oh i really wish i could tell you guys why i'm late today but it's under
embargo and i can't but it's really cool
um well no but there's always a different
reason and today the reason is actually really cool
yeah we what's that i know yeah yeah
Jake got kicked off hardcore
all right so we've got a great show for you guys today dennis is going to be
sharing with us his experience
doing his very first episode of TechLinked that
someone can someone zoom us in a little bit more we have we're like we're like
swimming in the frame here if you don't mind oh that would be great thank you
yeah i like to get close and intimate you know come on come on over here
see dennis has never dennis has never been on lance i have so have you not for
an entire show are you on the entire show no no i never
actually um also where the devil are my other adapters Jake on my desk you have
one dongle i wonder all right so dennis hosted his very
first episode of tech links today they
requested and it was pretty cringy from
what i saw oh it was nice don't don't bump the table because the
mic is attached to it it was pretty cringy from what i saw
but uh maybe i missed uh some parts of it that were going smoothly that maybe
maybe were great so can you go ahead and
um let me know uh how that was for you
so brandon was shooting it was fine i was
he was okay so hold on brandon don't go away
let dennis finish how did it go dennis in the beginning it was kind of hard to read some some words
like right for pronunciation yeah some words are hard so so
riley has to change the word like what's the word i couldn't pronounce i don't
remember and he just turned to something very simple like just say great okay and
i just use that word or like better something like that he just used some
words he uses too hard for me right and i think it's good it's good you should
watch the video it's coming out very soon i think okay out of 10 brandon
oh i think it's better than okay you did better than my first time on
camera so 6.5 6.5 okay
so today's episode of TechLinked don't miss it six and a half out of ten
quality but fortunate
fortunately we have at least fixed the uh the stream quality of the WAN Show um
some of you are speculating that we might have uh upgraded to a different
camera no all we did was change the uh the video settings to
the same as we used on the lg ultra wide
streamed pc build yesterday and
it looks so good bippity boppity fix oh brandon says we've also fixed some of
the lighting as well so so the reality of it is that the lights in question are
like 60 dollar soft boxes off being brandon
these are nothing fancy right i don't think nothing fancy
and the camera is identical the capture
hardware is identical we've just been doing it that wrong for that long so on
that note uh let's get this WAN Show epic fail party started
you know they can hear you right now right and then can i hear you oh my god
all right so we have got a great show for you guys
today we got a bunch of cool topics apple's new macbook pro throttles so bad
so bad that we had to do a dedicated
live stream today to show how we could get it to throttle from being inside the
packaging to thermal throttled in less than 20 minutes and we probably could
have done it a lot faster if i had any idea what the heck i was doing with a
macbook and if it was already unboxed we could we could have done it in like one
minute um okay so a number of different
publications have talked about this so we'll talk about our results as well as
others in other news the new macbook pro keyboard does apparently have crumb
protection why is crumb protection crumb protection we will go through that in
more detail once we get to that news topic this is the part where we tease
them you know it's like it's like the news segment that's like make sure you
watch the news at 11. you know like oh
uh coffee could give you aids in your mouth more at 11 and you're like no i
need to know now the hook it's a hook yeah it's the hook see dennis has
learned so much about making videos since since he got here like when i
first met him he was like yeah i'm gonna make a video about an interview and i'm
gonna have a picture of hitler in the background lance why did he mention this
every time and i have to explain this every time just forget about that it's
not true it is true it's 100 true when i interviewed dennis
on skype he had a poster of hitler on the wall
behind him see now he's trying to he's trying to run away from the truth but it
was the truth okay it does require a little bit more context well you know
what we're going to talk about that later too um the ryzen 300s or 3000 series
may have more than eight cores this is a
rumor over at uh tech powerup MSI apparently
has dropped some hints and finally yet another CPU rumor Intel chips the new
ones coming may finally on the consumer
side have soldered ihs's maybe Intel has
finally bowed to the pressures it would it be
bowed or bowed look who i'm asking forget it bowed to the pressure probably okay
all right so why don't we jump into our first topic here dennis's hitler poster
oh that okay why did you have a poster of hitler
on the wall behind you so when i interviewed you for a job i did not
i didn't remember that i have that on
on my wall and that is as a reference about something that the
