Oh, hi. Didn't see you there. You must be one of the floaters.
Oh, you're talking to one of them individually. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's very early. Probably there aren't that many right now.
Oh, there's a few. Oh, my chat's not loading. I got a refresh page. Oh, there's quite a few. Oh, okay.
Yeah. You think you're going to catch them? When we're, when it's past five, you think
one person's going to be here? Hi. I didn't see you all there. There you are.
Is that better? Are you happy now? Yeah. Yeah, fix it. Sorry. Good. I'll do better next time, Papa.
It's Friday. Let's go. No. When we were filming, why is Wan late? Yeah. Sammy handed me a thing.
Why are you telling me about that as if I wasn't there? And on the thing, there was a sticker that said Linus inside, and I was like, what are you trying to say?
A sticker? What? He has a sticker that looks like Intel inside, but it says Linus inside.
Okay. So he's not giving it to anyone other than Yvonne, right?
I'll pay the tariff. Oh, we're going to talk about tariffs today.
Oh, we're going to talk about tariffs today. We're going to talk about them.
Big, beautiful tariffs. My friends called me. They said my tariffs are so big.
They're so big. They're so good. My friend called me. They're the best tariff.
Tears streaming down his face. Big friend, strong friend. Never seen tariffs this good.
Yeah, they're just write-offs. It's just more write-offs.
Yeah, there's a new tariff in town. I can't wait to make so little money that I'm more write-off than man.
Just write it all off. Please, NX Michigan. We like hockey and maple syrup too.
Which one's Michigan again?
That one's over by the Great Lakes, right? They've got a lake.
No, I know. I'm just teasing them. He's making a joke. I'm teasing them.
The lake's name after them? Yes, I know. Oh, it actually kills me how hard it is for me to joke about being stupid without people.
The thing is that Linus also doesn't understand that I'm not being serious.
I hate you so much. It gets him every time and I love it.
We held a meeting today in a very interesting, you can't say what it is.
I know, I know. We had a meeting today in a very interesting location.
It was cool. It was awesome. Am I allowed to guess what it is?
No. Not correctly.
Oh, I see. Okay, your backseat of a car.
Sort of. Oh, I know where it is.
Wow, that really didn't take long. Okay, you know what's funny is I totally wasn't trying to go there with it.
I was just like, where's a weird place to have it?
It wasn't the backseat. We built a gaming fake taxi.
No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no. We've decided that adult content does not align with our brand values
and we will not be making any investments in that area.
Well, I think you and I have talked about the idea of like a streamer hotel, essentially, right?
Not like by the hour. What's wrong with you?
You led into that from adult content.
What did you expect me to do? At a certain point, you led for that 100%.
Well, I mean, yeah, it's still adult content, but not like a hotel hotel.
I was talking to, this may surprise you, but I was talking to Elijah about this.
Of course you were. And apparently, and this makes sense, a major concern for adult content streamers is doxing
and like your physical location when you're streaming, right? Okay, I mean, that is true for everyone.
Yeah, but anyway, you and I had talked in the past about
like what Sevidus was doing down in Seattle and having like a space that's essentially like,
that's what I mean by streamer hotel. So like you have basically, you run the infrastructure for the space.
People rent it by the room. You've got a big fat internet pipe.
You have some services on site. You do hardware, whether it's through Creator Warehouse or whether it's through
like your infrastructure team or whatever. You like basically make sure the thing runs slowly.
You can help with sponsorships and partnerships and creating merch. Smoothly.
Sorry. You said make sure the thing runs slowly. Smoothly.
Yeah. Smoothly. And so at some point, there was a conversation that was like, oh, well,
like, yeah, something like that. The only people that I could think of that for them to have,
for them to get a lot of value out of a space like that would be like adult content creators
because then they don't have to worry about doxing when they're live because they would
just be in this like generic room. You could maintain security for the building and privacy and like all that kind of stuff.
And stuff like security gets a lot more reasonable when you're effectively splitting
the cost across a bigger group of people. Yeah, exactly.
So anyway, anyway, we put together a document over the last little while and I was looking
at it this week, which is just like every business idea we've ever had.
Are you sure about it? I'm sure. I haven't had enough time to properly go through all of it, but I have seen,
I've looked through some of it. Anyway, so that is in the document, but don't worry.
We've had a conversation recently that basically went, that is not aligned with our brand values.
It's also a very old idea.
Back when I think that would have made even more sense. I think it makes a little bit less sense now.
The idea was streamer hotel. And then the reason we never did it aside from just money is that I couldn't figure out
who it would make sense for. And then the part that you weren't up to date on was having that conversation with Elijah,
where he's like, oh yeah, that's like a major concern. And I was like, oh yeah, that, that could align.
But I have, I'm going to be honest with you. I have no idea how many adult streamers there are like in our area.
I literally don't know. And it's okay. I don't need to know.
You do not need to link me to your favorite. In fact, I'm closing float plain chat right now.
There. Well, you can't post those things in float plain chat so people get banned.
They would. If they post adult links in float plain chat. Yeah.
Oh, okay. Good. The system works. Yeah. Yeah. Don't do that.
Okay. And I'm opening float plain chat again. It's safe now. Okay.
lttstore.com. Stop it.
Prude. Look, I'm not saying I'm a prude.
I'm just saying a time and there's a time and place. There's a time and place.
What are some of our other ideas?
We should just let the community vote on what we spend money on.
That couldn't possibly go wrong. It never has.
Okay. Hear me out. We bring back the coin.
Drop coin. It only goes down.
Who is that out there? Jay.
Basically, this doc is literally every idea that we've ever had about anything,
no matter how ridiculous.
I can't hear you, Jake.
I'm not relaying. Okay.
So I like actually had to ban some people from that and I am disappointed.
Typical. Just typical.
Some people are trying to like catch it with links that looked like adult content
and then like more than one person post the links that actually were adult content and it's like.
This is a Christian Minecraft server. Okay. Stop.
What me or them? Them. Oh. Yeah. No, that was funny.
It's an older meme. No, it was good. I liked it. Yeah. 100%.
Look back to his community moderation days. Yeah, it's been a minute.
What else is in here? Whale lands in here.
Doing that. I'm stoked. I'm psyched.
Hey, are you going to attend the practice land? What's that?
I guess you probably can't tell me. Yeah, I'm good at. Yeah, probably. If I'm like in the country, yeah, I'll make it.
This guy. This guy. Yeah, we're going to do it. We're going to do a practice like staff only land.
Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. Oh, I, yeah, I know.
Yeah, I don't, I still, was there a specific date?
I remember you guys said that kind of nonchalant in a group meeting.
And it was the first time I had ever heard of it. And I immediately posted in the infrastructure chat
that we have been like heads up because none of us knew it was coming.
They should know. Chases on it. Well, they do now because I told them.
Okay. Chases on it. Thanks, Luke. Do you remember? Nobody knew.
Chases on the case. Okay. I was just going to say no.
Yeah. What else am I looking at? Do bad people know when they're banders at shadow?
The bands that I just headed out were not shadow.
Got them. We have both.
Some of these ideas are like terrible.
I opened the app Luke side hard. My wife said to me, are you okay?
My wife is worried about you. No, I'm fine. I don't even know what I sighed to, but I'm fine.
Look at this one. Kick them off the site. No, they just can't use chat anymore.
LTX 2026. Heck yeah, dude. Heck yeah, dude.
I don't know, man. Heck yeah, dude. Oh, what is this?
I changed this. So the priority matrix has high cost, high value,
high cost, low value, low cost, low value, and low cost, high value.
I changed this to high cost, low value. We've literally, it is literally low value.
It has never made money. It depends on how you measure value. We've done it four times.
Listen to Luke. All right, we've talked about this.
If the value was supposed to be community sentiment or creator relationships, then that was an abysmal f***ing failure.
We thought it was good at the time.
No, it's not that all line is values is money. It's that when it has no value across the board, it's real tough.
We were at quite the peak. Very temporarily afterwards.
Yes, it came back down rather rapidly.
But within a, you know, a couple of weeks, we were doing real good.
Grimoire says the charity auction was notable.
You should do, in 2026, you should do a charity auction of exclusively water blocks.
I mean, just go, go around and find all the most exotic.
I still have the one.
Round two.
Oh man. You should get a bunch of like CNC companies around the area
all to make one-off water blocks. Just do an entire charity auction of just random one-off water.
Each of them smart water blocks that anyone would ever want to buy.
They all come with a framed email saying not to.
Oh man. I am auctioning the deal.
Pray I don't auction.
Find your topics. No, that's only for when there's a big section of time
that I just have to sit here and try to figure out how my face is going to be interpreted.
Yeah.
Yes. Oh, this is definitely the pre-show, Jake.
This is too hot for TV. I thought you were still looking at it.
Do you, do you actually want to upgrade the Wi-Fi in your house?
I don't know. I think we should have it in our back pocket as a video idea for desperate.
Should we update the Wi-Fi in Luke's house? But I'd rather do it on a yacht.
Why not both? I think if we do the yacht, we put the audience one, like the stadium one,
and then we can just like roll up to like the beach somewhere and just like Wi-Fi.
That would be kind of not a bad idea. I wonder if it would work. It's kind of a bad idea, but it's a stupid idea.
If you parked your yacht next to the convention center for LTX and had crazy Wi-Fi on the yacht.
How am I supposed to get a crazy connection though? The best I could get is like Starlink.
We could get like 12 Starlinks. That does work.
Would that be cheaper than paying the stupid convention center fees for internet?
Yeah. There's a valid business option, not only to host LTX now, but also it is now cheaper to run.
And I can get you a deal on the yacht. Is there a company that rents Starlink dishes?
Because like I saw somebody is remote that I don't even remember what it was,
but they had like 36 Starlink dishes. Because it was like a research thing where they needed throughput,
but they were in the middle of nowhere and that was the only option.
Well, the best option. The monthly is not that bad.
I don't know. Oh man, people want alternatives to Starlink.
Guys, there's no alternative to Starlink right now. No, that's reasonable.
That's our next company. 70,000 satellites.
Linus Tech Tips Aerospace Company.
No, it's cool. And call it orange origin. Okay, only if my rockets can be even more phallic.
Yeah, just yeah, that's fine. I want actual balls at the bottom.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Full cock and balls. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, is that a bleep thing?
Cock and balls? No, I don't think so. Who knows? Cognitive behavioral rocket ship.
Are y'all still chill with Starlink given Elon's everything?
Look, I think that given how many people have been piling on me
for being an Elon hater or whatever,
even though the things that I dislike about him were absolutely red flags that existed before that are only just,
they're just now obvious to people. When he disbanded Tesla's PR department,
that told us everything we needed to know about the man. It told us that he doesn't think he's accountable
and he doesn't need to answer uncomfortable questions. That's what it told us.
So we knew everything already. People just didn't want to see it, I think is a big part of it.
However, in spite of my issues with the guy,
I think he's just an asshole and have been very public about that for a very long time,
Starlink is a product right now utterly without competition.
Nothing is even close. It's also like he's extremely public.
You can tie most companies back to a very small group
of actual people that actually own them.
A lot of the people behind those companies are extremely bad people
that are intending to do extremely bad things and just don't tweet about it.
So because you're not paying as much attention or it's not forced in front of your face,
it doesn't mean that there isn't terrible things happening and just a boycotting the people
that are tweeting about the terrible things they're doing and not boycotting the people
that aren't tweeting about the terrible things that they are doing.
I don't think makes it significantly better in my opinion.
So I said cough, Nestle cough. It's like, yeah, there's tons of examples of this
and people will- Never forget that Coca-Cola never denied killing those people.
They just said they didn't do it in America. And no one's asking anyone to stop drinking Coke.
You tell that story to people and they're like, wow, that's crazy sip.
I don't know. It's so selective, I find. People's boycotting of these things is so disingenuous.
But why didn't Linus talk about honey?
I don't know, man. I don't know.
It's like if it's relatively convenient for people
to not do something or boycott something, then they won't do it.
Dude, there's a story recently. This company that made Disco Elysium,
I don't remember their name right now, but there's a story that came out recently
about how a big part of the game's whole thing.
I haven't played it, so I apologize. You should have. It's great, but you should have hired it.
So this, no, but this is- Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
There's a whole story behind that. Story what? Okay, you'll have to catch me up there. He said you should play,
yeah, Zaum or Zaum or however they're pronounced. They were selling like $160 junkie bags
that were supposed to look like one of the bags in the game. And maybe if you've played it,
you can correct me on this because I might say something that's wrong. But part of the game is kind of making fun of people
that spend a lot of money to look poor. And then they're selling $160 bags that look like junk.
Oh yeah, okay, that's funny. And someone who used to work there
is saying that the people that buy this stuff,
you can name match them with the people that complain about it online.
Yeah, that makes sense. They have the orders database. He used to work there.
And he'd say you'd see people on Twitter and stuff raging about this stuff. All it goes against the moral questions of the game
and all this kind of stuff. And then you see the same name on a purchase order buying the damn thing.
Yeah. And it's like, it's just an ocean of just spineless people
just going after the things that are most pushed in their face,
not the actual horrific problems, and then trying to morally grandstand about it.
It's exhausting. Sorry. I will. Wow. Tell us how you really feel with this.
I don't think I've ever seen him this riled up. It's so annoying.
So you're an apologist? Dude. I'm not an apologist.
What part of me say he's an asshole? It's not even sort of what's happened. He's an apologist.
You don't get it. I'm saying the product is utterly without competition
in the market. There is not a viable alternative to Starlink
for many people. Many people.
That is a fact.
And literally zero point of that is me.
Elon apologizing. Get off it.
My goodness.
Sydney Brokitt says, does not have competition is not the same
as utterly without equal. I mean, in this case, you're right.
They're not quite the same thing, but what they are both is true.
The competition to Starlink, depending on what you need it for,
is it goes anywhere from impractical
and overpriced to utterly unusable. That's pretty much the spectrum.
And look, I don't have a Starlink subscription right now.
I have at times in the past, we bought Starlink for that video that we did
and we explored it. We explored putting Starlink on the gaming van,
but found out that it just didn't really make sense if I wanted any of the,
I would have had to take off either a quarter or half of the solar panels or whatever.
But like, yeah, I have.
And I don't know, I'm sorry. To me, it's been pretty obvious
that the guy's an asshole for a very, very, very long time.
Sorry. No.
I don't know. I don't think you need to be sorry. Okay.
Okay. Let's continue this conversation. Should I be sorry for buying from Amazon sometimes?
But this is, this is my whole point. Is like, you have to find your own things.
I like KitKats. You have to find your own things. I like KitKats.
I'm sorry. You have to find your own things. This is why like I,
because like I still don't buy off Amazon. I might give that up at some day.
I don't know. Honestly, it's getting worse, not better.
At this point with places like Team U
and all these other things rising up, it's like,
which one of these,
which one of these is like, am I really helping myself?
You know, I don't know. Am I really helping others? Dude.
It's very hard not to. I've been not shopping on Amazon for many years. I don't find it that difficult.
This is such. I find it not particularly convenient. This is such a, oh, I thought
I thought dead antisocial was talking about me. Where?
What do you say?
I don't see it.
It's pretty recent. My chat's going pretty fast.
D-E-D.
Oh.
Okay, whatever. Basically, you just said he's not an asshole. He's a complete narcissist.
Nazi piece of s*** always has been. You thought he said, you thought he said, my goodness.
I also noticed that antisocial said, I should have been transparent about honey.
I actually have some.
If you were paying very close attention to the whole honey thing,
you would know that, here we go.
So now people are mad that we're not mad enough at Elon?
Is that how, so people were mad that we were mad at Elon? I don't know.
And then now people are mad that we're not mad enough at Elon? I don't know.
I did a new job. I'm trying to track it.
I'm trying to make sure that I'm like up to speed with what's going on.
Man, I'm trying to find. Because if you don't like huff his gas enough,
I guess you don't keep up with all the really little gritty things
that he does and then you don't know. Let's see if I can find it.
Hold on. So here's the thing.
Here it is. I found it.
When I said, like, yeah, this was like a known thing,
I knew from hearing from barnacles. Yeah.
I wasn't a part of content at that time. I didn't know we dropped them.
I knew about it because people tweeted me about it.
Because here's the thing.
No, you're trying to slide it off as him just being an asshole? No, we're not. Original MCW made a video about this four years ago.
Actually, more like four and a half years ago. Affiliate Marketing MC made a video four years ago with 137,000 views.
Why didn't I make an expose? Because exposed how the honey app makes money,
affiliate influencer scam already existed.
So I heard about it. Same as anybody else.
Yeah. Yeah, I regret promoting it now that I know.
But I didn't know. All I knew was when I found out about this.
Same as everybody else. It is what it is.
We can only make the best decisions that we can make
with the information we have at the time we have that information.
That's it. That's all we can do. So when we found out, we dropped their asses.
That's it. I know.
I know some people really, really want it to go deeper than that.
But I just, I don't have anything for you. I don't have anything for you.
It's tough. It's tough, you know?
Someone said when uploading scrapyard wars that honey sponsored,
are you going to keep the ads in? Oh, wow.
That's a good question.
I think no. One of the things that we did tell Megaleg during the investigation
questioning thing was that we were going to reevaluate our policies
around keeping sponsors up.
We had a conversation about that. That's, so that's been an ongoing thing.
And we had a conversation about it in exec meeting this week. I don't want to talk out of turn though.
So we do have an action, a draft action plan,
but I'm going to wait till Colton and his team have it finalized
and have like made sure that they're good with it
before I go ahead and talk about it.
Yeah. So I'm just going to, just going to wait. Oh, I'm sure you heard about this, but someone linked in flip.
I lost their name. I apologize. I think it was unique upon me, but I did lose it.
So I'm not always uncertain that that's right. But what are you talking about?
Trump delays removal of tariff exemption, also known as de minimis.
So it's delays though. Delays the removal of the exemption.
Sorry. De minimis. Yeah. No, no, I know, but I know that he would, they were removing it.
He delays the removal of the, sorry. So there is or there isn't a de minimis exemption.
Currently, I guess there would still be one. Oh, no, I know. Yeah. Yeah, we'll be talking about that.
Don't worry. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. Don't worry. I got you. I was making sure. I got you.
I got you, man. Yeah, guys, don't worry. We've been, we've been following that very closely.
Rather close. I just didn't know if you had specifically talked about, okay.
I've been getting briefings like multiple times a day as the situation,
whether I want them or not, people keep messaging me and like.
I mean, it's a, it's a really big deal. Jeff, I'm going to stop.
I'm like, okay, sure. Yeah, I guess I'll make that.
You know what? I got to be honest with you. Out of everyone on the team, I feel like even though I actually
have the most at stake with all of this, I, I feel the most chill about it.
Like, do you want me to respond to this? This isn't our first rodeo.
He goes like this. And at the end of the day, like the American people are going to actually lose their
shit if their crap from Temu gets more expensive.
So do you want me to respond to this?
You can respond to whatever you want to free country. If everyone here loses their jobs, it's horrible.
Yeah, but that's, that's not, that we're not,
even if all the tariffs go into place though, that's not an outcome though,
which I know, and which the people talking to me about it know.
Like these are people at a high enough level. They know what the finances are. We'll be fine.
Mostly the company don't. That's fair, but none of those people are the ones raising it with me.
Okay. So I'm saying out of all the people that I'm talking to about it, who are savvy enough.
I've had to reassure people on my teams about that. What, that like tariffs aren't going to sink us?
How long does this company have to exist and be responsibly managed before people
will believe me when I say? Well, this is pretty dramatic. Like this is a big, it's a big impact.
August 2023 was a big impact. This is an inconvenience.
No, it's a big impact. It's just a different big impact. We'll be fine. Yeah, I know, I know, I'm just saying, it's still a big impact.
Yeah, but we'll, we'll solve it. I know. Like that's the thing. You know what?
I remember having. I'm not that freaked out about it. I remember having this conversation with Chris Perilla back in the day.
Where I, because you remember, you know, 10 years ago, I would always be freaking out about
what if YouTube goes away or what if our channel gets deleted or what if this?
What if that? What if we got to start over? Mitigation strategies, diversification, right?
Like I was, I was, I was, I was. A lot of stuff we did then was good. It was good, but it was like, it was like, it was out of fear.
Yeah. It wasn't out of prudent planning and maybe it was prudent to be fearful,
but the point is just that it was motivated by, by existential terror.
You know? And he said to me, he's like, look, platforms come, platforms go.
I've been through it. Eventually you just kind of get numb to it.
And I think I'm at that stage.
Yeah. YouTube kind of feels here to stay, but I'm, I'm sure he genuinely went through that.
And it felt like, I think a lot of people forget this because a lot of sites like Facebook
didn't leave my space left, all the other ones from there on that area left,
all the old random YouTube video, the YouTube style video platforms are, are gone effectively.
Back in the day, internet websites would, would come and go very rapidly.
Platforms would come and go very rapidly. YouTube having staying power, Twitch, even at this point.
Unprecedented. Has been around forever. Like these websites having this staying power, is it, is a relatively new thing?
Yep. As much as it feels like the norm now. Yeah. So it's a slash.dig Reddit.
Yeah. Reddit kind of like ended that, but there was a ton of websites like that back in the day.
Stumble upon. It was cool.
My space still exists. Yeah. Sure. Cool.
I mean, it does technically, but you know what I mean. My space pivoted, yeah, to three people.
I don't know. It's surprise unemployment is a fear no matter what anyone says always will be for me.
Yeah. That, I mean, that's fair. That's fair.
But what I will say is that
we are responsibly managed, fiscally responsibly managed as a company.
Yvonne and I, I feel like I've talked a lot about sort of Yvonne's careful financial management
over the years and I've sort of made myself a butt of the joke about, you know, how I'm,
you know, I'm irresponsible. I'm always asking her to do crazy stuff.
I have never asked her to do anything that would put us in financial jeopardy.
There have been times when we've, we've bet big, you know, buying the studio was a big bet.
But it was a calculated bet.
It was a necessary bet. We, we had to move into a commercial space.
We, we made deals that made it made sense, that made it make sense, like the vessel sponsorship
or the vessel deal that we did. Gold controller.
Yeah. Gold controller was like, sure, it was irresponsible, but it was irresponsible in the sense that
I was buying an asset, gold, at a time when, you know, global stability was on the decline.
And I was getting content out of it that I knew once we made it would cover any like crafting
costs that went into the actual fabrication of the items. Like what risk did I actually take?
