Luke Laugher. All right, guys. Welcome to the WAN
Show. Got another great show for you guys. I'm sure we've done a great show
once before at the very least. Oh, wow. They turned around the screen on the
camera. That's going to be really distracting. That's kind of weird. I don't think I can I don't think I cannot
look at it. Um, hey, one of the uh Hey,
thanks David. What's wrong with looking at it? Well, no. If you look at it, then
you're going to look slightly off. Yeah. It's kind of like if you're having a conversation with someone like this,
like, "Hi, James. How are you today? But it's also kind of weird if you just look
into the lens too much for too long. People get mad at that, too. No, they
yelled at me once on a video. Who gets mad about that? Yeah. Okay. Well, what
happened was I was trying to read the script, and it was the first time that
it wasn't a tech link or a tech wiki, and I actually had to interact with a product I was using. So, I was trying to
read the teleprompter, which is right in front of the lens, and then I was trying to look away sometimes at the thing, and
hold it and present it. Yeah. and I was not skilled enough to go from that back
to my spot on the scrolling text. And so
I kept screwing up. So when the final edit came through and the editor was
done putting it all together, all the takes that worked, every take that
worked was one where I looked right in the lens without blinking. So the final
Hi everyone, I am talking about this product. I am not a robot. I am a whoan.
The final video was super penetrating and like every all the comments were
like, "Man, you need to look away once in a while. Blink once in a while." I
was trying guys. Okay, I can see that. But wow is a more conversational format.
So this is one of those things where uh sorry guys, we will really get to topics
relatively quickly today. But we're sorry we look the show is having a
conversation. Okay, so it's one of those things where it's context dependent. So depending on what type of video it is,
sometimes it's really important to maintain eye contact the whole time.
Like when I was working on the video this week about the red mags, that was
the kind of video where because I am
having a conversation with the person across the table from me who just
happens to be a camera. It's important to maintain eye contact because guys,
we're trying to have a real chat here. We're trying to demystify something,
especially if it's a more sensitive video like after your I what iPhone 10
or something review when you you made a subsequent video that was like, "Look,
we kind of screwed up in these ways. I didn't want the video to come out the
way it did come out and you're having like a frank discussion with the audience. Yes, it's important to
maintain eye contact. It's just it's a matter of respect. Whereas when you are
like when you're like if you can imagine something that was like more of a um
like a narrative type contact content where the characters are interacting
with each other and it's like hi James, it sure is a pleasure to be uh meeting
with you here today. That's right Lionus. I can't wait to have a show
where we actually talk about tech. So, it's all it's all context dependent. So,
we do have a bunch of great topics for you guys today. Uh, Amazon accidentally
sold $13,000 plus camera gear for $100
on Prime Day, which wouldn't be much of a W show topic. there wouldn't be a lot
of discussion there except that I can actually talk about my experience being
on the other end as opposed to the consumer who got a great deal being the
product manager who accidentally priced something for onetenth of what it was
supposed to be. Um so we'll discuss that. Uh we've also got Neurolink, Elon
Musk's brain interface company applying to the FDA for human trials. I already
have mine. He wants to wear that. Um, are you you saying you want me to cover
up my my world's greatest dad shirt?
You've got the world's first and second greatest dad. There are some people in
this office that find that t-shirt offensive.
Like, if you got one for me, too, and we could both wear it. I didn't. It was a
gift. If we were if we were co-world's greatest dad, I might feel slightly less
personally attacked. There's only one greatest one goat. And we're also going
to cover Facebook's finally getting the fine of $5 billion. Well, actually,
they're not, but that's the announced amount. Yeah, it still hasn't gone
through, but 5 billion. See if that number matters. Roll the intro. Roll the
intro.
It's lagging apparently again. I I don't I just don't get it. I We streamed for
half an hour on the test channel. I'll send that off.
Yeah, please do cuz this is getting ridiculous. Um, like we can't be using
this exact computer to stream on the test channel and then have Squarespace.
That doesn't make any sense. Um, for those of you watching on YouTube, we
would strongly recommend heading over to twitch.tv/Linus.
Um, yes, I can. I can do that if I if YouTube can't figure out their live
streaming, then people can go watch on Twitch. The stream's fine over there.
Um, so we're multireaming. We did a half an hourong test on our other channel and
it was fine. So, honestly, I don't know what to tell you guys. We have no idea
what the problem is, but it's clearly not our internet. Uh, clearly not our
rereaming service because that's working to Twitch on this one and to our test
YouTube channel. Um, and so, yeah, we
don't know. We've got the settings identical between them. Um, it's apparently only some people, so there's
people in chat that are saying there's no lag. So, all I can tell you guys is
if you are experiencing lag, twitch.tv/linist. Um, we're also having
some lag issues on Floatplane. Those are unrelated. Those are Floatplane
related. We have to change from uh Nimble video streamer to a different one
because basically there's too many of you now and it's we have to make
something new. So, um, thanks so much
for your support is pretty much what I'm Tell your
friends, but get them to trickle in. Yeah. Um, Luke's gonna have some really
cool Floatplane news next week, but for now, I think the best thing that we can
do is uh jump right into our highlight topic for the week, which is of course
the pricing errors on Amazon's Prime
Day. Now, this isn't something you noticed when you guys were doing your Prime Day stream. No, it wasn't. Um, but
did you did you cover any camera gear? No, we didn't. So, this was posted by RC
Mel, I think is how I pronounce that. I'd like to just the hell just for the
record. Yeah, you have one of the my most hated names on the forum. I do. No,
this this person I was like, it's just my name. I'm doing the W. Why can't you
stop? Why won't you stop attacking me?
You're a You're a bad dad. You have a crap name. You're not a bad dad. You're
just not the world's greatest anymore. I've been doing this for three weeks
now. You hate RC May. I've been doing
the Wand do for like a year and a half or something like that or maybe even two
years and this person posts all the time
and I still have to spell and like look and spell the name. It just makes no
sense in my mind. I can't remember how to spell it ever. So, thanks dude. Maybe
it's RC May HL, you know? Like maybe
we're missing something here. Anyway, do you want to want to run us through what
happened? So on Prime Day, some users, not everybody, but some people saw weird
prices for lots of different camera gear. So, and this is on the same item.
Like two different people would see a different price for the same item. They
all saw the same price, but it wasn't the intended price. Got it. So, it
started out on one item in particular, and then people noticed that it was
actually on lots of different items, and it was always the price of $948,
right? And then uh so there's a forum that a lot of these like deal seekers
use called Slick Deals. Slick Deals has been around forever actually. You can
get Slick Deals over there. The sickest. You know what's funny? I'm going to
totally derail you here cuz I'm rude like that. Um we had thought about
create you know how Linus Tech Tips doesn't have an award program. Like we
don't have like a like a loyalty program. No no no not a rewards program.
