that in your next secret shopper or something
sorry Mr. Bester do you want to hit us with another check up message
hey LLND for the same price it could get a 77 inch
Samsung QLED mini LED
what would you do bigger or OLED
this is a tough one
Samsung has a lot of QLED TVs
and there is a wide range of quality depending on
how many local dimming zones they have and how bright they are
with that said
at the same price I could have a 77 inch or a 100 inch TV
it depends a little bit on the space
if you have a smaller room and just
sitting farther is not an option anyway
the C5 OLED is going to give you a better picture
it is going to give you a poppier punchier
more exciting picture
however if you are in a large space
and you want to have a big group the bigger the TV
the wider you can spread your couches and chairs the more you can have people
kind of spread out and eating snacks over there and whatever the more people
you can kind of gather around it and even if you have a smaller
room the more immersive the image is going to feel
if it was me and I guess
it is I would choose the larger display
over the OLED in my theater room I could have
if I really wanted a 97 inch OLED
then not to instead I have a 115 inch
mini LED so that is what I would choose
however if for whatever reason the size of my
at least that is the case today with RGB backlighting
coming that is the one I am more excited about but it sounds
like you are getting a deal on a last gen TV so that is not going to be
necessarily relevant to your purchasing decision anyway
I hope that helped I didn't really give you an answer but
cool what would you do you do smaller
OLED I would think right probably that is what you did yeah so it is not even hypothetical
I went bigger TV he went smaller OLED
I also have less
viewing distance I guess like
you know shotgun apartment hallway room things
and you just have like standard couch position standard TV
position the throw distance is really not that crazy
high so I would rather just a way better picture 100 inch would be a little bit ridiculous
at that seating I think so yeah so I would rather just have a better picture
Genesis 8925 says if money wasn't a problem
projector but man I have a really hard time getting
behind that like the the wife acceptance factor of a
projector just from my experience seems to be
much smaller and I don't know what it is
but it's like they don't look good
yeah I mean they can but there's so many other things you have to
align that the wife acceptance factor starts to
decay and then the second someone gets up to go get popcorn in the middle
thing and there's a they interrupt the image or you have to tell your young
kids hey that's a laser projector don't look into the lens and you know there's
like eye safety concerns and then you accidentally
leave a door open and so there's like a weird kind of like bright
spot across half of it where the shadow of the couch covers it like it's just
it's not as friendly and there's something just
kind of intuitive about the TV
seeing the thing you like press a button on an emergency if you forget versus like
going to the back of the room and like pressing a thing on the ceiling if the remote
has the batteries dead or whatever like it there's just so many little
things about a projector that are more you know
bearded dude and less family friendly
no offense Dan
I painted my wall just an entire the entire wall
gray you've seen it there's no wife factor there
you also can't go anywhere near it or put anything in front of it or touch it ever where it's ruined
get a TV
yeah that's what I'm talking about get an OLED she'll like the colors
yeah she probably won't care
she likes the colors okay
mine doesn't care it's whatever is in the most
I know exactly where
he's going she will be in the family
room where there is an OLED TV
and she'll be like doing
yoga on a mat or something and she will be watching
on her phone and I'm just like
really
oh
um
anyway
let's talk about Apple launching
after giving up significant education
sector ground in recent years decades question mark says our notes
Apple appears to be making a new push to engage potential users
as early as possible with Apple education
redesigned landing page highlights the benefits of various Apple hardware and software
for lifelong learning starting with low cost iPads and MacBook
neos and errors for the K to 12 crowd and then moves up through the product line
for college and postgraduate studies with all the essential productivity and specialty
apps for your field the site also offers special Apple care
packages and flexible financing for educational institutions and that's
that right there is the big one and when it comes to
hooking them young I mean I have talked for
ever about how Apple like
allowing Chromebooks to become a thing and it looks like they finally
figured it out and they are making a concentrated effort to just
un Chromebook the world and
I think these stop on Chromebooks oh dude
I've been daily not close I think I've been daily in the Neo for
over two weeks now I think I can't remember the time
but basically it's not bothering me I feel like you would remember the time if you hated it
yes because you'd be like counting it's the same thing as
this Linux challenge compared to the last one yep the last one we're all checking in with each other
and how many days were left and this one I think the timer passed and no one cared
yeah yep Apple also
like Google with their Chromebooks seems well positioned to keep
users in their ecosystem after schools out with a redesigned
Apple business landing page that launched about a month ago
so our discussion question here is did Apple make the right call in seemingly
abandoning the education market after the eMac and I mean I think
I've made my position on this very clear over the years no absolutely not that was
entirely the wrong call Apple went from being the only
computers in one of the like elementary
schools that I attended to be basically becoming utterly irrelevant
in schools in a span of like what five years ten years
something like that almost nothing it was just it was just all PC and then it was
all Chromebook and Apple became
just a complete non-player outside of from my understanding
very affluent educational
organizations but now man
this thing this thing changes everything
because an iPad is only useful for certain stuff
for a lot of things I'm sorry but you just plain need a keyboard
what is the difference right now between a Neo and an iPad with a keyboard
um the fact that it's running
proper desktop software to me is a big one just in the
the day to day usability of the device or did you
mean in terms of price no yeah that that to me is the
big one the fact that I'm not just limited to iPad OS
apps and I can run any software that I want on it because
there's just I mean it's inherent to the app store model
that these apps are designed to be
less open you know Apple dictates what's in the app store
take a cut out of everything that's in the app store which you know
whether you believe that that's a monopolistic practice from them or not
is a tax on the developer's ability to operate
within that ecosystem there's just there's things about it that are just plain
not as budget friendly and not as user friendly
I find it interesting how open they are
surprising price yeah it's like yeah it is a surprising price from you
yeah it's also a surprising price for just the general quality of the laptop
but do you think this is Tim Cook wanting to like go off on a high note
like there's been a lot of discussion has been a lot around his legacy
over the last couple years because he's getting close to probably retiring like hasn't
even been pretty open about I think so yeah and so
it's just it's been this open conversation like what is Tim Cook's legacy because
it I mean I'm sure he would love if it were not
the Apple Vision Pro right and you look at
like there's a lot of things that he has undeniably done
incredibly well Apple is a logistics monster
the way that they the way that they handle messaging and their launches
is perhaps unparalleled
there's just so good at it but what product
did Tim Cook
because even AirPods was before his time was it not
actually maybe not I think EarPods might have been before his time but
I don't think AirPods were no I think you might be right
Tim Cook was
AirPods was well after he made the thing that kind of murdered the entire audio industry
which is pretty impressive so that was relatively early on
in his tenure and then towards the end
is the creation of the laptop computer that basically murders the entire
entry level business and education laptop
segment from everyone else I also think there's an angle which is
what a punctuation mark to put on your career Apple spent a really long time
basically fighting with chip manufacturers
like they got in this huge war with NVIDIA they got in a
bit of a tiff with Intel a bit of a yeah like they
are not being very friendly with chip manufacturers
they came up with the M series chips those chips are just
smashing everything their fire how do they pipeline
people into their like okay we figured out bailing on the other
chip manufacturers now but the pipeline into max is not
necessarily the easiest and it's not exactly the cheapest so how do we get people
kind of re interested in max we've we own the world of audio
we own the world of phones well the North American world of
phones but yeah yeah we own the world of spending
money on lots of phones you know what's really
interesting to me though is like what will Apple take
away from this lesson will they take away
oh we could have charged more for the Neo and will they go back for higher
margins or will they take away
holy crap we have been leaving so much volume on the table
by pricing things out of reach of normal
ordinary people and do we get like a really aggressive
iPhone like do we get like a $400 iPhone
because if they can build this computer for
$500 to an educational customer right
convince me you can build a cheaper
convince me they couldn't do a $400 iPhone if they really wanted to
they've got their own silicon for the processor they've got their own silicon for the modem
now even the Qualcomm tax is she's a hefty tax
tell me they couldn't do it
no they absolutely could I think
this might this might piss some people off I think their gamer move in the future is to