Yeah, that one didn't really bother me. So like, yes, I get negative feedback on that.
Yeah, a little bit, but like, but like, I play this, I play this character on camera of like,
oh, crazy Linus, you never know what he's going to do next. We're on the brink, we're not on the brink of anything.
We're not on the brink of anything. It's okay. I mean, I think I've, I think I've told Luke, like the way that Yvonne and I would,
would budget for the year would be based on not our forecast for that year, but would be based on
if we shoot now, I actually remember this, but I haven't, we haven't done it in a while.
I would definitely say it wrong, but I yeah, it was based on something along the lines of like,
if we had to run it for the entire following year on only the profits we made last year
or something like that, assuming zero revenue pretty much was the way that we would budget
year after year after year. And the company has matured a little bit now.
We don't have the same kind of explosive growth that would accommodate that anymore.
But costs are more approaching the gain of the company, which is normal.
But that's normal. We've, we've reached a more mature stage of the company, but we've also been running
stably, profitably for 12 years now, right?
So there's, there's a war chest there. There's genuinely funny that we both looked at the, there's, yeah, I know.
There's contingency. There's contingency plans, right?
It's like, it's rapidly approaching half my life, by the way.
Thought I had the other day.
Oh, that's f***ing up. Like actually getting very close.
Wow. All right. Anyway, if there's anyone on staff watching, yeah, you know what, it's, it's natural
and it's understandable to have that kind of fear.
I, that's what motivated me for a not insignificant part of my career,
was that fear that it could all go away. Make hay while the sun's shining.
If I had a dollar for every time I told Yvonne, make hay while the sun's shining,
I'd have, I don't know, probably be in the situation I'm in now.
Like it's, it was very much my philosophy.
But like the people who work here now, they don't work for that company
that I was worried would go away tomorrow 10 years ago, you know?
It's a very, it's a very different company.
It has, it has a whole leadership team.
It doesn't just have like, you know, one person making decisions that, you know,
may or may not be somewhat irresponsible or whatever. It's, there's, there's processes.
We, we move a little, we move a little slower than we used to.
And that can be a bad thing because, you know, sometimes we're not,
we're not quick enough to react, but it can also be a good thing because it means
that we don't overreact all the time, you know?
Sometimes, but everybody does sometimes.
Yeah. Yeah, Tynan says the world is spicy and it always will be at least somewhat spicy.
Yeah, you're not wrong. I think it's important to moderate how much of that spice invades your brain hole.
It's hard though. It is very hard. It's hard. And especially when you look at the way like the media coverage of things has changed,
you can't avoid that every, every new development is a, is a, is a world ending potential catastrophe.
Yep. I think sometimes, and you should, I don't think people should completely disconnect from that.
I've tried it before. I don't think it's the right route. I do at the same time think that sometimes it is not worth it when, when things are completely
outside of your control, sometimes you need to just focus on what you can, what you can do
as an individual to try to make things better, small things, medium things, big things, whatever,
whatever they are, make your life, make the people around you, make their lives better
if you can, and then just keep moving. Harry009 says, hey Linus, gold has gone up about 84% since you did the gold controller.
I know.
What all the rage bait? Yeah, that's, they're making money off of you. It's that, it's that like life is constant PVP thing.
You have to understand that rage bait is someone trying to financially manipulate your brain
into them making money off of you. It has nothing to do with giving you, you know, what you actually want.
That is, that is how that works. So like understanding that and understanding that you are actively being actively manipulated
whenever you're looking, whenever you swipe on your phone to go to the Google news feed.
Yeah. Your phone is trying to keep you there. All those articles are trying to keep you there.
And one of the best ways to do that is to make you pissed, to make you just live it all the time.
Yeah. So understand that and control it.
You say that like it's easy. It's not at all. And I suffer with it too.
And everyone will because there is billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars
and thousands and tens of thousands of people all obsessed with fighting you.
And you have to win.
But try not to obsess over that either. Yeah.
Yeah. But sometimes like,
yeah, I don't know. Go touch some grass.
Yeah. Touching grass is good. But it's getting harder. It's getting harder.
Touching snow counts, in my opinion. Yeah. Touching snow counts. Touching snow completely counts.
You go on the mountain, you know. Potentially better the grass. Breeds the mountain air.
Yeah. I think snow is grass plus. I went for a nighttime walk the other night.
Fantastic. And the snow. Nighttime walk is great. Fantastic. It was snowing.
It was quiet. It was beautiful. Yeah. Nighttime walk, vastly underrated.
It's really good. Underrated. It's really good. Yep.
Every once in a while, I'll like drag Yvonne out for a nighttime walk around the neighborhood.
It's like, isn't it nice that we can do this?
Seriously. You know? Yeah. It's great.
Yeah. I am Campbell says agreed. Night walk for the win. Night walks are great.
100%. Jardine says it's cold outside. Can I just watch Shorzy instead?
I mean, yeah. Okay. But then.
I'll allow it. You know, go do that another time. Or go on a treadmill that's inside and it can be nice and warm or something like that.
Live your life. Touch the ground outside of any kind. Yeah, there you go.
Maybe you don't have grass. Maybe you don't have snow. It's okay. You could touch sand. It's okay.
Don't overthink it. Touch sand.
That would actually be great. Like a little keyboard tester style thing,
where you just like put your finger in the holes and there's grass and sand and dirt and rocks.
Put that on the sheet.
And then just to add spice, there's like a diarrheal one. Oh no.
Because that's what life's like. Every once in a while. Sometimes you go outside and you just you step in.
You just step in top of it. It's going to happen. I'm going to enter the washroom speaking of which and I'll be right back.
Maybe we could start the show. If that's your biggest problem for the day, you're probably doing all right.
It's a long pre-show. Yeah, sometimes it needs to happen.
Talk about birds. For people that don't know, I have three birds now, technically.
One of them is a foundling, which is what you call a bird that you rescue from the wild.
Stole it. Did not steal it. Stole it from the parks.
Saved its life. Budgies would super not survive in BC.
Put it with the rest of the ducks. It was actively being chased by other birds when it caught it.
No, it wasn't me. Got borrowed. There you go. Thank you, Nerdle. You borrowed it. The birds are free.
You can just take them. You can just take them. Anyways, yeah, she's doing really well.
The foundling is a girl bird.
A stalling? No, a foundling. Please stop it.
All the birds are actually doing really well right now. The one that had the biggest health issue,
when the two had health issues, the one that had the worst of it is on forever medicine.
But we've gotten a lot better at giving that medicine
to the point where M and I can both do it solo.
So you can catch the bird and give them medicine at the same time, which super doesn't feel great,
but being able to do it really makes lives a lot better.
Because needing, no matter what, every single day to be home at exactly every 12-hour interval
was really rough.
But yeah, Luke even privateers a bird.
Wow, wow, ridiculous.
Oh, Luke, when were the backpack replacement pulls sent out?
I have no idea. I honestly, I bet you the rest of chat probably,
someone else in chat might know better than I do.
Automate the medicine feeding? No, you have to force them. They don't like it.
Although we ended up, the vet gave us like strawberry flavored
stuff, so he likes it a little bit more now, but he still doesn't like the process.
Likes the flavor, doesn't like the process.
Get a parrot and have it on your shoulder. They are technically parrots,
and the first bird that we had would sit on my shoulder all the time.
But these ones, we got two this time because I was back
in office, I wasn't at home all the time, and we didn't want to leave him alone.
It's much harder to make them interact with you physically
when you get two. Usually they just want to hang out with each other, and they want you there.
They like your presence. They want to interact with you all the time. They find it very fun. It's very obvious, but if you only have one,
they're going to want to like perch on you and stuff like that. And if you have two, they might still,
but it's much more difficult.
Tell me all the shitty things they said. El Tord just outed you guys.
They were... So all the things that we didn't say about Elon
that apparently we were evil for not saying, they said about you.
I don't blame them. Yep. They're right. Yep. I think I'm just going to embrace my villain arc now.
If it's that thing where like, this is actually apparently a thing with kids,
as far as my understanding goes. You probably know, I'm assuming better than me.
What are you saying? Go ahead. Complete that thought, sir.
When you keep telling someone something, that they are something, they will kind of become it.
So if you like repeatedly tell a kid that they're stupid. Yeah, they'll actually get dumber.
They're like, going to be stupid. Why would you think that I would know that?
You are such a f***ing asshole. Because there's the opposite.
Come on. Come on.
But then the opposite, scary. Because if you like keep telling some kid that they're brilliant,
then they'll lose incentive to like study and stuff like that. Yeah, I think maybe we just might be overthinking that.
It's like maybe a little somewhere in the middle. Yeah. Maybe we should just be, you know, supportive and corrective with kids.
Yeah. Maybe that would be good. If you keep telling Luke he's a f***ing asshole,
he'll be a f***ing asshole. Good. Yeah, good. You don't know me.
Maybe I already am. Yeah, maybe he already is. You ever think of that? Yeah. Boom, got him.
Yeah, what now? Boom, got him. Maybe, maybe he's the like unhinged one.
And I'm the voice of reason. I write these scripts for Linus.
Yeah, you'd never know it. And then he cuts off like 95% of it because they're just,
they're just so toxic. So aggressive and toxic.
And then he knows that if I read it out that I would just go f*** wild.
So he has to read it out and I just have to sit here.
Just seething, seething. He's seen incarnate the whole time.
Yeah, that's really how it goes.
Luke's parenting tips. Yeah, I have birds. I definitely know what I'm talking about to raise humans.
That's all that works. I mean, they're basically just really small fragile humans.
Directly equivalent. If anything, I think raising a bird shows that you have more skill.
Honestly, it's more difficult. Yeah, I am better than all of you parents.
And not narcissistic at all. No.
I drive my birds to school. You see our buffalo says thought about it.
He laughed during the honey stuff. Luke is a f***. I did, I laughed during the honey stuff.
I don't know, probably. Yeah, maybe. Who knows? Yeah. Wait, no, I did.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, multiple times. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, Luke laughs at everything though. So we can't really say like, oh, Luke laughed.
I mean, Luke Lafrenier, please.
You know, there was like, when I was like, oh man, I must have been in like grade five or something.
I was at my best friend's house and his parents were roasting me for laughing at everything.
This has always been a problem. You know, but the, I got a write up when I was in university from the like,
the leader of our dorms. I got in trouble for laughing too loudly.
Yeah. And I was like, what am I supposed to do about this?
Well, there's nothing you can do at that point because they yell at you for laughing too loudly.
And then you can do nothing but continue to laugh loudly because of the power of suggestion.
So see, see, see what happens.
This is what you made him. Yeah, it's your fault.
Yeah, jeez.
Chewy messaged me. He goes, I know you're feeling spicy tonight. Try to be tactful with it.
Try not to make my job hard over the weekend.
Don't worry, buddy. I'll try not to get canceled today. Poor Chewy, dude.
Everyone's are all like, he's in like the hallway office thing.
Yeah. And everyone's will be passing through it. And he's like heads down working on something.
And like, I want to talk to him for a second. Just be like, man, they're like, are you good?
But then I'm like, I'm just going to leave him work. He probably just needs the time.
I won't distract. I used to be in that office. I remember people would talk to me all the time
and it drive me crazy. So, but uh. Not Chewy's a Chad. He's got this.
He's got a lot of work. He's got a lot of stuff to do. He's got this.
I'm simply vibing in here. So let's go.
Let's go. I feel for you, man.
All right, should we do this thing? Legitimately, one of the reactions
that I have when I see like something go down on the internet that has to do with us.
I'm like, ah, Chewy, no.
Why do you have more work to do? That sucks.
It's no longer like, oh no, what are we going to do? Because it's like, I don't know.
This happens like every week. Dude, we should start an internal pool for like what's going to be our next controversy.
Because like almost literally almost anything could be.
Like, okay, you remember when everyone was like hyper mad at ASUS
and for good reason, right? Dude, I have had equally bad experiences
with almost literally every major tech brand.
Almost all of them. And we've talked. Do you think it's just tech or is that just who you interface with most?
No, no, we've talked about this extensively on the show. No, no, no.
It's not just tech, but it's also there's patterns. There's patterns.
It's like anything. You follow the money or the lack thereof.
Sure. And we've talked about this extensively on the WAN Show. Going back to when the set had the like metal panels behind it.
Where I'm like, okay, look, here's the situation. Why does the customer service suck at every like computer parts retailer?
Because they have no money because their margins are so low. Let me tell you about their margins.
Let me tell you about their overhead. Let me tell you about the kind of support they get from their brand partners.
That's it. If you were willing to buy motherboards at 30%, 40% margin,
then they could afford to offer good service. Why do you think Costco doesn't sell CPUs?
Because there's no money in it. And Costco's model has that customer service cost baked into it.
There is no free lunch. If you want great service, you buy from high margin companies.
And if you want to get the cheapest possible product,
then there's going to be compromises there. And so it's just, it's just one of those things where like,
I don't know what to tell people anymore other than like, yeah,
stuff's going to go wrong sometimes and fight for your rights.
You don't fight for support. Go public when things, when things are actually totally unfair.
And we've thrown our weight behind stuff like that in the past.
And we're all going to do our best here.
But the reality of it is, I have no idea what our next scandal will be.
Because we did a sponsored build with Gigabyte one time
and Gigabyte has got something I don't know, who knows, probably something.
Um, I think the, I think the, the bigger issue is just, you know,
not moving on from things like when they make amends.
Are we, you know, how do we, how do we kind of, how do we kind of move on?
Because the reality of it is, if we canceled every motherboard
manufacturer, every time they did something crappy with respect to customer support,
who would we have left? Yeah. Who would you buy a motherboard from?
Who has a clean track record in the motherboard space in particular?
Permanently. Yeah. I don't know.
And like there's, I've talked about a bunch of times, my, my experience with.
EVGA, please tell me you didn't have a 780i board without telling me you didn't have a 780i board.
Please. I was actually just going to use EVGA as an example
because I talk often about my, my mineral thing with them and about how often they were doing that.
But that was a really long time ago. That was one case.
I'm not every person, right? Yeah. Like maybe that, that person on the phone was just having a good day and felt like
dealing with me really nicely. Maybe a week later, they had a bad day and dealt with someone poorly.
Like you didn't, people are people. They're not these like, and honestly, I think this is going to get worse over time.
With more and more use of like AI style systems and people interfacing with humans less.
Oh yeah. And interfacing not with humans more, whether that's, you know, automated checkouts at stores
and all these other things that are making so that the, the person-to-person interaction is, is, is less.
And while that's going on, some of your interpersonal interaction, including on a
relationship level, potentially being more learning towards, more leaning towards AI.
More leaning towards AI systems that are just always going to be amazing to you under every
circumstance, especially in the wording. And then you deal with a real person who has real feelings.
And like they're, someone related to them is going through some, maybe they passed away
or they moved to a different country and started running drugs or something crazy.
Who knows? Something crazy might be going on in their lives that is impacting their communication.
And that's a real person. You should probably still be respectful to them.
And that seems to be kind of going away. I don't know.
A bit was not flawless. AN7 was a mess.
I don't think they ever properly acknowledged it.
I think it was the AN7S. No, shoot.
It was a later one. They had like a just disastrous board toward the end there.
DFI had some real dog turds toward the end.
Yeah. And Fleming says, one of my daughters worked tech support a few years ago.
She could not believe how horrible people are.
Yeah. It's brutal.
But then I also like, I don't know, should we go into this conversation?
I don't know. You can talk about whatever you want. Free country. I've talked about this before on Wancho, mostly a really long time ago, I think.
But sometimes you'll find subreddits or there's even sections of the forum
and other people's forum and stuff where you see it from the other side.
You work on tech support and people are horrible. Okay.
At the same time, you see people that work in tech support,
just shame posting the people at their companies because they didn't know something about technology.
I'm like, that's why you have a jaw. Shut up.
And like, sure. Okay. Those people might be rude, massive assholes sometimes.
Sure. Okay. You can call that out, I guess. But like when the person's just like, yeah,
I don't know how this new fangled technology works. It's like, whatever dude, that's why you're there.
Yeah. Their disinterest in technology is your paycheck.
Yeah. Like, relax. I don't, I don't know. I've never understood that.
I've never understood that. Tales from tech support called out.
But no, seriously. And like some of the stuff on there is completely legitimate.
Yeah, we're people like jerks. Sometimes people are just jerks and that's not okay.
Or they lie. Or that. Yeah. Or whatever else.
That's not cool. But a decent amount of it is just like,
her, her, this person doesn't know anything about tech. Why can't they figure this out?
It's like, I don't know. Because if they spent the time doing that,
it would be a waste of their time. And if they spent the time doing that, you wouldn't have a job anymore.
Yeah. That's something that's been really hard for me to wrap my brain around is that there's stuff
that I'm like not allowed to do here anymore. Because it's a waste of my time.
Even if it's stuff that I like to do. I don't know if a hundred percent that's true
because you still need to do some things. Oh, I know. No, but there are things that they like,
don't let me do really anymore. Like I'm not allowed to just like run benchmarks.
Oh. Yeah.
I don't know if that's good. I don't know if that's necessarily good. It can be good a lot of the time
because I actually have more fun on a shoot when I'm experiencing something for the first time.
Like and it's fresh. Like there's, okay, we did the gaming at 4K
on the 5090 video earlier this week. So we just instead of using our benchmark suite,
we took requests from people.
So I picked some games, Ploof picked some games, and the community picked some games,
and we just like played. Just, okay.
Okay. You know, graphs aside. This was cool. How good is this thing?
And what do you mean you remember it? We shot it this week. Oh, I thought that was a stream.
Oh, that wasn't Ploof. No, a different one. Okay. But it's similar to stuff
that we've done like that in the past. So that you're probably thinking of the Battle Mage stream.
Yes. Anyway, so we did that with the 5090 at 4K
on a 240 Hertz monitor that I hope is released already.
One sec. People are posting about like how they work in tech support
or they work in whatever and people are jerks. There's a difference between someone being a jerk
and someone not knowing what they're doing. Craft computing's here.
Okay, cool. You can run benchmarks for me.
I'd hate for you to feel left out. Thank you.
Okay. Yes, no, it is. It is already talked about already.
So the QD OLED, 27 inch from MSI.
So anyway, MSI sponsored the video and I had not like gamed at 4K on the 5090 yet,
and I hadn't actually seen the monitor yet. So it's got DP 2.1 UHBR 20.
So it's completely uncompressed, like perfect OLED motion clarity.
It's like the pixel densities, I think 166 PPI.
On a 27 inch monitor, like it's not so, right?
Anyway, so it was pretty fun for me to not, you know,
make sure all the games worked ahead of time and walk onto set and like experience that fresh
because it's like, man, everything looked incredible. Sorry, I just want to point this out again.
Joyce said work and support here. Customers frequently yell, swear and threaten us
with our IRL info and names over the phone via support tickets is the thing we deal with
and you get numb after a while. Unfortunately, I am not calling people out for that.
What is this? I'm not calling people out for people being jerks
and them being annoyed with people being jerks. Yeah. That is totally legit.
As we've been saying the whole time, all I'm pointing out is if you work in a support role,
a lot of the departments that I run are what I would consider more of like support roles.
People needing your help is not a problem. People being huge jerks is a problem.
Sure, 100% but people needing your help is not a problem.
Yeah. You are the solution to that problem
and that problem will and does exist everywhere.
So like get over that part. But when the people are jerks,
you shouldn't have to deal with that. That's a totally different thing. And pug boy makes a good point.
There is a huge difference between people who are passively unaware
and people who purposefully refuse to learn or try to put any effort into learning anything.
Yeah, but even that just escalate it and move on.
Who cares? I mean, if it was my ninth time going
and showing someone how to print a document, I'd probably be over it.
Yeah, but just like, I don't know. You should have a report that you can send that to
and then it should be on the records that this person is wasting company resources.
It should be, but like, you know. And then at a certain point it's just-
Companies are, companies are broken. Yeah, not this one.
We're flawless. We have no problems.
I'm going to change the subject. No communication problems.
No controversy problems. Resuming the selected now. Completely flawless.
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Welcome to The WAN Show! Hello!
We've got a great show for you guys this week. Our headline topic was actually written
by the one and only CEO of Linus Media Group. Oh, I was going to say me for a second.
No, I'm not anymore. We'll be talking about the impact
on our Creator Warehouse LTT Store business. I didn't know it was written by him.
Some of the tariff stuff that has been going on. I will give you guys a bit of a teaser.
Good news. Our shipments are no longer delayed.
Oh. Yeah, so if you were worried about placing an order
or if you were wanting to like cancel your order for your commuter backpack
because you were worried it wasn't going to arrive in time. No, no, we've sorted everything out
and we're like, dude, the firehose is freaking open
Sorry, Chewie said it in chat. Tariff Tong.
In other news, we'll be talking
about how hard it is to buy an RTX 50 series card
in spite of the middling reviews.
Things are flipping wild out there. What else we got this week?
Are you ready to risk it all? Framework has a risk 5
main board. Wow. I'm actually
very interested. I'm trying to resist not buying one. I probably won't buy one,
but I'm trying to resist not buying one. You're not going to buy anything.
It's so interesting. You don't buy anything.
It's genuinely so cool. I'm not going to buy it, but it's so cool.
I hope you get one so I can use it. The future of tech channels.
Yeah, why not? It's a main topic. Sure. Let's do it.
You can buy one.
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Why don't we jump right into our headline topic to start things off
and that is of course a topic
in our doc that is titled We usually launch a product
on Fridays, but if you have ordered
anything over the last couple of weeks you might know that LTT Store
has been working through some issues that are affecting shipments
over the Canadian border. The TLDR for anyone who's not following
current events is that tariffs and inbound shipment restrictions
have been flipped off and back on like a light switch
and it has affected goods that are made in Canada, Mexico
and China, especially moving into the United States.
Because of all the uncertainty we've been in constant communication
with our courier partners on options to get our packages moving
several false starts
and some delays in shipping out products. However, late this morning
we got the green light from our couriers that our shipments
should be able to resume however
this could be temporary. Our warehouse team has worked
expeditiously all week picking and packing products, so just because we weren't
shipping doesn't mean that there will necessarily be a huge delay
in actual shoving out the door
of products and we're trying to get as many packages as possible moving before the weekend.
So that's before now, essentially.
