live live drops done you're an orc now always have been top done top done what
needs to work hey quit it mean not that kind of orc
noise I love how this like super late shows get into being exactly as on time
as all the other shows to do that more often
ah all right gamers oh I haven't actually tried like like being at my full
volume like like what's up everyone and welcome to the WAN Show what's up
everybody how you gamers doing welcome to the WAN Show Luke you're on the same
audio setup you're always on we don't have to test we need to test this no we
don't it's a big dog what's up big dog my laptop's a little low it looks fine on
my end I have it balanced no no I mean the I mean I'm looking down my chin is
down a lot you got some you when I'm looking at the dock yeah I'm gonna I'm
gonna go try to find a little box or something yeah yeah imagine eating a
box or something else got him doesn't even phase it anymore it doesn't even
care I'm just gonna mute his mic temporarily unless he's trying to talk I
don't know I think we can hear him but the stream can't I think that's how this
works oh I thought he was leaving
unmuted
there we go that looks a little better if I have to look down at the dock then
I'm not just like completely nice all right cool my my sitting really uneven
yes all right there we go right oh I keep leaning why am I leaning oh I know
why I'm leaning because the home row on laptops is slightly to the left okay
there I'm just gonna go like this there okay there now I should I know I should
be able to sit straight all my landmarks are in place nice hoodie nice hoodie
bro nice non-infringing definitely not gonna get us in trouble hoodie are they
like actual copy-paste of what or they legally distinct from what I don't know
all right let's let's talk about it on show okay um some body wants told me
not start that then why would you start that what's wrong with you I mean
technically yes I'm using a webcam for my video but it's it is one of the
bougiest of webcams for sure we need them as default now they're excellent does
it come with that ring light thing the software yeah it comes with the software
but the software doesn't work so I don't know yeah I don't know if I would
endorse it for that reason yeah it's the razor one since we had it anyway we got
it for that webcam roundup and I was like oh well I'm going away I'm gonna
have to do a remote-want show well I should just whatever one's the best
that's not like I have to pay more for a webcam I already have so I'll just take
whatever the best one is and it's yeah it's pretty it's it's pretty nice yeah
that was not a cat that was my ringtone I should meet my phone okay yes yes yes
you know oh there's definitely no cat here bro another biggest TV again I
feel that's so repetitive it's only repetitive if it's not bigger than the
last one and this one is a much a much bigger than the last one bro another
build guide very repetitive bro you're showing a graphics card of you very
repetitive you're talking about computers again Linus what do you think you're
doing it runs on electricity that's kind of derivative repetitive talking to
Luke on Fridays very repetitive that's the most repetitive thing ever what are
you doing Elijah speaking about phones with other people very repetitive moving
vlog people have moved before very repetitive I mean we've we've reached
our Simpsons did it era at this point yeah quite a while ago you released
cables other people have released cables very repetitive I think we're up to
10,000 videos like that across all the channels Dan would know the answer to
the number I don't know it's like 12,000 why yeah it's ridiculous number go up
uploading videos oh man people are getting me saying repetitive over and
over again is very repetitive done ready when you guys are crap should we just
should we just do it yeah no starting the Wancho is very repetitive do you want
to start it and I'll let you know when we think you do that every Friday wow
can't believe it I'll have to be live to stream wait till I say that thing at the
end of the show super repetitive wait till I say the thing that I say at the
beginning of the show I think we found out I think we found out why why I've
fallen off it's all just repetitive to repetitive all right well and welcome to
the show-show okay you know what no I'm gonna go to the washroom first I'll go to the washroom
first then I'm ready to start okay muting I got you
Luke switch spots no no no
it's illegal I don't even want that to be weird ick you want you want to see me
from that side dude it's this side this is the correct don't do that again it's
weird isn't it yeah it's bad yucky it's not good if you rotate the thing the
promise there's nothing left to rotate turning him upside down would just be
weird so this mic upside down please don't yeah no I think we're good rotate
his desktop I don't know man he wouldn't even know there is no headrest that's
why I said there's nothing to flip oh you can't even see right now okay well
there is no headrest they don't need to it's there's just no headrest my chair
also has no headrest there you can see you can see this isn't moveable this is
just the chair I don't know where the headrest even went I think they're new
chairs a what really really maybe I don't know maybe they are
the calf at the bottom put us down the problem is like none of this stuff is
gonna bother him he's not here I can't affect he's an immunity bubble of not
being on the set cheating man everyone's talking about flipping stuff and then
Rooker said getting a female attention is probably a good thing and just the
middle of nowhere and I have no idea what context that's supposed to be yes
they are new chairs thank you Sean okay cool yeah there's nothing to flip I
keep telling them there's nothing to flip they want me to flip something there's
no headrest and you're also not here I can't like flip something where you are
that doesn't work flip the bird all right settle down flip Linus yeah but then
like if I flip this over it just looks stupid for the whole show yeah that's I
think that's like feeding into what he wants yeah you guys don't understand it
really is the original thing was that he flipped it over and then I would turn it
the correct way now everything's the correct way and you guys are asking me
to flip it over which is what he wants this is my whole point there's no three
for me in the current state of the set and him not be there you go that's like
the one thing we can do I'll fight you try to host the show that way would be
insane those glorious though does this one work there we go wow all right let's
start this thing okay there we go do you want to start me and I will call it or
vice versa nope I'm not logged into the thing okay doki so you just call it and
then and then we just go for it let me know when you're ready I'm ready okay
wait no I'm not ready okay did you start it no okay I need a sweater okay
what
no that's what I looking fresh on you Jamie you got to get an official tag
thing email support at flow my calm from your official work email and be like
hey this is my this is my full plane account give me a thing because then we
can then the whole chat can see that your official Jamie I forgot oh yeah no
worries it's all good me just you know sometime I'll email for you
I mean you could that'd be fine
Jamie is more important than the others you have one Elijah you did this process
what are you talking about all right here we go all right Dan sorry I'm ready
for real now that's okay Luke are you ready yep for real for real and now I've
lost the bloody there is one ready Dan okay doki really wasn't actually resuming
selected this okay so it is resumed my hair doing today it happens you wear a
helmet all day okay sorry it looks very young actually
all right there you what's up everyone welcome to the WAN Show we got a great
show for you guys this week of course the big news is discord requiring facial
scans for age verification oh man you can you can tell how passionate the
writing team is about a particular topic when you see Jordan is like I am
going to very thoroughly talk about why this is very upsetting yeah yeah we're
gonna be getting into that also oh man we had we had we had the other huge
privacy nightmare did did anyone watch rings a Superbowl ad cuz I did yeah okay
what else we got Luke get find me some good news you got the good news right
modern standby won't train your pattern anymore maybe maybe possibly and yes
slaps is already mobilizing to try to look into it because part of the
question here is has anyone else verified this so we're gonna try it's
it's gonna be difficult to conclusively verify but we're gonna try also let's see
I have a machine that definitely is very often on in my backpack so it's it's a
it's a chronic offender so maybe we could maybe we could work together in other
great news mr. Beast just bought a banking app you picked that yeah what
could go wrong just roll the intro
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first topic today which is of course the big news from discord discord announced
that it will start rolling out age verification globally beginning in March
just five months after a breach from a third-party age verification vendor
exposed the government IDs of around 70,000 discord users I don't think the
timing for this could be a lot worse well no actually it could have been worse
it could have been just four months after a breach but I think you understand
what I mean the platform is going to automatically configure all user accounts
for what they're calling a teen appropriate experience unless those users
are proven to be adults now it is worth noting that apparently not everyone is
going to have to submit proof of being an adult but the way that they get you
know non-user submitted proof of your adulthood is not going to make you a lot
happier than submitting the proof all right yeah first let's talk about what
happens with users that are not verified adults they will not be able to
access age-restricted servers or channels they won't be able to speak on
stage channels they will see content filters for anything discord decides is
graphic or sensitive they will see warnings about friend requests from
users they might not know I mean honestly that's fine and will have dm's
from unfamiliar users go into a separate inbox frankly those last two should
just be platform-wide I'll die on that hill dm's from friends and interactions
on non-age restricted servers will operate as they always have users with
pre-existing subscriptions to restricted servers we'll have those oh this is
wild we'll have those servers content obfuscated until they pass age
verification checks the craziest part of this Luke and I feel like okay part of
me wanted to wait until the end of you going through the information before
talking about this but I feel like I just have to jump in right now the craziest
part of this is they didn't have to do this there were some jurisdictions that
are pushing for stronger child safety measures that are that are putting
pressure on on social media platforms including discord to put these kinds of
checks in place but then they didn't have to roll it out globally and we've
seen this before sometimes it's a huge benefit to a user base you
know when Apple gets a bunch of pressure from the EU to use USB type-c guess
what we get USB-C iPhones everywhere so sometimes this works out really great
but this is software so there was no real reason other than maintaining two
forks I guess that they had to do this like do you have any thoughts on this
as someone who you know has led a couple of software teams now currently yeah I
mean I wouldn't want to touch this at all ever and like they talk about how
they I think this is maybe in the notes somewhere again we haven't gone through
all but yet but they talk about how they're gonna delete it immediately but
then they also talk about we'll get into that I just mean like why would they
maintain the two forks can you give me a reason why they would roll this out
globally when a lot of the world is not putting any pressure on them to do this
I think the two forks can be really annoying and I think they might see the
wall a little bit that a lot of different countries are moving in this direction
I mean that's fair that's that's fair the momentum is really building I can't
believe how quickly we went from everyone kind of agrees that
social just BS anyways oh no I was going somewhere else like social social
media is like really bad for kids oh yeah and then like sometimes legislation
can seem to move pretty quickly like there are there are you know minor phones
right now it's moving pretty fast move pretty fast really did yeah it took
forever to get anywhere and then it was like okay we're doing something okay
got it all right let's let's let's keep talking speaking to the Verge
discord's global head of product policy stated that and this is a quote for most
adults age verification won't be required huh remember how I said though
that you weren't necessarily going to like how they were doing that she went
on to explain the discord's age inference model uses account information
such as tenure device and activity data and high-level patterns to attempt to
determine the user's age range so I guess I'm safe because I still use gifs
which are apparently boomer meta now oh but I call them that which means you're
obviously ancient so you're you're good you're in the clear for sure if the
system is unable to infer a user's age the user will be prompted to take a video
selfie for facial age estimation discord claims the video won't leave your device
but as many commenters noted that does not mean that your biometric data is
safe alternatively you can submit a scan of government issued ID along with a
selfie as definitive proof of age age will be apparently estimated using the
KID tool from Swiss based vendor privately discord claims images of
documents are deleted in most cases immediately after age
confirm it what does in most cases mean why would it not be in all cases and they
also claim they don't keep the information from the ID which you know
you tell a community like discord that oh yeah we're gonna you know we're only
gonna do this with it and we're gonna delete it probably immediately and it
will totally be fine of course they're gonna start you know pulling at every
loose thread they can find so some discord users posted on reddit saying
that policies for KID and privately don't exactly line up with what discord
also think this is actually out of date information oh okay I full plane chat
got me going down a path and then I started googling some things and it
sounds like they've swapped out the KID plan okay no they're now going down they
didn't do a like roll it back situation they just switched partners and now
they're working with a company called persona and people in full plane chat
I've not verified this yet are saying that persona is owned by Peter teal so
wait this is out of date but not in a way that it is getting better in any way
no like potentially worse yeah why you were for an actual fairly extended
period of time in the UK as an experiment okay yeah sorry I there's
some stuff going on here I'm not a hundred percent sure what it is there's
a red thread from 11 hours ago like this is very new discord is assured its
users that it is using KID for its facial age estimation this is a beaten
switch KID is an on-device zero knowledge proof you can scan your face
then KID runs an assessment model locally and estimates your age I mean that
sounds pretty alright this court only receives a token let's say blah blah
blah that sounds not too bad persona is a corporate partner of Palantir a
spying surveillance company that blah blah blah blah they quote-unquote delete
your information within minutes usually but they retain the embeddings the
embeddings are machine readable portion of your face or ID something
something something oh this is promise KID but is giving us persona this is all
relatively new okay so I don't know about all this here's what we can say
definitively we can say that so far the story from discord doesn't seem to be
