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friends. We've actually got a great show for you guys today. It feels like we
hardly ever host the show together anymore. It's like probably less than
50% of the time. Like either you're out of the country or I'm out of the country
or you're in the country, but lazy.
That's mean. I legitimately, we were talking about this before the show. I
legitimately don't remember why you weren't here last week. Where were you?
Uh oh, that's right. You had the personal thing. Yeah. Oh, that's right.
So, that's the same reason that I
probably could not be here today if there were anything that I could do.
Yes. Um Yeah. Oh, that's right. Our lives are going great. Yeah. It's been
kind of a rough couple weeks. Um, the good news is my rough couple weeks isn't
quite as bad as like my grandparents rough couple weeks. So, you know, hey,
um, knock on wood for the that it
continues to continue to not be more worse than it already is. Minecraft or
something. Well, no, no, it's it's like it's a joke because your head's made of
wood if you're an idiot.
So, it's time for the land show, guys. Lots of great topics for you today.
Oculus stops blocking Vive owners from
playing exclusive Rift games. Basically,
uh, they needed some good PR, so they went and bought it. Yeah, I think they
heard my video was coming and they were like, whoa. And then did this. Yeah, I'm
pretty sure that's what happened. Microsoft pays a woman. So, I'm I'm
sorry. Did they actually send us a review sample or did they just
eventually after 2 months prioritize your paid order? I think it was 52 days
later they prioritized our paid order. And to add to that, it wasn't that they
like shoved it through the queue when it might have been difficult. They're now
shipping them at a much faster rate. So got production way higher than it was
before and then we're like, "Yeah, we can probably give them one of those."
Microsoft pays a woman
$10,000 over a forced Windows 10
upgrade.
Which Okay, I guess we'll talk more about it later. Yeah, we'll talk more about it later. Tesla driver dies in the
first crash while using autopilot mode. First fatal crash specifically. First
fatal crash. Yes. Did I say dies in? Yeah, you said dies in the first crash,
but there have been crashes. Oh, that's fair. That is fair. Yeah, I mean we may
not want to be down. US border control could start asking for your social media
accounts. Oh no. What? Oh no. Actually
for Okay, we'll discuss it more later, but I might be in favor of this. So
let's roll the intro and we'll get to all these topics and more. I can just
take these off my head. They keep like I keep being like what's on my head? I
keep touching God.
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Oh, and now I hate this show. Um,
so why don't we jump right into our first topic? Um, Oculus stops blocking
Vive owners from playing exclusive Rift
games. You know why this actually happened? Um, you know what? Can I do my
ignorant version first and then can you tell us why it actually happened? Sure.
Okay. So, original article here is from the Oops. You might be right. website
that I Hold on. Hold on. It's from The Verge. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on. Let's just
see if Oh, please work. Please work completely flawlessly in every Oh, no
way. It worked. Okay, so original article is from The Verge. And
basically, if you guys haven't been paying attention, Oculus has their store
where you can buy games and applications and in theory at some point when it's
not just games, um, where you can buy games. And in that store, some of the
games are exclusive to the Rift. And so,
basically what Oculus was doing was
someone came out and I forget what the pro the project was called. Libra
something. Libra VR or Libra Vive or something. Libra. Libra VRvive.
There we go. Libra VRvive. and found a
way to bypass um the DRM that existed on
these games that prevented people who did not own a Rift from playing them.
And then Oculus reacted by tightening down the DRM and making it so that like
I actually got as far as to launch Ly's Tail and I could like look around and
enjoy the platformy go, oh, it's a platformer. I should be playing it on a
screen with a controller. And then you just decided to I actually really want
to play it in VR. So, I haven't played it yet, though. You actually have.
Anyway, so I got as far as to be able to look around in the game, but then they
made it so the controller wouldn't work. So, that was one of the ways that they
that they locked it down. So, Oculus, having come under fire lately, seems to
have bought themselves some positive PR
by discontinuing the blocking of
uh their their exclusive and DRM games,
discontinued the blocking of preventing Vive owners from playing them there.
