What is up?
How are y'all doing this evening or morning or whatever it is?
This is a bit of an impromptu stream. I wasn't really planning to do this, but it's a bit of a special situation today.
As you probably figured out, if you are super attentive, the LTT channel is back on YouTube,
TechWiki is back. I mean, I'm not saying that it matters to you guys that they're back on YouTube because
this is where the real party is at anyway, but hey, you know, in case your friends don't
have Floatplane or whatever, you can tell them, okay, yeah, look, you could go watch
on YouTube like a pleb.
I shot a video already today that's going to go through all the details of the breach.
We have definitely had our plans disrupted by everything that's gone on in the last,
geez, I guess, 19 hours, but maybe, you know, maybe there's a silver lining here.
It's not a trade that I would have made, but it's been, it's been memorable.
Anyway, the video that I shot today is going to go through all the details of the breach.
That's going to be published in a couple of hours. I do want to sort of, I do want to warn you guys that it's possible it won't publish early
or even at the same time on Floatplane because you may or may not have noticed, but we have
had an incredible rush of users come in and we've been hit extremely hard, but it will
be coming. It'll be coming to both platforms, but you guys don't really have to wait for that anyway.
I want to give you guys the news personally and also go through a few housekeeping items.
I'm not really planning to stick around for too long tonight. I genuinely passed out at work today.
I had to go in on time.
It was about 8.30 when I got to the point where I had finished everything that I could
do realistically for the time being and I had taken my kids to school and kind of was
like, okay, I could get some shut-eye now and I reached out to the guys who are on charge
of scheduling. So like James and Jake, Vance, my executive assistant, and I was like, hey guys, what's
the latest that I can come in today and they're like 10?
I mean, you're shooting at 10 and I'm like, sorry, what? No, really, like you're shooting at 10.
We have community members coming in to participate in a shoot.
It's been scheduled for ages and I'm like, all right, all right, I'll be there.
I got there. They weren't actually quite ready to shoot.
And so I sat down and I drafted a message to kind of get everyone internally up to speed
on what's going on. And after I sent the message, just kind of, hey guys, everything's going to be fine.
So you're not reading about it on Reddit. Here's what happened.
I finished it. I sent it. And then that's the last thing I remember until someone woke me up and here, hold on,
I've actually, I've got this up on Twitter right now.
Someone woke me up and I was like, oh, sorry, was I asleep?
I've had quite a few people speculate that this was staged.
Oh, there's no reason to have OBS here. I've had quite a few people speculate that this was staged, but no, I in fact just passed
out like I'm taking a red eye and waiting at the airport and I've got a layover or
something.
The good news is the RGB hoodie is extremely comfortable, lttstore.com.
I can't say that the leg through the zippers on the prototype Luxe edition backpack are
equally comfortable, but at least my laptop didn't fall.
I think I ended up getting about half an hour of shut-eye before the shoot.
And that is all that I have slept since about 3.30 my time.
It's now 22.30 my time the following day or the same day, I guess, but after when I would
normally have slept or something like that, hello, let me bring the chat back up.
I'm sure you guys are, I'm sure you guys are chatting.
Wait, is it offline? Hello? Let me just see if, did it stop?
This channel is offline. No.
Okay, I guess you guys are, I guess you guys are still watching, I don't know why mine
is not working, but cool, okay, yeah, we're here, all right, all right, okay, okay, okay,
okay, okay, nope, nope, all good, all good, right.
I will update you guys on this later. The stream is working, it's working for you guys, there's a reason it's not working for
me, it's actually a very cool reason. Anyway, yeah, just a few things I wanted to go through with you guys.
First of all, thank you, everyone. The 5,000 new people who signed up today, I am, I'm not shitting you, over 5,000 new
people subscribed to Floatplane in the last 24 hours.
We've never seen anything like this.
The Call Me Chris exclusive drove a couple of thousand.
We've had some serialized content like Scrapyard Wars that's driven hundreds, even thousands
of subscribers over the course of a series of it.
We've never seen anything even close to this, and honestly, the timing could not possibly
be better. Not that I'm not that I'm saying I'm glad any of this happened, but it's a really good
time for you guys to join Floatplane, and I will show you some of the reasons for that.
I also want to thank the OGs who have been with us all along.
I really, really appreciate you. You're the reason that this site can exist.