We want to make sure that as many pre-existing orders are in transit as possible
before we launch any new products. So that's why we're not launching anything today.
We did actually have something that was ready today, but we are not launching it.
So we thank you for your patience as we work through this constantly evolving situation
and we expect the remainder of our commuter backpack orders
and waves to be fulfilled within the next couple of weeks, which hopefully
will be before any new light switch flipping
happens around tariffs.
I know there are a lot of questions about tariffs and the delay in fulfillment is not
how we typically like to operate but we would kindly ask you
to hold those questions for a few more days while our support team focuses
on getting everyone's orders out in the meantime.
Which has been a monumental task. If you have any non-tariff
and non-commuter backpack related questions or concerns about your order, our customer support team
will be happy to assist you at LMG.gg slash contact us.
Due to the volume of questions around recent changes to tariffs and global trade, customer service
responses may be delayed and we appreciate your patience.
Man, it has been They're doing what they can.
It's been a wild ride. We were talking about this in the pre-show but basically
I think probably multiple times. Every day this week
I've had someone or other on the team ping me either with a message
or a request for a quick five minute chat to kind of update me on the situation
and I got to say I've actually been
surprisingly zen about it. I mean this isn't our first rodeo.
We know that a lot of gum flapping happens. We've been in a lot more
dire of situations as a company too. Oh, absolutely.
Not for a while but still. It's not good because here's something that I think a lot of people
don't necessarily realize is the way that things were looking
earlier in the week. The issue was not
the 10% on China or even the 25%
on Canadian made goods for us, right, because we're shipping
out of Canada and not all but a lot of our products are manufactured in China.
So it wasn't as simple as like, oh, okay, because
they're shipping from Canada, that means 25% tariff because it's actually down to the
country of manufacture and then you might say, okay, well what, like 10%?
Yeah, realistically we could absorb 10%.
The issue is not the 10%. The issue
is that there already are tariffs on Chinese goods.
Chinese manufactured goods I should say.
But a lot of them don't get applied
because of an exemption. A de minimis exemption is what it's called
on shipments under $800. That's how companies like Temu
exist at all because while those tariffs exist
that would drive up the prices of their shipments that they send into the United States
they have an exemption as long as it's under $800. So they ship in small enough amounts
that it's under $800? That it doesn't impact them. So the issue
is the 10% tariff. The issue was that it activated another
I think 20% of tariffs
with no de minimis exemption. Of course that would have caused
immediate chaos because now all of a sudden the border would have been inspecting every
single bloody shipment, which obviously they're not set up for right now
so they would have had to figure that out. Which I suspect is part
of the reason that this has been paused for now. Not
necessarily because they changed their mind because
they feel differently about it now. So if I was
going to give you guys any
conclusion from any of this, it would be
if you want something from LTT Store regardless of whether we're launching
a new product or not
now's a good time to leave a merch message. You might want to leave a
merch message and that's not just us. That basically goes for anything manufactured
if you're American south of the border in Mexico, manufactured
north of the border in Canada. And is below 800 bucks, right?
Yeah, especially that. Or very, very,
very west of the border in China.
Yeah, that is a fair statement.
He's not wrong. Look, we call China the east
you know, the far east, but relative to what? I say
we make North America the prime meridian.
Wow. Yeah, that's right. So China's the west now. So you're
raising. Europe is the east. Trump was like, no, it's the Gulf of America
and you're like, well, yeah, I will raise the chips in this game. Yeah, let's
go.
Oh boy. Destitute Radium says it's a bit of a rough time to be involved in
keyboard group buys. Yeah, because by the time it, by the time it gets delivered,
you'll have no idea what the thing costs.
Yikes. Dude, this is,
this is just, it's chaos basically. It's, it's
sowing chaos and. Someone in China said their Vancouver based company already
did layoffs because of all this. Really? Just like immediate reaction.
I am extremely sorry to hear that. I'm not
incredibly surprised, but I'm sorry to hear that. I do have to say that I
suspect that part of that might have been something else going on already.
There might have been a convenient situation. This might, yeah, this might
be a bit of a scapegoat because as someone who happens to run
a business shipping, you know, manufactured goods,
I mean, I don't remember what percentage of our customer base is in the
US, but it's a big chance. A lot. Yeah, it's I think it's over 50%.
I think not by a huge amount, but I think that's correct.
We have only really seen an impact on order volumes over like the last four days.
So if your company saw an impact on orders
over the last four days and already let a bunch of people go,
I would say that's kind of suspect. However, however, if
your, if your shipments are more based on contracts
and so you're doing volume
B2B over the border into the states, then
I could see this kind of uncertainty causing you to preemptively
cut expenses. Especially if you operate with almost exclusively American customers, which
does happen in Canada. And who may have called you immediately
when they saw these tariffs and go, sorry, brother, we're done. Yeah, we're
we're we're we're we're we're cancelling our orders for the rest of the year. So that
is a possibility. However, if you're B2C business to consumer,
then that raises some red flags for me less likely. Yeah.
All right. What else do we want to talk about? That was it. That was, we got through that
pretty quick. A similar thing does happen, though, like a lot of the return to office
stuff has been revealed to be
basically just trimming head count because they wanted to trim head. Oh, 100%.
Yeah, 100%. That totally makes sense. Yeah. All right.
Back to standard topics. Should we jump into the, what should we
jump into? What's different
on this framework thing? Ready to risk it all
this topic? I don't know. Framework, insert disclosure. I'm just going to
read this. I think it'll be fine. I'm personally invested in framework.
Insert disclosure about how Linus has invested his personal monies into the company. Cool.
We did it. They're cool. Framework has made a risk five
mainboard, which is compatible with the framework 13 laptop. It features
the Star 5 GH7 110 processor, which
has four sci-fi, as I think the way you're supposed to say that,
use 74 cores. The board comes with eight gigs of
LPDDR4 soldered memory and uses microSD slash
emcc storage. It's available for 200
freedom dollars. For now. For now. That, to be clear, is
the main board. Meaning you could build something out of this yourself
because I believe there are compatible, yeah, compatible chassis, the framework 13 laptop chassis.
So you would have to buy other stuff around this if you wanted to turn this into a laptop.
Or you could hook it in the Cooler Master mainboard case. Sick. Or you could do that.
Or you could just 3D print a case for it. You don't have to do the other bit.
Wait, hold on. 200 freedom dollars. Oh, that's Canadian.
That's fun. That's very fun. So there's a couple things to note.
It was built in collaboration with Deep Computing and this is
very much a developer focused board to help accelerate maturing
the software ecosystem around risk 5. We recommend
waiting for future products if you're looking for a consumer ready
experience. It's so cool though. And some people pointed out that this was announced a long time ago.
That is true. I think the reason why we're talking about it is because you can buy it. That's right. It's here.
It's a real product. It sounds so cool. I
have zero regrets about investing in framework. Sick. I have
no idea what my stake is worth. Narev offered
to look it up and tell me. And I was like,
sounds like a lot of work. Sounds like something you have
better things to do than. So I literally don't know.
But I am really impressed with how the point
was to make money off it. With how they have taken additional investment
and as far as I can tell have not lost their soul.
Yes. That's not necessarily the easiest thing
to do. No. Because we don't have experience
with that. But if perceptions of even knowing people that have gone through those
rounds and hearing the difficulties that they have. The kind of pressure they're under
to turn a profit at any cost. At any cost. Or not even turn
a profit to force an increase of user count for whatever
reason or to do something that isn't really the thing that they actually wanted.
There's a lot of the time the investors you have now are ones that you may rely
on again when you do another round of funding. So if you are not
listening to them or at least making them feel heard. That could hurt
your chances of survival. I am
so glad that we've never taken outside money. Every
time I hear stories about it. I'm just like, I have a relative
that is currently operating in burning investment
capital mode. They're not profitable.
It's like seeing the kind of stress that they're under
to reach the next milestone to
show something tangible so that they can do another round so that they
can survive a little longer is like
terrifying. It's not.
We went through similar but more different terrifying things.
100%. There were definitely times when...
Lost various opportunities and stuff. But I would take
this road again. Definitely.
It's not always an option for everybody either. No, and it's not.
I think there are cases. They say money is the root of all evil.
I think there's a lot of truth there.
Even good people have been driven to do
the questionable
things. If we were on the brink of survival,
I was joking with Luke about Dropcoin again.
I saw that stupid What was it?
Dropcoin. Its value is going to drop. Yeah.
No, that company that came up
rose from the ashes to basically just do a crypto grift. Enron.
We were looking at the stupid Enron coin
and I was like it's just free
money. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. If we were not
morally opposed to this, like... It clearly
repeatedly over and over and over
and over again works. People just make some
complete BS coin thing.
People get ripped off on it and then everyone goes oh my god
how could this have happened and it's like bro
can we stop? So tell me this if we were on the brink
would you be more receptive if we're on the brink?
If I was serious about that, if I was like okay what if we just find a way, because we've talked about this on WAN
show in the past, whether it's like Dropcoin or Linuscoin or I think we've
pitched Rugpolecoin as a name for it at some point
if we were on the brink because remember it's not just me, it's not just you
it's look around every person
surrounding you, even him could be
gone if we don't survive. If it was down to our survival, would you consider it?
Would you consider the VPN?
With the moral quandary that exists for you because
I'll get you guys caught up we pretty much developed
a VPN. It was like it was ready to go
it was like actually pretty good we killed it, we were proud of it
it works well, we kept using it for a little bit we don't use it anymore
we killed it because neither Luke nor
I were comfortable knowing that
at some point we were going to know that someone using the service did some stuff
even if it's not logged still happening
we could still know there are ways that we could know
and we would have to say we don't know. It's also like pretty much guaranteed
which was the real kicker for me
we talked to a lawyer about it and the lawyer basically said
whether you factually know or not
you know because this is what people use this is one of the many things
and there are things that are fine but this is one of the many things
that must not save logs yeah, they can still know
yeah because you'll still get notices
delivered to you like the
encryption might not be able to attach it to you which is probably what you want but
that also means that they can attach these things to other people so like you can
watch your little show and be protected or whatever
but that other person can look at content that I think
you know in my opinion
morally right people would be horrifically disgusted about the fact
that they looked at and you would know that that's happening on a network that you are supporting
and it's like man yeah I don't want to do that so we bailed out but
man we ran the numbers dude
this could be a different world so if we were on the brink of survival
knowing that we already exist in a gray area anyway because it's not like
we don't promote PIA our sponsor we just didn't
want to be the ones who actually have to say
no I'm not going to tell you who that is no I went out of my way to delete that
even though I know you know I know people are using it for this
we just didn't want to have to be the ones that had to do it would you reconsider your position
if it meant survival
I
he's thinking he's doing a think over here
I feel like on the VPN it's a maybe
just because
it's not like we're making it more accessible
for those people there are so many out there
that is such a slippery slope that is a very slippery slope
someone's got to provide the heroin
someone's going to do it I'm just thinking like do we add
another VPN to the pile and save 100 plus jobs
like this is the scenario you're trying to lay out for me do we just
I'm reiterating it for the people in chat do we add another VPN to the pile and save 100 plus jobs
or do we not do we think PSU circuit is like
net good in the world we're using it to buy
carbon net good credits or whatever
if we're using it to buy carbon credits I know what you mean
net good credits so that we can run our VPN
or whatever the world is morally
questionable and morally gray
and I guess I'm not even necessarily looking for an answer from you
I think my problem with the coin thing is it is
every time this happens that people just
will never figure it out so then
someone's going to make money off them
but I think that's different I genuinely think it's different
because I don't think there is a like what is the possible benefit
of making another I don't feel like pressing the button
another crap coin oh the possible benefit is gambling
like topgear1224 on the floor playing chat says
the reason these cryptocurrency scams continued to perform is simple
I bought over a thousand dollars of doge when it was 0.0002
I sold at 0.001 if I held until
0.75 multi-millionaire
it's that chance that drives people to gamble hard
that's it it's that simple
important reminder call this is hypothetical man I don't disagree
with you Bixby we probably should say yet again that this is hypothetical
but I would also appreciate if people just f***
relaxed it's so obvious you're not wrong
you're not wrong at all that was a good call out I should have just done that thank you I appreciate it
but I really wish you weren't right it's ridiculous I'm so
tired what are you saying you don't want to be like
cancelled again just like to chill for one week
I got like anxiety because
it was Friday morning
and I was like when's the world gonna fall
the world hasn't started falling yet I need to be stopping
the world from falling how do I do that if I don't know what's happening and then
oh you just needed to be briefed on all the tariff stuff then you would have known the world was falling
yeah fair enough yeah I guess it's just a different no no we were at the point where it looked like
in order for us to ship into the states and it is a really
good thing that we delayed our shipments that we stopped
pushing out the door because if we had you would have been hit by that because the exemption wasn't
through yet or whatever I don't think anyone knows exactly how it would
have gone sure but basically by holding on to them
until the de minimis exemption was restored earlier today
we know as they're going out that everything's chill
but looking at the worst case scenario goods that we were shipping into the states
we could have essentially had our entire margin on them wiped out
or you guys could have seen retail prices
as high as I believe the numbers they were throwing around at me was like 35 to 40%
higher or something like that like like
because of the stacking because of the tariff from China
than the tariff from us and the de minimis going away not quite like that but basically
yeah multiple factors stacking on top of each other really yikes
and to add another thing to the coin conversation
sure I think it was I think I was telling you about this yesterday I've heard
I'm gonna screw up the quote so I apologize but I've heard a quote from coffee zilla
that is something along the lines of like ironically scamming people is still scamming people
crazy pitch and you know this is coming because we've talked about it already
oh no what if we collaborated with coffee zilla
on the most ethical coin how do we how do we
possibly make an ethical does I do wonder like is there
a line there like can you make because I pointed out to Linus Linus
had never heard of this I pointed this out to Linus I said scam me daddy
well I pointed out fart coin yeah do you mind if I throw up your laptop
I'm still loading it but sure what's down 7%
24 hours yeah
and like I've heard people talk about this for a long time
I am really not into crypto stuff I have no idea what I'm talking about
I own zero crypto right now so to make of that what you will
yeah so we are we are just coming at this as ignorant
be mused observers right now yes we know nothing
but like I this has been around for like a long time
this isn't new can I get a bit oh here we go
let's go back like a month look people have been actively trading this
let's go back a year yeah do you have the little green and red line thing is that
just down below I'm showing the trading volume okay not on this one you're thinking of candlesticks
perfect yes perfect example of we don't know what we're talking about
yeah yeah but like people actively trade these these
coin things um so like can you make one
that is just that is fine completely transparently a
coin yeah that might rise and fall maybe you
can I don't know I don't know I don't know people coffee so it would know
probably I yes have we actually talked to him I know we've talked
of him and he's made videos about us and we bought a shirt
I don't think so I don't think we have I suspect his answer is going
like no well that's the safest answer for like his brand
regardless of whether he actually thinks there's a way to do it because he's been so publicly
against them we could never get him to like endorse it oh no no way
I wouldn't yet I would never ask of course not but I do wonder if there's
if maybe the guidance isn't even for us right maybe the guidance is just
out there because it could also be used as like if this new coin
that shows up does not align with this guidance avoid it
interesting I would watch that
video I would watch it too I would watch coffee talk about what
the ethical ICO would look like if there
even is one if there could be one because I feel like there might not be what would a theoretical
I don't know anything about ethical ICO look like because I can definitely think
of actually valid and valuable you know
blockchain applications even a token right like if we were gonna do that
though like you okay say for example we were to
I don't know create a token where if
you watch okay there'd be technological
hurdles that we probably couldn't clear but I'm telling you so this is the
theory so we made a token that if you watch more hours
on Floatplane or interact a lot or something
then you earn the token and you can use it for a discount on LTC
I also don't use twitch a lot so now we're talking about two things so it's almost like an attention
token which would be somewhat similar to what like brave browser does so that's a
thing on twitch as far as my understanding goes and people are gonna say I'm wrong because I
have no idea what I'm talking about which is true but I think I think if you watch streamers
on twitch you can gain these certain types of points and you can oh bits this is just
which I don't think it's bits is it not but what are bit channel points channel
points okay because then you can exchange those for like
I don't know do you know stuff emotes you can
do text to speech stuff it really depends on what the streamer sets up bits are like
micro tips so it's it's set up by the streamer so you could you could exchange it for things
this doesn't fix the rug pool that I think you guys are talking about
which is where you launching the coin own most of the float and then
can just dump it and manipulate float is that the initial amount
okay you know the us treasury has knowledge us treasury
holds so much money in circulation in the economy yes and when they print
more money the value of the money goes down yes so if you guys launch a coin
and there is one million coins in circulation yes and you release
20 to the public to buy and we hold and then you just sell
a bunch yes when it's high and then the market implodes
so that's my rough understanding please correct me if I'm wrong so
with an ethical ICO it called it's just launching a normal
coin yeah you would just be launching a coin and it would just be crappy
so most of them but an ethical ICO would would initially
offer the entire supply and I would keep none for myself
you need to be able to prove that though oh I see I don't know if that's possible
that's above my understanding shouldn't that be possible I don't
know I don't know Dan is correct says top gear
yeah please correct me if I'm wrong I'm not right I'm not entirely sure
if this is completely accurate things might have changed but this is my understanding
of how coins work and so a lot of the rug pulls are basically yeah
we don't own anything jk actually
we have 10,000 old wallets I thought you can tell how much
they have as a float I think they can state but then they could
also potentially have I don't know I have no idea what I'm talking about
yeah it's very very difficult especially because
you know blockchain is a concept and you know
each coin has its own ledger right
that's another thing where if you did decide to if you if you decided that you found a way
to do this ethically and you decided to do it we'd need a significantly better understanding
of what we're doing oh 100% I think being ethical is just
you know not manipulating the stock price or the
the coin price of your coin we would also need a way to prove that we didn't
yeah I don't know if that's possible I don't know enough about
how the initial float is like
distributed because you'd have to like
Aeraldo says depending on the blockchain tech but yes you can absolutely prove
who owns what on the chain at launch oh good then just do that
so if we do that it's ethical but then if you do that what's the point
well then you rug pull it because you told them that you're gonna do that so Linus owns
a million coins and then you you put 10 up for sale
I have a million and here's 10 and then people trade them
and then you pull it anyway because that's what you said you were gonna do that would be ethical
because you explained that you were gonna I don't think so I think it's back to
coffee zilla's point telling someone you're gonna scam them or like getting scammed
for lulls is still getting scammed it depends on what you think is ethical
because if you just want to launch a real coin is that
technically ethical I mean we have the concern of all the power usage and I
think we would have to I think we would have to have a valid use case
for the coin I think we would have to have a real purpose
but then it's not a shit coin is that right well I mean
what is that technology really that means that it's like a alt coin
that's not a theory of or like one of the big ones anyways like some
random garbage thing that may be a legitimate coin but nobody really
uses it for anything and it's mostly just you know crypto bro trading garbage I don't
know I you can make a lot of money with those like a lot of money with oh dude I
know you can also lose a lot of money on them yeah like my 350
bitcoin which are somewhere I mean we've talked about that a lot yeah somewhere sorry
Dan that's okay I I sleep at night now
far coin is he doesn't say well I sleep now yeah
no I've been doing this in 2009 far coins down 60% in the last month
whoops yeah well this is the thing you know if you're talking about your
investment pyramid your crypto stuff is like up here
where you maybe put 500 bucks in and the bottom is just like banks
right yeah it's it's the highest controllers the highest risk
investment that you could possibly
someone in the pre-show pointed out that my my gold xbox
controller has gone up by what do you say like 80 85% or something since I bought it
pretty much yeah I'm not necessarily
convinced at this time that there is
an ethical way to launch one of these unless you give it good proper utility
what if the utility was
and even then I don't know enough to really say but I feel like that's aiming
in the right direction what if you could redeem drop coin for
a for early access to products on LTT Store
if you could use it to buy stuff on LTT Store then you would assign an actual
monetary value to it and it would be pegged against the US dollar but oh don't
start talking you're not talking about like tether and stuff now are you tether is
what real currency forex is and all coins are technically tied to tether
didn't know but didn't the whole tether thing blow up at some point
I don't know or is tether still not money is fake
money is a concept anything that has a potential value
like your gold controller is technically currency
what about eggs now that's an investment these days
egg controller let's go
sticky oh boy egg
egg coin yeah sure what are we supposed to be talking about at this point
I don't know why don't we do some merch messages sure sure sure sure sure
buy some merch with drop coin drop coin
well I hope drop coin isn't a real thing hold on let me just make sure
drop coin isn't a real thing are we accidentally endorsing something
oh crap I think it's a thing we were joking
is this real I can't number 5658
in category meme
we lack accurate trading data okay I don't think this I don't think it's real I think it's just like
whether it is or not yeah don't do it don't do it don't do it just stay away
it's it's the 5658
most popular meme coin please no stop
we have nothing to do with that hey Trump coins down
no I'm serious I winked there as a joke that means it's on sale
we have nothing to do with it no we have nothing to do with it it's not us
I didn't even know it was real oh my goodness
AJ this guy says investing my life savings
right away stop lying you're gonna destroy my pet foilio
please insider trading you did it you did it
put crypto in the handbook
oh man I didn't even write the handbook okay
I've never read it that was too real man
cool now I can start putting plugs in the wancho to be clear someone has
read I'm pretty sure that's all included
okay what are merch messages Linus
I think you did the announcement yeah merch messages are the way to interact
with the show and if you've ever wanted to know if it's a good week to
send a merch message this is a good week to send a merch message
you might want to pick up a commuter backpack like now
if you want to get one because we have no idea what is going on with tariffs
and trade wars and all of that beyond the next very short
period of time and over the next very short period of time
our warehouse is running over time to get as many orders out as possible
that's why we didn't launch anything this week because we're working to clear out the backlog
so get an order in for a commuter bag or anything else you like on LTTstore.com
and while you're at it in the cart there will be a message or a box
to send a merch message that's how you interact with the show it'll go to producer Dan
who will pop it up down there or who will reply to it with his little fingies
or who will curate it for me and Luke to address
Dan why don't we show the people how it works Sure
this one here's from Jacob Planning to order the big LTT backpack
but was curious is there a version 2 of it coming soon
is it best to hold off? We would love to revise
the OG backpack at some point but what I will say is that
currently we are not even at the design stage of a revision
so we haven't drawn it
we haven't sampled anything so with that said
it will be at least 6 months away probably more
Product development, it takes time 2.5 years
That was only the screwdriver that was just that one thing
6 months plus 2.5 years that you give
Was the badminton center opening? Oh, Dan's wrong
all the courts are in It's open
It had an official launch? I mean it's open
People can buy memberships right now we have between play memberships
and premium memberships we have over 500 members The gym's not done, does that still count?