political issue that we had back then in taiwan didn't actually mean about
hillary he said it has some chinese character on that but you just didn't
understand so i misunderstood your hitler poster
it's not i'm like appreciated twitch chat dennis did
nothing wrong oh yeah that
i no i'm not saying dennis did nothing wrong but
and let's get let's get those let's get that chopped out so we can take that out
of context right i'm not saying dennis did nothing wrong
it's just that dennis had a poster of hitler on the wall behind him during a
job interview that was a mistake but the poster didn't
mean it poser was like being like against this guy it's like
no no right but i didn't have a symbol like no
but it didn't have a symbol it has chinese but it has chinese characters
that mean no i wish i have a picture of it but i don't have it it's gone it's already gone i think my
mom took it we should totally do a new shirt oh like a dentist did nothing wrong
shirt with we could just get some sharpie and give you a little uh
muscle actually you know what we're not gonna do that as a general
as a general rule uh Linus tech tips
tries to stay pretty um you know pretty
uh pg friendly you know maybe not even
yeah oh come on how much time have you spent
on youtube people are like i would buy a shirt no
no no no no no no but have they seen my the new shirt
we sell at ltx uh wait is that listed
online yet i don't think so
it's so it's been it's only sale uh we only sold them at otx seriously so we
don't even have it listed online do you have one here should i go grab it you should go grab it
we could totally do a variant of like the dennis shirt
oh man yeah that would be awesome this thing is like it's a it's a it's a it's
a moving meme like once you put it on it's a wearable it's a completely
wearable meme i i actually had no i
honestly i don't know about a lot of the shirt designs that they work on these
days until they show up on the store or
like at a meetup apparently um so there's
there's a couple things in the store here that i'm just gonna i'm gonna pop
up here i actually haven't tested my my screen cap to see if it's working yet oh
it is cool so this one for example the
troll Linus shirt the name is real they were actually
trolling me when they created it uh this one someone showed up at the
meetup wearing this this was an a prime initiative
absolutely horrible it is every bit as
awful in person as it looks online and the way that it's printed is actually
really nice like it looks crisp and then even like everything
under the armpits the whole thing is printed with horrible thumbnail faces
and then of course they created this mess
go ahead yeah stand up
oh my god this was supposed for a b-roll
we we did and i don't know why they took it down
they took it out from the i think it's s age review or something
really they took that out of the video it's very distasteful i i don't
i don't i don't agree with you i think it's fine
like so every time someone brought me one of these at the show i was going out of my
way i know i saw so many you you like drew on my uh my eye and a mustache yeah
so i was defacing all of the dennis shirts whenever i had time like if there
were like 30 people in front of you actually there's a lot of time oh yes
there was one oh was there one where i like didn't i color in your an entire
eye patch on your eyes yes that one took so long but i was like you
know what this is 100 worth it
yeah so this shirt is not available online yet
no not yet oh okay are we gonna put it online
i don't know maybe maybe not maybe i don't know i mean honestly i think it's
kind of fun to have like exclusive merch that's only available at something like
a meetup i don't think that's necessarily a bad thing um actually we should have we even when
was ltx last sunday i mean time's a blur for me
it hasn't we haven't done a WAN Show since ltx last saturday how was it what
did you think oh it was crazy i think i think we have more people this year
right uh oh quite a few more we have uh over
1100 people some just almost 1200 people show up this year it's a lot okay so
most of the people most of the people i met they are not
from canada like most they are mostly from the state australia
uh uk they're from everywhere okay i have a confession yeah hold that thought
that stresses me out a lot so the night before i was actually
having like a panic attack a little bit and honestly like everything was fine i
actually apologized to Colton steph afterward for freaking out but it got to
the point where i actually asked them
um okay how much are we in this for
and they gave me a total number it was more than 10 000 but less than 100
and so i was like and my initial my immediate response was and i've i felt
so bad for saying this i was like okay then so worst case scenario were
out however many thousands of dollars it was and we just refund everyone and they
were like what did you just say
because basically i was so worried about
a few things that i was like i was i i thought i thought we were
going to be tanacon 2.0 and and this was
just me freaking out because and then and then like it didn't even
make me feel better for longer than like two seconds because what i realized
based on how huge the international audience was the last time that a lot of
people were gonna be in this for hundreds or maybe even over a thousand
