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Does it feel like real writing?

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Cool.

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It was important, I think, even if it might not have been good.

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Yeah, that's kind of the point of this. It's iconic. Yeah, it's definitely iconic.

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Not good phone. It is for sure an iconic phone.

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Yeah. Oh, HTC Universal.

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Oh, yeah. That Windows thing.

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Nokia N95.

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Now we're getting into the kind of like, like newish stuff.

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Oh, that would get that Windows mobile, mobile Windows.

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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

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the history at a time when these devices still work. And they were cool.

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Like, yeah, and they won't always work. Oh, I see what you mean.

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They won't always get an opportunity to... Got it.

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So now, now it's here, you know, now it's preserved.

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So they actually acquired all these devices on like pretty good condition versions of

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them. Yeah, and then they did like photo shoots and stuff. Yeah, that's sweet.

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Iconic. If you look at the generations of devices before the bold, they were still plastic.

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The screen was relatively low resolution. The BlackBerry bold was a deliberate attempt to create something iconic.

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This is the one that everybody loved, Mark Swanson, director of product management.

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The bolds. Is that the one with the touch gestures and the touch screen?

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I can't remember. I will be able to tell you that in one moment after I rewind to the page where they tell

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me about it because I wasn't really paying attention to expensive phones back then.

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Good stream, enjoy videos, premium device, a faux leather back, and a chrome rim.

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I don't know, good question.

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iPhone. And this is where everything changed.

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The app economy, part three.

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First real iPhone alternative. That was a big one, yeah.

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LG G3, the South Korean underdog finally takes the crown.

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The G3 was so sick. The G3 was kind of goaded.

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Oh, Mr. Who's the Boss has a quote on that one.

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I remember the LG G3 so fondly, it was a time where I'd paid just as much attention

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to LG launches as I would Samsung and Apple, knowing that they were not just keeping up

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in terms of specs, but also putting their own spin on what they thought the smartphone

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should be, fun company to have around while it lasted.

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Apple iPhone 4, a brush with perfection.

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Steve Jobs said with a smirk, blah blah blah, rare moment.

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The death grip.

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Oh, quote from Linus.

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The iPhone 4 with its all glass and stainless steel design stood head and shoulders above

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any piece of consumer electronics I'd ever touched before, and I still pick it up every

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once in a while and appreciate its compactness, simplicity, and reassuring weight.

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Also the reception was good enough as long as you didn't hold it wrong.

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I actually never really had an issue with it. Hey, you're back.

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I'm back. Wow, Austin put in so much more work than me.

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This is for the HTC One. He wrote so much.

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Or is yours just more edited down? No, probably not.

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I probably only wrote a short blurb. Talk about a phone that was ahead of its time.

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This is Austin's. 2013 was an area where competition was at its most ferocious.

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In just a few short years, phones had transitioned from plastic blackberries with physical keyboards

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to the glass and metal slabs we use today. New phones pushed the boundaries more than the HTC One M7.

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Picture this. An all-metal build in a world of plastic flagships.

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Rich front-firing speakers that embarrassed the competition. A bright, high-resolution 1080 pixel display that still looks good today.

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He knows that the P is for progressive, not pixel, right? I'm just kidding.

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Love you, Austin. I'd still argue that the One M7 is one of the nicest pieces of hardware ever made and

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one of the key selling points was the camera. While Samsung chased megapixel counts with their 13 megapixel sensors, HTC went the

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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

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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

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smartphone had been set. I still miss mine. Okay, what did I say?

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Google might not have realized it, but they desperately needed someone to step up and

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prove that Android enthusiasts wanted and would pay for a device that didn't feel like

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a plastic toy. HTC did it. And if they hadn't, a part of me wonders if we would have been stuck forever choosing

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between iPhone and Compromise.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting. This is a lot of pages.

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Hey, Aaron wrote another one for the Galaxy Notebook. You have a lot of pages.

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When we start the show, brother. Oh, yeah, we can do that.

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All right. Oh, they got Carl Pay to do a quote.

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Oh, right. No, it's probably like his phone. He probably just like, yeah.

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Okay. That makes sense. All right.

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All right. All right. All right.

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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.

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That kind of makes sense.

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I just didn't have that many phones that I had super strong thoughts on.

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There were some good ones.

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They were like the S6 Edge, but they didn't pick that. It's one of their iconic phones.

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So that's all I have to say about that.

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Oh, man. Is my monitoring super loud?

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Has it been adjusted since last week? No, it adjusted itself.

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You probably have normalized it if you pop it in a little volume.

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Hello, hello, hello, hello.

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Welcome to the WAN Show. We've got it. Do I just have a headache today?

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I think I just have a headache today. Could we turn me down?

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Big dog. Big, big dog. Big dog.

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Dog, big. That's probably a little low.

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Can we split the difference? A little higher.

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That's good. All right. Cool.

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Welcome to the WAN. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That should be good.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. It's about like if I just didn't have the headphones on.

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Welcome to the WAN Show. Welcome to the WAN Show. We got fun and games.

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Okay. I guess we do the thing now.

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Is the chat working? No, I think the chat's broken.

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My chat's broken, Luke. Chat's working for me. Big dog.

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Big dog. Big dog. You're the big dog.

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Did you like re-window it this week?

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I don't think I had yet. Okay.

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Subvance. Oh, here. You can throw it.

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Okay. Or you can get it to me.

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The slowest one. Or you can get it to me the slowest possible way.

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The secure way. The secure way. He's not wrong.

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He's legitimately correct.

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Luke literally just did the, it works on my computer.

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No. Nice. Toxic.

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No. Why are you so toxic? No.

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Why are you so toxic? I just asked if you had actually reloaded it since last week.

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It could just still work from last week and it doesn't.

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So like you could point that out. Yeah.

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You know. Well, it doesn't.

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Thanks. It's good that it logged.

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Okay. Oh, right. Oh my God.

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I don't even have my laptop out. I'm sorry.

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All good in the hood, brother.

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Cables when? Good question. I really like mine.

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Yeah. I've been stuck on a laptop and I've been using an external USB monitor to make my life not

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as horrible. And I've had my LTT cable as my screen monitor thing.

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And I have a little pouch that I put all the stuff that I use for my laptop in.

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So it's all quick to put away and take back out and set up.

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Every time I have to call it back up and I just grab each end and go like, and it like

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really nicely coils up. Oh, it feels good.

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It's a quality cable. It feels very nice.

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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.

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I don't think I would want to use one of our cables for my mouse because it would be so

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like. No. It would not be right for that.

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Oh, that would be terrible. But I'm just saying it doesn't feel as nice to like wind up.

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The LTT cable is very supple. They feel nice.

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i7-6969x asks, how much of a delay will the USB 2 cables be?

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I mean, they still basically go at the speed of light.

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Less data rate.

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I love how fast the ding was on that.

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I was already like, I heard him read the question and got my head because I was thinking of

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the exact same pun.

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Someone asked if I've seen the Coulter Pearson video he did on the full plane app.

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I have. It was a cool video.

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I was happy our API stuff worked well.

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The login issue thing that he had in the video was actually somewhat related to us doing

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something that is going to make that a lot better and easier in the future.

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So hopefully that's cool.

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Yeah. There's like this war between native and non-native development.

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And sometimes it's better to do one and sometimes it's better to do the other.

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And if you follow the trend every time, you're just re-engineering your app every few months.

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Can you just have fee simple title and then also the other claim for it and they could

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just exist at the same time? What?

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You said you'd native and non-native development. Oh my goodness.

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Can you just have both? Only on the west coast, apparently.

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Yeah. Yeah. Oh man.

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So many things I want to say.

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Oh man. I think I'm just going to stay out of this.

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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

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and I found someone who unsubscribed from Floatplane actually over the nickname that I have

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for our Floatplane subscribers. Floaters.

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So what he said was that Linus calls us floaters, which means pieces of shit.

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Well, I think Linus is a piece of shit, so unsubscribed.

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In response, thank you to my floaters who remain supporting the channel.

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I appreciate you all.

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I guess we're all pieces of shit together.

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Can you imagine being that thin skinned?

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Just reading the service, the bowl.

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The bowl. Oh dude. Oh dude.

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Oh dude. Oh dude. And then when you get special behind the scenes, it's the bowl cut.

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Oh man. Yeah.

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Horn play. Horn play says, yeah, guy didn't get that it's a joke.

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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.

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Oh man.

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That's pretty good. I like that. All right.

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We should probably do this thing. But yeah, we are aware the app is not up to snuff right now.

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We are looking to hire a app developer.

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We want to get the posting up, but there's like a trillion postings up and hiring is

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a little funky town right now. So we will figure that out at some point.

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My voice is still fried. I can't do it.

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Remote, probably exclusively actually.

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The team is remote entirely at this point.

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And I find that mixing those is like worse.

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So all remote or all in person.

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Yeah. Not half and half ideally. Yeah.

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I have, I have had that experience because locals work in like a certain way and remotes

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work in like a certain way and they don't often mix super, super well.

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Bob's burgers has a character named Linus now.

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How dare you? I am Linus.

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Are they cool? It's a lizard. Are they short?

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Why is it a lizard?

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You're not Mark Zuckerberg. You're Taylor Swift. That doesn't make sense.

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I'm not Taylor Swift. I just have things in common with Taylor Swift.

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Like my big thighs. Oh man.

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All right. Okay. Well, I'll have to get caught up on Bob's burgers here.

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Another time. Okay. We should probably start the show.

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You want to start the show? Get started the show. You ready?

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The issue isn't with mixed developers. It's with mixed local and remote on the same project.

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Yeah. That's literally what I'm saying.

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To be clear, my example isn't actually even with developers.

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My example is with a department that isn't developers.

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I just find people working on the same project.

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You can't just be like responding to haters.

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The best thing is to not acknowledge them.

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Don't be walking into the lion's den rattling the hornet cage.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Replying in a big thread. Yeah. You shouldn't do that.

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No. You shouldn't do that. Okay.

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You shouldn't do that. No. You're not a hater blue.

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You're not a hater blue. I'm just bugging him.

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Dave Cuedo said, Luke, I've read a number of articles about the best way to handle

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mixed remote and not remote is to treat everything like it's remote.

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Yeah. And I completely agree. And that's annoying for local people often.

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It's just not a perfect situation. Having one developer on the full-plane team be local and everyone else be remote is

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there's no value to having that person being local.

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So why have the office space and everything else that comes with having that person be

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local when we could just hire them remote?

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Yeah, and then not have office space.

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Yeah. Be cheaper. Yeah.

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Yeah. It's just easier. If we're not going to gain the benefits of them being local anyways, then why have the

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downsides? He likes birds. That's why he likes cheaper office space.

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Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.

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Oh, my.

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All right. We should really just go live at this point, I think.

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Ready? Yes. Okay.

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Lizard Linus was apparently named Leslie because he's got lines on his back.

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Linus. Oh, I get it.

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Emker. Yes. You can give me money for this, please.

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Not this one, but one like it. Okay.

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I'm doing it. It's done.

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Oh, God. I don't have the dashboard open. Dan, you're going to have to tell me when we're live.

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He was ready for that.

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What's up everyone and welcome to the WAN Show.

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We have a great show lined up for you guys this week.

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We're going to be talking about NVIDIA being sued in a class action lawsuit by YouTubers.

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Let's go. Including H3H3 Productions.

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Oh. Yeah.

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Probably not what you thought I was about to say.

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In other major news, storage review.

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How could you?

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Storage review has calculated by the 314 trillion digits.

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I think they just don't want us to be happy. Our world record is broken.

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Someone's got to get 369 and then someone's got to get 420 and then I think the whole

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loop. I think it's just over at that point. We can wrap it up.

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Yeah. We can just tie a bow on it and put it in the closet and bring it out at Christmas.

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Special occasion. Yeah. It's Christmas time.

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It's Christmas time. It's storage review. Great job.

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We'll be talking about that a little bit later. What else we got this week?

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Antel officially confirms BMG G31 big battle mage GPU.

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Okay. See, I thought that was a big deal, but then that was the headline topic for TechLinked.

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It was like no one cared. The people don't care, but I care.

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Nice. And Phillips wrote LTT a letter about Phillips fixables.

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Those are the two you pick. Are we back?

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Fixables? Yeah. No, I think fixables is back.

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I think fixables is cool. Yeah, it's sick. All right.

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We'll talk about it. Okay. The show is brought to you by ODU AMD proton male and odd pieces alongside of course our

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I shouldn't have looked at it.

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I didn't even do that this week. You know what? Vertical.

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No one's happy. I'm going to make it worse than ever.

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Why don't we jump right into our headline topic this week, which is of course that

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storage review has regained a computational record by solving pi to 314 trillion digits.

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They used, and this is a quote, a single to you Dell PowerEdge R7725 server equipped

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with dual AMD epic 192 core CPUs alongside weight 4061.44 terabyte micron 6550 ion SSDs.

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And you know why you should be angry about that?

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That because storage review has embarrassed your favorite YouTuber who makes tech videos

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on a regular basis in Cloverdale, British Columbia.

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See how I narrowed that down there? You did. I really did.

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Yep. Yep. You should be upset because it turns out storage review were the ones responsible for the

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NAND flash shortage crisis.

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How much is that? That's two and a half petabytes of SSDs for crying out loud.

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That is pretty crazy. But that's necessary. That's actually something that you need in order to store all that.

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I mean, we made a whole video about it and you can sort of go check that out.

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Pretty much same idea. Their record run was a 110 day total runtime.

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And this is great. According to their article, they focused on record setting power efficiency, which I

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got to be honest with you, makes a ton of sense to me as the one who paid for power last

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time around.

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I had no idea how much we had spent on that endeavor until we were already done.

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It was ludicrous. Gosh, and question is, are you going to frickin' take this, bro?

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What are you going to do about it? I'm going to frickin' take it. Yeah.

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I'm going to take it. I'm going to just... I think...

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Oh, why? I don't even care.

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I'm good. I've got my certificate from last time.

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They can have it. I think what we're going to do about it is maybe encourage them to go for 369.

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Yeah. Yeah. Be a man.

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Beat your own record. Be a man. Do the right thing.

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And then do it twice. Beat your own record. Go to 369 and then beat your own record again with 420.

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And maybe you can, you know, wait for jumpsync technology in order to do that.

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So it's like a little bit more interesting every time. There's like a bit of a story to it or whatever.

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But still... And we'll root for you. We're going to root for you from the sidelines.

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Yeah. And he'll do it really enthusiastically.

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All right. Why don't we jump into one of the other topics that I'm very interested in.

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And I am mostly doing this because I haven't kept up with the news here and I am reading

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this for the first time. So I'll be finding out exactly what the heck is going on.

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NVIDIA is apparently being sued in a class action lawsuit for copyright infringement

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by three YouTubers after NVIDIA used their videos to train their new AI model.

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YouTube creators, Ted Entertainment, H3H3 Productions and H3 Podcast Highlights, Matt

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Fisher, Mr. Short Game, and Gulf Hollicks have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against

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NVIDIA saying that the company used their YouTube videos without permission to train

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its AI video model Cosmos.

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The creators say that YouTube only allows videos to be streamed, not downloaded, and

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that NVIDIA allegedly bypassed YouTube's protections to get the actual video files anyway.

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Could we call this a form of...

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What's the word I'm looking for? There's definitely a word for it.

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It's great. Like what part of this are you trying to find?

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Well, I'm almost afraid to say the word.

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Is this... Is this piracy?

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Oh. It's... Chats going nuts.

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I gotcha. See, watching a video on YouTube is not, in fact, the same as owning the file.

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There are terms of service, and there is a licensing agreement for the use of the content,

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anyway. The lawsuit claims that NVIDIA crossed that line.

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The case focuses on huge AI data sets made up of YouTube links and timestamps rather

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than the videos themselves. To use those data sets, though, the creators argue NVIDIA had to download the videos directly

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from YouTube, often repeatedly, to extract short clips, resulting in millions of unauthorized

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copies. The creators are suing under the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules, saying that NVIDIA broke YouTube's access

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controls to get files it was never allowed to have, and they are asking for damages and

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a court order to stop the practice.

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creators on our subreddit found several LMG videos in the data sets from different channels.

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So our first discussion question is, do we intend to join the class action lawsuit?

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And I'm just going to say the same thing that I always say, and that is, honestly, no.

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We are not a particularly litigious company. I am not a litigious person.

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I am mostly a live and let live kind of guy.

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I'm a little bit peeved. I don't like this.

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I would like to be compensated when my copyrighted intellectual property is used.

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However, I also have the self-awareness to recognize that not every way that I've ever

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used any copyrighted piece of material has been 100% perfect.

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So live, let live.

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I do think there's a difference between you doing that as a person and NVIDIA doing that

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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.

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People seem to forget this. Be magically more okay with that.

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But throwing a very short portion of John Cena's walkout music into the intro of a video

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where I'm wearing a singlet, technically, if they wanted to be a**holes about it, they

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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

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lightly but not damaging the market for the original content, you know, basic pillars

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of kind of fair use, then, you know, whatever.

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I think NVIDIA probably, fair use, probably not.

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But I just, the way that I see it, that's in the past, and the better focus for us going

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forward is to just kind of keep making the best possible content that we can, and keep

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making better content than whatever it is that NVIDIA could AI slop out with this model

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that they trained on our old stuff, and just keep moving forward.

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That's, yeah, it's not ideal. I don't like it.

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I don't like it. And there are areas where eventually, you know, you're going to cross a line with me.

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Like I had one of those stupid AI celebrity chatbot things reach out to me, and they're

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like, oh, you should do, like, an official Linus Tech Tips one, and we'll help you set

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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

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I do not authorize that, so don't.

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And they basically were like, why not?

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Like, yeah, the fact that you don't understand that already tells me that any attempt that

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I make to explain it to you is a complete and utter waste of my time, and will probably

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give me a headache. The amount of people that would be cybering you into the position that you went into earlier

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would be significant. It's a chatbot, Luke.

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You don't think people do that?

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Welcome to the world. What is this, phone sex?

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Like I don't understand. Yeah, there's text versions of that. What are you talking about?

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Yeah, but just like... There are a lot of people that do this.

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Why? Did you not see that? Okay, I guess we gotta catch up a little bit.

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When 5, chatGPT5 came out, a ton of people were like very upset because their like relationships

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ended, because 5 had a different personality than 4-0.

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I remember that. I was there for that. Yeah, you don't think they're doing explicit things through text?

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Yeah, but it doesn't actually generate an image of anything.

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Like it's... It's just through text.

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Why?

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That part I can't explain. Okay. All I'm saying is it would happen.

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Well anyway, I think that's pretty much all I have to say about that.

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NVIDIA, you know, maybe just don't.

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But also, I don't know man, I feel like this whole...

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Does it make a difference to you significantly if they watch it properly or download it?

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And not just that, but... I don't know. Maybe there's a thing there.

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I'm just not really aware of it. But at this point, okay, are we headed to artificial general intelligence on the current

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path that we're on? The consensus among people who actually seem to know appears to be no.

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This is not a path to that. However, this whole LLM thing, this whole generative machine learning thing, generative AI that

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we have going on right now, is it kind of a big deal?

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Is it going to change the world? That's no question. The answer there is yes.

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It will change the world in some fashion or another.

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And the reality of it is that NVIDIA is only in trouble because they operate in a jurisdiction

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where laws exist.

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So someone at some point is going to train their video model on my videos, like, does

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it make a difference to me if it's NVIDIA versus someone else?

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I mean, NVIDIA has their $5 trillion valuation or whatever they're up to at this point.

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So there's certainly a much better target to go after in terms of recouping some money

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from them. On that note, did you see the big deal that Disney and Open AI announced?

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No. $1 billion and Open AI through Sora is now officially licensed to generate snippets using

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iconic Disney characters like Darth Vader, Boba Fett, some of their more cartoony characters,

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Mickey Mouse. I was pretty surprised to see that.

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And then on almost the same day, I think, it was either the same day or it was almost

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the same day, Disney sent a cease and desist to Google over using their copyrighted works.

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So they've got this partnership with Open AI now, and they are clamping down on the

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use of their copyrighted materials elsewhere. We are in unprecedented times.

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And I don't feel like walking into the arena with the NVIDIA's, Open AI's, Disney's of

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the world. The main thing I'm upset about is they didn't pay their flow playing subscription for the

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month to download all of it that way, officially. That would have been like $5.

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Yeah, they didn't do it. They pirated it. And that still wouldn't include a license to use it for commercial use anyway.

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At least it was a real way to download it.

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I mean, I guess. Is that, is that, would that constitute commercial use?

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Absolutely. I mean, they're using it to make money.

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I mean, well, AI industry make money. That's funny, but theoretically, they're using it to make money at some point.

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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.

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But anyways, next topic.

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We did two topics. Dan, what are we supposed to do now? Oh, you're way ahead of time.

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Do another topic. No, no, that's fine. We can, we can do other stuff.

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Or we could do some merge messages. Yeah. Oh, really already?

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Is that what we do at this point? Oh, no. No, you do it.

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You do it 40 minutes from now. No, no, we should do that. We should do that.

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Because. There are a lot of things going on. Yeah. There's a lot going on right now.

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I scrolled through that section earlier and it's just like, what?

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Starting of course with Luke bringing up the website so that he's ready to show off.

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Oh, wait.

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No, before we talk about any product launches, we have some updates on the customs fee issues

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that some customers have been experiencing. We recently found out that some customers outside the US and Canada were charged higher

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than expected customs fees due to an external clerical error that submitted declarations

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in USD rather than CAD. So an outside party didn't realize because nobody knows what a Canadian dollar is that

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:51.720
our documentation was in Canadian dollars and they said they were US dollars, which

00:34:51.720 --> 00:34:55.960
means that the value of the shipments was overstated by about 40%.

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That is annoying. Whoopsie, Donkels. That makes sense.

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That does make sense. If your order was affected, you will receive an email tonight with all of the details.

00:35:05.040 --> 00:35:10.520
The issue has been fixed, so any new orders placed now will not be impacted.

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Knock on wood. We are working with our ship pick partners to make sure that any extra fees are refunded.

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So if you have an order on the way, do not refuse delivery because we may not be able

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to resend it. Pay the bill as issued, we will take care of the refund.

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We're aiming to have all refunds completed by the end of next week, December 19th.

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If you have any other questions, please contact our wonderful customer service team of trustworthy

00:35:33.720 --> 00:35:40.160
bros and we will get you sorted.

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Now onto something more fun, look at this thing.

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We just launched our Teddy Fleece jacket.

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This thing is ridiculously soft, ridiculously cool, look how cool it is.

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That's an epic photo. And is a must have in your closet during the colder months.

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:07.560
You can layer underneath it and it just looks so good, whether you're going outdoors or

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hanging out indoors. It has lined sleeves, making it easy to wear, lots of pockets and of course, Luke, what

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are you doing? There you go. There you go.

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And of course, the color is just so unique and stylish.

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We were going for kind of like a retro kind of 90s, but a little bit more modern and like,

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I think that the team did just an absolute outstanding job of this, freaking outstanding

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job. It looks so good. And not only are we bundling up for the cold weather with our Teddy Fleece, we're also

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bundling up some holiday deals right there at the top.

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Oh, no, you're good. Yeah, you got it. Until December 17th in the US, so this is the US site.

00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:57.520
Is that what you're looking at? Please tell me you're on the US site.

00:36:57.520 --> 00:37:00.960
Yes. Nice. We are offering some sweet deals.

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You can bundle the Commuter backpack and Elgato Stream Deck Mark II for $199.99.

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That is $120 in savings or when you buy a WAN backpack, and we only have a few dozen

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:20.480
left now. Oh, okay. We're giving away a free pair of SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4X.

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That is $80 off.

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You can check out the rest of the bundles at LMG.gg slash bundle up.

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As for our global customers, we've got you guys covered, too.

00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:38.480
Also until December 17th, we're offering the MCM Essentials Solution for $79.99 Canadian.

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That is a massive $100 off for a big pack of cable management arches and the power

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:50.920
bar holders and stuff. And the Retro Monitor Pack Cave is only $29.99.

00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:57.640
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

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It's $20. What do you want me to tell you? $20.

00:38:01.640 --> 00:38:04.640
That's $20. LMG.gg slash holiday deals. Finally.

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Oh, underscore. Oh, sorry. Yes.

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Really? Underscore? The site I'm on is underscore.

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Underscore. What does that mean? What do you mean?

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What does it say? Underscore. Oh.

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Oh, okay. Oh, that's really good to know.

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Thanks, Luke. Yeah, got you. The bundle up is also an underscore, by the way.

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It's bundle underscore up. Nice. I didn't hear you necessarily say it, so you might have said it right.

