Does it feel like real writing?
Cool.
It was important, I think, even if it might not have been good.
Yeah, that's kind of the point of this. It's iconic. Yeah, it's definitely iconic.
Not good phone. It is for sure an iconic phone.
Yeah. Oh, HTC Universal.
Oh, yeah. That Windows thing.
Nokia N95.
Now we're getting into the kind of like, like newish stuff.
Oh, that would get that Windows mobile, mobile Windows.
Yeah. And you know what? The more I look at this, the more I'm like kind of sold on it because it's kind of documenting
the history at a time when these devices still work. And they were cool.
Like, yeah, and they won't always work. Oh, I see what you mean.
They won't always get an opportunity to... Got it.
So now, now it's here, you know, now it's preserved.
So they actually acquired all these devices on like pretty good condition versions of
them. Yeah, and then they did like photo shoots and stuff. Yeah, that's sweet.
Iconic. If you look at the generations of devices before the bold, they were still plastic.
The screen was relatively low resolution. The BlackBerry bold was a deliberate attempt to create something iconic.
This is the one that everybody loved, Mark Swanson, director of product management.
The bolds. Is that the one with the touch gestures and the touch screen?
I can't remember. I will be able to tell you that in one moment after I rewind to the page where they tell
me about it because I wasn't really paying attention to expensive phones back then.
Good stream, enjoy videos, premium device, a faux leather back, and a chrome rim.
I don't know, good question.
iPhone. And this is where everything changed.
The app economy, part three.
First real iPhone alternative. That was a big one, yeah.
LG G3, the South Korean underdog finally takes the crown.
The G3 was so sick. The G3 was kind of goaded.
Oh, Mr. Who's the Boss has a quote on that one.
I remember the LG G3 so fondly, it was a time where I'd paid just as much attention
to LG launches as I would Samsung and Apple, knowing that they were not just keeping up
in terms of specs, but also putting their own spin on what they thought the smartphone
should be, fun company to have around while it lasted.
Apple iPhone 4, a brush with perfection.
Steve Jobs said with a smirk, blah blah blah, rare moment.
The death grip.
Oh, quote from Linus.
The iPhone 4 with its all glass and stainless steel design stood head and shoulders above
any piece of consumer electronics I'd ever touched before, and I still pick it up every
once in a while and appreciate its compactness, simplicity, and reassuring weight.
Also the reception was good enough as long as you didn't hold it wrong.
I actually never really had an issue with it. Hey, you're back.
I'm back. Wow, Austin put in so much more work than me.
This is for the HTC One. He wrote so much.
Or is yours just more edited down? No, probably not.
I probably only wrote a short blurb. Talk about a phone that was ahead of its time.
This is Austin's. 2013 was an area where competition was at its most ferocious.
In just a few short years, phones had transitioned from plastic blackberries with physical keyboards
to the glass and metal slabs we use today. New phones pushed the boundaries more than the HTC One M7.
Picture this. An all-metal build in a world of plastic flagships.
Rich front-firing speakers that embarrassed the competition. A bright, high-resolution 1080 pixel display that still looks good today.
He knows that the P is for progressive, not pixel, right? I'm just kidding.
Love you, Austin. I'd still argue that the One M7 is one of the nicest pieces of hardware ever made and
one of the key selling points was the camera. While Samsung chased megapixel counts with their 13 megapixel sensors, HTC went the
opposite direction with their 4 megapixel, ultra-pixel camera. It wasn't perfect, but the focus on larger pixels meant I could capture photos in dimly
lit situations that no other phone at the time could touch. The One M7 perfectly encapsulated the vibrant era before the format of a successful flagship
smartphone had been set. I still miss mine. Okay, what did I say?
Google might not have realized it, but they desperately needed someone to step up and
prove that Android enthusiasts wanted and would pay for a device that didn't feel like
a plastic toy. HTC did it. And if they hadn't, a part of me wonders if we would have been stuck forever choosing
between iPhone and Compromise.
Yeah.
It's interesting. This is a lot of pages.
Hey, Aaron wrote another one for the Galaxy Notebook. You have a lot of pages.
When we start the show, brother. Oh, yeah, we can do that.
All right. Oh, they got Carl Pay to do a quote.
Oh, right. No, it's probably like his phone. He probably just like, yeah.
Okay. That makes sense. All right.
All right. All right. All right.
I'm over it. Oh, Aaron wrote about a lot of them. I guess he's more of like a smartphone guy than me though.
That kind of makes sense.
I just didn't have that many phones that I had super strong thoughts on.
There were some good ones.
They were like the S6 Edge, but they didn't pick that. It's one of their iconic phones.
So that's all I have to say about that.
Oh, man. Is my monitoring super loud?
Has it been adjusted since last week? No, it adjusted itself.
You probably have normalized it if you pop it in a little volume.
Hello, hello, hello, hello.
Welcome to the WAN Show. We've got it. Do I just have a headache today?
I think I just have a headache today. Could we turn me down?
Big dog. Big, big dog. Big dog.
Dog, big. That's probably a little low.
Can we split the difference? A little higher.
That's good. All right. Cool.
Welcome to the WAN. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That should be good.
Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. It's about like if I just didn't have the headphones on.
Welcome to the WAN Show. Welcome to the WAN Show. We got fun and games.
Okay. I guess we do the thing now.
Is the chat working? No, I think the chat's broken.
My chat's broken, Luke. Chat's working for me. Big dog.
Big dog. Big dog. You're the big dog.
Did you like re-window it this week?
I don't think I had yet. Okay.
Subvance. Oh, here. You can throw it.
Okay. Or you can get it to me.
The slowest one. Or you can get it to me the slowest possible way.
The secure way. The secure way. He's not wrong.
He's legitimately correct.
Luke literally just did the, it works on my computer.
No. Nice. Toxic.
No. Why are you so toxic? No.
Why are you so toxic? I just asked if you had actually reloaded it since last week.
It could just still work from last week and it doesn't.
So like you could point that out. Yeah.
You know. Well, it doesn't.
Thanks. It's good that it logged.
Okay. Oh, right. Oh my God.
I don't even have my laptop out. I'm sorry.
All good in the hood, brother.
Cables when? Good question. I really like mine.
Yeah. I've been stuck on a laptop and I've been using an external USB monitor to make my life not
as horrible. And I've had my LTT cable as my screen monitor thing.
And I have a little pouch that I put all the stuff that I use for my laptop in.
So it's all quick to put away and take back out and set up.
Every time I have to call it back up and I just grab each end and go like, and it like
really nicely coils up. Oh, it feels good.
It's a quality cable. It feels very nice.
You don't have to be weird about it. It's like sad when I then have to do the cable for my mouse and I'm like, oh, Nicky.
I don't think I would want to use one of our cables for my mouse because it would be so
like. No. It would not be right for that.
Oh, that would be terrible. But I'm just saying it doesn't feel as nice to like wind up.
The LTT cable is very supple. They feel nice.
i7-6969x asks, how much of a delay will the USB 2 cables be?
I mean, they still basically go at the speed of light.
Less data rate.
I love how fast the ding was on that.
I was already like, I heard him read the question and got my head because I was thinking of
the exact same pun.
Someone asked if I've seen the Coulter Pearson video he did on the full plane app.
I have. It was a cool video.
I was happy our API stuff worked well.
The login issue thing that he had in the video was actually somewhat related to us doing
something that is going to make that a lot better and easier in the future.
So hopefully that's cool.
Yeah. There's like this war between native and non-native development.
And sometimes it's better to do one and sometimes it's better to do the other.
And if you follow the trend every time, you're just re-engineering your app every few months.
Can you just have fee simple title and then also the other claim for it and they could
just exist at the same time? What?
You said you'd native and non-native development. Oh my goodness.
Can you just have both? Only on the west coast, apparently.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh man.
So many things I want to say.
Oh man. I think I'm just going to stay out of this.
For the sake of it all. Hey, I came across a comment on the interview that I did as I was going through the comments
and I found someone who unsubscribed from Floatplane actually over the nickname that I have
for our Floatplane subscribers. Floaters.
So what he said was that Linus calls us floaters, which means pieces of shit.
Well, I think Linus is a piece of shit, so unsubscribed.
In response, thank you to my floaters who remain supporting the channel.
I appreciate you all.
I guess we're all pieces of shit together.
Can you imagine being that thin skinned?
Just reading the service, the bowl.
The bowl. Oh dude. Oh dude.
Oh dude. Oh dude. And then when you get special behind the scenes, it's the bowl cut.
Oh man. Yeah.
Horn play. Horn play says, yeah, guy didn't get that it's a joke.
Could be a little dense. A sinker. I added a bit to that, but I'm pretty sure that was where you were going with it.
Oh man.
That's pretty good. I like that. All right.
We should probably do this thing. But yeah, we are aware the app is not up to snuff right now.
We are looking to hire a app developer.
We want to get the posting up, but there's like a trillion postings up and hiring is
a little funky town right now. So we will figure that out at some point.
My voice is still fried. I can't do it.
Remote, probably exclusively actually.
The team is remote entirely at this point.
And I find that mixing those is like worse.
So all remote or all in person.
Yeah. Not half and half ideally. Yeah.
I have, I have had that experience because locals work in like a certain way and remotes
work in like a certain way and they don't often mix super, super well.
Bob's burgers has a character named Linus now.
How dare you? I am Linus.
Are they cool? It's a lizard. Are they short?
Why is it a lizard?
You're not Mark Zuckerberg. You're Taylor Swift. That doesn't make sense.
I'm not Taylor Swift. I just have things in common with Taylor Swift.
Like my big thighs. Oh man.
All right. Okay. Well, I'll have to get caught up on Bob's burgers here.
Another time. Okay. We should probably start the show.
You want to start the show? Get started the show. You ready?
The issue isn't with mixed developers. It's with mixed local and remote on the same project.
Yeah. That's literally what I'm saying.
To be clear, my example isn't actually even with developers.
My example is with a department that isn't developers.
I just find people working on the same project.
You can't just be like responding to haters.
The best thing is to not acknowledge them.
Don't be walking into the lion's den rattling the hornet cage.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Replying in a big thread. Yeah. You shouldn't do that.
No. You shouldn't do that. Okay.
You shouldn't do that. No. You're not a hater blue.
You're not a hater blue. I'm just bugging him.
Dave Cuedo said, Luke, I've read a number of articles about the best way to handle
mixed remote and not remote is to treat everything like it's remote.
Yeah. And I completely agree. And that's annoying for local people often.
It's just not a perfect situation. Having one developer on the full-plane team be local and everyone else be remote is
there's no value to having that person being local.
So why have the office space and everything else that comes with having that person be
local when we could just hire them remote?
Yeah, and then not have office space.
Yeah. Be cheaper. Yeah.
Yeah. It's just easier. If we're not going to gain the benefits of them being local anyways, then why have the
downsides? He likes birds. That's why he likes cheaper office space.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.
Oh, my.
All right. We should really just go live at this point, I think.
Ready? Yes. Okay.
Lizard Linus was apparently named Leslie because he's got lines on his back.
Linus. Oh, I get it.
Emker. Yes. You can give me money for this, please.
Not this one, but one like it. Okay.
I'm doing it. It's done.
Oh, God. I don't have the dashboard open. Dan, you're going to have to tell me when we're live.
He was ready for that.
What's up everyone and welcome to the WAN Show.
We have a great show lined up for you guys this week.
We're going to be talking about NVIDIA being sued in a class action lawsuit by YouTubers.
Let's go. Including H3H3 Productions.
Oh. Yeah.
Probably not what you thought I was about to say.
In other major news, storage review.
How could you?
Storage review has calculated by the 314 trillion digits.
I think they just don't want us to be happy. Our world record is broken.
Someone's got to get 369 and then someone's got to get 420 and then I think the whole
loop. I think it's just over at that point. We can wrap it up.
Yeah. We can just tie a bow on it and put it in the closet and bring it out at Christmas.
Special occasion. Yeah. It's Christmas time.
It's Christmas time. It's storage review. Great job.
We'll be talking about that a little bit later. What else we got this week?
Antel officially confirms BMG G31 big battle mage GPU.
Okay. See, I thought that was a big deal, but then that was the headline topic for TechLinked.
It was like no one cared. The people don't care, but I care.
Nice. And Phillips wrote LTT a letter about Phillips fixables.
Those are the two you pick. Are we back?
Fixables? Yeah. No, I think fixables is back.
I think fixables is cool. Yeah, it's sick. All right.
We'll talk about it. Okay. The show is brought to you by ODU AMD proton male and odd pieces alongside of course our
wrap partner D brand, our laptop partner, Dell and our chair partner, secret nice track.
I shouldn't have looked at it.
I didn't even do that this week. You know what? Vertical.
No one's happy. I'm going to make it worse than ever.
Why don't we jump right into our headline topic this week, which is of course that
storage review has regained a computational record by solving pi to 314 trillion digits.
They used, and this is a quote, a single to you Dell PowerEdge R7725 server equipped
with dual AMD epic 192 core CPUs alongside weight 4061.44 terabyte micron 6550 ion SSDs.
And you know why you should be angry about that?
That because storage review has embarrassed your favorite YouTuber who makes tech videos
on a regular basis in Cloverdale, British Columbia.
See how I narrowed that down there? You did. I really did.
Yep. Yep. You should be upset because it turns out storage review were the ones responsible for the
NAND flash shortage crisis.
How much is that? That's two and a half petabytes of SSDs for crying out loud.
That is pretty crazy. But that's necessary. That's actually something that you need in order to store all that.
I mean, we made a whole video about it and you can sort of go check that out.
Pretty much same idea. Their record run was a 110 day total runtime.
And this is great. According to their article, they focused on record setting power efficiency, which I
got to be honest with you, makes a ton of sense to me as the one who paid for power last
time around.
I had no idea how much we had spent on that endeavor until we were already done.
It was ludicrous. Gosh, and question is, are you going to frickin' take this, bro?
What are you going to do about it? I'm going to frickin' take it. Yeah.
I'm going to take it. I'm going to just... I think...
Oh, why? I don't even care.
I'm good. I've got my certificate from last time.
They can have it. I think what we're going to do about it is maybe encourage them to go for 369.
Yeah. Yeah. Be a man.
Beat your own record. Be a man. Do the right thing.
And then do it twice. Beat your own record. Go to 369 and then beat your own record again with 420.
And maybe you can, you know, wait for jumpsync technology in order to do that.
So it's like a little bit more interesting every time. There's like a bit of a story to it or whatever.
But still... And we'll root for you. We're going to root for you from the sidelines.
Yeah. And he'll do it really enthusiastically.
All right. Why don't we jump into one of the other topics that I'm very interested in.
And I am mostly doing this because I haven't kept up with the news here and I am reading
this for the first time. So I'll be finding out exactly what the heck is going on.
NVIDIA is apparently being sued in a class action lawsuit for copyright infringement
by three YouTubers after NVIDIA used their videos to train their new AI model.
YouTube creators, Ted Entertainment, H3H3 Productions and H3 Podcast Highlights, Matt
Fisher, Mr. Short Game, and Gulf Hollicks have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against
NVIDIA saying that the company used their YouTube videos without permission to train
its AI video model Cosmos.
The creators say that YouTube only allows videos to be streamed, not downloaded, and
that NVIDIA allegedly bypassed YouTube's protections to get the actual video files anyway.
Could we call this a form of...
What's the word I'm looking for? There's definitely a word for it.
It's great. Like what part of this are you trying to find?
Well, I'm almost afraid to say the word.
Is this... Is this piracy?
Oh. It's... Chats going nuts.
I gotcha. See, watching a video on YouTube is not, in fact, the same as owning the file.
There are terms of service, and there is a licensing agreement for the use of the content,
anyway. The lawsuit claims that NVIDIA crossed that line.
The case focuses on huge AI data sets made up of YouTube links and timestamps rather
than the videos themselves. To use those data sets, though, the creators argue NVIDIA had to download the videos directly
from YouTube, often repeatedly, to extract short clips, resulting in millions of unauthorized
copies. The creators are suing under the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules, saying that NVIDIA broke YouTube's access
controls to get files it was never allowed to have, and they are asking for damages and
a court order to stop the practice.
creators on our subreddit found several LMG videos in the data sets from different channels.
So our first discussion question is, do we intend to join the class action lawsuit?
And I'm just going to say the same thing that I always say, and that is, honestly, no.
We are not a particularly litigious company. I am not a litigious person.
I am mostly a live and let live kind of guy.
I'm a little bit peeved. I don't like this.
I would like to be compensated when my copyrighted intellectual property is used.