firmed up in a way that is making their community happy yeah I think we can say
that many commenters have mentioned canceling nitro subscriptions and or
moving to other platforms even if they don't get prompted to verify their
accounts others have started placing bets on how long it'll take for discord
to be hit with another breach because of course everybody bets on everything now
this is not financial advice I would not get involved in that personally
commenters have also brought up some pretty well I've a pretty familiar debate
between the real name solved everything crowd and the privacy advocates
reminding us that while there can be benefits to people using real names I
you know okay well this is pretty early in the show for me to say something this
controversial but I appreciate or at least appreciated before it was so full
of spammers the real identity element of Facebook marketplace it was a lot easier
to navigate knowing that for the most part these were real people yeah it's
just scammers anyways now it's just scammers anyway they seem to have kind
of overcome it yeah so there have been there has been at least one time when I
personally enjoyed and appreciated that element of a web service but it's worth
reminding even the people who do enjoy that vibe that online privacy can be a
literal life-and-death issue sometimes and even when it's not life-and-death many
folks have a good reason not to share their identities as explained by
Redditor radia active truth this is a quote am I really going to associate my
legal name with the PTSD groups that I'm part of because of course they're not
safe for work so I would need to be age verified like do you know how sickening
it would be to the hundreds of members there to have to put our legal names on experiences that scarred us right like there's so many perspectives there's so
many ways that people use the internet and connect on the internet that rely
on not being forced to upload a government issued ID okay Luke go ahead and
say it oh just like this was obviously inevitable oh no I was gonna I was I
wanted you to just tell us you already use TeamSpeak just like you already use
Firefox because you're just that cool I do I do use TeamSpeak though like I
actually do I okay I use an older version of TeamSpeak I I do think I
have never used this one but I do think a lot of people are unaware so like okay
hold on hold on hold on hold on I'm gonna go back speak the answer Luke is
TeamSpeak the answer I think for most people the answer is going to be to stay
on discord which is really sad I would encourage you to try something else now
when we go back to the old greats Ventrilo is still showing off this this
UI so okay that might not be working for a lot of people mumble is still showing
off this UI so again it it might not be up there for a lot of people even though
both of them are based I'm just saying but TeamSpeak is trying I haven't tried
this version of TeamSpeak but they have like chat channels and server browsers
and friends lists and chats and like it looks a lot like discord I when the
group of people that I joined that was using TeamSpeak told me they're using
TeamSpeak I was excited about this and then I realized that we're still using like I think TeamSpeak 3 or something nice also someone in chat said TeamSpeak
6 is just a matrix server with a different UI which brings up matrix which
is another thing a bunch people have been talking about I had that ready thank
you thank you for priming me on that flowpoint chat matrix is another option
that people are exploring things are built on top of this which I can't
confirm that this is actually just built on top of matrix but it I mean that
would maybe make sense but there there are there are other options I know a
lot of people are going to run into this this thing and just go like well okay
discord is the only thing out there for a weird blip of time people used Skype
before then people used like yeah a huge variety of things mumble ventrilo
TeamSpeak X fire a razor comms for four and a half minutes I was I was gonna say
I was gonna say I mean the show is already brought to you by razor three
other times why don't they resurrect comms yeah the show can be brought to you
by razor comms but a discord did fully pull a Amazon Walmart maneuver and
effectively kill everything else so there really isn't much but momentum yeah
not much that has any meaningful sort of user base that they could that they
could grow that they could kind of quickly grow from yeah yeah but there are
efforts out there and I would implore you to at least check them out matrix
sounds really exciting they're also I'm not gonna name them just because the
open source people can be a little spicy sometimes but there's been a
couple people in Floatplane chat that have been like yeah but matrix is kind of not great I've never personally used it but I've heard great things
milia's points out that steam chat has actually improved a lot way better between
the time that we actually relied on steam chat quite a bit and then discord
took over and then was dominant valve has quietly continued to improve the
social experiences of just using steam I mean I don't so I said what was lack
slack is not an acceptable replacement for gaming groups in my opinion yeah
that's a tough one and I don't love the the fact that steams social experiences
which still aren't amazing are baked right into the steam platform I want
something that is truly cross-platform and like okay yes they have the mobile
app but like this is this feels like one of those things where if Microsoft and
the Xbox team were like on it they you you know where I'm going with a hundred
they were never will if they were dialed right yep like if they were dialed this
would have been solved so long ago they were dialed they never would have
abandoned MSN messenger and then now they would have like a gaming yeah version
or something I don't know they would have some form of way to like tied into
gaming if only Microsoft had known how enormous social networking social media
was going to be because they were they were so far ahead they had all the
mindshare all of it yeah nothing else mattered other than MSN and Skype which
they bought like trillion was dead ICQ was dead aim was dead everything was
dead they were just they were it only show in town yeah some people are saying
like the hardest thing will be I think it was Elijah I don't know I lost it no
it was Elijah the hardest thing would be getting whole groups to move like I have
a server with 1500 people how do I move everyone yeah no that's really that's a
great point yeah because you there will be there's also a lot of discord bots and
discord integrations for different communities and stuff I discord is I
think it's free to self-host I'm pretty sure so like maybe consider that
because it's still free but like I don't know guys this isn't this isn't it I
don't think I think we're still gonna be waiting for what it is but when you look
at the mass of what discord is and then you try to tell me nitro is fully
funding that platform sorry bro there's no way I don't believe I had this
conversation with one of the writers the other day forget who it was but they
were they were making the argument to me that yeah do you have any idea how
much people spend on nitro and all that and I'm just looking at it going like I
don't think it looks like they've they've gone I mean we've seen it so many
times that I don't know why oh it was Elijah we've seen it so many times that I
don't understand why we keep getting surprised by it a new service shows up
it's totally free it's totally way better than anything else that you would
probably have to pay for or is free and you know kind of jank because it's a
handful of people that are working on it in their spare time like of course you've
got mumble up on screen right now yep that checks out and everyone migrates to
it they get the user base that they keep growing the user base which allows them
to you know keep getting access to funding to keep burning money and then
at some point the piper comes calling and they have to figure out how to make
money on it and they come up with all these ideas and they convert some of the
users to paid but it's it's not enough I don't think I'm convinced that nitro is
enough geek power points out there are ads in discord yep fair enough as someone
who uses it unpaid with no nitro and okay admittedly I do have I do have a
pretty solid built-in ad block into my brain but I have I don't think I've ever
seen an ad in discord I've okay they bother me about nitro but I just
dismissed that pretty good there are cosmetics I know very few people that
have paid cosmetics there are free well I know people that have those okay yeah
right you only need a few whales you only need a few whales when it comes to
cosmetics I still think there's gonna be just like what happens with basically
every platform I think there's gonna be a major we want to make more money now
push at some point and they've been slowly creeping towards it and maybe
it'll just continue to be slowly but yeah and then the other part is as you
acquire all these users you're you're kind of caught between a rock in a hard
place right like you're you're caught between this need to monetize the user
base that you don't have because or you that you haven't figured out because you
were like okay but we'll deal with that later and then you're caught between
that and the regulatory burden that exists for extremely large platforms
regardless of how much money they're making like if you had a social media
platform that had a hundred million users you're going to be under intense
scrutiny whether you're making a billion dollars a year or losing a billion
dollars a year it doesn't really matter just because you're so influential
whiskey nerd points out that the discord IPO was supposed to be next month in
March yeah that's something that's okay I saw a conspiracy theory that this is
like 4d chess trying to somehow manipulate the public perception towards
discord right before the IPO because that was the only explanation they could
come up with for why they would do something this upsetting to their user
base right before they go public but and maybe this is just me not being you
know stock market brained enough but could there possibly be any reason for
you to want your company to be worth less before you go IPO I thought you
want to juice the valuation before you go IPO that's weird hit me up hit come
on maybe that's the like Palantir adjacent push working with persona
because that's a that's a weird move
all publicity is good publicity says Advocatis diaboli most equities
trading is bots bots don't care about product sentiment okay that's that
second part though is an it's an interesting point but if they bleed
users bots probably care about that a little bit tank the initial price go
public then once you buy a ton you roll back the bad stuff and go up once you
own it no because then you wouldn't just you just wouldn't IPO in the first
place you would just keep owning the stock
will we control the running costs I really I really don't think that's it
because we'll see how much people actually care is what this ultimately is
going to lead to because like you hear really really loud noises about so many
different things gambling micro transactions and video games all these
different things then you see the user behavior is to just use it more than ever yeah I I think I think the ultimate reaction to this is going to be nothing
and that's kind of sad but I mean I'm gonna go check out you know team speak
six or whatever this is see how cool it is maybe it's cool maybe it's not maybe
it'll be a real alternative maybe it won't be but I'm interested okay cool
that's a pretty depressing note to end that on but let's get right into let's
get right into a an update for you guys whale land brought to you by threat
locker do you want to throw the schedule up on screen Luke is just one
count them one week away we've got an extensive lineup of game scheduled for
the stage the 8v8 arena and the lounge with locally hosted lobbies for a
bunch of games including Battlefront 2 tribes to and other classics like Halo
custom edition you can enjoy some classic split screen or local multiplayer
action in the gaming lounge we'll have a lineup of party games ranging from 8 to
12 players at once and we'll be hosting a smash bros tournament in the lounge on
Saturday we're pulling up to the land with the new and improved modified
fire truck featuring okay hold on it only has some of this stuff so far so
don't read out all of this but it definitely has a super custom Nintendo
switch to themed gaming TV setup in the back so you can check out the fire
truck in person oh yeah and we just got comfort oh no way seriously we just got
confirmation today that just like LTX 2023 we will have a custom screwdriver
station on site oh whoa really I had no idea this is the first time hearing of
it but that's pretty cool that is cool so we'll see you guys there I have I
ever explicitly said that you and I are gonna be there like we've talked about
whale land a lot but did we clarify that oh man I got my date screwed I am
gonna be there to be clear as the spoiler I am gonna be there the whole
time everything's fine everything's okay but I got my date screwed up and I
thought that thing that's coming this weekend that I told you about was that weekend and I was like no and then figured out that I'm all clear I'm all
good so I'll be there jeez Luke I was real upset for a moment anyway tickets
are available at LMG dot GG slash whale land we will see you there I gotta jump
back into something because somebody in chat reminded me of something I was
gonna say where to go deep blue v7 said our our servers for our open source
chat solution have been buckling under all the people signing up maybe just
temporary but usually some people stay at least and that's awesome I'm very
happy for and I really don't want this come across negative but something I was
planning on saying for this segment was that if like say team speaks users for
example double quadruple I don't think discord will even notice the the the
mass that discord has right now is insane and one thing that this might help
is like your open source project maybe you guys get bigger and maybe team speak
it's bigger and maybe these other solutions get bigger and maybe they become at least seen as a viable actual alternative that alone in my opinion
would be a huge win because right now it's it's nothing people basically just
use discord or nothing it's it's only discord so if we can at least normalize
that there are alternatives even if we can't take a real actual sizable chunk
out but if we can just normalize there being alternatives I think that would be
awesome so just try to keep that in mind I don't think we're gonna be able to
make a real dent to discord but this is a this is a slow war not a fast one I
think all right do you want to pick our next topic sure modern standby won't
drain your battery anymore according to Microsoft Windows 11 yeah according
according to Microsoft can also be used that way Windows 11 background
processes won't trigger modern standby issues meaning you'll no longer see
excessive battery drain when your machine should be in the s0 sleep state
previously certain process previously certain processes previously certain
processes were able to break the machine out of the sleep state without the
user's knowledge leading to unexpected battery use and in many cases it is now
stored somewhere that it's difficult for it to breathe so like a backpack or
something like that and it can also go into really really bad thermal situations
and and and those thermal situations can be exacerbated by the use of say for
example liquid metal thermal interface material which when when when it's
stored in a backpack completely enclosed and the laptop gets super hot for no
reason whatsoever and is on its side for a extended period of time can lead to
some pretty bad stuff oh yeah it can lead to unexpected battery use naturally in