What do you mean the gym's not done? We're waiting on like 2.5 pound weights
Yeah, people are using it Nothing's ever done
Yeah, they love it Actually I've gotten a lot of
really good feedback on the gym Luke helped consult on the gym at Smash Champs
and the reviews are in and people flipping
love the gym That's good, I'm happy to hear that
There was some things I was like strong
strong-arming and I was like I don't know
I was like I feel pretty strongly about this but we'll see what other people think
It's really good I've had people say
it is shockingly real gym
for a racquet sports club
If someone told me there was a gym upstairs at a racquet sports club
I'd be like okay there's like a treadmill
and a couple random assorted dumbbells in the corner
maybe an exercise ball but then we have like an actual
real one Do you watch fitness youtubers and then named some?
Yes, I do, both of those actually and many others
Here, let me Let me see if there's
do we have any pictures on the Facebook page That's kind of where we post our stuff
Dan was closer than you were Oh, 100%
I still feel like I'm right but I can't say why 100%
Luke knows why and I've been smiling all weekend
It's changed a fair bit since then
So don't bother commenting like too much about it There's a couple more
cardio machines and all of this stuff
is like completely shuffled around That picture makes it actually kind of hard to see
some of the equipment That's not a great picture
Dan, hit me again I'm over it
As a fellow ADHDer this phrase of yours hits close
but I often feel guilty admitting I've lost interest in X
be it just after three minutes, an hour, or a month ever felt similar
I did but now I'm over it
I have as I have had
less and less time in my life
I have more and more embraced clear, honest communication
Luke has experienced this numerous times
where we're like hanging out on the couch
or standing, chatting
at the door as he's leaving I'm just like, I'm tired
and I need to go to bed now
Which is completely fine to be honest
Because people don't know when a conversation's over They don't know when to leave your house
They don't know if what they're talking about
is a mutually interesting subject
Unless you tell them When you're a kid, it's easy
My mom's going to pick me up at nine or whatever It's like, okay, I leave at nine
Especially with people that you have frequently stayed up until
ridiculous hours with Now it's like, I don't know
Who knows where the line is You just lay out your lines
And really for me, it's about saving
effort and brain space for the other person as well
I don't even think about it I asked Yvonne something the other day
It was to do with cash burn rate on
some endeavor or other and she goes, oh, well, I would have to
check in with the accounting department and then I would have to check in with the manager
and I'd have to do this and I'm like, I'm over it Sometimes
It's not even my disinterest It's a matter of me weighing
That's a lot of your time My level of interest against the amount of
effort that you are telegraphing will be involved in it
And so If anything, I'm trying to do that more
I don't take offense by it at all Some people don't get it, though
They think that I'm just trying to be nice or something
But for me, it really is about clear and direct communication
When I say I'm over it, I mean do not burn a single
additional cycle on this Give it no more thought
because I won't And I'm the one who asked
And one of the ways too is if you're someone's employee
and you're receiving that type of communication they are clearly communicating that
they do not value you spending your time on that
which is not good You know?
So keep that in mind They don't want to waste your time
working on that, so if you go and then do that then it will very likely be seen
as a negative thing, not a positive thing I actually get
probably more frustrated than I should
I think that's true When I say
I had something a little while ago where I was like
Hey, I forgot X in place Y
If person A happens to be going by there
could they grab it for me otherwise
do nothing And they'll go way out of their way
And I had multiple people reach out with these
roundabout plans for how they were going to reunite me with
item X from location Y when person A was not
going to go by I'm like
I proactively
For the sake of complete clarity said if condition A
is not met take no action
You ignored my explicit instructions which is now
costing me additional time and brain cycles
mitigating the wheels that are now in action
to take these actions that I didn't want
and I explicitly said I didn't want
Please don't If I say don't do something
please never do it But you know what's frustrating
and this is why I acknowledge that I get
sort of irrationally frustrated by it because so many people
are not like me and do say
Oh, don't worry about it but what they really want
is for you to show how much you care and how you're willing to do it anyway
And that's super annoying but what you're doing is kind of like the opposite of that
just being more open which
But tonality is hard especially in text
and depending on people's relationships in the past
they can perceive someone's actions a completely different way
through a completely different colored lens depending
on those experiences so the exact same words
coming from two different people can mean the exact same thing
when I say those words I mean do not take this action
when someone else says those exact same words they can mean show me how much you love me
by taking this action even though I told you it's okay
and so people get this completely different interpretation and that's something that we just have to deal with
and so recognize that it is something
that I get irrationally frustrated about and so I try to be
I go out of my way to try to be more patient
about it but I know that what I'm feeling is not
rational but it doesn't change that I feel it
because I've had that conversation 500 times
not with that person but 500 times total
and that's the baggage that I bring to the situation I had
I've told you this I've told a bunch of other people this too
I use chat GPT often for communication but I don't use it to write my communication
I use it to get feedback on my communication so I'll like
send a message or an email or something that I would be sending out to chat GPT
and I ask it for a sentiment analysis and sometimes I'll give it more prompting
but more or less I'm doing a sentiment analysis
and I have one on the lab team
I keep them anonymous that I was going to send an angry email
to another company that I will also not name because I was like
fairly enraged about a thing that was happening NVIDIA
I actually don't know I'm just
I think he'll laugh regardless so it should be fine yeah
and then and I said I was like sending it right now
and they were going to be CC'd on it and then it didn't come out for a while
and then like a few hours later it finally came out because
I wrote it up and then didn't press send and read it myself
and was like and I
I cut the email out I went and worked on something else for a while
let myself just like kind of chill for a little bit and then I rewrote it again
and then I put it into chat GPT and I was like
still angry let me keep working on this for a second
and then I finally sent one out and a little while later they sent me a message
and they were like that was a lot more chill than I expected and I was like yeah
yeah I just had to reframe that a little bit
I don't know I think I'm in my zero f***s given phase and I just like kind of write angry
emails when I'm really angry I still do that sometimes yeah depends on the
scenario depends on how understandable
the situation is because in this one I was very frustrated
because of the impact on our side I understood how it could
have been going that way from their side but yeah it also depends on
whether the person you're talking to had any control of the situation
yes and this person I feel like did have a lot of care
and was trying to get things fixed so like raging at them was genuinely
not going to be helpful to anyone it was really a malicious action
and that person has a high degree of control over the situation
my patience is a lot lower absolutely
yeah yeah
okay how about Luke being really angry is unsettling
the Channel Super Fun when it was unleashed what channel
super fun
ooh I'm not sure I've only on camera that many times
there's a hike
yeah there's that one oh that is the Channel Super Fun that you guys are talking about
no that's not a Channel Super Fun though I don't know what they're talking about
this is the face of a man who is
extremely put out yeah
it is fine
I genuinely don't know what Channel Super Fun is talking about though ah there was the time you like
chased me and pretended to be angry I wasn't actually mad
and I wasn't actually fearful it was just really funny
it was fun oh when they robbed the Langley house
yeah I was in that though you were in on that one sorry sorry
no it was Berkel who was extremely angry yeah and I was feeding off that energy
I ran with him I remember so what you guys didn't know at that time
was he was out downstairs so I couldn't have pulled off
the prank without him being an accomplice yeah and if I remember correctly
Berkel had this inkling that they were trying to flee
out of like the downstairs so he like ran he didn't have an inkling he saw
oh right yeah we had because one other member of the team
was also in on it who's not who's not on the team anymore
but they were in on it and they played the role of like the robber
with like a thing pulled over their face so that no one would recognize them
and like booked it out the back of the house so Berkel went to go like
chase after them and I was just that energy was awesome
so I just went with him but we went through like my area and it's
I had to like open doors from his stuff and I was like oh let's go and I was totally with it
dude I fear for anyone he would have caught
yeah Berkel was ready to go well you know he punched me at the end right
I don't remember that it was only in the ARM but it was like
not soft yeah I think he just
needed to get that energy out probably and you know what I don't even begrudge
the guy like it hurt but like
I ironed it that's funny
yeah oh man okay
crazy thought
when would be the right time to do an LMG reunion
I don't even mean like public like you guys wouldn't get a video about it or anything
that'd be weird it's a lot of people now it's a ton we've been operating
for long time 12 years yeah
yeah it's crazy some of the group for longer but the company
LMG 12 years yeah when would be the right time and to be clear
20 I'm talking about I'm talking about
like zero held back invitations literally everyone
I mean I'm sure there's some people that wouldn't dare show their face at this point but
I would invite them I would invite them I wouldn't discriminate no
when would be the right time I don't know
what if someone was an employee and now they are a contractor for us
well no anyone currently at the company would obviously be invited
okay yeah yeah yeah
never
I don't know like what's the point what are we gaining from that
I mean nothing it'd be fun would it I don't know maybe
I wouldn't mind catching up with people like I some people absolutely yeah well you don't have to
talk to all of them they might talk to you
sorry they might talk to you I'm talking about you I'm asking you
they might talk to me there are definitely people that I would love to
sync up with again but it sounds like there's also people that you wouldn't love to sync up with
so much I think that would be fine I think you could communicate with them directly you could just say I'm done
with this conversation now thank you I'm tired I'm going to bed
just leave that is actually what I do though
yeah yeah yeah I'm really tired good night I'll just leave
I think it's fair just say I'm over it
just laid out on the ground I don't know if that's a specific reference or not
but that was the thing that my brother started in our household at one point
which is at a certain point like you know we were both playing
a lot of sports my brother especially was was big he was into football he worked
out a lot we were both big and my mom would
like try to get him to do something and he was just laid out on the ground and be like
make me what are you going to do
because we hit the point we're like we're playing all these
contact sports all the time so like imagine
you can break your wooden spoon all you want it's not going to do anything
like literally at all so have fun
and then you know eventually get up and do it anyways but because mom's cool but like
yeah yeah that was I don't know if that's a reference to that or not
because I'm pretty sure I've told that story before but for what it's worth Yvonne is also
proposed also proposed also opposed to the no conditional
invitation oh yeah it's a terrible idea unconditional invitation reunion
horrible idea that she said the same thing you did why
what's the point what's the what's the game I don't know what your brother's bigger than you
uh it's complicated we're very
different like forms in mass
I'd say they're fairly similar I think so yeah my brother was always
bigger like stronger he's really fast somehow um
but he was a fullback in football he had way more muscle than me even now he'll come
to the gym I would have to not going to the gym and like forever and just lift crazy weight
it's ridiculous he was always really really strong and I was generally
fast we were like built very differently and it was always
frustrating how fast he was because I was like you're built so differently than me I should be
so much faster than you but compared to how stronger he was compared to me
and how much faster I was than him it was like not the ratio was
not good in my favor okay hold on VNG supernova says one is
Machamp and one is Hitmon Lee hold on I want to know which one is which
here I don't I don't remember these Pokemon yeah kind of
okay hold on here we go uh no
Luke Luke no offense Luke but you are not of that build
what would that build be this is this is more like this is more
like uh like uh uh I don't know what's his nuts
that uh because we're talking high school not now yeah this guy
I'd say this that's like he's like at that
oh yeah no I'm yeah no yeah like that but that that's a Hitmon Lee build like
no no yeah that's like that's like a lean like UFC fighter build
yeah yeah no offense he's he's he's too ripped
you didn't know me when I was in high school though you have no idea really
uh and I okay no I'd say you're probably the Machamp then
I don't know what I would compare your brother to okay uh all
fight pokemon okay here we go
Lucario Lucario's a fighting type yeah
we're gonna go pretty like no no no
manky manky don't don't think so oh this is not bad
this is not bad yeah that that could be rich
he's like for reference or people watching there was one time that there was a barn
on fire he this was back when he was a poly wrath or poly wrath
I could see poly wrath yeah uh there's one time there's a barn on fire
this is when he was a volunteer firefighter and he's now a full-time firefighter
um but there was animals in the barn and they couldn't get the door open
and this frustrated Richard he did not like this
situation because there was animals in the barn and the animals needed to no longer
be in the barn so Richard ran through the wall
in order to solve the problem and it worked it worked
it was great so
he was uh he played football up here
uh it is pretty common for like American football players if they don't quite make it to the
NFL or if they need to be take a step back from the NFL or whatever
they'll come up and play for the CFL the Canadian Football League it is not super common
for Canadian players to go play for uh down in the states
my brother got a full ride if I remember correctly it was a full ride
some form of scholarship to an American school to play football as a fullback
didn't make to the NFL but that is just like unheard of
he was crazy very strong him running through a wall
was not super surprising for me when I heard it and I was like yes this sounds
reasonable and appropriate for
if I remember correctly he got yelled at for it but they were also like
but also that was kind of cool
it was pretty sick okay
tacky the penguin says Khabib overrated that can't be true right isn't he like
undefeated well he left the he stopped fighting
yeah so you're allowed to retire at some point aren't you
oh no well yeah but I don't think he had like a crazy
I don't follow that stuff I don't think he had a crazy amount of fights
but I don't think he's uh with 29 wins and zero losses
he retired with an undefeated record I don't think he's overrated
yeah okay he isn't good till he loses to a Paul
brother okay come on and everyone knows it's gonna be a draw
yeah it'll probably be one of the Paul brothers
illegitimate sons by that point sorry what are we talking about Dan
I don't know how we got on this topic that was a merch message from 20 minutes ago
do some more topics neat uh okay
why don't we do the future of tech channels source yeah
I made it up nice
I'm seeing a growing and justified trend
of kind of anger toward tech reviewers for being able to get access to new technology
that consumers struggle to get their hands on and I'm doing this topic out of order now
let's do this first topic first and you thought MSRP
was bad what the 5090 is hard to buy okay just to be clear
just in case anyone else didn't follow that we have completely abandoned the previous time
we have I'm over it and we're on to a new one
I followed that I'm just making sure other people are also with us many users
have been disappointed with the launch of the 50 series which offers
underwhelming generational uplift over the 40 series while maintaining
or in some cases exceeding the high pricing
remember this wasn't that long ago the 3080's MSRP at launch
was $699 and for a short
glorious window of time it was actually available for around that price
before the mining craze took off
however for those who have been waiting
a few generations for high end upgrade in spite of this awful pricing
these cards are their only option especially with 40 series
cards becoming scarce as NVIDIA ramped down production last year allegedly
but here's the thing you can't get the cards
even NVIDIA employees claim to be struggling to get them
overclockers UK stated to take 16 weeks
for them to deliver all of their 5090 pre-orders
and all models of the GPUs are out of stock virtually everywhere
this lack of availability has led to enthusiasts referring to the launch
of the 50 series as a paper launch though that is not really what that term means
a paper launch usually indicated a launch
via the press months or at least weeks
before the product was actually available for sale at all
so I would say an example of a paper launch
there was an AMD card back in the day I've got one in mind
it was the 1900 XTX
here we go X 1900 XTX
I think this was the one or was it
X 1950 XTX I don't remember
yes this one
the X 1950 XTX was basically
functionally a non existent GPU
wait is this the one ah you know what
I forget basically a higher X, no
X850 XT that's the one sorry sorry
here we go ok so this Platinum Edition
this stupid thing this thing functionally did not exist
it was a overclocked
super mega binned version of the X800 XT
and there is no architectural
difference blah blah blah but it is ever so slightly overclocked
with a fancy tattoo on its
fan shroud or whatever and essentially they like
ship them to reviewers so that they could claim to have a competitive
product in the halo tier and ship
a small handful to retailers and then effectively it never existed again
so that was where we started to refer to very
low inventory launches as paper launches
the 50 series is not a paper launch what it is is a launch
with extremely limited availability especially as compared to the demand
people do have them they're flipping them on ebay it's ridiculous
it's crap but yeah
got some more updates for you due to the demand for these chips and the limited supply it seems
that add-in board partners are increasing their prices MSI
has increased the prices of their entire lineup of out of stock 50 series GPUs
and their sole 10C5080 model received a
14% price increase to 1139.99
and their sole MSRP 5090 is now going
for 2379 that is a whopping $380 over MSRP
ASUS not to be left out increased their prices
with the ROG astral 5090 going from an already high
2799 to a trippin balls 30
79 yeesh
and if you're thinking only 3079 dollars
how am I ever going to flaunt my wealth ASUS has a gold version
of the 5090 that is exclusive to the Middle East the 5090
Dahab OC edition however unlike our gold xbox
controller it is not made of real gold the absolute
cowards let's see if I can find a picture of this thing it actually looks
sick and I really want one there is absolutely no way
there is no way that I would pay for it
but that thing looks so cool our thing says
we aren't sure that it's made of real gold I know it's not made of gold
I'm just saying it's only like another thousand dollars there's no way it's made of gold
you don't want a four hour video coming out about
I'm just trying to keep an eye okay
we're gonna make we're gonna be okay
are we Luke chewy's going home already
no chewy has to deal with all the problems on Fridays it's just Friday
why are you the spicy one today
should I make sure we don't say things that are wrong many are wondering
why NVIDIA launched the new series with such low inventory
and there are a number of factors that I could speculate are involved
I would say the proximity to Chinese New Year probably isn't helping anything
the ongoing threat slash enactment of tariffs could be playing a role
in low availability I know that it's coming up the works in terms of the supply chain
so our commuter bags were already delayed in their shipments
before we stopped shipping them
because of the tariffs the threat of tariffs had companies
just like trying to jam as much goods into the US
as possible and has led to big hold ups at the major ports
by the way we are shipping commuter bags now so if you guys see people buying commuter bags
the tariffs have been stayed and the de minimis exemption
has been restored for now so we are pushing things out anyway
another third contributor to NVIDIA's
low stock would be let's see
I'm Jensen Huang imagine I have a leather jacket
nice good alligator I have this
wafer from TSMC I have to
share TSMC's manufacturing capacity with everyone else
but I got this one what am I going to do with it
hmm well I could make
gaming GPUs I could do that or hear me out
alternate pitch I could make AI GPUs
and the gaming GPUs are worth how much I don't know it doesn't matter
crap nothing and the AI GPUs are worth how much
lots my shareholders loved it do the gamers like you? no
do the AI people like you? they love me tough question
um anyway oh no
who wrote this topic okay anyway Linus Sebastian
CVO of Linus Media Group and creator of YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips
though says he is torn as to whether or not he will buy one
elaborate though Linus don't spoil the results
of the upcoming 4k and 8k videos please don't say if I'm buying one or not
signed ploof I'm not going to get into it because that's kind
of the premise for both of our 8k I'm very excited to watch and 4k gaming
videos is both ploof and I went on the record before
the launch saying if all the rumors are true we are buying one
and now that it's launched I was telling
people at CES that I was really excited for it and wanted to get one neither of us is certain
or at least we weren't before we made those videos so I actually have no
further comment on that I am not getting one I think it wants all the coming but still
I wanted to get it because of
you know almost like professional development but
now I'm just talking to Darren about getting a cluster at work so
you can buy it
wow eat a dick you can use it too actually we might have
a potential partner who wants to send us like an NVIDIA
GPU server to like use for a few months is that long enough
do you need it forever? I do want one long term
but it would be like I would want it to power
like inline IDE assistance for the developers in the lab and stuff like that
like we it's not just like a tinker box for me like actually I'm serious
I recruited Dan knows Luke tell us about your tinker box
you don't want to hear about mine sometimes I use wephrase for things this is never going to change
just calm it with that old reference when it checks out
but no I recruited like Dan and AJ and Nick from the lab
to all kind of consult on it and how we can properly use it at work
and stuff like that cool anyway there's a couple other 50 series launch
things it's wildly expensive American sticker shock is already bad
imagine what it's like in Canada or Australia dude people are posting screenshots
of Australian prices on this stuff and I'm just like $9,000 $50 90s what are we
even doing here at this point and there's a note in here
from Adam who wrote up this topic just so you guys
know we're just as screwed as everyone else when it comes to getting these cards
for personal use several employees tried buying at launch and only
managed to snag either a 5080 or pre-orders for a 5090
and no one has any idea when those pre-orders will be filled and I gotta say
regardless of the outcome of the 8k and 4k gaming videos with Ploof
because I have sort of become accustomed to buying things at launch
like I just don't I don't really care like I'll just wait until later
because like I I love gaming but I
realistically I don't find as much time for it as I used to
something like yeah whatever like if I need something I'll like get it later
not to mention that over the years you know being a tech personality I have
acquired many tech things but I have committed
for NVIDIA GPUs I don't know how this kind of happened but I committed
to not upgrade to 40 series either by buying it or by
taking a sample nothing so I have not daily to 40
series GPU and then for 50 series I basically said look
if I'm going to if these are just as expensive as 40 series
then the only way that I can
reasonably justify finally upgrading is if I'm actually like spending money on it
I'm not gonna just like take one I'm not just gonna take one that you guys could have had I'm gonna get out there
I'm gonna have to actually like buy one so not being sort of
used to fighting scalpers for things because I just don't need a playstation
you know like I just haven't really I haven't really had to go up against it and I haven't upgraded
my GPU in years I completely miss the rush
I don't have a pre-order in I don't have
so if I want to buy one what will it cost me let's go on eBay
shall we what without looking without looking
what would a 5090 cost me right now US eBay
US eBay
4400 bucks US?