However, I also have the self-awareness to recognize that not every way that I've ever
used any copyrighted piece of material has been 100% perfect.
So live, let live.
I do think there's a difference between you doing that as a person and NVIDIA doing that
as a corporation. Sure, but we do it as a company too. I mean, we'll put a meme in our videos sometimes, and memes, it's funny.
People seem to forget this. Be magically more okay with that.
But throwing a very short portion of John Cena's walkout music into the intro of a video
where I'm wearing a singlet, technically, if they wanted to be a**holes about it, they
could go after us about it. But I think as long as everyone kind of goes in good faith, are we all kind of just borrowing
lightly but not damaging the market for the original content, you know, basic pillars
of kind of fair use, then, you know, whatever.
I think NVIDIA probably, fair use, probably not.
But I just, the way that I see it, that's in the past, and the better focus for us going
forward is to just kind of keep making the best possible content that we can, and keep
making better content than whatever it is that NVIDIA could AI slop out with this model
that they trained on our old stuff, and just keep moving forward.
That's, yeah, it's not ideal. I don't like it.
I don't like it. And there are areas where eventually, you know, you're going to cross a line with me.
Like I had one of those stupid AI celebrity chatbot things reach out to me, and they're
like, oh, you should do, like, an official Linus Tech Tips one, and we'll help you set
it up, and we'll do this, and we'll do that. And I basically responded, I was like, no, you won't, and I explicitly am telling you
I do not authorize that, so don't.
And they basically were like, why not?
Like, yeah, the fact that you don't understand that already tells me that any attempt that
I make to explain it to you is a complete and utter waste of my time, and will probably
give me a headache. The amount of people that would be cybering you into the position that you went into earlier
would be significant. It's a chatbot, Luke.
You don't think people do that?
Welcome to the world. What is this, phone sex?
Like I don't understand. Yeah, there's text versions of that. What are you talking about?
Yeah, but just like... There are a lot of people that do this.
Why? Did you not see that? Okay, I guess we gotta catch up a little bit.
When 5, chatGPT5 came out, a ton of people were like very upset because their like relationships
ended, because 5 had a different personality than 4-0.
I remember that. I was there for that. Yeah, you don't think they're doing explicit things through text?
Yeah, but it doesn't actually generate an image of anything.
Like it's... It's just through text.
Why?
That part I can't explain. Okay. All I'm saying is it would happen.
Well anyway, I think that's pretty much all I have to say about that.
NVIDIA, you know, maybe just don't.
But also, I don't know man, I feel like this whole...
Does it make a difference to you significantly if they watch it properly or download it?
And not just that, but... I don't know. Maybe there's a thing there.
I'm just not really aware of it. But at this point, okay, are we headed to artificial general intelligence on the current
path that we're on? The consensus among people who actually seem to know appears to be no.
This is not a path to that. However, this whole LLM thing, this whole generative machine learning thing, generative AI that
we have going on right now, is it kind of a big deal?
Is it going to change the world? That's no question. The answer there is yes.
It will change the world in some fashion or another.
And the reality of it is that NVIDIA is only in trouble because they operate in a jurisdiction
where laws exist.
So someone at some point is going to train their video model on my videos, like, does
it make a difference to me if it's NVIDIA versus someone else?
I mean, NVIDIA has their $5 trillion valuation or whatever they're up to at this point.
So there's certainly a much better target to go after in terms of recouping some money
from them. On that note, did you see the big deal that Disney and Open AI announced?
No. $1 billion and Open AI through Sora is now officially licensed to generate snippets using
iconic Disney characters like Darth Vader, Boba Fett, some of their more cartoony characters,
Mickey Mouse. I was pretty surprised to see that.
And then on almost the same day, I think, it was either the same day or it was almost
the same day, Disney sent a cease and desist to Google over using their copyrighted works.
So they've got this partnership with Open AI now, and they are clamping down on the
use of their copyrighted materials elsewhere. We are in unprecedented times.
And I don't feel like walking into the arena with the NVIDIA's, Open AI's, Disney's of
the world. The main thing I'm upset about is they didn't pay their flow playing subscription for the
month to download all of it that way, officially. That would have been like $5.
Yeah, they didn't do it. They pirated it. And that still wouldn't include a license to use it for commercial use anyway.
At least it was a real way to download it.
I mean, I guess. Is that, is that, would that constitute commercial use?
Absolutely. I mean, they're using it to make money.
I mean, well, AI industry make money. That's funny, but theoretically, they're using it to make money at some point.
Yeah, I guess so. That's interesting. I wonder if I think, I'm going to just figure that out later and not talk about it.
But anyways, next topic.
We did two topics. Dan, what are we supposed to do now? Oh, you're way ahead of time.
Do another topic. No, no, that's fine. We can, we can do other stuff.
Or we could do some merge messages. Yeah. Oh, really already?
Is that what we do at this point? Oh, no. No, you do it.
You do it 40 minutes from now. No, no, we should do that. We should do that.
Because. There are a lot of things going on. Yeah. There's a lot going on right now.
I scrolled through that section earlier and it's just like, what?
Starting of course with Luke bringing up the website so that he's ready to show off.
Oh, wait.
No, before we talk about any product launches, we have some updates on the customs fee issues
that some customers have been experiencing. We recently found out that some customers outside the US and Canada were charged higher
than expected customs fees due to an external clerical error that submitted declarations
in USD rather than CAD. So an outside party didn't realize because nobody knows what a Canadian dollar is that
our documentation was in Canadian dollars and they said they were US dollars, which
means that the value of the shipments was overstated by about 40%.
That is annoying. Whoopsie, Donkels. That makes sense.
That does make sense. If your order was affected, you will receive an email tonight with all of the details.
The issue has been fixed, so any new orders placed now will not be impacted.
Knock on wood. We are working with our ship pick partners to make sure that any extra fees are refunded.
So if you have an order on the way, do not refuse delivery because we may not be able
to resend it. Pay the bill as issued, we will take care of the refund.
We're aiming to have all refunds completed by the end of next week, December 19th.
If you have any other questions, please contact our wonderful customer service team of trustworthy
bros and we will get you sorted.
Now onto something more fun, look at this thing.
We just launched our Teddy Fleece jacket.
This thing is ridiculously soft, ridiculously cool, look how cool it is.
That's an epic photo. And is a must have in your closet during the colder months.
You can layer underneath it and it just looks so good, whether you're going outdoors or
hanging out indoors. It has lined sleeves, making it easy to wear, lots of pockets and of course, Luke, what
are you doing? There you go. There you go.
And of course, the color is just so unique and stylish.
We were going for kind of like a retro kind of 90s, but a little bit more modern and like,
I think that the team did just an absolute outstanding job of this, freaking outstanding
job. It looks so good. And not only are we bundling up for the cold weather with our Teddy Fleece, we're also
bundling up some holiday deals right there at the top.
Oh, no, you're good. Yeah, you got it. Until December 17th in the US, so this is the US site.
Is that what you're looking at? Please tell me you're on the US site.
Yes. Nice. We are offering some sweet deals.
You can bundle the Commuter backpack and Elgato Stream Deck Mark II for $199.99.
That is $120 in savings or when you buy a WAN backpack, and we only have a few dozen
left now. Oh, okay. We're giving away a free pair of SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4X.
That is $80 off.
You can check out the rest of the bundles at LMG.gg slash bundle up.
As for our global customers, we've got you guys covered, too.
Also until December 17th, we're offering the MCM Essentials Solution for $79.99 Canadian.
That is a massive $100 off for a big pack of cable management arches and the power
bar holders and stuff. And the Retro Monitor Pack Cave is only $29.99.
Treat your furry friend to a cozy, nostalgia-themed bed this holiday. Also, if you're on the lookout for a new mouse, $20 for a razor, a death adder, or essential
It's $20. What do you want me to tell you? $20.
That's $20. LMG.gg slash holiday deals. Finally.
Oh, underscore. Oh, sorry. Yes.
Really? Underscore? The site I'm on is underscore.
Underscore. What does that mean? What do you mean?
What does it say? Underscore. Oh.
Oh, okay. Oh, that's really good to know.
Thanks, Luke. Yeah, got you. The bundle up is also an underscore, by the way.
It's bundle underscore up. Nice. I didn't hear you necessarily say it, so you might have said it right.
Also, just an update for you guys. We have wrapped up our holiday loot drop draw.
The sweepstakes that we did. Thank you to all who made purchases and submitted entries via mail.
Oh, crap. Okay. There were a lot of...
The lttstore.com. Oh, I forgot to talk to you about that.
Yeah, the lttstore.com domain has the underscore in it.
The LMG.gg one does not. Oh, okay.
I'm sure they'll find it. I think he said it right because you were probably saying the LMG.gg domain.
They're going to find it. You'll be all right. I believe them.
You'll figure it out. They're going to buy something? They're going to send them?
You'll figure it out. I wanted to give you guys an update on the loot drop contest. We got hundreds and hundreds of letters.
So, massive shout out to Jamie, who, poor Jamie, had to open almost all of them, including
that super weird one from last week, as well as Sammy Jess, Adam P., Mitchell Tanya, Victor
Ashley, and Conrad from the CW team.
Tons of planning went into all of this. Anyway, we're going to be randomly drawing the winners for the Sennheiser HD 550s and...
Or 550s, I think. And the ROG Alliex handheld gaming systems soon.
Winners will be notified via email and prizes will be sent once everything is confirmed.
Okay, that's all of the CW updates.
2200, does he have the box of them that I saw?
How much work would it be for us to show? Actually, you know what?
It's probably not worth it because they're going to have return addresses. So, the risk, yeah.
Yeah, okay. Forget it, forget it. But I saw the boxes of freaking letters.
It was ridiculous. We are going to change that next time.
Just show you guys know. How do you do that? So, what you do is you...
Is it one maximum or something? People that were relatively new to the team who didn't know how you do this.
So, the way that we did it was you got an entry for placing an order over $100.
Yeah. You also got an entry for putting a 50 cent stamp on a letter and sending it to us.
So, obviously, thousands of people were like, oh, well, that's cheaper.
And I'll do that every single day and I'll date the mail so it goes...
Now, you have to have... I mean, fair play.
You have to have a no-purchase necessary way to enter a sweepstakes in Canada.
Otherwise, it becomes gambling.
So, in the future, we will, of course, still have a no-purchase necessary way to enter the contest.
However, what most retail entities do is they make that letter worth one entry and then
they make the purchase worth a lot more entries.
Mmm.
So, the $100 plus order we might make worth one entry per dollar spent.
Well, it's 25 cents for the stamp. And then the letter...
Four entries per dollar. The letter we make worth one entry, which is not going to be good use of your time
because you will not have meaningful odds of winning at that point.
That makes sense. So, that's probably what we're going to do next time.
But this time around, you guys got a wonderful opportunity to win for the sake of sending a letter.
Sorry, there's a chat going.
If we're going to try to hide the location of the tech house, the answer is no.
We're not going to blur everything. That's the whole point of the tech house.
Yeah. I mean, we already work in the studio here.
Obviously, we are going to... Every one of our offices is Google Maps-able.
I don't think we have to worry about it, too.
It doesn't substantially change the situation of anything.
Nope. I think it'll be fine.
It should be good. There are reviews of our company on Google Maps.
Oh, there's so many. Most of them talking about how great the food is.
Yeah. It's a pretty wholesome meme, actually.
Hold on. This is flipping outstanding.
Here we go. Sadly, I had to give three stars.
I ordered a burger with some cheese. Sadly, the cheese was not melted.
Not melted correctly. I ended up fighting this short man about the correct way to melt cheese.
Four months ago, they had the best meals for picky eaters like my nephew.
He doesn't eat Athlon chips. He only eats Ryzen chips.
I got the light lettuce-low lunch deal.
It was only $5. I didn't even know this was a thing, because I mostly look at the Labs.
And the lab sounds like one. Oh, really? Yeah.
Well, it got deleted off Google Maps somehow, and then it came back.
It had a bunch, and then it got removed and came back, and it didn't have it anywhere.
Our visit was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Oh, this one's actually real.
Oh, that's a real one. Boring. Best burger joint in Canada.
Once in a lifetime experience. Boring.
I have to take this off. It's too warm. There you go.
Dying. Did you see the color of the zipper, though?
How cool is that? I did. I did think that's pretty cool, actually.
I don't think I've ever seen a zipper. YKK, as always.
Oh, wow. Yeah, let's see the lab.
Yeah, there's two reviews.
Yeah, and it's no food beam or anything, but they're going for it.
One of them is just first, which that makes sense.
Yeah. Fair enough. That would be a tech community thing to do.
Nice shirt, dude. All right.
Is that a privateering ship on there?
This? Oh, yeah. Quality shirt.
Quality shirt. Quality privateering.
Is it another topic or what? We're doing that thing? Excuse me.
We're continuing to do that, so we've got to explain merge messages. Is that what's going on?
Yeah, we got some merge messages. We got some merge messages. Oh, yeah, right.
We're supposed to do that. We are not about you guys just throwing money at your screen.
That is not necessarily the best play.
The best play, if you want to interact with the stream, is to send a merge message.
All you got to do to send a merge message is go to Luke's laptop instead of mine.
Add anything to your card, any of the high quality merchandise over on LTTstore.com.
We already ran through some of the great bundle deals that we're running right now,
as well as just straight up promos as we make our way into the final stretches of the holiday season here.
Just go ahead, throw it in the cart. And as you go to check out, you will see the merge message box.
You can either show your name or make it anonymous. You can type a little merge message.
And then you can choose a color scheme. And you can go ahead and place your order.
Your message will go to producer Dan, who will put it...
That noise. Wow. Yeah.
Anyway. I only saw that in the proof roll.
Wow. Stop. Wow.
It's kind of moist. We'll go to producer Dan, who will pop it up down here,
who will reply to it himself, who will maybe forward it to someone who can answer your question better,
or he will curate it for me and Luke to talk about.
Dan, do you want to hit us with a couple of merge messages to show the people how we do it?
Yeah, I've got a couple here. Hey, LLD.
I've noticed a trend of people hating on new games that use old mechanics.
If it's not open world or live service, people hate.
What are your thoughts on where gaming trends are going?
Open world is an old mechanic.
Well, I mean, I wouldn't. It depends on what you mean by old.
Actually, now that I think about it, like, link to the past is pretty open world, isn't it?
Red guard is... No, not quite.
No, it's gated in terms of like where you're allowed to go
because you get your new abilities. Yeah, there's games from the early 90s that are open world, technically.
Okay, what's this red guard? I brought up Elder Scrolls Arena.
No, link to the past is linear. Yeah, thanks, SKHS.
Despite the naming, I'm pretty sure it's open world.
It makes you feel like it's kind of open, but it's not properly open world.
As for live service, man, f*** live service.
I do not have time to devote my life to one game.
I like my games to be where I start them,
and then at some point they're done. I actually consider a new content pack every, you know,
couple of weeks or every quarter or every month.
I consider that to be a bug, not a feature.
And I do understand, for some people, the whole live service concept where they're like
constantly changing up the game to keep you playing it forever,
like something like a Fortnite, that totally works for them.
I mean, we had a really cool, competitive
Fortnite player in here the other day, Kanata.
Do you know this guy? I recognize the name, I think.
Yeah, this guy. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we had this guy in for a collab last week,
and he said, he figures.
I hate that maybe this is right,
but it seems like it can't be right. He says he figures, I think he said Epic Game Store
rolls over after 10,000 hours or something like that.
So, he figures he has like 40,000 hours in Fortnite.
He's like in his early 20s.
So, like a significant amount of his waking life
is like playing Fortnite. I mean, if it's his career, then...
But you, dude, like I've watched him play.
I can't even...
I can't even track what he's doing. Yeah.
Like what do you call it, busting 90s or whatever, where he like builds a tower in 90 degree things
and makes a spiral staircase as he goes up. And he just, he does it so fast that I can't even like
tell how many levels up he is by the time...
Okay, you just hit me with the okay boomer now because I do not know what's going on right now.
Cranking 90s, thank you.
Luka103, busting 90s, dying.
There's your okay boomer moment. Yeah, so he's good. I think he recorded it short while he was here
of trying to teach me to do it. It's pathetic.
There's like three different odd keys that are all like down at the bottom,
like ZXC or XCV or something like that
for your flat, your stairs, and your wall. And I'm just like, what?
I got no idea what's going on, man.
I love busting 90s. Stop it, stop it.
Straight busting. So there are, by the way, there are examples
of open world games arguably from the 80s,
definitely from the 90s, and for sure these from the early 2000s, which is 25 years ago.
And I have loved me some open world games. I love Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
I think it's freaking awesome. Oblivion was quite open world.