The reason that we have somewhere to post content, even when our channels get ripped
off of YouTube, you know, Floatplane, the forum, a massive shout out to our moderators
on the forum, keeping that gigantic thread that blew up overnight under control.
These are our backup plans, right? These are our insurance policies, and you guys are all what make it possible.
Luke actually wanted me to point out just how incredible it is, how many of you signed
up for a full year of Floatplane at the 4K tier and basically just sat there binging
all day? We served by 2pm today 10 plus terabytes of data because you guys are just like, what?
What? Some channel hack? I'm not going to watch LTT.
No way. Just unbelievable.
The poor Floatplane team is probably like passed out from hyperventilating, trying to keep
the servers cool, just like, we'll just blow on them. We'll just blow on them or something.
It's been a real challenging. Shout out to the LMG team as well.
We've had a lot of team members yesterday. Actually, even as we speak, there are people burning the midnight oil trying to get us
out of this situation completely. Everything is mostly resolved, but there are still a few things that need to be taken care
of. But anyway, whether you're new or whether you've been around for a long time, I just
want to say, hey, welcome to Floatplane and I've got some really cool stuff to show you
guys. I'm just going to put my little dock here because, you know, whatever doesn't really
matter if I show you this. I don't have a secondary monitor because I'm a pleb.
So I'm just going to put this right here and I'm going to take you on a little tour
of some of the stuff that's new on Floatplane, some of the stuff that's not so new.
I am on the beta site right now.
Let's go ahead and flip me over there. Here we go.
And there's some really cool stuff to show you guys here. So first of all, the biggest benefit of Floatplane these days is the exclusive content, huge,
like massive shout out, okay, to the social team with already at the helm.
These guys have been absolutely crushing it on the exclusive content, whether it's extra
clips from the cutting room floor, them going around and creating exclusive content, you
know, interviewing people, getting behind the scenes. So run me through exactly.
Here's a photo shoot, you know, this is the kind of thing that you would be surprised
how interesting it is. I mean, that's one of the coolest things about this company is that everyone who works here
is an absolute character. It's one of our sort of core, core founding principles that we want the people we work
with to be the kind of people that we'd want to spend time with even if we weren't being
paid for it, right? And so whenever we do stuff like this, we're having fun all the time.
But it doesn't usually make it on camera, right? So you end up with a ton of really cool content like that.
We've had some really, really long uncut videos.
There's also a great community here, just so much more positivity in the comment section.
Better video and especially audio quality, that's the audio quality is the huge one.
That's been, I think, the main reason that that dank pods has been doing his garbage
time streams over here, because when you're drumming, you need so much more dynamic range
than you need for just kind of talking into a microphone and talking at the camera.
But particularly on streams, we've gotten a lot of feedback.
The WAN Show is just a way better experience on Flowplane.
Occasionally, there's early access. So those of you who are smart enough to tune into the stream are going to be the first
to find out that, you know what, just in case there's anything in the dashboard that I'm
not supposed to show you guys, I am going to go ahead and hide my screen while I go
into the content management system.
But I'm pretty sure that I'm allowed to publish this right now.
Framework had their event today, right? Let me just make sure.
Framework laptop event. I'm pretty sure they did.
Next level event. Oh, join us March 23rd at, not able to join the, okay, well, there's the, okay, I'm pretty
sure, I'm pretty sure they did, right? Guys, confirm for me.
No, no, I'm pretty sure they did. Okay.
So this was the video we were supposed to publish today when we had a YouTube channel.
The title is, I made a bad decision. Framework investment update.
I'm going to go ahead and publish that for you guys now, even though that is not the
video that is going to YouTube today, because we wanted strategically to upload the video
addressing the hack as quickly as we could, because what we think is that with all the
live stream, like go live notifications that would have been pushed out while the channel
was compromised, we've probably used up all of our notification allocation.
So if we publish something, we want it to be the most viral possible thing to hopefully
get us jumpstarted in the right direction. And as interesting as this framework video is, I don't think it has quite the viral appeal
of here's how we got hacked. You know, here's what we're going to do going forward.
So I'm going to go ahead, set this to public and publish this for you guys.
It's a really cool video, absolutely incredible technology that these guys are showing off.
I don't want to spoil too much, but framework gaming laptop, anyone, and the CEO and founder
came out to participate in the video with us and show us around the new product.