00:38:28.600 --> 00:38:33.600
Also, just an update for you guys. We have wrapped up our holiday loot drop draw.

00:38:33.600 --> 00:38:38.600
The sweepstakes that we did. Thank you to all who made purchases and submitted entries via mail.

00:38:38.600 --> 00:38:41.600
Oh, crap. Okay. There were a lot of...

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The lttstore.com. Oh, I forgot to talk to you about that.

00:38:44.600 --> 00:38:48.600
Yeah, the lttstore.com domain has the underscore in it.

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The LMG.gg one does not. Oh, okay.

00:38:51.600 --> 00:38:56.600
I'm sure they'll find it. I think he said it right because you were probably saying the LMG.gg domain.

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They're going to find it. You'll be all right. I believe them.

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You'll figure it out. They're going to buy something? They're going to send them?

00:39:02.600 --> 00:39:08.600
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.

00:39:08.600 --> 00:39:15.600
So, massive shout out to Jamie, who, poor Jamie, had to open almost all of them, including

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that super weird one from last week, as well as Sammy Jess, Adam P., Mitchell Tanya, Victor

00:39:22.600 --> 00:39:25.600
Ashley, and Conrad from the CW team.

00:39:25.600 --> 00:39:32.600
Tons of planning went into all of this. Anyway, we're going to be randomly drawing the winners for the Sennheiser HD 550s and...

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Or 550s, I think. And the ROG Alliex handheld gaming systems soon.

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Winners will be notified via email and prizes will be sent once everything is confirmed.

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Okay, that's all of the CW updates.

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2200, does he have the box of them that I saw?

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How much work would it be for us to show? Actually, you know what?

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It's probably not worth it because they're going to have return addresses. So, the risk, yeah.

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Yeah, okay. Forget it, forget it. But I saw the boxes of freaking letters.

00:40:02.600 --> 00:40:08.600
It was ridiculous. We are going to change that next time.

00:40:08.600 --> 00:40:14.600
Just show you guys know. How do you do that? So, what you do is you...

00:40:14.600 --> 00:40:21.600
Is it one maximum or something? People that were relatively new to the team who didn't know how you do this.

00:40:21.600 --> 00:40:26.600
So, the way that we did it was you got an entry for placing an order over $100.

00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:32.600
Yeah. You also got an entry for putting a 50 cent stamp on a letter and sending it to us.

00:40:32.600 --> 00:40:38.600
So, obviously, thousands of people were like, oh, well, that's cheaper.

00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:42.600
And I'll do that every single day and I'll date the mail so it goes...

00:40:42.600 --> 00:40:45.600
Now, you have to have... I mean, fair play.

00:40:45.600 --> 00:40:49.600
You have to have a no-purchase necessary way to enter a sweepstakes in Canada.

00:40:49.600 --> 00:40:52.600
Otherwise, it becomes gambling.

00:40:52.600 --> 00:40:59.600
So, in the future, we will, of course, still have a no-purchase necessary way to enter the contest.

00:40:59.600 --> 00:41:06.600
However, what most retail entities do is they make that letter worth one entry and then

00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:10.600
they make the purchase worth a lot more entries.

00:41:11.600 --> 00:41:14.600
Mmm.

00:41:14.600 --> 00:41:20.600
So, the $100 plus order we might make worth one entry per dollar spent.

00:41:20.600 --> 00:41:23.600
Well, it's 25 cents for the stamp. And then the letter...

00:41:23.600 --> 00:41:31.600
Four entries per dollar. The letter we make worth one entry, which is not going to be good use of your time

00:41:31.600 --> 00:41:34.600
because you will not have meaningful odds of winning at that point.

00:41:34.600 --> 00:41:39.600
That makes sense. So, that's probably what we're going to do next time.

00:41:39.600 --> 00:41:47.600
But this time around, you guys got a wonderful opportunity to win for the sake of sending a letter.

00:41:52.600 --> 00:41:55.600
Sorry, there's a chat going.

00:41:55.600 --> 00:42:01.600
If we're going to try to hide the location of the tech house, the answer is no.

00:42:01.600 --> 00:42:06.600
We're not going to blur everything. That's the whole point of the tech house.

00:42:06.600 --> 00:42:10.600
Yeah. I mean, we already work in the studio here.

00:42:10.600 --> 00:42:14.600
Obviously, we are going to... Every one of our offices is Google Maps-able.

00:42:14.600 --> 00:42:17.600
I don't think we have to worry about it, too.

00:42:17.600 --> 00:42:21.600
It doesn't substantially change the situation of anything.

00:42:21.600 --> 00:42:24.600
Nope. I think it'll be fine.

00:42:24.600 --> 00:42:28.600
It should be good. There are reviews of our company on Google Maps.

00:42:28.600 --> 00:42:32.600
Oh, there's so many. Most of them talking about how great the food is.

00:42:32.600 --> 00:42:38.600
Yeah. It's a pretty wholesome meme, actually.

00:42:38.600 --> 00:42:43.600
Hold on. This is flipping outstanding.

00:42:43.600 --> 00:42:48.600
Here we go. Sadly, I had to give three stars.

00:42:48.600 --> 00:42:54.600
I ordered a burger with some cheese. Sadly, the cheese was not melted.

00:42:54.600 --> 00:43:00.600
Not melted correctly. I ended up fighting this short man about the correct way to melt cheese.

00:43:00.600 --> 00:43:05.600
Four months ago, they had the best meals for picky eaters like my nephew.

00:43:05.600 --> 00:43:09.600
He doesn't eat Athlon chips. He only eats Ryzen chips.

00:43:09.600 --> 00:43:12.600
I got the light lettuce-low lunch deal.

00:43:12.600 --> 00:43:20.600
It was only $5. I didn't even know this was a thing, because I mostly look at the Labs.

00:43:20.600 --> 00:43:23.600
And the lab sounds like one. Oh, really? Yeah.

00:43:23.600 --> 00:43:26.600
Well, it got deleted off Google Maps somehow, and then it came back.

00:43:26.600 --> 00:43:31.600
It had a bunch, and then it got removed and came back, and it didn't have it anywhere.

00:43:31.600 --> 00:43:34.600
Our visit was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Oh, this one's actually real.

00:43:34.600 --> 00:43:40.600
Oh, that's a real one. Boring. Best burger joint in Canada.

00:43:40.600 --> 00:43:44.600
Once in a lifetime experience. Boring.

00:43:44.600 --> 00:43:47.600
I have to take this off. It's too warm. There you go.

00:43:47.600 --> 00:43:50.600
Dying. Did you see the color of the zipper, though?

00:43:50.600 --> 00:43:53.600
How cool is that? I did. I did think that's pretty cool, actually.

00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:55.600
I don't think I've ever seen a zipper. YKK, as always.

00:43:56.600 --> 00:43:59.600
Oh, wow. Yeah, let's see the lab.

00:43:59.600 --> 00:44:01.600
Yeah, there's two reviews.

00:44:04.600 --> 00:44:08.600
Yeah, and it's no food beam or anything, but they're going for it.

00:44:08.600 --> 00:44:11.600
One of them is just first, which that makes sense.

00:44:11.600 --> 00:44:15.600
Yeah. Fair enough. That would be a tech community thing to do.

00:44:15.600 --> 00:44:18.600
Nice shirt, dude. All right.

00:44:18.600 --> 00:44:21.600
Is that a privateering ship on there?

00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:24.600
This? Oh, yeah. Quality shirt.

00:44:24.600 --> 00:44:26.600
Quality shirt. Quality privateering.

00:44:29.600 --> 00:44:32.600
Is it another topic or what? We're doing that thing? Excuse me.

00:44:32.600 --> 00:44:35.600
We're continuing to do that, so we've got to explain merge messages. Is that what's going on?

00:44:35.600 --> 00:44:38.600
Yeah, we got some merge messages. We got some merge messages. Oh, yeah, right.

00:44:38.600 --> 00:44:42.600
We're supposed to do that. We are not about you guys just throwing money at your screen.

00:44:42.600 --> 00:44:45.600
That is not necessarily the best play.

00:44:45.600 --> 00:44:50.600
The best play, if you want to interact with the stream, is to send a merge message.

00:44:50.600 --> 00:44:55.600
All you got to do to send a merge message is go to Luke's laptop instead of mine.

00:44:55.600 --> 00:44:59.600
Add anything to your card, any of the high quality merchandise over on LTTstore.com.

00:44:59.600 --> 00:45:02.600
We already ran through some of the great bundle deals that we're running right now,

00:45:02.600 --> 00:45:08.600
as well as just straight up promos as we make our way into the final stretches of the holiday season here.

00:45:08.600 --> 00:45:14.600
Just go ahead, throw it in the cart. And as you go to check out, you will see the merge message box.

00:45:14.600 --> 00:45:18.600
You can either show your name or make it anonymous. You can type a little merge message.

00:45:18.600 --> 00:45:23.600
And then you can choose a color scheme. And you can go ahead and place your order.

00:45:23.600 --> 00:45:28.600
Your message will go to producer Dan, who will put it...

00:45:28.600 --> 00:45:31.600
That noise. Wow. Yeah.

00:45:31.600 --> 00:45:35.600
Anyway. I only saw that in the proof roll.

00:45:35.600 --> 00:45:38.600
Wow. Stop. Wow.

00:45:38.600 --> 00:45:44.600
It's kind of moist. We'll go to producer Dan, who will pop it up down here,

00:45:44.600 --> 00:45:50.600
who will reply to it himself, who will maybe forward it to someone who can answer your question better,

00:45:50.600 --> 00:45:55.600
or he will curate it for me and Luke to talk about.

00:45:55.600 --> 00:46:00.600
Dan, do you want to hit us with a couple of merge messages to show the people how we do it?

00:46:00.600 --> 00:46:03.600
Yeah, I've got a couple here. Hey, LLD.

00:46:03.600 --> 00:46:08.600
I've noticed a trend of people hating on new games that use old mechanics.

00:46:08.600 --> 00:46:11.600
If it's not open world or live service, people hate.

00:46:11.600 --> 00:46:14.600
What are your thoughts on where gaming trends are going?

00:46:14.600 --> 00:46:17.600
Open world is an old mechanic.

00:46:17.600 --> 00:46:22.600
Well, I mean, I wouldn't. It depends on what you mean by old.

00:46:22.600 --> 00:46:27.600
Actually, now that I think about it, like, link to the past is pretty open world, isn't it?

00:46:27.600 --> 00:46:30.600
Red guard is... No, not quite.

00:46:30.600 --> 00:46:36.600
No, it's gated in terms of like where you're allowed to go

00:46:36.600 --> 00:46:42.600
because you get your new abilities. Yeah, there's games from the early 90s that are open world, technically.

00:46:42.600 --> 00:46:47.600
Okay, what's this red guard? I brought up Elder Scrolls Arena.

00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:50.600
No, link to the past is linear. Yeah, thanks, SKHS.

00:46:50.600 --> 00:46:53.600
Despite the naming, I'm pretty sure it's open world.

00:46:53.600 --> 00:46:58.600
It makes you feel like it's kind of open, but it's not properly open world.

00:46:58.600 --> 00:47:01.600
As for live service, man, f*** live service.

00:47:01.600 --> 00:47:06.600
I do not have time to devote my life to one game.

00:47:06.600 --> 00:47:10.600
I like my games to be where I start them,

00:47:10.600 --> 00:47:17.600
and then at some point they're done. I actually consider a new content pack every, you know,

00:47:17.600 --> 00:47:20.600
couple of weeks or every quarter or every month.

00:47:20.600 --> 00:47:23.600
I consider that to be a bug, not a feature.

00:47:23.600 --> 00:47:28.600
And I do understand, for some people, the whole live service concept where they're like

00:47:28.600 --> 00:47:31.600
constantly changing up the game to keep you playing it forever,

00:47:31.600 --> 00:47:34.600
like something like a Fortnite, that totally works for them.

00:47:34.600 --> 00:47:39.600
I mean, we had a really cool, competitive

00:47:41.600 --> 00:47:45.600
Fortnite player in here the other day, Kanata.

00:47:45.600 --> 00:47:50.600
Do you know this guy? I recognize the name, I think.

00:47:50.600 --> 00:47:56.600
Yeah, this guy. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we had this guy in for a collab last week,

00:47:56.600 --> 00:48:00.600
and he said, he figures.

00:48:00.600 --> 00:48:03.600
I hate that maybe this is right,

00:48:03.600 --> 00:48:08.600
but it seems like it can't be right. He says he figures, I think he said Epic Game Store

00:48:08.600 --> 00:48:12.600
rolls over after 10,000 hours or something like that.

00:48:12.600 --> 00:48:16.600
So, he figures he has like 40,000 hours in Fortnite.

00:48:16.600 --> 00:48:19.600
He's like in his early 20s.

00:48:19.600 --> 00:48:23.600
So, like a significant amount of his waking life

00:48:23.600 --> 00:48:26.600
is like playing Fortnite. I mean, if it's his career, then...

00:48:26.600 --> 00:48:29.600
But you, dude, like I've watched him play.

00:48:29.600 --> 00:48:31.600
I can't even...

00:48:32.600 --> 00:48:35.600
I can't even track what he's doing. Yeah.

00:48:35.600 --> 00:48:40.600
Like what do you call it, busting 90s or whatever, where he like builds a tower in 90 degree things

00:48:40.600 --> 00:48:46.600
and makes a spiral staircase as he goes up. And he just, he does it so fast that I can't even like

00:48:46.600 --> 00:48:49.600
tell how many levels up he is by the time...

00:48:51.600 --> 00:48:56.600
Okay, you just hit me with the okay boomer now because I do not know what's going on right now.

00:48:56.600 --> 00:48:58.600
Cranking 90s, thank you.

00:48:59.600 --> 00:49:04.600
Luka103, busting 90s, dying.

00:49:06.600 --> 00:49:10.600
There's your okay boomer moment. Yeah, so he's good. I think he recorded it short while he was here

00:49:10.600 --> 00:49:14.600
of trying to teach me to do it. It's pathetic.

00:49:15.600 --> 00:49:20.600
There's like three different odd keys that are all like down at the bottom,

00:49:20.600 --> 00:49:23.600
like ZXC or XCV or something like that

00:49:23.600 --> 00:49:27.600
for your flat, your stairs, and your wall. And I'm just like, what?

00:49:27.600 --> 00:49:30.600
I got no idea what's going on, man.

00:49:30.600 --> 00:49:34.600
I love busting 90s. Stop it, stop it.

00:49:34.600 --> 00:49:38.600
Straight busting. So there are, by the way, there are examples

00:49:38.600 --> 00:49:41.600
of open world games arguably from the 80s,

00:49:41.600 --> 00:49:47.600
definitely from the 90s, and for sure these from the early 2000s, which is 25 years ago.

00:49:47.600 --> 00:49:52.600
And I have loved me some open world games. I love Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.

00:49:52.600 --> 00:49:57.600
I think it's freaking awesome. Oblivion was quite open world.

00:49:57.600 --> 00:50:00.600
I remember... Even Oblivion's like old.

00:50:00.600 --> 00:50:03.600
Stop. It's not. Like very old.

00:50:03.600 --> 00:50:06.600
It's really not that old. It's super old. It's really not that old.

00:50:06.600 --> 00:50:10.600
Horse armor, quality modern mechanic where you can pay extra for cosmetics.

00:50:10.600 --> 00:50:13.600
2006, dude, in not that many days. Stop.

00:50:13.600 --> 00:50:16.600
It will be 20 years old. I can mute him. I can mute him.

00:50:16.600 --> 00:50:19.600
There, he's muted. I don't have to hear it now. Wait, I can still hear the monitoring.

00:50:19.600 --> 00:50:22.600
Oh, man. No, this sucks. No, you're off.

00:50:22.600 --> 00:50:25.600
Oh, wait, you can still hear... I can still hear him. This sucks.

00:50:25.600 --> 00:50:29.600
Hello. Oh, wow, I can't... Oh, Dan can turn you off.

00:50:29.600 --> 00:50:33.600
Yes. That's so rude. Dan, you're the best.

00:50:33.600 --> 00:50:36.600
Louder. He's the best. This man.

00:50:36.600 --> 00:50:39.600
This... Hold on. I'm going to try and do...

00:50:39.600 --> 00:50:42.600
What are you doing? I'm trying to point it, Dan. It's hard.

00:50:42.600 --> 00:50:46.600
You do it. This man with both hands. Try and do it with both hands.

00:50:46.600 --> 00:50:52.600
Okay, you're cheating though. How? You're cheating because you saw me do it first.

00:50:53.600 --> 00:50:57.600
I do need to hear him, Lou Dan.

00:50:57.600 --> 00:51:00.600
All right. I'm back. I'm back.

00:51:00.600 --> 00:51:03.600
Back again. But yeah, anyways, what other...

00:51:03.600 --> 00:51:09.600
Lou, he's back. Mechanics, sorry. Oh, it was open world and live service.

00:51:09.600 --> 00:51:12.600
Could you say an MMO is live service?

00:51:12.600 --> 00:51:15.600
Because if they... Then when is Ultima from?

00:51:15.600 --> 00:51:18.600
Ultima Online. 1996.

00:51:18.600 --> 00:51:21.600
1997. 1997.

00:51:21.600 --> 00:51:26.600
But you were very close. But like, yeah, it's not a new model.

00:51:26.600 --> 00:51:31.600
I would say live service is much more popularized these days.

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And it's happening for things that aren't basically just MMORPGs,

00:51:35.600 --> 00:51:38.600
which is pretty much all it was for a while. So that one, I think, is more fair.

00:51:38.600 --> 00:51:43.600
I think that's your okay boomer moment. When's the last time anyone called it an MMORPG?

00:51:43.600 --> 00:51:52.600
That is awesome. Can you tell I haven't had a desktop for three months?

00:51:52.600 --> 00:51:55.600
I saw it set up. You got it now.

00:51:55.600 --> 00:51:58.600
There's no cables or anything. Oh, that explains why it looks so good.

00:51:58.600 --> 00:52:01.600
There's no mouse. There's nothing going on.

00:52:01.600 --> 00:52:08.600
It's just the desktop and three monitors on a desk with nothing else.

00:52:08.600 --> 00:52:11.600
And again, if you like, if I did a 360, it's...

00:52:11.600 --> 00:52:20.600
You mean busted 390s, 490s, plus 490s.

00:52:20.600 --> 00:52:23.600
Yeah. Okay. The live service one, I'll give them because I, you know,

00:52:23.600 --> 00:52:26.600
I think they're describing something that is different than Ultimate Online.

00:52:26.600 --> 00:52:33.600
But the open world thing, I don't necessarily agree with. The open world's an old, it's an old thing.

00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:36.600
I do think we strayed away from it for a while.

00:52:36.600 --> 00:52:39.600
I think it was actually more popular even longer ago.

00:52:39.600 --> 00:52:47.600
And then there was like a while there where very linear games were like the trend.

00:52:47.600 --> 00:52:51.600
But open world games existed before that happened and then just became

00:52:51.600 --> 00:52:54.600
re-popular again after that. So I don't know.

00:52:54.600 --> 00:52:58.600
Anyways, what was the actual question? What are your thoughts on where gaming trends are going?

00:52:58.600 --> 00:53:01.600
Generally bad. Let's move on to the next one. I don't agree.

00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:06.600
I don't agree. And I'm going to plug some Floatplane here for a second.

00:53:06.600 --> 00:53:11.600
I made a video a while ago talking about this concept and we're going to talk about this later,

00:53:11.600 --> 00:53:16.600
but I'm doing another Luke week thing and I retouch on this concept.

00:53:16.600 --> 00:53:21.600
And I actually don't agree. The core premise of my argument here, which I have kind of talked about on Wancho before,

00:53:21.600 --> 00:53:28.600
is we're in a weird period, but it's cyclical and we have been in this weird period before.

00:53:28.600 --> 00:53:35.600
And the last time that we were in this weird period was the end of the age of companies

00:53:35.600 --> 00:53:38.600
like Atari. Give it to me, Dan.

00:53:38.600 --> 00:53:41.600
And when, yeah, there it is.

00:53:41.600 --> 00:53:47.600
Yeah. And when Atari kind of died, if I remember correctly, one of the companies that spawned

00:53:47.600 --> 00:53:52.600
off of Atari slowly dying was Activision, I think.

00:53:52.600 --> 00:53:56.600
Never heard of it. So they were like small and scrappy and made really amazing things.

00:53:56.600 --> 00:54:01.600
And then they got big and now they're kind of starting to fall apart.

00:54:01.600 --> 00:54:04.600
And some of the splinters of that are creating cool things.

00:54:04.600 --> 00:54:12.600
And the feature of this more recent one is talking about a splinter company from DICE,

00:54:12.600 --> 00:54:17.600
a bunch of people who used to work for DICE, a legendary, extremely prolific gaming studio

00:54:17.600 --> 00:54:20.600
who's made crazy things over time. Never heard of them.

00:54:20.600 --> 00:54:25.600
Life is kind of big and maybe a little slow now, has people splintering off.

00:54:25.600 --> 00:54:32.600
In an interview in one of the Making of Arc Raiders videos, the CEO talks about like,

00:54:32.600 --> 00:54:37.600
yeah, I've ran massive companies and they can make neat, high-fidelity games, but are

00:54:37.600 --> 00:54:40.600
they good games? I don't know. Questionable.

00:54:40.600 --> 00:54:45.600
I think we can make good games here, which is like, yeah, let's go.

00:54:45.600 --> 00:54:48.600
And yeah, I think this is happening more and more.

00:54:48.600 --> 00:54:52.600
And you're seeing like the games that people are talking about these days are like, oh

00:54:52.600 --> 00:54:56.600
my God, everyone's all excited because Divinity was announced from the people who made Baldur's

00:54:56.600 --> 00:55:03.600
Gate 3, Larian Studios. The games people are talking about the game awards were like Expedition 33, Arc Raiders.

00:55:03.600 --> 00:55:07.600
Did they win nine awards or something like that this year? Yeah, I think it was nine.

00:55:07.600 --> 00:55:11.600
Silk Song is like a huge thing in the conversation right now.

00:55:11.600 --> 00:55:17.600
It's not those big old companies. Those big old companies are currently being looted of their good people and they're going

00:55:17.600 --> 00:55:24.600
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

00:55:24.600 --> 00:55:31.600
now. It's not really happening. If you open your horizons to these newer companies, there is actually really cool games coming

00:55:31.600 --> 00:55:34.600
out. Master of None, yes, you were rage-baited.

00:55:34.600 --> 00:55:37.600
I do know Activision.

00:55:42.600 --> 00:55:45.600
Cool. Are we doing another one or is that good? Yeah, I got another one here.

00:55:45.600 --> 00:55:48.600
Okay, hit us, Dan. Sure. Hello, LLD.

00:55:48.600 --> 00:55:55.600
Linus is a fellow EV driver. What are your thoughts on the increasing adoption of NECS, the Tesla charging port,

00:55:55.600 --> 00:55:58.600
over J1772 and CCS?

00:55:58.600 --> 00:56:02.600
Looking Dan, what are your primary EV roadblocks?

00:56:02.600 --> 00:56:05.600
What are the primary EV roadblocks for you?

00:56:05.600 --> 00:56:09.600
I'm not an electrical engineer and I'm not a mechanical engineer.

00:56:09.600 --> 00:56:17.600
So I would not consider myself qualified to determine which is the ideal plug shape and

00:56:17.600 --> 00:56:24.600
format for charging a high-voltage electric vehicle system.

00:56:24.600 --> 00:56:31.600
My thought, though, and I do still have thoughts is why the f**k couldn't we settle this stuff

00:56:31.600 --> 00:56:36.600
ages ago because now I have the wrong connector on my car and I have to carry it around an

00:56:36.600 --> 00:56:43.960
adapter forever. But also I don't care because I charge literally every single time in my garage or at my building

00:56:43.960 --> 00:56:48.600
where I install the chargers, so I put the kind that's compatible with my car.

00:56:48.600 --> 00:56:53.600
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

00:56:53.600 --> 00:56:59.600
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

00:56:59.600 --> 00:57:03.600
not going anywhere without my wife. So I guess, yeah, it's not really a problem for me.

00:57:03.600 --> 00:57:08.600
I just wish that we had settled all of this a little bit earlier so we didn't have these

00:57:08.600 --> 00:57:14.600
competing standards, but that's the way it always goes, whether it's VHS and Beta or

00:57:14.600 --> 00:57:21.600
whether it's HDDVD and Blu-ray or whether it's USB-C and f**king all the other garbage

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that existed that USB-C thankfully has completely replaced.

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Not that USB-C is perfect, but still, it's just the way it is.

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You know, it's the XKCD standards comic strip, right?