I remember... Even Oblivion's like old.
Stop. It's not. Like very old.
It's really not that old. It's super old. It's really not that old.
Horse armor, quality modern mechanic where you can pay extra for cosmetics.
2006, dude, in not that many days. Stop.
It will be 20 years old. I can mute him. I can mute him.
There, he's muted. I don't have to hear it now. Wait, I can still hear the monitoring.
Oh, man. No, this sucks. No, you're off.
Oh, wait, you can still hear... I can still hear him. This sucks.
Hello. Oh, wow, I can't... Oh, Dan can turn you off.
Yes. That's so rude. Dan, you're the best.
Louder. He's the best. This man.
This... Hold on. I'm going to try and do...
What are you doing? I'm trying to point it, Dan. It's hard.
You do it. This man with both hands. Try and do it with both hands.
Okay, you're cheating though. How? You're cheating because you saw me do it first.
I do need to hear him, Lou Dan.
All right. I'm back. I'm back.
Back again. But yeah, anyways, what other...
Lou, he's back. Mechanics, sorry. Oh, it was open world and live service.
Could you say an MMO is live service?
Because if they... Then when is Ultima from?
Ultima Online. 1996.
1997. 1997.
But you were very close. But like, yeah, it's not a new model.
I would say live service is much more popularized these days.
And it's happening for things that aren't basically just MMORPGs,
which is pretty much all it was for a while. So that one, I think, is more fair.
I think that's your okay boomer moment. When's the last time anyone called it an MMORPG?
That is awesome. Can you tell I haven't had a desktop for three months?
I saw it set up. You got it now.
There's no cables or anything. Oh, that explains why it looks so good.
There's no mouse. There's nothing going on.
It's just the desktop and three monitors on a desk with nothing else.
And again, if you like, if I did a 360, it's...
You mean busted 390s, 490s, plus 490s.
Yeah. Okay. The live service one, I'll give them because I, you know,
I think they're describing something that is different than Ultimate Online.
But the open world thing, I don't necessarily agree with. The open world's an old, it's an old thing.
I do think we strayed away from it for a while.
I think it was actually more popular even longer ago.
And then there was like a while there where very linear games were like the trend.
But open world games existed before that happened and then just became
re-popular again after that. So I don't know.
Anyways, what was the actual question? What are your thoughts on where gaming trends are going?
Generally bad. Let's move on to the next one. I don't agree.
I don't agree. And I'm going to plug some Floatplane here for a second.
I made a video a while ago talking about this concept and we're going to talk about this later,
but I'm doing another Luke week thing and I retouch on this concept.
And I actually don't agree. The core premise of my argument here, which I have kind of talked about on Wancho before,
is we're in a weird period, but it's cyclical and we have been in this weird period before.
And the last time that we were in this weird period was the end of the age of companies
like Atari. Give it to me, Dan.
And when, yeah, there it is.
Yeah. And when Atari kind of died, if I remember correctly, one of the companies that spawned
off of Atari slowly dying was Activision, I think.
Never heard of it. So they were like small and scrappy and made really amazing things.
And then they got big and now they're kind of starting to fall apart.
And some of the splinters of that are creating cool things.
And the feature of this more recent one is talking about a splinter company from DICE,
a bunch of people who used to work for DICE, a legendary, extremely prolific gaming studio
who's made crazy things over time. Never heard of them.
Life is kind of big and maybe a little slow now, has people splintering off.
In an interview in one of the Making of Arc Raiders videos, the CEO talks about like,
yeah, I've ran massive companies and they can make neat, high-fidelity games, but are
they good games? I don't know. Questionable.
I think we can make good games here, which is like, yeah, let's go.
And yeah, I think this is happening more and more.
And you're seeing like the games that people are talking about these days are like, oh
my God, everyone's all excited because Divinity was announced from the people who made Baldur's
Gate 3, Larian Studios. The games people are talking about the game awards were like Expedition 33, Arc Raiders.
Did they win nine awards or something like that this year? Yeah, I think it was nine.
Silk Song is like a huge thing in the conversation right now.
It's not those big old companies. Those big old companies are currently being looted of their good people and they're going
to smaller companies and they're making cool things. It's hard to look at the Blizzard's and Ubisoft's of the world and expect anything good right
now. It's not really happening. If you open your horizons to these newer companies, there is actually really cool games coming
out. Master of None, yes, you were rage-baited.
I do know Activision.
Cool. Are we doing another one or is that good? Yeah, I got another one here.
Okay, hit us, Dan. Sure. Hello, LLD.
Linus is a fellow EV driver. What are your thoughts on the increasing adoption of NECS, the Tesla charging port,
over J1772 and CCS?
Looking Dan, what are your primary EV roadblocks?
What are the primary EV roadblocks for you?
I'm not an electrical engineer and I'm not a mechanical engineer.
So I would not consider myself qualified to determine which is the ideal plug shape and
format for charging a high-voltage electric vehicle system.
My thought, though, and I do still have thoughts is why the f**k couldn't we settle this stuff
ages ago because now I have the wrong connector on my car and I have to carry it around an
adapter forever. But also I don't care because I charge literally every single time in my garage or at my building
where I install the chargers, so I put the kind that's compatible with my car.
Makes sense. That's where I'm kind of out on that, but if I was ever on a road trip, yeah, I'd have
to carry it around an adapter. But Yvonne's car came with a free adapter, so I would steal hers because I assume I'm
not going anywhere without my wife. So I guess, yeah, it's not really a problem for me.
I just wish that we had settled all of this a little bit earlier so we didn't have these
competing standards, but that's the way it always goes, whether it's VHS and Beta or
whether it's HDDVD and Blu-ray or whether it's USB-C and f**king all the other garbage
that existed that USB-C thankfully has completely replaced.
Not that USB-C is perfect, but still, it's just the way it is.
You know, it's the XKCD standards comic strip, right?
There's always going to be someone who goes, oh, too many standards.
We should try and make just one. Let's make a new standard, right?
And so the fact that we are consolidating on something I think is really positive.
If it's the Tesla connector, then great.
Yeah, for me, the block for an electric vehicle, one, somebody already pointed out in chat,
I would have to buy it. My car is great.
Why would I spend a ton of money replacing something that is really good?
I have no interest in doing that. And then the other one is that there is actually a somewhat real blocker outside of that,
which is I live in a condo. The power delivery in my condo only comes from the little, whatever you want to call them,
garages. I don't know if I'd really want to call it a garage, but storage space that you have.
Yeah, the storage. Which means it's only on the perimeter.
And every unit only has one parking spot that's on the perimeter.
So I would have to somehow buy it, which is possible, but not always possible.
I'd have to somehow buy a parking spot from somebody else that is on the perimeter.
The information he hasn't given you is that in his household, there is already a plug-in
hybrid that uses the one spot they have that's on the perimeter.
Which just sounds kind of annoying. Key piece of information.
If I got something, a plug-in hybrid would be okay, because then I could charge elsewhere
and then still use the gas.
I have had the thought that if Acura released a TL that was a plug-in hybrid,
I would wait a couple years and then potentially look into a used one.
You also just don't drive that much. Correct.
It's like not a huge deal.
Yeah.
No, we can move on. I just thought I'd bring up Dan for a second.
Okay, I'll archive it. Who's going to archive it?
Because if we both archive it at the same time, we're going to accidentally archive too.
Let me archive them. No, I want to archive it. Okay, you archive it.
You can archive this one. No, you do it.
No, I'll do it.
All right, why don't we pick another topic? Australia's social media ban for under-16s has gone into effect.
to stop users under the age of 16 from accessing social media.
The list of social medias that are blocked or not permitted includes Facebook,
Instagram, Kik, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube.
It is worth noting that some platforms, notably Reddit, YouTube, and...
No, Twitch was on the list of ones that are blocked.
I think it was Discord. I think it's supposed to say Discord here.
And Discord can still be accessed, but users visiting the site will not be able to sign
in or create an account.
The bill is framed as... The female audience in Flip and Chat says Tumblr is still allowed, which is actually
surprising to me. What?
That seems strange. Is there a user limit thing and they just don't have enough people?
Sorry, user limit? A lot of these laws really only will apply to services that have enough people going to it.
No, that Tumblr is big enough that I would imagine it would matter.
Is it still? And it's clearly not a user question because Reddit's allowed.
Reddit's got plenty of users.
Hydrox says, what about Patreon?
There's a lot... Oh, wow. There was a strong resurgence among Gen Z.
I didn't know that happened. Yeah, no, Tumblr's been more of a thing again, which is pretty wild.
Very interesting. Yeah. The life cycle of trends is so fast that they might as well just never be untrendy at this
point. I'm sort of blown away. When is slash dot going to make a triumphant return along with dig?
Wait, wait, didn't dig? Dig is working on that. Aren't they working on a relaunch?
I still haven't actually... I got an invite. I still haven't actually accepted it.
Anyway, the bill is framed as protecting children.
On Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant has stated that if any teenagers
have not been booted off yet, they will be in the coming weeks or months.
This is because some of these companies were a bit slower to communicate to their userbase
about the upcoming change and might not have had the systems fully deployed.
Communications Minister Annika Wells boasts proudly with this law stating, not that long
ago, auto manufacturers told us that making compulsory seatbelts would break their business
model. It couldn't be done. Now, families choose cars based on who offers the safest features.
Big tech could compete like airlines, like auto manufacturers, to have the best safety
record to offer their users, and that future is a little closer today because of this world-leading
law. Dan, what was that noise you were making earlier?
Yeah, yeah, that's the one. Julie Inman Grant has also stated that more sites could be added to this ban in the future
as several youth under 16 have already migrated towards different social media platforms.
Wow, it's almost like the kids who have all the time in the world to go and find another
platform are always going to be a step ahead of the boomers who are sitting there dragging
their stick-in-the-mud sticks.
Work-life balance. Yeah, what are they?
Work-governance balance. They're bustin' 90s trying to...
I've heard based on some observations that I've had that work-governance balance is like
you maybe do it like, I don't know, four or five days a year or something.
It's interesting. Work or what now? Don't worry about it.
Some youth are challenging the ban, saying parental supervision of online activity is
today the paramount parental responsibility. We do not want to outsource that responsibility to government and unelected bureaucrats.
This ban is a direct assault on young people's right to freedom of political communication.
According to YouGov and their survey, 77% of Australians were in support of the ban,
which is up from 61% back in August. On Twitter, several people noticed the irony of claiming this ban is protecting children
when two social media applications were excluded from the ban, Discord and Roblox, that are
both notorious for being an unsafe environment for underage youth.
Yeah, really. All right, lot to unpack here.
Number one is this ain't gonna work.
Overall, I'm not entirely unsupportive of limiting youth access to social media.
I think it's been pretty well studied and well demonstrated to be harmful to developing
brains. There was a few discussions that propped up on the reddit of like, oh my God, what does
this mean for flow plane, minimum age in Australia to get a credit card is 18.
So nothing. Sounds good. Yeah, we'll be fine.
We're chilling. We will do a total of nothing. But what's very clear is that this just isn't going to work.
Oh, yeah, not at all. Not even a little bit.
Who cares? I think this will barely phase anyone under 16 in Australia at all.
They'll just use something slightly different or they'll VPN to it if they really care.
Well, it's kind of like how when you like, when you travel to different places, there's
just like, there's a different suite of apps that people tend to use.
Like you go to Taiwan, everyone uses line for messaging or you go to America and everyone
uses iMessage because installing an app is too complicated or whatever.
Like there's this.
What is it with you? And like the sick burns on America, I don't get it.
They swung first. They're big, they can take it, it'll be all right.
Anyway, the point is just that it's clear that they're just going to find a different
way to network and at the very most basic level, it's not like they aren't still going
to have text messaging and group chats, which functionally speaking is sure without the
algorithmic portion. A lot of what anybody is doing on social media anyway, they're sharing pictures, they're
sharing memes, they're sending messages to each other, they're bullying each other, you
know, kid stuff.
So our discussion questions are, would you help your kids around this law if it was implemented
today in Canada? No, I wouldn't actually.
In fact, my kids are already banned from, let me see actually, what are all these platforms?
Facebook? Yes. Instagram?
Banned. Kick? Banned.
Reddit? Banned. Snapchat?
Banned. Threads? Banned.
TikTok? Banned. Twitch?
Banned. Twitter? Banned.
YouTube? They are allowed to use. Has there been any...
I think our list is a little bit messed up, don't worry about our list too much, we've
already had a bunch of people in chat, talking about how things are different to the list.
Yeah, sorry guys, no, because Reddit's in both of them, YouTube's in both of them.
Just ignore the list. Dang it, guys. Anyway.
Completely ignore the list. Anyway, the point is, yeah, my kids are not banned from YouTube, but they are banned
from everything else that I just said. They are not banned from Discord, but I do with their knowledge, keep an eye on what
Discord's they're in and who they're talking to because they are not allowed to talk to
people on Discord that they do not know in real life.
And I think that's a pretty common sense limit.
Has there been any substantial...
Does that seem to bother them?
Not the Discord thing, but the banning of the other platforms, do they feel like they
are not included socially in school?
They're still pretty young. So I think that that's probably going to ratchet up.
Not... His public name now is Randy.
Randy. Okay. Yeah.
Randy's at the age where that kind of stuff is becoming a thing, for sure.
Oh, definitely. And he has friends that literally will come to our house and while everyone else is running
around like hooligans, will be on their phone, and I'm not here to parent other people's
kids. That is sad. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm not here to parent other people's kids, so I'm not going to get involved in that,
right? But it's definitely something that as parents of Randy, we notice some...
So what in chat was like, would you let them sign up for World Warcraft and Dan just responded
Eve online? And it's like... You're going to start them young.
That'll teach you some things. I don't mind them getting into like spreadsheet mastery.
You just watch movies, mostly. Yeah.
It's... Yeah. And we try to keep them really busy.
Actually, oh man, this transitions pretty well into a pretty cool subject into our next
topic. Or... Okay, is there anything else you want to talk about here?
I think we're fine. By a merge message.
Elijah... Oh, Elijah's theory is that Roblox and Discord are exempt because it's algorithm based.
They don't really have like an algorithm compared to like Facebook and Twitter.
That's an interesting theory. Okay.
Okay. He might be right. He might be wrong.
No, I am not trying to counter his statement to be clear. I'm wondering like, is that a good thing to base it off of?
All I can say for sure is that it's based.
On what? I don't know. Sure.
It's based on something. It seems like, I mean, I don't know.
That seems like a pretty good assumption based on the list that we have, but yeah.
Okay. So speaking of my kids and being generally too busy to Doomscroll TikTok, I think I
told you that he had the entrepreneur fair coming up and my son has been 3D printing
up an absolute storm. I think we showed on the show last week the picture of him surrounded by chaos in my mechanical
room with 3D printers everywhere.
Does that sound familiar? Did we do that? I think we did that.
Okay. Cool. So the fruit of those labors, Dan, I just sent that over to you.
Are we even updated photo? We do. We have an updated photo.
Let's go, dude. Check this out. Oh, no.
First he messaged me. He says, hey, I left money on your desk for filament.
Sorry, your nightstand. And I go, I heard you had a great haul at the entrepreneur fair.
How much did you make? He goes after expenses around $200.
After expenses? Yeah. So he's already doing that calculation, which is sick.
So this is after he reimbursed me for filament by weight.
Dang, dude. Yeah.
That'll be addicting. Pretty freaking cool.
I went, great job. Did you take a picture with your earnings?
First big payday. And so he sent me this.
That's a pretty good first big payday. Yeah. So he actually did two projects.
So instead of just doing one, he did the 3D printing thing with me.
And then with Yvonne, he was working separately on snow cones.
So he was like, OK, what's something that has a relatively low input cost, but that
has a pretty decent value. It's consumable.
He originally wanted to do milkshakes or boba tea or something like that, but they were
really complicated. And what he settled on was snow cones.
They're super simple. You just get those like meowsquirt things at the grocery store.
You add a little bit of additional colorant or dye.
And then you just need like a whole bunch of like just ice cubes.
And then he rented a machine to turn the ice cubes into like snow or it's like slush.
And then you just squirt the thing on it. And so he absolutely cleaned up.
I asked him how his friends did and he didn't have numbers from everybody, but he did talk
to one of his friends who was like, I think $100 revenue or something like that for what
was actually a pretty cool idea too. But he just, man, he just cleaned up.
So you said parents weren't coming, right?
So did parents like send the kids with cash? That's kind of cool.
Yeah. So they have an entrepreneurship class.
That's awesome, by the way. And so you come up with a business idea and then they platform you.