a good environment it can lead to other even worse things in a bad environment
in newer builds Windows will now try to prevent the PC from waking up try without
the user opening the lid or pressing the power button the discussion question is
has anyone not employed by Microsoft confirm this is actually fixed I don't
think anyone's completed testing on this yet I'm sure other people are and
please check theirs out as well but Labs is gonna be is gonna be cooking on this
a little bit we obviously have other things we're already working on but
this is something we will be looking to as well so hopefully we'll have updates
for you there I'm sure there will be an article if nothing else and yeah I hope
other people check it out too because this is gonna be something that's
relatively difficult to conclusively make statements okay I have a fantastic
test system for you my elite book that I've been daily driving lately is I would
say a solid like one out of eight times is gonna be like piping hot when I take
it out of my backpack my backpack and so it comes up for me a lot just because
this is kind of funny I haven't had a desktop at work for like a year it was
back when I did the qualcomm snapdragon 30 day challenge I stopped using my
desktop because I was supposed to be using snapdragon for a month and then I
had some issues with my NCIX PC desktop and then I just never went back to not
just using my laptop on a dock even though I went back to x86 more recently
with a strict halo machine so that that HP I'd look I don't know that I would
necessarily blame HP for this but I run into this all the flipping time and it
is so freaking annoying people are very rightfully pointing out that MacBooks
don't really have this issue nope and also pointing out that Linux laptops
don't really have this issue nope yeah that's totally fair I mean hey we're
we're kicking the Linux challenge off I think in this next coming week right
yeah and I told I told Elijah I want five drives so my desktop upstairs my
desktop downstairs my work laptop my my oh my hand held and then I think there
was there was one other one I was like I'm doing it Luke I'm going for it this
time yeah I'm not gonna touch Windows for do we do we help each other at all
interesting like how much like because okay so here hold on let me put it this
way I think I agree with you but I have some comments because I would think you
know a very community driven initiative like Linux right you would think well
yeah community is why not your immediate part of it right yeah and if your
community was like Linux noobs you know who are who are also who are who are
also on this journey at the same time I would say that that is is kosher I'd
say that that's fair game but I don't think some of the other folks in our
cohort would really qualify as a Linux noob and then where do we draw the line
like am I allowed to call Wendell you know I feel like for me I kind of still
want to be me I'm not gonna completely pretend to not know anything because
this is not my first kick at the can but I'm but I'm not gonna just leverage the
resources that I have I like I think Elijah has a line in the script that's
something along along the lines of like not everyone has torvolds on speed dial
right like you can't we can't we can't just we can't be us either it has to be
somewhere in the middle Elijah just trying to flex as per use yeah okay
fair enough I mean it's a pretty cool flex yeah yeah I I'm not sure how this is
gonna go for me I think yours is gonna be kind of boring just might be you're
like dailying it already yeah but like it's it also it hasn't truly been daily
because that laptop has had so many hardware issues that has been bouncing
back and forth between getting serviced and coming back to me that sometimes I
end up back on Windows for a while and then I go back to running various
versions of Linux Linux is never saying genuinely never been the problem and I
have verified multiple times that it happens I have two drives in the machine
now so I have one for Windows and one for Linux well not realistically I have
one that is split in half for Windows and Linux then I have a storage drive but whatever you know what I mean and it yeah they they want me to like try to
verify that it's working under Windows they just don't believe me so it's like
okay I'm running Windows and I ran into the same problem again thank you please
fix and then after I have it for like a little while if I know they're gonna
repair it I go back to Linux anyways because that's what I want to be using
but I've been like verifying the issues within Windows and it's a problem in
both it's definitely like hardware issues with the laptop it has nothing to do software at all but that's so yeah I've been bouncing back and forth so I can't
quite say that I've been daily it but I have been fairly actively using it for a
long time now and feel pretty comfortable in it but I'm also not really
gaming much on that laptop I find personally and I'm genuinely not
intentionally calling anyone out here but even even a video that I publicly
said I liked a lot and I do like a lot whenever you see creators do like
Linux I switched challenges it's always framed as a challenge and that always
involves doing things that are particularly difficult in Linux I don't
even okay this stood out let me finish talking this stood out to me because when
I switched Linux on my laptop I just did what I always do and it was literally
never a problem all right ever but everyone always has like a thing and
it's very common that it's creators and creators always have to edit videos and
this is like a known problem is it like Premiere doesn't work very well right so
they run into like the editing videos problem and then they're like oops it
doesn't work and it's like yeah okay well that was predictable because all the
other I switched videos also tried to edit videos and also had problems so
it's like yeah all right let the record show that that right there was
definitive proof that anything can happen once Luke did in fact get to finish
talking but I'm still gonna jump in now that you're done and defend myself yeah
I don't think anything that we tried to do as part of our last I switched was
unrealistic or unreasonable because I wasn't trying to I wasn't trying to
switch was video our last I switch was pretty successful though I mean I had a
lot of issues I'm not necessarily saying I had a problem with our previous run at
it oh okay I just like in general I think the I don't know I would implore the
audience to pay attention to the things that you know we the three of us or
anyone else has actual problems with instead of just their conclusion being
that there was some problems with what they were doing like if they if they
play you know if you play games that are proton platinum and you just run some
basic applications and spend the vast majority of your time in a web browser
like an enormously massive percentage of users then in a lot of cases you know
what I actually won't say this is a definitive statement I suspect in a lot
of cases it's gonna be totally fine but we'll see how it ends up going yeah all
right I can't see Dan's Luke saying there's a negative connotation to
challenge that suggests there was a problem that's part of it but I think
it's that is definitely part of it but I also think people put themselves in
situations intentionally sometimes it's like it's like the whole throwing for
content thing right you put yourself in situations intentionally that will
cause contention and will cause issues because that is insanely more
interesting on camera if I went to explain my laptop experience with Linux
on camera I would sit down and be like it was fine I used a web browser and it
was it was fine it was fine I didn't have any problems I had to update it and
then I went okay that's how and then I updated it and it was fine like
no one's gonna care about that so so you have to like do something like they're
literally promoting Linux by putting it in difficult situations that it's not
gonna do well at because then at least more people will see the video and you
might get more people to adopt it like I'm not going after the creators here to
be clear it's just it's a complicated situation I just want people to
understand that like just because it has problems doing certain things doesn't
mean that it will always for one and for two doesn't mean that you're necessarily
doing that like how many people in the audience are actually edit videos okay
that is such a that is such a hilarious thing for you to bring up because so
much of how we make decisions is totally not based on what we actually do
dude we know we from we from GPU review videos that we make oh yeah and look at
Apple's marketing how laser focused are they on you know on how creative you
can be with your iPhone and there is absolutely a subset of the users that
are you know gonna be you know the next filmmakers you know the next generation
of filmmakers but there's also a lot of users that are just sitting in Starbucks
browsing Facebook on their MacBook and that's all they were realistically ever
gonna do on it and they could have had a Chromebook and they would have had quite
literally exactly the same user experience yeah my phone is largely sold on
its camera and 90% of the photos that I take are of my parking spots like the
most Luke thing you've said at least today I was reviewing my photos from
New York and it's it's it's where I parked my car at the airport it's funny
because there's certain things that you do and there's certain places that you
go you take a lot of that is true like when you went to that I'm gonna ask her
and that get away from it all place you went in Taiwan yeah you took a ton of
pictures there like you were you were behaving like a like a relative I
haven't seen in a couple years how many pictures you wanted to show me like it was crazy yeah that's true but other than that like like you almost seem weird
it out if I pull out a phone that dinner and I'm like let's take a picture to what
end yeah for some reason my brain's like people or building no leaf yes rock
yes I don't know parking spot triple yeah yeah yeah for sure every time will you
actually use this reference someone said bird yeah that's true I have become that
guy you're such a bird I don't know how it happened well my thumbs up is in the
frame as well I'll be like yeah good bird if I had told you when I met you that
you were gonna turn into a weird bird dad you'd have been like no that's stupid
birds are stupid yeah like 100% yeah yeah there are ways you've been like
there are a waste of time and money yeah honestly yeah yeah unbelievable that's
still not necessarily untrue but I do like them a lot all right on the subject
of taking pictures ring no ring is a company that is owned by Amazon and it
takes a lot of pictures of your front porch and paid big bucks for a super
bull ad to celebrate or announce or whatever whatever they were trying to
do is not what ultimately happened but to promote their search party tool which
allows anyone in the US ring owner or not to launch a search for their lost
dogs using all the ring cameras in their neighborhood now hold on a second just
give me one second here I can see the look on your face you know I can see you
even though I'm remote right just contain yourself as someone who has lost
multiple pets and who cried multiple tears multiple times over losing
multiple pets I understand the sales pitch here yeah I get it however if
you're in that moment if if if ten minutes ago you recognized that your pet
is gone in that moment a lot of people are gonna want this thing even if right
now they don't not everyone so people will hold true to their their you know
their line however however this launch coming just a few months after ring
announced a partnership with law enforcement surveillance provider
flock safety was received with really an immediate and completely predictable
response from just everyone with the EFF calling the feature a surveillance
nightmare look if Amazon and ring was a company that I had any kind of trust in
whatsoever right any kind of trust in whatsoever and they announced this like
lost dog feature and it was a core part of the design of the product that all of
the image recognition was done locally on device and that was opt-in and and and
and it's something that as someone as a pet dad who has has lost a pet that got
out it's something that I I would crave you know that I could want but the last
two companies that I could have any interest yeah really in administering
irrevocably yes that's the basically they could never earn my trust back the way
that they have handled security and data privacy man flock and persona aka peer
to deal getting into consumer stuff is not fun that being like a primary thread
of today's show is not that cool it is worth noting by the way that they
apparently ditched the flock partnership but like okay doesn't that just tell us
everything we need to know about them how they choose their partners like I
don't want to I don't want to be I don't want to be like that but you know if
someone is if someone say for example was married to someone abhorrent and you
know doesn't seem to have a problem with it you know like what's our what's our
nuts let's let's use a historical example Eva Braun or Eva Braun excuse me
okay is that's Hitler's wife oh like I never does it does it not tell us anything
about her just how she chooses her partner it's like yeah at some point
she cut ties with Hitler or whatever well they kind of both cut ties with the
world at the same time but that's a whole separate thing you know like just
because she divorces the guy does that not still tell us a fair bit about him
especially if the circumstances of cutting ties were because of public
pressure like doesn't that just doesn't it still tell us a lot about the kind of
decision-making process that's going on behind closed doors is this called is
this a thing so a zosis or whatever says Godwin's law like is this just like
birds of a feather kind of thing what's Godwin's law I'm no I'm not reading the
overview is an internet adage asserting as an online discussion grows longer the
probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches but no okay
very funny I actually thought this was a pretty good comparison Linus I will
give you that thank you I just for other people that might be confused I was
like I didn't think they did yeah they did not divorce I understand he's doing
the comparison here because themselves yeah yeah he's doing the comparison to
divorce here because Amazon and flock are no longer working together yeah but
yeah and you know what like Avon Fox and Floatplane chat points out okay what
if this person was manipulated or in a relationship due to pressure or whatever
you did yeah okay yes that's fair it's not a perfect analogy please the the
point is just that Amazon as a company clearly chose to partner with flock okay
if Linus media group chose to partner with flock and then you guys got super mad
about it predictably and then I said oh wow yeah wow that oh you guys are so
right we should have never done that we're we're not doing that anymore wow
I'm so glad that come on that's how you know has it not and we're not okay flock
okay I don't think you could draw a direct parallel to anything like maybe not
someone as bad as flock but we've worked with we've worked with brands someone
just pointed out anchor yeah we've worked with brands someone said raid
shadow legends we've worked with brands that we've been you know what maybe you
guys are right let's pull back on that but flock literally like no I agree this
scale is not the same but I'm just saying like this this can't be extrapolated
fully so you can absolutely make mistakes but in this case I'm talking
about partnering with again an abhorrent organization that it has complete
and utter disregard for user security and privacy and some in some cases like
rage shadow legends never led to anyone being you know falsely harassed by law
enforcement or you know rage shadow legends never got anyone that never had
