WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.760 Where's our Switch 2 Nintendo? We tried asking nicely. 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:06.960 We tried asking not so nicely. The Switch 2 is coming out tomorrow, 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:11.040 and I still haven't played on it yet. How am I supposed to wait any longer? 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:15.040 Anyway, welcome to TechLinked. People worldwide are posting unboxing videos 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:19.520 of their Nintendo Switch 2s and content creators like Sirloin and All Out Gaming 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:22.880 are live streaming games on Nintendo's hot new handheld. 00:00:22.880 --> 00:00:26.640 All I've seen so far is Cyberpunk 2077 and Mario Kart World, 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.560 but with the console launching tomorrow, there's going to be a lot more coming. 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:34.080 And for all of us who can look but not yet touch, 00:00:34.080 --> 00:00:40.560 here are some morsels to get you through the next couple of days or months as you fail to beat online scalpers. 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:45.520 There's this expanded list of games that will receive free performance boosting updates, 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.520 thanks Nintendo, and this nugget that Fortnite will in fact 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:52.240 support game chat and mouse controls. 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:58.320 Also the tidbit that Switch 2 can store up to 30,000 screenshots. 00:00:58.400 --> 00:01:02.560 30,000 you say, wow, that's going to be enough for me because the only time I ever take those 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.840 when I accidentally hit the button. But if you want to know my favorite part, 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:12.080 that Switch 2 welcome tour that you have to pay for, it's only 100% able if you're playing on a 4K display 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:18.240 and also pay for the Switch 2's USB camera and either a pro controller or Joy-Con 2 charging grip. 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:22.720 At least you've probably already got a 4K TV if you can afford to switch to. 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:27.680 But what you probably don't have yet is AMD's RX9060XT. 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.880 Reviews are out and the news is mostly good. 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:34.960 The 16 gig card is solid and offers a reasonable uplift in performance 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:40.800 over its predecessor. But it looks like AMD has been trying to avoid comparisons 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:44.720 to their 8 gig variant by not ceding it to most reviewers. 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:50.400 You can check out our full review on LTT of the 16 gig card after complaining to Team Red. 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:56.400 We did manage to get an 8 gig card, but it arrived less than 24 hours before the embargo lift. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.840 So we can't tell you just how much performance is hindered 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:03.200 even at 1080p due to the memory being cut in half. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:07.200 We feel that may have been AMD's plan all along. So if you're shopping for one of these soon, 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:11.200 maybe check out Brazilian reviews. They didn't have any trouble getting their hands 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:17.600 on the 9060XT 8 gig. Also, be sure not to spend a lot more than MSRP on this thing. 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:22.080 We had no idea how to evaluate the value of it. So good luck everybody. 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:25.600 Speaking of things that kind of suck, if you're still using Meta or Facebook, 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:29.200 your privacy might as well be non-existent. 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:34.400 Okay, bear with me here. Yandex, a sanctioned technology company from Russia, 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:39.200 started embedding a tracking code into millions of websites that de-anonymizes visitors 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:45.360 by bypassing core security and privacy protections on both the Android OS and web browser. 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.720 Think of your phone like a sandbox. You know, everything you do within that sandbox is private. 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:55.840 Maybe you build a cool sandcastle. Maybe you pooped in it. I don't know, because normally what happens in the sandbox 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:01.920 stays in the sandbox. But this new bypass that, coming back to Facebook now, 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:08.640 Meta adopted back in September, allows the companies to pass cookies and other identifiers 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:11.680 from Firefox and Chromium-based browsers 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.880 to native Android apps for Facebook, Instagram, 00:03:14.880 --> 00:03:17.280 and various Yandex apps. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.960 Can we just all throw our phones in the ocean? 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:26.320 Don't worry, I have a D-brand skin, it's fine. Speaking of destroying things, 00:03:27.600 --> 00:03:31.360 why can't the internet just be cool like today's sponsor? 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:36.080 Rapid morsels, rapid morsels, rapid morsels, rapid morsels. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.440 What's rapid today is how rapidly CD Projekt Red 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:43.200 have gotten a working Witcher 4 gameplay tech demo up and running. 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:46.880 I mean, the last game came out only 10 years ago, 00:03:46.880 --> 00:03:51.520 but they've allegedly been in full production for like seven months, really. 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:56.800 Yesterday at Unreal Fest, they teased us all with Siri, Kelpie, and a brief look at Kovir. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:00.560 It was allegedly running at 4K 60fps with ray tracing enabled, 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:06.800 thanks to new tech like multi-character motion matching, Nanite foliage, and a new Unreal animation framework. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:11.440 But remember, no pre-orders, not even once, even if it's really tempting! 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:15.360 No clicking weird links either, because a new malware named Crocodilus 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.040 is so good that it can change contacts in your phone. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:24.880 So if you're infected, oh my god, the next spam call you get could actually display the name 00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:30.000 of someone you might actually answer, like bank support, or a funeral home, or your mom. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.320 It can also monitor what you're doing and create a fraudulent login overlay 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:39.600 when you go to access something like a banking app. The scammers just keep getting more and more sophisticated. 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.880 This is the problem is there's more money in ripping people off 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:47.520 than defending people. Something nobody expected to get any better though 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:53.440 is the now ancient GTX 960. And yet, YouTuber Trashbench has proven 00:04:53.440 --> 00:04:57.040 that you can turn trash into better trash. 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:03.040 They grabbed a CPU tower cooler, 3D-printed amount, and stuck it directly to the GPU die to improve temps, 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:08.560 and even rack up a cool 184 extra points in 3DMark Firestrike setting a new record. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.960 Heck yeah, bring on the eight-slot cards, I say! You aren't gonna use that space anyway. 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:17.920 What are you gonna do? Put a sound card in there? Speaking of space, it turns out you maybe don't need to worry 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.360 about the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding in the future. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.840 I don't know about you guys, but ever since hearing that was gonna happen, 10 billion years from now, 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:28.880 crippling anxiety gripped me. I just couldn't let it go. 00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:32.560 That is until now. Scientists have run about 100,000 simulations, 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:37.680 and it turns out it's more like only a 50-50 chance that our theoretical, multi-planetary descendants 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:44.240 face certain doom. That's right, friends. The fate of our galaxy hinges on a coin flip. 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:45.120 Let's see, call it. 00:05:47.840 --> 00:05:53.200 We die. Subscribe to TechLink, see you later!