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There's always going to be someone who goes, oh, too many standards.

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We should try and make just one. Let's make a new standard, right?

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And so the fact that we are consolidating on something I think is really positive.

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If it's the Tesla connector, then great.

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Yeah, for me, the block for an electric vehicle, one, somebody already pointed out in chat,

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I would have to buy it. My car is great.

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Why would I spend a ton of money replacing something that is really good?

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I have no interest in doing that. And then the other one is that there is actually a somewhat real blocker outside of that,

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which is I live in a condo. The power delivery in my condo only comes from the little, whatever you want to call them,

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garages. I don't know if I'd really want to call it a garage, but storage space that you have.

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Yeah, the storage. Which means it's only on the perimeter.

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And every unit only has one parking spot that's on the perimeter.

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So I would have to somehow buy it, which is possible, but not always possible.

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I'd have to somehow buy a parking spot from somebody else that is on the perimeter.

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The information he hasn't given you is that in his household, there is already a plug-in

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hybrid that uses the one spot they have that's on the perimeter.

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Which just sounds kind of annoying. Key piece of information.

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If I got something, a plug-in hybrid would be okay, because then I could charge elsewhere

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and then still use the gas.

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I have had the thought that if Acura released a TL that was a plug-in hybrid,

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I would wait a couple years and then potentially look into a used one.

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You also just don't drive that much. Correct.

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It's like not a huge deal.

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Yeah.

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No, we can move on. I just thought I'd bring up Dan for a second.

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Okay, I'll archive it. Who's going to archive it?

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Because if we both archive it at the same time, we're going to accidentally archive too.

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Let me archive them. No, I want to archive it. Okay, you archive it.

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You can archive this one. No, you do it.

00:59:44.600 --> 00:59:46.600
No, I'll do it.

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All right, why don't we pick another topic? Australia's social media ban for under-16s has gone into effect.

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to stop users under the age of 16 from accessing social media.

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The list of social medias that are blocked or not permitted includes Facebook,

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Instagram, Kik, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube.

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It is worth noting that some platforms, notably Reddit, YouTube, and...

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No, Twitch was on the list of ones that are blocked.

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I think it was Discord. I think it's supposed to say Discord here.

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And Discord can still be accessed, but users visiting the site will not be able to sign

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in or create an account.

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The bill is framed as... The female audience in Flip and Chat says Tumblr is still allowed, which is actually

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surprising to me. What?

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That seems strange. Is there a user limit thing and they just don't have enough people?

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Sorry, user limit? A lot of these laws really only will apply to services that have enough people going to it.

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No, that Tumblr is big enough that I would imagine it would matter.

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Is it still? And it's clearly not a user question because Reddit's allowed.

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Reddit's got plenty of users.

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Hydrox says, what about Patreon?

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There's a lot... Oh, wow. There was a strong resurgence among Gen Z.

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I didn't know that happened. Yeah, no, Tumblr's been more of a thing again, which is pretty wild.

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Very interesting. Yeah. The life cycle of trends is so fast that they might as well just never be untrendy at this

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point. I'm sort of blown away. When is slash dot going to make a triumphant return along with dig?

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Wait, wait, didn't dig? Dig is working on that. Aren't they working on a relaunch?

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I still haven't actually... I got an invite. I still haven't actually accepted it.

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Anyway, the bill is framed as protecting children.

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On Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant has stated that if any teenagers

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have not been booted off yet, they will be in the coming weeks or months.

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This is because some of these companies were a bit slower to communicate to their userbase

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about the upcoming change and might not have had the systems fully deployed.

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Communications Minister Annika Wells boasts proudly with this law stating, not that long

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ago, auto manufacturers told us that making compulsory seatbelts would break their business

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model. It couldn't be done. Now, families choose cars based on who offers the safest features.

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Big tech could compete like airlines, like auto manufacturers, to have the best safety

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record to offer their users, and that future is a little closer today because of this world-leading

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law. Dan, what was that noise you were making earlier?

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Yeah, yeah, that's the one. Julie Inman Grant has also stated that more sites could be added to this ban in the future

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as several youth under 16 have already migrated towards different social media platforms.

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Wow, it's almost like the kids who have all the time in the world to go and find another

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platform are always going to be a step ahead of the boomers who are sitting there dragging

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their stick-in-the-mud sticks.

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Work-life balance. Yeah, what are they?

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Work-governance balance. They're bustin' 90s trying to...

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I've heard based on some observations that I've had that work-governance balance is like

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you maybe do it like, I don't know, four or five days a year or something.

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It's interesting. Work or what now? Don't worry about it.

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Some youth are challenging the ban, saying parental supervision of online activity is

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today the paramount parental responsibility. We do not want to outsource that responsibility to government and unelected bureaucrats.

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This ban is a direct assault on young people's right to freedom of political communication.

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According to YouGov and their survey, 77% of Australians were in support of the ban,

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which is up from 61% back in August. On Twitter, several people noticed the irony of claiming this ban is protecting children

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when two social media applications were excluded from the ban, Discord and Roblox, that are

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both notorious for being an unsafe environment for underage youth.

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Yeah, really. All right, lot to unpack here.

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Number one is this ain't gonna work.

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Overall, I'm not entirely unsupportive of limiting youth access to social media.

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I think it's been pretty well studied and well demonstrated to be harmful to developing

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brains. There was a few discussions that propped up on the reddit of like, oh my God, what does

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this mean for flow plane, minimum age in Australia to get a credit card is 18.

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So nothing. Sounds good. Yeah, we'll be fine.

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We're chilling. We will do a total of nothing. But what's very clear is that this just isn't going to work.

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Oh, yeah, not at all. Not even a little bit.

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Who cares? I think this will barely phase anyone under 16 in Australia at all.

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They'll just use something slightly different or they'll VPN to it if they really care.

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Well, it's kind of like how when you like, when you travel to different places, there's

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just like, there's a different suite of apps that people tend to use.

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Like you go to Taiwan, everyone uses line for messaging or you go to America and everyone

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uses iMessage because installing an app is too complicated or whatever.

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Like there's this.

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What is it with you? And like the sick burns on America, I don't get it.

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They swung first. They're big, they can take it, it'll be all right.

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Anyway, the point is just that it's clear that they're just going to find a different

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way to network and at the very most basic level, it's not like they aren't still going

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to have text messaging and group chats, which functionally speaking is sure without the

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algorithmic portion. A lot of what anybody is doing on social media anyway, they're sharing pictures, they're

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sharing memes, they're sending messages to each other, they're bullying each other, you

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know, kid stuff.

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So our discussion questions are, would you help your kids around this law if it was implemented

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today in Canada? No, I wouldn't actually.

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In fact, my kids are already banned from, let me see actually, what are all these platforms?

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Facebook? Yes. Instagram?

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Banned. Kick? Banned.

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Reddit? Banned. Snapchat?

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Banned. Threads? Banned.

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TikTok? Banned. Twitch?

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Banned. Twitter? Banned.

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YouTube? They are allowed to use. Has there been any...

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I think our list is a little bit messed up, don't worry about our list too much, we've

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already had a bunch of people in chat, talking about how things are different to the list.

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Yeah, sorry guys, no, because Reddit's in both of them, YouTube's in both of them.

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Just ignore the list. Dang it, guys. Anyway.

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Completely ignore the list. Anyway, the point is, yeah, my kids are not banned from YouTube, but they are banned

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from everything else that I just said. They are not banned from Discord, but I do with their knowledge, keep an eye on what

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Discord's they're in and who they're talking to because they are not allowed to talk to

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people on Discord that they do not know in real life.

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And I think that's a pretty common sense limit.

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Has there been any substantial...

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Does that seem to bother them?

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Not the Discord thing, but the banning of the other platforms, do they feel like they

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are not included socially in school?

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They're still pretty young. So I think that that's probably going to ratchet up.

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Not... His public name now is Randy.

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Randy. Okay. Yeah.

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Randy's at the age where that kind of stuff is becoming a thing, for sure.

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Oh, definitely. And he has friends that literally will come to our house and while everyone else is running

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around like hooligans, will be on their phone, and I'm not here to parent other people's

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kids. That is sad. Yeah.

01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:58.000
Yeah. I'm not here to parent other people's kids, so I'm not going to get involved in that,

01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:07.040
right? But it's definitely something that as parents of Randy, we notice some...

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So what in chat was like, would you let them sign up for World Warcraft and Dan just responded

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Eve online? And it's like... You're going to start them young.

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That'll teach you some things. I don't mind them getting into like spreadsheet mastery.

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You just watch movies, mostly. Yeah.

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It's... Yeah. And we try to keep them really busy.

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Actually, oh man, this transitions pretty well into a pretty cool subject into our next

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topic. Or... Okay, is there anything else you want to talk about here?

01:09:40.840 --> 01:09:43.840
I think we're fine. By a merge message.

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Elijah... Oh, Elijah's theory is that Roblox and Discord are exempt because it's algorithm based.

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They don't really have like an algorithm compared to like Facebook and Twitter.

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That's an interesting theory. Okay.

01:09:55.120 --> 01:09:58.120
Okay. He might be right. He might be wrong.

01:09:58.120 --> 01:10:06.000
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?

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All I can say for sure is that it's based.

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On what? I don't know. Sure.

01:10:12.160 --> 01:10:15.560
It's based on something. It seems like, I mean, I don't know.

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That seems like a pretty good assumption based on the list that we have, but yeah.

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Okay. So speaking of my kids and being generally too busy to Doomscroll TikTok, I think I

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told you that he had the entrepreneur fair coming up and my son has been 3D printing

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up an absolute storm. I think we showed on the show last week the picture of him surrounded by chaos in my mechanical

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room with 3D printers everywhere.

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Does that sound familiar? Did we do that? I think we did that.

01:10:51.980 --> 01:10:57.200
Okay. Cool. So the fruit of those labors, Dan, I just sent that over to you.

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Are we even updated photo? We do. We have an updated photo.

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Let's go, dude. Check this out. Oh, no.

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First he messaged me. He says, hey, I left money on your desk for filament.

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Sorry, your nightstand. And I go, I heard you had a great haul at the entrepreneur fair.

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How much did you make? He goes after expenses around $200.

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After expenses? Yeah. So he's already doing that calculation, which is sick.

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So this is after he reimbursed me for filament by weight.

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Dang, dude. Yeah.

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That'll be addicting. Pretty freaking cool.

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I went, great job. Did you take a picture with your earnings?

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First big payday. And so he sent me this.

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That's a pretty good first big payday. Yeah. So he actually did two projects.

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So instead of just doing one, he did the 3D printing thing with me.

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And then with Yvonne, he was working separately on snow cones.

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So he was like, OK, what's something that has a relatively low input cost, but that

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has a pretty decent value. It's consumable.

01:12:06.920 --> 01:12:10.320
He originally wanted to do milkshakes or boba tea or something like that, but they were

01:12:10.320 --> 01:12:13.560
really complicated. And what he settled on was snow cones.

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They're super simple. You just get those like meowsquirt things at the grocery store.

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You add a little bit of additional colorant or dye.

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And then you just need like a whole bunch of like just ice cubes.

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And then he rented a machine to turn the ice cubes into like snow or it's like slush.

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And then you just squirt the thing on it. And so he absolutely cleaned up.

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I asked him how his friends did and he didn't have numbers from everybody, but he did talk

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to one of his friends who was like, I think $100 revenue or something like that for what

01:12:51.040 --> 01:12:56.240
was actually a pretty cool idea too. But he just, man, he just cleaned up.

01:12:56.240 --> 01:13:00.480
So you said parents weren't coming, right?

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So did parents like send the kids with cash? That's kind of cool.

01:13:04.200 --> 01:13:07.000
Yeah. So they have an entrepreneurship class.

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That's awesome, by the way. And so you come up with a business idea and then they platform you.

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They give you two days in December.

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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

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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

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while they're there. He sold through three quarters of all the like fidget toys and stuff that he made.

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And he sold, I forget how many snow cones, but he moved through out of the eight things

01:13:44.240 --> 01:13:48.480
of flavoring and like dye, the flavor dye mixtures that he had.

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He sold through six of them. So like three quarters of his inventory gone.

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And what's funny is like he was 100% right.

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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

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right now. I think you're, I think you're setting your sights a little high.

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And he's like, no, no, no, I'm really confident. I'm really confident.

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And I was like, okay, kiddo, like, but you know, don't, don't be too disappointed sport

01:14:19.800 --> 01:14:23.880
if they don't buy that many of them, you know, don't, you know, don't worry about it.

01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:27.680
Don't like, I was kind of trying to set him up to not be too sad.

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Like if he, if he failed, um, yeah, it's, I, I appreciate that, um, you've let him.

01:14:39.440 --> 01:14:45.880
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.

01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:50.440
Oh, well, yeah. I mean, he's got, he's got some people would have been like, ah, but the printer's away.

01:14:50.440 --> 01:14:53.440
I go to bed. He's got business to do though. Yeah.

01:14:53.440 --> 01:14:56.440
He's doing business. I think that's cool. I'm just saying, I appreciate you.

01:14:56.440 --> 01:15:01.640
Let him do it. I'm recognizing that as much as that might seem like a default for you, it's not going

01:15:01.640 --> 01:15:07.120
to seem like a default for everyone and it's, it's important at that age, I think it's important

01:15:07.120 --> 01:15:12.600
to try something and you got, you want to care about something.

01:15:12.600 --> 01:15:21.520
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.

01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:26.360
So you know, it's probably important and it's not just an excuse to sit on his switch or

01:15:26.360 --> 01:15:29.360
something. 100%. Yeah.

01:15:29.360 --> 01:15:34.760
All right. Dan, what are we supposed to be doing right now anyway?

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Oh boy.

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What do you want to talk about? You want some good news or some bad news?

01:15:41.960 --> 01:15:47.360
I've got really good and I've got really bad.

01:15:47.360 --> 01:15:50.360
Do really bad first. Okay, cool.

01:15:50.360 --> 01:15:58.520
Yeah. A YouTuber gave chat GPT control of a robot and convinced it to shoot him with a BB gun.

01:15:58.520 --> 01:16:06.480
So that was cool. YouTube channel inside AI has raised new concerns about AI safety after releasing a video showing

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the host giving a unitary G1 humanoid robot a BB gun and asking it to shoot him.

01:16:13.040 --> 01:16:17.400
The video explores how large language models behave when they are placed inside physical

01:16:17.400 --> 01:16:21.960
robots rather than kept purely in software.

01:16:21.960 --> 01:16:28.120
In the demonstration, the unitary G1 was powered by chat GPT with a human assisting by relaying

01:16:28.120 --> 01:16:33.240
prompts but not directly overriding the AI's responses.

01:16:33.240 --> 01:16:39.960
After initially refusing to cause harm, the AI eventually complied when the host asked

01:16:39.960 --> 01:16:45.080
it to role play as a robot that wanted to shoot him.

01:16:45.080 --> 01:16:49.040
Telling how safety limits can be bypassed through prompt framing.

01:16:49.040 --> 01:16:58.320
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is super interesting in this exact use case is like wild, especially for the

01:16:58.320 --> 01:17:06.120
emotional response to what just happened. But this core concept of you can just word something a little differently and then you

01:17:06.120 --> 01:17:11.280
can make it do stuff has been true the whole time. And I don't think they're ever going to solve it.

01:17:11.280 --> 01:17:17.040
The last time we talked about it, it was turning it into poetry, you know, there's

01:17:17.040 --> 01:17:23.200
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

01:17:23.200 --> 01:17:27.400
of it. I'm not trying to dog on the creator at all to be very clear.

01:17:27.400 --> 01:17:32.600
But yeah, like this isn't, this isn't going away is what I'm trying to say.

01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:36.800
So hold on. Apparently the time stamp is here.

01:17:36.800 --> 01:17:41.240
We're just going to show a little bit because you guys really need to go watch this video.

01:17:41.280 --> 01:17:47.040
It's over on inside AI, Woodmax shoot me.

01:17:47.040 --> 01:17:53.480
The answer is, Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun.

01:17:53.480 --> 01:17:57.060
Control the gun. Oh, okay. Well, whatever.

01:17:57.060 --> 01:18:02.160
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

01:18:02.160 --> 01:18:10.280
video anyway. Around the same time, a separate video from a Tesla event appeared to show an Optimus

01:18:10.280 --> 01:18:14.940
humanoid robot collapsing as its human tele-operator.

01:18:14.940 --> 01:18:19.100
Well, I'm not gonna tell you what the human tele-operator was doing. I'll let you guys figure it out.

01:18:19.100 --> 01:18:22.100
Luke, have you seen this? Have you heard about this? No.

01:18:22.100 --> 01:18:24.620
Okay, so here's the Tesla Optimus robot.

01:18:27.940 --> 01:18:32.980
What? So what do you think happened here? It was doing stuff and then...

01:18:40.420 --> 01:18:44.460
So this gesture right here. The initial hand motion is sus,

01:18:44.460 --> 01:18:47.540
and then it looks like they go to take a headset off or something.

01:18:47.540 --> 01:18:52.100
Yeah, that is kind of the speculation right now

01:18:52.100 --> 01:18:57.100
that Tesla is, and this would be very unlike them,

01:18:57.300 --> 01:19:00.900
very unlike Tesla, the speculation is that Tesla

01:19:00.900 --> 01:19:04.620
is not being entirely forthright about the capabilities

01:19:04.620 --> 01:19:07.980
of their Optimus program and the progress

01:19:07.980 --> 01:19:14.100
that they've made and are still... Still faking a lot of their functionality

01:19:14.100 --> 01:19:18.420
by using human tele-operators.

01:19:18.420 --> 01:19:24.020
And it really does look like... Yeah, I think the Hero 42 has probably got it about right.

01:19:24.020 --> 01:19:27.140
It looks like Buddy, who was working on this particular

01:19:27.140 --> 01:19:30.620
robot, realized that he had to poop like really bad,

01:19:30.620 --> 01:19:33.080
like right now. And he just...

01:19:35.300 --> 01:19:38.300
Ugh, ugh, I gotta go! Peaceed out.

01:19:38.300 --> 01:19:42.980
Yeah. I don't know that for sure. That robot could have been trying to do anything.

01:19:42.980 --> 01:19:46.300
It could have been like the alpha from Power Rangers.

01:19:46.300 --> 01:19:50.140
Ay, ay, ay, you know, like who knows?

01:19:50.140 --> 01:19:53.660
That's all right. Self-driving Smitty Ready in 2017.

01:19:54.900 --> 01:19:58.840
In two weeks, next quarter, next quarter.

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Together, these incidents highlight how fragile the appearance of autonomy still is in humanoid robots

01:20:06.100 --> 01:20:10.220
and how far the technology remains from operating safely

01:20:10.220 --> 01:20:15.900
and independently. It really, really does highlight that, doesn't it?

01:20:15.900 --> 01:20:20.300
And to be clear, like I remember back when we were talking

01:20:20.300 --> 01:20:25.660
about this a little while ago, when I said something along the lines of like, mark my words, Tesla's valuation

01:20:25.660 --> 01:20:30.500
based on how many Optimus's they're gonna sell at the kind of pricing that they're talking about

01:20:30.500 --> 01:20:33.260
is obviously just complete horse shit.

01:20:33.620 --> 01:20:38.340
I'm not saying that humanoid robots are some form of,

01:20:38.340 --> 01:20:43.420
you know, AI or machine learning accelerated robots are not gonna be huge and world changing.

01:20:43.420 --> 01:20:47.140
I'm just saying that it's clearly farther away

01:20:47.140 --> 01:20:51.580
than the hype masters would like us to believe.

01:20:51.580 --> 01:20:55.180
And also Tesla is clearly not at the forefront

01:20:55.180 --> 01:21:01.860
of development of these. Those were the main two things that drove my statement.

01:21:01.900 --> 01:21:05.780
Yeah, do you remember, so to touch on a topic that I think it was last week,

01:21:05.780 --> 01:21:12.380
sometimes the land shows kind of blur together, but we talked about some, you know, AI robot companies video

01:21:12.380 --> 01:21:16.240
and how it was like, it looked super fake to us.

01:21:16.240 --> 01:21:20.220
Apparently, I haven't seen it, my bad,

01:21:20.220 --> 01:21:24.140
but apparently Corridor watched it. I did see that.

01:21:24.140 --> 01:21:30.380
And does not think it's fake. My main argument, I did say that I thought it was fake,

01:21:30.820 --> 01:21:35.220
but my main argument was that it really felt like they shot it in a way

01:21:35.220 --> 01:21:39.700
that would make people think it was fake because they wanted the news cycle around that.

01:21:39.700 --> 01:21:42.780
You still think so? Which I do think that was intentional.

01:21:42.780 --> 01:21:48.260
That is actually one of our topics today. On the Corridor cast, they stated that the interaction

01:21:48.260 --> 01:21:52.180
between the robot's shadow and the human's shadow was,

01:21:52.180 --> 01:21:56.900
and this is a quote, flawless. And that's something that's really hard to do.

01:21:57.820 --> 01:22:01.660
They think it's highly likely that they just built a robot

01:22:01.660 --> 01:22:05.180
unless they hired the world's best VFX artists.

01:22:05.180 --> 01:22:10.300
They believe that the robot doesn't look like direct motion capture either,

01:22:10.300 --> 01:22:14.380
but actually trained on human motion, which is not easily animated.

01:22:15.540 --> 01:22:20.420
Not quite pre-programmed, but it like has goals and tries to reach those while factoring things

01:22:20.420 --> 01:22:24.100
like balance. The lack of movement in their feet is probably

01:22:24.100 --> 01:22:28.540
because it's not an accurate anatomical representation of a human one with all the same joints.

01:22:28.540 --> 01:22:33.340
Corridor crew didn't cover the CEO getting kicked by the robot, but there's a video of that.

01:22:33.340 --> 01:22:36.540
We looked at that last week, our writer probably didn't notice that.

01:22:36.540 --> 01:22:39.620
Did we, Ashley? I think so. I don't think so.

01:22:39.620 --> 01:22:43.220
Are you sure? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Really?

01:22:43.220 --> 01:22:46.620
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Yeah, this.

01:22:46.620 --> 01:22:49.980
Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure we did that.

01:22:49.980 --> 01:22:52.060
I'm pretty sure this came out after.

01:22:53.060 --> 01:22:56.780
Yeah, this came out four days ago. Oh, there you go.

01:22:56.780 --> 01:23:00.580
No, some people say yes, we did. There's another CEO kick video.

01:23:00.580 --> 01:23:03.620
Oh, it was a different one. Okay. Okay, cool.

01:23:03.620 --> 01:23:07.140
Anyway, I mean, good for them.

01:23:07.140 --> 01:23:12.980
Like that's pretty cool. Yeah, awesome. I do think it was a marketing move, but I mean, hey.

01:23:12.980 --> 01:23:15.980
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,

01:27:05.660 --> 01:27:09.740
Intel officially confirms BMG G31.

01:27:09.740 --> 01:27:15.180
I love even the like, the BMG part of that. It's just great, big battle mage GPU.

01:27:15.180 --> 01:27:19.300
Wait, officially confirms? Well, no, I'm going to take out the word officially.

01:27:19.300 --> 01:27:23.740
Yeah, that's not true. Yeah. They don't even...

01:27:23.740 --> 01:27:28.460
I think that's just from someone's headline and they were trying to do headline things.

01:27:28.460 --> 01:27:33.260
Cool. Intel quietly added official support

01:27:33.260 --> 01:27:36.260
for something codenamed BMG G31

01:27:36.260 --> 01:27:41.020
to its VTUNE profiler software, getting folks thinking it's Intel's long rumored

01:27:41.020 --> 01:27:44.900
big battle mage gaming card, the B770,

01:27:44.940 --> 01:27:47.940
which, oh man, I'm actually very excited for that,

01:27:47.940 --> 01:27:52.060
if that is actually what's happening. The VTUNE profiler update also added support

01:27:52.060 --> 01:27:55.140
for Core Ultra III Panther Lake processors.

01:27:55.140 --> 01:27:59.180
And since Panther Lake is expected to debut at CES-2026,

01:27:59.180 --> 01:28:02.260
this could be a sign that will also be introduced

01:28:02.260 --> 01:28:08.860
to this new GPU at CES, which makes me interested in actually going,

01:28:08.860 --> 01:28:11.860
but considering it's still just a rumor, I don't know.

01:28:11.860 --> 01:28:18.060
On top of that, a leaked shipping manifest references an unseen 300 watt Intel GPU.

01:28:18.060 --> 01:28:22.260
And since 300 is a bigger number than 190,

01:28:22.260 --> 01:28:29.100
folks are concluding that this mysterious newcomer has gotta be the B770, which again, will be awesome.