yeah all right we're off to a great start 5090 doesn't even
bring up any GPUs we've got a Dell OptiPlex small phone factor
PC no it really doesn't
all right let's try RTX there's no way that's right
oh that one below it looks a little bit more accurate open box
2 year extended warranty I've heard from some people that the 5080
prices have been going down on the used market well yeah 5080 isn't it
I assumed the 5090 ones might be doing the same jeebus
jeebus help us all that's US dollars dude these are bids
dude these are bids these are bids that's not a buy it now sir
that's not one bid okay but maybe no one's buying
maybe people are saying now they're buying them
6200 that's the founders
so more like 7500
9000 some of these might be fake
some of these might be fake I don't think anyone's actually
paying 9000 for a gaming trio especially when
they could get it for 6300 in this other listing yeah this is rough dude
this is all today we're still on today right now by the way
yeah so like they exist yep they're definitely
out there I would just
I would just not I won't
I can't best offer doesn't show actual price
what does that mean I'm not looking at best offer
I'm looking at completed items sold items
new listing 6000 or best offer
oh what they're saying is that they might have taken a lower offer
okay so the 9000 might have taken a lower offer
no they say best offer accepted on ones that are best offer though
see so no actually no that looks different
I'm not an eBay expert when it comes to this as far as my understanding
goes when you say sold items that shows the price
yeah Jenny thing says it has a line through it if they took a lower offer yeah no this appears to be
the closing price guys and yeah I don't know
rough and that transitions us to
the future of tech channels source I made it up
I am seeing a growing and justified
some or understandable at least trend of anger toward tech reviewers
for being able to get access to this technology that consumers are struggling
to get their hands on especially at a somewhat
reasonable price I think we can all agree that one component
of the gaming computer is not
reasonably priced at the entire cost of a sick
top of the line gaming setup just a couple short years ago I think we can probably all agree
on that now there's always been kind of some of this that we've seen whether it's
you know in the comments or live streams or you know whatever right but what I've noticed
is that this perception seems to be getting worse
for a number of reasons that I think may make it difficult for us to make
videos going forward reason number one
economic challenges in the tech and gaming industry layoffs
and a big pendulum swing towards a buyers
market for tech companies in their HR endeavors I think
we could agree that explain what that means yeah I think three years ago it was a
sellers market if I was a potential prospective employee
or a recent graduate I was basically you know
putting resumes out there if I even got a chance to put resumes out there
and I would just have an offer when it came to tech now
it's the other way around I think that the tech companies
are able to be choosy and they're absolutely
thinning the herd Luke talked about this I think on the pre-show
where like the RTO the return to office mandates seem to be in
some cases very obviously nothing to do with
actually wanting everybody in the office and everything to do with thinning the herd
hoping you'll take a layoff with those severance yes
factor number two economic challenges more broadly everything is expensive
especially food which pun intended eats into
the disposable income that we have to spend on dignity nice to haves like
GPUs factor number three ever shrinking
incentives to allocate manufacturing capacity to low margin gaming
products and this is exactly what Luke was talking about during the 50 series
thing for every wafer NVIDIA can choose to build AI
chips for customers and media who love them at monstrous margins that delay their shareholders
or they can choose to build gaming chips for
customers and media who generally kind of hate them at margins that drag down their books
factor four closely related the ever growing
prices of consumer GPUs and so here
I've got a note to talk about how PLUF has been following the pricing
of the 4090 particularly closely as you guys are going to see
in the 8k gaming drag race where we game it
8k on a 4090 it's actually his
we had to pull his from his system he graciously brought it into work that day
asked me to be very very careful with it as I was installing it and uninstalling it
he's like dude it's not a question of that it's a question of whether you'd even be able
to buy me a new one whether you'd even be able to get one
and it's a great point anyway the point is he graciously brought in his 4090 so that we could compare it
directly to the 5090 and so he's been paying
very close attention because if he's going to buy a 5090 like he had said he was going to
he would be selling his 4090 so
so keeping track of 4090 pricing tells him how much he's going to have to put
towards his 5090 and this is crazy okay so he just added
he added this to the dock here but he was telling me earlier in the week
man or not earlier in the week must have been last week
when we were shooting the first one the 8k gaming video he's like dude 4090s
are still going for like 2k Canadian that's like only a couple hundred bucks less than what I paid
get this when we were shooting the
4k gaming video the 4k high refresh rate gaming video
earlier this week he goes Linus you're not going to believe this 4090s are now going
for about 200 Canadian more than what I paid I could have used
this GPU that I bought brand new two years ago for two years
and I could sell it today and make money for a couple hundred dollars
more than what I paid then then get this get this
he just posted this update in the dock I just checked they're going for like 3k plus
CAD on eBay now people look at the benchmarks and they go like
well 4090 looks pretty good yeah maybe I'll just get that so all these factors together affect
a channel like ours in multiple ways I've seen a clear
trend of disengagement with content that features you know I can't
afford right and I've seen people lament the old days
when the channel was focused on stuff that regular people can own instead of just like
millionaire sh** but hear me out
hear me out for a second maybe LTT
was always unhinged expensive stuff
before you even jump into that I want to give an example the first real project I
worked on with you was something I had never done before because I couldn't afford it
oh the water cooling guide yeah okay water cooling has always been
expensive especially back then it was even worse goes back farther than that yeah the second
video that is what at the time was the most
expensive motherboard on the market with three top spec
GPUs on it and why did I put them on there
let's see if they fit yeah actually there weren't all top spec this was actually three different
generations because I just thought it was funny um let's go
let's go a little further oh 3d vision because that wasn't a you know unhinged
ridiculous accessory for one percenters uh what else we got here
we got a bunch of motherboards because I was in a motherboard mood that day here's a bunch more
motherboards oh I don't know here's my personal rig
you know just casually looking a little something like that like it was
always aspirational if we go a little
farther we're gonna find like an extreme edition CPU I think I was yeah there it is here's
a thousand US dollars CPU let's crack the seal boys
it was always aspirational it was always like
you know oh man what would it be like you know
when the price comes down and I could have one of those
um so why does it bother
people now well I think there's a few factors I think the perception of
me has changed um I haven't really talked to you about this but I I think
I think it's safe to say now that I regret disclosing the value
of the offer for our company I believe in transparency with the audience
and in some ways I'm as parasocial as any of you guys are um and you know
I I like you know talking about you know what's going on
you know what's going on around here but it does feel like there was a significant
turning point in perception toward me personally and toward our brand
that line has changed you know that LTT changed um once
you know I spelled it out for you guys that running a media company with 100 plus people
means I probably have means beyond the 99% um in the current
climate I think that almost certainly contributes to some of the anger and frustration that's targeted
at me even though like guys I I'm a small fish
I do not control the price of eggs I still exchange my labor for money
I don't just get to exercise my capital for profit um
and I also don't think that's all of it anyway I think a bigger piece
is growing apathy toward tech in general
what is the point of watching a video about the
latest thing if it will literally never come down
in price the fact that PLUVS 4090
is worth today more than it was worth
two years ago why should I care
why should I bother caring about any of this then
and I think another big factor is like
people just have other stuff on their mind they just don't have the bandwidth it's like
it used to be that the point of learning about DDR8 or whatever
was that someday my earning power will grow
and the cost of DDR8 will go down
and those lines are going to intersect and I'm going to enjoy all that GC tech goodness
at some point but wages are stagnating hardworking people are being cut from their roles
at companies that are turning around and announcing record profits well, you know, AMD just
forgets that Ryzen 3 exists and NVIDIA launches
new GPUs that are so expensive the old ones keep their retail value I can see why it feels pointless
I'm going to jump in for a second again just to bolster that the whole forgets Ryzen 3 exists thing
for a long time not only was the 60 card
the one that everybody bought but it felt like there was also a lot more emphasis on it
felt like it mattered more where's the 50 desktop card
yeah, seriously like they
in general, they care about the lower end a lot more and I think that is
somewhat reflected in like like this 5000 series launch
you know, I've been out of it for a while but everyone seems
really interested in the 90 series if I'm thinking like way back
like 500 series, 400 series 700 series even
like the 780 was really cool yeah, but you know
people really talked about the 760 8800 GTS
sick and if you were a baller
you could get two of those in SLI and it was actually better bang for the buck than a single GTX
like there was value to be had the GTX was like
what people really cared about GTX was cool to see but the GTX was what people
really cared about and that doesn't feel like the communication sentiment
that I'm seeing these days I'm not seeing a bunch of people being like
yeah, I mean it was a cool video or whatever I don't care about the 5090
I'm looking for the 5060 I genuinely don't think I've seen any of those comments
and I used to see that all the time the most frustrating part for me
is that for our hardware enthusiast hobby
that you know we've enjoyed for our entire adult lives
is that all of this is totally valid
like if I didn't review this stuff for a living would I bother upgrading my PC
if something wasn't broken and if I didn't care about competitive play
would I just use a streaming service like GeForce Now or Shadow
so I don't know it's something I've been reflecting on a lot because I sit in writer's meeting
and you know on the one hand it's fun for us to joke about doing like
a tech yacht or whatever just for the spectacle of it
and it's cool to look at it's cool to dream about
and it's cool to live that dream and that's awesome and stuff like it's cool
but what makes us
relatable, what makes it fun to watch us do that wild stuff
is that we also talk about the things that people can actually afford
but I don't and so people will be pitching things in writer's meeting
and I'm just like yeah no we can't we can't even talk about that
we can't show that and the thing is like we get backlash for watching me
put cool tech in my McMansion we get backlash for saying hey buying a console
is a valid option we get backlash and we have always
but it's been more lately which is bizarre for focusing on second hand tech
in videos like our PlayStation Killer series and that one that I did
I had someone explain to me why that video didn't resonate with people
the one where I was like only you can fix GPU pricing and I went out and did like a mini
scrapyard wars where I bought a 3080 for a great price
and it was because people don't want to be blamed
gamers didn't want to be blamed for buying the stuff anyway
sure and I'm kind of like okay
but like you're buying $7,000
$50.90 what am I supposed to do
it's really weird to have people be angry at the messenger in these cases it's like
you know yeah we're going to continue to highlight affordable stuff whenever we get the chance
I can't cover products that don't exist you know people ask me why don't you do $500
build guides anymore like every few months why don't you do like an affordable build guide
I can't cover stuff that doesn't exist AMD
hasn't launched a Ryzen 3 in two
full desktop generations now and that includes mid-cycle X3D refreshes
yeah the companies don't really care about that
NVIDIA simply no longer makes a 50 class
GPU on the desktop don't have one
I mean I also this is another one I also get asked hey Linus
why aren't you doing more to pressure these companies to make stuff more affordable
and the answer to that is guys you watch Wansho every week
you know you tune into LTT a few times a week and you care what I have to say
maybe maybe you don't maybe you hate watch I don't know but the point is that you're
engaged do you think Lisa Sue watches Wansho
well that's not what they're trying to say I think they're trying to say like
why don't you talk to them directly no so it doesn't it doesn't matter
my point is just that do you think Lisa Sue gives two shits what I think
yeah no do you think Jensen Huang cares do you think he knows my name
they're analyzing where they're making money and they're doing that
they are solely beholden to their shareholders and I own no stock in any of their companies
because duh I shouldn't
so that was the spiel what do we do
like what do we do we can't just keep reviewing
hardware that people can't afford we can't
we can't keep just like you know building projects that no one could hope
to replicate ever like what's the answer here
can you believe that Apple Apple is now the
savior of the affordable desktop PC it's weird what the f***
a lot of talk going around about Mac minis a lot
I literally hear about Mac minis like at least multiple times a week
Apple yeah
yeah it's weird so you got nothing then that's what you're saying it's weird
thank you Luke that's really helpful I mean I don't think like you know
there's people in the comments saying do retro stuff there's a dot here on doing retro stuff
I don't think that's gonna work personally I think you can do it every now
and then I don't think you can pivot the channel to it there's thoughts about doing
software content again I think you can do it every now and then I strongly
don't believe you can pivot the channel to it
nerdle brings up a really interesting point Linus I'd be more concerned if views
were going way down with the hate but if it's consistent views why are we
focusing on the hate more I'm not talking about hate I'm talking about
something way more dangerous and that's apathy and the reason
that views aren't going down is because for all the you know
ripping on them that I do and you know all the banter that we have in the office
I have a f***ing world class team yeah we work
yeah peel the floor peel the floor
okay that's an internal meme don't worry about it I will never stop
the point is we work
we work really hard we work really hard
to upload videos that are engaging for our audience
and the reason
that views are the way that they are hold on that no title
contains hold on I'm doing a little filter here the reason that views haven't fallen
is because we're doing that we are actively
working against a tide that you guys might not see
in our analytics but we do if we just uploaded a video
unboxing a mother board like we might have 10 years ago
oof we'd be lucky to get 50,000 views on it
nobody cares nobody cares the apathy
toward just like DIY computer heart we have to come up with an angle
like there was one recently that that just bombed and we were talking
about it on wancho and you guys rightly were like Linus you totally
missed the mark on this you should have done $50 versus $50,000
for that format and it was the home theater one the home theater one
and I was like oh yeah you're right like you need a cat
you need a hook you need a format you need to do so much more than
just review this product like we used to
like look at this things are so much work now
we literally had to paint Elijah's house to execute this video
that would have been the kind of like wild
huge project that we would do once a quarter back in the day
the 50 series reviews
were thick in terms of the effort that went
into them this controller roundup
we had David working for at least an entire week
dedicated to this that is not a thing that used to happen for just
an upload also Antoine Lusseldab's work there was
oh yeah multiple people worked for a long time
on this the editors man the editors did such a great job
shoot I feel terrible because I forget who it was but boy did they ever do
a bang up job of all of the the cool like graphics and stuff
let me see if I can find it hold on
here we go no
there we go like this kind of stuff is so cool that adds
so much to the video it is so much
Robert there we go it is so much more work now
to get those views compared to and I'm not complaining I'm not saying
we shouldn't have to work we shouldn't have to compete we should have to work
we should have to compete I embrace competition because I think it makes the content
I think it makes the entire space better for people who care
and for people who are interested in it but what I am saying but what I'm saying is
it's not about it's not hate competing to make better content
like competing against a fading industry yeah
which that's no longer fun or cool yeah
so what do we do what do you do in 20 years
dude what so 20 years what I'm 58 okay let's make it different
what do you do in 12 years why 12 oh I see because we've been at it
12 years um I don't know I think that's a good
way to frame it though because if we can determine you know where we want to be
then every action that we take is I mean for better or for worse
I've always been about transparency with the people like I think that
I think that a lot of online personalities
get a bit of an easier ride even though they're very successful if they
like don't post a picture of their car never live stream from their nice house
I think people it's easier for people to just kind of forget about that we were
talking I'm not going to go directly into this topic but we were talking about this
kind of in the pre-show of like being more transparent about and public
about things will catch you more flak oh guaranteed 100%
in every scenario I mean at this point though I feel like I've been caught
in the flat can in so many times and I'm not dead yet like it's just like
yeah I um tickle tickle I mean
you know how upset I was and why for a recent
thing that happened oh yeah very justified and
um it rolled off my back
easier than I thought surprisingly fast because I think
maybe not because you don't care I think it's I think
it's just an acceptance that um the haters going to hate
hate hate hate hate and I'm just going to shake shake shake shake shake shake it off
like I don't really I only have a choice there's nothing I can do about it and so this
this isn't about appeasing haters it's about it's about you know figuring out
what is the direction of our content because now
we have reviewed the 50 series you know
I'm going to have no new consumer GPU after we get through 5070
5060 probably 5050 won't even happen so sometime over the next you know months
we're going to have the entire 50 series lineup and I will have no
GPU to review for probably two years I honestly looking at the trend
maybe maybe two and a half maybe two and a quarter maybe two yeah yeah maybe longer
who knows right so that that's not going to work we can't just like
review GPUs when they happen to appear yeah
so where do I want to be in 12 years I don't know maybe it's so hard
to think about that we're I mean we're moving if you look
at if you look at we have a video coming soon that is going to be very cool
which is how does LMG make money
and if you look at the trend line of the company
we're making stuff we do we
we got to the point where it was there isn't
a stuff to make content there's enough stuff to make content about let's start making stuff
instead of just making content yeah in between was the I remember
I remember telling probably you I think this would have been still when you were on the content team
but definitely people afterwards is we are at a
scale now and at a level of operation where we no longer
talk about the news we make that was still yeah I was still
doing content we we create something to be excited about
whether it's with our angle or our production values or whatever
it is we cannot be dependent on someone else
to make something interesting for us to talk about we have to find something interesting to say
regardless and then I guess you're saying so the next level is we just
make something for people to talk about
I don't I mean we're not we're not at that level in tech though we're talking 12 years
though look at what we've done in 12 years
in this 12 years we made screwdrivers and backpacks and a
multiple content warehouses and a lab and a video
platform service and all this other stuff what do we do in the next
12 years 12 years is a long time your
child will solidly be an adult
well I don't want to think about that right now I'm just trying to give it a scale
yeah no I get it I get it man I mean like
we we make stuff we do make stuff now
you know sometimes it's just a one-off why am I not finding this video
what's going on all the filters are just being stupid this is a this is
a really cool video the ultimate sleeper gaming TV again
this is the kind of video that would have been like once a once
a quarter once a year level project is just
an upload this week you know the finished product
on this is absolutely incredible it's the best
gaming TV in the world it has every
it has every console that matters inside it
did you watch this Luke? I haven't yet but I'm genuinely excited to
I've just had a genuinely insane week so we've got PC, subwoofer, speakers
Nintendo Wii U PlayStation 5
and a Nintendo switch and then we replaced the front
projection screen with an OLED so it's everything about it
is modern current generation top of the line sleeper gaming TV
so sick dude but I don't see a
path where we like productize stuff like that though
so what do we make in tech? I don't know
like I don't really I don't have a vision toward that it's really hard to make
quarterly goals and we're trying to make 12 year goals yeah
what I think I'm pushing for is that we'll make something the
the engine that has been created here is an engine that can be used
for a great many things at this point we have
software we have hardware we have content we have business
we have everything practically
so what the engine works to produce
so here's a question I mean is there should we just
you know back to like you know the haters or whatever should we just
maintain the transparent should we just do tech yacht and just not give a
f*** people
aren't going to be happy unless you Michael Bay the sequel
so do we just keep upping the ante do we take the ultimate sleeper gaming
TV put it in our tech yacht sign it up with a charter
with a charter broker service and people can charter the tech yacht and they can play
on the ultimate gaming TV like should we just not give a f***
my big thing and I know this might not make a lot of sense to a lot of people but my big thing
is if you make it a business you don't care
right it's a business venture it doesn't matter
to me how profitable it is so if people can charter the tech plane
then we don't care interesting philosophy I'm not sure if I 100%
agree with that I don't know that everyone else does
but maybe we just don't give a f*** anymore I don't know dude
why is your spending
beholden to others I don't know I mean you know
that one of the reasons that I held off on like getting a nice car for so long
was because I was concerned about the optics and I'm saying this
while I feel the same way often so like I'm being pretty hypocritical
but it's I also do kind of believe it I don't exactly walk the walk
but I do kind of believe it where it's like I don't know man do whatever you want
like it's at a certain point who cares and you look at
so many other creators that don't care
and like I came across a like hype video
because I think it was like speed or something someone tried to make fun
of him because his his car got declined at like some restaurant
and he flexed that the watch he was wearing was like three million dollars
and it was like the music after he does that is like this like hype like
he's so sick and it does puts like filters on the frame and starts like shaking
the camera and stuff and they're like cheering for him because he has a three million
dollar watch or whatever I'm sure I misquoted all of that I don't care it's not the point
but I yeah cool I have an apple watch with a unicorn
on it yeah but it's like I don't know who cares
the yeah
especially in my opinion if you if you like try to make it
if it's a business venture and people do chart planes and they chart
yachts these are things that happen yeah so like it can be a legitimate business
and if you try to put a specific spin on it like it's the gamer
version then I don't know cool
I could absolutely see like some
baller old money person whatever I don't know they have a bachelor party and they want to do it on a gamer
yacht why not
my name is Jeb says you know yeah maybe don't give a f*** when it's your money on the line
but your employees rely on you to feed their families and it's questionable at that point
and that's 100% valid but
unless they're definitely going to be fine let me put it this way
the paychecks have never been late at Linus Media Group not once
in 12 years not once
you would never you would never see me
being irresponsible in such a way that it would impact our ability to make payroll
that has never happened that would never happen
I don't know is it interesting
is putting a computer on a yacht interesting
we do way more than a computer sir RG being a yacht
dude I got ideas for days I got ideas for days
you can see the fish that's a thing
are you going to jump it over a shark wait no do you
do you jump the shark over the boat or what's the
bigger shark jump Dan help me out here I think the shark jumping over the boat is cooler
yeah yeah can the shark be on fire
it should be on fire that's animal cruelty
you need to get a CG team we have an editing team
we need a computer graphic team so that they can set the shark on fire
and then you can water cool it the water is a water cooled shark
I think all sharks are water cooled whale land for whales cruise
ok no but seriously we're talking about in the pre-show if there is a tech yacht
and he could smack a bunch of starlink on it or something
and we could make a strong Wi-Fi bubble right next to because there's a pier
right next to where LTX normally happens we wouldn't have to buy convention internet
convention internet is incredibly expensive
what if we just did like Floatplane boat and all of the developers just
lived and worked on the boat
what I don't know if we're going to get buy it on that
yeah no I don't think anyone's going to want to do that I'm down
jeez you just want free housing
that's the problem with LMG we don't have a basement
for Luke to live in and now we don't
and the companies go on to hell that's it we don't have a basement
yeah I don't think we're going to get an answer today
it's been really interesting to see your guys' perspectives on it
you know I think you guys know that maybe to a fault
I take community feedback very seriously so I really do appreciate Floatplane chat
too much of it yeah jumping in here with their perspectives
but I really I don't actually see
another way forward other than just doing whatever
and just not worrying about you know people's perception because the reality of it is
like that's why you guys watched us
from day one was that we had cool stuff
that most people could never afford if you start exclusively make like some of the suggestions
that we're looking at here if you start exclusively making software content the channel will die
if you start exclusively making retro content the channel will die
you know that's the problem
is there's a finite amount of retro
and like maybe there's always the possibility of spin-off channels
maybe there's something there I kind of doubt it
there's already people that do that really well on YouTube
and I don't think there's enough
of like a reason to try to compete in that arena there's really good people in that arena
doing a really good job I feel like it's pretty saturated to be completely honest