basically only ever have you know they have two skews for this one they have
like the higher storage plus touch ID and the lower storage and no touch ID
I don't think you ever expand beyond that
oh for this one yeah for the Neo oh yeah Neo tier laptops as like
there is maybe two options maybe in some generations there is
one and it's just the cheap
laptop you can get from Apple and then everything else is you're jumping into M
chips and it's like performance laptops and I actually I like that they
gave it a really unique color because it clearly identifies me
as a scrub who you know but it's a good
a real Mac still yeah but it still it still looks good it has it
has its own very clear identity the thing on the bottom is a D brand
oh yeah that's a deep end skin sorry people know yeah sorry about that so it's this
looking at the like that's what we're looking at greenish yellow yeah yeah
yeah so I really like what they did with that I could see them continuing to
do that that's something that they have done in the past to differentiate otherwise
very similar looking you can still get it in silver and pro yes
but I would actually like to see them lean into this I see
most people that one is the most popular color way I've personally
seen is like the yellow but I've seen most people get colorful ones
which I have to say like thanks
God it's been so boring
I'm always picking the most boring possible color options for everything and seeing
a bunch of people get the colorful neos brought some hope
I think it's like oh wow the world can not just be gray again
this is great nah don't get your hopes up what it's gonna
not everyone is full of hopes the only reason Apple can do that is because
would they sell 8 million of these things high hopes oh
so Apple so all the others are sold out so you just had to buy
just mean Apple can afford to do a gray one and a
yellow one oh no I mean people's selection oh sure I just mean but
Apple's the only one who has the volume to gamble
and do a color sure sure because they can even if the color
bombs and only one in 10 customers selects the color
one then they are still gonna sell 800,000
of them yeah so they're fine I hear you I just I think like
I think you just see people who have a selection of colors
always going like gray white or black oh yeah and that's just kind of
boring they're just safe I mean I was I was talking to the creator warehouse team
about commuter bags I or hey this shirt
the Lambo shirts so cool here
so commuter bags it's so sick I've been rocking this
kind of like olive like tactical green one
for a little while that I really like yeah and we were just we were talking
about you know yeah what would what would a future look like
where we have like a range of colors of bags and we were talking through what the
minimum order quantities are for each of these colors with fabric sourcing
and factory time and
one of the things that Dave brought up is that we have
access to you know industry trend data and
basically it becomes kind of like
like a self perpetuating cycle yep because the
only thing that actually sells is black
and gray and then that's the only thing anybody makes
so then it's the only thing that anybody sells and
and it's it's a huge financial risk and I think your apple that's why I'm
saying I just appreciate that people are not just buying just the silver one
is like the more you make it so that people don't just buy only
ever just the black one it's like oh sweet okay we can
actually have more colors of things in the world again and like okay
uh or rook in Floatplane chat says I would
totally get a pink backpack but it's tough because
we sell like 10 of them back when back when steel series
let me see if I can find steel series did like a pink
watch attacks has more success with this I would say
yeah yeah I just the reason I brought up steel series is just because they did it a very
long time ago before everyone else did it yeah true and I can't
find it um probably because it didn't sell like
2010 yeah it was it was really old and
I remember I either was the product manager or I sat next to the product
manager for it and it was an unmitigated disaster
we sold like three of them or something like that and then we had to liquidate the rest of them
that has changed to a degree right to your point things are
a little different now and logitech seems to have done better with it
I think logitech has also succeeded in like it's not just hot pink
like they'll they'll do colors like this
or like it's a it's a nice like soft purple that you don't have to
like they call this one heartbreaker and it's the pink one but it's not just like
glowing hot pink either like I think they played with the colors
a little bit more I hate though that to be a trendy girl who uses a
computer you can only have a fantastic mouse
no this is just the first one I clicked on oh I'm pretty sure there's there's a like I just
was scrolling down and so they have like a high performance mouse like that
okay I probably have to go watch that G hold on
yeah I think it's like a different site yeah
I think they do have some pretty cool color ways
the super strike I'm pretty sure is just black and grey
oh my god go away
magenta that's a pretty aggressive pink
I found the thing that I was thinking of
I didn't find the mouse but I did find the mouse pad so
steel series had their iron lady brand
which was that's pretty rough pretty cringe that is pretty rough
it was pretty cringe that's what I mean though is like these
logitech ones not to glaze logitech too hard but the logitech ones like
kind of look nice and they don't say iron lady on them
which here we go I found it I found it
there it is the iron lady gaming mouse
yeah see that's hurry that's kind of yikes and then look at this
this is the one I was actually talking about the G203 pretty good mouse
lilac that's actually looks nice that's pretty cute
okay cool
anyways it's time to talk about our
Floatplane announcements Linus try to guess what this means
Dan show the free shipping
yeah that's pretty obvious
don't don't don't don't applaud me for being
good job Linus
he did it he's our good boy
for next week oh man it okay
how ridiculous is it that like a few months
ago I was talking to the creator warehouse team and we were discussing like
our sale calendar for the year and we had decided that after the
success of our shipstorm sale event last year that we should
we should do a repeat of it we should do a shipstorm sale event
and we were like talking about it and we're like well yeah but
you know that whole thing was precipitated by
you know the actions of a certain one of you know
the country leaders so is this one hold on
story spoiled
so anyway it's they're all they're all gen zers
gen alphas whatever they don't have time they already know where the story is going
I'm just helping so we decided to do
a shipstorm sale event on the anniversary of the first shipstorm
we had no idea that the certain world
leader was going to do a thing again that was going to completely
global logistics again you probably could rely on it I guess
did so anyway the shipstorm sale event
is coming back and we have something very excited for
our Floatplane supporters everyone on Floatplane
will be getting their usual 24 hour early access to
the event and additionally LTT supporter plus
tier subs will have a $50 lower threshold
to get free shipping for their entire order worldwide
so that's 13 bucks to save
not spending $50 more but
still qualifying for free shipping that's awesome but that's not all
LTT supporter plus tier subscribers on Floatplane will continue
to have free shipping on LTT Store
if the minimum spend threshold is met even after shipstorm is over I'm going to say
for some time I am not
walking into that forever I don't know who wrote this
thing in my notes but I'm putting an asterisk here
for some period of time TBD
Luke how are we making money off this I don't know I warned that it
might be a problem okay cool
anyway when we announced our price increase earlier this year we said we'd make an
effort to add benefits to our Floatplane subscribers so we're looking to deliver pun intended
and I guess this is part of it so if you're a frequent shopper on LTTstore.com
this could be worth considering and you get to watch some amazing Floatplane exclusive videos
like cutting room floor like the
heavily divided $20,000
PC extras and also sometimes early releases
so I'm just going to go ahead and launch a couple of videos hey guess what
do you know about this nearly 700 exclusives by the way do I know about
this no I don't we were sponsored by Red Bull sick sort of
someone else was sponsored by Red Bull and Red Bull had us build computers for them
also sick yeah right so that's going live
Red Bull does cool stuff yeah and then we've also got
another video that's going live right oh oh oh boy
this one is going to be a little
controversial probably and you can watch it early on float
plane it's going to be the highest
PC build ever
okay so you wait what why
because it's going to be at 40,000 feet no I get it why is it controversial
seriously have you not been following the smoking drugs the community drama
over the last couple of weeks oh because it's in your plane
because it's in Linus Media Group Incorporated's plane yes who owns that company
me so it's in your plane well it's okay
you know better than that I can only use it for work
unless I like it's a taxable benefit etc etc but
but yes Elijah came with me on the data center tour to
equinex in Virginia and this is a small
small spoiler he forgot the
case
he left the case on the ground
that's pretty funny
film it on the way so we were supposed to film it on the way
while we were filming while we were flying during the day and then that was
supposed to be our work day that day and then we were supposed to sleep
and then get up super early our time because we're
three hours ahead now do the data center tour and then
sleep on the way back but instead
had to abandon me for the data center tour he had to
go to micro center by a case and then we had to shoot
it on the way back did you shoot the whole thing on the way back or did you do part on the way there
we had to shoot the whole thing on the way back there was like almost nothing we could
there's almost nothing you can do without a case you put the CPU on the motherboard and like
put some RAM in and then that's it you're done whereas like the
computers yeah right