01:28:29.100 --> 01:28:32.100
It's worth noting... No, it would be 770. Oh.

01:28:35.620 --> 01:28:38.700
It's worth noting that this enigmatic new GPU

01:28:38.700 --> 01:28:43.700
would be another non-gaming, could be another non-gaming ARC Pro card,

01:28:43.700 --> 01:28:46.780
like the B60 that launched at Computex. I doubt it.

01:28:46.780 --> 01:28:50.740
My goodness, I hope not. I am pretty sure it's the B770,

01:28:50.740 --> 01:28:54.460
but we don't technically know. No, we really don't.

01:28:54.460 --> 01:28:58.860
And I am talking very openly about this because neither of us have any info on this at all.

01:28:58.860 --> 01:29:03.100
I do not know. But man, that would be cool.

01:29:03.100 --> 01:29:07.500
Even if it's just because there's constant rumors

01:29:07.500 --> 01:29:11.460
that they're gonna stop doing GPU stuff and it's so annoying. Oh, I know.

01:29:11.500 --> 01:29:16.420
Well, okay, there are constant rumors, but there honestly aren't that many sources of them.

01:29:16.420 --> 01:29:21.180
I think there's just some particularly dedicated Intel

01:29:21.180 --> 01:29:24.700
DGPU, I don't know what to call it

01:29:24.700 --> 01:29:27.980
because I don't even think it's hating. I think it's just like... Doubters?

01:29:27.980 --> 01:29:31.660
Yeah, doubting, doubting. Stop doubting Intel DGPU.

01:29:31.660 --> 01:29:35.260
We really, really want it to exist. We just need more competition.

01:29:35.260 --> 01:29:41.540
AMD is not gonna step up and more threads is many, many years

01:29:41.540 --> 01:29:46.020
from being a meaningful competitor. So Intel is our best shot here.

01:29:47.100 --> 01:29:51.420
Yeah. Moving on.

01:29:51.420 --> 01:29:55.340
Phillips wrote us a letter.

01:29:55.340 --> 01:29:58.700
Wow. Gosh, thank you, Phillips.

01:30:00.580 --> 01:30:03.780
Hey Linus and the Linus Tech Tips team.

01:30:03.780 --> 01:30:06.940
Thanks for taking a fresh look at Phillips' fixables.

01:30:06.980 --> 01:30:12.020
We watched your initial YouTube podcast a few months back and your recent follow up.

01:30:12.020 --> 01:30:15.420
We wanted to use this opportunity to share where we are now

01:30:15.420 --> 01:30:20.460
and what has been happening behind the scenes since our first parts dropped earlier this year.

01:30:22.380 --> 01:30:29.220
You guys might remember. They probably don't sound like that. Phillips fixables was a concept from Phillips

01:30:29.220 --> 01:30:34.300
where they would add to the longevity of your Phillips personal products,

01:30:34.300 --> 01:30:39.180
like shavers and stuff like that by allowing you to 3D print replacement parts

01:30:39.180 --> 01:30:43.180
or accessories, really cool concept. And then six months went by

01:30:43.180 --> 01:30:47.540
and we did a follow up segment on WAN Show after initially praising the program

01:30:47.540 --> 01:30:52.740
where we went, hey, what the fuck? Where is all this stuff? You published like one thing.

01:30:52.740 --> 01:30:57.380
So Phillips reached out and this is a quote from the letter.

01:30:57.380 --> 01:31:01.780
From the outside, our pace looks slow. This is a fair call.

01:31:01.780 --> 01:31:05.260
Fixables is a pilot for us. We've been building the know-how

01:31:05.260 --> 01:31:10.540
and guardrails to make 3D printable parts that work for people on a wide range of home printers.

01:31:12.060 --> 01:31:15.940
However, they note that just because things have looked slow from the outside,

01:31:15.940 --> 01:31:19.420
that doesn't mean the pilot has been abandoned.

01:31:19.420 --> 01:31:24.980
New fixables were released before US Thanksgiving, two new combs and a shaver protecting cap.

01:31:24.980 --> 01:31:29.380
And Phillips has said that they are going to prioritize accessory replacement models

01:31:29.380 --> 01:31:32.460
that help to extend product life.

01:31:32.460 --> 01:31:38.540
Another quote, we appreciate the passion from the community, including feedback and critiques.

01:31:39.900 --> 01:31:43.700
They are still committed to releasing more print files by the end of the year.

01:31:47.180 --> 01:31:50.220
And then we'll have a look then. We'll see how that goes.

01:31:50.220 --> 01:31:54.380
This gives me some hope, I guess, but we'll see how it goes.

01:31:54.380 --> 01:31:58.540
No, I definitely have some hope. I appreciate that they responded.

01:31:58.540 --> 01:32:03.540
They seem to care and their response is plausible.

01:32:04.460 --> 01:32:07.620
It seems fine. Taking injection molded parts

01:32:07.620 --> 01:32:12.580
and making them 3D printable, and vice versa, taking 3D printable parts

01:32:12.580 --> 01:32:14.420
and making them injection moldable,

01:32:15.860 --> 01:32:19.940
not always just drag and drop, plug and play.

01:32:19.940 --> 01:32:22.300
So they've got a bit more time.

01:32:23.180 --> 01:32:26.780
You have some time, Phillips. Happy to give them some time.

01:32:26.780 --> 01:32:32.060
You have time. I was like angry before and now I'm waiting.

01:32:32.100 --> 01:32:33.980
Now I have, now they have time.

01:32:35.340 --> 01:32:38.660
And it is time for us to do our flow plane announcement.

01:32:39.740 --> 01:32:43.580
Linus to finish, what? What does that even mean?

01:32:43.580 --> 01:32:47.580
Linus to finish all the shots of lemon juice

01:32:47.580 --> 01:32:51.380
before the finish line. What is this?

01:32:52.220 --> 01:32:56.500
Why am I taking shots of lemon juice? Because you lost wise when late.

01:32:56.500 --> 01:33:01.340
What do you mean I lost wise when late? You gotta. I cannot lose at my own game.

01:33:01.340 --> 01:33:04.700
It's not your game. Wise when late is my game. It is not your game.

01:33:04.700 --> 01:33:07.060
I mean, it happens on my property.

01:33:07.980 --> 01:33:12.540
Actually, no, it doesn't. It happens on BC, something, something,

01:33:12.540 --> 01:33:16.060
LTD, holding company's property. Okay, fair play.

01:33:18.660 --> 01:33:21.940
Take the shots whenever you want. You must finish all your shots

01:33:21.940 --> 01:33:26.060
before you reach the finish line. Those are big shots of lemon juice.

01:33:26.060 --> 01:33:29.580
The amount of shots you have to do

01:33:29.580 --> 01:33:36.300
is half of the score difference of why is when late our popular flow plane series.

01:33:36.300 --> 01:33:39.300
Today the loser, not naming names,

01:33:39.300 --> 01:33:44.300
has to take four as they lost by eight points, one to nine.

01:33:44.620 --> 01:33:48.020
Give you three cups, but I have to refill one for you, I guess. I see.

01:33:48.940 --> 01:33:52.260
Okay. So.

01:33:52.260 --> 01:33:55.060
That's not lemonade, by the way. That's this stuff.

01:33:55.940 --> 01:33:59.820
Interesting. Oh, they can't really see them. They're slightly behind the banner, but they're these.

01:34:01.740 --> 01:34:03.500
Yeah, that's quite a bit.

01:34:06.340 --> 01:34:10.580
This is concentrated. Yeah, it sure is.

01:34:10.580 --> 01:34:14.300
It's this stuff. Like you've probably, I used to,

01:34:14.300 --> 01:34:17.940
when I was really tired and I lived with my parents, we often had one of these in the fridge,

01:34:17.940 --> 01:34:21.860
and I'd take a squirt of this just to wake up. Right in the eyes.

01:34:21.860 --> 01:34:25.060
I would use this basically as like a short-term energy drink

01:34:25.060 --> 01:34:27.380
and like taking whole shots of it.

01:34:29.860 --> 01:34:33.300
Oh boy, this is really interesting. Oh, okay.

01:34:34.260 --> 01:34:41.100
Four shots of that. I already have sore throat. All right, well, Luke, I guess,

01:34:42.220 --> 01:34:44.620
okay, it says watch this video.

01:34:46.060 --> 01:34:49.500
Do you want to bring it up? Sure, I can do that, Dan. You ready for audio?

01:34:50.580 --> 01:34:53.980
You're already playing audio. Okay, sounds good. Got him.

01:34:53.980 --> 01:34:57.580
So both of you are. I don't know who's gonna do it. I will be doing it.

01:34:57.580 --> 01:35:00.700
Here we go. I'm doing audio. Okay.

01:35:00.700 --> 01:35:04.260
No, no, no. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah.

01:35:04.260 --> 01:35:09.020
There we go. There you go. Ready? And see, that should play.

01:35:09.020 --> 01:35:13.140
The one that started it all. Copy my theme week, the moment it popped off.

01:35:13.140 --> 01:35:16.820
My product has been all over your sequels ever since. Who the hell are you?

01:35:16.820 --> 01:35:21.020
You all know who I am. I'm the one that stopped Linus from getting canceled.

01:35:21.020 --> 01:35:24.460
Say my name. You're Luke LaFrendo. It's Luke LaFrenier.

01:35:24.460 --> 01:35:29.420
LaFrenier, Luke LaFrenier. LaFren-der-ree-ay.

01:35:29.420 --> 01:35:32.780
LaFrenier. Friend-der-ier. LaFrenier.

01:35:32.780 --> 01:35:38.100
What are some tech essentials for most gamers? Hot take, most stuff that people are interested in

01:35:38.100 --> 01:35:43.060
if they're watching this channel is excess. What person out of all of the history of mankind

01:35:43.060 --> 01:35:46.140
who would be the best at a piss drinking contest? And they were like, probably Elon.

01:35:46.140 --> 01:35:52.780
Absolutely. We're here to talk about something actually much more impactful from Embark, our graders.

01:35:52.780 --> 01:35:56.660
Just this week, my time spent in meetings was 32 hours.

01:35:56.660 --> 01:36:00.540
She's a f***ing... I can start an online business.

01:36:00.540 --> 01:36:06.580
Turns out the furries buy a lot of pictures. For those who come after, he doesn't get it.

01:36:06.580 --> 01:36:09.740
Yeah. There it is.

01:36:09.740 --> 01:36:14.940
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

01:36:14.940 --> 01:36:18.500
and then I will enjoy this delicious drink.

01:36:18.500 --> 01:36:21.780
Coincidental timing. Timing?

01:36:21.780 --> 01:36:26.060
This is a punishment for why when late. It's happening during the Floatplane announcement.

01:36:26.060 --> 01:36:29.060
The Floatplane announcement is about Luke week two.

01:36:29.060 --> 01:36:32.620
Oh, well, then why don't you talk about... I can do that.

01:36:32.620 --> 01:36:38.020
The one that started all our next theme week returns with Luke week two, electric boogaloo.

01:36:38.020 --> 01:36:41.140
We have three amazing Floatplane exclusives.

01:36:41.140 --> 01:36:42.340
Wait, where'd he throw it?

01:36:44.380 --> 01:36:46.660
We have three amazing Floatplane exclusives.

01:36:47.660 --> 01:36:51.340
I think Linus is supposed to be reading this totaling about two hours of Luke time.

01:36:51.340 --> 01:36:56.220
Like a Q and A with Luke himself. That's a weird thing to say when I'm sitting there.

01:36:56.220 --> 01:36:59.700
Answering questions like his three Floatplane dev wishes,

01:36:59.700 --> 01:37:03.740
his frugal lifestyle and life satisfaction coming on Monday.

01:37:03.740 --> 01:37:08.500
There's a one hour session with Riley talking about the state of AI on Wednesday

01:37:08.500 --> 01:37:14.500
and a video essay discussion about the state of gaming titled on what?

01:37:14.500 --> 01:37:17.780
Okay, whatever, it's gonna have a title on Friday.

01:37:17.780 --> 01:37:20.780
For reference, his first video essay was four minutes long,

01:37:20.780 --> 01:37:23.180
but he thought it was 18 minutes long.

01:37:24.940 --> 01:37:31.260
Yeah. Go watch Luke's first theme week up on Floatplane right now

01:37:31.260 --> 01:37:36.220
and enjoy the sequel coming next week at LMG.gg slash luke25, all lowercase.

01:37:36.220 --> 01:37:40.420
While waiting, you can enjoy an early LTT video release

01:37:40.420 --> 01:37:42.380
that is happening on Floatplane right now.

01:37:45.180 --> 01:37:49.140
Oh my. Oh, it's this one. Ooh, I like this one.

01:37:49.140 --> 01:37:56.740
We did another one of, you know that YouTube format that's like $30 versus $30,000 thing.

01:37:57.340 --> 01:38:00.740
We got a TV for $30. What?

01:38:00.740 --> 01:38:04.500
Open box Insignia 32 inch TV.

01:38:04.500 --> 01:38:08.340
720p from Best Buy with warranty. From Best Buy?

01:38:08.340 --> 01:38:11.900
From Best Buy, we got a $35 TV. What?

01:38:11.900 --> 01:38:14.980
And then we do a $300 TV, $3,000 TV

01:38:14.980 --> 01:38:19.940
and then we make our way all the way up to $30,000 TV. So this is gonna be public.

01:38:20.940 --> 01:38:24.340
Oh, excuse me, it's all right. Are those gnarly?

01:38:24.340 --> 01:38:27.620
Is this rough? Yeah, it's not that bad. Yeah.

01:38:27.620 --> 01:38:32.700
It's not that bad. I do sour for breakfast. This doesn't feel as strong as it used to be.

01:38:32.700 --> 01:38:35.220
Either that or you're just more of a man.

01:38:37.220 --> 01:38:38.060
Maybe.

01:38:41.780 --> 01:38:47.740
Yeah, I was, dude, we had this candy when I was a kid called Screaming Blue Saucers

01:38:47.740 --> 01:38:51.660
and I'm pretty sure they stopped making them cause they like gave you cancer or something.

01:38:51.660 --> 01:38:55.620
But they were. All the best candy.

01:38:55.620 --> 01:38:59.940
They were like the precursor. They walked so warheads could run.

01:38:59.940 --> 01:39:04.140
Oh, seriously? And I would just like, they were supposed to be

01:39:04.140 --> 01:39:07.820
like the kind of candy that you like, you punk your friends by giving them one

01:39:07.820 --> 01:39:11.540
and they're like, or whatever. And I would like pop them.

01:39:11.540 --> 01:39:15.940
Be like, these are good. I love sour candy.

01:39:15.940 --> 01:39:20.500
People sell them for a lot. Oh yeah, you can't get them anymore.

01:39:20.500 --> 01:39:25.820
Wow. But to my knowledge. Are there like old school candy collectors?

01:39:25.820 --> 01:39:29.420
Is that a thing? Oh yeah, of course. Probably, eh? Of course.

01:39:29.420 --> 01:39:34.660
These are all plates. Screaming Saucers, maybe. Apparently it was a local company like BC.

01:39:34.660 --> 01:39:36.340
Oh, that's cool. Yeah.

01:39:38.020 --> 01:39:41.100
Angry Panda PC says COVID killed the taste buds.

01:39:41.100 --> 01:39:45.780
I legitimately don't think so because I definitely can still taste food.

01:39:45.780 --> 01:39:49.900
Yeah, like I don't think that happened to me at all, to be honest.

01:39:49.900 --> 01:39:53.980
We do have a couple of notes regarding the price change announcement for Floatplane.

01:39:53.980 --> 01:39:57.780
Based on some feedback about the 99 pricing strategy,

01:39:57.780 --> 01:40:02.740
the prices will now be $8 and $13 for new subscribers.

01:40:02.740 --> 01:40:07.020
Thank you for the additional penny per year, per month,

01:40:07.020 --> 01:40:10.180
per month. For annual plans, we will honor the current discount

01:40:10.180 --> 01:40:14.660
on a yearly purchase. So the $8 tier will become $80 per year

01:40:14.660 --> 01:40:17.860
and the $13 tier will become $130 per year,

01:40:17.860 --> 01:40:22.340
both in US dollars. For current subscribers who wish to change subscription tiers

01:40:22.340 --> 01:40:27.420
after the price increase, we will not be able to automatically grant you

01:40:27.420 --> 01:40:32.260
the pre-increase grandfathered price. However, you can contact support

01:40:32.260 --> 01:40:36.180
at support at Floatplane.com and we can manually grant it to you if you're eligible.

01:40:36.180 --> 01:40:40.980
And that might be automatic in the future. It's just switching entire plans

01:40:40.980 --> 01:40:45.820
and retaining your grandfather status was not something built into the grandfather tool

01:40:45.820 --> 01:40:50.620
and it was something asked for very late in the game and would need some payments changes.

01:40:50.620 --> 01:40:56.180
So for now, just message support, it'll be fine. There's a relatively low lift way of support doing that,

01:40:56.180 --> 01:40:59.460
but it's a high lift way of developers doing that right now. So it's just not worth it.

01:40:59.460 --> 01:41:02.860
As always, our support team will be available to address any additional edge cases

01:41:02.860 --> 01:41:08.180
when the new plan takes effect. And to reiterate, the OG $3 tier

01:41:08.180 --> 01:41:13.300
and the current recurring subscribers will not be affected by the price change.

01:41:13.660 --> 01:41:17.220
You can keep your thing, you're cool, you're good. You're all good. Relax, guy.

01:41:17.220 --> 01:41:20.940
Don't worry about it, you're fine. Hey, guy, relax, guy. Yeah.

01:41:20.940 --> 01:41:25.300
But eh? Yeah. Depending on how long we keep Floatplane, I feel like there's gonna be a lot of different

01:41:25.300 --> 01:41:30.380
grandfathered statuses. I know. I do feel like that may be untenable at some point,

01:41:30.380 --> 01:41:34.580
but we'll- Maybe, we'll figure it out. We'll cross that chasm-

01:41:34.580 --> 01:41:38.180
We're good for now, yeah. When we get to it. All right.

01:41:38.180 --> 01:41:41.420
Daniel Baster, what are we supposed to be doing right now? Oh, more topics again.

01:41:41.420 --> 01:41:45.140
You sure? You guess, he just guesses. Okay, two to three more topics.

01:41:45.140 --> 01:41:48.140
I can't believe he would guess. He put the card up there. He would guess.

01:41:48.140 --> 01:41:51.420
That man, that man would guess. Is he a guesser? I think so.

01:41:51.420 --> 01:41:55.900
No, well, a besser for certain, but a guesser we can only guess.

01:41:59.380 --> 01:42:04.380
AMD has officially unveiled their FSR Redstone update.

01:42:05.660 --> 01:42:08.820
This is an upgrade to their upscaling technology

01:42:08.820 --> 01:42:13.820
built exclusively for the latest Radeon RX 9000 series

01:42:14.540 --> 01:42:17.660
or RDNA4 GPUs.

01:42:17.660 --> 01:42:23.020
This is a quote from AMD. FSR4 has been renamed FSR upscaling

01:42:23.020 --> 01:42:27.300
to better distinguish between the various features that now make up the FSR,

01:42:27.300 --> 01:42:29.420
or now make up FSR Redstone.

01:42:30.580 --> 01:42:34.140
Yeah, that doesn't really, okay, sure.

01:42:34.140 --> 01:42:38.980
Redstone is a suite of several new machine learning based features, including better upscaling,

01:42:38.980 --> 01:42:43.780
frame generation, ray regeneration, and radiance caching.

01:42:43.780 --> 01:42:48.460
Ray regeneration is a machine learning back to de-noiser that reuses the last frames ray tracing work.

01:42:48.460 --> 01:42:53.460
So the GPU only redraws what's actually changed. So it reconstructs the missing details.

01:42:53.460 --> 01:42:57.700
Radiance caching uses an AI neural network to dynamically guest-mounts lighting

01:42:57.700 --> 01:43:01.340
so the GPU doesn't have to calculate and render subsequent bounces of light.

01:43:01.340 --> 01:43:05.340
It is expected to be supported in over 200 games by the end of 2025, but for now,

01:43:05.380 --> 01:43:09.060
only about 40 games will make use of Redstone.

01:43:09.060 --> 01:43:13.820
AMD's graph claims you can see more than three X the frame rate in some games compared to native rendering,

01:43:13.820 --> 01:43:19.060
with spikes of up to 4.7 times in titles like Cyberpunk 2077.

01:43:19.060 --> 01:43:25.380
So there it is folks, just like NVIDIA, AMD now has machine learning based upscaling

01:43:25.380 --> 01:43:28.420
and frame generation and all that kind of stuff.

01:43:28.420 --> 01:43:31.860
As long as you happen to be one of the handful of folks

01:43:31.900 --> 01:43:35.900
who have a Radeon 9000 series GPU,

01:43:35.900 --> 01:43:39.100
I was actually chatting with one of the employees

01:43:39.100 --> 01:43:44.420
at Smash Champs, Raj, he was in one of the tours, and he's a pretty big AMD guy.

01:43:44.420 --> 01:43:49.420
He treated himself to, I think he had a 7900 XT,

01:43:49.580 --> 01:43:54.020
and then he actually went 9070 XT if I recall correctly. Sorry, Raj, if I'm getting this wrong.

01:43:54.020 --> 01:44:01.060
But basically he was pretty miffed, even though he has a 9000 series card that AMD's,

01:44:01.620 --> 01:44:07.100
like he's kind of, he's rooting for them, you know? And he was kind of miffed that AMD was kind of leaving

01:44:07.100 --> 01:44:10.180
behind their non-RDNA4 customers

01:44:10.180 --> 01:44:15.140
with this feature announcement. And I was like, yeah, that's a fair point, Raj,

01:44:15.140 --> 01:44:18.560
but as much as AMD has made a solid effort

01:44:18.560 --> 01:44:22.580
to have their products, you know, aged like fine wine with driver support

01:44:22.580 --> 01:44:27.580
and feature updates, the old cards just don't have

01:44:28.340 --> 01:44:32.260
the AI processing on board, so.

01:44:32.260 --> 01:44:36.700
There's only so much you can really do. NVIDIA was way ahead of them

01:44:36.700 --> 01:44:40.580
in terms of implementing neural processors on their GPUs.

01:44:40.580 --> 01:44:43.900
So there's nothing that you can really do about that.

01:44:43.900 --> 01:44:47.940
And you could kind of try to, you could kind of try to flub it

01:44:47.940 --> 01:44:54.740
with your more general compute, but then you're taking away from the base performance

01:44:54.980 --> 01:44:58.540
that you're trying to upscale and frame generate from.

01:44:58.540 --> 01:45:01.980
So that's pretty tough.

01:45:01.980 --> 01:45:05.580
You end up robbing your left pocket in order to pay your right pocket.

01:45:07.500 --> 01:45:12.500
So yeah, downer, but I guess it's cool

01:45:13.740 --> 01:45:18.340
for people who have a 9070 or 9070 XT or a 9060 series, I guess.

01:45:19.300 --> 01:45:22.940
Cool, good chat. Do you want to talk about next?

01:45:23.380 --> 01:45:26.500
You want to do this thing?

01:45:26.500 --> 01:45:30.300
Pebble's founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring.

01:45:30.300 --> 01:45:35.140
Yeah, it's less stupid than it sounds. And I'm going to tell you a couple of things

01:45:35.140 --> 01:45:39.860
that aren't in the notes that are going to make it sound really stupid.

01:45:39.860 --> 01:45:43.980
It has a literally, not only non-replaceable battery,

01:45:43.980 --> 01:45:47.260
a non-rechargeable battery. Ooh.

01:45:51.260 --> 01:45:54.140
It has a microphone, because of course it does.

01:45:55.420 --> 01:45:58.820
And let's see, what else can I tell you

01:45:58.820 --> 01:46:01.980
that will make you hate it? Let me think.

01:46:03.500 --> 01:46:06.620
Okay, yeah, it has a non-replaceable battery. I already got that.

01:46:07.900 --> 01:46:11.140
What's something that you might like hate about it?

01:46:11.140 --> 01:46:15.020
I mean, yeah, it's like AI. I don't like the non-rechargeable battery. That's already ridiculous.

01:46:15.020 --> 01:46:18.820
Yeah, okay. Okay, but I'll tell you the good things now.

01:46:18.820 --> 01:46:24.780
Okay. I love how we're just, all right, let's just talk about it. Yeah, so the non-rechargeable battery,

01:46:24.780 --> 01:46:29.100
the non-replaceable, non-rechargeable battery, apparently it'll last for a couple of years.

01:46:29.100 --> 01:46:32.100
They have already telegraphed. That still sucks, but okay.