So I just, I can't be more thrilled. It's closure.
I'm an investor in framework. So I've gone ahead and published that for you guys.
Let's go ahead and see. You can watch that once, once we're done here, a couple more things to go through with you.
Benefits of Floatplane include not having our typical pre-roll and sponsor integration
spots. So we still leave in the segues because people kept asking us for it.
They're like, yeah, you know, I feel like I'm missing out. Like I don't get the, I don't get the silly segues and we're like, yeah, I mean, I guess
from our point of view, that's kind of content. So sure, yeah, we'll leave the segues in, but we just kind of skip over the sponsor spots.
However, okay, don't be surprised and upset when you see fully sponsored content where
the sponsor talking points are integral to the content.
Like it's build at a different rate and it's a lot of the time very difficult to cut out
of the content without butchering it. So that will still be in on Floatplane.
Let's see what else is there. Ah, yes, something really exciting for everyone, the new people and the OGs to enjoy.
Right now, live streaming is not working on the beta site.
We're hoping to have that fixed extremely soon, but let me go ahead and flip over to
your screen capture here. If you go to beta.Floatplane.com so you can see my chats working, but that was why I got
a little bit confused earlier saying, oh, well, I think the stream died because live
streaming isn't working on the beta site. But what is working on the beta site and is extremely cool is this, no way.
Okay, so if we click the header one here, Linus Tech Tips, which I guess we'll have to
change to Linus Media Group at some point, you can see we've got all these different
icons here and we put, you know, TL for tech link, TQ for Techquickie, you know, FPX or
FP exclusive for exclusives. Well, now if you happen to be mostly interested in a particular channel, you can filter, we
get a different banner, we get a different rather header image, oh, Channel Super Fun,
RIP. Point is our ShortCircuit TechLinked.
It's all here. It's all sorted. And this is something a lot of people have been hounding us for.
Floatplane exclusives. Now all easily accessible in one convenient place.
There is a metric ton of content for you guys to enjoy.
And it's been a real challenge selling Floatplane without being able to show you guys just how
much exclusive content there is.
And even we didn't really have tools for finding this stuff easily before, but there is a freaking
ton. And our current target is I think anywhere from two to three Floatplane exclusives a
week. So yeah, these are a week ago. These are two weeks ago.
These are three weeks ago. These are a month ago. Yeah.
Yeah. So it's I think about two a week. And man, there's some really good stuff in here.
Some of my personal favorites are the behind the scenes of that shoot with the with the
Escalade in the intro, the Starforge, Starforge Systems review.
Oh, oh, the extras for the Channel Superfund where Dennis switched places with my my assistant.
Oh, yeah, this one has a 1190 to one like dislike ratio.
It's a really great piece of content because you really get a much better feel for what
goes on behind the scenes to make even just like a silly little a silly little sketch.
Oh, this is really great. Dennis fights James.
I mean, YouTube only got Dennis fights Linus. Dennis also fought James.
Let's go. Right? Freaking awesome.
Let's go back to back to just Linus.
I didn't set up any like hotkeys or stream deck or anything like that for this is a very,
very impromptu stream. I actually don't even have the chat up right now because I was busy browsing the site.
But man, it's it's been a long time since we've had a big, big user experience update
like that to share with you guys. And it's such a huge usability difference.
The timing really couldn't be better for us to have this influx of new people create these
features where you can really get the most of the platform and hopefully stick around.
I think that most of you probably will, especially because the social team is highly incentivized
to create some really great content to keep you guys here. That's one of their main KPIs is making sure that we're taking care of our Floatplane
peeps. Gem out my man get some sleep.
Yeah, I definitely need it. I also need some food, man.
I had I had a donor today, but that's about it. I actually meant to just like sit here and eat this gigantic salad the size of my head
on stream because like whatever, you guys aren't going to judge me for it.
But then I got all distracted talking about how cool Floatplane is.
The latest tech links is not properly tagged on the back end. Okay.
Yeah, there's there's going to be little things for us to sort out.
We'll get it. We'll get it figured out. Do you think more old LTT will be added to Floatplane old lands things like that?
Probably not. Most people do not go back and watch the really old content like that.
So I wouldn't, yeah, I wouldn't expect a lot of it.
We wouldn't even have the higher quality copies. So we'd be uploading the YouTube quality version anyway.