dollars to come attend so that was actually where the idea came from to
allow decoration of my car oh yeah that's
right this guy this guy right here i ruined your car
actually that was that's for me last on the way like we we drove back from uh
ltx midnight like midnight and we're trying to figure out more things to do
yeah and i thought i didn't know they would do that much though i thought just
like outside and they like throw everything in the in your car so
initially we were thinking spray bombs
and that would have been way worse that would have been a disaster
what i think we should have done was just sharpie markers
no i think what you should have done is just lock your doors and oh no i was okay with them decorating
the inside yeah well so my seat belt doesn't work right now oh oh my god yeah
it was working before but this driver yeah the driver's side doesn't work it's
like jammed or something i actually you need to that's too dangerous to drive
yeah so so and so so anyway um
i was just having this panic attack because i was freaking out anyway i
apologize to them later because honestly the event was a lot of fun and i let you
finish your thought now i'm sorry dennis you forgot i don't remember
i don't okay so there a lot of people fly flying from everywhere and
and there's a even like someone like just arrived from
like from china and bring his luggage and his mom to the event
like with two big logs i have to help them to like store the
luggage so i even think like we might need a locker for them next year wow
that's crazy like 10 12 hours flight
anyway yes no we do not plan to offer refunds because we consider the event a
success now it was fun we actually got a ton of really positive user feedback in
fact um marquez tweeted about how um he
really was wasn't happy with a verge article that was about another youtuber
convention that was poorly organized and a disaster and he kind of goes yo
where's the positive headline for ltx i've heard nothing but positive things
and that's cool because a lot of the time people will say something positive
to your face like if i walk up to someone i'm like hey how are you
enjoying ltx it's like when the waiter comes to your table like if your food
sucks do you ever say yeah this food is trash you're not getting a tip today
like uh some i i just i saw it depends what if
it's just like on the low side of mediocre
if they come along how's everything going with your meal that's a it's okay
yeah it's okay so there that's not that's not useful so so if i so if i
walk up to someone i'm like hey how's the how's ltx and people are like oh
yeah it's good i have no way if they're just like shy
and they think it's good or if they're like
kind of unhappy and they're like oh yeah it's good
because i don't know i'm meeting all these people for the first time i can't really i can't really read them so so
it's way more important to us to hear what other people say now i
actually haven't done it yet i need to set aside an hour for myself and jay
made a video barnacles made a video and steve from
gamersnexus oh yeah he did a really unusual video did you check it out i
haven't seen any of them so i only skimmed a little bit of it so far so i
haven't taken away all of my thoughts from it yet but steve
used the opportunity of coming up here for ltx to enjoy my city my hometown he
went up to the uh to the bike trails up on whistler and he did some downhill
biking i saw that and recorded his thoughts on ltx while just like cruising
down the trails i thought that was really cool and that's a really unusual thing for him to
do and he even said he apologizes for
making the video right in the description yeah because he just wasn't
sure if people were gonna like it um i saw that but
here let's check this out reviewing Linus tech tips ltx while downhill
biking at whistler uh here what's he say
um we'll be posting more serious content from the event later including an
interview oh no i think he took down the apology oh
no there it is no it was a comment he pinned his own comment hey all obviously
not normal content for us we've had non-stop travel for a few months we hope
you'll excuse this one-off different content piece for now
i thought it was i thought it was really cool to see people come up here
experience something different engage with the community and do something
different not just make normal convention content because we're not
trying to be computex or c yes
it's supposed to be it's supposed to fill a gap and honestly this year even
though our attendance only went from about 800 to about 1200 so it's like a
50 uptick which is a success yeah um but
it's still not huge it's not like we're packs all of a sudden
i think the difference in creator attendance
is what is the difference between ltx 2017 being like a Linus tech tips fan
meetup and ltx 2018 being a more
impactful industry event the fact that you've got guys like jay and steve and
louis rossman was there for a little while and barnacules showing up and
having a good time uh barnacles emailed me after the fact and said that he had a
really hard time making a vlog there yeah and the reason was that he was
spending so much of his time interacting with fans i know yeah and
all three um steve i haven't actually talked to louis yet but uh steve