apparently I told everyone last week well whatever I think it's
I forgot the detail on if you did part of it on the way there or part of it or
all of it on the way back anyway the videos out it is
it is controversy aside an absolute
banger it is so funny it's just ridiculous you've already been
like I
people might not like seeing the plane but
I mean it's just a computer I don't think it's controversial
some people you know what there's some there's some people that are upset about it but
most people seem to be enjoying the window into something that otherwise we would have
absolutely no access to do you hear about Ford
I did I did I did
okay so key difference so we had a politician a Canadian politician
is in hot water right now for using and this is
incredibly important taxpayer money yeah to
acquire a private aircraft way more expensive way more expensive
private aircraft for and
reasoning was so funny I didn't see the reason what's the reason he was like
other people have planes and he pointed
at like some other politicians that have access to planes and he's like I want one too
it was so good
I actually started laughing reading the article
I think it's something like Quebec has a plane or something he's like they have a plane
I want a plane too
it's like really bro right now Canada's on fire
do you actually need a plane I don't know
it was funny it was good it was a good time
and I can I can say with 100%
certainty that he could have done it on a tighter budget than that
also the plane that he chose is so unnecessary for what he would be doing
it's a it's a challenger 650
I don't know anything about dude he's a provincial politician where is he even going
opposition leaders dump it the gravy plane
hahaha
hold on challenger 650 range this is hilarious
so the challenger the challenger 650 hold on where's
guardian jet here we go CL 650 no I don't want the brochure
online tools range rings here we go okay
here's our range map so what's an airport so let's say
Toronto sure whatever mark them it doesn't really matter
Bombardier uh but but but CL yeah here we go
CL 650 so this is what this is what you got
oh shoot I screwed up oh no I screwed up again oh man I'm such
a bloomer sometimes Toronto seriously come on
okay so mark them uh yeah here we go check this out
so CL 650 this is the range of that thing
okay does a provincial politician
ever need to fly nonstop to Ecuador
how often do you think that comes up for context this is
Ontario yeah the what what I
read was that he was mostly can be flying within the province of Ontario
yeah he's a provincial politician sometimes going to the states to deal with tariff stuff
okay that was like it even that who would he be talking
to he would be talking to bordering states so like
here or he'd be talking with you know maybe
Washington which would be the like whatever
in here in here somewhere I don't remember exactly there you go or in like DC
dude he could be on a prop plane and make these flights
like there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to have a challenger 650
so here's the uh one sec here is
the statement issued by Ford's office contrasts the price of Ontario's plane
to $107 million that says Quebec paid for one used in two new challenges
650s and 753 million the federal government paid for
six new global 6500 jets okay I will say this
um you know if Quebec spent that much that's also ridiculous
that's that's the only thing that set out to me on that was like oh wait why
did Quebec spend $107 million on private jets
I can understand why the federal government needs them
in terms of like federal statecraft you actually have to travel internationally
you actually cannot just put your entire
like cabinet on like a commercial flight to
you know Madrid and if they have six of them maybe you can borrow one now and then
or something I doubt it you can charter one from them I doubt it
I mean I don't see again it comes down to taxation and who actually owns it
which is where yes the distinction between a person and a corporation or
one level of government and another level of government actually does matter
like it does matter in terms of moving funds around and
who is paying for the wear and tear and how all that's accounted for like it legitimately
does matter so you can't just be like hey federal
Canadian government you own this thing therefore I can use it right
actually doesn't work like that but besides
you wouldn't need a global what was it a global 6500 or something like that
that's the federal one yeah you wouldn't need that six new one
they bought six brand new ones
I mean
and they spent 753 million
I mean they would cost that probably that's the
that's what brand new ones go for which is why that was never going to happen
that's why 1990 was a good year for me
they have they have Rolls Royce Pearl engines
well that's just common that's not like having a Rolls Royce engine is just like it's a thing
there's only so many efficiency there's only so many turbofan
engine manufacturers Honeywell Rolls Royce
I'm trying to think of who else yeah GE
thank you Dan at least it's Bombardier so they bought it like from Canada
yeah I would have loved to go Bombardier instead
I mean if it's a government purchase you'd kind of hope it's from Canada
yep I kind of wanted to
rep Bombardier but it just it didn't make sense
it didn't make dollars actually it was a lot farther off than not making
sense it made too many dollars yeah all the all the dollars
anyway so those videos are up the highest pc build
is supposed to go up on April 20th lol
but for people who want to watch it a little early you can head over to LMG.GG
slash Floatplane you can also get
free shipping early access and extras LMG.GG
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Luke when it comes to your setup do you prefer running everything on one powerful do-it-all machine
or do you like to split things up with dedicated systems for like
gaming content creation server stuff home lab
I like just running everything on one
but it's not really the answer and
as I progress forward I'm going to be splintering into multiple devices
I see within a year probably having at least
three at least a hard at least two
systems but very likely
three before a year's up I'm kind of delaying right now
I'm just hoping you're seeing RAM do that
so I'm trying to hope and I can wait a little bit more and get some cheaper RAM
but yeah I want to move I have a few services that I have kind of running all the time
not that many and I want to have a lot more but what's been
holding me back from having a lot more is that they're all running on the same system and that just kind of sucks
so yeah so I'm just split off time to have a powerful
mass that can do a variety of things basically what you shouldn't do necessarily
is go as far as Mr. Nick Harris
I was at his house yesterday
I've seen pictures of his setup Nick
runs software development for the lab he also just
is sort of general manager of things for the lab he
reports to him he also oversees
mark bench like benchmarking he also just sort of bench he also just
it's got a new name now but I still call it mark bench deal with it
he also just kind of like is a voice of reason
you know when you have a group and you need to have a conversation he's just kind of
he's a presence is I think the best way that I could describe him because
having him around is a gift so the point is I was at his house
yesterday though
I and I cannot emphasize this enough
I had difficulty navigating
his spaces due to the
unprecedented level that I had here to for never
seen before of tech clutter
the in the intro
I talk of the line is
how do you upgrade the setup
of someone who has not one not two not three not four
not five not six but seven computers and the worst part
of it is that after we did the intro when I was doing the part where
I like poke around in people's living spaces and we kind of get to know them a little bit
I found more computers
I found was apparently a dedicated machine to run his base pedal
he literally
had a dedicated machine for pretty much every function
was his story and then I found out that actually
one of them is a proxmox box and he does have
virtualization running so he's got like more than ten
dedicated computer functions in this place I just can't fathom it
but hey that's the kind of person that you want
in your testing lab
someone who enjoys the pain of tinkering and troubleshooting and experimenting
when we were going through the interview process
in one of our video interviews I kind of
talked about like you know this was a long time ago but I talked about
the idea of this benchmarking software that we would have
well at the time I don't think it had a cool name and much of an idea really
but we talked about like the concept and kind of bounce ideas back and forth
on the concept the next video call that we had he had built
like a prototype and I was like alright there's the
job basically
that's the gg right there not that we're saying that you should
do unsolicited and unpaid work for a job
you're applying for that's not advice
however it certainly got our attention
yeah I'll say that much it showed like passionate interest in the
subject which I cared about a lot
no we'll do that later
NVIDIA's mythical N1 SoC has surfaced on a real motherboard and it's packing
128 gigs of LPDDR5X
NVIDIA's long rumored N1 SoC has shown up on a real motherboard for the first time
spotted on the Chinese resale platform Goofish before the listing was taken down
the board appeared to be a laptop engineering sample
described as an NVIDIA N1 AI book and was packed with
8 SK Hynex LPDDR5X memory chips totaling 128 gigabytes
running at 85 33 megatransfers per second
the N1 is supposed to share its silicon with the GB10
chip that powers NVIDIA's DGX spark workstation
and reportedly packs a 20-core ARM CPU
designed with MediaTek alongside a Blackwell architecture GPU
with up to 6144 CUDA cores which would put it roughly
in RTX 5070 territory this would be NVIDIA's first
crack at a consumer PC chip after years of Tegra SoCs
for mobile devices phones and consoles like the Nintendo
Switch. All signs point to a Computex 2026 reveal
in June with Dell and Lenovo reportedly already testing laptops with the
N1. The chip is designed to compete directly with Apple
Silicon, AMD's Strix Halo, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite
in the growing Windows on ARM space.