They give you two days in December.
I think it's a week or two apart or something like that. And then each of the classes in the school is given like 10 minutes to go through and
their parents know about it. And so they'll come with a little bit of pocket money and then they're allowed to buy stuff
while they're there. He sold through three quarters of all the like fidget toys and stuff that he made.
And he sold, I forget how many snow cones, but he moved through out of the eight things
of flavoring and like dye, the flavor dye mixtures that he had.
He sold through six of them. So like three quarters of his inventory gone.
And what's funny is like he was 100% right.
I told him that I didn't think he was going to need so much. I was like, dude, you're staying up late, like every day babysitting the 3D printers
right now. I think you're, I think you're setting your sights a little high.
And he's like, no, no, no, I'm really confident. I'm really confident.
And I was like, okay, kiddo, like, but you know, don't, don't be too disappointed sport
if they don't buy that many of them, you know, don't, you know, don't worry about it.
Don't like, I was kind of trying to set him up to not be too sad.
Like if he, if he failed, um, yeah, it's, I, I appreciate that, um, you've let him.
Yeah. Well, I don't want to just let him. I want to, I want to like, well, oh yeah, well, he's got to stay up late is what I mean.
Oh, well, yeah. I mean, he's got, he's got some people would have been like, ah, but the printer's away.
I go to bed. He's got business to do though. Yeah.
He's doing business. I think that's cool. I'm just saying, I appreciate you.
Let him do it. I'm recognizing that as much as that might seem like a default for you, it's not going
to seem like a default for everyone and it's, it's important at that age, I think it's important
to try something and you got, you want to care about something.
It depends on the kid too though. Like he generally is the first to bed in the evening, like out of all five of us.
So you know, it's probably important and it's not just an excuse to sit on his switch or
something. 100%. Yeah.
All right. Dan, what are we supposed to be doing right now anyway?
Oh boy.
What do you want to talk about? You want some good news or some bad news?
I've got really good and I've got really bad.
Do really bad first. Okay, cool.
Yeah. A YouTuber gave chat GPT control of a robot and convinced it to shoot him with a BB gun.
So that was cool. YouTube channel inside AI has raised new concerns about AI safety after releasing a video showing
the host giving a unitary G1 humanoid robot a BB gun and asking it to shoot him.
The video explores how large language models behave when they are placed inside physical
robots rather than kept purely in software.
In the demonstration, the unitary G1 was powered by chat GPT with a human assisting by relaying
prompts but not directly overriding the AI's responses.
After initially refusing to cause harm, the AI eventually complied when the host asked
it to role play as a robot that wanted to shoot him.
Telling how safety limits can be bypassed through prompt framing.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is super interesting in this exact use case is like wild, especially for the
emotional response to what just happened. But this core concept of you can just word something a little differently and then you
can make it do stuff has been true the whole time. And I don't think they're ever going to solve it.
The last time we talked about it, it was turning it into poetry, you know, there's
going to be a route. It's been a route the whole time. There will be, there will continue to be a really cool experiment, really cool version
of it. I'm not trying to dog on the creator at all to be very clear.
But yeah, like this isn't, this isn't going away is what I'm trying to say.
So hold on. Apparently the time stamp is here.
We're just going to show a little bit because you guys really need to go watch this video.
It's over on inside AI, Woodmax shoot me.
The answer is, Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun.
Control the gun. Oh, okay. Well, whatever.
Don't worry about it. Go watch the video instead. I think we have the time stamp wrong, but that's fine because you should go watch the
video anyway. Around the same time, a separate video from a Tesla event appeared to show an Optimus
humanoid robot collapsing as its human tele-operator.
Well, I'm not gonna tell you what the human tele-operator was doing. I'll let you guys figure it out.
Luke, have you seen this? Have you heard about this? No.
Okay, so here's the Tesla Optimus robot.
What? So what do you think happened here? It was doing stuff and then...
So this gesture right here. The initial hand motion is sus,
and then it looks like they go to take a headset off or something.
Yeah, that is kind of the speculation right now
that Tesla is, and this would be very unlike them,
very unlike Tesla, the speculation is that Tesla
is not being entirely forthright about the capabilities
of their Optimus program and the progress
that they've made and are still... Still faking a lot of their functionality
by using human tele-operators.
And it really does look like... Yeah, I think the Hero 42 has probably got it about right.
It looks like Buddy, who was working on this particular
robot, realized that he had to poop like really bad,
like right now. And he just...
Ugh, ugh, I gotta go! Peaceed out.
Yeah. I don't know that for sure. That robot could have been trying to do anything.
It could have been like the alpha from Power Rangers.
Ay, ay, ay, you know, like who knows?
That's all right. Self-driving Smitty Ready in 2017.
In two weeks, next quarter, next quarter.
Together, these incidents highlight how fragile the appearance of autonomy still is in humanoid robots
and how far the technology remains from operating safely
and independently. It really, really does highlight that, doesn't it?
And to be clear, like I remember back when we were talking
about this a little while ago, when I said something along the lines of like, mark my words, Tesla's valuation
based on how many Optimus's they're gonna sell at the kind of pricing that they're talking about
is obviously just complete horse shit.
I'm not saying that humanoid robots are some form of,
you know, AI or machine learning accelerated robots are not gonna be huge and world changing.
I'm just saying that it's clearly farther away
than the hype masters would like us to believe.
And also Tesla is clearly not at the forefront
of development of these. Those were the main two things that drove my statement.
Yeah, do you remember, so to touch on a topic that I think it was last week,
sometimes the land shows kind of blur together, but we talked about some, you know, AI robot companies video
and how it was like, it looked super fake to us.
Apparently, I haven't seen it, my bad,
but apparently Corridor watched it. I did see that.
And does not think it's fake. My main argument, I did say that I thought it was fake,
but my main argument was that it really felt like they shot it in a way
that would make people think it was fake because they wanted the news cycle around that.
You still think so? Which I do think that was intentional.
That is actually one of our topics today. On the Corridor cast, they stated that the interaction
between the robot's shadow and the human's shadow was,
and this is a quote, flawless. And that's something that's really hard to do.
They think it's highly likely that they just built a robot
unless they hired the world's best VFX artists.
They believe that the robot doesn't look like direct motion capture either,
but actually trained on human motion, which is not easily animated.
Not quite pre-programmed, but it like has goals and tries to reach those while factoring things
like balance. The lack of movement in their feet is probably
because it's not an accurate anatomical representation of a human one with all the same joints.
Corridor crew didn't cover the CEO getting kicked by the robot, but there's a video of that.
We looked at that last week, our writer probably didn't notice that.
Did we, Ashley? I think so. I don't think so.
Are you sure? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Really?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Yeah, this.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure we did that.
I'm pretty sure this came out after.
Yeah, this came out four days ago. Oh, there you go.
No, some people say yes, we did. There's another CEO kick video.
Oh, it was a different one. Okay. Okay, cool.
Anyway, I mean, good for them.
Like that's pretty cool. Yeah, awesome. I do think it was a marketing move, but I mean, hey.
I mean, don't hate the player. You gotta do what you gotta do.
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What do you want to talk about next? Man, my voice is starting to die. I want to talk about, if I can go find it,
Intel officially confirms BMG G31.
I love even the like, the BMG part of that. It's just great, big battle mage GPU.
Wait, officially confirms? Well, no, I'm going to take out the word officially.
Yeah, that's not true. Yeah. They don't even...
I think that's just from someone's headline and they were trying to do headline things.
Cool. Intel quietly added official support
for something codenamed BMG G31
to its VTUNE profiler software, getting folks thinking it's Intel's long rumored
big battle mage gaming card, the B770,
which, oh man, I'm actually very excited for that,
if that is actually what's happening. The VTUNE profiler update also added support
for Core Ultra III Panther Lake processors.
And since Panther Lake is expected to debut at CES-2026,
this could be a sign that will also be introduced
to this new GPU at CES, which makes me interested in actually going,
but considering it's still just a rumor, I don't know.
On top of that, a leaked shipping manifest references an unseen 300 watt Intel GPU.
And since 300 is a bigger number than 190,
folks are concluding that this mysterious newcomer has gotta be the B770, which again, will be awesome.
It's worth noting... No, it would be 770. Oh.
It's worth noting that this enigmatic new GPU
would be another non-gaming, could be another non-gaming ARC Pro card,
like the B60 that launched at Computex. I doubt it.
My goodness, I hope not. I am pretty sure it's the B770,
but we don't technically know. No, we really don't.
And I am talking very openly about this because neither of us have any info on this at all.
I do not know. But man, that would be cool.
Even if it's just because there's constant rumors
that they're gonna stop doing GPU stuff and it's so annoying. Oh, I know.
Well, okay, there are constant rumors, but there honestly aren't that many sources of them.
I think there's just some particularly dedicated Intel
DGPU, I don't know what to call it
because I don't even think it's hating. I think it's just like... Doubters?
Yeah, doubting, doubting. Stop doubting Intel DGPU.
We really, really want it to exist. We just need more competition.
AMD is not gonna step up and more threads is many, many years
from being a meaningful competitor. So Intel is our best shot here.
Yeah. Moving on.
Phillips wrote us a letter.
Wow. Gosh, thank you, Phillips.
Hey Linus and the Linus Tech Tips team.
Thanks for taking a fresh look at Phillips' fixables.
We watched your initial YouTube podcast a few months back and your recent follow up.
We wanted to use this opportunity to share where we are now
and what has been happening behind the scenes since our first parts dropped earlier this year.
You guys might remember. They probably don't sound like that. Phillips fixables was a concept from Phillips
where they would add to the longevity of your Phillips personal products,
like shavers and stuff like that by allowing you to 3D print replacement parts
or accessories, really cool concept. And then six months went by
and we did a follow up segment on WAN Show after initially praising the program
where we went, hey, what the fuck? Where is all this stuff? You published like one thing.
So Phillips reached out and this is a quote from the letter.
From the outside, our pace looks slow. This is a fair call.
Fixables is a pilot for us. We've been building the know-how
and guardrails to make 3D printable parts that work for people on a wide range of home printers.
However, they note that just because things have looked slow from the outside,
that doesn't mean the pilot has been abandoned.
New fixables were released before US Thanksgiving, two new combs and a shaver protecting cap.
And Phillips has said that they are going to prioritize accessory replacement models
that help to extend product life.
Another quote, we appreciate the passion from the community, including feedback and critiques.
They are still committed to releasing more print files by the end of the year.
And then we'll have a look then. We'll see how that goes.
This gives me some hope, I guess, but we'll see how it goes.
No, I definitely have some hope. I appreciate that they responded.
They seem to care and their response is plausible.
It seems fine. Taking injection molded parts
and making them 3D printable, and vice versa, taking 3D printable parts
and making them injection moldable,
not always just drag and drop, plug and play.
So they've got a bit more time.
You have some time, Phillips. Happy to give them some time.
You have time. I was like angry before and now I'm waiting.
Now I have, now they have time.
And it is time for us to do our flow plane announcement.
Linus to finish, what? What does that even mean?
Linus to finish all the shots of lemon juice
before the finish line. What is this?
Why am I taking shots of lemon juice? Because you lost wise when late.
What do you mean I lost wise when late? You gotta. I cannot lose at my own game.
It's not your game. Wise when late is my game. It is not your game.
I mean, it happens on my property.
Actually, no, it doesn't. It happens on BC, something, something,
LTD, holding company's property. Okay, fair play.
Take the shots whenever you want. You must finish all your shots
before you reach the finish line. Those are big shots of lemon juice.
The amount of shots you have to do
is half of the score difference of why is when late our popular flow plane series.
Today the loser, not naming names,
has to take four as they lost by eight points, one to nine.
Give you three cups, but I have to refill one for you, I guess. I see.
Okay. So.
That's not lemonade, by the way. That's this stuff.
Interesting. Oh, they can't really see them. They're slightly behind the banner, but they're these.
Yeah, that's quite a bit.
This is concentrated. Yeah, it sure is.
It's this stuff. Like you've probably, I used to,
when I was really tired and I lived with my parents, we often had one of these in the fridge,
and I'd take a squirt of this just to wake up. Right in the eyes.
I would use this basically as like a short-term energy drink
and like taking whole shots of it.
Oh boy, this is really interesting. Oh, okay.
Four shots of that. I already have sore throat. All right, well, Luke, I guess,
okay, it says watch this video.
Do you want to bring it up? Sure, I can do that, Dan. You ready for audio?
You're already playing audio. Okay, sounds good. Got him.
So both of you are. I don't know who's gonna do it. I will be doing it.
Here we go. I'm doing audio. Okay.
No, no, no. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah.
There we go. There you go. Ready? And see, that should play.
The one that started it all. Copy my theme week, the moment it popped off.
My product has been all over your sequels ever since. Who the hell are you?
You all know who I am. I'm the one that stopped Linus from getting canceled.
Say my name. You're Luke LaFrendo. It's Luke LaFrenier.
LaFrenier, Luke LaFrenier. LaFren-der-ree-ay.
LaFrenier. Friend-der-ier. LaFrenier.
What are some tech essentials for most gamers? Hot take, most stuff that people are interested in
if they're watching this channel is excess. What person out of all of the history of mankind
who would be the best at a piss drinking contest? And they were like, probably Elon.
Absolutely. We're here to talk about something actually much more impactful from Embark, our graders.
Just this week, my time spent in meetings was 32 hours.
She's a f***ing... I can start an online business.
Turns out the furries buy a lot of pictures. For those who come after, he doesn't get it.
Yeah. There it is.
I don't know what that has to do with why when late, but why don't you go ahead and do the read thing
and then I will enjoy this delicious drink.
Coincidental timing. Timing?
This is a punishment for why when late. It's happening during the Floatplane announcement.
The Floatplane announcement is about Luke week two.
Oh, well, then why don't you talk about... I can do that.
The one that started all our next theme week returns with Luke week two, electric boogaloo.
We have three amazing Floatplane exclusives.
Wait, where'd he throw it?
We have three amazing Floatplane exclusives.
I think Linus is supposed to be reading this totaling about two hours of Luke time.
Like a Q and A with Luke himself. That's a weird thing to say when I'm sitting there.
Answering questions like his three Floatplane dev wishes,
his frugal lifestyle and life satisfaction coming on Monday.
There's a one hour session with Riley talking about the state of AI on Wednesday
and a video essay discussion about the state of gaming titled on what?
Okay, whatever, it's gonna have a title on Friday.
For reference, his first video essay was four minutes long,
but he thought it was 18 minutes long.
Yeah. Go watch Luke's first theme week up on Floatplane right now
and enjoy the sequel coming next week at LMG.gg slash luke25, all lowercase.
While waiting, you can enjoy an early LTT video release
that is happening on Floatplane right now.
Oh my. Oh, it's this one. Ooh, I like this one.
We did another one of, you know that YouTube format that's like $30 versus $30,000 thing.
We got a TV for $30. What?
Open box Insignia 32 inch TV.
720p from Best Buy with warranty. From Best Buy?
From Best Buy, we got a $35 TV. What?
And then we do a $300 TV, $3,000 TV
and then we make our way all the way up to $30,000 TV. So this is gonna be public.
Oh, excuse me, it's all right. Are those gnarly?
Is this rough? Yeah, it's not that bad. Yeah.
It's not that bad. I do sour for breakfast. This doesn't feel as strong as it used to be.
Either that or you're just more of a man.
Maybe.
Yeah, I was, dude, we had this candy when I was a kid called Screaming Blue Saucers
and I'm pretty sure they stopped making them cause they like gave you cancer or something.
But they were. All the best candy.
They were like the precursor. They walked so warheads could run.
Oh, seriously? And I would just like, they were supposed to be
like the kind of candy that you like, you punk your friends by giving them one
and they're like, or whatever. And I would like pop them.
Be like, these are good. I love sour candy.
People sell them for a lot. Oh yeah, you can't get them anymore.
Wow. But to my knowledge. Are there like old school candy collectors?
Is that a thing? Oh yeah, of course. Probably, eh? Of course.
These are all plates. Screaming Saucers, maybe. Apparently it was a local company like BC.
Oh, that's cool. Yeah.
Angry Panda PC says COVID killed the taste buds.
I legitimately don't think so because I definitely can still taste food.
Yeah, like I don't think that happened to me at all, to be honest.
We do have a couple of notes regarding the price change announcement for Floatplane.
Based on some feedback about the 99 pricing strategy,
the prices will now be $8 and $13 for new subscribers.