barnacules and um and jay all talked to
me and said they were surprised at how many people there were fans of
their channels because they kind of came into it like they came into it to
support us like we asked them really nicely to come they weren't paid to
attend or anything the most the most we were able to offer was like look ltx is
not a super profitable event and it's still not but we'd love to pay for your
hotel and your flight um if you if you can come up and be part of this
for us and uh not just for us for the community
and they decided to do it and they came up and they were like yeah i was
surprised at how many people here were here for me
and i was like that is so cool um so so that's where ltx turns a
corner and becomes not just about us but also about
other people and other creators that can be there there was one other one that i
was really hoping would be there but he got pulled aside for for a separate
thing anyway all three of them have expressed interest i'm not going to
commit anything on their behalf but all three of them have expressed interest in
coming back coming back next year which is super amazing and cool because
vancouver has like nothing for tech events we've got like siggraph
which is i don't really know very like animation industry like computer design
industry like it's not it's not consumer yeah so
i'm excited i'm really looking forward to next year already
me too but then the night before i'm probably going to be like yeah i don't
everything is a decision it will be fine
i know you know people are making so much effort to this and
i know you stress out but maybe do your car again like buy a new car and let's
do that again or you know what fire helicopter or
something i do i do have to say though
i i think an event really needs
something impactful something truly memorable something
really different ltx 2017 had the first first ever
threadripper running we had someone game on threadripper for the first time there
that was really cool okay ltx 2018 had
the car yeah nobody who tagged that car is ever gonna
forget that yeah so even though my car is destroyed
100 worth it i would destroy my car for the community
mind you my car is only worth a couple hundred dollars literally asked how much
when i went to buy my minivan that was a trade-in they were they
offered like two or three hundred dollars or something which is basically what you can get from
like a recycler yeah and i was like
i wouldn't take it if you want to get it for free really
it runs first that's a standard card
oh don't no don't hate on standards standard is good stuff no the the
windshield's like broken and leaking and all that well it doesn't leak anymore
really did you fix it my mechanic traced the
yeah i think here i think you're being a hater
um oh och attack asks when can we expect more creators on Floatplane so luke's
not here today as you guys may or may not have noticed because he is working
on some Floatplane stuff that's super important we've got some payments and
reporting stuff that we've really got to get sorted out before we can move
forward with some of the bigger plans and that's why it actually means a lot
to us that kyle and tech deals are over
there and kind of helping us ride out these bugs now there there are they are
getting paid they have people subscribing to them and like things are
working but we're not ready to take on
like you know a huge creator like if pewdiepie came to us tomorrow and was
like i want in on this Floatplane thing i
would have to turn him away i'd have to i'd have no choice just because we're
not ready yet the actual cdn
architecture is really good and that's what we've spent a lot of our time on so
you don't get to see a lot of a lot of the actual engineering that has
gone on to make it really strong and sustainable
we could scale it up actually very quickly but some of the other stuff the
reporting the payments need some tweaking we actually had an issue where
some people were some people were having payment issues
and their support tickets were going to spam and they weren't ending up in our
in our management system and so i i had to send us some very apologetic emails i
felt really really bad about that but um like we're that's why we don't want a
million users overnight um all right so
did we do like a news topic or something i guess yeah yeah yeah i mean you know
it's pretty flexible like we don't have to does it matter maybe why don't we
just talk about something because i i don't really know any of
this you want me to talk about something you can do okay
um okay hold on um um
oh that flip phone wait wake up flip phone no no no no no okay that's the
about same song you're drunk you're drunk
ah wow okay oh man
okay you know what we're gonna do this topic anyway the original article is
from techcrunch uh let's go ahead and pop Linus's screen up here disney
streaming services resurrecting the clone wars and i was like oh yeah i'll
get dennis to do this everyone knows star wars oh god star wars again we just
talk about him tiggling star wars is culturally relevant i don't watch star
wars why because i just don't like fake stuff like
efficient i mean like you don't like what efficient fishing fiction fiction
you don't like fiction i don't and i don't like
long movies either yeah that's like three hours long right two three hours