Let's call that grammatically correct. Okay, what actually happened? Okay. So,
uh, Oculus had a check in all of the games downloaded from their store that
just did a headset check. Is this a rift? Is it check yourself? It It should
check. Does it prevent you from wrecking yourself? Because they did kind of wreck themselves. Did they? Okay. And well, if
you think Yeah, the PR is really bad, so they kind of wrecked, right? Yeah. Okay.
Anyway, so that's that's all that LibraVRive was getting around at first
was is this thing a rift? Yes or no? I I
think they just like removed that check or they just told it it was a Rift and
then moved on or something, but it just basically that part didn't matter. So
Oculus got a little upset, patched in like straight up DRM to not allow. It
was it was more intense than just a simple check. And then the way that
Libra VR/revive had to fix that was with a
complete DRM breaking patch which
enabled piracy. Oh, the original Libra VIX Revive patch
did not enable piracy. It didn't help you pirate games. The the new patch, so
you had to buy the game around the headset check. Yes, that was the
original one. The new one didn't. And Libravr/Revive was like, "Yo, we don't
really want to do this, but this is the only option we have to play Rift games
on a Vive." So, there you go. So, Oculus
has now allowed people to use games
bought on the Oculus store on the Vive
um while saying we continually revise
our entitlement and anti-privacy
systems. Um and where is
it? We believe uh protecting developer
content is critical to the long-term success of the VR industry. So, while
they're also doing stuff like uh where's
the why is it an Apple News link to the Verge? The doc is broken for some
reason. Well, there's also stuff going on like saying it's solving a major sore
point between Oculus and parts of the VR
community. I don't think that was actually the motivation for this. That
might be a helpful way for them to paint it so that they also get good PR out of
the move. But I think the problem is
their action whether they intended it to or
not was directly resulting in the
removal of things that stopped piracy in a very widespread way. So, the way for
them to try to slow down or stop or whatever the piracy that was going on,
they made a way to keep antipiracy stuff
in there, but allow people to use it across
platforms. You notice how at the bottom of these notes, it says LibraVR/revive
developers have removed their DRM breaking patch. Good. So, that's gone,
which is good. That's good. All right. I'm I'm like I'm creating havoc
in Twitch chat right now. Why? by saying that it is pre-recorded because it's a
national holiday today. Oh my god. Can
we just like everything every Okay. Okay. So, everyone and their dog in
Twitch chat wants us to move on to a bit of a different topic here. Um, so the
original article here is from 9to5 Mac
and there is some bad news in the in the
Apple repair world. So, TechServe, which
has been in business for 29 years in the
New York area, has apparently decided to
shutter their doors. Um, citing
competition from, I think it's four Apple stores, uh, Best Buy, and, uh,
let's see what else we got going on here, and online sales. So, they're
saying they're no longer doing enough business on the sales side to make
continued operation viable. So, they were a third-party Apple product repair
shop. And this actually would seem to indicate
that it's possible um that there's more to this than
necessarily just the business isn't viable. So, Lewis Rossman, uh, who you
guys may know from the super angry video where the guy was so mad at me for
putting a video card in an oven that he was practically foaming at the mouth and
swearing his head off. I have never actually watched the video because I was
pretty sure it would just annoy me and make it so that I didn't want to work with him. But I decided that, you know,
my reaction to that video, because he wasn't
wrong, my reaction to that video should be to show up at his shop and have him
show me how to do it properly. Sharp guy, nice guy. He was just upset. I have
to give you props. That was a pretty pretty gentlemanly move. I get it. I get
it. I understand why he was mad. I totally get it. And you know what? We
went out for dinner. We we patched our differences and uh and I've actually
been in touch since then. We we submerged some phones in saltwater a
little while ago and I got his help as a consultant to help us figure out if
could could there be any way to revive them. Turns out the answer was no. Um I
actually owe him an email back. He's like, "Hey, whatever happened with that?" Cuz I emailed him last night when
I saw this video. Um no, it didn't work,
bud. Sorry, man. Um yeah, nothing about
nothing about it worked. Was terrible. They were under salt water for a while.
