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What's up, everyone?

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I hope you guys are having a wonderful, wonderful day.

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It's Friday, baby. I hope your day had some challenge in it.

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Some challenge? I hope your day had some challenge in it.

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Yeah, because it's Friday, so hopefully you had something to grind on a little bit and

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now you can satisfyingly relax over the weekend.

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Not everyone aspires to grind on a Friday.

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Some of us are more Saturday night grinders, if you know what I mean.

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Got to keep some gas in the tank. That's Mr. Light.

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Hey, it's that guy. I appreciate it. Yeah, what can I do for you?

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Yes, that thing. Oh, my goodness. Thank you, sir.

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We're never going to get him to use an LTT lanyard, dude.

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It's so nasty. Yeah, it's a little grouty. It might be time.

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I'm worried if I wash it, it'll just fall apart.

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It might. Yeah, you might be able to get a new one now because no people know.

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I don't. This guy does. I know.

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He would just be like, I have a work lanyard and I'd be like, that's very reasonable.

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Yeah, I know one person at Valve and OK, two, three, but like three, three, but like realistically,

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they reply to emails when they are really nice.

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They're really nice and really smart, and they reply to emails whenever the fuck they

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feel like it. Yeah, it sounds like that's all I have to say about that might not be super high on their

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priority for like, yeah, and if I'm going to burn some goodwill and like a favor, it's

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not going to be for you to have a lanyard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry.

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It's just fine. It'll survive. It'll keep going.

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Not the way that's going to go. It fell apart once and Jake's mom stitched it back together.

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You had Jake's mom repair your valve lanyard.

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Yeah. Yeah. I was like, I was like 2017 or something.

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I was thinking of things that I wouldn't burn goodwill on because we all have like a bank,

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a bank of goodwill, you know, and you can only ask so many favors, so it's good to be

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strategic about them and Luke getting his ratty ass valve lanyard was apparently worth

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it to him. Yeah.

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Neat. No, I don't think the Firefox terms of use change is going to be a topic tonight other

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than just to say like, hey, it's really, really poorly handled from a PR perspective,

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but it actually doesn't appear to be different than the terms of other browsers if you look

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closely. It's kind of where we're at on that.

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So we weren't really going to. But my God, the response was terrible.

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Yeah. Yeah. The initial post was bad and the response was horrible.

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Who do they think they are? Me?

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Yeah. That's my jam. Yeah.

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Yeah. Skype. Skype will talk about briefly.

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Ouch.

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You know what? My ARM's feeling a little better. I went and hit last night after we had dinner and it's in pain today, but it is in less

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pain than it would have been if I had done that another time.

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Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

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Here we go. Ibuprofen. Ibuprofen.

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Nice. Ta-da. Nice.

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You practiced that like quite a bit.

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No. I practiced it quite a bit when I was like a teenager and now I just like do it.

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Right. Got it. Linus takes drugs on stream.

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Let's go. I've taken drugs look cool. Do you think there's going to be a new junior software engineer position?

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Sorry to bother you with this.

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Never. No. There will never again be a junior software position.

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I mean, I'm sure there will be eventually. We're all about hardware.

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Oh my. But there isn't one right now, but I'm going to unfortunately use your message to shout

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out the other jobs that are up.

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Unfortunately, that's not fortune. You made a choice.

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Unfortunately for them. Oh, I see.

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Yeah. There's three positions that create a warehouse that they're currently hiring for a part-time

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photographer, a video editor, a full-time graphic designer, and a full-time supply chain

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manager. And there's five Atlas Media Group because one of these is actually two people.

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So there's two full-time test technicians that we're hiring for.

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One logistics coordinator that we're hiring for. One content writer that we're hiring for for the lab.

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This could maybe specify that.

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As a member of the Labs team, you'll break down complex hardware testing and blah, blah,

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blah. Yeah. So it's just not in the title, but anyways, that's fine.

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And then also a full-time testing coordinator. Come join us.

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We need help. That's one way of putting it.

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Yeah. What a pitch. It'll be great.

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It'll be awesome. You'll like it.

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Being needed is good. There's chips.

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There is, actually. Yeah.

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Sometimes. Sometimes the box is empty.

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Sometimes there's chips. You never know. It's like a loot box.

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You should enjoy it. It's fun. It gives a sense of pride and accomplishment whenever you get your chips.

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I don't know. I heard we're a horrible company run by a narcissist.

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You wouldn't want to join it. Yeah.

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You only have to work with a narcissist sometimes. Yeah. Was it between testing technician and testing coordinator?

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Well, I would implore you to open their job descriptions that are on the website right

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now, but essentially the test technician is supposed to run the tests and potentially

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contribute towards future test development and pushing testing methodologies forward.

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And the testing coordinator is arranging testing, making sure that we have the resources

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that we need, making sure that we're not overcommitting or undercommitting to different things, communicating

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outside and inside the department, making sure things keep moving, etc.

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How do you survive with that much weird?

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He lifts, bro. He lifts his lanyard.

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It is a lot of stuff. I need it, though. I literally use all those keys frequently.

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I don't know. Oh, you didn't give me a microphone?

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It's a passenger seat and I give you extra stuff.

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Beautiful. Water balls, tech sacks. So the next time you can just be like, oh, yeah, I have this in the trunk of my car or

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whatever. Nice. That's actually, I will probably use that.

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Sweet. Don't worry about it. It's fine.

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Just stealing all your stuff. Oh.

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I am robbing you. You know, sometimes you do tech upgrades with people and they're like, oh, no, I didn't

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steal anything. I stole from you. I took your things and I kept them.

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I'm honestly just not really paying attention to what I've ever been talking about.

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He's had enough of both of our crap over the years that he's just like, you guys are

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just stupid. I don't think you're stupid.

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We're not stupid, but we're big dumb idiots. I don't think you're stupid.

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Damn, he knows. So rude.

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He knows. Yeah. Someone's asking, where's the modded 5090 video and I don't see it on the release schedule.

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Hopefully, hopefully we do release that soon though.

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I was honestly surprised it wasn't a priority.

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Well, editing is a thing.

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No. Just, just, just live stream everything.

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I mean, be profitable.

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Dude, the CPMs are so much higher on live.

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Oh, yeah. No, I know. It's crazy.

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It's crazy. It's crazy. One of my, you know, for the Disney activity, did you do the Disney activities?

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Were you on a team? Where the hell are all of these like videos?

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Like I've been, I've been reviewing videos that are done.

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Like how does LMG make money is done?

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How is that not on the release schedule? They want, they want a fat backlog, dude.

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Oh, that makes sense. Thick backlog.

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That makes sense. Okay.

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That makes sense.

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Remaking our most hated video is going up this weekend.

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Oh, nice. Oh, sweet.

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Cool. Wicked. There it is, boys.

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Oh, they never got me to, I haven't seen my segment in that.

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That's good. Yeah. Nice.

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I one-taked it. It's good. That was one shot.

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The whole thing. It's good. You did great.

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Remaking our most hated video. It's going to be great. Do you like me throwing the bag at Elijah?

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Yes. Yeah, it was good. That's in a different video though.

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That's in the, how does LMG make money? Yeah, we've got an update for you guys.

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It's going to be, it's going to be a good one. We break down what's changed in the last four years.

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We're on a four year cadence. We did in 2016. We did in 2020.

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And then we did it in 2025, but with 2024 numbers.

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So it's like, you've got numbers four years apart. So it's kind of, it's kind of cool seeing how it changes over time as the business

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changes. Can I help you, Mr. Nick?

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I saw that some people are buying stuff.

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Yeah. People are excited about tax, tax write-off sale.

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Tax write-off sale. Tariff write-off sale.

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Let's go. When's the, when's the new potential drop date?

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Well, depends on, I want to get to detail.

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Cool. But like, some of them they say are going to have the next week, but others that are

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more impactful to us today are, let's just say staffing has not increased in the

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way they would need to.

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That's our assumption, but we'll see that.

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Yeah. Okay. So basically one way or another, if you get your order in now, it's locked.

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So. Free shipping.

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The one who is boned is us. Free shipping.

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If something goes wrong. Hey, Dan. Oh, I see.

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So that's how we're going to handle the tariff stuff is if we just, if we ship late, we just eat it.

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I mean, for now. At some point we might have to make pricing adjustments if our costs go up.

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No, but I mean, I mean for this sale. For this sale, you are locking it in.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Dan, I think our, our head thing zoom thing could be adjusted a little bit.

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I see a lot of table down here and I see a lot of extra space could be zoom it a bit.

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Did someone change something or am I drunk?

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Okay. Hold on. Let me get into my, let me get into my exact spot.

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Okay. This is my spot where I will be for the next two and a half to four hours.

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How did Wancho get so long? What if just to throw them for a loop, we did a reasonable length Wancho.

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They'd hate that. I'd be pissed.

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It's amazing how like the second you give people something, if you stop giving it to

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them, they're angry, but if you'd never given it to them in the first place, they wouldn't

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have cared or noticed. They're actually pissed that you even mentioned it, looking at chat.

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It's this flow plane chat.

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They're so unreasonable. I mean, they're great. We love you, but.

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They're generally, they're actually, unless you're talking about Firefox, they're genuinely

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pretty usually reasonable. Yeah. That looks good to me.

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Thank you, Mr. Daniel Besser. I just don't know who he is, but I know his name.

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Whomst? Whomst. Whomst B, Mr. Daniel Besser.

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Let's just explain to drug addiction.

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That's pretty good.

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All right. Should we do this thing? Like, are you ready?

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No. I think I'm ready. You're not ready?

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No. Okay. Are you bluey?

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Yeah. Greeny? A little bit.

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Yellowy? Yes. Not blacky?

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No. I can tell.

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Oh. We talked about this before the show.

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Apparently the hard are. Oh, it's trending again.

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It's trending again. Hard.

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Kind of funny. Yeah.

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Kind of funny. I didn't know this, but apparently other people at the company have noticed.

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Oh, yeah. Someone linked me to it. Basically, it's like blowing up in so it's probably it's blowing up on other platforms

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I'm assuming. Yeah. Not YouTube. Yeah.

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YouTube had its day. Yeah. No, it's on Instagram, I think.

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JacobM10 says it's always on my mind.

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Any publicity is good publicity, right? Right?

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I think with that one, it might be fine because like we made it out of it and it came out like

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pretty clearly that it was just a mistake. So like, yeah.

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PhilAge says the world's pretty grim right now. Is there any chance for a hot take that can distract us all and cause some controversy

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for a while? No.

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No, I think not.

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We've done that service too many times.

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Yeah. I don't know. I've talked about this.

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I think another big controversy with us is actually becoming less and less likely as

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we survive each one and it just like turns out to be pretty much a nothing burger every

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time. The audience is learning the pattern. Yeah.

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I think they're figuring out that like, oh my God, this again, okay, sure.

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And I think that I'm just going to have to accept at some point that there is a contingent

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of some several tens or hundreds of thousands of people that hate my guts for some reason

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or another because I said that for ad blocking is piracy essentially or that warranties are

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only as valid as the company's willingness to fulfill them hard truths and that's just

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going to be the way that it is and I think that's just going to be the way that it is forever.

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Sorry. Someone in the following chat said have a hard R discount sale 10% off anything that

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ends in ER.

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I lost the name of who said that. I keep forgetting sometimes I forget to show the name, but I apologize.

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No, don't give them attention. I apologize. Do you remember that was?

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I'm not. I'm not. You're not.

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You're messaging no one. We're not doing that.

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Actually, that'd be a lot of things commuter. It's a lot of things. It's a lot of things.

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Scribe driver, screwdriver. I found it. I found it.

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It's like most things. Is it really? Well, I think so.

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Sweater. Scribe driver, screwdriver. Anything scribe driver or screwdriver based?

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Sweater. Yeah. Okay.

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That's a lot of stuff. OG backpack would be a backpack rain cover.

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Okay. The cover, but not the backpack itself.

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Yeah. Yeah. The canceled sale.

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Yeah. That's what happens because it was canceled.

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It's skype officially shutting down in two months.

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Yeah. The four users still on that will be sad for about four seconds until they install Discord

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and then it's fine. They played the call jingle on the radio and it was very nostalgic.

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That makes sense. Okay.

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Should we do this thing? Sure. All right.

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Let's do this thing. Oh, my goodness. There's a few merge messages coming in today.

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This is what I get for standing up for five minutes. Got them.

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That's entirely your fault. Your COO took me out of the room.

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I'm deflecting. It's my fault. I'm sorry, sir.

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Sounds like your problem. Maybe Dan just needs to try harder.

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I left to go talk to Nick like. I don't think that's his title.

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Is it not? I wouldn't worry about it right now. It's okay.

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Oh. Well, he's Nick.

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Thanks, Jordan. Okay. He is definitely Nick.

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He's definitely Nick.

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Nick with the heads that get the big vest and Oxford shirt sale price showing correctly.

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What is that? No. I mean.

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It will. Don't worry about it. Okay.

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Sorry. I just got to sign into a thing real quick here.

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That is correct. Glimmer D.

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The record. Those sales are going live at the beginning of the non pre-show WAN Show.

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Okay. I'm resuming the selected. You all ready?

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Yeah. Are you good?

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What is up everyone? Welcome to the WAN Show. Such a mellow introduction.

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Well, we've got a great show lined up for you guys today and I don't want to, you know,

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scare anybody off. Welcome to the WAN Show.

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You can be my hero AMD man.

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The RX 9070 and 9070 XT announcement, I have to admit, I completely forgot to make fun

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of the silly naming scheme because these cards look genuinely exciting.

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I can't wait to talk about that. I'm also going to be talking about my recent transition to macOS Luke.

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I am not having a good time. I had a meeting in the office next to his while he was, as far as I can tell, just using

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his computer. No, I was trying to. And it was incredibly distracting because he was screaming like half the time, wait,

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that was with you. Yeah. That was with Dan.

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So Dan remembers that. That was a lot of yelling.

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What do you mean he remembers it? It was like two days ago. Yeah, I know.

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I only got about 96 hours and then it just fades. What else we got lined up today?

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Oh.

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We didn't have a huge thing before the intro, so I didn't prep anything at all.

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More companies are apparently releasing the source code for video games.

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Oh, this is so cool. Yeah. So you release source code for four command and conquer games.

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That is so cool. That was not on my estimates for what would happen this year.

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It's called a bingo card. Sure. There we go.

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What else should we talk about? Plotty hell, Luke.

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I'm looking. I'm going to just roll it.

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I'm going to you're going to lose your shot. Whatever this is, Shionic launches new advanced ability, the hand for humans and robots,

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question mark, whatever that is.

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The show is brought to you today by ThreatLocker.

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That's right. There is one sponsor for the WAN Show.

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ThreatLocker.com slash WAN Show. You can check them out.

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ThreatLocker. They are, it's like a WAN Show takeover.

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I mean, we also still have our chair sponsor secret lab and our wrap partner, Dbrand.

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But ThreatLocker is the one sponsor of this WAN Show today.

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We have a special read for them and I think Luke is doing it or something.

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Sure. Cool. Nice.

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Let's get right into our first topic. Okay. Do we do line of switches to macOS or should we talk about the Radeon RX9070 and 9070XT?

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Let's save the rage for later. Let's talk about AMD.

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This morning, yes, this morning, AMD announced that the 9070 and 9070XT, and yes, I've said

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those model numbers a lot of times because I'm trying to burn them into your mind.

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These are the option that you might actually be able to buy.

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Launching March 6th with what AMD called, dang it, I can't find the exact wording, but

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it was something along the lines of wide availability, which I think means that they walk endlessly

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down hallways and they get wider and wider as they go.

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They are going to be coming in at pricing that AMD claims will be 549 and 599 respectively

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and are going to use their brand new RDNA for architecture that they are claiming is

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about 40% faster per CU than RDNA 3.

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They are alleging near native quality in performance mode with their new FSR4 upscaling and both

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of these cards will have 16 gigs of RAM at their 549 and 599 pricing respectively.

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This is pretty exciting, well at least one of them is pretty exciting.

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The 9070 looks like AMD is doing that thing again where they launch a new series of cards

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and they have the one that makes sense and then they have the one that you'd have to

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be a big dumb idiot to buy. I hope they have like 50 XTs for every non-XT because...

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And then it doesn't sell at all and then AMD is like...

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What? That was our plan all along.

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Um, 9070s now 20% off discount.

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Woo! AMD, if anyone from there is watching, maybe just don't do that.

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That'd be pretty sick. I do understand the appeal, like I understand why they're doing it because it's possible

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that with the market being the way that it is and availability of GPUs being what they

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are, that 9070s will just sell out regardless and they can make some money on this one while

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the XT is sort of their more aggressive play.

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So I get that. I follow that logic. I also follow the logic that your XT, there's a lot more risk to like discounting it in

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the longer term in terms of the perception of your brand.

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If a bunch of people buy this thing for $5.99 and then it turns out that you ultimately

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have to adjust the pricing of it down the road, it's kind of like an FU to your flagship

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to your customers, whereas the 9070 can be kind of like your s*** kicker skew.

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You just like discount it without eroding the perceived value of what XT means in your

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lineup. You get to show a big discount because it's $5.49 MSRP and you can get it for $4.99, you

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know, the MSI trio card, whatever, right?

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I understand why they do it, but guys, we saw this with

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the 7900 XT and the 7900 XTX.

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The XTX got really positive reviews because at $1,000 at that time, that made a lot of

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sense and then the XT for $100 less was way less performant.

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And that's a weird thing that the flagship gives you the better bang for the buck than

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the like step down, supposed to be more value oriented card.

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And I do understand that these probably use the same die.

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Like my understanding is that with our DNA4, AMD dramatically cut down on how many dies

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they were building. They didn't even do a super high end competitor.

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I don't know what they have coming in the lower end, but they basically were like, okay,

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we need to focus this generation on the cards that we think are going to address the majority

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of gamers. Okay, so these are probably based on the same die.

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They're both using a 256 bit bus.

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They both have a similar number of CUs. Like there's no way they have two dies, one that's 64 and one that's 56.

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This is going to be, 9070 is a cut down 9070 XT.

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So I understand too that from a pricing standpoint, they essentially paid the same for this silicon,

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right? I don't care.

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You need to have product stratification that makes sense.

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And looking at these specs, the 9070 is going to be a much lesser card compared to the 9070

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XT. It is clocked like, what, 85% as high?

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That's off the top of my head. So don't, don't quote me on that, but it's, it, it drops like over 10% of the AI accelerators.

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It drops over 10% of your ray tracing accelerators and drops over 10% of your compute units.

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And it's giving you a price that is, hold on a second, calculator.

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Okay. So 549 divided by 599.

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It only drops like eight and a half percent of the price.

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This is going to be a markedly slower card.

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So AMD, please, please no, new media engine looks good.

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Very excited about that. It could possibly be like doable to stream to Twitch on this thing.

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Um, AMD is offering unlimited encodes, dreams and sessions, which, um, okay, I have, okay,

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hold on, we'll get to that. So I was talking to someone from the writing team and they were basically saying, well,

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does this really matter? Because realistically, you're going to run into a limit, like a, like a performance limitation

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before you're going to run into a session limitation.

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And what I said was, okay, you would think that, but if you're only encoding like relatively

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low bit rate, 1080p, or even like 720p, like if you're using this thing for like, um, I

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don't know, like I ran into this issue when I was setting up the cameras at that badminton

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club during COVID when I wanted to watch my son's tournaments.

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So I set up cameras on all the courts and I set up like an OBS box that would, that

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would stream them all simultaneously. And NVIDIA cards, even though I had, because I was encoding at relatively low resolution

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and bit rate, I had plenty, plenty of headroom in terms of performance.

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But because of the encoding session limit, I wasn't able to encode that many streams

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at once. So it is pretty cool to me that AMD basically goes, okay, yeah, like realistically, if you're

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encoding at 8K, 80 FPS or whatever, you'll get one, effectively your limit is one.

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But if you're encoding at a lot less, hey, you can just kind of like decide.

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I prefer this. I'm just surprised. I'm very surprised.

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Yeah. I mean, AMD doesn't have a functioning professional card lineup anymore.

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So like they're not going to chew out their own markets. So what's the point?

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So I guess, I guess that's part of it. But like, yeah, I'm into it, especially if the quality is decent.

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Like I had to do this whole stupid workaround. I had to find like a hacked driver that unlocked it on Windows.

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I think it's easier on Linux, but I was running Windows because I was deal with it.

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And it was just, it was just such a hassle.

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And so just not having to do that would be great.

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AMD is also claiming that their driver support for these new cards will be the best they've

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ever had. Have they claimed this before? Oh, yeah.

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I mean, I don't know if they've claimed it at launch before.

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Do you remember the Crimson drivers? He remembers the Crimson drivers.

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This is why I asked the question. AMD, I believe it was Crimson because they had a couple like like driver rebrands over

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the years back when they didn't have any new hardware.

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And I think it was Crimson that they like tried to get us to make a dedicated LTT video

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about. And I was like, brother, we don't, we don't cover a driver update, but tell you what.

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And then I was like, Luke, do you want to like look? I think it crashed like multiple times in the one day you were looking at it or something

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like that. I don't remember the exact details. I don't remember the exact details, but I remember it was, it was rough.

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Yeah. It was a hot steaming pile of garbage.

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But they say they've tested more hardware configurations in the lab.

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They've got AI integrated into their testing and a bug report tool directly in the driver.

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Their dedicated AI hardware looks pretty impressive based on what they've shown.

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However, the rumors of a 32 gig version of the card have been squish squashed.

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That doesn't mean that they will never do it, but it does mean that we're not going

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to be expecting it anytime immediately.

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What else we got here? Reception has been massively positive to this card.

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I mean, it's hard to be upset when AMD is promising roughly 50 70 TI performance for

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$150 less. And they are claiming wide availability.

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There it is. Okay. So that's in our notes.

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Wide availability, which just do it.

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They have to do it.

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That was the most pathetic slap that I have ever seen in my life.

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You're going to go. You're going to go. Well, you got to make a sound at least.

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Well, with the headphones on, I can't really do it. That was so sad. I'll go if you want.

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You have to make a sound. Oh, ow.

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That was not going. That's my punishment.

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That's my punishment for believing AMD about stock of AMD.

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It actually expected that to hurt.

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That was really. All right.

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That sounded like a real one. Good job. And, but I do, do you know why?

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Because we saw ads for this card weeks ago, AMD intended to launch this weeks ago.

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What it seems like is they put it back in the oven driver wise, right?

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But the way that the way that production out time allocation works, just because they delayed

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the launch because they were working on the software.

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That doesn't mean that they stop making wafers.

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That doesn't mean they stop producing cards.

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So we know that they were planning to launch this weeks ago.

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We know that retail cards have been popping up already in the lead up to this launch like

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a while ago, like a while ago. So I believe, and I deserved that for believing it, but I believe that AMD actually has some

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cards out there for a change. And I am cautiously excited.

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I don't believe that because I should.

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I believe that because I really, really, really, really, really, really want to.

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I hope, yeah. I wonder what their expectations for sales are though.

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Like. I don't know. What if this, I don't necessarily know that it will because there's a lot of brand loyalty

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in this space. Oh, a lot. But say it goes gangbusters, like, do they really have enough even if they've been shipping

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for a while? I don't know because they have to make up not only for AMD customers who have been itching

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for an upgrade to, you know, their 7700 XT or like, you know, 6700 class card, right?

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Or like a 5700 XT, like desperately waiting for AMD to really have like a killer card.

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That's a great value, right? Yeah. They not only have to deal with that pent up demand, but they have to deal with the pent

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up demand of NVIDIA gamers who are like, yo, where the fuck is anything for me to buy?

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And that's like 85% of the market.

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So unless AMD went like all in and produced 10 X of what they would have normally forecasted.

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That's why I'm saying like, I don't know. They might have shipped like more than you would expect for a launch and it's still might

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not be enough and still might lead into scalping because like there's nothing from the other

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side. So I don't know. Yeah.

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And it's not, it's not just scalpers, right? Like don't kid yourself.

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Mining is still a thing. Yeah. Like I've seen so many people be like, yeah, it's all the AI, okay, don't kid yourself.

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Mining is a lot less popular these days, but it's still absolutely happening.

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Yeah. And the contacts that are, you know, getting miners access to these cards before the general

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public are still able to intercept them. If anything, I would think there's less scrutiny on them than before.

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So unless AMD like really is going to flood the market with these things, I would still

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expect pricing to be a little bit elevated, but I'm just hoping that it won't be extremely

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elevated. And with that said, I mean, hope, what does, what does hope even do for you?

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I mean, I've been, I've been bugging Intel on like an every few days or so basis going

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like, you know, hey, you know, what's the deal with channel pricing?

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Hopefully this can be fixed. Hey, inventory update, are you ramping production?

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Do you have any idea of what's going on with supply? Because B580 and B570 to a lesser degree, but B580 was looking like a savior for entry

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level, you know, affordable gaming. You know what?

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It's still somewhat reasonable. You know, what is, what is MSRP supposed to be?

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$250. Yeah. It's not $250.

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They're all closer to like just under 300 from the last time that I, oh, this is Canadian.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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There's your problem. And, and there are still, there are still occasional cards that you can find for close

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to MSRP. I saw something that I think Canada computers for about 370 CAD or 380 CAD, which is about

427
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:24,880
$250 US dollars. I also saw some B580s on New Egg that come as part of a bundle, but are darn close to

428
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,600
MSRP when you account for, oh, it's out of stock now, bloody hell.

429
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,820
Well, this deal was in stock recently.

430
00:35:31,820 --> 00:35:38,760
So it was a B580 with a 650 watt power supply for $334 US dollars.

431
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,480
That is actually not that far off, but no, the rest of them are all, man, some of them

432
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:49,080
are even over 400 now. Here's one. Channel pricing has been such a mess like across the board.

433
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:55,440
Oh, this one's $359, which is, again, it's too high when the MSRP is $250.

434
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,440
Wasn't that $370? Oh, there's promo code. Oh.

435
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,760
Yeah. For $20 bucks off.

436
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:07,280
I need AMD now, you know, I was rooting for Intel, Intel's still figuring out their

437
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:15,880
inventory apparently. So now I'm rooting for AMD to just flood the channel and make it unsustainable for the

438
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,240
other players to be priced way out of whack.

439
00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:24,840
This is an opportunity for AMD to grab some serious market share, which will get developers

440
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:30,000
to seriously focus on optimizing for AMD, which could lead to gamers taking AMD more

441
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:36,040
seriously as an option, turning AMD finally into a player for the first time since like,

442
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:45,360
what? Really two thousands, if we're being honest, into like, like an actual other option, not

443
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,680
a like, consolation option. Yeah.

444
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:53,280
Yeah, for sure. I mean, honestly, I haven't minded, I haven't minded rolling my 7900 XTX.

445
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,160
I don't, I don't always game on that machine, right?

446
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:02,720
Like I also have my 380 like land rig that's one of the like water cooled ones, but I haven't

447
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:07,360
had any problems with it. Like the, the Radeon challenge wasn't really a challenge.

448
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:17,240
Come on, let's go. What else we got to say here about the launch, the community continues to be very vocal about

449
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:24,120
disliking frame generation technology. Lots of fake frames comments in the chat when AMD was live streaming their announcement.

450
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:33,200
You also can't go without it though. They can't launch the card without it. Like it's you gotta have it with that said, you know, frame gen is part of the FSR four

451
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:41,080
package. So, um, yeah, be ready for AMD to do some, some, some, some generation of frames.

452
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,320
I guess all that we can really hope for is that they'll do a pretty good job.

453
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:49,440
And that you won't need it if you don't like it.

454
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:58,960
Cause I think that's something that a lot of the enthusiasts are struggling with a little bit.

455
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:04,120
I think that it is really easy for us to take our own values and our own priorities and

456
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:13,480
just kind of assume that everyone else's are the same. But when I think about the gamers in my life, not all of them are enthusiasts.

457
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,240
Not all of them are pixel peepers. Most of them aren't.

458
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:22,240
Most of the people that I know, if I were to put an extra 40 milliseconds of input

459
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:26,040
latency on something, they probably wouldn't notice.

460
00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:33,720
Yep. If I were to have some weird image quality crap going on, unless it flickers or draws

461
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:39,600
the eye in some like lizard brain, or unless I say, even if I set them looking for it,

462
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:45,520
dude, sometimes they'll turn on HDR and people be like, sorry, did you change it yet?

463
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,880
Like I, and I'm talking like content that like really pops, you know, and, and that's

464
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:55,160
the thing, right? So, you know, to our audience, we're kind of going, okay, how does this perform, you

465
00:38:55,160 --> 00:39:00,240
know, without frame gen? But for a lot of people turning on frame gen and like feeling that additional

466
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:04,560
smoothness and just seeing a higher number is going to be, is going to be fine.

467
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:09,240
Dude, like I'll always remember that like slack jawed guy in the beanbag chair that

468
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:14,480
I talked to at PAX one year who was gaming on an NVIDIA shield, like the little, the

469
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:19,680
little clamshell Android handheld, not the, like the TV console, the little clamshell

470
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,280
thing. And he was streaming over Wi-Fi from a gaming PC that was somewhere else on the

471
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,400
show floor, playing like a triple A game on this thing.

472
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:33,680
And I'm like, oh yeah, like how's the latency? He's like, uh, yeah, that's cool, man.

473
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:38,960
Like he absolutely zero appreciation whatsoever for like what he was seeing like

474
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:46,360
that and, and that, you know, whatever. Like I'm sure he's really passionate about like cars or something, but obviously, you

475
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,440
know, the image quality of like the gaming experience is, is not that meaningful.

476
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:55,000
And so frame gen is here to stay.

477
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:03,760
You don't have to use it. You don't have to like it. You don't have to endorse it, you know, but it's, it's not, it's not going anywhere.

478
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,040
NVIDIA is invested. AMD is now invested.

479
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:12,280
It's a matter of time before Intel has something. Uh, do they, wait, do they have frame gen as part of XCSS too?

480
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:16,120
I don't think so. XCSS frame gen.

481
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,720
Uh, oh, yeah. No, they have frame generation already. There you go. Yeah, I forgot about that.

482
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:26,200
So XCSS two has frame gen. So all three major graphics players are invested in frame gen.

483
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,520
It's not going anywhere, but you don't have to turn it on.

484
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,840
I suspect that the least invested in frame gen is probably Intel.

485
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:40,000
I don't know. XCSS is pretty good. We were playing around with it the other day and it's like, our, that video is coming.

486
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,920
Actually, we're doing, uh, we're doing a battle mage challenge. Yeah. So both, this is hilarious.

487
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,160
Both David and Ploof are switching to battle mage.

488
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,480
I was going to do it, but you wanted the, the shot.

489
00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:57,080
I didn't want anything. Oh, they told me you wanted it. What did I want?

490
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,320
Us to have our computers in here locally for the GPU swap.

491
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,560
And I was like, I don't have time to tear everything down. That was a Ploof initiative. Oh, yeah.

492
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,880
I agree with him that like, like, it is probably better than just like cell

493
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,240
phone shooting at home. Yeah. The, like, the, the, like it was supposed to be the framing of the video is

494
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:16,160
probably everybody brings in their computers and upgrades together. But like, uh, yeah, no, no, that's fine.

495
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,720
I was like, okay, then Luke doesn't have to do it. Uh, but yeah, Ploof and David are doing it.

496
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:25,840
So Ploof, well, first of all, David is pulling a 7,900 XT out of one of his

497
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,960
computers and a 30 90 out of the other one.

498
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:35,880
Oh, he's doing two. He's doing two because, and he was like, yeah, he felt it wouldn't be fair to

499
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:40,440
upgrade only legit. That's very legit because he does so much of his gaming in his living room now.

500
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,760
That's cool. On his four KTV.

501
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:50,760
Oh yeah. Anywho. Um, so, so he's realistically going to be using upscaling, right?

502
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,800
Like there's, there's no way he's gaming at four K natively on that thing.

503
00:41:53,800 --> 00:42:01,600
So it's, it's upscale city. And then Ploof is pulling his 40 90 out and his monitor, which he owns by the way.

504
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,280
He owns a monitor. He does own a monitor.

505
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,400
One of those fancy four K to 40 Hertz displays from Alienware.

506
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:15,160
Uh, so that's something that he'll be driving with a B five 80.

507
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,400
So he's going to need all the fake upscaling nonsense that he can get.

508
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,400
So he hates that stuff. Intel's kind of climbing uphill with this one, I think.

509
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:28,880
Yes. But what I like about both of those guys as participants here is unlike me, they

510
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,960
play a wide variety of games. So we are likely to, you know, find some edge cases.

511
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,920
Oh, wow. It was actually fine in this one. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

512
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:41,080
And I got to say, you're going to see this in the video, obviously, once we

513
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:46,760
upload it, but both of them were quite impressed by what they could achieve with

514
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:52,240
it when we did our quick test here in the studio before they embark on the 30

515
00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:55,680
day B five 80 challenge. Good cards, man. They are good.

516
00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:03,400
They're legitimately good. Yeah. I just wish they were actually 250 bucks because then you could build a sick entry

517
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:08,440
level gaming PC for like 500, 600 dollars and it would put up, it would put

518
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,320
downward pricing pressure on basically everything else in the market.

519
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:16,800
We just need these bloody cards to be available. Still not getting a response on that.

520
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaking of 30 day challenges.

521
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:26,000
I, oh, wait, I think we have to do a sponsor spot.

522
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,280
This is another topic. Put that away. I think we have to do a sponsor spot.

523
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,600
Put that away. It's gross. Get out of here. Okay.

524
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,240
What are we supposed to do? We're going to sponsor spot. Okay.

525
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,720
I am doing this one. Are you playing the thing? Am I? Am I? Am I? I'm starting to talk. It's got, it's got a read.

526
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:48,600
I have no idea. Do I do it? I think I'm doing it. I don't know. Okay. If we didn't, I thought, well, I thought Luke, I thought it was a special

527
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,680
Luke one. Yeah, I can do it. It doesn't matter. Okay. This one is either of us.

528
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,600
The second one I think is me. Oh, super secret segment.

529
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,880
Okay. No, not that. Okay. Let's get the sponsor spot done.

530
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531
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Oh, look at you. Is your hand hovering over that phishing email again?

532
00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:13,000
Okay, Dennis, that is not how that works. The screen doesn't explode and break.

533
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:18,520
You're pretty sick of it. Did. Or did an employee get tricked into clicking a malicious file?

534
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553
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554
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555
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Super secret segment. Shh.

556
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,960
It's a secret. Luke and Dan. Don't tell Linus. I literally have no idea what this is.

557
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:08,480
What are you guys talking about? Just, just me. What's going on?

558
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:13,960
Sherrod is here and Nick is here. Yeah, we have a special delivery that a friend is going to come in and deliver

559
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:18,720
to you right the second. So if you want to come in and pass it over, let's make sure the camera

560
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:21,720
can can see what you're looking at here.

561
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,600
I genuinely have no idea. It says Source Luke.

562
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,240
What? Yeah, but I don't know what it says. Source Luke right here.

563
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,000
And then I don't know.

564
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,720
You knew about it at one point, but you probably forgot. Oh, that's OK.

565
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:44,960
I believe you, but I have I have zero memory of what this is.

566
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:51,440
Sorry, who knew about it at some point? He did or I? Apparently I did. Yeah, you did, but I didn't know you have no idea for you.

567
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:54,880
I don't know. No, I'm good. OK.

568
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,600
Whoa. Does it have money in it?

569
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,120
Oh, yeah, I don't. OK, yeah.

570
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,480
Oh, it's finally here.

571
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:11,280
Oh, that's so cool. Wait, why does it have the name picture on it?

572
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:18,320
Oh, it's from Dbrand. Wait, why does Dbrand have our million order thing?

573
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:22,440
What does that have to do with anything? They hacked the postal system. They hacked the postal system.

574
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,080
What? What is this? Oh, my God.

575
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,080
What is this? That's for the lights. What are you told for the lights?

576
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:33,280
OK, OK, so there's a whole it's a whole thing. OK, all right, thank you.

577
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,840
BetterLTTstore.com. Yeah, Dbrand bought that domain a while back as the big nerds.

578
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:44,800
Ow, my fingers. Oh, that is so cool.

579
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:51,440
This is it, guys. This is the Shopify equivalent of a YouTube play button.

580
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:59,480
Much more exclusive, though. Congratulations, LTT Store, on reaching one million orders.

581
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,240
December 30th, 2024.

582
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,360
Wow, it's it's fricking solid metal, at least it.

583
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,920
I mean, it's got some solid metal in it. No, there's got to be.

584
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:14,520
Oh, yeah, no, it's hollow metal. But it's metal. It's it's definitely some metal.

585
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,640
Dude, that is so cool. Really, really cool.

586
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,840
I'm going to put it on my wall. No, you have to leave that one here.

587
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:25,000
I have to leave. What do you mean? I have to leave this one here. We have a cardboard one for you to take home.

588
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,600
What do you mean cardboard one? No, I want a gold one.

589
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,720
Can I get a gold one? I want a gold one. Can you can spray paint the cardboard?

590
00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:35,240
What's that? Here's yours. What's that? These are yours.

591
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:39,080
What's going on? You don't have to open it. What?

592
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:43,320
Oh, they're in the box. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, it's not just a cardboard.

593
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:47,160
Oh, it's going to get the Sharpie.

594
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:52,440
OK, well, he's opening it anyways. You guys want unboxing version two?

595
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:57,000
This is in ShortCircuit. Boxing peanuts, let's go.

596
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:00,960
Free snacks. I can't open it. Don't hurt your elbow again.

597
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,480
You've been doing cardio activities at the gym, but maybe it's time to incorporate.

598
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:08,560
We don't give Linus wireless things. Oh, wow. Why is the tape so fine?

599
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:12,840
You break it, smart guy. It's just going to shear it in half.

600
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,400
A shock if I call it. I softened it up for him.

601
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,640
That was nothing, dude. I loosened it up. I can give you a routine.

602
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,680
You have the shoulder injury. It'll be OK. It'll be nice to have. So why?

603
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:27,840
Where's this ARM? Oh, yeah. Linus, you're weak. I loosened it up for him.

604
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,440
OK.

605
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,640
What's in here? It could be packing peanuts everywhere.

606
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:44,000
Could be different. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God, the packing peanuts are everywhere.

607
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:48,720
I'll clean them up later. It's OK. What's this?

608
00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:52,440
What's this? Hold on. There's two things in here.

609
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,760
OK, all right. More than two things. Oh, yeah. There's some other stuff.

610
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:01,000
Oh, we get the whole unboxing experience this time.

611
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:06,240
OK, cool, cool, cool. So here you go, guys. This is the box that comes in.

612
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:13,000
Oh, oh. You get a money moves sticker pack.

613
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,880
You get a. Very close to mogul moves. Yeah, I noticed that, actually.

614
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:22,760
You get a whatever the crap this is.

615
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:28,280
I can't tell if I. Oh, yeah. OK, there you go. You get a little milestone card signed

616
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:33,360
by Harley Finkelstein, who, I mean, yeah, sure.

617
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:37,200
Probably less, less controversial than Toby these days.

618
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:44,160
Something special awaits.

619
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:50,000
And what else we got here? Professional unboxer. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

620
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,920
Well, look, normally as a professional unboxer, I have a bloody table to put the thing on.

621
00:50:54,920 --> 00:51:01,720
There you go. There's our silver award. So I asked if, like YouTube, you can pay a little extra

622
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:08,520
and get an additional copy of the award in case your narcissistic CEO needs to have one at his own house.

623
00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:15,040
And the answer, it turns out, was yes. Is it really, you know, a proper award if you have to buy it?

624
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:18,040
I don't know. I think so. I still think so.

625
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,000
How much? How much do we have to pay to get another?

626
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,520
Oh, wow, product care. Look at that.

627
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,920
Wow, what a racket. All right. I don't know.

628
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:34,560
OK, we apparently don't remember. We don't remember how much we paid for it.

629
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:38,160
But there it is. LTT Store, silver and gold, baby.

630
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,520
Do they have a higher tier? Would there have been an amount that you wouldn't have paid?

631
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:45,840
Like, how much would you have not bought it at? I think that's why he probably doesn't know.

632
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:50,520
Yeah, there's nothing. So we reached 100,000 December 20.

633
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,400
Wait, really? Wow, it was exactly four years apart.

634
00:51:54,400 --> 00:52:00,360
December 28, 2020, and then a million December 30, 2024.

635
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:04,640
So how many people have one of these? Does anyone know?

636
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,640
I don't know. You don't know or you're not allowed to say.

637
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,840
Ah, OK. Oh, someone from Shopify is here. OK, cool.

638
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:14,120
Toby's controversial.

639
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,440
And are you allowed to say how many gold people?

640
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:24,680
No. But can you say if it's fewer than YouTube gold play buttons?

641
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:28,680
I would think so. Nice. Yeah. Nice. I would think by a lot, to be honest.

642
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:33,600
Nice. Also, it's OK. I have a terrible boss, too.

643
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:37,480
I mean, I'm not his boss, or whatever. Don't care. Oh, no, he's deflected it.

644
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:42,240
No, it's bad. Technically, that didn't even go to me. And if I am your terrible boss, it wasn't me.

645
00:52:42,240 --> 00:52:45,400
Wait, no. Or you deserved it.

646
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,840
Yeah, we're bad at being narcissists. I forget how it goes.

647
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:53,160
Speak for yourself. I'm great at it. There you go. Thanks, Nick.

648
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,760
All right, cool. Thank you. Shopify.

649
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,600
Oh, thank you very much. Thanks so much. Nice to meet you.

650
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:05,280
Do I still have one? Yeah, OK. So cool. I can't wait to put little shelves on my award

651
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:09,600
wall and put them on it. Oh, that's so cool.

652
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,600
A million freaking orders. That's pretty nuts.

653
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:18,320
Wild dude. Did we have something like less than 100 in 2018?

654
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:22,160
It's come a long way. Yeah, that probably sounds about right.

655
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,920
That's about 100 or 100,000. No, in 2018, like.

656
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:31,880
We started the store, basically. 2019, yeah.

657
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:38,720
Yeah, so it's gone through. As you guys are about to see in the in the 2020.

658
00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:43,760
Nick's holding the other gold one. As you guys are about to see in the.

659
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:47,480
Oh, I was just about to turn it on. There we go. We figured it out.

660
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:52,120
In the how does LMG make money update?