I mean, I can see how from, I mean, especially now that it's reasonably easy to sort.
We actually have a pretty powerful search too. Like if you, here, hold on, let's go back to a screen capture for a second here.
I think this is pretty much everything I wanted to talk about.
We actually have a pretty powerful, powerful search and we, we have much more descriptive
titles on Floatplane. So, you know, EK quantum velocity direct dies right in the title.
I mean, it should probably have water cooling in it. But if I was to search for, you know, content type video, where's the, where do I actually,
oh yeah, here we go. So if I just search for like CPU, you should be able to find like every CPU related video
and it's lightning fast, like how freaking awesome is that?
So maybe I kind of talked myself into it. Maybe there is an argument for us uploading a lot more of the back catalog, but it would
be as far as I can tell, quite manual and very tedious.
So no promises. Oh, Jake Dain says, Floatplane chat is up.
Okay. Thank you. Okay.
I didn't, I didn't get the team's message telling that man, I'm, I'm all over the place.
You guys absolutely all over the place right now. See, I went and I closed the live feed again, so I don't even have the chat anymore.
Yeah. So you guys are definitely going to want to check out the, check out the search.
There's, there's way more plans we have to make it even more powerful in the future.
But between splitting out the channels and the search, you guys are going to find things
really easily on Floatplane. It's going to be awesome.
Most of the wancho isn't very evergreen. Now if you could clip out the business talk sections, that would be cool.
I think that you guys can expect to see LMG clips show up on Floatplane very soon.
The reason that we hadn't done it before is because we were worried it was going to get
just spammy. What I suspect is that we're going to disable notifications for those uploads so you don't
just get constant notifications and it's either working now or we will have it working soon
so that you can subscribe only to certain channels, which would be awesome.
Then we could have notifications on for everything.
But I don't think we've got that yet. You know what?
I'm actually going to make a little note to myself, Riley LMG clips on FP, question mark
and schedule Shand for tomorrow morning.
Yeah. So hopefully we can get that sorted out for you guys pretty soon.
I don't want there to be any reason that you have to leave Floatplane for LMG content.
In fact, man, we have picture posts.
We have text posts. There's absolutely no reason that the social team couldn't post everything that they post
to Twitter or whatever to Floatplane as well. We could create a social channel.
That'd be awesome. I'm going to, man, we're having a little like, we're having a little brain think session
here right now, Floatplane channel for social, send that to the social team.
So when Twitter inevitably runs out of money, we post our Facebook memes there too.
Yeah, I mean, I don't see why not, right?
I'm like, I don't, I feel bad about it because I don't do it nearly often enough, but you
guys engage very, very actively with text posts when I just kind of give little updates
and stuff like that. So I see no reason why we shouldn't do more of it.
That's freaking awesome. Jetpack app says, but you still want our YouTube premium revenue too, right?
I mean, I won't say no, but a Floatplane subscription benefits us far more than YouTube
premium does. So like the tiers go, Floatplane, right?
Direct support, YouTube premium, ad supported, and then not ad supported in terms of like
what effects, what impacts our bottom line helps us build the lab, hire, hire out members
of our team.
We are working on closed captioning. There have been some significant development challenges for Floatplane this last, well,
really year actually, if you go way back, but we are, we're working on it.
The team is so dedicated. They work so hard.
And hey, we just got some, some additional resources, although I think Luke is actually
watching this. That doesn't mean you're adding even more headcount because he was already planning
to hire a ton of people.
No, the CPU pillow prizes are not gone yet, D boss.
Inertial impact. I'm on it. Okay.
I took a bite. Two more hires. Let's go.
No, Luke. No. No.
Our hiring has been outpacing our revenue growth very, very much lately.
We could actually use the new subscribers on Floatplane to help make up some of the
some of the debt we've incurred. No, I don't mean like debt.
I mean, like, in the sense that the balance needs to be restored where we're good.
We're good.
What's more profitable over time, Floatplane and lttstore.com? You can separate them like lttstore.com.
How do you separate that from the rest of the business?
It's very challenging. Would it be as successful as it is without the YouTube channel, without Floatplane?
Floatplane is more than just a place to watch the videos.
I don't think people would stick around if it was just that. It's also a much tighter knit, friendlier community.
I think that that fosters an environment where people are more enthusiastic about the channel
and more likely to, you know, pick up cool merch.