anyone have a gun pointed at them because of it let's be real here guys I
think these these two birds of the same feather whatever I'm trying to use the
flock analogy yeah I don't know how much they mind it do be Amazon after all FTC
this is a older 2023 but FTC and DOJ charge Amazon with violating children's
privacy law by keeping kids Alexa voice recordings forever and undermining
parents deletion requests Amazon just do be Amazon at the end of the day maybe
they're kind of chill with with flock and the other thing raising that and the
other thing is that it has to do with like our knowledge at the time if we
announced a partnership with flock today when you've heard me on stream talking
about the horrible things that they've done and making it clear how horrible I
think they are like we know there's no precedent in LMG's history for anything
like that like people are bringing up people are kind of trying to sort of
poke poke holes in it here someone brought up the honey thing it's like
yeah but we didn't know any of that we still have a huge we did and we stopped
working with them as soon as we did like that that's the difference whereas when
you announce a partnership with someone that you know is horrible then it's a
completely different situation April Fool's video idea good lord oh what is
we're partnering with flock yeah new new LTT Store webcams oh my god that's how
we can use Twitter new Twitter cams barbed by flock
it's a fin 724 and float playing chat says do not do that you will never
recover and you're so right the number of time funny though dude the number of
times I run up against people who legitimately believe horrible things
about me because I joked about it or because I said it in April Fool's
video is distressingly high my this is the reason that actors like Dwayne
Johnson have no lose clauses in their contracts because people will actually
watch someone be acting on TV and be stupid enough to think that they're
weak because they lost a fight in a movie that they were scripted to lose
which I think you know I think you can be comfortable just not caring about
those people's opinions though I think I think that can be okay Luke I wish I
wish that this was an isolated small tiny minority Luke I think you dig pretty
hard to find comments sometimes I think you can't help yourself I I think that
can be true at the same time as it can be true that it is a distressingly large
number sure maybe I should just retire to a potato farm yeah Dan and I had a fancy
dinner last night my favorite part was a potato they're pretty good potatoes are
pretty good it's hard to knock a good potato dude dude a baked potato with
some butter and some salt and pepper you get a bit of sour cream on there you
get a little bit of like green onion oh like are you salivating brother oh yeah
potato in almost any form though warm potato great great cold potato warm
potato fantastic okay hear me out hear me out okay nugget potatoes cold nugget
potatoes cold can be pretty good yeah all right potatoes just win potatoes are
yeah and not not every not every french fries good cold but but there are
there are good cold french fries I I'll die on that hill I think they're better
warm oh I can't think of a I can't think of a potato that's like even even nugget
potatoes I think they're better warm hmm potatoes gain a lot from heat I don't
know why but I think they gain a lot from heat that I will give you a potato's
like at a like room temperature are probably the best form of potatoes at
room temperature in my opinion I want a better warm I once accidentally potato
shirt eight so many room temperature nugget potatoes that I threw up I wasn't
sick I just spontaneously was like my stomach is at capacity I was I was
reading I was like reading and just eating potatoes yeah and I just threw
up it was like it wasn't even like it wasn't the sickiest sickest most like
foul throw up ever or anything it wasn't even that gross cuz I had just eaten all
of it and it was just it was basically just potato like it was probably still
edible I love I love this like way too perfect image I have in my head of this
situation of you just being way too laser focused in on what you're doing to
not realize that you've eaten like an entire massive massive bowl size of your
entire torso thing of your body's just like bro get it out of here yeah ADHD
turned up to 11 someone point out yeah that's all I'm all I'm picturing is
just like I must keep reading and also this hand is just doing this motion for
whatever reason that's great anyways back to evil things we don't
unfortunately get to keep talking about potatoes yeah that I mean that sucks a
lot there are alternatives again just like in the discord thing they're all
there are alternatives in this range of products the alternative ends up being
more expensive usually yeah but you shout out ubiquity I was just gonna do it
there are also other alternatives that aren't ubiquity but you know in our kind
of spaces a lot of people do do be like a new big witty hear me out true spec
security camera partnered with flock oh gosh yeah no but like it's it's
effectively gonna end up being self-hosting and through something like
ubiquity or a variety of other products it's gotta be self-hosted you can do a
self-hosted solution you can have your own cameras you could share them with
with family members you could remotely access them when you're away from home
you could use a lot of the same features you can literally do the like press the
doorbell have a video call thing just without you know Amazon watching every
move it is possible hey it'll cost more but it's a company if there was a
company that you didn't have to feel like you were you know helping move us
towards a dystopian future it would be create a warehouse we have we have a lot
to talk about this week and the big one is the one that Luke is wearing dude
it's kind of covered right now so maybe if you can give them a better look at it
that thing is so flipping cool this is it this is the lawsuit hoodie this hoodie
exists because three years of unanswered collab emails felt like a sign to stop
waiting for permission and just make this white on black hoodie that we wanted
to make anyway it's made from the same heavyweight 100% cotton as the wan
hoodie so it feels thick premium and built for daily wear with ykk zippered
pockets to keep your things secure the sleeves feature bold fully embroidered
controller inspired graphics and there's a small Easter egg on the care label that
is optional to read but highly recommended you want to bring up the
website okay yeah don't don't worry about it don't worry about it let's see if
people can figure out let's see if people can figure out what it was inspired
by I will not confirm or deny because well I don't actually mean oh is it in
there it's literally the first line of the description oh no that's that's not
oh wait oh yeah okay well okay never mind we apparently went full not that
subtle literally the brand name is like the third word okay cool well okay we
weren't actually concerned about D brand in terms of like the look what we
really wanted to do was a hoodie that looked like a thing and then in order
to make sure that the iconography wasn't gonna cause any problems for us we
partnered with D brand to use their iconography hmm it's a pretty cool product
do you want to scroll through some of the some of the other pictures yeah I love
the charade ones I think this is charade yeah yeah yeah the helmet on these
looks yeah D brand Rome robot helmet I don't know where they found to do these
photos but these are awesome I am continually impressed with the photos
that are coming out of the steam this is all good I was hoping there's gonna be a
good picture of this the zipper looks sick it's like blacked out and it has this
like copper inner core it looks so dope I don't think I've seen that before I
think it's yeah it's all of them even the smaller zippers that are on your
pockets have this like copper inner design I think that looks it's it seems
to be like a spring to kind of like keep it held down is that what the actual
copper bit is doing I think so yeah but keep scrolling apparently the last
picture is the bat the best one there's a lot of pictures for this I think they
really liked the set that they were at because there is there's quite a few but
we will we will keep going through them there's so many pictures there is a ton
of photos nice that's a bit of a hint dude I I kind of love this hoodie when
we got our first sample of it I was like sick this is amazing that's dope yeah
I don't know where they were that's sick that's sick that's probably my favorite
one hell yeah it's um here do you want to throw us back this one is dope yeah
those are cool it's it's one of those things I think this is when our team is
is like ah see I don't want to take anything away from the other things we do but this is
the stuff that gets me uniquely excited like this is when I think the team is at
their absolute best when they create something that is so sort of gamer culture
like internet culture referencing and yet is so flipping wearable and if
somebody doesn't know what it is if they don't know that it looks kind of like a
you know game console or if they don't recognize those icons they're just like
wow cool hoodie but if they do you know it's the if you know you know and I just
I love stuff like that they absolutely yeah yeah Marchable they hit it completely
out of the park on this design taking again I don't want to whatever lawsuit
hoodie go check it out LMG.GG slash lawsuit hoodie flipping cool some quick
housekeeping from the warehouse it turns out when you keep making really cool
new stuff you eventually run out of space so we're running three sales right
now to clear some space and reset for what's next there's the last chance sale
at LMG.GG slash last chance so this is the final call on some older stock that is
not coming back once it's gone at least we have no plans to bring it back so no
restocks no reruns no all just grab it later this is later get it now only the
bundles our end of life okay commuter bag og backpack and tech sack will live
on but these bundles are going away this is last chance we also have our end of
season apparel sale clearing out some seasonal styles to make room for new
designs that are already in the works same quality and fit just end of season
pricing while supplies last that's LMG.GG slash end of season and finally we
have a buy more save more for all blank t-shirts one blank t-shirt is just not
enough they're comfortable easy to wear and having a few in the rotation just
make sense stock up on blanks at LMG.GG slash blank T's T E E T E E S that's the
one maybe Dan do you want to throw all these links in the description in the
various chats if that kind of works for you ye all right sick sick Luke want to
pick a topic for us sure no problem YouTube react videos could face lawsuits
but not for the reason wait you know we're supposed to explain
check out messages right I know I screwed up I know but I introduced all
the products and now that's when we're supposed to do check out messages all
right okay wait where's the thing wait is that not in here anymore okay I'm just
gonna have to wing this check out messages are the way to interact with
the WAN Show we don't want you to throw money at your screen or we do want you
to throw money at your screen but we don't want you to just throw money at your screen for acknowledgement we want you to throw money at your screen and
get oh yeah check out no check out messages comms yeah okay so there chat
gaslighting me we want you to get high quality merchandise in return so if you
want to send a message into the WAN Show where producer Dan are you guys gonna
throw him up there yeah there he is nice where producer Dan will just post it
like that one that's up at the top of the frame right now or he'll reply to it or
he will curate it for me and Luke to respond to and all you got to do is head
to the checkout on LTT Store calm there you go and you'll see this interface
where you can pick a color decide whether to leave your name or have it be
anonymous and go ahead and place your order and we'll show you what a
curated one looks like oh man I'm so tired dude I was snowboarding all day
I'm like dying that was my best that was the best that I could do just now am I
super blurry there's little down there in the bottom I guess cool you are
burlary it's a it's focused on the background put up your hands I'll fix
it
I'll try to fix it technology no for a very blurry line is you got a squint
cameras in use by another application like yes I know that's the that's why I
need to fix it I seriously I can't the Razor app doesn't let me change the
focus if it I love technology how about a message oh now you're worse yeah yeah
oh we're good yeah I'm so back okay Dan show us how much message works for
crying out loud no I won't we'll just I'll show you how to check out we're gonna
show you how to calm works auto focus is disabled doing my goodness
oh no no put on your glasses just okay okay I went on DLL I was wondering
about how you chose the colors of LTT Store items is there some science to it
is it purely vibes and why not just make the same product in more colors
especially apparel I can answer the more colors part more colors are more
skews and that can get that can get pretty rough on certain things especially
when there's a lot of sizes so like if you look at I'm gonna bring up on screen
our our cleanup wizard t-shirt so if we added another color here we don't add
one product we add six products because we add a red one of this in small and
medium and large and extra large and extra extra large and extra extra extra
large and you can extrapolate that quite a bit sometimes like the pants the
pants can be pretty brutal for this if I go to let me go navigate through the
store real quick we have he's gonna keep working on his blurs I'm not worried
about you seeing him I'm gonna go over to this one the city set go to the new
pants that we have that are awesome now you have two different inseam lengths to
a crazy amount of way sizes and color so you've got all the way sizes times two
times the amount of colors and the amount of products you have to keep in
stock just goes whoop so usually try to keep it kind of dialed down now there's
a bit of a research portion to selling things as well where we put these pants
on sale we've got the regular we've got the tall we've got these all these different way sizes if these sell super well that might inform us that the
pants are good and maybe some people might like additional colors then we
could expand from there but if these just sell like kind of okay then maybe we
don't want to add a bunch of colors because maybe people like the pants enough but they don't like them enough to have to buy more in a bunch of
different colors so yeah t-shirts have a bit of an easier time with this because
you can have a bunch of blanks in a range of colors and then print the shirts
onto the blanks but then even that's not like a perfect answer hopefully I did
justice to that question for the cw people I know there was another part to
that how do you pick the colors yesh there's a very low percentage chance
that I can answer this accurately Linus might know decently well but he has
faded into the void he's gone so I'm gonna give it a shot cw people I'm sorry
if I fail you but I think they they look at trends they look at upcoming trends
they look at general fashion stuff and just try to look at the different types
of colors that people are into moving forward and try to keep us matched with
said trends now we do tend to fall into a bit of a category of tech nerd and
generic tech nerd do tend to like black shirt so black shirt with printing on it
does often end up being a way that we go but I also think that they're trying to
have fun with stuff they want to have fun jobs they want you to have more interesting clothing I support it so every once in a while we get stuff like
the pixel heart shirt which is it's like crazy red I didn't sell the teddy
fleece jacket which is pretty wild colors that one is pretty good people love