We don't have an award program. like when we review something, we won't be
like four and a half stars out of five, recommend to buy and like we don't have
like a little badge designed for that. I I just I don't know. It's always felt
kind of silly to me and we don't do it. But we had considered doing one at one
point just because we had the best possible names for what the awards would
be. So Luke and I were each going to have separate ones and um it was going
to be I can already imagine there was going to be this list. Okay. Lionus's
likes with like a thumbs up like modeled after a Facebook style thing and then
Slick's deals. Oh, that's pretty good. So, we figured like, okay, if we were
going to have an award program, it would have to be cringey like that, but then
we just kind of never got it off the ground. Anyway, carry on. Yes, Slick Deals. It's a website. Yeah, they posted
on the forum there and then it kind of spread and lots of people got in on it.
Apparently, a lot of people made orders and some people's orders have been
fulfilled. So, some people realized that they were getting slick deals and tried
to make the best of it. Like, there was this one guy, he bought like $10,000
worth of stuff for $900 worth of real
money and then uh Wow. some of it got deliver got actually delivered to him.
But what happened was Amazon itself with a completely separate system flagged his
credit card because they thought someone was was using it maliciously like just
you've never bought 10 cameras before. So they shut it down. So only some of
the stuff in his cart. Oh, I think maybe maybe he did one order and then he made
a new cart and then that one would didn't get fulfilled. So he got kind of
stymied for a different reason. But yeah, some people got off with a ton of
sweet gear. So there's things like Sony A6000 kits, uh,
A6500s, 10 to 18 millimeter bundle, um,
a $2,000 Sony A7 body, Sony A9. All this
stuff. Apparently there was like a $13,000 big one of those giant lenses
that people use to zoom in on birds. All of this stuff for like $94.
Holy crap. I mean, to be clear, the the
person talking about the $13,000 lens wrote that um Oh, no. Another member
wrote regarding their Canon EF Oh, no. This is 800 millimeter. Yep. Uh, waiting
for the cancellation, but that's like 99% off. Um, others reported that they
successfully price matched gear at retailers like Best Buy.
So, that is crazy cuz I have seen other times where on like I think it was um
like a Boxing Day thing y where someone had a crazy deal and then the other
local retailers just said, "No, we're not doing it. It's too crazy." They
wouldn't order. They wouldn't match it even though it was their policy. So,
going back to my days uh as a product manager at an online retailer, um one of
my one of my big mistakes um early on in my career as a product
manager was actually on a Mountain Mods case. I remember it pretty well. Um and
I was pretty new to the product management team. I only had basically
the only product lines that I was allowed to handle were the ones that
were not really worth anyone else's time. Like they were either very high
touch um so very very time consuming with a lot of like nitpicky stupid crap
or very low margin or like completely
deadlines that someone else had like just abandoned and just didn't feel like
dealing with anymore. So they just kind of got shed over to me. That's how you
get baptized in fire pretty much. Like I
started out trying to make a name for myself uh with water cooling and like
weird fringe vendors and Mountain Mods
was one of them. So here I'm just going to switch over to my screen here. So
Mountain Mods actually still exists and it's really funny that Case Labs made so
much noise about how their designs got ripped off by Thermaltake because to my
knowledge, now I could be wrong. correct me in the chat, but as far as I know,
Mountain Mods has been around a heck of a lot longer than Case Labs, and they
are the original cube case. I feel like if there's some kind of like tech like
the Force, like Star Wars Force, you can sense all the keyboards around the world
clacking right now to try to investigate this for us. Someone's going to have an
answer. I know, right? So, Mountain Mods, um, it was one of their Ascension
cases, I think. Uh, basically they're like kind of a modular case maker. Um,
and the big problem for them was that their shipping prices into Canada sucked
donkey balls. So any Canadians that wanted to buy a Mountain Mods case
couldn't really get one at a reasonable price because they're already super
expensive because they're uh made in the US still to my knowledge, including the
actual metal fabrication and powder coating. Um, it looks heavy. And they
are heavily um kind of customizable.
They're actually not that heavy. They're aluminum. Um, so they're heavily
customizable. Uh, they're big and they ship preassembled, so they're like
freaking huge. And all the accessories are like super expensive and there's all
these different options. Um, and shipping cross border was a little bit
tougher back then. Man, their site still sucks. Okay, there we go. Okay, so let's
just grab like a YouTube UFO is kind of like their OG case. It's changed a lot
over the years, but I'm willing to bet the pictures on here are from like the
NF Force 2 days. Like, it really wouldn't surprise me. Look how slow this
freaking site is, though. You guys might be love hugging it right now. Um, what
does that mean? Love hugging it. like I bring it up and then everyone like goes
to their site just to like check it out and it's not used to that kind of
traffic because they're this super weird little niche vendor. Um so anyway, yeah,
these are like 360 to $400 cases and as
soon as you start adding some accessories like you know uh a dual
power supply mount or like a fancy grill for your radiator or whatever the case
may be, they get really expensive. And um part of the other problem with them
is that because they're highly customizable. So, when you click on one
of the cases, you'll have all these different options for like different
motherboard trays and uh different drive mounts and all that kind of crazy stuff.
Um, it was a really really ch I'm finally bringing it back. It was a
really challenging line for me to manage because unlike a Corsair case where it's
like this is a 580X. It comes with all
the things a 580X comes with and is compatible with the things a 580X is
compatible with. I had to kind of
pre-make the decision for our customers
what color, what finish of that color,
what mounting options in order to kind
of try to have something that is preconfigured in our warehouse that
makes sense. And if I made a bad gamble,
like if I decided that we wanted UV orange acrylic Windows, then if if we
were stuck with dead stock of that, I had to go rip all those UV orange ones,
order some clear ones, put them on myself. Like, no one was going to help me with this crap because they all
thought it was a total waste of time. Ultimately, carrying Mountain Mods was
actually a total waste of time. We didn't end up making a ton of money on it, but uh you know, we tried. We tried
Mountains and they're they're cool guys. Like just to be clear, um I actually had
Mountain Mods um even after we weren't really buying cases from them anymore. I
had them powder coat my case for my personal rig because I just absolutely
love their powder coat finish. It's just it's fantastic. Was that available to
everybody? You could just send yours in and they would finish it and send it back. I have no idea. They did it for
you. They did it for me though. Nice. Hey, I'm I'm I'm all about I'm all about
working the angles, man. You know that. I was just like, "Hey, so, uh, if I like
disassemble I don't like your cases that much. I like my case, but I really like
your paint finish. Um, can I send it to you?" And they did it for me. It looks
beautiful to this day. I actually still have that case in mothballs. Uh, in case
I ever don't have like a rack mounted gaming machine, I'll probably go back to it. Now, can you speak to the other side
of this issue in terms of when we see this and like the the spin that all
these articles have is that this was a cool freak occurrence where you could
get the stuff super cheap, which is amazing for anyone involved who got to
be there and and got to buy stuff super cheap. And anyone who missed out is
super regretful. But no one talks about the perspective of the retailer who's
like, "Man, we just lost a lot of money." This was a $500 case Canadian
our cost. um cuz the US dollar was actually quite a bit stronger against
the Canadian dollar at that point in time. So, what happened was I wanted to
price it at I think I was even trying to blow them out. Like I was trying to get
rid of them. Um so I had them at I think
$499.99 or something like that. So you're just trying to break even and
liquidate these. I'm just trying to flip them. Um so I accidentally put a decimal
in the wrong place. Now it's funny. We
actually ended up developing a system later on down the line that would
highlight red uh highlight yellow and then highlight red anything that was
marked uh 10 or 20 like some some
percentage. I think it was yellow if it was below cost and then red if it was
significantly below our cost. So if it's abnormal it could fly it. So it'll so
that you'll visually see it on your sheet and you can go do a manual double
check. But that system didn't exist up until that time cuz apparently they
called it the Linus system. Yeah. everyone else who had worked there before that just never made boneheaded
entry errors. Um, but anyway, I accidentally entered uh 49.99.