It feels like a predominantly Strix Halo competitor. However,
it's in a bit of a weird spot
it's got like NVIDIA grade onboard graphics
but it will have ARM on Windows grade
game compatibility issues potentially
unless NVIDIA has done some black magic wizardry
which you know after seeing what Valve and Apple have done over the last 5-6 years
I wouldn't say is impossible
you know the migration from Intel to Apple Silicon was
incredibly smooth and the way that
I mean look that demo that I saw at Valve HQ
playing on the Steam frame like playing an x86
Windows like direct 3D game
on an ARM CPU on Linux like blew my freaking mind man
obviously it won't work on everything but I mean being
on Windows here's a question
does like kernel level anti-cheat work on Windows on ARM
is it architecturally similar enough
that it just like it's the Windows-ness that matters
did they bother to port that
like are you even gonna want a 5070 class GPU
on a Windows on ARM laptop like is that something
anybody is asking for because do the games matter
chat even seems like so unsure about it
it's like it's a question nobody seems to really be asking
Ebalrid says a kernel level anti-cheat is just
a driver and like yeah fair enough but it's a driver that needs
certain permissions and I just I'm not sure
if anyone has bothered to integrate it on Windows on ARM
as far as my googling is showing this is all true but it's not
everything is compatible with it because not everything has drivers for it
yeah
well anyway good luck with this NVIDIA
apparently EA is expanding anti-cheat to ARM 64
okay so like some companies are working on it
maybe this is part of NVIDIA laying the groundwork for exactly
this if they're starting to do stuff like that that might also help the Linux crowd
but I kind of doubt it
well I already closed that article but it mentions something along the lines of like
Linux also potentially being included in their expansion of anti-cheat compatibility
I'd love to see it I read a really long article and I think it was Ars Technica
talking about the sort of inherent challenges with
with anti-cheat on Linux and how it's just having the user
having the user like by its very
philosophy in control of the kernel
is just going to kind of make it not a thing forever
my I think counter argument
is that they're barely catching stuff at all right now anyways unless they
are like that's the thing how do you know that even
more people wouldn't be cheating if it was even easier
for me I think it's past the threshold
so it like doesn't really matter there's just such a high percentage
right now that it's already so bad that it being worse I don't think would
significantly change my life but that being said
the main game I've played that is a competitive
shooter in the last while which I have not played very much of at all
like genuinely less than five matches is counter strike
and that is compatible with Linux and that had like the biggest
and worst story of cheaters I've heard in a while
which was fairly recent so I don't know but as far as
my understanding goes a lot of those cheaters were actually just farming skins
did you see the news about the huge
warehouse full of PlayStation 4's that was farming FIFA stuff
this is hilarious
oh my god
Ukraine warehouse packed with thousands of
ps4's was actually a FIFA ultimate team bought farm
what yeah
I don't
quite I don't know how FIFA ultimate team works
understand this 3800 ps4's
this is so funny to me
look at the fans in the Windows you gotta cool the ps4's man
would all of those need whatever PlayStation
online subscription is would they all need those
I guess so ultimate team cards
card farming operation something something FIFA ultimate
cards this is so this is so funny
so if lucky purchased cards contain one of the rare cards which can be sold at a huge profit
with so many consoles set up to automatically play the game
there's a good chance a few rare cards will be discovered
this is like man imagine imagine the investor
pitch it's like okay bro I have a foolproof plan
I have a foolproof plan to make lots of money as long as they don't patch it
all I need is a small loan of 3800 play stations
what are you talking about
like the kind of money that's involved in the start up of something like this
and and like the kind of the janky operation
they're running like can you imagine the legitimate businesses that you could
start with a warehouse and enough
money to buy 3800 play stations not to mention the
ongoing monthly expense of 3800 PSN subscriptions
in the business chaos of doing that Ukraine
just to also put that out there you could just do something else
just an idea
I don't know it seems crazy but you could just do
anything else it's pretty wild like hey you could put your effort into
shocking the Linux community with a game changing
VRAM hack for 8 gig GPUs
this is pretty cool Natalie Vock a contractor on Valve's
Linux graphics driver team has developed kernel patches that
fix how Linux handles VRAM on 8 gig GPUs
previously when VRAM filled up the Linux kernel didn't know to prioritize
the game you're actually playing so it might accidentally evict
game data to slower system RAM to make room for background
for like a background browser tab which could cause stutters and frame drops
but fix tells the OS that the game is in the foreground and that should get first dibs on
VRAM if memory fills up then background
tasks are the ones forced into system RAM instead in her cyberpunk 2077
tests on an 8 gig GPU the games VRAM usage climbed from about
6 gigs to nearly 7.4 gigs while spillover to system memory
dropped by 53% the patches currently only
work on AMD GPUs because of NVIDIA's closed source drivers that don't allow
this kind of memory management modification and cache OS is already integrating
the fix and the patches are awaiting merge into the main Linux kernel which is I think
what we talked about last week the cache OS part this does not apply
to integrated GPUs like those in the steam deck or handheld PCs
because they are using the same graphics
pool anyway well not quite I mean okay the steam
deck would be but I think for something like a Strix Halo
it's a static allocation so maybe it would okay TBD
TBD on that last bit what else we got Mr. Luke
Xbox game pass apparently the what is it the new
CEO yeah a new Microsoft gaming CEO
Asha Sharma said in a leaked internal memo that game pass has become too expensive
for players and that Microsoft needs a better value option
Microsoft hiked game pass ultimate to $30 a month last year up from
$20 which was itself already up a bump from
$16.99 that's two price increases in 15 months and there was
price increases before that as well as far as my understanding goes game pass now runs
from $10 for essential to $15 for premium
and $30 for ultimate Sharma says the long-term plan
is to evolve game pass into a more flexible system though the details
are pretty vague the memo also comes days after
service that Call of Duty 2026 could skip game pass entirely
which would be a major shift given that adding cod to the
service was widely seen as the reason the price hikes happened in the first place
that would be wild also be the reason why she's saying it's overpriced if they're not
doing that anymore the whole point of game pass was supposed to be
that I subscribed to it forever and like you know that sucks
but you're giving me a good value in return for it and that's like
the real deal is I get all the cool games the Microsoft games
and it's a one
all you can eat for the price of it feels weird saying that cod is a Microsoft game
I know right sorry to just
wasn't there also like that weird whole thing around
the conversation for the Activision Blizzard acquisition
where like they weren't going to
have a bunch of f**kery with cod and which platforms I mean I guess
I guess not having it on game pass would ultimately be
satisfactory to someone like Sony. I think the main thing was they didn't want to have it taken away from
Sony so this still doesn't do that. Yeah well okay so this this is fine
I don't remember it's been a while but
is this kind of a killer for game pass if you're not getting the hot new
game I think it will be for some people yeah definitely
that's the whole point of game pass is that I'm entering into kind of like an understanding
especially a cod where like there's a new one every year
that's the kind of game you subscribe to yeah like that's the agreement I
have right is I give you money for game pass and then I never think about it again
I can just play the games but if all of a sudden
all my friends are playing that game that one game and it's not on
game pass what is even the point of game pass I might as well just buy that one
game and then I could see that kind of shifting people's mentality going like
like that could be the kind of thing that just makes me mad enough
to just cancel the subscription yeah and then give you
my money another way ultimately yeah so
Microsoft will probably learn nothing but
hey at least at least Luke is at least Luke is winning a small
