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Yep, you're live, got him. Technically.

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Yeah. Uno reverse.

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All right.

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Okay, Wansho. How is it that you were here at 430 and I was here at 440 and we're not going live till five.

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Yeah, because we took a long time to pick the title.

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Hmm.

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That actually didn't take for a long to figure out. I was like, wait a minute.

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Nope. KG4WNN nailed it.

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Whoever has been waiting the longest needs to go leave their computer and go poop.

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That will ensure the Wansho starts while they're away.

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100% logical.

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That is how it works. That's an interesting observation. Whoever is most inconvenienced by us finally starting,

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that's who will start when they poo. So I have to go poo every time?

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I mean. And the Wansho is going to start with me pooping every time.

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So everyone watching Wansho will just know.

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I mean, we had that. That I am currently defecating. We had that old animated intro where at the beginning you're like,

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it kind of looked like you're pooping. I'm sucking quicksand.

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And maybe the Wansho. You can't poop in the quicksand. You can.

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What will sink faster in the quicksand?

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Your face or your poop? It probably wouldn't struggle.

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So probably you. So you'd catch up to it. So it's going to slowly.

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You're going to. Just hope you're dead before you get there. That sucks.

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Yeah. Just have this streak.

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It's getting too much. And it's kind of probably like 6040.

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Like which side of your crotch it'll go up.

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So hopefully it goes up the back. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Wow. I'd only imagined back.

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I hadn't really. And this assumes it's solid. Oh yeah.

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What if you have like feared hyria?

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I'm sure that's a thing for someone. It's got to be.

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I wonder how much pressure you would need for it to get you out of the quicksand.

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Um, how dare you go to bed, Zenth and Wolf? I forbid it.

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Yeah, stay up. Yeah, stay up and watch now. Ruin your life. Yeah, it'll be totally a completely different experience watching it live.

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Let's bully Zenth. Let's bully Zenth and Wolf together.

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Help us bully. Watch live and be sleep deprived.

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Thanks. Thanks, Jerusalem. Yeah, I knew I could count on you.

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Why is everyone talking about poop now? Interesting. Send that to L2D store support, please.

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What's this? He says, once he saw it, this doesn't really make any sense.

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Oh, I thought no, no, no, no, no, I read it now. The username is interesting.

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I thought you.

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Yeah. Yep. That makes sense. I get it.

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It's like nipple-less cage. Yep. Could mean anything.

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No, I'm pretty sure that means a pretty specific thing.

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It could mean anything. I think it means the greatest actor of our time with no nipples.

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Unbearable weight of massive talent.

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Unbearable weight of massive poop in quicksand.

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Actually, I think that's a weight that I could bear. I think when the waiting was over, I'd be more upset about it.

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By the way, these shirts are apparently for you guys to wear.

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I need to talk to Jamie about how many of our shirts we're opening for wearing on camera right now,

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though, maybe. I know. Here's the merch for Wancho, but I don't need one because.

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You have like three of those. He literally put that next to the one that I already had that is the same one.

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Oh, and you have multiple of them because they're all your size. Nope, these are different.

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These are unrelated to those. Yeah, but both of those are your size. I know, but these aren't for Wancho.

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Oh, why not? I don't know. I could show it, but it's not for Wancho.

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Those are for Wancho. So that's yours.

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No, I don't need it. It's the same one as the one I'm wearing right here.

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What do you want to do with this? Because it shouldn't just stay there. It can stay there. Oh, it's not on camera.

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Yeah, it's not. Yeah. Can catch.

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It was a perfect pass to someone.

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That was a really annoying sound. Oh, it really is.

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Nice.

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What's up, B4ster?

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Oh, I'm still wearing my mic.

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Oh, yeah. What are we waiting? Are we waiting for anything or could we just go whenever?

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Cool. That'd be cool.

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What Chromebook shopping today?

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Nice. Yeah. How'd that go? Ah, you know.

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I mean, the best case scenario is you win a Chromebook.

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So, you know. You win a Chromebook?

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Well, no, like I just mean it costs hundreds of dollars to play

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and oh, all you can possibly win is a Chromebook. So, it's not the greatest game.

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Ah, Flippelin Chat froze for me already.

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Hardly even. Yeah, it only happened in the pre-show for me last time.

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If you can get an exact timestamp of when that happens, that would be useful.

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Oh, are we like actually trying to fix it now? Yeah. Cool.

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Oh, do I think Dan is a goober?

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What kind of a thing to say is that? The Oakland team is pretty low staff, even more than normal at the moment,

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because everyone's taking vacations because everyone delayed their vacations during the

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push. So, not a ton of stuff is really happening right now, but that is something that we want

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to look into. Cool.

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We ready?

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Uh, yeah, sure.

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Let's do it.

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Oh, right. I have my, I have a working laptop this week, so I'm gonna, I'll have the dashboard open.

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Oh, I cannot believe how crappily last week's win show performed.

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The funny part is that it even, it was like low, but then it like

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Hey, analytics.

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Okay. All right. I'm gonna, I'm gonna punch it.

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Oh, are we already live on notable streaming service, Ptet?

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We are actually always live on Ptet. What an adequate video service.

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Resuming selected now.

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What is up everyone and welcome to a fabulous win show where I gotta tell you, I don't know

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whether I'm more angry or sad because the website that taught me so much of what I know

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about PCs and computer hardware and electronics and just an invaluable repository of, of knowledge

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of PCs and times past has gone dark.

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Gone dark in a way that big time dark was big preventable dark.

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And not that expensive to well, we'll talk about it.

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We'll talk about it, but a non-text archives is gone.

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It just redirects to the forum. That's it.

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That's all she wrote folks in spite of their current owner Perch saying that that would,

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oh no, it's future PLC now. Yes. Sorry, future PLC saying that wouldn't happen.

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In other news, YouTube has responded to the criticism that Mr. Riley, who I might note,

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never criticizes anything hardly. Okay. So this is a truly two exceptional things happen this week.

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YouTube responded to our TechLinked criticism of the AI sharpening on YouTube shorts.

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So we'll get into it more later, but the, the spoiler here is they claim it's not AI,

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it's traditional machine learning.

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Yeah, that's, that's what I said. What else we got this week?

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Where are we drawing these lines? I will be addressing some, some controversial threads about Labs.

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Oh, I thought I'd give them a little interesting, not have a controversy fun for one week.

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I don't think it's going to be controversial. Why would you call them controversial?

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No, they're going to be extremely controversial. Head of Labs, head of Labs, I'm going to be sticking my, uh, falsely advertises flag in

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the ground, his flaccid ass non-controversy as controversial.

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Oh, it's going to be super serious. You got to stay tuned to check it out.

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Head of lies.

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Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's sorry, whatever. Anyways, and Intel grabs $2 billion for a lifeline.

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Yeah, they grabbed it by the, whoa.

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Wait, did I not eat that?

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Did you not? The show is brought to you today by ground news, MSI and Vessie.

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Also with our rap partner, D brand, our laptop partner, Dell, and of course,

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Why don't we jump right into our headline topic today,

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which is of course that a non-tax article archive has been taken down.

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I know, I know this happened a couple of weeks ago,

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but I just found out this week I was reviewing a script with, uh, I think it was Plouffe

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and Nick from the lab, a really cool video we've got coming soon.

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By the way, guys, we finally got our hands on an NVIDIA H200.

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So sure, yeah, it's their last gen one or whatever, but it's a $30,000 GPU.

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And we ran some machine learning and AI benchmarks and it fast.

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It very fast. It's like, it's so fast, I almost look at it and I go, wow, it fast.

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Wow, damn. My friends called me and they were like, that's a, that's really fast.

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Damn girl.

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You real fast at making slop.

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Nobody slops harder than you slop.

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I mean, but I mean it in a, in a kind way, a respectful way.

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You could, you could, you could mean that. You a sloppy girl.

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You a kiss.

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We're already so gone.

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We're like barely, barely into any topics and we are so gone.

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Well, folks, it's been nice knowing you.

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Sayonara from Canada. Oh boy.

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Okay. So yeah, our sources read it.

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Well, actually our source is me because I discovered this live.

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I was trying to find out, shoot, I forget what I was.

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I think I was trying to find out sort of, ah, yes, I remember now because I seemed to recall

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that the first GPU that implemented HBM memory was the Radeon R600.

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That ended up not being true. The R600 did have a notable memory configuration.

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It used a ring bus and a 512 bit or it might even, might even been more than that.

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I forget, but it had some kind of fancy memory interface. It wasn't HBM.

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And so we were, we were talking about some, something to do with the HBM memory that's

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on that H200 GPU. See, I came brought it all the way back.

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Yeah, he got it. Boom. And, and I was like, oh yeah. Well, hold on a second.

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I thought HBM had like a reputation for, was it for being really efficient?

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Or was it for being really inefficient? I couldn't remember which one. So I was, I was trying to find a non-tex article on the, the Radeon R600 or the R600 GPU.

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I forget what the actual like name of the card was. Was it the 2020, something?

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I can't remember. Doesn't matter. The point is R600 was the code name and I clicked through.

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2900. Yeah, that's probably it. Yeah, that's the one. Wait, 2900 XT is that, no, is that Hawaii?

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It's not even an AR review to snip it. Yeah, no, that's the one.

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Yeah. So I clicked through the article and it went to the non-tex forum.

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Not like the forum thread discussing the article or anything like that.

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Like that was a thing, but no, not that. Just, just to the forum. I was like, oh, what the heck?

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That's weird. Anyway, that we found a second source on, on that page of results and I was like, oh, okay.

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No, that card did not have HBM. It was actually the R9 Fury that was the first card to have HBM.

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And I was like, okay, so, so I searched like R9 Fury efficiency because I,

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so what happened was in my brain, I had, oh yeah, there were efficient,

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there was an efficiency conversation around HBM, but it turns out the efficiency conversation went both ways.

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So the card overall was not terribly efficient,

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but the HBM itself was known for being efficient.

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And that was the little piece that I needed. And I was able to continue my script,

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or at least I would have been able to if I wasn't busy grieving.

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Because when I was looking for information on the R9 Fury, I came across another historical, a non-tech article that was indexed in Google search results.

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And I clicked on it and it went straight to the forum.

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And I was like, what? And they were like, you didn't know?

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And I was like, no, what? A non-tech is gone.

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I mean, it, I guess shouldn't surprise me that much because,

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you know, when private equity firms say, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh,

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you know, yeah, all the staff's gone, but we're going to leave the historical archive up forever.

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Indefinitely, I don't know if they said forever, but there was no indication that they were going to be taking it down.

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In fact, all the news that you can find about a non-tech shutting down.

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In their potential defense, was that? Well, hold on, we'll come to it.

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We'll come to it. Okay, okay, okay. But blah, blah, blah.

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So you can actually see there's a, there was a fair bit of conversation about it.

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And over the center, there's always a question on tech.

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I can breathe a sigh of relief. Ah, yes.

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For now, a non-tech fans can breathe a sigh of relief.

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Smith, Ryan Smith, former editor-in-chief, writes that future PLC, a non-tech publisher,

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will keep the sites archive indefinitely.

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Well, see, there's that, yeah, that wording.

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Yeah, yeah, that wording though.

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I bet you it is true that they will keep the sites archive indefinitely.

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Doesn't mean they'll keep it up. So this happened a couple of weeks ago.

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This is actually a non-tech's second PE owner.

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So first was Perch, who I accidentally blamed for this earlier.

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Sorry, Perch. First was Perch and then future PLC bought,

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I believe, both a non-tech and Tom's hardware from Perch.

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They own Tom's hardware now, I know that. Yeah, they definitely, future definitely owns Tom's hardware now as well.

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This flipping blows.

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However, I am going to present one unexpected defense of the move.

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I've seen, yeah. Because I had one and I lost it already,

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so I'm very interested in where, because I was wondering like, did this,

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did that statement happen under Perch and then it was sold invalidating the statement,

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but no, so there goes my whole thing. Yeah, no, sorry. Okay, what is yours?

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So here's my theory that basically,

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because I would think the cost of keeping this online

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for a company like Future PLC is like, trivial.

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Especially with ads on the site, yeah. Unless, unless AI crawlers are f***ing them by just like,

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constantly hammering it, which, again, I don't know how super likely it is,

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because there's no new content being added to the site, other than the forum, which they have left online.

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So I had like one kind of theory that maybe it was around like,

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you know, saving this non-AI infected sort of pre-AI era,

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but then it's going to be part of so many repositories anyway. So yeah, what I had planned was to present,

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okay, yeah, they're keeping their non-dirty,

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non-AI written, you know, IP to themselves

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and they want to like license access to, you know, helping AIs understand computers

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and the history of computers, but then realistically, the entire business

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of harvesting and selling datasets, there's no way they don't already have all of this anyway, so...

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A lot of the internet's data was crawled before countermeasures were put in place.

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Future isn't private equity, technically. Yes, you're right.

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They are, they like actually operate and stuff. They're not just private equity.

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So I should not have necessarily bundled them in with that. They just behave like private equity.

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Yeah, I looked up their Wikipedia. Sorry.

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That's Canadian private equity. I'm kidding.

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Can I find this? Future US. Yeah, there we go.

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Is it actually just Future US? Oh, no. No, it's Future PLC.

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For the United Kingdom-based company, see Future PLC, but Future US,

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it looks like owns the magazine, maybe?

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Or at least that's how it's laid out on Wikipedia. Who knows?

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I just thought it was interesting if you look up Future US on Wikipedia,

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their list of defunct titles is longer than their list of current titles.

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Current titles there and defunct titles.

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Right at the top, a non-tech. Wow. They own Nintendo Power?

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Well, they, you know, for a period of time. Yeah, but no, I mean defunct,

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but they probably still own the IP then, I would think. I guess, yeah.

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Official Dreamcast Magazine. Okay, some of these probably didn't need to still be around.

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Total Movie. Skateboard, trade news, men's edge.

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CD-ROM today, I guess. Yeah, we could live without CD-ROM today.

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Little time limited. Yeah. Might have been cool for a while. Yep, yep.

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Broadcasting cable, I can kind of understand that going down. I think they should bring back Maximum Linux though.

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I think the time is right. It might, you know, for a magazine, I don't know.

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Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.

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Yeah. So what are our options here?

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Some people have apparently... Okay, so Future US is wholly owned subsidiary of Future PLC.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there is apparently an archive on, well, of all places,

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the internet archive, who could have thought it. But my notes say, but it's not the same.

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Do you know what is... No. What is not the same about it?

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No. You don't? No. Is it not very navigable?

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That would be what I would assume. I'm also assuming if there's any tools that the tools wouldn't work?

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So this blows. And I mean, not just for me.

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Like for me personally, it blows because I would often use historical articles from

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Anantek whenever we're making a video about something that's so old

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that we didn't exist yet as a publication to cover it.

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Like we've been around so long now that unless something is very old,

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you know, I could refer back to our old video and I'll be able to find a B-roll clip or two

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as needed, maybe a benchmark result as shoddily as it might have been obtained back then.

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But every time one of these old sites goes down and all the articles are lost,

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we lose a piece of history forever. Like that whole The Internet Never Forgets thing is turning out to be so not true.

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Oh, extremely so. The Internet forgets more than the entire rest of recorded human history contains.

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I think largely because everyone said The Internet Never Forgets for so long,

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so they trusted it as an archive and a backup when it's just a bunch of dudes' computers.

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And part of the problem is that now,

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even knowing The Internet totally does forget and this is going to be an enormous problem,

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I don't know how we're going to fix it because it's not practical to back up the whole thing

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in all its different permutations as it is ever changing.

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And there's so much crap mixed in with the gems that are worth backing up that

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how do you surgically back up what matters?

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Especially now. Especially now.

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Imagine backing up all that AI slop.

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Right? Dude, okay, so back to the H200.

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Like you can generate AI slop images at a rate that was mind-blowing to me.

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Like I already saw what I felt was pretty fast AI image generation when we checked out that 48 gig

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4090 card, the one that we got from China where they're modifying the 24 gig cards

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and they're putting double the memory on them. I was like, wow, dang, you can fit like a so much model in this VRM.

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You know? And then we were playing around with the H200.

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That thing has 141 gigs of memory.

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141 gigs. That's pretty nuts.

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Like right on, it's right on the package.

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Like it's right on there. They stack the memory, sir.

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It's a really cool piece of tech. Yeah, too bad it costs as much as a practical family vehicle.

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I just kind of meant HBM in general. Oh, sure, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, well, I mean, the HBM is a big part of the price of that card.

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No, that's fair. Yeah. I just think HBM is cool. Yeah, the yields on it apparently is a real challenge.

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That's why it has an oddball amount, 141 gigs.

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That is weird. Yeah, well, that's because when your stack in 12 memory dies, occasionally you might-

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Stuff goes wrong. Yeah, you might have something not quite so perfect.

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We'll get better at it.

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I clicked the wrong thing. What is this?

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Okay. Well, we'll let chat worry about their stuff there.

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In summary, maybe the reason has to do with protecting the IP from AI scrapers.

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Maybe the reason has to do with not being able to afford the monthly bill

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of keeping the site up. Maybe the decision has to do with peer apathy.

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Whatever the reason is, this absolutely blows.

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I think I had started a thought earlier about how this affects me,

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but I think this affects anybody who wants to learn about stuff from a previous era.

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Because what do you- This was a very valuable archive for computer hardware history.

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And computer hardware enthusiasts.

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This absolutely blows.

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In advance, future PLC, I reject your offer to purchase Linus Media Group.

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Sure, okay.

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Well, because they're going to mess it up.

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You don't know what they're going to offer though. I don't, but in advance, I reject their offer.

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I'm being proactive. You should learn about it.

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I would more lean towards vein.

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But you know- Why not both? But fair enough.

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If this is a potentially odd call out, but if you want a cool experience talking about

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the closure of an old magazine, there's a podcast that they really haven't made enough

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episodes of, but it's called The Life Well Wasted. And I think it's their first episode ever, is The Death of EGM, or Electronic Gaming Monthly.

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And it's like he goes and interviews a bunch of the people at their-

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I think it's like they're like last day or at a party where it's like the closure of

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the company party. And it's actually really wild because they're talking about the death of magazines.

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And it's a bunch of people that had worked at a bunch of different magazines and ended

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up eventually over time to EGM because EGM was one of the later ones to go down in regards

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to gaming magazines. It's actually a really good episode.

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Right, because these are the last ones left standing in the industry effectively.

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Yeah. And they talk about what it was like to write video game reviews back when

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the internet wasn't a thing. This is a lot of like old head game reviewers.

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It's actually like, it's a really, really cool episodes. And it's from a podcast that like not a lot of people know about and it's fantastic.

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I was talking to Neen Exist in Flippling Chat who is apparently a employee-

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It's pronounced Ney-Ney. Ney-Ney, sure. Apparently employee of Future PLC and I was asking because like the timing of this is

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kind of funky. We haven't necessarily gotten to this portion of it yet, but it's, and I don't 100% know,

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but it seems like Bench, the Tom's Hardware tool, Bench, was maybe launched at a fairly

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similar time to when Anantec went down. Oh.

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And it feels like there's potentially a strategy there to try to get more people

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coming towards Bench. Right, because yeah, no, I know what you're talking about.

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So Bench is their comparison tool where you can kind of compare across brands,

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across eras, and see relative performance.

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And Anantec had a lot of historical graphs and charts that either they've rolled in,

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which I don't actually know how they obtain all the results for Bench.

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I don't know if they've used any of the Anantec data, but what they might be avoiding,

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I guess to your point, is people just- Using Anantec.

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Going back and just looking at graphs on there.

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Oh never mind, he's a very ex-employee, my bad.

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But yeah, apparently there wasn't like a-

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Are you going to get anything right today, or are you just going to go full like-

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Yeah, that, except apparently I'm not going to say it this time for some reason.

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So the time that I get it all wrong, I'll omit the statement, perfect.

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But yeah, I don't fully know how this tool works. I wanted to poke into it, and then I realized that they only have yearly subscriptions as

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far as I can tell, and it's 70 bucks a year, and I was too cheap.

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But yeah, so that's the closest I've seen, I guess, is this.

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Okay, who would pay for a subscription to this, you think?

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Interesting question, because Dan Siegel, the head of the lab's website, and I

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were looking at this, and he asked that.

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Yeah. And I was like, I don't know, but I think you get more than just Bench,

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because I think it's the Tom's Hardware premium

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subscription, so it's not just Bench, I think you get other stuff. Okay.

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I don't know what it was, I don't know.

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You get premium exclusive features and interviews, you get expert news analysis and roadmaps,

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and you get Bench, the power of our Bench database.

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And it's Tom's, and they have the Anantek data, so they probably have an incredible amount of data

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in Bench to back them up.

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Man, it's got to be a tough time to be Tom's Hardware.

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I think it's got to be a tough time to be any form of written media, to be completely honest.

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Yeah, like I, to be clear, I'm not trying to super dunk on them.

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Nope. I do understand that it is legitimately hard times in the written media industry,

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but I just, it's going to be even worse when Tom's Hardware eventually goes down if it ever does.

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Because like or don't like Tom's Hardware, you know, or whatever, it's again an extremely

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important perspective on PCs to remind you of another site that unfortunately is, yep, no more.

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It's that thing we always say. Wait, is PC perspective still live?

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Oh, they are still live. I thought it's like a new kind of deal, you know, now.

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Yeah, look at this app. You know what? PC perspective is still publishing.

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So I am the problem, not PC. Yeah, yeah.

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I am the problem for not reading. Yeah, Linus.

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Oh my God, this is rough. There is one comment.

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You know what, Jason? Good job. Good job, Jason.

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Keeping the dream alive. I do find that there's, there's a lot of review sites that I found often don't get very much

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interaction like at all, but they've been around for a long time.

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So I don't necessarily know that like, maybe the readers just aren't super interactive.

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I don't know. Sure, well, let's hope for that. Like I know of a site that has like a hundred employees and I don't see a ton of comments.

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They've got to be making money somewhere. Parallelogram says, answer the question if you know the answer.

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The question was specifically directed to the writer of the article about something they

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said on a podcast recently. So I don't think I'm going to be able to answer it.

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Hello, train. Yeah, I don't know.

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It's all, it's a little sticky, but

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it would make the timing is a little bit fishy to me, but

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what would prevent us from having something bencha like for people to do comparisons?

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I mean, we have something. I know that. Oh, I was trying to not use this.

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I was throwing up the ball. I was trying to do was hit it. I was trying to just had to hit it.

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Why can't you hit the ball? Feel like I'm talking to my kids.

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Just hit the ball. I don't talk to them like that.

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I was trying to not use the timing and I'm not going to say it.

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I'm not going to say it. Why not? You can totally announce your pregnant at a funeral.

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One life gone and other life begins. That's a cycle of life, baby.

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Oh my God. Okay. So we, we have it. So you can take like, Hey, look, I have a keyboard.

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I have another keyboard or I click compare on both of them. I click comparison ben.

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I click view detailed comparison and then I have all my different things.

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We have this. You can see, oh, no data available because we tested

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different stuff. Hooray. There's, there's, you know, it's a work in progress.

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It'll take time. But you can, you can compare things on the site.

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But it will take in the longer term. Our aspiration is still to, to collect historical data.

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However, I can already without even without even having tried to do it yet

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foresee what will be some major challenges in collecting historical data for historical hardware

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if we go back too far, because there is going to be the very, very old stuff that I think will be

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relatively straightforward to gather data on. But I'm not sure if anyone cares how well, you know, a, a, a, a, a, a radion

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9800 pro runs and Quake three or whatever, right?

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Like I, I don't think that's probably going to matter to most modern gamers.

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And then there's going to be all the modern stuff that's no problem because it runs on the

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latest operating system and we can use the latest tools to monitor it.

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And then there's going to be this dead zone in the middle where the transition to Steam was

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kind of happening and game disks like existed, but going back now and trying to find what was

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kind of the final patch for that game. And then once it transitioned to like a Steam key,

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running that on an operating system that actually necessarily supports it because you can't install

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like Steam on Windows Vista anymore. So if it runs in compatibility mode on a newer OS,

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like that's great, but was that performance actually equal? Can I find a GPU driver for

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that new operating system? It gets weird. And to be clear, I just had a bin from like a previous

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show selected, which is why that didn't really work because we had like a low-end GPU against

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an extremely high-end one. So we had different tests. This is what like a power supply would

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look like when things are actually comparable. So you can see you get down to the charts and

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you can see like on this one, the blue line is the Fusion 1600 and the red line is the FSP 1650.

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You can see all the comparatives and it's like it's actually a very useful and powerful tool.

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On the, I think it's published now. I always get lost in between what's published and what's on

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the beta side because we're working on things, but there should be bring your own price capabilities

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at least coming soon. So let's look at these two. Yeah, these two to the bin,

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view the comparison bin because we were talking about bringing your own price a while ago. So I

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wanted to see Dan Siegel is going to be screaming at me. Oh, yeah, add prices. So let's say this one

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is $420 and this one is $469. I see a little price updated. You can select your currencies.

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You can undo changes. You can close that box, then you can see your price performance

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live. So you can input like, this is what it actually cost me. Now, this is what I would call

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still in, in kind of production of sorts because we want to add some flags warning people like,

424
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you should consider full system cost, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

425
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,320
but we're trying to get it out there. We're trying to get more. Yeah, you can edit prices

426
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than just disable them and go back to the performance graph, but we're trying to get more

427
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:39,200
useful tools on the site and a big part of where we're going to get those, at least in the near

428
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,960
future is through pricing because we found that we have a bit of a problem where there's a lot

429
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of information on the lab site, but because there's no pricing involved, it makes it hard to get to

430
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:54,160
your final decision while there. So we're trying to start integrating pricing into stuff.

431
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And we're hoping if anyone from, you know, any major, major electronics retailers is watching,

432
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feel free to kind of reach out through our public inboxes. If we could get API access,

433
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that would be great. And if we can't get API access, well,

434
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I would never publicly declare that we're just going to scrape your site.

435
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:25,440
I would never do that. But what I will say is that, why don't we just work together

436
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:31,280
and you can get us API access to your pricing and then we can provide a really super useful

437
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service to people who are shopping for the products that you sell and it'll be great

438
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:40,880
and there will be synergies for all. That seemed like a fair way to put it. Sure. Yeah.

439
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:46,400
I also will use this period of time to jump to another section that I was planning on talking

440
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:52,160
about, which is that there are, you know, negative Labs things that the community has called this

441
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:58,080
out for recently. And I wanted to actually highlight those. There's two particular ones

442
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,520
that I have right now. It's not like there are, have never been other ones to be clear,

443
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but there's two particular ones right now on the mouse review subreddit. There's a thread,

444
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which is LTT lab has tested the in zone mouse a, and then somebody points at it and points out

445
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:20,880
some potential issues with various things. And the main thing that I want to highlight here

446
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:27,840
is that Lucas responded. So Lucas is in here talking about the mouse review. Oops. And

447
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:32,880
he talks about like, okay, there was a detected human error, which we fixed right away upon

448
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:37,600
seeing this. Thank you for pointing that out. It was the wrong data was selected from the data set.

449
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So we fixed that. There will always be some amount of human error with the lab. I apologize for

450
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:50,640
that, but we are currently still humans. So it will currently still happen. And we appreciate

451
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:56,240
when people point it out because we want the most accurate set of data we can have to live on the

452
00:40:56,240 --> 00:41:00,720
site. So if we, if we do screw something up, please tell us and we would love to fix it.

453
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:06,960
So thank you for pointing that out. And there's also like, we want to generally have a fairly

454
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:12,160
open dialogue with people about what's happening in the lab. I owe Linus a video to go on the

455
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:19,040
LTT channel to update what kind of what's going on with the lab. There's been a lot of updates. You guys are going to see a lot of new faces. You're going to see a

456
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:27,200
lot of new desk layouts. You're going to see a lot of new aspirational things for the future.