I don't know what we could bring new to that that I think would be really good
Altar says I think there's a big difference between showcasing cool tech and needlessly
flaunting wealth I've always appreciated the learning and the journey of these videos
I don't think that will change and that is something that we try to do
you know I always talk to the writing team about what's the learning outcome
you know I'll say like hey that sounds like a funny scenario
but it also feels contrived if we aren't learning anything about it
or if we aren't learning anything by coming along on this journey and I don't think that's something
that we would lose track of however those learning outcomes
might not be that relatable they might not be that applicable
a lot of them aren't and that's okay automation systems for a boat
scientific study happens on a lot of things that
have questionable use increasing the body of knowledge regardless
Nooch says I feel Labs will be your legacy accountability and transparency in tech
it's going to be we're going to have an interesting test coming up
we're going to be doing a video on the main LTT channel that is all about
PSU circuit that is about
the incredible work that Lucas and
the other people who work on PSU circuit but realistically
mostly Lucas are doing to
really shed light on what power supplies are good and worth buying
this shows how our brain works I understand that is PSU circuit
but you're talking about PSU circuit and I went to the website and you went to the youtube channel
yeah sorry keep going
anyway they're doing really really great work and I think it's going to be
a real test of
how much we can get people to care about this to see how much
of a bump we see over here like how much of a
how much ongoing interest we can generate and to be clear
I want to make this extremely clear to Lucas and any Labs folks that might be watching
I'm committed to the lab
I also believe that that is the most important
thing that we are doing here right now is increasing
the general public's knowledge when they go to make a purchase decision
and we have learning to do yeah we're not perfect
but we are working on it and it is a goal
whether it's a 12 year goal or whether it's a 12 month goal
or realistically it's both because it's always a moving target
but what this is going to be an indicator for me of
is what the ceiling is on that
what the cap is on it
I hope that it's really high
I hope that people care a lot and I know the videos are not perfect right now
we've got the AI voice but I've seen
people critical of it like can't you even pay a voice over after doing the thing
and I'm like no no I can't
because when we get 4.8 thousand views
on something that is literally like I don't know 20 bucks
I'm not hiring anyone to do anything for 20 bucks
involved in any of this the testing is human
the testing is done by qualified skilled human
it's not really a financial play
just with the testing being human you already lose money on
every single one not even close
but it has a value
it's not about that I have
personally in terms of just like the emotional
burden that it lifts from me
of not having to worry when we talk about a power supply in one of our videos
because I know that Lucas looked at it like that's
I'll buy the power supply tester again hire Lucas again
that alone is 100% worth it for me oh Emily Seddon is watching
today says yay PSU circuit nice she does a lot of work there
yeah keep it up you guys this is important
anyway we've got an LTT coming where we're going to be looking at the test suite and like really talking about it
and there's a full dedicated video promoting it so I'm really excited about that
but other than that I think I'm just not going to give a f*** anymore then
nice will you read less comments along with that
nope I'm addicted you know it
for a von sake no
I mean that's typical addict behavior that's actually how you can define
addictive behavior is that regardless of the impact
on yourself and others you continue doing it
I am addicted to comments I still remember we were out
kayaking and you were trying to read comments while
we were kayaking yeah it makes sense you remember that I don't remember it
but it's probably because you're reading comments yeah probably no I mean I remember kayaking
yeah I don't remember reading comments while I was doing it it's unconscious
it's like
it's a lot I mean look
there are worse vices yeah
just saying there are
I could have way worse vices significantly
if that's my vice it's like
hi I'm Linus and I'm addicted to YouTube
come on it could be worse it could
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alright I need to run to the washroom so Luke's going to pick a thing
I got a merch message for Luke oh nice wow thank you
I have one queued up already Luke
you said avoiding news felt wrong
why? any tips for balance? my wife follows it all and I ignore it
oh boy oh I'm sorry
no this feels like a pre-show topic more than a main show topic
but that didn't used to be true so let's send it anyways I don't know I feel like
being completely ignorant of what's happening in the world is not
good I appreciate personally
being able to hold the conversation about as many things as possible
with as many people as possible as something I've always tried to do like be
at least informed enough to talk about something with as many people as you can
I feel like there's a really effective way to learn is being able to have a conversation with someone
about something so if you completely just stick your head into the ground
and la la la and completely ignore everything happening in the world
I feel like you're just contributing to your own ignorance at the same
time if you let yourself
be heavily and deeply manipulated by the multi
multi-billion tens of billions many many thousands
tens of thousands of people who are employed in spending incredible amounts
of money to effectively mind control you into
reading more and scrolling more and never leaving apps and
spending money in different ways and doing things like that that you are also just letting yourself
be used so I would
employ personally like something that I do is time control
methods so like almost every app that could do
something like that to me on my phone has a time limit
on it where it will close if I keep it open for too long
a major frustration that I have with that is that
all of those in my experience unless all of those that are built into my phone
you might have a different experience maybe you know of some app that handles this
better for you but I don't have an external app for it the ones built into
my phone naturally it's far too easy to bypass
so either you have enough will power it I don't personally have a problem with this
but either you have enough willpower to listen to it when it tells you that you know
you've spent 15 minutes in the YouTube app you should get out
or if you can't find a
more severe method that will not allow you to keep going
but yeah I think it's just have more control of your own life
but don't completely stick your head in the ground I think you should know what's happening in the world
I think you should be informed but I think just reading
negative news for 12 hours a day which is legitimately something a lot
of people actually effectively do
is horrifying for your brain it's really really really bad for your brain
so go touch some grass go do something else spend time with people in your life
in person there's a lot of things I talked about this before but like automated
checkouts automated everything there's a lot of ways these days to
not interact with people and then
you're interacting with AI systems often that are overly nice to you
so you I think as a people we are like
losing our ability to understand that
everyone else is going through horrifying things every day as well
like if you think you have problems everybody has problems
right and I think we kind of lose that empathy when you're not interfacing with people often
you don't experience that so yeah again I don't know
find your own middle ground use tools to fight
because the way that I've described this in the past is the world
is a constant PVP environment there is no escaping it
ever ever so understand
that there are more money than you could ever possibly
properly fathom and tens and tens of thousands
maybe I don't even know amount of people trying to fight actively
for your attention and your time and you should try to
win that as much as you can it doesn't mean you should completely ignore it
but you should try to win that control your own time
don't let yourself spiral don't let yourself death
death scroll or whatever it's called doom doom scroll
and get out of that and then hopefully your life is better
and he's back and part of that also
merch message for Linus when are you doing more women's underwear
we had a long conversation about that
on one of my Mondays off you know how I'm off on Mondays
like Luke takes vacation I had like a
I had like a three hour meeting with the merch team and one of the
things that we discussed was what the heck is our strategy going to be
for women's apparel and the
challenge is that I think the fashion team did an
outstanding job the women's clothing obviously I don't wear it but
I live with someone who wears it regularly and who
you know let me put it this way can afford nice clothes
even though she's often too cheap to buy them but anyway my wife
she can afford perfectly nice clothes and she has some very nice clothes
and often gravitates towards her women's underwear
our women's underwear and bras and clothes and stuff
loves it so I think the fashion team did
just an outstanding job of the design of the product but there's nothing that they can do
about the fact that our viewer demographics are like
97% male 96% male or whatever it works out to
so with that in mind our
women's products have not been commercially
very successful we've sold some
we've moved a little bit at launch and it would trickle out a little bit over time
and then we'd have to kind of blow it away and that's not profitable, that's not sustainable
so part of part of Teran's
look at what exactly the crap it is that we're doing
in the various parts of our business it's been almost two years
since he started it feels like it's been longer
has been trying to be a little bit more focused and intentful in our product launches
how do we control risk, how do we
mitigate that calculated risk that we're taking
with an exit strategy for any project whether it's women's underwear
weird elaborate video idea whatever it is
how do we mitigate that risk we have
as part of that, as sort of taking a step back and looking and going, okay, what are we doing right now
we paused some women's apparel products
projects that were that were on their way to being launched
and we blew out and didn't reorder some of the ones
that were not selling and were not sustainable or profitable for the business
however in the three hour meeting we had a
longer conversation about hey, you guys enjoy working on these
you enjoy wearing them a lot of the fashion team is women
and making products that they can use right, who doesn't
that's something that as a company
we want to try to support right
but we have to do things that are sustainable and make sense
so how do we do that and one of the things that I kind of pitched them
is like, okay, we have a product that you guys know is great
that I know is great because Yvonne freaking loves hers
and says they're competitive with brands that cost literally like 40%
80% more
why don't we get this one over the line and when I push it to the audience
when I present it to the audience I'm basically going to do it in a bit of a different way
and I'm going to kind of go look guys so
I'm not going to ask you to buy this if you don't need one
you know, if you like this category of product, I'm not sure if I want to tell you guys
what it is yet, but whatever it is if you guys like this category of product
and you happen to buy one I've no idea what this is for
if you like it please do something
so we can keep making it tell somebody
you know that we did
sponsoring other tech creators would you ever sponsor
demographics on YouTube that are more
like female shifted honestly I know what they would do
maybe it's like my own insecurity but I kind of look at it and I go like
who wants a clothing sponsorship from us because we don't have a full
people who like money but we don't have a full lineup
everyone I can't do like an underwear sponsorship
and then have people land on our site and the only thing we have is underwear like it's hard to get the
it's hard to get the ball rolling we're not really a feminine clothing
brand and so we're not going to get the ROI out, I can tell you right now
we are not going to get the ROI out of that sponsorship at all, not even close
we're basically just gifting money which I mean sure
we thought we will do and have done sponsorships for our
products that we knew were just essentially just gifting the money
I'm saying this I know you're aware a lot of marketing isn't about
the measurable ROI for that piece of marketing, I'm saying this mostly for them
there's the whole funnel, awareness I get it
but even from an awareness perspective when I say ROI I don't necessarily mean
money I mean some return
here's a weird idea I'm not trying to go
out most of the world is in
hetero relationships I'm not saying everyone is but
what if you did it shortly before like Father's Day or something
so they would go there to buy their own underwear or whatever
and then see that there's other potential gifts that they could buy or shortly before Christmas
I don't know because it could be for their
husband or their partner or it could be for a dad
who knows Valentine's Day, that's a pretty good one
the issue is not selling the men's stuff though, like that's fine
yeah but you're doing that marketing anyways I'm saying like maybe
you can double dip slightly
I think that's something that I would have to lean on like Sammy and Artie
and Dave and stuff to kind of look at because that's one of my
expertise one of our problems is that we make really killer stuff
but not everyone really knows about it yeah definitely
and if you know if our demographic is only 4% women
I can check that and then we make women stuff
very few of the women of the world are gonna know that we made this
so like at a certain point we have to tell them
well I guess what I'm saying is I will need at least some
of your help
you know what, screw it they're yoga pants
they're really good they're like killer
and obviously like we have kind of a tech angle on it
they have decent pockets whoa
so it would be pretty cool
and it's a great product we'd already done multiple sample rounds and like it was
essentially done and then we were just like we pumped the brakes
and we're gonna do it and you know let
help us out chat's freaking out about the pockets
well yeah of course they are it's like we can
you should have just said that what
Dan in Floatplane chat instead of just saying it said I need to get back into doing squats then
yoga pants programming socks
we got a gym at smash champs we have programming socks?
we should we totally should
so I actually was I was pretty bang on
95.5% male 3.3% female
1.2% user specified so there you go
hey there's the age demo in case you guys were wondering, no LTT is not for kids
it's for 25 to 34s you're lying
people like knowledgably talk about how
the discerning viewer watches whatever and LTT is for children
no it's not, it's just for people who have a sense of f***ing humor
alright what else we got today I have two more merch messages for you
good lord, alright hit me I just bought a UPS to protect my setup
how does it clean up Ethernet and coax I understand the electrical waves
but the internet ports confuse me an avid fan waiting for a work promotion
to join flowplay have never understood or used them
actually exactly the same for me
I kind of thought it was almost like a a grounding isolation or something
just a bridging point I thought like you just want all your cables going there
I've never used either of them I have no idea
we are a bad resource for this question I apologize cool, yeah
go ask on Quora Ethernet?
if it hits your house with the internet that is in the house you got the tubes
you got too much data there's too much data
it can only do one gig you're sitting at 1.4 it's going to explode
aux champion says I've had a surge at a workplace that fried some Ethernet ports
coax makes sense too but Ethernet would have to be
lightning coms data transfer
if you plug like 10 gig I doubt it
I don't know what a wonderful question
chicken sloop says my Eaton only does 100 megabit per second on its protected jack
see that could be a problem what is that for?
induced voltage into the line maybe how does that work with PoE?
that seems so crazy though I'm just not going to do it
I'm going to live on the wild side if my Ethernet port gets fried
I'm going to do something I'm going to get an Ethernet card
and I'm going to put it in my computer dang
in current year people aren't going to like it
look at lines with this bougie Ethernet card what a loser
flexing his Ethernet card like some kind of chode
you would probably get a ridiculous one I'm going to get a killer neck
never would they have the big days on them this guy
still have one so much money you can afford
I've got a necklace that is a killer neck
that is sick one percent
or stuff he got that when he was far below
one percent one percent grind sets on mindset
he's always been there this is it
how did you find that picture oh my god
someone else has one I know the heatsink was a thing
I didn't think the I didn't think the necklaces were a thing
I knew about the necklace before I saw yours that's hilarious
I had no idea that is the coolest thing
someone is selling this right now I want another one
35 bucks this is going to be sold so fast
this is sold immediately they were crazy to
market down from 50 bucks they easily got 50 bucks
they didn't know they were going to randomly end up on Wanshow you got them
this is the this looked crazy back in the day
I need to start turning some of my old crap that has cool logos on it into jewelry
yeah that would be a cool trick you should turn some tricks
yeah
this guy in my life is going to get very angry if I start doing that off the side
but how about another merch message does he have a feathered cap?
you don't know that
this hat is not relevant hey LLD
odds on the NVIDIA Shield 2 happening if not we will be stuck
with an ad invested boxes from Google or Amazon or Apple or will someone else
make a top competitor with decent specs and AI features I think I've
I think I've talked about my conspiracy theory that NVIDIA just doesn't bother
until Nintendo orders
a bunch of SOCs in bulk and then they'll just like use that or something
that's my theory I think that the Shield 2 is going to be like
a modified Switch 2 that seems like
a pretty legit theory it's sold really
someone already bought it and it's gone
yeah the Shield is overkill Campbell for certain things
but we needed updated for AI upscaling because I think it only does AI upscaling
up to I forget the resolutions
that it works at but it needs believe it or not it's like the one
product in my life that I'm like needs more AI
because the upscaling on it is really good now but it could be better
it's first firmware update in like 2 years and it fixes
some small bugs but there's still some stuff because it's still on HDMI 1.4
if I recall wait is it HDMI 1.4
NVIDIA, Shield, Pro HDMI
why is 2.1 auto complete does not have an HDMI 2.1
yeah I forget I think it's HDMI 1.4
is it it's not 2.0 is it
guys tell me tell me tell me tell me tell me in chat I forget
what HDMI oh no it's 2.0 it can do 4k 60
but anyway I want I want HDMI 2.1 I want more AI
and other than that I don't think I really care I mean it'd be nice if it could run
Android games better but I don't really play those on it so this I found
now people are telling me it's 1.4 which one is it I know it's got it's got to
be 2.0 doesn't it help me out guys
I found the like what is this
hold on a second this is the
2007 tech promo for
2.0 apparently 2.0 okay so the
2007 tech promo for killer networking cards winning his speed
winning his performance winning his killer ultimate ping
ping throttle max FPS game first
it was it was so serious they were very serious
now I just don't install their drivers because they make my computer worse oh yeah
100% out of the mighty fall Dan do you want to give me some audio
sure okay we ready
I think so oh let's go
that should be playing it it's not just a network card
it's a killer I knew that voice was coming
that's a good voice
oh stop handicapping yourself
oh oh it's been 14 years
killer bypass is your slower network stack
and offloads to killer's own Lennox computer on a card
whoa killer has been optimized for online gaming performance
it's not just a network card it's a killer
and they sold tons of these I personally know at least two people
that bought them literally just because they looked cool I'm not kidding
figured it out after the fact yep you know one of them
I bet you can
don't but I bet you can all I'll say is one letter
the letter is H
I knew he would get it I knew he would get it
I think the other person was his friend
anyways online games get better
all the time but what about your network card
it's a killer oh man
I will never forget this video
I will never forget it good stuff
are we still doing merch messages no now just do topics until you're done
cool tech plane update speaking of
not giving any f***s anymore actually no let's do that later
let's get through the real topics first the UK
will not tighten laws to protect against games being shut down
in a lengthy response to a petition created in response to Ubisoft's shutdown
of the crew the UK government announced that it has no plans to change
consumer laws around digital obsolescence the government went on to explain that the game companies
are bound by existing consumer protection legislation including 2015's
the consumer rights act and 2008's consumer protection from unfair
trading regulations and if customers are led to believe a game
will remain playable indefinitely for certain systems despite the end of physical support
the CPR may require the game to remain technically feasible for example available
offline to play under those circumstances opinion Jordan Block the government's
response spent a lot of time government explaining that businesses need
to make money but it also appears that they think existing laws may be enough
if they are properly enforced which
someone would have to force them to do which seems very unlikely
at this time also UK related
but the UK has demanded access to Apple users encrypted
data the Washington Post reports that the UK
home office has demanded that Apple create a backdoor to allow government
access to encrypted data stored on iCloud by Apple users worldwide
using what Apple called advanced data protection or ADP
the demand was made under the UK Investigatory Powers Act of 2016
which makes it a criminal offence to reveal that the government has ever made such a demand
Apple can appear to Apple can appeal
I think what?
Apple can appeal to a secret technical panel
but cannot delay complying during an appeal
no way the US government has previously
asked for this but Apple has pointedly refused currently
only the Apple account holder can access data stored in this way Apple itself
cannot view it Apple has previously said it would pull encryption services
like ADP from the UK market rather than comply with such government demands
telling parliament it would never build a backdoor in its products
however pulling encryption services is
worse in my opinion
the UK and FBI in particular have said that encryption
lets terrorists and child abusers hide more easily tech companies have pushed back
stressing a right to privacy and personal communication and arguing that
backdoors for law enforcement are often exploited by criminals and can be abused
by authoritarian regimes I don't know if I agree about the pulling encryption thing
and let me explain why on the surface level I do think I agree with you
but if they build a backdoor I think that gives other parties
like the FBI a stronger argument
for like hey give us that too sure
I think if they're just like we are literally never doing that then they don't open that box
they don't open that door if they just take away ADP
then that gives the US government the ability to say
hey take it away here too I don't know I think it's the exact same thing
personally I'm less likely to do that though
because the US government supports encryption I mean the US government
seems to change its stance on it every four years the US government does a 180
because the last guy the last guy loved it
why f***ing hate it a few months ago the US government supported encryption
who knows what they do now discussion question
who are the good guys at this point
I don't know anyway UK keep UK
and AMD has outsold Intel
in the data center for the first time ever
genuinely crazy on Tuesday AMD announced their Q4 2024 earnings
and for the first time they beat Intel in the data center
their revenue in Q4 2024 was 7.858 billion up 24% year over year
and their data center business accounted for nearly half of that
totaling 3.89 billion a nice
69% increase year over year the funny thing about this is that Intel's data center revenue
was 3.4 billion making it the first time in history
oh no this is just the same thing again anyway that said
analysts were expecting more from AMD with their instinct MI300 series
AI GPUs failing to catch on
why can't people just be like why can't we just celebrate wins
that's an insane historical win I am disappointed absolutely wild
hell yeah do you want to do one
sure tech plane update I'm kidding not yet
let's see here oh there's not much left yeah we're pretty close
UK UK AMD tech plane
why are you reading all the collapsed ones Rooster Teeth is under
management Rooster Teeth media company
and Rooster Teeth the media company and YouTube channel was shut down last year
on May 15th 2024 after a slow decline in viewership
two days ago February 5th the YouTube channel posted a video
titled homecoming which was actually it was pretty good
which shows original co-founder Bernie Burns amazing name
walking back into the original building that was the Rooster Teeth office
as well as a blog post that was posted on their website stating that he and his wife
Ashley have acquired Rooster Teeth Rooster Teeth
the direction Rooster Teeth will be taking going forward is still unclear the only things that are
confirmed are the following it is just Bernie and his wife that purchased
and are working at this time no other past employees and only a couple
of their IPs have been purchased such as Red vs. Blue, Camp Camp
and the RT podcast discussion question good for them if
Linus media group had gone through the same fate being bought out and slowly died
do you think you would want to walk back in and repurchase it to try and revive
it and I think you would
even though I think right now I'm going to answer for you
I'm going to say that I think you would because even if you might say no right now
you have never let NCX go and at this point in time you've worked here
longer so what bring it you know what I don't think so if it
gets trashed you'd be sitting there like I could bring it back I could do it
I know it but I still want to bring NCX back
yeah this is my point there is no way
I don't care what you say if you try to say you wouldn't I don't believe you at all
I might make another offer
exactly that's why I was so confident I could
answer that it's hard for me to put myself in those
shoes though because at this point having not taken the offer
I just don't think I'd sell I think I'd just
walk away and just
I think I'd mothball that felt like the time
that was the one if it was going to be one that was the one
but then hearing you talk about what are you going to be doing in 12 years
it's hard to imagine myself making youtuber thumbnail faces
in 12 years I don't know I don't know the answer to that
and
people might disagree with this in my opinion transformative tech has slowed
down dramatically if we try to look at the 12 years that
happened from when we were 10 to 22
crazy not even close
it's crazy we're still using desktops
you know phones came out we're still using phones
most usages on phones now they just do a lot more stuff we have smartwatches now
which is just a smaller phone strapped to your wrist
so like I don't know part of me wants to be
like is you know online roughly this shape
or roughly this shape video even still going to be a thing but then
transformative tech has really slowed down I'm telling you last week
cybernetics we're doing legs
become a vtuber but like no actually
because that's what everyone is now we've talked about that
that is something that we have like I've spoken with Teran about
that being a trend that I've kind of identified it's something that we talked about
as a potential direction for ShortCircuit or first off for ShortCircuit for a
PSU circuit so we went with just the top down
product view AI voice but an evolution of that could be
a vtuber host power man
would this be like an LTD branded character that you would do? I don't know
I thought I was just trying to imagine people with power man power man
probably not the best choice in the current political climate but good idea
Luke oh my goodness
oh no oh no
oh no anyway
cool so what are we talking about?