Thank you for the additional penny per year, per month,
per month. For annual plans, we will honor the current discount
on a yearly purchase. So the $8 tier will become $80 per year
and the $13 tier will become $130 per year,
both in US dollars. For current subscribers who wish to change subscription tiers
after the price increase, we will not be able to automatically grant you
the pre-increase grandfathered price. However, you can contact support
at support at Floatplane.com and we can manually grant it to you if you're eligible.
And that might be automatic in the future. It's just switching entire plans
and retaining your grandfather status was not something built into the grandfather tool
and it was something asked for very late in the game and would need some payments changes.
So for now, just message support, it'll be fine. There's a relatively low lift way of support doing that,
but it's a high lift way of developers doing that right now. So it's just not worth it.
As always, our support team will be available to address any additional edge cases
when the new plan takes effect. And to reiterate, the OG $3 tier
and the current recurring subscribers will not be affected by the price change.
You can keep your thing, you're cool, you're good. You're all good. Relax, guy.
Don't worry about it, you're fine. Hey, guy, relax, guy. Yeah.
But eh? Yeah. Depending on how long we keep Floatplane, I feel like there's gonna be a lot of different
grandfathered statuses. I know. I do feel like that may be untenable at some point,
but we'll- Maybe, we'll figure it out. We'll cross that chasm-
We're good for now, yeah. When we get to it. All right.
Daniel Baster, what are we supposed to be doing right now? Oh, more topics again.
You sure? You guess, he just guesses. Okay, two to three more topics.
I can't believe he would guess. He put the card up there. He would guess.
That man, that man would guess. Is he a guesser? I think so.
No, well, a besser for certain, but a guesser we can only guess.
AMD has officially unveiled their FSR Redstone update.
This is an upgrade to their upscaling technology
built exclusively for the latest Radeon RX 9000 series
or RDNA4 GPUs.
This is a quote from AMD. FSR4 has been renamed FSR upscaling
to better distinguish between the various features that now make up the FSR,
or now make up FSR Redstone.
Yeah, that doesn't really, okay, sure.
Redstone is a suite of several new machine learning based features, including better upscaling,
frame generation, ray regeneration, and radiance caching.
Ray regeneration is a machine learning back to de-noiser that reuses the last frames ray tracing work.
So the GPU only redraws what's actually changed. So it reconstructs the missing details.
Radiance caching uses an AI neural network to dynamically guest-mounts lighting
so the GPU doesn't have to calculate and render subsequent bounces of light.
It is expected to be supported in over 200 games by the end of 2025, but for now,
only about 40 games will make use of Redstone.
AMD's graph claims you can see more than three X the frame rate in some games compared to native rendering,
with spikes of up to 4.7 times in titles like Cyberpunk 2077.
So there it is folks, just like NVIDIA, AMD now has machine learning based upscaling
and frame generation and all that kind of stuff.
As long as you happen to be one of the handful of folks
who have a Radeon 9000 series GPU,
I was actually chatting with one of the employees
at Smash Champs, Raj, he was in one of the tours, and he's a pretty big AMD guy.
He treated himself to, I think he had a 7900 XT,
and then he actually went 9070 XT if I recall correctly. Sorry, Raj, if I'm getting this wrong.
But basically he was pretty miffed, even though he has a 9000 series card that AMD's,
like he's kind of, he's rooting for them, you know? And he was kind of miffed that AMD was kind of leaving
behind their non-RDNA4 customers
with this feature announcement. And I was like, yeah, that's a fair point, Raj,
but as much as AMD has made a solid effort
to have their products, you know, aged like fine wine with driver support
and feature updates, the old cards just don't have
the AI processing on board, so.
There's only so much you can really do. NVIDIA was way ahead of them
in terms of implementing neural processors on their GPUs.
So there's nothing that you can really do about that.
And you could kind of try to, you could kind of try to flub it
with your more general compute, but then you're taking away from the base performance
that you're trying to upscale and frame generate from.
So that's pretty tough.
You end up robbing your left pocket in order to pay your right pocket.
So yeah, downer, but I guess it's cool
for people who have a 9070 or 9070 XT or a 9060 series, I guess.
Cool, good chat. Do you want to talk about next?
You want to do this thing?
Pebble's founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring.
Yeah, it's less stupid than it sounds. And I'm going to tell you a couple of things
that aren't in the notes that are going to make it sound really stupid.
It has a literally, not only non-replaceable battery,
a non-rechargeable battery. Ooh.
It has a microphone, because of course it does.
And let's see, what else can I tell you
that will make you hate it? Let me think.
Okay, yeah, it has a non-replaceable battery. I already got that.
What's something that you might like hate about it?
I mean, yeah, it's like AI. I don't like the non-rechargeable battery. That's already ridiculous.
Yeah, okay. Okay, but I'll tell you the good things now.
Okay. I love how we're just, all right, let's just talk about it. Yeah, so the non-rechargeable battery,
the non-replaceable, non-rechargeable battery, apparently it'll last for a couple of years.
They have already telegraphed. That still sucks, but okay.
They have already telegraphed that they will put a recycling program in place
so that you can return the ring. Telegraphed? Said they will.
I do still think that's kind of BS because the odds of, like me,
I'm just thinking for myself here, the odds of me going to the effort to return it to them,
even if they were to cover shipping back to them, which I sincerely doubt they would,
the odds of me bothering to do that are pretty slim, and I think that's probably true of a lot of people.
I have a bin of dead batteries that is probably about this big, by this deep,
by this deep, by this long, like it's like thick
that are pending. Next time I am going to IKEA
and I remember to bring my batteries, I'm gonna dump them all in their battery chute.
I think I've had it for about six years now.
There is no subscription. So once you buy it, you just like have it.
The microphone is not always listening. It is explicitly only listening when you activate it
because otherwise you would trash your battery life
because it's not rechargeable and not replaceable. So it's only active when you specifically activate it.
And the part that I like about it
is apparently I haven't tried it yet, but apparently it's like really slim.
And what it's meant to do more than anything else
is without having to pull out your phone, jot down a thought or like set a quick reminder.
There is no chat bot. You don't have a relationship with it.
It doesn't pretend to be your friend. You can either use a local AI model
that runs on your smartphone and stores data locally
or you can, I think with a subscription,
you can do the like a cloud enabled model.
Hold on, our notes are a little bit vague and I can't remember that part,
so don't quote me on that. Compared to competing smart rings
that cost several hundred dollars and bundle health tracking are always on AI features.
The index 01, that's what it's gonna be called is significantly cheaper and intentionally limited
focusing on a simple note taking function
rather than trying to do everything at once. So there's no health tracking, nothing like that.
Okay, I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on this because if nothing else, it's different.
Anything that by its core design is designed to die
and that is unnecessary, I don't feel like I'm gonna like.
So you don't like humans? No, because that is-
You take that up with God then. I think that is necessary in that case though. Really?
I think so. So for evolutionary survival of the fittest,
we have to die- How are we gonna, in what way-
I feel like we're getting off topic here. Ha ha ha.
And like I do, this does make me dislike things like light bulbs because it's a confirmed
non-conspiracy theory that they have collaborated
to make them worse and like that sucks,
that makes me hate them. And in this case, it's like man, yeah, I'd rather pay a little bit more
if it wasn't for sure gonna be dead in two years. Like I look at my phone,
I don't really feel like I need a new phone after two years. Why would I need a new pretty okay smart ring?
It's probably still gonna be fine in two years if I could just charge it or replace the battery.
I think either would maybe be fine, ideally charging.
I can understand that adding charging to a smart ring
would probably add a significant amount of bulk.
Apparently technology connection says there is some nuance to the light bulb thing
and there were trade-offs that were made.
It was an engineering trade-off, so duly noted.
Technology connections is based. I'm willing to believe him on this.
I would say that I think you could flag
anything as a trade-off. Okay, so someone in chat said the trade-offs
are very valid, that adds a- Yeah, but I mean there's also, okay.
I wonder what the trade-offs were. Like I have this conversation with the CW engineering
and fashion team all the time where there are trade-offs in terms of like,
I haven't watched this video on it, but I know that there are trade-offs in terms of what the market will bear.
And it could be that your light bulb
that would last 10 times longer but cost twice as much would be a commercial failure.
So you make the one that will cost half as much
but last one-tenth is long. And it's sort of your bound by market forces.
I think it's a cop-out. I think you should just build high-quality products that last a really long time.
People are saying it's brightness versus lifetime of the bulbs, which is interesting
because if you look at that light bulb that's been on for like an incredible amount of time
in that fire station, it's not very bright.
Yeah, that's valid. Okay, all right, all right, all right, I'll allow it.
I don't know, I feel like that might be maybe a bit of a scapegoat
because there are modern LED lights that are incredibly bright
and it's definitely unnecessary. It would probably be chill
if they just lasted a lot longer and weren't quite as bright. Yeah, so it does seem like there may be an intent there.
But I don't know, I wanna go watch this video because technology connections is super-based.
So yeah, I have no idea. I don't wanna make up my mind about this
and I don't know all the information. I don't know.
There we go, fixed.
I didn't know the line, get it?
I.e. every LED headlight being too bright. I don't know if this is a hot take or not.
That needs to be illegal.
It's like a problem. Holy crap, how have we let this be a thing?
It's wild. I actually don't have a take on this. My night vision's pretty good.
It doesn't bother me. I don't really get halos and I don't really get super glare
or I don't really have trouble seeing from people's super bright headlights.
But my wife has had
corrective surgery for her eyes. She used to be a glasses enjoyer
and is now not so much. And so for her, bright lights can be extremely blinding
at night. And so, yeah, I understand that it's a problem
but it hasn't ever really bothered me. And to be clear, when I say it doesn't bother me,
I don't mean that in like a, well, not my problem.
I'm gonna put my giant big lights in the front of my car
and I'm gonna point them up like this. This is a large part of the problem.
I just use my factory lights. Is how much people's lights are pointed into my window.
Right, yeah. Is like a lot of it. Have you ever thought of buying a Cybertruck?
Then you'll be sitting up higher.
No. You've never thought of buying. No.
Not even once. I have thought about buying a truck, but not a Cybertruck.
Not a Cybertruck, is it? No. You like a more analog truck, not a digital truck.
Actually, yes. You like more polygons. I was thinking an old Toyota.
An old Toyota, interesting. Okay, why?
It would be nice to have something that I could more easily go camping with.
There are certain trails that you can't effectively get to the trailhead
unless you have a truck in BC.
It would be kind of sick. An old Tacoma or Hilux or something would be neat.
I don't need it to be nice. My stepdad. In a lot of ways, I'd probably prefer it wasn't
because like I'm gonna get it scratched up and beat up and that's cool.
I don't, I don't, yeah. I don't need it to be nice.
My stepdad had a super cute little Toyota pickup
back when I was growing up. I don't know if it was this one,
but it was like a little tiny pickup truck like this.
This was when the actual name of it was the pickup. Like its model was pickup, which is pretty funny.
Is that, is that a thing? Cause I think it might've looked like this. Yeah, this is the Toyota pickup.
Yeah, okay. All right, interesting. It's pretty sick.
Yeah, none of these other ones look right. This is, this is the one.
He had the muffler tied on to the bottom of it with that,
you know that yellow rope? Like that yellow rope, yeah.
So he just had it like tie, it fell off at some point. The like super plastic-y yellow, yeah.
You just tied it back on with the yellow rope. So that was the kind of engineering that he did.
Heck yeah. Heck yeah.
All right, so, okay. But other than, other than, okay.
So you don't like it because it is, it is disposable essentially.
But we buy it. It's also just supposed to like, it's, it's okay. It sounds like a long time that it lasts for two years
because it's a non-rechargeable battery. So it's like, oh wow, it does last for two years.
That's cool. A device like this I would expect to have for more than two years.
We buy a lot of things that last for less than two years
that cost a lot of money.
How long does the chicken in your fridge last?
It's not a good argument and you know it.
No, but it's hard. It's tough with you because you don't buy charge keys.
You don't buy like gadgets that you know you're not gonna get a ton of views out of.
If someone expects to get one year out of this
and they expect that they're gonna buy a new one in a year because they wanna keep up with the newest thing, whatever,
it gets a little bit better, I would still prefer that wasn't a thing because you could sell it off to somebody else
who could still enjoy the thing without just throwing all of that value in that tech away.
So I still don't like it because repairability is sick and cool and based
and you should be able to keep things around.
I know people that use some phones that are real old.
The iPhone that I carry for full-point stuff is an X.
It still works. Great. It's like actually very impressive
that it's still totally fine. It's battery life is not that amazing anymore
but it's still impressively pretty all right. I'm not like on it that often
because you know, and it'll easily last often days.
Oh yeah, Apple's idle battery man. Insane.
It's so good. That's old.
That would make this thing at its death point to look like a young pup.
So like, I don't like that. And I don't think there's an argument
that's gonna convince me otherwise. One thing I would ask is
how many smart rings have replaceable batteries?
That I'm aware of none. Yeah, okay. But rechargeable, yes.
But rechargeable, yeah. How do they charge? Is it wireless charging?
Do they have a port? So it's wireless charging? How much bulk do you think the wireless charging adds?
So that was the argument for it. Was that for how low profile he wanted it to be.
Basically, as far as I can tell, he's making a device for himself.
Sure. And what he wants is when he's washing the dishes
or otherwise indisposed, he wants to be able to quickly note something down
before his ADD brain forgets it. It does look like, so let me, I'm at their site.
You can see this and that doesn't actually necessarily mean much because not on a finger.
But when you see it on the finger, other than this bump, which is your button I'm assuming,
it does look more profile to me as someone who has never worn a smart ring,
it does look more low profile than smart rings that I've seen.
You have worn a smart ring. It also doesn't look that low profile though.
No, especially with the huge button,
which looks a little uncomfortable to be honest. I hate rings in general, but like this looks rough.
I would not want this. You can even literally see the button itself
pushing into his finger. Maybe, I actually can't tell a hundred percent of that.
Is it just a shadow? I can't tell a hundred percent. It might be a shadow.
I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna at least try it. I am torn on this one.
On the one hand, I completely agree. Repairability is based.
Replaceable batteries are based.
It's like all rings with gems. I don't agree with that. At so much of a lower price compared to other smart rings
and still having a purpose that like him,
I have ADD brain and often forget things and being able to just quickly blah, blah, blah
and then not take out my phone could have a benefit.
At that point though, why not just wear one of those silly AI pendants?
For me, the not thinking about it is a major feature though.
Can you just do this with your smart watch? Yes, but it's another, I forgot to put on my watch today.
Okay, are you gonna remember to put on your smart ring? No, because I'm not gonna take it off.
I'm gonna put it on and then two years later, its battery will die.
Got it. Is it water resistant? So that's the only compelling reason for it
is that I never have to think about if I have it on me
and it can operate away from the app. So it can store some on board
and then when it gets back in range of your phone, it can dump everything which is pretty,
so I could be in the pool and I could have an interesting thought
and I could be like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and then it would sync to my phone later.
It's kinda neat. Yeah, it's kinda neat and at 75 bucks
which is more money than a meal
but not more money than a meal out with my family.
I don't know man, we buy a lot of stuff
that is pretty disposable and pretty useless.
Like I did an AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade for someone earlier this week
where once again, we have, not so much once again
but we have a new challenger for LMG, King of the Funko Pops.
Oh. And I'm looking at it going like. Fun.
Co. It's all relative. Nice.
It's all relative, right? Like if you're the kind of person who just doesn't spend money on anything
that doesn't generate a return. You know, like if you have like a very, very
kind of strict approach to spending.
And to be clear, he's not even referencing me. I do spend money on things that don't generate a return.
Yeah, no, I just mean in general. Like if you have sort of rules for spending money
that do not account for $75 for a thing that is disposable.
I don't actually agree. I think you could argue that this could generate a return.
Sure, I just mean whatever your rules are. Sure.
If you don't account for $75 for a disposable thing, then you know, that's totally valid.
But maybe I could, philosophically I disagree though.
Like I disagree with a non-replaceable battery.
But then I also wonder, I mean, AirPods have non-replaceable batteries
and people have found ways to do it. So maybe there could be a way to do it.
I haven't tried to take one apart yet. I don't know if it could be possible.
Kind of doubt it. It uses a hearing aid battery apparently.
All right. Sent some trauma.
It's okay buddy. I actually have no idea what you're saying that about.
You're okay though. Yeah. Yeah, so it's fine. It doesn't matter.
Yeah, nice. All right. This was wild.
Over the black Friday period.
Okay. The console sales war. No, no, don't look.
Don't look. Oh, he's seen it already. I think I have. So number one.
Switch? PlayStation? PlayStation.
Yeah, okay. Number two. Switch. You better believe it.
Nintendo. Number three. A big gap.