661
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:56,680
Create a warehouse. The LTT Store.

662
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:02,480
Is a lot. I mean, Floatplane has grown in share in the pie.

663
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,920
You guys are going to see that. So massive shout out to the Floatplane team

664
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,080
and our floaters who are watching on Floatplane right now in the live chat.

665
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:13,360
Thank you very much, guys. They have grown.

666
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:18,480
LTT Store has grown a lot.

667
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,760
AdSense makes up a shockingly small amount of our revenue.

668
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,240
Have you seen the pie? Yeah. You've seen the pie chart? I'm not going to show you guys the pie chart.

669
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:29,840
I think it's going to be genuinely stunning for people

670
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:34,080
that don't do this. I think it's going to be genuinely stunning for our YouTube

671
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:39,240
contacts to realize how little of our company's revenue

672
00:54:39,240 --> 00:54:44,320
comes from AdSense. I think that depending on who you talk to at YouTube,

673
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:49,920
they think they swing a really big dick in terms of their

674
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:54,080
effectiveness for creator monetization. Some of them get it.

675
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:58,640
And there are other ones that are like, yeah, no, no, we know.

676
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,800
We know and we're figuring out how to kind of work on it.

677
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:06,120
But I've had conversations there. Stuff like shopping is a step in the right direction.

678
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:10,720
Absolutely. I mean, that's something I've been pushing them for for eight,

679
00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:14,840
nine years. Like, hey, guys, you need to get over whatever the ego is

680
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,880
that prevents you from working with other big tech brands.

681
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,440
And you need to just figure this out. You need to just integrate this stuff in the platform.

682
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:27,200
Because TikTok came in and just ate their lunch on it. And so I think there's some of them

683
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:31,640
that are going to figure it out. But there's other ones that I've talked to. And I basically said, hey, yeah, I

684
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:35,480
couldn't help noticing that your monetization

685
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:41,160
efficiency compared to what our business team, who quite

686
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,200
frankly, is great. They work hard.

687
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,200
They're personable. They understand our product. They understand our processes.

688
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:51,840
They build relationships. They do a lot of really good stuff.

689
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:55,640
But every single one of them, we basically just recruited off the street, essentially.

690
00:55:55,640 --> 00:56:00,560
We didn't bring in seasoned industry advertising industry

691
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:06,480
salespeople. They're just guys. They're just a bunch of gamer bros.

692
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,760
The fact that they are so dramatically outperforming

693
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:13,080
from an RPM standpoint, like a revenue per thousand

694
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:17,040
views standpoint, AdSense, to me, means

695
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:22,520
that AdSense is not that great. Not that we are like magic rock stars.

696
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:26,360
To me, it means that if Google just across the board said,

697
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:32,720
hey, yeah, your AdSense bids need to be higher. Do you think it has to do with skippable, like the skip

698
00:56:32,720 --> 00:56:36,640
button on ads and ad blocker?

699
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:44,000
No, because it's, I think it probably partially

700
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,760
contributes, especially on a more tech-savvy channel

701
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:54,120
like ours, where people have the, because I think the percentage of people that are annoyed

702
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,720
by ads is probably the same across a cooking channel

703
00:56:57,720 --> 00:57:01,360
and our channel. But the percentage of people who could take that annoyance

704
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:06,280
and turn it into a piehole deployment is going to be a lot higher for us, right?

705
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:16,040
Well, I think we talked about this in the pre-show. But Firefox very recently mega-fumbled a update to their,

706
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:19,240
what was it, terms and conditions or something.

707
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:23,280
And then their response to mega-fumbling that

708
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:27,120
was also not amazing, even though it sounds like it's

709
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:30,320
probably not a huge deal. Relatable.

710
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,720
Their response was really bad. And what I've seen as a result of this

711
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:38,920
is a lot of people switching from Firefox to Brave

712
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:42,600
and also other people discovering that Brave exists,

713
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,600
like Chrome users seeing the Firefox news cycle and going,

714
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:50,200
oh, what is this Brave thing? And Brave has, as far as my understanding goes,

715
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:54,840
I've never actually used it, has native ad blocking built into the browser.

716
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:59,360
So like, yeah.

717
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:03,600
Yeah, Brave is, they also have, don't they have their like attention token and stuff too?

718
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:08,080
Like, I forget exactly how all of that works. So don't, don't, don't quote me on it.

719
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:12,240
I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, so let's not get into it if we don't sort of fully

720
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:18,440
understand what their model is. But anyway, the point that I was trying to make

721
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:24,360
is just that, you know, to some of the people I talk at,

722
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:29,040
talk to at Google, sometimes it does feel like talking at people, some of the people I talk to at Google,

723
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:33,560
they look at, you know, our business team's ability

724
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,920
to monetize, and they go, well, that's just, you know,

725
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:43,040
your sponsors must be stupid to pay that much. I've literally heard that response from people at YouTube.

726
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:47,520
Whereas others look at that and they go, oh, we're dropping the ball on that sentence.

727
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:51,920
Because we could be doing 5x, 10x, the RPM.

728
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:55,080
Not just in other segments. We know creators in similar segments

729
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,120
that are charging more per like view.

730
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:01,680
Yeah, absolutely. So like, what are you even talking about? Absolutely.

731
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:06,080
And the thing is like, again, I don't want to take anything away from our business team

732
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:10,600
because they work hard and they really do take the time.

733
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:16,720
They take the time to understand the brand. They take the time to understand our voice,

734
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:20,320
and our brand, and our lines in the sand where we're just

735
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,760
like, no, we're not going to do that. We're not going to cross that. They take the time to understand that.

736
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:27,360
They take the time to bridge that gap, and that's work, right?

737
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:34,000
But I also don't think that, you know, none of them have a PhD in ad sales, you know?

738
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:39,440
So I think this is replicatable. I think it could be done if you take the time.

739
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,560
All right, what are we supposed to be talking about? I think whatever we want.

740
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,760
Cool. Oh, you're Mac.

741
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,400
It's time. All right, let's do it.

742
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:07,720
macOS is great, unless you try to use it as a desktop

743
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:12,920
operating system, because my experience using the MacBook

744
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:18,280
actually pretty solid as long as I use it as a MacBook.

745
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,640
But one of the things that I noted on the shopping video

746
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:27,360
where I went through all of my different options was a prevailing sentiment from the audience

747
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:31,600
was Linus, right out of the gate, you are doing this wrong.

748
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:37,920
Nobody buys a Mac mini and a MacBook, like two cheap devices.

749
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:41,840
Anyone with an ounce of sense would buy one good MacBook

750
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:46,560
and then a dock. And so I kind of went, OK, that actually works pretty well

751
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:50,280
for my month experiment, because I don't really need.

752
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,280
Kind of annoying to switch devices. Because I wanted to use my Mac at home as well.

753
01:00:54,280 --> 01:01:00,120
And so what I'm going to go buy, like, three Macs now? No. So no, what I'm going to do is I'm going to deploy the Mac mini

754
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:06,920
at home and then at work, where I carry a backpack, commuter

755
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:11,040
backpack, lttstore.com, where I carry commuter backpack.

756
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:16,880
Anyway, I'm just going to carry my MacBook around. I'm going to dock it in my office and then use it as a laptop.

757
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:21,480
And what's been really nice about that is that I never have to think about charging this thing,

758
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,120
because it charges whenever I'm docked. I've got all my peripherals plugged in.

759
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:29,920
And the whole thing is really seamless, in theory.

760
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:36,240
This is the part where we get into what is just two days of notes

761
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:43,640
and is already, like, two full pages of densely formatted text

762
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:47,560
in my What Things Are Like, Switching to macOS.

763
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:51,440
And you know what? I want to preface this.

764
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:57,560
Calm the f**k down. This segment was helpful when we did the iPhones.

765
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:01,080
I want to preface this by saying, a lot of these things,

766
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:06,040
I haven't even looked into a fix yet. Because right now, what I'm doing is

767
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:11,920
I am experiencing macOS as it is out of the box.

768
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:17,680
OK, well, actually, there are a couple of things I've had to fix already, because I just could not handle it.

769
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:22,600
But for the most part, I haven't even tried to find mitigations yet.

770
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:26,240
So that doesn't mean don't pipe in in the chat

771
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:31,720
with your ideas about how I could fix them. Absolutely, I want to see that, because I

772
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:37,680
want to have the best possible macOS experience. I'm just saying that if I say something that it turns out

773
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:44,240
is not the case, it might be that I had a weird edge case. It might be that I haven't googled it yet.

774
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,240
These are raw notes. They're raw notes.

775
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:50,600
Unlocking with the watch, pretty nice.

776
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:53,960
It's one of those things where, would I buy a watch expressly

777
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:59,080
for that purpose? Absolutely not. But it is pretty convenient to just sit down at my desk,

778
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:03,840
and my computer's unlocked. Because you're close. Yeah, I mean, it's a lot more expensive than a webcam

779
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:08,600
with Windows Hello face recognition. A webcam that's already built in anyways.

780
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:12,720
Well, this uses Touch ID.

781
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:17,640
So you just press the power button. So you just press the power button anyway,

782
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:21,080
unless you dock and then don't press the power button.

783
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:25,960
But then also, managing the screen is a pain in the butt.

784
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,480
Have you used a Mac recently? No. OK, so when?

785
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:34,040
Well, the nice lady that lives across the hall

786
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:39,320
sometimes has computer problems, and she is a Mac, so I try to fix them. But I'm not using it for my own stuff.

787
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:47,680
Did you know that if you plug in an external display and leave this open, you cannot turn this off?

788
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:51,560
The only way to turn it off is to close it and leave it docked.

789
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:55,520
The computer will stay on, and you don't have to configure anything for that behavior.

790
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:59,360
But your only options are mirror and extend.

791
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:03,520
You can't just be like, no. Weird. Be off now.

792
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:07,920
Odd. And, dude, I cannot actually believe

793
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:14,200
that this is still a thing. But the way that it handles resolution configuration,

794
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:17,360
you do not configure a display resolution

795
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:23,760
and then configure scaling. You just set a resolution, and it outputs

796
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:29,240
the native resolution of the display, but scales it as if it were that resolution.

797
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:33,120
Does it at least tell you what the native is?

798
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:39,080
So I've had, I don't know if it's my dock, or if it's just macOS being a giant steaming pile of garbage.

799
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:42,960
Sometimes docks can confuse things. Sometimes when I plug in, it knows

800
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:47,760
that 4K is the maximum. And remembers that the last time I configured it to 4K

801
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:52,720
so that I have lots and lots of screen real estate, and sometimes it comes up with these oddball,

802
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:56,680
Rando resolutions. It doesn't seem to be related to which port, which

803
01:04:56,680 --> 01:05:02,520
are my two ports I plug into. So I'm not ready to make a statement there.

804
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:05,680
Let's go through some of your things. Well, I mean, I am.

805
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:09,960
That's what I'm doing. That's one of them. But what's inconvenient about that

806
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,000
is that say I had a display like my one that I have,

807
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:17,520
which is a 4K 165 Hertz display, or 144 Hertz,

808
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:22,360
or something like that. That's your work desk monitor? Yeah, it's a 42-inch OLED.

809
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:26,560
I only have one. OK. How many monitors do you have at work?

810
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,600
Well, across both my desks. OK, yes. I have three.

811
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,960
OK, so I have one monitor. So calm down.

812
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:40,640
So I have one monitor. It's a nice monitor, but it's one monitor. So on a PC, I would be able to make a choice.

813
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:44,800
Let's say I had a slower, you know, earlier generation HDMI link.

814
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:51,240
I could say, OK, hey, run it at 1080p. Let the display scale, or use like 4 to 1 pixel

815
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:54,640
perfect integer scaling. That's the word I'm looking for.

816
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:58,960
And then run it at 120 Hertz. Or I could say, run it 4K, run it 60 Hertz.

817
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:03,880
I'd rather have the resolution. On a Mac, I cannot find an obvious way to do that.

818
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:08,440
And I will look into it. Someone's sending me a Synaptix product.

819
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,360
Display link graphics. Yeah. OK, I'm going to have to.

820
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:17,600
Who knows? I'm going to have to start making some notes here, guys.

821
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:20,600
Oh, my goodness, Chad's moving too fast.

822
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:24,080
Anyway, on macOS, there's not an obvious way

823
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:28,840
for me to deal with that. And that's pretty frustrating.

824
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:33,720
I can't find an obvious way to even configure 120 Hertz

825
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:38,320
in the first place. Like, my external monitor just runs at 60 Hertz.

826
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:43,000
But I can't tell if that's because the HDMI port on my dock

827
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:50,160
is limited to that or not. So I haven't really looked into that in detail yet.

828
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:54,800
All right, so what else we got here? Oh, my god.

829
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:59,600
OK, this makes me legitimately extremely angry.

830
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:04,680
So Luke, go ahead and scroll this document in a way

831
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:07,800
that you would, you know, two fingers on the trackpad, you know, like you would.

832
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:13,960
OK, that feels right, right? OK, so that is Apple's natural scrolling, right?

833
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:18,240
So where up is down and down is up, like it was a touchscreen.

834
01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:21,880
OK. OK. And that's the default behavior.

835
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:25,440
But if you haven't used a Mac in a while, you might not know this.

836
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:29,200
If you plug in a mouse, it's the same.

837
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:32,880
Down is up and up is down on the scroll wheel,

838
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,360
which, no, is not how that's ever worked in the history

839
01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:41,280
of anything other than on Apple's touch mice.

840
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,480
OK, you can change that. No problem.

841
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:49,320
You can change that. You can change it from natural to not natural.

842
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:53,040
But if you change the toggle for your mouse,

843
01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:57,880
it changes it for your touchpad. And if you change it for your touchpad,

844
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:01,720
it changes it for your mouse. Oh, my god.

845
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:02,200
Why?

846
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:10,640
That's pretty cool. Why? They are not the same thing.

847
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:14,640
People are pointing out you can use linear mouse or another free software.

848
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:20,160
It won't toggle both. Yes, I will note that down, and I will use that.

849
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:23,920
I should not have to do that.

850
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:29,240
That should be a thing that just be, and the stupidest part is that if you go into the system

851
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:32,360
settings, they are two completely separate menus.

852
01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:36,360
There's one for trackpad, and when you have a mouse plugged in,

853
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:40,640
the mouse menu appears, and you go in there, and that option is there.

854
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:46,280
They are two separate submenus, but when you change them in one,

855
01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:50,560
it changes it in the other one. I find it kind of interesting because Windows is kind of

856
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:56,640
like last place right now in regards to, in my opinion,

857
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:02,320
how often people do customizations to OS functionality.

858
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:08,320
Not that that's a race that you necessarily want to win, I don't know, but I never really hear people talking

859
01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:13,640
about rain meters more just like stylistic,

860
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:19,200
but there's been a lot of things over the years that you can do to Windows to make it work in different ways,

861
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:26,520
and Linux is obviously somewhat famous for it, but you always hear, like if you express any issue with Mac,

862
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:30,480
people know about some app probably paid that you can get,

863
01:09:30,480 --> 01:09:35,880
that'll solve your problem. It might be like three bucks or something, like it's probably not a huge deal, but damn.

864
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:39,360
I just, I shouldn't need that to do something

865
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:42,400
that Apple literally built the functionality for,

866
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:45,960
but then just decided to half arse it.

867
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:50,280
Oh man, here's one that I had to fix right away.

868
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:54,000
I do think this mouse thing that people are linking,

869
01:09:54,000 --> 01:10:00,000
I think it's free and open source, so that's cool. I installed sensible side buttons on the first day.

870
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:06,320
Sensible side buttons, what does that mean? Because by default, my third party mouse,

871
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:10,480
just a Logitech super light, didn't have back and forward functionality

872
01:10:10,480 --> 01:10:18,440
on the side buttons. They just didn't do anything? It's like, brother, the first mouse I ever owned

873
01:10:18,440 --> 01:10:21,480
with a side button on it to go back in the browser

874
01:10:21,480 --> 01:10:26,400
and in File Explorer and stuff. Worked immediately. I was out in 2000 f***ing three.

875
01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:32,680
That was, I kid you not, 22 years ago.

876
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:39,680
To plug in a mouse and not have it immediately,

877
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:44,720
immediately understand back and forward is,

878
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:49,800
well, insane. It's not sensible. There, that's what I was looking for.

879
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:54,780
It's not sensible. So I have a third party app that will fix that.

880
01:10:54,780 --> 01:10:59,540
Someone says, not even with Logi options installed. I don't care.

881
01:10:59,540 --> 01:11:05,380
No. No other Linux Windows, like f***ing Android.

882
01:11:05,660 --> 01:11:09,420
Okay, you could plug in a mouse and the basic buttons will work.

883
01:11:09,420 --> 01:11:12,740
Yeah, sure, you're like macro functionality or whatever, probably won't.

884
01:11:12,740 --> 01:11:16,100
And you know how sensible side buttons works?

885
01:11:16,100 --> 01:11:18,620
It emulates like a three finger swipe.

886
01:11:19,340 --> 01:11:22,380
Because the functionality doesn't appear to exist

887
01:11:22,380 --> 01:11:28,380
for the mouse in macOS. That's just negligent.

888
01:11:28,380 --> 01:11:34,020
That is negligent. W. Calderini says, Apple really, really, really wants you

889
01:11:34,020 --> 01:11:37,380
to use the Apple mouse and that's nice. And if they want that, then they should build a mouse

890
01:11:37,380 --> 01:11:41,020
that doesn't destroy my wrist. That's not an option for me.

891
01:11:41,020 --> 01:11:45,420
I literally will not use that. Or you need to like help this turtle in order to charge it.

892
01:11:45,420 --> 01:11:47,860
You still have to do that, don't you? Yes.

893
01:11:48,980 --> 01:11:52,300
This is great.

894
01:11:52,300 --> 01:11:56,620
One of my notes says, repeat rate is so slow for keys like backspace.

895
01:11:56,620 --> 01:11:59,060
Oh my God, I need third party software.

896
01:12:00,620 --> 01:12:07,300
Dude, holding down the backspace, excuse me, delete key is infuriating.

897
01:12:07,300 --> 01:12:12,020
I am literally like dying as I wait for the cursor

898
01:12:12,020 --> 01:12:16,540
to norm up all the characters that I've typed. It looks like I need third party software for that,

899
01:12:16,580 --> 01:12:19,940
but I have not really looked that. I've not looked that close to that.

900
01:12:22,620 --> 01:12:24,100
Let's see, what else we got?

901
01:12:26,020 --> 01:12:30,660
I ran into a super weird bug. Oh, did I pull you in to show you this?

902
01:12:30,660 --> 01:12:33,940
The text clarity bug? No, I think I did.

903
01:12:33,940 --> 01:12:37,660
Dude, that was very odd. That was weird. I took a video on my iPhone.

904
01:12:37,660 --> 01:12:44,380
I'm not gonna send it to you guys right now. I can't understand what even happened. Yeah, like the browser rendering completely bunged up.

905
01:12:44,380 --> 01:12:47,700
But only a part of it. Super buggy. It was only in certain tabs.

906
01:12:47,700 --> 01:12:54,020
So it was definitely browser related. It seems like a Safari bug. And yes, I'm using Safari because I am having-

907
01:12:54,020 --> 01:12:58,140
That's its own challenge. The Mac experience. That is its own challenge.

908
01:12:58,140 --> 01:13:03,540
Speaking of rendering issues. I can install all their browsers on a Mac. Here, I'll send this one to Dan.

909
01:13:03,540 --> 01:13:06,860
This will be a teaser. Like dude, Apple seriously,

910
01:13:06,860 --> 01:13:10,580
this is a genuine conflicts of interest be damned.

911
01:13:10,580 --> 01:13:14,940
Apple, I am genuinely offering to come in

912
01:13:14,980 --> 01:13:18,580
and work for you guys for a week as a consultant.

913
01:13:18,580 --> 01:13:23,580
I will give you a to-do list of just sensible ass fixes

914
01:13:23,580 --> 01:13:29,100
that you guys can make to macOS that will genuinely improve the experience of your product.

915
01:13:29,100 --> 01:13:33,660
I will do it for free. I will come down to Cupertino.

916
01:13:34,820 --> 01:13:39,820
I will do it for free. And I guarantee you, based on how much stuff

917
01:13:39,820 --> 01:13:43,460
that I found in like three hours,

918
01:13:43,460 --> 01:13:48,340
it will be some of the most valuable time that your developers have ever spent with anyone.

919
01:13:48,340 --> 01:13:53,140
Because I don't know what it is. Is it that your users are afraid to tell you this stuff

920
01:13:53,140 --> 01:13:56,540
or that they just, or that your staff doesn't care

921
01:13:56,540 --> 01:14:01,420
or people are just so used to these stupid workarounds that they just, they don't see them anymore?

922
01:14:01,420 --> 01:14:07,500
I don't know what it is, but you clearly need an outsider's perspective because the fact that, Dan, check this out.

923
01:14:07,500 --> 01:14:09,420
What the heck, no.

924
01:14:10,500 --> 01:14:13,780
Did you see the thing I just sent you in Teams? Okay, so bring it up.

925
01:14:15,980 --> 01:14:20,180
I didn't realize he had sent you something. So when he was like... Steve Jobs.

926
01:14:20,180 --> 01:14:23,900
What? Steve Jobs would be rolling in his fucking grave.

927
01:14:23,900 --> 01:14:30,620
Oh, because the padding thing. Seeing this. Look, the Apple fucking logo is cut off.

928
01:14:31,580 --> 01:14:33,220
Oh, no way.

929
01:14:36,220 --> 01:14:37,220
Look at this.

930
01:14:39,780 --> 01:14:42,820
The top left here. It's not cut off. No, it's not.

931
01:14:43,740 --> 01:14:48,380
Sometimes, sometimes, the logo gets cut off.

932
01:14:48,380 --> 01:14:50,420
Wait, really? Why does it move at all?

933
01:14:51,780 --> 01:14:54,860
What a great question, Luke. It's OLED safe, like the WAN banner.

934
01:14:54,860 --> 01:14:57,740
Yeah, why does Overscan exist? I don't know.

935
01:15:00,180 --> 01:15:03,780
I'm sorry. The same logo and it just goes off the screen. Isn't that wild?

936
01:15:05,540 --> 01:15:09,620
Isn't that wild? You know, I would respect it if it was OLED safe,

937
01:15:09,620 --> 01:15:15,580
but the fact that it would go off the screen is insane. It's just the logo, not any of the other top art text.

938
01:15:15,580 --> 01:15:19,460
And you look how much padding it has on my built-in display.

939
01:15:19,460 --> 01:15:23,060
Yeah, it's a lot. Initially, I thought, I was like, oh, you know what it probably is,

940
01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:27,020
is because Apple has their stupid rounded displays and this is a square corner one or something.

941
01:15:27,020 --> 01:15:31,700
That's not it because I went and checked on Alex's system because he's also doing the 30-day challenge

942
01:15:31,700 --> 01:15:35,260
and his is fine. And he has never seen it.

943
01:15:36,340 --> 01:15:40,420
How do any of their products have bugs? They only have to make them for one device.

944
01:15:40,420 --> 01:15:44,580
It's just driving me nuts. It's wild.

945
01:15:44,580 --> 01:15:47,660
Disk management is terrible. I mean, disk management is kind of terrible

946
01:15:47,660 --> 01:15:50,740
on Windows as well, but I had a Linux formatted USB drive

947
01:15:50,740 --> 01:15:53,900
and I basically put it in and like read all the files and everything,

948
01:15:53,900 --> 01:15:57,420
but I couldn't copy anything to it. I couldn't erase it.

949
01:15:57,420 --> 01:16:01,420
I couldn't reformat it. The flow was wrong.

950
01:16:01,420 --> 01:16:06,220
So when I couldn't do it, it sent me to a tool that didn't even bring me

951
01:16:06,220 --> 01:16:11,100
to the USB drive. It just took me to the system settings for my boot drive.

952
01:16:11,100 --> 01:16:14,380
It could be completely useless, completely sent me in the wrong direction.

953
01:16:14,380 --> 01:16:18,900
It might as well have been like a fix it wizard from Windows XP.

954
01:16:18,900 --> 01:16:20,380
Completely useless.

955
01:16:22,820 --> 01:16:26,620
Oh, man. Oh, man.

956
01:16:29,500 --> 01:16:34,140
Cypher Colt said, is it a pixel shift to protect the panel? No, Dan and I were just talking about that.

957
01:16:34,140 --> 01:16:37,340
And even if it was, you wouldn't have to

958
01:16:37,500 --> 01:16:40,780
make it go off the screen. Well, no, the panel would do it.

959
01:16:40,780 --> 01:16:44,860
So Apple wouldn't be able to control that. That's definitely still not what's happening.

960
01:16:44,860 --> 01:16:48,340
It's only the logo. Based on the other things, yeah, exactly. Based on the other things that are on the screen,

961
01:16:48,340 --> 01:16:54,700
that's not what it is. I will double check. I will make sure before I actually crucify Apple

962
01:16:54,700 --> 01:16:57,900
for cutting off their own logo in their interface.

963
01:16:57,900 --> 01:17:01,660
Well, that doesn't fit the design language. And as you said, Steve would be rolling over.

964
01:17:01,660 --> 01:17:06,660
Steve would be livid if he saw the Apple logo get cut off.

965
01:17:07,380 --> 01:17:12,500
Livid. And that's not even like debatable.

966
01:17:12,500 --> 01:17:15,780
You literally cannot debate this.

967
01:17:15,780 --> 01:17:20,020
Imagine. Oh, yeah. There's no way.

968
01:17:20,020 --> 01:17:23,020
Like people would potentially be fired

969
01:17:23,020 --> 01:17:26,260
over something that egregious. You do not. Screaming.

970
01:17:26,260 --> 01:17:29,620
You do not do that. GraySim says it's not only the logo.

971
01:17:29,620 --> 01:17:33,660
And I think you might be right. So I think it might be down to the weird display scaling

972
01:17:33,660 --> 01:17:40,060
issues that I'm having. So I will investigate. But it shouldn't happen with any kind of display scaling.

973
01:17:40,060 --> 01:17:44,940
Yep. Yeah, I think there's less margin on top of Safari as well.

974
01:17:44,940 --> 01:17:48,220
Yeah, there definitely is. Look, either way, either way, I will look into it,

975
01:17:48,220 --> 01:17:52,740
but this is not a desired behavior. And I think that's too much to be OLED pixel shift.

976
01:17:52,740 --> 01:17:55,260
But I will check. I will check.

977
01:17:56,580 --> 01:18:01,620
But oh my God. They're definitely right. It's not just the. The acceleration on the mouse scroll wheel.

978
01:18:01,620 --> 01:18:05,300
That's the first thing I asked you. Infuriating.

979
01:18:05,300 --> 01:18:08,300
Infuriating. If you do it because they use.

980
01:18:08,300 --> 01:18:12,660
I don't even realize. They use momentum, like on a touch interface.

981
01:18:12,660 --> 01:18:17,460
And it's ironic, right? For computers that don't have touch screens.

982
01:18:18,940 --> 01:18:23,420
Touch pads. Yeah, they have touch pads. So they, so it uses.

983
01:18:24,820 --> 01:18:28,300
What? Start listening. Can you not close that? Yeah, this is amazing.

984
01:18:28,300 --> 01:18:31,860
Okay, welcome to Apple Music. I was just looking like how do you close it? So they have, you know,

985
01:18:32,300 --> 01:18:35,780
they have like close this thing, you know, interface,

986
01:18:35,780 --> 01:18:39,740
but oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, sorry. You want to, oh, oh, okay.

987
01:18:39,740 --> 01:18:45,460
No, well, yeah, sometimes. Sometimes the red button just like goes away

988
01:18:45,460 --> 01:18:48,660
and you need to use the top bar because.

989
01:18:48,660 --> 01:18:52,620
Like I talked about this a lot in my iPhone challenge video.

990
01:18:52,620 --> 01:18:57,340
Where it's like, look, if you want to have your logic for doing things, fine.

991
01:18:58,300 --> 01:19:01,620
Fine. There needs to be consistency.

992
01:19:01,780 --> 01:19:06,100
If you're going to have your little stop lights and the red one closes this window

993
01:19:06,100 --> 01:19:10,660
and you, you saw that, it literally had the stop lights,

994
01:19:10,660 --> 01:19:14,220
but the red one was grayed out. Why don't the red one? F***ing why?

995
01:19:15,260 --> 01:19:20,260
If you know it's supposed to be there, you clearly know what I want to do.

996
01:19:20,260 --> 01:19:23,900
Let it close. No. But no, I have to go up to the top.

997
01:19:23,900 --> 01:19:29,040
You're not allowed. That's not, that's not okay. That's, that is just bad design.

998
01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:32,860
And again, it's not debatable. Is command queue like Alt F4?

999
01:19:32,860 --> 01:19:39,340
Yeah. Inconsistent design is bad design.

1000
01:19:41,300 --> 01:19:44,580
That's it. Someone in chat saying command queue everything

1001
01:19:44,580 --> 01:19:48,340
or else it doesn't fully close the application. Dan, do you want to get rid of the screenshot?

1002
01:19:48,340 --> 01:19:51,540
Oh, sorry, I forgot. I thought command queue was more like control W

1003
01:19:51,540 --> 01:19:55,580
and then there's like command something queue, which is more like Alt F4.

1004
01:19:55,580 --> 01:19:58,940
I don't know. I haven't had to use it yet. It's been a long while. Unsure.

1005
01:19:59,860 --> 01:20:03,380
Let's see what else we got. Oh man, the acceleration on the scroll wheel. I haven't looked into that one yet.

1006
01:20:03,380 --> 01:20:07,380
Hopefully there's a fix for that, but it is infuriating. Oh, it's more like control queue on Linux.

1007
01:20:07,380 --> 01:20:10,660
Okay. I mean, that makes sense. Oh, command W.

1008
01:20:10,660 --> 01:20:16,420
So that's like control W on Windows. Capturing screenshots was pure pain the first time I did it

1009
01:20:16,420 --> 01:20:21,420
because basically, actually like still makes me mad.

1010
01:20:21,700 --> 01:20:27,980
I asked Alex, which was my first mistake. And he goes, oh, it's command shift five, I think,

1011
01:20:27,980 --> 01:20:32,200
or something like that. No, no, no. He told me three, I think it's command shift three

1012
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:36,120
to get a screen. Yeah, there you go. So it pulls up the screenshot here.

1013
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:41,080
And then I was looking at this interface and there's like no obvious way to save this, right?

1014
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:48,200
So there's like share, which is not really what I want to do. Delete, markup, whatever this means and close.

1015
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:51,240
So there was no like obvious way to save it. And I was like, okay.

1016
01:20:51,240 --> 01:20:54,720
So like, is it saved already? Is it saved automatically? So when they,

1017
01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:58,280
but they don't have the traffic lights for clothes. It's just like an X. Yeah. Don't worry about it.

1018
01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:01,520
It's really, really good UI design. It's weird.

1019
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:05,000
I didn't even notice that part. That's good though. Yeah.

1020
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:09,560
Anyway, I was like, okay. Well, did it save somewhere here? I'll just open Finder and I'll find out.

1021
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:13,760
But my Finder wasn't like that. It was like this. So I opened Finder.

1022
01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:17,680
Wait, what? Is it behind the screen? And then I was like, okay.

1023
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:21,840
Did it open? Here, new Finder window. But it didn't do it like that.

1024
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:26,000
It did it like behind it again. So I was like, what?

1025
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:29,080
What? But I can move this.

1026
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:33,000
Hold on. If I click on it twice, first you have to click on a window

1027
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:37,840
to make it the focus window. Oh. Then you have to click again in order to move it.

1028
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:40,720
And then I was like, okay, Finder's, sorry, it's behind this.

1029
01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:45,560
And then I, oh man, I ran into a really funny one.

1030
01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:50,800
So I was able to, oh, I forget. I was able, did I, I think did I screen record this?

1031
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:54,800
I was able to edit the text in this window

1032
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:58,320
unless I had this one as the focus.

1033
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:02,920
I forget. But basically I could interact with a window behind it

1034
01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:07,640
except when I couldn't. And so it's just, and what's funny

1035
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:11,400
is that this one, this screenshot preview, it's like an app.

1036
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:15,200
Like you can, you can mark up a screenshot and you can share and you can do this stuff.

1037
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:18,720
But it also isn't an app because if you look up at the top bar,

1038
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:23,800
it's still Safari up here. So I cannot quit this app

1039
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:27,600
by going up here. That's what Apple calls a preview window

1040
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:32,360
that stays on top of other Windows. Couldn't tell you why they do that. I mean, yeah, that's a feature in Windows as well.

1041
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:35,680
They just don't use it very often because it's incredibly annoying.

1042
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:39,800
Yeah. It's really, it's a really bad experience.

1043
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:42,800
Well, what it is is it's an inconsistent experience.

1044
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:48,080
A lot of people are saying that you don't have to click twice, but I mean, I've seen him do it like a million times.

1045
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:53,840
And when he tries to select it the first time, literally nothing happened. So I'm not sure maybe that's a configurable thing.

1046
01:22:53,840 --> 01:22:56,920
Maybe it's depending on where you click.

1047
01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:59,960
Cause I'll usually go for the bar and I'll want to move something.

1048
01:22:59,960 --> 01:23:04,440
And it looks like I have to make it the focus and then click again.

1049
01:23:04,440 --> 01:23:09,240
It doesn't, I know this. Yeah, Bonkey's is saying I haven't clicked twice in ever.

1050
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:13,120
I mean, you guys just watched me do it. So. And I have watched, to be clear.

1051
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:16,160
Yeah. Obviously he is clicking twice. We've seen him click twice,

1052
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:21,040
but I've seen him try to click once and it doesn't do anything. So, yeah.

1053
01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:25,280
So we'll- No, it's Pebcac error, but you guys, sorry, we need, why?

1054
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:29,400
You guys literally watched me try to drag it there. Like I did try to do it and it didn't work

1055
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:33,480
and I had to go back and get it and move it. Maybe it's clicking on the name of the window.

1056
01:23:34,660 --> 01:23:38,080
Maybe. So you can't click just anywhere on the bar. You have to click right on the name.

1057
01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:42,240
Maybe there's a particular spot. This is one that, this is one that like needs

1058
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:45,240
more investigation, but I've definitely run into it. Okay.

1059
01:23:45,240 --> 01:23:50,640
Yeah, yeah. Apparently command shift four is like snipping tool

1060
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:55,640
where you can select a portion of it. Well, that's why I said part of my problem was I listened to Alex who's a new Mac user.

1061
01:23:55,640 --> 01:24:01,840
So he said five. Command shift, no, he said three. So command shift five is also pretty good.

1062
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:05,040
That brings up like screen capture, which is built into macOS.

1063
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:10,880
That's cool. How is it even possible that screen capture

1064
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:14,240
is not built into Windows? Yeah. Yeah, no, that's genuinely cool.

1065
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:17,280
How is that even possible?

1066
01:24:17,280 --> 01:24:21,600
Every Windows user is just OBS-pilled. Like unbelievable.

1067
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:25,040
They should not have to be. It's like one of the first apps I install on my computer now.

1068
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:30,040
OBS's interface is so obtuse compared to,

1069
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:35,080
you know, something slick and built in. No, that genuinely like looks really nice.

1070
01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:38,560
Yeah. That's cool. Like it's unreal. I like it.

1071
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:42,040
Urban Ferver says I think it's built into Windows 11 now.

1072
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:46,240
I'm gonna have to check. I have not seen an obvious place for it.

1073
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:50,520
Someone says Windows G. Is that, isn't that the game bar?

1074
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:54,600
Hold on. Yes, it's built into the game bar.

1075
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:58,600
Oh my God. I hate the game bar. Literally the game bar is so horrible

1076
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:02,160
that I would never want to use it. It's also Windows Alt-R.

1077
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:05,720
Windows Alt-R, yeah. Windows Alt-R.

1078
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:08,840
I use Windows shift S all the time

1079
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:13,040
for ticking screenshots too. I think it's working. Well, where's the interface for this?

1080
01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:17,920
I don't see it at all. Oh my God, you have to wait, no?

1081
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:21,040
How do I? If you hit Windows R again.

1082
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:24,280
How the hell do I like interact with this thing?

1083
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:26,600
You don't. Well, that's stupid.

1084
01:25:27,480 --> 01:25:31,400
Just stop the recording with the same shortcut. I click the stop recording button and it's just gone.

1085
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:34,800
I'm assuming it's in videos now. Sorry, was it Windows Alt-R?

1086
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:38,880
I think that's the recording one. Windows shift R. Windows, no, Windows Alt-R.

1087
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:43,200
Yeah, Windows Alt-R and it just, then it just goes, how the hell do you configure it?

1088
01:25:44,440 --> 01:25:48,520
Recording. So mine worked, yeah.

1089
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:52,120
Just when you click stop, it just goes to your videos folder and it captures.

1090
01:25:52,120 --> 01:25:55,160
Man, is Windows search ever useless?

1091
01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:59,360
That feels a little clunky. Searching for recording yields.

1092
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:02,680
Record audio when I record a game. You capture mouse cursor in game.

1093
01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:06,280
Game captures maximum recording length. Fix some problems with the game bar settings.

1094
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:10,600
Okay, game bar settings I think is maybe what I was looking for.

1095
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:16,040
Help with game bar. Looks like no. Oh my God, why is this so hard to find?

1096
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:21,120
Stop. I love computers. Windows G. Okay, so can I configure it here?

1097
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:24,560
Settings. Oh, don't do that.

1098
01:26:25,480 --> 01:26:29,200
Settings. Hello. Capture.

1099
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:32,200
Settings, maybe. Oh, was that the settings?

1100
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:35,960
Did I make the settings go away? Did I click?

1101
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:39,000
No. Settings is what you recorded last time, actually.

1102
01:26:39,000 --> 01:26:42,520
Settings. Seriously. Oh no, that's what it will record.

1103
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:47,640
Yeah, I'm trying to click this and I can't. No, no, no, no, no. That is not a settings button.

1104
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:51,160
It's because the window below you, what you're going to record is settings.

1105
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:55,080
Like mine says the perpetual Wansho live stream document. Oh, hilarious.

1106
01:26:55,080 --> 01:27:00,720
That, wow. Oh, wow, okay. Yeah, you just, yeah.

1107
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:06,000
Gaining features. This is horrible. Why is this so hard to just configure?

1108
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:09,440
Someone said it's built into Snipping Tool. Oh, settings in the bar at the top,

1109
01:27:09,440 --> 01:27:14,080
top right-hand corner of the bar. Yeah, I know, I found it. That's it right here, but it's not in there.

1110
01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:17,960
Like there's no configuration for screen recording.

1111
01:27:19,480 --> 01:27:21,440
How is this so stupid?

1112
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:27,840
Oh no. It's like people don't use these products, you know?

1113
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:31,120
Okay, so. Windows Shift R is the better one.

1114
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:34,440
Isn't that what we just did? Snipping Tool. Oh, yeah, no, no, Snipping Tool can do.

1115
01:27:34,440 --> 01:27:40,160
No, but Snipping Tool is record. Okay, settings? Yeah, I haven't played around with Snipping Tool much lately.

1116
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:43,520
Been a Sharex guy for a while. Here we go.

1117
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:48,040
Okay, HDR Color Corrector. Okay, this has some stuff in it.

1118
01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:52,480
Where the devil do I like change any encoding settings or anything?

1119
01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:58,060
I think that's a no. Oh, okay.

1120
01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:05,480
Yeah, this could be better on Windows as well. Like again, I've said this a lot of times

1121
01:28:05,480 --> 01:28:10,760
and for some reason it doesn't work, but I'm gonna say it again just for fun.

1122
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:13,840
Just because I have a bunch of gripes about macOS

1123
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:17,720
does not mean, in fact, that I hate hot dogs.

1124
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:21,320
Or actually, no, it doesn't mean I like hot dogs. I might hate everything.

1125
01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:24,640
Everything might be terrible. Everything is awful.

1126
01:28:27,040 --> 01:28:30,440
So yeah, this is something that could obviously be better

1127
01:28:30,440 --> 01:28:31,960
on the Windows side of things.

1128
01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:36,880
All right, what else we got here?

1129
01:28:36,880 --> 01:28:41,160
Oh dude, the fact that the mac App Store

1130
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:46,160
and the Safari Extension Store are jumbled together

1131
01:28:46,560 --> 01:28:49,720
is mind blowing to me. That sounds horrible.

1132
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:54,160
I searched for Keeper in the App Store and it came up with a Safari Extension

1133
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:55,760
and a desktop application.

1134
01:28:58,720 --> 01:29:03,480
Are you kidding me? Is that that bad? Yeah, that's really stupid.

1135
01:29:03,480 --> 01:29:07,880
Especially because it wasn't obvious. Okay, I was gonna say, is it clearly delineated?

1136
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:12,360
Like one of them was obviously for Safari and the other one was just like Keeper.

1137
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:15,480
I was like, okay, so I've got Keeper and Keeper for Safari.

1138
01:29:15,480 --> 01:29:20,160
What does that even mean? Solve that with just like a pretty simple tagging system.

1139
01:29:20,160 --> 01:29:24,320
Yeah. It seems easy to solve. Yeah, definitely. Not that they've done it, but.

1140
01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:28,480
Yeah, it seems very, very solvable. Yeah.

1141
01:29:28,480 --> 01:29:32,400
Oh man, volume adjustment doesn't work on my external display.

1142
01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:36,080
Definitely need a little bit more diagnosis there,

1143
01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:39,840
but literally doesn't work with my scroll wheel on my keyboard.

1144
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:43,080
Doesn't work with the volume adjuster in the corner.

1145
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:46,960
Like it's there, but it's just grayed out. It's kind of like when you connect to a Bluetooth speaker

1146
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:51,200
and it just kind of maxes it out assuming that you'll do volume control on the external device,

1147
01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:54,240
except that configuring volume level

1148
01:29:54,240 --> 01:29:58,200
on the like nipple on the bottom of my monitor is not very convenient for me

1149
01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:02,280
because I use my monitor's built-in speakers. Very annoying.

1150
01:30:02,280 --> 01:30:06,360
Some other people in chat are saying they have some issues

1151
01:30:06,360 --> 01:30:10,040
with that as well. Apparently I need DisplayBuddy to fix some of my issues.

1152
01:30:10,040 --> 01:30:14,440
I'm gonna write down DisplayBuddy here. Why do you have to install so many programs?