well this is a tv show but oh such a star wars some of the star wars movies
are on the long side so what movies do you like i like
actually um i like tv showing i like the office you like
the office oh it's this is the best okay so star wars is nothing like the office
no no no no no you can't beat the author do you like superhero movies
i watched and last week yeah it's it's
cool okay i mean i'm not like a big fan of
heroes you're not a big fan of heroes okay uh so you don't like heroes okay
you don't like it it was fun to watch okay so you like
kind of an irreverent sort of um dark
humor yes okay
yeah okay star wars doesn't have a lot of that yeah also i don't like low up
ring you don't like lord of the rings um you know what i'm not even gonna give
you too hard of a time for that i mean
okay are you talking lord of the rings trilogy or like the
hobbit i don't know what you're talking about it's that movie
i don't know what you're talking about the movies the movies they're both
movies oh okay i don't know just how about both
i watched you know what i fell asleep i just you fell asleep
during which one you don't even know oh i don't know okay were there hobbits
i'm just kidding that's not helpful they're on all of them
i don't know uh would you like do you like monty python
what is that you don't know monty python you know
what i'm gonna give you some i'm gonna give you some some tv homework okay okay
cause i wanna understand what makes you tick are you familiar with life's too
short i think okay i think i've been trapped
with the office for too long because i've been watching that show like for almost two years i just rewatching
re-watching and i'm just a digger to it
really so i just can't get out of it okay i need to try to okay something new
i'm gonna get you something new and uh you will like it
okay if you like the i like that kind of humor okay do you like the american
office or the british american american i don't get british humor okay
oh oh you gotta oh okay no i don't
okay okay uh
do you have a hard time understanding the accent oh yes that too oh crap yeah
i i yeah i have i can only honestly american you
only understand americans well then it's it's a wonder that you managed to hang
around with me because i don't speak american canadian i know what you same thing i
know i mean the accents all this i truly i can't tell you is this a shot at me
for saying that taiwanese and chinese same thing because
you kind of owed me one like in fairness to you you owed me one accident i can't
tell seriously i cannot tell your accent or someone from
you can't tell like me or john i can tell that okay but that's very no no
because west coast like pacific west coast
or pacific northwest especially sorry not pacific west coast it's all pacific
if it's west coast uh pacific northwest like anyone from
oregon through to washington up like through bc like along the west coast we
all sound the same okay yeah but can you tell though um no oh okay oh no like i
could meet someone from from washington state or from oregon i'd have no idea
that they're all really canadian no i wouldn't know okay whereas like eastern
canadian or like southern us eastern u.s
there you can pick it up like pretty how about toronto uh toronto i don't notice
much no not really like like the the metropolitan area is not not too much
okay um all right so let's go ahead and
talk about this clone wars thing so this is it's unfortunate luke's not here
on the show today because he will either be amped about this or he won't because
i know that he really liked the original series and was super mad at sort of what
disney's been doing with some aspects of animated star wars so
it ran on cartoon network for five seasons is coming back it was the adventures of anakin and obi-wan as well
as some new characters during the clone war
fans praised its ability to showcase a wide range of stories characters and
even genres and it was cancelled after disney's acquisition of lucasfilm with a
final batch of episodes known as the lost missions airing on netflix
uh characters and story elements were subsequently incorporated into the
animated series star wars rebels which is more kitty and even into the latest
film solo okay fortunately that's not a spo i still haven't seen solo
fortunately that's not a spoiler for me though because i
never watched the clone wars so yesterday they announced that clone wars
will return for 12 more episodes and it will air on disney's upcoming streaming
service and they appear to be the end of the clone wars story so all they're doing is
kind of closing it out and they are treating this as a way to
get people onto their streaming service as a general consumer and not
necessarily the techiest person of all time
how do you feel about the concept of having to subscribe to multiple
streaming services to access different shows so you know how gaming used to all
be on steam oh yeah yeah yeah and then all of a sudden we had ea origin oh i
actually don't like it and then we had ubisoft's uplay and now we've got epic
games launched i know i know yeah
i like to keep it simple so
would you
simply issue a new streaming service
in favor of simplicity and just go no i'm only going to subscribe to one thing
if you want me to watch it that bad make sure it's on let's say netflix for