Mhm. And the system did manage to autocorrect that I had an extra
decadated the extra nine and then it was 50 bucks. And it was 50 bucks for a $500
case. Now there were okay because it was such
a weird niche item like if we had accidentally priced a hard drive or a
CPU or something like that high volume a
high volume item at 10% of the price we
would have noticed immediately because like our servers would have gone down.
Oh no, you know we would have had 10,000 people on the site trying to order that
freaking thing. So, you're saying this was a silent killer and no one noticed
for weeks? No, no, we noticed the next day because every order at NCX at that
time was actually like the the credit card processing was manually reviewed by
a team of people. Um, so they went through, brought it to the CEO instead
of coming and talking to me about it. Thanks, Dr. No, you know who you are. um
brought it straight to the CEO instead of coming and talking to me about it
first and was like, "Hey, what's up with
this? We're losing uh $450 an order on on this item. What is
this? Does this seem like sound business to you?" Oh, man. So,
um I get So, so here's kind of the dark,
you know, the other side of this. So, I get called into the president's office.
I am a very junior product manager at this point. Um, I probably haven't made
$5,000 for the company at this point and
we've got 10 orders. Oh, really? Now, it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have
been because someone actually had seen it the night before and pulled it out of
the sale. Um, and I don't even know if we had 10 units in
stock, but basically it was it was five
grand, which to me to a lot of people I
think is a lot of money, right? $5,000. A lot of money. Sure. Um, and he kind of
he was like, "Sit down." I was like, "Oh, boy." And he goes, "So, here's what
here's the situation. What are we going to do about this?" And I was like, "Why
are you asking me? I don't know. What
are we going to do about this?" And I was like, "I I I'll call them and I'll
I'll explain. I'm sorry. We we can't do that. Our bad." and he's like,
"No, we're gonna honor it. We're gonna
eat it this time, but that's your training budget
for the year. Don't do it again." And I
kind of
went, "So, so even if you didn't have 10
in stock, say you had seven in stock, y you ordered the other three and
fulfilled them because those ones could have been easily cancelled." If I recall
correctly, the ones we didn't have in stock, we canceled the orders, but the
ones that we did have in stock, we ate it. Yeah. So, I think we had close to
however many we sold. Um,
and apparently this gear was being sold and shipped by Amazon. So, actually
would have been Amazon and eating this and an Amazon employee getting the talk
like that you had. So, I guess here is, you know, you'll you'll you'll hear a
lot of people talk about these kinds of pricing errors. um from a very um I
would say selfish perspective, they'll
say, "Well, yeah, maybe you should have made that mistake then." Um to which I
would respond, "Okay." Um what's your job? Are you a uh I don't know, are you
a a construction worker? Are you a a drywaller? Are you a a chef? are you uh
you know whatever whatever it is um if you were to make a mistake that's that
easy to make if you were to put a nail into the wrong spot remember you are
just a cog in the machine I'm not saying that you run the company because in our
case the CEO was in a position to make a decision like let's lose $5,000 today
you know so you're just a cog in the
machine if you were to put a nail in the wrong spot 3 in to the right.
Um, should you just lose
$5,000? I'm talking about the triviality
of the error that was made and the total
consequences. So, you know, on the one hand, yes,
advertising a false price is bad and
actually in many cases illegal. But in
this case, um, I would argue that in some ways the
consumer knowing that that price is obviously not correct and predatorally
ordering something is not in the right
either. Even though their action is completely legal, I would say it is not
really ethical. Sure. But there's yeah everyone knows
that uh you know everyone throws around this term of late latest late stage
capitalism. Capitalism is great. It's the most successful distribution like
wealth distribution system we've ever invented. But there are some dark sides
of it that result in oligopies and and
all sorts of other things and and siloing of wealth and stuff like that.
And I think because those dark sides of capitalism exist when things like this
happen in favor of consumer I'm kind of just like today it worked for me.
Yeah. Do two wrongs make a right? I mean, that becomes, I think, a bigger
debate at a certain point.
Do you think there's anyone who uh benefited from this sale who would go,
"Ah, you know what? Cancel the
order. This I don't deserve this $5,000 camera." Well, I think they would say,
"Yeah, go ahead." Uh, well, okay. I think it takes a particular type of
person to go and like uh again, you
know, when I talk about being predatory, I'm not talking about ordering the $500
camera for $100.
That's maybe believable. You know, you might not even look that closely at it.
You might think it's it's a it's a betock one, the $13,000 lens for $94.
Yeah. or or going and ordering, placing six or seven separate orders, trying to
get as many of them as you can. Like ultimately, that is it's not stealing
because someone is voluntarily giving it to you. But I'm going to go ahead. I'm
going to say something super controversial and I'm going to say by
the same logic, you know, the the settlers here in North America didn't
steal land from the Native Americans then because they in many cases gave it
up voluntarily not realizing or understanding what the deal they were
making was. Like I would make the argument that that retailer or that
provider of product didn't know that that was what was happening and that's
clearly predatory. Well, it's a little different because
this is probably an error. But as a
parent, if you found out that your kid got was one such person that got the
$13,000 lens for it, you would make you
would have to talk to and make them return it. Y interesting. Sucks for your
kids. Is there a line where like, okay,
if they get the $500 one for $100? Yes. That's kind of justifiable. Yeah. To me,
it's believable. If they get one that's like $2,000 for $100, you're making them
return it. But if they get something extreme that you're like, "Okay, don't
tell anybody that's crazy." Like you get you just keep it. Like if they find a
duffel bag of like a billion dollars, several dollar truck, if they find like
a duffel bag of money that's like $3 million in it, you're like, "Okay, just don't tell anybody. Let's just move."
See, that's the thing. Okay, it's still unethical,
but if I found a duffel bag of money on the street, I've actually I've actually
thought about this. I have theory crafted this for myself. If I found a
duffel bag of money on the street, I'm going to use an arbitrary number, but let's say it has $5 million in it. And
I'm talking Canadian rupees, so it's not like, you know what? No, let's say 5
million US. Okay, $5 million US. Now, my
first instinct, wait a second. Yeah. Can we just do then? You have to fence US
dollars to Canadian and stuff. Can we just make it whatever your home currency is? You find a bunch of money. Okay,
fine. You find 5 million US equivalent in your home currency. So for us, that's
about $6.5 million. Okay, we good. Sure.