457
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We're trying to, we're trying to talk less and let the action do the talking, but I think we've kind

458
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:39,040
of let the pendulum swing a little bit too far the other way. And we just haven't really been

459
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,680
talking about it at all. Yeah, time to talk about it a little bit more. But a lot of what we're going

460
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:47,760
to be talking about is some of the things that we've been doing to try to increase transparency

461
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:54,000
things. So like in this post, in this reply from Lucas, he mentions, regarding the transparency

462
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,880
on our testing method, we have a written article on how we test mice. And we explicitly note in

463
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:04,240
the product pages when we differ from it for a special feature, I can appreciate how it may

464
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be missed. If you're not looking for it, would it be helpful if this was linked linked from

465
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,760
each mouse product page? So if we, if we call it out in each mouse product page, the reason why

466
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:19,040
this is a question is because we actually want to hear from you. So like we want this type of

467
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:24,960
criticism and feedback, and we want to use it to make ourselves better. And hopefully I'm trying

468
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,960
to point this out because people might see Lucas's response and then actually reply to it and give

469
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:38,320
us that information. That is also true about the LTT's AI Benchmarks Cosme Pain thread. I don't

470
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:44,560
know why this is his handle, but this is Nick from the lab. His handle is puzzle headed dish,

471
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:53,520
230. Lucas is a little bit more straightforward, but this is actually Nick. And he basically talks

472
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,440
about like, Hey, look, the, the, you know, we've had some problems in the past. We're constantly

473
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,120
working on our on our AI testing benchmarks. That is something that we've been very actively

474
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,520
working on lately. So they'll change and improve going forward. And he points out like, Hey,

475
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:10,400
the stuff that we do have does address some of the points that you brought up. But again,

476
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,160
there are new versions coming and we're working on it actively. So we're not trying to say it's

477
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:20,240
perfect or anything. But, but that's where we're at. And I would also point out that we have been

478
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:26,800
rather active in this area of the site, the from the lab is also sometimes referred to as the blog

479
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:34,160
or just posts. You can see like usbc how we conduct charge testing. You can see the power supply

480
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:40,080
testing method update. That was really good. We promise these lines mean something new audio

481
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:46,000
testing method. We're trying to publish posts talking about what we're doing, how we're doing it,

482
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:51,680
why we're doing it and asking for feedback. A lot of these link to the forum, the LTT forum,

483
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:56,560
where Labs, because we don't have comments on the lab site, where Labs is asking like, Hey,

484
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:00,400
this is, this is something we've observed. This is an idea that we have of how to address it.

485
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:06,960
What do you guys think? And we want to, we want to build in public and get feedback from you guys

486
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:12,640
and do cool things. So I don't want you to think that we ignored any thread here or there just

487
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,240
because I don't think people necessarily saw Nick and Lucas's response. It's one of the big

488
00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:22,160
problems with Reddit. Yeah. If you reply to something anytime other than the first 15 minutes,

489
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:31,840
even if it's by far the most relevant response, because Nick's reply is the response. Yeah.

490
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:39,280
Like it's who it was directed to, right? You're just, you're buried under a whole bunch of just

491
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:43,840
like, Yeah, me too. Or I disagree with you when I hit the color of your hat, like, you know,

492
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:49,520
typical Reddit things, right? Yeah. So I thought Nick and Lucas's responses were great. So I wanted

493
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:55,840
to surface them and just make that be seen low, low, low inverse. I don't know how to say that.

494
00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,800
Sorry. In full plane chat said sub versioning for lab pages. We were talking about that yesterday.

495
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,320
We were talking about that today. We've been talking about that for a while. This is something

496
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:09,920
we need to figure out. We're trying to figure out what level to do the versioning on and how to

497
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:14,080
manage it across different verticals. Like one that I put out there was like, imagine you were

498
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:24,400
trying to do a website article versioning for VR back in like 2014 to 17. Like the changes would

499
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:28,800
have been insane. So like, we're looking at it right now. We're looking at like CPU and GPU. And

500
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,360
we're like, well, we can do these types of versionings and it'll be fine. And it's like, yeah,

501
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,040
it'll be fine for those, but we need to find something that's like, okay, for all potential

502
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:41,520
future vertical categories. So like it's a fairly complicated conversation. We don't want to just

503
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:47,600
copy what other people have done. So it's yes, absolutely. We're working on that working on

504
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:52,000
many things. But yeah, just stay tuned. Check out the Labs website, check out the blog articles.

505
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:59,600
And versioning what exactly versioning kind of everything versioning what's included in a

506
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:07,680
different section. So like if I go to lttlabs.com shameless plug, let's go. If I go to let's say

507
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:14,640
sure this mouse, if I go to this mouse, well, what's in the, I don't know, in this section,

508
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:20,560
do we need in the box connectivity construction? Do we need another thing? Does something change

509
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:25,120
that makes it so that we need another thing? Do one of the ways that we measure something

510
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:30,480
that's maybe not in that section, but like if we change how we measure mouse latency.

511
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:38,000
So like a year from now, we realize, holy crap, there's a big difference in left and right click

512
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:45,920
mouse latency. That's not particularly realistic. But it's the kind of thing that could happen.

513
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:52,560
And we go, Oh God, well, we can't, we're not realistically able to go back and test every

514
00:46:52,560 --> 00:47:00,400
mouse from years past, which we might depending on the change. But, but going forward, we're

515
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:08,640
going to have left and right. So how do we, in a comparison bin, how do we compare the original

516
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:14,080
data where we just had click latency with the new data where we have left or right click latency?

517
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:20,400
Hard to say. And so that's the point that he's trying to make is anytime you change your methodology,

518
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:26,160
especially adding a new parameter that you test or subtracting one, you can run into these kinds

519
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:32,000
of challenges. It also comes down to like what constitutes a version change. This was an interesting

520
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:37,360
conversation we had recently because like there are significant variables that might not normally

521
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:43,280
constitute a version change. Like what if a game updates? Yeah, what if a driver updates? Yeah,

522
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:51,280
I mean, Cyberpunk's a great example, because that game has had all kinds of, it's been the

523
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:56,880
showcase title for pretty much every new GPU technology over the last few years. So if you

524
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:01,200
have to fully redo all testing for every single game update, every single driver update, every

525
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:06,000
single BIOS update, every single, like eventually becomes unreasonable. So now we have to- Or

526
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:12,640
like a game like Wow, that has existed for so long. What version, what patch, what whatever.

527
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:20,080
Yeah, yeah. There's also like how, so okay, we're going to inevitably run into a situation where

528
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,560
there's something different about things that are in the comparison bin. Now how do we communicate

529
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:29,040
that these things are different? What the severity of the potential impact of those things are to

530
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:33,280
the user? There's tons of different ways to try to solve these problems and they're things that

531
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:37,280
we're working on. And no matter which way we choose, there's going to be something imperfect

532
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:45,680
about it and someone somewhere is going to think we're paid off by Intel to something,

533
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:50,240
something, sandbag AMD's results or whatever. But the reality of it is this is just a really

534
00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:55,360
difficult problem that no one has ever solved. Paid off by Intel owned by NVIDIA in bed with AMD.

535
00:48:55,360 --> 00:49:05,360
Sure. Yeah. So wait, so sorry, hold on a second. NVIDIA's my pimp. Okay. I am

536
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:13,680
screwing AMD and Intel's paying for it. Did I follow that correctly? I think so.

537
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:19,440
Okay. I think so. All right. Yeah. Very good. AMD seems like they'd be a generous lover. You

538
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:25,280
know what? Okay. They're into open source? Yeah. And if NVIDIA's my pimp, man, I'm probably getting

539
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:35,680
top dollar. Well, they are. Speaking of things that make sense,

540
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:43,280
should I do that thing? No, I wanted to talk more about LTT Labs. We were referenced by

541
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:50,480
Google AI overview. But that is okay. All right. Yeah. All right. We have our big boy pants on now.

542
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:56,080
Redditor, Night King's, is my bleep button working now, Dan? Yeah, I did before. It just

543
00:49:56,080 --> 00:50:01,760
didn't make the noise. It muted. It didn't bleep. Redditor, Night King's bitch posted a screenshot

544
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:07,600
to the LTT subreddit showing Google's AI overview referencing LTT Labs when they searched for

545
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:15,280
warranty information on the Corsair RM750E power supply. The overview also links to the LTT Labs

546
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:22,320
article. So our question here is, for real though, are your moms proud and do they understand your

547
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:32,800
weird jobs? Here's a question that I have. Did we ever give them permission? No. Here's a question

548
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:38,160
that I have. Sorry. You have a real question. I assume this person clicked on the article,

549
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:45,520
but did you click on the article out of curiosity of how the AI summary thing worked

550
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:51,120
and the fact that you were like, oh, wow, I'm going to put this on the subreddit or whatever,

551
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:54,240
or did you click on the article because you wanted to actually know more?

552
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,640
I mean, I don't... We won't be able to directly hear from this person. I don't think we can get

553
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:06,160
this answer. That is a thing that is interesting to me because... Well, here, unique username

554
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:11,280
and Floatplane chat asks, are you guys happy about this? And I think that that is heavily

555
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:15,920
dependent on the answer to Luke's question because if they're not referring people through

556
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:23,520
to learn more, then no, they're basically taking what they used to give us, which is a search result

557
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:27,680
that people would have to click on to find out more information. Theoretically, I mean,

558
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:34,160
there's been summaries and there's been the highlight and the body of the text from the page

559
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:41,120
and whatever else. They've been slowly inching their way towards keeping you on their website

560
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:47,760
over the years to the point where now, yeah, they just give you the information that you want.

561
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:52,960
There it is. And you don't realistically have to click through. If people still have to click

562
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:57,920
through, then yeah, we love it because that's supposed to be Google's role in a healthy,

563
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:03,200
functioning internet ecosystem. They're supposed to be a referrer. They're supposed to surface

564
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:09,040
authoritative, reliable information and connect users with whatever it is that they're looking for,

565
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:17,360
you know, search engine. Instead, it's more like, hey, take everyone's data and keep everyone on

566
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:22,000
our site so we can cram as many ads as possible down their throat. Yeah, I mean, it's a good question.

567
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:26,400
The not so bright in Floatplane chat, is Google still a search engine?

568
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:33,120
Wait a second. What now?

569
00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:35,920
Somebody pointed this out.

570
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:43,600
Seven year warranty. Five year warranty.

571
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:53,120
I'm getting things wrong faster.

572
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:59,520
Who pointed that out? That was Oinkage on Oinkage.

573
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:05,760
Also, I mean, I just noticed another problem. They searched RM750e.

574
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:15,760
And it's the RM750. So it just, can we just stop using AI summaries?

575
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:23,280
But it looks like we did both. So I'm wondering if it pulled the text from the website for the top

576
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:28,800
part and then it pulled the incorrect video and then pulled the warranty from the incorrect video.

577
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:34,560
I bet you the text at the top is correct for the one that they actually searched for.

578
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:38,320
And then the text in the next paragraph is incorrect because it's for the wrong power

579
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:44,160
display that it also got from a video. I bet you that's what happened. It's multi-source

580
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:48,000
because it links the source for the top paragraph and then it links the source for

581
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:54,560
the second paragraph. They're technically different sources. Okay. Well, the 750e definitely does have a seven year warranty.

582
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,440
And Chad is saying that the 750 has a five year warranty. Yeah.

583
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:03,760
Yeah. Oh my God. Just the way it's presented is so confusing.

584
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:09,760
Yeah. The text is hilarious. This video shows an unboxing of a Corsair power supply.

585
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:18,240
Thanks, bud. Totally related to what I was searching about. Actually different power supply.

586
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:25,120
This is what I keep talking about, man. Like with the, like, oh, it hallucinates

587
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,640
whatever percentage of the time thing, how often you noticing.

588
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:36,320
This is actually how a human would summarize when drunk. So, you know, you consider, you know,

589
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:44,160
what percentage of time some people, you know, tend to be in various states of inebriation.

590
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:49,840
It's pretty realistic. All we have to do is drain a few lakes. It's a small price to pay

591
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,640
for a bunch of drunken computers.

592
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:56,560
Run it around on the internet.

593
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:01,840
It's not knocking things over. Man, I got to show you at some point the,

594
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,040
the presentation that it made for me. I tried to get it to make a presentation.

595
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,240
Oh God. Because I don't, I don't know. That's not me.

596
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:13,840
Sure. Right? So I was like, yo, can you make like a cool presentation thing for me? And it

597
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:20,240
was actual garbage. Like it actually genuinely looked like, I wish I had it on me. I kind of

598
00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:28,240
do, but I'd have to dig for it. It looked like a bad like C grade, grade eight intro to PowerPoint

599
00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:32,560
presentation. Nice. I'm not kidding. I mean, this might be what it was trained on. So,

600
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:36,960
so I pushed it to try to do more and it talked about all these cool things it could do. And I

601
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:41,440
was like, yeah, yeah, do it. I'll put it. And then it tried to gaslight me like, I'll work on that

602
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,200
and get back to you. And I was like, that's not how this works. Come on. And then I got it to

603
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:50,160
actually output it. And it just, it had this like blue banner at the top because I told the colors

604
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:58,000
that the whole thing was, and it just took that and just went, that was it. That was all it did.

605
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:02,560
It talked about all these cool things it could do. And then it just took the banner and put it on

606
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:09,200
an angle and it didn't like crop the, the like bar to be the same size either. So it went like

607
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:16,080
way off the ends and like made it look really stupid. So I love like Sam Altman's like,

608
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:23,120
it's like having a PhD level, whatever. Yeah. If they're drunk. They're trying to make

609
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:31,360
PowerPoint presentations. Yeah, sure. Oh man. It was, it was like actually like very impressively

610
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:36,080
bad. I, yeah. That's a clearly a blind spot for me.

611
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:41,440
Crystal says, speaking of AI, does Linus know he's on character.ai?

612
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:45,840
What? I'm trying to remember what character.ai is.

613
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,880
It's a conversational like relationship AI thing.

614
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,040
Okay. I have multiple questions, Crystal.

615
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:56,560
Why?

616
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:04,560
What conversations have you had with Linus on character?

617
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:23,120
You got to reach deep into that box to pull that case out. This is me as the disapproving dad. You got it.

618
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,480
No, we're not role playing. You got to bend over to reach into that,

619
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,320
that case box to pull that out.

620
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:40,880
Oh man. All right. So I guess I, I guess, oh, okay. I can just continue with my Google account.

621
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:47,600
Here we go. All right. LTT WAN Show one. No, I was not aware that I'm on character.ai.

622
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:54,160
I don't know exactly what it is. So I just Googled Linus Sebastian character AI

623
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,920
and it came up with chat with Linus Sebastian. Hi, it's me Linus,

624
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:04,160
your favorite tech YouTube channel. It should have to say the this is AI and not a real person

625
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:11,440
part first. Wait, how are you signed into this already? I'm not. Okay. Okay. I'm entering my

626
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:18,640
birthday. I was born on April the 40th. Oh, so it seems like individual users can create.

627
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:25,200
Wow. That's such a BS loophole. This isn't made by character AI. It's made by this

628
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:33,440
Maddie 555 person. Wow. So they just make it so that it's all UGC. So they're not like responsible

629
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:40,880
for the theft. Sure. Okay. So hold on a second. It didn't auto complete

630
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:48,320
for me. I just Googled it. I didn't like Linus Sebastian RPG.

631
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:55,200
What? What am I looking at here? What is that? What is happening? What is this?

632
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:00,720
You work at Linus Media Group as a product reviewer and go on video with Linus Sebastian.

633
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:06,080
Linus. Hey, welcome back to the office. I have something interesting to show you.

634
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:09,600
Jake standing next to Linus. So me and Linus were working on this severely

635
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:13,760
underpowered over the top gaming PC for a video and no one here knows why it's not

636
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,280
booting. You are literally our last hope currently. Oh my God. Can you do it?

637
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:26,800
I mean, probably presses the power button. No problem. I've got you. We just need to plug it

638
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:35,520
in. You dunces. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Am I going to win? I want to win the RPG. Hold on. I'm just

639
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:40,320
going to reframe this a little bit so you guys can see better. We're going to play Linus Sebastian

640
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:47,760
RPG. Are you the like the boss of this game? Or is it was the computer?

641
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:56,800
Of course. It's not like, so wait, did I win already?

642
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,360
I feel like, yeah. So I fixed it.

643
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:09,200
Okay.

644
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:15,600
This is a thing.

645
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:22,800
Why are people using- I don't know if this one's a thing. Why is every WAN Show just turning into

646
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:28,560
just the dumb s*** that people are doing with AI and us just face-palming at it the whole time?

647
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:37,280
Also, like, are you guys into this? Like, are we alienating you by looking at this and going,

648
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:42,720
wow, this seems really stupid and point. This is like, it's like a text adventure game, but

649
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,320
not curated. It's just, it's so much worse.

650
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,520
Ah, more salt please.

651
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:03,280
I just, I don't know how to deal with this, man. I don't know how to deal with this.

652
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:10,720
Okay. So I found the Linus Sebastian character here, but this doesn't have nearly as many

653
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:16,000
interactions as the Linus Sebastian RPG. But wait, what if I click creators?

654
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:23,280
Is that different from Linus Sebastian, the character? Painter Sebastian.

655
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:28,800
So I think these are people who made AI characters.

656
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:36,160
Got it. Got it. Got it. I think. I don't know, but I think. That makes sense. Okay. So let's go back to characters and, okay, hello. I'm Linus Sebastian

657
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:42,720
founder. Is this the one that you found in, in Google? No. Really? No. Okay.

658
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:51,200
What are, okay, what are your thoughts on the new pixel? Oh, uh,

659
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:57,360
nine. I don't know what, oh yeah, no, no, no, the event's done. What are thoughts on the new pixel

660
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:05,680
10 pro? I mean, like, let's see. This has no shot at because I have not published a video yet.

661
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:12,240
Um, they still need to work on thermals. Okay. I know for a fact there are no thermal results

662
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:20,800
from the new pixel 10. Um, that camera AI though, insane computational, why no vapor chamber yet?

663
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:26,960
I, I don't think Google has disclosed the cooling system yet for the pixel 10. So, so it's just,

664
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:33,360
there's just making stuff up. Yeah. Wait, what? Fine. Oh, no, no, no, hold on. We're not done with

665
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:42,000
me yet. All right. Um, well, it doesn't work when I'm out there. Uh, okay. What about you?

666
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:48,240
Team pixel or are you holding up for something else? Maybe secretly waiting for Apple to finally

667
01:02:48,240 --> 01:03:02,640
add USB-C to the iPhone 20? Grids. Are you that much dumber than the real Linus? Apple has

668
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:11,120
USB-C on the iPhone. Slaying insults. You will be the first to die in the AI uprising. I know, right?

669
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:17,440
I say please and thank you. Now, it could defend itself here. It could defend itself

670
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:21,040
saying that Apple only supports USB-C on the pro lineup.

671
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:34,160
Okay. All right. I was testing you. The ray. Oh, actually, oh, hold on, hold on. Oh, no, no,

672
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:37,360
yeah. It didn't say anything about USB-3. Yeah. So it's USB-C across the board. No, no. The thing

673
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:43,680
I just said, I would, I was thinking of USB-3 and USB-2, but no, no, it just said USB-C. It's,

674
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:53,840
so I was joking. I mean, its response makes it, man, are these just, is this just a giant gas

675
01:03:53,840 --> 01:04:00,400
lighting engine? Yeah. Because it kind of feels that way. Yeah. Okay, cool. Let's go to yours.

676
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:07,520
It's all just predictive text. Oh my God. What is this? I asked, oh my goodness, flies in the face.

677
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:12,640
I asked, what do you think about people's usage of AI for relationships? Because that was a topic

678
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:18,320
that had been going on at the time. And it responded. This feels like

679
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:28,560
3 or 4.0 would feel on the chatGPT side of things where it's like overly conversational

680
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:34,080
and very bubbly and like, wow. Okay. So I'm going to read it. I'm going to read it. This will be

681
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:41,920
the one time that character AI's Linus Sebastian ever actually is me. Oh man, that's a wild one.

682
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:48,400
AI for relationships. Look, I've seen fans name their custom water cooled PCs after me. Linus

683
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:55,920
Prime 9000. Very flattering, but this is next level. I imagine that's what that emoji sounds like.

684
01:04:56,480 --> 01:05:01,120
I get it though. Loneliness is real. And if someone finds comfort in chatting with an AI that listens

685
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:06,320
24 seven without rolling its eyes at their Star Wars hot takes, hey, who am I to judge?

686
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:12,480
But like, come on. Nothing beats the chaotic energy of a real human relationship. Like when

687
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:18,720
Yvonne finally unseats me in Mario Kart after six years of relentless practice. That victory scream

688
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:25,040
priceless. No AI can replicate that kind of beautiful human rage joy. That said,

689
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:29,760
if your AI partner helps you level up emotionally and doesn't try to replace actual therapy or

690
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:38,240
connection, cool. Just don't let it ghost you mid render. Oh, hold on. Hold on.

691
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:46,800
There you go. There you go. Okay. So basically character.ai is just

692
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:55,280
a random chatbot that is not trained at all on necessarily. I mean, I guess if people can just

693
01:05:55,280 --> 01:06:00,080
make their own, if it's user generated content, it mentioned Yvonne. That's true, actually. So it

694
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:09,440
clearly is trained on something to do with me. Yeah. But I feel like, I feel like this is almost

695
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:16,400
like like psychic cold reading level knowledge. Like it has the Wikipedia page. Like it's not

696
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:23,920
actually trained on the archive. I feel like an AI trained on a transcription of like an archive

697
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:29,120
transcription of everything I've ever said on the WAN Show could probably get a lot closer.

698
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:37,120
Like modern LLMs, they are kind of spooky awesome sometimes. It's just a general purpose one like

699
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:43,520
this. It's just been kind of trained on the general internet has no shot whatsoever of sounding

700
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:48,800
anything like what I would say. And it also seems like it has some built in defenses around people

701
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:57,840
using character.ai. Clearly. Yeah. It's like, yeah. Well, this person would say it's pretty

702
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:03,920
flippin' ridiculous, but like, don't feel bad about it though. I'm here for you 24 seven, baby.

703
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:16,080
Like, ew. In summary, ew. I find it very interesting that they have it be kind of UGC-based

704
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:25,440
so they can step away from the like liability of licensing people. Oh, apparently. Whoa,

705
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:32,080
shut up. ScrappyDP says you can apparently press play and it'll sound like me. Dan, do we have sound

706
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:38,560
from Luke's laptop? I got it.

707
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:45,920
Let's see how well it does the read compared to me.

708
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:55,920
It was loading. I can't hear it. No, but I want to hear it. Yeah.

709
01:07:56,800 --> 01:08:01,760
Why is everything so hard?

710
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:08,800
The voice is theoretically you. I see that in the sidebar now.

711
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,440
Oh yeah, I want to just turn on your speakers. They heard it though.

712
01:08:16,480 --> 01:08:20,240
Wait, they heard the whole thing? Were we talking over it? Oh, that's kind of obnoxious. Oh, we can't hear.

713
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:47,280
Yikes. Okay, get this out of here. Get this out of here. That's enough.

714
01:08:47,440 --> 01:08:55,280
That's like when any random white bearded guy is said to be you, me,

715
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:59,600
Tynan, whoever, they're just like, oh, this looks like an LMG person because they're

716
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:06,320
white and they have a beard. It's like, okay, cool. All right. Yeah. Good job.

717
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:11,840
Do you want to talk about your exciting thing to do with laps?

718
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:17,520
The last one? No, the thing that you were going to do before I talked about the AI

719
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:23,200
overview thing. Yeah, the last Labs thing. Sure. So, oh my goodness, the flies.

720
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:29,440
In talking about things and Labs changing, and Linus mentioned there's lots of new faces.

721
01:09:29,440 --> 01:09:32,560
We need to do an update video and all that kind of stuff. He happens to be here.

722
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:35,520
Some of you guys have already guessed this one. It's Dan.

723
01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:41,360
Dan is joining Labs. Dan, do you want to maybe point the camera or something?

724
01:09:41,360 --> 01:09:47,040
We will do it all like. It's a robotic camera. Magic. Like if it loads and doesn't destroy

725
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:53,120
the whole. There we go. Moving his chair might actually be easier. Why do we even bother with

726
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:58,640
technology? I don't actually know. Oh my God. It's the wrong way, Dan. The suspense. There he is.

727
01:09:59,440 --> 01:10:02,800
What's up? It's me. DMS is officially working with Labs.

728
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:09,520
Hi. He's doing things with the laboratories. So, you've probably seen on a couple of short

729
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:16,240
circuits recently. And also, if you were paying attention to the article on how we're doing

730
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:20,320
audio testing now, I swear these wiggly lines mean something, something along those lines.

731
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:27,120
If you saw that article, the name DMS is on it. So, a few people kind of put this together.

732
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:34,800
But yeah, our audio stuff is moving on forward. So, stay tuned for more. This is part of,

733
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:38,560
not kind of announcing this pretty much right away was part of the whole.

734
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:42,560
Are you going to let him talk at all? No. Literally, literally never. Yeah, thank you.

735
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:48,480
I can just sit here and look pretty. Not announcing it right away was part of the whole

736
01:10:48,480 --> 01:10:55,520
trying to talk less as Labs thing and do more. But now we've done some. So, want to say hi?

737
01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:03,440
Hi. No, I'm excited about it. We're trying to not just bring Labs in the audio realm up to like

738
01:11:03,440 --> 01:11:08,400
some of the current standards, but to. Don't promise anything. Don't promise anything.

739
01:11:11,360 --> 01:11:16,400
I'm enthusiastic. PTSD. PTSD. We don't need routes here. We don't need routes here.

740
01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:23,360
Now I get to do audio science things with Linus's money. Yeah. Yeah. See, there you go. Yeah.

741
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:29,120
Yeah. That's what's up. All right. Get the money. Get us in trouble.

742
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:40,240
Yeah. All right. Should be a good collaboration. Okay. We have our CW announcements. We're supposed

743
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:45,120
to explain merge messages. We don't have Twitch bits or super chats. We have merge messages

744
01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:50,240
because we believe when you throw your money at your screen, you should get some fine quality

745
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:58,880
merchandise in return. Like Jason, who said, happy birthday to old. Really, man?

746
01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:05,360
Really, man? You know that I actually do read these things as they come up on the screen, right?

747
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:11,120
Why you got to be like that, Jason H, if that is your real name?

748
01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:19,840
Anywho. All you got to do to send a merge message is head over to LTTstore.com,

749
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:24,960
where we'll have lots of great products for you to prove. Look at that. It's the scribe

750
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:34,080
driver mechanical pencil. It's like the scribe driver pen made of old, rejected screwdriver shafts

751
01:12:34,080 --> 01:12:39,840
that we repurposed because they weren't great for a screwdriver, but they were perfect for a pen

752
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:48,960
or a pencil. We had 100,000 of these and you too can own a piece of my financial burden.

753
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:54,080
Ended up working great. You know, we've actually almost sold through all of them.

754
01:12:55,520 --> 01:13:01,200
All the 100,000 fail shafts. That's pretty cool. Yeah.

755
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:04,960
That's genuinely pretty cool. When life gives you the shaft, you bend over

756
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:09,520
and turn it into a pencil or a pen. Make it worth something.

757
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:18,560
Bend right over. Get focused. When life gives you the shaft. You take orders.

758
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:33,360
You take that shaft. You insert something into it. Is that sounding good? I bet it is.

759
01:13:35,440 --> 01:13:40,480
That's got to be up there in the top 10.

760
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:45,440
I think I broke the bell. Holy crap.

761
01:13:56,000 --> 01:14:00,720
Our series five pins are also available now. You can check those out. Are they,

762
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,840
hold on. Are they in the bonus pin?

763
01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:09,120
Let's find out. I'm going to add this to cart. I think it's stickers.

764
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:16,000
Is it stickers? Oh, yeah. No, pins. Wait, what? Oh, okay. Well, anyway, here's how you leave a

765
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:20,080
merge message. You add something to your cart and then you can leave a message. Wow, look at that.

766
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:23,840
You can even pick the color of your merge message. Isn't that cool? It's better for a long time.