we were talking about rooster teeth and their revival
yeah so would I do it? I'm gonna say no
they were out for five years five years a long time and that
wait what? rooster teeth? no no Bernie
he left like 2020 or something like that like before the
swirling the toilet for all these years
oh maybe I would I don't know you totally would
I don't know but he just didn't like himself and his wife
like okay you're telling me you tell it yeah no
like you're not still here you would try to ring the gong
and get the gang back together I am a thousand percent confident
in how you would do this I would get a discord message at one in the
morning be like hey what
what if we bought it back what if we did it dude
we can do it we can win show back together
message Dan
I'd be there and this is why
because you know it you know it I hope you know it
would you join them yeah and that's why you would do it
we'll get the band back together only fly back from Mars
I'll float my super yacht I'll float my
super gamer yacht back and then take the gamer plane and then we'll get it going again
all right let's talk about Google's 4a into
screwing the pixel 4a earlier that's really funny
by the way who wrote this Adam of course it was earlier this month
Google pushed an unexpected automatic update to the end of life pixel 4a
what new features does it bring
lower battery life according to a post on the pixel support blog
certain pixel 4a devices will receive an update that includes new battery management
features to improve the stability of your battery's performance so the battery may last for shorter periods between charges
why well the support document doesn't give a reason
Ars Technica reached out to Google but as of the time of writing hasn't
received any clarification but it turns out that it wasn't a small reduction
with several users reporting a halving of battery life
and some reporting less than two hours of battery life
Adam said it is not clear what the proportion of screen on time to idle time
is in those cases though Ars Technica noted that this is
similar to what Apple did with their iPhones before 2017 only
Google seems to want to get out in front of it and be transparent rather than waiting until they get sued
Google is offering affected owners free battery replacement
$30 of cash money or $100 in Google Store credit towards a new pixel phone
all of these options seem to have issues
some users who received the battery swap are reporting that they still have limited capacity
Google has removed the old firmware from their website making it more difficult for users to roll back
using a trusted source that sucks and users who want the cash
use a service called Pioneer which asks for your social security number
checking account details and other personal information and also charges $30 a year
to accounts that receive less than $2,000 per 12 months meaning that users need to
make sure to cancel their accounts Finally, the Google Store credit only applies to pixel phones
and can't be combined with other products on sale
Yikes Big Yikes
Finally, other than tech plane a viewer finds
an LTT bottle lid on a non-LTT
bottle to clean a bottle I bought from the gym
and saw this so as you guys know
recently we developed a new and improved version
of our twist top spout lid
it has the threads on the outside now so on the outside rather than the inside
to make it easier to clean and it has, you can see them, they're very distinctive
these nice little pull tabs for both this O-ring
and actually the second O-ring in here to make them easier to clean
it's also more durable people hate it when I do this
but that's why I do it anyway it's really hard to break
the handle part I like it, I think you just might want to mute the mics next time
sorry about that anyway, it's really good
and someone got it on a water bottle that
was not from LTT Store from Niklite
there are a few potential options here one could be that
the factory that produces our lids is using our mold without our approval
which is bad because A, that's our IP
that we designed and B it wears out the mold
molds have a limited shelf life they last for a long time
but they do have a limited shelf life so they should not do that
one other possibility is that this gym
might have just bought a bunch of our lids
put them on water bottles it's not a secret
that our threads are the same as Hydroflask
and a number of other water bottle brands so if you
have one of the water bottles that uses these threads
you can buy this excellent lid from LTT Store and you can put it on it
mind you if you want a new water bottle
we'd obviously think maybe get both
sure, you could get a nice water bottle we don't know for sure
what's going on right now but we do know that that is
definitely our lid because it's definitely our mold
with definitely our logo on it cool
and if it's a gym that's just reselling them then that's completely fine
that's totally fine, in fact maybe reach out to customer support
and maybe we can get you a bulk deal I suspect that's not the case
I don't know, we'll see so
Tech Plane have I disclosed on WAN
show what the message was that I showed you that we were like
what at the end when we were talking about the Tech Plane? you have not
I'm not going to name any names but someone
who works at Linus Media Group has a close acquaintance
who it turns out owns a freaking private jet
sick and happens
to be interested in offloading said private jet
no, it's not Dan we're not going to
do any more clarification no further clarification
it's Dan it's not Dan
I'm the boat guy, I explained that I think that's why people keep saying that
it might be Dan you don't know that
you don't know what I'm about I was shocked
I was shocked at the affordability
of a private jet it's not something that I have personally
looked into that is a reasonable statement for what he's talking about
it is Luke, I've looked at them
and I've been like whoa, these are like 30 million dollars I don't think affordability
is the correct word to use in that sentence
it's all relative and that's why I laughed
that is precisely why I laughed hold on, let me finish here
let me finish let me finish
every time I looked at it I've been like what private jet does
Taylor Swift fly and it's like anywhere from 30 to
50, 60 million dollars as much as you want to be, you're not actually Taylor Swift
I know my thighs though
I think my thighs are about as big as hers I need to take your opportunity
because when you were talking earlier you said your shake it off, shake it off thing
and I wanted to let you keep talking but I had to ask this
you mentioned wife bum slap wife slapping your bum to be clear
and saying where'd your butt go after your wisdom teeth
has the cake returned I think that people need to know
the cake is not returned you got to eat more and do squats in the gym
I know right I'm on the stair master like every other day
so I just need to eat more some yoga pants
anyway anyway
so Taylor Swift so
I was shocked at the relative
affordability of like a jet because I thought a private jet
is just like millions millions of dollars
they're going to think relative to you I'm going to give them a number
and they're going to be like wow how is that affordable to anyone
it was under a million dollars for a jet
not like a propeller plane like a jet that would seat like nine people
so is this like
I know it's not people are actually like
they get it now but Vancouver real estate is so bad
that you could like live there instead of an apartment yeah
the problem would be there's a two bedroom house across the street
for me that's 1.8 million dollars the problem is you can't park it anywhere
see this is what I'm talking about you guys in Vancouver is it cheaper
to fly a jet to work than live close about it
I think it would be cheaper to live in the jet this is what I'm saying
you wouldn't pay property tax I was very
surprised when I first heard the price and I was like
excuse me pardon okay I thought it was more
no it's a private-ass corporate jet
jet that did like
over Mach 0.8 or whatever do you buy a townhouse
an hour away from Vancouver suburbia or
hear me out a private jet
that is so stupid so
so but
so I was looking at that going
oh hold on a second tech plane
because that's not bad bones to start with
now obviously you're gonna need to look into maintenance records
and it's not in Canada
so let me explain why
the deal is dead and therefore the tech plane project
may be dead sure
it's not in Canada that's a big problem transport Canada
apparently and this is from talking to my uncle
my uncle's been in the aviation industry for like 40,000 years
more like 40 so my uncle's been
he's done corporate he's done commercial
he has owned an aircraft for himself
he does firefighting now so he's basically
oh does he do the like those are so safe dude
he was talking I was talking to him about it because I was chatting with him about this
right after we talked about it on WAN Show for the
LA fires and he was just like
yeah like he's stowing on Shalana
I'm like dude that's so cool he's like we're not that close to the ground
he gives me the number I'm like that's really close to the ground no that's insane
so I went on a trip a weekend or two ago
I don't know time is an illusion with Emma and her family
to see some of their cousins or whatever and while we're going on the trip
we're just mad of all these like sick Canadian and others
like water bombers going over the LA fires and we're just nerding out over the whole time
so cool he might not think it's cool because he does it all the time
it is objectively sick so anyway he's been around the block
he's been around the turbine a little bit so to speak
and he basically goes just because something's air worthy
in America does not mean it is air worthy
like Canada is this because Canada is more stringent
or because the rules are different both
so for example he told me about this one plane that's a triple engine plane
you've got two on the sides and you've got one that's like embedded in the tail and he goes
in the United States that's kosher
totally cool in Canada you need
what's called a basically
you need this reinforcement ring that goes around it
he gave me a couple examples of materials I'm not going to try and tell you guys
what the materials were basically he goes so here's the situation
you want to take an American plane that was built to American standards
with one of those on it bring it up into Canada
you're pulling off that engine you're buying this ring for like
20 grand 30 grand it's aviation so it just immediately goes up
you're putting that ring on the engine you're putting the engine back on
you're into this for tens of thousands of dollars if you're lucky
and that's just that's just one example
sorry GM Shippo in Flipping Shot said the plane that crashed in Philly last week
had been flagged by Canada before it crashed
transport Canada basically from him talking about them
it seems like they're a bit of a pain in the ass but it's overall a good thing
in the way that you'd probably want them to be it's overall seems like a good thing
Draco Nightwalker says it's called a cowl so make of that what you will
I have no idea if that's right that's not what he called it but sure cowl fine
okay concern number two as you can imagine
a sub one million dollar private jet
probably a little on the older side and he was telling me parts availability
for these things nevermind parts cost parts availability
for these things can be a big challenge and he was telling me
so he's down in Australia right now working
firefighting and he was telling me about just totally
unrelated plane unrelated story but basically just this older plane that he knows someone
who has it grounded because he needs a fuel pump
for it he goes yeah this thing this fuel pump about the size of your fist
so bigger than mine but a little bigger than this
let's say like that and they finally
tracked one down planes been grounded for months 60 grand
because f**k you that's why this is the only one you're gonna get because this is the only
one that exists because this is the thing this is the thing these planes right
they don't actually like make that many of them like a successful
model of plane they might make hundreds of
you know what I mean an unsuccessful model of plane
they might make more like dozens of
and so when you when you look up like a model of plane on Wikipedia or whatever
it'll be like yeah they built 322 of these of which
these because it's all registered and it's all it's all tracked in everything extremely track of which
you know 10 of them crashed and this many of them did this and this many are grounded for this reason
and so for these older planes what some people end up doing is they actually
they go and buy a parts plane it's actually more economical
they buy an entirely separate what about second plane
and just park it so that when something breaks they can just pull one off
and hope that that one works their own private scrapyard
um yeah so this
yeah MMGF says old lear jets are cheap because the engines have to be
retrofitted to be quiet! and the cost is millions um
yeah yeah so so we've got the concern
about parts availability we've got the concern about getting the bloody thing into Canada in the
first place which even if everything's totally fine is going to cost thousands and thousands
of dollars in inspections and validation and certification and everything yeah
um the most popular plane ever made
it was only 144,000 of them yeah
kinapse 7 full plane jet yeah that's that sounds like it makes sense so what would that be like the 7
37 or something like what's the most what's the most popular what plane is that
um let me know yeah yeah yeah I actually I have no idea I just guessed is it like
some little Cessna or something I actually have no idea
user raiden 428 says but Linus a jet
will significantly help your son's dating game lol
which I thought was a funny comment what sorry what do you say I said
we'll help your son's user raiden 428 in chat says Linus
though a jet will significantly help your son's dating game it probably would
probably would probably would probably would what if you what if instead
of a baller car you could take your dad's jet to prom
I mean what like just taxi it there yeah there's no runway
you know like go up in the air go around a circle land and then take a limo to
school there you go um my uncle also
you know kind of opened my eyes to some of the
some of the uh
costs that people might not realize are associated with operating a
private aircraft so for example you know you when
you think of like what the the hourly operational cost of flying one of these might be
what would you what would you think of like give me give me some give me some numbers
that would you all yeah your fuel pilots your pilot potentially
we don't know if there's two or one let's say two okay so pilots those
are very expensive yeah uh yeah last I checked pilots are not
cheap do you have a stewardess type person not on
that one if not is someone like
stocking it like is there is there extra hanger fees of some kind so someone
who acts as your realistically full-time mechanics slash engineer
providing maintenance yeah yeah you should probably have one of those and the the hanger fees in general
I think should be diluted out over the hours that you fly it for yeah but hanger
fees yeah yeah uh does it cost
money to land at an airport so far we've got a staff that is probably somewhere
in the neighborhood of half a million us dollars a year easy we've got hanger
that's tens of thousands of dollars a year we've got fuel burn rates that are
somewhere in the thousands of dollars an hour
an hour disgusting um what else we got
uh yeah does it cost money to land at an airport yes okay
I didn't actually know if you fuel up there my understanding is that
they might discount or waive the fees but then
you might be overpaying for your fuel so yep yep who knows
um yeah I know maintenance and stuff is already included
I also need to not be reading that um nope it's not oh we said the
maintenance person didn't we yeah the person open up the parts so here's the thing
um there's this program called an msp
which is a manufacturer program I think something along those lines but basically
what it amounts to is a cost usually
in the hundreds of dollars an hour but can reach into
thousands of dollars per flight hour where it's essentially
like an insurance program that you pay into where when your engine
comes up for an overhaul or even replacement the manufacturer
of said engine will cover everything so you you ship it out
to them you they refurb it or they send you one that they've already refurb
and you throw it on there yeah you keep down your
basically your maintenance time and
essentially if you don't have an msp
you are rolling the dice on
whether you will be able to get replacement parts in a timely manner
how long it's going to be down for maintenance which is going to cost you a lot more than just
paying into your msp um
managed services program maintenance service plan
I'm sure every industry has a slightly different but basically
an msp max o drive
says the most popular private was the Learjet 35 36 and they made just
over 700 of those yeah so if you are not if you are
not paying into your msp and they don't
and the manufacturer you know doesn't happen to you know just like have parts
lying around for you you're just like who knows who knows basically you're at the
mercy of finding one of those other 700 people who bought one of those planes
at some point like it's I was amazed at how small
the aviation industry is from kind of talking to him about all of this
how utterly tiny the pool
of people who like own these planes oh yeah yeah yeah
um because like on the other hand you know I'll I'll look up some you know
rando celebrity and it's like oh yeah you know Jim Carrey has a private plane or you know
this or that um and I'm just like yeah it seems like
every freaking celebrity in their dog has a stupid you know private jet or whatever
um but but but no the actual ownership pool for these things
is is flipping is flipping tiny um
and seeing these these ongoing costs it also
kind of gave me some perspective on you know why you have people like Jim Carrey
saying yeah why did I do Sonic 3 because I needed
the money like I guess they just get used to like this lifestyle where
if you fly between you know Vancouver and New York you're
spending you know 20 $25,000
one way I think so I think it would be
pretty nuts for Jim Carrey to take an economy flight yeah that's true
not not because I'm like I'm not a person of his status
I just like oh he just get overrun yeah it would be insane
yeah yeah that's tough
honestly it's getting to the point even at my very
limited like internet fame where it's getting to be a bit much
like I I would always say in the past like I I have
enough notoriety to know I don't need more and that was when it was
less than it is now like I I I don't mind if people
you know come up and take a selfie or whatever it's like it's fine I actually
I appreciate you guys I appreciate that I get to have the coolest job in the
world and you guys make that possible but what I will say
is that individuals aside I don't mind the individuals
I appreciate the individuals collectively
it is getting to be a little bit much like it used to be
that if someone walked up and wanted a selfie we would take a selfie and then I would
continue doing whatever it is that I'm doing multiple times
I have taken my kids for ski lessons the last little while and
when the first person takes the picture a couple other
people stand up nearby and they're like okay me too now that somebody broke the ice
that's getting to be a bit much yeah I don't I don't I don't have a solution
to that other than just like what retire I think if I retired it would go away extremely quickly
though like I think I would fade from the collective consciousness really fast compared to like a real
celebrity I disagree Oh I strongly disagree with what you just
said I'm practically only on Wansho I still get it all the time yeah but you're still
actively on Wansho Wansho has hold on
Wansho has probably almost
20,000 live viewers right now people will very often like I went to the dentist
this week and dude in the lobby recognized me I think you're numb
to the numbers and said that he watched
the mineral oil build from forever yeah but I think
you still it would still fade and remember but you got to remember too
on top of him watching that build like you're you're being brought
up from time to time like we remember things so much better
when we are reminded of them periodically versus if we completely are not reminded
of them I think I'd fade pretty fast
I don't Keanu Reeves apparently flies commercial
frequently says real avus in YouTube chat which I'm now closing because I don't
look at YouTube chat I have also seen like videos of him noticing
of people noticing him in public and leaving him alone and then
seemingly no one bothering him like I feel like he chameleons really
well somehow how can you be that cool I don't know
how can anyone be that cool I will never be that cool
yeah I think I think there's a somewhat of a critical mass of content for you
and memes like the memes have
incredible reach yeah but like
there was a Michael Reeves video that came out this week that like your face is randomly and I got jump
scared by it I was like what the heck
but it was one of the memes of you
just everywhere let me go
find it I don't know if I can
it's really quick at a random part of his video okay while he's looking that up I have a few more
plane updates one of the other things I learned from my uncle
is that the amount of things we would be able to modify
about the plane are extremely limited
and he basically said look I haven't looked that closely at this yet
so this is just my my understanding
without looking into it in more detail because he understands that
you know we are DIY and we want to like do stuff to it
and he's like okay I get that but here's the line as far as I understand
as soon as you take a screw or a bolt
and you put it between whatever thing you have
and the plane it has to be certified
and so which is good
it's good but it would seriously limit
our ability to just like put cool stuff in it
you know like if I wanted to build our own in-flight entertainment system
yeah you'd have to mount it mid-plane instead of on the
walls essentially you would have to essentially velcro it
to like the side of the seat and like
everything would have to be mounted with velcro or clamps or
temporarily no even bolting something to the seat gotta be certified
yeah he was telling me he redid the interior of a plane
way back in the day when he was working corporate and they were due for a redo
and he's like look you gotta understand everything from the like G-rated frame
to the foam to the surface material it's all
related everything about it
is designed for minimum flammability
because they really don't want fire spreading in these things
and it's like that makes sense mini spring says just do french cleats
sure but we're gonna need a certified french cleat mount like anything
anything that gets bolted to the plane is my understanding is my understanding
anything bolted to the plane could be trouble and yes plasmator
if you start thinking about weight and balance and how much you want to take with you
you'd be over the idea yeah there you go so I'm not saying never
I'm just saying but yacht
that yacht is still for sale in spite of us talking about it on wandshow
the tech yacht yacht
have you reached out yet? I haven't are you going to? I don't know
I think it would warrant a conversation because he can talk to you like your plane guy talk to you
and I'll tell you it's way easier to modify a boat
you can do whatever the hell you want yeah my brother-in-law
is very supportive of the tech yacht as well actually I don't see it
hold on is it sold? there will always be another
I don't know there is no rush for you to get the yacht
there it is boys here's the yacht
also again I would say competitive with real estate in Vancouver
I know right? except the storage
except the storage fees dude
the storage of the boat sorry I thought you meant storing things on
if boats don't come with a mooring spot these days you just don't buy them
because that's almost harder to get than the boat
this seems to be moored somewhere yeah but it might not come with it
but you gotta make sure of that but you should call the guy
call the guy the connection to this boat and him
and everybody is actually hilarious I don't know if I informed Luke
but this guy knows like the original owner
the old captain the boat itself
call the guy talk to him just have a conversation
you don't have to buy the boat just have a little sales pitch
sit down and then I'll get my kick and then he can tell you
here's my point yeah that's what you do
you get Reeves' butt you
say that I'm underestimating the influence of still being on the way
on show I think you're underestimating the influence of you being
f***ing everywhere yeah I don't know
I still think I'd probably get my privacy back it would reduce
mine has reduced but I don't think it's gonna go away
DyslexicStoner240 says Linus honestly
if you bought a yacht I would unsubscribe
but DyslexicStoner must have tuned into the WAN Show late today
because I have entered my not giving a f***ing phase so
he bought a badminton center
oh you're spelling it out for them no no no badminton centers
don't cost money Luke we just pointed out that
is competitive with the pricing of the yacht
uh the badminton center is a business
yeah right yeah it's a business it's a very profitable business
you pointed out that it's not necessarily making a ton of money the reviews are great
the reviews are great
the yacht would be being chartered though uh yeah I would think so
so it would be a business does this now make it acceptable
is this a trade deal can we shake
we need to hear from DyslexicStoner 240
specifically is it okay if it's a business
because I think the point that Luke was trying to make is that
the yacht is I knew you were kidding
DyslexicStoner you're always in the chat you're
no I'm taking this very seriously someone named DyslexicStoner
240 would never be making a hee hee
I'm full simp baby
I think we've talked about this guy a lot he's come up
more than once I remember that name he goes whew sorry I'm high
I would have never seen that coming
but yeah I don't know like
it'd be so fun to build this thing just get a yacht
just get the boat just get the boat
just call the guy just call the guy
I mean it costs nothing to go see it or call the guy
there's the first step he's hooked now boys
it's over tech yachts happening
if it's a business here's the thing though here's what I fear
here's what I fear in the same way
that there's a reason an old corporate jet is under a million dollars
what a value why is that yaka to
I feel like there's a reason that this 123 foot
tri-deck yacht
is like under 2 million US dollars like what does that even work out to
currently called the sovereign lady you could rename it the gamer boy
apparently it's really bad luck oh yeah you don't do that
what to convert to CAD to change the name
of a boat 1.7 million US dollars
that seems to me the lay person
like not a lot of money
for 123 foot yacht you really got to qualify that statement
I'm just saying like here for context
here is another 1.6
million dollar yacht
look at the size of this thing yeah but when did that one
be birthed this is a toy by comparison
it is 57 feet don't get that one
yeah it's a big boat that is half the size
of this one there's an inverse relationship
of the cost of the boat to its size a 60 foot yacht is manageable
for somebody that has 2 million dollars to spend on a boat
a 123 foot yacht is not manageable for somebody that has 2 million dollars
to spend on a boat so that's exactly it
clearly this thing is so old that anyone who could afford
the upkeep of it could afford a better yacht
that's the thing so I would basically be buying
something that nobody else could ever want
that I couldn't even give away because it costs so much to maintain
that anyone who could possibly maintain it couldn't possibly want it
it's like owning a beautiful
gilded golden house the most beautiful house
but it's in mission you know
it's in mission and not the good part of mission
I'm kidding there's no good part of mission
they're trying not very hard
there's one good part of mission when you leave
and she left she's from mission?