By the way, we are finally working on a reprint of the Floatplane shirt.
I think this is actually the first Lucas hearing of that.
I, Bridget and I and Nick sat down and looked at some of the swatches for melanges and like
colors and stuff like that on Wednesday morning.
So that feels like a long time ago, but that was yesterday.
So on Wednesday morning, yesterday morning, we sat down and looked at it.
So that's finally coming. Really excited for that too.
Any other YouTubers coming over to Floatplane soon, I don't know, they're more than welcome.
It makes sense to us, but the thing is it's that cycle all the time, right?
It makes a lot of sense to people to sign up for whatever the VC backed thing is, where
it costs them nothing to be on the platform.
We're not VC backed. We're built on sustainability.
So when things change, right? So when Vimeo, for example, starts charging an exorbitant fee when they hadn't in the
past because what they were doing wasn't sustainable, they just jump over to the next
unsustainable thing and so on and so forth because there's always more VC money and we
just kind of sit here chugging along going, yeah, no, we can't give you a 95% revenue
cut because that's just not how it works. Because video is expensive, deal with it.
And so it's not, it's been hard to attract people, honestly speaking, and we're not great
at marketing. We're techies, right? Like, we're good at some stuff, but I think that kind of floofy marketing is just not
it. The good news is that, I mean, you guys can do the math.
We don't hide our subscription numbers. One is very self-sufficient.
Oh, interesting, inertial impacts, as I was talking with Snape from Snapeit and they
would love if you reached out to them to discuss potentially contributing back some of the work you put into the project, runs on community just as much as the business
side. Flooplin would love a video, I'm sure too.
I've really, you know what? We've talked about it internally and the biggest thing is that I really just don't think it's
applicable to what most other people are going to be doing with it.
I mean, I can sit down with Luke and talk about it because, truthfully, I don't even know
exactly what we've developed.
But it's not impossible, like, we don't mind.
It's not like we're going to be, it's not like we're ever going to monetize it.
I've seen a lot of firearms channels start to look at moving to Flooplin and the idea that may or may not affect the platform, the way it would affect the platform is we'd
have more firearms channels on it, like, I don't know, I mean, we were bound to remove
content that, you know, violates the law just like any other platform that hopes to continue
to exist, but we have nothing against people posting gun content.
Like the thing is that Flooplin is different, it's not a general discovery platform, you
know, we're not worried that some impressionable miner is going to go watch someone do something
irresponsible with a gun or something, you know, like an FPS Russia style or whatever.
Not that I think even most of the gun channels that have talked about Flooplin are even showing
irresponsible use of guns, right? But even if it was something egregious, right, we're not worried that some nine-year-old
is going to see that and try to replicate it or whatever, right?
Like it's, people have to navigate directly to your channel, so it's just not really a
huge concern for us. No, there's no view counter.
The reason is that it's hard.
I always wonder, did Falsway remove the voice control thing after the sponsor you joined
club? Oh, no, I actually have no idea.
All right.
I think I'm going to eat and I think I'm just going to watch some like TV reruns and
let my brain vegetate and pass out.
Yeah. Yeah, that'll be good.
Don't forget to go, don't forget to go watch that framework video. It's sick.
You know what? Why don't we watch it together? I haven't watched it.
So this will affect our views or whatever, but that doesn't matter because we don't get
paid by views. We get paid by you guys, paying a monthly subscription.
And again, like shout out, you guys. One thing we kind of screwed up is we've been, we've been working on an even more premium
tier. I forget what it's even called, but it's been in the works for like at least like six
months or something like that. And if we'd had that in place for this, I feel like a lot of people would have just
been like, yeah, this is a really bad situation. I want to help you guys out.
And we probably could have had a lot of people subscribe at the premium tier. But you know what?
I feel like this is a good thing because it puts pressure on us to make sure that whatever
we come up with, whatever we try to deliver for the premium tier has got to be so good
that we've got to incentivize you guys off of the $10 a month supporter plus 4k tier,
the supporter $5 a month tier at 1080p.
Like we're going to have to absolutely crush it on the feature set on this thing.
We especially got to get the OGs off of that $3 a month plan.
Yes, there was a $3 a month plan for those of you who are new.
It does not exist anymore because it is not sustainable.
But the way that we see it, just a promise is a promise.