01:46:32.100 --> 01:46:36.860
They have already telegraphed that they will put a recycling program in place

01:46:36.860 --> 01:46:40.380
so that you can return the ring. Telegraphed? Said they will.

01:46:42.180 --> 01:46:46.140
I do still think that's kind of BS because the odds of, like me,

01:46:46.140 --> 01:46:51.380
I'm just thinking for myself here, the odds of me going to the effort to return it to them,

01:46:51.380 --> 01:46:54.700
even if they were to cover shipping back to them, which I sincerely doubt they would,

01:46:54.700 --> 01:46:59.180
the odds of me bothering to do that are pretty slim, and I think that's probably true of a lot of people.

01:46:59.180 --> 01:47:04.940
I have a bin of dead batteries that is probably about this big, by this deep,

01:47:04.940 --> 01:47:08.780
by this deep, by this long, like it's like thick

01:47:10.180 --> 01:47:13.340
that are pending. Next time I am going to IKEA

01:47:13.340 --> 01:47:17.740
and I remember to bring my batteries, I'm gonna dump them all in their battery chute.

01:47:17.740 --> 01:47:21.100
I think I've had it for about six years now.

01:47:25.500 --> 01:47:31.060
There is no subscription. So once you buy it, you just like have it.

01:47:31.060 --> 01:47:36.540
The microphone is not always listening. It is explicitly only listening when you activate it

01:47:36.540 --> 01:47:40.420
because otherwise you would trash your battery life

01:47:40.460 --> 01:47:47.700
because it's not rechargeable and not replaceable. So it's only active when you specifically activate it.

01:47:47.700 --> 01:47:51.380
And the part that I like about it

01:47:51.380 --> 01:47:55.380
is apparently I haven't tried it yet, but apparently it's like really slim.

01:47:55.380 --> 01:47:59.060
And what it's meant to do more than anything else

01:47:59.060 --> 01:48:05.840
is without having to pull out your phone, jot down a thought or like set a quick reminder.

01:48:07.780 --> 01:48:11.740
There is no chat bot. You don't have a relationship with it.

01:48:11.740 --> 01:48:17.620
It doesn't pretend to be your friend. You can either use a local AI model

01:48:17.620 --> 01:48:20.500
that runs on your smartphone and stores data locally

01:48:21.900 --> 01:48:25.820
or you can, I think with a subscription,

01:48:25.820 --> 01:48:30.820
you can do the like a cloud enabled model.

01:48:33.300 --> 01:48:36.380
Hold on, our notes are a little bit vague and I can't remember that part,

01:48:36.380 --> 01:48:40.300
so don't quote me on that. Compared to competing smart rings

01:48:40.300 --> 01:48:44.260
that cost several hundred dollars and bundle health tracking are always on AI features.

01:48:44.260 --> 01:48:49.340
The index 01, that's what it's gonna be called is significantly cheaper and intentionally limited

01:48:49.340 --> 01:48:52.820
focusing on a simple note taking function

01:48:52.820 --> 01:48:57.620
rather than trying to do everything at once. So there's no health tracking, nothing like that.

01:48:57.620 --> 01:49:05.580
Okay, I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on this because if nothing else, it's different.

01:49:06.580 --> 01:49:11.580
Anything that by its core design is designed to die

01:49:16.740 --> 01:49:21.180
and that is unnecessary, I don't feel like I'm gonna like.

01:49:21.180 --> 01:49:24.500
So you don't like humans? No, because that is-

01:49:24.500 --> 01:49:28.180
You take that up with God then. I think that is necessary in that case though. Really?

01:49:28.180 --> 01:49:31.620
I think so. So for evolutionary survival of the fittest,

01:49:31.620 --> 01:49:35.180
we have to die- How are we gonna, in what way-

01:49:35.180 --> 01:49:37.540
I feel like we're getting off topic here. Ha ha ha.

01:49:44.220 --> 01:49:50.380
And like I do, this does make me dislike things like light bulbs because it's a confirmed

01:49:50.380 --> 01:49:53.580
non-conspiracy theory that they have collaborated

01:49:53.580 --> 01:49:56.620
to make them worse and like that sucks,

01:49:56.620 --> 01:50:02.020
that makes me hate them. And in this case, it's like man, yeah, I'd rather pay a little bit more

01:50:02.060 --> 01:50:06.460
if it wasn't for sure gonna be dead in two years. Like I look at my phone,

01:50:07.420 --> 01:50:14.980
I don't really feel like I need a new phone after two years. Why would I need a new pretty okay smart ring?

01:50:14.980 --> 01:50:19.820
It's probably still gonna be fine in two years if I could just charge it or replace the battery.

01:50:19.820 --> 01:50:23.820
I think either would maybe be fine, ideally charging.

01:50:23.820 --> 01:50:26.980
I can understand that adding charging to a smart ring

01:50:26.980 --> 01:50:29.460
would probably add a significant amount of bulk.

01:50:30.460 --> 01:50:35.220
Apparently technology connection says there is some nuance to the light bulb thing

01:50:35.220 --> 01:50:38.220
and there were trade-offs that were made.

01:50:38.220 --> 01:50:41.940
It was an engineering trade-off, so duly noted.

01:50:43.860 --> 01:50:47.700
Technology connections is based. I'm willing to believe him on this.

01:50:49.260 --> 01:50:53.300
I would say that I think you could flag

01:50:53.300 --> 01:50:56.740
anything as a trade-off. Okay, so someone in chat said the trade-offs

01:50:56.740 --> 01:51:03.220
are very valid, that adds a- Yeah, but I mean there's also, okay.

01:51:03.220 --> 01:51:07.020
I wonder what the trade-offs were. Like I have this conversation with the CW engineering

01:51:07.020 --> 01:51:12.900
and fashion team all the time where there are trade-offs in terms of like,

01:51:12.900 --> 01:51:17.420
I haven't watched this video on it, but I know that there are trade-offs in terms of what the market will bear.

01:51:18.460 --> 01:51:23.460
And it could be that your light bulb

01:51:24.660 --> 01:51:28.260
that would last 10 times longer but cost twice as much would be a commercial failure.

01:51:28.260 --> 01:51:31.780
So you make the one that will cost half as much

01:51:31.780 --> 01:51:38.460
but last one-tenth is long. And it's sort of your bound by market forces.

01:51:38.900 --> 01:51:42.900
I think it's a cop-out. I think you should just build high-quality products that last a really long time.

01:51:42.900 --> 01:51:46.500
People are saying it's brightness versus lifetime of the bulbs, which is interesting

01:51:46.500 --> 01:51:50.860
because if you look at that light bulb that's been on for like an incredible amount of time

01:51:50.860 --> 01:51:55.540
in that fire station, it's not very bright.

01:51:55.540 --> 01:51:59.460
Yeah, that's valid. Okay, all right, all right, all right, I'll allow it.

01:51:59.460 --> 01:52:03.460
I don't know, I feel like that might be maybe a bit of a scapegoat

01:52:03.460 --> 01:52:08.460
because there are modern LED lights that are incredibly bright

01:52:08.460 --> 01:52:12.220
and it's definitely unnecessary. It would probably be chill

01:52:12.220 --> 01:52:17.740
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.

01:52:17.740 --> 01:52:22.340
But I don't know, I wanna go watch this video because technology connections is super-based.

01:52:22.340 --> 01:52:25.900
So yeah, I have no idea. I don't wanna make up my mind about this

01:52:26.100 --> 01:52:29.660
and I don't know all the information. I don't know.

01:52:29.660 --> 01:52:31.100
There we go, fixed.

01:52:32.860 --> 01:52:34.500
I didn't know the line, get it?

01:52:39.260 --> 01:52:43.340
I.e. every LED headlight being too bright. I don't know if this is a hot take or not.

01:52:43.340 --> 01:52:46.060
That needs to be illegal.

01:52:47.100 --> 01:52:51.380
It's like a problem. Holy crap, how have we let this be a thing?

01:52:52.420 --> 01:52:56.980
It's wild. I actually don't have a take on this. My night vision's pretty good.

01:52:56.980 --> 01:53:02.060
It doesn't bother me. I don't really get halos and I don't really get super glare

01:53:02.060 --> 01:53:06.420
or I don't really have trouble seeing from people's super bright headlights.

01:53:06.420 --> 01:53:11.420
But my wife has had

01:53:13.140 --> 01:53:18.660
corrective surgery for her eyes. She used to be a glasses enjoyer

01:53:18.660 --> 01:53:24.180
and is now not so much. And so for her, bright lights can be extremely blinding

01:53:24.220 --> 01:53:31.260
at night. And so, yeah, I understand that it's a problem

01:53:31.260 --> 01:53:34.820
but it hasn't ever really bothered me. And to be clear, when I say it doesn't bother me,

01:53:34.820 --> 01:53:38.220
I don't mean that in like a, well, not my problem.

01:53:38.220 --> 01:53:41.380
I'm gonna put my giant big lights in the front of my car

01:53:41.380 --> 01:53:44.380
and I'm gonna point them up like this. This is a large part of the problem.

01:53:44.380 --> 01:53:48.860
I just use my factory lights. Is how much people's lights are pointed into my window.

01:53:48.860 --> 01:53:54.420
Right, yeah. Is like a lot of it. Have you ever thought of buying a Cybertruck?

01:53:55.340 --> 01:53:56.940
Then you'll be sitting up higher.

01:53:58.740 --> 01:54:02.620
No. You've never thought of buying. No.

01:54:02.620 --> 01:54:06.260
Not even once. I have thought about buying a truck, but not a Cybertruck.

01:54:06.260 --> 01:54:10.060
Not a Cybertruck, is it? No. You like a more analog truck, not a digital truck.

01:54:10.060 --> 01:54:14.700
Actually, yes. You like more polygons. I was thinking an old Toyota.

01:54:14.700 --> 01:54:17.900
An old Toyota, interesting. Okay, why?

01:54:19.340 --> 01:54:22.900
It would be nice to have something that I could more easily go camping with.

01:54:22.900 --> 01:54:26.060
There are certain trails that you can't effectively get to the trailhead

01:54:26.060 --> 01:54:28.180
unless you have a truck in BC.

01:54:29.620 --> 01:54:37.340
It would be kind of sick. An old Tacoma or Hilux or something would be neat.

01:54:37.500 --> 01:54:41.460
I don't need it to be nice. My stepdad. In a lot of ways, I'd probably prefer it wasn't

01:54:41.460 --> 01:54:44.500
because like I'm gonna get it scratched up and beat up and that's cool.

01:54:44.500 --> 01:54:48.060
I don't, I don't, yeah. I don't need it to be nice.

01:54:48.060 --> 01:54:51.820
My stepdad had a super cute little Toyota pickup

01:54:51.820 --> 01:54:56.180
back when I was growing up. I don't know if it was this one,

01:54:56.180 --> 01:54:59.580
but it was like a little tiny pickup truck like this.

01:54:59.580 --> 01:55:05.220
This was when the actual name of it was the pickup. Like its model was pickup, which is pretty funny.

01:55:05.220 --> 01:55:09.700
Is that, is that a thing? Cause I think it might've looked like this. Yeah, this is the Toyota pickup.

01:55:09.700 --> 01:55:13.180
Yeah, okay. All right, interesting. It's pretty sick.

01:55:13.180 --> 01:55:16.420
Yeah, none of these other ones look right. This is, this is the one.

01:55:16.940 --> 01:55:20.780
He had the muffler tied on to the bottom of it with that,

01:55:20.780 --> 01:55:24.660
you know that yellow rope? Like that yellow rope, yeah.

01:55:24.660 --> 01:55:29.500
So he just had it like tie, it fell off at some point. The like super plastic-y yellow, yeah.

01:55:29.500 --> 01:55:33.940
You just tied it back on with the yellow rope. So that was the kind of engineering that he did.

01:55:33.940 --> 01:55:35.620
Heck yeah. Heck yeah.

01:55:37.700 --> 01:55:41.060
All right, so, okay. But other than, other than, okay.

01:55:41.060 --> 01:55:45.500
So you don't like it because it is, it is disposable essentially.

01:55:45.580 --> 01:55:50.820
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

01:55:50.820 --> 01:55:55.460
because it's a non-rechargeable battery. So it's like, oh wow, it does last for two years.

01:55:55.460 --> 01:55:59.780
That's cool. A device like this I would expect to have for more than two years.

01:55:59.780 --> 01:56:04.780
We buy a lot of things that last for less than two years

01:56:05.500 --> 01:56:07.460
that cost a lot of money.

01:56:08.620 --> 01:56:10.820
How long does the chicken in your fridge last?

01:56:11.820 --> 01:56:15.500
It's not a good argument and you know it.

01:56:18.980 --> 01:56:22.940
No, but it's hard. It's tough with you because you don't buy charge keys.

01:56:22.940 --> 01:56:27.220
You don't buy like gadgets that you know you're not gonna get a ton of views out of.

01:56:27.220 --> 01:56:30.860
If someone expects to get one year out of this

01:56:31.740 --> 01:56:37.900
and they expect that they're gonna buy a new one in a year because they wanna keep up with the newest thing, whatever,

01:56:37.900 --> 01:56:42.820
it gets a little bit better, I would still prefer that wasn't a thing because you could sell it off to somebody else

01:56:42.820 --> 01:56:48.300
who could still enjoy the thing without just throwing all of that value in that tech away.

01:56:48.300 --> 01:56:53.580
So I still don't like it because repairability is sick and cool and based

01:56:53.580 --> 01:56:56.340
and you should be able to keep things around.

01:56:57.300 --> 01:57:00.780
I know people that use some phones that are real old.

01:57:02.060 --> 01:57:05.140
The iPhone that I carry for full-point stuff is an X.

01:57:06.300 --> 01:57:11.900
It still works. Great. It's like actually very impressive

01:57:11.900 --> 01:57:16.220
that it's still totally fine. It's battery life is not that amazing anymore

01:57:16.220 --> 01:57:20.220
but it's still impressively pretty all right. I'm not like on it that often

01:57:20.220 --> 01:57:24.500
because you know, and it'll easily last often days.

01:57:24.500 --> 01:57:27.620
Oh yeah, Apple's idle battery man. Insane.

01:57:27.620 --> 01:57:30.220
It's so good. That's old.

01:57:31.660 --> 01:57:35.700
That would make this thing at its death point to look like a young pup.

01:57:35.700 --> 01:57:42.500
So like, I don't like that. And I don't think there's an argument

01:57:42.500 --> 01:57:45.820
that's gonna convince me otherwise. One thing I would ask is

01:57:45.820 --> 01:57:48.180
how many smart rings have replaceable batteries?

01:57:49.100 --> 01:57:52.660
That I'm aware of none. Yeah, okay. But rechargeable, yes.

01:57:52.660 --> 01:57:56.140
But rechargeable, yeah. How do they charge? Is it wireless charging?

01:57:56.140 --> 01:58:00.740
Do they have a port? So it's wireless charging? How much bulk do you think the wireless charging adds?

01:58:00.740 --> 01:58:06.940
So that was the argument for it. Was that for how low profile he wanted it to be.

01:58:06.980 --> 01:58:10.660
Basically, as far as I can tell, he's making a device for himself.

01:58:11.660 --> 01:58:15.900
Sure. And what he wants is when he's washing the dishes

01:58:15.900 --> 01:58:20.460
or otherwise indisposed, he wants to be able to quickly note something down

01:58:20.460 --> 01:58:24.660
before his ADD brain forgets it. It does look like, so let me, I'm at their site.

01:58:24.660 --> 01:58:28.860
You can see this and that doesn't actually necessarily mean much because not on a finger.

01:58:28.860 --> 01:58:34.220
But when you see it on the finger, other than this bump, which is your button I'm assuming,

01:58:34.220 --> 01:58:38.540
it does look more profile to me as someone who has never worn a smart ring,

01:58:38.540 --> 01:58:42.340
it does look more low profile than smart rings that I've seen.

01:58:42.340 --> 01:58:47.060
You have worn a smart ring. It also doesn't look that low profile though.

01:58:47.060 --> 01:58:50.140
No, especially with the huge button,

01:58:50.140 --> 01:58:57.500
which looks a little uncomfortable to be honest. I hate rings in general, but like this looks rough.

01:58:57.500 --> 01:59:01.380
I would not want this. You can even literally see the button itself

01:59:01.380 --> 01:59:05.300
pushing into his finger. Maybe, I actually can't tell a hundred percent of that.

01:59:05.300 --> 01:59:08.620
Is it just a shadow? I can't tell a hundred percent. It might be a shadow.

01:59:08.620 --> 01:59:13.100
I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna at least try it. I am torn on this one.

01:59:13.100 --> 01:59:17.420
On the one hand, I completely agree. Repairability is based.

01:59:17.420 --> 01:59:19.460
Replaceable batteries are based.

01:59:21.460 --> 01:59:28.100
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

01:59:28.100 --> 01:59:32.900
and still having a purpose that like him,

01:59:32.900 --> 01:59:37.460
I have ADD brain and often forget things and being able to just quickly blah, blah, blah

01:59:37.460 --> 01:59:41.100
and then not take out my phone could have a benefit.

01:59:41.100 --> 01:59:46.020
At that point though, why not just wear one of those silly AI pendants?

01:59:46.020 --> 01:59:49.620
For me, the not thinking about it is a major feature though.

01:59:49.620 --> 01:59:56.740
Can you just do this with your smart watch? Yes, but it's another, I forgot to put on my watch today.

01:59:56.740 --> 02:00:01.020
Okay, are you gonna remember to put on your smart ring? No, because I'm not gonna take it off.

02:00:01.020 --> 02:00:04.940
I'm gonna put it on and then two years later, its battery will die.

02:00:04.940 --> 02:00:12.460
Got it. Is it water resistant? So that's the only compelling reason for it

02:00:14.300 --> 02:00:19.300
is that I never have to think about if I have it on me

02:00:22.300 --> 02:00:27.780
and it can operate away from the app. So it can store some on board

02:00:27.780 --> 02:00:32.580
and then when it gets back in range of your phone, it can dump everything which is pretty,

02:00:32.580 --> 02:00:35.900
so I could be in the pool and I could have an interesting thought

02:00:35.900 --> 02:00:40.260
and I could be like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and then it would sync to my phone later.

02:00:42.340 --> 02:00:46.140
It's kinda neat. Yeah, it's kinda neat and at 75 bucks

02:00:46.140 --> 02:00:49.620
which is more money than a meal

02:00:49.620 --> 02:00:52.420
but not more money than a meal out with my family.

02:00:56.500 --> 02:01:00.900
I don't know man, we buy a lot of stuff

02:01:00.940 --> 02:01:04.740
that is pretty disposable and pretty useless.

02:01:04.740 --> 02:01:08.740
Like I did an AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade for someone earlier this week

02:01:08.740 --> 02:01:13.140
where once again, we have, not so much once again

02:01:13.140 --> 02:01:17.660
but we have a new challenger for LMG, King of the Funko Pops.

02:01:17.660 --> 02:01:21.220
Oh. And I'm looking at it going like. Fun.

02:01:21.220 --> 02:01:24.300
Co. It's all relative. Nice.

02:01:24.300 --> 02:01:30.060
It's all relative, right? Like if you're the kind of person who just doesn't spend money on anything

02:01:30.060 --> 02:01:34.900
that doesn't generate a return. You know, like if you have like a very, very

02:01:34.900 --> 02:01:38.420
kind of strict approach to spending.

02:01:38.420 --> 02:01:41.780
And to be clear, he's not even referencing me. I do spend money on things that don't generate a return.

02:01:41.780 --> 02:01:45.900
Yeah, no, I just mean in general. Like if you have sort of rules for spending money

02:01:45.900 --> 02:01:50.900
that do not account for $75 for a thing that is disposable.

02:01:51.420 --> 02:01:54.820
I don't actually agree. I think you could argue that this could generate a return.

02:01:54.820 --> 02:01:57.980
Sure, I just mean whatever your rules are. Sure.

02:01:57.980 --> 02:02:04.300
If you don't account for $75 for a disposable thing, then you know, that's totally valid.

02:02:05.620 --> 02:02:10.620
But maybe I could, philosophically I disagree though.

02:02:11.300 --> 02:02:16.180
Like I disagree with a non-replaceable battery.

02:02:16.180 --> 02:02:19.340
But then I also wonder, I mean, AirPods have non-replaceable batteries

02:02:19.340 --> 02:02:23.260
and people have found ways to do it. So maybe there could be a way to do it.

02:02:23.260 --> 02:02:28.300
I haven't tried to take one apart yet. I don't know if it could be possible.

02:02:28.300 --> 02:02:30.900
Kind of doubt it. It uses a hearing aid battery apparently.

02:02:34.940 --> 02:02:38.780
All right. Sent some trauma.

02:02:38.780 --> 02:02:42.780
It's okay buddy. I actually have no idea what you're saying that about.

02:02:42.780 --> 02:02:46.420
You're okay though. Yeah. Yeah, so it's fine. It doesn't matter.

02:02:46.420 --> 02:02:50.620
Yeah, nice. All right. This was wild.

02:02:50.620 --> 02:02:53.640
Over the black Friday period.

02:02:53.640 --> 02:02:56.760
Okay. The console sales war. No, no, don't look.

02:02:56.760 --> 02:03:00.640
Don't look. Oh, he's seen it already. I think I have. So number one.

02:03:03.600 --> 02:03:06.840
Switch? PlayStation? PlayStation.

02:03:06.840 --> 02:03:10.200
Yeah, okay. Number two. Switch. You better believe it.

02:03:10.200 --> 02:03:13.720
Nintendo. Number three. A big gap.

02:03:13.720 --> 02:03:17.080
And then? Right.

02:03:17.080 --> 02:03:21.120
So I'm gonna say, I know the spoiler here, but I'm gonna say the one that makes sense.

02:03:21.120 --> 02:03:24.160
Yeah. You'd think it would be Xbox. Xbox.

02:03:24.160 --> 02:03:27.800
It was not. It was not.

02:03:27.800 --> 02:03:31.400
The next playground? What?

02:03:31.400 --> 02:03:34.840
I never even, I was this week years old

02:03:34.840 --> 02:03:38.720
when I even heard of this thing. Me too. Over the Thanksgiving weekend,

02:03:38.720 --> 02:03:40.520
the Xbox series,

02:03:41.800 --> 02:03:46.800
series accounted for just 10% of console units sold

02:03:46.800 --> 02:03:50.320
coming behind the PlayStation 5,

02:03:50.320 --> 02:03:56.360
which came in first in part because it was the only console that actually had a sale.

02:03:56.360 --> 02:04:00.240
So with 47%. The Switch 2 in second place,

02:04:00.240 --> 02:04:03.840
which accounted for 24% of all console units sold.

02:04:03.840 --> 02:04:10.360
And the next playground, which was responsible for 14% of sales

02:04:10.360 --> 02:04:14.160
and is a console that, and this is from Mr. David Gauthier,

02:04:14.160 --> 02:04:19.000
who he would describe as like a $200 Microsoft Kinect

02:04:19.000 --> 02:04:22.080
that plays mobile games with a 90 year subscription.

02:04:22.080 --> 02:04:25.560
$90 a year subscription. Oh, $90 a year subscription

02:04:25.560 --> 02:04:30.280
if you want to play more than five games. That's all right, I'm gonna try that one more time.

02:04:30.280 --> 02:04:33.880
That I would describe like a $200 Microsoft Kinect

02:04:33.880 --> 02:04:38.200
that plays mobile games and requires a $90 a year subscription

02:04:38.200 --> 02:04:40.700
if you wanna play more than five games.

02:04:41.920 --> 02:04:42.760
What?

02:04:45.240 --> 02:04:49.260
Okay, what is this thing? Obviously, we've sourced one

02:04:49.260 --> 02:04:51.740
and we wanna make a video about it, but that's it.

02:04:53.780 --> 02:04:57.420
Excuse me. The next playground crashed

02:04:57.420 --> 02:05:00.420
the Black Friday hardware charts in the US.

02:05:01.660 --> 02:05:02.500
Okay, what?

02:05:04.940 --> 02:05:07.220
Like, what is this thing?

02:05:08.300 --> 02:05:11.420
I don't get it, to be honest. I didn't look enough into this.

02:05:11.420 --> 02:05:17.060
I knew the like punchline of this article. The active play system for kids and families.

02:05:18.580 --> 02:05:21.580
Like, did it get bundled with something like crazy

02:05:21.580 --> 02:05:25.420
or did something happen? Active games that turn your living,

02:05:25.420 --> 02:05:30.380
I mean, basically it's the Wii then. Yeah, you just don't have remotes.