1153
01:30:14,440 --> 01:30:17,720
Right? I thought it just works. Doesn't it just work?

1154
01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:20,760
I thought it just works, right? Doesn't it just work, Dan?

1155
01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:23,920
Isn't that Todd Howard? Oh my God, paste is plain text

1156
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:28,960
is not a right click context menu option. You have to press and I kid you not.

1157
01:30:28,960 --> 01:30:32,320
Command, Alt, Shift, V. What?

1158
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:35,400
No. It's also apparently not supported everywhere.

1159
01:30:35,400 --> 01:30:38,640
So there's a horrible terminal workaround that I found on Reddit.

1160
01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:43,680
So when in full-plane chat, I lost their message

1161
01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:48,560
but they mentioned that like this segment was painful because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

1162
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:52,680
and no Mac users use Safari. What are you even talking about?

1163
01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:56,840
Safari 23, Safari was the second most used web browser

1164
01:30:56,840 --> 01:31:02,200
and the amount of people that have Macs versus other types of PCs is like way lower.

1165
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:06,520
So as far as my understanding goes, an actually huge percentage of Mac users use Safari.

1166
01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:10,120
It's really, really, really interesting

1167
01:31:10,120 --> 01:31:15,120
to hear people say no one this thing that I don't do.

1168
01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:20,120
Yeah. I guarantee you that if no one was using Safari

1169
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:23,720
on the desktop. Safari mobile, interesting point.

1170
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:28,240
Absolutely. Yeah, Safari mobile is definitely a thing but people definitely use Safari.

1171
01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:33,440
Don't kid yourself. People just, many people just use whatever

1172
01:31:33,440 --> 01:31:37,080
the included apps are on their computer or phone or whatever.

1173
01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:41,680
Like why do you think Internet Explorer in spite of being such a steaming pile of garbage

1174
01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:45,600
for so many years held onto its market share? Deal has like 10%.

1175
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:49,240
Cause people just use whatever's in front of them.

1176
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:52,960
Do not kid yourself. People use Safari.

1177
01:31:55,440 --> 01:32:01,320
All right, what else we got here? No, it's desktop users. Apparently almost 12% of desktop user market share is Safari.

1178
01:32:02,480 --> 01:32:07,480
Yeah, that's such a non-take that people don't use it.

1179
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:14,640
Oh man. Middle click, press to get like a scroll thing

1180
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:17,760
when you move your mouse and scroll. Not a thing.

1181
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:23,240
Such a downer. That's annoying, I use that a lot. I use that all the time.

1182
01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:26,520
So a lot of very conflicting stats on browser market share.

1183
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:30,360
I don't know, I don't know which one of these is right but the scale a lot. Someone definitely uses it.

1184
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:33,320
That's all you need to know. Someone definitely uses it.

1185
01:32:35,760 --> 01:32:40,240
Yeah, so I mean, I'm gonna find all kinds of things I like maybe, eventually.

1186
01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:45,560
I haven't really found any yet. But I'm sure something, I'm gonna like something about it.

1187
01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:51,040
Definitely like the hardware. Like the MacBook itself is great.

1188
01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:57,560
Always has been really, to be honest. PC laptops have been struggling.

1189
01:32:57,560 --> 01:33:03,640
Yeah. Forever, basically compared to MacBooks. HP's got a really cool one that uses the same.

1190
01:33:03,640 --> 01:33:07,960
Those fingerprints on that screen are like actually bothering me. Yeah, I know, right?

1191
01:33:07,960 --> 01:33:10,920
It's not even a touch screen. Why are they there? Watch this.

1192
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:17,120
I'll clean it after. Steve is rolling his grave because of that.

1193
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:20,640
Yeah, I know, right? Maybe that's why they're not touch screens.

1194
01:33:20,640 --> 01:33:27,440
Oh yeah, HP has a super cool machine that uses the same processor as the new framework desktop.

1195
01:33:27,440 --> 01:33:31,880
Strix Halo from AMD. That thing looks sick and a framework investment disclosure

1196
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:35,000
but man, that HP machine looks amazing.

1197
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:39,560
It's one of only three devices I've seen so far with Strix Halo and as far as I can tell,

1198
01:33:39,560 --> 01:33:44,360
I just love Strix Halo and everything should just have Strix Halo now.

1199
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:50,160
As long as you don't mind the price, it's very, very expensive.

1200
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:53,640
It's, I don't know, actually.

1201
01:33:53,640 --> 01:33:57,560
I saw it at CES, but that doesn't mean that it's out.

1202
01:33:57,560 --> 01:34:02,640
Yeah. No, reviews just dropped like earlier.

1203
01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:06,880
Strix, Z2, Zbook, Zbook, Strix Halo.

1204
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:14,360
I'm not seeing anywhere to buy it yet. Does anyone know if you can actually like buy this thing yet?

1205
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:17,680
What is it called again? Let me see.

1206
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:21,520
Zbook Ultra 14 GI?

1207
01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:25,560
What a name. I know, right?

1208
01:34:27,200 --> 01:34:31,040
Zbook Ultra 14. Here it is, mobile workstation PC.

1209
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:36,400
Coming soon. Yeah, not yet, but this thing looks freaking awesome.

1210
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:41,280
Like it's, what is this? I scrolled and it opened a freaking video.

1211
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:45,080
No, oh, I must have accidentally clicked 50NPU,

1212
01:34:45,080 --> 01:34:50,080
top horizon AI max, up to four terabytes of storage.

1213
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:54,760
128 gigs unified memory, let's go. Dude, this thing looks incredible.

1214
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:57,800
It's super thin. The battery life is actually decent.

1215
01:34:57,800 --> 01:35:01,200
And according to Alex, the performance is still pretty okay.

1216
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:07,000
Looking comparatively to USB ports, it looks like they didn't 100% prioritize thinness,

1217
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:12,680
which I'm actually kind of down with. It doesn't look thick. Well, they needed, I mean, this thing will do up to 120 watts.

1218
01:35:12,680 --> 01:35:16,840
Yeah. Strix halos. So I think they landed, don't quote me on this,

1219
01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:19,840
I think they landed around 75 for this chassis.

1220
01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:21,880
Really, Tom's hardware says $2,700.

1221
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:28,240
It's not gonna be cheap. I mean, that's the thing is I've seen a lot of criticism

1222
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:35,360
toward framework investment disclosure for their pricing, just about the desktop in general.

1223
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:39,280
And I've seen people dunking on them for the pricing, but I think the thing that people are missing here

1224
01:35:39,280 --> 01:35:42,760
is that this LP-DDR5 that they're using

1225
01:35:42,760 --> 01:35:47,600
in this configuration with Strix halos, LP-DDR5 or LP-DDR5X, I can't remember.

1226
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:51,640
It's funny, because you have to say that to show potential bias or whatever,

1227
01:35:51,640 --> 01:35:56,440
but you having to say that is probably the most valuable thing to framework.

1228
01:35:56,440 --> 01:35:59,640
You haven't watched the video, have you? Nerov says that point blank.

1229
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:02,760
It's like, oh, that's great. The more disclosures, the better.

1230
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:06,520
It's honestly, the consistency of it is insane.

1231
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:11,160
If any other laptop gets any talking point ever,

1232
01:36:11,160 --> 01:36:15,040
framework also gets a talking point. It's like, holy crap.

1233
01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:21,600
Yeah, now that they make a desktop, I think we legitimately have to kind of talk about

1234
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:24,920
how to deal with this, because I can't do a framework

1235
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:29,200
disclosure every single time I talk about a laptop or a desktop computer.

1236
01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:35,880
But why don't we save that for the actual framework announcement section of the WAN Show, though?

1237
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:40,320
Anyway, the point is people are giving framework a hard time about the desktop,

1238
01:36:40,320 --> 01:36:44,600
but they're actually being extremely fair about their pricing for the upgrades

1239
01:36:44,600 --> 01:36:47,600
and their pricing in general. Like this laptop, we're looking at, what did you say?

1240
01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:50,920
It starts at $2,800? 27, I think somewhere around there.

1241
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:54,480
Yeah, the framework desktop, actually, let's see,

1242
01:36:54,480 --> 01:36:57,640
is their site up? Is it frame.work?

1243
01:36:57,640 --> 01:37:01,440
Yeah. Desktop, here we go.

1244
01:37:03,160 --> 01:37:04,120
Pre-order now.

1245
01:37:06,560 --> 01:37:10,680
Yeah, this thing starts at like $1,600. And yes, it doesn't have a display,

1246
01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:18,320
and yes, you have to add your own storage and OS, but like it's still pretty good, all things considered.

1247
01:37:19,040 --> 01:37:23,160
Yeah. Okay, what are we supposed to do, Mr. Dan?

1248
01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:27,600
Let's explain merge messages and do some announcements. Merge messages.

1249
01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:31,760
Today is a very special day to send a merge message.

1250
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:37,320
This is. We got some respite in terms of tariffs

1251
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:42,320
from our friends down in the States,

1252
01:37:42,440 --> 01:37:50,280
and we are making the absolute most of that by moving up our schedule for our annual tax

1253
01:37:50,440 --> 01:37:54,840
right off sale event. Have you ever wanted to bother, Dan?

1254
01:37:54,840 --> 01:38:01,800
That's right, friends. You can save on our inventory over stock.

1255
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:05,640
I'm sorry, this isn't the Lyme day sale. This isn't the Linus inventory management experience.

1256
01:38:05,640 --> 01:38:11,640
This is the tax right off sale. You can save on our tax right offs on, well, inventory,

1257
01:38:11,640 --> 01:38:17,120
that we have that we need to get rid of, and you can avoid any future price increases

1258
01:38:17,120 --> 01:38:21,160
due to future tariffs potentially asterisk.

1259
01:38:21,160 --> 01:38:25,800
We have no idea what's gonna happen because everything is topsy-turvy and unpredictable these days.

1260
01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:28,960
And if our costs do go up substantially,

1261
01:38:28,960 --> 01:38:32,000
some items could be price adjusted in the future,

1262
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:35,720
but what they definitely are not is price adjusted today.

1263
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:40,520
If you place an order today, you will receive that order at the price

1264
01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:46,880
that you paid for it, and to celebrate the tax right off sale.

1265
01:38:47,680 --> 01:38:51,440
We are tax writing off some shipping costs. That's right, my friends.

1266
01:38:51,440 --> 01:38:55,040
If your order exceeds 175 US dollars,

1267
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:57,880
you will get free shipping to Timbuktu

1268
01:38:58,840 --> 01:39:03,240
or anywhere, really. Yeah. Yeah, you don't have to be in Timbuktu.

1269
01:39:03,240 --> 01:39:06,720
There's lots of places. It took me a long time to realize that that was an actual real place.

1270
01:39:06,720 --> 01:39:10,280
I know, right? I just made up. I had a bit of a cry on the floor.

1271
01:39:10,280 --> 01:39:14,040
Oh, wow. Yeah, no, Timbuktu, real place. So guys.

1272
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:15,720
Hey, put on your shirt. Oh, yes.

1273
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:18,040
I got you already.

1274
01:39:21,200 --> 01:39:25,320
So now is as good a time as any to place an order on lttstore.com,

1275
01:39:25,320 --> 01:39:30,680
and if you're gonna do it, why don't you send a merch message? Merch messages are the way to interact with the show.

1276
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:33,960
We don't do Twitch bits. We don't do super chats. We do merch messages.

1277
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:38,120
All you gotta do to send one is go to lttstore.com, add an item to your cart.

1278
01:39:38,120 --> 01:39:42,920
Like, say, for example, the tech bro vest, which is on sale for,

1279
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:46,280
I forget.

1280
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:54,920
I don't know, whatever. I think it's 50% off. Like, I think it's very aggressively priced.

1281
01:39:54,920 --> 01:40:00,160
So the tech bro vest is on super sale, or you could pick up one of these

1282
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:04,720
probably never to be reordered, Mac Address button-up shirts,

1283
01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:08,320
which are also deeply discounted. You add one of those to your cart,

1284
01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:11,560
and a little merch message box will pop up. That'll go to producer Dan,

1285
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:15,280
who will reply to your message with his broken fingers.

1286
01:40:15,280 --> 01:40:20,600
He's already, a lot of people figured out the tax write-off sale before we talked about it on the show.

1287
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:24,160
So he'll reply to it, or he will curate it for me and Luke to talk about,

1288
01:40:24,280 --> 01:40:28,200
or he will send it to someone who can get you an answer, or whatever the case may be.

1289
01:40:28,200 --> 01:40:31,440
All the deals that you're supposed to say were written out on the dock,

1290
01:40:31,440 --> 01:40:35,040
and you got some of them wrong. Well, where are they? On the dock. I don't see them.

1291
01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:39,960
Right in the announcement as a tax write-off section. Oh yeah, I see it. Well, I didn't scroll far enough.

1292
01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:44,680
So it's, what are we looking at? Oh, 60% off the tech bro vest,

1293
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:49,680
and 50% off the Mac Address Oxford shirts.

1294
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:54,680
This deal literally dropped right now. We've also got $25 mystery hoodies,

1295
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:59,480
$10 mystery t-shirts, over 60% off the off-site laptop bag.

1296
01:40:59,480 --> 01:41:05,720
That is a killer deal. It's a really, really nice laptop bag.

1297
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:10,160
25% off the more comprehensive MCM essential solution

1298
01:41:10,160 --> 01:41:15,880
with 60% off the MCM starter solutions. We have 10 bucks off the Scribe driver bolt action pen,

1299
01:41:15,880 --> 01:41:20,200
and wow, you get a free shaft extension with your stubby screwdriver.

1300
01:41:21,120 --> 01:41:25,200
We don't want you to feel inadequate. Oh, what else is there for us to say?

1301
01:41:25,200 --> 01:41:31,900
Yeah, free shipping orders over $175, and we're happy to announce that more commuter backpacks

1302
01:41:31,900 --> 01:41:34,960
will be available to ship starting next week.

1303
01:41:34,960 --> 01:41:41,040
So that could be an easy way for you to reach that tax write-off sale shipping threshold.

1304
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:44,200
Nice. Nice. Should we do the other announcement

1305
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:49,040
after merch messages? I think so. A lot of people figured that one out before we,

1306
01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:53,400
before we actually talked about it on the show as well, commuter backpacks are selling like...

1307
01:41:53,400 --> 01:41:58,480
Yeah. The hotcakes. Yeah, yeah. You guys, yeah, you guys figured it out.

1308
01:41:58,480 --> 01:42:00,760
Well, good for you.

1309
01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:06,600
Anywho, yeah, my loss, your gain, let's do some merch messages.

1310
01:42:06,600 --> 01:42:12,040
Sure, I've got a couple for you here. Finally able to catch the WAN Show live.

1311
01:42:12,040 --> 01:42:16,080
Oh, wait, hold on one second. Mystery t-shirt is one of the best selling ones.

1312
01:42:16,080 --> 01:42:20,800
Crystal pointed out, also there's a bunch of cool stuff in the bonus bin.

1313
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:24,240
I'm not gonna tell you what's in there, but she's right.

1314
01:42:24,240 --> 01:42:26,960
There's some really cool stuff in the bonus bin.

1315
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:32,520
Jamon says backpack enamel pin is $250.

1316
01:42:32,520 --> 01:42:36,280
Yes, it comes with a backpack. That's a meme.

1317
01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:39,960
Don't worry about it. Whoa, the bonus bin. What do you call them?

1318
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:43,840
We don't have to show it, but wow. Product, top sell items.

1319
01:42:43,840 --> 01:42:47,480
Yeah, so the bonus bin is stuff that you can get for free with your order.

1320
01:42:49,160 --> 01:42:53,040
These are not cheap things. Okay, cool, have fun.

1321
01:42:53,040 --> 01:42:57,600
Yeah, neat, right? Good luck. Yeah. Neat, good stuff, right?

1322
01:42:57,600 --> 01:43:01,200
Tax write off. Yeah, tax write off sale.

1323
01:43:01,200 --> 01:43:04,360
Time to make some money by writing off taxes.

1324
01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:08,680
Yes, but pure profit. Pure profit, okay, Mr. Dan, hit us.

1325
01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:12,720
Sure, finally able to catch a live WAN Show again.

1326
01:43:12,720 --> 01:43:17,880
What is the difference between NVIDIA and AMD GPUs that make NVIDIA so much better at ray tracing?

1327
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:21,920
Well, they have dedicated hardware for ray tracing

1328
01:43:21,920 --> 01:43:26,280
and they are a solid entire generation ahead of AMD

1329
01:43:26,280 --> 01:43:34,120
in terms of developing their design. NVIDIA was the one that, yep, they're the tip of the spear

1330
01:43:34,480 --> 01:43:37,600
in terms of pushing ray tracing into the mainstream.

1331
01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:41,480
They worked with developers. They worked to build the hardware that can do it

1332
01:43:41,480 --> 01:43:44,680
back when they launched the RTX 20 series.

1333
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:49,400
So like when did the RTX 2080 launch? Like that was 1,000 years ago.

1334
01:43:49,400 --> 01:43:52,840
September 20th, 2018, NVIDIA has been beating

1335
01:43:52,840 --> 01:43:56,240
this ray tracing drum for over six years now

1336
01:43:56,240 --> 01:44:02,120
and AMD is playing catch up and that's what happens when someone else goes and they innovate a feature

1337
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:09,480
and you kind of go, oh, crap. And you sort of implement it mostly in,

1338
01:44:09,480 --> 01:44:12,840
I don't want to say software because they were definitely still using hardware

1339
01:44:12,840 --> 01:44:18,840
to do it in the early generations, but essentially using more general purpose compute

1340
01:44:18,840 --> 01:44:24,400
in order to handle ray tracing, then you kind of, you build some ray tracing hardware,

1341
01:44:24,400 --> 01:44:28,840
but it's your first crack at it. It just takes time to catch up and NVIDIA was all in

1342
01:44:28,840 --> 01:44:32,880
on ray tracing right out of the gate with the 20 series

1343
01:44:32,880 --> 01:44:35,880
and that has paid off for them for gamers

1344
01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:40,960
that appreciate ray traced lighting, which isn't all gamers, but certainly is some gamers.

1345
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:46,600
I talked to some folks that are like, oh, I think it looks worse. I hate the lower FPS and that's totally their prerogative,

1346
01:44:46,600 --> 01:44:50,720
but I talked to other people that are like, I won't play a game without ray tracing on.

1347
01:44:50,720 --> 01:44:55,640
That's a thing. And you don't have to agree, but you do have to understand and acknowledge

1348
01:44:55,640 --> 01:44:58,600
that that's a thing. And for some people, it has a lot of value.

1349
01:45:02,320 --> 01:45:07,560
Oh yeah, more merge messages. Sorry. If no say to four, why no U.2?

1350
01:45:07,560 --> 01:45:13,440
Install on motherboards for expanded storage. M.2 drives waste limited board surface area.

1351
01:45:13,440 --> 01:45:18,560
They're okay for low profile laptops, but desktop cases have room for mounting hard drives.

1352
01:45:20,200 --> 01:45:23,200
That's a good question.

1353
01:45:23,200 --> 01:45:26,440
Why don't we just mount drives in drive bays

1354
01:45:26,440 --> 01:45:30,560
and use cable interfaces? Well, one of the reasons that we wouldn't want to do that

1355
01:45:30,560 --> 01:45:34,400
is say to cables are cheap. U.2 cables are not.

1356
01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:40,400
It's a really high speed signal and putting it directly on the board

1357
01:45:40,400 --> 01:45:43,480
means that the trace length is gonna be much lower.

1358
01:45:43,480 --> 01:45:49,840
If you were to try it, I think the last time that U.2 was really present

1359
01:45:50,920 --> 01:45:54,240
in like mainstream consumer boards

1360
01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:59,880
was like PCIe gen three. Did we ever see gen four,

1361
01:45:59,880 --> 01:46:04,120
like U.2 really take off on consumer boards? Can you guys think of anything?

1362
01:46:04,120 --> 01:46:10,200
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong guys, but it's an expensive connector.

1363
01:46:10,200 --> 01:46:16,040
It's an expensive cable because it's a super, super high speed interface.

1364
01:46:16,040 --> 01:46:21,040
And the commodity consumer computer industry guys,

1365
01:46:22,360 --> 01:46:26,160
we're talking fractions of a penny of savings sometimes

1366
01:46:26,160 --> 01:46:30,440
that influence design decisions. SATA was cheap.

1367
01:46:30,440 --> 01:46:33,920
SATA was cheaper than IDE to implement

1368
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:37,920
because it required so many fewer conductors. It's like, where does innovation come from?

1369
01:46:37,920 --> 01:46:43,800
It comes from cost savings. M.2 is relatively affordable to implement

1370
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:47,520
because the trace lengths are so low in order to maintain those data speeds.

1371
01:46:47,520 --> 01:46:51,040
So I would say that U.2 is just simply,

1372
01:46:51,040 --> 01:46:54,240
simply not happening on consumer.

1373
01:46:54,240 --> 01:46:57,560
And the only reason to have a U.2 drive

1374
01:46:57,560 --> 01:47:02,520
would be if you need like a shed load of NAND flash chips.

1375
01:47:02,520 --> 01:47:06,080
Otherwise you can cram as many as you would want

1376
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:11,980
on an M.2, like you could buy eight terabyte M.2s. The only impediment to doing that is the cost.

1377
01:47:11,980 --> 01:47:15,280
So are you gonna tell me that people need

1378
01:47:15,280 --> 01:47:19,640
a 40 gigabit or a 40 gigabit, a 40 terabyte drive?

1379
01:47:20,480 --> 01:47:23,780
Like no, they're not gonna be able to afford that anyway. So what are we even talking about?

1380
01:47:23,780 --> 01:47:27,920
We don't need to build a 2.5 inch drive for this.

1381
01:47:27,920 --> 01:47:31,480
And they do exist. You could buy an enterprise drive and you could put it in your computer.

1382
01:47:31,480 --> 01:47:39,100
You could put a card into your PCIe slot and you could run like a U.3 off to your card or whatever.

1383
01:47:39,100 --> 01:47:43,020
Or you can get an M.2 adapter. You can get a little M.2 carrier card

1384
01:47:43,020 --> 01:47:46,500
and you can put a U.2 or U.3 interface on there and run that off to a drive.

1385
01:47:46,500 --> 01:47:51,300
I do that. We kinda knew those cables were gonna be brutal right away

1386
01:47:51,300 --> 01:47:56,860
because the second you feel it, it's like, ah, it's expensive. Yeah, but I just don't think it makes a ton of sense

1387
01:47:56,860 --> 01:48:00,100
for consumers, especially when you consider the additional costs.

1388
01:48:00,620 --> 01:48:04,300
Next one, Dan? Oh, it's only two in the middle.

1389
01:48:04,300 --> 01:48:07,460
And I think I'm gonna move into sponsors now.

1390
01:48:07,460 --> 01:48:11,260
No, we have an announcement. We have one more announcement.

1391
01:48:11,260 --> 01:48:14,500
Oh! First of all, I think I covered this in the pre-show,

1392
01:48:14,500 --> 01:48:17,700
but we are doing the hireings.

1393
01:48:17,700 --> 01:48:22,100
I just wanted to remind people to check out the Careers page on LinusMiniGroup.com.

1394
01:48:22,100 --> 01:48:25,900
There's a variety of positions at Creator Warehouse

1395
01:48:25,900 --> 01:48:30,420
and LinusMiniGroup.com. There's gonna be a project manager role put up

1396
01:48:30,420 --> 01:48:34,260
for a full plane in a bit. It's not up yet, but it's coming.

1397
01:48:34,260 --> 01:48:39,260
At Creator Warehouse, they're doing a part-time photographer and photo editor, a full-time graphic designer

1398
01:48:39,260 --> 01:48:43,260
and a full-time supply chain manager. All the LinusMiniGroup roles are full-time.

1399
01:48:43,260 --> 01:48:46,260
There's two test technicians that we're hiring.

1400
01:48:46,260 --> 01:48:49,260
So there's actually five positions. Same job description. Yeah.

1401
01:48:49,260 --> 01:48:52,260
Yeah. One full-time logistics coordinator,

1402
01:48:52,260 --> 01:48:56,260
one full-time content manager, one full-time logistics coordinator,

1403
01:48:56,260 --> 01:49:00,260
one full-time content writer for the Labs and potentially other technical content,

1404
01:49:00,260 --> 01:49:05,260
things like ShortCircuit, stuff like that, and a full-time testing coordinator.

1405
01:49:05,260 --> 01:49:08,260
So go check those out. You want a link for the job posting?

1406
01:49:08,260 --> 01:49:11,260
No, they're meming. Okay, how's it gonna say?

1407
01:49:11,260 --> 01:49:14,260
Rysaw was meming. Rysaw's trying to trigger Luke.

1408
01:49:14,260 --> 01:49:18,260
Can I get a link to that job posting? That's the barrier of entry.

1409
01:49:18,260 --> 01:49:22,260
He immediately followed with slash s. They knew how triggered you were gonna be.

1410
01:49:22,260 --> 01:49:25,260
He immediately bothered me so much.

1411
01:49:25,260 --> 01:49:28,260
Luke's turning red. I know. He was shaking from here.

1412
01:49:28,260 --> 01:49:33,260
He was so upset. For Luke, that is literally like the first IQ test

1413
01:49:33,260 --> 01:49:36,260
that you need to pass to get a job at this company.

1414
01:49:36,260 --> 01:49:40,260
There's a few, too, but that's an early fail.

1415
01:49:40,260 --> 01:49:44,260
And the next one is that the Labs website

1416
01:49:44,260 --> 01:49:47,260
has had a pretty major update. Oh, this is exciting.

1417
01:49:47,260 --> 01:49:50,260
This is more of a topic. This is less of an announcement.

1418
01:49:50,260 --> 01:49:53,260
Oh, okay. I think we're doing this topic then. I don't know, sure.

1419
01:49:53,260 --> 01:49:57,260
Yeah, let's talk about the Labs website. It probably looks different.

1420
01:49:57,260 --> 01:50:02,260
If you haven't seen it in a while, there's a lot of reasons why it's really cool.

1421
01:50:02,260 --> 01:50:07,260
Let's start with the buttons. Well, what I'm gonna start with is that we had Dan,

1422
01:50:07,260 --> 01:50:10,260
the leader of the Labs web team. Other different Dan.

1423
01:50:10,260 --> 01:50:13,260
Yes. Not this Dan. Luke's Dan.

1424
01:50:13,260 --> 01:50:17,260
Not Luke's Dan. Bird Dan.

1425
01:50:17,260 --> 01:50:22,260
It's confusing. And it has little gifs showing off all the different features.

1426
01:50:22,260 --> 01:50:25,260
And it's actually really well-written. So if you want to really dive into everything that changed,

1427
01:50:25,260 --> 01:50:28,260
this is probably the way to do it, to be honest.

1428
01:50:28,260 --> 01:50:31,260
But if you're lazy and you want us to just do it for you.

1429
01:50:31,260 --> 01:50:34,260
Then we can do that. Here's the shoddier version.

1430
01:50:34,260 --> 01:50:37,260
Yeah, what did you want to see? The buttons. Okay, these ones?

1431
01:50:37,260 --> 01:50:41,260
Yeah. So this was, I believe, an idea from Sebastian

1432
01:50:41,260 --> 01:50:46,260
that was iterated on by Dan. And I love it because what I believe it was Sebastian

1433
01:50:46,260 --> 01:50:50,260
was pointing out is that the new categories page is fantastic.

1434
01:50:50,260 --> 01:50:53,260
And he wanted to be surfaced more.

1435
01:50:53,260 --> 01:50:56,260
So the idea was to put them down here.

1436
01:50:56,260 --> 01:51:00,260
And it's kind of nice, in my opinion, because this shows off the color coding.

1437
01:51:00,260 --> 01:51:03,260
So do you see the colors of all the buttons here?

1438
01:51:03,260 --> 01:51:07,260
If you scroll down and you see the tags and the colored bars down here, they coordinate,

1439
01:51:07,260 --> 01:51:11,260
which I think is genuinely actually pretty sweet.

1440
01:51:11,260 --> 01:51:15,260
But the new comparison page. I'm going to go into GPUs, for example.

1441
01:51:16,260 --> 01:51:20,260
Sorry, not comparison page. This is a new categories page.

1442
01:51:20,260 --> 01:51:24,260
So now we have this. You can see all of the different stats in here.

1443
01:51:24,260 --> 01:51:28,260
And you can filter by a wide variety of different things.

1444
01:51:28,260 --> 01:51:31,260
So you could be like... How many slots or what kind of memory?

1445
01:51:31,260 --> 01:51:34,260
How much memory if you want a decent sized frame buffer?

1446
01:51:34,260 --> 01:51:39,260
I want a card that's going to fit in my fairly small form

1447
01:51:39,260 --> 01:51:44,260
factor case that has, I don't know, yeah, this much memory.

1448
01:51:44,260 --> 01:51:49,260
Okay, here's all the cards that the lab has tested. And that uses a power connector that doesn't light on fire.

1449
01:51:49,260 --> 01:51:55,260
Yeah. So this is all the cards that fit that filter.

1450
01:51:55,260 --> 01:51:59,260
Are the columns customizable? I don't think so.

1451
01:51:59,260 --> 01:52:02,260
No, but I don't know.

1452
01:52:02,260 --> 01:52:05,260
It is what it is. The compare bit over here, there you go.

1453
01:52:05,260 --> 01:52:08,260
You've got your thing. Hey, look, it has a tool tip now. That's cool.

1454
01:52:08,260 --> 01:52:11,260
It's fast. So you can add to comparison.

1455
01:52:11,260 --> 01:52:14,260
I asked for that yesterday. And it's already done.

1456
01:52:14,260 --> 01:52:17,260
Like near end of day too. Yeah.

1457
01:52:17,260 --> 01:52:21,260
No, that's sick. So you can add to comparison bin from here, which is awesome.

1458
01:52:21,260 --> 01:52:25,260
So, I mean, let's say this just narrowed it down to three things.

1459
01:52:25,260 --> 01:52:30,260
I'm going to add the three top cards here. And then the comparison bin has also had...

1460
01:52:30,260 --> 01:52:33,260
Oh, Dan, do you want to... Oh, yeah, there we go. Yep.

1461
01:52:33,260 --> 01:52:38,260
The comparison bin has also had a big update. This is my favorite one out of everything.

1462
01:52:38,260 --> 01:52:45,260
So, well, okay, you can see this now. If you have like a mixture of things, you can select which subset you want to see.

1463
01:52:45,260 --> 01:52:49,260
Yeah. So if you added like power supplies and mice and whatever, you can do that.

1464
01:52:49,260 --> 01:52:54,260
Click on detail comparison. And now the comparison bin looks like this, which is way nicer.

1465
01:52:54,260 --> 01:52:59,260
Super film. The photos don't automatically like destroy the viewability of all the data right away,

1466
01:52:59,260 --> 01:53:03,260
but you can show them if you want. So you can see all the different photos and even scroll through the different photos

1467
01:53:03,260 --> 01:53:07,260
of the different products that you're viewing. Very cool. And then tuck those away when you don't want them.

1468
01:53:08,260 --> 01:53:12,260
A feature that took some tweaking to really like make it right,

1469
01:53:12,260 --> 01:53:16,260
but I'm super happy with personally, is the highlight differences button.

1470
01:53:16,260 --> 01:53:21,260
So you can do this and then it shows you like what actually changes between them.

1471
01:53:21,260 --> 01:53:25,260
Very cool. So like what do I need to like care about between these different cards?

1472
01:53:25,260 --> 01:53:29,260
What's going to matter? What's going to change depending on what selection I have?

1473
01:53:29,260 --> 01:53:32,260
You can see the graphs for all of them in here.

1474
01:53:32,260 --> 01:53:36,260
The graphs are configurable as well as always.

1475
01:53:36,260 --> 01:53:39,260
Yeah. It's good stuff. I think you can even, yes.

1476
01:53:39,260 --> 01:53:43,260
So you can take one of the cards off or put it back on.

1477
01:53:43,260 --> 01:53:46,260
So if you like, you know, don't want to reconfigure your entire comparison bin,

1478
01:53:46,260 --> 01:53:49,260
but you're like, all right, I'm not going to get this one. It sucks or whatever.

1479
01:53:49,260 --> 01:53:52,260
You can, you can uncheck that.

1480
01:53:52,260 --> 01:53:57,260
Yeah. It's, it's pretty great. The search is a lot better now than it used to be.

1481
01:53:57,260 --> 01:54:00,260
I'm trying to think of, of what I'm mixing.

1482
01:54:00,260 --> 01:54:03,260
I'm probably missing things. I'm going to go to Dan's article to figure this out.

1483
01:54:03,260 --> 01:54:06,260
It's going to be a ton of work for us to get like, you know,

1484
01:54:06,260 --> 01:54:09,260
every card, you know, populated in here, you know,

1485
01:54:09,260 --> 01:54:15,260
but the goal is still, and we have not deviated from this mission.

1486
01:54:15,260 --> 01:54:21,260
The goal is still to turn the Labs website into just an absolutely incredible resource,

1487
01:54:21,260 --> 01:54:27,260
whether you're buying something brand new, whether you're buying something off of Facebook marketplace to,

1488
01:54:27,260 --> 01:54:32,260
to make it easy to make an informed decision.

1489
01:54:32,260 --> 01:54:37,260
And there's been some setbacks along the way. There's definitely, you know, been some mistakes,

1490
01:54:37,260 --> 01:54:41,260
but make no mistake Labs.

1491
01:54:41,260 --> 01:54:44,260
We're still cooking. The Labs is still cooking.

1492
01:54:44,260 --> 01:54:48,260
It's not finished, but it is absolutely still cooking.

1493
01:54:48,260 --> 01:54:53,260
And we haven't lost sight of what the mission is and it's not to make money.

1494
01:54:53,260 --> 01:54:58,260
It's to create an incredible resource for the tech community.

1495
01:54:58,260 --> 01:55:03,260
And it's been very frustrating, I think, to see a narrative built

1496
01:55:03,260 --> 01:55:07,260
that like Labs was somehow like a negative thing in some way.

1497
01:55:07,260 --> 01:55:14,260
It was never meant to be a negative thing. We are human and we've made some mistakes, but man, is it ever coming along?

1498
01:55:14,260 --> 01:55:17,260
Trying to make it cool, man. That is super cool.

1499
01:55:17,260 --> 01:55:20,260
One more cool thing to point out. I think I somewhat mentioned these,

1500
01:55:20,260 --> 01:55:24,260
but these, these product cards have been updated as well. You might remember earlier in the year,

1501
01:55:24,260 --> 01:55:27,260
we added the, the, the like blog section to the right here.

1502
01:55:28,260 --> 01:55:31,260
But the product cards over here have gotten an update as well.

1503
01:55:31,260 --> 01:55:36,260
Very cool. And these, so now they don't just have the blurb.

1504
01:55:36,260 --> 01:55:40,260
They also have the tags. This is another thing that went through a few iterations.

1505
01:55:40,260 --> 01:55:44,260
There was an idea of just having the tags at one part at one point,

1506
01:55:44,260 --> 01:55:48,260
but that didn't really, like it felt like something was not really there.

1507
01:55:48,260 --> 01:55:51,260
So I think, I think Dan went through a couple of iterations

1508
01:55:51,260 --> 01:55:55,260
and ended up on this one. I mean, I might be biased here,

1509
01:55:55,260 --> 01:56:01,260
but I really like how this page looks and feels right now personally.

1510
01:56:01,260 --> 01:56:05,260
Um, just even having all the categories listed here,

1511
01:56:05,260 --> 01:56:08,260
there's, there's a sense of like, um,

1512
01:56:08,260 --> 01:56:11,260
I feel, I feel a little guided. It feels full.

1513
01:56:11,260 --> 01:56:14,260
It feels saturated. It feels good. There's stuff there.

1514
01:56:14,260 --> 01:56:18,260
Um, you know, categories, you can still find them under here,

1515
01:56:18,260 --> 01:56:21,260
but they're not tucked away anymore. They're, they're right here.

1516
01:56:21,260 --> 01:56:24,260
You can see the color coding. It's right there. You can see the tags on here.

1517
01:56:24,260 --> 01:56:29,260
So you can quickly identify if that one matters to you or not,

1518
01:56:29,260 --> 01:56:33,260
but we're also not, I, I, we were having this debate on like,

1519
01:56:33,260 --> 01:56:37,260
if we put too many tags, too much information on this section,

1520
01:56:37,260 --> 01:56:40,260
it would almost dissuade people from.

1521
01:56:40,260 --> 01:56:43,260
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1522
01:56:43,260 --> 01:56:46,260
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1523
01:56:46,260 --> 01:56:49,260
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1524
01:56:49,260 --> 01:56:52,260
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1525
01:56:52,260 --> 01:56:59,260
Yeah. So we were almost worried that by surfacing too much information on the like card view

1526
01:56:59,260 --> 01:57:04,260
that it could, um, take away from what we want the site to do.

1527
01:57:04,260 --> 01:57:08,260
Um, if people are like, Oh, you're just trying to like give people the click more.

1528
01:57:08,260 --> 01:57:11,260
There are no ads on the site. Literally zero.

1529
01:57:11,260 --> 01:57:15,260
And it's been like years. We, we gain nothing from keeping you here.

1530
01:57:15,260 --> 01:57:18,260
We just actually want you to like find more information.

1531
01:57:18,260 --> 01:57:24,260
We don't just want to surface level things. We're expecting that someone coming to the Labs website is looking for more and wants

1532
01:57:24,260 --> 01:57:29,260
to go deeper. So we want to cater to that experience. Um, but anyways, I'm incredibly proud of this.

1533
01:57:29,260 --> 01:57:32,260
I think the, the web team has done an extremely good job.

1534
01:57:32,260 --> 01:57:36,260
I think the website looks fantastic. And we're hiring.

1535
01:57:36,260 --> 01:57:39,260
It's time to, it's time to put even more resources.

1536
01:57:39,260 --> 01:57:44,260
The web team is hiring. No, sorry, but the Labs team, the Labs team is hiring.

1537
01:57:44,260 --> 01:57:51,260
Uh, CMD Karini asks, um, is the longterm plan to subsidize Labs content with LTT?

1538
01:57:51,260 --> 01:57:59,260
Well, if it wasn't boy, have we ever deviated from the plan to the tune of seven figures.

1539
01:57:59,260 --> 01:58:02,260
Yes. Millions. Yeah.

1540
01:58:02,260 --> 01:58:06,260
Um, depending on how you calculated, it could be more than seven figures.

1541
01:58:06,260 --> 01:58:09,260
Um, yes, definitely.

1542
01:58:09,260 --> 01:58:12,260
And yes, dark rainbow, we want the Labs to succeed.

1543
01:58:12,260 --> 01:58:17,260
And, uh, we are, we are extremely committed to helping the lab succeed.

1544
01:58:17,260 --> 01:58:22,260
There's even little things like, I know this matters to like very few people, but I, I,

1545
01:58:22,260 --> 01:58:28,260
I know this matters if you ask them to very few people, but I think it actually does matter.

1546
01:58:28,260 --> 01:58:33,260
Um, like if I, if I move my mouse over this card, the little arrow in the corner turns

1547
01:58:33,260 --> 01:58:37,260
and the, the brand and model gets underlined.

1548
01:58:37,260 --> 01:58:42,260
And if I highlight over the plus, whoop, little nice design, little nice, little animation,

1549
01:58:42,260 --> 01:58:45,260
like the site feels really smooth.

1550
01:58:45,260 --> 01:58:51,260
There's when you, when you go into a, an article now, uh, like this section right here is going

1551
01:58:51,260 --> 01:58:54,260
to go with you. Whoop.

1552
01:58:54,260 --> 01:58:57,260
Like everything just feels really nice. I, I don't know.

1553
01:58:57,260 --> 01:59:00,260
It's fast. It feels good. It looks good.

1554
01:59:00,260 --> 01:59:07,260
I'm very happy with the lab site. Yeah. And it's, uh, the site's ready for a lot more product data.

1555
01:59:07,260 --> 01:59:11,260
Yeah. Which is why we're, you know, hiring testers and hiring testing coordinators and the,

1556
01:59:11,260 --> 01:59:14,260
we're getting the Labs. Uh, yeah, things are good.

1557
01:59:14,260 --> 01:59:19,260
Krusty trombone asks, is there a timeline for new component categories like mainboards

1558
01:59:19,260 --> 01:59:22,260
to be added right now? No.

1559
01:59:22,260 --> 01:59:27,260
I think one of the big mistakes that we made, um, was to try to go too broad too fast.

1560
01:59:27,260 --> 01:59:32,260
So right now we are laser focused on the peripherals that we have there now.

1561
01:59:32,260 --> 01:59:40,260
Uh, power supplies, uh, CPUs, GPUs, and, uh, getting ramped because like, I don't know

1562
01:59:40,260 --> 01:59:49,260
if I've made this clear in the past, but our goal is not just to test every Ventus,

1563
01:59:49,260 --> 01:59:57,260
uh, Tri-Flow, uh, Strix and get like every version of, of, of, of every GPU, but to,

1564
01:59:57,260 --> 02:00:05,260
to have enough capacity to do that and start making our way backward so that if you're

1565
02:00:05,260 --> 02:00:11,260
upgrading, you can literally take your current card and compare it to all of your different

1566
02:00:11,260 --> 02:00:16,380
options to upgrade to. Now it's, it's obviously not going to be perfect, right?

1567
02:00:16,380 --> 02:00:20,380
Because we might not run with the same CPU that you have in your system, but it will

1568
02:00:20,380 --> 02:00:25,380
at least be a valuable point of reference and, and that's our goal in the longer term.

1569
02:00:25,380 --> 02:00:29,380
Another just little reminder to check out that blog post that Dan posted.

1570
02:00:29,380 --> 02:00:35,380
It's, it's well written. The GIFs are, are painstakingly crafted and there's probably a couple of things in there

1571
02:00:35,380 --> 02:00:39,380
that I missed. So, um, if you're, if you're interested in the lab site, I would, I would highly suggest

1572
02:00:39,380 --> 02:00:43,380
checking that out. But yeah, man, it's, it's starting to feel really good.

1573
02:00:43,380 --> 02:00:47,380
Still so much more we can do with the lab site, which is also exciting.