that one I really like the RGB sweater I really think people look really sharp
in this I think I've told the story like a million times but is anyone supposed
to be able to see what you're showing I can show that now this is the RGB sweater
this is a non-black it's actually it's a it's a dark like I don't know if you
call it navy but it's a dark blue with like like basically color-flexing
throughout it I didn't know this was our product for a while I sat down at a
conference next to Teran and he was wearing it and I was like oh wow it's a
really nice sweater it looks good on you I had no clue it was ours that's hilarious
I think it looks really sharp I think like when you look like this photo I
think is a really good representation of just like you wear a decent pair of
pants you feel this on top of it and you look very professional while wearing a
sweater it's cool but with a touch of fun yeah 100% yep it's cool okay next
question thanks for stalling no problem let's see hopefully my guess is on those
answers were at least decently accurate I didn't hear them because I had to leave
the room okay yeah in order to open up the application in order to put it back
to manual focus which it was still on but just alright I did my good oh great
I started Claire obscure a week or so ago and I'm really enjoying it Linus
talks about jrpgs a lot are there any other modern ones with some a RPG
elements I should check out love the show thanks guys I'm the last person to go
to for game recommendations because a I tend to be like kind of basic like I
just play what I know I'm probably gonna like and be I don't get a chance to play
a ton of games so I don't really get to go off the beaten path much like like
what am I supposed to say yeah Expedition 33 was really good did you
really need me to tell you that swept the game awards right like it's you
don't take don't take my word for it at that point right yeah I I I love
crosscode it's it's probably is it my isn't my favorite modern JRPG the
characters are so incredible if you haven't played it already go play it
but it's more of like a pixel art style that I'm personally really into and I
just I haven't I haven't played that many modern ones I did finish Expedition 33
since last WAN Show so if we want to talk about it at all we can but Luke
hasn't played and I don't think Dan's playing so there's not really gonna be
much for me to say other than yeah it's really good without getting into stuff
that would involve serious spoilers for people who in chat and on the show who
might actually play it at some point you know okay it's one one small thing I
know on the store that we're advertising like the polo and the tech pants
together and this this might be me being RGB sweater pilled but I think the tech
pants and nice belt and RGB sweater would go really well together I'm just
gonna put that out there before we move on thanks Luke count to me for future
fashion advice next topic YouTube react videos could face lawsuits but not for
the reason you think a lawsuit has been filed between two creators for reaction
based content the catch one channel is filing the lawsuit against the other for
the way the react content was acquired oh interesting Christopher Cordova the
individual who filed the suit is stating that the footage that was acquired with
out their permission was ripped using ripping tools that bypass YouTube's
technical protections which they claim is in violation of the digital
millennium copyright actor DMCA Torrent freak stepped in to defend Jonathan
who note hopefully I said that right the individual being sued saying that there
is no way Cordova could prove that's what I was kind of thinking or no ripping
tools are being used stating that for years many react creators simply record
their screen instead of ripping the content that's yeah that this is very
difficult to prove Judge Demarchi did not immediately throw out the case which
has raised concerns in the react community because if this case goes
through it could have effects down the line for all react type content that
would be I mean a very interesting to summarize this isn't a question of fair
use Judge Demarchi has acknowledged this as fair use but what calls into
question is the way react footage is obtained how are you supposed to how
would you prove how you got it like what would what would hypothetically what
would that look like to you dude I have no idea I mean the discussion question
here is how the is anyone ever going to prove how people obtained footage I'll
just cut it out of the video if I leak the file name yeah I have no idea I
don't think you can really prove this but then what does it make result none in
my opinion but would that result in if you can't prove that you got the
footage like ethically then you can't do it at all or would it go the other way
around I don't know I don't even think it's a question of ethically though it's
a question of whether you circumvented a digital lock effectively right but then
is screen capturing screen yeah not the same thing is that not a ripping tool
anyway that that's where I and I'm to be clear I'm not even taking a side on this
one I'm just I don't know what you do about this questions you're not gonna be
able to prove it and like you said what difference does it make yeah I don't I
don't understand why we're even having this conversation because I don't
understand the difference I don't know okay in that case let's not even let's
not even bother let's talk instead about something okay it doesn't happen
necessarily that often but something pretty cool that the Canadian province of
KBAC has done they have a new consumer protection act which is all in
French so bad news everyone but that's okay because we'll figure we'll sort it
out for you but basically they had some planned obsolescence safeguards that were
passed back in 2023 that are finally going to come into full effect October
5th of this year that are pretty cool for starters increased minimum warranty
periods on consumer electronics and appliances from three years on laptops
at desktops tablets cell phones and game consoles all the way to six years on
large appliances like stoves and refrigerators that is kind of awesome the
next line is also awesome like okay hold on let's let's talk about this okay
like why is it that three years is not already standard for an Xbox that's
crazy yeah I like this a lot I do suspect that this will result in products
being just more expensive in Quebec yes but I think this would be cool if it was
a standard basically everywhere this this like we're I think we talked about
like a couple weeks ago but there's this whole idea that like even refrigerator
repair people are like yeah you don't bother keep your refrigerator after five
years it's just garbage is like that's crazy this is now e-waste on a totally
different level dude like when it's phones and stuff like that that sucks
obviously e-waste in general is unfortunate but like we're throwing out
washers and dryers and refrigerators and dishwashers as if they're you know
phone cycle replacements like this is bad not good I've got people asking
listen to an Xbox already a three-year warranty no this is a like five I mean
what's the Xbox up to I was gonna say $500 device but it's gone up in price
like this is an expensive item that has a one-year warranty yeah okay the next
one warranties follow the product for the full term of the warranty
regardless of whether the item is resold this is just such common sense it's
just so obvious what something this this water bottle that isn't a rule magically
might not last as long if I sell it to Luke what are you talking about insane
alright next used cars and motorcycles also get automatic warranty coverage
depending on the age of the vehicle and mileage Jordan says I think this is
dealers only but it's not clear in the translation that one's a little tough I
don't know how that works but I like the gusto yep additionally all goods bought
or leased must be able to serve their normal purpose for a reasonable length
of time the law also prohibits the use of techniques that make it more difficult
to maintain and repair goods and aims to guarantee the availability of spare
parts and repair services based retailers must inform customers of their
minimum warranty coverage under the law before trying to sell any extended
warranties based so basically that's a really good last line actually because
people might not be aware that this change happened yep that's a very good
very good addition whoever was like hmm we might actually want to add something
to this that was smart good job David and I David and I did another one of those
fun Linus and David just go and buy something yes ventures nice we went to
Costco to buy a desktop and we had a really cool experience with that from
one of the reps there that is not going to be able to appear on camera because
we didn't call ahead and get permission to film at Costco we just kind of showed
up and we're like well we're buying a computer and we're gonna roll on some
metaglasses and good luck everybody by the way apologies in advance David has
never shot anything on metaglasses before and he's a very active
conversationalist so the footage might be a little shaky sometimes David was
like the king of of interacting with with the with the host from behind the
camera you know that right yeah like he just like he can't help it he's just a
very active listener he's a very he's a very engaged personality and these are
all good things as long as you're not a human tripod so anyway but yeah it was
really fun and we we had a really great experience where the the representative
which I didn't even know like Luke did you know that Costco had like someone
who works in the electronics department to like talk to you about computers no
yeah it's a thing so we talked to the guy and he gives us a little you know
like pro tip that if you don't tell the motherboard manufacturer for instance
that it was part of a complete system it may very well have a longer three year
warranty on it and same with you know things like memory they often have a
lifetime warranty on it so yes it has you know a Costco extended two year
warranty so they they do an extra year I believe on computer systems compared to
if you buy those systems elsewhere which I thought was a pretty good value add but
he was like and you might even be able to get more and it's the kind of thing
that makes you feel really good as a consumer like the sales rep is no it's
awesome there to help you and guide you and inform you rather than there to
extract your money and it was just such a positive experience and that's wicked
to have that enshrined in law I guess I wish it wasn't necessary but I'm glad
that it is and I would love to see I'd love to see this expand I did see
someone in the chat saying yeah there's already brands that are that are looking
to pull out of Quebec because of this but I think the answer is not for Quebec
to back down the answer is for everyone else to step up that will give more
opportunity and more sales attention to brands that don't yeah which is awesome
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All right you want to pick another topic? Sure.
Do you want to talk about anchor? This really came up when we were talking about
the sponsors that we've kicked to the curb. It sure did. No notes. Anchor,
Yuffie, Soundcore. Anchor, Yuffie, Soundcore, Context. Anchor used to be our
biggest partner did they? Our biggest partner? I don't think that's right.
Yeah. Is that right? I think so. I'm gonna message Colton right now.
They used to be a sizable partner that we had maybe the biggest one. I didn't think
that would have been right but I message Colton and Steve and I will find out.
Fake news in the WAN duck and we dropped them because of a fiasco with Yuffie
where their cameras weren't encrypted and they tried to lie and got caught and it
did get resolved but it was weird and took a long time and they still had us on their website
for like months and months and months and months and months and months but
we want to work with them again so Linus wants to suss this out.
Okay I just heard back from Colton. He says yes they were our biggest partner
2020 era. Oh man. Yeah so they messaged me earlier today and basically Colton's like
hey we want to work with them again. Specifically on the anchor and soundcore brands
are we fine engaging with them? We dropped them many years ago because of the whole debacle.
I'd like to bring up for a moment that I'm so tired of people calling our integrity as a company
into question when we have done stuff like this like unflinchingly without hesitation.
Apparently they were our biggest partner. Literally didn't matter. We did it anyway.
Cool let's move on. I think the big question here is put very succinctly by night author
in the Floatplane chat. Any reason to believe that they have changed? That's a good question.
I think that's the question and I have to be honest with you. They did eventually resolve
the eufy thing. I still have no interest in engaging with the eufy brand. I didn't like
the way that they deflected like if the eufy thing had happened and then they had immediately
owned it and taken steps. I'm not about people being defined by their mistakes. To me you're
defined by how you respond to them. They did eventually. Initially they just deflected and
completely not apologized. Yes they did eventually. It was like ages later.
That was my problem. That was why we ultimately were like well see ya. And Andre B says okay well
how do you prove now that they're trustworthy? So I think that's why Colton is talking specifically
about the anchor and the soundcore brands rather than even bringing up eufy with me.
Because no I just don't think that I would be comfortable with a eufy product at this point.
But like look this is one of those things where when we dropped them it did create a ton of
confusion because I was very explicit from the start. I said look we're just not going to
take their money. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop using their products. Like check this out.
Hold on I'm up one sec. Literally right now. Literally right now. I am plugged in. I mean I mean an anchor power brick.
I mean there's also this. Oh hold on I can't see it. One of the more recent articles on the
lab's website is testing an anchor nano charger. Yeah we never said we weren't going to cover them.
We never said we weren't going to use the products. We just said that we weren't going to take their
money. And I think the question is have they done enough for us to change that?
Yeah I'm just looking at a lot of. Oh does the Verge require a subscription now?
Interesting. For some articles not all. Apparently their eufy blames the software update and promises
to do better article is behind one of those. And I mean I don't know it's been five years.
How long do we have to put someone in sponsor jail for? Like I think it's I think it's.
It was um. Oh man. Was it actually 2020? I think it was like 2022-2023 or something.
A lot of the stuff I'm finding online about this is from 2023.
Yeah okay can you okay. Oh no Colton so sorry Colton said 2020 they were like they were our
biggest partner in 2020. Got it. Okay.
Trying to remember um I'm trying to remember who it was. There was uh was it techbrew?
That uh made that really good point about not uh not just like if if a company makes a mistake
not just putting them in jail forever like at some point if they rectify the issue then
no it wasn't techbrew who was it? Luke do you remember? No I don't know.
Oh shoot it was on it was on there like it was on their podcast or something.
Anyway it was a good point. Ah yeah ImSys says I personally haven't
bought any anchor or other their brand products since the Eufy news.
Blaze Henry says don't forget that anchor also has issues with exploding power bank recalls
like every few months. Is that true though? I know there were some bad cells that a number
of battery bank manufacturers got um got burned by pun intended so let's just be very
let's be sure that that was actually an anchor specific issue.