a small maybe not decisive but small battle here I mean
you've been adamantly anti-games as a subscription
since the entire concept arose and at the in the beginning
I think I actually argued quite
passionately with you that at that original pricing it made a ton of
sense but it has ultimately was the entire
argument too was that if everyone ends up subscribing
then they have all of the power all the leverage and that's
like literally never goes well and the best way to play it
was still going to be to you know subscribe when
it was cheap play single player games or play experiences that
you would never want to have again and then once it's not cheap anymore
start buying games again but I still go and play Civ 5
but not everyone operates that way yeah or like not I mean not
everyone operates the way that they play a game and then they're done with it yeah I
used to be more of a like go back and play a game that I haven't played in a long time
guy but I'm not anymore I don't do it often but it's also nice to
just I don't know it's nice no okay so
10 billion years ago I did this stream for one of my birthdays I don't even remember
which one it was but it would be kind of tough to do this now
but I think I was 28 or something and I did I played
one game for one hour for every year that I had been alive so
I was born in 1990 so I played a game that released in 1990 for an hour
I remember that it was awesome it was actually really fun it did really well for charity
I think I suggested a couple of the games that you played I forget if you liked them though anyway
I don't remember but it sounds likely but that was really fun
I was largely able to play a lot of those games because I've had the same
Steam account for most of my life and I just launched it from Steam
some of them I had to go get of course especially the like 1990 era ones but like
a lot of games that I just launched on Steam it's nice that I can
I think I value the ability to do so a lot even
if it's not something I super commonly do
that's one of the things I actually brought up I wrote the Microsoft's year of
humiliation script earlier this week so that was my kind of video essay
video this week and that specifically
was one of the things that I brought up as my hey I'm not a
computer there's a lot of things that I love about Windows
how about the ability to like click compatibility mode and run
software from my childhood that's crazy
do that on your PlayStation 5 like come on
I think that's the thing that's been eating me up the most about
the Linux challenge going really well
is the frustration
with Windows it's like almost been
time for the weekly Windows
really needs to do better bit yeah it's mostly been kind of
sad I don't even know like I'm more sad about it than I am angry
like it's like dang I actually really liked Windows for a
long time
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 was just such a great
series of operating systems assuming you didn't have a
you had a powerful computer when Vista came out yeah so are we here now
I think like maybe 6.5
okay so we're sad I definitely spent a long time in 3
I think I skipped 4 entirely 4 and 5 I skipped entirely
and then now I'm like 6 and a half right now yeah alright
why don't you list 8
because when 8 came out it was trash 8.5 was like pretty
okay yeah 8.1 but yes one sure
yeah yeah yeah but but yeah when 8 first came out
it was like just it was comically bad it's like the worst initial release of an
OS that I had experienced at that time I'm not saying it's the worst
ever but it's the worst I had experienced well you hadn't experienced Millennium Edition
even I barely did like I was in I was in grade
9 or something like that when Millennium Edition was
my dad would have had it but I don't think I was exactly forming opinions on operating systems at the time
well a lot of people skipped it yeah well my dad like messed with computers like we had
2 or 3 computers that time and he would get random software all the time
remember for one of my birthdays I received a I think I've told you about this before
it was awesome actually I got a like
writable CD that has had Sharpie all over it with like 20 different games
it's like here's your birthday gift
it was awesome
yeah anyways it's just it's frustrating that it's
that it's so frustrating to use right now hey speaking of things
from the late 90s
while attempting to reduce the size of a 600 plus
Gigabyte backup of a discourse server
engineers at discourse discovered that a 1.6
megabyte GIF of Jennifer Aniston's Happy Dance
was duplicated almost a quarter million times
this isn't really good news
it's just funny news while trying to fix the duplication while trying
to fix the duplicate I'm so tired this
week duplication he got it we're good while trying to fix the duplication problem
a single instance of the GIF and hard links in the file system for each time
somebody tried to upload it again the admins discovered a limitation
of the ext4 file system that they previously
didn't know about a file can only
have 65,000 links pointing to it
so instead of one copy and
250,000 links for all the duplicates of it they got
one copy
65,000 links and another 180,000 duplicates of the file
Dan if you could throw the link to the blog
post that would be pretty funny the blog has a bunch more detail including their
eventual fix and you can check it out if you're into that sort of thing
these are the kinds of I guess bugs
that are really frustrating and can be sometimes
scary because when you're working with any time you're working with data
loss is it can be very frightening
you understood what I meant data loss can be very scary
can be very frustrating oh no I didn't mean it that way it's a meme
I know is this loss is it okay no no I know I just mean
I was memeing back at you of course not
yeah it can be very frightening but this is
I feel like the kind of thing that is like this is why we play the game
oh yeah I know this is fun to like to to find stuff like this because
because of course there might be a limit to how many link backs
because whoever did this however long ago they designed this must have gone
well surely nobody will need more than 65,000
link backs to a single file
yeah I don't know it's not really good news I just thought it was really funny
that's funny I like that they made a blog post out of it because it's
yeah exactly sharing the knowledge with the community
speaking of things that are funny struggling shoe retailer Allbirds
makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI and their stock
explodes in value Allbirds the wool sneaker company
announced it's leaving shoes behind entirely I think they even sold
off everything and is rebranding as
Bird AI an AI compute infrastructure company because
why not stock went from under three bucks to about 17
in a single day I got this from Atrioc but look
at the much bigger view go many years instead
oops the plan is to buy
GPUs and lease them out for AI compute customers who can't get
reliable access from hyperscalers what a plan secured
$30 million in funding to get started
CNBC's Jim Kramer oh boy called it ridiculous
so maybe it's actually really high value so I guess it's a really good idea
time to invest okay but not financial advice
pointing out that it fits the classic pattern seen during
the crypto boom dying companies bolting
blockchain onto their names to pump the stock and now it's AI
this goes back super super super super far beyond just the
blockchain push as well I don't forget dot com and others
the classic 90s bubble yeah Allbirds was a public benefit
corporation championed by Leonardo DiCaprio
Oprah and Obama the pivot includes dropping that status
entirely with filings stating the company would be less focused on the public
benefit of environmental conservation because I guess that was like
pretty inconvenient for being a data center defined so now they
have to get away from that which is also really funny
ah very good
man what a I mean I want
I want AI shoes I want I wonder if Allbirds will end up being like
worth a ton of money in like certain Silicon Valley circles I don't
know man that's like a almost a flex
I have no idea this is the kind of thing that again it wasn't good news but
it was just it was funny it was too funny for me to not talk about
maybe it can be good news and things that are funny like seriously
if I was if I was less
if I was less principled man just
an IPO with just Linus Media Group AI
infrastructure in Canada AI infrastructure in Canada
the cooling is easier here we're going to be making videos about our AI
data center build out we're going to have we do this like
pitch video offering unparalleled transparency into the AI
data center build out in the frozen north we've solved cooling
just put it in the Arctic and we've got all the energy
and you know blah blah blah like you go you I don't
I don't know who the gullible people giving Allbirds 50 million
dollars are but I secure a meeting with them somehow
like I just it just seems like the playbook is so