1574
02:00:47,380 --> 02:00:52,380
Like, um, as much as this makes it feel like full and all that other type of stuff that

1575
02:00:52,380 --> 02:00:55,380
I said, there's so many more features that could be coming down the line.

1576
02:00:55,380 --> 02:00:59,380
Um, I'm not going to name any of them now, but there's some really good ideas that will

1577
02:00:59,380 --> 02:01:03,380
really continue to push the, the usability of the site.

1578
02:01:03,380 --> 02:01:08,380
Um, and, and help people end up with a decision.

1579
02:01:08,380 --> 02:01:11,380
Um, that's another one of the things that we've been talking about.

1580
02:01:11,380 --> 02:01:14,380
What, what does the lab site eventually need to be able to do?

1581
02:01:14,380 --> 02:01:18,380
And it's been really interesting for information for a while, but as we move forward into the

1582
02:01:18,380 --> 02:01:21,380
future, we want to help you come to a conclusion more.

1583
02:01:21,380 --> 02:01:24,380
Um, right now it's, it's still in the great for information stage.

1584
02:01:24,380 --> 02:01:29,380
And we think stuff like that categories view that we're showing off can really push forward

1585
02:01:29,380 --> 02:01:33,380
towards helping people come to a conclusion. Um, but there is still more that we can do.

1586
02:01:33,380 --> 02:01:40,380
Um, and it's, it's exciting to, you know, have more things to work on.

1587
02:01:40,380 --> 02:01:43,380
That's good. Yeah, buddy.

1588
02:01:43,380 --> 02:01:46,380
Let's go. Yeah, buddy. Let's go.

1589
02:01:46,380 --> 02:01:50,380
Okay. Moving on. Oh, a sponsor spot, I guess.

1590
02:01:50,380 --> 02:01:53,380
Is that right? I think so. I don't know, Dan.

1591
02:01:53,380 --> 02:01:59,380
You tell us. Yeah. It's a takeover.

1592
02:01:59,380 --> 02:02:02,380
Wow. We need to stop tossing the talk around.

1593
02:02:02,380 --> 02:02:09,380
Sorry. My goodness. Um, it's like scroll me to the very top when something happened and stuff is it was wild.

1594
02:02:09,380 --> 02:02:12,380
Threat Locker has taken over this WAN Show as you might have seen at the beginning of

1595
02:02:12,380 --> 02:02:15,380
the show. So they take all the sponsor spots. They take all the sponsors.

1596
02:02:15,380 --> 02:02:18,380
Threat Locker. All of it. Is that who took it?

1597
02:02:18,380 --> 02:02:21,380
Yep. Threat Locker. So they've taken over all the sponsor spots.

1598
02:02:21,380 --> 02:02:25,380
They took over all the sponsors. So if I tried to talk about another sponsor, like it would.

1599
02:02:25,380 --> 02:02:29,380
Threat Locker. You know, their security method. My mic would stop working if not.

1600
02:02:29,380 --> 02:02:32,380
Their security method is default deny. Okay.

1601
02:02:32,380 --> 02:02:35,380
I won't talk about another. Other sponsors. Fair enough.

1602
02:02:35,380 --> 02:02:38,380
Okay. Carry on. That was a, I'm pretty happy with that.

1603
02:02:38,380 --> 02:02:44,880
That was pretty good. That was pretty good. Uh, anyways, uh, zero trust world is one of the talking points that I can go over.

1604
02:02:44,880 --> 02:02:50,660
So I went to zero trust world. Unfortunately I missed actually some, some parts of it that I think were really probably

1605
02:02:50,660 --> 02:02:55,380
cool, uh, because I flew into Toronto Pearson where that plane flipped over.

1606
02:02:55,380 --> 02:02:59,380
Uh, so my flight was, my, my connecting flight was canceled.

1607
02:02:59,380 --> 02:03:02,380
So I missed like the whole first day. Could have been worse. Could have been your flight.

1608
02:03:02,380 --> 02:03:05,380
Uh, yeah, that would be kind of cool.

1609
02:03:05,380 --> 02:03:11,380
Everybody survived. I would have been down. You could have been, uh, talked about on the internet.

1610
02:03:11,380 --> 02:03:15,380
Yeah. He's never been talked about on the, never, never happened.

1611
02:03:15,380 --> 02:03:19,380
Um, they had, they had some cool panels. They had hands-on stuff that I had some fun with.

1612
02:03:19,380 --> 02:03:26,380
They had cool guest speakers. Um, they had Reggie Fiza May from, from like X Nintendo.

1613
02:03:26,380 --> 02:03:33,380
That pretty wild. I don't know. Um, I really, I think I talked about this on last WAN Show, but I liked the, the Ducky

1614
02:03:33,380 --> 02:03:38,380
panels. We had hack five rubber Ducky panels, um, where we, we learned how to do a bunch of

1615
02:03:38,380 --> 02:03:42,380
different stuff with those, which was cool. But it was like the best thing you learned how to do.

1616
02:03:42,380 --> 02:03:50,380
Uh, well they gave us a Ducky and then AJ and I were sitting there and we ended up finding,

1617
02:03:50,380 --> 02:03:54,380
um, so back of the day, if you've seen the channel's super fun video, it's got a ton

1618
02:03:54,380 --> 02:04:01,380
of views. So you might have, um, in high school, I found this, uh, screen melting program online.

1619
02:04:01,380 --> 02:04:05,380
And then I, I messed a little bit and, and change it slightly and kind of made it my

1620
02:04:05,380 --> 02:04:11,380
own, but you know, I didn't make the, I, I made fairly minor changes.

1621
02:04:11,380 --> 02:04:15,380
There is a maintained version of the original source code online that updates it to support

1622
02:04:15,380 --> 02:04:18,380
like multiple monitors and all that kind of stuff. You can find it on a GitHub.

1623
02:04:18,380 --> 02:04:23,380
It's called screen melter. Um, so I didn't have access to my version and there's a better version now anyways.

1624
02:04:23,380 --> 02:04:26,380
So we downloaded the executable from that.

1625
02:04:27,380 --> 02:04:33,380
Um, and I got it to run by having it just, it had to access the file on the computer.

1626
02:04:33,380 --> 02:04:36,380
And AJ was like, well, that's dumb cause we plug it into someone else's computer.

1627
02:04:36,380 --> 02:04:42,380
The file is not going to be there. So we figured out how to get it to self-reference the, the rubber ducky itself for file storage.

1628
02:04:42,380 --> 02:04:45,380
So you just plug it in and it's screen melts, which was fantastic.

1629
02:04:45,380 --> 02:04:49,380
Wasn't really in the scope of the presentation, but we learned how to get there.

1630
02:04:49,380 --> 02:04:54,380
Uh, not quite, but I did take the beginning thing from somebody else.

1631
02:04:55,380 --> 02:04:58,380
Um, anyways, it was, it was, it was fun. We were messing around.

1632
02:04:58,380 --> 02:05:04,380
It's so defensive. We took things a little bit. Well, I mean, there was a stage where it was like that, but I did actually do cool things to it.

1633
02:05:04,380 --> 02:05:10,380
I made it like network deployable and all this other stuff. Anyways, uh, yeah, I was, it was a fun event.

1634
02:05:10,380 --> 02:05:13,380
What else did you do, Luke? Oh yeah.

1635
02:05:13,380 --> 02:05:17,380
Don't worry about it. Uh, cool. Anyway, tell us more about ZTW.

1636
02:05:17,380 --> 02:05:24,380
Yeah. Um, there, there was a lot of the main stage events were cool.

1637
02:05:24,380 --> 02:05:27,380
The hack panels were probably the most interesting ones to me.

1638
02:05:27,380 --> 02:05:33,380
Um, it's funny how certain people like implicate themselves cause they can't help boasting

1639
02:05:33,380 --> 02:05:36,380
certain kinds of people. I don't do anything anymore.

1640
02:05:36,380 --> 02:05:41,380
It's been a long time. It's been like genuinely closer to 20 years than not.

1641
02:05:41,380 --> 02:05:43,380
Like it's weird. It's been a long time since what?

1642
02:05:44,380 --> 02:05:50,380
Nothing. Uh, anyways, uh, on a panel at zero trust world,

1643
02:05:50,380 --> 02:05:53,380
they announced the addition of some cool features.

1644
02:05:53,380 --> 02:05:57,380
One of those called insights allows you to collect data for millions of endpoints worldwide

1645
02:05:57,380 --> 02:06:00,380
and present them as actionable information, saving lots of time.

1646
02:06:00,380 --> 02:06:03,380
That might be spent researching web control,

1647
02:06:03,380 --> 02:06:07,380
which lets you build a library of websites from an always updating list of ones automatically

1648
02:06:07,380 --> 02:06:12,380
identified as suspicious and blocks your endpoints from accessing them without permission

1649
02:06:13,380 --> 02:06:20,380
and patch management, which scans devices for outdated applications and inspects the proposed updates for anything

1650
02:06:20,380 --> 02:06:24,380
that might make your environment less secure or unstable.

1651
02:06:24,380 --> 02:06:30,380
Uh, and then lets you apply the patches according to your preset policies.

1652
02:06:30,380 --> 02:06:33,380
Um, So there's all front locker by the way.

1653
02:06:33,380 --> 02:06:38,380
Yeah. Threat locker as I, as I previously mentioned is a default deny type system.

1654
02:06:38,380 --> 02:06:44,380
So it, it can be very useful at not letting something happen.

1655
02:06:44,380 --> 02:06:47,380
I don't have their exact talking points for this in front of me,

1656
02:06:47,380 --> 02:06:50,380
but the idea is that they're not reactive. Yeah.

1657
02:06:50,380 --> 02:06:53,380
Um, or their focus is not being reactive. Something productive.

1658
02:06:53,380 --> 02:06:57,380
Um, so they're, they're, they try to block things before they can potentially even happen.

1659
02:06:57,380 --> 02:07:02,380
Um, which is, which is pretty cool. They lean really heavily on the whole zero trust concept.

1660
02:07:02,380 --> 02:07:05,380
Zero trust is not necessarily their thing.

1661
02:07:05,380 --> 02:07:11,380
It's a concept that has existed for a long time. Um, there's products from other brands that reference the term zero trust,

1662
02:07:11,380 --> 02:07:17,380
but I've always kind of liked that approach to things and they embrace it very heavily.

1663
02:07:17,380 --> 02:07:22,380
It's not like the kind of the core of their company. Um, they have a big emphasis, big emphasis on their support.

1664
02:07:22,380 --> 02:07:25,380
Um, they always have real people behind the scenes helping out with,

1665
02:07:25,380 --> 02:07:28,380
with their platform and their whole cyber hero thing is, is.

1666
02:07:28,380 --> 02:07:31,380
Yeah. That might've helped during the hackening.

1667
02:07:31,380 --> 02:07:34,380
Yeah. You can like, you can like pull in support basically, which is,

1668
02:07:34,380 --> 02:07:39,380
which is pretty great. Um, there's a note here that says maybe they could have helped during the hack.

1669
02:07:39,380 --> 02:07:44,380
Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, uh, I don't technically know cause we haven't used that yet,

1670
02:07:44,380 --> 02:07:47,380
but probably. Yeah, for sure. To just have someone.

1671
02:07:47,380 --> 02:07:50,380
At least a reassuring. With a cool head. Extra set of heads.

1672
02:07:50,380 --> 02:07:53,380
Yes. Yes. Cause I was not.

1673
02:07:53,380 --> 02:07:56,380
It's often all you need to. Yeah. Like just somebody who's like,

1674
02:07:56,380 --> 02:07:59,380
I've been through this before. Yeah. It's going to be okay.

1675
02:07:59,380 --> 02:08:03,380
Yeah. Let's take these steps and we'll work our way out of it. Um, but yeah, it's cool.

1676
02:08:03,380 --> 02:08:07,380
Excited. Yeah. And we're pretty excited about that.

1677
02:08:07,380 --> 02:08:12,380
Yeah. Uh, I got a couple of quick things from the Floatplane chat here.

1678
02:08:12,380 --> 02:08:16,380
Um, Neil Morph says, Hey, please tell me, you know when the LTT Store sale ends.

1679
02:08:16,380 --> 02:08:20,380
Um, and then in response, I'm going to give you this,

1680
02:08:20,380 --> 02:08:23,380
uh, message from jetpack Dan in the chat.

1681
02:08:23,380 --> 02:08:27,380
No, the tech vest in my size is out of stock.

1682
02:08:27,380 --> 02:08:30,380
It doesn't matter how long the sale event lasts.

1683
02:08:30,380 --> 02:08:34,380
If you see something you like, you should probably order it because this is the right off sale.

1684
02:08:34,380 --> 02:08:38,380
And quantities are going to be limited regardless of how long

1685
02:08:38,380 --> 02:08:41,380
the sale event lasts. So you should probably move pretty quickly.

1686
02:08:41,380 --> 02:08:44,380
Yeah. I don't think we're going into back ordering for this stuff. Right.

1687
02:08:44,380 --> 02:08:51,380
It's just when it's sold out, it's sold out. Uh, please address the.

1688
02:08:54,380 --> 02:08:58,380
What? I mean, we're not going to play a video.

1689
02:08:58,380 --> 02:09:01,380
Yeah. That's not going to happen. It was four hours ago.

1690
02:09:01,380 --> 02:09:08,380
Sorry. Um, apparently we may or may not have said things incorrectly

1691
02:09:08,380 --> 02:09:13,380
about placebos on the last show. There's a video, um, from somebody about it.

1692
02:09:13,380 --> 02:09:17,380
Uh, feel free to check it out if you want. We're not, we don't really talk about medical stuff.

1693
02:09:17,380 --> 02:09:21,380
So I'm sure if we said it wrong, it's our bad. We're a tech channel.

1694
02:09:21,380 --> 02:09:24,380
It is what it is. Cool.

1695
02:09:24,380 --> 02:09:29,380
All right. What else we got today?

1696
02:09:29,380 --> 02:09:32,380
Do a new topic? Sure.

1697
02:09:32,380 --> 02:09:35,380
Sick. Uh, okay.

1698
02:09:35,380 --> 02:09:38,380
Do you want good news or bad news?

1699
02:09:38,380 --> 02:09:43,380
Good news. Okay. Eight sleep engineers backdoored your bed.

1700
02:09:43,380 --> 02:09:46,380
Oh wait. No, that's not good news.

1701
02:09:46,380 --> 02:09:49,380
Uh, wait, hold on. Wait, backdoored? It might be good news.

1702
02:09:49,380 --> 02:09:52,380
Microsoft is shutting down Skype for good.

1703
02:09:52,380 --> 02:09:55,380
I mean that. That's probably neutral. That's like neutral.

1704
02:09:55,380 --> 02:10:02,380
Let's go with neutral. Okay. Microsoft has confirmed that after 21 years, Skype is shutting down for good.

1705
02:10:02,380 --> 02:10:06,380
This confirmation comes after users poked around the latest Skype preview update and

1706
02:10:06,380 --> 02:10:10,380
noticed text that read starting in May, Skype will no longer be available.

1707
02:10:10,380 --> 02:10:16,380
Continue your calls and chats in teams or discord.

1708
02:10:16,380 --> 02:10:20,380
You know, uh, some Skype users will already be able to log into teams using their Skype

1709
02:10:20,380 --> 02:10:24,380
credentials while others should gain the ability over the next few days.

1710
02:10:24,380 --> 02:10:30,380
Our discussion question here is any good Skype memories?

1711
02:10:30,380 --> 02:10:37,380
I mean, LTT forum mod team used to meet over Skype and that was cool.

1712
02:10:37,380 --> 02:10:42,380
It was pretty great. It was pretty great for a little while until the IP resolver bug.

1713
02:10:42,380 --> 02:10:47,380
Yes. Basically made it unusable for us because we would have people call into the WAN Show

1714
02:10:47,380 --> 02:10:53,380
and then I forget the exact details, but I think anyone who had the username of any

1715
02:10:53,380 --> 02:11:00,380
one in the call could resolve the IP address of the host of the call.

1716
02:11:00,380 --> 02:11:03,380
And so the WAN Show would just constantly get DDoS'd.

1717
02:11:03,380 --> 02:11:09,380
Yeah. Whenever we would try to have a live guest, which was basically why we stopped doing live

1718
02:11:09,380 --> 02:11:20,380
guests for a long time. We eventually figured out some mitigation that we will never, ever, ever talk about.

1719
02:11:20,380 --> 02:11:26,380
But yeah, Skype, any good experience I ever had with Skype, you know, whether it was affordable

1720
02:11:26,380 --> 02:11:32,380
long distance calling or, you know, using it as a reasonably high fidelity gaming chat

1721
02:11:32,380 --> 02:11:38,380
was more than any goodwill that I had towards Skype was more than wiped out by not just the

1722
02:11:38,380 --> 02:11:48,380
existence of the IP resolver bug, but the long, long, long term persistence of the IP

1723
02:11:48,380 --> 02:11:52,380
resolver bug. That was a huge, huge issue.

1724
02:11:52,380 --> 02:11:56,380
So yeah, sucked. Goodbye, Skype.

1725
02:11:56,380 --> 02:12:00,380
I wish that you were never introduced in place of MSN Messenger.

1726
02:12:00,380 --> 02:12:03,380
Yeah. Rest in pieces. Yeah.

1727
02:12:03,380 --> 02:12:07,380
What else we got? Should we talk about the bed thing?

1728
02:12:07,380 --> 02:12:15,380
Sure. After discovering an AWS key pair in a firmware update for his eight-sleep mattress in December,

1729
02:12:15,380 --> 02:12:22,380
security researcher Dylan Aray did, sure, Dylan did some more digging and discovered

1730
02:12:22,380 --> 02:12:29,380
that eight-sleep engineers are able to remotely SSH into every customer's bed, which by the

1731
02:12:29,380 --> 02:12:36,380
way, contains a full Linux computer and they can even run arbitrary code and not just from

1732
02:12:36,380 --> 02:12:43,380
your local network. So cool. Dylan posted screenshots and code snippets on his Truffle security blog and noted that

1733
02:12:43,380 --> 02:12:49,380
with this access, eight-sleep engineers could know when you are sleeping, detect how many

1734
02:12:49,380 --> 02:12:57,380
people are in your bed, change your bed's temperature, change vibration and alarm settings,

1735
02:12:57,380 --> 02:13:05,380
connect to other devices on your local network, and, this is the kicker, do literally anything

1736
02:13:05,380 --> 02:13:11,380
that they could on a normal Linux machine.

1737
02:13:12,380 --> 02:13:15,380
I'm really glad we don't work with them anymore. Yeah.

1738
02:13:15,380 --> 02:13:21,380
They have turned out to be absolute doom cups.

1739
02:13:21,380 --> 02:13:25,380
Was it you who posted that nine-sleep thing in the chat?

1740
02:13:25,380 --> 02:13:28,380
Yeah. Apparently, has it been abandoned?

1741
02:13:28,380 --> 02:13:37,380
It looks like maybe. There's a DIY hack thing where you go and you take the microSD card out of your eight-sleep

1742
02:13:37,380 --> 02:13:41,380
and you can overwrite a file and then manually configure it and stuff.

1743
02:13:41,380 --> 02:13:45,380
There's no reason you shouldn't be able to do everything that eight-sleep does through

1744
02:13:45,380 --> 02:13:51,380
the cloud locally, other than just that they want to maintain control over the ecosystem.

1745
02:13:51,380 --> 02:13:54,380
I have one. You can use it to tie into Home Assistant and stuff.

1746
02:13:54,380 --> 02:13:57,380
Luke has one. I begrudgingly have one.

1747
02:13:57,380 --> 02:14:00,380
I like mine.

1748
02:14:00,380 --> 02:14:04,380
They seem to make monster money. No, they don't.

1749
02:14:04,380 --> 02:14:07,380
They don't? No, they were in financial trouble a while back. Oh, really?

1750
02:14:07,380 --> 02:14:14,380
Yeah. Well, maybe it's because they're shipping everybody Linux computers.

1751
02:14:14,380 --> 02:14:17,380
Maybe they should bomb down their product.

1752
02:14:17,380 --> 02:14:23,380
I could be wrong. Eight-sleep has raised 86 million in series C funding.

1753
02:14:23,380 --> 02:14:26,380
Hold on. What's this one? What's this?

1754
02:14:26,380 --> 02:14:30,380
I just want someone to come up with a competitor. February 2023.

1755
02:14:30,380 --> 02:14:33,380
Okay. I don't know.

1756
02:14:33,380 --> 02:14:41,380
I take that back. I take that back. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I dressed a leakage issue.

1757
02:14:41,380 --> 02:14:44,380
I missed the eight-sleep. They've raised over 155.

1758
02:14:44,380 --> 02:14:49,380
Oh, their latest funding round was a corporate minority on June 24, 2024.

1759
02:14:49,380 --> 02:14:53,380
I don't know what that means.

1760
02:14:53,380 --> 02:14:58,380
No idea. Valuation was about half a bill in July 2021.

1761
02:14:58,380 --> 02:15:01,380
Yeah, people are saying lots of embedded devices have embedded Linux for some reason.

1762
02:15:01,380 --> 02:15:04,380
Yeah. I mean, that is true. Sure, fair enough.

1763
02:15:04,380 --> 02:15:07,380
I don't have a SSH backdoor into my house, please.

1764
02:15:07,380 --> 02:15:11,380
Yeah. Yeah, that. That thing that he said just now.

1765
02:15:11,380 --> 02:15:18,380
So, yeah, I'm not super into it. Our discussion question is, is it time for DIY water-cooled bed version two?

1766
02:15:18,380 --> 02:15:21,380
Oh, man, I don't want to.

1767
02:15:21,380 --> 02:15:24,380
Can you buy a cover? Yeah, you can. You can buy it.

1768
02:15:24,380 --> 02:15:28,380
Can you buy just a cover? Oh. Like, that's water-cooled?

1769
02:15:28,380 --> 02:15:32,380
That, I don't know. But in terms of duvets, you can get one.

1770
02:15:32,380 --> 02:15:35,380
No, no, no, no. The eight-sleep cover. It's called a cover.

1771
02:15:35,380 --> 02:15:38,380
Yeah. The part that straps onto your bed, not the pod.

1772
02:15:38,380 --> 02:15:41,380
Oh, I don't know. That's a good question.

1773
02:15:41,380 --> 02:15:45,380
Because if I remember correctly, when you guys made that video, the difficult part was the

1774
02:15:45,380 --> 02:15:48,380
cover. Oh, no, the bed was hard.

1775
02:15:48,380 --> 02:15:53,380
The cooling was hard. Well, the cooling was only easy because we had that chiller that we just happened to

1776
02:15:53,380 --> 02:15:58,380
have. Most people wouldn't have that. But realistically, you don't need that kind of horsepower in your tr...

1777
02:15:58,380 --> 02:16:02,380
Not literal horsepower, but you don't need that powerful of a chiller anyway.

1778
02:16:02,380 --> 02:16:09,380
And something more akin to what we made when we did the water-cooled gamer chair would be

1779
02:16:09,380 --> 02:16:16,380
more than fine. Because, like, a couple hundred watts is lots to draw heat away from a sleeping person.

1780
02:16:16,380 --> 02:16:19,380
Let me see if I can find it. Water-cooled chair.

1781
02:16:19,380 --> 02:16:22,380
Yeah, here it is. Oh, apparently there is a competitor.

1782
02:16:22,380 --> 02:16:28,380
I've never heard of this. Oh, my God.

1783
02:16:28,380 --> 02:16:32,380
I will come back to this once my ads are done.

1784
02:16:32,380 --> 02:16:35,380
I know nothing about these guys. They might have the exact same problem.

1785
02:16:35,380 --> 02:16:38,380
I have no clue, but a chili pad.

1786
02:16:38,380 --> 02:16:42,380
Okay. They sleep me. So I've got a Grammarly ad.

1787
02:16:42,380 --> 02:16:48,480
Grammarly is one of those companies that, like, I would never use for myself, but I absolutely

1788
02:16:48,480 --> 02:16:52,380
believe that a lot of people should use. Yeah.

1789
02:16:53,380 --> 02:17:01,380
So here, this just little, like, Peltier element that I'm holding is enough to cool one person.

1790
02:17:01,380 --> 02:17:05,380
And that's basically what's inside the eight-sleep. I must just say, I thought it was kind of nice.

1791
02:17:05,380 --> 02:17:08,380
It either runs to the hot side or the cold side, depending on whether it's trying to

1792
02:17:08,380 --> 02:17:12,380
chill the mattress cover or heat it. And that's why it's so quiet, too.

1793
02:17:12,380 --> 02:17:16,380
But it's not very energy efficient, but because you're not actually trying to cool a computer

1794
02:17:16,380 --> 02:17:21,380
with it, it's fine. You're just trying to cool a human, which is, like, think about a hundred watts at rest

1795
02:17:21,380 --> 02:17:25,380
or something like that. It's not that much.

1796
02:17:25,380 --> 02:17:29,380
Anyway, not cool. How's this competitor look?

1797
02:17:29,380 --> 02:17:36,380
I don't know. I'm on your screen. When they were showing this animation, I thought it was just, like, a cool pad, but then you

1798
02:17:36,380 --> 02:17:40,380
can see as the animation goes on, it's kind of pivoting away from it now.

1799
02:17:40,380 --> 02:17:43,380
Oh, do you need one for each side? Interesting.

1800
02:17:43,380 --> 02:17:47,380
So they show the cover coming down, and then they show a little blue animation of, like,

1801
02:17:47,380 --> 02:17:56,380
look, it's plugged into this thing. Oh, yeah, okay. There is some form of external heat cool element, but then I also see one on the other side.

1802
02:17:56,380 --> 02:17:59,380
So maybe it's one for each half of the bed.

1803
02:17:59,380 --> 02:18:02,380
Which, honestly, is probably fine. It's probably fine.

1804
02:18:02,380 --> 02:18:06,380
Realistically, any, like, main bedroom layout is going to have a spot for two night stands

1805
02:18:06,380 --> 02:18:11,380
and, you know, like, it's going to have two sides of the bed, generally speaking.

1806
02:18:11,380 --> 02:18:15,380
Oh, yeah, here we go. Looks like these are their options.

1807
02:18:16,380 --> 02:18:19,380
Yeah, so it comes with two of the things.

1808
02:18:19,380 --> 02:18:22,380
Mm-hmm. Supreme sleep tracker. Is it a subscription?

1809
02:18:22,380 --> 02:18:25,380
I don't know.

1810
02:18:25,380 --> 02:18:33,380
Me, half queen, me or we, sleep week sale.

1811
02:18:33,380 --> 02:18:36,380
Is it a subscription? Does anybody know?

1812
02:18:36,380 --> 02:18:42,380
Yeah, so, yeah, the price jumps a bunch when you go to two people.

1813
02:18:42,380 --> 02:18:47,380
That makes sense. Which does make sense. But I don't see any subscription things.

1814
02:18:47,380 --> 02:18:50,380
They have a protection plan, but that's not a subscription.

1815
02:18:50,380 --> 02:18:53,380
Yes, it has a six dollar monthly subscription.

1816
02:18:53,380 --> 02:18:56,380
One month of sleep me plus. Yeah, I see it now.

1817
02:18:56,380 --> 02:19:00,380
But does it work without it? Because I don't have an eight sleep subscription.

1818
02:19:00,380 --> 02:19:03,380
Yeah, you don't need it. Looks like enough for me. Yeah, me too.

1819
02:19:06,380 --> 02:19:13,380
All right. Well, realistically, it's probably not going to be that different, but who knows.

1820
02:19:13,380 --> 02:19:16,380
Maybe it is pretty similar, but I don't know.

1821
02:19:16,380 --> 02:19:19,380
It's a subscription, but you don't need it says someone says low boom.

1822
02:19:19,380 --> 02:19:22,380
So kind of same deal, I guess. Okay.

1823
02:19:22,380 --> 02:19:26,380
All right. What else we want to talk about today?

1824
02:19:26,380 --> 02:19:33,380
Twitch has implemented a 100 hour storage limit and people are losing their minds in

1825
02:19:33,380 --> 02:19:37,380
an effort to cut costs. Amazon owned frenemy of streamers.

1826
02:19:37,380 --> 02:19:43,380
Twitch is culling archived content by making all highlights and uploads, whether published

1827
02:19:43,380 --> 02:19:48,380
or unpublished count toward a single 100 hour storage limit.

1828
02:19:48,380 --> 02:19:54,380
This limit will go into place on April 19th when content will automatically be deleted

1829
02:19:54,380 --> 02:20:02,380
until it falls below the limit. This limit won't apply to full VODs or clips only highlights and uploads from third party

1830
02:20:03,380 --> 02:20:08,380
services, but some creators are sharing screenshots showing they have several thousands of hours

1831
02:20:08,380 --> 02:20:13,380
in highlights alone and now have less than two months to archive them.

1832
02:20:13,380 --> 02:20:18,380
FKA socks pointed out on the Twitch forums that speed runners will likely be the worst

1833
02:20:18,380 --> 02:20:24,380
hit. Speed run history is stored entirely in highlights, not just world records, but most every run

1834
02:20:24,380 --> 02:20:27,380
submitted that was on Twitch is stored as a highlight on speedrun.com.

1835
02:20:27,380 --> 02:20:31,380
They said discussion question.

1836
02:20:31,380 --> 02:20:37,380
How expensive is hosting up to 4,000 plus hours of video for 0.5% of Twitch streamers,

1837
02:20:37,380 --> 02:20:41,380
which is the percentage of Twitch streamers that Twitch claims will be effective?

1838
02:20:41,380 --> 02:20:48,380
The answer is very expensive, which is why Amazon is stepping in and doing something about

1839
02:20:48,380 --> 02:20:52,380
this. This is something that Luke and I have talked about for a long time.

1840
02:20:52,380 --> 02:21:00,380
The most difficult part of pitching Floatplane to creators is that Floatplane costs what streaming

1841
02:21:00,380 --> 02:21:03,380
and data storage costs.

1842
02:21:03,380 --> 02:21:11,380
Everyone else is the VC model, which is I provide everything to you for free and we'll figure

1843
02:21:11,380 --> 02:21:19,380
out the financials later. And what that looks like is when sites like Patreon start...

1844
02:21:19,380 --> 02:21:29,380
Oh, they worked with Vimeo. Yeah, when sites like Patreon that had a video solution just don't have a proper video solution

1845
02:21:29,380 --> 02:21:34,380
anymore. I believe they do now. Yep, they do now, but that was a big surprise to everybody.

1846
02:21:34,380 --> 02:21:38,380
When sites like Twitch go, hey, unlimited data storage, this doesn't make any sense.

1847
02:21:38,380 --> 02:21:41,380
And they just turn it off.

1848
02:21:41,380 --> 02:21:44,380
That's what happens.

1849
02:21:44,380 --> 02:21:49,380
And that's one of the reasons that I've talked about this at length in the past, but that's

1850
02:21:49,380 --> 02:21:55,380
one of the reasons that YouTube is such a remarkable platform, the fact that they allow

1851
02:21:55,380 --> 02:22:01,380
everyone to upload and the fact that all they ask in return is that you watch the ads, which

1852
02:22:01,380 --> 02:22:07,380
admittedly are a lot these days, or that you pay a premium subscription, which quite frankly,

1853
02:22:07,380 --> 02:22:13,380
given that it includes YouTube music, is very reasonably priced, is kind of incredible.

1854
02:22:13,380 --> 02:22:17,380
YouTube is flipping incredible and I don't know how long it's going to last.

1855
02:22:17,380 --> 02:22:20,380
But anyway, back to Twitch.

1856
02:22:20,380 --> 02:22:25,380
I don't see them reversing course on this because realistically, I don't think they

1857
02:22:25,380 --> 02:22:30,380
care. I think the only place that they're going to potentially lose streamers to is going to

1858
02:22:30,380 --> 02:22:36,380
be what? Like Kick. And from my understanding, Kick's infrastructure just runs on AWS anyway.

1859
02:22:36,380 --> 02:22:39,380
Yeah, but sometimes has like better features, which is really funny.

1860
02:22:39,380 --> 02:22:43,380
So like, what does Amazon care? Because they basically get your business either way.

1861
02:22:43,380 --> 02:22:48,620
So they can just either bleed money themselves on Twitch or they can just like take money

1862
02:22:48,620 --> 02:22:54,620
from crypto bros. Someone in Flow Plane Chat posted that apparently Facebook is removing live vods that are over

1863
02:22:54,620 --> 02:22:58,620
30 days old. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.

1864
02:22:58,620 --> 02:23:01,620
It doesn't surprise me because none of this is sustainable.

1865
02:23:01,620 --> 02:23:04,620
Like that's the thing. Flow Plane is a crazy model.

1866
02:23:04,620 --> 02:23:07,620
Like it's actually wild.

1867
02:23:07,620 --> 02:23:12,620
Flow Plane is built to be sustainable and it is priced to be sustainable.

1868
02:23:12,620 --> 02:23:15,620
Are we doing all right? And we're doing fine.

1869
02:23:15,620 --> 02:23:22,620
But this other stuff is built for explosive exponential growth and just like suck money

1870
02:23:22,620 --> 02:23:27,620
up from VCs until it doesn't make sense anymore and then stall.

1871
02:23:27,620 --> 02:23:32,620
Right? Like that's the thing. If you take a plane and you go like this with it, eventually it stalls out.

1872
02:23:32,620 --> 02:23:38,620
Whereas we're kind of built for slow, steady growth.

1873
02:23:38,620 --> 02:23:41,620
Very slow.

1874
02:23:41,620 --> 02:23:45,620
It's okay. Glacial. You'll do the business side someday.

1875
02:23:45,620 --> 02:23:48,620
Someday. Someday you'll have an actual CEO.

1876
02:23:48,620 --> 02:23:51,620
It'll happen. Not just a CEO in name.

1877
02:23:51,620 --> 02:23:56,620
I'm not. Maybe never. Like the dog waiting outside of the store.

1878
02:23:56,620 --> 02:24:00,620
He'll come back.

1879
02:24:00,620 --> 02:24:07,620
Someday. Except the store that I went to is for cigarettes.

1880
02:24:07,620 --> 02:24:12,620
Dad's never coming home, is he?

1881
02:24:12,620 --> 02:24:21,620
Honestly, this feels like an opportunity for someone like investment disclosure, hashtag.

1882
02:24:21,620 --> 02:24:29,620
Like right now, it's too bad that they weren't out of beta at this point with HexOS.

1883
02:24:29,620 --> 02:24:33,620
Because if they could just be like, yeah, okay, Twitch streamers.

1884
02:24:33,620 --> 02:24:40,620
Here, get ready to own your data. It's going to cost you a little bit of money because storage costs money and you have to

1885
02:24:40,620 --> 02:24:43,620
pay for it somehow, but it's going to cost you a little bit of money.

1886
02:24:43,620 --> 02:24:48,620
But here's where you can put it. I don't think most streamers are going to perma store their data.

1887
02:24:48,620 --> 02:24:52,620
They might perma store clips or specific streams or things like that.

1888
02:24:52,620 --> 02:24:55,620
But I don't think they're going to perma store everything. Sure.

1889
02:24:55,620 --> 02:25:00,620
But I mean, we're not talking about everything. It's not like Twitch isn't willing to store 100 hours worth of storage.

1890
02:25:00,620 --> 02:25:03,620
But if there's anything that they want outside of that, then they're going to have to figure

1891
02:25:03,620 --> 02:25:06,620
it out. And some streamers will. I remember Severus.

1892
02:25:06,620 --> 02:25:09,620
Yeah. He used to. Yep.

1893
02:25:09,620 --> 02:25:14,620
That's true. Well, good luck, everybody.

1894
02:25:14,620 --> 02:25:17,620
Yep. What else we got?

1895
02:25:17,620 --> 02:25:25,620
Yeah, I.

1896
02:25:25,620 --> 02:25:31,620
There's so much stuff. Lake's Orange said 10 plus years ago, Twitch stored the VOD of every stream ever.

1897
02:25:31,620 --> 02:25:34,620
Then they took that away. This is just a natural progression of that.

1898
02:25:34,620 --> 02:25:38,620
Yeah, it just doesn't make, it doesn't make any sense, especially when no offense Twitch

1899
02:25:38,620 --> 02:25:44,620
streamers. But the vast majority of your airtime is just garbage.

1900
02:25:44,620 --> 02:25:48,620
Cherestream. Like it actually should not be archived.

1901
02:25:48,620 --> 02:25:51,620
It doesn't matter. We don't need it. What?

1902
02:25:51,620 --> 02:25:55,620
No offense. You don't need to watch one person watching someone else's content?

1903
02:25:55,620 --> 02:26:00,620
No. What do you mean? I don't even need to watch two people watching someone else's content.

1904
02:26:00,620 --> 02:26:03,620
What would Twitch streamers do if like YouTube didn't exist?

1905
02:26:03,620 --> 02:26:06,620
Play video games. What? I know.

1906
02:26:06,620 --> 02:26:09,620
I know. Wild idea. That's hard work.

1907
02:26:09,620 --> 02:26:17,620
Wild idea. I don't know about that. Nerdle says me watching two people talking about people watching content.

1908
02:26:17,620 --> 02:26:20,620
Touche. That's pretty good.

1909
02:26:20,620 --> 02:26:23,620
Hey, good news.

1910
02:26:23,620 --> 02:26:28,620
EA releases the source code for four command and conquer.

1911
02:26:28,620 --> 02:26:33,620
Was this on anyone's bingo card for 2025?

1912
02:26:33,620 --> 02:26:36,620
Not even a little. Yeah. EA.

1913
02:26:36,620 --> 02:26:40,620
I'm sure you're going to tell me like Activision Blizzard did something good.

1914
02:26:40,620 --> 02:26:43,620
No. I'm kidding. No one's going to say that.

1915
02:26:43,620 --> 02:26:49,620
No. The source code release is for command and conquer, Tiberium Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade,

1916
02:26:49,620 --> 02:26:53,500
and Generals along with the zero hour expansion.

1917
02:26:53,500 --> 02:26:58,860
It is being released under the GPL license and the code is available from EA's freaking

1918
02:26:58,860 --> 02:27:07,020
GitHub page. Game Workshop support is also being enabled for Renegade, Generals plus the zero hour expansion,

1919
02:27:07,020 --> 02:27:10,900
command and conquer three Tiberium Wars plus the Cane's Wrath expansion, and command and

1920
02:27:10,900 --> 02:27:17,820
conquer four Tiberium Twilight. They have released a modding support pack that includes source XML schema shader and

1921
02:27:17,820 --> 02:27:23,460
map files for all games utilizing Sage strategy action game engine also available from EA's

1922
02:27:23,460 --> 02:27:28,860
GitHub page. What?

1923
02:27:28,860 --> 02:27:32,300
Genuinely wild. Are you kidding me?

1924
02:27:32,300 --> 02:27:37,980
EA released remasters of command and conquer, Tiberium Dawn, OG, and Red Alert back in 2020

1925
02:27:37,980 --> 02:27:41,300
as well as the ultimate collection in 2024 on Steam.

1926
02:27:41,300 --> 02:27:45,700
But this is, this is wild. Fern 182 says it's EA.

1927
02:27:45,700 --> 02:27:48,700
There will be a catch. Mark my words. There will be a catch.

1928
02:27:48,700 --> 02:27:51,860
But I don't, I don't see the catch. I never got into command and conquer.

1929
02:27:51,860 --> 02:27:56,500
I was a Warcraft kid. I like that Red Alert was, was big in my house.

1930
02:27:56,500 --> 02:28:01,860
But like, dude, this is, this is, I am at a loss.

1931
02:28:01,860 --> 02:28:06,420
It's weird. Like we had Valve last week going full good guy on TF2.

1932
02:28:06,420 --> 02:28:09,460
And how did these happen so close to each other? I know, right?

1933
02:28:09,460 --> 02:28:14,780
It's really hard for me to believe that EA was able to like do this in a week.

1934
02:28:14,780 --> 02:28:17,780
You know. There's no way. It would have had to be.

1935
02:28:17,780 --> 02:28:23,300
They must have both been cooking on it, but like, what? That's just so weird.

1936
02:28:23,300 --> 02:28:26,540
Thanks Mewkem. The Lux backpack. I will pay double.

1937
02:28:26,540 --> 02:28:30,620
Also this money could have went toward tinting my golf.

1938
02:28:30,620 --> 02:28:33,820
I don't know if we're going to bring the Lux bag back, but hey, thanks for picking up

1939
02:28:33,820 --> 02:28:36,820
a backpack.

1940
02:28:36,820 --> 02:28:41,220
I, I, I mean, we've said everything there is to say about the topic at this point, I

1941
02:28:41,220 --> 02:28:46,660
think, other than just, I want to drag it out a little bit more to emphasize good job

1942
02:28:46,660 --> 02:28:52,700
EA. Like this is, this is the best case scenario for game preservation.

1943
02:28:52,700 --> 02:29:00,780
This is the best case possible scenario for preserving gaming experiences for future generations.

1944
02:29:00,780 --> 02:29:04,660
Like what was it? Um, I think it was Destiny, uh, uh, Destiny 2.

1945
02:29:04,660 --> 02:29:10,820
I was looking at that, that, that lawsuit, uh, Destiny 2 lawsuit, YouTube footage, uh,

1946
02:29:10,820 --> 02:29:14,260
because they were trying to, here we go.

1947
02:29:14,260 --> 02:29:20,380
Yeah. Bungie's lawyers had to use fan videos of old Destiny 2 content in court because it

1948
02:29:20,380 --> 02:29:23,620
doesn't exist in game anymore.

1949
02:29:23,620 --> 02:29:29,900
Freaking wild. So this is, uh, because a science fiction writer is suing them, but the, so the lawyers

1950
02:29:29,900 --> 02:29:35,820
can't point at the game anymore because these live service games change over time and these

1951
02:29:35,820 --> 02:29:40,620
gaming experiences are just gone.

1952
02:29:40,620 --> 02:29:51,620
That sucks. Yeah. And I didn't expect EA of all companies to be one of the first to do this in a big

1953
02:29:51,620 --> 02:29:55,500
fashion. I'm, I'm 100% certain. This is Commander Freaking Conquer.

1954
02:29:55,500 --> 02:29:59,540
Like this isn't like some crap game no one ever cared about.

1955
02:29:59,540 --> 02:30:02,980
Yeah. Commander Conquer was a huge deal. Red Alert was a huge deal.

1956
02:30:02,980 --> 02:30:08,700
No kidding. Both of these were, were massive. I mean, I think it's Commander Conquer, Red Alert, but whatever.