And we said that's the price. So there's no unilateral renegotiation.
That offends me so much. You know, when platforms like Netflix are like, yeah, we're going to have the same thing
we had before, but the price is more.
So, you know, my more so contract anyway, right, just pisses me off, you know, offensive.
All right, you guys, you guys, I don't even have the live chat open anymore.
So hold on. Let me fix this so I can even see the chat. You guys want to watch the video together?
I can't promise I won't be eating, but I'll mute my mic.
Well, chat's just like $3 OG tier forever.
All right, all right. Fine.
No, no, you know what we're going to do?
We're going to come up with sick whale emotes and we're going to make them exclusive to
people who have the whale tier. You're not going to be able to get them with the $3 a month tier.
You can pry it out of my cold dead hands, Caillou.
I expect that to actually happen because everyone hates you. I'm just, I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding. It's the, like the main Caillou, the show.
If your name is actually Caillou, first, I'm sorry.
And second, sorry, I didn't mean that everyone actually hates you, Rod, Rod, you, I don't mind.
You I told you can have float playing for free. I don't know why the f*** you pay for it.
You can have as much free float playing as you want, man.
All right.
Let's watch together. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to mute myself.
I'm going to turn it on Luke.
I love this dark mode exclusive to whale tier.
Is that happening? Cause dark mode is basically done.
Oh, this is Jake's idea.
Oh, man, we've turned him from a young innocent boy to like evil genius.
Do not do exclusive dark mode tier.
Not me.
Fully designed, 0% implemented. Oh, the rage, the rage.
All right. All right.
Okay. We're going to watch the video and then I'm going to go to bed.
It's going to be awesome. Okay. I'm muting myself.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
It's still fun for me to watch our videos because our writers slash producers like I don't even know what exactly their role is
It's not a conventional production role, but a writing team our writing team and the editing team just add such
Fun little finishing touches like those Windows air noises
Mwah beautiful
Upgradable 14-inch framework chassis as before but inside beats a heart of pure undiluted Ryzen
7000 a team red CPU option has been off and on the most
Requested feature for framework to offer on their machines trading places only with a larger battery
So they did that too. They've gone from 55 watt hours to 61 watt hours
But if you own a previous generation framework like me and you worry about intercompatibility
Fear not the size is actually identical and the bumping capacity comes purely from chemistry improvements
That's really good news But wait, there's more the same for demon chassis that I've been using not to mention upgrading ever since I got it at launch
Is getting even more options
Okay, there's a story there I Called it 14 inch
throughout the video Because many laptop manufacturers would brand a 13 and a half inch screen as 14 inch
Framework doesn't they call it 13 inch even though it's 13 and a half
So they round down rather than rounding up So because I had the model name wrong of my own laptop made by the company that I'm invested in
We decided to meme it and change it to 13 with the stupid like robot voice
Intel 13th gen core processors are also being announced for both brand new builds and
For folks who want to reuse their existing systems
So if you're on previous gen hardware, you're gonna have to make a hard choice
Do you go Intel or do you go AMD?
Which actually leads me Which one's better? It's a personal preference, right, but okay, how do I ask this again?
which The face of a man who's worried he's going to lose his entire career
One should I get whatever you like which one will you get whatever I like
This guy clearly doesn't want to make either Intel or AMD mad
They've also been addressing some of the pain points that have been discovered now that thousands of frameworks are out in the wild
I'm talking upgraded stiffer hinges louder speakers not to mention. Oh see that
Now you don't a matte screen option. Ah
Are we getting a touchscreen too that I can't comment on but we will not have it in this release
Okay, I'll wait one thing you don't need to wait for is our new 3d down jacket
It's lightweight warm and only from LTT Store.com
Framework hoodies so that framework hoodie is like
Random basically a one-off is my understanding. We did talk to them about potentially doing collaborative like merge drops and stuff
Which would be so cool Am I leaking that?
There's no guarantee. This is like
We Talks to him about it. He basically was like, yeah, I mean you never know so don't imagine that it's definitely gonna happen or anything like that
but We'd love to do like merch products for other people. It's just kind of like Floatplane
We've never been able to figure out how to do more than make our own really cool stuff. Nobody else seems to want it
I don't get it Now hold on you might say I thought frameworks whole shtick is sustainability
Well, that old board you pulled out is still good. What do we scrap it now?