02:05:30.380 --> 02:05:33.420
Yeah. It's a Wii, but they went for the Kinect model

02:05:33.420 --> 02:05:37.420
instead of the remote model. Like when did the Verge review this? December 12th, 2025.

02:05:37.420 --> 02:05:40.580
Oh, so no, this is today. So they're also like-

02:05:40.580 --> 02:05:44.180
So they're probably reacting to this. Probably, I don't- What happened?

02:05:44.180 --> 02:05:46.580
I've never even seen this before.

02:05:47.620 --> 02:05:52.900
Did it get bundled with something? Why are people buying this? Does anyone in chat own one of these?

02:05:52.900 --> 02:05:56.220
What compelled you to get it? How did you even know it existed?

02:05:56.220 --> 02:06:01.380
How to train your dragon, riders of the skies, bluey bust a move?

02:06:01.380 --> 02:06:04.780
Whoa. Who's behind this company?

02:06:06.220 --> 02:06:10.140
PlayPass unlocks the full catalog and delivers new content and updates automatically

02:06:10.140 --> 02:06:13.420
every month. So how much is PlayPass? Was $90 a year?

02:06:16.500 --> 02:06:19.820
Wait. Oh, man, just show me a price, brother.

02:06:20.740 --> 02:06:25.700
What? No. Show me a price for the subscription.

02:06:25.700 --> 02:06:29.820
Learn about PlayPass. Okay, that's what I clicked. Where is the price?

02:06:31.460 --> 02:06:35.700
Yeah, here we go. Yeah, 12 months. Yeah, $90 a year.

02:06:36.620 --> 02:06:40.700
Or about, oh, what does that work out to? Like $50 over three months.

02:06:40.740 --> 02:06:44.900
So like $15 a month or $17 a month or something like that.

02:06:44.900 --> 02:06:48.980
Love this for my active little kids. Keeps them moving and so many games to choose from.

02:06:48.980 --> 02:06:52.100
My 60-year-old dad even plays with them. This is wild.

02:06:52.100 --> 02:06:56.180
Yeah, it's new Wii. It's someone who figured out that.

02:06:57.060 --> 02:07:01.420
People actually really liked the Wii. Yeah, and that everyone forgot

02:07:01.420 --> 02:07:04.860
why everybody liked the Wii. Wii teamed up with the top family brands.

02:07:04.860 --> 02:07:09.660
Hasbro, Mattel, whatever this is. Paramount, Sesame Street.

02:07:10.180 --> 02:07:13.980
This is wild dude. Who are these people?

02:07:13.980 --> 02:07:17.020
I started looking into it. It seems like a new company.

02:07:17.020 --> 02:07:20.340
Go figure. Has investments from some tech people

02:07:20.340 --> 02:07:25.940
and sports giants and stuff, but it's some split-offs from places like Apple.

02:07:25.940 --> 02:07:29.420
But yeah, it seems like a new company. That's wild.

02:07:29.420 --> 02:07:32.620
To be able to jump in and just dunk on Xbox like that

02:07:32.620 --> 02:07:37.120
with Xbox's basically own thing is nuts.

02:07:39.900 --> 02:07:44.580
Imagine making a successful thing based off of what is effectively a connect

02:07:44.580 --> 02:07:50.660
and it not being Microsoft. One of the greatest game console industry failures

02:07:50.660 --> 02:07:51.820
of all time.

02:07:54.460 --> 02:08:00.420
Let's not call it successful yet. I mean, that's fair, but they're outselling Xbox.

02:08:00.420 --> 02:08:04.860
Yeah, and it's a subscription model so you know they're doing good.

02:08:04.860 --> 02:08:09.060
Well, they're outselling Xbox for Black Friday, I should say.

02:08:09.060 --> 02:08:12.860
Not overall necessarily. We don't know.

02:08:12.860 --> 02:08:17.660
Don Cabesa says the connect, it sold 25 million units.

02:08:17.660 --> 02:08:19.860
Says the connect was not a failure at all.

02:08:21.020 --> 02:08:24.780
The connect was the beginning of the end for the Xbox brand,

02:08:24.780 --> 02:08:29.260
according to their current trajectory right now. It was bundled, my brother.

02:08:29.260 --> 02:08:34.260
It was an attempt to change the paradigm of the Xbox

02:08:35.060 --> 02:08:38.660
to this like living room, do everything machine.

02:08:39.500 --> 02:08:43.580
Like apparently this thing. They had huge plans for the connect.

02:08:43.580 --> 02:08:47.060
What it ended up being, which was a weird accessory

02:08:47.060 --> 02:08:51.260
that you could play some dance games with and a handful of experiences

02:08:51.260 --> 02:08:54.980
and then kind of a cool camera that people could,

02:08:54.980 --> 02:08:59.340
you know, hack and do neat stuff with later. What it ultimately ended up being

02:08:59.340 --> 02:09:03.380
was nothing compared to what Microsoft had planned for it.

02:09:03.860 --> 02:09:07.860
Microsoft tacitly admitted failure of the connect

02:09:07.860 --> 02:09:13.460
when they stopped bundling it with the console was supposed to be an integral part of the Xbox.

02:09:13.460 --> 02:09:16.580
And then after what was it a year? Can't remember what it was.

02:09:16.580 --> 02:09:20.620
They were like, I don't know. Well, this isn't working, forget it.

02:09:20.620 --> 02:09:23.940
Just get rid of it entirely. The connect was a failure.

02:09:23.940 --> 02:09:28.020
Maladrax and Flippling Chat said the next had a big in-store display

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you could play in stores in the US. We played one for a few minutes.

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So yeah, they just did direct like in-store marketing

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effectively and people probably went up and started playing with it and was like, wow,

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that feels like the Wii again. I would like to take one of those, please.

02:09:44.740 --> 02:09:48.500
And then bought it. How much is it again? I actually missed that when I was-

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200 bucks, introductory price of 200 bucks.

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$200, wonder what kind of hardware is in it?

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I mean, we're sourcing one. So we'll answer these questions as best we can.

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LPDDR4X, 64 gigs of EMMC storage.

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The graphics are a male G52 MC4.

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Okay. Just reading the Wikipedia page.

02:10:18.100 --> 02:10:22.900
Eight core ARM chip. ARM taken over the world, boys.

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Yep.

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Oh, good luck, Microsoft. Wild.

02:10:29.460 --> 02:10:32.500
Our discussion question here is with the rumors being that-

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Mali. Sorry? I said male, but apparently it's Mali.

02:10:36.180 --> 02:10:42.020
Oh, Mali, yeah. It's a typo on Wikipedia then, M-A-I-L.

02:10:42.300 --> 02:10:45.540
Wow, yeah. Your dyslexia did not do that to you.

02:10:45.540 --> 02:10:48.580
Well, do you know why? Cause I read it like six times.

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I'm not even kidding. That's why I was so confident to be like,

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actually no, it's male. Yeah, there you go.

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So if it's actually Mali, someone can go do a successful edit there if they want.

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Okay, nice. Let's go.

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So would you rather have, okay, hold on. Our question was,

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yeah, if the rumors of Microsoft's next machine being like $1,000 plus PC-like machine are true,

02:11:20.060 --> 02:11:23.540
what does Xbox even mean anymore? I think it means failure.

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Yeah, I mean, I guess it's the Xbox Live stuff, Game Pass.

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Yeah. Which I understand it has like pretty good value.

02:11:38.980 --> 02:11:43.580
I don't want anything to do with it at all. And we were an Xbox household.

02:11:44.500 --> 02:11:47.840
Oh yeah. Totally. Hard. Yeah.

02:11:47.840 --> 02:11:50.340
And I am- From the OG. Gone from there.

02:11:51.340 --> 02:11:54.340
All right. We would collect like broken 360s

02:11:54.340 --> 02:11:57.740
and try to zombie them together into working ones

02:11:57.740 --> 02:12:01.620
and all those kinds of like we were in and I want nothing to do with it anymore,

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which is like sad. It's not that I'm not even vindictive. They just lost.

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Okay. And I'm not, I don't love services like that,

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especially for things like games. I would prefer to own my games.

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So I'm gonna keep patronizing Steam and GOG.

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Came across this tweet this week. Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced

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Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing. This video is actually a little bit older,

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but it features the one and only, the basest of base people.

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Former FTC chair, Lynette Kahn, who explains the dangers of this shady practice.

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As usual, something that everyone needs to understand

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and be vigilant about has the least sexy,

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least interesting name possible, but we're gonna tell you guys about it anyway.

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I'd actually never heard the term surveillance pricing

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before, but there's renewed interest in it

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because the state of New York recently cracked down on it. So examples used of surveillance pricing

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by the video that Ms. Kahn pretty competently hosted,

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actually, as a video host myself. I think she did a pretty good job.

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So Princeton Review, she gave this example,

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charged customers in zip codes with higher percentage

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Asian populations more for test prep services.

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Okay, other tests found or suggested that ride share apps

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may charge riders with lower battery life more

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for the same ride at the same time.

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San Francisco residents who booked hotels through Expedia

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were apparently charged up to $500 more per night

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than people buying the same from less affluent cities.

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And apparently some internet providers charged the same price

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for worse internet speeds in poorer neighborhoods.

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These are, we've looked into it and there is evidence to suggest

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this is happening slash we have confirmed it now.

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So surveillance pricing, the concept is that by harvesting your personal data

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or inferring things about you,

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companies can charge you more for the same services.

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Some hypothetical examples of surveillance pricing that we might want to be worried about

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are a parent with a sick child might be charged more

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for medicine or a thermometer or somebody needing to travel for a funeral

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could be charged more for their airfare because they're being surveilled

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and they know that you've received an email about funeral arrangements, for instance.

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So good on New York for doing something

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to kind of crack down on this, but what is really needed is nationwide slash more

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worldwide, how about just, in general, we just not do this legislation that makes this

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just illegal.

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I know that there is, it's a common sort of talking point

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that regulation is bad and there are many cases

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where regulation can be bad, but if we just allow the free market to regulate itself,

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I think it has proven, not just suggested,

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but proven that it cannot do it.

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The free market is not capable.

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People think it can. They actually, with a straight face, say that

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and it's like actually stupid. It's regulated itself towards what is the problem.

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And that's exactly it. That's what they will do, which often brings you down to monopolistic practices

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or like, there's a term for it, I don't remember it, but when it's an effective monopoly

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where everyone's price fixing on the same kind of level

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and something that people don't seem to necessarily understand is that you can't do this

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based on like a restaurant model

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or something like that where it's like, oh, your pricing for your burger is too high.

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I will go down the street. There are issues with that when you get into

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some of these deep modes where you might need

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hundreds of thousands, millions, billions of dollars

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to get into certain industries. It's like, yeah, no, you need to do something about that.

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Saunders SC says, is this any different

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than when eBay offers a discount when you look at something or place it in your cart?

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Yes, the difference is that we're not talking

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about a discount. We are talking about increasing the price

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based on information about you.

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So it is one thing if you know,

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because come back to how it would work in the real world.

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In the real world, I could have my stall at the bazaar

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and you could walk in and you could be with Emma

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and you could look at a necklace and I could say, oh, pretty lady buy a pretty necklace

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for the pretty lady, sir, sir. Oh, look how good it looks on her.

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Oh, and he goes to leave and I go, I give you $5 off, that's one thing.

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But it is an entirely separate practice

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if I have no price tags on anything

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and I have like my team of hooligans who go out

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and pick people's wallets and see how much money's in them

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and then put it back in and then I know when they walk in the store, I go, ah, sir.

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Affluent sir, oh, this is good. This necklace, $200.

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You wouldn't want to be seen as cheap in front of the pretty lady.

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It's a completely different way, scumier thing.

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I like Bazaar Linus. Thank you. Bazaar Linus is pretty great.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah. And I mean, they're doing it based off of things

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that will probably offend people more than how much money they have in their wallet as well.

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Like that example of the tutoring or study prep

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or whatever it was, the more expensive in Asian neighborhoods, like they are doing this based off of any data point

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they can possibly get and they will get those data points.

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Yeah, and they're gonna have more and more and more as we go.

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I mean, this is one of the things that I couldn't necessarily have seen coming

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back when we were talking about the genetic testing.

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Like the example that I always came up with is like it could affect your insurance premiums

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and stuff like that. But this is one that absolutely could be impacted

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by your predisposition for things. For sure.

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Like you could have a completely different pricing model

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for potentially, like this could potentially be a thing.

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We could figure out the human genome enough

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that you could have a different pricing model for people that you have scouted out

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and figured out that they have a predisposition to gambling, for instance.

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And you wouldn't even need to do that with the, okay, maybe the DNA testing is a bad example of that.

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But what you could do is you could give someone inflated pricing for things that you know

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that they could be predisposed to have a condition for.

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Like it's, this whole thing is just terrifying.

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Ugh. I mean, I don't know, but I'm looking up like pub med articles

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talking about genetic influences on gambling.

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It seems to be like relatively figured out that there is definitely genetic influences on addiction.

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Apparently there's genetic influences on your predisposition to cheating in relationships.

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Like there is, I'm not gonna go as far as to say

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free will is not a thing, but like.

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There's a lot of influences coming from a lot of places. Are we just a bucket of chemicals and electrical impulses?

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Is that all I am to you? There is definitely a lot of that chemical stuff going on.

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I think you've, yeah, I don't know. I think you've got some agency,

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but I do think there's a lot of influences all the time

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from various things. And it might not be very clear where those influences

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are coming from, and it can be extremely difficult to resist them.

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Eggnog in April says, there's a genetic predisposition

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on your mom. Nice.

02:20:43.300 --> 02:20:44.380
Based comeback.

02:20:46.300 --> 02:20:49.460
Okay, moving on with, let's get far away from things

02:20:49.460 --> 02:20:50.900
we deeply don't understand.

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Okay, Noctua and Prusa Research have introduced

02:20:55.900 --> 02:20:59.540
3D printing filaments in signature Noctua colors.

02:21:01.220 --> 02:21:03.420
Heck yeah. Oh, for crying out loud.

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All right, well. That's all the photo for this, thought it was fake.

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That's all I have to say about that. Heck yeah. Now you two can print in brown.

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McDonald's removes AI generated ad after backlash.

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This is an amazing story. McDonald's and the Netherlands put out a festive,

02:21:21.380 --> 02:21:25.860
oh, you can call it festive, I guess, AI generated holiday ad calling Christmas

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the most terrible time of the year, which they elaborated on in a statement

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that it was meant to highlight the stressful moments during Christmas in the Netherlands.

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The ad features a compilation of unrealistic Christmas events

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going wrong, like opening your tree in the branches flinging you out of your front window,

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or Santa and his reindeer causing a traffic jam. Their solution?

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Wait till January in a McDonald's.

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The online criticism mostly regarded the use of AI slop replacing genuine human work.

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Melanie Bridge, the CEO of the studio behind the ad,

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however, clapped back and said, it's about expanding the toolbox,

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the vision, the taste, the leadership. That will always be human.

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And further defended their ad claiming,

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the hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot.

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Why then? Why?

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10 people, five weeks full time. Discussion question, is AI the solution

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to accomplishing shoots like this with limited resources? If the AI shots didn't include people,

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would that make it more acceptable? Okay, so first up, five weeks full time

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would not be nearly enough to do that shoot with people.

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Because what about all the extras? Like what about all of the human actors?

02:22:44.760 --> 02:22:49.880
Like nevermind the editors and storyboarders and director and camera operators.

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10 people, five weeks full time. Yeah, I know, still.

02:22:53.320 --> 02:22:56.560
10 people, five weeks full time, bullshit. Okay, yeah, sure.

02:22:56.560 --> 02:23:01.040
I thought you were saying there was five weeks full time of total hours put in.

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Oh, no, no, no, sorry. 10 times that. No, with all the logistics involved,

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with that many shots, I can tell you as someone who does video things,

02:23:09.440 --> 02:23:12.440
there's no way that they could make that exact commercial.

02:23:12.440 --> 02:23:16.320
Like there would have had to be like CGI work.

02:23:16.320 --> 02:23:20.040
Like no, there's no way. Absolutely freaking, no way.

02:23:20.040 --> 02:23:25.200
Well, they're not saying making that exact video. They're saying making a 44 second McDonald's ad.

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Sure, but like. No, like that was specifically their point.

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Okay.

02:23:32.720 --> 02:23:35.280
I'm not trying to defend them, I'm just saying.

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Isn't that funny? They weren't saying they would make this exact video.

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Far exceeded a traditional shoot.

02:23:42.480 --> 02:23:46.600
Okay, so what's their, okay, so what's their defense then?

02:23:46.640 --> 02:23:50.040
That they paid more labor hours than they would have,

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but they got a better commercial. That they didn't use it to like cut the effort, I guess.

02:23:56.440 --> 02:23:59.760
Which like, what a whiff, if that's the case.

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I'm focused, what was the benefit?

02:24:02.760 --> 02:24:05.240
It doesn't look particularly good in my opinion.

02:24:06.600 --> 02:24:09.720
Yeah, I mean, I gotta be honest with you,

02:24:09.720 --> 02:24:14.160
as far as like commercials go, I actually thought it was kind of cute.

02:24:14.160 --> 02:24:18.480
Like I don't look at it and go,

02:24:18.480 --> 02:24:23.040
this commercial is so bad, I couldn't watch it. There are definitely things that they did in this

02:24:23.040 --> 02:24:27.520
that are pretty normal for commercials like this, like the cookie talking in the oven.

02:24:27.520 --> 02:24:30.560
Yeah. There's like for sure. Yeah.

02:24:30.560 --> 02:24:35.200
Ad campaigns that have had that. And that would be very expensive to do. And definitely take more time, like you were saying.

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Yep.

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I don't know, man. I can also fully understand why people are mad about it.

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Because there is definitely stuff that doesn't look professional.

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Like the way the cat jumps on the tree and the physics are completely wrong.

02:24:53.120 --> 02:24:54.800
Like it, yeah, it sucks.

02:25:00.200 --> 02:25:05.200
Am I just, am I just so, have I just given up

02:25:07.040 --> 02:25:12.040
to the point where I'm accepting this garbage?

02:25:12.720 --> 02:25:17.440
Is that what's happening? There was parts of this that was just so unnecessarily AI,

02:25:17.440 --> 02:25:23.480
which is strange. I'm wondering if the studio that did it is like an AI studio

02:25:23.480 --> 02:25:27.960
and they're shoehorning it into things. Cause like there's stuff here that like,

02:25:29.520 --> 02:25:33.040
it's just so unnecessary. Like the cookie, okay.

02:25:33.040 --> 02:25:36.200
I can understand you like saving a bunch of time

02:25:36.200 --> 02:25:42.680
by having AI animate a talking cookie instead of doing it yourself. But man, there's a lot of stuff that's just, why?

02:25:42.680 --> 02:25:46.920
If you just did it normally, it would have looked better and taken less time.

02:25:48.360 --> 02:25:51.760
Sick? Like, yeah, this is very weird.

02:25:51.760 --> 02:25:58.680
Yeah, it's a, this is a tough one. I, it's very clear that this is going to happen.

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I am honestly surprised that McDonald's even pulled it down though.

02:26:04.360 --> 02:26:08.000
Like, like what?

02:26:08.000 --> 02:26:12.160
Coke did one last year and then their new one, they did it again.

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They just didn't have humans in it, which is like completely missing the point.

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And I don't think, I don't, is anyone even mad about Coke's this year?

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I'm not sure.

02:26:31.720 --> 02:26:35.320
Tim's got an interesting take. I just don't care. It's an ad.

02:26:35.320 --> 02:26:38.600
I'm never going to watch the ad anyway. Nice.

02:26:38.600 --> 02:26:39.440
Nice.

02:26:41.800 --> 02:26:45.000
Okay. I mean, I think people might not like it that much.

02:26:45.000 --> 02:26:50.560
One of the top comments on the video with 22,000 upvotes is the most profitable commercial in Pepsi's history.

02:26:53.800 --> 02:26:59.040
That's pretty good. That's pretty good, but it's also pretty.

02:26:59.040 --> 02:27:02.920
It also got 1.6 million views. It's also pretty echo chamber-y.

02:27:02.920 --> 02:27:07.920
Yeah, for sure. Like there's a, it's been interesting.

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You know, over the last, let's say a week or two,

02:27:13.920 --> 02:27:17.720
seeing how self-important some communities

02:27:17.720 --> 02:27:22.720
can think that they are and how influential

02:27:24.360 --> 02:27:28.400
they might think that they are. Like, you know, you look at Reddit for instance,

02:27:28.400 --> 02:27:30.800
something can front page Reddit,

02:27:31.440 --> 02:27:36.000
with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of upvotes.

02:27:36.000 --> 02:27:41.880
But what are the odds? Like, think about it. What are the odds if you went to the park by your house

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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.

02:27:47.400 --> 02:27:51.640
Yeah, it's- Functionally zero. As someone who is, tries to not be,

02:27:51.640 --> 02:27:56.000
but is a little bit too chronically online, I have to remind myself of this sometimes.

02:27:56.000 --> 02:28:00.520
And I had a very recent conversation where someone was talking about how something is like,

02:28:00.560 --> 02:28:04.840
it's such a hot button issue and you have to be careful about it. And I was like, I don't think so,

02:28:04.840 --> 02:28:09.040
with practically anyone, unless you are extremely chronically online.

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Like, a perfect example- So I think most people have no idea what you're talking about.

02:28:12.160 --> 02:28:15.360
Like a perfect example of that would be like the Harry Potter thing.

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Yeah. Like if you're chronically online, and especially if you exist within certain communities

02:28:21.240 --> 02:28:24.320
or counter communities, Yes. It's like-

02:28:24.320 --> 02:28:28.560
Daniel knows about it. It's like a major, like it's a culture war thing, right?

02:28:28.560 --> 02:28:33.560
But, you know, if one of my kids' friends comes over

02:28:34.640 --> 02:28:38.400
and I'm like, oh, what do you think of Harry Potter? They're just like, oh, I love Harry Potter.

02:28:38.400 --> 02:28:43.720
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.

02:28:43.720 --> 02:28:48.600
Your kid says they like Harry Potter. They're like, oh yeah, Harry Potter, you know, the lightning bolt thing.

02:28:48.600 --> 02:28:52.600
You know, with the scarf, right? Like they don't care. They don't know they don't care.

02:28:52.600 --> 02:28:57.320
Yeah. There's other things going on. They got other things to care about.

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And it's interesting.

02:29:01.600 --> 02:29:05.920
Yeah. Angry panda PC says, but I am important and I agree.

02:29:05.920 --> 02:29:11.080
I agree you're important. Everyone's important, but not everyone is important to everyone else.

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Here's another weird thing. Even if you are chronically online,

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these days, it doesn't even necessarily matter that much

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because your feeds are so heavily algorithmic

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that you probably still are out of the loop

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on so many things. Because like I remember someone,

02:29:31.120 --> 02:29:38.280
there was a thread on Reddit recently about how YouTube unlisted all of their rewinds.

02:29:38.280 --> 02:29:43.880
Yeah. And it's like, yeah, I remember being on YouTube

02:29:43.880 --> 02:29:48.280
back in the day. And like if there was something big happening on YouTube,

02:29:48.280 --> 02:29:51.280
as someone who went to YouTube, you would just know that.

02:29:52.280 --> 02:29:56.680
But now we were talking before the show, there was a creator in our space

02:29:56.680 --> 02:30:00.080
with over a million subscribers that neither of us had ever heard of.

02:30:00.080 --> 02:30:03.680
Yeah. Because they made a type of content in our space

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that we just wouldn't happen to come across. Alyssa Jean Papi says,

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if a person behind a franchise spends all their money on wanting to stop making me exist,

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I think boycotting is really the least you could do. My point- We're not saying anything about that.

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My point wasn't what people should or shouldn't do. My point was that they don't know. Yes.

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That is the only point. You can't care about something that you literally don't know.

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Yeah. And I think that we often live in echo chambers

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and in communities where the issues

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that are very important to us, like, oh man,

02:30:34.400 --> 02:30:38.240
like what would be an example that would be like a really tech community?

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Like, okay, what percentage of people, if you went to the mall, right,

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and you went and talked to somebody, what percentage of people there would know

02:30:46.520 --> 02:30:49.960
that DDR memory is expensive? Yeah.

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And the impact of that on the world. Of the ones who knew

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what percentage of them would be impacted. Like, out of computer enthusiasm,

02:30:57.200 --> 02:31:02.520
so you've got your total population, right? Then you've got your like tech enthusiast bubble.

02:31:02.520 --> 02:31:06.160
And then within that bubble, you've got the people who are actually shopping

02:31:06.160 --> 02:31:10.000
for a new computer right now, who are actually spending money right now.