1957
02:30:08,700 --> 02:30:13,700
Red Alert one and Red Alert two were both massive. Um, I don't know.

1958
02:30:13,700 --> 02:30:17,260
It's cool. I just, I, I respect it.

1959
02:30:17,260 --> 02:30:20,260
It's good. Good. It's rare.

1960
02:30:20,260 --> 02:30:25,140
See Raid on man. He wasn't going to say anything anyway. They're like, he's like, let Luke talk.

1961
02:30:25,140 --> 02:30:28,700
No, I had nothing to add. Yeah. It's really cool.

1962
02:30:28,700 --> 02:30:31,700
It's just good. Someone said it did it first. Yeah.

1963
02:30:31,700 --> 02:30:36,060
I mean, I didn't know that to be completely honest, but maybe I knew at one point forgot.

1964
02:30:36,060 --> 02:30:41,500
I'm not sure. It's just, I'm still very happy.

1965
02:30:41,500 --> 02:30:49,340
In less good gaming news, Warner Rose cannot break their L streak and has shut down legendary

1966
02:30:49,340 --> 02:30:53,140
game studio monolith productions alongside two others.

1967
02:30:53,140 --> 02:31:00,740
And this one hits me a little harder than most because I don't know if you guys remember

1968
02:31:00,740 --> 02:31:06,940
this, but, um, we actually got an incredible opportunity.

1969
02:31:06,940 --> 02:31:11,020
Seven years ago to go behind the scenes at monolith.

1970
02:31:11,020 --> 02:31:15,380
That is a terrible thumbnail. Not enough people watched this.

1971
02:31:15,380 --> 02:31:19,740
This was a really good video. The folks there were so cool.

1972
02:31:19,740 --> 02:31:22,940
They were awesome. So dedicated to their craft.

1973
02:31:22,940 --> 02:31:29,340
Um, I, I just, I don't think I've ever seen a more passionate team doing more passionate

1974
02:31:29,340 --> 02:31:35,340
stuff. This was sponsored by Xbox. And this was the one time we ever did a sponsorship with Xbox.

1975
02:31:35,340 --> 02:31:38,940
And it was so worth it. And so cool. Let's go to their mocap.

1976
02:31:38,940 --> 02:31:45,180
They had an onsite, they had an onsite mocap setup where the actual developers, like some

1977
02:31:45,180 --> 02:31:49,740
of them had a little bit of martial arts training and they would, they would like have an idea

1978
02:31:49,740 --> 02:31:54,140
for something and they would literally just go jump in the mocap room and, and, and just

1979
02:31:54,140 --> 02:31:58,460
do it and then go back to their stations and, and, and work on it.

1980
02:31:58,460 --> 02:32:07,220
Like it was, oh, what an absolutely incredible team.

1981
02:32:07,220 --> 02:32:19,020
They did some incredible work. Um, uh, Shadow of Mordor was actually one of the only games during that time of my life,

1982
02:32:19,020 --> 02:32:23,060
that I managed to play all the way through because I was really busy like running a company

1983
02:32:23,060 --> 02:32:27,580
and having kids and stuff. Uh, Middle Earth, Shadow of Mordor, so what that came out in 2014.

1984
02:32:27,580 --> 02:32:31,940
That was like, that was like the empty times for gaming for me.

1985
02:32:31,940 --> 02:32:36,500
I played through, uh, the first Tomb Raider, like, like reboot.

1986
02:32:36,500 --> 02:32:41,940
I played through Middle Earth, Shadow of Mordor, I don't know, maybe like one or two other

1987
02:32:41,940 --> 02:32:45,380
games. Absolutely incredible game. The Nemesis system was so cool.

1988
02:32:45,380 --> 02:32:52,740
So sick. Um, literally it was literally just messing around with the Nemesis system was like worthy

1989
02:32:52,740 --> 02:33:03,700
gameplay. Oh, a hundred percent. Those of you not familiar, it basically created memorable characters out of like just rando

1990
02:33:03,700 --> 02:33:09,740
NPC enemies and like created like, like feuds between you and even between them and each

1991
02:33:09,740 --> 02:33:17,740
other and stuff. The Nemesis system was super cool. It made it so that deaths in the game, like if you died, the, your Nemesis's would like

1992
02:33:17,740 --> 02:33:25,100
level up and evolve. So like your own death was a, was an actual mechanic in the game, which is so cool.

1993
02:33:25,100 --> 02:33:28,940
Like I don't know though, it was, it was sick.

1994
02:33:28,940 --> 02:33:33,140
Anyway, this sucks. Um, let's read through the thing.

1995
02:33:33,140 --> 02:33:37,940
Monolith has had struggled under the close scrutiny of Warner Brothers after the second

1996
02:33:37,940 --> 02:33:41,020
Middle Earth Shadow game made less money than the first.

1997
02:33:41,020 --> 02:33:45,660
The bros were only really interested in established franchises at that point.

1998
02:33:45,660 --> 02:33:51,060
So the new IP code named legacy was canceled in 2021 and most of the studio leadership

1999
02:33:51,060 --> 02:33:55,180
left once work on the troubled Wonder Woman began.

2000
02:33:55,180 --> 02:34:01,500
David added a note here. They formed cliffhanger hanger games at EA and are making the new Black Panther game.

2001
02:34:01,500 --> 02:34:08,900
Oh, cool. After the historic $200 million flop of Suicide Squad killed the Justice League, as well as

2002
02:34:08,900 --> 02:34:14,220
the $100 million right down of Multiversus and the new Quidditch game, Warner Brothers

2003
02:34:14,220 --> 02:34:19,300
has canceled Wonder Woman and closed Monolith as well as player first games, Multiversus,

2004
02:34:19,300 --> 02:34:25,060
and WB game San Diego, which was working on an unannounced free to play AAA game.

2005
02:34:25,060 --> 02:34:30,540
The incredible, but unfortunately patented nemesis system from the shadow games will

2006
02:34:30,540 --> 02:34:37,700
now live in legal limbo instead of being iterated on by Monolith or other developers.

2007
02:34:37,700 --> 02:34:42,580
Um, okay. So yeah, that blows basically.

2008
02:34:42,580 --> 02:34:45,700
I don't really know what else there is to say about that either.

2009
02:34:45,700 --> 02:34:50,540
Yeah. Hall effect is dead. Long live TMR.

2010
02:34:50,540 --> 02:34:56,100
8-bit dough is releasing the ultimate to non-C wireless controller and they have ditched

2011
02:34:56,100 --> 02:35:02,820
Hall effect sticks in favor of a new text, a new stick tech, TMR or tunneling magneto

2012
02:35:02,820 --> 02:35:09,100
resistance. TMR can offer higher precision, reportedly 10 times over Hall effect and refresh rates

2013
02:35:09,100 --> 02:35:12,980
up to 20,000 Hertz while using less power.

2014
02:35:12,980 --> 02:35:18,300
From Gillykit CEO Jack He via the Verge, the power consumption of TMR sensors is usually

2015
02:35:18,300 --> 02:35:25,660
in the range of 0.1 to 0.3 milliamps while Hall effect sensors can consume 0.5 to 2 milliamps.

2016
02:35:25,660 --> 02:35:29,580
Mainly because of this difference, Hall effect joysticks cannot work very well when installed

2017
02:35:29,580 --> 02:35:34,940
on stock controllers. There are already several other controllers currently available with TMR sticks, including

2018
02:35:34,940 --> 02:35:38,900
the excellent Game Sir Cyclone 2, which David unboxed recently on SC.

2019
02:35:39,700 --> 02:35:44,740
Dude, third party controllers are not Little Brother anymore.

2020
02:35:44,740 --> 02:35:50,860
That controller roundup we did opened my eyes in a big way.

2021
02:35:50,860 --> 02:35:55,340
I just had not given enough attention to it.

2022
02:35:55,340 --> 02:36:01,660
Controller enjoyer for a very long time and that Game Sir Cyclone 2 video from David has

2023
02:36:01,660 --> 02:36:08,020
made me consider buying not an Xbox controller for literally potentially the first time ever.

2024
02:36:08,020 --> 02:36:15,380
This video was a ton of fun to make and just because something did not win the bracket,

2025
02:36:15,380 --> 02:36:19,820
the bracket of tournament, does not mean that it was not really an incredible controller.

2026
02:36:19,820 --> 02:36:24,180
There is a lot of diamonds out there, some of them in the rough, some of them hiding

2027
02:36:24,180 --> 02:36:27,580
in plain sight. I was blown away, I was blown away.

2028
02:36:27,580 --> 02:36:31,460
The community really was right on this one because they called us out, they were like,

2029
02:36:31,460 --> 02:36:36,780
you guys have not paid attention to controller reddit and we are like, okay, all right,

2030
02:36:36,900 --> 02:36:40,060
we are on it, we are on it. Man, they were right.

2031
02:36:40,060 --> 02:36:46,540
Very cool. What else we got today?

2032
02:36:46,540 --> 02:36:56,380
Do you want to talk about developer Rhys Kentish who built an app that stops people from doom

2033
02:36:56,380 --> 02:37:01,220
scrolling by making them touch grass?

2034
02:37:01,220 --> 02:37:06,180
This is awesome.

2035
02:37:06,180 --> 02:37:10,140
To unlock your phone, touch grass.

2036
02:37:10,140 --> 02:37:16,260
You have to, it opens the camera and you literally have to go outside, stop doom scrolling and

2037
02:37:16,260 --> 02:37:21,460
touch actual grass, grass detected.

2038
02:37:21,460 --> 02:37:25,180
That is awesome and I love it.

2039
02:37:25,180 --> 02:37:30,340
That's all I have to say about that. No, maybe there's more to say about that. Yeah, I use this computer vision to detect the grass.

2040
02:37:30,340 --> 02:37:38,860
This is getting significantly easier. There's this thing Wendell told me like eons ago at this point that everything becomes

2041
02:37:38,860 --> 02:37:42,820
like in the software development world, everything becomes three times easier to make every three

2042
02:37:42,820 --> 02:37:49,060
years and there was like reasoning why it's not, you know, two times every two years.

2043
02:37:49,060 --> 02:37:55,700
It's like, anyways, and these types of things are just so much easier to make these days.

2044
02:37:55,700 --> 02:38:03,540
There's another app out there. Let me see if I can find it.

2045
02:38:03,540 --> 02:38:10,780
I don't know if we're going to be able to find it right now, but there's another app

2046
02:38:10,780 --> 02:38:14,900
out there where you have to put your phone in front of you and then it kind of like maps

2047
02:38:14,900 --> 02:38:22,420
out your structure and you have to do pushups in order to like effectively buy app time so

2048
02:38:22,420 --> 02:38:28,700
you can use apps. I think you could potentially combine a few of these things.

2049
02:38:28,700 --> 02:38:37,500
I think there's been a surge in popularity for things like dumb phones.

2050
02:38:37,500 --> 02:38:43,060
There's also been a surge in popularity of blocking app time and different things to

2051
02:38:43,060 --> 02:38:47,740
just like help aid your willpower in using your phone.

2052
02:38:47,740 --> 02:38:57,300
Did Hennyman just find it? He might have.

2053
02:38:57,300 --> 02:39:01,420
This is not the one I was looking for, but yeah, clearly there's a few of these types

2054
02:39:01,420 --> 02:39:09,100
of things. This is not an original idea. Maybe the actual touch and grasp portion is, but putting barriers in a variety of different

2055
02:39:09,100 --> 02:39:13,340
types of barriers in front of using apps is like absolutely a thing that I think caters

2056
02:39:13,340 --> 02:39:17,380
to younger phone users, to be honest.

2057
02:39:17,540 --> 02:39:21,660
I think everyone's probably had the idea of like, man, gaming's not even that unhealthy

2058
02:39:21,660 --> 02:39:25,380
if I like get up and do some pushups during every loading screen.

2059
02:39:25,380 --> 02:39:29,780
That lasts for like the first quarter of one gaming session.

2060
02:39:29,780 --> 02:39:32,780
Because it doesn't, you're not forced to do it.

2061
02:39:32,780 --> 02:39:38,420
If the webcam on your computer wouldn't allow you to click next match, I think we've talked

2062
02:39:38,420 --> 02:39:46,020
about that. Probably. I think we've actually talked about that as like a product that could exist.

2063
02:39:47,020 --> 02:39:54,220
Yeah, that must have been on WAN Show at some point. I would, man, there's so many WAN shows and there's so many hours of WAN shows.

2064
02:39:54,220 --> 02:39:58,780
So many hours. It's amazing that anyone is willing to archive all the hours of WAN shows.

2065
02:39:58,780 --> 02:40:01,820
I mean, not very well, because they're like, half of them are corrupt, but.

2066
02:40:01,820 --> 02:40:07,180
This is true. You know, it is what it is. But yeah, I think things like this are fantastic.

2067
02:40:07,180 --> 02:40:10,500
So that's very, very cool. Good job. Keep going.

2068
02:40:10,500 --> 02:40:13,780
Less fantastic is that Plex is killing the watch together feature.

2069
02:40:13,780 --> 02:40:19,780
They've been rewriting their apps from the ground up over the last couple years and have made the decision to remove watch together.

2070
02:40:19,780 --> 02:40:25,180
It will continue to exist in the web app for the foreseeable future and was this did not

2071
02:40:25,180 --> 02:40:30,980
go over well with their community. Watch together initially launched in May of 2020 during the COVID pandemic.

2072
02:40:30,980 --> 02:40:34,860
It synchronizes the video stream for the group, pausing for everyone if an individual pauses

2073
02:40:34,860 --> 02:40:38,060
playback and resuming for everyone at the same time.

2074
02:40:38,060 --> 02:40:42,100
They don't preclude the possibility of offering similar functionality again in the future

2075
02:40:42,100 --> 02:40:47,580
using new tooling, but it's gone for now and is just yet another string of L's from

2076
02:40:47,580 --> 02:40:54,060
the Plex team, removing features that used to exist and that people, you know, paid for

2077
02:40:54,060 --> 02:40:57,420
their software with the understanding that it would have it.

2078
02:40:57,420 --> 02:41:00,860
A big frustrating one for me is how broken downloads still are.

2079
02:41:00,860 --> 02:41:05,900
I ran into a bug recently on Android where I tried to, or was it on iOS?

2080
02:41:05,900 --> 02:41:11,220
I think it was a, I don't remember. Anyway, I tried for a recent trip to down to Disneyland.

2081
02:41:11,220 --> 02:41:14,620
I tried to load a season of a show onto Yvonne's phone.

2082
02:41:14,620 --> 02:41:19,620
So it was on Android and two of the episodes erred.

2083
02:41:19,620 --> 02:41:24,740
And when you don't click the individual episodes, when you click an entire season, there is

2084
02:41:24,740 --> 02:41:29,020
no way in the interface to retry one of them.

2085
02:41:29,020 --> 02:41:32,860
So I had to remove the entire season and then redownload the entire season, which then

2086
02:41:32,860 --> 02:41:36,180
also failed. So it was just complete waste of my time.

2087
02:41:36,180 --> 02:41:38,180
That's annoying. Yeah.

2088
02:41:39,180 --> 02:41:44,380
Plex says it's really complicated doing like downloads, especially background downloads,

2089
02:41:44,380 --> 02:41:51,940
which I kind of get, but also like, oh my God, then don't do background downloads and

2090
02:41:51,940 --> 02:41:55,300
force me to keep the app. Do something. Oh, I see.

2091
02:41:55,300 --> 02:42:00,380
Download a file. Download a file to a full, that can't be impossible.

2092
02:42:00,380 --> 02:42:05,580
I'm sorry. I don't, I don't buy it.

2093
02:42:05,580 --> 02:42:10,820
I don't buy it. I'm sorry. Download a file cannot be that hard.

2094
02:42:10,820 --> 02:42:14,460
Retry on download as well shouldn't be a big deal.

2095
02:42:14,460 --> 02:42:18,020
No, it really shouldn't.

2096
02:42:18,020 --> 02:42:23,300
I wonder if part of the problem is that they try to transcode and download like mid like

2097
02:42:23,300 --> 02:42:30,740
fine to finish the transcode first and then I don't care, but just download a file.

2098
02:42:30,740 --> 02:42:37,500
Can't be that hard. I mean, even then you should be able to retry it.

2099
02:42:37,500 --> 02:42:44,540
This is cool. Scionic launches a new advanced ability hand for humans and robots.

2100
02:42:44,540 --> 02:42:49,020
They just launched their improved mark nine and a half ability hand.

2101
02:42:49,020 --> 02:42:54,540
It's available for both humans for use as a prosthetic and for robots and features the

2102
02:42:54,540 --> 02:43:00,580
first touch sensing by onyx with the ability to read and control 30 touch sensor values

2103
02:43:00,580 --> 02:43:06,300
and send a vibration to the user's ARM to communicate the sensation.

2104
02:43:06,300 --> 02:43:12,420
It is blunt force impact and water resistant and will have 32 grip patterns currently 19.

2105
02:43:12,420 --> 02:43:16,300
Okay, let's have a look at this.

2106
02:43:16,300 --> 02:43:19,300
The video is pretty cool. Yeah. Oh, okay.

2107
02:43:19,300 --> 02:43:22,300
No, right? This is cute.

2108
02:43:22,300 --> 02:43:25,300
Sorry. Where's the where's the video?

2109
02:43:25,300 --> 02:43:28,300
The second link. Yes.

2110
02:43:28,300 --> 02:43:31,300
I've got it up. Actually just switched to.

2111
02:43:31,300 --> 02:43:34,300
Too late. Blink. No, I got them.

2112
02:43:35,300 --> 02:43:42,300
I think how they show the combination of people and also robots.

2113
02:43:42,300 --> 02:43:47,300
I think that's pretty neat. They're trying to prove it's for both, right?

2114
02:43:47,300 --> 02:43:54,300
Oh, wait. I know why this is in the doc. These guys sent me a video a while back of this, this woman basically just like going

2115
02:43:54,300 --> 02:44:01,300
throughout her day with one of their prosthetics and it like blew my mind how she was able

2116
02:44:01,300 --> 02:44:04,300
to basically do like everything.

2117
02:44:04,300 --> 02:44:11,300
That's so sick. Like obviously there's going to be a learning curve for something like this, but.

2118
02:44:11,300 --> 02:44:17,300
Yeah. And you can tell like with some thing, it doesn't look like necessarily 100% perfect,

2119
02:44:17,300 --> 02:44:20,300
but that guy just loaded a big plate onto a bar.

2120
02:44:20,300 --> 02:44:23,300
That was her in that one where she was lifting the thing.

2121
02:44:23,300 --> 02:44:26,300
Yeah.

2122
02:44:26,300 --> 02:44:31,300
Like clearly you can be extremely capable with this.

2123
02:44:31,300 --> 02:44:38,300
It looks like a little more rigid than normal like human movement, but it's so sick.

2124
02:44:38,300 --> 02:44:41,300
Super cool. Yeah. I guess that's pretty much it for that.

2125
02:44:41,300 --> 02:44:44,300
It's a rapid fire topic. Fantastic.

2126
02:44:44,300 --> 02:44:48,300
I don't know. I think that's pretty much it for this week.

2127
02:44:48,300 --> 02:44:52,300
Should we switch over to after dark? How you doing over there, Dan? How's your fingers doing?

2128
02:44:52,300 --> 02:44:54,300
Little tender.

2129
02:44:55,300 --> 02:45:00,300
Oh my God. So I've been doing one every 14 seconds.

2130
02:45:00,300 --> 02:45:03,300
Okay. Wow. A little epee.

2131
02:45:03,300 --> 02:45:08,300
Good job everyone. I heard. I should probably check the gross profit percentage.

2132
02:45:08,300 --> 02:45:11,300
It's a lot. It's a lot of. The profit is not a lot.

2133
02:45:11,300 --> 02:45:19,300
I promise you that much. Your offsite laptop bag call out as much as people did notice it has caused it to surge

2134
02:45:19,300 --> 02:45:21,300
in the rankings. Oh.

2135
02:45:22,300 --> 02:45:27,300
The scribe driver is still dunking in terms of quantity.

2136
02:45:27,300 --> 02:45:30,300
Amazing. Oh yeah. It's a great pen.

2137
02:45:30,300 --> 02:45:36,300
And the great thing about selling pens is people need an unlimited number of them because

2138
02:45:36,300 --> 02:45:40,300
they'll always lose them. Oh my God.

2139
02:45:40,300 --> 02:45:43,300
Oh no. Oh wait. Hold on.

2140
02:45:43,300 --> 02:45:48,300
Oh yeah. Okay. So scribe driver is ahead, but not by as much as you'd think looking at the dashboard.

2141
02:45:48,300 --> 02:45:55,300
Not everybody sends a merge message. No, I know. And apparently a lot of people who ordered the laptop bag do not send a merge message.

2142
02:45:55,300 --> 02:46:03,300
So that's interesting. So people who like writing with pens are more likely to send in a merge message.

2143
02:46:03,300 --> 02:46:06,300
That kind of maybe lines up. Yeah.

2144
02:46:06,300 --> 02:46:09,300
And the MCM starter thing. Oh, actually no. We did sell a lot of those.

2145
02:46:09,300 --> 02:46:13,300
It's just really low on the list because it's not making money.

2146
02:46:13,300 --> 02:46:16,300
Oh. Yeah. Hold on.

2147
02:46:16,300 --> 02:46:19,300
How do I have this sorted? Let me just see.

2148
02:46:19,300 --> 02:46:23,300
Yeah. Scribe driver purchasers might be Yap enjoyers.

2149
02:46:23,300 --> 02:46:26,300
Yeah. That makes sense. Oh my God.

2150
02:46:26,300 --> 02:46:29,300
Well anyway. Yeah. Good luck me.

2151
02:46:29,300 --> 02:46:34,300
So that's cool. Well, it's good for cash flow anyway.

2152
02:46:34,300 --> 02:46:37,300
It's not good for profitability. Okay.

2153
02:46:37,300 --> 02:46:40,300
Let's talk about some merge messages. Sure.

2154
02:46:40,300 --> 02:46:43,300
Oh, I forgot to set you over to the other one.

2155
02:46:43,300 --> 02:46:51,300
Hi, Ellen Dan. I'm at an opinion would the X real one pro entered after dark from the Fallon vid be

2156
02:46:51,300 --> 02:46:59,300
usable as a work monitor. I'm a front end dev and often need a screen where I can't have one.

2157
02:46:59,300 --> 02:47:02,300
Thanks. And high L too. Oh, text.

2158
02:47:02,300 --> 02:47:07,300
I mean, it's 1080p, right?

2159
02:47:07,300 --> 02:47:13,300
And it's 1080p at like, you know, 170 inches or 150 inches or whatever you configure it

2160
02:47:13,300 --> 02:47:18,300
to because you can sort of configure its virtual distance and virtual size.

2161
02:47:18,300 --> 02:47:24,300
But no matter how you slice it, it's 1080p at an enormous size.

2162
02:47:24,300 --> 02:47:33,300
Um, it also doesn't have like, it's not, uh, it's not an Apple vision pro, right?

2163
02:47:33,300 --> 02:47:37,300
So it doesn't have the same spatial awareness that an Apple vision pro does.

2164
02:47:37,300 --> 02:47:41,300
So it's not able to like lock and hover as you, you know, move around.

2165
02:47:41,300 --> 02:47:44,300
You can't like set it up as a monitor and, you know, do your thing.

2166
02:47:44,300 --> 02:47:50,300
Like it either floats around with you or it stays, um, I forget what the, sorry, I forget

2167
02:47:50,300 --> 02:47:57,300
what the two modes are. It either is like stationary like that or it, uh, I think it tries to, I think it uses

2168
02:47:57,300 --> 02:48:00,300
just like gyro to kind of float around with you.

2169
02:48:00,300 --> 02:48:06,300
So it was a big problem. Um, when I was on the plane, for instance, like taxing on the runway, the plane would

2170
02:48:06,300 --> 02:48:16,300
turn and it'd be like, see you later. Um, so it's a really cool product and really useful in certain situations, but I don't

2171
02:48:16,300 --> 02:48:26,300
think it's a monitor. If it was between that and nothing, maybe, but I got to feel like there's almost always

2172
02:48:26,300 --> 02:48:32,300
going to be a way to get a higher DPI display near you than those glasses.

2173
02:48:32,300 --> 02:48:35,300
What? Nothing, just something good happened.

2174
02:48:36,300 --> 02:48:40,300
Okay. And you're not going to like provide any context for that.

2175
02:48:40,300 --> 02:48:43,300
Literally not at all. What an actual dick.

2176
02:48:43,300 --> 02:48:46,300
I have to work with a guy all day.

2177
02:48:54,300 --> 02:48:57,300
All right. What's next? Sure.

2178
02:48:57,300 --> 02:49:02,300
Uh, sorry, you're going to be a little more direct. I mean, I can say, I guess, wow, I didn't think people were going to react that much.

2179
02:49:02,300 --> 02:49:08,300
Yeah. Uh, a new contractor that is theoretically going to help us work on the apps for a

2180
02:49:08,300 --> 02:49:11,300
flow plane, just fully signed on. Oh, wow.

2181
02:49:11,300 --> 02:49:14,300
Very cool. Yeah. Okay.

2182
02:49:14,300 --> 02:49:19,300
That is good news. That is good news. I didn't like really want to say it because now one's going to be like, um, it's next Friday

2183
02:49:19,300 --> 02:49:25,300
and I, where's the app update? So I, I'm already getting like, never my next Friday.

2184
02:49:25,300 --> 02:49:29,300
Where's the app update now? What are you waiting for? Where's the Apple TV update?

2185
02:49:29,300 --> 02:49:32,300
Yeah. Where's the Roku app? Where's the Roku app?

2186
02:49:32,300 --> 02:49:38,660
Where? Where's the dark mode? This is like actually a big problem because we, we literally discussed like one of the

2187
02:49:38,660 --> 02:49:43,300
goals of bringing this person on and they're just part time, whatever, don't get too excited.

2188
02:49:43,300 --> 02:49:47,500
Um, but one of the goals of bringing them on is to have a TV app finally come out.

2189
02:49:47,500 --> 02:49:51,300
But it's like, where do you, where do you draw the line?

2190
02:49:51,300 --> 02:49:56,300
Like, okay. So we have a general purpose TV app, but that doesn't work for Roku.

2191
02:49:56,300 --> 02:50:00,260
So then you have to have a Roku app, but that doesn't work for this other thing.

2192
02:50:00,260 --> 02:50:03,260
So then you try to get that, but then like, There's no line.

2193
02:50:03,260 --> 02:50:07,260
You maintain everything. No. And you do it on zero dollar budget.

2194
02:50:07,260 --> 02:50:10,260
No. You pay Linus. Yeah.

2195
02:50:10,260 --> 02:50:13,260
Less than zero dollar budget. Ten bucks.

2196
02:50:13,260 --> 02:50:16,260
Come on. Roku app, ten bucks.

2197
02:50:16,260 --> 02:50:20,260
Yeah. Think of all the, think of all the payment and exposure you're getting.

2198
02:50:20,260 --> 02:50:23,260
Roku app is just eye frame. Really?

2199
02:50:23,260 --> 02:50:26,260
Okay. I didn't even know that. We haven't looked into it a lot.

2200
02:50:26,260 --> 02:50:29,260
Um, we're, we're going to do the general one first. Anyways, we'll figure it out.

2201
02:50:29,260 --> 02:50:34,260
But hopefully they're helpful. It's, they're basically just going to be working like probably weekends and stuff.

2202
02:50:34,260 --> 02:50:37,260
So it's not, anyways, whatever. Fine.

2203
02:50:37,260 --> 02:50:40,260
It doesn't matter. But I'm excited. Girdle said I was joking.

2204
02:50:40,260 --> 02:50:43,260
I'm sorry. Apparently it's not just eye frame then.

2205
02:50:43,260 --> 02:50:47,260
Oh. But like, I thought it was like their, their own like language and junk.

2206
02:50:47,260 --> 02:50:50,260
But again, I haven't, I really haven't looked into it much.

2207
02:50:50,260 --> 02:50:54,260
Um, We're not doing Tizen because I just don't feel like it.

2208
02:50:54,260 --> 02:50:58,260
Samsung should just stop doing Tizen and that is the real solution to that.

2209
02:50:59,260 --> 02:51:02,260
You're welcome. Samsung. I'm, I'm helping.

2210
02:51:02,260 --> 02:51:08,260
I'm doing my little part to put pressure on you to just abandon that hot pile of garbage.

2211
02:51:08,260 --> 02:51:14,260
To develop a Roku app, you primarily use the programming languages scene graph XML based

2212
02:51:14,260 --> 02:51:19,260
for UI design and bright script for logic and interaction within the Roku development

2213
02:51:19,260 --> 02:51:24,260
environment, requiring you to create a developer account and following Roku's guidelines for

2214
02:51:24,260 --> 02:51:27,260
designing, coding, packaging and publishing your app on the Roku store.

2215
02:51:27,260 --> 02:51:31,260
But that's how I don't want to do that at all.

2216
02:51:31,260 --> 02:51:36,260
So this is what I mean by like, where, where's even their portal for publishing is awful.

2217
02:51:36,260 --> 02:51:39,260
What LLM? Yeah. Yeah.

2218
02:51:39,260 --> 02:51:44,260
Yeah. That was just the Google search one. Um, and I don't know considering that was an LLM just spitting that out.

2219
02:51:44,260 --> 02:51:49,260
I don't know if that's 100% true, et cetera, et cetera. I've just heard it's like kind of a huge pain.

2220
02:51:49,260 --> 02:51:52,260
Um, but we're, we're working on it.

2221
02:51:53,260 --> 02:51:56,260
Hey y'all, I'm getting the bolt action pen for my dad's birthday.

2222
02:51:56,260 --> 02:52:00,260
I wanted to ask Linus what industries he think will be the most favorable for the emerging

2223
02:52:00,260 --> 02:52:04,260
small businesses to be a part of over the next five years.

2224
02:52:04,260 --> 02:52:10,260
Hmm. Uh, do you want to just, uh, post your dissertation on the economy?

2225
02:52:10,260 --> 02:52:14,260
Um, dude, I can't even begin to lentils.

2226
02:52:14,260 --> 02:52:18,260
Dude, I can't even be, I like that reference.

2227
02:52:18,260 --> 02:52:28,260
I, I, I can't even begin to, um, to guess, like the world is so messed up, right?

2228
02:52:28,260 --> 02:52:36,260
Like, um, you've, you've got the, you've got stock market volatility at maybe not an all-time

2229
02:52:36,260 --> 02:52:39,260
high, but certainly rather extreme, extremely high.

2230
02:52:39,260 --> 02:52:44,260
You've got these valuations on companies, like whether we're talking, you know, Tesla

2231
02:52:44,260 --> 02:52:49,260
or truth social or NVIDIA, you've got these valuations on companies that are

2232
02:52:49,260 --> 02:52:56,260
make no sense at all, utterly divorced from any kind of, of profit earnings reality.

2233
02:52:56,260 --> 02:53:03,260
Uh, you've got, you've got, you've got gold that's, you know, gone up with what is it

2234
02:53:03,260 --> 02:53:06,260
like 56% in the last year or something like that.

2235
02:53:06,260 --> 02:53:13,260
Meanwhile, you've got Bitcoin that shot up over the last year and then has plunged over

2236
02:53:13,260 --> 02:53:16,260
the last few days. I haven't actually looked at it today.

2237
02:53:16,260 --> 02:53:21,260
So I might be out of date, right? Like, uh, BDC to us dollars, where are we at?

2238
02:53:21,260 --> 02:53:26,260
Okay. I just said it's below 80K. It's up 1% today, but it's, it's no, it's 85 USD now.

2239
02:53:26,260 --> 02:53:29,260
I mean, being up 1% is huge though. That's true.

2240
02:53:29,260 --> 02:53:32,260
That doesn't sound like much, but in the, in the current environment.

2241
02:53:32,260 --> 02:53:37,260
Yeah. Um, where is the safe haven right now?

2242
02:53:37,260 --> 02:53:40,260
Uh, I have no idea. And I mean, I, it's funny.

2243
02:53:40,260 --> 02:53:43,260
I asked my kids like, you know, what do you want to be when you grow up?

2244
02:53:43,260 --> 02:53:48,260
And the, the, the hilarious part of me asking them that is no matter what they say, I'm

2245
02:53:48,260 --> 02:53:54,260
going to have absolutely no guidance to give them whatsoever because I don't know what

2246
02:53:54,260 --> 02:53:58,260
kind of world they are going to participate in the workforce of.

2247
02:53:58,260 --> 02:54:03,260
Um, and, and I've talked about that before on WAN Show, you know, 10 years ago, I said

2248
02:54:03,260 --> 02:54:08,260
the same thing, except that here we are 10 years later where we're not talking that far

2249
02:54:08,260 --> 02:54:15,260
in the future anymore. And yet my level of clarity is no higher because volatility just keeps going up.

2250
02:54:15,260 --> 02:54:27,260
If anything, it might be less, you know, what industries will be most favorable for emerging

2251
02:54:27,260 --> 02:54:30,260
small businesses to be part of over the next five years?

2252
02:54:30,260 --> 02:54:34,260
Okay. Well, healthcare, human care won't be going anywhere.

2253
02:54:34,260 --> 02:54:37,260
Therapy. Um, a lot of therapy.

2254
02:54:37,260 --> 02:54:44,260
Yeah. That's something. Um, man, I mean, they're going to try to AI that too, Doug.

2255
02:54:44,260 --> 02:54:47,260
They're already doing it. As far as my understanding goes.

2256
02:54:47,260 --> 02:54:51,760
Um, not even, not even if they are doing it, people are going to seek it out through those

2257
02:54:51,760 --> 02:55:00,260
like relational. Oh, I'm Casper in float Casper explore in Floatplane chats is blue collar trades.

2258
02:55:00,260 --> 02:55:05,260
Yeah. I mean, if you have the, for sure, if you have the, the, the energy and you have the strength

2259
02:55:05,260 --> 02:55:12,260
for it and if you don't, you should, I get think, try and find it, um, building stuff,

2260
02:55:12,260 --> 02:55:15,260
repairing stuff.

2261
02:55:15,260 --> 02:55:19,260
There's going to be, there's going to be money to be made there. There's going to be reliable work.

2262
02:55:19,260 --> 02:55:24,260
Material harvesting for that matter, mining, forestry, stuff like that.

2263
02:55:24,260 --> 02:55:27,260
The flesh of the week underclassed crystal.

2264
02:55:27,260 --> 02:55:33,260
I'm not saying that machines and make a lot of money these days, man.

2265
02:55:33,260 --> 02:55:38,260
Um, like actually though, like you're not wrong, but I'm not saying that crystal.

2266
02:55:38,260 --> 02:55:43,260
Uh, what else we got?

2267
02:55:43,260 --> 02:55:46,260
I like, oh, yep.

2268
02:55:46,260 --> 02:55:51,260
Cephalos says, I mean, working for the federal government has always been solid, but the cracks are

2269
02:55:51,260 --> 02:55:55,260
forming cracks brother cracks.

2270
02:55:55,260 --> 02:56:02,260
You say, dude, that's like looking at my ass and being like, that's got a crack in it.

2271
02:56:02,260 --> 02:56:08,260
You know, I think that's a chasm.

2272
02:56:08,260 --> 02:56:11,260
I should have waited for you to drink something.

2273
02:56:11,260 --> 02:56:14,260
What the heck?

2274
02:56:14,260 --> 02:56:18,260
Don't worry, just comb it with a brick.

2275
02:56:18,260 --> 02:56:24,260
All right. That might be worse.

2276
02:56:24,260 --> 02:56:28,260
I think you just beat me. I had that streak for like a decade.

2277
02:56:28,260 --> 02:56:36,260
I would never beat you.

2278
02:56:36,260 --> 02:56:39,260
Oh man. Yeah. Human care.

2279
02:56:39,260 --> 02:56:45,260
Oh dude. Yeah. I think stuff like paid friend industry is going to make its way outside of like Japan and stuff.

2280
02:56:45,260 --> 02:56:49,260
Probably. I would also say, I mean, you're talking about human care.

2281
02:56:49,260 --> 02:56:52,260
Uh, we have an extremely aging population. Yeah.

2282
02:56:52,260 --> 02:56:57,260
Well, that's, that's a big part of it.

2283
02:56:57,260 --> 02:57:00,260
Yeah. Okay. I'll ask you that.

2284
02:57:00,260 --> 02:57:04,260
It won't be for long.

2285
02:57:04,260 --> 02:57:07,260
With the way things are going.

2286
02:57:07,260 --> 02:57:11,260
Hey Dale, a question for Luke. How much for security risk is Linus still using his note nine?

2287
02:57:11,260 --> 02:57:16,260
A device still running Android 10 and that hasn't received a security update for probably

2288
02:57:16,260 --> 02:57:21,260
more than two years. That's honestly the least of the problems when it comes to that guy.

2289
02:57:21,260 --> 02:57:28,260
No, that's pretty high up there. Dude, you just log in to your own accounts on random devices around the office and then

2290
02:57:28,260 --> 02:57:31,260
just leave them there. Like, what are you talking about?

2291
02:57:31,260 --> 02:57:37,260
Oh, like my steam account. I mean, it's locked.

2292
02:57:37,260 --> 02:57:40,260
Locked by what? Yeah. By a lock.

2293
02:57:40,260 --> 02:57:44,260
Do you have a custom password on there?

2294
02:57:44,260 --> 02:57:47,260
That one does. Yeah. Yeah.

2295
02:57:47,260 --> 02:57:50,260
It does. Yeah. Did you do that?

2296
02:57:50,260 --> 02:57:58,260
Yes. Thank you. I already follow around in his wake and like try to solve the incredibly chaotic things

2297
02:57:58,260 --> 02:58:01,260
that he leaves behind. I've got work to do. That is already.

2298
02:58:01,260 --> 02:58:04,260
You know, you know, he's going to be a problem.

2299
02:58:04,260 --> 02:58:08,260
So why don't you just develop the systems that let him do whatever he wants.

2300
02:58:08,260 --> 02:58:14,260
And I will say, I don't know why I'm doing this, but to defend him.

2301
02:58:14,260 --> 02:58:18,260
I love how he knew where I was going before I even said it.

2302
02:58:18,260 --> 02:58:24,260
This is extremely common practice for like company owners and stuff where the IT team

2303
02:58:24,260 --> 02:58:28,260
has to be like, okay. Please stop.

2304
02:58:28,260 --> 02:58:31,260
No. My time. I'm busy.

2305
02:58:31,260 --> 02:58:35,260
My time is better spent doing literally anything else.

2306
02:58:35,260 --> 02:58:41,260
That's why I make a bunch of spreadsheets with the account stack.

2307
02:58:41,260 --> 02:58:48,260
He's not wrong. But really why a hundred other people work here is because they are doing stuff that

2308
02:58:48,260 --> 02:58:51,260
I'm not doing, including an IT team.

2309
02:58:51,260 --> 02:58:56,260
Honestly, one of our biggest problems is that he won't stop doing certain things.

2310
02:58:56,260 --> 02:59:02,260
Why? What did I do? Like if you think about the Twitter one, like if you just didn't do that.

2311
02:59:02,260 --> 02:59:08,260
Oh, dude, I have learned. Hey, look, I have passed every one of your phishing tests with flying colors.

2312
02:59:08,260 --> 02:59:11,260
You don't answer your email. I do.

2313
02:59:11,260 --> 02:59:16,260
I do answer my emails. What email did you send me that I haven't answered Mr. Besson?

2314
02:59:16,260 --> 02:59:21,260
Well, that one. Actually, I actually also missed that email because I checked my emails very infrequently

2315
02:59:21,260 --> 02:59:25,260
at least recently. Oh, you mean the email that I was supposed to do like a training session?

2316
02:59:25,260 --> 02:59:30,260
No, that one looks like a phishing email, but the actual phishing email.

2317
02:59:30,260 --> 02:59:34,260
Some people reported the training session emails as phishing, which was honestly probably

2318
02:59:34,260 --> 02:59:37,260
a decent call. It was bad. It looked really sketchy.

2319
02:59:37,260 --> 02:59:42,260
It's like this link to go to your security training that you're definitely from Sean,

2320
02:59:42,260 --> 02:59:46,260
but it's not from his email. It's okay. Your company name here.

2321
02:59:46,260 --> 02:59:49,260
We didn't set it up properly. Nice.

2322
02:59:49,260 --> 02:59:56,260
Yeah, but the like phishing test email, you're not the one that opened yours.

2323
02:59:56,260 --> 02:59:59,260
What do you mean? I'm not the one that opened it.

2324
02:59:59,260 --> 03:00:04,260
Oh, no. The phishing test email, the like blind tests that we did when we tested the whole company

2325
03:00:04,260 --> 03:00:07,260
without telling them. Yeah. You're not the one that opened it.

2326
03:00:07,260 --> 03:00:10,260
I know. Yeah. Yeah.

2327
03:00:10,260 --> 03:00:14,260
That's cause I just like, so you never got tested. Before I even opened it. Well, you didn't nuke it that hard.

2328
03:00:14,260 --> 03:00:17,260
What do you mean? The other person opened it. What other person?

2329
03:00:17,260 --> 03:00:21,260
What? You nuke it before you opened it? There was no hint that it was a phishing email in the subject line.

2330
03:00:21,260 --> 03:00:24,260
Well, yeah. Why not? I don't think there was.

2331
03:00:24,260 --> 03:00:27,260
Oh man. Now I want to know what it was. Oh, you mean that?

2332
03:00:27,260 --> 03:00:30,260
I can find it. No, no, no. I can find it.

2333
03:00:30,260 --> 03:00:33,260
Okay. I think I remember a keyword from it.

2334
03:00:34,260 --> 03:00:36,260
Oh man. What was it?

2335
03:00:37,260 --> 03:00:41,820
Ah. You ever have that thing where there's someone that you can communicate with on multiple

2336
03:00:41,820 --> 03:00:47,260
apps and sometimes you just like open so many different things, which freaking one

2337
03:00:47,260 --> 03:00:52,260
it is? Yup. That's why I only use iMessage now.

2338
03:00:52,260 --> 03:00:55,260
I'm an Apple user. A kid.

2339
03:00:55,260 --> 03:00:57,260
There's other message.

2340
03:00:59,260 --> 03:01:02,260
Oh man. I must have deleted it or something.