simple and so dumb
and just so easy that I feel like it couldn't be that hard
it couldn't be that hard oh man dude did you see the one where
that that woman got a five million dollar refund from the CRA
under taxes so this is just
classic you know scammers are not that smart
kind of lower here so what she did
the ones you know what she did yeah right well
she reported nine million nine hundred ninety nine thousand
nine hundred ninety nine dollars in foreign income on her tax
return reported to the CRA that she
had paid income tax on it
and said that she was entitled to a five million dollar
refund hold on
the next part is the funniest part and I want to make sure that I don't get this
wrong because it's so funny
here we go court records say that
auditors later became suspicious after realizing that Wallace
the person who filed this claim was claiming status both
as a resident and as a non-resident of Canada
Wallace they noted submitted a vague two word explanation
in tax forms for the claimed foreign income
United Nations
this got passed two reviews
they wrote the check
a third review that got flagged because it was an outlier
refund found it and was like
yo what is this and they froze her assets but already
hundreds of thousands of dollars are gone
and like this is the kind of person that you gotta look at and go they got
no shot whatsoever there's no way they didn't waste that money
pull that off you gotta get it overseas and move out of Canada
so that's the thing is like she didn't
that's crazy
that's crazy and you have no time you gotta leave
that's the kind of scam that seriously
I would be a criminal fucking mastermind
compared to some of these people but again she got caught
yeah I guess I think that's a big part of it but like I would have skipped town
I'd be gone I'd have gone to Costco and bought all the gold bullion
in a bank
I don't get it dude
it seems so simple it seems like we could just
like if someone says they paid five million dollars in taxes you'd think there'd just be
like an AI check that's like did you though
well it's not in our bank account
this is like that thing I went through when we got like wire
we got it a while back remember that
when our pool contracting company
got their email server infiltrated so they were able to send us emails
from our pool company and then intercept our responses
was what happened and then so we wired money
like from a bank to a bank within Canada and then
we did ultimately end up getting it back but there was like a high risk that we weren't going to be able to
what is the bloody point of electronic
fund movement if it can't be reversed if it turns out that it was a
f***ing criminal like obviously fraud and like how hard is it to go hey
that was fraud when the person shows up
to take it out just handcuff them
like I must be missing something here
because I believe genuinely I also don't get it so I feel like
we're both missing something
law enforcement probably for the most part like you know tries pretty hard and stuff
I've met some very hard working law enforcement people
but it just seems like sometimes it really is that simple
as just hey you know that it was taken
you know illegitimately so just wait on the other side
okay so willing spy said lol at Linus wait till you find out how credit card
security works there's a reason why Mythbusters couldn't do an episode on it
I know about that but my understanding of that is that's why the
honestly ability to get your money back from credit card fraud
is so easy because they know it's kind of crap so they just cover you
yeah no I and then that's just part of what you're
like the one and a half percent or two percent merchant fee covers is just
I had my card skimmed once and I just had a call with the guy and he was like okay let's go
through your thing and just basically point out all the ones that seem not
legit and I did and he's like yep seems right just sent me all the money like it was
super easy because of that so that's
why this scenario is weird is because that part
isn't super easy so obviously fraud because every day
on every transaction you're paying for transaction insurance
if you use at least in North America if you use a credit
card please say no more I hear you but like it doesn't matter
if someone wants to rip off credit cards they can do internet research for roughly 5 seconds
and figure out how to do it like it's us talking about it on the
show is not going to move the needle that's one of the reasons why it's like fully acceptable
to make content about doing stuff like that
about security tools and what not on YouTube on the internet
publishing books about it doing whatever is because like
it's better to educate people about how it's done so they can protect themselves and it is
to no key no key just posted Veritasium apparently made a
video this is their most recent video on how you can make a payment with
no upper ceiling and stole ten thousand dollars from MKBHT
Veritasium is making a ton of like hacking content yeah
it's been doing really well it's been great
it's just a surprising pivot
yeah 3.7 million views exposing a flaw in
tap to pay yeah
I mean good for Derek and the and the acquiring company like they seem to be
he seems to have found the way to divest
of the channel that he founded without it completely losing
its soul and the acquiring company seems like they are
they are they have a strong interest
in being good stewards of the channel that they
I'm not sure what amount of it they acquired so just take this for
what it is I was not involved in the deal in any way
but it seems like from the outside that it's going pretty good
Avian says the new host is hard to watch I mean part of it might just be not being used to
used to them I thought they were fine
yeah I do think it's probably not being used to them because I think they're fine
yeah Balrid says they've gotten the kind of deal that Linus refused and now there's many writers doing
many kinds of topics and 9 out of 10 videos is like legit good yeah that's
that's cool I mean if we could find someone who was willing to
do it the same way as that I might
consider it again but it would have to be
there were a lot of factors there was the team as well
like I was I was very worried that they would not only
not be good stewards of the content but they wouldn't be good stewards of the team
and I'd have to see what
the proposal would assure as far as all of that goes
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all right we've got a couple more topics here you've got three minutes oops
uh BYD is now upgrading some of its top selling EVs with five
minute flash charging this is nuts absolutely nuts
this is uh so this is uh it's going to be starting with the
plus so it sold us the add-oh three outside of China which was the 13th best
selling EV globally in 2025 and at first debuted in BYD's luxury
models like the Yang Wang U7 and the Denza Z9 GT
they claim it will charge from 10% to 70% in
five minutes 10% to 97% in nine
minutes and uh only add about three minutes
to those times in extreme cold temperatures like down to minus
10% in AC
BYD has already built out over 5,000
of their 1.5 megawatt flash charging stations
and is aiming for 20,000 by the end of the year in China with a European rollout
now underway as well dude
is this it is this the last obstacle
to widespread EV adoption
um the weight still sucks
it's interesting in North America because
like okay so there's some Chinese there's some Chinese EVs coming to Canada
that's going to that's going to move the needle here quite a bit but apparently
I've heard that you're not even going to be able to be allowed to like road trip through the states
like you might not be able to enter America at all in a Chinese EV
really I've heard that might be a thing
just longer than the next
2.75 years though let's be real
they might still want to protect their automotive program no matter who's in admin
I don't see how preventing someone from road tripping into the states
will help American automotive manufacturing
I think their idea is you can't
enter the states with them so they can't be like left there
like if you drove down and then happened to fly back up or something
you just left your car there and now there's a Chinese EV in China
you mean in the US but yes
yes there's lots of Chinese EVs in China quite a few
I saw them with my own eyes
next topic quick Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June
I love this so much I love I freaking
some sites will do it twice
like you'll go to go back and it'll not it'll just like go to some sub menu thing and you'll go to go back again
and it goes to some other thing
yeah Google is adding
a back button hijacking to its spam policy starting June 15th sites that
mess with your browser's back button trapping you in loops redirecting you to pages
you never visited or shoving ads and recommendations in the way when you try to leave
base ranking penalties or manual spam actions
they should have been done ages ago yeah Google is giving sites a two month