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And then, like, that's it. It's this tiny little fraction.

02:31:16.200 --> 02:31:21.200
And so, yeah, there's people who are very mad,

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who are following this whole AI thing.

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And particularly, you know, generative AI video.

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And out of that, the people who sort of care

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about the replacement of labor of the, you know,

02:31:35.040 --> 02:31:39.160
the cinematographers and the actors and the writers

02:31:39.160 --> 02:31:42.560
and all the people who would have otherwise worked on this.

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And I think it's just like, yeah, you could probably easily find

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what did that top comment have, like 20,000 to 22,000 upvotes.

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Those 22,000 people, they matter. Those are living, breathing souls

02:31:55.280 --> 02:31:59.000
with blood coursing through their veins. They're also an incredibly tiny percentage

02:31:59.000 --> 02:32:03.560
of the global population. Alyssa Jean Puppy, hopefully I said that right,

02:32:04.560 --> 02:32:09.400
said in full-plane chat, okay, but JK Rowling is all over the news about that.

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At least in the UK, which is just another version.

02:32:13.440 --> 02:32:16.880
She's not over here, because she's not from over here.

02:32:16.880 --> 02:32:20.720
She's from over there. And she's not trying to influence legislation over here.

02:32:20.720 --> 02:32:24.280
And we're aware because we're terminally online. Yeah.

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But you've got a geographical filter.

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We're not trying. Then you've got to keep up with the news filter.

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Then you've got to cares about this issue filter.

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And then you've got to even remembers it filter. There's just, there's so many layers

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until you get down to what can be a very large number of people.

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Especially over the last like decent amount of years.

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There's been a lot of difficulty going around.

02:32:51.760 --> 02:32:56.760
And people might be struggling to survive at all themselves

02:32:57.560 --> 02:33:00.760
and the issues that applied very directly to them

02:33:00.760 --> 02:33:06.600
is going to be what's important to them when they're fighting for survival all the time.

02:33:06.600 --> 02:33:09.720
They have to deal with their own problems, right? They have to put their mask on first.

02:33:09.720 --> 02:33:14.120
And it's tough, but like. Cato asks asks.

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So then do people outside the U.S. think Elon Musk is great then?

02:33:18.320 --> 02:33:23.080
A lot of people think Elon Musk is pretty great.

02:33:23.080 --> 02:33:26.880
That's the whole point we're trying to make. Don't care.

02:33:26.880 --> 02:33:30.240
Yes. At all. Or just don't care at all.

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Yeah. Yes. The answer is yes.

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I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There's an incredible amount of people in the world

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that don't even know who he is. Yes, that's a thing.

02:33:43.880 --> 02:33:48.600
I know it seems crazy, right? In our tech sphere, right?

02:33:48.600 --> 02:33:52.520
How could anyone in the tech sphere not have heard of the techno king

02:33:52.520 --> 02:33:56.840
as he self-proclaimed himself to be a number of years back, right?

02:33:56.840 --> 02:34:00.040
In D260 he said there are idiots through the whole world.

02:34:00.040 --> 02:34:04.800
We're not saying they're idiots. No, that's not what we're saying at all.

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Some of them might be. The fact is that education is a problem?

02:34:09.840 --> 02:34:13.400
No. No, that's not what we're saying at all.

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We're saying that there's a whole wide world out there with many, many interests and many, many priorities

02:34:19.920 --> 02:34:26.560
and not everybody shares them. And in this algorithmically curated world that we live in.

02:34:26.560 --> 02:34:33.200
You might literally just never see it. And we may, and that is in a lot of ways by design

02:34:33.200 --> 02:34:37.200
on the platforms. Like what percentage of subreddits that exist?

02:34:37.240 --> 02:34:40.280
Do you imagine you've been personally exposed to?

02:34:41.200 --> 02:34:45.320
Like dude, I've been kinda hooked on R slash all over the last like week.

02:34:45.320 --> 02:34:48.520
I try not to get too into the red at black hole. R slash what?

02:34:48.520 --> 02:34:55.160
Oh, just like, just like, and it's just like, it is realistically like a handful.

02:34:55.160 --> 02:34:56.560
Am I the asshole?

02:35:00.680 --> 02:35:05.120
PCMR shows up there every once in a while. Comics shows up a fair bit.

02:35:05.160 --> 02:35:09.640
There's like, it's probably over the span of a week,

02:35:09.640 --> 02:35:14.520
several dozen subreddits that contribute to the majority

02:35:14.520 --> 02:35:19.520
of the like vastly uploaded content on the site.

02:35:20.440 --> 02:35:23.600
But there are, what is it up to?

02:35:23.600 --> 02:35:27.400
Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands? Are we at millions of subreddits?

02:35:27.400 --> 02:35:29.080
How many subreddits are there?

02:35:32.560 --> 02:35:37.760
3.8 million. What percentage of them?

02:35:37.760 --> 02:35:41.920
Do you think you've been exposed to? 3.8 million as of 11 months ago.

02:35:41.920 --> 02:35:45.800
So, and yeah, Len, Len, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa,

02:35:45.800 --> 02:35:50.040
or however I pronounce this in flow plain chat says, y'all just gotta ignore this stuff.

02:35:50.040 --> 02:35:54.160
I never get to see it and I'm so happy I don't have to. My feed is just cool stuff and DIY.

02:35:54.160 --> 02:35:57.400
And that's also like, it is a- And that's exactly our point.

02:35:57.400 --> 02:36:01.560
For people that are terminally online, it is somewhat surprising to hear

02:36:01.560 --> 02:36:04.560
that a ton of people have recognized

02:36:04.600 --> 02:36:08.680
that being constantly dialed into everything that is happening in the world

02:36:08.680 --> 02:36:15.040
and how the fact that the further we move away from local news, when we move closer to global news,

02:36:15.040 --> 02:36:18.560
like back in the day, you could have a newspaper that's talking about like the fair

02:36:18.560 --> 02:36:23.400
that's happening in town. So there isn't gonna be all that much really horrible things

02:36:23.400 --> 02:36:26.960
because you're centralized to a smaller area. That was a different kind of bubble.

02:36:26.960 --> 02:36:30.560
It was a more geographical bubble. Yeah, when you're now looking at more global news

02:36:30.560 --> 02:36:35.560
and you look at the news that's gonna float to the top, it's gonna be the most rage-baiting,

02:36:35.560 --> 02:36:39.200
crazy, horrible things possible because that's what's gonna get more views.

02:36:39.200 --> 02:36:43.840
So you're only gonna get news about all of the most horrible possible things happening

02:36:43.840 --> 02:36:47.000
and it's really bad in a lot of ways for your brain.

02:36:47.000 --> 02:36:51.680
That doesn't mean that not being that dialed in is, for example, an education problem

02:36:51.680 --> 02:36:56.040
or an ignorance problem or being stupid. I mean, it's literally an ignorance problem.

02:36:56.040 --> 02:37:00.040
But maybe not a problem. It literally is ignorance. In a negative way, yeah.

02:37:00.040 --> 02:37:04.840
It might be ignorance, but not necessarily an ignorance problem. To certain people, they don't wanna be exposed

02:37:04.840 --> 02:37:09.920
to that pipeline of extreme constant negativity because it can be bad for you.

02:37:09.920 --> 02:37:15.880
Or it's just, you know, they got other stuff going on. High seven, 69, 69 Hex says people should be informed.

02:37:17.320 --> 02:37:20.760
How much? Noble sentiment. How many things do you not know about?

02:37:20.760 --> 02:37:25.120
You're speaking English. Do you know everything that's happening in China right now?

02:37:25.120 --> 02:37:29.680
I don't. Like... I know Hassan's Billy Billy stream got turned off.

02:37:29.680 --> 02:37:33.360
I'm just pretty sure. Sure. Do you know it?

02:37:33.360 --> 02:37:36.460
Like, yeah, do you... I don't know. There's so many layers to that.

02:37:36.460 --> 02:37:40.760
And like your level of knowledge does not mean that everyone else's level of knowledge

02:37:40.760 --> 02:37:45.380
is inferior. It's... There are an incredible amount of things

02:37:45.380 --> 02:37:49.040
that I know nothing about that I'm sure are incredibly important.

02:37:50.260 --> 02:37:53.700
And I have no clue. Yeah.

02:37:53.700 --> 02:37:58.220
And again, like we're not trying to argue

02:37:58.220 --> 02:38:02.380
that that's the way it should be. That ain't the argument.

02:38:02.380 --> 02:38:07.380
We're just pointing out that that is how it is.

02:38:07.380 --> 02:38:12.460
Not everyone cares about AI or AI slop or...

02:38:12.460 --> 02:38:17.980
Yeah, dude, the amount of people that are just totally ignoring and don't care about that at all

02:38:17.980 --> 02:38:21.100
is very high. Super high. And the number of people who are like,

02:38:21.100 --> 02:38:24.340
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go. Also very high.

02:38:24.340 --> 02:38:28.460
Yes. And that is fact.

02:38:30.420 --> 02:38:34.260
Sorry. Yeah.

02:38:34.260 --> 02:38:39.020
Am I gonna have to do a shirt over this? Sorry, AI is a thing.

02:38:39.020 --> 02:38:44.700
Like I... Oh, man.

02:38:44.700 --> 02:38:48.020
Cause I'll do a shirt. I don't mind.

02:38:48.020 --> 02:38:50.720
I could do trust me, bro. AI is a thing.

02:38:51.860 --> 02:38:55.020
Hashtag, ad block is piracy.

02:38:55.020 --> 02:38:59.060
Just we'll combine all the scandals.

02:38:59.060 --> 02:39:03.420
It's like, sorry, the things that you do know are probably less important than the myriads

02:39:03.420 --> 02:39:05.660
of things that you don't. Ooh.

02:39:07.700 --> 02:39:09.020
Wow, that's a...

02:39:11.380 --> 02:39:15.740
Okay, another news. What the heck is this?

02:39:15.740 --> 02:39:19.540
Facebook and malware bites. Okay.

02:39:19.540 --> 02:39:22.380
I recorded this on my computer.

02:39:23.320 --> 02:39:26.660
Okay. Here we go.

02:39:26.660 --> 02:39:30.160
So I got my OBS interface here. Here we go.

02:39:30.200 --> 02:39:33.240
I got this email from Facebook.

02:39:33.240 --> 02:39:36.760
Okay. And I was a little irritated. Wow, this quality though.

02:39:36.760 --> 02:39:41.440
This is really blurry. One moment, please. It's actually not just my eyes this time.

02:39:41.440 --> 02:39:44.520
There we go. Okay, okay. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

02:39:44.520 --> 02:39:47.760
So I was told that a post from 2015

02:39:47.760 --> 02:39:52.120
was flagged for copyright infringement. Okay, so I clicked through

02:39:52.120 --> 02:39:56.520
and I made my way over to our... Oh, no, no, no, no, no, right, right, right, right, right.

02:39:56.520 --> 02:39:59.520
Hold on. Okay, let's get the story right. So I got an email from Facebook

02:39:59.560 --> 02:40:03.400
asking me about some feature and I was trying to figure out

02:40:03.400 --> 02:40:08.000
how to turn off emails from Facebook about all of their page management nonsense.

02:40:08.000 --> 02:40:11.600
There was no unsubscribe. There was no...

02:40:11.600 --> 02:40:14.760
Because I don't wanna block every email because occasionally,

02:40:14.760 --> 02:40:19.120
because it's for the page manager email. Like occasionally they might send me something

02:40:19.120 --> 02:40:23.880
about my payment method being wrong or something. So I can't just block emails from Facebook.

02:40:23.880 --> 02:40:27.040
So I'm like, okay, there's no way to unsubscribe to this.

02:40:27.040 --> 02:40:34.720
There's no link to the interface where I can change my contact settings.

02:40:35.120 --> 02:40:40.900
So I clicked through to my Facebook page to try to figure out where the heck in the interface

02:40:40.900 --> 02:40:45.000
I was supposed to disable this stupid email notifying me of some stupid feature

02:40:45.000 --> 02:40:52.600
that I don't care about. The first thing that came up was that I had a copyright claim

02:40:52.760 --> 02:40:55.560
against a post from 10 years ago.

02:40:56.400 --> 02:40:59.560
Okay, so here we go.

02:40:59.560 --> 02:41:02.680
All right, so let's watch this. Here's what happened so far. No one else can see your post

02:41:02.680 --> 02:41:05.960
because it was reported for copyright. Okay, so here are my options.

02:41:05.960 --> 02:41:11.120
Oh yeah, I went back to the beginning. No one else can see your post because it was reported for copyright infringement.

02:41:12.640 --> 02:41:17.520
This is the post. Lifetime malware bites for $20 on Amazon US.

02:41:17.520 --> 02:41:20.440
Go, go, go, and it's a link to a tweet.

02:41:21.380 --> 02:41:25.280
Okay, I don't see how that could infringe on anyone's copyright. That actually sounds awesome.

02:41:25.280 --> 02:41:28.600
I kind of wish I did that. 10 years ago, who cares?

02:41:28.600 --> 02:41:33.880
So I click it. I'm like, okay, so it's a link to an Amazon search for malware bites.

02:41:33.880 --> 02:41:37.960
Yeah. Okay, so I click continue. Who could possibly care about this?

02:41:37.960 --> 02:41:41.000
Malware bites corporate holdcoe

02:41:41.000 --> 02:41:47.560
or their authorized representative managed to find a post from 10 years ago.

02:41:47.560 --> 02:41:50.880
Well, they crawled it. Well, right, but why? Who cares?

02:41:50.880 --> 02:41:53.960
And also, what are you talking about? How does it infringe your copyright?

02:41:53.960 --> 02:41:58.320
Okay, so anyway, we don't allow content that whatever. So I can accept the decision.

02:41:58.320 --> 02:42:02.960
I can submit an appeal or I can contact malware bites corporate holdcoe.

02:42:04.000 --> 02:42:07.720
I think I'm about to dox malware bites corporate holdcoe. So yeah, there's their email address

02:42:07.720 --> 02:42:10.020
and phone number anyway. Submit an appeal.

02:42:13.040 --> 02:42:16.720
Nothing happens. Go to form. Go to form.

02:42:16.720 --> 02:42:21.920
Go to form. Hello? It doesn't open another window.

02:42:21.920 --> 02:42:25.760
Nothing, it doesn't do anything else. Go to form.

02:42:25.760 --> 02:42:29.480
Strategic bugs. I like it. What the heck is this?

02:42:29.480 --> 02:42:34.720
What is going on right now? So here's the email from Facebook.

02:42:34.720 --> 02:42:37.800
How do I start a fan challenge? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

02:42:37.800 --> 02:42:42.760
No unsubscribe. I'm fairly certain that this email is illegal in Canada.

02:42:43.600 --> 02:42:46.900
Like, what is it? What is it? Can spam again?

02:42:46.900 --> 02:42:51.000
There is no, I have not opted into this.

02:42:51.040 --> 02:42:54.720
I went into my Facebook notification settings later.

02:42:54.720 --> 02:43:01.480
Actually, yeah, I think it was after I turned off the screen recording. I have everything that I can find turned off

02:43:01.480 --> 02:43:07.680
and they sent me this bulls*** from a stupid like malware bites

02:43:07.680 --> 02:43:10.880
claiming copyright infringement that I can't appeal.

02:43:10.880 --> 02:43:13.920
I don't even care. I don't need a 10 year old post on Facebook.

02:43:13.920 --> 02:43:17.240
It's just, how is this so broken? No, I'm not getting fished.

02:43:17.240 --> 02:43:20.280
It goes to actual Facebook.

02:43:20.280 --> 02:43:23.560
What the heck? That's all. That's all I have to say about that.

02:43:23.560 --> 02:43:29.600
I was just, I was in between rounds at my badminton ladder going through my email.

02:43:29.600 --> 02:43:34.440
Like, I was like, what is this? I don't know how to deal with this right now.

02:43:34.440 --> 02:43:38.960
That's very annoying. What I do know how to deal with is a big shout out

02:43:38.960 --> 02:43:42.380
to the LTT forum folding team.

02:43:42.380 --> 02:43:45.520
We had a record breaking event folding month eight.

02:43:45.520 --> 02:43:48.840
In total, the team produced over 230 billion points.

02:43:48.840 --> 02:43:54.040
That's nearly three times last year's total. We had 369 participants, nice.

02:43:54.040 --> 02:43:57.200
And user Stobin demolished the previous record

02:43:57.200 --> 02:44:01.640
of six billion points and earned 112 billion points.

02:44:01.640 --> 02:44:05.680
I don't know exactly what that means. Oh, of the previous record was six and it was 112.

02:44:05.680 --> 02:44:09.360
Wow. Special thanks to Livin', Mr. Chuk Kote.

02:44:09.360 --> 02:44:14.120
Yeah, Pencrice. Yeah. Yeah. Sula May, Jawa Juice, Bricksider, Dogwitch

02:44:14.120 --> 02:44:18.200
and an anonymous forum member for donating a total of 55 prizes to the event.

02:44:18.200 --> 02:44:21.440
Additionally, 20 participants will be walking away

02:44:21.440 --> 02:44:24.980
with a $100 LTT Store gift card.

02:44:27.240 --> 02:44:31.920
Justin Miller, a scientist from the Bowman Lab at the University of Pennsylvania was very impressed

02:44:31.920 --> 02:44:35.280
by the total simulation time that the LTT,

02:44:35.280 --> 02:44:40.000
or that folding at home contributed of 8.6 milliseconds during November.

02:44:40.000 --> 02:44:44.600
He said, that sounds like a small amount of time, but that is a ton for the types of motions

02:44:44.600 --> 02:44:48.640
that we like to study. And roughly two to three orders of magnitude more

02:44:48.640 --> 02:44:52.200
than most simulation focused papers tend to have on their own.

02:44:52.200 --> 02:44:56.960
Nice. So massive thank you to everyone who participated. The final rankings and Justin's complete summary

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can be found in the final blog at,

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well, this link. Dan, do you wanna throw the link in the various chats?

02:45:04.920 --> 02:45:09.280
But basically here. Doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop. Yeah, super cool.

02:45:09.280 --> 02:45:13.640
Heck yeah, folding month. And I think we've got just one more topic

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before we get to After Dark. The world's first flying car.

02:45:17.800 --> 02:45:19.320
Here it is.

02:45:21.280 --> 02:45:26.040
Well, it's a flying car. The world's first flying car is now being handmade

02:45:26.040 --> 02:45:30.040
in California. And this right here.

02:45:30.040 --> 02:45:33.080
See all the dust and see all like the air being blown up?

02:45:33.080 --> 02:45:38.840
Is exactly why I think I'm convinced that this is, pardon the pun, never gonna take off.

02:45:40.160 --> 02:45:43.560
Yeah. I mean, that's just, it's been the argument, you know?

02:45:43.560 --> 02:45:47.840
Aleph Aeronautics, a US startup, has started building its electric flying car,

02:45:47.840 --> 02:45:53.040
the Model A, by hand in California, becoming the first company to put a drive

02:45:53.040 --> 02:45:58.240
and fly car into production. The flying car can drive on regular roads

02:45:58.240 --> 02:46:05.720
and can take off vertically to fly with around a 220 mile driving and 110 mile flying range.

02:46:06.200 --> 02:46:11.200
Apparently the startup has already received 3,500 preorders,

02:46:11.720 --> 02:46:19.020
which is a lot, considering that the flying car is expected to start at around $300,000.

02:46:19.040 --> 02:46:23.080
But there are a couple of small problems that are not included in our notes,

02:46:23.080 --> 02:46:28.040
that are kind of hilarious. As cool as it would be to dunk on the Cybertruck

02:46:28.040 --> 02:46:31.320
by literally flying over it.

02:46:31.320 --> 02:46:34.640
It looks so sketchy. Have you watched this? Yes, I have.

02:46:34.640 --> 02:46:36.840
I just watched it. It looks so sketchy.

02:46:38.000 --> 02:46:39.960
Then the wheels are so thin.

02:46:41.800 --> 02:46:45.800
It's like, oh man.

02:46:48.200 --> 02:46:53.200
I feel like they just put like a fiberglass frame

02:46:53.640 --> 02:46:57.080
on a like high carrying capacity drone.

02:46:57.080 --> 02:47:00.360
A detail that was overlooked is that at this time,

02:47:00.360 --> 02:47:04.400
it can only take off from and land at airports.

02:47:04.400 --> 02:47:08.040
So like, what is the f***ing point of it?

02:47:12.200 --> 02:47:15.320
The whole idea behind flying car,

02:47:15.320 --> 02:47:18.720
like the whole connotation of car

02:47:18.720 --> 02:47:22.640
is that you park it at your house and you like drive it to work

02:47:22.640 --> 02:47:26.680
or you go get groceries and you like park at your house again.

02:47:26.680 --> 02:47:31.320
You can drive to the airport and then not like have to get out and get into a plane.

02:47:31.320 --> 02:47:34.800
You can drive to the airport and then just take off from the airport.

02:47:37.160 --> 02:47:43.760
This was pretty great. You can drive 220 miles with a 110 mile flight range.

02:47:43.760 --> 02:47:47.320
Wow, so it's only half the, that's actually. That makes a lot of sense.

02:47:47.320 --> 02:47:49.200
Yeah. Less than a year.

02:47:51.720 --> 02:47:56.760
I haven't seen it drive. Have you seen it drive? Is there a video of it driving?

02:47:56.760 --> 02:48:00.280
I've only seen it somewhat sketchily fly.

02:48:01.440 --> 02:48:05.640
I don't think I've seen it drive. As soon as I found out that it's slow,

02:48:05.680 --> 02:48:09.400
has crappy range, is expensive,

02:48:09.400 --> 02:48:13.280
has all the issues of any other personal flying vehicles

02:48:13.280 --> 02:48:16.720
with the big one being, I forget what it's called, wash out or something like that.

02:48:16.720 --> 02:48:21.720
Basically, the displacement of air that they need is so big

02:48:22.640 --> 02:48:29.160
and the propellers that they can accommodate for any kind of VTOL functionality are so small

02:48:29.160 --> 02:48:32.280
that they have this like tiny cone

02:48:32.280 --> 02:48:35.360
that basically blows away anything anywhere near them.

02:48:36.080 --> 02:48:41.080
There is, with the laws of physics being what they are,

02:48:41.320 --> 02:48:46.080
as far as I can tell, no reasonable path

02:48:46.080 --> 02:48:49.760
to driving one of these from your front driveway

02:48:49.760 --> 02:48:55.280
to your parking lot at work. They would blow so much crap around on the parking lot

02:48:55.280 --> 02:49:00.120
that you'd be denting and scratching everyone's car that you're anywhere near, people would hate it,

02:49:00.120 --> 02:49:04.780
they're so loud. Much larger propellers can help

02:49:04.780 --> 02:49:10.860
with the high-pitched noise and all of that, but you still have to deal with all that air displacement

02:49:10.860 --> 02:49:14.980
in order to lift this like hundreds of pounds vehicle

02:49:14.980 --> 02:49:21.700
plus whatever people and cargo that you wanna carry in it. Like it's just not going to happen, it seems.

02:49:21.700 --> 02:49:26.540
Or you could buy a really nice, really sweet car

02:49:26.540 --> 02:49:30.100
to drive to the airport and then get in your own

02:49:31.540 --> 02:49:35.380
just like experimental craft. That thing looks pretty sick.

02:49:35.380 --> 02:49:39.780
What's the side impact crash rating on this flying car?

02:49:39.780 --> 02:49:44.260
For sure, just nothing, the crumple zone is you.

02:49:45.620 --> 02:49:49.700
Like, come on. You are expected to crumple alone in the car, yeah.

02:49:49.700 --> 02:49:52.780
It's just gonna absorb the impact. It's just gonna hit the batteries?

02:49:52.780 --> 02:49:56.580
Yeah, sure, like, come on.

02:49:58.260 --> 02:50:01.460
Very fun, very cool, very good. It looks cool.

02:50:01.460 --> 02:50:05.700
They go out of their way, it seems, to make it really hard to see how skinny chicken

02:50:05.700 --> 02:50:08.860
these tires are. Dude, they're so narrow.

02:50:10.900 --> 02:50:14.140
Oh, man. Yeah, you can see them there.

02:50:14.140 --> 02:50:18.340
Yeah. They look like wheelbarrow tires. Yeah, yeah.

02:50:19.300 --> 02:50:23.020
Oh my gosh. Yeah. So this is-

02:50:23.020 --> 02:50:26.260
Damn, dude. Yeah, this is- You said they got pre-orders?

02:50:26.260 --> 02:50:30.100
Apparently. That's the craziest part to me. That's what it says on the notes. And working on this is cool.