I know this is good questions to ask the guy
why is this boat so cheap tell me about boats
maybe you should go see him and ask you should talk to him
wouldn't it just be fun? I'll go he can take you around the boats
he's a really good dude call the guy
call the guy content
that's not how that works that's definitely not content
this is a serious discussion what is the desired outcome
how many computers do you want to be able to sleep on it
it can also talk to you about the economics of actually running it as a business
and chartering it this is why he's the guy
because you know it's all about the chartering
in the off season a boat like this goes for 60,000 a week
like right now yeah but who gets it though
exactly why you talk to the dude guy
so Luke what would we do? obviously
the upper deck here you kind of leave that as is
that's the party zone that's the hot tub zone
that's awesome all the RGB
some aesthetic changes but we're not making this part the landing
in here you make this like board game
board game land okay simple
because this looks like the under deck so it's not just a video game yacht
no no it's gaming yacht it's gaming in general yacht
gaming yacht for me personally
but I don't know anything about this so maybe he'd tell me what an incredibly
crazy idea this is but I would actually probably reduce the bedroomness
of it I would probably want to convert
some of the bedroom spaces more gaming spaces
that's a good question for the chartering side of it because we want to still make sure
that you can charter it so instead of like a room where you can smash
we'd have the smash room so you'd have like a big TV and a switch
different kind of switch oh
you'd probably want to keep the main bedroom you'd probably need to keep
like a cruise quarters of some sort right
but beyond that I would look at this and I would say no this is more of
like a we go out for a little cruise and we game we rent it
for like a bit as opposed to like we go on an expedition
kind of renovation yeah what if
you do like bunk bedroom yeah
obviously you wouldn't be able to
the TVs would need to go coming up with I think there's like
six bedrooms in this TV in the bedroom
six state rooms so coming up with like
a new unique purpose for each one of them you could do themes
you could do themes the switch room the xbox room yeah or like the Mario room
whatever yeah like you could do themed rooms could legitimately be sick
obviously we'd have to that is a multi monitor setup
to find some balance between you know adding some tech to it but also
you know not messing around with stuff that's good
because this stuff is friggin expensive oh yeah and whatever's in here
probably good enough to navigate probably don't want to
this room almost at all this is where you drive other than
make it like I don't know cool we could put some RGB strips around the top or something yeah you just don't want
I don't think you would like want very many people in there annoying for the
cat no I'm kidding you can still do something
sure we could put an RGB gaming keyboard on the computer in there
anyway in here this is where like the fun
happens this is where you create like an ultimate lounge maybe you mount like you get
rid of some of these Windows you mount like a samsung the wall here you know
well no you still want couches you want chairs right
no not down here that would be I think I'm
consistently forgetting the absurd scale of this
130 foot boat is absolutely bonkers
how many floors is it three so that was
I believe that was downstairs that you were just looking at no no up here is the pc
gaming this is the gate like the pc LAN there's probably a fourth floor
as well where the crew state rooms would be
they might hide them away but normally there is another like
in the in the bowels of the ship where they have
little tiny bunk beds that your actual crew would sleep on right because this would be
a staffed boat asking is this still available
will be ignored that's so funny
so anyway um
power consumption would be a major concern in our build
yeah no especially if we had large scale displays
we'd have to do something to make sure I would be actually be very interested
if anyone is working on a Ryzen
AI max like desktop like a mini desktop
I would be very interested in this because that right there is the
GPU and IO and these right here are the compute
dies this thing is crazy I feel like you'd want like super power efficient
spectacle computer oh definitely like on the like you know if you had
like an LED wall or something like that yeah you'd have something from like
Origin PC your main gear or whatever like that's just crazy
yeah that's like tricked out but the LAN PCs
I think they could be like Ryzen AI max totally I think so yeah
because you'd want maximum power efficiency um stock
stocko Tato says jack response dude honestly though
getting sponsorships for this project series
easy like easy because it's so cool
people don't do this nobody else does this gaming
yacht gaming yet as long as you don't touch the frame
my understanding is going to do pretty much whatever you want
or or hear me out actually no I'm not going to compare
to a plane maybe weight distribution to a very minor degree yeah maybe it's
130 foot what are you going to put in there lead good boy right it's hard
I mean you got to be careful with like waste and water and stuff like that but
most of the time it's like I don't know could we cool the PCs with seawater
that's what I want to know I was gonna yeah I mean you totally could with heat exchange
I mean maybe they also it might gum up the works because
you know seawater like I don't know water is used for cool gaming
mode where it like deploys the radiators down into the
water and then like some solar panels like fold out from the roof and it like deploys
like it like a like a starcraft 2 like siege tank I understand
so we go immobile and our like solar panels
on the top like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
and then the giant seawater radiators descend into the yeah
oh I'm getting the willies this is awesome he's so sick
that's not what people usually mean by willies Dan
it has nothing to do with your willy hmm
well I'm trying to keep it family friendly as Vito says would you paint the boat
well we better anything you store in the water in the ocean
you're gonna be painting on a pretty regular basis fantastic opportunity for a
sponsor collab oh dude deep brand good deep brand
deep brand wrapped my boat we have a
do I even want to say it we have a I don't know if I
hmm we have a wrapped in the way that your car originally was
skin on this boat
kind of hilarious dude it would be kind of hilarious it is
hard to get a sense of the scale of this thing this right I think I'm struggling
with this right here okay that
that is this this thing is a
floating freaking house this is a grill there
that'd be sick I know I could see you flipping burgers during
a land dude on a yak oh it doesn't have the geosynchronous
ones some of them have galleys that have them on a little like
hinge so that when the ship lists from side to side the grill
stays upright or the stove or the range in the in the galley we'd have to get one
of those like we could do that yeah we'd have to get one of those although
about this size it actually probably doesn't matter because it's not going to list as much
yeah this thing is freaking huge it depends where you go how
wide is the WAN set I think it's like WAN on a
yacht oh no dude I'm on a boat
do you want to do WAN on a boat the title makes itself the Yacht WAN
after dark is just when it gets late no I was I was thinking
of like the distance between 101 and 105 and if that
was even 130 feet
oh really like how wide are these buildings
130 feet is a big thing
it's like actually horrifying how large 130 foot
boat is
I think this would be a mistake I think this would be a mistake more
fast as says OMG phone the guy already pull the trigger
just call the guy go he will take you that's maybe
not necessarily I'll go see 130 feet is a
big boat you know you got a
60 foot boat for two and a half million 130 foot is just too much
boat tell me this Dan tell me this how do they transport this
on land does it just never go to land again
normally you just put it on a larger ship
there are boats that carry boats and they sink into the
water then pick up the boat okay tell me this tell me this
if we wanted to dry dock it while we were working
on it is that a thing even yeah absolutely how
like how do we could we move it inland or does it have to be like
you could probably put it on a trailer that would cost a lot of money but
it's this very few places that can deal with 130
but there are places there are larger boats than this
there's boats that are designed so that they can like partially sink themselves
to get under other boats and then raise back up out of the water and move them away
it's probably not going to be like crazy around here maybe on the island I don't exactly know
so you're saying AJ might move here if we get a tech yacht
the ice cream machine didn't do it the cookie
didn't do it maybe tech yacht
okay I'm just looking now we got it
I'm looking for a reference here because I think that
I'm right in this just give me a second okay
moving it is content oh my god actually probably would be a very interesting
yeah because like realistically we're going to want to do so much
stuff to it that I I wouldn't want to like
go down to the marina for our shoot every day
we actually be convenient to have it way closer to here
for reference you guys have both been to smash jams yeah
it is as long as there are the seven courts
it will fit in smash jams one of the halls
that is how long the boat is
oh that's too big that's gotta be unnecessary
everything that we listed out that you wanted to do I'm pretty sure we can do oh it'll do everything
and sleep for staff members call the guy
oh I don't know if I should call the guy that might just be too big 100
yeah I feel like you should call the guy just to see it because a lot of that
space is probably the other thing is that he's not just that boat he has
loads of boats and he could show you different ones and give you advice
and maybe help you make a recommendation or just talk to him just
have a fun day and go see the guy you don't have to see him just have a conversation
well no I'm gonna go see the guy go see the boat
and the boat okay I'll go see the guy yeah I'll go see the boat
cause even if you don't end up doing it like whatever that's cool I don't know
that's fun you gotta do fun things my nicest version of
fun is like I'm gonna stay home and look at my TV in my
look at my TV he's gonna be in the same room as his TV and then
reading comments on his phone yeah good call yeah I'm gonna
be upset because my family wants to watch the upstairs TV and I want to watch the
downstairs TV they want to watch the TV in the main galley
when they go look at a boat but it was so much work to build the downstairs
theater room why don't they want to watch them there maybe they'll watch it when
you're out on your boat maybe they just
that would be the time they chose I will say this I will say this
the wife approval factor of boat
is low much lower than wife approval factor
of tech plane I can't explain why
like I literally I know it's not like cause it's a secret I'm just telling you
that when I have had these conversations but tech plane doesn't sound like it's gonna be real
she literally can't even set foot on this thing
on a 130 foot boat cruise ships she gets real
she gets seasick on like the bc ferries yeah like no
she gets seasick
like tech plane is boring though yeah the tech boat
willing spy says boats get you laid dude I'm married
still work
you can get laid within your relationship okay that's a lie Luke
we all know that ah
look works okay
I have no comment now or ever on the traditionality
or non-traditionality of mine and Yvonne's sexual relationship
wait you're supposed to get laid when you're in a relationship
no comment I gotta make some calls
no comment I think it's time for
when after dark I feel like we've been in that mode
for a minute but you know
call the guy I think it'll be fun you don't even have to go see it
alright call the guy okay when after dark
could you get like a more cargo inspired plane and then have less issues
with if I wanted to pay for hauling around
a giant cargo plane I don't
the fuel burn is just yeah like some of those corporate jets
they're just like they're like a little tiny little just firing
through the air like they're that's how you that's how you keep the prices down
yes we're only now getting to when after dark
sorry
you know Linus was really worried about the meta topics on the show which automatically meant
it was going to be a fun and long wind show yeah
my brain stormed some stuff before the universe
you good Dan are you ready okay sorry
hello LLD I just turned 13 and I'm going to micro center for the first time
any recommendations for a first visit
also what do you think the future of mac gaming is will it improve
I mean I think it'll improve whether it improves
materially enough to make a difference that I don't have a crystal ball that'll
tell me as for recommendations for a first visit I would say
look around see everything you don't have to buy anything
I always loved just like hanging out at the computer store
no seriously if when my mom was headed into town near a future shop
or a best buy or something she would usually tell me and we'd go walk around for like
15 minutes and I would want to go with her on the trip just so I could do that
but you don't have to buy anything no I would buy generally nothing
surprise surprise but I would also
I would go to the keyboards see stuff experience it
and then fester before you actually spend any money especially experience it the reason why I said the keyboards
is because you can shop around online as much as you want but until you feel the switches
you're not going to know which one you like the most it doesn't matter how many times people describe them
you've got to fill it out to know what you're going to want and that doesn't mean buy a keyboard
at all but like it's a cool thing to be able to do that in person
and if I remember correctly you can do that at a micro center I've never actually been to one
they don't have them in Canada but
yeah if you can actually experience
stuff in person it's a fairly unique experience people are saying
yes you can yeah that's sweet man I would I would take that opportunity
hey Linus I've noticed that the segue
to our sponsor has evolved into just an obnoxious catchphrase lately
I miss when they were clever topical jokes is it something you've noticed as well
they've always been just taking the piss
the more you think things have changed the more they've stayed the same
sometimes we do it in a bit more of a creative way
and other times we are just
completely self-referential about it
sometimes they are intentionally terrible
sometimes there will be one that's better that the writer has written
and I'll be in a mood and I'll make it way worse
that sounds about right yeah I don't know what to tell you that definitely sounds about right
yeah yellow, Linus, Lan and Luke
why are server chassis so expensive they are less flashy
than most normal consumer cases but often twice the price finding cheap
racks also sucks I can tell you that because there's so much more metal in them
they've got to be rigid because the way they slide them in and out
they've got to come with rails it's also just enterprise stuff
it's also lower volume like when you buy a $40 computer
case off of Newegg or whatever they're making hundreds of thousands of those
things when you buy like a server chassis I mean you don't even really get to buy
server chassis from very many companies most of them are just they're doing integration
now like I don't know
thousands they might make like I couldn't give you an exact idea of what the volumes are
but they're definitely very very different
and anytime you're buying it's also the intention
most people who buy a server are doing it with some kind of business intent
and there's just automatically a markup for that anytime
your product is helping someone else make money their value
calculus for that product becomes very different than if they're just
using it to consume water or whatever the case may be yeah
hey oh finally needed to get the stick locks
glad you still carry them after all this time how do you decide
which LTT Store items are to live perpetually
on the store well those we just produced too many
because our cost on them was pretty low and we were like oh yeah these should do well
and then they did well but not that well and so we still have them
if you see something on the store that you like and it's in stock
you should buy it because a lot of the time
even if we did want to reorder it like with the indoor hoody indoor hoody was a nightmare
because our situation with the
existing manufacturer was not tenable and
sourcing that material again was impossible
so if you see something you like just get it
Luke has an 8 sleep owner what are your thoughts on companies
removing features after purchase referring to the removal of support for home
assistant and requiring internet to function at all
my ownership and usage of it is not an endorsement of it
nor is mine very endorsement you still use one
we don't work with them anymore though as LMG
so that's just my personal 8 sleep mattress
mine is a personal one as well I bought it we are both boys
who tend to burn at night with ladies who
tend to freeze
my quality of life is improved by having it I will not tell you
to buy one I do not appreciate their business practices I do not appreciate
the way that they use their software
I do not appreciate the closed sourceness of it someone messaged me in
full plan chat last week saying that there's an open source
thing where somebody found a way to get around it and
unlock those features anyways maybe look into something like that I don't know
I don't know anything about it mine
to be honest I have it cranked to be as cold as it can possibly
be 100% of the time and that is the best thing it could possibly be for me
so I don't need it
I don't know it's not an endorsement I almost like regret that
people know that I have one because I think that people know that I have one and then
assume that it's an endorsement and it's not hi
yay trade wars Luke any cool factory tours you've gone
on recently or have scheduled I don't know if we can talk about
the one we have scheduled can we talk about that
I think so I think we can't say when do you want to double check that we can talk about it
before we talk about it I'm rather certain we can talk about it we just can't say when okay and
the details sure we can say like where sure
so going back to NASA and I'm bringing
other people more different people and that includes Sir Linus here
and it's going to be great no video don't get your hopes up no video it is
not content but it will make me content
this will be the give me the thing
I'm pretty sure this is the first trip we've ever been on that isn't work
together holy crap that's sort of terrible a little bit
that's kind of embarrassing actually I think it's true though I think you might be right
that dude that's that's a little rough
that's not great you had kids it makes sense I'm not that worried
what's your excuse what do you think
what do you think but yeah that'll be exciting
I'm also I'm going to try to link up with some dude
who has wheat fields and I want to go run the combine
that's going to happen later this year you're not going to like Seifmo or something
are you no no no but I want to drive the combine
I think that would be sick there's another dude that invited me to go
you're actually going to play farming simulator in real life that is an actual goal
Dan and I were talking earlier today about how like you know sometimes
things get really complicated you just want to do something dramatically different
like there's this old joke that like an ideal day for a programmer
would be four days of like hardcore coding in the morning and then just like
move boxes for the rest of the day yeah like you want to
shift what your brain is working on what your body is working on etc
and I had this thought after that conversation of like I think I've really
identified the thing that I like doing when I take vacation
which is just other work
but like very different like I'm very excited to go run
the combine for a while that sounds great that's like
that's like peak possible thing that I could do on a vacation
just don't get murdered by Gordon Freeman no it should be fine
Luke needs to return to monkey I think you're not doing enough
like actual physical things you're not exuding your will into the universe
you're just kind of making computers do stuff we were talking about digging a ditch
and I got excited yeah digging a ditch is a great example
that sounds sick I don't want to do this every day I don't want to do it every day
but man if I can go do that for a week and like just really
get into it for a week like this is a this is very white color
work type person yeah these are very white color
world problems absolutely totally
absolutely the masculine urge to dig a hole says to catch
actually that's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about digging a ditch do that stuff
because I just have meetings
Linus is addicted to comments and Luke is addicted to work
Linus being addicted to comments is Linus being addicted to work just to be clear
Anywho moving on
hello LLD Linus my harmony remote and hub died
I'm looking for a replacement you mentioned testing the sofa baton x1
sofa baton any updates
or new recommendations I tried it and I found the setup process
so obtuse that I resolved to just eBay a harmony
but I did not put I did not invest significant time
into it and realistically the harmony setup is pretty obtuse too
so make of that what you will my answer is no I don't have
a recommendation and no I haven't tried switchbots new remote but
we do have a video coming on just kind of
building a brain dead simple media setup for smash champs
so that customers can use it and play switch games and tune into badminton matches
and stuff on the TV in the lounge Elijah is working on it so maybe it will
include some of these things or maybe it won't I don't know
I'll find out about a week or two before you guys do
when we film the video I just suggested a HDMI
switching box but well
let's see hey DLO I recently was promoted to a manager
at the toy store I work at and I'm curious to know if any of you have any advice
for something new someone new to a management and leadership position
you have two ears and one mouth
use them accordingly your job is
not really to be better than all the people that you manage
your job is to use them as well as you can your job is to make their lives easier
so that they can do the best they can do
don't do their job for them don't micro it
evening boys Linus I just got my
S25 Ultra yesterday and I'm mostly loving it how are you feeling about the
switch back from iOS? I haven't yet
Samsung does not let us keep devices that they seed us
so I don't actually have one yet
so that one that one went back to Samsung
hello best Luke Dan and second best Linus
on YouTube which Linus is better
probably it's horrible some of the hockey players are pretty cool
he said on YouTube though there's a couple hockey players
everyone's on YouTube why are CPUs and motherboard sold separately
instead of being soldered together do you think this will ever become the norm
I mean you can buy ones that are soldered
you can especially on like Chinese market places
where they'll have like mobile chips that are manufactured
onto desktop boards and stuff in some markets they are quite
popular I am looking at
the way the way the winds
are blowing we actually did a video a little while back
buy it or build a computer while you still can
yeah it made me sad this is a good
conversation about the direction things are going and how
with RAM speeds going up
and signal integrity being a challenge and
tighter integration continuing to be
advantageous from both a cost and performance and also even an
economic perspective it does feel like a matter of time
before they come fully integrated gonna be a sad day
maybe
Linus are you still using the ASUS 27 inch 4K OLED
at home from the video a few weeks ago or did you switch back to something larger
I am still using it I am tempted sometimes to switch to something
larger especially like I haven't fired up ANO lately
and part of the reason is that
my monitor is kind of too small I love
having my world laid out in front of me
I guess I could play upstairs where I still have a 42 inch monitor
but I do most of my gaming downstairs now because my kids are down there
wherever my kids are I want to be near
I want to be hanging out so no I am still using the 27 inch
FLEX that's a really nice size
what size is that thing again maybe on FLEX
I want to say like 38 inch 45 that's a 45 inch display
that thing is that thing is sick I could also probably do
like I could probably do 32 at 4K
that's what PLUF uses and that's a really nice size too 27 is feeling a little
a little small but you can't fault
the picture clarity man that pixel density
wait oh I got totally confused no the one I'm running
is actually the one from the previous ASUS video the 1440p
480 hertz or 500 hertz one or whatever sorry sorry sorry
so that's why I haven't changed it out is because the high refresh rate is crazy
the reason I was thinking 4K 240 is because we have a video coming
shot in my basement earlier this week
where we were looking at a 4K 240 hertz that is still there
but no I will be swapping it out for the 500 hertz sorry sorry sorry sorry
27 inches is feeling a little small these days though
but 500 hertz man it's wild it's wild
okay odd question but hear me out since Linus has
impeccable taste in painting cars I was wondering what color he suggests I paint my car
it's a 1998 color currently silver
JDM Subaru Legacy what
I don't even know what this car is JDM Legacy
okay oh okay that's pretty cool
is this it oh man that's a
that's a cool car what would I
pink and green we can do better than that
I love the something with this car we'll paint it
whatever color you suggest so do be careful I love the
keeping the Subaru classic like gold rims so you need a color that
accents the gold rims well oh man
see that's why we went purple on poofs
because I thought the purple and gold look was royal AF
purple would probably look I think really sick
I think purple would be amazing you gotta keep the gold rims though
I feel like that's like ooh shoe as yen
says emerald green that's not bad either that would probably be sick
especially if you get some flake in there
you could do like a purple to green like pearlescent
that's expensive though I don't want to recommend somebody by that that's just a lot of money
but if they did want to spend the money I'm gonna say purple
gold green with the flake it's gonna be like a dark purple though
alright hit me Dan
looking forward to yoga pants for my spouse so many out there
suck and your team makes it great Linus how do you feel about live action
how to train your dragon movie I haven't kept up with anything
I saw the initial trailer and then that's realistically the most
I want to know about a movie that I'm gonna watch so I'm gonna intentionally
um cloister cloister is that the one cloister myself
whatever I'm gonna I'm gonna avoid it it looks like they're staying very
true to the original cloister no it's not a sequester
no not the sequester the the mollusk pokemon
such a red reference
people aren't even trying to be helpful when have we ever
oh man anyway I'm avoiding any
information about it I will watch it I it feels
like kind of unnecessary especially because the original is perfect
it's a perfect movie it's the best movie but
I'll watch it and hopefully they don't ruin it too bad it looks like it's pretty true to the original
should I see how to train your dragon Linus the last movie you recommended me was
not fun what movie did I recommend you the breakfast club
oh pfft yeah but I recommended it to you because it was terrible
wait you've never seen how to train your dragon I have not
oh it's a perfect movie it's the best it's literally the best okay
let's see I've got one more here
Luke have you tried stalker I know you enjoy talkar but hate the cheaters in company
talkar took a lot of information from stalker I highly recommend stalker 2
or gamma don't know what the gamma is
if I remember correctly gamma is a really heavily
modded stalker stalker gamma
yeah stalker anomaly mod yeah but it's like
it's like the way to play that game as far as my understanding goes
get out of here gamma it's what the titular
stalker character says to the radiation
people Dan's losing it
I've been recommended stalker like a trillion times I never played it
when I was younger and honestly the graphics look
pretty rough to go back to I might
at some point I was very interested in the new stalker game coming out but then
whatever it's called stalker supposed to have this really cool AI system
oh my goodness saying that these days puts the wrong
idea in people's heads is shadow of Chernobyl the first one
that rings a bell I believe that's the like full title
it's just looking at the long long time yeah this seems
like kind of half life too yeah it's pretty old
gamma is quite modded and even gamma looks pretty
old I mean maybe if there's like an RTX remix
for it or something I would definitely jump on that
the new stalker looks really cool but there's this
yeah NPC AI system thing
where it's supposed to be like
the way that I got it explained to me is that your actions even very small ones
are supposed to quake through the NPCs in the world very heavily
and as far as my understanding goes that was like wasn't working
on release of the new stalker game so I've been kind of just biting my time
for it to be good
and I've been biting my time to tell you guys hey we'll see you again next week
same bad time same bad channel bye
I have to pee again
how come land's been crashing like this