All right, we can go forward now. So, okay, I find $5 million in a bag. Now,
my first instinct is actually fear. Yeah, sure. Why is this here? Who's
watching it? Um, you know, I I open it because I'm like, you know, let's say I
open it because I'm earnestly trying to return it to the owner, right? And I
open it and I'm like, "Holy crap, it's full of money." Um, there's no
identifying information in it whatsoever. Right. So, you are supposed
to turn it into the police. That's what you're supposed to do. Is that a law? I
believe so. Yes. um you have to give it to them to give whoever lost it some
reasonable amount of time to claim it
and then after that I believe theoretically it's supposed to be
forfeited back to you but I think in the cases of very valuable or very large
sums of cash that might not necessarily be the case um and it might just go to
the crown well you're you can you can be relatively sure that it's laundered
money or dirty money anyway you can be relatively sure of that yes
So with that in mind, even though it's
unethical, I I thought about this actually like on a plane ride. I'm
pretty sure my course of action I was like lying awake one night. I couldn't
sleep and I was like I don't remember why it came up. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The point is I'm
pretty sure this is what I do. I would take it home and I would bury it
somewhere. Just I would just bury it and
I would wait for some very long period of time. If someone came looking for it,
I'd want to have it all because I don't know who's showing up for it. Could be
cops, could be drug dealers, could be human traffickers, no idea. But whoever
they are, I I want some kind of credible
plausible deniability story about how I was I was keeping it safe and trying to
get in touch with whoever owned it. Here you go. Go away. Please never talk to me
again. You probably get beat up, but they might but they might kill me. Yeah.
Okay. Okay. So, after some period of
time, let's say 18 months, 2
years, I'd keep it. I'd keep it. It
would be unethical and I would know it's unethical. But given who the victim was,
we're not talking some random blue collar worker who's just trying to do their job. We're talking probably drug
dealers and human traffickers or whatever. We're talking $5 million in a duffel bag. There's no legitimate reason
for that to exist. Um, given who the victim is.
Yeah, it's good. I don't care. It's a good plan. I like it. I don't know that
I would go to my house first. I might just drive around. I don't know.
Okay. You know what? Actually, that's I'm not going to be like, "Oh, now that
you say that, yes, I did think of that. I actually did I had considered that. I
would I would want to make sure I didn't have a tail." Um but but I would end up
at my house eventually and I would bury it at my house. Would you pick it up
right away or would you just go and sit down at a bench within eyeshot for Oh, I
would pick it up right away. I'd pick it up right away for sure. But then what I
would do is I would pick it up right away and I would wait nearby with it. So
that way if someone were to show up and I'd be like sitting on my phone or
something. If someone were to show up, I'd be like, "Oh yeah, I totally noticed
that this was very weird." And I was looking in the news to see if like who
it might go back to. And I was I was about to call the police. Here you go.
We're super cool, right? Bye. Like I would I would pretend that I was at
least making some kind of naive. Just
Just don't kill me. Playing dumb. Yeah. Just don't kill me. Playing dumb is not
a bad bet.
Well, how did we get on this? If you if you
got one of those cameras, I say keep it. You're a good person. I remember when I
was in in university when terabyte hard drives were first coming out, there was
an error like that. I forget what company it was, but they were going for
like 60 bucks or something like that, which was a steal at the time. And yeah,
I regretted not being able to cash in on it.
Okay, but remember too, that's that's 60
bucks. Like it's somewhat credible. And besides, there's a difference between ordering one and
ordering 20. So actually yeah, one's
smarter. So, pricing errors would happen
fairly often at NCIX. And I can tell you right now, if you're the guy that orders
one, we were far more likely to let it go. And if you were the guy that orders
10, we were far more likely to tell you to go cram it up your butt. You get
nothing. Because the thing that you got to understand is in any case like this,
it's always a judgment call. And they're going to make a decision case by case
basis. How much was this our fault? How
much is our total overall loss? Um, how
much of a complete a-hole is this particular individual being about it?
Like if someone came to us and was like threatening to Am I supposed to drink
out of this? You can if you want. It's yours. Is it good? Well, it's not mine.
Oh, it's it's brand new. Oh, yeah. Right. Uh, we're launching a new one.
There's ice in here, too. Check it out. New water bottle. There's ice in this.
Yeah. They don't come with ice. No, they don't come with ice. They don't come with bath water, either, thankfully. So,
this is the new limited edition. I don't
know. We might make more of them. You never know. But we didn't do that many of them. But this is the Stealth Linus
Tech Tips water bottle. So, gone is the orange logo in is the matte black logo.
Well, it's actually kind of a glossy black, but the whole thing's Oh, this is the design that I was like, "Yeah, do
this one." Yeah. Sweet. So, we decided to do both. Um, but we did the orange
one first, and then we just had them. The orange ones are selling so well that
we were like, "Okay, let's do more orange ones." And what the hey, let's do
a stealth one, too. So, ltstore.com. You guys are going to want
to check that out. It's the same price as the other one. I like stealth. Yeah. And there's a deal. Oh, right. And
there's a deal. Bundle. I forgot about that. Okay. So, this week is the Stealth
bundle. I don't have to actually give them an offer code, do I? Nick, it's
automatically applied. Automatically applied. So, all you got to do is scroll
right past the underwear or don't and buy that, too. Yeah. Or buy
that, too. Um, and go ahead and add to
the cart the stealth hoodie in your size of choice. God damn it. How cute is
Colton, isn't he? The Stealth water bottle, which
we'll have pictures later. Which we'll have pictures shortly, but it looks like this. You guys saw it. And the LTT hat
in black, which I love. And bippity
boppity well bundle. Boom. You get the
hat for free. So there's no indication that this bundle exists until you make
it yourself in your cart. To be here to know about it. You might call it a
stealth bundle.
That's so sweet. But yeah, it's automatically applied to your cart. Yeah. So it'll automatically apply to
your cart. So guys Oh, what the heck?
Dang it. You guys should try to put other things in your cart and see what happens. Oh, you never know. Merch might
just show up at your house. My stupid kids. They play with my They play with
the strings on my hoods. They pull them out. See, even though
it's No, there's a knot in it, so it's not going to come out easily, but they
always screwing around. See, we have preventative measures for this. We
thought of this in the design, but they like your kids foiled you. Work hard at
it. I don't have a red hat. I only have the black one. So, this one's pretty nice. Get it. Anyway, um so yeah, it's
the hoodie that I'm wearing right now, which can be configured with the uh the
strings even, but you know, your mileage may vary on that. So, this one with the
phone pocket and the uh Does that have a water bottle pocket? Does not have a
water bottle. Where the heck's my phone? I don't know where my phone is. I mean,
yeah, you can put water. It does have a water bottle pocket. Yeah. So, it's got the phone pocket. I wouldn't actually
recommend putting a water bottle in it. That'll stretch it. Um this is my
hoodie. Don't screw with my hoodie. So, it's this one.