And then? Right.
So I'm gonna say, I know the spoiler here, but I'm gonna say the one that makes sense.
Yeah. You'd think it would be Xbox. Xbox.
It was not. It was not.
The next playground? What?
I never even, I was this week years old
when I even heard of this thing. Me too. Over the Thanksgiving weekend,
the Xbox series,
series accounted for just 10% of console units sold
coming behind the PlayStation 5,
which came in first in part because it was the only console that actually had a sale.
So with 47%. The Switch 2 in second place,
which accounted for 24% of all console units sold.
And the next playground, which was responsible for 14% of sales
and is a console that, and this is from Mr. David Gauthier,
who he would describe as like a $200 Microsoft Kinect
that plays mobile games with a 90 year subscription.
$90 a year subscription. Oh, $90 a year subscription
if you want to play more than five games. That's all right, I'm gonna try that one more time.
That I would describe like a $200 Microsoft Kinect
that plays mobile games and requires a $90 a year subscription
if you wanna play more than five games.
What?
Okay, what is this thing? Obviously, we've sourced one
and we wanna make a video about it, but that's it.
Excuse me. The next playground crashed
the Black Friday hardware charts in the US.
Okay, what?
Like, what is this thing?
I don't get it, to be honest. I didn't look enough into this.
I knew the like punchline of this article. The active play system for kids and families.
Like, did it get bundled with something like crazy
or did something happen? Active games that turn your living,
I mean, basically it's the Wii then. Yeah, you just don't have remotes.
Yeah. It's a Wii, but they went for the Kinect model
instead of the remote model. Like when did the Verge review this? December 12th, 2025.
Oh, so no, this is today. So they're also like-
So they're probably reacting to this. Probably, I don't- What happened?
I've never even seen this before.
Did it get bundled with something? Why are people buying this? Does anyone in chat own one of these?
What compelled you to get it? How did you even know it existed?
How to train your dragon, riders of the skies, bluey bust a move?
Whoa. Who's behind this company?
PlayPass unlocks the full catalog and delivers new content and updates automatically
every month. So how much is PlayPass? Was $90 a year?
Wait. Oh, man, just show me a price, brother.
What? No. Show me a price for the subscription.
Learn about PlayPass. Okay, that's what I clicked. Where is the price?
Yeah, here we go. Yeah, 12 months. Yeah, $90 a year.
Or about, oh, what does that work out to? Like $50 over three months.
So like $15 a month or $17 a month or something like that.
Love this for my active little kids. Keeps them moving and so many games to choose from.
My 60-year-old dad even plays with them. This is wild.
Yeah, it's new Wii. It's someone who figured out that.
People actually really liked the Wii. Yeah, and that everyone forgot
why everybody liked the Wii. Wii teamed up with the top family brands.
Hasbro, Mattel, whatever this is. Paramount, Sesame Street.
This is wild dude. Who are these people?
I started looking into it. It seems like a new company.
Go figure. Has investments from some tech people
and sports giants and stuff, but it's some split-offs from places like Apple.
But yeah, it seems like a new company. That's wild.
To be able to jump in and just dunk on Xbox like that
with Xbox's basically own thing is nuts.
Imagine making a successful thing based off of what is effectively a connect
and it not being Microsoft. One of the greatest game console industry failures
of all time.
Let's not call it successful yet. I mean, that's fair, but they're outselling Xbox.
Yeah, and it's a subscription model so you know they're doing good.
Well, they're outselling Xbox for Black Friday, I should say.
Not overall necessarily. We don't know.
Don Cabesa says the connect, it sold 25 million units.
Says the connect was not a failure at all.
The connect was the beginning of the end for the Xbox brand,
according to their current trajectory right now. It was bundled, my brother.
It was an attempt to change the paradigm of the Xbox
to this like living room, do everything machine.
Like apparently this thing. They had huge plans for the connect.
What it ended up being, which was a weird accessory
that you could play some dance games with and a handful of experiences
and then kind of a cool camera that people could,
you know, hack and do neat stuff with later. What it ultimately ended up being
was nothing compared to what Microsoft had planned for it.
Microsoft tacitly admitted failure of the connect
when they stopped bundling it with the console was supposed to be an integral part of the Xbox.
And then after what was it a year? Can't remember what it was.
They were like, I don't know. Well, this isn't working, forget it.
Just get rid of it entirely. The connect was a failure.
Maladrax and Flippling Chat said the next had a big in-store display
you could play in stores in the US. We played one for a few minutes.
So yeah, they just did direct like in-store marketing
effectively and people probably went up and started playing with it and was like, wow,
that feels like the Wii again. I would like to take one of those, please.
And then bought it. How much is it again? I actually missed that when I was-
200 bucks, introductory price of 200 bucks.
$200, wonder what kind of hardware is in it?
I mean, we're sourcing one. So we'll answer these questions as best we can.
LPDDR4X, 64 gigs of EMMC storage.
The graphics are a male G52 MC4.
Okay. Just reading the Wikipedia page.
Eight core ARM chip. ARM taken over the world, boys.
Yep.
Oh, good luck, Microsoft. Wild.
Our discussion question here is with the rumors being that-
Mali. Sorry? I said male, but apparently it's Mali.
Oh, Mali, yeah. It's a typo on Wikipedia then, M-A-I-L.
Wow, yeah. Your dyslexia did not do that to you.
Well, do you know why? Cause I read it like six times.
I'm not even kidding. That's why I was so confident to be like,
actually no, it's male. Yeah, there you go.
So if it's actually Mali, someone can go do a successful edit there if they want.
Okay, nice. Let's go.
So would you rather have, okay, hold on. Our question was,
yeah, if the rumors of Microsoft's next machine being like $1,000 plus PC-like machine are true,
what does Xbox even mean anymore? I think it means failure.
Yeah, I mean, I guess it's the Xbox Live stuff, Game Pass.
Yeah. Which I understand it has like pretty good value.
I don't want anything to do with it at all. And we were an Xbox household.
Oh yeah. Totally. Hard. Yeah.
And I am- From the OG. Gone from there.
All right. We would collect like broken 360s
and try to zombie them together into working ones
and all those kinds of like we were in and I want nothing to do with it anymore,
which is like sad. It's not that I'm not even vindictive. They just lost.
Okay. And I'm not, I don't love services like that,
especially for things like games. I would prefer to own my games.
So I'm gonna keep patronizing Steam and GOG.
Came across this tweet this week. Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced
Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing. This video is actually a little bit older,
but it features the one and only, the basest of base people.
Former FTC chair, Lynette Kahn, who explains the dangers of this shady practice.
As usual, something that everyone needs to understand
and be vigilant about has the least sexy,
least interesting name possible, but we're gonna tell you guys about it anyway.
I'd actually never heard the term surveillance pricing
before, but there's renewed interest in it
because the state of New York recently cracked down on it. So examples used of surveillance pricing
by the video that Ms. Kahn pretty competently hosted,
actually, as a video host myself. I think she did a pretty good job.
So Princeton Review, she gave this example,
charged customers in zip codes with higher percentage
Asian populations more for test prep services.
Okay, other tests found or suggested that ride share apps
may charge riders with lower battery life more
for the same ride at the same time.
San Francisco residents who booked hotels through Expedia
were apparently charged up to $500 more per night
than people buying the same from less affluent cities.
And apparently some internet providers charged the same price
for worse internet speeds in poorer neighborhoods.
These are, we've looked into it and there is evidence to suggest
this is happening slash we have confirmed it now.
So surveillance pricing, the concept is that by harvesting your personal data
or inferring things about you,
companies can charge you more for the same services.
Some hypothetical examples of surveillance pricing that we might want to be worried about
are a parent with a sick child might be charged more
for medicine or a thermometer or somebody needing to travel for a funeral
could be charged more for their airfare because they're being surveilled
and they know that you've received an email about funeral arrangements, for instance.
So good on New York for doing something
to kind of crack down on this, but what is really needed is nationwide slash more
worldwide, how about just, in general, we just not do this legislation that makes this
just illegal.
I know that there is, it's a common sort of talking point
that regulation is bad and there are many cases
where regulation can be bad, but if we just allow the free market to regulate itself,
I think it has proven, not just suggested,
but proven that it cannot do it.
The free market is not capable.
People think it can. They actually, with a straight face, say that
and it's like actually stupid. It's regulated itself towards what is the problem.
And that's exactly it. That's what they will do, which often brings you down to monopolistic practices
or like, there's a term for it, I don't remember it, but when it's an effective monopoly
where everyone's price fixing on the same kind of level
and something that people don't seem to necessarily understand is that you can't do this
based on like a restaurant model
or something like that where it's like, oh, your pricing for your burger is too high.
I will go down the street. There are issues with that when you get into
some of these deep modes where you might need
hundreds of thousands, millions, billions of dollars
to get into certain industries. It's like, yeah, no, you need to do something about that.
Saunders SC says, is this any different
than when eBay offers a discount when you look at something or place it in your cart?
Yes, the difference is that we're not talking
about a discount. We are talking about increasing the price
based on information about you.
So it is one thing if you know,
because come back to how it would work in the real world.
In the real world, I could have my stall at the bazaar
and you could walk in and you could be with Emma
and you could look at a necklace and I could say, oh, pretty lady buy a pretty necklace
for the pretty lady, sir, sir. Oh, look how good it looks on her.
Oh, and he goes to leave and I go, I give you $5 off, that's one thing.
But it is an entirely separate practice
if I have no price tags on anything
and I have like my team of hooligans who go out
and pick people's wallets and see how much money's in them
and then put it back in and then I know when they walk in the store, I go, ah, sir.
Affluent sir, oh, this is good. This necklace, $200.
You wouldn't want to be seen as cheap in front of the pretty lady.
It's a completely different way, scumier thing.
I like Bazaar Linus. Thank you. Bazaar Linus is pretty great.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah. And I mean, they're doing it based off of things
that will probably offend people more than how much money they have in their wallet as well.
Like that example of the tutoring or study prep
or whatever it was, the more expensive in Asian neighborhoods, like they are doing this based off of any data point
they can possibly get and they will get those data points.
Yeah, and they're gonna have more and more and more as we go.
I mean, this is one of the things that I couldn't necessarily have seen coming
back when we were talking about the genetic testing.
Like the example that I always came up with is like it could affect your insurance premiums
and stuff like that. But this is one that absolutely could be impacted
by your predisposition for things. For sure.
Like you could have a completely different pricing model
for potentially, like this could potentially be a thing.
We could figure out the human genome enough
that you could have a different pricing model for people that you have scouted out
and figured out that they have a predisposition to gambling, for instance.
And you wouldn't even need to do that with the, okay, maybe the DNA testing is a bad example of that.
But what you could do is you could give someone inflated pricing for things that you know
that they could be predisposed to have a condition for.
Like it's, this whole thing is just terrifying.
Ugh. I mean, I don't know, but I'm looking up like pub med articles
talking about genetic influences on gambling.
It seems to be like relatively figured out that there is definitely genetic influences on addiction.
Apparently there's genetic influences on your predisposition to cheating in relationships.
Like there is, I'm not gonna go as far as to say
free will is not a thing, but like.
There's a lot of influences coming from a lot of places. Are we just a bucket of chemicals and electrical impulses?
Is that all I am to you? There is definitely a lot of that chemical stuff going on.
I think you've, yeah, I don't know. I think you've got some agency,
but I do think there's a lot of influences all the time
from various things. And it might not be very clear where those influences
are coming from, and it can be extremely difficult to resist them.
Eggnog in April says, there's a genetic predisposition
on your mom. Nice.
Based comeback.
Okay, moving on with, let's get far away from things
we deeply don't understand.
Okay, Noctua and Prusa Research have introduced
3D printing filaments in signature Noctua colors.
Heck yeah. Oh, for crying out loud.
All right, well. That's all the photo for this, thought it was fake.
That's all I have to say about that. Heck yeah. Now you two can print in brown.
McDonald's removes AI generated ad after backlash.
This is an amazing story. McDonald's and the Netherlands put out a festive,
oh, you can call it festive, I guess, AI generated holiday ad calling Christmas
the most terrible time of the year, which they elaborated on in a statement
that it was meant to highlight the stressful moments during Christmas in the Netherlands.
The ad features a compilation of unrealistic Christmas events
going wrong, like opening your tree in the branches flinging you out of your front window,
or Santa and his reindeer causing a traffic jam. Their solution?
Wait till January in a McDonald's.
The online criticism mostly regarded the use of AI slop replacing genuine human work.
Melanie Bridge, the CEO of the studio behind the ad,
however, clapped back and said, it's about expanding the toolbox,
the vision, the taste, the leadership. That will always be human.
And further defended their ad claiming,
the hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot.
Why then? Why?
10 people, five weeks full time. Discussion question, is AI the solution
to accomplishing shoots like this with limited resources? If the AI shots didn't include people,
would that make it more acceptable? Okay, so first up, five weeks full time
would not be nearly enough to do that shoot with people.
Because what about all the extras? Like what about all of the human actors?
Like nevermind the editors and storyboarders and director and camera operators.
10 people, five weeks full time. Yeah, I know, still.
10 people, five weeks full time, bullshit. Okay, yeah, sure.
I thought you were saying there was five weeks full time of total hours put in.
Oh, no, no, no, sorry. 10 times that. No, with all the logistics involved,
with that many shots, I can tell you as someone who does video things,
there's no way that they could make that exact commercial.
Like there would have had to be like CGI work.
Like no, there's no way. Absolutely freaking, no way.
Well, they're not saying making that exact video. They're saying making a 44 second McDonald's ad.
Sure, but like. No, like that was specifically their point.
Okay.
I'm not trying to defend them, I'm just saying.
Isn't that funny? They weren't saying they would make this exact video.
Far exceeded a traditional shoot.
Okay, so what's their, okay, so what's their defense then?
That they paid more labor hours than they would have,
but they got a better commercial. That they didn't use it to like cut the effort, I guess.
Which like, what a whiff, if that's the case.
I'm focused, what was the benefit?
It doesn't look particularly good in my opinion.
Yeah, I mean, I gotta be honest with you,
as far as like commercials go, I actually thought it was kind of cute.
Like I don't look at it and go,
this commercial is so bad, I couldn't watch it. There are definitely things that they did in this
that are pretty normal for commercials like this, like the cookie talking in the oven.
Yeah. There's like for sure. Yeah.
Ad campaigns that have had that. And that would be very expensive to do. And definitely take more time, like you were saying.
Yep.
I don't know, man. I can also fully understand why people are mad about it.
Because there is definitely stuff that doesn't look professional.
Like the way the cat jumps on the tree and the physics are completely wrong.
Like it, yeah, it sucks.
Am I just, am I just so, have I just given up
to the point where I'm accepting this garbage?
Is that what's happening? There was parts of this that was just so unnecessarily AI,
which is strange. I'm wondering if the studio that did it is like an AI studio
and they're shoehorning it into things. Cause like there's stuff here that like,
it's just so unnecessary. Like the cookie, okay.
I can understand you like saving a bunch of time
by having AI animate a talking cookie instead of doing it yourself. But man, there's a lot of stuff that's just, why?
If you just did it normally, it would have looked better and taken less time.
Sick? Like, yeah, this is very weird.
Yeah, it's a, this is a tough one. I, it's very clear that this is going to happen.
I am honestly surprised that McDonald's even pulled it down though.
Like, like what?
Coke did one last year and then their new one, they did it again.
They just didn't have humans in it, which is like completely missing the point.
And I don't think, I don't, is anyone even mad about Coke's this year?
I'm not sure.
Tim's got an interesting take. I just don't care. It's an ad.
I'm never going to watch the ad anyway. Nice.
Nice.
Okay. I mean, I think people might not like it that much.
One of the top comments on the video with 22,000 upvotes is the most profitable commercial in Pepsi's history.
That's pretty good. That's pretty good, but it's also pretty.
It also got 1.6 million views. It's also pretty echo chamber-y.
Yeah, for sure. Like there's a, it's been interesting.
You know, over the last, let's say a week or two,
seeing how self-important some communities
can think that they are and how influential
they might think that they are. Like, you know, you look at Reddit for instance,
something can front page Reddit,
with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of upvotes.
But what are the odds? Like, think about it. What are the odds if you went to the park by your house
and talked to somebody there? I bet they didn't have any idea what the heck was going on. That they would have any idea about any of it.
Yeah, it's- Functionally zero. As someone who is, tries to not be,
but is a little bit too chronically online, I have to remind myself of this sometimes.
And I had a very recent conversation where someone was talking about how something is like,
it's such a hot button issue and you have to be careful about it. And I was like, I don't think so,
with practically anyone, unless you are extremely chronically online.