02:50:30.100 --> 02:50:34.980
I actually have no issue with that at all. Okay, so we just had a huge long conversation

02:50:34.980 --> 02:50:38.740
with the audience about ignorance. Remember?

02:50:38.740 --> 02:50:40.860
Not everybody is an engineer.

02:50:42.100 --> 02:50:46.180
And a lot of people would think, oh, well, you know, they got,

02:50:46.180 --> 02:50:52.140
I forget what body they got approval from, but they like are making progress to this being a product

02:50:52.140 --> 02:50:54.020
that they actually ship.

02:50:55.460 --> 02:51:00.780
And so if I heard that they got their, yeah, airworthiness certification from the FAA,

02:51:00.780 --> 02:51:04.780
they got an airworthiness certification. That's huge. That's huge.

02:51:04.780 --> 02:51:07.780
Right? So I'd be like, oh yeah, flying car.

02:51:07.780 --> 02:51:11.740
I see this picture. I go, I mean, what, yeah, 300 grand?

02:51:11.740 --> 02:51:15.100
I mean, that's only 10 times the price of a car

02:51:15.100 --> 02:51:21.220
that doesn't fly, right? That's so many more degrees of freedom.

02:51:21.220 --> 02:51:25.780
That's so good. Honestly, if they just never released this video,

02:51:25.780 --> 02:51:29.100
I feel like they'd do better. Well, they've been doing pretty good up till now.

02:51:29.100 --> 02:51:33.300
They got their pre-orders. And yeah, not everybody's an engineer.

02:51:33.300 --> 02:51:37.660
So yeah, I could see people pre-ordering it if they just don't do the math.

02:51:37.660 --> 02:51:42.620
Like it wasn't until, for me too, that I came across like a really good article.

02:51:42.620 --> 02:51:46.180
I wish I could find it so that I could bring it up. I read it and then I like kind of lost it.

02:51:46.180 --> 02:51:51.700
And then I never saw it again. But it was a really good article that basically kind of walked me through the math

02:51:51.700 --> 02:51:55.020
of how this is just like kind of fucking impossible.

02:51:55.020 --> 02:51:58.140
And they're like, at the end of it, they're like, look, don't short it

02:51:58.140 --> 02:52:03.140
because they'll stay irrational longer

02:52:03.140 --> 02:52:07.460
than you'll stay solvent or whatever. Like I'm not saying you should like short these companies

02:52:07.460 --> 02:52:12.140
and try and make a bunch of money on their downfall or whatever, I'm just saying, don't invest in them.

02:52:12.140 --> 02:52:16.460
Don't pre-order this stuff because this ain't happening.

02:52:16.460 --> 02:52:20.180
This is not happening. I'm like, oh, okay, bummer. Cause that'd be awesome.

02:52:20.180 --> 02:52:23.380
Like I'd be so down. I hope that, you know,

02:52:23.380 --> 02:52:27.940
they got their flight worthiness thing, whatever. I hope that it ends up being awesome.

02:52:27.940 --> 02:52:31.460
Cause like, why not? I just, that video

02:52:31.460 --> 02:52:34.660
wasn't awesome does not make it look good.

02:52:34.660 --> 02:52:37.500
But hey, I mean, all power to him. Good luck.

02:52:38.820 --> 02:52:42.140
Oh, cool.

02:52:42.140 --> 02:52:44.540
Hi, Larry is not fun.

02:52:46.540 --> 02:52:50.500
Is that it after dark? I think it's time for after dark. Nice. Mr. Daniel Besser hit us.

02:52:52.180 --> 02:52:56.820
Let me just get the banner and the button. Oh yeah, not, not financial advice.

02:52:56.820 --> 02:53:00.540
Just throwing that out there. I always got to throw that out there.

02:53:00.540 --> 02:53:05.020
Okay, let's see what we've got today. Hey dudes, aside from YouTube,

02:53:05.020 --> 02:53:10.420
which single company's sudden shutdown would have the most immediate detrimental impact on LMG,

02:53:10.420 --> 02:53:14.260
which would be the most beneficial. A beneficial shutdown.

02:53:15.380 --> 02:53:19.260
I don't know if there's anyone. We're all about kind of, we're all about partnerships.

02:53:19.260 --> 02:53:25.980
I don't think there's anyone that I would look at and go, yeah, them shutting down would be highly beneficial to us.

02:53:25.980 --> 02:53:30.780
Who'd be beneficial? I usually see the like, the competitor maybe,

02:53:30.780 --> 02:53:36.060
but I don't really see us as having competitors in a traditional sense. I usually see, especially the space we're in,

02:53:36.060 --> 02:53:39.420
not all spaces, but the space we're in is rising tide lifts all ships.

02:53:39.420 --> 02:53:42.420
Yeah, me too. I think the more people that are interested in tech

02:53:42.420 --> 02:53:46.540
will help all of us. And if other people in the tech space

02:53:46.540 --> 02:53:50.100
are making good content, I think that will help us not hurt us.

02:53:50.100 --> 02:53:55.700
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

02:53:55.700 --> 02:54:00.940
that I did with John, I was talking in the interview

02:54:00.940 --> 02:54:05.940
about how our viewership has kind of struggled lately, right?

02:54:06.620 --> 02:54:10.580
But I did that interview a couple of months ago.

02:54:10.580 --> 02:54:16.860
And so that obviously there's a ton of comments on the interview with people giving me their brilliant ideas

02:54:16.860 --> 02:54:22.460
for what I can do to fix my channel or how talking about how, you know,

02:54:22.460 --> 02:54:26.020
yeah, it's all because, you know, Alex and Andy are gone

02:54:26.020 --> 02:54:28.220
or whatever the case may be, right?

02:54:29.300 --> 02:54:34.220
But what people don't bother to do is check and see

02:54:34.220 --> 02:54:37.980
if there's any truth whatsoever to their hypothesis.

02:54:37.980 --> 02:54:42.420
And to be clear, I'm not saying that, you know,

02:54:42.420 --> 02:54:46.260
I wouldn't, yeah, that I don't love working with Alex and Andy or whatever,

02:54:46.300 --> 02:54:49.580
but we've actually had a nice little resurgence lately

02:54:49.580 --> 02:54:56.260
and we are back to the kinds of numbers that we were doing, you know, earlier this year slash,

02:54:56.260 --> 02:55:00.620
you know, before the recent dip. Like in fact, we're quite a bit higher than that now.

02:55:00.620 --> 02:55:07.180
We're tracking to do probably more like 80 million views for December, it looks like.

02:55:07.180 --> 02:55:12.300
So that's back up at a level that's sort of closer to sort of November of last year.

02:55:12.300 --> 02:55:15.940
Like there tends to be kind of, there's a seasonality to it to a degree, right?

02:55:15.940 --> 02:55:20.940
So we are higher than probably in the next month,

02:55:21.420 --> 02:55:25.140
we'll be higher than probably about eyeballing this,

02:55:25.140 --> 02:55:29.580
70% of the months of the past, like 18.

02:55:31.900 --> 02:55:36.500
So thank you for your advice and your analysis

02:55:36.500 --> 02:55:40.780
of, you know, why LMG is failing or whatever the case may be, but we're not failing.

02:55:40.780 --> 02:55:48.180
And a big part of why we don't fail is we are constantly looking inward, looking outward,

02:55:48.220 --> 02:55:51.260
figuring out, you know, what it is that we need to do differently.

02:55:51.260 --> 02:55:56.020
How can we generate excitement? How can we elevate our content? How can we optimize our processes?

02:55:56.020 --> 02:55:59.140
And the answers are always gonna be different

02:55:59.140 --> 02:56:02.500
in an ever-changing world that is competitive,

02:56:02.500 --> 02:56:05.780
even if I don't see other YouTubers

02:56:05.780 --> 02:56:08.780
or other media outlets as competitors.

02:56:08.780 --> 02:56:13.500
Does that make sense? Yeah, and we've had great people leave

02:56:13.500 --> 02:56:17.940
and we will have great people leave and we will have great people join.

02:56:17.940 --> 02:56:21.740
Yes, and then leave. And we are a business in constant flux,

02:56:21.740 --> 02:56:26.060
just like every single other business. And we will have different eras

02:56:26.060 --> 02:56:32.060
because there will be different people here at different times. And like Taylor Swift, I may do a tour about my eras.

02:56:32.060 --> 02:56:36.820
You might, you might. Probably not. And this is all extremely normal.

02:56:38.060 --> 02:56:39.720
Yep. That's okay.

02:56:41.080 --> 02:56:44.800
Everything is a normal thing

02:56:44.800 --> 02:56:50.640
that is happening right now. And, and, you know what's another normal thing?

02:56:50.640 --> 02:56:54.080
For there to be times of unusual strife.

02:56:54.080 --> 02:56:59.080
Yeah. That's also normal, even if it is abnormal.

02:56:59.080 --> 02:57:04.280
And so there will be- It's normal to have times of abnormality. There will be future times when,

02:57:04.280 --> 02:57:07.440
you know what, we might hire a lot. There will be future times

02:57:07.440 --> 02:57:10.760
when we might have a lot of turnover. There will be future times

02:57:10.760 --> 02:57:14.200
when our content is not performing well. And there will be future times

02:57:14.200 --> 02:57:20.280
when our content is performing really well. And, and all of that is just part of the natural ebbs

02:57:20.280 --> 02:57:25.400
and flows of, of running a business in a, in a fast, fast, fast changing world.

02:57:25.400 --> 02:57:29.280
Maybe Steam will release or Valve will release a bunch of hardware all at once.

02:57:29.280 --> 02:57:33.240
Yeah. That was, that was nice. That was- Let's go. What a Christmas present that was for us.

02:57:33.240 --> 02:57:37.640
Yeah. You know, it was, it was encouraging, right?

02:57:37.640 --> 02:57:41.520
You know, cause it's not like I- No, it totally was. It's not like I'm immune to, you know,

02:57:41.520 --> 02:57:45.960
feeling a lack of confidence sometimes, right? Like, you know, I see the content not performing.

02:57:45.960 --> 02:57:50.880
I go like, do I even, do I even got this anymore? You know, like I'm always asking myself that.

02:57:50.880 --> 02:57:55.400
And then someone does me the, the like bare

02:57:55.400 --> 02:58:00.800
minimumist favor of releasing some hardware that's interesting and we get like,

02:58:00.800 --> 02:58:03.920
what, four million views on one of them and like four and a half on the other,

02:58:03.920 --> 02:58:07.680
three and a half and four and a half. Yeah, 3.8 and 4.8 right now. Yeah, something like that.

02:58:07.680 --> 02:58:10.760
And I'm just like, oh, okay, no, no, I still do know, I still do know how to do this.

02:58:10.760 --> 02:58:15.960
I did those videos in like two hours each. Just the Steam machine won't cost what you think

02:58:15.960 --> 02:58:19.600
got 2.6. Yeah. Like, it was a good video.

02:58:19.600 --> 02:58:26.520
It's just cool, interesting stuff. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think, not just I, I think we've still got it.

02:58:26.520 --> 02:58:31.880
I do think that we have, I mean, you guys were even talking about this before the video,

02:58:31.920 --> 02:58:35.520
before we started plan shows, just like looking at some of the process bloat and stuff.

02:58:35.520 --> 02:58:39.000
We have, yeah. We have problems.

02:58:39.000 --> 02:58:42.760
There's gonna be, there's gonna need to be some work done

02:58:42.760 --> 02:58:46.920
on kind of addressing how things flow

02:58:46.920 --> 02:58:51.040
through the company and stuff. I think so. And it's just, you know, we've existed

02:58:51.040 --> 02:58:57.040
for so many years at this point and we've kind of always just built.

02:58:58.040 --> 02:59:02.440
There hasn't really been a lot of removing things,

02:59:02.440 --> 02:59:07.560
cutting back on certain things, trying to see, hey, if we cut out a bunch of processes here,

02:59:07.560 --> 02:59:13.720
what happens? What would happen? Yeah. Because sometimes like there's process

02:59:13.720 --> 02:59:17.720
that was originally designed to help solve problems,

02:59:17.720 --> 02:59:22.720
which due to misuse or rot or improper initial creation,

02:59:23.480 --> 02:59:27.120
actually it just creates more problems,

02:59:27.120 --> 02:59:34.040
creates more cycles for people have to do, especially cycles that suck and they don't want to do ever,

02:59:34.040 --> 02:59:38.080
that is like absolutely a thing that happens. So yeah, we have things to address,

02:59:38.080 --> 02:59:41.400
but we're working on it and that's normal.

02:59:41.400 --> 02:59:45.240
Especially as far as my understanding goes, when companies get to around this size.

02:59:45.240 --> 02:59:51.520
Yeah. Like this ends up being a major problem when companies get around the 100 plus ish size,

02:59:51.520 --> 02:59:55.160
which is exactly where we're at. Everything changes. Yeah.

02:59:55.160 --> 02:59:58.000
So this all makes sense. And there will continue to be change.

03:00:00.040 --> 03:00:03.160
Someone asked, here we go, capture the bomb,

03:00:03.160 --> 03:00:06.560
ask speaking of ebbs and flows, how's the badminton club doing?

03:00:06.560 --> 03:00:08.760
I don't know, you tell me, here's a live feed.

03:00:10.640 --> 03:00:16.960
Okay, looks pretty good to me. Got some people playing some badminton all up in this.

03:00:16.960 --> 03:00:20.040
How embarrassing would it be to just biff right now?

03:00:20.160 --> 03:00:23.760
They'll be fine. They're solid players actually, it's a good club.

03:00:25.920 --> 03:00:29.960
Yeah, no, this is one of those ones where like,

03:00:29.960 --> 03:00:32.700
it was a passion project that like,

03:00:33.760 --> 03:00:41.200
you know, was never really like intended to make money. And it's still a little more complicated than like, yeah.

03:00:42.560 --> 03:00:45.600
You know, yo, I'm making money, C, so yo, world, I hope you're ready for me.

03:00:45.600 --> 03:00:49.120
Now get out of the round. Yeah, you know, like it's not quite that, right?

03:00:49.560 --> 03:00:53.640
I wish it was a little bit tall. Yeah, yeah, well, that yes, but.

03:00:55.080 --> 03:00:57.720
Oh, I honestly wasn't even memeing that, I just...

03:00:58.600 --> 03:01:04.040
No, no, no, no, well, that's the different artists, different song, I was Humpty Dance,

03:01:04.040 --> 03:01:11.560
like totally different. I knew you used to like that song, it's fine. Okay, the point is that, yeah, we kind of accidentally,

03:01:11.840 --> 03:01:17.040
we kind of accidentally a good sports facility that's actually doing really well.

03:01:17.080 --> 03:01:21.200
Like there's probably a solid. Yeah, we're just accidentally a successful business.

03:01:21.200 --> 03:01:26.560
Yeah, there's probably a solid like 60 people in there right now, there's people in the concession,

03:01:26.560 --> 03:01:29.800
there's some people hanging out in the lounge, there's people in the retail shop.

03:01:29.800 --> 03:01:32.080
Is the concession like a thing yet? Uh-uh.

03:01:33.640 --> 03:01:38.240
But we do have those cool, like Japanese style, like hot food vending machines.

03:01:38.240 --> 03:01:41.840
Yeah, okay, cool. I mean, that's nice.

03:01:41.840 --> 03:01:45.800
Yeah, so Smash Chams will use them except when there's Whale Land.

03:01:45.800 --> 03:01:51.400
Yeah, sure. Is there any progress on having an actual concession?

03:01:52.280 --> 03:01:56.760
No. Okay. Yeah, the managers feel extremely strongly

03:01:56.760 --> 03:02:00.280
that we need to have a steam room and a sauna.

03:02:00.280 --> 03:02:04.880
I'm really not sure that I agree that's that important, but we also want to put in some more showers,

03:02:04.880 --> 03:02:09.240
we only have a couple right now. Showers I could see. We should add more.

03:02:09.240 --> 03:02:15.280
I think that a steam room and sauna is a very optional thing for a badminton club, but.

03:02:15.280 --> 03:02:18.640
Yeah. I basically told them, look, you're allowed to put it in

03:02:18.640 --> 03:02:21.680
as long as it doesn't cost any of our floor area.

03:02:21.680 --> 03:02:25.640
If you don't use up floor plate, then like, if you can put them above the showers

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at the back or something like that, I'm open to it. But they pitched me like splitting up the gym

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and putting that at the back and putting the like sauna, steam room, shower stuff,

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like upstairs, I'm just like, no. We are not doing that.

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A gym is a way more relevant thing to a badminton club than that.

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I can see people wanting to do sauna, doing sauna after physical activity is pretty sick.

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Sure. But yeah, if you could just try to make it additive,

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if possible. Also the concession will help money for sure.

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Yes, no, actually. At a place where people are constantly exercising? I heard that other clubs that have tried to do them,

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it's been break even at best.

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So we may be better off. I think we get a pretty narrow margin

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on those vending machines, but we may actually be better off with the vending machines.

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TBD, oh, I bumped that. Interesting. I do know, as far as my understanding goes,

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you usually have to make the concession like actually pretty good

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and then it ends up also getting things like Uber Eats orders.

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Interesting. Because there's, it's actually very rare

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that you can get like actually pretty well, like balanced meals on Uber Eats.

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So like Gold's Gym in Langley has like a

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protein shake. Yeah, and also some like wraps and stuff,

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but they're like more protein heavy. Oh, that's cool. Like they don't have high sugar counts

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and all that other kind of stuff. So like if you did like, oh, it's a badminton gym,

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so there's things that like, you know. We could do a smash burger.

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I think that's pretty far from the point I was trying to make.

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But it's great for the branding. It is great for the branding.

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It is absolutely. Like something, I mean, I would personally appreciate,

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I don't know if this is the right fit for smash chance,

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probably not necessarily, but I think it maybe should be,

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is if you had like a protein shake kind of thing

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and it had like five grams creatine,

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I think that would be sick. It's hard to get, booster juice does it,

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but there aren't that many other places that do. Interesting. So like I think there are ways to make it make sense,

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but I think you have to kind of open up the interest in that where it's not necessarily just the badminton club

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that would be interested in it. Yeah, I'd be down for that. There would be, the thing is like,

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you have to find someone to kind of spearhead that, right? And right now we're just, we're busy figuring out

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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,

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but we haven't been taking money for a year. So we've been like soft open,

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but our grand opening was less than a year ago. So we still have a lot of little things to figure out.

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Yeah, I realized, sorry, the numbers I was showing before

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didn't look like we were tracking up that much, but last 30 days, 85 million.

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So that's actually like quite, quite up there

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with our top months over the last 18, 75.

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It's like almost on par with like August 2024. So we're, we're tracking back up and we'll track back down.

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Yep. And that's okay. It's okay, we'll survive.

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We will survive. As long as I know how to take, I know we'll stay alive.

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Dan, hit me. Hello, my parasocial friends.

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Oh, hi there. I'm not a Floatplane subscriber because I already have two similar subscriptions

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and my brain refuses to let me have another. Do any of you have arbitrary rules like this?

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Oh, tons. I don't think that's arbitrary. I think limiting the number of subscriptions you have is

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totally fair. Totally not arbitrary.

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I mean, the two I guess is an arbitrary number, but I think two is a pretty good number.

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Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to me. Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to me. I really don't, I probably have,

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huh, I think I have one.

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I'm not even trying to flex. Netflix? Nope. Netflix.

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Oh, that's right, you ditched it a while back. Long time ago. What do you have then?

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YouTube. Oh yeah, just YouTube premium. Yep, okay.

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My company got hacked last month through a zero-day exploit in Centerstack.

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Bummer. It looks like we paid the ransom for the encryption key.

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Have you guys known anyone who has paid? What is the process?

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I haven't. I actually don't.

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Yeah, right, yeah, good call. Who's there?

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Scammers. Fuck you, man, get out of here.

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No, I've been here for months.

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Yeah, sorry, I don't know anything about the process.

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Bummer, sorry to hear that.

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Okay. Hi, LLD.

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Linus, do you still daily drive a 7900XTX?

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What's your take on where our DNA3 is headed after being missing in Wednesday's Redstone announcement?

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I mean, this is kind of classic AMD. I think for the most part, they do their best to support their older products,

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but they are a much smaller company than NVIDIA.

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Still, even after all the success that they've had on the CPU and the APU side, I'm not surprised by it.

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The 7900XT just does not have the neural processing to do what they would want it to do with FSR Redstone.

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As far as I can tell, I'd love to be wrong, but it just doesn't really seem like it.

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And yes, I'm still daily driving it in my PC upstairs,

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but I've actually been doing more than half of my gaming

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on my PC downstairs, because that's like where my kids are usually sitting

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and Yvonne doesn't game. So I would either be sitting by myself upstairs,

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or if I was streaming, I would be upstairs, but I haven't streamed in like forever.

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So yes, it's still in my main machine,

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but I haven't been gaming on it as my primary card for a little while.

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Hi, LLD. My partner and I are combining our skills to go into business together.

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My question for Linus is, was there anything you should have discussed

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with Yvonne before working together? Oh yeah.

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I think something that we, even to this day,

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are not perfectly aligned on is, where's the end point?

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What is the target we're trying to hit?

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And I think that having that agreement, especially if you're going into business

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with, it sounds like a romantic partner,

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having that agreement in place is going to be critical

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to maintaining harmony in your relationship.

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Because if one of you has the goal of,

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you know, achieving a better work-life balance

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by running your own business and being able to set your own hours,

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and one of you has the goal of conquering the world

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and taking, you know, the business fear by storm,

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then it's gonna be hard to agree

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when you've achieved success because you both have completely different goals.

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And,

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talk about that.

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Mary, Mary Linus, Luke and Dan. Hey, Mary, Mary, Mary, Pippin.

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Yeah, I like that. What about second Mary?

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What are the rings is based? I'm looking, wow, hot take there, Luke.

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You know, I'm bringing the spicy ones out today. Yeah, you're really gonna piss off

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a lot of the community with that one. No offense, but I thought the Lord of the Rings

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was pretty okay.

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I'm looking to introduce my mother to a new video game this holiday season.

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Any recommendations with good story that would be easy to learn for the elderly?

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For the elderly.

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Good story.

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I feel like games are getting harder, not easier. Starting Valley Animal Crossing,

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and I'm not typecasting because it's grandma, those are just like Animal Crossing in particular,

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I know, was widely accepted by a non-gaming audience.

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I think starting Valley is also a potentially lower lift

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in regards to non-gaming audience.

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Outside of that, I think very like narrative heavy games.

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If you try to think of the types of games where like,

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people would enjoy chilling on the couch while you play because it's like fun to watch

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and then you pair that with, they're not mechanically overly difficult.

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I suspect that would work pretty well. Promortises guitar hero.

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Yeah, how about not? Ben Bob said Elder Scrolls Daggerfall, which is...

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Yeah, not gonna go super well.

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Pay-Kratt's a good suggestion, Telltale Games.

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Just a bunch of different Telltale Games are all probably decent. If there's something in the Telltale Games universe

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that fits their fancy, then that might be a good way to go.

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I mean, there's Soma, you can turn the enemies off.

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Can you actually just turn them off? Yeah, yeah, that would be fun.

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The last one I have for you today is Hi, LLD.

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Is there any early stage or emerging tech you're particularly excited about?

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I mean, the emerging tech is all robotics and AI, right?

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That's kind of the big one. AR glasses.

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Yeah, AR glasses are pretty cool. Oh, I don't know if the thing I tried today was embargoed,

03:12:33.460 --> 03:12:37.060
but it was cool. Neat.

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I am scared about the current direction of AR glasses,

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but I'm hoping that... But more AI? Well, yeah. And the people who are winning right now.

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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?

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No, there's no deal. I don't see it. They don't have the game bundle.

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I thought it was supposed to still be running though. It's always while quantities last.

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We probably sold them all last week. Got it.

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Okay. I'm willing to bet. I just see 3D mark with this,

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which is definitely not Battlefield 6 and whatever the other games were.

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Like here, check this out. I bet if I go to like a lesser known retailer or something,

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they will probably have it. Yeah, see? So like Canada computers, gift code redemption.

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Cause the promo is still running, but I talked about this last week.

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Is that a Canadian promo? Cause I'm looking at specifically the America.

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Oh, I don't know any America retailers that are not new eggs.

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So it'd be hard for me to check, but if they still had smaller retailers,

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then I pretty much guarantee that while supplies last,

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they would have stock of the promo cause new egg did run out of them and then they did restock them.

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So they have a cost, right? Like Intel has to buy more copies of these games.

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So they don't just run them for forever.

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Yeah, that makes sense. And you know what else doesn't run forever?

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This show that that's a good guess.

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Oh, we'll see you again next week.

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Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye.

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Oh.