It's the black on black hat and it's the black on black water bottle. Add all
those to your cart and you will get $20 off which is basically the price of the
hat. And uh so it's kind of like getting a free hat. It's so like unusual that I
love this hat because usually when I try on a hat, for some reason, I don't know
if it's my head shape or whatever, but I get these weird creases like right here and here. These ones, they're just
perfect. Great for covering up your greasy hair, which is uh most of the
week. Not that bad today. Most of the week for me. I'm going I'm going with my hair today. I'm not much of a hat guy
every day, but um I burn in about 8
minutes outside, so I actually do wear it like a When I wear a that hat and a
hoodie, my wife says that I look like I'm from Abbottzford. From Abbottzford?
What does that even mean? As opposed to Vancouver, I guess.
I don't know. Um Nurling. Hey, what's this other shirt you have on? Oh, right.
LTX. Okay. Are we doing sponsor? Let's do SP. You know what? Let's do sponsors
now. LTX 2019, baby. It's going to be
flipping sick. This is my staff shirt.
Woo. I got staff. Really excited. I mean, look, if we're pimping everything,
I might as well just be like, "Yep, we've got the underwear now, too." Yeah.
I actually got our first customer feedback on the underwear already. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. Someone tagged me in a status update on the forum. Protight.
And uh yeah, sure. Yeah, sure, James. Um
yeah, they they messaged me on the forum. They were like, "Wow, I can't believe I got it so fast cuz we launched
it a couple days ago. They got it yesterday." So, they got it basically
immediately. Where were they located? Um they were like, "Yeah, I'm I'm actually
not sure." And I couldn't share that information anyway, but um I guess I
could if it was vague enough. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know where they are in Canada, in the US. No idea. but they
got it already and they're ordering two more two more packs. They're like,
"Yeah, I love it." That's saying a lot. Having nine pairs of underwear, that's
like going to be probably going to be half of this person's whole repertoire
of underwear. Yeah. I mean, if they do weekly laundry, maybe their whole one um
and yeah, they were just like, "Yeah, I ordered one as a test and I'm ordering
two more. They're they're freaking awesome. Love them." And that's saying a lot, especially when you consider that
they're $50 $50 US for three packs or
excuse me, for three pairs. That's not exorbitant.
US dollars. There are lots in speaking in Canadian dollars. Um,
which I feel like buying power-wise is probably the same. Like if you're in the
US and you buy $20 underwear, it probably hurts you the same as $20
underwear in the in Canada. Yeah. Um, if
you find good underwear that's
$22, that's like a good deal. Cuz
there's a lot of boxers that think they should be worth $35. It depends what
you're used to. Cuz if you're like a Lululemon shopper, Booy Yeah. my whole
drawer then before the line of Yeah. $22 underwear probably doesn't shock you.
Whereas the Lululemon ones are $22 or $25. That's why they're so wicked.
And then but if you're a Hannes shopper Yeah. and you buy, you know, a 30 pack
of underwear for 10 bucks at like, you know, Costco or whatever. Look, even the
cheap brands are more. I'm exaggerating. I'm exaggerating. I'm just saying if you
buy like, you know, uh, Acme Acme, you
know, palette of underwear. What are they actually? They're like $6 a pair. I
have no idea. The la I have the last time I bought underwear was my wife buys
my underwear. I don't I don't know how much underwear costs. Uh, all I know is
what I did in terms of like price comparison for these and the material
quality is more comparable to your 25 to $35 per pair underwear and our pricing
is more like uh 15 yeah $16 a pair $165
a pair. So I feel like yes they're expensive but also they're not
unreasonable. And it's part of it is just the brand that we're trying to
build for the merch is like look it's unapologetically not cheap but it's also
not basic. Like it's nice. You'll like it. Um I'm trying. How much does
underwear? I typed in underwear on cost.com and the first thing that comes
up is depends. Your screen's not uh sharing with me for some reason. Oh
wait, you're using your laptop instead of the second stream laptop. I didn't
even know that that laptop that the second stream laptop can share. Oh yeah,
it can. Okay, here we go. $15 for
Champion men's boxer briefs, five pack.
$3 a pair. So, that's really cheap. That's cheap. We are literally five to
six times the price of that. Wow, that train is really loud when the bays open,
isn't it? That is uh that is fantastic.
That's your underwear rolling
out to a mailbox near you. Do people
like the underwear colors? Are there any colors that um people would like to see?
Do we know that yet? I have hit us up in the chat. Yeah, we're waiting to hear
back from people. People are complaining about the lag, guys. We got We got
nothing to do to help you. Twitch.tv/linestech. Our stream is fine.
YouTube is dropping all the frames. We
don't know what to tell you guys. We got to make some pe pink underwear at some
point. We should use holiday underwear, Christmas pattern. That'll be awesome.
The minimum order quantities for underwear are really high. Really? Yeah.
So, doing just like a whole bunch of different patterns and stuff is
maybe not uh on the road map anytime
soon. We got to do Christmas. We'll see how it goes. We'll see how it goes. The
nice thing about Christmas undies is you can if you have leftover product, just
put it in the attic for a year and bring it out next year. Um so guys, few more
things. Um LTX, it is next Saturday and
Sunday. Not this like tomorrow Saturday. Next Saturday and Sunday, there's going
to be 3,000 plus people a day. It's going to be freaking awesome. It's gonna
be insane. Gonna be almost 600 people at the BYOC land. We've got tons of stuff
to do. I'm going to bring up the map for anyone who's not sure if they should
attend or not. So many YouTubers. Here it is. There are so many creators there.
How many? Like 25. LTX, Twitter. There's
a lot. I'm in charge of the main stage. We got panels going all day with all
sorts of different creators. Some you know, some you may not know. And you
want to know attendee info. We Yeah, we we showed it. So, here's our featured
creators. Linus Tech Tips, Austin Evans, Jay's Two Cents, Strange Parts, Hardware
Conucks, Paul's Hardware, Gamers Nexus, Barnacles, Snazzy Q, LowSpec Gamer,
Science Studio, Tech Deals, Level One Text, Oz Hardware, Christopher Ye,
Derbower, Epos Fox, Nerd on a Budget, Abuku, Coalition Gaming, Luna Lyric,
David ML, Pedro from PCMR subreddit of
all things. Vote for Pedro, Stacy Roy, and Steve Aurelian. I think that's
actually exactly 25. Nice. We went all
freaking out. So if you want to meet any of those people or like realistically
most of them Yeah. come to LAX and not even meet but like hang out. Yeah. Two
days. You could probably talk to each of those people for a solid 10 minutes.
Well, I don't want to make commitments on that. Okay. I'm thinking I'm thinking
about pass LTX. Yeah, you can talk to James for 10 minutes if you want. I'm
busy, man. You can come to the main stage area and heckle me. I'll yell at
you. Yeah. No, it's going to be it's going to be great, guys. Uh it's going to be a blast. There's still some
tickets available. Um not many.
Get out here, though. Yeah, you Airbnb at my place. We'll have LT store merch
for sale. Uh 30 exclusive items up for silent auction with proceeds going to
Extra Life. Um Memory Express will be there selling gear on site. So, if you
need a spare part or you want to buy a CPU and delitted in the CPU delitting
booth, uh that'll be sick. VRC cars is going to be sick. Jake's got four cars
up and running. And instead of doing a race, we're actually doing uh more like
a first person um like treasure hunt. So
you have to go around and search for clues. Is this even Is that even known?