2341
03:01:03,260 --> 03:01:06,260
It literally is not in my inbox anymore.

2342
03:01:06,260 --> 03:01:08,260
I think I can find it. I'm pretty sure.

2343
03:01:09,260 --> 03:01:19,260
Basically, it was an email that was asking me to link up with someone on another platform

2344
03:01:19,260 --> 03:01:22,260
that we use, but that was obviously fake.

2345
03:01:23,260 --> 03:01:26,260
At least I think it was obviously fake.

2346
03:01:27,260 --> 03:01:31,260
The subject line said, your teammates are trying to reach you, exclamation mark.

2347
03:01:31,260 --> 03:01:34,260
Oh yeah. I would have just deleted that. That is obvious.

2348
03:01:34,260 --> 03:01:37,260
That's super obvious. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I did that on my phone.

2349
03:01:37,260 --> 03:01:46,260
I probably just hit report spam or something. Some from microsoft.teams at microsoft-office365.com.

2350
03:01:47,260 --> 03:01:51,260
That is easy. I get those emails from a different chat platform.

2351
03:01:51,260 --> 03:01:54,260
Micrasoft. Oh, it had a spelling mistake.

2352
03:01:54,260 --> 03:01:57,260
Micra. On purpose. There's a bunch of them.

2353
03:01:57,260 --> 03:02:03,260
No, no. That's good. Anyway, it's good that we do these training exercises now because while I've definitely

2354
03:02:03,260 --> 03:02:11,260
been on high alert ever since the Twitter breach, not everyone is always on high alert.

2355
03:02:11,260 --> 03:02:14,260
It's good to do these things as part of your ongoing training.

2356
03:02:14,260 --> 03:02:19,260
Yeah. We did one that we didn't tell anyone that it was coming.

2357
03:02:19,260 --> 03:02:26,760
Then we have told everyone that they will be happening moving forward because we wanted

2358
03:02:26,760 --> 03:02:30,260
to see how many people would click on it and who.

2359
03:02:30,260 --> 03:02:34,260
Yeah. But then after that, we just wanted people to be alert more than anything.

2360
03:02:34,260 --> 03:02:37,260
So if we just tell them there is more coming and actually do it.

2361
03:02:37,260 --> 03:02:40,260
Yeah. Then they're going to be alert all the time because they don't want to click on it again,

2362
03:02:40,260 --> 03:02:43,260
which is great. That is like the goal. Good job.

2363
03:02:43,260 --> 03:02:46,260
Yeah. Good job, team. Who clicked?

2364
03:02:46,260 --> 03:02:49,260
I ain't telling you. Oh, yeah. Come on, you guys.

2365
03:02:49,260 --> 03:02:52,260
You're not. No one. No way that's happening.

2366
03:02:52,260 --> 03:02:55,260
Wasn't me. I'm not saying anything.

2367
03:02:55,760 --> 03:02:58,760
Wasn't me. Oh, you're saying I thought you said, was it me?

2368
03:02:58,760 --> 03:03:01,760
I was like, you're on the tee. No, no, it was not me.

2369
03:03:01,760 --> 03:03:03,760
Did you even have her in the shower?

2370
03:03:05,760 --> 03:03:09,760
That's a song reference, right? Weird shower.

2371
03:03:09,760 --> 03:03:13,760
Wasn't me. Yes. Look gets there.

2372
03:03:13,760 --> 03:03:17,760
Obviously. Okay. Dan, can you give us another rich myth?

2373
03:03:17,760 --> 03:03:25,260
I'm going to do that. I can't remember which one you lambasted me for.

2374
03:03:25,260 --> 03:03:29,760
Given how long y'all worked together at the seemingly close relationships that you have

2375
03:03:29,760 --> 03:03:35,260
at LMG, if you had to move on to a new job, how hard would it be to get settled in with

2376
03:03:35,260 --> 03:03:38,760
a new team? Also, Yacht? Yacht's dead.

2377
03:03:38,760 --> 03:03:43,760
The mooring's not included in the sale and there's nowhere to moor it here, so it's dead.

2378
03:03:43,760 --> 03:03:46,760
As for, man, how hard would it be to get it settled in with a new team?

2379
03:03:46,760 --> 03:03:52,760
I don't even have a hard time getting to know new people here these days compared to

2380
03:03:52,760 --> 03:03:59,260
the early days, because in the early days I had to. I was directly exposed to every single person on the team every day.

2381
03:04:01,260 --> 03:04:02,760
Stop.

2382
03:04:04,260 --> 03:04:08,260
We have HR now, but she's... I had direct contact with every...

2383
03:04:13,260 --> 03:04:16,760
Keep going, you'll get it. I worked directly.

2384
03:04:16,760 --> 03:04:20,760
There you go. I bet you were. With every member.

2385
03:04:24,760 --> 03:04:28,760
You're on purpose now. You're on purpose.

2386
03:04:28,760 --> 03:04:32,760
Prove it wasn't always on purpose. Fair enough.

2387
03:04:34,760 --> 03:04:37,760
And I had to, right?

2388
03:04:37,760 --> 03:04:41,760
So there was no choice, whereas now I have to go...

2389
03:04:41,760 --> 03:04:48,760
It's like the opposite. It's the complete opposite. I have to go way out of my way to interact with a lot of people on the team, like to

2390
03:04:48,760 --> 03:04:54,260
the point where to interact with a handful of new people, I'll be like, okay, let's take

2391
03:04:54,260 --> 03:04:57,760
the whole company to Disneyland, you know, which was cool.

2392
03:04:57,760 --> 03:05:00,760
A lot of fun. It was fun. Yeah, we're back now.

2393
03:05:00,760 --> 03:05:06,760
What? Well, no, I mean, we didn't talk about it much before we left, so now that we're back.

2394
03:05:06,760 --> 03:05:10,760
Okay, I just want to say Floatplane, you guys got an exclusive video out of that.

2395
03:05:10,760 --> 03:05:18,760
I explicitly forbade multiple people to work on that project, so I would like to make that

2396
03:05:18,760 --> 03:05:25,760
very clear, and I'm going to speak to the managers who approved some people working on

2397
03:05:25,760 --> 03:05:30,760
that and tell them it is not approved next time. Wait, did Sammy like get told no by dad?

2398
03:05:30,760 --> 03:05:37,260
So when it asked mom? I don't know if Sammy ever talked to me, but I saw people with cameras and I said, you

2399
03:05:37,260 --> 03:05:40,260
better not be working. That's not work, right?

2400
03:05:40,260 --> 03:05:43,760
And they assured me that they were working on personal vlogs for like their own thing,

2401
03:05:43,760 --> 03:05:47,260
and I was like, okay. Oh, I mean, I think the whole Floatplane exclusive was just Sammy.

2402
03:05:47,260 --> 03:05:50,260
Was it? I think so. Okay.

2403
03:05:50,260 --> 03:05:56,140
I'll have to make sure. I mean, there's people that like feature in the video for sure, but I mean, the footage

2404
03:05:56,140 --> 03:05:59,260
of the camera capturing the footage, I think was just Sammy's.

2405
03:05:59,260 --> 03:06:02,960
I don't think other ones contributed. I'm not sure though.

2406
03:06:02,960 --> 03:06:08,260
Sammy and Chad today. Sammy? Oh dude, Sammy can't be controlled, even if he was.

2407
03:06:08,260 --> 03:06:11,260
Would you want him to be controlled? Yes, I would.

2408
03:06:11,260 --> 03:06:14,260
He's not supposed to be working.

2409
03:06:14,260 --> 03:06:20,060
He's a free stallion. I had a long talk with him at CES about how he needs to like say no more and like stuff

2410
03:06:20,060 --> 03:06:24,580
like that. Well, it's not even a matter of him saying no. He was talking about like how much he was working and I was like, brother, you need

2411
03:06:24,580 --> 03:06:29,060
to chill. It's a matter of me explicitly saying, no, you're not allowed to work on that and him

2412
03:06:29,060 --> 03:06:33,260
doing it anyway. Like that's a completely different dynamic.

2413
03:06:33,260 --> 03:06:36,700
Did you actually tell him that? I don't know if I talked to Sammy.

2414
03:06:36,700 --> 03:06:39,900
I didn't think anyone was going to be doing it because I know at least one or two other

2415
03:06:39,900 --> 03:06:43,740
people that were doing it for personal vlogs. Okay. Well, that's fine.

2416
03:06:43,740 --> 03:06:46,740
I told like, I know that was a thing. Okay. I told people that's fine.

2417
03:06:46,740 --> 03:06:54,380
Yeah. But people were not supposed to be working. It was supposed to be a workcation, a case from work.

2418
03:06:54,380 --> 03:06:57,380
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway.

2419
03:06:57,380 --> 03:07:03,020
Yeah. Yeah. Hi, future me podcast listener.

2420
03:07:03,020 --> 03:07:06,340
Looking for the mailing team that's DHL.

2421
03:07:06,340 --> 03:07:10,140
What's the hardest part of each one of your jobs?

2422
03:07:10,140 --> 03:07:14,260
Mailing team. Like DHL, the carrier.

2423
03:07:14,260 --> 03:07:17,420
Which one of us is H? H.

2424
03:07:17,420 --> 03:07:26,020
What's the hardest? Does this person just think that like people use random letters to address the show?

2425
03:07:26,020 --> 03:07:29,020
Maybe. Maybe. DHL.

2426
03:07:29,020 --> 03:07:32,020
You know what? Okay. It's a new one.

2427
03:07:32,020 --> 03:07:36,020
People are saying Dan, D-H-A-N. Then who's D?

2428
03:07:36,020 --> 03:07:39,020
Dan. Okay. Well, anyway.

2429
03:07:39,020 --> 03:07:44,020
Duke. Duke. Did you see I was wearing my Luke Newcombe shirt?

2430
03:07:44,020 --> 03:07:47,020
Yeah. Disney? I commented on it.

2431
03:07:47,020 --> 03:07:50,020
Nice. By your facial expression, I thought you might not have noticed.

2432
03:07:50,020 --> 03:07:54,020
Dude, my getup was actually outstanding. You want to know the craziest thing about that?

2433
03:07:54,020 --> 03:07:58,020
Mm. Emma almost wore hers. Her Duke Newcombe shirt?

2434
03:07:58,020 --> 03:08:03,020
Yeah. That is awesome. And I was like, oh man, let's not.

2435
03:08:03,020 --> 03:08:07,020
Oh, here, I'm going to send this to you, Dan.

2436
03:08:07,020 --> 03:08:12,780
Okay. Okay. This is one of the better shots that I got.

2437
03:08:12,780 --> 03:08:17,020
If you both showed up wearing this, that would have been too much.

2438
03:08:17,020 --> 03:08:20,020
Oh, you guys are always so cute together.

2439
03:08:20,020 --> 03:08:23,020
Let me see. It goes there. Do you want to show that?

2440
03:08:23,020 --> 03:08:26,020
Actually, no. I got a better one. I got a better one.

2441
03:08:26,020 --> 03:08:30,020
I got a better one. This is one of my favorite shots because.

2442
03:08:30,020 --> 03:08:38,020
Who kindness in hand? It kind of looks like I'm being photo bombed, except like, obviously, I know the person.

2443
03:08:38,020 --> 03:08:41,020
So I go ahead and pop this one up.

2444
03:08:41,020 --> 03:08:44,020
Give me the other way. Oh, yeah.

2445
03:08:44,020 --> 03:08:48,020
Like Jake just looks like a random guy that jumped into my picture.

2446
03:08:48,020 --> 03:08:56,020
That's a great photo. Man, they're, I don't want to glaze Disney, but they are very good at the whole ambiance thing.

2447
03:08:56,020 --> 03:08:59,020
Oh, yeah. It's definitely a vibe.

2448
03:08:59,020 --> 03:09:05,020
So note the custom Mickey Mouse ears that were given to me by the one and only Mr. Daniel

2449
03:09:05,020 --> 03:09:09,020
Besser. Are those amazing? I wore them all day.

2450
03:09:09,020 --> 03:09:13,020
I'm so happy that you like them. I wore them all day.

2451
03:09:13,020 --> 03:09:18,020
And for all the rides where there was like some risk that they'd come off or whatever.

2452
03:09:18,020 --> 03:09:24,020
I took them out. I put them in my commuter bag in the little like secondary sleeve and put it down all carefully.

2453
03:09:24,020 --> 03:09:31,020
I was like, I'm not losing these. I let my daughter wear them for a very, very short period of time.

2454
03:09:31,020 --> 03:09:35,020
I thought you would be like, you're a, you're a, you're a.

2455
03:09:35,020 --> 03:09:38,020
No, why? That's awesome. Okay, good.

2456
03:09:38,020 --> 03:09:43,020
Who are you even talking about? I don't know. It's always interesting to see what.

2457
03:09:43,020 --> 03:09:46,020
So I let my daughter wear them for a little while.

2458
03:09:46,020 --> 03:09:49,020
And then the second she was inattentive with them.

2459
03:09:49,020 --> 03:09:55,020
Yeah, you can pop that one up as well. Okay. The second she was inattentive with them, I was like, I'm taking those back because

2460
03:09:55,020 --> 03:10:02,020
those need to not get lost today.

2461
03:10:02,020 --> 03:10:06,020
So cool. It's got a little sublimated Linus wide Linus face.

2462
03:10:06,020 --> 03:10:09,020
Yeah, because why wouldn't it? All right.

2463
03:10:09,020 --> 03:10:13,020
The hardest part of each of my jobs, the hardest part is HR.

2464
03:10:13,020 --> 03:10:18,020
The hardest part is other people. I'm answering proactively on behalf of all of us.

2465
03:10:18,020 --> 03:10:22,020
Yeah. All right. We can move on.

2466
03:10:22,020 --> 03:10:25,020
Dramatically do not disagree at all.

2467
03:10:25,020 --> 03:10:30,020
Sick. Linus, how do you deal with being the boss of employees who are significantly older

2468
03:10:30,020 --> 03:10:34,020
than you? When was the first time you became a boss of someone much older?

2469
03:10:34,020 --> 03:10:39,020
And how did you handle the new role? I think mutual respect is the best way.

2470
03:10:39,020 --> 03:10:46,020
That's not always an option, especially up the chain.

2471
03:10:46,020 --> 03:10:51,020
Like if you have a boss that you don't really respect, there's nothing you can really

2472
03:10:51,020 --> 03:10:57,020
do about that. Whereas when you have someone who works for you that you don't respect, like you can

2473
03:10:57,020 --> 03:11:00,020
do something about that. Wait, what?

2474
03:11:00,020 --> 03:11:03,020
I thought they were talking about ages. Yeah, I know.

2475
03:11:03,020 --> 03:11:08,020
I'm just saying that if you are the boss of someone who is significantly older than you,

2476
03:11:08,020 --> 03:11:12,320
mutual respect and just treating each other with mutual respect makes the age difference

2477
03:11:12,320 --> 03:11:16,020
not matter that much. Sorry, I probably should have started with that.

2478
03:11:16,020 --> 03:11:19,780
Sure. I was like, what are you talking about?

2479
03:11:19,780 --> 03:11:25,500
Because I think that there's an inherent sort of, I think that everyone, or at least

2480
03:11:25,500 --> 03:11:30,780
I hope that everyone understands that there's an experience that comes with age.

2481
03:11:30,780 --> 03:11:39,780
Yeah. However, I would think that someone working for me would also, again, so I would respect

2482
03:11:39,780 --> 03:11:46,220
that experience, but I would also expect that they respect the experience that I have specifically

2483
03:11:46,220 --> 03:11:50,540
and what it is that we do. And if they don't, then I would think they just wouldn't want to work here and I would

2484
03:11:50,540 --> 03:11:56,660
think they would probably leave. And in the same way, if someone is working on the team that I don't respect, and to

2485
03:11:56,660 --> 03:12:02,060
me, not respecting someone means that they have to behave in a way that is egregious.

2486
03:12:02,060 --> 03:12:08,380
Yes. Not going to have anything to do with it. It's not like they flubbed a spelling error in an email.

2487
03:12:08,380 --> 03:12:16,260
That's not something that is not respectable. It's more like theft or being generally unethical.

2488
03:12:16,260 --> 03:12:24,580
That's the kind of thing. So to me, a lack of respect means that you should just not work together if you can manage

2489
03:12:24,580 --> 03:12:30,380
it. But yeah, I think that age is a number to a degree, but it's also kind of easy for me

2490
03:12:30,380 --> 03:12:35,540
to say because I don't have a lot of people older than me who have ever reported directly

2491
03:12:35,540 --> 03:12:39,100
to me. I'm an old guy at this company.

2492
03:12:39,100 --> 03:12:42,860
I'm not even 40, but I am one of the oldest people here.

2493
03:12:42,860 --> 03:12:57,300
I think I have a few, never been a problem at all.

2494
03:12:57,300 --> 03:13:00,300
Never been something that's even been brought up.

2495
03:13:00,300 --> 03:13:03,420
Never mattered at all. Well, it doesn't matter as long as there's mutual respect.

2496
03:13:03,420 --> 03:13:08,020
Yeah. And I think that's, yeah, I think it's never been brought up because we've just always

2497
03:13:08,020 --> 03:13:15,740
been good. I mean, I don't know, like early Floatplane, like really early Floatplane before video

2498
03:13:15,740 --> 03:13:19,660
calling was cheap and easy and everybody did it.

2499
03:13:19,660 --> 03:13:26,940
A bunch of those hires, I had never even seen the person like the first time we ever had

2500
03:13:26,940 --> 03:13:32,660
a Floatplane get together thing was the first time I saw every one of those people.

2501
03:13:32,660 --> 03:13:36,420
That's wild. Fun fact. When was the first Floatplane get together?

2502
03:13:36,420 --> 03:13:41,420
Was it Christmas party? What was it?

2503
03:13:41,420 --> 03:13:45,180
Well, it was the Floatplane Christmas party. Yeah.

2504
03:13:45,180 --> 03:13:48,180
Because you guys did a separate one. Because you've made us split off. Yeah.

2505
03:13:48,180 --> 03:13:53,180
You can't say it that way. And then it was a horrible disaster because I took a bunch of dev snowboarding.

2506
03:13:53,180 --> 03:13:56,180
Oh, that's what it was. Snowboarding.

2507
03:13:56,180 --> 03:13:59,540
I remember that. Didn't I attend it though, still?

2508
03:13:59,540 --> 03:14:03,620
Because I definitely, no, I didn't know I didn't go snowboarding, but. Oh, we, they were up here for like a while.

2509
03:14:03,620 --> 03:14:06,820
Yeah. I don't remember what it was.

2510
03:14:06,820 --> 03:14:10,860
I don't know if you did that year. Maybe you came to dinner or something.

2511
03:14:10,860 --> 03:14:13,860
That must be it. I think so. I definitely did part of the event.

2512
03:14:13,860 --> 03:14:18,540
A later year, we had part of it at your house and we like played board games or something.

2513
03:14:18,540 --> 03:14:21,540
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I forgot about that one.

2514
03:14:21,540 --> 03:14:25,260
That wasn't the first one. No, no, I'm thinking of the snowboarding one because I remember, I remember you and

2515
03:14:25,260 --> 03:14:30,940
I talking about how you sort of had determined that snowboarding might not have been the

2516
03:14:30,940 --> 03:14:34,660
best choice. Yeah, we pivoted. We changed to board games and it was great.

2517
03:14:34,660 --> 03:14:38,300
Yeah. Everyone nerded out really hard, stayed up late, have a great time.

2518
03:14:38,300 --> 03:14:41,820
That's good. They required a pivot, classic software stuff.

2519
03:14:41,820 --> 03:14:44,820
It's all good. That's good. Yeah.

2520
03:14:44,820 --> 03:14:53,660
Full rewrite. Hey, Dan, Luke and Linus, long time listener, first time merch message.

2521
03:14:53,660 --> 03:14:58,020
Linus, when was the last time you got royally mad at everyone and why?

2522
03:14:58,020 --> 03:15:01,020
Also come to Australia. We love you guys. At everyone?

2523
03:15:01,300 --> 03:15:06,260
Okay. See, this is where I end up getting myself into trouble because on the one hand, we're

2524
03:15:06,260 --> 03:15:11,260
a small company in the grand scheme of things. We were down at Disney and one of the things we talked about while we were down there because

2525
03:15:11,260 --> 03:15:16,940
it was a work trip and we did actually do some work on the trip even if I told people,

2526
03:15:16,940 --> 03:15:20,540
don't make videos because that's not why we're here.

2527
03:15:20,540 --> 03:15:27,460
But one of the things that came up was that Disney apparently employs, what was the number?

2528
03:15:27,460 --> 03:15:30,460
36,000. 36,000 people. Directly.

2529
03:15:30,900 --> 03:15:35,660
But there was like even way more indirectly because of all the hotel infrastructure and

2530
03:15:35,660 --> 03:15:48,900
everything else, restaurants, everything that's around. 36,000 people at those parks in California and just to put that in perspective, Disney,

2531
03:15:48,900 --> 03:15:57,180
Land and California Adventure Park are 360 times the size of Linus Media Group, Creator

2532
03:15:57,340 --> 03:16:06,620
Warehouse and Floatplane Media combined. We are a tiny company in the grand scheme of things, but when you ask me a question

2533
03:16:06,620 --> 03:16:11,100
like when was the last time you got royally mad at everyone, I'm going to respond and

2534
03:16:11,100 --> 03:16:15,940
say, we're such a big company that how could I ever be mad at everyone?

2535
03:16:15,940 --> 03:16:24,940
It's not like if we get some analysis wrong on a data platform, we're going to be mad

2536
03:16:24,940 --> 03:16:28,940
at Sarah. What did she do? Did she draw something wrong?

2537
03:16:28,940 --> 03:16:31,940
Why would I be mad at her?

2538
03:16:31,940 --> 03:16:36,940
I can imagine reasons because she supervises stuff as well, doesn't she?

2539
03:16:36,940 --> 03:16:41,940
Product managers or project managers? No, I was saying data analysis for a review though.

2540
03:16:41,940 --> 03:16:46,940
She would have nothing to do with that. I can't think of a single project.

2541
03:16:46,940 --> 03:16:55,940
We have 100 employees top gear. I can't think of a single project that would involve everyone that I could get mad at everyone

2542
03:16:55,940 --> 03:16:58,940
for. Can you think of anything? No.

2543
03:16:58,940 --> 03:17:06,940
What could I do? We do such varied things as well. I can imagine a company that's many, many, many times our size that does one thing.

2544
03:17:06,940 --> 03:17:09,940
We do so many things. We have people that work here that I've barely met.

2545
03:17:09,940 --> 03:17:12,940
How could I be mad at them? Oh man. Okay.

2546
03:17:12,940 --> 03:17:17,940
So I was going to mention this. That is absolutely a thing. There are actually people that work here that I have probably never met.

2547
03:17:17,940 --> 03:17:20,940
But another weird one is when I'll be talking to someone and genuinely think like, okay,

2548
03:17:20,940 --> 03:17:23,940
yeah, this person's probably been working here for like six months or something.

2549
03:17:23,940 --> 03:17:26,940
And then it'll like kind of come up in conversation.

2550
03:17:26,940 --> 03:17:31,940
They're like, oh yeah, like three and a half years. And I'm like, uh.

2551
03:17:31,940 --> 03:17:34,940
Especially in the CW side. What?

2552
03:17:34,940 --> 03:17:37,940
Like how could I be mad at them? Oh man.

2553
03:17:37,940 --> 03:17:40,940
Okay. So I was going to mention this earlier. That is absolutely a thing.

2554
03:17:41,940 --> 03:17:46,940
Especially in the CW side. What? Like how many times have you interacted with Bridget?

2555
03:17:46,940 --> 03:17:50,940
Yeah. I mean, it's happened, but not very many.

2556
03:17:50,940 --> 03:17:53,940
I'm going to look it up. Hold on. I'm going to guess first.

2557
03:17:53,940 --> 03:17:56,940
I'm going to say four years. It's been a hot minute. I know that much.

2558
03:17:56,940 --> 03:17:59,940
Bridget's been here for a while.

2559
03:17:59,940 --> 03:18:03,940
Yeah. Oh crap. I might get it wrong.

2560
03:18:03,940 --> 03:18:08,940
Oh crap. And yeah. And then there's people where like, you know their name and you know what they do.

2561
03:18:08,940 --> 03:18:12,940
No, I'm pretty close. But you've never actually necessarily met them.

2562
03:18:12,940 --> 03:18:15,940
Dude, I nailed it. I nailed it. It's like foreign change.

2563
03:18:15,940 --> 03:18:18,940
Yeah. Let's go. That's crazy.

2564
03:18:18,940 --> 03:18:21,940
Yeah. New people. New people.

2565
03:18:21,940 --> 03:18:24,940
Bridget Bergman. Fashion designer. There's the email.

2566
03:18:24,940 --> 03:18:27,940
Yep. I found it. Okay.

2567
03:18:27,940 --> 03:18:30,940
All right. Dude, I was pretty close, but like, dude, that's wild. That's wild.

2568
03:18:30,940 --> 03:18:37,940
Like she's been here for a freaking long time. Done a lot of like really cool stuff, but you have never had any reason to deal with Miss Bergman.

2569
03:18:37,940 --> 03:18:40,940
Because why would you? Yeah. Why would you ever be mad at her?

2570
03:18:40,940 --> 03:18:43,940
Well, I think we... You know, like... I think we...

2571
03:18:43,940 --> 03:18:47,940
Yeah. I think she was in the...

2572
03:18:47,940 --> 03:18:52,940
Maybe not... I think she was maybe in the conversation chain for that thing.

2573
03:18:52,940 --> 03:18:56,940
Oh, okay. Maybe, but I'm not certain.

2574
03:18:56,940 --> 03:19:00,940
Yeah. So you might have been CC'd on the same emails at some point.

2575
03:19:00,940 --> 03:19:03,940
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's honestly like probably it.

2576
03:19:03,940 --> 03:19:06,940
Yeah, sure. Okay. Do you know...

2577
03:19:06,940 --> 03:19:13,940
Do you even know who Robert from CW is? Actually, yes, but this is one of those situations where I don't know if I've...

2578
03:19:13,940 --> 03:19:16,940
Wait, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Would you recognize his face?

2579
03:19:16,940 --> 03:19:19,940
It took me a second to parse it, yes. You would?

2580
03:19:19,940 --> 03:19:22,940
Okay. In that situation, yes. All right, let's see.

2581
03:19:22,940 --> 03:19:26,940
Let me see if I can... Let me see if I can come up with someone. I don't know if I want to be quizzed on this live.

2582
03:19:26,940 --> 03:19:29,940
Okay. You know what? I'm not gonna...

2583
03:19:29,940 --> 03:19:32,940
No, I'm not gonna... I'm not gonna do that because like honestly, you could get me just as bad.

2584
03:19:32,940 --> 03:19:35,940
Yeah. Oh yeah, dude. Don't even...

2585
03:19:35,940 --> 03:19:38,940
Don't even... Don't even... It's not worth it.

2586
03:19:38,940 --> 03:19:43,940
No, I'm not... I'm not going to, but like I could get essentially anyone at the company because of footballing.

2587
03:19:43,940 --> 03:19:46,940
Oh yeah, sure. Like... 100%.

2588
03:19:46,940 --> 03:19:52,940
Yeah. So yeah, I've never been royally mad at everyone probably not since like the house days was the

2589
03:19:52,940 --> 03:19:59,940
last time. We lost an entire shoot and the reason I was mad at everyone was because our data handling

2590
03:19:59,940 --> 03:20:06,940
practices were sloppy across the board. So I wasn't just mad at the person who happened to lose the data.

2591
03:20:06,940 --> 03:20:15,940
I was mad at the general laissez-faire attitude that we had towards dealing with SD cards,

2592
03:20:15,940 --> 03:20:22,140
ingesting data, ingesting it only to the server and never to a local drive.

2593
03:20:22,140 --> 03:20:25,440
And so I like yelled at basically everyone except you I think.

2594
03:20:25,440 --> 03:20:28,940
I don't think I was mad at you about that because what would you have done? Yeah, I don't think so.

2595
03:20:28,940 --> 03:20:31,940
Okay. Enabled at them? I've had my times.

2596
03:20:31,940 --> 03:20:34,940
Oh yeah, I've been mad at you.

2597
03:20:34,940 --> 03:20:37,940
The sorts of systemic failures are awful.

2598
03:20:37,940 --> 03:20:44,440
I don't know. In some ways it's like, in some ways it's easier these days because like we both kind of, it's

2599
03:20:44,440 --> 03:20:48,940
very easy for us to be like, hey, like, I don't know, was I, did I communicate that wrong?

2600
03:20:48,940 --> 03:20:52,940
Like I messaged you the other day because I was like, I didn't mean to be dismissive about

2601
03:20:52,940 --> 03:20:59,440
something. I hope it didn't come across that way. Like we're like, that's a lot easier these days, but I think because of the fact that

2602
03:20:59,440 --> 03:21:04,240
we can kind of say anything to each other, it's a lot easier to like maybe almost cross

2603
03:21:04,240 --> 03:21:08,680
the line. Just flow off. Like I'm not interested in this conversation right now.

2604
03:21:08,680 --> 03:21:14,440
I'm going to leave. You know, like we can just like say stuff like that to each other.

2605
03:21:14,440 --> 03:21:20,720
It's pretty hard. I was having, I think I was having this conversation with Emma where she was like, like, what would

2606
03:21:20,720 --> 03:21:28,280
Linus have to do to like cross like said line basically, and I don't think it was a negative

2607
03:21:28,280 --> 03:21:32,120
thing. I guess. Okay.

2608
03:21:32,120 --> 03:21:35,760
No, no. I'm going to write down some ideas.

2609
03:21:35,760 --> 03:21:38,760
I'll write down some ideas. Hold on. Hold on.

2610
03:21:38,760 --> 03:21:41,760
Hold on. Okay. Let me think.

2611
03:21:41,760 --> 03:21:44,920
Oh, I did. I have a quoted answer.

2612
03:21:44,920 --> 03:21:55,960
To be completely honest, I think it was pretty true is like some of these, I'm just like

2613
03:21:55,960 --> 03:21:59,040
some of these, I'm sitting there going like, I don't even think it'd be enough.

2614
03:21:59,040 --> 03:22:03,360
Like, like, like, you know, ask you to do something totally unethical.

2615
03:22:03,360 --> 03:22:07,320
It's like you wouldn't do it, but I don't, I don't know if you'd care.

2616
03:22:07,320 --> 03:22:10,320
I've got one. I've got one. I've got one.

2617
03:22:10,320 --> 03:22:15,840
Okay. Go ahead. What I said was you'd have to fundamentally, I would have to, it would have to be something

2618
03:22:15,840 --> 03:22:19,560
that made me think that you fundamentally changed as a human. Oh, okay.

2619
03:22:19,560 --> 03:22:22,960
I had disrespect your family. That was that.

2620
03:22:22,960 --> 03:22:26,640
I think you would never do that though. I guess.

2621
03:22:26,640 --> 03:22:29,640
That's where the answer kind of went. But I didn't get the... Why did you push this down?

2622
03:22:29,640 --> 03:22:32,640
Oh, because I was going to lean this down so you could read it.

2623
03:22:32,640 --> 03:22:36,640
Oh, okay. Because I fundamentally changed.

2624
03:22:36,640 --> 03:22:42,480
But like, but like, you can do this stuff. You can, I mean, there's, there's so many things where like, I don't know, it would

2625
03:22:42,480 --> 03:22:48,080
piss me off, but it's not going to like, to actually sever the link.

2626
03:22:48,080 --> 03:22:51,080
Yeah. Like, I don't know, man.

2627
03:22:51,080 --> 03:22:55,200
Like I'm trying to, like I ran, I ran into Rich the other day at like the skate sharpening

2628
03:22:55,200 --> 03:23:00,360
place of all, of all places and, and like, that's what, that's what kind of, that's actually

2629
03:23:00,360 --> 03:23:04,220
what made me think of like, like if I, if I had like...

2630
03:23:04,220 --> 03:23:07,720
You just wouldn't do that. Yeah. That's why it comes back to that.

2631
03:23:07,720 --> 03:23:13,120
I'm trying to think of like what, how I could have treated him in such a way that he would

2632
03:23:13,120 --> 03:23:16,960
message you and go, yo, man, that was weird. You know, right?

2633
03:23:16,960 --> 03:23:24,120
Like, like I didn't, I didn't talk to him because I was on a call and I was just like,

2634
03:23:24,240 --> 03:23:28,360
like, I couldn't really, I couldn't really chat with him, but like, I don't know, man,

2635
03:23:28,360 --> 03:23:35,600
because I know that you're very, like you're very protective of like your people, which

2636
03:23:35,600 --> 03:23:41,620
is chill. I'm super, super into that. But that was the only thing, because I can't think of anything I could do to you.

2637
03:23:41,620 --> 03:23:44,960
That's why I said, that's why I went with your family.

2638
03:23:44,960 --> 03:23:49,840
Because I think that I could, I could like, you know, like I, like I could try to physically,

2639
03:23:49,840 --> 03:23:54,000
you know, inflict pain. Look at, look at, look at, he doesn't, he doesn't give a s***, right?

2640
03:23:54,000 --> 03:24:00,520
Like, so, and I, and even if I could, I don't, I don't think that would be, I don't think

2641
03:24:00,520 --> 03:24:03,600
that would be insurmountable. Nope. I think you could put it behind you.

2642
03:24:03,600 --> 03:24:09,120
I think if I was like, hey, I had like a hormonal issue.

2643
03:24:09,120 --> 03:24:19,240
I had a weird reaction to a medication I'm on. I, I, I was in a really messed up place and, and I, you know, I, I'm going to do better.

2644
03:24:19,240 --> 03:24:22,520
I think you'd be like, okay. Yeah. Like whatever. Yeah. Right.

2645
03:24:22,520 --> 03:24:28,320
But if, but if, so if I were to like, if I were to like, you know, be a, I've complete,

2646
03:24:28,320 --> 03:24:31,680
you know, jerk, brute, like you and slap someone. I can't believe I did that.

2647
03:24:33,320 --> 03:24:37,880
You know, if I did that to you, I think you'd basically be over it.

2648
03:24:38,200 --> 03:24:41,560
But if I did that to like your mom. Oh yeah.

2649
03:24:41,560 --> 03:24:46,240
But then that's, that's one of those situations where like, that's why I said it would require

2650
03:24:46,240 --> 03:24:52,280
fundamental change as a person, because you would never do that. You would need me to have a good reason, I think though, either way.

2651
03:24:53,000 --> 03:24:56,040
You'd need a good reason because I think you're a rational person.

2652
03:24:56,440 --> 03:24:59,360
Yeah, but how you can have a good reason to slap my mom?

2653
03:25:00,840 --> 03:25:03,760
What if we wouldn't get the Guinness World Record if I didn't do it?

2654
03:25:08,720 --> 03:25:11,800
Most, most moms laughed and you like ran out of moms.

2655
03:25:12,400 --> 03:25:21,600
Yeah. Okay. The reference there is the one time, the one time he really looked like he could

2656
03:25:21,600 --> 03:25:27,800
murder me was when he thought I like abandoned him on Mount Albert.

2657
03:25:27,800 --> 03:25:32,720
I was having like pretty severe altitude sickness and I booked it down the hill

2658
03:25:32,960 --> 03:25:37,960
because we had one last guy that had to sign the thing and he was a minor or

2659
03:25:37,960 --> 03:25:42,480
something and I had to get to his parent so that his signature counted so that the

2660
03:25:42,480 --> 03:25:48,560
world record was captured. I also didn't know that Luke was suffering altitude sickness.

2661
03:25:48,560 --> 03:25:55,520
I thought he was like, going to be fine. So when he reached the bottom, he didn't know that I was like booking it down the

2662
03:25:55,520 --> 03:25:58,640
mountain because I was on a mission to make sure that we succeeded.

2663
03:25:58,880 --> 03:26:05,760
I've never really talked about this. I don't think maybe I've alluded to it, but some of the other people who participated

2664
03:26:05,800 --> 03:26:13,640
in Highlander did not want everyone to make it and said so explicitly, which made

2665
03:26:13,640 --> 03:26:18,280
me extremely angry and like actually did actions to try to inhibit the chance of

2666
03:26:18,280 --> 03:26:25,360
other people making. Yes. It was it, it permanently burned a bridge between people.

2667
03:26:25,560 --> 03:26:29,160
Yeah. I'm not going to get any more specific than that. It is not worth it.

2668
03:26:29,200 --> 03:26:31,480
That was not mad at everyone. No, because that was not everyone on the trip.

2669
03:26:32,240 --> 03:26:39,360
And so as part of making sure that the mission was successful, because we couldn't

2670
03:26:39,360 --> 03:26:43,040
get the record for the highest altitude land party, unless a certain number of people

2671
03:26:43,040 --> 03:26:47,400
participated, something that the people working against the team.

2672
03:26:48,480 --> 03:26:51,760
Oh, I didn't realize, I guess. Oh, well, this is a problem.

2673
03:26:51,760 --> 03:26:53,720
Maybe I should have actually been helpful.

2674
03:26:55,040 --> 03:26:59,240
So part of making sure we succeeded was we actually recruited randoms who weren't

2675
03:26:59,240 --> 03:27:03,600
part of our group to participate in the land, who happened to be hiking it.

2676
03:27:04,160 --> 03:27:07,920
One of them, for some reason, whether it was because they were a minor or whether

2677
03:27:07,920 --> 03:27:11,720
it's because I forgot to get them to sign at the top and I had to catch up. I don't remember what it was.

2678
03:27:11,720 --> 03:27:19,440
Their signature had to be witnessed by or something. I don't remember why, but I had to, I had to like track them down.

2679
03:27:19,440 --> 03:27:22,920
I had to go down with them and I had to like catch up to them on the way down.

2680
03:27:22,920 --> 03:27:27,360
This mountain, the reason why getting down it was so important was because at a

2681
03:27:27,360 --> 03:27:33,040
certain time of day, there's a huge chance of lightning storms and one did happen.

2682
03:27:33,040 --> 03:27:38,680
We literally saw lightning hit a tree in front of us and it was very close.

2683
03:27:38,680 --> 03:27:44,200
You can verify this claim from Austin Evans and Paul, who were both with me at

2684
03:27:44,200 --> 03:27:49,160
the time when it happened. The second that happened, everyone, we had been hiking all day and the second

2685
03:27:49,160 --> 03:27:54,440
that happened, everyone just flat sprinted. It was a very energizing moment.

2686
03:27:58,240 --> 03:28:02,320
He's not paying attention. I'm shocked. I'm shocked.

2687
03:28:02,320 --> 03:28:04,840
There it is. That one gets it.

2688
03:28:05,920 --> 03:28:09,280
Sorry. So anyway, Luke didn't know that.

2689
03:28:09,280 --> 03:28:13,680
Yeah. Luke didn't know that I didn't know that he was in rough shape.

2690
03:28:13,680 --> 03:28:15,040
So when he got down.

2691
03:28:19,520 --> 03:28:24,000
There was a very good reason like any narcissist would have.

2692
03:28:28,360 --> 03:28:32,040
Or maybe or maybe I just do things for a reason. I don't know who knows.

2693
03:28:33,640 --> 03:28:40,240
But yeah, I don't know, man. We, yeah, I think fundamental change is a way better way of putting it because

2694
03:28:40,240 --> 03:28:43,880
that encompasses sort of all the stuff that I could try to brainstorm.

2695
03:28:45,760 --> 03:28:50,520
All right, what else we got? We got lots. Hey, Dan, Luke and Linus.

2696
03:28:50,520 --> 03:28:55,040
I've already read this one. Hey, LLD, fellow home theater enthusiast here.

2697
03:28:55,200 --> 03:28:59,440
I'm constantly battling the ever frustrating HDMI CEC can't even control.

2698
03:28:59,440 --> 03:29:03,680
Any tips? Will it ever get better? Do I just need to buy an old harmony rip?

2699
03:29:05,040 --> 03:29:09,680
Yeah, you do just need to buy an old harmony remote because I am also having

2700
03:29:09,680 --> 03:29:13,120
some serious issues with CEC. Like it's so frustrating.

2701
03:29:14,080 --> 03:29:18,320
No matter how I configure it across my shield, my receiver, my TV.

2702
03:29:19,520 --> 03:29:24,640
For some reason, the shield will just rip the input back randomly sometimes,

2703
03:29:24,640 --> 03:29:28,880
even when it's like asleep. And I can't even begin to fathom it.

2704
03:29:28,880 --> 03:29:34,560
It drives me absolutely crazy. When CEC works, it's super magic and great.

2705
03:29:34,560 --> 03:29:41,040
And then when it doesn't work, it's infuriating and drives me absolutely

2706
03:29:41,040 --> 03:29:47,680
bat crap crazy. I, man, what a great device that would be just like an HDMI pass through that

2707
03:29:47,680 --> 03:29:54,640
actually just does like great CEC handling. And you could just like SSH into like that device.

2708
03:29:54,640 --> 03:30:00,160
It could be, man, it'd have to be super low power. It'd have to be like powerable over HDMI or something.

2709
03:30:00,160 --> 03:30:04,880
I don't know. And it'd have to maintain HDCP somehow. It basically, it's an impossible dream.

2710
03:30:04,880 --> 03:30:12,640
But like a coupler that just had like proper CEC handling and was just like

2711
03:30:12,640 --> 03:30:16,320
programmed to deal with all the random stupid edge cases would be super cool.

2712
03:30:16,320 --> 03:30:20,080
Because in theory, all I need is CEC.

2713
03:30:20,080 --> 03:30:22,640
But in practice, it's just not good enough. Yeah.

2714
03:30:25,360 --> 03:30:28,640
Hello, Linux Danbian and TempLukeOS.

2715
03:30:29,680 --> 03:30:34,080
That's a good one. This is new. Collecting gift cards until I can get a screwdriver.

2716
03:30:34,960 --> 03:30:39,040
Sorry. Who writes the one liners that appear after the intro and the videos?

2717
03:30:39,040 --> 03:30:43,680
Do you have a favorite past one liner? I can't even remember enough of them to pick a favorite one.

2718
03:30:43,680 --> 03:30:46,800
There's definitely been some absolutely golden ones.

2719
03:30:46,800 --> 03:30:50,720
It's usually the writer of the video. Every once in a while, the editor will pitch in with an idea.