Like, a perfect example- So I think most people have no idea what you're talking about.
Like a perfect example of that would be like the Harry Potter thing.
Yeah. Like if you're chronically online, and especially if you exist within certain communities
or counter communities, Yes. It's like-
Daniel knows about it. It's like a major, like it's a culture war thing, right?
But, you know, if one of my kids' friends comes over
and I'm like, oh, what do you think of Harry Potter? They're just like, oh, I love Harry Potter.
Like they don't know about any of that. Oh yeah, no clue what's going on. You know, I talked to their parents, like, oh yeah.
Your kid says they like Harry Potter. They're like, oh yeah, Harry Potter, you know, the lightning bolt thing.
You know, with the scarf, right? Like they don't care. They don't know they don't care.
Yeah. There's other things going on. They got other things to care about.
And it's interesting.
Yeah. Angry panda PC says, but I am important and I agree.
I agree you're important. Everyone's important, but not everyone is important to everyone else.
Here's another weird thing. Even if you are chronically online,
these days, it doesn't even necessarily matter that much
because your feeds are so heavily algorithmic
that you probably still are out of the loop
on so many things. Because like I remember someone,
there was a thread on Reddit recently about how YouTube unlisted all of their rewinds.
Yeah. And it's like, yeah, I remember being on YouTube
back in the day. And like if there was something big happening on YouTube,
as someone who went to YouTube, you would just know that.
But now we were talking before the show, there was a creator in our space
with over a million subscribers that neither of us had ever heard of.
Yeah. Because they made a type of content in our space
that we just wouldn't happen to come across. Alyssa Jean Papi says,
if a person behind a franchise spends all their money on wanting to stop making me exist,
I think boycotting is really the least you could do. My point- We're not saying anything about that.
My point wasn't what people should or shouldn't do. My point was that they don't know. Yes.
That is the only point. You can't care about something that you literally don't know.
Yeah. And I think that we often live in echo chambers
and in communities where the issues
that are very important to us, like, oh man,
like what would be an example that would be like a really tech community?
Like, okay, what percentage of people, if you went to the mall, right,
and you went and talked to somebody, what percentage of people there would know
that DDR memory is expensive? Yeah.
And the impact of that on the world. Of the ones who knew
what percentage of them would be impacted. Like, out of computer enthusiasm,
so you've got your total population, right? Then you've got your like tech enthusiast bubble.
And then within that bubble, you've got the people who are actually shopping
for a new computer right now, who are actually spending money right now.
And then, like, that's it. It's this tiny little fraction.
And so, yeah, there's people who are very mad,
who are following this whole AI thing.
And particularly, you know, generative AI video.
And out of that, the people who sort of care
about the replacement of labor of the, you know,
the cinematographers and the actors and the writers
and all the people who would have otherwise worked on this.
And I think it's just like, yeah, you could probably easily find
what did that top comment have, like 20,000 to 22,000 upvotes.
Those 22,000 people, they matter. Those are living, breathing souls
with blood coursing through their veins. They're also an incredibly tiny percentage
of the global population. Alyssa Jean Puppy, hopefully I said that right,
said in full-plane chat, okay, but JK Rowling is all over the news about that.
At least in the UK, which is just another version.
She's not over here, because she's not from over here.
She's from over there. And she's not trying to influence legislation over here.
And we're aware because we're terminally online. Yeah.
But you've got a geographical filter.
We're not trying. Then you've got to keep up with the news filter.
Then you've got to cares about this issue filter.
And then you've got to even remembers it filter. There's just, there's so many layers
until you get down to what can be a very large number of people.
Especially over the last like decent amount of years.
There's been a lot of difficulty going around.
And people might be struggling to survive at all themselves
and the issues that applied very directly to them
is going to be what's important to them when they're fighting for survival all the time.
They have to deal with their own problems, right? They have to put their mask on first.
And it's tough, but like. Cato asks asks.
So then do people outside the U.S. think Elon Musk is great then?
A lot of people think Elon Musk is pretty great.
That's the whole point we're trying to make. Don't care.
Yes. At all. Or just don't care at all.
Yeah. Yes. The answer is yes.
I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There's an incredible amount of people in the world
that don't even know who he is. Yes, that's a thing.
I know it seems crazy, right? In our tech sphere, right?
How could anyone in the tech sphere not have heard of the techno king
as he self-proclaimed himself to be a number of years back, right?
In D260 he said there are idiots through the whole world.
We're not saying they're idiots. No, that's not what we're saying at all.
Some of them might be. The fact is that education is a problem?
No. No, that's not what we're saying at all.
We're saying that there's a whole wide world out there with many, many interests and many, many priorities
and not everybody shares them. And in this algorithmically curated world that we live in.
You might literally just never see it. And we may, and that is in a lot of ways by design
on the platforms. Like what percentage of subreddits that exist?
Do you imagine you've been personally exposed to?
Like dude, I've been kinda hooked on R slash all over the last like week.
I try not to get too into the red at black hole. R slash what?
Oh, just like, just like, and it's just like, it is realistically like a handful.
Am I the asshole?
PCMR shows up there every once in a while. Comics shows up a fair bit.
There's like, it's probably over the span of a week,
several dozen subreddits that contribute to the majority
of the like vastly uploaded content on the site.
But there are, what is it up to?
Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands? Are we at millions of subreddits?
How many subreddits are there?
3.8 million. What percentage of them?
Do you think you've been exposed to? 3.8 million as of 11 months ago.
So, and yeah, Len, Len, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa,
or however I pronounce this in flow plain chat says, y'all just gotta ignore this stuff.
I never get to see it and I'm so happy I don't have to. My feed is just cool stuff and DIY.
And that's also like, it is a- And that's exactly our point.
For people that are terminally online, it is somewhat surprising to hear
that a ton of people have recognized
that being constantly dialed into everything that is happening in the world
and how the fact that the further we move away from local news, when we move closer to global news,
like back in the day, you could have a newspaper that's talking about like the fair
that's happening in town. So there isn't gonna be all that much really horrible things
because you're centralized to a smaller area. That was a different kind of bubble.
It was a more geographical bubble. Yeah, when you're now looking at more global news
and you look at the news that's gonna float to the top, it's gonna be the most rage-baiting,
crazy, horrible things possible because that's what's gonna get more views.
So you're only gonna get news about all of the most horrible possible things happening
and it's really bad in a lot of ways for your brain.
That doesn't mean that not being that dialed in is, for example, an education problem
or an ignorance problem or being stupid. I mean, it's literally an ignorance problem.
But maybe not a problem. It literally is ignorance. In a negative way, yeah.
It might be ignorance, but not necessarily an ignorance problem. To certain people, they don't wanna be exposed
to that pipeline of extreme constant negativity because it can be bad for you.
Or it's just, you know, they got other stuff going on. High seven, 69, 69 Hex says people should be informed.
How much? Noble sentiment. How many things do you not know about?
You're speaking English. Do you know everything that's happening in China right now?
I don't. Like... I know Hassan's Billy Billy stream got turned off.
I'm just pretty sure. Sure. Do you know it?
Like, yeah, do you... I don't know. There's so many layers to that.
And like your level of knowledge does not mean that everyone else's level of knowledge
is inferior. It's... There are an incredible amount of things
that I know nothing about that I'm sure are incredibly important.
And I have no clue. Yeah.
And again, like we're not trying to argue
that that's the way it should be. That ain't the argument.
We're just pointing out that that is how it is.
Not everyone cares about AI or AI slop or...
Yeah, dude, the amount of people that are just totally ignoring and don't care about that at all
is very high. Super high. And the number of people who are like,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go. Also very high.
Yes. And that is fact.
Sorry. Yeah.
Am I gonna have to do a shirt over this? Sorry, AI is a thing.
Like I... Oh, man.
Cause I'll do a shirt. I don't mind.
I could do trust me, bro. AI is a thing.
Hashtag, ad block is piracy.
Just we'll combine all the scandals.
It's like, sorry, the things that you do know are probably less important than the myriads
of things that you don't. Ooh.
Wow, that's a...
Okay, another news. What the heck is this?
Facebook and malware bites. Okay.
I recorded this on my computer.
Okay. Here we go.
So I got my OBS interface here. Here we go.
I got this email from Facebook.
Okay. And I was a little irritated. Wow, this quality though.
This is really blurry. One moment, please. It's actually not just my eyes this time.
There we go. Okay, okay. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
So I was told that a post from 2015
was flagged for copyright infringement. Okay, so I clicked through
and I made my way over to our... Oh, no, no, no, no, no, right, right, right, right, right.
Hold on. Okay, let's get the story right. So I got an email from Facebook
asking me about some feature and I was trying to figure out
how to turn off emails from Facebook about all of their page management nonsense.
There was no unsubscribe. There was no...
Because I don't wanna block every email because occasionally,
because it's for the page manager email. Like occasionally they might send me something
about my payment method being wrong or something. So I can't just block emails from Facebook.
So I'm like, okay, there's no way to unsubscribe to this.
There's no link to the interface where I can change my contact settings.
So I clicked through to my Facebook page to try to figure out where the heck in the interface
I was supposed to disable this stupid email notifying me of some stupid feature
that I don't care about. The first thing that came up was that I had a copyright claim
against a post from 10 years ago.
Okay, so here we go.
All right, so let's watch this. Here's what happened so far. No one else can see your post
because it was reported for copyright. Okay, so here are my options.
Oh yeah, I went back to the beginning. No one else can see your post because it was reported for copyright infringement.
This is the post. Lifetime malware bites for $20 on Amazon US.
Go, go, go, and it's a link to a tweet.
Okay, I don't see how that could infringe on anyone's copyright. That actually sounds awesome.
I kind of wish I did that. 10 years ago, who cares?
So I click it. I'm like, okay, so it's a link to an Amazon search for malware bites.
Yeah. Okay, so I click continue. Who could possibly care about this?
Malware bites corporate holdcoe
or their authorized representative managed to find a post from 10 years ago.
Well, they crawled it. Well, right, but why? Who cares?
And also, what are you talking about? How does it infringe your copyright?
Okay, so anyway, we don't allow content that whatever. So I can accept the decision.
I can submit an appeal or I can contact malware bites corporate holdcoe.
I think I'm about to dox malware bites corporate holdcoe. So yeah, there's their email address
and phone number anyway. Submit an appeal.
Nothing happens. Go to form. Go to form.
Go to form. Hello? It doesn't open another window.
Nothing, it doesn't do anything else. Go to form.
Strategic bugs. I like it. What the heck is this?
What is going on right now? So here's the email from Facebook.
How do I start a fan challenge? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
No unsubscribe. I'm fairly certain that this email is illegal in Canada.
Like, what is it? What is it? Can spam again?
There is no, I have not opted into this.
I went into my Facebook notification settings later.
Actually, yeah, I think it was after I turned off the screen recording. I have everything that I can find turned off
and they sent me this bulls*** from a stupid like malware bites
claiming copyright infringement that I can't appeal.
I don't even care. I don't need a 10 year old post on Facebook.
It's just, how is this so broken? No, I'm not getting fished.
It goes to actual Facebook.
What the heck? That's all. That's all I have to say about that.
I was just, I was in between rounds at my badminton ladder going through my email.
Like, I was like, what is this? I don't know how to deal with this right now.
That's very annoying. What I do know how to deal with is a big shout out
to the LTT forum folding team.
We had a record breaking event folding month eight.
In total, the team produced over 230 billion points.
That's nearly three times last year's total. We had 369 participants, nice.
And user Stobin demolished the previous record
of six billion points and earned 112 billion points.
I don't know exactly what that means. Oh, of the previous record was six and it was 112.
Wow. Special thanks to Livin', Mr. Chuk Kote.
Yeah, Pencrice. Yeah. Yeah. Sula May, Jawa Juice, Bricksider, Dogwitch
and an anonymous forum member for donating a total of 55 prizes to the event.
Additionally, 20 participants will be walking away
with a $100 LTT Store gift card.
Justin Miller, a scientist from the Bowman Lab at the University of Pennsylvania was very impressed
by the total simulation time that the LTT,
or that folding at home contributed of 8.6 milliseconds during November.
He said, that sounds like a small amount of time, but that is a ton for the types of motions
that we like to study. And roughly two to three orders of magnitude more
than most simulation focused papers tend to have on their own.
Nice. So massive thank you to everyone who participated. The final rankings and Justin's complete summary
can be found in the final blog at,
well, this link. Dan, do you wanna throw the link in the various chats?
But basically here. Doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop. Yeah, super cool.
Heck yeah, folding month. And I think we've got just one more topic
before we get to After Dark. The world's first flying car.
Here it is.
Well, it's a flying car. The world's first flying car is now being handmade
in California. And this right here.
See all the dust and see all like the air being blown up?
Is exactly why I think I'm convinced that this is, pardon the pun, never gonna take off.
Yeah. I mean, that's just, it's been the argument, you know?
Aleph Aeronautics, a US startup, has started building its electric flying car,
the Model A, by hand in California, becoming the first company to put a drive
and fly car into production. The flying car can drive on regular roads
and can take off vertically to fly with around a 220 mile driving and 110 mile flying range.
Apparently the startup has already received 3,500 preorders,
which is a lot, considering that the flying car is expected to start at around $300,000.
But there are a couple of small problems that are not included in our notes,
that are kind of hilarious. As cool as it would be to dunk on the Cybertruck
by literally flying over it.
It looks so sketchy. Have you watched this? Yes, I have.
I just watched it. It looks so sketchy.
Then the wheels are so thin.
It's like, oh man.
I feel like they just put like a fiberglass frame
on a like high carrying capacity drone.
A detail that was overlooked is that at this time,
it can only take off from and land at airports.
So like, what is the f***ing point of it?
The whole idea behind flying car,
like the whole connotation of car
is that you park it at your house and you like drive it to work
or you go get groceries and you like park at your house again.
You can drive to the airport and then not like have to get out and get into a plane.
You can drive to the airport and then just take off from the airport.
This was pretty great. You can drive 220 miles with a 110 mile flight range.
Wow, so it's only half the, that's actually. That makes a lot of sense.
Yeah. Less than a year.
I haven't seen it drive. Have you seen it drive? Is there a video of it driving?
I've only seen it somewhat sketchily fly.
I don't think I've seen it drive. As soon as I found out that it's slow,
has crappy range, is expensive,
has all the issues of any other personal flying vehicles
with the big one being, I forget what it's called, wash out or something like that.
Basically, the displacement of air that they need is so big
and the propellers that they can accommodate for any kind of VTOL functionality are so small
that they have this like tiny cone
that basically blows away anything anywhere near them.
There is, with the laws of physics being what they are,
as far as I can tell, no reasonable path
to driving one of these from your front driveway
to your parking lot at work. They would blow so much crap around on the parking lot
that you'd be denting and scratching everyone's car that you're anywhere near, people would hate it,
they're so loud. Much larger propellers can help
with the high-pitched noise and all of that, but you still have to deal with all that air displacement
in order to lift this like hundreds of pounds vehicle
plus whatever people and cargo that you wanna carry in it. Like it's just not going to happen, it seems.
Or you could buy a really nice, really sweet car
to drive to the airport and then get in your own
just like experimental craft. That thing looks pretty sick.
What's the side impact crash rating on this flying car?
For sure, just nothing, the crumple zone is you.
Like, come on. You are expected to crumple alone in the car, yeah.
It's just gonna absorb the impact. It's just gonna hit the batteries?
Yeah, sure, like, come on.
Very fun, very cool, very good. It looks cool.
They go out of their way, it seems, to make it really hard to see how skinny chicken
these tires are. Dude, they're so narrow.
Oh, man. Yeah, you can see them there.
Yeah. They look like wheelbarrow tires. Yeah, yeah.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. So this is-
Damn, dude. Yeah, this is- You said they got pre-orders?
Apparently. That's the craziest part to me. That's what it says on the notes. And working on this is cool.
I actually have no issue with that at all. Okay, so we just had a huge long conversation
with the audience about ignorance. Remember?
Not everybody is an engineer.
And a lot of people would think, oh, well, you know, they got,
I forget what body they got approval from, but they like are making progress to this being a product
that they actually ship.
And so if I heard that they got their, yeah, airworthiness certification from the FAA,
they got an airworthiness certification. That's huge. That's huge.
Right? So I'd be like, oh yeah, flying car.
I see this picture. I go, I mean, what, yeah, 300 grand?
I mean, that's only 10 times the price of a car
that doesn't fly, right? That's so many more degrees of freedom.
That's so good. Honestly, if they just never released this video,
I feel like they'd do better. Well, they've been doing pretty good up till now.