heads up and notes that some of the worst offenders might not even know they're
doing it since the hijacking can come from third party ad scripts or
recommendation widgets baked into the site that's brutal actually I don't care
yeah I don't care either it needs to go away yep
and like you're gonna have to be responsible for
the ad scripts and stuff that you put on your site yeah it is what it is
now the next thing I want is a single close button on all mobile
ads because I play word scapes with Yvonne like almost
every night I have had more exposure to mobile ads in the last like three to six
months than the previous my entire life combined
and they are so annoying my ad block works
to a certain degree to the point where I could tell you very few of the things I've ever even seen an ad
for like I can't you're not actually running ad block you mean
your brains yeah like I can't I don't care what it is or
know what it is but what I do care is that like sometimes the
exit is up here and sometimes it's over here and sometimes you have to wait
for a circle to complete and other times you have to like go
open it on the ads app store and then go back and then
exit it and there's this one really obnoxious one that the X never appears
until you just like press somewhere on the screen and it won't open the ad
but it will make the X appear so you have to like press it and then X and then
brings up another thing and then X again one X I find like I mentioned I play the
New York Times games it's been a while but I play them every once in a while
sometimes by myself usually with Emma they're they have ads right they're gonna have to
have ads to do whatever yeah but if you notice you can make it
perfectly perfectly go away
nice solid it's just gone solid
no problem I don't mind that at all solid I think that's
that's totally good um what's a little
less good this is the one exception to the good news
when show this week major news outlets are blocking the
internet archive wired reports that in an effort to limit
agents accessing historical data for training 23 major
publications including USA today and the New York Times
are currently blocking the internet archives crawler
IS-archiver bot the abuse of
fair use policies in the training of LLMs is a serious concern for both copyright
holders and the internet archive organization
the yeah hosting massive amounts
and for the internet archive organization because hosting massive amounts of data
has bandwidth costs associated with it um due to LLM
bots accessing it over and over and over and over and over and over again often
in an incredibly inefficient way because they don't care this is really
bad news because the internet archive has only grown in importance as the world
has increasingly abandoned print journalism and the archives
maintained by libraries and news organizations have fallen into disrepair
it used to be that you could go to your local library and pull up a microfiche
of the newspaper of any given day in history and you could go read it like you
could go read the newspaper the day that you were born for instance um this has gotten
very difficult in spite of pushback from copyright
holders courts have established that the archives actions are legal and that creating
a searchable index without making copies of the materials is impossible
but um I can also understand
why copyright holders are doing what they're doing because just having
AI agents trained on their stuff is also
not good yeah um wayback machine director Mark
Graham is reportedly in talks with several outlets so the archivers bot could gain access
to the websites once more but right now is an uncertain time
for archiving important
information that otherwise could just be
lost
subject rare bootleg concert recordings are coming to the internet archive
I do I just have to I don't know
one more topic
music superfan Adam Jacobs has built a collection of more than 10,000 cassette tapes
by attending and recording concerts since 1989 after Jacobs was featured
in a documentary in 2023 the internet archive reached out and now
once a month a volunteer named Brian Emmerich picks up 10 to 20
boxes stuffed with tapes and transfers the analog recordings in real time to digital
files that are sent to other volunteers to clean up organize and publish
so far almost 2,500 tapes have been digitized and added to the
Adams or the Adam Jacobs collection on the internet archive the collection
includes rarities like nirvana performing in 1989
two years before smells like team spirit was released as a single wow
that's cool they so they record smells like teams oh that's so cool
unreleased tracks by Tracy Chapman and previously unknown recordings
of sonic youth r.m fish Liz fair pavement neutral milk hotel
and a host of others
maybe a controversial take but I have never really felt the need
to record a concert I thought you're not really supposed to and
I've I've actually come around to the idea of a concert
being an experience for the moment and not something to be recorded but maybe
I'm maybe this is a it kind of goes against
my general stance as just like a data hoarder and everything should exist forever but
I don't know I
maybe I just grieved it already because there were really great experiences I had live that
I was never able to recall again and I just was like okay well I guess that's just
the nature of the beast I think there is also certain things
that you shouldn't be distracted by the camera you should just experience
I also remember I went to blink when a to had a concert
in Vancouver and my brother and I went yeah and remember I recorded it
on my phone and sent it to a buddy because I thought he'd like it
and then a few days later I went back and watched it and was like why the
would he like this yeah because I just sent him a really crappy recording
of blink when a to playing a song that he's heard before in a good recording
so like I don't know I do think like
I have heard
live recordings professional live recordings before of songs that I
prefer the live recording of the song I think also like
as a piece of history to have some recordings from
bands is cool do I think every single person in the audience
needs to have their cell phone out recording aggressively no
just enjoy the time concert when you know there's 40,000 other freaking
recordings in the audience out maybe you don't need your individual POV
and could have someone who's one foot to the side of you that's going to be posted
on the internet anyways and just use theirs and enjoy yourself
I know part of the experience to me too is like
I like I wish the performers could could be themselves
a little bit more and and not have to be worried about
everything from the concert just immediately being published like
the funniest concert experience I ever had was with Michael Buble of all people
he did a perform an outdoor performance in Vancouver
about must be about 20 years ago now
and Yvonne and I attended it we just like kind of randomly got tickets
for it I think my aunt might have gotten them for us or something I don't know anyway the point was we went
neither of us were huge Michael Buble fans but we had a really great time
and one of the funniest moments was when
we were interacting with the crowd that was like right up next to the stage
and this I couldn't see her because I was like way back but presumably
young lady like you know handed him
passed him like a note and he made like an offhand joke he was like you're like
12 you're a little young and everyone
like laughs because that was you know not
I guess that was pre-epstein files when
you know we could kind of go like yeah a famous person saying
no to that was common at that time and and just like you know the
idea that he might say anything other than no was funny and it was just it was
but it was it was like hilarious and he just like kind of he kind of like
burned her in front of like 10,000 people
I don't know I don't know if you can get away with that anymore
well
yeah all right
all right time for after dark
what do you got for us Mr Dan sure let me just push some buttons here
okay and yeah I've got a couple
for you today sure really need to like make this
one single button that would make my life easier there we go
hey when hosters
Linus any update on the gpd win 5 review also did the
when design backpack sell well enough for a restock
keep up the great work love your products and the work y'all do I don't know if I'm
ultimately going to end up doing a review of it but I do end up talking
a little bit more about my experience with it in the upcoming ShortCircuit
for the 1x player apex
that's a competing Strix Halo handheld and
both of them have their own unique selling points both
are very expensive this one actually can be configured with liquid
cooling is that us which is pretty oh yeah of course
which is pretty wild liquid cool I mean the people who have it apparently love it
but is that to refuse oh no nine or something
it's a pretty wild little device and I talk a little bit more about the win 5 in my