I'm still glad you asked we showed off a cool 3d printed case last year that you could set up for yourself to turn it into a
Little slim line computer, but for the folks without access to a 3d printer
There's a new better solution framework has teamed up with cooler master to offer a motherboard case
Also known as a case by the way in case you guys were confused meaning that your old board can effectively become your new media center
Now enough about that. Let's get to the really exciting part. Look at this. Look how much bigger it is and
bigger
I just want to say they unironically called it motherboard case when they told me what the product was
so I was just 100% teasing nirav about that
Is Just the start there's only so much that I can say about the all-new 16-inch framework laptop at the moment
But there is nothing stopping me from demonstrating. It's a biggest party trick a removable
Dedicated GPU while the mxm form factor has died more deaths than Kenny McCormick framework developed their own solution and
Easily swappable expansion bay that is wired up with a custom PCIe by 8 interface fun fact
By the way, it actually uses the same connector as
Dell developed like back what a couple years ago I guess it was but since Dell isn't framework and didn't publish their pinout
Framework had to develop their own pinout which this time around will be published to allow board partners or
Realistically anyone to use it. Is that right? Yeah, absolutely. If another laptop manufacturer said, you know, hey, we really like this thing
We're gonna have a thing Don't you love this attitude? I can't tell you who they partnered with to build this and
They won't even let me take the cooler off it to take a look I don't even know if it's AMD or NVIDIA at this point
But what I do know is that with all the data sheets that they're creating an AI be like an ASUS or an MSI
Could easily develop something for it now a GPU in a framework laptop is pretty high up there on my personal wishlist because
That power turns these things into something that's actually a viable option for us to deploy to our team
I mean a writer might be fine with the pertinence, but engineers and editors
Come on. They need a GPU and the best part. It's not just for GPUs
The idea for the expansion bay here is identical to their IO modules that they have on the regular framework laptop
Open up It's a really good question in the chat. No, we don't know what gen speed those lanes are running at. All we know is it's by 8
We don't know if it's gen 5, gen 4, gen 3
They were extremely tight-lipped about the actual hardware in here, which leads me to believe it's something coming out
in a while Open source and completely customizable this space here where a GPU might sit could be anything a
pair of M.2 SSDs an AI accelerator even an extended battery
That's right Removable batteries are back y'all and there are even plans to offer an external caddy
So that you can use their old batteries like the internal ones as portable battery packs
And you don't even have to be limited by the exact shape of one particular expansion module
In fact if you look closely these two are slightly different because a GPU needs a little bit more space than say
a couple of M.2 SSDs So if you're willing to accept the compromise of adding a little bit of extra
You know z height to the back of your laptop you could see conceivably just about anything thrown in here
Let's say you wanted to swap out your GPU for something like a capture card part of the spec is external facing IO and
Then oh this raises an uncomfortable question again with the e-waste
What do we do with this GPU like slap it in a desktop? Well, yes, actually
Nothing would prevent the development of a simple carrier card
The same sort of thing we've actually seen for MXM GPUs in the past, but
Also, no gets even better in the future
Framework wants to give you the option of taking this and putting it in an external GPU dock
Which they have already mocked up and are going to be showing off very soon
So that a friend or someone could use your old GPU with their laptop
One of the things that framework learned in the development of this product is just how divisive
Numb pads are on laptops personally. I don't care for them
I'd rather have these LEDs on the side as it turns out nearly 50 percent of
Then we had like 20 minutes to shoot b-roll for this video
Because Nourabh had a flight
Was leaving it like seven and we were shooting this before like right before WAN Show and we're like are we gonna get you to your flight?