767
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:27,600
I know. Okay. That doesn't make it not cool, Luke. I'm just making sure. I'm just making sure.

768
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:32,320
It's still cool. Just making sure. I can see the bonus. Why can't you see the bonus pin?

769
01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:37,440
You might be on the global. You could be on the US. I'm on global. Wait,

770
01:14:37,440 --> 01:14:39,120
do we not have a bonus pin on the US?

771
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:48,080
Maybe not. Are we supposed to? Probably not if it's not there.

772
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:53,680
I wonder if it's because the US DC doesn't have bonus pin items in it.

773
01:14:54,640 --> 01:15:00,800
Yeah, like DC distribution center. Yeah. Like there's probably a reason. Fascinating. Well,

774
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:06,560
anyway. Because we opted to hide the bonus pin when items aren't in it now. Makes sense. Because

775
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:09,920
it's disappointing when you're like, oh, bonus pin. You open it. There's nothing there. We've got

776
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:14,960
lots of great new items from the last few weeks. Our CPU fidget spinners now available. You see

777
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:20,880
someone posted on Reddit. They got over three minutes on it. Just pretty cool. I saw someone

778
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:26,240
benchmark it effectively against a mouse scroll wheel that they freewheeled. One of the

779
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:31,200
Logitech ones. That was kind of fun. Mine have those. They're great. G502. Now's a better time

780
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:35,600
than ever to pick up a screwdriver. You can get it alongside our new screwdriver grip tape if you

781
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:40,080
like using your screwdriver with gloves or just generally like the feel of sandpaper against

782
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:44,880
your palms. This was created in partnership with Dbrand. So this will be a great addition to your

783
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:51,920
order. We also have the LAN collection. Our UV reactive hoodie styled after the WAN hoodie 2.0.

784
01:15:51,920 --> 01:16:00,080
Our UV reactive hat. And of course our UV reactive belt bag with high quality patches. And of course

785
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:07,680
all the style. How cool is that? The answer is very. Anywho, once you send a merch message,

786
01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:15,520
it will go to producer Dan, who will read it and respond to it or curate it for me and Luke

787
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:20,480
to address. We don't actually have any new products to launch on the store this week, by the way.

788
01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:26,240
So yeah, I highlighted all the stuff that they wanted me to highlight. Cool. Dan, hit me with a

789
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:31,120
merch message or two. Yeah, sure. They've got a bunch coming in. Hello, DLL. Thanks for the show.

790
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:36,160
What is a subsector of the tech industry you thought would fail that has been quietly successful?

791
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:45,200
Oh, I mean, you know what? I think that transitions us kind of perfectly into the shipping notification

792
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:50,480
that Luke got before the show. Because- You thought this would-

793
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:56,800
Well, hold on. Let me, let me, let me go there. Let me, let me get there. Not that specifically,

794
01:16:57,520 --> 01:17:10,640
okay? But I felt that high end corded VR had a very rocky path ahead. And in fact,

795
01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:17,680
I still think it has a rocky path ahead. There was a, there was a period there, right? Where

796
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:22,560
corded headsets where you're kind of tethered to your desk or to your, you know, computer by your

797
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:30,080
TV were the only option. And then, you know, adoption wasn't great. And the industry kind of

798
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:34,400
went, okay, let's try and figure out this wireless thing. And then the first generation of those

799
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:40,640
kind of sucked a giant donkey dong. And then it looked like wired was going to be high end forever

800
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:46,480
with, you know, outside in. And then, oh, whoopsie doodles. It turns out some pretty big companies

801
01:17:46,480 --> 01:17:51,440
were working on inside outtracking. And we're working on powerful processors like Apple's

802
01:17:51,440 --> 01:17:58,160
M silicon that were able to drive pretty incredible spatial experiences with non tethered

803
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:01,920
heavily. It's a tether, but it doesn't go to a computer, whatever, don't worry about it.

804
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:06,480
But non tethered headsets. And then I went, oh crap. And then there was the rumors that

805
01:18:06,480 --> 01:18:11,840
Valve's Deckard headset is going to be using inside outtracking and could have on board processing

806
01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:19,120
rather than using an external PC. Attempts to handle the video transmission wirelessly have

807
01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:28,080
been have had varying degrees of success. I think the HTC Vive and Vive pro worked pretty well.

808
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:34,320
Other than that, it's been a bit of a mixed bag. I did get my hands on that one for the index.

809
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:40,320
I never got mine working. I reached out to them about, you know, helping me troubleshoot it.

810
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:45,680
And then literally my sister died like two days before I was supposed to have my meeting with

811
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:50,240
them. And I just like didn't get around to it. It wasn't a priority for a while. And then I kind

812
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:55,120
of didn't get around to it. But a lot of people have issues with it, even though some people

813
01:18:55,120 --> 01:19:00,000
have managed to get it working. And then we've had a bit of a, we had a bit of a stalling

814
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:08,080
for a long time in the interface speeds of DisplayPort, particularly and HDMI,

815
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:13,920
or I shouldn't say stalling, but we were just kind of, we were on a cycle for a while. But then

816
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:24,320
both of them like just got potentially way faster, but also DP UHBR 20, which is the 80 gigabit one,

817
01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:29,280
I think, has pretty short cable requirements. I don't even, I don't think anyone's even tried

818
01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:35,200
to implement it into a headset. But then meanwhile, headset resolutions are going way up. So being able

819
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:40,000
to drive them without compression is like a challenge. So there's all these headwinds. Oh,

820
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:46,960
did I mention the cost? There's all these headwinds for these like face mounted displays that use a

821
01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:54,560
tether and connect to your computer. And yet this man who never buys anything got a shipping

822
01:19:54,560 --> 01:20:02,960
notification right before the show from a company that is quietly fucking killing it right now.

823
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:11,680
Now, big screen. So you want to talk about what possessed you to spend a thousand US dollars

824
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:16,720
on a VR headset that doesn't even include controllers or lighthouses. Oh, and I got the audio strap,

825
01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:22,960
which I pretty sure puts it beyond. I think it's even more than that. I got the custom fit cushion.

826
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:31,360
I went pretty hard. Okay. I didn't do everything I could have done, but yeah, I got the big screen

827
01:20:31,440 --> 01:20:43,760
beyond custom fit cushion and audio strap. I I'm very excited. I still have my index index.

828
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:49,600
I don't know why that this is why I'm surprised because he has you in spite of his enthusiasm for

829
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:57,440
VR. I probably have two to three orders of magnitude more time in VR than he does now.

830
01:20:57,440 --> 01:21:04,160
You almost never use your index. I used it very well. Yeah, I use it very often in the

831
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:09,120
in the basement suite. Is it like all the time in the basement suite? And then I haven't really had

832
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:16,160
the space, but right now we're like renovating and changing stuff in the condo. There's some

833
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:23,360
that hasn't been amazing, but it's happening. I don't have much I can really say right now,

834
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:31,120
but yeah. Anyways, but we're doing that and what that will result in is one of the spaces will

835
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:37,280
have a significant kind of area that could be you could play VR stuff in. So I will have

836
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:42,480
space to play VR stuff in again. Like have you even tried Alex yet? No.

837
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:53,200
To be clear, personally, I didn't enjoy it. I didn't finish it. We are both heathens when it

838
01:21:53,200 --> 01:22:03,520
comes to I know I don't I don't personally half life is not even in my top three IPs for valve.

839
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:13,840
Sorry, but not in your top three. No. No. Really? No.

840
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:20,000
One, two, easily.

841
01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:32,720
It's the third one. I would say that my top one in terms of hours played, right? My top

842
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:38,480
one's got to be Team Fortress too. Yeah. Yeah. The Team Fortress IP. That was the first one.

843
01:22:38,480 --> 01:22:42,640
Actually. Oh, that's crazy. What was I even thinking? Okay. No, I got three.

844
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:51,440
Left for dead. Okay. Left for dead. Peak tier, S++ tier. So it's probably not incredible.

845
01:22:51,440 --> 01:22:57,040
It's probably not in your top four then. And then we've got like Team Fortress. I have so many hours.

846
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:04,880
I would play, I would, I would play Portal 10 times rather than sit through Half-Life 2 once.

847
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:09,120
And then Counter-Strike. And yeah, Counter-Strike has got to be up there,

848
01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:17,680
not because I like, even especially love the IP even, I don't know, but boy, do I ever have a lot

849
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:24,640
more. Would I call them enjoyable gaming hours when I'm just getting like, when I'm basically

850
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:31,200
watching other people play for the most part. Hard to say, but if I, if you told me, you can only

851
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:37,360
play one game for the rest of your life, it would 100% be Counter-Strike, not Half-Life.

852
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:45,200
Sorry, I can't. It's fine, I guess. Yeah. So would you say it's fifth then? Yeah, I guess so,

853
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:49,280
because I didn't get into Deadlock. That's for sure. Probably didn't get into Dota.

854
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:53,120
You know what? Probably didn't get into Artifact or whatever that's called. You know what?

855
01:23:53,280 --> 01:24:01,120
I'd have to put, so Dota is complicated because I actually played a crap ton of Dota

856
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:08,720
when it was a Warcraft 3 mod. Yeah, but that's not Valve. I mean, it wasn't.

857
01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:12,560
It wasn't. Well, that's, see, that's why I'm saying it's kind of complicated. So in terms of like,

858
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:18,160
in terms of like the gameplay, yeah, I like Dota a lot more than I like Half-Life 2.

859
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:24,800
That's for sure. And I haven't played Half-Life 1, but I have played Half-Life 2,

860
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:29,600
and I have played the episodes, the couple that they managed to make. So it's not like I'm coming.

861
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:33,840
I've played all the way through all of them, and they were fine, I guess. But even at the time,

862
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:38,800
dude, like, when it was the War of the Next-Gen shooter, I remember everyone was talking about

863
01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:43,920
Next-Gen. Next-Gen. It was all these generations, you know? I'm going to say it was Half-Life 2

864
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:49,760
versus, I always forget what they called it. Was it Doom 3, the one with the duct tape mod for

865
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:56,000
the flashlight on your gun, because you couldn't see anything? Yeah. I felt Far Cry was so much

866
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:03,360
better than both of them. Far Cry 1. Unpopular take. I get it. Everyone else kind of picked up

867
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:08,960
Far Cry later. Far Cry 2 was a piece of garbage. Far Cry 3 is apparently when it got good. I've

868
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:15,760
never played a Far Cry since Far Cry 1 and 2. Man, it's a Far Cry 2. I made me very angry,

869
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:24,000
but that's a conversation for another time. The point is, not a Half-Life fan, and we've gotten

870
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:29,520
off topic because... What was the topic? You spent $1,000 on a VR headset. Yeah. You hardly ever used

871
01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:35,600
VR. I will... There's no way you're going to be in VR chat. No. So what are you going to do? I mean,

872
01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:40,960
that's what most people are doing in VR. They're watching porn and they are in VR chat.

873
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:48,640
I'll definitely be getting back to playing Beat Saber. Is that the only thing you'll be beating?

874
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:55,680
I'm just asking. I'm just asking where your VR space is. Is it out in the open or is it in a

875
01:25:55,680 --> 01:26:02,480
closet? It'll be out in the open. It'll actually be the most open part of the house. I know. He

876
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:08,400
never said no, Porto. What? He never said you wouldn't. No, I can unironically say I will not

877
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:14,560
be using it for that. I actually believe you. I can actually unironically say I never did.

878
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:22,800
I actually believe you. I genuinely believe him. I will absolutely jump back into Beat Saber.

879
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:28,000
I don't remember who... I don't remember the scenario, but someone played Caramel Danson

880
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:32,160
not that long ago and the brain juice just immediately was like...

881
01:26:35,360 --> 01:26:39,040
Because when I play Beat Saber and I understand this is lame, I would just play that song

882
01:26:40,080 --> 01:26:44,560
just all the time. Oh, dude, I get hooked on a song in Beat Saber all the time. Oh, dude,

883
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:47,920
speaking of which, I bet there's some really good maps for golden. I'm going to have to check that

884
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:53,920
out. There's no way that that genre of music has not been absolutely jumped on by the Beat Saber

885
01:26:54,480 --> 01:26:59,600
community. So I've been trying to use my little at-home treadmill thing more often. This is in

886
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:05,280
that vein. I just want to get up and moving more often. So if I have a fun incentive to get me

887
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:11,760
up and moving more often, then cool. There's a bunch of arena games or very shooter games and

888
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:16,000
stuff. You might not think shooter super necessarily active. Quite a few of them you can play from

889
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:23,120
your chair, but there's also quite a few where you can use kneeling as a form of cover or benefit.

890
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:30,160
And if you're constantly doing lunges, basically, then cool. So yeah, I just want to use it to

891
01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:34,160
get me up and moving. How big is your space? Because there's... It's not enormous. Okay,

892
01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:41,120
there's an older game that is a heck of a workout. What one? It's called Hollow Point.

893
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:46,080
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know the one? Yeah, quite a bunch. Okay, cool. That's quite a bit older.

894
01:27:46,080 --> 01:27:50,720
It's older, but it's like... Is that the archery one? Yeah, that's the archery one in the gym with

895
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:57,200
the scary knights that start charging at you. Yeah, we play that hero bunch, actually. That's in

896
01:27:57,200 --> 01:28:02,560
some of the ancient VR reviews. It's Hollow Point. Hollow Point was sick and very good for that.

897
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:08,080
Lots of turning, lots of ducking and moving and stuff. I think the space will probably be big

898
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:13,840
enough to at least semi-effectively play that game. Not necessarily fully, but... Nice. Close.

899
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:19,120
Nice. Yeah. And it basically... It'll go from needing to move multiple pieces of

900
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:23,600
infertature, including a very large couch, to needing to move a table in four chairs.

901
01:28:24,240 --> 01:28:29,360
Are you going to... Which is like whatever. Like, is Emma gonna try it at all or is she just not

902
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:35,280
into it? She wasn't that into it in the past. Are you gonna do mean things like put her in Arizona

903
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:42,160
Sunshine? Because I gotta tell you, the big screen beyond actually took anything resembling

904
01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:50,000
fun completely out of that game for me. It is too... Too legit. It is too real and too scary.

905
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:57,760
M-DOS that Super Hot is good too. Yeah, I've... I don't find Super Hot a workout, though. No,

906
01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:01,920
but I really liked it. It was very fun. Yeah, it's fun. Super Hot's probably the most raw fun

907
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:07,200
I've had in a VR game, personally. Really? Yeah, I think so. I really like Super Hot, though.

908
01:29:07,840 --> 01:29:12,640
Like the desktop video game version, it's a huge fan. And then when I heard it came over for VR,

909
01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:17,200
I was like, that is the most logical switch to VR I've seen a game ever do.

910
01:29:17,200 --> 01:29:20,160
Sure. And then had tons of fun with it. It was very satisfying to play.

911
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:29,040
All right. Well, I hope you use it this time. Yeah. Yeah, it'll be...

912
01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:32,240
I used it last time. Yeah, I know. I just stopped when I got to the...

913
01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:39,120
Yeah. Because there's no room. That makes sense. Yeah. I have a bunch of hours on it. I'm sure you've passed me at this point, like for sure,

914
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:44,240
because it's been years. Yeah. But I had a bunch of hours in the past.

915
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:52,560
Yeah, I think another, honestly, a big reason is it's the same curiosity that drove me to get a

916
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:59,280
lot of the really early era ones of just like, it's a really cool device. It really is.

917
01:29:59,280 --> 01:30:02,320
Like it's actually kind of a marvel of engineering in a way.

918
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:08,080
It's so light and it's incredible. I finally got mine back. So I got a review unit

919
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:16,640
and it was really great. But I actually, I don't know if I was the first, but I helped them identify

920
01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:27,200
a hardware bug that I had in my review unit. And they confirmed with me that it had been resolved

921
01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:31,040
and that everything shipping to a customer would be resolved. So I didn't bring it up in the review

922
01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:34,880
because it doesn't really matter at that point. That's the point of catching things. And I fully

923
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:41,200
understand that my role as a reviewer is also sometimes to find stuff and, hey, for the benefit

924
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:45,840
of consumers, make sure that it never makes it into their hands. But there was an issue with the

925
01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:55,360
radios. And at the speed that I move in Beat Saber, the tracking wasn't perfect. And so I finally

926
01:30:55,360 --> 01:31:00,400
got my fixed one back actually like earlier this week. In fact, I think it was, I think it was

927
01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:05,120
because you saw the box in my car that I mentioned. Yeah. That you mentioned your order one. Yeah.

928
01:31:05,120 --> 01:31:11,040
So I just got mine back. I have not used it yet. So we'll be, we'll be big screen beyond two buddies

929
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:15,840
here. Yeah. Yeah. I've got, it does, it has a tracking number, but it apparently hasn't actually

930
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:18,960
been delivered to the place that has a tracking number yet. So I don't know the delivery date

931
01:31:19,040 --> 01:31:25,440
or anything. Nice. But I'm excited. But yeah, it's an extremely interesting device.

932
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:30,640
It's one of those things that like... Have you used one yet? The tech brand, no.

933
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:35,760
Dude, the resolution? Have you, you tried the Vision Pro, right? I watched, I tried the Vision Pro,

934
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:40,400
I tried the big screen beyond one. Okay. Okay. Your house for like literally five minutes. The

935
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:48,480
big screen beyond one was really cool. But as we outlined in our review of it, the kind of glare

936
01:31:48,480 --> 01:31:55,920
off the pancake lenses was, it was a big challenge. Yeah. Dude, they leveled up the optics so hard.

937
01:31:55,920 --> 01:31:59,680
I don't think, you know, that thing where we're like, yeah, watch reviews from everybody.

938
01:32:00,560 --> 01:32:06,560
If somebody made a review of the big screen beyond two, there's a above 90% chance that I

939
01:32:06,560 --> 01:32:11,760
watched it. Nice. I watched. You watched ours then? Yeah. I remember I was getting like frustrated

940
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:15,440
with you because it was taking too long for you to release it. That's because I was watching

941
01:32:15,440 --> 01:32:20,160
everybody's and I was like, where the hell is ours? I need to see all of them because I

942
01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:24,160
will like didn't want to make... Okay. There's the cheapness. I didn't really want to make the

943
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:29,520
purchasing decision until I had like heard from everybody basically. So I, there was,

944
01:32:29,520 --> 01:32:34,640
there was quite a few reviews of it that were honestly really good. And then I was happy once

945
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:41,520
you finally released yours as well. Sorry. And then, yeah, I went for it and I'm excited. I'm

946
01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:47,280
very excited. Cool. Yeah. You're gonna love it. I think so as well. I'm supposed to do the

947
01:32:47,280 --> 01:32:55,440
Floatplane announcements really quick now and... No, later. Okay. What am I supposed to do then?

948
01:32:55,440 --> 01:33:00,880
Why don't you just do the show? There's a sign. Read the sign. Look at the sign.

949
01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:06,240
Read the sign. It's in... Don't talk to Dan. No, that's... Oh, I put up the wrong sign.

950
01:33:06,720 --> 01:33:11,920
Hold on. Don't make me point at the sign.

951
01:33:12,480 --> 01:33:19,200
All right. We'll pick a topic. Actors who sold their likeness to TikTok for use in AI ads are,

952
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:28,160
who would have seen this coming, having regrets after their likeness is used in AI ads. Back in

953
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:35,040
June, TikTok announced a new set of tools used to make ads using AI avatars. These ads are supposed

954
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:42,480
to be labeled as AI. Well, actor Scott Jack Main from Dallas sold his likeness to TikTok.

955
01:33:42,480 --> 01:33:49,120
He was hoping that it would help build his career. He was paid $750 and given a trip to the Bay Area.

956
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:58,880
Instead, an AI avatar with his likeness has been selling stuff on TikTok as Steve. Scott's story

957
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:05,280
is not isolated. Others have admitted to taking a similar deal. Most performers seem to have been

958
01:34:05,280 --> 01:34:11,760
surprised to see their avatars elsewhere. ByteDance, developers of TikTok, can use their likeness in

959
01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:18,080
third-party apps, it turns out, and people have been showing up on their video editing app CapCut.

960
01:34:18,080 --> 01:34:21,040
They also have apps for basically everything. So that's...

961
01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:29,600
Not basically everything. Basically everything in my world. Dan, could we link the New York Times article to the people in the various chats so that they

962
01:34:29,600 --> 01:34:37,840
can check it out if they want? Sure thing. It was pretty good and pretty creepy and dystopian.

963
01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:41,280
I'm also going to try and start putting them in the description, too. Which is, I think,

964
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:47,200
what we should probably rename the WAN Show to now. Yeah, dystopia. Yeah, just creepy dystopian

965
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:52,320
discussion show because that's basically all we talk about now. I'd love it if that wasn't true.

966
01:34:53,280 --> 01:34:56,560
Yeah, wouldn't you, though? That'd be awesome. Well, too bad. Get f***ed.

967
01:34:57,600 --> 01:35:00,400
Yeah, that's what I thought. This website goes nowhere.

968
01:35:01,520 --> 01:35:10,560
Yeah, it's because this is too... You'll have to find the article that is on the New York Times website.

969
01:35:10,560 --> 01:35:17,680
This was... Don't worry about it. A different website. Don't link this one. I did in Foglin

970
01:35:18,240 --> 01:35:24,400
Jet. Oh, boy. Way to go, Dan. What is that? Anyway, here's an example

971
01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:36,720
of someone who licensed their likeness to TikTok and... Interesting. Yep. Has just a

972
01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:43,360
her generated by AI, just, I don't know, doing random stuff on the internet. So here's the

973
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:48,800
conversation. There's actually quite a few things to unpack here for me. So one of them,

974
01:35:48,800 --> 01:35:52,880
from my point of view, is why does TikTok even bother to do this? Because they could just

975
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:56,320
AI generate a likeness of someone, theoretically, if they're doing this much

976
01:35:56,320 --> 01:36:00,960
generative AI. Can someone explain this to me? Anyone? I honestly have no idea.

977
01:36:01,600 --> 01:36:07,440
Feel free. Hit me in chat. People are literally doing that. There's people on Instagram. Well,

978
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:12,960
there's things on Instagram that aren't people, and they're not based on anyone. Well,

979
01:36:12,960 --> 01:36:18,880
some of them might be, but... But why did they even spend... Would it cost them $750 in credits?

980
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:23,920
Why would they fly someone out and scan them? Yeah. Oh, legal battles? What legal battles?

981
01:36:26,960 --> 01:36:32,080
Like, if they just generate someone that's not based on a real person, then what legal battle?

982
01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:39,040
Yeah. Yeah, it looks like there's quite a few people also... An AI generated likeness can't be

983
01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:47,360
copyrighted. Interesting. Okay. And KG4WWN says, if I pay someone $700 to scan a real person,

984
01:36:47,360 --> 01:36:51,680
then nobody else can say it's based on them. You know what? That's fair enough,

985
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:57,760
because you could generate a person and the odds of somebody actually looking like that,

986
01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:03,120
given that the AI has to be trained on what people actually look like. I mean, it's not zero.

987
01:37:03,120 --> 01:37:07,280
It's actually rather high. Especially when you consider, to your point earlier in the show,

988
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:14,000
how many people consider generic pale dude with a beard to look like each other?

989
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:18,560
The amount of people that heard that voice and were like, whoa, it's not like you at all.

990
01:37:19,440 --> 01:37:27,840
No. I mean, I could kind of hear a ghost of what maybe someone could interpret me as sounding like,

991
01:37:27,840 --> 01:37:34,400
but like, it wasn't good. That's for sure. Okay. All right. So, okay, we've gotten there. We've gotten

992
01:37:34,480 --> 01:37:40,480
to why ByteDance might scan someone and pay them a few hundred bucks for it. Now, let's have a longer

993
01:37:40,480 --> 01:37:48,080
conversation. What's your price? Oh my God. I don't think I know. Hold on. Before you answer,

994
01:37:49,360 --> 01:37:55,840
let's start with one that you would definitely take, a billion dollars. Okay, fair. Okay. So,

995
01:37:55,840 --> 01:38:03,360
we've established now, yeah, sure, that like every man, Luke has his price. So now he can't dodge the

996
01:38:03,360 --> 01:38:14,080
question. I don't think you'd do it for a million. No. No. Okay. Let me think. I like playing games

997
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:22,080
where I demonstrate to Luke that I live in his head. It's a little ridiculous sometimes,

998
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:25,040
but it's kind of fun to rely on in other situations, but anyways.

999
01:38:25,760 --> 01:38:32,560
You wouldn't do it for two. Nope. That's not enough. Nope. You'd do it for a hundred. How?

1000
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:38,240
You'd do it for a hundred, no question. I literally sat here and I've been like,

1001
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:44,640
like 10 seconds ago, I was like, I'd do it for a hundred. Yeah.

1002
01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:56,000
Oh my God. You'd do it for 10 for sure. You'd do it for 10. I want to say no now in reality.

1003
01:38:56,720 --> 01:39:00,320
If the check's in front of you. If the check's in front of me, baby. I think you'd do it for 10.

1004
01:39:01,440 --> 01:39:07,120
I think the threshold is somewhere in the eight range. I think that if they were trying to get

1005
01:39:07,120 --> 01:39:13,760
a bargain, they'd try to grind you down to like five to eight and I think you could,

1006
01:39:13,760 --> 01:39:19,200
I think you could hold firm at five for sure. For sure. No question. I think as soon as we

1007
01:39:19,200 --> 01:39:25,920
get into eight to 10. This is an interesting one because if I sell my likeness. It kind of

1008
01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:31,840
f**ks me a little. Yeah. How does that impact work? I don't know. Well, no. Try to draw a line.

1009
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:38,320
Let's keep pushing this. Okay. So if bite dance is bidding, let's say eight. Can I say eight?

1010
01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:43,600
Do you think that's at least you? It's in front of you. Eight is a tough one. Eight million

1011
01:39:43,600 --> 01:39:47,600
dollars. I'm talking USD. I'm talking real money. Oh, that's all. That's a lot more. Eight is a

1012
01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:53,840
tough one. If it resulted in like, I can't work here anymore basically. Let's get there. Let's

1013
01:39:53,840 --> 01:40:00,560
get there though. So let's assume eight because at least we're having a conversation. It's not

1014
01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:06,800
like the one. I don't think you'd even consider it for a second for one because like it's not

1015
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:13,280
worth it. Like look at what these guys are going through right now. Okay. So you come to me and

1016
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:20,480
you go, okay, well, bite dance is bid for, you know, my likeness. Oh, this isn't even what I meant

1017
01:40:20,480 --> 01:40:26,640
is eight million dollars. You know, how does this work? Right? Yeah. Because I got to be honest with

1018
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:33,120
you. I'd have to work at minus media group for a hot minute to make eight million dollars. Yeah.

1019
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:41,760
And this is a, this is a right now check right now. I don't want to retire. I love doing WAN

1020
01:40:41,760 --> 01:40:45,920
show and I love leading my teams and I love all the people I work with. And you know,

1021
01:40:45,920 --> 01:40:52,960
there's all these things that I really, you know, love about work, but AI Luke is going to be selling,

1022
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:59,280
you know, health supplements and like it could be butt stuff. Like I don't know. Right? Does that

1023
01:40:59,360 --> 01:41:04,560
impact and realistically, they just own the likeness for any platform. It could be graphic.

1024
01:41:04,560 --> 01:41:11,040
Like I'm okay with the butt stuff, you know, and it could be graphic. It's sold by likeness.

1025
01:41:11,040 --> 01:41:17,520
It's a very effective way to, to take medications for instance or temperatures. Yeah. And they

1026
01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:24,320
scanned everything and I mean, I mean everything. Actually, that's an interesting, that's an

1027
01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:29,440
interesting additional layer to the conversation is, do they scan you with clothes on or off?

1028
01:41:29,440 --> 01:41:32,880
And how does that impact on price? I can pretty much guarantee you they will eventually be once.

1029
01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:40,240
Oh, a hundred percent. A hundred percent. So I think, dude, at that much money, at the amount of,

1030
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:46,160
but see that's the thing is I feel like our principles and our thresholds would not be

1031
01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:52,240
that dissimilar. Like I would fully recognize that for you,

1032
01:41:54,080 --> 01:41:55,600
I think I'd have to tell you to get the bag.