example yeah like that's the yeah yeah yeah like
if there's another service like like netflix
i would it's like mindy project the second season so that i think i don't
remember it was on hulu before yeah only on hulu yeah so so you just i wouldn't
pay to what i was only on netflix i'm not gonna pay for that but
it still depends on how much you love the show though if the office is like gone on netflix i
will subscribe to hulu would you unsubscribe from netflix
is the anchor show the most important thing to you this is
ooh this is interesting okay
i don't know ah if that if that platform has like really
other good shows as well i would answer
uh netflix really then i will follow that one okay
interesting so uh oh yeah Jake's gonna have to come
get it come get that you can get it uh all right so anyway disney
man it's probably gonna be successful but i'm i'm really frustrated because
part of the entire beauty of cable cutting was that you could get rid of
that you know at least here anyway you know 70 to over a hundred dollars
monthly fee that you were paying and you could replace it entirely with your
internet plus maybe like if you get a basic netflix subscription i think it's
what like 7.99 if you don't get uh 4k
nine nine 9.99 i don't know anymore i've got the i've got the 4k one which i
think is 13. oh yeah i don't know i don't even have 4k tv yeah so um
what what's up ed you're a bit out of focus i'm oh i'm
leaning back that's the problem i can i can stop doing that i'm sorry um
so that was the beauty of it was that you could get all of your content and
your internet for for one low price instead of having to get internet and
content but now with more and more content providers
working on building streaming platforms there's nothing we're going to be able
to do if we want to have access to an
all-you-can-eat style of content consumption there's nothing we're going
to be able to do to avoid the rates starting to creep up
like all of a sudden you're going to be subscribed to netflix and hulu and
disney and you know comcast uh what's um
what's that thing that the vessel team left and went to i mean for that matter
Floatplane you might subscribe to individual creators
uh what's that creative tv no not crave that's a local thing i think um
oh i can't i can't remember it was like something that i couldn't figure out why
anyone would care about um verizon's uh streaming service
uh well there's so many blah blah blah blah blah blah i think hulu doesn't work
in canada that's and oh yeah i did look at that apparently
they killed it in may oh the verizon tv streaming service is
probably oh wow oh wow these articles are brutal
holy crap here hold on i'll screen share with you guys so you can read along with
me here so this one is probably not going to happen this one's not too bad verizon is
finally putting its terrible streaming service out to pasture says bgr.com no
one even seems to know what it was go 90 go 90.
it made multi-billion dollar takeovers of aol and yahoo brands known for
providing email scams to seniors and leaking billions of customer accounts wow this is a very this is a very uh
colored account of things and now go 90
it's public and very expensive millennial friendly online streaming
service i think
the key to creating something that doesn't appeal to millennials is
trying to target millennials
like what does that even mean what is a millennial-oriented streaming service
you're technically a millennial what's that word
okay so millennials i forget what exactly the
millennial age here so it's a it's a generation so anyone born between 1981
and 1996. yeah i am yep so i'm at the
outer i'm at the older end and you're i absolutely i'm still you're solidly in
there so what would what would appeal to you as a millennial
what would appeal to me like like what exactly exactly
um money money oh forget it
i don't uh i don't know you're a marketing
executive okay you have to market to millennials
like something like
fun like um
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guys do it to do our website yeah uh
linusmediagroup.com because it's very out of date at this point it's like yeah
like we should need to change my description too i know we should just do it over wait what's wrong with your
description i i think they put i don't remember
something not cool not cool that's probably cool
our team hold on a second yeah that's really old dennis yeah it looks really
really old we've got to update this his original placeholder bio said a guy
we knew from sometimes he knows how to make videos
but Linus is rewriting it now so
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in edsel's defense what he wrote originally wasn't actually that racist
and was mostly factual so this is ed writing something i think i saw me
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which i actually hadn't seen um
yeah i think i saw it did he actually have something that could have been perceived as being racist in there
before oh i don't remember
maybe it's best we not dig up these relics from our history
no ah but we do need to update that oh this
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topics now i feel like we haven't actually had a lot of the news so why
don't we get on that uh apple's new macbook pro thermal throttle is pretty