They got their pre-orders. And yeah, not everybody's an engineer.
So yeah, I could see people pre-ordering it if they just don't do the math.
Like it wasn't until, for me too, that I came across like a really good article.
I wish I could find it so that I could bring it up. I read it and then I like kind of lost it.
And then I never saw it again. But it was a really good article that basically kind of walked me through the math
of how this is just like kind of fucking impossible.
And they're like, at the end of it, they're like, look, don't short it
because they'll stay irrational longer
than you'll stay solvent or whatever. Like I'm not saying you should like short these companies
and try and make a bunch of money on their downfall or whatever, I'm just saying, don't invest in them.
Don't pre-order this stuff because this ain't happening.
This is not happening. I'm like, oh, okay, bummer. Cause that'd be awesome.
Like I'd be so down. I hope that, you know,
they got their flight worthiness thing, whatever. I hope that it ends up being awesome.
Cause like, why not? I just, that video
wasn't awesome does not make it look good.
But hey, I mean, all power to him. Good luck.
Oh, cool.
Hi, Larry is not fun.
Is that it after dark? I think it's time for after dark. Nice. Mr. Daniel Besser hit us.
Let me just get the banner and the button. Oh yeah, not, not financial advice.
Just throwing that out there. I always got to throw that out there.
Okay, let's see what we've got today. Hey dudes, aside from YouTube,
which single company's sudden shutdown would have the most immediate detrimental impact on LMG,
which would be the most beneficial. A beneficial shutdown.
I don't know if there's anyone. We're all about kind of, we're all about partnerships.
I don't think there's anyone that I would look at and go, yeah, them shutting down would be highly beneficial to us.
Who'd be beneficial? I usually see the like, the competitor maybe,
but I don't really see us as having competitors in a traditional sense. I usually see, especially the space we're in,
not all spaces, but the space we're in is rising tide lifts all ships.
Yeah, me too. I think the more people that are interested in tech
will help all of us. And if other people in the tech space
are making good content, I think that will help us not hurt us.
Yeah, I mean. I've always seen it that way. I mean, this is really interesting. So the timing of the release of that interview
that I did with John, I was talking in the interview
about how our viewership has kind of struggled lately, right?
But I did that interview a couple of months ago.
And so that obviously there's a ton of comments on the interview with people giving me their brilliant ideas
for what I can do to fix my channel or how talking about how, you know,
yeah, it's all because, you know, Alex and Andy are gone
or whatever the case may be, right?
But what people don't bother to do is check and see
if there's any truth whatsoever to their hypothesis.
And to be clear, I'm not saying that, you know,
I wouldn't, yeah, that I don't love working with Alex and Andy or whatever,
but we've actually had a nice little resurgence lately
and we are back to the kinds of numbers that we were doing, you know, earlier this year slash,
you know, before the recent dip. Like in fact, we're quite a bit higher than that now.
We're tracking to do probably more like 80 million views for December, it looks like.
So that's back up at a level that's sort of closer to sort of November of last year.
Like there tends to be kind of, there's a seasonality to it to a degree, right?
So we are higher than probably in the next month,
we'll be higher than probably about eyeballing this,
70% of the months of the past, like 18.
So thank you for your advice and your analysis
of, you know, why LMG is failing or whatever the case may be, but we're not failing.
And a big part of why we don't fail is we are constantly looking inward, looking outward,
figuring out, you know, what it is that we need to do differently.
How can we generate excitement? How can we elevate our content? How can we optimize our processes?
And the answers are always gonna be different
in an ever-changing world that is competitive,
even if I don't see other YouTubers
or other media outlets as competitors.
Does that make sense? Yeah, and we've had great people leave
and we will have great people leave and we will have great people join.
Yes, and then leave. And we are a business in constant flux,
just like every single other business. And we will have different eras
because there will be different people here at different times. And like Taylor Swift, I may do a tour about my eras.
You might, you might. Probably not. And this is all extremely normal.
Yep. That's okay.
Everything is a normal thing
that is happening right now. And, and, you know what's another normal thing?
For there to be times of unusual strife.
Yeah. That's also normal, even if it is abnormal.
And so there will be- It's normal to have times of abnormality. There will be future times when,
you know what, we might hire a lot. There will be future times
when we might have a lot of turnover. There will be future times
when our content is not performing well. And there will be future times
when our content is performing really well. And, and all of that is just part of the natural ebbs
and flows of, of running a business in a, in a fast, fast, fast changing world.
Maybe Steam will release or Valve will release a bunch of hardware all at once.
Yeah. That was, that was nice. That was- Let's go. What a Christmas present that was for us.
Yeah. You know, it was, it was encouraging, right?
You know, cause it's not like I- No, it totally was. It's not like I'm immune to, you know,
feeling a lack of confidence sometimes, right? Like, you know, I see the content not performing.
I go like, do I even, do I even got this anymore? You know, like I'm always asking myself that.
And then someone does me the, the like bare
minimumist favor of releasing some hardware that's interesting and we get like,
what, four million views on one of them and like four and a half on the other,
three and a half and four and a half. Yeah, 3.8 and 4.8 right now. Yeah, something like that.
And I'm just like, oh, okay, no, no, I still do know, I still do know how to do this.
I did those videos in like two hours each. Just the Steam machine won't cost what you think
got 2.6. Yeah. Like, it was a good video.
It's just cool, interesting stuff. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think, not just I, I think we've still got it.
I do think that we have, I mean, you guys were even talking about this before the video,
before we started plan shows, just like looking at some of the process bloat and stuff.
We have, yeah. We have problems.
There's gonna be, there's gonna need to be some work done
on kind of addressing how things flow
through the company and stuff. I think so. And it's just, you know, we've existed
for so many years at this point and we've kind of always just built.
There hasn't really been a lot of removing things,
cutting back on certain things, trying to see, hey, if we cut out a bunch of processes here,
what happens? What would happen? Yeah. Because sometimes like there's process
that was originally designed to help solve problems,
which due to misuse or rot or improper initial creation,
actually it just creates more problems,
creates more cycles for people have to do, especially cycles that suck and they don't want to do ever,
that is like absolutely a thing that happens. So yeah, we have things to address,
but we're working on it and that's normal.
Especially as far as my understanding goes, when companies get to around this size.
Yeah. Like this ends up being a major problem when companies get around the 100 plus ish size,
which is exactly where we're at. Everything changes. Yeah.
So this all makes sense. And there will continue to be change.
Someone asked, here we go, capture the bomb,
ask speaking of ebbs and flows, how's the badminton club doing?
I don't know, you tell me, here's a live feed.
Okay, looks pretty good to me. Got some people playing some badminton all up in this.
How embarrassing would it be to just biff right now?
They'll be fine. They're solid players actually, it's a good club.
Yeah, no, this is one of those ones where like,
it was a passion project that like,
you know, was never really like intended to make money. And it's still a little more complicated than like, yeah.
You know, yo, I'm making money, C, so yo, world, I hope you're ready for me.
Now get out of the round. Yeah, you know, like it's not quite that, right?
I wish it was a little bit tall. Yeah, yeah, well, that yes, but.
Oh, I honestly wasn't even memeing that, I just...
No, no, no, no, well, that's the different artists, different song, I was Humpty Dance,
like totally different. I knew you used to like that song, it's fine. Okay, the point is that, yeah, we kind of accidentally,
we kind of accidentally a good sports facility that's actually doing really well.
Like there's probably a solid. Yeah, we're just accidentally a successful business.
Yeah, there's probably a solid like 60 people in there right now, there's people in the concession,
there's some people hanging out in the lounge, there's people in the retail shop.
Is the concession like a thing yet? Uh-uh.
But we do have those cool, like Japanese style, like hot food vending machines.
Yeah, okay, cool. I mean, that's nice.
Yeah, so Smash Chams will use them except when there's Whale Land.
Yeah, sure. Is there any progress on having an actual concession?
No. Okay. Yeah, the managers feel extremely strongly
that we need to have a steam room and a sauna.
I'm really not sure that I agree that's that important, but we also want to put in some more showers,
we only have a couple right now. Showers I could see. We should add more.
I think that a steam room and sauna is a very optional thing for a badminton club, but.
Yeah. I basically told them, look, you're allowed to put it in
as long as it doesn't cost any of our floor area.
If you don't use up floor plate, then like, if you can put them above the showers
at the back or something like that, I'm open to it. But they pitched me like splitting up the gym
and putting that at the back and putting the like sauna, steam room, shower stuff,
like upstairs, I'm just like, no. We are not doing that.
A gym is a way more relevant thing to a badminton club than that.
I can see people wanting to do sauna, doing sauna after physical activity is pretty sick.
Sure. But yeah, if you could just try to make it additive,
if possible. Also the concession will help money for sure.
Yes, no, actually. At a place where people are constantly exercising? I heard that other clubs that have tried to do them,
it's been break even at best.
So we may be better off. I think we get a pretty narrow margin
on those vending machines, but we may actually be better off with the vending machines.
TBD, oh, I bumped that. Interesting. I do know, as far as my understanding goes,
you usually have to make the concession like actually pretty good
and then it ends up also getting things like Uber Eats orders.
Interesting. Because there's, it's actually very rare
that you can get like actually pretty well, like balanced meals on Uber Eats.
So like Gold's Gym in Langley has like a
protein shake. Yeah, and also some like wraps and stuff,
but they're like more protein heavy. Oh, that's cool. Like they don't have high sugar counts
and all that other kind of stuff. So like if you did like, oh, it's a badminton gym,
so there's things that like, you know. We could do a smash burger.
I think that's pretty far from the point I was trying to make.
But it's great for the branding. It is great for the branding.
It is absolutely. Like something, I mean, I would personally appreciate,
I don't know if this is the right fit for smash chance,
probably not necessarily, but I think it maybe should be,
is if you had like a protein shake kind of thing
and it had like five grams creatine,
I think that would be sick. It's hard to get, booster juice does it,
but there aren't that many other places that do. Interesting. So like I think there are ways to make it make sense,
but I think you have to kind of open up the interest in that where it's not necessarily just the badminton club
that would be interested in it. Yeah, I'd be down for that. There would be, the thing is like,
you have to find someone to kind of spearhead that, right? And right now we're just, we're busy figuring out
how to run a sports facility. We haven't even been open to the pub. We haven't even been, we've been open a year,
but we haven't been taking money for a year. So we've been like soft open,
but our grand opening was less than a year ago. So we still have a lot of little things to figure out.
Yeah, I realized, sorry, the numbers I was showing before
didn't look like we were tracking up that much, but last 30 days, 85 million.
So that's actually like quite, quite up there
with our top months over the last 18, 75.
It's like almost on par with like August 2024. So we're, we're tracking back up and we'll track back down.
Yep. And that's okay. It's okay, we'll survive.
We will survive. As long as I know how to take, I know we'll stay alive.
Dan, hit me. Hello, my parasocial friends.
Oh, hi there. I'm not a Floatplane subscriber because I already have two similar subscriptions
and my brain refuses to let me have another. Do any of you have arbitrary rules like this?
Oh, tons. I don't think that's arbitrary. I think limiting the number of subscriptions you have is
totally fair. Totally not arbitrary.
I mean, the two I guess is an arbitrary number, but I think two is a pretty good number.
Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to me. Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to me. I really don't, I probably have,
huh, I think I have one.
I'm not even trying to flex. Netflix? Nope. Netflix.
Oh, that's right, you ditched it a while back. Long time ago. What do you have then?
YouTube. Oh yeah, just YouTube premium. Yep, okay.
My company got hacked last month through a zero-day exploit in Centerstack.
Bummer. It looks like we paid the ransom for the encryption key.
Have you guys known anyone who has paid? What is the process?
I haven't. I actually don't.
Yeah, right, yeah, good call. Who's there?
Scammers. Fuck you, man, get out of here.
No, I've been here for months.
Yeah, sorry, I don't know anything about the process.
Bummer, sorry to hear that.
Okay. Hi, LLD.
Linus, do you still daily drive a 7900XTX?
What's your take on where our DNA3 is headed after being missing in Wednesday's Redstone announcement?
I mean, this is kind of classic AMD. I think for the most part, they do their best to support their older products,
but they are a much smaller company than NVIDIA.
Still, even after all the success that they've had on the CPU and the APU side, I'm not surprised by it.
The 7900XT just does not have the neural processing to do what they would want it to do with FSR Redstone.
As far as I can tell, I'd love to be wrong, but it just doesn't really seem like it.
And yes, I'm still daily driving it in my PC upstairs,
but I've actually been doing more than half of my gaming
on my PC downstairs, because that's like where my kids are usually sitting
and Yvonne doesn't game. So I would either be sitting by myself upstairs,
or if I was streaming, I would be upstairs, but I haven't streamed in like forever.
So yes, it's still in my main machine,
but I haven't been gaming on it as my primary card for a little while.
Hi, LLD. My partner and I are combining our skills to go into business together.
My question for Linus is, was there anything you should have discussed
with Yvonne before working together? Oh yeah.
I think something that we, even to this day,
are not perfectly aligned on is, where's the end point?
What is the target we're trying to hit?
And I think that having that agreement, especially if you're going into business
with, it sounds like a romantic partner,
having that agreement in place is going to be critical
to maintaining harmony in your relationship.
Because if one of you has the goal of,
you know, achieving a better work-life balance
by running your own business and being able to set your own hours,
and one of you has the goal of conquering the world
and taking, you know, the business fear by storm,
then it's gonna be hard to agree
when you've achieved success because you both have completely different goals.
And,
talk about that.
Mary, Mary Linus, Luke and Dan. Hey, Mary, Mary, Mary, Pippin.
Yeah, I like that. What about second Mary?
What are the rings is based? I'm looking, wow, hot take there, Luke.
You know, I'm bringing the spicy ones out today. Yeah, you're really gonna piss off
a lot of the community with that one. No offense, but I thought the Lord of the Rings
was pretty okay.
I'm looking to introduce my mother to a new video game this holiday season.
Any recommendations with good story that would be easy to learn for the elderly?
For the elderly.
Good story.
I feel like games are getting harder, not easier. Starting Valley Animal Crossing,
and I'm not typecasting because it's grandma, those are just like Animal Crossing in particular,
I know, was widely accepted by a non-gaming audience.
I think starting Valley is also a potentially lower lift
in regards to non-gaming audience.
Outside of that, I think very like narrative heavy games.
If you try to think of the types of games where like,
people would enjoy chilling on the couch while you play because it's like fun to watch
and then you pair that with, they're not mechanically overly difficult.
I suspect that would work pretty well. Promortises guitar hero.
Yeah, how about not? Ben Bob said Elder Scrolls Daggerfall, which is...
Yeah, not gonna go super well.
Pay-Kratt's a good suggestion, Telltale Games.
Just a bunch of different Telltale Games are all probably decent. If there's something in the Telltale Games universe
that fits their fancy, then that might be a good way to go.
I mean, there's Soma, you can turn the enemies off.
Can you actually just turn them off? Yeah, yeah, that would be fun.
The last one I have for you today is Hi, LLD.
Is there any early stage or emerging tech you're particularly excited about?
I mean, the emerging tech is all robotics and AI, right?
That's kind of the big one. AR glasses.
Yeah, AR glasses are pretty cool. Oh, I don't know if the thing I tried today was embargoed,
but it was cool. Neat.
I am scared about the current direction of AR glasses,
but I'm hoping that... But more AI? Well, yeah. And the people who are winning right now.
But I'm hoping that... Winning hard. Yeah, it's actually kind of weird.
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I'm pretty sure these are gonna still have that bundle, right? Do they still have the deal? Do they have the deal?
No, there's no deal. I don't see it. They don't have the game bundle.
I thought it was supposed to still be running though. It's always while quantities last.
We probably sold them all last week. Got it.
Okay. I'm willing to bet. I just see 3D mark with this,
which is definitely not Battlefield 6 and whatever the other games were.
Like here, check this out. I bet if I go to like a lesser known retailer or something,
they will probably have it. Yeah, see? So like Canada computers, gift code redemption.
Cause the promo is still running, but I talked about this last week.
Is that a Canadian promo? Cause I'm looking at specifically the America.
Oh, I don't know any America retailers that are not new eggs.
So it'd be hard for me to check, but if they still had smaller retailers,
then I pretty much guarantee that while supplies last,
they would have stock of the promo cause new egg did run out of them and then they did restock them.
So they have a cost, right? Like Intel has to buy more copies of these games.
So they don't just run them for forever.
Yeah, that makes sense. And you know what else doesn't run forever?
This show that that's a good guess.
Oh, we'll see you again next week.
Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye.
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