I don't think so. Quiet.
Oh, also the main stage schedule will be
here soon. Um and so we'll be sharing that. We're going to play Family Feud.
Yeah, that'll be fun. It's going to be so sweet. Wait, am I allowed to show
this? Oh, yeah. I can just show this. Cool. There you go, guys. Uh, so we're
going to have a bunch of panels. PC dos and don'ts with hardware connects level
one text and Jake. Uh, what the what the
hell is going on? What?
This better be a new merch item. It's not going to work. Uh, oh, he just
nailed the shelf. Uh, can I help you guys? Is this LTX? I thought they were
saying up. Is this to do with LTX? No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come, come
over here. Yeah. I mean, you got you can't have us like react to this and not
show people what's going on. It's B-roll. This is Lionus Media Group. What do you bunny roll? Yeah, bunny roll
indeed. Yeah, it's bunny roll. Show show them your tails. Uh, no. This isn't This
isn't that kind of program. Yeah. Well, Nick makes it Nick is cute. Uh, David's
over there wearing nothing but a trench coat. He's wearing a uh Gabardine, a
flasher flasher coat. exhibitionist. I
don't know what these guys are doing. Colton doesn't even have a tail. That's
weak. Um, uh, you don't sound stoked for Family Feud. That's going to be so
sweet. I have never watched Family Feud and I don't quite know what it is. Okay,
so that What's the survey says? Sure. We
did a survey. Yeah.
Uh, so we're going to have best processor to pick in 2019 with Austin
Evans, J2 Cent, and our very own Anthony. We're going to have running a
YouTube business, the early years. I'll be up there. Strange parts, EPOS, Vox,
um Q&A with LMG, part one creative, and part two business. We'll have different
members of our team chatting. We're going to do PC versus Mac with Luke,
Snazzy Labs, and Gamers Nexus. That'll be fun. Budget versus performance with
Linus Tech Tips, Tech Deals, and Pedro from PCMR. It's going to be freaking
awesome, guys. Don't miss it if you don't absolutely have to. You can catch
the panels, by the way, um if you just tune in on Floatplane. So, we're going
to have those available on Floatplane. Um, also Floatplane pricing for Linus
Tech Tips will be going up soon. We finally got our pricing tiers figured
out. So, it's going to go up to five bucks. However, we are going to
grandfather or grandmother equal quality
grand person. We're going to grandperson in um anyone who is already subscribed.
So, you're going to want to get over there pretty quick. So, should I subscribe now? We've got a number. It's
free forever for me. I don't even have an account. I don't know how staff
accounts work to be honest with you. Um,
yeah. Can we Can we do Oh yeah, actual sponsor stuff. Yeah, actual sponsor
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first purchase. There's another Nintendo Switch. There's another Nintendo Switch,
but also there isn't. It's it's the the the same Nintendo Switch but different.
If you buy a Nintendo Switch to now.
Yes. Or Hold on. Is it now? No, it's in mid August. Mid August. If in mid August
you buy a Nintendo Switch and a past version of you in the present now buys a
Nintendo Switch, you will have bought two different Nintendo Switches.
Yes. Unless you get old stock and the
future you gets old stock and then that's a bummer. So you're in mid August
buying a Nintendo Switch. which happens to have been on the shelf since at least
today that sucks because the new ones are going to have improved battery life
pretty significantly improved. The current ones that are on shelves right
now, they claim battery life of 2 and 12 to 6 and 1/2 hours, which is a big
range, but it goes from pretty decent to
like depending on the game and how hot it is and all sorts of stuff. The new
ones are going to have 4.5 to 9 hours.
So that's like on the low end of the new switches. The lowest end according to
this claim is like in the 66th percentile of the old ones. That's
pretty good. And you're not going to pay anything more for that. That's just going to be the new standard switch. So
the the word on the street, if you hang out on sites that really follow like
silicon news closely, is that this is
because they had to do a like basically
they were just doing a new spin because they needed to move to a new process or
they needed it for the switch light or something like that. Like um and since
they were doing it anyway, they might as well just put it in the fullsize switch
and then they can have better battery life. Like basically it's a power
consumption uh decreasing move that they've done here. It's not a different
battery. Yeah, it's not a different battery. They have altered the power
consumption of the processor in the Nintendo Switch. So they figured, oh what the hey, we're doing it anyway. We
might as well put it in the Switch. Um the product model number doesn't even
change. This will have better battery life even
than the Switch Light. Yeah. Which has better battery life than the old one.
Well, I would think then just for the full because the Switch Light is small.
So, I would think for the full-size Switch, they're just putting the same battery as the original one, and it just
happens to be a bigger one than the light. Yeah. But they would have needed this more power efficient chip in order
to make the Switch Light have a reasonable battery life at all while
also being quite a bit smaller. Right. Um, the rumor at this point is that an
enhanced version of the Switch targeted at avid gamers is also in production,
but Nintendo has not indicated that this is the case as of yet. With that said,
based on this new manufacturing process,
if they were to produce a more powerful chip and target 2.5 to 6.5 hours of
gameplay like the original Switch, maybe they could do a Switch Pro or a Switch
What do you think they would call it? Wow. Are there other uh
Nintendo consoles that have had iterations like that? Pro
monikers. Have they ever done like a DS Pro?
Well, they did lots of different vers Oh, advanced with Game Boy an SP,
but what about on actual consoles like a 64?
Yeah. I mean, they did like a Super Nintendo. That was a long time ago,
though. Super Switch. I I doubt it. Super Nintendo wasn't just an iteration.
That was a whole new Yeah. And but like Nintendo's naming for things is so weird
cuz like one time that they have maintained interconole compatibility was
with the Wii and the Wii U. So what? Switch U. But that was a complete
failure. Yeah, they'll never do that. We don't say that anymore. Um, you know, if
it was anyone else, you know, I'd be like switch GT, like that would be a
more conventional North American thing to do or like a Switch XT, you know,
like put a suffix on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but I can't see Nintendo doing
that. That's just not really They should just put another S. The Switch. The
double S S. Okay. I wouldn't put anything past them. I mean, they named a
console where you grab a thing like this
and wave it around the Wii. Like I It's
I've never heard anyone make that association.
Really? Yeah. You've never heard anyone
make the association between the Wii and a penis? And saying we like together?
No. What? No, I've never heard that. No, no, no. Not Not doing it together. No,
but you were saying I thought you meant we Oh, we like we e. Yeah. Oh, no. I
haven't heard that either. Shut up. Yes, you have. I'm joking. I
don't even believe you right now, man. I'm younger than you. That's I was like
14 when that came out. And at 14, you weren't making pee and wiener jokes. No.
No, you were above that. You heard it here first, guys. James James has
matured as as a human being in a very unusual fashion. Do you see this? He
start You see this? He started out with a ve very highbrow sense of humor and
then he's degraded from there. There are no loud children. I only have the shirt.