experience daily driving it in there as for the when backpack I don't know
if we're restocking it you might just have to send in a message to customer care to ask about that
hello from the UK my Android auto seems
very sensitive to cable quality hoping this cable is the solution
have you had much feedback on the type of problems the true spec cables have
actually yeah there's been a ton of feedback about them if you
if you look at the reviews on the site people
some of them I think people are actually wrong and misunderstanding
like what a cable does but there are
also a lot of them where people do seem to know what they're talking about
is there like some that says their audio sounds better or something
there's some stuff like that which look if it makes you happy then I like guess
whatever I'm glad you're happy but that's not really how it works digital signal
but there are people that are like oh yeah no like I was getting
transfer issues with my high speed external storage and now it's
consistently faster or the more robust build
quality is making it so that when my Roomba runs over it it's
less likely to you know get destroyed like people are really enjoying this product
so I'm just I'm glad they are we had a small restock earlier this week they're like
almost all gone now if you want to get a true
spec cable you are going to need to sign up for a notification
like if you do not click this button you are not going to get one for
a while our manufacturer increased their capacity
just for us to make more of these cables it is still not even close to enough
there's A to C's yeah there's short ones there's a few
short A to C's and a really long A to C and all the ones in the middle are sold out
yeah yeah
for you Luke what's your go to care oh wait can you do Luke's after yep
hi LLD hey Linus now that your kids are getting into 3D printing what CAD software do they
also did you teach them how to use it or how did they teach themselves
it they learned Tinkercad at
local sort of STEM mostly computer
kind of study thing called Code Ninjas
which seems to be working
pretty well for them they can make just about any kind of basic thing that they want
my daughter did something for a project for school
earlier this week yeah they're just they're still having a really good time
with it both just you know using it as a toy factory and also to
do legitimately useful things and Tinkercad is great
I think Grasshopper is that free can we get them into
Grasshopper I mean I guess
they know it better than I do at this point they could go work with Seb
hey Linus my 5 year old just had his first dental
work and managed to chew his lip up due to the anesthesia by accident
how so are
you these days is the end in sight actually really sore today
it's really hard to talk I don't when I'm not getting enough sleep
it they like dig in extra and then they put
in a super strong wire for the one tooth that like stubbornly stayed really
twisted after the first rounds and like the bracket was not quite in the right place and stuff
so this tooth here yeah turned like maybe 15 degrees
with this wire like a lot okay maybe 10 but like
freaking a lot which moved like everything
and it's like you can really tell when they're moving a lot because you'll like
kind of press on the bracket and you can like you can like feel them
like moving and like it'll go like
kind of reshift and stuff like like in real time if there's a lot of tension built up
and then the the wire for this one
can see there's a long sand of wire just like
slices the inside of the lip there and then there's another one on this side that's doing the same thing
I'm actually like in extreme discomfort right now the WAN Show is not a lot
of fun when my mouth is as sore as it is right now I have to bail Luke's gonna have to do
this thing I really gotta go I got a family thing bye bye have fun don't forget your bag
I see you walking past it say the line
oh yeah I forgot we can do that nice
Luke what's your go-to character build when you play Morrowind
Skyrim etc question mark please know Stealth Archer
okay well I have to defend myself a little bit it's Stealth Archer isn't it
defend myself a little bit it's Stealth Archer when I was
a wee child and I played Morrowind and I didn't look up things
on the internet of how to do stuff and you still ended up with Stealth Archer
but Stealth Archer was not Skyrim level OP
back in Morrowind I watched a video today
I think that was talking about how Skyrim pushes you
through into being Stealth Archer it kinda does
so I liked Stealth Archer before then and then in Skyrim I actually
didn't I don't think
or I did a mix or something because it kinda did feel too
overpowered I always liked being Marshall
I found spellcasters in those games are just like always too overpowered
especially Morrowind
spellcasting in Morrowind you're just a god
especially if you start getting into enchanting in Morrowind
I remember one of my characters I made I think it was a ring
and I called it the god ring because if you just
used the like activatable ability on the ring everything just died
so I would be like oh I can't get past this quest I'll go
grab that and put it on and just win the game so I found
it more engaging to
work with like block or parry mechanics I generally like having a shield
because I feel like fighting with the shield is like kinda more fun
but yeah I was always more into Marshall stuff I liked the archery in Morrowind
because Morrowind doesn't play around if you end up in a too high level area
it's just too high level and they'll just wreck you but it's also
Morrowind so there might be a way around it and the AI is really dumb
so like I wanted to like you know
kill everything in entire city because I was 14 and that's sick
but the guards and stuff are way too tough for me so I just
brought an incredible amount of arrows and stood on like this weird part
of a building that they couldn't get to and just shot them for like
an incredible amount of time until I killed every single guard in the entire
city and then got all their super high value loot and stuff so I liked
archery and stuff early on but always focused on
always focused on Marshall builds I'm planning on doing a
thing I was kinda dabbling with it a little bit in the oblivion remake
but I'm gonna wait until the fan remake mod
version called SkyBluvian comes out and then I'm gonna actually
try to do it because I'm much more interested in SkyBluvian than just the official
Blizzard remake but I'm gonna do a thing where you know how in the game you pick a class
you pick what sign you were born under you do all that kind of stuff I'm gonna pick
warrior for every single option because you can pick the warrior class you can pick the warrior
sign you can pick the warrior whatever so I'm gonna do as many selections as I can it's just
warrior and then the only magic that I'll use is restoration
magic and I'm gonna see if I can beat the game while
kill on sighting anything that ever casts a spell
that isn't restoration magic if you use any school of magic
other than restoration I will have to cleanse you from the earth and I'll see if it's
literally possible at all
you're doing it with like punching or sword or...
yeah I'm a holy knight and if I see you casting a darn spell
that isn't restoration magic I gotta put you
down I told you about my punches and drugs Skyrim build
character yeah that's surprisingly possible in Skyrim because Skyrim has some really
good that's why it's possible it's also super broken
it's just like high level bracers and then you just punch dragons to death it's like
that's my it's even like rifting or something right
you just sit there and you just make bracers and then you just punch everybody
to death um because you're unarmed and
your bracers are really good crafting in those games are always a mess
oh yeah blizzard remake oh sure Bethesda that's my
stealth archer I can't not to do that sure yeah there's fun ways to
play the game I even think stealth archer can be fun it's just fun one time
I think what happens is people want to play something different and then they just
accidentally it's like crabs everything evolves into a crab
everything also evolves into a stealth archer pretty much um like you
usually have it as a fallback it's just it's so overpowered
I always wish actual stealth was like a little bit more
viable in those games so you could be like a dagger build
that was more yeah viable I guess
but yeah usually I end up being some form of Marshall either like
a two handed weapon or one handed
shield or just both
yeah yeah I think
that's it I guess we can call them yeah hold on a second
let's see
alright we're trying
you like my dbrands game
hello hello you gotta sign us off
oh yeah before I do we gotta figure
out the details around the Wansho channel I think we
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intended because there's just like duplicate vods I think we might have to
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same bad time
next week wow okay alright bye
okay see ya
you