Zen Foxon says there's an apology all that was needed I'd want more assurance than that I mean
yeah that's that's very fair especially when you got gas lit the first time before the apology was
issued. The mighty reptar says yeah don't put flock on your bad list forever I mean that oh
yeah see that's a tough one because that is and that is a situation where I'd say yeah they're
on the bad list forever I don't see how there would be any redemption there. Yeah so I'm reading
this Verge article because I'm kind of like my memory's not that great so I'm trying to
recall what happened here and the Verge article opens with first anchor told us it was impossible
then it covered its tracks then it repeatedly deflected while utterly ignoring your emails
so shortly before christmas we gave the company an ultimatum if anchor wouldn't answer why it
supposedly always encrypted ufy cameras were producing unencrypted streams among other questions
we would publish a story about the company's lack of answers it worked so they had to get like
dirty like ethically blackmailed yes into into doing the right thing which is like you know like you said it's been years
isn't in that many years but like maybe people involved with this are gone I don't know but
just an apology after that level of like trying to cover up something actually very serious is
a little sketch I might I might like a little bit more I don't know what that more would be
I think the bigger question for me from the business team is why do we need to do this
is there just some other is there some other power company that we could just work with instead
because of my annoyance with this thing I have I don't know if I've even talked to you about this
but I have personally I know they're a sponsor of ours but on a personal level I've switched to
ugreen I've bought ugreen things lately yeah I bought four ugreen power
wall warts recently just so that the kids will not lose theirs so they have like travel travel
ones when I was traveling I bought a family set power bank which has been great I more recently
bought a ugreen wall wart which has been great I also haven't used this yet so I can't comment on it
but I bought one of their usb to 3.5 millimeter cables which has a bluetooth chip in the usb plug
so it just looks like a usb to 3.5 mil but it basically adds bluetooth to your car it powers
the bluetooth over the usb and then it gives the audio over 3.5 it looks cool I haven't used it yet
though um yeah I don't know but I that being said I don't necessarily know that they need the biggest
reason if they think the company has actually moved on it's just this was like a pretty big deal
so yeah I I'm I'm interested in how like what what do they what did they do so okay maybe they said
like sorry that we lied and then covered up and then deflected and then got blackmailed into saying
the truth um but what did they what do they do about that do they do they do some form of action
to follow up and I think this requires more digging personally that's my stance I know the
goal was to ask the audience not me um but that's that's where I'm at
why don't we pencil it in for 2027 and how about anchor has a really good year and doesn't screw
anything up and we revisit in 2027 does that make sense partially I need to go look into the apology
that they gave because I don't know what they said um and I'd like to know what they did like
somebody said we need heads on sticks and it's like to a certain degree this was like actually
unacceptable but again uh you know things change times change people change etc especially a company
staff changes what was it we heard a stat recently like most people stay at a company for two years
it's been more than that now um so there could be like a very significant level of turnover for
the people involved in that uh and yeah you know maybe we're good to go maybe by the by the time
we're 2027 like you said uh based on statistics a huge portion of that company will have turned over
maybe second chance is fine but yeah I I think paying attention to what they do in that period
of time would be really good and paying attention to the ways they communicate and hopefully here's
a weird take hopefully they have some form of problem so you can see how they deal with it
Gergy 008 says they also promised a microsite that we never got focusing on security
interesting okay I think this requires more digging and needs to dig more I'm gonna I'm gonna
flag that I'm on a new laptop I haven't pinned snipping tool to my taskbar yet
they also have to remember they're a huge company even y'all have communication issues at your size
even bigger has got to be worse I as far as my understanding goes it gets a lot worse but
this is kind of a different level of problem in my opinion okay um I think we need some more
answers about how they've really changed also this um let's pencil in for 2027 but they need to
demonstrate in some way that they are
culture hot take if it takes this much digging to determine if an answer should be yes maybe the answer should be no 90% of who sees these spots isn't going to be doing the
digging I understand the take that you're trying to make but I don't yeah agree personally but the
flip side of it is that most people are just buying a battery like a wall wart or a battery bank
and like we just we just did that Labs article on an anchor wall wart that was just like a random
side quest that Lucas was interested in like it had nothing to do with this conversation that
Colton's bringing up with me and it's like a good wall wart and so like why should we
why should we not say yeah this is a good wall wart um and get sponsorship dollars for it and
then someone buys a good wall wart and then they enjoy their wall wart like I just yeah yes and also no
the only thing I hate about OMG is their indifference to crowdsource carriers
what what are crowdsourced carriers are crowdsourced carriers
like uh like like like like like for shipping
uh like uber but for parcels what sorry what does this have to do with our indifference
I this is the first I've heard of it and also
I'd need to look into this a lot more I'm so I feel so out of left field uh yeah indifference
incoming no like we I mean we've we've talked in defense of them a lot on wanshow I don't I
genuinely don't know what you're talking about but any crowdsourced carriers yeah we have remember
we had a topic not that long ago we both got duped on it because it was like some AI slop thing but
we were talking about how uber and all these different places are like often mistreating
their drivers they don't get paid very much we've talked on wanshow about how like at a certain
degree you're exchanging the value of your car for short term money um the the fact that they're
like little mini individual corporations like hurts their ability to get things like health
insurance and how it's it doesn't probably get flagged as not being employed even though a lot
of cases effectively is like we've talked about this stuff before so yeah I don't think that's
quite what they're talking about though I think they meant like crowdsourced carriers like like
like instead of FedEx or something am I am I maybe I'm missing something here I don't know I have no
idea okay all right cool well either way uh that's neat should we should we move on I think I'm I
think I'm ready to leave it there I kicked it back to the business team to do a bit more
investigation and I think that one way or another this is still a little fresh and we can we can
pencil it in for 2027 as long as they don't screw anything else up this year and as long as they
you know tell us what exactly it is that they've done to show that their culture has moved beyond
this behavior sounds good no notes google lets you remove explicit images and other personal
info from search results google launched a tool to request removal of non-consensual explicit
images from search results users click the three dots on the image on the image result and select
remove result okay yeah requests are trackable through google's results about you hub which also
expanded to let users submit government id numbers for monitoring major caveat is you have to give
google your data first yeah I knew that and it only removes the results from google search not
from the internet itself well yeah it's something which means crawlers are still gonna get it and
crawlers are the thing that's becoming more common for google search the one thing that's kind of cool
sorry that's it's not in the notes there is one other thing that's kind of cool is once you've
requested a takedown uh you don't have to like keep requesting takedowns it'll proactively
remove it again that is neat if it shows up again do you think this will remove it from the ai
summary no oh oh google's own ai summary i think probably will i don't know about that actually
i don't think it gives image results really because that's not that's not a ai is it yeah it
super does maybe i've never asked the ai for an image it's given image results from the Labs website
oh fun time bloody hell okay before we get into another business meeting because i think that
was one of our topics this week was to talk about is it actually in here i don't know
i thought we were going to like kind of talk about the lab and how well like what the future of
the Labs website looks like if um if our if our graphic okay next week i don't have the chart here
so it's it gets hurt a lot i'll send an email yeah next next week but basically yeah um ai ai
crawlers uh we we tried to turn them off and there's some interesting behavior we'll get into that
before we do our next topic though i just want to talk about the lina con thing from last week
what i was getting at i went too far i went too far and i'm sorry what i was trying to get at
is that being pro consumer and being based is sexy that's all i was trying to say it wasn't
meant to be literally sexual it was just like it's so cool that it's like sexy wood that's all
it wasn't meant to actually be personal there i said what i should have said right away afterward
i don't think that helps i what you you just said would again but no that that's what i said
last week that's that's where i was going with it like i went too far because it wasn't it wasn't
meant to be about the actual person it was just meant to be being super pro consumer and awesome
is so good that it's like gone sexual it yes it's i'm not saying it wasn't dumb luke
okay okay that's all that's all i have to say about it okay okay alphabet is issuing 100 year bonds
google's parent company will use the sterling century bond to fund ai investments
century bonds are highly unusual especially in the tech sector where long-term bonds usually
top out at 40 years though ibm did sell a 100 year bond in 1996 our discussion question here is i got
nothing from jordan this is crazy
yeah would would you have any faith whatsoever that alphabet
will still exist in a hundred years let alone be in any kind of condition to be
be paying you
for holding their bonds because of and i guess their logic they need to build ai infrastructure
so desperately and so immediately that they are mortgaging their future in order to have that ai
infrastructure today is this am i am i missing something here because i am i am not like a
financial services expert by any stretch of the imagination but my my understanding is that
basically they're just you're giving them cash today and then they are giving you a return on that
like effectively forever for life but they will have to exist and they will have to have this
money in order to continue to pay that out in the longer term which means that money you give them
today they have to generate a return on it otherwise the whole thing doesn't make any sense am i missing
something here um if if a company oh man if a company sells a hundred year bond and then the
company itself is sold the company that buys them would still owe on the hundred year bond
correct or no i mean it's uh the the guarantor my understanding is google's parent company it's
alphabet so it's a publicly held if alphabet it's not about people at that point okay if al if
alphabet got taken private uh then it would be whoever privately owns them then it would be their
liability but it would transfer like they can't just be like oops bought the company i'm not going
to pay these out anymore okay while i will say like i i could foresee a future where alphabet
doesn't exist anymore um very easily i i don't think i foresee a future where alphabet goes private
at this point they're just the scale that they've reached it's i don't look i i'm just trying to
hate to use the i word nothing else i'll have a crazy amount of so someone pointed out that
ibm sold a hundred year bonds in like 1996 or something and i was thinking like oh no that's
in the dock uh yeah i thought i was holding chat for whatever reason i could see that still being
a thing because ibm just has so many patents and at this point they're just kind of sitting around
with patents as far as i can tell no they do stuff um okay sure i could still see i could still see
yeah as far as my understanding goes they're doing that to generate patents
but anyways that's a topic for another time um i could still see google being around because of
the amount of things that they've made um um but that's where like they're they're they're like ip
and their patents being important or you know youtube has proven a new age of youtube staying
power um and maybe google just exists forever now
well look at how much they killed off yeah yeah tons tons of what i really want to know guys
is am i missing something here is this as crazy as it seems to be on the surface it seems nuts
yeah nobody seems to think that i've gone crazy here well at least for this anyway yeah just this
not the previous thing yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no it's crazy okay so we're all on the same
page well no you just that you buy i don't know how much total they issued but like billions is
my understanding and but you you buy like what you want to buy yeah yeah yeah yeah
insomniac says nobody ever thought bitcoin was going to be worth a hundred thousand dollars
got some bad news for you insomniac it isn't how much is it going to be worth in a hundred years
yeah a hundred years like maybe an incredible amount more maybe nothing yeah because maybe we
have quantum coin at that point or something who knows who knows or people decide to scam in
some other way not that bitcoin is really heavy on that but that space is
bitcoin oh what an evolution i'm sure somebody's done that already okay all right i wow yeah it seems
like it seems like this is it seems like this is um yeah just as crazy as it sounds to me
um is this just people being absolutely like like like wealthy investors and and funds being
desperate for somewhere to put money right now that it's not going to rot like is is that the
issue with with the way inflation is going with the us dollar and the way the us dollar is devaluing
with the way that gold doesn't generate passive income like there's there's reasons that all
these different asset classes exist um you don't want to just have everything in real estate like
is this just like like tech tech company bonds is this is this the new yolo hail mary because
there's so much money being managed by by some firm that they're just kind of like well we got to
buy something with it and okay here's the thing and if this doesn't work then like you know whatever
some of the other things we did will probably work really good like is that is that what's going on
here no idea man no financial stuff makes any sense to me anymore everybody's just
doing stocks based on vibes and now we're doing 100 year long bonds based on probably vibes
just nothing means anything anymore scrappy dp says no this is google raising capital yeah
yeah yeah no i understand why google wants to do it the part that i don't understand is why
anyone wants to buy it that's what that's what i'm trying to figure out no it's not a new thing
look at preferred stocks and perpetual bonds
okay preferred stocks and perpetual bonds not a new thing okay all right
okay just sounds like it to be treated as an equity why wouldn't you just buy actual equity it's a public company
um well maybe there's some tax reason for it then
so you can borrow against it because a bond is is more certain it's like it's it's a guaranteed
payout that's you know lower than the more bonds are safer bond is not tied to share price
yeah all right we're just getting into weird lands we don't necessarily understand
i mean i can i can wrap my brain around that but i also just have to
yeah we're like the comparatives are things that we haven't necessarily heard of which is like
okay we should probably just get out of here a bond is only a guarantee as long as the guarantor
is able to guarantee it i mean that's why like u.s government bonds were so popular for so long
yeah because well yeah the u.s government will go anywhere and they can always just you know
print more money or whatever uh but like buying a bond from a company that pivots as often and as
hard as google does for a hundred years a hundred a hundred years alphabet bonds a hundred years
like i just okay sure well why don't we do another topic sure
sony will ship their final blu-ray recorders this month blu-ray players will continue production
for now that's all just wanted to flag that blu-ray's blu-ray's death is not um greatly
exaggerated it seems like it is finally finally coming finally coming cool see you later blu-ray