friggin hard so the original article here is from nine to five mac i can't
remember if these guys were one of the ones that unfairly slammed me over the
imac pro thing and now feels bad but hasn't said anything
actually were these guys the ones that claimed in their article that they
reached out to me but actually i never heard from them
that would be interesting maybe i don't want to promote these guys
nine to five mac imac Linus let's see
uh story of resentment ill-informed
youtuber oh no that's apple insider hold on a second
imac Linus uh broken
let's see apple insider mac rumors
okay no okay i don't i don't actually i don't actually see anything on nine to
five mac okay cool nice guys nine to five mac
um here's how it throttles with final cut pro x exports yeah so we actually
did a stream of that today from my office where after uh seeing
dave lee's video i was like okay well let's see how long it'll take us from
packaged to thermal throttling
with the macbook pro with the 2018 macbook pro we got the core i9 version
so that's like a 7 000 notebook that
thermal throttles if you hit it with a really intense load
basically immediately and then if you hit it with a less
intense load after like a couple minutes
it's pretty brutal and it's something that i'm
starting to not like wonder if apple is doing on purpose but it's something that
i'm starting to get really frustrated that apple is doing on purpose so the
original macbook you guys may or may not remember this but we did a video where
we water cooled it that was a passively cooled machine if i recall correctly
it's been a while um but we water cooled it by basically taking the entire
machine putting some like putty in the screw holes and then like putting it in
a tray of water that wasn't so deep that it would come up and go into the ports
or into the keyboard and we were able to get something to the tune of nearly
double the performance out of it but that was supposed to be a thin and light
it was supposed to be a computer with
unprecedented um like unprecedented
like portability that was that was the whole point of it um
and so this is a pretty different type so so basically we accepted it
but now they're doing this with
professional machines like the imac pro that thermal throttles like crazy and we
opened it up we saw the thermal solution it was very
clearly not going to handle
a vega graphics card and you know up to an 18 core processor
apple ships that thing with up to an 18 core processor
um and then now this macbook pro where they went and without making significant
changes to the thermal solution which already had a hard time with the core i7
that was in it before then when they put two more computing cores in it they when
they put a core i9 in it so your performance actually isn't any
better but apple's charging you more for it and on paper it seems to be faster so
it's gotten to the point now where it looks
not like bad design but it looks like intentional deception
like if you bought a car okay that was
600 horsepower instead of 400 horsepower
yes horsepower is not the be-all and end-all of carb speed we know
but if you bought a car that was 600 instead of 400 horsepower but there was
some other component inside it that limited it so that both of them
delivered 350. how mad would you be if
you paid for the extra package and why did they sell me that why do we accept
this from apple i like you make it like easier for me to understand what you're
trying to say yeah now i get it because i
i couldn't contribute anything you need to do that i mean ours was throttling
well under its base clock even just doing things like exporting in final cut
very frustrating
so i don't know i just uh it so they have something to limit their
something well the problem is that if you hit it with a really hard load the CPU reaches 100 degrees basically
instantly oh and so it'll it'll turn itself down to protect itself
that's that's a safety mechanism that Intel has built into the chip because
otherwise i mean if you just let it get as hot as it wants you could you could
cook on it and it would it would burn itself out very quickly
oh people are like Linus you aren't supposed to encode on a laptop uh
why is dance wearing two glasses i'm also wearing two shirts
yeah yeah it's really hot that's fine okay this is actually how i wear my
sunglasses oh really i just put them over really i
i lost my uh the one with chris prescription
what's wrong with and you can't really tell if this is yes you can you can yes
sunglasses you can tell it's only the same shape
i seriously though i do that every day
and no one look at me like weird ever i
maybe you just can't tell the difference between how they normally look at you and how they look at you when you're
wearing two pairs of sunglasses excuse me like maybe the shirt was already
enough that they were going to be looking at you whatever way they oh yeah fine fine
oh man okay uh in other news um
in an internal document distributed to apple authorized service providers apple
has confirmed the third generation keyboard on the 2018 macbook pro is
equipped with a membrane to quote prevent debris from entering the
butterfly mechanism so publicly apple has only said that it
features an improved third generation keyboard for quieter typing