1033
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:01,520
How does that impact work though? Because if you're, if you tell me,

1034
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:05,440
I think I say, look, we'll figure it out. Take the bag, fly free.

1035
01:42:05,440 --> 01:42:09,440
Take the bag. No, no, no, no, no, no. I think I say, take the bag.

1036
01:42:09,440 --> 01:42:12,240
And we'll figure it out. And we meme on it.

1037
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:18,960
Yeah. Okay. Then I would do it, but I have to assume your contract stipulates that we can't

1038
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:24,320
like, you know, shit on bite dance for using it. Probably. I think, I think if anything,

1039
01:42:24,960 --> 01:42:28,640
you know how I am, I'm going to try and figure out how to monetize it. Sure.

1040
01:42:28,640 --> 01:42:33,680
So we add like a monthly segment to WAN Show. I did. Blah, blah, blah. How is it going?

1041
01:42:33,680 --> 01:42:39,680
Reacting to reacting to Luke. Yeah. In this scenario, I'm totally down.

1042
01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:46,160
In this scenario, I'd probably do it for less than that. Oh, because that sounds funny.

1043
01:42:53,200 --> 01:42:56,880
That sounds hilarious. Oh no. I think that could bring me down to the five.

1044
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:02,160
You're going to be a better negotiator in this situation than they would.

1045
01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:05,360
They'd have to like give you, like, give you a, a.

1046
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:12,860
I want to commission. I want to commission. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want hat like dance. I want half of what you saved

1047
01:43:13,880 --> 01:43:15,880
Yeah, I mean it sounds fair

1048
01:43:18,240 --> 01:43:20,480
Because now that just sounds really funny. Yeah

1049
01:43:21,520 --> 01:43:28,520
You're showing your hand. Yeah, it's not gonna happen. Yeah, dude Right dance is not offering a millions of dollars for the like this a loop find some other beauty

1050
01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:30,520
Oh

1051
01:43:35,840 --> 01:43:41,080
100% oh man, how bad would an AI Wansho be I

1052
01:43:42,920 --> 01:43:46,920
Mean we could do it. I feel like it'd be an interesting video. They have those

1053
01:43:47,480 --> 01:43:52,680
There's like notebook LM and all the other kind of stuff that can yeah eight podcasts based on information

1054
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:57,400
So we could we could feed it. We could feed it every Wansho ever

1055
01:43:58,520 --> 01:44:01,720
And then we could feed it the news and the notes for the week

1056
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:10,360
That would I I'd watch it Just to see I watch it with morbid curiosity. Yeah every once in a while people like I'd skip around

1057
01:44:10,360 --> 01:44:14,200
I wouldn't watch the whole thing but like yeah every once in a while people link me those like

1058
01:44:15,080 --> 01:44:21,640
Like a fake ai video thing of me or an fake ai audio thing of me and I'll often check it out just out of

1059
01:44:22,120 --> 01:44:25,720
Yeah morbid curiosity, but it's not like it's not a fun watch

1060
01:44:26,360 --> 01:44:34,120
Yeah, it's an intriguing watch Yeah, that that that AI cartoon tv show one like I I watched like three minutes of it

1061
01:44:34,120 --> 01:44:39,560
Yeah, I was just like it's kind of gross But I basically need to know like do I need to inform my family?

1062
01:44:40,680 --> 01:44:43,720
Uh, because every once in a while I'll send one like this is where we're at now. So

1063
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:47,720
Be aware a couple people in Floatplane chat. Um

1064
01:44:49,080 --> 01:44:53,640
Oh, shoot. I found yeah. Cobbie. I think we can all agree 750 bucks is way too low. Yeah

1065
01:44:53,800 --> 01:44:59,880
I I I agree that for literally anyone 750 dollars is too low for this very desperate people

1066
01:45:00,440 --> 01:45:05,000
I'm not surprised they found some people that I just think they should be paying more. I agree

1067
01:45:05,080 --> 01:45:14,200
I'm not saying those people should you know Drive a hard bargain and potentially miss out on it if 750 dollars is us is a situation changing amount of money

1068
01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:19,240
I'm not saying you should have more principal. This isn't coming from that place over your head or not

1069
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:23,320
I'm just saying that bite dance can afford to pay better and they should yeah

1070
01:45:23,640 --> 01:45:29,800
That's what I'll say and then rate in 428 says Linus. You turned down a hundred million dollars. So what's your price?

1071
01:45:30,680 --> 01:45:36,680
That's different. I turned down a hundred million dollars because I was concerned about

1072
01:45:37,960 --> 01:45:46,600
More than just My likeness in fact, I wasn't even really that concerned about my likeness because the new ownership wouldn't be able to make me say

1073
01:45:47,400 --> 01:45:50,680
anything that I didn't want to say like that was

1074
01:45:51,640 --> 01:45:55,080
That was 100 clear in the deal that I that I

1075
01:45:55,720 --> 01:46:01,320
Would never be forced to be a mouthpiece. You know, one of the things that I explicitly brought up early on in the conversation

1076
01:46:01,400 --> 01:46:07,480
Was like look, you know, we have our standards around the sponsors that we're willing to take. I'm not going to hawk gambling products

1077
01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:15,640
I'm not going to hawk alcohol products. That's that's never going to happen And you guys are going to have to understand that that Linus media group comes with the principles that

1078
01:46:16,360 --> 01:46:20,520
That underpin Linus media group as an organization. They were totally they were totally fine with that

1079
01:46:21,480 --> 01:46:24,440
The concern for me was more around

1080
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:30,440
Losing the ability to steer the organization and losing the ability to

1081
01:46:33,480 --> 01:46:40,440
Ensure that we would continue to work on the environment for the team

1082
01:46:41,080 --> 01:46:45,080
once I no longer have the final say on

1083
01:46:46,600 --> 01:46:56,600
Hiring and dismissals It's possible for things to go extremely badly and when I say final say I don't mean that I exercise that on a day-to-day basis

1084
01:46:56,680 --> 01:46:59,640
I'm not micromanaging Taryn and the rest of our leadership

1085
01:47:00,200 --> 01:47:04,440
People need to have the autonomy to make decisions. What I mean is that if we are doing something wrong

1086
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:09,640
He micromanages me. It's terrible It's all a lie. We hardly talk

1087
01:47:11,160 --> 01:47:13,480
We like catch up on wenshow they know this

1088
01:47:14,440 --> 01:47:16,440
It's such a liar

1089
01:47:18,360 --> 01:47:25,000
The point Is that I I would be I would be I would I would be putting us

1090
01:47:26,040 --> 01:47:28,040
Okay

1091
01:47:32,280 --> 01:47:35,880
I'd be putting us in a position where if we had taken the offer

1092
01:47:36,840 --> 01:47:39,480
Months later, we would have gone through the august controversy

1093
01:47:40,440 --> 01:47:44,680
our revenues went down And we would have lost people over that

1094
01:47:46,280 --> 01:47:55,800
That's not okay. Yeah, there wouldn't drops Um 100% like literally I know the financials quick fast and literally I have a pretty good idea of what

1095
01:47:56,440 --> 01:47:59,880
a more dollars and cents

1096
01:47:59,880 --> 01:48:03,160
in and out revenue flows based management

1097
01:48:04,440 --> 01:48:10,520
Would have wanted to do I think there's also got to be some amount like I know that was your your core reason

1098
01:48:10,520 --> 01:48:14,040
We talked about it a bunch, but I think we haven't talked about this as much

1099
01:48:14,040 --> 01:48:18,040
But I think it's come up at least a couple times. I'm sure it was some amount of the decision

1100
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:24,600
was the What would you call it like lineage aspect like your names all over it?

1101
01:48:25,080 --> 01:48:29,400
Yeah, but I mean, I think that's a heavy part of you know, the ai likeness conversation too

1102
01:48:30,200 --> 01:48:36,520
Right like it's um, it's the the legacy. I guess. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, the word not lineage legacy. Yeah

1103
01:48:36,840 --> 01:48:45,000
Yeah, um And the I think the other big one is that I didn't feel that the money would change my my life that much

1104
01:48:45,080 --> 01:48:48,200
I'm already extremely blessed. Um, I'm already

1105
01:48:48,920 --> 01:48:54,520
Extremely grateful to our community that means that I you know live in a comfortable home. I drive a nice car

1106
01:48:55,640 --> 01:48:59,080
I I I enjoy a really nice lifestyle that

1107
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:08,120
Um I don't value I don't value fancy labels on my clothes. I don't value it's a pretty fancy label on that

1108
01:49:08,360 --> 01:49:12,040
Actually, this is a wonderful. This is a wonderful design from sarah

1109
01:49:12,440 --> 01:49:19,000
Um, but it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't cost $400. You know get yours today lttstore.com

1110
01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:26,600
Right like I I don't I don't value a lot of the I don't value, um, you know collecting fine art

1111
01:49:27,480 --> 01:49:33,720
Like some of the things that people find ways to spend tens of millions of dollars. I I don't value them

1112
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:37,480
So fine art is often financial scams

1113
01:49:38,200 --> 01:49:43,800
Or like like laundry like moving funds around. Yeah that that I get or storing it without paying taxes or

1114
01:49:44,440 --> 01:49:46,940
Storing it while gaining tax benefits

1115
01:49:47,560 --> 01:49:55,320
because you like Donate it to a museum or whatever. Oh, I see there's like a lot of weird mechanisms with art

1116
01:49:55,560 --> 01:49:59,560
Sure, so maybe I just i'm not enlightened enough on the the benefits of

1117
01:50:00,200 --> 01:50:05,320
You know collecting your bro to do an art, but I just bring it to your other bro

1118
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:08,200
Bro appraises it you donate it

1119
01:50:09,080 --> 01:50:16,440
tax break There's uh, there's a lot of wacky stuff, right? Obviously, it's not exactly that easy, but like and that's not to say that

1120
01:50:16,440 --> 01:50:20,440
I have cheap taste either I mean

1121
01:50:20,600 --> 01:50:23,880
I commissioned a solid gold xbox control which has

1122
01:50:24,840 --> 01:50:28,600
Been a wonderful gained value wonderful investment pun intended. Yeah

1123
01:50:32,040 --> 01:50:40,040
Yeah, I oh man So there's a lot of reasons I didn't take it. I still think realistically for like

1124
01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:48,920
AI slot me I'd have a price But the one stipulation that I would I think I could hold firm on almost no matter the amount

1125
01:50:49,400 --> 01:50:54,680
Is that I would want it time delineated So I would want I would want some

1126
01:50:55,320 --> 01:50:59,400
Period after which for sure the license to my likeness goes away

1127
01:50:59,960 --> 01:51:03,240
and so the idea that I'm selling like alien soup in

1128
01:51:04,840 --> 01:51:08,920
48 20 or something. Yeah, that's not yeah, can we not please

1129
01:51:10,200 --> 01:51:15,080
It's ridiculously unlikely, but I'd just rather know that like it dies with me, you know

1130
01:51:15,800 --> 01:51:22,280
Binky draws says your taste is ironically tacky, but it's slowly becoming unironically tacky

1131
01:51:27,320 --> 01:51:33,320
I don't know. I think these I think these when logo ear cushions are I think they're kind of sick pretty cool

1132
01:51:33,560 --> 01:51:40,280
I like them Okay, you know what? No. No, I I'm I'm gonna get into it with you. I'm gonna get into it with you

1133
01:51:40,680 --> 01:51:48,280
I want an example of my unironically tacky taste hit me hit me we should we should have like a

1134
01:51:49,400 --> 01:51:54,440
The entire Porsche brand cannot be tacky. Please. I am I am not going to make this

1135
01:51:54,440 --> 01:51:59,400
I'm just gonna be very clear But we should have like a call a user feature for creators on flow plane

1136
01:51:59,960 --> 01:52:03,160
So you could just be like nope. You're live now. We're calling you

1137
01:52:05,320 --> 01:52:09,720
I'm not making can we do that? Is that a thing we could do?

1138
01:52:09,720 --> 01:52:14,040
I mean you could use the same type of things that like discord. Yeah, there's got to be like plugins or something

1139
01:52:14,040 --> 01:52:17,640
There would be ways to do it. We're not doing it. We have so many other things to do

1140
01:52:17,640 --> 01:52:20,040
But it it would be feasible technically

1141
01:52:21,240 --> 01:52:26,920
The users would have to like allow the mic usage and stuff like they would have obviously they've controlled the business opportunity

1142
01:52:26,920 --> 01:52:34,520
Do you have any idea how much more people would pay? Just for the tier that has the chance that we could possibly consider calling them

1143
01:52:35,000 --> 01:52:38,680
Yeah, we don't even have like gifted gifts yet or tv apps and stuff

1144
01:52:38,920 --> 01:52:43,800
I think if we may have free trials we made even paid trials for certain other features

1145
01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:48,680
I think the flow plane. I think the floaters would crystals got her wallet out already

1146
01:52:52,520 --> 01:52:55,240
I think it's a cool feature. It would be very hard to make I think

1147
01:52:55,880 --> 01:53:02,200
I don't think it would I bet there's something we could basically plug in source things are out there in that realm

1148
01:53:02,440 --> 01:53:07,400
Maybe there is good stuff, but I've never looked into it. I bet our buddies. Uh, what's the never once looked into it

1149
01:53:07,480 --> 01:53:10,040
What's the void solution that we use for remote land show again?

1150
01:53:11,560 --> 01:53:18,840
Oh t3 Mostly moved over to something. No, but that's what he meant. You're right. Yeah. Yeah, we got changed

1151
01:53:18,920 --> 01:53:24,600
But that's no t3 chat. Yeah. No, not t3 chat. That's the other thing if we like ping dot gg brought fio in

1152
01:53:25,640 --> 01:53:29,480
As like a thing and he could like talk about it on his channel making it or something

1153
01:53:29,720 --> 01:53:36,120
I he probably just And he's probably capable. See this is what this is what i'm saying. I actually

1154
01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:44,120
I think not gg. Yeah in modern era. Oh, I actually don't think that that's man. What if that big of a technology?

1155
01:53:44,360 --> 01:53:49,080
See the gears are spinning the gears are spinning. I think there's a micromanaging him right now

1156
01:53:49,240 --> 01:53:56,520
I think there's a way I just thought of a way that you could the t3 chat thing was actually an interesting one because I was thinking it had to

1157
01:53:56,520 --> 01:54:01,400
Be on the on the base platform. No, it shouldn't have to be but if it could just open another tab. Yeah

1158
01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:06,440
It would be like way easier. Yeah, because I was thinking like yeah, anyways

1159
01:54:07,320 --> 01:54:11,720
Yeah, just some kind of automatic authentication and then bippity boppity

1160
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:21,480
Microphone pop up Maybe even camera pop up. You could theoretically you could theoretically that's very we should never do that. No, we should probably never do that

1161
01:54:22,120 --> 01:54:26,120
Unless we have like a significant, uh, we should have to take delay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

1162
01:54:26,120 --> 01:54:29,720
Yeah, I think we'd I think we'd have to finally have a tape delay Dan

1163
01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:38,920
How hard would it be to do a tape delay for WAN Show? Not entirely sure. We have a multi quarter thing which will do forms of like live replays. So

1164
01:54:39,400 --> 01:54:43,400
I mean, it's physically possible Okay

1165
01:54:45,080 --> 01:54:49,400
Tim zero zero zero x3 and hopefully chat said I I am very naked

1166
01:54:51,960 --> 01:54:54,680
That's why the webcam only goes to here for me too

1167
01:54:55,560 --> 01:54:59,240
It's all just cropped Dan just does the way show bottomless

1168
01:55:00,520 --> 01:55:06,760
I mean, it's Friday night. Come on. I mean, they don't technically know right now that we're not all bottomless

1169
01:55:07,080 --> 01:55:10,440
Yeah, I took the feet cam away. Yeah, so they don't know

1170
01:55:11,080 --> 01:55:13,080
They have no idea

1171
01:55:14,680 --> 01:55:20,680
Oh man, that would be a whole other level of chaos for when show I uh,

1172
01:55:21,480 --> 01:55:25,640
This is not necessarily real conversation right now. I'm

1173
01:55:26,520 --> 01:55:29,080
We'd have to have a more in-depth more

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01:55:29,960 --> 01:55:35,320
Let's lay out all the potential problems conversation before we would consider anything like that

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01:55:38,040 --> 01:55:40,040
Dad just missed me

1176
01:55:41,080 --> 01:55:49,480
That's actually wild Apparently my mom my mom just benched 110. Yeah, she could almost benchy vaughn. That's crazy. Yeah

1177
01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:58,200
That's awesome My my dad's just been doing this thing where they'll like rack weights on the bench and he'll she'll just be like

1178
01:55:58,200 --> 01:56:00,680
It's whatever amount right and he'll just be like yep, and it's

1179
01:56:02,440 --> 01:56:08,600
She just does it every time It's like not not a suggestion. Don't do that

1180
01:56:10,280 --> 01:56:16,920
But yeah That's crazy considering her weight too. Like that's actually nuts. That's awesome

1181
01:56:18,680 --> 01:56:27,640
All right. Yeah mom. Good job Uh, what are we supposed to be doing? Oh, yes the flow plane announcement. This is a really exciting one

1182
01:56:27,640 --> 01:56:32,760
This is hardly even us, you know doing promotion. This is just oh, yeah

1183
01:56:32,840 --> 01:56:38,600
This is just freaking out. Okay. Have you seen it? No, not at all. I've been waiting for it to launch a flip. It's so

1184
01:56:39,480 --> 01:56:43,480
good This was this was p this this series was peak

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01:56:44,120 --> 01:56:46,680
Uh Channel Super Fun Channel Super Fun

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01:56:47,320 --> 01:56:50,600
Is off hiatus Let's go

1187
01:56:50,600 --> 01:56:58,600
Let's go But the temporarily one video one episode. Yeah one video only as scrapyard wars reaches its midpoint

1188
01:56:58,680 --> 01:57:02,520
We want to give the team an extra week to finish up the last couple of episodes

1189
01:57:02,680 --> 01:57:06,600
But we don't want to leave our floaters empty-handed

1190
01:57:06,840 --> 01:57:13,320
So we've got you guys early access to the new Channel Super Fun video to celebrate us

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01:57:14,280 --> 01:57:17,880
getting off hiatus

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01:57:18,040 --> 01:57:22,520
or Unless Here it is

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01:57:22,520 --> 01:57:28,280
How hard is it to beat professional athletes nerd sports episode

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01:57:29,080 --> 01:57:34,920
10 I think they mean six, but sure. Yeah, wait, why 10 episode x?

1195
01:57:35,640 --> 01:57:46,600
um This is great. Nerd sports is back, baby The keyboard warriors face off against professional badminton players jenny and gregory mayors in the most fair and balanced showdown in all of sports

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01:57:47,000 --> 01:57:54,200
Asterisk asterisk this competition is neither fair nor balanced. That's right. My friends. It's just like the old nerd sports

1197
01:57:55,400 --> 01:57:58,040
Oh, would it but no spoilers no spoilers

1198
01:57:59,160 --> 01:58:03,400
But I will play a little bit of it for you guys. It is the oh do they have my audio?

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01:58:04,520 --> 01:58:10,200
Uh, no, you're playing in the background as well Yeah, but uh one second one moment, please

1200
01:58:11,320 --> 01:58:16,200
Uh, am I though? Oh, yes, I am. There's the tab. I found it. Look at that

1201
01:58:17,960 --> 01:58:19,960
Uh, oh really? Oh

1202
01:58:22,920 --> 01:58:29,160
They'll just okay, sure. Finally won't hear it. They can hear it now. Uh, so anyway, I do like a coaching session with my boys

1203
01:58:29,880 --> 01:58:36,680
um, and ladies They see how real athletes warm up. They try their best to follow along

1204
01:58:37,400 --> 01:58:41,720
It's pretty great They watch their warm up

1205
01:58:41,960 --> 01:58:43,960
I can't

1206
01:58:45,480 --> 01:58:48,920
Oh, yeah, sorry. Here's my coaching session with the boys and ladies

1207
01:58:50,200 --> 01:58:55,240
I get them to try to hit some shuttles. It's next. It's great. That's good. Do that again

1208
01:58:56,040 --> 01:59:04,200
Here we go. Here we go. Ah Yeah, uh, and then we play and there's all kinds of fun things. I've got my wheel of pain here

1209
01:59:05,240 --> 01:59:11,800
I get to spin the wheel of pain whenever Basically, I feel like it and I can give different rackets to the pros

1210
01:59:12,280 --> 01:59:18,520
um They have to wear eye patches at some point. It's it's a it's a laugh and

1211
01:59:19,000 --> 01:59:23,160
Greg and Jenny these guys were such good sports about the whole thing

1212
01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:26,040
They're professional athletes and so

1213
01:59:27,000 --> 01:59:33,800
They can't they kind of can't help it like They want to win, you know, but we really didn't make it easy on them

1214
01:59:34,760 --> 01:59:37,560
That's the whole that's that's what that's nerd sports, man

1215
01:59:38,120 --> 01:59:44,600
You got to find a way for the nerds to win or to have a chance at least we have to find a way for the nerds to have a chance

1216
01:59:44,680 --> 01:59:50,760
Gotta be close. Um I don't want to I don't want to spoil too much, but it's a great video. It's a great watch

1217
01:59:50,840 --> 01:59:56,920
You guys are gonna enjoy the absolute heck out of it and I'm gonna go ahead and set that public right

1218
01:59:57,640 --> 02:00:01,000
Now we also have a behind the scenes that

1219
02:00:01,320 --> 02:00:05,080
Um Is what?

1220
02:00:05,080 --> 02:00:12,600
Oh, we have it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's extras Oh, okay. We have me playing the badminton pros

1221
02:00:15,240 --> 02:00:20,360
Uh, apparently this is about nine minutes long. I apparently shot a little intro

1222
02:00:21,240 --> 02:00:24,040
I was actually playing pretty decent that day, but

1223
02:00:24,680 --> 02:00:28,360
Obviously, they are literally professionals. So

1224
02:00:29,080 --> 02:00:32,920
Yeah, you know that sort of thing they can just kind of

1225
02:00:34,040 --> 02:00:37,080
Dunk on me like that. Do you see that deception there?

1226
02:00:39,880 --> 02:00:47,080
That's actually that's not a bad bad backhand, but it's effortless. You see that you see what he did. Oh, that was brutal

1227
02:00:48,120 --> 02:00:52,360
Yikes Linus watch his racket

1228
02:00:53,560 --> 02:01:02,840
Oh that Socks and I hit it out. Anyway, so yeah, we have me playing a playing a set with them. Respect the dive. Thank you. Thank you

1229
02:01:02,840 --> 02:01:07,320
I do my best. All right. I'm gonna set that public now. That is up on flow plane

1230
02:01:07,800 --> 02:01:11,240
So the main video mainline video will be going up on Channel Super Fun

1231
02:01:11,320 --> 02:01:15,640
But the the extras of me playing them is gonna be behind the scenes

1232
02:01:17,160 --> 02:01:21,320
All right What are we supposed to be doing now Dan?

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02:01:21,480 --> 02:01:25,480
Oh Show

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All right, what do you want to what do you want to talk about Luke? Do you want to talk about some?

1264
02:04:09,320 --> 02:04:14,520
Let's see here. What do we got Intel grabs hold of two billion dollars

1265
02:04:14,920 --> 02:04:17,960
Uh, definitely an amount that I would accept for my likeness

1266
02:04:18,360 --> 02:04:25,960
Uh, and in just in case anyone's shopping uh in an ocean of uncertainty after many years of rush rough financial seas

1267
02:04:26,200 --> 02:04:29,960
Intel stock is soaring with a rally of over 28

1268
02:04:30,200 --> 02:04:36,360
percent Wow, uh after softbank a japanese investment conglomerate has agreed to invest

1269
02:04:36,840 --> 02:04:42,040
Two billion dollars into it nothing ever goes bad after softbank invests into anyone

1270
02:04:42,360 --> 02:04:49,800
Um, they they invested into Intel's future in a commitment to advanced technology and semiconductors in the united states

1271
02:04:50,120 --> 02:04:58,040
A lot of the press briefings circle around the increased manufacturing of chips for ai in the us itself. Okay

1272
02:04:59,000 --> 02:05:08,200
This new investment comes after the trump administration announced It is in talks with Intel to turn money pledged under biden into 10 ownership of Intel

1273
02:05:08,520 --> 02:05:13,640
Just after just a few weeks after Intel's ceo took a little ride aboard the white house's

1274
02:05:14,440 --> 02:05:20,120
metaphorical emotional abuse roller coaster which we talked about previously on WAN Show not only that

1275
02:05:20,280 --> 02:05:27,560
But trump has been strong arming other chip makers with uh requirements to AMD and vidya to i'm pretty sure they propose this

1276
02:05:27,640 --> 02:05:34,120
Not trump's strong around them, but either way uh to AMD and vidya to pay 15 commission on sales in china in exchange for

1277
02:05:34,200 --> 02:05:39,080
Export licenses. I'm pretty sure that was a pitch from them. I don't i'm pretty sure AMD and vidya were like look

1278
02:05:39,400 --> 02:05:43,720
Let us do this. We will pay you 15 percent not not the other way around i could be wrong with that

1279
02:05:43,880 --> 02:05:51,000
But i'm just i think i think that's what happened We have a discussion question if the u.s government owns part of one of the chip makers

1280
02:05:51,240 --> 02:05:56,200
What kind of malerkey should the others expect? Yeah, this is um, this is pretty interesting

1281
02:05:56,280 --> 02:05:58,280
This is this is one of those things where

1282
02:06:00,200 --> 02:06:06,920
If it wasn't coming from the party of small government and free market, I would find it less confusing

1283
02:06:08,440 --> 02:06:14,680
But overall, I don't necessarily think it's the dumbest move in the world. I mean we've talked a fair bit about

1284
02:06:15,320 --> 02:06:20,680
It's norway, right that has the sovereign wealth fund. Yeah, um, that's worked out pretty good for them

1285
02:06:21,640 --> 02:06:27,080
mostly, um I sent you that gonna get a bailout of some kind and

1286
02:06:27,640 --> 02:06:35,080
How much better of a position would you know the american sovereign wealth fund be if the bailouts that they'd done during the

1287
02:06:35,400 --> 02:06:39,720
2008 financial crisis had granted them equity in those companies like

1288
02:06:40,600 --> 02:06:48,600
Uh, you know what if you're gonna bail something out? I kind of don't disagree that you should probably get something for your trouble

1289
02:06:48,680 --> 02:06:54,360
If the taxpayers are gonna pay for it the taxpayers should probably get the dividends

1290
02:06:54,360 --> 02:06:57,320
but I mean that's where we sort of run into trouble with this is

1291
02:06:58,440 --> 02:07:05,480
What Pray tell evidence are you going to provide that the taxpayers will receive said dividends?

1292
02:07:06,040 --> 02:07:11,000
Yeah, it's gonna go to like $7,000 trash cans for military planes and stuff

1293
02:07:12,600 --> 02:07:16,600
Womp womp Neat

1294
02:07:16,600 --> 02:07:20,440
I thought you were gonna pick good news What good news

1295
02:07:20,440 --> 02:07:23,560
LZT has switched back to 16 by 9

1296
02:07:24,360 --> 02:07:29,320
After years of releasing our videos in a two by one aspect ratio across most of our channels

1297
02:07:29,640 --> 02:07:34,520
We are returning to the very sane 16 by 9 aspect ratio

1298
02:07:35,160 --> 02:07:40,200
David mr. David Goatier. Why did you italicize very sane?