2720
03:30:50,720 --> 03:30:55,840
Sometimes I'll pitch one in not much lately. But yeah, they're, I love it.

2721
03:30:55,840 --> 03:30:56,640
I love it. They're great.

2722
03:30:59,360 --> 03:31:04,880
Luke Dan, what's your squat bench deadlift? Powerlifter working in tech would love to get lift in.

2723
03:31:04,880 --> 03:31:08,640
645, 445, 550. Why didn't you ask me?

2724
03:31:09,920 --> 03:31:12,880
Wow. You don't even lift? Wow. Bro. Wow.

2725
03:31:14,240 --> 03:31:18,560
They're all that cake master. No one ever asks what it would take for me to not forgive you.

2726
03:31:19,920 --> 03:31:23,520
That right there, red line. All that matters.

2727
03:31:23,520 --> 03:31:27,120
Still not asking those questions. Have you ever done any of those?

2728
03:31:28,400 --> 03:31:31,840
Nope. Yeah. Okay.

2729
03:31:31,840 --> 03:31:35,680
Well, there we go. Carry on. Those are some pretty sick numbers.

2730
03:31:35,680 --> 03:31:41,440
Good job. I don't do powerlifting. A lot of my stuff is for therapeutic reasons.

2731
03:31:42,400 --> 03:31:48,560
For that reason, I've been having some not major, but definitely existing back

2732
03:31:48,560 --> 03:31:55,360
problems where like if I do anything that really involves my back after two days,

2733
03:31:55,360 --> 03:31:58,400
it's always two. So it won't be the next day. It won't be the day after that.

2734
03:31:58,400 --> 03:32:02,720
I'll have notable back pain and limited range of motion.

2735
03:32:02,720 --> 03:32:11,120
So I've been trying to solve that for quite a while now. I haven't done squats or deadlifts in like probably at least six months.

2736
03:32:11,920 --> 03:32:14,480
So I can't really know to claim where I'm at right now.

2737
03:32:15,120 --> 03:32:19,600
And I also never do anything in reps less than five.

2738
03:32:19,600 --> 03:32:24,240
So my peak, not now. I'm certain it's lower now because I haven't been doing it,

2739
03:32:24,240 --> 03:32:28,080
but my peak for squats was 335 for five.

2740
03:32:28,800 --> 03:32:32,800
My peak for deadlifts was 315 for five.

2741
03:32:32,800 --> 03:32:35,200
And my peak for bench,

2742
03:32:38,960 --> 03:32:43,120
did I actually get it? I know I did 220 for five.

2743
03:32:44,080 --> 03:32:50,160
And I think I got like 225 for four and a half, but didn't quite get the fifth.

2744
03:32:50,160 --> 03:32:53,680
That's why I peaked out. That's what I'm at currently.

2745
03:32:56,320 --> 03:32:59,120
I have like, I don't know, I'm just so broken all the time.

2746
03:33:00,640 --> 03:33:06,320
I used to be able to do more stuff, but like right now the thing that's impeding my bench,

2747
03:33:06,320 --> 03:33:10,400
my rotator cuff used to be the problem. I've kind of solved that. Now it's my front delt.

2748
03:33:12,400 --> 03:33:15,600
I've been shifting to a lot of pushups lately instead of bench press because

2749
03:33:16,320 --> 03:33:22,000
when I load the bar up enough, I'm getting a bunch of pain and crunchiness in my front delt.

2750
03:33:22,000 --> 03:33:24,320
And I'm really not sure what that is. So I'm working on it.

2751
03:33:26,160 --> 03:33:31,920
Yeah, I mean, I'm all of it for me. Like I have, I have no specific goals other than I'm trying to be

2752
03:33:33,200 --> 03:33:37,360
healthier and less broken. So if I run into some form of impediment,

2753
03:33:38,240 --> 03:33:42,080
I am happy to skip trying to progress weights for a while,

2754
03:33:42,080 --> 03:33:49,600
if it means that I can try to fix some part of me. And as far as I can tell, the stronger I'm getting and more able I'm getting,

2755
03:33:49,600 --> 03:33:58,160
it's not that I'm breaking in various ways. I think I am unveiling problems and then addressing them and then continuing forward.

2756
03:33:58,160 --> 03:33:59,520
That's what it feels like to me at least.

2757
03:34:01,360 --> 03:34:07,120
But yeah, it's going okay. And Dan, when was the last time you were at the gym, Dan?

2758
03:34:08,080 --> 03:34:09,920
Uh, May 2nd.

2759
03:34:12,560 --> 03:34:15,200
Of last year? Yeah. Well, it can't be of this year, I guess.

2760
03:34:15,920 --> 03:34:20,240
Yeah. Um, I will be coming back soon.

2761
03:34:22,560 --> 03:34:24,960
You should really check out the knees or toes guy. Knees or toes guys, great.

2762
03:34:25,840 --> 03:34:29,680
I have been checking out for quite a while.

2763
03:34:29,680 --> 03:34:34,240
Um, quite genuinely, mostly his content,

2764
03:34:34,240 --> 03:34:38,800
but a variety of other people's content as well is why my knees are like really good right now.

2765
03:34:40,080 --> 03:34:43,040
There was a while there where my knees were screwed and my knees are solid.

2766
03:34:44,240 --> 03:34:48,960
My knees are absolutely not the limiting factor when it comes to things like squats anymore.

2767
03:34:48,960 --> 03:34:57,040
And I go pretty deep. My, my problem is, is yeah, the weird, really delayed onset issues with,

2768
03:34:57,600 --> 03:35:02,720
with my back and whatever is happening. This is very, the front delt thing is very recent.

2769
03:35:03,200 --> 03:35:07,200
Um, so whatever's happening with my front delt and the delayed onset issues in my back

2770
03:35:07,200 --> 03:35:10,880
are by far the main problems right now. But I can talk about this for literally ever.

2771
03:35:10,880 --> 03:35:14,160
So we should probably skip to the next message. Yeah.

2772
03:35:14,160 --> 03:35:17,920
I gotta apologize again for dipping for so long. It's whatever, man.

2773
03:35:17,920 --> 03:35:21,200
I just, I don't know. I think it's good to stay active.

2774
03:35:21,200 --> 03:35:25,360
There's, there's that. Oh man. Now I'm going to talk about more health stuff and we're going to get another video made.

2775
03:35:25,360 --> 03:35:31,200
So let's, let's skip it. Anyway, hi Linus.

2776
03:35:31,200 --> 03:35:35,120
Can you update us on how your workflow has changed since Terran joined?

2777
03:35:35,120 --> 03:35:40,000
Has it worked out the way that you hoped? What specifically have been able to spend more and less time on?

2778
03:35:40,800 --> 03:35:44,400
I'd say the biggest thing is, you know, when I have an issue,

2779
03:35:44,400 --> 03:35:48,160
I have a single or a couple of points of contact that I can bring it to.

2780
03:35:48,800 --> 03:35:53,920
It's not always going to be resolved instantly because the real world is messy.

2781
03:35:53,920 --> 03:35:59,680
In theory, everything is perfect. You have an org chart and you have the reporting lines and you, but in practice,

2782
03:35:59,680 --> 03:36:01,120
it's nothing's ever that simple.

2783
03:36:03,120 --> 03:36:06,800
But I'd say that specifically I've been able to spend, you know,

2784
03:36:06,800 --> 03:36:12,240
less time on performance management and more time on making videos,

2785
03:36:12,240 --> 03:36:14,800
which is I think the best thing for the company.

2786
03:36:16,160 --> 03:36:19,280
When we were, when we were looking, talking recently about how

2787
03:36:19,280 --> 03:36:23,840
viewership had kind of recovered to, to pre-controversy levels, right?

2788
03:36:24,560 --> 03:36:28,000
It's a little lower right now, but the reason for that is in the last month,

2789
03:36:28,000 --> 03:36:32,240
we've uploaded way fewer videos. The per video viewership.

2790
03:36:32,240 --> 03:36:36,640
Yeah, we're, we're banking up videos right now for, for the next little bit.

2791
03:36:38,720 --> 03:36:43,280
And so even when things were kind of back to, to pre-levels,

2792
03:36:44,240 --> 03:36:51,840
we still weren't uploading as much as we had been before. So we're actually in a healthier state from, from that point of view.

2793
03:36:51,840 --> 03:36:56,880
So I, and I do think that the best thing for the company is me being able to spend more time

2794
03:36:56,880 --> 03:37:01,280
on the creative elements of things and less time on the business administration side.

2795
03:37:02,080 --> 03:37:06,320
There's a bit of a misconception, I think.

2796
03:37:06,320 --> 03:37:10,400
And I think part of it is the way that I've represented myself.

2797
03:37:10,400 --> 03:37:14,080
There's a bit of a misconception that I'm somehow incapable of, you know,

2798
03:37:14,080 --> 03:37:18,400
leadership, incapable of setting a strategic direction.

2799
03:37:19,360 --> 03:37:23,680
Well, I'm very self-effacing in my sense of humor.

2800
03:37:23,680 --> 03:37:27,920
And I think a lot of the time I will, I will publicly undermine myself

2801
03:37:28,720 --> 03:37:33,120
in order to, you know, build up someone else's role or their contribution.

2802
03:37:33,120 --> 03:37:40,480
And I think that what I forgot or didn't realize or hoped to give people more credit for than that

2803
03:37:40,480 --> 03:37:46,720
is that people wouldn't take that seriously. They would understand that while I have gotten extremely lucky to arrive where I have,

2804
03:37:47,520 --> 03:37:51,520
I also did, like, run the company until we had a hundred people.

2805
03:37:51,520 --> 03:37:55,600
And it, I didn't step down because I couldn't do the job.

2806
03:37:55,600 --> 03:37:59,520
I stepped down because I couldn't do two jobs, more than two jobs.

2807
03:37:59,520 --> 03:38:04,320
I mean, I was our primary host. I was our editor-in-chief and I was our CEO.

2808
03:38:04,320 --> 03:38:08,640
It was not tenable. Also still, and like, I was also-

2809
03:38:08,640 --> 03:38:12,800
Realistically, you did more stuff than that. Realistically, like a chief creative officer as well.

2810
03:38:12,800 --> 03:38:19,280
Like, there was a lot that I was doing. And like, does that apply to the ideation for Creator Warehouse?

2811
03:38:20,080 --> 03:38:25,840
Yeah, I mean, sure. Yeah, there's, and then there's Creator Warehouse too, which I didn't put a ton of my hours into every week,

2812
03:38:25,840 --> 03:38:35,680
but I certainly did put some. So I think it's less that, you know, I wasn't able to do things.

2813
03:38:35,680 --> 03:38:43,680
And it was more that I have a hard time investing energy into things that I don't enjoy

2814
03:38:43,760 --> 03:38:50,000
and I don't want to do. And I think that I do my best work when I'm focused on the things that I do enjoy.

2815
03:38:50,000 --> 03:38:55,280
So like, I did some of my best work this week, right before Wancho,

2816
03:38:55,280 --> 03:38:59,200
when I was working with Alex on building a system in the new

2817
03:39:01,200 --> 03:39:04,640
Callios Streetcom tower.

2818
03:39:04,640 --> 03:39:07,680
Check this thing out. Was that on Build Corner? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

2819
03:39:07,680 --> 03:39:11,520
Isn't it beautiful? Oh, I know. Oh. I know.

2820
03:39:11,520 --> 03:39:18,000
So it's this thing. Oh. This was that company that like scammed everybody, basically.

2821
03:39:18,000 --> 03:39:24,000
Yeah, here we go. Kickstarter project by Callios. It's been resurrected through a partnership with Streetcom.

2822
03:39:25,120 --> 03:39:28,240
We didn't want to work with them in like any kind.

2823
03:39:28,240 --> 03:39:32,080
We didn't want to take anything from them. We didn't cover them at Computex that year

2824
03:39:32,080 --> 03:39:38,560
because they didn't agree to refund people. But what we did say was we'd buy it.

2825
03:39:38,560 --> 03:39:42,240
So we bought one of the backers who wanted out.

2826
03:39:42,640 --> 03:39:46,320
We bought their pre-order. So we've got it.

2827
03:39:46,320 --> 03:39:50,000
We've purchased it like anyone else would if we're building in it. It's super cool.

2828
03:39:50,000 --> 03:39:54,240
I definitely have some misgivings about its history

2829
03:39:54,240 --> 03:39:58,320
and how it got to here. But I'm having a blast with that.

2830
03:39:58,320 --> 03:40:02,400
It's like, would I rather do that or would I rather look at budgeting?

2831
03:40:04,240 --> 03:40:08,480
I can look at budgeting. I can work on spreadsheets. I did it for years before I worked here.

2832
03:40:08,480 --> 03:40:11,680
But it's not where I think my passion lies.

2833
03:40:11,680 --> 03:40:17,760
And it's not where I think my greatest value lies. So spending more time on things like that,

2834
03:40:18,800 --> 03:40:23,360
which doesn't mean zero time on administrative stuff. Like I still find problems.

2835
03:40:23,360 --> 03:40:27,600
And the way that Taryn puts it is, you need to be careful what you say

2836
03:40:27,600 --> 03:40:32,560
because you still wield a lot of soft power is the way that he kind of phrased it.

2837
03:40:32,560 --> 03:40:35,680
Because even though I'm not someone's direct boss or whatever,

2838
03:40:35,680 --> 03:40:41,440
I have to be cognizant that my words and actions

2839
03:40:41,440 --> 03:40:45,680
can carry a lot of weight. Asterisk also all of the hard power.

2840
03:40:47,680 --> 03:40:51,760
Yes, but I go out of my way to not exercise that. I know, I'm just saying.

2841
03:40:51,760 --> 03:40:55,920
You're not wrong. But that is part of the reason why there is the understanding

2842
03:40:55,920 --> 03:40:58,000
of the soft power being carried is like,

2843
03:40:58,960 --> 03:41:03,120
you can't, as much as you don't use it, you can't ignore that that exists.

2844
03:41:03,120 --> 03:41:08,000
It's all, but it's also not all because there's an element of mutually assured destruction.

2845
03:41:08,000 --> 03:41:11,360
Like if I were to exercise my hard power.

2846
03:41:11,360 --> 03:41:15,120
But the effect of mutually assured destruction

2847
03:41:15,120 --> 03:41:18,640
on others versus on you. Is still destruction. Oh, no.

2848
03:41:19,920 --> 03:41:23,520
I mean, you're right. In terms of...

2849
03:41:24,400 --> 03:41:28,800
If mutually assured destruction happens, you'll be fine. Day to day, I will be fine.

2850
03:41:28,800 --> 03:41:32,480
But in terms of other things that matter to me a lot,

2851
03:41:32,480 --> 03:41:38,400
I mean, not just shrink, it can be destroyed. It's, I think people from the outside

2852
03:41:38,400 --> 03:41:42,960
probably don't realize how fragile organizations are.

2853
03:41:43,760 --> 03:41:47,920
And I mean that not just about ourselves. I mean, look what's happened to Intel

2854
03:41:47,920 --> 03:41:52,320
over a shockingly short period of time. Like organizations are made up of people.

2855
03:41:52,320 --> 03:41:56,000
They're made up of processes. They're made up of a structure

2856
03:41:56,000 --> 03:41:58,720
that it turns out is shockingly fragile.

2857
03:41:59,360 --> 03:42:05,200
Like it only takes a few pieces to kind of fall out of place

2858
03:42:05,200 --> 03:42:07,120
and the whole thing can come crumbling down.

2859
03:42:11,200 --> 03:42:12,240
I think it's actually...

2860
03:42:15,120 --> 03:42:20,480
I think most companies are wildly more fragile

2861
03:42:20,480 --> 03:42:25,040
than people think. Yeah. I mean, look at Intel. Are you just repeating what I said on purpose?

2862
03:42:25,040 --> 03:42:28,240
Did you say Intel? I was a little bit definitely reading chat.

2863
03:42:29,360 --> 03:42:33,040
Hell, yeah. We don't have the same thoughts. Yeah, hold on.

2864
03:42:33,040 --> 03:42:36,080
So unique username says, wait, what's this mutually assured destruction?

2865
03:42:36,080 --> 03:42:39,200
So like, yeah, I could literally just go full flex

2866
03:42:39,200 --> 03:42:42,320
and I could be like, Taran, you're fired. Luke, you're fired. Dan, you're fired.

2867
03:42:42,320 --> 03:42:45,920
I don't know. I'm literally not going to sign your paychecks anymore. See you later.

2868
03:42:45,920 --> 03:42:52,320
What? Then what? Like what for me now? Because like I, you have to have that mutual respect.

2869
03:42:52,320 --> 03:42:57,120
I respect these people to do their jobs. They respect me to not do that.

2870
03:42:57,120 --> 03:43:00,160
And there's like, there's almost like a tension.

2871
03:43:00,160 --> 03:43:05,120
It's actually like literally how the whole world works. Yeah. I don't mean that. I don't mean that tension in a bad way.

2872
03:43:05,120 --> 03:43:08,400
I mean the kind of tension that is like, have you seen those,

2873
03:43:08,400 --> 03:43:10,640
have you seen those tables that are held up by tension?

2874
03:43:12,720 --> 03:43:18,080
Trick kill. Oh yeah, those are super cool. Trick kill info plain chat said, no, Luke's free computers.

2875
03:43:20,640 --> 03:43:23,920
That's the only reason he's here. These are super cool. These are super cool.

2876
03:43:23,920 --> 03:43:26,080
All of these chains are loose.

2877
03:43:28,080 --> 03:43:32,560
Well, they're, they're tense. Right. But they're, they're not, they're not like welded.

2878
03:43:32,560 --> 03:43:36,560
They're not solid. Yeah. Yeah. Like they're, they're just chains. You could push it and it would perform.

2879
03:43:36,560 --> 03:43:38,640
Yeah. And it'll like wobble.

2880
03:43:39,840 --> 03:43:47,680
So there's like, there's a tension that, that holds everything together where we all sort of rely on each other.

2881
03:43:50,560 --> 03:43:55,680
And it would, I can't, the organization is that such a size, such a scale.

2882
03:43:55,680 --> 03:44:01,360
And again, I reemphasize, we are one 360th the size of Disneyland,

2883
03:44:01,360 --> 03:44:06,800
just that park, right? But we are still at a size and scale and we do so many things that if I were to,

2884
03:44:07,360 --> 03:44:14,960
if I were to just start cutting, the, the results could not be predicted

2885
03:44:14,960 --> 03:44:21,680
other than that it would be disastrous. It's almost like, you know, not fully understanding what everyone does.

2886
03:44:21,680 --> 03:44:26,480
You shouldn't just like run around cutting jobs.

2887
03:44:27,920 --> 03:44:33,760
What? And then having to like rehire them because it turns out you're a big dumb idiot.

2888
03:44:36,960 --> 03:44:40,320
Yeah. The nukes are going to be fine. They take care of themselves.

2889
03:44:41,680 --> 03:44:41,920
Yeah.

2890
03:44:45,360 --> 03:44:49,040
So that's what Floatplane does. Yeah. I didn't know that.

2891
03:44:49,040 --> 03:44:52,960
Yeah. You flex too hard.

2892
03:44:52,960 --> 03:44:56,000
You destroy the culture and then that destroys the company, right? Yeah.

2893
03:44:56,560 --> 03:45:02,560
And I literally can't do it all myself anymore. There was a time when if the team were to come to me and say,

2894
03:45:03,360 --> 03:45:09,200
we quit, you suck, right? Like this isn't a, this isn't collective bargaining.

2895
03:45:09,200 --> 03:45:15,440
This is just f**k you. We out. You know, yeah. You wouldn't have maybe been able to do as much, but you could have kept the ship.

2896
03:45:15,440 --> 03:45:19,440
Oh yeah, I could have kept the ship. The ship didn't do that much. The ship just like uploaded unboxings.

2897
03:45:19,440 --> 03:45:24,080
Yeah. And I could hire someone to hold the thing.

2898
03:45:24,080 --> 03:45:27,680
Yvonne could literally like, you know, like, like hold the camera.

2899
03:45:27,680 --> 03:45:30,800
It did. Yeah, it did. Quite a few times. I mean, in the earlier early days.

2900
03:45:30,800 --> 03:45:34,000
Yeah. But these days it's like, what?

2901
03:45:34,000 --> 03:45:39,520
I'm going to, I'm going to like create Floatplane exclusives and do LTT and do ShortCircuit and

2902
03:45:39,520 --> 03:45:42,720
coordinate, you know, procurement and develop a website.

2903
03:45:42,720 --> 03:45:47,760
Don't forget the apps and come on. You're also going to lose all your institutional knowledge.

2904
03:45:47,760 --> 03:45:52,160
There's still a lot that is still tribal here. Well, that's the thing, right?

2905
03:45:52,160 --> 03:45:56,720
Is in the old days, every job role I had done at some point.

2906
03:45:57,280 --> 03:46:03,840
Now that's not the case. There are literally people who work, who have years of experience here doing things I have never done.

2907
03:46:07,760 --> 03:46:11,600
Tension. Mutually assured destruction.

2908
03:46:13,600 --> 03:46:20,560
It's good. It's healthy. But again, it's largely how like, I mean, society kind of subsists on it.

2909
03:46:20,560 --> 03:46:27,600
Yeah. I mean, it's a, it's a dog eat dog world, right? Like we're all, I mean, you've, you've described the, you've described the world as PVP.

2910
03:46:27,600 --> 03:46:33,120
Constant PVP environment. But that doesn't mean that it's a zero sum game.

2911
03:46:33,120 --> 03:46:38,720
It doesn't mean that every player has to lose. We can all win, but there are going to be degrees of winning.

2912
03:46:38,720 --> 03:46:44,800
Yeah. And so we all have to be cognizant of the constant tension and working to make sure that

2913
03:46:44,800 --> 03:46:50,400
our tension is beneficial to the people around us, that we are together, this table.

2914
03:46:53,680 --> 03:46:56,720
I think that the table is society. We have a venous society.

2915
03:46:56,720 --> 03:47:02,080
Now I need to have this table. I should have this table. You can just order people to make it for you.

2916
03:47:02,080 --> 03:47:05,520
Metaphor in the office. Yeah. There are people here that could make that.

2917
03:47:05,520 --> 03:47:11,920
Oh yeah, sure. No, it's, it's not that hard. We were looking at guides a little while ago because James wanted to do it, to do a

2918
03:47:11,920 --> 03:47:13,360
tensegrity computer.

2919
03:47:15,440 --> 03:47:20,160
Yeah. Where do we put the computer though? Like it's not really, I mean, in the middle of that, I guess.

2920
03:47:20,160 --> 03:47:23,200
That's basically just a computer case. Exposed.

2921
03:47:23,200 --> 03:47:25,280
Atlanta streets. His employees like a table.

2922
03:47:27,040 --> 03:47:27,760
And we tea.

2923
03:47:30,320 --> 03:47:32,480
Anyway, they're kidding. Don't worry.

2924
03:47:35,120 --> 03:47:38,560
What else we got? There's still many. Hi LDL.

2925
03:47:38,560 --> 03:47:42,320
Love, love time viewer. First time merch messenger.

2926
03:47:42,320 --> 03:47:46,800
Question for Luke. What is your opinion on using technical questions for software interviews?

2927
03:47:46,800 --> 03:47:48,720
Is there a better way to scope out good candidates?

2928
03:47:49,920 --> 03:47:53,120
I think I know the answer to this. Technical questions are good.

2929
03:47:53,120 --> 03:47:55,360
I think sometimes people go way overboard with it.

2930
03:47:58,000 --> 03:48:01,920
Like, I don't know, if, if you're just asking like effectively like

2931
03:48:01,920 --> 03:48:05,840
lead code questions, I mean, they just studied for that. Like, does that really prove anything?

2932
03:48:05,840 --> 03:48:11,440
I don't know. I like having people actually just try to write something.

2933
03:48:12,080 --> 03:48:15,280
Like the, we have a, the, the full plane test.

2934
03:48:15,280 --> 03:48:18,720
I try not to go into way too many details, but the full plane test is

2935
03:48:18,720 --> 03:48:25,120
generally referred to as the bad app test. And we, we give people a bad app and we ask them to

2936
03:48:26,000 --> 03:48:30,880
comment it and identify why it's bad and then rewrite it.

2937
03:48:30,880 --> 03:48:43,840
It's short to small. Um, and since the advent of not AI assisting, but just fully AI written code,

2938
03:48:43,840 --> 03:48:47,200
we've had to like, okay, we'll slap this through a few models and see what it

2939
03:48:47,200 --> 03:48:51,360
outputs just to see if people are, are just completely copy and pasting.

2940
03:48:51,360 --> 03:48:53,760
Yeah. AI written code. Cause we don't want those results.

2941
03:48:54,800 --> 03:48:58,160
But that has actually become a somewhat fun benchmark.

2942
03:48:58,160 --> 03:49:02,000
Cause if you can't beat that, then why do we bother with you?

2943
03:49:02,000 --> 03:49:08,880
Kind of. And to be honest, you should be able to receive that and then, you know,

2944
03:49:08,880 --> 03:49:12,560
probably improve it a little bit here or there or make it your own in some way.

2945
03:49:12,560 --> 03:49:15,040
But if you're literally just taking the output and slapping it in,

2946
03:49:17,440 --> 03:49:19,680
it's, it's not, it's not great.

2947
03:49:20,640 --> 03:49:23,520
We also do those offline.

2948
03:49:24,800 --> 03:49:29,280
Okay. By offline, I mean like not during the video call and as much as that,

2949
03:49:29,520 --> 03:49:33,600
sweet cause it doesn't take up as much as my time, the actual core reason for it was,

2950
03:49:33,600 --> 03:49:38,640
I tried to do one live because I heard that was like what people did.

2951
03:49:38,640 --> 03:49:42,000
And then immediately within that call was like, nevermind.

2952
03:49:43,280 --> 03:49:46,400
Just take this and we'll have another call later.

2953
03:49:46,400 --> 03:49:55,360
Send it to me when you're done. Because I suspect this is always a thing, but that environment is not similar

2954
03:49:55,360 --> 03:50:02,000
to how you're going to be working at all. And I suspect the level of nerves when you're applying at any company is high,

2955
03:50:02,000 --> 03:50:05,680
let alone when it's very likely I'm sitting on the call with you and it's possible you've

2956
03:50:05,680 --> 03:50:08,240
watched me on camera in the past. Confirmed Luke.

2957
03:50:09,440 --> 03:50:13,680
For sure. I'm the best of the best interviewer because I'm there in the interview.

2958
03:50:13,680 --> 03:50:19,120
No one is good. They're probably nervous because I'm that cool. They, they've now met their hero.

2959
03:50:19,120 --> 03:50:24,000
Yeah. So everything's downhill from this moment and they're realizing that in real time.

2960
03:50:24,000 --> 03:50:26,720
And that's a really hard environment to be coding in. It's really hard.

2961
03:50:27,120 --> 03:50:30,160
It's long and it's hard. It's probably the most difficult thing they've ever done and will do.

2962
03:50:30,160 --> 03:50:31,280
The hardest. Yeah.

2963
03:50:33,840 --> 03:50:39,040
Anyways, no. So yeah, I just let people take it and do it on their own.

2964
03:50:39,040 --> 03:50:39,280
Which?

2965
03:50:43,920 --> 03:50:48,560
I'm not even going to ding that. It was not on purpose. Which I wish it was.

2966
03:50:48,560 --> 03:50:50,400
Luke and no Luke left in year.

2967
03:50:57,120 --> 03:50:58,960
At least make them some chicken first.

2968
03:51:03,840 --> 03:51:06,640
No, they just need the story of it. They don't need more than that.

2969
03:51:09,040 --> 03:51:12,320
No. Yeah. So I don't know. That's what we do. Oh God. Let's move on.

2970
03:51:12,320 --> 03:51:14,240
So do these interviews take place on a couch?

2971
03:51:19,040 --> 03:51:21,360
By your disinfectant at Costco.

2972
03:51:23,360 --> 03:51:26,800
Okay. I forgot the mineral oil by the barrel. Yeah, yeah.

2973
03:51:27,840 --> 03:51:30,880
Works. Hi, DLL. Just don't ingest it.

2974
03:51:32,400 --> 03:51:35,440
Speaking from experience, good advice. It's horse laxative.

2975
03:51:36,800 --> 03:51:38,160
It's also human laxative.

2976
03:51:42,080 --> 03:51:46,400
So yeah, be careful with that. Well, I'm not. I know what I'm doing at the next company retreat.

2977
03:51:49,360 --> 03:51:54,720
Hi, DLL. What cable sheathing would be used for the upcoming LTT Store cables?

2978
03:51:54,720 --> 03:51:58,160
Have bad experience with braided cables shrinking, causing kinks.

2979
03:52:02,240 --> 03:52:03,920
Hold on. I think he's fetching.

2980
03:52:07,040 --> 03:52:07,440
Thank you.

2981
03:52:12,000 --> 03:52:13,920
Early leaning into the after dark thing.

2982
03:52:21,520 --> 03:52:24,080
Nice sack. It's big.

2983
03:52:25,680 --> 03:52:28,240
Very sizable. And black.

2984
03:52:30,480 --> 03:52:33,520
With orange on the inside. That's a little. What am I doing?

2985
03:52:33,520 --> 03:52:40,560
Like Luke's interview couch. So they will not have braided sleeving on them.

2986
03:52:40,560 --> 03:52:50,160
They are just the like the supple silicone style of like outer, not rubber, but like silicone.

2987
03:52:51,200 --> 03:52:53,280
Lots of silicone. Don't stop.

2988
03:52:54,240 --> 03:52:54,800
Pointy.

2989
03:52:58,000 --> 03:52:59,840
There's got to be a way to turn this into my football.

2990
03:53:02,640 --> 03:53:04,160
Well, that's kind of flaccid in there.

2991
03:53:07,360 --> 03:53:14,320
That was tough. Anyway, the point is that they're like this.

2992
03:53:14,960 --> 03:53:20,480
They're kind of using like similar to like a hobbyist grade like wire stock.

2993
03:53:21,440 --> 03:53:24,880
Because I've found that in terms of durability, that's the best thing.

2994
03:53:24,880 --> 03:53:30,560
I've also had really bad experiences with sleeving, just not lasting over the long term.

2995
03:53:32,000 --> 03:53:36,000
Hi, DLL. Why doesn't Samsung make desktop CPUs or GPUs?

2996
03:53:36,000 --> 03:53:41,200
Since they already make mobile chips, Apple has had great success with their M series chips they've brought out.

2997
03:53:41,200 --> 03:53:45,840
Well, there's your answer. Apple has had great success with their mobile chips.

2998
03:53:46,640 --> 03:53:50,160
Has Samsung? They certainly put them in their bones.

2999
03:53:50,160 --> 03:53:56,480
Does anybody else want to use them? Or would they rather have something designed by Qualcomm?

3000
03:54:00,000 --> 03:54:06,160
Like to be clear, they're not terrible. In fact, you can, I mean, with, oh bloody hell, what's it called?

3001
03:54:06,160 --> 03:54:11,120
Samsung's DeX. With DeX, you can use a Samsung processor as a desktop.

3002
03:54:11,120 --> 03:54:15,840
In fact, oh shoot, who's, uh, was it, was it?

3003
03:54:16,160 --> 03:54:24,320
Who's video, who's extreme tech upgrade video was it? That they were using DeX as their like daily driver home computer until we did the tech upgrade?

3004
03:54:24,320 --> 03:54:26,560
I don't remember, but yeah, like people do it.

3005
03:54:32,560 --> 03:54:37,280
Yeah, why don't they? I don't know, why, why doesn't anybody do anything?

3006
03:54:37,280 --> 03:54:41,200
There's an opportunity cost, I guess they've just decided that's not the most useful thing.

3007
03:54:41,200 --> 03:54:44,240
They'd rather make a smart fridge or whatever.

3008
03:54:44,240 --> 03:54:45,200
Good luck, Samsung.

3009
03:54:48,080 --> 03:54:51,600
People are saying Matt Laverne. Ah, yeah, yeah, that sounds right.

3010
03:54:54,160 --> 03:54:58,960
Why is it so rare for newer monitors to include more than one DisplayPort input?

3011
03:54:58,960 --> 03:55:04,480
I have a variety of devices to connect and use at the same time, so a KVM doesn't help.

3012
03:55:06,960 --> 03:55:11,120
So what do you want to do? You want to have like, you want it side by side?

3013
03:55:11,280 --> 03:55:14,800
You want to have like, you want it side by side? Is that right?

3014
03:55:15,920 --> 03:55:24,640
So, okay, uh, one, I actually share your, your, um, perplexity because every HDMI port to my

3015
03:55:24,640 --> 03:55:31,360
understanding costs a royalty fee, whereas DisplayPort is, has no royalty per port.

3016
03:55:31,360 --> 03:55:35,760
So it is a little weird to me that we don't just all use DisplayPort because like that would be

3017
03:55:35,760 --> 03:55:40,480
cheaper and when you look across the electronics industry, basically every decision seems to be

3018
03:55:40,480 --> 03:55:41,840
driven by how we can make it cheaper.

3019
03:55:43,520 --> 03:55:49,600
I don't know. It's a good question, but you are right. Very, very few monitors include more than one DP input.

3020
03:55:50,640 --> 03:55:56,480
However, if I had to guess, I would say that the reason you don't see PIP or picture by

3021
03:55:56,480 --> 03:56:02,960
picture support for a DisplayPort is that DisplayPort can very easily be converted to

3022
03:56:02,960 --> 03:56:10,240
anything else. So if you have a DP output from some device, then you can easily turn it into HDMI or VGA or

3023
03:56:10,240 --> 03:56:15,040
DVI or whatever, mini DisplayPort, whatever you need to do, you can turn DisplayPort into

3024
03:56:15,040 --> 03:56:19,600
anything, but turning some of those other things into DisplayPort is not always as

3025
03:56:19,600 --> 03:56:26,320
cost effective or convenient. So I don't really see it as a problem because if you have a DP in an HDMI and then you, and

3026
03:56:26,320 --> 03:56:31,440
two DP devices, then you can just convert one of the DP's to HDMI and boom, you're good to go,

3027
03:56:31,440 --> 03:56:37,680
especially now that DP and HDMI are, have basically reached parity, uh, or close to

3028
03:56:37,760 --> 03:56:41,040
parity, they kind of leapfrog each other now in terms of the bandwidth that they can support.

3029
03:56:41,040 --> 03:56:46,400
It used to be that DP was like typically a generation ahead of HDMI, but now I think HDMI

3030
03:56:46,400 --> 03:56:50,720
is actually ahead of DP, but then we got DP 2.1a and that can do up to 80 gigabit,

3031
03:56:50,720 --> 03:56:56,720
but now it's the new HDMI is coming. So, um, I guess what I'm saying is I don't think this matters.

3032
03:56:57,280 --> 03:57:02,640
And if what you want is for those devices to plug into the monitor and to switch between them,

3033
03:57:03,520 --> 03:57:09,440
um, although it sounds like you are aware of KVMs, but are you aware of really good KVMs?

3034
03:57:10,000 --> 03:57:22,240
Like this one from the level one tech store. Let's go. Which can do 120 Hertz 4k and USB three and multi monitors, which is like super cool.

3035
03:57:22,240 --> 03:57:26,480
These things are amazing. Um, yeah. They have a lot of different configurations too.

3036
03:57:26,480 --> 03:57:31,680
Wendell, Wendell store is funny because he's got like merch crap that like is just merch crap.

3037
03:57:31,680 --> 03:57:36,080
And then he's got like actually like we built an incredible fricking product.

3038
03:57:36,080 --> 03:57:41,120
We did the best one. Yeah. We like, we thought KVMs were bad.

3039
03:57:41,120 --> 03:57:46,800
So we were like, I'll build my own KVM with blackjack and hookers.

3040
03:57:46,800 --> 03:57:51,680
This one does four computers in a single month. I'm trying to find the like the big chunker.

3041
03:57:51,680 --> 03:57:58,320
Super Mondo one. Yeah. I think it's triple monitors, two computers.

3042
03:57:58,320 --> 03:58:02,480
Here's this guy. There's some, there's some, there's one wild one.

3043
03:58:02,480 --> 03:58:08,800
There's got to be a way you can filter by just the KVMs. Yeah. You'd think that, but maybe it was a custom one that he sent over to Jake or something.

3044
03:58:08,800 --> 03:58:11,040
I don't remember. Products. Come on.

3045
03:58:12,080 --> 03:58:15,280
Okay. Hardware? Really hardware? Okay.

3046
03:58:16,480 --> 03:58:21,040
Fine. There was one like super thick boy that I've seen.

3047
03:58:21,040 --> 03:58:25,200
Maybe it was never a real product. Oh, here's a good one. Two computers quad monitor.

3048
03:58:25,200 --> 03:58:27,920
Check this out. Oh, I think that's what I was thinking of.

3049
03:58:28,560 --> 03:58:31,920
I think that's the biggest one. Quad monitor four computer. That's the one.

3050
03:58:31,920 --> 03:58:35,120
Nevermind. Yep. This is the one. That's crazy.

3051
03:58:38,560 --> 03:58:42,720
The fact that this exists is just so sick. I'm so happy someone makes that.

3052
03:58:43,360 --> 03:58:48,000
I mean, it's not cheap. And it's also sold out. But it technically exists.

3053
03:58:48,000 --> 03:58:50,640
I think we might have one. Anyway.

3054
03:58:53,360 --> 03:58:55,600
Wow. How rude. I just have

3055
03:58:57,920 --> 03:59:00,480
many contacts. He's just popular.

3056
03:59:01,600 --> 03:59:04,720
He's just popular. Hi, LLD.

3057
03:59:04,720 --> 03:59:07,920
Linus, how is the built in GPU CPU of the Mac?

3058
03:59:09,120 --> 03:59:13,200
Have you run any LLMs or games on it? And have you used the new Siri on it?

3059
03:59:15,200 --> 03:59:18,480
I have not used any of that yet. I've been trying to figure out how to have

3060
03:59:18,480 --> 03:59:24,080
my monitor scale properly. So I'm just pretty far away from doing anything

3061
03:59:24,080 --> 03:59:27,520
performance reliant on it. I went out to LL.

3062
03:59:27,520 --> 03:59:32,080
I tentatively bought the tax write-off shirt after not being able to handle sensory feel

3063
03:59:32,080 --> 03:59:36,720
of the original American apparel shirts. And it was great. Are all the current shirts the new one?

3064
03:59:38,560 --> 03:59:42,560
No. I believe some of the mysteries in this latest batch

3065
03:59:42,560 --> 03:59:45,760
are some American apparel stuff that we found. Also the the...

3066
03:59:45,760 --> 03:59:49,280
But I think this is the last thing. The white, the pure white shirt is different as well,

3067
03:59:49,280 --> 03:59:54,000
isn't it? It's different, but it's not American apparel. It is one of ours, but the composition is different.

3068
03:59:55,200 --> 03:59:58,000
It is quite different. This is the heads up.

3069
04:00:02,160 --> 04:00:07,200
The reason for that is that making a white shirt

3070
04:00:07,200 --> 04:00:09,600
that is as sheer as our dark shirts...

3071
04:00:12,560 --> 04:00:15,040
Right. Problematic. Right.

3072
04:00:15,680 --> 04:00:18,880
Problematic. Right. Dude, the archive... You know why he pokies, dude?

3073
04:00:19,600 --> 04:00:22,400
Dude, the archive of like products that I've tried on.

3074
04:00:23,200 --> 04:00:26,960
One of these days, we should just release it as a Floatplane exclusive download or something,

3075
04:00:26,960 --> 04:00:30,720
because there is some hilarious stuff that they've had me try on over the years.

3076
04:00:30,720 --> 04:00:36,800
Like there was this one time Bridget had me try on like a ladies like white tank top, essentially.

3077
04:00:36,800 --> 04:00:41,520
And I was like, I don't remember why. There was a reason for it, but it was ridiculous.

3078
04:00:44,240 --> 04:00:50,000
Any scope creep stories. My company got tired of whining about me not being quick enough

3079
04:00:50,000 --> 04:00:55,200
to work on another shop's gear. Now I'm training someone to configure CNC mills

3080
04:00:55,200 --> 04:00:57,600
to pull from a networked FTP server.

3081
04:01:00,240 --> 04:01:03,600
Literally everything. This whole company.

3082
04:01:03,600 --> 04:01:08,800
I think that's the company culture. Yeah. Of just like, oh, more workings for things.

3083
04:01:08,800 --> 04:01:11,600
There's one. Like dude...

3084
04:01:12,400 --> 04:01:17,280
The fact that we did that at all is scope creep. Like that was so incredibly...

3085
04:01:17,280 --> 04:01:20,400
Linus, you do motherboard unboxings. We had no business.

3086
04:01:20,400 --> 04:01:22,720
Now you're holding a screwdriver. Making a screwdriver.

3087
04:01:24,320 --> 04:01:27,520
That's stored in a tech stack along with... Oh dude.

3088
04:01:27,520 --> 04:01:34,320
All those other things. Partnered with Noctua, yeah. The detaching like top on the magnetic parts tray

3089
04:01:34,320 --> 04:01:37,680
on the precision screwdriver set. Like that.

3090
04:01:37,680 --> 04:01:41,120
Like why? Mario in full plane chat said one million sales

3091
04:01:41,120 --> 04:01:43,840
is scope creep. Like honestly, yeah.

3092
04:01:45,760 --> 04:01:49,600
Let's go. Well, that's the that's a hundred cable. Well, yeah, the million one's still boxed.

3093
04:01:49,600 --> 04:01:50,400
Oh, okay, I see.

3094
04:01:52,640 --> 04:01:56,400
You gotta make the point. I'm working on it.

3095
04:01:56,400 --> 04:01:58,560
You gotta seal it. I'm working here.

3096
04:02:05,040 --> 04:02:05,680
Go get there.

3097
04:02:08,800 --> 04:02:12,400
It's decently heavy, hey? Oh, yeah. She's heavy, boys.

3098
04:02:12,400 --> 04:02:15,520
There you go. There's some scope creep right there. A million orders.

3099
04:02:15,520 --> 04:02:20,880
Have you held it? No. Oh, yeah. Well, that is like you would expect it to weigh less.

3100
04:02:20,880 --> 04:02:23,200
Yeah. It's nice. It's pretty nice.