Do you think as a company like does Nintendo have to get these old soon to
be inferior switches off the shelves before they can like if you buy one
before the new one comes out is there a period of time where you can exchange it
like honoring the sale price? So, I think the store is just going to end up
eating it and they might send it back to Nintendo and Nintendo might have some
kind of betock way to to dump old inventory out.
Like, I'm I'm sure this it's not I mean, if if there's anything they learned from
the Wii U, it's don't call something something you and how to get rid of dead
stock. So, I'm sure they can figure it out. Okay. But yeah, if I was a retailer
and I ended up taking back a bunch of crappy battery life switches, I would
I'd probably just send them back to Nintendo, be like, "Look, this is your problem. If you want me to keep carrying
your product, I'm not eating these." Um, all right. Neuralink applies to the FDA
for human trials. So, Neurolink, a company set up by Elon Musk to explore
ways to connect the human brain to a computer interface, has applied to US
regulators to start triing its device on humans. Okay, that sounds really
clickbaity. So, Neurolink is a You wrote
it. I copy pasted it. It's a brain machine interface company with the
ultimate eventual goal of making an interface that you can connect
non-intrusively to the brain so we can, you know, have hard drives for for
memory and and and basically keep up
with the just disc keep up with the AI that's
going to make us their pets. So be a
cyborg. But in Elon Musk fashion, he usually shoots for the moon but makes a
monetizable path to get there. Right? So if he wants to go to Mars, he starts
doing uh he makes his own space shuttle and then brings people just to the ISS
and makes money doing that so he can finance the eventual trip to Mars and
research all the technology along the way. So what they're doing with Neurolink is the same thing. They're uh
apparently according to their claims, they've already surpassed the state-of-the-art and they're trying to
make these brain machine interfaces that can help people like with Parkinson's
and other neurological diseases just not have seizures anymore and stuff like
that. And then once they continue to do
that, eventually the technology be good enough that you and I don't need to use
a keyboard and mouse anymore. So they showed off um some of the
aspects of their new tech which is the first device is called the N1 and mostly
the talk was a recruitment talk kind of
it was a conference. Elon wasn't the only one speaking there. It was other people at the team. They showed clips of
different people at the team with footage from their lab. Apparently they
have 100 employees. Really? I thought it was like a team of like the 12 best
experts in the world but there's like 100 people there. Wow. Okay. And it's super cool. So what it is is basically a
small chip like smaller than the size of your pinky fingernail and that goes just
underneath the skull in like a 2 mm wide
incision. It's such a small incision that you don't even need a stitch when
the when it's over. They want the operation to be like getting LASIC eye
surgery. Yeah. Kind of like that. Uh kind of like installing the chip in
Kingsman. Didn't see it. Oh, okay. Yeah.
So I think you'd like it. attached to the chip is a bunch of these like
probes. Um, but they're they're threads,
okay? They're not like like the the stuff that people buy today, which is
super expensive and brutal, would be like a spike that goes into your brain.
And u instead they have these threads. They're actually a tenth of the width of
a human hair. And they go in and each one of them has electrodes in it. And so
it can receive signals from multiple neurons. And then all those threads are
connected to that chip. That chip then communicates wirelessly to a wearable
that you put on your ear, which in turn is connected via Bluetooth to your
smartphone. I must be getting old cuz this makes me
very uncomfortable. Oh, that's so cool. And so you can actually wear more
than one of these. So normally this like the the state of the art that they used
before like that spike, you would just get one and it'd be like super invasive and everything. with these because
they're less invasive. Um they could put they want to aim for about four, but
they could put up to 10 in different brain centers around your head and your
hair can just grow back over them and there's no cords coming from you. So
they're super discreet. Yeah. And the thing that's super cool is
they've made this robot to do the surgery to put it on because those
threads are so fine and small, smaller than a human hair. this robot with this
tiny tiny needle and this machine vision
which can detect where your like brain uh your arteries are and veins in your
brain where the blood is. It can avoid those so it doesn't cause hemorrhaging
and it can it can just insert these threads at different places and there's
like a thousand threads with like 3,000 electrodes each. And it does it like in
an hour. Crazy.
Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm super surprised that they apparently have a product that they
apparently are going to be triing on humans by apparently the end of 2020.
They tested it on a monkey that was able to control a computer with its brain
according to Mr. Musk. That's not farfetched because there's videos of
monkeys controlling computers with their brains like 12 years ago.
Right. But it just means that their system like does something at the very
least. It's not just uh you know a Kickstarter. Yeah. Like here's a here's
a really thin thread. We imagine at some point in the future it'll detect neural
activity, but for now it's just drilled into your brain. I think they have like
the foremost experts. They have a lot of young people. A lot of people that video
look like they're under 30. Interesting.
Speaking of a lot of young people, a lot of young people are uh getting off
Facebook. Okay, last one though because I got to go. Uh this is the last one. Oh
yeah, this is just the topics that we highlighted at the beginning. Oh yeah.
So I wanted to make sure we got through those. We're not doing the Samsung RAM
thing. Um, all right. So, this was posted on the forum by Fluofer. Thanks,
Floofer. Love that name. US regulators have approved a record $5 billion fine
on Facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations related to
allegations that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica and properly obtain
the data of up to 87 million Facebook users. The sum amounts to around a
quarter of the company's yearly profit. Uh the investigation focused on whether
Facebook had violated a 2011 agreement under which it was required to clearly
notify users and gain express consent to
share their data. If confirmed, it would be the largest fine ever levied by the
FTC on a tech company, but it still needs to be finalized by the Justice
Department civil division, and it's unclear how long this may take.
Investors responded positively to the news. Okay, hold on. This is the most interesting part. You'd think that the
news of being like, "Hey, you're going to get fined $5 billion would make your
stock price go down, but actually it made it go up 1.8%." Which totally makes
sense because they knew that this fine was coming down the pike for a long
time. They didn't know how much it was going to be, but Facebook did think that
it was going to be in the neighborhood of 5 billion and Facebook did put
apparently almost enough almost all that aside. So, the reason that the stock
price would go up is because now there's less uncertainty, right?
Uh, we don't know what additional measures and oversight might be placed
on the company or Mark Zuckerberg himself. Um, but I think what everyone
wants to know is where does the money go? Like does everyone who had their
information sold get rec get compensated for it? Apparently in cases like this,
it's the people affected don't get compensated. The agency that does the
investigation isn't even the one who gets the money. Usually it just goes to
the the US Treasury for uh for general
use. So build a wall. It just goes into
the coffers. Yeah. Um Sure. Do you think
that some people think that this is not enough money? It's a slap on the wrist.
It's not enough to make a dent or make them care. It is 20% of a year's
profits. Not gross revenue profits. Yeah. So I actually I have a bit of a
different take on that. Um, I think that a fine of 20% of a company's profit for
the year is much more than a slap on the wrist. I mean, I think it's very easy
for people to say, "Well, Facebook
doesn't care because they're going to make four times that much this year."
But, I mean, if I told you that, you know, you did a really bad thing driving
that far over the speed limit. I I'm finding you a quarter of your salary for
the year. you'd probably be pretty bummed.