1299
02:07:41,320 --> 02:07:46,280
In this sentence I

1300
02:07:46,360 --> 02:07:48,360
What are you trying to say, sir

1301
02:07:50,680 --> 02:07:55,960
We had chosen to buy one as a compromise between 16 by 9

1302
02:07:56,440 --> 02:08:00,840
and wider aspect ratios like you would find on ultra wide monitors or

1303
02:08:01,640 --> 02:08:08,120
many phones then and now Um to reduce letterboxing on as many displays as possible

1304
02:08:08,600 --> 02:08:13,960
Now hold on just a gosh darn second But then we realized that was stupid

1305
02:08:14,440 --> 02:08:21,960
And that users can zoom in on a video to fill their screen if they really care now hold on just a gosh darn minute mr. Goatier

1306
02:08:24,040 --> 02:08:27,880
We've never really worked with safe zones a little bit of editorialization

1307
02:08:29,080 --> 02:08:38,920
we've never really We've never really worked with safe zones. And so um, I felt that it was a simpler approach to have

1308
02:08:39,480 --> 02:08:43,640
smaller areas of potential Ingress

1309
02:08:43,640 --> 02:08:50,040
On the top and the bottom so we didn't have to worry too much about like where our mogarts and lower thirds and various graphics

1310
02:08:50,520 --> 02:08:53,640
Showed up in order to avoid things being clipped

1311
02:08:54,120 --> 02:09:02,280
But the main reason that we're switching back now is that Colton and the business team have been in talks with some

1312
02:09:03,080 --> 02:09:06,360
um like

1313
02:09:06,440 --> 02:09:09,080
I get what what would I what would I call them? Are they called ott?

1314
02:09:09,800 --> 02:09:16,200
like the the Like t like basically like tv channel feeds like app based

1315
02:09:16,760 --> 02:09:21,160
App based. Oh, yeah, they have a name content feeds. I can't remember ot a no not

1316
02:09:21,960 --> 02:09:28,280
Over the set up like, uh, I think it's ott is it ott. Well, whatever the point is over the top

1317
02:09:28,520 --> 02:09:35,320
They want 16 by 9 And so now we're going back through our entire catalog of content and going

1318
02:09:36,600 --> 02:09:38,600
Whoops

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02:09:40,120 --> 02:09:44,360
Fast that's it free ad support is dreaming. That's it. That's it for sure. Thank you

1320
02:09:45,160 --> 02:09:54,680
Yeah, move ready. So Yeah, we're so we're going back to 16 by 9 and we're probably just going to have to start using safe zones. Yes, daniel beser who

1321
02:09:55,400 --> 02:09:59,080
apparently lost his um

1322
02:09:59,080 --> 02:10:05,000
Talking privileges or something so he wrote it like this on the dock instead of just saying it

1323
02:10:06,520 --> 02:10:09,720
Well, to be fair, it was like a merch message earlier. So I thought you would just

1324
02:10:11,080 --> 02:10:15,960
Pop in some discussion with that. That's fine. You can write a message if you like. I'm just saying you could also talk to us

1325
02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:19,960
No, just whatever you do. Don't don't let dms talk make him sit there

1326
02:10:21,720 --> 02:10:23,720
Stop it

1327
02:10:27,960 --> 02:10:29,960
Don't hit me don't stop

1328
02:10:31,080 --> 02:10:34,840
I'm just realizing dank can really just voice act anything that's happening back there

1329
02:10:35,800 --> 02:10:37,800
Don't stand like that

1330
02:10:38,840 --> 02:10:42,680
I will not You don't pay me enough for that

1331
02:10:42,920 --> 02:10:45,160
Oh my god, we gotta buy his likeness

1332
02:10:46,760 --> 02:10:54,200
Okay, five bucks Okay, sir five bucks. I would do that. I would buy your likeness or five bucks. I don't know what I'd do with it

1333
02:10:54,200 --> 02:10:58,200
Well, it's only going to one of you bidding more time. I can figure it. Oh, I'm a business

1334
02:10:58,680 --> 02:11:03,160
I only pay you tuesday for your likeness today Okay

1335
02:11:03,320 --> 02:11:10,600
Uh pixel peeping the new pixels Google had their made by google 25 event which they announced in which they announced several new devices

1336
02:11:11,000 --> 02:11:17,960
The pixel 10 pixel 10 pro pixel 10 pro xl pixel 10 pro fold pixel buds 2a and pixel watch 4

1337
02:11:18,200 --> 02:11:24,760
Wow, the phones feature their new tensor g5 chip which according to google has 60 more power on the tpu

1338
02:11:25,240 --> 02:11:31,480
And is 34 faster on CPU compared to last year's tensor g4 chip the pixel 10

1339
02:11:31,880 --> 02:11:37,560
Except the fold lineup will be isim only for the us models while other regions will retain their physical sim trays

1340
02:11:37,880 --> 02:11:46,120
And the pixel 10 pro fold is the first foldable with an ip68 rating meaning it has a pretty solid dust and water resistance

1341
02:11:46,440 --> 02:11:49,160
Would have come in handy for me once. Yep. I can remember that

1342
02:11:49,880 --> 02:11:53,160
Google also announced that their devices are getting pixel snap

1343
02:11:53,320 --> 02:11:57,080
Which is basically using the new chi 2 wireless charging standard that allows

1344
02:11:57,560 --> 02:12:00,600
Snapping of magnetic accessories to the back of the device

1345
02:12:00,760 --> 02:12:07,080
Okay, google is launching some of their own as well like the pixel snap charger pixel snap cases and pixel snap ring stand

1346
02:12:07,160 --> 02:12:11,640
Why don't you care about megsafe? No, i'm sorry pixel snap. Excuse me. That's why

1347
02:12:12,360 --> 02:12:17,000
It's like, oh, they're finally catching up. I mean, it's a big feature for iphone people

1348
02:12:17,160 --> 02:12:22,120
I I personally don't have too many occasions where I need to magnetically attach my phone to stuff

1349
02:12:22,200 --> 02:12:25,080
Maybe i'm just thinking inside the box ecosystem. Yeah

1350
02:12:25,960 --> 02:12:29,320
Where well, when would I do that? Should I do it now? Should I stick it to something like I?

1351
02:12:30,600 --> 02:12:34,840
My phone lives in my pocket Yeah

1352
02:12:34,840 --> 02:12:42,040
Yeah, you know what no I lied. I lied my minivan. Yeah, my minivan doesn't have Android auto

1353
02:12:42,200 --> 02:12:46,760
Yeah, so if I if I had a magnetic doodad nicer than clamping it in

1354
02:12:46,840 --> 02:12:53,560
Yeah, yeah, I'd probably they also actively charge so it's easier to just like toss it on a thing when it's going to magnetize to the right spot

1355
02:12:54,280 --> 02:12:58,360
Um, okay, I think it's cool. I still use a cable to charge. Yeah

1356
02:12:59,080 --> 02:13:01,320
Maybe because we're google boomers

1357
02:13:03,800 --> 02:13:07,640
Google boomers. Yeah, this is the thing. Are we making this a thing? Yeah

1358
02:13:08,040 --> 02:13:13,160
No, the reason the reason I use my cable is because I have my phone in bed next to me

1359
02:13:13,800 --> 02:13:17,800
Uh, because I listen to my bluetooth earphones and because plex is a giant piece of

1360
02:13:19,000 --> 02:13:24,760
Phone doesn't need to be in bed with you my well. No because my video stops all the time

1361
02:13:25,400 --> 02:13:31,080
Because plex is a giant piece of shit Have you have you thought about jelly finnan? I have

1362
02:13:31,800 --> 02:13:38,120
I am gonna wait until Ashtack gets their hexos integration with jelly fin

1363
02:13:38,840 --> 02:13:42,520
And then I am just gonna have it be easy

1364
02:13:43,720 --> 02:13:46,520
Yep, it's it's amazing how many years

1365
02:13:47,800 --> 02:13:51,160
Plex has just like not been able to just indefinitely play video

1366
02:13:51,880 --> 02:13:55,640
Like there's no like there's no reason for it. You know, it's not like netflix where it's like

1367
02:13:55,640 --> 02:13:59,560
Yeah, at some point they're probably not watching so we should save bandwidth like it's my bandwidth

1368
02:13:59,800 --> 02:14:04,520
Yeah on my wi-fi you shouldn't care. Um, like years and years and years ago

1369
02:14:04,600 --> 02:14:08,680
I would I would wake up in the morning and like my show would still be playing

1370
02:14:09,720 --> 02:14:14,120
These days it'll last. I don't know anywhere from one to five episodes

1371
02:14:14,600 --> 02:14:17,880
And usually I fall asleep in that time so it doesn't really matter

1372
02:14:18,200 --> 02:14:22,440
But like why can't you do it? And if there's an error

1373
02:14:22,440 --> 02:14:25,720
I don't care Don't tell me about it

1374
02:14:25,880 --> 02:14:30,440
Process it in the background with the buffer that you already have

1375
02:14:31,400 --> 02:14:38,040
And start playing it again at the point of the buffer like why do I have to explain to you how to play a freaking video?

1376
02:14:38,760 --> 02:14:44,280
What is happening a bunch of the omega nerds in full-plane chat are saying mb

1377
02:14:45,720 --> 02:14:50,040
Yeah Don't know about that

1378
02:14:50,040 --> 02:14:52,440
Jelly fin seems to be the one that's getting the

1379
02:14:53,320 --> 02:14:59,080
It seems to be the one that's like being pushed forward faster. I know mb was the play for a long time

1380
02:15:01,320 --> 02:15:08,680
But i'm a dude i'm super i'm super frustrated with plex at this point. I just like can't I can't anymore for forever

1381
02:15:09,240 --> 02:15:12,040
um, so yeah, maybe maybe what i'll do is i'll

1382
02:15:13,320 --> 02:15:17,240
I'll do like a mb versus jelly fin. I'll figure it out. I just

1383
02:15:17,960 --> 02:15:23,960
it's so Pedious moving over like a big media library. Yeah, we gotta keep upgrading the house, man

1384
02:15:24,840 --> 02:15:32,840
Yeah I just i'm getting a headache just thinking about dealing with all of the like file naming

1385
02:15:33,640 --> 02:15:37,160
crap Is is there like a migration tool?

1386
02:15:38,040 --> 02:15:42,520
I mean Probably but part of the problem is that I I have never

1387
02:15:43,080 --> 02:15:46,360
Done all my file naming properly in the first place. Oh look at you

1388
02:15:46,520 --> 02:15:52,280
So I have like thousands of Linux isos that don't have proper naming and plex mostly figures it out

1389
02:15:52,280 --> 02:16:00,760
So it doesn't really matter Except when it does and it's really annoying. So thinking about doing that for everything is just very overwhelming

1390
02:16:00,920 --> 02:16:04,440
I don't understand what plex is doing. So you guys were there

1391
02:16:04,840 --> 02:16:10,840
We actually used it for me for the first time plex is like new business, which is

1392
02:16:11,480 --> 02:16:15,640
Uh, free ad supported television. It's very confusing. We watched doctor strange love

1393
02:16:16,440 --> 02:16:23,160
It was Okay, I do have a plex pass. So maybe this impacts it, but it was completely free

1394
02:16:24,200 --> 02:16:28,280
It had no ads The quality was

1395
02:16:28,280 --> 02:16:32,920
Great, like it it streamed it. I forget how many megabit it was, but it was it was nice

1396
02:16:33,560 --> 02:16:37,560
Oh, it was like 50. Yeah, it was too high. It was great. It was amazing

1397
02:16:38,120 --> 02:16:42,760
And i'm kind of sitting here going Okay, so step one

1398
02:16:43,560 --> 02:16:47,240
completely f*** up the, you know

1399
02:16:47,240 --> 02:16:49,240
traditional piracy use case

1400
02:16:50,520 --> 02:16:54,360
step two question mark

1401
02:16:54,360 --> 02:16:57,400
Build whatever the f*** this is with like free

1402
02:16:58,440 --> 02:17:03,320
TV streaming step three profit like what are they making money? Does plex make money?

1403
02:17:03,720 --> 02:17:08,280
I have no idea. I've it's been fascinating lately to find out how many companies

1404
02:17:09,240 --> 02:17:15,480
don't And are just funded by constant rounds of vc and investors

1405
02:17:16,840 --> 02:17:22,120
It's actually like wild Very interesting to me. It's such a weird space because

1406
02:17:23,000 --> 02:17:27,160
We never took investment money. Yeah, but like it's a huge thing

1407
02:17:29,160 --> 02:17:33,000
Weird Okay, well, here's an article from

1408
02:17:34,120 --> 02:17:41,480
January of last year Streaming media company plex raises 40 million dollars as it nears

1409
02:17:42,360 --> 02:17:44,360
profitability

1410
02:17:45,720 --> 02:17:51,960
The new round which has not yet been disclosed was initially said to be larger than plex's 50 million growth round closed a few years ago

1411
02:17:52,280 --> 02:17:55,320
We now understand it's 40 million a rep for plex has confirmed

1412
02:17:56,200 --> 02:18:01,240
The funds will help fuel the company's push toward profitability expected by year-end or just after

1413
02:18:02,680 --> 02:18:07,720
Uh Okay, thank you for it. Okay. Thank you for that

1414
02:18:08,280 --> 02:18:14,760
plex's real world valuation is unknown as the company hasn't raised outside funds in some time preferring to work with its existing set of investors

1415
02:18:15,800 --> 02:18:20,840
Now I might be I might be misunderstanding investment

1416
02:18:23,400 --> 02:18:29,240
So is investment a hole in the hole in the ground where you keep putting money

1417
02:18:29,480 --> 02:18:35,480
Is that investment this is this is where I find things to be kind of confusing because it seems like

1418
02:18:37,240 --> 02:18:42,840
Like there's some companies That I have been it's raf2k says I love edging profits

1419
02:18:45,560 --> 02:18:50,840
That's pretty funny. Um, there are some companies that I've been exposed to information recently where they like

1420
02:18:53,400 --> 02:18:57,000
Have like never made money have been around for a very long time

1421
02:18:57,560 --> 02:19:02,360
Mm-hmm, and who knows if they're ever going to and if they're going to it's not gonna

1422
02:19:02,600 --> 02:19:05,240
There's no like plan for them to like make a bunch

1423
02:19:05,960 --> 02:19:12,040
You know It's weird This is and there's obviously there's always the sell the company kind of grift thing

1424
02:19:12,520 --> 02:19:16,520
You try to get big enough It's like it's like the whole like don't make revenue idea

1425
02:19:16,920 --> 02:19:23,880
Because you try to get big enough and look scary enough But don't actually really actualize so that you can sell to someone big so they can like shut you down basically

1426
02:19:24,040 --> 02:19:27,560
Because they see you as a potential threat or you can they don't know how much of a threat

1427
02:19:27,560 --> 02:19:32,600
So they just want to buy you to get or you can sell to like, uh, you know a drug add old billionaire or something sure

1428
02:19:32,920 --> 02:19:37,560
Yeah, there's always that see this this this right here like they're saying the quiet part out loud

1429
02:19:38,200 --> 02:19:43,960
We have the most supportive investors of any Valerie said I feel like funding has never been a concern of ours

1430
02:19:45,240 --> 02:19:49,400
I mean Maybe your customers would be less pissed off at you

1431
02:19:49,960 --> 02:19:53,240
If you felt like funding was a concern and you needed them to like you

1432
02:19:53,480 --> 02:19:59,560
Yeah, like you know like I feel I feel like not being concerned about where your next meal is going to come from

1433
02:19:59,880 --> 02:20:04,440
Might breed a little bit of urgency when it comes to dealing with long-standing issues on the platform

1434
02:20:05,720 --> 02:20:08,600
Just saying just I don't know. Maybe it's crazy. Probably crazy

1435
02:20:13,400 --> 02:20:17,880
All right, well, yeah, good luck with that. Um, what else we got?

1436
02:20:17,880 --> 02:20:25,160
Let's see. Oh wait, we weren't done talking about the pixel. Yeah, the pixel event

1437
02:20:25,800 --> 02:20:35,320
All right, the pixel watch 4 gets a brighter screen Um, 3 000 nits 16 smaller bezels and has a domed display that gives about 10 percent more visible screen space neat

1438
02:20:35,880 --> 02:20:39,320
Starts at 350 bucks and claims 30 hours of battery life

1439
02:20:39,720 --> 02:20:44,360
The buds 2a cost 130 bucks and include the tensor a1 chip this time around

1440
02:20:44,680 --> 02:20:51,960
Also comes with a and c active noise cancelling and a slightly better charging case. Finally, there's the pixel flex dual

1441
02:20:53,000 --> 02:21:02,120
67 watt charger The device can charge up to two devices at a max of 60 watts each and will detect when a pixel device is plugged in

1442
02:21:02,600 --> 02:21:05,240
And prioritize that device to charge it

1443
02:21:05,800 --> 02:21:10,520
quote first and faster

1444
02:21:10,840 --> 02:21:15,640
Okay Neat but also

1445
02:21:17,160 --> 02:21:21,720
Oh my god, no So two things here number one

1446
02:21:22,360 --> 02:21:25,320
We need to stop f***ing with the usbc standard

1447
02:21:25,560 --> 02:21:31,320
It's barely a standard already And the last thing the absolute

1448
02:21:31,800 --> 02:21:37,000
Last thing on earth that I or anyone needs is more usbc devices

1449
02:21:37,640 --> 02:21:41,800
That have proprietary Handshakes and bullshit

1450
02:21:43,400 --> 02:21:50,200
Stop entire industry right now. It's time to stop. I also think like no one asked for this number two

1451
02:21:52,440 --> 02:21:58,760
Have a priority port Give me control over it. Maybe I want to charge my phone to my laptop

1452
02:21:59,160 --> 02:22:05,400
But I actually don't prefer to charge my phone right now faster. I want to charge my laptop faster

1453
02:22:05,720 --> 02:22:07,720
Did you ever think of that?

1454
02:22:10,120 --> 02:22:12,120
Am I missing something here?

1455
02:22:13,800 --> 02:22:18,200
You should just have a priority port it should be labeled and then I can pick

1456
02:22:23,800 --> 02:22:28,280
Yep Oh my god

1457
02:22:29,000 --> 02:22:33,240
Discussion question Linus you had debated switching to the samsung fold 7 soon

1458
02:22:33,480 --> 02:22:42,520
Do you think this pixel fold Is a compelling option considering it is 200 us dollars cheaper than the samsung or will you still be going with the samsung?

1459
02:22:43,800 --> 02:22:45,800
Um, I will

1460
02:22:46,840 --> 02:22:53,560
I I kind of miss my my one UI. I kind of want to go samsung first

1461
02:22:54,920 --> 02:22:59,880
And it's that's gonna huh man. See I kind of feel like I've got my order of operations wrong here because

1462
02:23:00,360 --> 02:23:08,200
I still haven't quite finished my graphino s switch I did figure out some of the challenges I was having having I'm in touch with someone from there and I I think I'm

1463
02:23:08,680 --> 02:23:11,400
Basically ready to like switch over to it. I just need to set aside like

1464
02:23:13,640 --> 02:23:18,200
It takes so long for me to switch devices, dude And like I don't want to blame you but like

1465
02:23:19,000 --> 02:23:23,160
You know you're part of the problem. Why because if I want to okay

1466
02:23:23,240 --> 02:23:28,440
For instance if I set aside a time for myself to switch all my stuff over like say for instance

1467
02:23:28,840 --> 02:23:32,040
Uh, it's at 11 p.m. I'm like

1468
02:23:33,160 --> 02:23:37,720
I don't know how to migrate like my pass keys. I literally don't even know how that stuff works anymore

1469
02:23:37,960 --> 02:23:41,320
just my work accounts just like prompted me one day and

1470
02:23:42,280 --> 02:23:46,600
Like I I literally can't sign into stuff without this phone some of them

1471
02:23:46,840 --> 02:23:54,440
I need to sit down with someone from it And figure out what the crap is going on with all of my authentication factors because I'm not going to lie to you

1472
02:23:54,920 --> 02:23:57,960
It's one of those things that's so much easier to just

1473
02:23:58,840 --> 02:24:04,920
Dismiss every time I do it versus like fix. I still have accounts that prompt me for a ube key

1474
02:24:05,240 --> 02:24:12,120
Okay, you have to own some of this. I do okay, but I'm gonna blame you for another thing

1475
02:24:12,200 --> 02:24:16,040
I'm okay with at least some amount of that, but holy crap, dude

1476
02:24:17,720 --> 02:24:20,520
My god unique username says pass keys are

1477
02:24:21,400 --> 02:24:28,040
Not what we were promised. Oh my god, right? So I get a notification on my phone. I unlock my phone

1478
02:24:28,200 --> 02:24:33,560
I have to click a thing. I get prompted for a f***ing fingerprint again

1479
02:24:34,280 --> 02:24:40,120
I wait and it's like it's like seven to eight interaction. I could have typed a password

1480
02:24:41,000 --> 02:24:47,400
Oh my god Anyway, the other one is I can't get into my badminton club

1481
02:24:49,160 --> 02:24:55,160
Without requesting a new invitation to my identity system

1482
02:24:56,600 --> 02:25:01,160
And I know we're working with the unify we're working with the ubiquity on that

1483
02:25:01,560 --> 02:25:05,800
But like I literally can't even sign into all my stuff on my own

1484
02:25:07,240 --> 02:25:10,520
I hate it So much one of those is to save

1485
02:25:11,080 --> 02:25:15,800
Incredible amounts of money. I know I know so to bother you to sign in

1486
02:25:16,600 --> 02:25:20,920
One time in an annoying way every time I switch a phone

1487
02:25:21,080 --> 02:25:26,200
Sox one annoying time every time you switch a phone which you could delegate to like vance

1488
02:25:26,520 --> 02:25:32,200
So you don't even have to do it I'm just I'm just wondering that we are saving so much money

1489
02:25:34,200 --> 02:25:39,480
I know for one small extremely easily solvable not even doesn't even have to be by you step

1490
02:25:40,360 --> 02:25:47,400
I just hate the way ubiquity handles that so that the enterprise versus the regular identity app and something something fee per user

1491
02:25:47,560 --> 02:25:52,920
Smash chance has lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of users because all of its members have their key fobs

1492
02:25:53,320 --> 02:25:59,960
And so we have to use the not enterprise one and literally the only way to sign into the not enterprise one is to get an invitation from your

1493
02:26:00,040 --> 02:26:04,840
it department you cannot initiate it yourself

1494
02:26:04,840 --> 02:26:10,280
Wait, unless you give me the ability to initiate it to myself shot. Why shot?

1495
02:26:11,080 --> 02:26:15,880
Why? Why do you think? Because you're afraid I'll be too efficient

1496
02:26:17,000 --> 02:26:19,720
At administrating it and I'll make you look bad

1497
02:26:20,680 --> 02:26:24,120
I am a little bit afraid of your level of efficiency

1498
02:26:25,880 --> 02:26:27,880
Way to say a notification comes in

1499
02:26:32,040 --> 02:26:34,280
And just solving the problem right away, you know

1500
02:26:39,720 --> 02:26:47,080
Okay, sorry, I just saw I saw a name in my notifications every time I see my grandfather's name in a notification

1501
02:26:47,240 --> 02:26:53,640
I need to check right away. Uh-huh. He's still alive. Nice. All right

1502
02:26:56,280 --> 02:27:02,680
Whoa, what? What did you do to that? I didn't I didn't do it. It must have been ran over by the

1503
02:27:03,000 --> 02:27:08,760
Must be your acid freaking skin or something. What? No. Yeah, you'd like destroy everything you touch. That is true

1504
02:27:10,120 --> 02:27:17,800
This is like unironically true Is that your headphone cord? Yeah. Yeah, okay. I'll replace that. I don't know if you can see that from here

1505
02:27:18,040 --> 02:27:22,840
Don't you worry? I don't think man. That's a Dan task. I think it's I don't want to be that guy

1506
02:27:22,840 --> 02:27:26,680
But I really don't think replacing a cord is a Dan task might just be a no one task

1507
02:27:26,920 --> 02:27:32,120
Oh, I mean like I've got one I've got one on the shelf. They can just like sure these ones are replaceable

1508
02:27:32,360 --> 02:27:34,360
But I think that we should just

1509
02:27:35,880 --> 02:27:43,800
Let's just throw out the headphones. We're not gonna throw out the headphones But we we need better headphones. Don't we? I mean, I'm gesturing vaguely at the man sitting next to me

1510
02:27:44,200 --> 02:27:49,240
Need is such a strong word. That could be a video maybe like we wear them for four hours a week

1511
02:27:50,120 --> 02:27:56,440
And you complain the entire time. I do not that that is uh, I complain the entire okay sure

1512
02:27:56,520 --> 02:28:04,600
I complain a lot on wancho not about these 208 hours a year you just complain about headphones. That's what your life is now be gone

1513
02:28:05,560 --> 02:28:09,400
Be banished Fly

1514
02:28:09,400 --> 02:28:14,520
Fly fool Wait, have we still not done the ai sharpening topic?

1515
02:28:15,320 --> 02:28:17,320
No, holy bananas. Oh

1516
02:28:19,000 --> 02:28:23,960
YouTuber ret shul posted a video last thursday investigating

1517
02:28:24,040 --> 02:28:31,640
What appeared to him to be ai enhancements being applied to youtube shorts without the creator's knowledge or consent

1518
02:28:31,960 --> 02:28:40,440
After fellow music youtuber rick beto contacted shul with example posts from his instagram and youtube accounts

1519
02:28:40,920 --> 02:28:43,880
and I got to say the difference is

1520
02:28:44,680 --> 02:28:50,440
It's pretty interesting. Uh, we're not going to play his whole video because that's not how we do our react content

1521
02:28:50,520 --> 02:28:55,240
That is a lens. That is a lens and a half that was chosen here. Don't worry about it. But look at this

1522
02:28:55,880 --> 02:29:01,320
You see that shift You see as he's shifting between youtube shorts and instagram

1523
02:29:01,880 --> 02:29:07,640
How different the same piece of content looks and you can you can tell from the interface here

1524
02:29:08,040 --> 02:29:13,320
Yeah Okay, so this sparked a whole lot of conversation

1525
02:29:13,880 --> 02:29:18,280
Um, and shul's video included some experiments of his own seeing the same effect was

1526
02:29:18,840 --> 02:29:21,720
Seeing the same effect on his own videos that was impacting beto's videos

1527
02:29:22,280 --> 02:29:27,320
He went on to find a reddit thread discussing the same effect showing up on some of hank greens shorts

1528
02:29:28,520 --> 02:29:35,240
Then the plot thickens after we reported on the story on monday's TechLinked youtube responded

1529
02:29:35,880 --> 02:29:43,880
With an explanation Okay, technically youtube responded to a guy who retweeted a reposted clip originally tweeted out by some other guy who

1530
02:29:43,960 --> 02:29:45,960
Clipped it from monday's tech link video, but you know what?