does anyone is anyone in chat gonna miss blu-ray oh east of eastern blu-ray recorders yep what is
that for like like writing what is that for like burners remember burners why would you call it a
recorder all right well that was often what they were called back in the day writers burners recorders
i think the never heard it call the recorder i think the burner parlance kind of went away
pretty early on but like consumers liked it because it was cool yeah are you gonna have writer recorder
yeah 100 percent let's just do the Floatplane announcements some of these other ones are really
depressing i don't know what oh check this out want to bring up the interface there are three
early access LTT videos and two amazing Floatplane exclusives up this week one of the three
christmas bonuses this year was allowing employees to spend a thousand dollars on whatever they choose
as long as they go with fellow employees sammy chewie ariana and bell vlogged their time spending
their thousand dollars on a bunch of stuff like a base belt clothes and a book fun fact of the three
options about 95 percent of the company chose to spend the one thousand dollars and then have
a paid day off there were other options in fact luke and Dan were the only two people that picked
one of the other options do you want to talk about it you guys are done now right no but we're
done the primary portion except i forgot you're supposed to take the day off and i wouldn't have
been able to anyway so i didn't do that part um but we we got four really like fancy very fancy
cooking glasses and we got a we went to a michelin star restaurant and had the day off the day that
we went to the michelin star restaurant except i didn't realize just how fancy it was until
what they showed you the meat or something oh the cooking glasses yeah that was crazy
i was just like oh cool four cooking classes neat uh and then yeah they went over the ingredients
list and i was like whoa okay all right um like what was it i forget you told me at some point
there's like this can you describe the uh the lamb Dan yeah it's like a special new zealand lamb
grown by sort of a small farm with very particular rules and regulations and it's not sold retail
it's only given to a couple different restaurants when they start talking about that kind of crap
the person's name that they know that they get it through and stuff yeah jeffrey's brought this over
and he's like i work for a different company now uh do you want lamb and it's like oh okay restaurants
a bit when the when each individual ingredient in the food has a story you know you're paying a
lot of money um so so that was neat and then we went to the michelin star restaurant we did that
last night actually that's right so we did our thing yesterday and that's when i was like yeah
my favorite part was the potato to be fair it was a very fancy potato it was an extremely fancy it
was like a uh a rosette done sort of scalloped surrounded by potato skin cream which was very
nice it had some sort of cheese or something on it as well it was really good it was a it was excellent
unique experience i would say so too we did eight courses yeah cool yeah yeah anyway most
people just got the shopping spree um i still haven't figured out why no one else picked this
it's been amazing i'm very happy with the choice we still have two courses to go it's four classes
classes yeah classes yeah sorry all right we also have a blue screen of death competition
featuring elijah danie one of our new writers jordan and tatiana to see who can get a blue
screen the fastest um if early releases are more to your tastes we've got three we released
two stays video a whole week early on Floatplane which has elijah converting from an
Android to an iphone and giving him giving his reasons as to why we also bought a 90 thousand
dollar oh sorry no they provided a 90 thousand dollar tv plufon i unbox and at least help a
little bit with the assembly to see how good it is it's crazy it's incredible spoiler sorry
and finally our dash cam roundup which will release right now is coming early fill your
weekend with exclusives and early access at LMG.gg slash fp wan what the heck sammy why would you
write do this call to action first please at the end of the dog or the end of the segment
it hits red and bold and in larger font and it has like like little whatever the little
hats are called the little uh shift shift six the hats it has a bunch of hats do this first
please sammy why would you put it at the end
hello luke can you show the screen sammy's here sammy's here how did you get here you want me to
show the document no show show the Floatplane landing page the float landing page yeah i supposed to
do yeah show the things show the thing okay yeah i don't i don't know what are you doing in the
call sammy can they hear you yeah show the things show the things yeah blue screen death yeah are you
even oh i don't want to say but i can't right now i'm still here why am i still here yeah it's
late dude i don't know i didn't realize you like ran on to set and i was like how am i hearing sammy
right now i couldn't i couldn't see him so i really was confused i didn't see him at first i
didn't yeah anyways i just i just need i just need to go on the right screen okay bye okay i thought
he just hacked into our call yeah i was really impressed i was like wow your mic's really good
yeah all right
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for the past 20 years yeah exactly it's actually very cool i like that they celebrated it this is
so based this is so pro consumer that i think it's sexy wood for the past 20 years whatever roll
in would be something for the past 20 years Noctua has been offering mounting upgrade kits
yeah they have for free to anyone with a valid receipt for a Noctua cooler
this is with the intention of your Noctua cooler being able to be effectively the last cooler you
ever buy as long as you don't you don't need uh the you know the better performance of whatever
their new gen one is i believe you have to pay shipping that's my understanding but um the the
kit itself is available for free and and this is great for those without the receipt the kits
are still available on marketplaces for around ten dollars you can and we actually did a youtube
short on this before the 20 year mark but after i don't know it was like 16 years or something like
that where we took the very first Noctua cooler we actually had them send us one they still had a
unit of the very very first Noctua heat sink and we mounted it to the very latest CPU
and showed it working and it was awesome and it was great and the fact that they will support
a product like that for so long is it's just it's admirable very admirable
and i love it uh whoa binky draw says not even shipping you only need to pay if you want it
expedited that actually explains that time that Noctua sent us a bulk shipment of mounting kits
um for us to reship for them because i guess they were trying to save a little bit of money
interesting so cool what just you dude you're just upset that my kink is being pro consumer that's so
our kink now that's so weird come on luke you know there there's some people that you might have
an uncomfortable attraction to based on that yeah not to it it's kind of weird dude i'm not
uncomfortable with it i think you might be i think jacob would laugh it off okay um
all right let's try to go to something that doesn't arouse Linus somehow um
log deck g is not going to create an ai device that plays the game for you in their pro lineup
too late i'm into it oh my god logitech g pro series product manager chris pate was interviewed on tom by tom's guide
about the future of ai and logitech products and then in quotes logitech as a company is very
much looking at how to use ai and how to incorporate ai into you know yeah both product development
and into products themselves from the from a certain point of view from the point of view
of competitive integrity and esports specifically i think we have to be very careful about how we
use potentially integrate and touch the pro series with ai touch you don't have to use just
careful Linus is here we would never do it in a way that would compromise competitive integrity
we're not going to create an ai device that plays the game for you right
no no no keep reading it's good that's absolutely outside the bounds of what using that type of
technology would be applied to the pro line okay yeah so i just nothing i just thought that's cool
yeah good job logitech not cool for drawing a line right because taking a stance right now
against ai in any way feels like like corporate kryptonite and just coming out and saying
and and and like okay it seems so obvious right no we're not going to create an ai product that
like plays the game for you because that's completely against the integrity of competition
yeah that seems obvious doesn't it luke and yet you've got all these monitor manufacturers
that are figuring that started with a crosshair started with a cheat cheating crosshair yeah
you're supposed to just put masking tape on your screen and then put a little cross on it
stop what are you guys doing and then got as far as like sending alerts like that that they would
monitor what's going on on screen in your mini map and send you alerts if you're about to get
ganks like that is not playing the game anymore speaking of no go no go ahead speaking of things
that logitech could maybe use ai for maybe naming their mice there's a new article on the lab's
website making sense of logitech's mouse lineup where we go through their different things this is
like the opposite of sponsored by logitech where we go through their different product lines and try
to make sense of their naming schemes because they're a little should this be an LTT could this
just be an LTT could i just take this article write a script and then just make it an LTT i think
if you want to make it an LTT i think you might need to do more than just the the logitech mouse
lineup i think you might want to do like a couple companies or something why i don't know i mean
they're the they're hands down the leader in the space you hear i mean i think you and i have
probably said more times than we can count you want a good gaming mouse that'll last you a long
time find something from logitech's lineup yeah so what's wrong with that
and then if it's successful has anything to do with that and then if it's successful hell marks
100 right we just do the same thing with razor and then it's a whole series because i think you
think you can try it i would watch that yeah i think okay that's an awesome series a business
meeting time i think sometimes we are often led by fear and i think in the current youtube environment
that actually doesn't you know in a weird way i think the craziness going on with the algorithm
right now benefits not being very fearful about your content because if you release something
that sucks the algorithm doesn't really seem like it punishes you as hard as it used to
it just will not give it any views so there's a possibility this video gets 300 000 views
which for us would be pretty rough um but if that does happen then the next one can still
do really well so you don't have the like momentum issue that you had in the past so
just go for it yeah sick since we're having a business meeting there's yeah uh Dan i just
dropped a link to the LTT subreddit in the in your teams should we start publishing to porn hub
sure apparently the ad cpms are three x yeah nice just do it there's also if you need to do
research for making your video uh you could go to the lucas has been posting all the articles on
uh the LTT subreddit and i think somebody pointed out that we like missed one of the mice or
something so maybe there's some additional detail in the comments we do read the comments in there
check them out on the subreddit but yeah i don't know you'd have to find an employee that wouldn't
mind doing that um i'm sure there is one you just put yourself on screen yeah he's going to put
up the screen no that's not what happened i missed it luke can you throw it up um if you want to
what am i throwing up i'm not putting potatoes potatoes okay what am i putting on screen i'll
try and find where you guys are in the dock uh it was this link line is sent to me
this is crazy it's from a stem creator sorry where is this it's under the logitech topic
okay i wasn't there anymore uh i see it LTT so it's a subreddit thing this looks probably it's fine
it's safe for work i i've sent it all right relax guys people may not know this but i publish
the same stem videos on both youtube and what can i say i think so on the hub while while youtube
generally generates more views the ad revenue per million views on the hub is nearly three times higher
other creators are uploading stem videos on the hub and seeing two times uh the revenue
since most of the subreddit spends their time on the hub anyways it seems like a smart move for
LTT to post there um to be clear i don't think this is something that we would do for the same
reason that we have certain ad verticals disabled on youtube i don't know that i'd be particular
like there's a reason that these advertisers pay more it's because fewer sites will take them
um right oh that that's why the cpms are so high i mean we've had this conversation a thousand
times around like the LTT forum we'll have some agency approach us oh yeah i could sell i could
i could make you rich with ads on your community forum and i'm like yeah how and they go oh well
all you have to do is have ads for this stuff and i'm like yeah okay we're good um but i just i
thought i thought it was interesting i thought it was interesting you could try it and see what the community feedback is try stuff do it we already have someone who volunteered to do the
uploading they already volunteered yeah we could upload like the good news stuff there like it could
be a good news consumer protection news break yeah give yourself a break and give me a bigger break
yeah who volunteered to do the uploads was this elijah no dand it immediately oh for oh that's
what he was doing i had to find an employee who would it would be like willing to do this i
am a team player i'll take one for the team and then if you have a partner to help you with it
is it a double team yeah we'll double team the LTT videos a good news break would be
good news oh my god that's funny damn that's pretty good we're gonna get some work out of the
feed cam anyway oh my goodness um it's possible to make too much money i just whatever just do it
see what community feedback is no one in chat right now is like oh my goodness you can't do that
that would be bad like nobody seems to care it's not gonna make our brand worse we were already on
only fans yeah that's true look luke i don't think i've ever not been a try anything twice kind of
entrepreneur then try it uh all right no balls
i can't hold it all right all right all right all right come on move on please
we'll do it Dan Dan's gonna create the account then right is that did you actually volunteer
to do this because i can't i can't tell you to do this no i'll do it yeah you can use my account
it's fine i mean uh the work account the work account it's in keeper we're fine
we have a work account no well i don't know we might we might need to contact them to get the
username i'm i'm i bet you someone took it say nothing i'm sure they i'm sure they'd get it for
us i i think we've been in touch with them before i'm sure we have we have yep okay i still want
to do a data center tour yeah that actually would be very cool yeah the dirtiest data center water
cool questionable liquids yeah these are mineral oil pcs it's recycled when there's a leak does it
squirt and he's dead oh need two fingers to plug this hole uh what's our next topic do you want to
talk about our sponsor what would be the uh what would be the ratio of small white servers to large
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while you're at it all right should we talk about these bank now i think you could have a lot of
fun with the titles oh yeah videos uploaded over there oh for sure someone in fulping chat already
said that you should do like uh explaining what dp is and it's just an exploration of DisplayPort
like a fully safer work that's what i should have done for this is going to be great and then and
then there's all those exploring dp with my co-workers line is but there's all those videos
that are like yeah i got stuck in the washing machine or whatever yeah yeah you could do titles
that are actually like not really innuendo-y but seem like they might be because of the content i
think you could use the uh you could use the washing machine one of my new screwdriver yeah yeah
yeah she checks out my screwdriver one in each hand 10 million views anyway speaking of 10 million
views no notes youtube music lyrics now require a premium subscription youtube music is rolling out
a five free lyric view limit on their platform once you hit that limit only the first few lines
are visible with the rest blurred unless you subscribe youtube music premium costs $11 a
month in the us while full youtube premium is $13.99 a month in the us i don't know why pretty much
anyone would get just youtube music premium and my reason for saying that is not because like oh you're
too cheap to get the the whole youtube premium my reason for that is i would just get something else
Shopify or sorry Spotify or something youtube music really is like the thing that you have
because you have youtube premium uh just like how every company uses teams because they happen to