Yeah. The other part of it is they have competitors. All of their competitors are, you know, everyone's making as much
as they can and allocating as much as they can to the future to grow more in
the future. So, if you didn't plan for that 20% that inhibits your ability to
grow as much as you wanted to and then gives your competitors a leg up. And the
other thing to remember is that this is just one country that has assessed this
20% of Facebook's global annual profit
fine. There's nothing to say that they
won't get hit by, and you know what,
this Cambridge Analytica one specifically, maybe not, but there's
nothing to say that in the event of some kind of a scandal like this that they
won't get hit then by the EU and then by Canada, then by someone else. And at the
end of the day,
um, you know, yeah, Facebook is going to
continue to make a lot of money, a ton of money, but I I don't personally buy
that 20% of your annual profit is um,
and is like a slap on the wrist. If we
got like, okay, if we got fined 20% of
our annual profit, I can tell you as a
business owner, that would sting. That
would affect our budgeting. That would affect our future plans on our
expansion, our growth. Um, especially because this is sort of a Pandora's box.
Now that I've been fined $5 billion once, I am certainly at that amount 20%
of my profit, I am certainly trying to figure out how to not get hit by that
next year. So if people are saying, "Look, this is not a deterrent." I think
that's hogwash. You think Facebook wants 20% of their profit wiped out every
year? That's not going to help their stock price. I think it's interesting
that g given that it just goes to the US Treasury for general use, it almost
gives the government an incentive to make these fines go through. That's kind
of weird. Yeah, government fines um are a
fascinating thing. I mean, that's another thing, too, is like for me as
Facebook, I have a lot of uncertainty now. It's like on the one hand, yeah,
you guys done goofed, but you know, they've done a lot of other really
stupid stuff over the last couple of years, too. So, I'm kind of sitting there going, "Oh crap, now that the
scent of blood is in the water, what else are they coming after us for?" And what defines me? Like, if I'm a Facebook
investor, this news does not make me want to spend 1.8% more on my Facebook
shares, especially because Facebook is such a
public target. Uh, and then again, like I have to
confess, I haven't been following this that closely. You know, maybe there's
something in this settlement that says the FTC isn't going to go after them for
anything else that like I I don't know exactly.
I don't know. But it's not confidence inspiring for me. And I think it's I
think it's sort of ridiculous to think that Facebook would just shrug this one
off.
I agree. Could be wrong. Super chats. Yeah, super chat. Oh, good reminder.
Thank you, Chris. Nerdy Timber, Jonas Garibbe, Freddy Gary Singh, M. What are
you doing? See you in a week, dude. Is that the the Graler? Yeah. Yeah. Matt
Trinidad Demon, Gary Singh, Rocky
Gregory. Poops too much. It's a shame. Gregory, Ethan, Lucy, William McKay,
Pablo Diaz. Uh, what would you get? A OnePlus 7 Pro or Pixel 3 AXL?
Need a headphone jack? Uh, Pixel 3 XL. Anything else? OnePlus 7 Pro. No, I
think I think I'd get the 7 Pro really.
Well, I mean, it depends if you need a headphone jack. It doesn't have one.
Um, Dane Carter, thanks. LXS, you'll hear about the new
Nintendo Switch. Oh, lol. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, we talked about that later. Uh,
Sauce Boss, thanks. Uh, Tommy Gun, I
demand that you make Channel Super Fun your game stream channel. Maybe you'll
read it this time. Okay, I did. Um, that won't happen, but resurrecting channel
Super Fun is kind of on the table lately, so stay
tuned. Uh, just Mark Gaming, are you not going
to review the Sony Xperia 1? Probably not. Adrien Finnegan, hi
Michael Hanley, sup. Um, Robert, it's RC
Mail. Oh. Oh, this is this is Oh, he's Robert's here. It's RC RC mail. The H is
silent. Swap the L and the E. RC mail.
RC Mail. So like RC guy. That helps me.
Okay, that helps me. RC mail. Robert C. Mail. Midland Productions. I want to
follow up when I asked about the dream studio. I know you have one. I was referring to if you bought land and
built from scratch. Oh, well, if I bought land and built from scratch, that
would be quite a dream cuz I don't know if you've looked at land prices in the Lower Mainland anytime recently, but
it's in the neighborhood of any $9 million for a pitching butt course,
baby. That's the next LT campus. Yeah. Uh 24 acres in South Suri. $9 million.
We all pitch in. We can get it. Send us
super chats, guys. We need your super chats. We'll buy 24 acres. We all pitch
in and putt. That was the joke, Nick. Yeah. Yeah. Non
dad here and I have the best dad jokes. Yeah, I made that. Dro tube. Have you
considered switching to Linux? Um, yes, I've considered it, but I there's a lot
of software I need to use. His name is Dro Tube. Runs on Windows. Uh,
Frederick, would you be open to making more pro content? Uh, probably not that
much. you know, we we love being that sort of, you know, fun window into
really high-end pro cool stuff sometimes, but it's not really our
focus. Um, Eduardo Lionus, it's been a good
run. You're going to get sused. Uh, I
don't know. I know what that is. And you're right. Maybe she's uh maybe she's
personally making sure that our stream doesn't stop buffering. Are we talking
about that Susan or a different Susan? I assume. Yeah. Okay. Uh, okay. Okay, I
got a I can only have time for a couple more.
What if those $5 million was ransom money for some kidnappers? So after you
took it, they never found them and killed the kid. Well, that's why I would check the news because I'm sure that
would show up in the news. See, I've got that covered. Uh you'd be like, "Here's
the $4 million, guys. Save the kid." And like you'd be rushed by like waiting
police if Yeah. Wouldn't you? Uh Drake Simmons says, "Dang it. Now I have to
buy a second water bottle. The stealth one is sweet." It is sweet. I don't
mind, but I am bummed that I already bought the black hat. Can I get a
virtual hug? Yes. Yes. You need two hats, man. You need one that you wear to
the gym and like when you're hay bailing and stuff. And then you need a good
dress hat. Dress hat. Yep. When you get new shoes and stuff like sharp. It's
black. It's sharp. So guys, just a reminder, if you add the Stealth hoodie,
the Stealth version of the LTT water bottle, and the black hat all to your
cart on ltdstore.com, you will get an automatic $20 discount applied, which is
basically like getting a free hat. Yeah. And the only thing that was as popular
as this water bottle so far in the first hour was the first water bottle. The
first water bottle. Okay. People love watering quickly. Are these doing really
well? Yeah. Oh, cool. They're selling well. You should get I mean, we I guess
we knew that like black on black.
can never you can never lose. Thanks for whing with us, guys. All right, so
thanks guys and we will see you again next week. Say oh no, we will see you
again next week at at a different time. Uh it's going to be on Saturday. We're
going to be streaming from LTX.
Yeah, that's going to be one of the panels. All right, see you there, guys.
All right, sorry, James. You can go. Well, maybe I don't want to. Maybe I
want to play some games. I'm done. I got to call my friend.
To protect minors featured on in your content. Some videos on your channel may
have content disabled. What are you guys talking about?
Well, which ones? This is just like a new message in the uh in the creator
studio. I don't know. So weird.