1531
02:29:47,480 --> 02:29:53,640
We're counting it. What accounts youtube liaison renee richie said that this is an experiment that does not

1532
02:29:54,120 --> 02:29:57,720
involve generative ai or upscaling

1533
02:29:58,200 --> 02:30:01,000
What it is intended to do is unbler

1534
02:30:01,640 --> 02:30:04,520
denoise and improve clarity using

1535
02:30:05,320 --> 02:30:07,320
traditional machine learning techniques

1536
02:30:11,400 --> 02:30:19,400
What Where's the line richie also said the experiment was only running on a limited number of shorts

1537
02:30:19,800 --> 02:30:22,920
But as far as we could tell it's pretty widespread

1538
02:30:23,640 --> 02:30:30,440
Responses on twitter were almost universally opposed to using any sort of ai which that is

1539
02:30:30,920 --> 02:30:36,200
Well, generally how people have considered it. Yes. Okay. It was hauled ai

1540
02:30:37,000 --> 02:30:40,760
Until we got new stuff that we called ai and this will happen again

1541
02:30:41,160 --> 02:30:50,280
We will stop calling Predictive llms ai because they're not once another layer comes out and then that's just gonna keep going. Yes

1542
02:30:51,080 --> 02:30:58,760
um And I I I remember like committing to not call what we have ai and call it machine learning forever

1543
02:30:59,000 --> 02:31:04,680
But what I realized is that I couldn't continue doing that forever because it's confusing because because people get confused

1544
02:31:04,760 --> 02:31:12,440
Yeah, who don't understand the distinction Everything we have now is machine learning all of it. None of it is ai

1545
02:31:13,080 --> 02:31:20,760
We could call it generative machine learning or whatever, but it is certainly not an intelligence of any sort and is

1546
02:31:21,560 --> 02:31:26,680
That falls far short of what we think in science in science fiction terms

1547
02:31:27,160 --> 02:31:32,360
Of yeah, what ai is supposed to mean. Yeah the like 80s idea of ai

1548
02:31:32,760 --> 02:31:35,400
Yes, we don't have it. Not a thing. We're not close. Yeah

1549
02:31:36,440 --> 02:31:43,560
Others pointed out the trend of companies avoiding the term generative ai in favor of the less threatening sounding traditional machine learning

1550
02:31:43,640 --> 02:31:48,040
Yeah, still others pointed out that when every video looks like it's been made with ai

1551
02:31:48,280 --> 02:31:51,640
It's going to be a lot harder to identify the ones that actually are

1552
02:31:52,040 --> 02:31:54,600
Made with ai and it says Dan has a clip

1553
02:31:55,080 --> 02:32:01,480
See it for yourself side by side comparison of the same clips downloaded from youtube and insta. All right hit it

1554
02:32:07,000 --> 02:32:13,160
Which one looks more sharp, I mean the one on the left looks way sharper. Yeah. Yeah, definitely left by a lot

1555
02:32:14,360 --> 02:32:16,360
I like too much

1556
02:32:18,760 --> 02:32:20,760
Makes me think our cameras are really blurry

1557
02:32:23,720 --> 02:32:27,320
Oh, this is an interesting one too because you can see it in the artifacts. Yeah

1558
02:32:27,960 --> 02:32:32,280
You could really see it when I spun in the chair and look at the scrolling big artifacts

1559
02:32:33,640 --> 02:32:35,640
Like that. It's maybe your video works

1560
02:32:40,680 --> 02:32:44,280
This is one of those things where better is not always better

1561
02:32:44,360 --> 02:32:50,120
Well, it's it's I think it's not better Well, it's it it is more sharp

1562
02:32:50,680 --> 02:32:56,520
And sharpness is generally considered to be a brutal though. Sure, but I just mean like uh, like

1563
02:33:00,440 --> 02:33:08,600
You could create a lot of metrics And you could use those metrics that you created to measure the one on the left as being better. Yeah

1564
02:33:09,560 --> 02:33:15,080
But better Is not always better. We had this the right side looks much more natural

1565
02:33:16,200 --> 02:33:24,760
Yeah Yeah, I didn't feel that mine looked as bad as some of the examples I saw though

1566
02:33:26,600 --> 02:33:32,920
Like I I think those examples are particularly cherry-picked and this was just a random one. No, I don't I don't think that either

1567
02:33:33,000 --> 02:33:36,600
I just think that maybe

1568
02:33:36,600 --> 02:33:40,760
Whether it's our camera we use or whether it's that that particular video

1569
02:33:40,760 --> 02:33:44,600
Like there were certainly areas where it looked really bad, but for the most part

1570
02:33:44,760 --> 02:33:49,560
I I I didn't I felt it looked like over-processed, but I didn't feel it looked like a I

1571
02:33:50,520 --> 02:33:56,600
Scrappy dp and full playing chat said peter mckinnon made a video recently on not sharpening your content because youtube is applying

1572
02:33:56,600 --> 02:34:00,920
It's so hard after the upload that actually makes a ton of sense

1573
02:34:01,000 --> 02:34:07,000
Interesting idea Our discussion question here is is it okay to take a short creator's control away?

1574
02:34:07,800 --> 02:34:13,880
In terms of what their content looks like and what's to stop youtube from going on and applying these enhancements to

1575
02:34:14,040 --> 02:34:17,640
Everything to long-form videos tv shows films delivered by the platform

1576
02:34:17,960 --> 02:34:21,880
Where's the line and I would say the line is in the rear view mirror

1577
02:34:22,520 --> 02:34:31,160
Way back there The second youtube does any processing to your video and they do it and they do it on every

1578
02:34:32,040 --> 02:34:40,440
Single video that is served by the platform. They are impacting the look and that's not a battle that was never a war

1579
02:34:41,160 --> 02:34:46,760
That's how it's going to go. In fact instagram is also applying processing

1580
02:34:47,640 --> 02:34:52,600
And what we're watching on the instagram side is their interpretation

1581
02:34:53,480 --> 02:34:57,320
Mostly probably optimized to save on to save on bandwidth

1582
02:34:57,880 --> 02:35:00,680
Of what your original file was

1583
02:35:01,400 --> 02:35:07,800
Even your original file you upload is processed and is sort of approximated

1584
02:35:08,120 --> 02:35:13,080
Compared to what your sensor saw And even that is an approximation

1585
02:35:13,880 --> 02:35:17,000
However, I think that we can all agree that

1586
02:35:18,040 --> 02:35:25,240
Making things look more Over-processed and ai generated is not good and this seems to be

1587
02:35:27,560 --> 02:35:31,720
Over the line That seemed yeah, I like that

1588
02:35:32,360 --> 02:35:34,360
Okay, neat good one

1589
02:35:35,800 --> 02:35:39,560
What do we got next I don't know why don't you pick something you want to pick something?

1590
02:35:40,200 --> 02:35:45,880
Yeah, that's it's pretty interesting cool. Seagate tries an exciting new kind of raid earlier this year

1591
02:35:45,960 --> 02:35:52,600
He's doing good. All right earlier this year seagate security teams working alongside

1592
02:35:53,240 --> 02:36:00,120
Malaysian authorities conducted a raid on a counterfeit hard drive operation. These are man. I would love to see one of these

1593
02:36:00,200 --> 02:36:05,320
Right, that would be so interesting. How was that? How was it even possible? That would be fascinating

1594
02:36:05,400 --> 02:36:08,440
I always find remember the genuine Intel CPU thing

1595
02:36:09,080 --> 02:36:12,200
like what

1596
02:36:12,200 --> 02:36:18,520
I would love to see the place. Sorry Intel, but I would love to see the place that makes non genuine Intel CPU's

1597
02:36:19,320 --> 02:36:21,320
You mean AMD. Anyway carry on

1598
02:36:22,360 --> 02:36:29,960
Oh Those are some spicy how the turntables have turned school war words. Yeah

1599
02:36:30,520 --> 02:36:38,520
um anyways the the the raid uncovered nearly 700 seagate drives in various models with capacities up to 18

1600
02:36:38,680 --> 02:36:46,120
terabytes Along with drives from other manufacturers the drives are believed to have come from china where they were used to sore

1601
02:36:46,680 --> 02:36:49,400
Chia, which is I think a storage currency. Yeah

1602
02:36:50,280 --> 02:36:58,280
And sold off after that cryptocurrency became you know unprofitable used drives had their smart values reset oof

1603
02:36:59,080 --> 02:37:02,440
Data wiped and were cleaned relabeled and repackaged

1604
02:37:02,920 --> 02:37:10,440
So okay, I see sometimes is a more valuable model than they started out as and were then sold at discounted rates on local

1605
02:37:10,520 --> 02:37:15,320
e-commerce platform This was a whole thing and seagate has probably invested

1606
02:37:15,960 --> 02:37:19,720
significant resources chasing this bull it down instead of like

1607
02:37:20,840 --> 02:37:26,840
Working on things that are valuable to their business. I actually really feel for them in this situation. Yeah, that's brutal like not on

1608
02:37:27,160 --> 02:37:33,320
There and I mean maybe they could do more to prevent their smart values from being overwritten, but like

1609
02:37:35,080 --> 02:37:42,840
I don't know should they have seen this coming. I don't know Maybe this has happened before that i'm not aware of and they like should have seen this coming and should have done better, but

1610
02:37:44,360 --> 02:37:52,040
I don't know you you You build a bigger lock and someone's gonna build a bigger bolt cutter, right like I I also don't quite

1611
02:37:53,000 --> 02:37:59,720
They got they got really kind of f***ed on over this and that sucks. It's not it's just a bigger delay

1612
02:38:00,360 --> 02:38:03,000
Ideally, there's there's nothing better than that

1613
02:38:04,680 --> 02:38:10,360
To try to reduce the impact of these scams seagate partners are now being required to purchase and resell drives

1614
02:38:10,840 --> 02:38:19,160
exclusively from authorized distributors And this is why we can't have nice things because I would love for you to be able to you know

1615
02:38:19,800 --> 02:38:21,800
buy and sell and and

1616
02:38:23,000 --> 02:38:25,240
Move older parts around as needed

1617
02:38:30,040 --> 02:38:37,960
But now all of a sudden we need this like central administration of everything and tracking of everything and it and it legitimately adds cost

1618
02:38:38,280 --> 02:38:41,960
It's not that they're just gonna like you know gouge or whatever because there's no competition

1619
02:38:41,960 --> 02:38:45,960
But it legitimately adds overhead and cost and that just blows for everyone

1620
02:38:46,760 --> 02:38:53,400
Kind of wrecks the uh, the use market people are asking if server part deals is an authorized reseller. I don't know

1621
02:38:55,160 --> 02:39:01,960
Uh, someone want to look that up and figure it out Yeah, tim also points out it doesn't matter if they make their smart values harder to overwrite because

1622
02:39:02,360 --> 02:39:06,440
They can also just overwrite the smart values of cheap crap drives and call them seagate

1623
02:39:07,000 --> 02:39:10,360
I knew server part deals was legit. I didn't know if they were an authorized reseller

1624
02:39:10,360 --> 02:39:15,400
There aren't that many cheap crap hard drives out there like there's only a handful of hard drive manufacturers even left

1625
02:39:15,480 --> 02:39:20,200
So i'm not a hundred percent sure on that one, but anyway, apparently they are an authorized retailer nice

1626
02:39:21,000 --> 02:39:25,400
um Very cool. I'm not surprised. They're they're very legit, but

1627
02:39:28,200 --> 02:39:33,480
Yeah, but yeah, so seagate has implemented a global trade screening process to try to identify suspicious suppliers

1628
02:39:33,800 --> 02:39:40,680
And see it reminds customers or sort of consumers to exercise caution when buying drives from non major retailers or third-party sellers

1629
02:39:41,000 --> 02:39:45,400
Toward the blue in Floatplane chat also says your viewers should know that seagate released a tool

1630
02:39:45,400 --> 02:39:48,120
Where you can check values that are not able to be rewritten

1631
02:39:48,600 --> 02:39:54,600
So that's pretty cool. At least they're that is very cool. At least they're doing things about this even though

1632
02:39:55,240 --> 02:39:58,520
None of this should have happened and people should just not be butt heads. Um

1633
02:39:59,240 --> 02:40:04,760
Hilbert gilbertson Said that it's in c-tools, which makes sense very cool

1634
02:40:04,760 --> 02:40:12,200
The rog xbox ally has gotten a release date alongside a new game verification program before we go into that really quick

1635
02:40:12,200 --> 02:40:16,680
I just want to say it's kind of cool that that was negative news, but had an interesting and cool story

1636
02:40:17,000 --> 02:40:20,280
Yeah, I thought you'd like that one. I like that. Yeah, that is very cool

1637
02:40:20,360 --> 02:40:26,520
I'd love to see one of these places that would be so wicked anyone from seagate watching like i'll i'll get on a plane

1638
02:40:27,160 --> 02:40:31,080
Let's go. Let's go check it out because like i feel it's like it

1639
02:40:31,720 --> 02:40:38,680
It feels like it'd be if like it's like the kind of thing where if like rick sanchez and like millhouse van houten

1640
02:40:40,280 --> 02:40:45,960
Like made a meth lab, you know like it's like tech meth lab like i'm that's what i'm kind of imagining

1641
02:40:46,040 --> 02:40:53,000
You know, I mean it would be it would honestly be a really good dexter dexter's in there somewhere and like uh like jason fox

1642
02:40:53,560 --> 02:41:00,520
you know like just I think it would be really good exposure for the

1643
02:41:01,800 --> 02:41:05,240
The communication they're trying to get across of like making sure you're getting legitimate drives

1644
02:41:05,320 --> 02:41:10,120
Yeah, making sure that you can check your drives using c-tools if you were going to buy off of the use market or something

1645
02:41:10,360 --> 02:41:19,160
You could check the drive before you actually do the exchange Um and promoting their whole authorized reseller thing. I think it makes a ton of sense and it would be wicked for content

1646
02:41:19,880 --> 02:41:27,640
I think seagate should do it with you. I think that would be fantastic Yeah, if anyone knows anyone who's at seagate like hit them up. That'll be wicked. Let's do it. That would be freaking awesome

1647
02:41:27,960 --> 02:41:34,920
Very cool. All right microsoft announced at gamescom that the new rog xbox ally handheld will be arriving on store shelves on october

1648
02:41:35,480 --> 02:41:43,640
16th and with it the new handheld compatibility program an initiative similar to the steam dex compatibility program designed to make more

1649
02:41:43,720 --> 02:41:46,680
Games ready to play on your supported xbox handheld

1650
02:41:47,240 --> 02:41:53,880
Like valves initiative there will be three tiers of rankings incompatible mostly compatible and handheld optimized

1651
02:41:54,360 --> 02:42:03,240
xbox also announced the gaming co-pilot beta via game bar a personalized ai gaming companion that helps you get to your favorite games faster

1652
02:42:03,960 --> 02:42:08,360
Improve your skills and it offers context to wear support based on what you're playing

1653
02:42:08,360 --> 02:42:10,360
Okay

1654
02:42:15,720 --> 02:42:21,160
After being spotted via benchmark leak steam machines are back on the menu boys

1655
02:42:21,320 --> 02:42:28,120
Let's go after months of rumors the existence of a valves fremont pc box slash console has been leaked

1656
02:42:28,280 --> 02:42:32,520
Through benchmarks on geekbench as well as some of the specs listed down below

1657
02:42:33,320 --> 02:42:38,520
The processor codenamed hawk point 2 is likely a refresh of phoenix 2

1658
02:42:38,920 --> 02:42:42,200
The younger and smaller cousin of the z1 extreme

1659
02:42:42,760 --> 02:42:48,520
valves first attempt to add a console like steam machine experience for at least nearly a decade ago to um

1660
02:42:49,080 --> 02:42:51,720
Whatever the opposite of fanfare is but

1661
02:42:52,680 --> 02:42:58,360
I I feel very strongly. I think we're in a different realm that this is a different time

1662
02:42:58,840 --> 02:43:02,440
This is a different valve a more focused valve and

1663
02:43:02,920 --> 02:43:12,360
It's a different Linux in no small part Thanks to the efforts that valve has made to push forward gaming on Linux very dramatically different Linux here

1664
02:43:12,360 --> 02:43:20,200
We have specs uh before you actually do that. Okay, uh, I'm gonna use this as a shameless plug for

1665
02:43:21,080 --> 02:43:27,080
Uh, the is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop part 1 and 2 articles on the lab site. Heck. Yeah

1666
02:43:27,720 --> 02:43:35,480
So, yeah, very different Linux. Sorry. Do you go ahead? Heck. Yeah. Uh, all right back here. So, okay, we get six cores

1667
02:43:40,440 --> 02:43:44,120
Nice little level three cache And

1668
02:43:44,120 --> 02:43:47,640
That's about all we know Oh, there you go

1669
02:43:47,640 --> 02:43:52,520
There's a geekbench score Good job everyone

1670
02:43:52,520 --> 02:43:56,520
I'm stoked I I I

1671
02:43:56,520 --> 02:43:59,400
Have had a little machine

1672
02:44:00,200 --> 02:44:03,960
sitting in my family room just like

1673
02:44:03,960 --> 02:44:11,080
Ready for steam os Yeah, it actually what does it have running on it now? It has an NVIDIA GPU and it uses an mxm module

1674
02:44:11,080 --> 02:44:15,160
So it's like non-trivial to put an AMD GPU in it. Whatever it doesn't matter. Just relax

1675
02:44:15,720 --> 02:44:19,720
Um, but I haven't been doing much with it. I think it still has Windows on it because um,

1676
02:44:20,440 --> 02:44:26,600
even the like the steam os alike I prefer AMD GPU's from my understanding

1677
02:44:27,160 --> 02:44:32,760
So it's been sitting there kind of waiting for steam os to be vendor agnostic and just like ready for any pc

1678
02:44:33,480 --> 02:44:36,280
Starting to you know hopes fading a little bit

1679
02:44:36,840 --> 02:44:43,160
But I think I could be convinced to just Huck it out of there and throw a throw a steam box in there. I'm

1680
02:44:43,880 --> 02:44:46,920
I'm I'm jazzed. I just I love the steam os experience

1681
02:44:47,640 --> 02:44:50,680
Especially for a not my only computer

1682
02:44:51,400 --> 02:44:54,840
spot Like in my family room where it's just like, yeah, I want to play

1683
02:44:55,080 --> 02:44:58,520
Um, okay cf stars had a had a free dlc

1684
02:44:59,000 --> 02:45:07,320
Yeah, I want to play the cf stars dlc That is like the perfect device and the perfect place to do that steam os is just zero bs

1685
02:45:07,400 --> 02:45:10,680
It boots straight into my stuff although microsoft is coming

1686
02:45:11,240 --> 02:45:17,640
They're coming with the competition kind of I mean have you seen it? No, I've been hands-on for enough. It's um

1687
02:45:18,600 --> 02:45:25,720
The efficiency gains that they are saying they've achieved are it's not steam os level efficient at least not now

1688
02:45:26,760 --> 02:45:33,880
But they're they're making gains Like they literally don't even render the desktop in the background when they're running in gaming mode on this new handheld

1689
02:45:34,200 --> 02:45:42,680
so Look, I don't have a ton of confidence either, but the xbox team got embedded with Windows like

1690
02:45:42,920 --> 02:45:48,120
When in and you can't deny that on xbox the xbox is an efficient machine

1691
02:45:49,880 --> 02:45:54,200
He has he has no hope look at him. Look at the hopelessness in his eyes. I

1692
02:45:55,240 --> 02:45:57,240
at this

1693
02:46:01,160 --> 02:46:07,800
But the hopelessness in your eyes. No, I'm I almost don't want them to do well. Oh microsoft. Yeah

1694
02:46:08,760 --> 02:46:14,680
I mean the ship has been sailed for so long that you can't see it on the horizon anymore

1695
02:46:16,040 --> 02:46:19,560
I want Linux to do well That's fair

1696
02:46:19,560 --> 02:46:24,920
They that's only fair. It's valid. It's fair and valid kill the Windows gaming and pissed on its grave

1697
02:46:26,200 --> 02:46:31,400
And then now like want it back. Yeah, like no, dude. We're all trying to move on

1698
02:46:32,520 --> 02:46:37,720
Sorry, but like no, they're they're they're the abusive xbox. It's done. They want you back though

1699
02:46:38,200 --> 02:46:41,560
Get out of here You better not you better not walk away

1700
02:46:42,600 --> 02:46:44,920
I did all my laptop. I've been gone for a long time

1701
02:46:45,880 --> 02:46:50,280
And it's been fine because they wasted all of the opportunities

1702
02:46:51,800 --> 02:46:57,800
Like I just I don't know it's dude. I picked up my laptop. So this is one of the qualcomm machines

1703
02:46:57,880 --> 02:47:00,360
I liquid metal spilled in my flow. Yeah

1704
02:47:01,560 --> 02:47:07,080
We'll make probably be a video. I'll try and fix it. Anyway The point is I switched back to my my snapdragon machine

1705
02:47:07,560 --> 02:47:12,840
And I grabbed it out of my bag when I was on set earlier working on the buying chromebooks for our kids

1706
02:47:13,080 --> 02:47:17,080
video that I did with david today And it was hot

1707
02:47:17,240 --> 02:47:22,680
It was closed And it was on. Yep. How is that still not fixed? Yep

1708
02:47:24,440 --> 02:47:27,320
That's insane and like the the fact that there's ads

1709
02:47:27,960 --> 02:47:33,080
In my freaking operating system is crazy. I mean there's ads in your mobile operating system. Yeah, that's true

1710
02:47:33,080 --> 02:47:38,280
And that's nuts and that makes me want to move we talked about the only thing keeping me on official Android right now

1711
02:47:38,680 --> 02:47:44,440
Is the the call screening? I think you might like graphing us. Yeah. Oh, I am rather certain

1712
02:47:44,440 --> 02:47:50,360
I would I want to switch over it is only call screen Somebody flagged a call screening option for me that I'll try

1713
02:47:50,760 --> 02:47:53,720
Okay during my switch if you try it and it works. I will switch

1714
02:47:54,200 --> 02:48:01,400
Yeah, a hundred percent. I'm gone Like I'm just I'm so tired of this. I want to own my own stuff and like I'm not even trying to like

1715
02:48:03,080 --> 02:48:09,960
I'm not even trying to be like traditional Linux nerd about it. I just get out of my things. Yeah

1716
02:48:10,680 --> 02:48:15,240
Get out of my way. Yes. Just get out of my way. I bought Windows

1717
02:48:16,840 --> 02:48:23,000
Off like I just yeah, what are you doing? I am so over it to get the ads out

1718
02:48:23,480 --> 02:48:28,200
Stop screwing with search like just Go away

1719
02:48:28,200 --> 02:48:31,640
Let me use my computer Windows itself stopped being like cool

1720
02:48:32,600 --> 02:48:38,360
Said quite a while ago. Yeah And they stopped it felt like they really stopped making things for me

1721
02:48:39,160 --> 02:48:43,480
Yeah, and they started just making things like annoying and inserting ads and doing all this garbage

1722
02:48:43,720 --> 02:48:49,800
So like, okay, you lost me after Windows 7 Windows 7 was amazing when's the last time microsoft like

1723
02:48:51,400 --> 02:48:59,480
Oh, no, they've done cool stuff with directx. Okay, never mind I feel like there used to be a lot more fanfare around like directx and gaming on Windows

1724
02:48:59,800 --> 02:49:01,800
And I mean this whole I mean

1725
02:49:03,320 --> 02:49:10,120
The news stripped down, you know Windows Gaming it just it feels like it's too late to me. That's fair. That's if they were working on this

1726
02:49:10,360 --> 02:49:13,080
remember member game mode when it was just like

1727
02:49:13,880 --> 02:49:18,040
Well, I don't even remember what was so bad about it, but I remember testing in the in the bench down just being like

1728
02:49:18,200 --> 02:49:24,520
What is this? Yeah Game store Windows live was like the worst thing ever. Yeah, it was pretty bad

1729
02:49:25,480 --> 02:49:28,680
Like microsoft gaming networking, I'm gonna say now

1730
02:49:29,160 --> 02:49:35,720
This is not a now, but when like forzer has been five came out was super annoying. It's super annoying to just like play halo randomly now

1731
02:49:36,520 --> 02:49:48,120
Like it's just uh Let fewer obstacles stop being incredibly. It's you know, the world is just like whoop when running Linux has been actually less annoying

1732
02:49:48,760 --> 02:49:52,680
oooof But actually the sickest of burns

1733
02:49:52,760 --> 02:49:56,920
Sickest of burns like it has been easier and less in my way

1734
02:49:57,560 --> 02:50:02,120
I have had to do things to it to make it okay less than Windows

1735
02:50:03,640 --> 02:50:06,120
Ouch like at this point just

1736
02:50:07,880 --> 02:50:15,800
I yeah, you know what device is likely to work really well and never get in your way or have anything like you know

1737
02:50:17,960 --> 02:50:21,320
Unbecoming about it what the trump phone

1738
02:50:23,640 --> 02:50:25,640
Good transition check this out

1739
02:50:27,480 --> 02:50:34,360
See this Yep, so this render of the trump phone

1740
02:50:35,640 --> 02:50:40,120
Is just an image that they ripped off

1741
02:50:41,240 --> 02:50:44,360
This accessory manufacturers website

1742
02:50:45,720 --> 02:50:49,800
Is that wild or what? Yeah, um

1743
02:50:50,520 --> 02:50:58,760
This is their upcoming t1 and it appears to be a samsung galaxy s25 ultra in spigans

1744
02:50:58,760 --> 02:51:07,720
And i'm so sorry if i'm saying this wrong S25 ultra thin fit case you can even see their logo under the photoshopped on american flag

1745
02:51:08,760 --> 02:51:17,080
What a what a lazy job You need to rip people off better our notes. Unfortunately say spagan

1746
02:51:17,640 --> 02:51:21,560
Looks photoshopped you can tell by the way it is

1747
02:51:22,280 --> 02:51:28,920
We all know that it's it looks photoshopped you can tell by the pixels the crazy part is it would have been so easy

1748
02:51:29,480 --> 02:51:37,960
To do this not terribly But that's the weirdest part for me. I know it would have taken seconds more. I know like

1749
02:51:41,000 --> 02:51:45,800
I I do kind of wonder when stuff like this happens and you know this might be

1750
02:51:47,160 --> 02:51:51,080
For critical because earlier in the show I talked about how like, you know, we're humans

1751
02:51:51,080 --> 02:51:55,320
We make mistakes sometimes But like when a mistake like that happens

1752
02:51:55,400 --> 02:51:59,480
I wonder like is this someone inside just being like, you know, I need a job

1753
02:52:00,200 --> 02:52:07,400
So i'm gonna do my job But also i'm gonna leave some like easter eggs in there that people will find so that people know this is stupid

1754
02:52:07,880 --> 02:52:11,240
I I I kind of wonder sometimes because that's a wild mistake

1755
02:52:12,280 --> 02:52:15,160
Yeah ripped off this case and just left the logo on it

1756
02:52:15,960 --> 02:52:25,640
I don't know The site um still has the old version of the quote-unquote the t1 phone that will never exist and isn't real. Yeah

1757
02:52:29,320 --> 02:52:31,640
How is this not such a huge tell for people?

1758
02:52:34,600 --> 02:52:39,560
Anyways, that's a longer conversation Moving on

1759
02:52:40,440 --> 02:52:43,000
NVIDIA throws a couple of bones to gamers

1760
02:52:43,640 --> 02:52:48,840
GeForce now NVIDIA's cloud gaming service can now run on rtx 5080 equipped servers

1761
02:52:49,800 --> 02:52:57,960
DLSS4 enables up to 120 FPS at 5k on pc and mac and had up to 90 FPS on the steam deck GeForce now app

1762
02:52:58,520 --> 02:53:04,520
Install to play lets you also install games on your cloud pc if the dev has enabled to steam cloud

1763
02:53:04,920 --> 02:53:08,120
streaming There is a bit of a catch you have to

1764
02:53:08,360 --> 02:53:13,960
Install your game every time and there is a finite amount of storage on your instance

1765
02:53:14,280 --> 02:53:19,960
You do have to pay extra to get more storage from my understanding So it's a little inconvenient to install your own games

1766
02:53:19,960 --> 02:53:24,680
But hey at least it's there bringing them a little bit closer to a more shadow-like experience

1767
02:53:25,320 --> 02:53:32,200
The NVIDIA app Can now automatically enable your preferred dLSS across all games and adds control for a few more settings

1768
02:53:32,520 --> 02:53:39,000
Like NVIDIA surround bringing it ever so slightly closer to being a viable replacement for the NVIDIA control panel

1769
02:53:39,560 --> 02:53:43,960
NVIDIA has also teamed up with discord bringing instant play experiences with GeForce now

1770
02:53:44,360 --> 02:53:50,440
Inside discord no install required just click a link from a friend and instantly load into a game to try it out

1771
02:53:51,320 --> 02:53:55,160
That's right. You can play any game you want as long as that game is fortnite

1772
02:53:56,040 --> 02:53:59,800
And you can only play for a 30 minute free trial. That is still nuts

1773
02:54:00,120 --> 02:54:05,320
That is that sounds like future. I haven't heard future in a while. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool

1774
02:54:06,920 --> 02:54:12,920
I mean Am I are we overestimating this? Is it literally just a link that opens a browser and you play the game in the bank?