3101
04:02:26,720 --> 04:02:30,000
Question for Luke. I recently got a pair of budgies.

3102
04:02:30,000 --> 04:02:34,160
What? That's not a question. I knew it was coming too.

3103
04:02:34,160 --> 04:02:38,240
I never expected it. I really should by now. I don't expect it every time.

3104
04:02:38,240 --> 04:02:43,600
What qualities would you look for in a good bird vet? And what are some red flags for bad one?

3105
04:02:43,600 --> 04:02:46,960
Concerned that I might have bumblefoot. Any tips?

3106
04:02:49,680 --> 04:02:51,920
Always bumblefoot. I don't know.

3107
04:02:53,680 --> 04:02:56,320
Oh, Luke's about to Google it. Let's go chat GPT vet.

3108
04:02:59,680 --> 04:03:03,920
Oh, wow. Bacterial infection of the foot that can affect birds,

3109
04:03:03,920 --> 04:03:06,560
rodents, and rabbits. We've never had this. I've never ran into that before.

3110
04:03:08,000 --> 04:03:09,360
Man, I don't know.

3111
04:03:11,040 --> 04:03:14,960
The thing that we did was we went to the only actual avian

3112
04:03:14,960 --> 04:03:18,400
specialist in, as far as I know, the province.

3113
04:03:19,280 --> 04:03:22,000
So unless we drove through the mountains for hours,

3114
04:03:22,640 --> 04:03:24,640
there was really no other option.

3115
04:03:25,760 --> 04:03:30,880
Well, technically there is, because there was like exotic

3116
04:03:30,880 --> 04:03:35,920
pet vets, but they wouldn't specialize in birds or avians.

3117
04:03:36,800 --> 04:03:40,080
They would be into basically not cats and dogs,

3118
04:03:41,600 --> 04:03:46,400
although I'm pretty sure they generally take those too. But they would have experience with other ones.

3119
04:03:46,400 --> 04:03:51,360
So we found the only one that really specialized in birds.

3120
04:03:51,360 --> 04:03:56,720
And birds are weird. So I think it's pretty good to find a vet that can specialize

3121
04:03:56,720 --> 04:04:01,760
in birds. That was honestly all we did.

3122
04:04:02,480 --> 04:04:07,520
I mean, outside of that, it's just general stuff for the

3123
04:04:07,520 --> 04:04:11,680
same types of things that you might probe questions for to try to find a good mechanic.

3124
04:04:12,000 --> 04:04:19,680
It's, if there's something that you are absolutely assured in

3125
04:04:19,680 --> 04:04:23,280
your knowledge of, talk to them about it and see, do they try

3126
04:04:23,280 --> 04:04:26,720
to upcharge you on something when they shouldn't, stuff like

3127
04:04:26,720 --> 04:04:32,560
that, I would also think that it would be pretty wise to try to find a vet that you can board your birds at.

3128
04:04:32,560 --> 04:04:38,160
So that if you want to go on vacation or have to leave town

3129
04:04:38,160 --> 04:04:43,840
for a certain period of time because of some form of emergency, there is somewhere that you can leave your

3130
04:04:43,840 --> 04:04:51,600
birds that can actually take care of them properly. Leaving them with a friend is free, which is awesome because

3131
04:04:51,600 --> 04:04:54,080
leaving them with the vet, it can be very expensive.

3132
04:04:55,360 --> 04:05:01,200
But you're kind of, especially with budgies, they're so fragile, they're so prone to death in incredibly easy ways

3133
04:05:01,200 --> 04:05:05,200
that really can't be controlled. That while you're kind of putting a lot on the person

3134
04:05:05,200 --> 04:05:10,080
that you're leaving them with, like, I don't know.

3135
04:05:10,080 --> 04:05:16,880
I've never had an issue with dog sitting, for example. But leaving our birds with somebody just sounds like

3136
04:05:16,880 --> 04:05:23,040
I'm kind of setting them up for failure. Like it's not the birds, which might be true.

3137
04:05:23,040 --> 04:05:28,240
It's more the person, like you're putting a lot on them. Like the chance that you come home to dead birds and then

3138
04:05:28,240 --> 04:05:32,960
they feel horrible for the rest of ever is really high. And that's just a lot to put on someone.

3139
04:05:34,800 --> 04:05:38,880
Hi, my boyfriend has been a longtime fan of LTT and ever

3140
04:05:38,880 --> 04:05:42,400
since he told me that Linus is a Swifty, I've been listening

3141
04:05:42,400 --> 04:05:46,240
to the WAN Show with him. I want to know what Linus' favorite Taylor album is.

3142
04:05:47,040 --> 04:05:52,720
Ooh, man. People are going to hate this, but I don't really listen to albums.

3143
04:05:53,920 --> 04:05:59,040
I mean, I think that's pretty normal these days. I don't know how many Taylor Swift albums I could name.

3144
04:05:59,040 --> 04:06:03,440
Hold on. Hold on. Red. Taylor Swift.

3145
04:06:03,440 --> 04:06:07,280
I believe she has just an eponymous, eponymous, eponymous?

3146
04:06:07,280 --> 04:06:08,560
I think it's eponymous. No idea.

3147
04:06:14,640 --> 04:06:19,920
Not going to look at chat. Dan, how many albums does she have?

3148
04:06:19,920 --> 04:06:26,800
Can you find that out for me? Like how close am I? Do I have like, you know, a solid 40% of the albums?

3149
04:06:26,800 --> 04:06:29,840
You keep responding to things. Oh, they're lighter now.

3150
04:06:29,840 --> 04:06:34,080
Eleven studio albums, five EPs, four live albums, four re-records.

3151
04:06:35,040 --> 04:06:39,920
Um, she's not quite as prolific as King Gizzard in the Lizard Wizard, but she's up there.

3152
04:06:42,800 --> 04:06:48,400
Okay. See that five times. Oh, man. She's not quite as prolific as the King Gizzard in the Lizard Wizard, but she's up there.

3153
04:06:48,400 --> 04:06:51,600
Add an extra thigh in there, but good. It was a solid attempt. Damn it.

3154
04:06:52,800 --> 04:06:55,840
Uh, okay, I give up. The Giz. Oh, crap.

3155
04:06:55,840 --> 04:06:58,160
I missed 1989 and midnight.

3156
04:06:59,200 --> 04:07:02,480
Uh, I would have missed all of them if it helps.

3157
04:07:02,480 --> 04:07:04,880
Oh my God, reputation. I've never even heard of that.

3158
04:07:05,600 --> 04:07:09,120
Um, you don't have one anymore. Eponymous.

3159
04:07:09,120 --> 04:07:12,160
Okay. Speak now. What the hell is speak now?

3160
04:07:13,600 --> 04:07:18,080
Uh, back to December.

3161
04:07:18,080 --> 04:07:22,080
No, no, it's a whole album. Oh, it's a re-record. Is it? Oh, what?

3162
04:07:22,080 --> 04:07:25,520
Speak now was from. Third studio album.

3163
04:07:25,520 --> 04:07:31,120
2010. Wrote the album entirely herself while touring in 2009 and 2010 to reflect her

3164
04:07:31,120 --> 04:07:35,280
transition from adolescence to adulthood. I think Enchanted is good.

3165
04:07:35,280 --> 04:07:39,360
I think. But I don't know, man.

3166
04:07:39,360 --> 04:07:44,080
I, uh, yeah, I don't think I, uh, I don't think I have a favorite album.

3167
04:07:48,640 --> 04:07:52,880
Hmm. Every single one has been number one in the U.S., but Taylor Swift.

3168
04:07:53,600 --> 04:07:57,360
Really? Which was her first album. That's bonkers.

3169
04:07:58,000 --> 04:08:01,360
That's kind of wild. Okay. What was on Taylor Swift?

3170
04:08:03,200 --> 04:08:05,440
Our song. I liked our song. That's good.

3171
04:08:07,520 --> 04:08:09,600
Teardrops on my guitar was huge.

3172
04:08:10,880 --> 04:08:12,400
Man, was that song ever huge?

3173
04:08:16,400 --> 04:08:18,720
And your twinsies. Yep.

3174
04:08:20,240 --> 04:08:23,600
Okay. Five twins. Do you still have thick thighs?

3175
04:08:23,600 --> 04:08:28,960
I think so. I mean, even though I couldn't play badminton, I'd been like on the Stairmaster.

3176
04:08:28,960 --> 04:08:32,400
Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You just, you mentioned you lost weight. Hitting that Stairmaster.

3177
04:08:32,400 --> 04:08:35,280
I'm back up. Just wasn't eating enough.

3178
04:08:36,240 --> 04:08:39,520
Hello, the talent. How it goes. Projoratively.

3179
04:08:39,520 --> 04:08:44,160
Hey. And the talent. Luke, how do you find motivation to do management?

3180
04:08:44,160 --> 04:08:49,840
As a dev, it looks unrewarding. Thanks to your Resolute Commitment to Transparency and Integrity.

3181
04:08:51,200 --> 04:08:55,040
The reward is, um, what is it again?

3182
04:08:55,520 --> 04:09:01,200
Drinking alone and crying.

3183
04:09:05,120 --> 04:09:07,200
I think it's breadth of impact.

3184
04:09:09,680 --> 04:09:12,560
Your, yeah, yeah, that's good.

3185
04:09:13,120 --> 04:09:17,680
It's like teaching. Like you can do so much more by like building a team

3186
04:09:17,680 --> 04:09:21,840
than you can by just doing things yourself. Being helpful and supporting.

3187
04:09:21,840 --> 04:09:25,920
Yeah, if you're going to build a team, you're going to need to manage. Yeah. So like it is what it is.

3188
04:09:25,920 --> 04:09:29,600
Yeah. I don't love that part. Yeah. But I love, like, dude.

3189
04:09:29,600 --> 04:09:31,520
Well, there's parts to love about that part though.

3190
04:09:32,720 --> 04:09:35,920
Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. I think they're like, okay.

3191
04:09:36,640 --> 04:09:39,840
Living vicariously through the personal growth of others

3192
04:09:39,840 --> 04:09:44,640
is like actually super rewarding. That is super cool. We're not living vicariously because that is a negative connotation.

3193
04:09:44,640 --> 04:09:48,240
But like, like- I'm not trying to dissuade people from becoming managers either.

3194
04:09:48,240 --> 04:09:53,280
I just, I think there's, there's a, there's a lot of

3195
04:09:53,280 --> 04:09:57,840
thankless aspects to it. And there's a lot of really junk aspects to it.

3196
04:09:57,840 --> 04:09:58,880
And you end up being,

3197
04:10:01,520 --> 04:10:05,600
uh, I don't know. I don't want to get way too into it.

3198
04:10:05,600 --> 04:10:08,560
But there are absolutely positives. You end up being,

3199
04:10:16,240 --> 04:10:21,280
oh man. How do I say this in a way that I'm not going to piss off some various groups of people?

3200
04:10:24,240 --> 04:10:27,760
The reward is you get a ton of flak. Yeah. I mean, that's part of it.

3201
04:10:29,920 --> 04:10:35,120
What is this? Linus's career as Taylor Swift eras.

3202
04:10:51,120 --> 04:10:55,440
That's amazing. Wait, what? This was from four months ago

3203
04:10:56,560 --> 04:10:59,760
and literally doesn't have a single upvote.

3204
04:10:59,760 --> 04:11:02,960
That's sad because that's an amazing post. This is hilarious.

3205
04:11:04,320 --> 04:11:13,120
Why did, why did dark rainbow? Oh, you know what? I bet dark, I bet dark rainbow is like DR win or whatever.

3206
04:11:13,120 --> 04:11:17,760
This is hilarious. Who knows? But that's, that is a, that is a golden post.

3207
04:11:17,760 --> 04:11:22,400
Sorry. Yeah, carry on. But yeah, you end up dealing with a lot of people's

3208
04:11:25,280 --> 04:11:28,560
personal issues inside and outside of work.

3209
04:11:29,600 --> 04:11:35,920
And that can be really heavy. The lines between work and not work are very blurry.

3210
04:11:35,920 --> 04:11:39,440
Yeah. And that can be really heavy when you're doing that

3211
04:11:39,440 --> 04:11:44,080
for a wide variety of people at the same time. So you're like receiving all of this stuff

3212
04:11:44,080 --> 04:11:47,760
and it is usually negative because life is hard.

3213
04:11:48,560 --> 04:11:53,280
And life is hard for everybody. So it's just, I don't know. And that's, you don't want to not do that

3214
04:11:53,280 --> 04:11:57,440
because you like care about these people. But when you go home at the end of the day, sometimes it's like.

3215
04:11:57,440 --> 04:12:00,720
And if you don't care or you can't care, you're not cut out for it.

3216
04:12:00,720 --> 04:12:05,680
Yeah. Because the only thing that can motivate you to work with the team is if you actually care.

3217
04:12:05,680 --> 04:12:08,960
For sure. Otherwise you'll be a terrible manager and you just shouldn't.

3218
04:12:08,960 --> 04:12:12,400
And sometimes it's honestly, I mean, we're coming back to that rewarding thing, right?

3219
04:12:12,400 --> 04:12:17,920
Sometimes you can help people get through it. And there's only so much you can do about that

3220
04:12:17,920 --> 04:12:23,200
being their like manager at work. But sometimes you can help, you know,

3221
04:12:23,200 --> 04:12:26,320
get people's mind off things or shift people.

3222
04:12:26,320 --> 04:12:31,520
So they're doing a different type of work or something that can like help them in some way.

3223
04:12:31,520 --> 04:12:35,440
Like you're not necessarily going to be the solution, but you might be able to be at least part of it,

3224
04:12:35,440 --> 04:12:38,720
which can be really cool and deeply rewarding.

3225
04:12:38,720 --> 04:12:41,520
But also sometimes it's just really heavy.

3226
04:12:42,240 --> 04:12:46,160
And sometimes there's no real way that you can help

3227
04:12:46,160 --> 04:12:51,600
other than just being in here. Which can suck.

3228
04:12:51,600 --> 04:12:51,840
Yeah.

3229
04:12:54,720 --> 04:12:59,680
But again, is one of those things where like, I wouldn't want people to not do that.

3230
04:12:59,680 --> 04:13:02,880
Like if you're on my team, I want to help you. So it's just, I don't know.

3231
04:13:02,880 --> 04:13:07,600
There's just, there's a lot of downsides that I don't think get a lot of light,

3232
04:13:07,600 --> 04:13:11,440
but it is where it is. It's fine. More for Luke.

3233
04:13:11,440 --> 04:13:16,640
Hi, Luke. I'm an engineer at Cloudflare. What's a product or feature you wish we offer, but don't?

3234
04:13:19,040 --> 04:13:23,760
Go with something really selfish. Discount prices for tech YouTubers.

3235
04:13:24,640 --> 04:13:28,480
That'd be great. They don't main registrar yet. That'd be great. Do they do .ca?

3236
04:13:28,480 --> 04:13:31,680
Yeah, they're domainers or they haven't for a long time. Oh, okay. Ah, yeah.

3237
04:13:31,680 --> 04:13:35,440
Support .ca domains. Okay. Well, that's what I was asking. Genuinely like, don't get.

3238
04:13:35,440 --> 04:13:38,720
Because I know we don't use them. Why you don't, yeah, we do. We do? Yeah.

3239
04:13:38,720 --> 04:13:42,160
Oh, but not for our .ca's. Yeah. Okay. So we can't switch everything over to them.

3240
04:13:42,160 --> 04:13:45,280
Which is like silly and. How about that? Weird.

3241
04:13:45,280 --> 04:13:48,560
How about your domain registrar business like has more domains

3242
04:13:48,560 --> 04:13:50,800
and then we could have all our domains through you. That would be sick.

3243
04:13:51,760 --> 04:13:57,440
Please do that. Hey, can you think of anything else? The tech side of Cloudflare I'm like pretty happy with

3244
04:13:57,440 --> 04:14:00,160
and always have been, which is why I've been using them for so long.

3245
04:14:01,440 --> 04:14:04,640
Something that is like actually a big problem at Cloudflare

3246
04:14:04,640 --> 04:14:09,040
that you probably can't fix because you're an engineer and your side is probably working pretty well

3247
04:14:10,240 --> 04:14:13,840
is that your support is not awesome

3248
04:14:14,960 --> 04:14:19,840
and hasn't been for a long time. And like there's a system that a bunch of companies have

3249
04:14:19,840 --> 04:14:25,760
where you have like the team that's assigned to you, right? And the reason why you get direct emails to a team

3250
04:14:25,760 --> 04:14:28,720
that's assigned to you is because you're supposed to like have those people for a long time.

3251
04:14:29,520 --> 04:14:33,040
But then you're either a quickly growing or quickly declining tech company

3252
04:14:33,040 --> 04:14:36,160
because that seems to be the only status that tech companies are ever in.

3253
04:14:37,200 --> 04:14:41,760
So that team is extremely ephemeral. You'll have it for like six months.

3254
04:14:41,760 --> 04:14:45,920
And then every six months you get an email from somebody you've never heard of before

3255
04:14:45,920 --> 04:14:49,200
saying, oh, hey, we'd love to have an onboarding call

3256
04:14:49,200 --> 04:14:52,400
because you have a new team. Can you please explain what your entire company does

3257
04:14:52,400 --> 04:14:56,160
because we have no idea because apparently we store zero documentation on anything.

3258
04:14:56,160 --> 04:15:00,400
And it's incredibly annoying and honestly just a huge waste of time. Wow, tell us how you really feel, Luke.

3259
04:15:00,400 --> 04:15:03,920
It's very frustrating. And then you had support tickets in

3260
04:15:03,920 --> 04:15:08,000
with the previous team that they were dragging absolute butt on

3261
04:15:08,000 --> 04:15:12,000
for weeks, if not months. And then those just get disappeared

3262
04:15:12,000 --> 04:15:16,240
when the new support team shows up. We literally had an issue with Cloudflare

3263
04:15:16,240 --> 04:15:18,320
that we were trying to resolve for over a year.

3264
04:15:19,280 --> 04:15:22,000
And the last round of trying to resolve it,

3265
04:15:22,560 --> 04:15:26,320
one of the people were like, yeah, never heard of this before, never seen anything on it.

3266
04:15:26,320 --> 04:15:29,520
I'm like, Cool.

3267
04:15:30,720 --> 04:15:33,600
Sick. All right, let's not go too hard at them there.

3268
04:15:34,240 --> 04:15:38,240
The tech is great though. Okay, cool. We have no intention of stopping to use Cloudflare.

3269
04:15:39,440 --> 04:15:42,880
The support team that we have right now does seem pretty okay.

3270
04:15:42,880 --> 04:15:44,560
These are mostly problems of the past.

3271
04:15:47,840 --> 04:15:52,000
It's good. We like your stuff. Keep going. Hi, DLL, quick question to Linus.

3272
04:15:52,000 --> 04:15:54,160
What flower Lego sets are you recommending?

3273
04:15:58,080 --> 04:16:05,680
Like right now? Flower Lego sets, hold on.

3274
04:16:06,400 --> 04:16:11,520
Tax write-off sale, shop all deals. Free shipping on orders over $175.

3275
04:16:11,520 --> 04:16:15,680
Whoa, look at that. There's a free shaft extension with every stubby screwdriver.

3276
04:16:15,680 --> 04:16:19,200
Oh, $10 off the scribe driver

3277
04:16:19,200 --> 04:16:22,880
for the tax write-off sale. That's appropriate. Oh, did you know we've burned through

3278
04:16:22,880 --> 04:16:26,640
like 60,000 shafts already out of our 100,000 shafts?

3279
04:16:26,640 --> 04:16:30,080
That's a lot. It's like me in college. We have sold- Serious question.

3280
04:16:30,080 --> 04:16:32,560
A few scribe drivers. Once you burn through all of them.

3281
04:16:35,040 --> 04:16:35,520
What do you do?

3282
04:16:38,640 --> 04:16:42,000
Offsite laptop bag, $39.99. This is crazy.

3283
04:16:42,000 --> 04:16:44,400
This is a really nice bag, really high quality bag,

3284
04:16:45,600 --> 04:16:48,480
full of lots of great pockets for organizing your gear.

3285
04:16:50,080 --> 04:16:55,600
You cannot fit a submarine inside, but you can fit many things inside.

3286
04:16:55,600 --> 04:16:57,840
Enjoy it. That's a good question.

3287
04:16:58,800 --> 04:17:02,240
I think that there is still some,

3288
04:17:03,040 --> 04:17:07,920
I think the story is still fun, you know, that we developed the product to-

3289
04:17:07,920 --> 04:17:11,920
Oh, no, I think that's fine. But like, do you come up with a die

3290
04:17:11,920 --> 04:17:15,040
or whatever you're going to need to make those specifically

3291
04:17:15,040 --> 04:17:19,920
instead of, because I'm assuming the way that you make them now is just gone the second you're out of those shafts.

3292
04:17:19,920 --> 04:17:22,320
Yeah, yeah. We're out of shafts once we're out of shafts.

3293
04:17:23,840 --> 04:17:27,440
And don't you use like two for every pen or something? No.

3294
04:17:27,440 --> 04:17:30,880
It turns out that, I might have said that at some point, I was wrong about that.

3295
04:17:30,880 --> 04:17:35,520
We use a shaft for the knurling and the top housing is brand new.

3296
04:17:35,520 --> 04:17:40,960
Fresh. Yeah. I think that we actually had this conversation

3297
04:17:40,960 --> 04:17:46,720
in merch meeting this week. They showed me a replicated crappy knurling job

3298
04:17:47,440 --> 04:17:52,160
because they were like, okay, they did the worst they could.

3299
04:17:54,560 --> 04:17:58,560
Is this worst enough? Would we want it to be good

3300
04:17:58,560 --> 04:18:02,560
or would we want it to be like the bad one? And I basically went, okay, well,

3301
04:18:02,560 --> 04:18:07,280
if we continued to manufacture fail pens,

3302
04:18:07,280 --> 04:18:09,920
that was the original code name of the project, fail pen,

3303
04:18:10,880 --> 04:18:14,560
if we were to manufacture fail pens, we would want them to be as close

3304
04:18:14,560 --> 04:18:17,120
to the original as possible. And I don't think I would want to,

3305
04:18:17,680 --> 04:18:21,040
I don't think I would want to differentiate for people whether it's a fail pen

3306
04:18:21,040 --> 04:18:25,440
or a not fail pen. Unless it's just a version two and you call it like the right off or something.

3307
04:18:26,080 --> 04:18:29,200
Yeah, I don't know. That was a name that I saw from somebody

3308
04:18:29,200 --> 04:18:32,400
in Philippine chat like months ago, by the way, that I didn't come to that.

3309
04:18:35,120 --> 04:18:38,480
I think what we would probably do, assuming we are successful enough

3310
04:18:38,480 --> 04:18:43,120
with the product to continue moving through the remaining tens of thousands of shafts,

3311
04:18:43,120 --> 04:18:46,960
because when I say there's that many shafts left, that's like virgin shafts.

3312
04:18:47,520 --> 04:18:51,520
We have manufactured pens as well that also have shafts stop,

3313
04:18:51,520 --> 04:18:56,000
that also have shafts in them. So it's going to be a while before we burn through

3314
04:18:56,000 --> 04:18:59,600
all of our like faulty shafts

3315
04:18:59,600 --> 04:19:01,600
for the original screwdriver production run.

3316
04:19:04,480 --> 04:19:08,080
What to do, what to do? I don't know. Combining the flower set for someone,

3317
04:19:08,080 --> 04:19:12,640
just figure out what their favorite flower is and try to find a set that has that. They have a bunch of sets that we've figured out.

3318
04:19:13,840 --> 04:19:18,000
What do you think is the right thing to do? Should we just make fail pens?

3319
04:19:18,560 --> 04:19:22,720
I think so. Is it still an interesting enough product development story,

3320
04:19:22,720 --> 04:19:27,760
even if you're not actually buying a piece of that? I think it's more interesting to say

3321
04:19:27,760 --> 04:19:31,520
this was so successful that we ran out of the failed material.

3322
04:19:31,520 --> 04:19:34,800
And now we just make it for real. I think that's entirely legit.

3323
04:19:34,800 --> 04:19:37,840
That's what the team wants to do. I think that's entirely legit.

3324
04:19:37,840 --> 04:19:41,440
Okay, I'll think about it some more. It's a cool product.

3325
04:19:41,440 --> 04:19:42,880
You don't have to just not make it.

3326
04:19:44,720 --> 04:19:47,120
It's pretty cool to turn that lemon into a...

3327
04:19:48,400 --> 04:19:52,000
Man, because like let's say an average cell price of,

3328
04:19:52,000 --> 04:19:56,640
I don't know, because we've promoted a couple times. So let's say an average cell price of like 25 bucks

3329
04:19:56,640 --> 04:20:00,400
across its lifetime. If we actually sell through all of them.

3330
04:20:00,400 --> 04:20:04,160
That's a ton. That's like a way.

3331
04:20:08,320 --> 04:20:10,800
Ah. How many shafts was there? 100,000.

3332
04:20:13,520 --> 04:20:17,440
To be clear, we did pay for those shafts and we did pay to...

3333
04:20:17,440 --> 04:20:20,720
And you got to ship them around and you got to re-tool them.

3334
04:20:20,720 --> 04:20:24,800
That ain't all profit. You have to buy the ink cartridge and put it in a package

3335
04:20:24,800 --> 04:20:27,920
and all that jazz. Pay people to do all that stuff.

3336
04:20:27,920 --> 04:20:31,760
But I genuinely deeply think there is no reason to stop making them.

3337
04:20:31,760 --> 04:20:36,800
I don't remember what the loss was. I think it was a $100,000 error.

3338
04:20:38,160 --> 04:20:41,920
Man, that is a... That's pretty dealt with. That is some good lemonade.

3339
04:20:45,120 --> 04:20:49,760
Extremely tasty lemonade. Dude, we're good sometimes. We're like really good at stuff sometimes.

3340
04:20:50,080 --> 04:20:53,200
Yeah. Aviation AJ says, what about the pencil version?

3341
04:20:53,200 --> 04:21:00,480
That's still coming. I'm more leaning to this point that it would be lame

3342
04:21:00,480 --> 04:21:02,160
if that was the reason why you stopped.

3343
04:21:03,520 --> 04:21:06,640
Okay. I think if you were like, you know what, this product has run its course.

3344
04:21:06,640 --> 04:21:09,360
We're not selling like a ton of them anymore, whatever, whatever.

3345
04:21:10,320 --> 04:21:14,320
Okay, we're going to stop making them when we run out of... That's completely fine.

3346
04:21:14,320 --> 04:21:18,240
That's its own reason. But if you're like, oh no, the product story was whatever.

3347
04:21:18,240 --> 04:21:21,120
So we have to stop now. Like that's lame. I think that's lame.

3348
04:21:24,640 --> 04:21:28,800
I think it would be kind of cool if we gave people a chance

3349
04:21:29,360 --> 04:21:32,640
to like get one of those. Like if we kind of warned people

3350
04:21:32,640 --> 04:21:35,920
when we were down to the last couple of thousand. Absolutely. Yeah, why not? Sure.

3351
04:21:35,920 --> 04:21:39,040
But then after that, yeah, we just... Yeah, we make a success pen.

3352
04:21:39,040 --> 04:21:42,720
Yeah, you... Yeah, sure. Stole that from Negaev in the Floatplane chat.

3353
04:21:42,720 --> 04:21:49,440
That's pretty good. I work for large error lines

3354
04:21:49,440 --> 04:21:52,880
and I'm currently in the process of developing a new operation center.

3355
04:21:52,880 --> 04:21:56,160
What challenges is LTT faced in internal communications,

3356
04:21:56,160 --> 04:21:58,720
i.e. email teams, that one random group chat?

3357
04:21:59,360 --> 04:22:02,400
Hots, but I don't know if you guys are ready to talk about our new deployment yet.

3358
04:22:03,120 --> 04:22:08,000
Oh, it's kind of up to Dan, I think. There'll be a Floatplane exclusive coming

3359
04:22:08,000 --> 04:22:11,840
where I kind of gush about the last month of my progress on it.

3360
04:22:11,840 --> 04:22:15,440
Sweet. And I believe the Dan Daly's series will be continuing.

3361
04:22:16,240 --> 04:22:21,760
So we'll be able to follow the internal processes as we develop them forever.

3362
04:22:22,320 --> 04:22:27,680
Nice. Until you get sick of it. Basically, we're working on a new tool

3363
04:22:27,680 --> 04:22:31,440
that is going to help to sync information across all of the

3364
04:22:31,440 --> 04:22:37,360
various tools that we use so that finding that single source of truth

3365
04:22:37,360 --> 04:22:41,520
becomes a little less difficult. One of the ways that, I guess we're talking about a little bit now,

3366
04:22:42,080 --> 04:22:46,560
I won't dive too much into it though. One of the ways that I've really liked that Dan has been bouncing off me

3367
04:22:46,560 --> 04:22:49,760
for this thing for a long time is that he wants to reduce the thinking.

3368
04:22:50,560 --> 04:22:53,920
I hate thinking. Less thinking. I've said it many times

3369
04:22:53,920 --> 04:22:59,200
in executive meetings and Terran lunches, but I hate working and I'm really lazy

3370
04:22:59,200 --> 04:23:03,120
and I wish more people at the company hated working and were really lazy.

3371
04:23:03,680 --> 04:23:08,080
We really kind of go into busy work that isn't fun or productive

3372
04:23:08,080 --> 04:23:11,120
or creatively stimulating. And the less work we do

3373
04:23:11,680 --> 04:23:15,520
from doing that kind of garbage, the more room we have to be creative

3374
04:23:15,520 --> 04:23:18,960
and think and be happy. So if you have to think like,

3375
04:23:18,960 --> 04:23:23,360
how am I supposed to do this thing? Or it comes down to where do I find that information?

3376
04:23:23,360 --> 04:23:27,200
Where do I find that information? Not even that. What is the process for this? What am I supposed to do today?

3377
04:23:27,200 --> 04:23:30,560
What task do I start with? I have 50 tasks.

3378
04:23:30,560 --> 04:23:35,280
Which one do I do? What are my priorities? You get a list where your priority is at the top

3379
04:23:35,280 --> 04:23:36,880
and then you just do that one.

3380
04:23:38,480 --> 04:23:42,980
Yep. Yeah. Yeah, so I guess we'll talk more about it some other time,

3381
04:23:42,980 --> 04:23:45,780
but it's exciting. It's been a lot of work.

3382
04:23:46,340 --> 04:23:49,300
It's going to be a lot more work, but it's exciting.

3383
04:23:51,460 --> 04:23:54,820
I've been really enjoying it. This just seems like a good time to talk about Flowplain.

3384
04:23:54,820 --> 04:23:57,220
Flowplain's cool. Yeah. This was really funny.

3385
04:23:57,860 --> 04:24:00,740
They quote unquote promoted Colton.

3386
04:24:01,460 --> 04:24:06,900
It's epic. He got back from a vacation and they promoted him to receptionist.

3387
04:24:07,780 --> 04:24:11,060
Um, you should watch it. I will.

3388
04:24:11,780 --> 04:24:15,860
Oh no, there was a Flowplain call-up that I think we were supposed to do. Oh, really?

3389
04:24:15,860 --> 04:24:19,460
I always forget. I got swamped and foregored.

3390
04:24:19,460 --> 04:24:23,460
As far as I know, this is actually Dan's fault now. It has always been my fault.

3391
04:24:23,460 --> 04:24:29,220
Where is it? I see it. Should just be above the sponsors. Flowplain this week got two really good videos this week.

3392
04:24:29,220 --> 04:24:32,420
Oh, that's hilarious. So I accidentally did the thing.

3393
04:24:32,420 --> 04:24:36,740
And reminded me of the thing that I forgot to do. I'm supposed to play a timestamp from it.

3394
04:24:36,740 --> 04:24:40,900
Oh, you literally like almost exactly did the talking place.

3395
04:24:42,180 --> 04:24:43,860
That's amazing. Man, I'm good.

3396
04:24:45,620 --> 04:24:49,220
Okay. Here, are we ready? Dan, you ready?

3397
04:24:49,220 --> 04:24:51,460
I think so. That's Linus laptop.

3398
04:24:52,420 --> 04:24:54,420
It is that button. Yep.

3399
04:24:55,620 --> 04:24:59,300
Welcome to Linus Media Group. Have a Linus Day. That's what I'm leaving.

3400
04:25:00,820 --> 04:25:02,340
I'll see you. Bye. Bye.

3401
04:25:04,180 --> 04:25:06,980
Like and subscribe. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Like and subscribe.

3402
04:25:08,500 --> 04:25:11,700
Subscribe to Flowplain. Buy some merch. Oh, there's Jamie.

3403
04:25:11,700 --> 04:25:15,300
Oh, there he is. Jamie also asked. He was at the other building.

3404
04:25:15,300 --> 04:25:19,380
He's like, you going over to, uh, you going over studio? And I was like, why?

3405
04:25:22,180 --> 04:25:26,500
Nice. Sorry, what else are we supposed to say?

3406
04:25:26,500 --> 04:25:29,140
Secondly, you might have seen this Reddit post.

3407
04:25:29,940 --> 04:25:34,660
Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. This says it wasn't only Elijah who was there.

3408
04:25:34,660 --> 04:25:39,620
All employees of LMGFPM CW got an all expense paid trip to Disneyland.

3409
04:25:39,620 --> 04:25:41,780
And Sammy, who wasn't supposed to be working.

3410
04:25:43,380 --> 04:25:45,940
Did you put that in? No.

3411
04:25:49,300 --> 04:25:50,820
Yeah, that I already did as well.

3412
04:25:52,500 --> 04:25:56,100
Vlogged from his perspective and other employees volunteered their time to be in the video.

3413
04:25:56,980 --> 04:26:00,660
Time stamp 2025. That's the face of dedication.

3414
04:26:00,660 --> 04:26:01,620
Say my notes.

3415
04:26:10,500 --> 04:26:14,020
Oh my God, you guys, you can't do that.

3416
04:26:16,420 --> 04:26:19,860
You give all influencers a bad reputation. You do that stuff.

3417
04:26:20,980 --> 04:26:28,100
Okay. Anyway, what else is in here? I ran into Luke multiple times and him looking around for who was yelling his name was funny,

3418
04:26:28,100 --> 04:26:32,820
says Sammy. Did you know it was him? Well, eventually, cause I would find him.

3419
04:26:32,820 --> 04:26:35,220
That's hilarious. I think. I don't know if I always did, but.

3420
04:26:36,260 --> 04:26:42,500
Okay. If you see these videos and you like them, head over to LMGGG slash flow plane or for the lazy,

3421
04:26:42,500 --> 04:26:47,300
a YouTube membership at our LTT member plus tier will get you access to all the same stuff,

3422
04:26:47,300 --> 04:26:50,420
but at a worse price. So you should just use flow plane.

3423
04:26:50,420 --> 04:26:53,620
Yeah. Cool. All right.

3424
04:26:53,620 --> 04:26:56,740
Dan, what else we got? Couple more home stretch.

3425
04:26:58,020 --> 04:27:02,500
Let's see. Spent all day troubleshooting six DCs that were failing to talk.

3426
04:27:02,500 --> 04:27:08,980
Thanks to slight time differences causing caribbonos to SMP failures.

3427
04:27:08,980 --> 04:27:12,420
What annoying thing caused you loads of grief recently?

3428
04:27:13,140 --> 04:27:13,940
My MacBook.

3429
04:27:18,420 --> 04:27:21,460
I've noticed in many, oh yeah, getting rid of that one too.

3430
04:27:21,540 --> 04:27:26,100
Luke and Linus, how do you feel about IPT integrated project teams,

3431
04:27:26,100 --> 04:27:29,140
product teams versus regular functional teams?

3432
04:27:29,140 --> 04:27:31,940
My company just switched to IPTs and I am skeptical.

3433
04:27:34,340 --> 04:27:38,100
What? What is an integrated product team? I'm not even heard of this.

3434
04:27:38,100 --> 04:27:42,020
Dan, if you're curating something, you should probably know what it is.

3435
04:27:42,020 --> 04:27:44,660
Isn't that your job? No. Oh.

3436
04:27:45,300 --> 04:27:49,700
Multi-discinary group of people who are collectively responsible for delivering a

3437
04:27:49,700 --> 04:27:53,060
defined product or process. How is that different from just like a team?

3438
04:27:55,300 --> 04:27:59,700
What was the other one that they said? What was the other thing? Regular functional teams.

3439
04:27:59,700 --> 04:28:04,580
Okay. I think if we don't know, I think it's okay to say we don't know.

3440
04:28:04,580 --> 04:28:07,620
We have no description. I'm just like, what? We have no feelings.

3441
04:28:09,860 --> 04:28:12,180
Okay. They're not all dev, they're a mix.

3442
04:28:14,740 --> 04:28:19,300
But then someone else said it's single skill people. So those are contradictory.

3443
04:28:20,660 --> 04:28:26,260
Okay. As an enterprise storage engineer, is there anything storage technology,

3444
04:28:26,260 --> 04:28:29,940
anything in storage technology development you find exciting?

3445
04:28:29,940 --> 04:28:34,100
I mean, anything distributed is always pretty cool to me. I love resiliency.

3446
04:28:35,380 --> 04:28:42,900
Anything to do with tiering is always super cool to me. Anything like with automated storage tiers.

3447
04:28:42,900 --> 04:28:45,940
Other than that, like, no, I think that's all I'm talking about.

3448
04:28:46,100 --> 04:28:49,700
Storage tiers, other than that, like, no, I think that's all,

3449
04:28:49,700 --> 04:28:53,700
that's all trends that are very much happening with or without my participation.

3450
04:28:53,700 --> 04:28:55,700
But it's cool.

3451
04:28:57,140 --> 04:29:00,340
High speed interconnects. Whoa.

3452
04:29:00,340 --> 04:29:01,460
Unified memory is cool.

3453
04:29:04,340 --> 04:29:09,700
I mean, we have it. Hello, DLL, how do you keep the senior staff motivated and focused on the job,

3454
04:29:09,700 --> 04:29:12,900
especially when they don't agree with the business decisions at hand?

3455
04:29:14,020 --> 04:29:20,020
You have to reach consensus. I mean, at the end of the day, that's always the goal.

3456
04:29:20,020 --> 04:29:26,180
You have to get aligned. And if you can't get aligned, then it probably means that someone isn't being rational.

3457
04:29:26,180 --> 04:29:31,940
And in those cases, what you have to do is you have to rationally agree to compromise.

3458
04:29:31,940 --> 04:29:36,900
Okay, let's try this for a little bit. Let's give it a good, real effort.

3459
04:29:36,900 --> 04:29:41,140
And if it doesn't work, then we all need to rationally be willing to reevaluate.

3460
04:29:41,300 --> 04:29:46,820
You don't have to agree with everything that happens at your company.

3461
04:29:46,820 --> 04:29:50,660
You have to support it. Yeah, you have to do your job.

3462
04:29:51,860 --> 04:29:54,900
And your job isn't always to just agree with everything,

3463
04:29:55,940 --> 04:30:00,900
but your job also isn't to like hard line refuse to do everything all the time.

3464
04:30:00,900 --> 04:30:03,380
There might be situations where that makes sense.

3465
04:30:04,420 --> 04:30:13,940
I'm sure this has happened to people that are in chat right now, where it is morally unacceptable to do a thing that your boss or company asked of you.

3466
04:30:14,980 --> 04:30:26,980
But that's not usually the case. So I think there's this concept where everyone bickering over how to do something

3467
04:30:26,980 --> 04:30:33,300
is almost always worse than trying to come to a relatively quick consensus on something

3468
04:30:33,300 --> 04:30:37,060
and then trying it and actually doing the thing and then evaluating and going from there.

3469
04:30:37,700 --> 04:30:41,220
So sometimes you just got to do stuff.

3470
04:30:41,940 --> 04:30:44,980
And I mean, sometimes like even from a management perspective,

3471
04:30:44,980 --> 04:30:48,500
sometimes when you know something is going to fail, you have to let the person fail because

3472
04:30:50,260 --> 04:30:56,420
as much as you can tell them, it will fail. If they don't experience it, they don't get that learning.

3473
04:30:56,420 --> 04:31:02,980
So it just has to happen anyways. So sometimes you can be like, well, this is going to be a waste of time

3474
04:31:02,980 --> 04:31:07,940
because they're going to fail and it's not going to work. But it's not actually entirely a waste of time.

3475
04:31:07,940 --> 04:31:11,140
It might be a waste of time in regards to your project completion time,

3476
04:31:11,140 --> 04:31:14,580
but it's not a waste of time in regards to that person's professional development,

3477
04:31:14,580 --> 04:31:16,660
which is still valuable, assuming they stay on the team.

3478
04:31:20,500 --> 04:31:26,020
Big D, little owl, medium D. Huge fan of y'all was wondering if perhaps my favorite tech team

3479
04:31:26,020 --> 04:31:29,140
could wish me and my fiance a happy engagement.

3480
04:31:29,140 --> 04:31:34,340
Jerry and Brandy from Justin Texas. Happy engagement, Jeremy and Brandy from Justin Texas.

3481
04:31:36,100 --> 04:31:39,060
Are you anywhere else or Justin Texas?

3482
04:31:40,740 --> 04:31:43,780
He curated it to just make that joke. Did you really?

3483
04:31:43,780 --> 04:31:45,860
I know that that's what he did now.

3484
04:31:47,700 --> 04:31:49,540
Oh, you've ruined their engagement.

3485
04:31:51,620 --> 04:31:55,460
Who curated this? Not me. Not me, Luke.

3486
04:31:55,460 --> 04:31:58,500
So why is this just chaos creating at the end of the show?

3487
04:31:59,380 --> 04:32:02,820
It's that kind of night. I'm not even.

3488
04:32:02,820 --> 04:32:07,220
Do you want me to read it? I feel like you should just read the thing. I feel like you should read it, and then we should just end the show.

3489
04:32:07,220 --> 04:32:10,980
Oh, God, oh, no. I fixed it. Okay, go ahead and read the thing.

3490
04:32:10,980 --> 04:32:14,020
I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. Love your stuff.

3491
04:32:14,020 --> 04:32:17,780
Very well made. What do you think of the current USA administration?

3492
04:32:17,780 --> 04:32:24,740
We'll see you again next week. See you in bad times. See you in bad channel. Bye.

3493
04:32:31,220 --> 04:32:46,740
I'm sorry.