It was a really tight day If you do want them whether it's for data entry or just extra keys for gaming inputs
Fortunately, this is framework David. I'm about to blow your mind check this out. I pop these out
Right here and here Slide these off
These modules No, no, no, no, no, no these modules
Replaceable, okay, so we can put in woodgrain accents or something like that
Okay, if you want like carbon fiber, they've got all kinds of different ideas for this
But but wait, but wait it gets even dumber check this out
Trackpad comes off keyboard
Oh, oh, oh, wait numpad on the right wait wait
numpad on the left
Wait, oh, but I hate it when my trackpad isn't centered in my keyboard. Oh
No, shut up. It's right under the keyboard. Are you kidding me right now? Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah, this is wild You know those niche keyboards that you've seen with a second screen or whatever well framework has been paying attention
That's right. If a numpad doesn't offer quite the functionality that you want to see how about a power sipping memory LCD
I might be more your thing now this one might never see the light of day
I mean, they'd like to cram a touch screen in here or you know different types of display technologies
But that is a lot to pack into something of this height while retaining durability
But at least you know that it's something that's on their radar the
So frickin cool, right? Like
It was a shot in the dark investing in these guys, I had no idea what I was doing
I've never met Nirav. I just was like, I don't know. This seems like a cool design philosophy. I
Didn't know they were this talented. This is
Amazing, I thought the gaming I gotta be honest I told Nirav this I was like, yeah, when you told me you guys were gonna like try and do a gaming laptop
I was like good luck, you know
They just crushed it This thing's amazing
Something that didn't make it into the video just because I forgot because it was a just
Wild just fast-paced day is that they're aiming for I think about a hundred watts max for the GPU
So you're not gonna put a 30 or 40 90 or whatever in there
But realistically you're not putting a real 40 90 in anything anyway, and so you should be able to at least get to like
You know 60 70 tier of GPU without giving up too much. It's pretty exciting
The best part is that this modular input system doesn't end at just being able to move the keyboard back and forth and
Stick on a numpad in addition to all the same languages that they already support on the human framework
There's four more languages that they're adding to protein means that will also come to this down the road and
Linux users rejoice on the 16 inch They're even gonna build a keyboard option that replaces the Windows key with a super key
I guess the Windows logo is that offensive
Yeah, I don't know how many of those you're gonna sell we're gonna see so while in theory
You could put a protein in sport inside the 16 inch chassis
It would be a total Frankenstein job and it wouldn't make a ton of sense since you wouldn't even be able to hook up some of
The new IO. Oh wait, did I even mention the new IO because of the larger size?
There are six packs now of their hot swappable IO modules instead of just four
They've also got a new retention clip down here. That's I don't like the red
I like green for okay to remove. It's a hard UX problem. Yeah
They like red for not the default state, right?
Okay, I guess I guess I get it. Oh wait, we didn't even talk about the new module
They did remove the three and a half inch jack from the 16 inch laptop, but they developed a
3.5 millimeter module So you can have as many three and a half mil jacks as you want
Could I configure these for like surround sound or something? You could theoretically Wow Wow
So you get more ports on your laptop for everyday use and it also means that the community who supports framework either by
Buying these things or by building modules are going to be having a
Field day with all the new ideas that are going to come to light and that community is only getting bigger and better
You guys might have noticed that frameworks webshop is called the framework marketplace
That's because it's going to be expanding to allow third-party manufacturers to sell directly to consumers as well as offering a space for
Consumers to sell and trade used components with each other and for that I owe everyone involved a massive and sincere
Thank you a modular laptop like this is such an important mission and it only works if everyone agrees
It's time to move beyond disposable electronics and focus on repair and sustainability
And framework has committed to that in more ways than one from things like choosing to use cast a medium for their shell
Instead of machining it. I actually saw this thing Realized there's not a single screw on the bottom, which is cool, right?
But that means that there would have been pounds of waste
From a traditional CNC routing job to remove all that material. No, it's cast. It's freaking awesome
They're also using paper-based packaging and post-consumer recycled materials wherever possible
Those of you who've been paying close attention probably noticed that we weren't allowed to spill the beans on the exact hardware in this thing
But come on I'd hate to totally spoil the surprises when it comes out later this year
Just like I'd hate to spoil this segue to our sponsor if you guys enjoyed this video
Maybe check out the last time I updated. Oh, where is it? My framework from 11th gen to 12th gen?
I went from what was it like eight cores to 14 or something stupid like that?
Same chassis and now I could put 13th gen in it or AMD and if I broke it doing this
I could replace all those pieces. Look. He's not even stressed. Yeah, no problem
Speaking of which I need to replace my my fingerprint. Yeah, I mangled the board. Yeah
Yeah, well, I was not being careful when I did something and so it's deformed
So when I put it on it cracked my fingerprint sensor. So um, we can
Yeah, some parts. Yeah, but we'll figure it out
It works well enough I'm just not gonna replace it
All right, I Think that's it for tonight. Thank you guys for tuning in to this little impromptu stream
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