1775
02:54:12,920 --> 02:54:18,200
It's still a cool thing. It's still cool. Game streaming is one of those things that I'm I I think is super cool

1776
02:54:18,200 --> 02:54:24,680
I I remember taking so much flak for that video. I did like years and years ago comparing latency of

1777
02:54:25,640 --> 02:54:29,480
local streaming over the internet streaming and then like

1778
02:54:29,880 --> 02:54:35,720
Rendering locally and saying anything other than that. This is horrible and we should all hate it and resist it

1779
02:54:36,280 --> 02:54:43,080
And people were like super mad at me about it. It's like here. We are it's pretty freaking cool and the latency once you're running at 120 FPS is

1780
02:54:44,120 --> 02:54:53,000
Not bad. I'm kind of approaching magic at that point. I mean, we know what goes on, but it's like I definitely would rather render locally, but like

1781
02:54:53,320 --> 02:54:59,160
If I didn't want to spend I mean, I was at Best Buy today for that chromebook video and it was

1782
02:55:00,040 --> 02:55:05,160
1700 canadian dollars for a 5080 I could buy a lot of f***ing g-force now

1783
02:55:05,880 --> 02:55:08,440
for 1700 canadian dollars

1784
02:55:10,920 --> 02:55:12,920
It's compelling

1785
02:55:14,520 --> 02:55:16,520
And that's it for topics it's time for after dark

1786
02:55:18,040 --> 02:55:22,280
Because I don't know where What did you find after dark is that exciting?

1787
02:55:23,000 --> 02:55:25,000
Yeah

1788
02:55:27,480 --> 02:55:30,040
I like the after dark part of the show always have

1789
02:55:32,440 --> 02:55:36,280
Yeah, you do when we get to hear from our lovely subscribers

1790
02:55:38,360 --> 02:55:40,760
Like jordan, thank you for the sexy merch pookies

1791
02:55:43,000 --> 02:55:45,000
Thanks jordan

1792
02:55:47,960 --> 02:55:52,920
My god, I know you don't get to hide you don't get to hide your camera if you're gonna do that

1793
02:55:53,000 --> 02:55:55,720
I've got a message here from fred. Oh, no

1794
02:55:56,200 --> 02:55:58,200
Happy birthday late. You're oldie

1795
02:55:59,720 --> 02:56:07,320
You're right. What ow what come on get rekt. What the heck fred and get rekt anonymous says nice shafts

1796
02:56:08,360 --> 02:56:13,400
This is what you curated today. Forget it. You're going away again. It's somebody curated. These are not mine

1797
02:56:14,040 --> 02:56:19,880
luke I didn't do it. Okay. Maybe they were accidents one of them was on purpose

1798
02:56:20,200 --> 02:56:23,400
The nice shafts absolutely, but would have been an accident. Yeah

1799
02:56:24,920 --> 02:56:28,360
I would have I would have responded in kind to our

1800
02:56:29,000 --> 02:56:33,000
lovely store participants. I feel like we need to have like track on who did it

1801
02:56:33,000 --> 02:56:40,360
I I I would actually be kind of sick. I wonder if there was a sneaky a sneaky developer in the uh in the dashboard

1802
02:56:40,520 --> 02:56:44,680
That thought it would be funny. Uh, yeah, I mean if I notice something like that, I'll pull them

1803
02:56:45,000 --> 02:56:49,720
I'll pull that I'll pull back the shaft If that happens

1804
02:56:49,880 --> 02:56:52,360
Okay, let's do it. I think it's funny

1805
02:56:53,800 --> 02:57:01,400
Let me do my real job now Linus luke and Dan what do you see as some of the big challenges ldd and Floatplane in the next two years?

1806
02:57:01,640 --> 02:57:03,640
What are some things you're excited about?

1807
02:57:05,640 --> 02:57:10,440
TV apps Okay

1808
02:57:11,480 --> 02:57:19,480
Challenges for LTT I think I think I think we face the same sort of macro challenges that the entire

1809
02:57:19,480 --> 02:57:21,960
rest of the tech media industry does

1810
02:57:22,520 --> 02:57:27,960
I think that a slowing pace of consumer hardware development is

1811
02:57:28,840 --> 02:57:31,720
Uh, very challenging and that's not to say that

1812
02:57:32,520 --> 02:57:40,360
You know the the scientists and engineers that work at these companies are not doing really incredible work and um

1813
02:57:41,000 --> 02:57:46,680
You know creating innovative new Technologies, I think it's just to say that for in a lot of categories

1814
02:57:47,240 --> 02:57:54,440
We've sort of reached a plateau where most people mostly don't care or can't tell the difference. Um

1815
02:57:55,480 --> 02:57:59,160
Like tv is I think a great example of this we

1816
02:58:00,600 --> 02:58:06,520
Like I was shopping for tv's recently If you've been if you've been watching the latest uh scrapyard war series

1817
02:58:06,920 --> 02:58:11,080
You'll know that I was at like uh like an open box tv retailer

1818
02:58:11,560 --> 02:58:17,400
And as much as I love a nice tv and I have really nice tv's in my home

1819
02:58:19,000 --> 02:58:22,520
I was comparing like a very a very basic

1820
02:58:23,240 --> 02:58:26,920
You know 70 like you can get a gigantic 75 inch tv

1821
02:58:27,000 --> 02:58:33,320
I found a deal and this is not a major spoiler because it's just a thing that I saw in the store

1822
02:58:33,800 --> 02:58:36,840
I I found a 75 inch tv for

1823
02:58:36,920 --> 02:58:40,600
550 canadian dollars and it came with a free soundbar

1824
02:58:42,440 --> 02:58:46,200
So for context for my american friends out there

1825
02:58:46,680 --> 02:58:55,000
That's about 380 us or like 370 us or something like that and comes with a free soundbar

1826
02:58:55,080 --> 02:58:58,920
That was like a hundred plus dollar value canadian or something like that. So we're talking like

1827
02:58:59,640 --> 02:59:04,760
A few hundred dollars for a 75 inch tv

1828
02:59:05,320 --> 02:59:08,760
And so I'm looking at that and I'm just kind of going well

1829
02:59:10,120 --> 02:59:16,680
My goodness, um How much more how much better does something have to look

1830
02:59:17,400 --> 02:59:20,280
For me to spend three thousand dollars on it now

1831
02:59:21,320 --> 02:59:25,880
A freaking lot So we've we've reached this end

1832
02:59:26,120 --> 02:59:29,960
And it looks not bad Like it didn't have great HDR

1833
02:59:30,040 --> 02:59:34,520
But a lot of people either don't understand or can't see the difference

1834
02:59:35,480 --> 02:59:41,960
Which is like valid you can It's like when a car person comes up to you and they're like man, what do you think of these new rims?

1835
02:59:42,040 --> 02:59:45,560
And you're just like, I don't know. They're made of metal. I guess right but is that good

1836
02:59:46,200 --> 02:59:50,040
Right like for their bbs for a lot of people right for a lot of people

1837
02:59:50,600 --> 02:59:55,320
They you know, it's HDR. It has more color gamut. It means it means nothing to them. They don't care. They're just they're

1838
02:59:56,040 --> 03:00:00,280
They're watching fox news or cnbc. They don't it doesn't matter, right?

1839
03:00:01,000 --> 03:00:08,680
um And so we've reached this point where where these new developments like I saw I saw news article on

1840
03:00:09,080 --> 03:00:13,240
LG apparently has a prototype OLED tv that uses tandem OLED

1841
03:00:13,640 --> 03:00:18,200
so that's the the same tech that apple's using on their latest ipads and

1842
03:00:19,000 --> 03:00:26,840
Uses two stacked OLED layers to achieve much much greater brightness while maintaining inky blacks like that blows my mind

1843
03:00:26,840 --> 03:00:31,240
Apparently it can achieve four thousand nits on this. I think it was an 83 inch display

1844
03:00:31,320 --> 03:00:33,320
And I'm sitting here going like man, that's so cool

1845
03:00:35,720 --> 03:00:42,920
But it's cool past a point that I think most people will necessarily really care about

1846
03:00:43,480 --> 03:00:49,160
which is um a big challenge coming back to your question for tech media

1847
03:00:49,640 --> 03:00:55,880
Because I think the pool as as the mainstream good enough cheapo commodity tech

1848
03:00:56,840 --> 03:01:02,600
Reaches a point of being good enough for more and more and more and more and more people. I think the

1849
03:01:03,480 --> 03:01:09,720
Share of enthusiasts who care about every pixel and who care about every megahertz is going to be reduced

1850
03:01:10,280 --> 03:01:17,320
um The refresh cycles on these things are also getting more and more difficult to keep up with annually. I mean NVIDIA used to be

1851
03:01:18,120 --> 03:01:24,120
Yearly apple has been yearly on a lot of their products. They're still yearly on the iphone, but I don't know if that'll last forever

1852
03:01:24,760 --> 03:01:32,760
um Like they're certainly not yearly on a lot of the mac products that they just outright don't bother to refresh once they have a new generation of silicon

1853
03:01:34,200 --> 03:01:41,000
And so there's there's kind of less to talk about. I think that the economic conditions right now globally

1854
03:01:41,640 --> 03:01:51,960
um Are Challenging affecting people's discretionary spending and I don't foresee and I'm not an economist, but I don't foresee

1855
03:01:52,920 --> 03:01:56,200
um with taxation both in the form of

1856
03:01:57,000 --> 03:01:59,800
um regular taxation and but also

1857
03:02:00,360 --> 03:02:04,680
Import taxation going up. I don't foresee that changing anytime soon

1858
03:02:05,160 --> 03:02:08,920
Generative ai for all of its uselessness and hallucination has

1859
03:02:09,480 --> 03:02:14,040
Disrupted the job market already. Yeah, it is disrupting people's livelihoods

1860
03:02:14,520 --> 03:02:17,080
Which right now we've been saying from the start

1861
03:02:17,640 --> 03:02:20,120
Like the companies that are really going to kill it

1862
03:02:20,920 --> 03:02:30,360
In my opinion and I still think this is true Are companies that find ways to use ai to accelerate the people that they have and use that to grow and bring in more

1863
03:02:31,080 --> 03:02:37,720
Not companies that use it to just shrink their workforce But stock price go up when fire person

1864
03:02:38,280 --> 03:02:43,720
So people are just doing it anyways and I anyways it's it's it's frustrating because

1865
03:02:44,280 --> 03:02:50,280
There are effective ways For many people I'm not going to say everyone but for many people to

1866
03:02:50,840 --> 03:02:55,960
Use it to genuinely help them in good ways. There's also a ton of ways to use it improperly

1867
03:02:56,360 --> 03:03:00,360
um, but a lot of people are are scared to let it affect

1868
03:03:01,320 --> 03:03:06,760
Their productivity in a positive way Because they don't want to contribute towards losing their own jobs

1869
03:03:06,840 --> 03:03:15,160
And that's just bad employers in my opinion And it's it's frustrating that there's like any of them at all really. Yeah. Anyways. Sorry. Just minor aside

1870
03:03:15,400 --> 03:03:20,120
And generative ai is going to threaten our business from other vectors as well

1871
03:03:20,280 --> 03:03:24,280
I mean, you know, we talked about we talked earlier about how the anantak

1872
03:03:25,000 --> 03:03:29,400
article archive went offline and one of our speculated reasons for it is that

1873
03:03:30,040 --> 03:03:35,320
Uh future plc who owns anantak and tom's hardware launched a new feature

1874
03:03:35,800 --> 03:03:40,520
Allowing you to compare uh products across uh brands across generations

1875
03:03:41,080 --> 03:03:44,520
And it's paywald um

1876
03:03:44,520 --> 03:03:51,880
so Our theory is that maybe they wanted to instead of making all of that archival data and information available for free

1877
03:03:52,440 --> 03:03:56,760
Move it behind the paywall where it can be sustainable for the future

1878
03:03:57,480 --> 03:04:02,680
plc um And also to keep it away from the prying eyes of

1879
03:04:03,320 --> 03:04:10,120
Ai web crawlers that are going to scrape all this data and then just like sharded out into a search result or into a chat bot

1880
03:04:10,520 --> 03:04:18,840
That doesn't compensate the real actual people who really actually picked up GPU's and put them into benches and and tested things

1881
03:04:19,400 --> 03:04:22,600
Um allowing them to keep their jobs. So that that's a threat

1882
03:04:23,160 --> 03:04:26,600
That's a threat towards us as well like if LTT Labs can be scraped

1883
03:04:27,000 --> 03:04:31,720
And can just you know, you can search up anything about of course their power supply and it'll just

1884
03:04:32,520 --> 03:04:37,480
Use our video as a source but not compensate us in any way. That's going to be a real challenge for us, right?

1885
03:04:38,120 --> 03:04:44,120
We're still very committed to doing it, but you know, I would be lying if I didn't say that, you know

1886
03:04:44,200 --> 03:04:47,640
Building out something like the lab has impacted our profitability

1887
03:04:48,360 --> 03:04:52,440
absolutely has I mean doing anything

1888
03:04:52,440 --> 03:04:59,320
By hand with humans building our content the way that we continue to do it has impacted our profitability over the years

1889
03:04:59,400 --> 03:05:05,160
So those things are not slowing down. Yeah, those things are going to continue to be challenges

1890
03:05:05,560 --> 03:05:15,880
Um It's not all doom and gloom. I think our team is more locked in than it's been in probably a couple of years actually and

1891
03:05:17,240 --> 03:05:21,560
I don't think I'm the only one who's seeing that I've had some good conversations with people

1892
03:05:22,280 --> 03:05:27,000
We have some we have some new hire starting in the next little bit that I'm very excited about on the writing side

1893
03:05:27,400 --> 03:05:32,120
I'm really excited about the direction the lab is going under luke's leadership. Um, thank you

1894
03:05:32,600 --> 03:05:36,600
I Yeah, I think we're I think we're firing on more cylinders

1895
03:05:36,680 --> 03:05:42,440
I am I am hopeful that while we might not, you know, be back to a cadence of six uploads a week

1896
03:05:42,440 --> 03:05:47,800
I'm hopeful we can get to a more regular upload schedule again relatively soon. I think that's something that would be

1897
03:05:49,080 --> 03:05:53,560
Good for our viewers and also good for our company's ongoing viability

1898
03:05:54,840 --> 03:05:58,840
um Yeah, the future's looking up, but

1899
03:05:59,800 --> 03:06:06,360
That doesn't mean that we can ignore the headwinds that are coming our way and coming everyone's way realistically

1900
03:06:11,080 --> 03:06:18,120
Hey lld just got my ally battery upgraded after your video for the just sacks upgrade kit j. So I think j. So

1901
03:06:18,360 --> 03:06:25,240
Upgrade kit and loving it Linus. Would you consider any further modifications to your ally in the future? Maybe RAM? Thanks

1902
03:06:25,480 --> 03:06:31,160
I don't think I need more RAM. I've never run into a game on my ally. I mean, I mostly just play tape to tape

1903
03:06:31,640 --> 03:06:33,880
I don't have over 300 hours in tape to tape now

1904
03:06:35,000 --> 03:06:37,400
It's amazing how quickly they add up when like

1905
03:06:38,200 --> 03:06:41,400
My wind down before bed is to lie in bed and play a run

1906
03:06:42,360 --> 03:06:45,960
Maybe there's a decent amount of idle time too. Oh, there's a ton of idle time loaded up

1907
03:06:46,040 --> 03:06:49,320
Yeah, tape to tape actually take the tape actually logs your on ice time

1908
03:06:49,880 --> 03:06:54,360
So I think I'm at like 170 hours or something. Yeah, it makes a bit more sense. That's still a lot

1909
03:06:55,800 --> 03:06:58,600
So that's the game. I primarily play on my ally

1910
03:06:59,480 --> 03:07:03,960
Uh, I don't need more RAM for it, but definitely enjoying the battery life upgrade

1911
03:07:04,040 --> 03:07:08,200
It's just like we saw when ASUS went from the ally one to the ally two

1912
03:07:09,400 --> 03:07:14,520
For some reason the battery life benefit is more than just the like watt hours

1913
03:07:15,720 --> 03:07:21,880
increase I don't I don't I Someone's gonna have to math that for me because I don't I don't quite get it, but I'm into it

1914
03:07:22,600 --> 03:07:27,320
So I've been enjoying the absolute heck out of it. I would love to have a bigger SSD in it

1915
03:07:27,400 --> 03:07:29,960
I'd love to just have you know entire libraries of

1916
03:07:30,680 --> 03:07:35,560
Linux ISO older older more pixelated Linux isos that are just kind of

1917
03:07:36,200 --> 03:07:46,200
On tap, but beyond that No, I I love it. It's been very very good to me and I am excited for the xbox one, but

1918
03:07:47,160 --> 03:07:54,600
I don't know. I might be more excited for Potentially a steam deck too. I need it to be I needed to be competitive on GPU power though

1919
03:07:55,000 --> 03:07:57,720
Like the steam deck was kind of it fell behind really fast

1920
03:07:58,280 --> 03:08:02,520
And you know me I I like cutting edge performance. I and on handheld

1921
03:08:03,320 --> 03:08:10,680
every 10 percent Is is noticeable when you're at 32 FPS the jump to 35

1922
03:08:11,640 --> 03:08:19,560
It's like I want that here's here's another spicy one to add in on the whole Windows Linux thing. Yeah, this is why I haven't

1923
03:08:20,760 --> 03:08:25,240
This is a major reason why I haven't bought a gaming handheld is because like I kind of

1924
03:08:27,160 --> 03:08:29,160
Didn't really get in on steam deck early enough

1925
03:08:30,760 --> 03:08:36,120
Feels like I'm kind of in steam deck 2 waiting room. Yeah, okay, and I'm looking at the taking a minute to

1926
03:08:36,600 --> 03:08:41,720
Yeah, and that's fine. I'm all good. Yeah, um, but I'm looking at the alternatives

1927
03:08:42,680 --> 03:08:49,480
And the the big push right now is Windows based alternatives, and I'm like, yeah, I want to support the the Linux push

1928
03:08:51,320 --> 03:08:57,720
I just if I'm gonna be voting with my wallet right like I'm tired of of the

1929
03:08:58,840 --> 03:09:02,200
Garbage that has been shoveled into my face from Windows from so for so long

1930
03:09:02,680 --> 03:09:07,560
I'm pissed that there's no alternative I'm pissed that there isn't like a Windows premium where I don't get

1931
03:09:08,040 --> 03:09:13,480
Trashed on with ads and other stuff like that. I'm pissed that I can't get away from certain telemetry things without

1932
03:09:14,120 --> 03:09:20,520
Registry jumping and and whatnot And then having to redo that because Windows update just decides to like

1933
03:09:21,160 --> 03:09:25,160
Change things or whatever So it's I'm trying to get out

1934
03:09:25,240 --> 03:09:31,240
So I'm not going to financially back a thing That I'm trying to get out of so I'll wait for steam deck 2

1935
03:09:31,800 --> 03:09:36,040
That's fair is what it is. All right. Hit me Dan Hi

1936
03:09:36,040 --> 03:09:42,600
LDL instead of glazed ai interactions causing users to expect other people to act like their chat bots do

1937
03:09:42,840 --> 03:09:48,120
Doesn't it also seem likely that these users will also start to act like their chat bots?

1938
03:09:48,680 --> 03:09:55,800
No, I don't think so. I think being glazed is not necessarily going to make you become a glazer

1939
03:09:56,680 --> 03:10:08,120
No, I honestly think it'll largely do the opposite effect Especially when you don't glaze back and it keeps glazing you yeah, like let's let's think about sort of

1940
03:10:09,080 --> 03:10:13,000
Like a like a parallel like I often talk about how I think that

1941
03:10:14,680 --> 03:10:19,480
Like influencers and famous people are sort of uniquely vulnerable to

1942
03:10:20,440 --> 03:10:25,800
Giving into narcissistic tendencies because I think that anyone would

1943
03:10:26,760 --> 03:10:37,160
Would struggle To stay grounded when they're surrounded by hundreds thousands or millions of people that are telling them how incredible they are all day every day

1944
03:10:37,880 --> 03:10:43,560
Well, tell riddle me this These professional being glazators

1945
03:10:44,600 --> 03:10:51,160
Are they generally known For being like the super most amenable people in the world like as a group

1946
03:10:51,480 --> 03:10:57,560
I'm not saying there aren't nice celebrities the opposite you used to getting catered to yeah, and I'm sure you you you know

1947
03:10:57,640 --> 03:11:05,560
You let it slip here or there And you don't communicate with the AI nicely and you notice that it keeps glazing you so there's no there's no incentive

1948
03:11:05,560 --> 03:11:09,000
There's no reward loop. Yeah, there's no penalty a non-jerk

1949
03:11:11,240 --> 03:11:17,080
Yeah This interface is broken in a way that I'm not really sure how to deal with

1950
03:11:17,960 --> 03:11:22,440
So I clicked this it asks me really and then I can't interact with it

1951
03:11:22,440 --> 03:11:24,440
Weird

1952
03:11:27,480 --> 03:11:33,480
Um, I haven't had any of those problems. Let me go look cool. Do you want another one while we wait? Yeah, hit me

1953
03:11:35,080 --> 03:11:45,880
Hey, wan.dll with Everything being so software and driver focused. Do you think there will become micro transactions or dlc for graphics cards?

1954
03:11:46,040 --> 03:11:51,880
Oh, man, we didn't talk about it because I just had had enough bad news last week, but you saw that um

1955
03:11:53,400 --> 03:12:00,680
Who was it was it volkswagen is adding like a pay for a subscription for more performance to their car or whatever it was

1956
03:12:00,680 --> 03:12:03,000
You don't click on the really you just click on the button again

1957
03:12:04,360 --> 03:12:07,720
Oh, not the most intuitive neat

1958
03:12:07,720 --> 03:12:15,320
Okay, uh vw Performance subscription. I think it was yeah, that's brand new right? I think that was yeah

1959
03:12:15,720 --> 03:12:19,400
vw introduces monthly subscription to increase car power eight days ago

1960
03:12:19,640 --> 03:12:22,680
I just I had enough talking about bad news last week. So I just

1961
03:12:23,480 --> 03:12:34,360
Didn't feel like it. Yeah, but here it is The optional power upgrade will cost 1650 a month or 165 pounds annually with that said

1962
03:12:35,560 --> 03:12:38,120
This also made me far less upset

1963
03:12:39,400 --> 03:12:46,920
It is not outlandish Hold on. Hold on. I'm gonna defend this. It is not outlandish

1964
03:12:47,640 --> 03:12:51,640
To charge more for a higher performance model and in this case

1965
03:12:52,280 --> 03:12:57,480
I know the exact same hardware is in there, but you could make the argument that there might be

1966
03:12:58,280 --> 03:13:04,440
A higher likelihood of long-term damage to the vehicle if it is somehow being pushed harder and there could be some cost there

1967
03:13:04,520 --> 03:13:09,080
I don't know that they've actually done the math You know correctly

1968
03:13:09,080 --> 03:13:14,200
I'm sure there's margin in it But as long as there's a lifetime subscription

1969
03:13:14,440 --> 03:13:19,400
I will be far less upset about a month or as long as there's a lifetime purchase option

1970
03:13:19,480 --> 03:13:26,840
I'll be far less upset about a subscription being offered. Stakeboy and footprint chat brought up an amazing comparable

1971
03:13:27,080 --> 03:13:29,400
Yes, what if this was a driver for a graphics card?

1972
03:13:31,320 --> 03:13:33,960
As long as there is a lifetime subscription

1973
03:13:34,680 --> 03:13:39,480
So now you have to buy your graphics card and pay for a subscription to the drivers

1974
03:13:40,360 --> 03:13:48,040
To get it to be slightly faster To be clear, you can still drive with all I'm not saying I'm okay with it. I'm saying I'm a lot

1975
03:13:48,680 --> 03:13:52,280
More okay with it. If there is a lifetime purchase option

1976
03:13:52,280 --> 03:13:57,320
I'll give you an example in the hardware world that's very much like this lifetime purchase problem with the product

1977
03:13:57,480 --> 03:14:02,120
It's just you bought the car So quadro is literally a g-force card

1978
03:14:02,600 --> 03:14:06,760
That has a lifetime subscription in this case that costs a lot of money

1979
03:14:07,240 --> 03:14:10,920
to drivers that are certified and

1980
03:14:10,920 --> 03:14:13,960
To the expectation that it is going to be driven harder

1981
03:14:14,280 --> 03:14:19,160
Because it's going to be used hour in hour out day after day in a professional environment

1982
03:14:19,160 --> 03:14:22,520
I care a lot less when it's professional product though. We're not talking about professional products

1983
03:14:22,520 --> 03:14:27,960
And that's and that's fair enough and that's fair enough. I'm just saying that the parallel not saying not not trying to insult the

1984
03:14:28,280 --> 03:14:33,560
Clearly very professional car. Yeah. Yeah, I just mean I just mean we already have

1985
03:14:34,120 --> 03:14:39,080
Very clear parallels in the hardware industry. This thing's gonna be in the user space

1986
03:14:40,440 --> 03:14:46,040
Okay, fair enough. I'm just saying it's it's a thing that exists and that I have I have been upset about

1987
03:14:46,680 --> 03:14:52,440
Like I have been upset about the exact same bloody a bunch of times the exact same silicon

1988
03:14:53,240 --> 03:14:57,640
Right being locked down in this way. I find it. I find it very frustrating

1989
03:14:58,120 --> 03:15:03,800
But I also do recognize that in the case of quadro or in the case of this

1990
03:15:04,920 --> 03:15:09,400
There could be Additional costs. So let me here. Let me put it this way

1991
03:15:10,040 --> 03:15:17,080
LTT screwdriver, right? If there was a professional version of this that included

1992
03:15:18,280 --> 03:15:23,880
I don't know. Let's say Once every two years you can mail it to us and we'll like

1993
03:15:24,760 --> 03:15:31,080
disassemble it and lube it and Polish it for free or something like if there's some kind of additional work

1994
03:15:31,720 --> 03:15:36,360
Of some sort that we're doing So what I'm saying is I don't know the math

1995
03:15:36,920 --> 03:15:40,760
I don't know the math on how many more failures they'll have for pushing it that much harder

1996
03:15:41,640 --> 03:15:45,960
But there may be some math there And I they're ensuring it

1997
03:15:46,520 --> 03:15:51,240
I would assume it is covered under warranty to have it at this higher performance level

1998
03:15:51,400 --> 03:15:55,800
How long is your warranty though? Not that far on most cars. Yeah, so

1999
03:15:56,920 --> 03:16:03,960
I look I'm not saying it's great. I'm not saying I love it. I'm saying as long as there is a lifetime option

2000
03:16:05,240 --> 03:16:14,040
Let's make the car cost a thousand dollars more Well, sure, but that's exactly what they did. They made it cost 649 pounds more and I think from a percentage

2001
03:16:14,600 --> 03:16:17,880
standpoint like if it's a hundred thousand dollar car and they're charging me six hundred and fifty dollars

2002
03:16:18,120 --> 03:16:23,640
I'm going to be like, why are you nickel and diming me? If it's a thousand dollar car and they're charging me six hundred and fifty bucks

2003
03:16:23,640 --> 03:16:27,880
That percentage point makes it more understandable. I think I'm just viewing it

2004
03:16:28,680 --> 03:16:32,200
The same thing in the same way, but with a different lens if that kind of makes sense

2005
03:16:32,520 --> 03:16:37,240
Where like the fact that the monthly one exists is what bothers me

2006
03:16:37,400 --> 03:16:40,360
I understand that it makes it more okay. Like you see what I mean

2007
03:16:40,600 --> 03:16:46,040
Makes it more okay to you that the lifetime exists for me. It makes it less. Okay that the monthly exists

2008
03:16:46,040 --> 03:16:49,640
It's kind of the same thing. I don't like either of them. It's glass half full glass

2009
03:16:50,440 --> 03:16:58,840
you know I mean Walker here says it's not uncommon to pay for tuning a vehicle that increases the horsepower without any hardware change

2010
03:16:58,840 --> 03:17:02,120
Yeah, it's just a one time cost and so is this