have the office suite and teams happens to be there which makes it like the best option
not because it's actually good um just so i only i only highlighted this because it's
i guess wonderful that youtube is finding ways to me or google is finding ways to make youtube
music worse instead of making it more like google play music which was awesome yeah so yeah this this
blows and that's all that i have to say about that google says it now has 325 plus million paid
subscribers across services that's pretty good i'm assuming that you include google workspace
also not that meaningful because their services are so broad yeah and youtube brought in over 60
billion in ads and subscriptions in 2025 all right what else we got microsoft is rolling out a new
secure boot certificate before the old ones expire in june so they've started pushing these through
monthly Windows updates ahead of june 2026 which is the expiration of the original 2011
certificates secure boot verifies trusted bootloaders that start out blocking things like
root kits from loading before Windows begins the new certificates are being automatically
deployed to supported Windows 11 24 h2 and 25 h2 systems though some devices may require
firmware updates from oems first basically we're just flagging this to like look into your device
make sure that you're not going to enter a degraded security state with reduced boot
level protections and all that good stuff uh also in other news t-mobile introduces live
translations with no app required i thought that was pretty cool i don't have the opportunity to try
it because i'm not on t-mobile so yep there you go that's pretty neat uh and how does that work
i don't know sounds cool someone uh try it out and let me know so they're recording all your calls
is what i'm taking of course they are yeah cool don't you love the world i want to talk about
ianio's new handheld they the first time ianio did like uh like we're making something that's
really high end they called it the ianio next and it was a pretty cool handheld back in the day
they just announced the next two which without early bird pricing on indiegogo is starting
at two thousand dollars and the maxed out spec will be forty three hundred dollars we are literally in
decent second hand car territory multiple times the cost of my first car and i'm also assuming
that's usd so it's like a few multiple times the maxed out specs include a nine inch 165 hertz
OLED at 2400 by 1504 that reaches 1155 nits the AMD ryzen ai max plus 395 so this is a
16 core CPU 16 core mobile CPU zen 5 course that has an r dna what what is it something
something point something it not for the the previous one has uh an r dna graphic GPU that's
like about on par with kind of an entry-level mobile dedicated GPU like this thing is flipping
powerful r dna 3.5 thanks avocadotus diaboli or whatever uh up to 128 gigs of lp ddr 5x memory
at 85 33 mega transfers per second two terabytes of nvmi storage tmr joysticks hull effect triggers
a 116 watt hour battery that is going to make it so that you have to fill out special paperwork
in order to take it on a plane and it weighs about a kilogram and a half three and a half pounds
that's sick do you want to show it on screen as someone who already has spent a fair bit of time
daily driving a gpd win five this is the last category of products that needs fierce competition
the the strict halo handheld gaming pc space it looks like a pretty cool little device though
ianio has run into some trouble recently with um their customers being kind of irate at them for
reasons that i don't 100 no right now but uh seem to be valid i i like very briefly scanned it like
supporting devices after the fact and stuff like that i actually kind of like what gpd did with the
win five the i when i unboxed it i thought it was really stupid but the more i've used it the more
i've really liked their battery tether i just put it in the pocket of my cargo pants and then it
makes it so that it feels like a normal weight and i don't have to carry around a massive massive
battery with it with that said even even with the giant battery oh dude it feels like it feels like
rocking out to my zoom yeah um even with the massive battery that it has it still doesn't like
last that long i mostly used it used it plugged in but it's nice to be able to game in bed at
like really high fidelity i played most of expedition 33 on the gpd win five east of easton
said good thing this can't fly because you won't after those prices either and while i think that's
really funny i think the people that can afford that and will buy that will be able to fly afterwards
because that's what's happening to the economy uh hey did you hear about the new concept the
e-shaped economy no so it's to it's to capture that the the top of the k right is is never going
to approach the middle class again which is going to remain enormously elevated from the the very
bottom who are struggling a lot so this is this is like a new kind of way of describing it
yeah so now we've got the stratification has expanded it's not that um that the middle class
is going to be coming along with the economy yeah i yeah yeah that's that's not bad i still
think k-shaped is a better descriptor for most people but it's uh the k-shaped i think better
shows the divergence yeah yeah yeah but that is interesting uh what else is interesting in finance
is that mr beast finally been waiting for this bought a banking app now i can finally do real
banking beast industries mr beast company has acquired step which has apparently seven million
users a financial services app for teens and young adults that has banking services provided by steps
banking partner evolve bank and trust uh this follows mr beast's announcement of a new youtube
channel focused on personal finance and investing backed by his own bank that's cool uh other ventures
include ghost restaurants festivals and 10 trillion other things uh first move into financial services
which feels like he's employing a strategy to continue to monetize his audience as they age
moving from snacks into savings um although you know people definitely still buy snacks when they're
older uh discussion question given the recent rash of influencer hyped mean coin rug pulls i
don't think that's recent uh do you think this is more of the same another grift or a sound business
model strategy for beast industries i suspect it will be a legitimate bank and i suspect it will
be a legitimate bank that gets a lot of its customers through insane marketing from his
financial channel and it will be more successful than it should be because of that i think it will
be boring i think it's a pretty sound business decision i think that uh i mean i i said years
ago that he'd be the first youtube billionaire i think he's he's passed it now right no idea what
he might as well be uh i don't know i haven't had like a a chat with him in a long time um
when he was younger though i can i can say that he seemed to mostly have his heart in the right
place even if not every just even if i'd like wouldn't agree with every decision that he made
and he did some things that i think were ill advised um i would like to hopefully believe
that he would find a way to make his bank you know not predatory or whatever but i um
i've also seen beast endeavors that have been kind of running seemingly pretty independently
and he seems like he's stretched really thin like between the content and feastables and
i i would and have bought yeah uh you know i've bought youtuber shirts i've bought a wide variety
of different youtuber merch things have supported youtubers on patreon and Floatplane and and what
not i think it's really cool that there's youtuber creator candy i haven't bought any of it but i
totally would um i think i'm good doing my banking with some boring people boring really
boring suited people ideally like as boring as possible really like i want to walk in and
immediately want to yawn and just be bored and then walk out with a bank account that works
i think i think that's what i want them to do personally it's not financial advice but
please yeah i do the bank nerd says not gonna lie feastables taste like trash well the original
ones were actually really good they were pretty high cocoa content they were like actually pretty
good quality chocolate um and then they reformulated them to be more appealing to the average mr
beast viewer and also they're probably cheaper to make now so now they taste a lot more like the
chocolate on a kit cat or whatever but the early ones were actually pretty good like if you like
quality chocolate um that has like high is high in cocoa my kids i um i had like some really nice
swiss chocolate that was like 65 or 70 cocoa or something like that and um i was i was treating
myself to like an after dinner just piece of chocolate and they were like oh what's that
that doesn't look like you know the chocolate we've had before i'm like oh this is this is chocolate
they're like well yeah but like i'm like no no but like this is chocolate and uh they tried it i was
actually surprised that they all liked it i think i probably to put my thumb on the scale a little
bit by giving them extremely small pieces because the the bitterness can be not that appealing to a
younger palette but they all really they all really liked it and i was like oh okay yeah well
it's really expensive so uh we're not going to happen in the house very often but yeah that's
chocolate it's really good people saying it's technically not a bank it's just a fin tech
company that is backed by a bank sounds like it needs to exist even less but yeah i don't know
i don't i'm just supremely not interested and maybe somebody will be but this this ain't for me
cool it's a finance app aimed at gen z and gen alpha people like you're you're just slowly doing
the reverse of winning me over so anyways not for me i won't be engaging not financial advice
do the hell you want see you later uh after dark is it after dark it's after dark i think it's
after dark i mean it's clearly after dark oh actually there's lights on outside it's not
that clearly after dark it's definitely after dark oh that's why there's lights on outside
nice solid all right i don't have too many for you here luke den and Linus has there ever been
an item bought for an AMD upgrade where you were like i could use that and eventually bought it
also Floatplane exclusives are too good lately tammy tone it back no um i am not in the dashboard
and i usually don't actually listen to you i read along because i process information better that
way i need to log into the dashboard right now yeah that's why that's why i read them so that you
can read it uh yeah i will dm them too yeah don't you don't want to say that again that's probably
too behind the curtain for for Floatplane jet um have your reserve been an item bought on an AMD
upgrade where you thought that you could use it and eventually bought one oh oh man uh
hold on fill record is this is this gonna work nice okay i'm in i hacked the mainframe
grill Linus has grills now okay very funny he only wears them off camera you got into
your making fun of me no but i should have they are the right color
got him i'm so i'm so sorry i missed that because i was trying to think that's okay i like it enough
you didn't even need to laugh i enjoyed it myself um i was pretty tempted by the live laugh
liao neon sign but i i just i couldn't spend money on that like i i'd love to have one but i
wouldn't love to buy it to pay for it yeah that was pretty rough there's so many things i would
love to have for free that is very i like that that's good yeah um Linus town you know what i would
be i would i would be tempted i would have been tempted to pick up some of like the cool bike
stickers that andrew had in his uh first motorbike but then i painted my bike uh let's see what else
we got man i don't know it's it's funny because other than my like tech junk i actually don't
like having a lot of clutter i'm like such a millennial gray don't have extra stuff
anywhere uh person
no no i actually haven't haven't really found much that i've been that interested in
okay surprise surprise neither yeah but you although i do think that a lot of the purchase
that people have made are cool and suit them hold on no no that might might have been a bit of a
lie um because i i wasn't dailying in OLED when the first person went OLED for their gaming machine
i don't think and i i think i went mo led shortly after that is that why though uh i mean like i
guess the thing for me is that i'm i'm already aware of most stuff tech wise before i i see it on
an AMD upgrade yeah and and a lot of the non tech stuff is people's own hobbies and their own interests
which i don't necessarily share because i my main hobby is running a business because if it
isn't then your business isn't really likely to be very successful unless you are really really
really really good at it and you can run your own business in 40 hours a week which is like wow that's
cool especially in the early days like wow good job up next i have had the joy of running a stem
camp for kids of all ages recently i i'm cool i'm constantly looking for cool experience
experiments or activities in tech for it do you have any suggestions for a cool stem activity
fractions i really liked making like catapults and stuff trebuchet yeah trebuchets catapults
that was really fun and you can like get them to try to do the math before every shot of like
where it's gonna land um like i like actually tie in like actual learning objectives don't
just do the fun part this one must launch it reward the yeah reward the i did the math stuff with
thing get thrown and go bang and that's cool here's your projectile it has to go exactly 200
feet yeah math please this may be beyond the scope and is honestly just because i've had to
have this conversation a lot of times recently with my kids but i i'd love it if you did a little
thing on like adhesives and help them understand you know how they function and why some of them
work for some things and don't work for other things just explaining super glue at all yeah like my
kids keep trying to use hot glue on 3d prints and i keep having to explain that no in fact you
can't do that um unless depending on the filament maybe you can but um it's really not optimal for
what they were trying to do and it's just the kind of thing that i think we don't really get like
taught i like i don't remember ever being taught anything to do with yeah with adhesives and solvents
and stuff like that i don't know yeah this might be more the older kids but it's just something
that's on my mind because i've had to talk about it a little bit lately
hey dll i'm making my way through tactics on tactician how many levels ahead of story battles
did you usually have to be towards the end i didn't keep track i just uh i just played the game and
tried to win and i would i don't i don't think i i don't think i ground much i think i skipped
almost every random encounter which might explain why i was oh oh wait we'll hold on hold on hold on
okay i'm a bit of a completionist when it comes to abilities though so i would just like hide in a
corner and like hit my own guys and stuff to get abilities and then i would end up really
over leveled so i i don't know i'm i'm a mess to completely ignore me in my and my strategies
last one i'll count for you today good evening when wook and winus i'm writing from the future
as i am visiting japan have any of you been to the tahoku area and if so where should i visit
if i get the chance i'm currently in sendai i don't think i've ever been there but if i had i
wouldn't know because the way that i travel for work is i get on the plane and then i arrive
wherever it is that i am and then i open up an app or a cab or whatever it is that i do
and i go to whatever hotel i'm supposed to go to and then in the morning i go to whatever
factory tour or thing that i'm supposed to do is and then i go home and so i don't really
know where i am sometimes uh because it doesn't really matter
sorry uh elinor says visit the ghibli museum though that sounds amazing i'd love to go to
a ghibli museum yeah cool that's it is that it for today wow okay you didn't curate many we had a
lot of merge messages today but i guess um not too many questions oh wow how about that well um you
guys all nokie says i'm working on this to help with your wiki page what is this oh wow
whoa a whole history of like Floatplane closed beta alpha phase domain announcement
okay the real trick though nokie is you've got to find other people talking about it this can't be
first party this is actually pretty good yeah this has this has some information that most people
don't know yeah luke has done a lot of cool stuff let's get him a well let's get him a wiki
page you should have one i don't think it makes sense the most important left friend here i mean
what was the other one a hockey player yeah the pretty big deal one yeah did you have a float
plane no no but he has a jersey my dad has one of his jerseys it's kind of cool to have an official
jersey without the like custom name on the back like it's actually just an official jersey and it
is also your last name it's pretty sick that's pretty that is pretty cool i kind of want one but
their jerseys are really expensive oh yeah dude they're they're so expensive
all right i think that's it i'll have to get back to uh it looks so dope though oh my god
maybe one day see you guys next week same bad time same bad channel bye
a sweater yeah sorry oh sorry sorry sorry sorry got them
i keep they're not wrong yeah they're not wrong