but some people suspected that the silicon membrane was actually to prevent crumbs
from getting into it and ruining it this is another thing that's very frustrating
about apple that they can't just communicate openly with their audience
like we make mistakes and most of the time
people are actually pretty cool like if you're like hey we screwed up
sorry people will be like
cool just please don't do that again maybe the idea is that apple doesn't
want to have that conversation because if people say don't do that
again and they're already like the the and the channels of communication are
open then they have to commit not to do it again and they don't want to
is that is that the issue here probably i don't know
very frustrating uh in other news ryzen 3000 series might
have more than eight cores so i guess this wouldn't be that
huge of a surprise i mean a big key of the design of AMD's zen
architecture their ryzen processors was the modular design that allows them to
kind of to use Intel's terminology just glue
processors together so if they wanted to have uh if they wanted to take
threadripper let's say from 16 cores last generation to up to 32 cores this
generation all they'd have to do is glue together some ccx modules so MSI has
dropped a hint that AMD might be countering Intel's rumored
eight core 1151 processor
with a 12 core processor
so mainstream mainstream computers are all
of a sudden like heavily heavily multi-core or at least
if these rumors are true that will be true in the near future i'm personally
excited to see the next couple of years as these trickle down to the actual
mainstream and we get to start experiencing programs that were built
from the ground up for a very multi-threaded world
what else is cool um
wd's shutting down one of their hard drive factories now to be clear it's not
like they're it's not like this is their only factory and it's not like hard drives are going i think this is the one
in malaysia yeah that's in techwing so they're just uh they're just shutting
down some of their hard drive manufacturing i mean hard drives are becoming less of a
consumer product and they're becoming more of an enterprise product that's
just the transition that's happening or or prosumer like we still have more hard
drives in the building than we do ssds fun fact do you know that i don't know
but the reason you don't know that is that none of them are in your computer
oh yeah your laptop runs an SSD your desktop runs an SSD i don't even have a
hard drive but we could never run anywhere near the kind of operation that
we do if we didn't have some hard drives because the cost
to capacity ratio for hard drives is still much better than solid-state
drives so if you have any kind of bulk data needs you're going to need hard
drives for a long time a corning
oh corning announced gorilla glass 6. yes that's what you need mine is that's
fun that's why you need look look why you need it you know what's funny is
i've actually broken very few screens in my day
but i finally broke my iphone 6 like two nights ago oh wow yeah i was i was
listening to something in the bathroom
and um i like was grabbing a towel or
something and i kind of dropped it a bit and then when i went to catch it i ended
up like pushing it with the towel or something instead of actually catching it i thought you could and i effectively
threw it at the floor like it was it was propelled towards the
floor face down boom screen cracked it's funny last i dropped my phone so
many times this is essay it's got a grip on it though
oh something i didn't have it oh yeah i guess you didn't okay so
like not even a scratch i don't have any protection
like it's just so strong i don't know why
so gorilla glass 6 will apparently survive up to 15 drops from one meter
height and can be up to two times better than gorilla glass 5. now with that said
gorilla glass 5 wasn't known for being the most impact resistant one or wasn't
no that one wasn't very scratch resistant it was impact resistant so it
should survive drops from higher heights but more importantly has been engineered
to survive multiple drops and it should have the same amount of scratch
resistance as previous generations it's in production now and is available to
smartphone makers so it's expected to reach the market in the next several
months oh how much would i love it if the rumored upcoming note device
had gorilla glass 6. that would be super exciting
um
all right i think that's pretty much it everything else in here walmart might
launch a video streaming service oh oh boy more video streaming services
they're thinking of a service priced below eight dollars a month um because
netflix has been steadily raising their prices which are now between 8 and 14
amazon charges 9. they may also consider a no-cost ad
supported service they already own voodoo i did not know
that a service for buying and renting movies and voodoo launched its own ad supported
streaming service movies on us a few years ago which i have never heard of
which should be which should give you some idea of how well movies on us is
doing and that's it
thank you for tuning in to the WAN Show thank you dennis for joining me on the
lan show and we will see you guys again next week wow that's so fast same bat
time same bad channel
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