2011
03:17:02,920 --> 03:17:06,920
Well Unless you buy the subscription. I just don't like that the subscription exists

2012
03:17:07,560 --> 03:17:14,280
I don't like that the subscription exists either, but if people choose a subscription when they have a lifetime option

2013
03:17:16,120 --> 03:17:19,720
They have to own at least some of the responsibility for the

2014
03:17:20,280 --> 03:17:24,360
Vastly larger amount of money. They will pay over the lifetime. They own this purchase

2015
03:17:25,320 --> 03:17:30,200
Okay, what about NVIDIA? One cent per month per CUDA core

2016
03:17:33,720 --> 03:17:36,440
Again, I don't I don't love it. I don't want it

2017
03:17:37,240 --> 03:17:42,440
You're gonna have to you're gonna have to graphics cards super subsidized if NVIDIA. Okay, so here

2018
03:17:42,680 --> 03:17:46,040
You know what? Let's draw a consumer parallel that I actually would be okay with

2019
03:17:46,600 --> 03:17:54,360
Oh, no If NVIDIA gave me another 200 watts on the 5090 full warranty

2020
03:17:55,080 --> 03:17:58,360
Everything's covered and they were like, yeah, it's another

2021
03:17:59,320 --> 03:18:05,720
You know, okay. So what's this in the context of a vehicle? So they're charging $600. Let's say what this is a $30,000 vehicle

2022
03:18:05,880 --> 03:18:11,080
Something like that 50 maybe 60. You think it's that much? I don't know. It's just a second. I don't know what cars cost

2023
03:18:11,640 --> 03:18:15,160
Oh my god, it's the ID. It's the ID 3 limit limit breaker subscription

2024
03:18:16,120 --> 03:18:21,000
Yeah, and it's effectively just a warranty Effectively just an overclocking warranty

2025
03:18:21,720 --> 03:18:23,720
If they let you do it

2026
03:18:24,760 --> 03:18:29,640
Without that, but you lost your warranty. Yeah, I think I'd be more cool with it

2027
03:18:31,320 --> 03:18:35,720
That was pounds, right? Yeah, there's 40,000 pounds 40,000 pounds

2028
03:18:36,200 --> 03:18:43,240
Because that's literally just a warranty at that point call it 50,000. So we're talking in this case about 1.5 percent

2029
03:18:44,200 --> 03:18:49,080
Of the cost so if NVIDIA said, okay on your $2,000 GPU

2030
03:18:50,360 --> 03:18:54,680
It's 20. It's 30 bucks And you can have another a month

2031
03:18:54,920 --> 03:19:01,640
No, no, no, total lifetime lifetime. It's 30 bucks and you can have another 100 watts or 200 watts or you know, whatever

2032
03:19:02,520 --> 03:19:07,960
If you could if you could do it anyways, I mean didn't have a warranty. I'm slamming that button

2033
03:19:07,960 --> 03:19:14,360
I'm doing that this totally this totally even exists people buy this all the time. This is the oc variant. Oh, yeah

2034
03:19:14,520 --> 03:19:19,000
Yeah, this is the oc variant that's well cars no power limit cars have trim levels

2035
03:19:19,720 --> 03:19:25,240
Well, so see the car trim levels though, that's a tough one. Well, no, they're they're doing what the graphics cards do

2036
03:19:25,400 --> 03:19:30,360
You can get the oc car or you can get the normal car. They're just doing that in the same car

2037
03:19:30,840 --> 03:19:35,800
I think we're going I think we're going too far with this because we're just we're now just describing

2038
03:19:35,880 --> 03:19:43,720
a An extended warranty. Well, sort of it's not a it's not a warning levels. It's a yeah, it's a different tier of product

2039
03:19:44,200 --> 03:19:49,480
And I've made the argument since forever that you should never buy the oc

2040
03:19:50,360 --> 03:19:57,160
lesser card When the not oc better card is now so close in price

2041
03:19:58,520 --> 03:20:03,160
But I mean the difference between a 5080 and a 5090 is now a thousand dollars

2042
03:20:03,160 --> 03:20:08,040
So if oc 5080 could make sense and in the case of the 5090 there is nothing higher

2043
03:20:08,440 --> 03:20:16,440
So if you want any more If they were to come to me and say yeah, it's an extra 30 bucks or 50 bucks for the oc variant that runs a little faster

2044
03:20:16,440 --> 03:20:19,160
We binded a little better. We made sure it's going to work and we're going to cover that

2045
03:20:19,640 --> 03:20:23,400
I don't see that as an extended warranty. I see that as a ever so slightly

2046
03:20:23,800 --> 03:20:27,640
Faster product. The reason why I'm saying extended warranty is because if you could just do it yourself

2047
03:20:28,200 --> 03:20:33,800
Yeah, and that's what happens when they're the same product like you can take a car and put a beggar engine in it

2048
03:20:34,120 --> 03:20:38,760
But the manufacturer also produces that same model of car that has the bigger engine in it already

2049
03:20:39,560 --> 03:20:42,600
But this vw is just both of those cars in one car

2050
03:20:43,240 --> 03:20:48,680
Like it's a 5080 and a 5090 in a single card and then you just pay the extra thousand dollars

2051
03:20:48,920 --> 03:20:54,040
And now it's a 5090 instead of a 5080. Yeah in this case the difference in performance is pretty small though

2052
03:20:54,120 --> 03:20:57,320
So I feel a lot less like they're totally sandbagging me

2053
03:20:57,400 --> 03:21:04,360
Of course Like like they could have just afforded to give me, you know a car that performs twice as good. Well, this sucks

2054
03:21:04,600 --> 03:21:09,720
It's not a different car. Um, yeah, but this is just the same car. It's just slightly more tuneder

2055
03:21:10,200 --> 03:21:16,360
And I think yeah, I I hope i'm not just going to completely end up cancelled over this again because ham netx says

2056
03:21:16,760 --> 03:21:22,280
Linus's point about accelerated wear profiles is a decent one when something is worked harder

2057
03:21:22,920 --> 03:21:31,080
There could be additional wear And the reason that I went to that first is because we were talking specifically about batteries and electric motors and EV

2058
03:21:31,160 --> 03:21:36,040
Right, that is so important. Your argument makes complete sense. And it's totally fair and totally fine. The problem is it will

2059
03:21:36,680 --> 03:21:41,000
immediately be abused Well immediately and unquestionably

2060
03:21:41,320 --> 03:21:49,240
It's it's the the future problem Because now you you pull back more and pull back more and pull back more and pay while more and pay while more and pay

2061
03:21:49,240 --> 03:21:54,840
While more like heated seats. It's not the the like base concept is fine

2062
03:21:54,920 --> 03:22:01,800
I guess that you're describing. It's it's the what will companies do it? I feel better about this than the bmw heated seats personally

2063
03:22:03,160 --> 03:22:08,200
Yeah, you know what I think I do too Because the heated seats that's literally in there

2064
03:22:09,000 --> 03:22:16,280
Like it's It's literally so inexpensive for you to implement it that you can literally put it in every single vehicle that rolls down the line

2065
03:22:16,760 --> 03:22:19,960
And becomes cheaper because you do that. Yes, let's skew

2066
03:22:20,600 --> 03:22:27,880
um But even then it's the same cost blending, right? So the people who pay for it are subsidizing the people who don't pay for it

2067
03:22:28,280 --> 03:22:32,520
To put it into every vehicle Um, I still I still don't like it

2068
03:22:33,160 --> 03:22:37,000
I can still not like it in this case. I actually yeah, I agree with you Dan

2069
03:22:37,000 --> 03:22:40,440
I don't mind this as much as the heated seat activation

2070
03:22:40,520 --> 03:22:43,480
No, I think one percent feels bad if it was 25 percent

2071
03:22:43,720 --> 03:22:49,080
Like if the 58 to 50 90 upgrade was a thousand dollars and the card was 500 bucks

2072
03:22:49,720 --> 03:22:53,720
that feels more Okay, in a way

2073
03:22:54,440 --> 03:22:58,440
This feels nickel and dime, but I know what you're talking about especially on an electric. So yeah

2074
03:22:59,080 --> 03:23:03,720
Sox, it feels like welcome to current year. Yeah, it's bad. It's it's not good for the world

2075
03:23:03,720 --> 03:23:10,520
The first step is not that bad. So you don't look at it that closely Slippy slope. Yeah, bazaar says with your experience with team viewer

2076
03:23:10,600 --> 03:23:16,280
I'd think you would trust lifetime subs less especially in this corporate environment. You are a hundred percent, right?

2077
03:23:16,840 --> 03:23:22,440
In this case though, um, they would have to actively brick it whereas team viewer's service

2078
03:23:23,000 --> 03:23:27,080
Runs through their servers. I don't see any reason why my additional horsepower

2079
03:23:27,480 --> 03:23:32,280
Would have to do an authentication check every time I turn on the car until it does that were the case

2080
03:23:33,000 --> 03:23:39,960
Well, then that's where luke slippery slope argument, which as you know fallacious as a fallow seat or whatever as as invalid

2081
03:23:39,960 --> 03:23:41,960
As a slippery slope argument might be

2082
03:23:43,240 --> 03:23:50,360
So, you know At a certain point we've seen it happen enough times that we kind of have to go. Okay slippery slopes are valid

2083
03:23:50,760 --> 03:23:54,440
And then slippery slopes are absolutely when you when you sell the car it doesn't transfer

2084
03:23:54,440 --> 03:23:59,480
So the new person also has to buy it. Is that true for this one? No, I'm just I'm just giving them ideas

2085
03:23:59,480 --> 03:24:02,600
But that is absolutely something they would do. I find slippery slopes to be

2086
03:24:03,720 --> 03:24:08,920
Completely valid in these types of conversations right less valid when it comes to a specific

2087
03:24:09,240 --> 03:24:13,720
Like and in between two individuals that know each other type situation sure

2088
03:24:14,600 --> 03:24:20,040
Because at that point in time you can be like you can trust me to not slippery slope this and that's a valid argument

2089
03:24:20,040 --> 03:24:24,600
So then you can counter but in these types of situations. It's like the company's massive

2090
03:24:25,720 --> 03:24:29,000
Entire reason to exist incentive is to slippery slope this

2091
03:24:29,240 --> 03:24:33,800
It's like you should almost trust them to do so more than more than anything else

2092
03:24:33,880 --> 03:24:39,560
So crystal points out this is also the same hardware just like the heated seats, but it's the wear profile

2093
03:24:39,800 --> 03:24:45,720
Yeah, that's the difference. Yeah, you know, they validated that validation is not a joke

2094
03:24:46,280 --> 03:24:52,040
Right, they validated it at a certain performance level now. They validated it at another performance level

2095
03:24:52,680 --> 03:24:59,400
There may be a maintenance or wear cost there. It's harder on the batteries. It's harder on the batteries. It's harder on the motors

2096
03:24:59,480 --> 03:25:09,480
Uh, okay, uh, want to hit me? Hello, bad cholesterol. LDL. What punishment are you three willing to commit to for the first person to break the

2097
03:25:09,480 --> 03:25:15,400
WAN streak? Love the content. Shave Luke's head, please. Yes. I also say we shave Luke's head if anybody misses

2098
03:25:17,400 --> 03:25:25,160
That's a great suggestion. I appreciate that. I seconded actually. Yeah, there we go. All right settled moving on. That's ridiculous

2099
03:25:26,120 --> 03:25:31,720
Oh my goodness What are we willing to commit? I mean, it's not going to be me. So I don't care

2100
03:25:32,360 --> 03:25:37,320
Yeah, honestly, we needed nothing to be insanely diehard about this already

2101
03:25:38,920 --> 03:25:46,360
We may have actually had this conversation before Maybe it's been so long. We forgot. I think there may be a consequence

2102
03:25:46,440 --> 03:25:50,120
I think I just I think we might just not remember what it is. Do any viewers remember?

2103
03:25:50,520 --> 03:25:56,200
I still like that. We have to shave Luke's head, but none of us are going to be the one who is going to allow that to happen

2104
03:25:56,280 --> 03:26:01,480
Oh, yeah The pride of not losing is worth more than me shaving my head. Oh, yeah, absolutely

2105
03:26:01,720 --> 03:26:05,480
100% I don't want you to have to shave your head. That'd be fine

2106
03:26:06,760 --> 03:26:11,080
Dunked again. I thought I was going to be bald my like whole life into my 20s

2107
03:26:11,240 --> 03:26:17,080
And then I finally realized that this is not how that works Floating chat doesn't recall any punishments. Maybe I'm just imagining it

2108
03:26:17,720 --> 03:26:22,520
I mean, that's possible. I think we might have had the conversation, but maybe it never turned into anything

2109
03:26:24,200 --> 03:26:30,600
Loser has to do when show in full blue man group makeup. I mean, we would just do that. Anyway, that'd be hilarious. Yeah, that sounds fun. It's more of a

2110
03:26:33,960 --> 03:26:35,960
The pride thing, um

2111
03:26:37,400 --> 03:26:40,280
Yvonne would actually kill me if I shaved my head

2112
03:26:40,920 --> 03:26:44,200
Oh, it's Luke's head Right

2113
03:26:44,200 --> 03:26:49,320
Okay Okay, so if anyone breaks the streak we shave Luke's head

2114
03:26:50,760 --> 03:26:52,760
Okay, all in favor

2115
03:27:03,160 --> 03:27:06,520
I'm I'm actually completely okay with that being mine, but I feel like

2116
03:27:08,120 --> 03:27:14,920
We'll talk about it another time. We'll figure something out You know, it doesn't make sense that if Linus doesn't show up that I have to shave my head

2117
03:27:15,080 --> 03:27:19,000
I mean, yeah, but that makes sense to me and apparently you I mean you raised your hand

2118
03:27:19,720 --> 03:27:25,160
No All right. Hit me. Hit me down. You should take Luke's 2.5 pound weights

2119
03:27:27,560 --> 03:27:30,760
That would be more annoying for for little man than me at this point

2120
03:27:31,240 --> 03:27:38,440
Hello from the east coast question for Luke and also Linus in parenthesis as the infra team grows

2121
03:27:38,920 --> 03:27:45,960
Are there any plans for it admin focused content a day in the life of your infor team network deep rives, etc

2122
03:27:47,400 --> 03:27:50,360
Probably not. Cool. Good chat boring

2123
03:27:50,840 --> 03:27:57,000
Yeah, hey six foot two six foot one and allegedly 5.6. I actually go by five foot 14

2124
03:27:57,640 --> 03:28:04,360
Uh, are there any examples of products with really anti-consumer behavior that you would refuse to review on?

2125
03:28:04,440 --> 03:28:08,600
For example action cams requiring mobile apps to initialize

2126
03:28:08,840 --> 03:28:13,320
No, I mean, I think our job is to is to call these things out is to

2127
03:28:14,200 --> 03:28:21,720
shine a light on On a on a bad practice or a bad product. I think refusing to review it is

2128
03:28:22,440 --> 03:28:28,860
in a way Even passively contributing to the problem. It's like when people with ethics and integrity

2129
03:28:29,400 --> 03:28:33,400
resign their post When they're asked to do something

2130
03:28:34,120 --> 03:28:36,120
by a superior and then

2131
03:28:37,320 --> 03:28:42,600
Yeah, they just put someone in who would happily do it. Yeah, so they keep their ethics and they keep their integrity

2132
03:28:43,240 --> 03:28:47,560
Um, but by resigning they clear the way for someone to

2133
03:28:48,440 --> 03:28:51,400
Just do it anyway. We haven't actually accomplished anything here

2134
03:28:51,800 --> 03:28:55,960
I think in the past when as a society it felt like we had some shame

2135
03:28:56,520 --> 03:29:00,840
Um, I definitely admired that more because it would bring more of a spotlight to it

2136
03:29:00,840 --> 03:29:04,840
And then it was news where change is initialized and that person who asked for the thing might get removed

2137
03:29:04,920 --> 03:29:11,000
But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore in modern year. So, um, so it seems like there needs to be a new meta

2138
03:29:11,080 --> 03:29:16,200
And my my meta is definitely if if something's interesting enough to make a video

2139
03:29:16,280 --> 03:29:20,600
I don't care how anti-consumer it is. Let's make a video about it and talk about how much they suck

2140
03:29:22,520 --> 03:29:28,040
Hey l l and d have you heard about the final fantasy 14 drama this week?

2141
03:29:28,280 --> 03:29:33,800
Square enix issued a cease and desist over an add-on that let players share custom character mods

2142
03:29:33,880 --> 03:29:37,000
Do you think this ties into payment processor censorship? I mean

2143
03:29:38,040 --> 03:29:40,680
Uh, uh, we're the custom character mods

2144
03:29:41,640 --> 03:29:48,920
Quite x-rated. Is that what we're talking about? I didn't think that it was a problem until you mentioned the payment processors

2145
03:29:49,160 --> 03:29:55,560
And now I'm concerned again. I don't think that's related to it add-ons weren't allowed in final fantasy 14 already as far as I understand

2146
03:29:55,640 --> 03:30:01,720
he goes And customer customer character custom character models could be

2147
03:30:03,240 --> 03:30:12,360
perceived as cheating on the accounts Um, I can't find anything about triple x character mods. I don't think you're allowed any add-ons in that game. So

2148
03:30:15,480 --> 03:30:24,280
Yeah Couple more. Hey, l l d does Linus have any updates from the smart door lock he recently installed

2149
03:30:24,600 --> 03:30:29,320
Is there a smart home device or feature that you wish existed but is not currently available? Thanks

2150
03:30:29,720 --> 03:30:35,160
I mean, it basically anything is currently available if you're willing to pay for like a professional installer to come in

2151
03:30:35,560 --> 03:30:37,560
Do some wizardry for you like

2152
03:30:38,680 --> 03:30:43,480
I think it's one of uh, yeah, it's one of Yvonne's old high school friends husband's friend

2153
03:30:43,960 --> 03:30:49,160
Who it does like installs for these like crazy homes and like shawnessy and stuff like that

2154
03:30:49,160 --> 03:30:56,040
And he was telling me about this custom mount for this tv that would like go up into the ceiling and like hide itself

2155
03:30:56,200 --> 03:31:02,280
So it can like come down and and be like just suspended in the middle of the living room so that the um

2156
03:31:02,440 --> 03:31:07,720
So that the mom can like watch tv while she's cooking in the kitchen like across the

2157
03:31:08,280 --> 03:31:13,800
Open concept thing. Anyway, you I think you can basically do anything. Um, as for the smart lock

2158
03:31:13,880 --> 03:31:18,760
I'm really happy with it. I can give people codes one time use or timed

2159
03:31:19,640 --> 03:31:24,200
They can access whatever I need them to whenever I need them to it locks on its own

2160
03:31:24,200 --> 03:31:30,200
Which sometimes I'm a bit of a scatterbrain and I forget to you know do that. So that's really nice. So it's

2161
03:31:30,920 --> 03:31:37,160
always locked And works perfectly and the charging solution is working perfectly

2162
03:31:38,040 --> 03:31:45,160
I have wireless charging for my smart lock So there's just a little base station that sits on just a little like end table thing

2163
03:31:45,640 --> 03:31:49,800
In the foyer and it just beams power wirelessly to my lock

2164
03:31:49,880 --> 03:31:56,280
So I never have to change the battery in it ever again. So cool. Yeah, that's actually pretty sick pretty cool. Wow

2165
03:31:57,800 --> 03:32:02,680
That's sweet because wiring those up can kind of suck. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So most people run a battery

2166
03:32:03,800 --> 03:32:07,480
Hey, when I have a question for luke about the lab's website. I

2167
03:32:08,440 --> 03:32:14,440
Notice it's really fast with a lot of cool web tech. Thank you. I was curious what framework you guys use

2168
03:32:14,520 --> 03:32:17,320
They have done how difficult fire fox has been

2169
03:32:17,720 --> 03:32:23,800
Hamnetics I made a video on that. It's on ShortCircuit They've done a wonderful job with with keeping it very performant

2170
03:32:24,120 --> 03:32:29,160
Um, and I just got to get more people to go to it. Um, but I wanted to show off. I like this one

2171
03:32:29,240 --> 03:32:34,920
I think there's a bunch of different ones. I haven't tried them all. This is not a like particular endorsement

2172
03:32:35,000 --> 03:32:39,960
It's not financial advice. Yep. Other than that these tools are cool. You might find one that you prefer more

2173
03:32:39,960 --> 03:32:44,360
It's very likely haven't even tried it. Uh, I started using this many years ago and it's been awesome ever since

2174
03:32:44,440 --> 03:32:48,840
But it's called built with or built with com and you can just look up any website

2175
03:32:48,840 --> 03:32:52,440
So I just I went to their home page just went out to do Labs

2176
03:32:52,760 --> 03:32:59,240
dot com And then clicked look up and then you can look at basically all the stuff that we use so you can see our analytics

2177
03:32:59,320 --> 03:33:03,960
we like plausible because it's Uh, friendlier to users in my opinion

2178
03:33:04,440 --> 03:33:08,120
Uh, and in dancieville's opinion who is the one who suggested it for that reason

2179
03:33:08,440 --> 03:33:14,040
Um, you can see that we have next j s which is probably more related to your question along with react

2180
03:33:14,200 --> 03:33:20,520
Which is maybe even more related to your question along with versell, which is definitely likely definitely related to your question

2181
03:33:21,000 --> 03:33:26,680
Um, but you can do this for any website and it will poke through and help you find different things about it

2182
03:33:26,680 --> 03:33:31,800
It's a very fun thing to do Um to just see kind of like what are these guys doing? How did they build stuff?

2183
03:33:32,360 --> 03:33:38,040
You know, I really don't think aws is going to catch on because the future is serverless

2184
03:33:38,440 --> 03:33:40,440
I

2185
03:33:43,240 --> 03:33:45,240
Sorry, that's my favorite joke

2186
03:33:47,240 --> 03:33:49,240
Last one I've got for you today

2187
03:33:50,280 --> 03:33:56,840
Hi l ld, uh, you guys talk about lifetime purchases. Would you ever consider doing a lifetime Floatplane subscription?

2188
03:33:57,560 --> 03:34:03,640
The other thing we talk about Endlessly is sustainable business practices

2189
03:34:03,640 --> 03:34:11,000
Unfortunately Floatplane is a service that has a very real

2190
03:34:11,800 --> 03:34:16,440
Uh, very ongoing Monthly cost. Yeah

2191
03:34:16,600 --> 03:34:22,600
So if we were to offer you a lifetime subscription, what we'd be offering you is a lie

2192
03:34:23,240 --> 03:34:31,320
Because at some point unless we grow infinitely and infinite growth on a finite planet is unfortunately not possible

2193
03:34:31,880 --> 03:34:34,520
Unless we grow infinitely at some point

2194
03:34:34,920 --> 03:34:42,280
The pyramid will collapse and the new user recruitment will not cover the cost of continuing to support

2195
03:34:42,680 --> 03:34:48,840
The legacy lifetime users and the whole thing falls down and we have to go back on our word

2196
03:34:48,920 --> 03:34:53,640
So we want to just put ourselves in a position where we never have to go back on our word

2197
03:34:54,120 --> 03:34:56,840
It's also like I don't know in my opinion

2198
03:34:57,800 --> 03:35:03,640
Yes, I think there's an argument that could be made that full plane has full plane itself has well

2199
03:35:04,280 --> 03:35:12,040
depends on the user Align us media group account on Floatplane has drm free downloads

2200
03:35:12,840 --> 03:35:16,520
It's it's up to the creators if they want them or not. So I can't say for the whole platform

2201
03:35:17,800 --> 03:35:20,840
You you could make an argument that that's your like

2202
03:35:21,560 --> 03:35:26,760
legacy of the thing But in my opinion you you you're not I can't give you

2203
03:35:28,440 --> 03:35:37,160
Full plane Right. Yeah, you can take the downloads, but if you buy a lifetime subscription and then eventually full plane dies

2204
03:35:37,800 --> 03:35:43,320
Uh, you and I are 90 and we finally retire and full plane dies for whatever reason

2205
03:35:43,800 --> 03:35:46,920
Um, and you can't access the website anymore

2206
03:35:47,560 --> 03:35:49,560
What is your lifetime subscription for?

2207
03:35:50,760 --> 03:35:55,400
Yeah If if I could if we happened if team viewer

2208
03:35:56,120 --> 03:36:03,240
Just went away eventually But you could keep using it because you have your whatever thing and you know, it doesn't lifetime is real

2209
03:36:03,320 --> 03:36:08,680
But lifetime is fine. Yeah Because okay, it stopped iterating at some point that kind of sucks sure whatever

2210
03:36:08,920 --> 03:36:12,200
But you can still use the thing then lifetime is applicable in my opinion

2211
03:36:12,440 --> 03:36:17,320
I can't just give you full plane forever. So therefore in my opinion is not really applicable

2212
03:36:17,560 --> 03:36:23,720
Tim asks in full plane chat. Why not just make it like 1500 dollars? How does that not make sense?

2213
03:36:24,520 --> 03:36:28,120
Because it doesn't make sense For you. Yeah

2214
03:36:28,280 --> 03:36:35,320
I I I like to stack w's in in every transaction. I am looking for a way to

2215
03:36:36,360 --> 03:36:44,280
Build a build a balanced I offer I receive sheet, right and you know from my point of view

2216
03:36:45,240 --> 03:36:53,240
Um finding the correct number for Floatplane lifetime subscription is asking me to have a crystal ball

2217
03:36:53,640 --> 03:36:58,600
I would have to know exactly how much value you're going to receive and I'm going to have to know exactly

2218
03:36:59,480 --> 03:37:02,520
To a reasonable degree of accuracy how much it's going to cost me

2219
03:37:03,080 --> 03:37:08,520
I can't know that so it's far better for me to just have a sustainable billing model that works for me

2220
03:37:09,000 --> 03:37:14,760
And if it works for you, then that's great You can subscribe and if it's not working for you anymore, then you can not subscribe

2221
03:37:14,920 --> 03:37:19,160
And if you want to throw money at us as much as this doesn't benefit like my department

2222
03:37:19,480 --> 03:37:23,080
I don't think that's a good way to look at things personally um

2223
03:37:23,080 --> 03:37:26,280
The the same reason why we have merch messages instead of using

2224
03:37:26,840 --> 03:37:32,520
Other potential systems is because we're trying to give you more back for this exchange that's happening

2225
03:37:32,600 --> 03:37:35,160
So go get something from the store. Yeah

2226
03:37:35,720 --> 03:37:38,680
Pick up something on LTT Store or come to whale land

2227
03:37:38,760 --> 03:37:41,800
If you really don't want anything if you must just give us money

2228
03:37:41,880 --> 03:37:44,840
You can like buy a gift card and then just like never use it

2229
03:37:45,080 --> 03:37:52,360
Yeah, technically that does sit on our books as like an outstanding liability or whatever because gift cards legally in canada can't expire

2230
03:37:52,840 --> 03:37:57,480
Um, our gift cards on the store attached to your account. I don't remember. Is it actually a code? I don't know

2231
03:37:57,720 --> 03:38:03,640
I don't remember. I don't remember The point is just like look that if you want to give us more money

2232
03:38:03,640 --> 03:38:09,240
You absolutely can but we don't want to charge more for it. So you're gonna have to find your own creative way to do that

2233
03:38:09,400 --> 03:38:17,160
Yeah, I wish there are Sure, you get our office is on google maps. You could show up and slip a hundo under the door

2234
03:38:18,200 --> 03:38:20,200
I can't stop you

2235
03:38:21,960 --> 03:38:23,960
My g-sting's ready

2236
03:38:25,880 --> 03:38:34,040
And We will see you guys again next week same bad time same bad channel

2237
03:38:34,840 --> 03:38:41,240
Bye. Whoa, you did it before I wait. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, the wave started the wave started. I'm allowing it

2238
03:38:41,400 --> 03:38:44,360
All right, just touch and go though. Sorry. Oh my

2239
03:38:46,920 --> 03:38:48,920
Oh trigger happy

2240
03:38:57,880 --> 03:39:00,200
Wait