Well, they were under salt water for a while and then they were submerged in alcohol for five weeks because I didn't
get to them because I was like out of the country for weeks. So, yeah, that
also doesn't sound great. Everything about it is terrible. Um the the the
laminated layers of the like screen and
the glass and the the touch interface just fell apart in my hand. Well,
because of the alcohol, right? Cuz you just like burned all the glue
everything. All the adhesive, all the seals, all the O-rings. Anyway, so um
there may be more to this because Lewis's video from last night
contained a lot of uh
unclear sort of wording about things,
but it was really clear on a few things. Number one is that his business is
viable. And I could have told you that because I went down I visited him like
two months ago, three months ago, something like that. And I walked into
his shop. There was customer in, there
was customer out. I saw his rate card. I
saw how many people he has on staff. I've watched his videos. I know how long
the repairs take. It doesn't take a freaking genius to do the math. He's
doing just fine. He's built himself a business from nothing and is more than
surviving. Um, he even offered to pay for dinner, but I didn't let him because
I knew it was my bad for upsetting him by putting by baking video cards.
Anyway, so he made it really clear that
anything that happens to his business, if his business is gone, you know, in a
month that it is not because it was not viable. Um, he made it really clear that
there are tools available online that
will allow you to download the videos of a given channel um to perhaps to archive
them just in case YouTube was no longer serving those videos. So, what he seems
to be hinting at very strongly, and you can see for for such a small channel,
it's got 171,000 subscribers and uh
372,000 views on this video. So, for such a small channel, I would consider
that to be kind of semiviral. Um it's about like if we released a video that
did 5 million views. Yeah. So, that that would be that's a certain amount of
virality that we've got going on with this video. People are reacting very strongly to this. There's a lot of
speculation that Apple themselves, who have been
known to do things as crazy as sick SWAT
teams on repair shops that are selling
Apple trademarked merchandise. In the in the case of one of the stories I heard,
it was actually replacement back plates for iPhones that had Apple logos on
them. Um, so they've gone as far as to to six
SWAT teams on these people and closed down their shops. Um, it is being
speculated that Apple could be behind Lewis potentially losing his YouTube
videos as well as his livelihood in the
form of his shop. I have no confirmation from him. I suspect based on that he's a
pretty outspoken guy. Not real afraid of
just kind of saying whatever he's thinking, you know.
firing from the hip a little. Um I I
suspect that there is um some kind of
legal imposition on him to keep his
mouth shut at this time and that it could affect the the proceedings of of
whatever battle it is that he finds himself in. Um he's not asking for any
money. He's not asking for really anything. I reached out. I said, "Hey,
bro, can I do anything to help?" He said, "No, it's just good to know that
that that you're there." Um, so I guess that's all that's all that I would ask
guys is uh either check out there's I think there's a thread on Reddit as
well, but check that out or just uh oh, I guess you guys don't have to watch me
do this, but leave a comment under the video. Just be like, "Yo, you know,
whatever's going on, we're there because he's a good guy and there's a bad thing
happening to him right now." And uh that's pretty much uh pretty much
where I'm at on the whole Lewis Rossman thing.
Um, yeah. So, uh, maybe we could move on to
some good news. One second. How about some good news? One second. Wow. We
don't have a lot of good news, do we? We have some funny news. What's up?
Um, no, I don't think I want to get involved in that. Okay. Um, okay. So,
this the original article here is from Extreme Tech, and this is some pretty
extreme craziness. A woman wins a $10,000 judgment against
Microsoft for the forced Windows 10
upgrade that happened on her computer. Do you want to post this in the Twitch chat? Yep. On it.
Um, wow. Does this have the potential to
open the floodgates or is this a one-time thing or uh, hey Microsoft, I
want my 10 grand. You bricked my computer. Yeah, obviously temporarily.
So, not really bricked, but like but like it was very inconvenient for me. made it completely unusable until I like
reformatted everything. So, Terry Goldstein of
Saucelito, don't quote me on that. Uh, California sued Microsoft after a failed
Windows 10 upgrade left her system performing poorly, not even in an
unusable state, which I know you've personally experienced. Yeah, and like I
know other people have as well. I know people have experienced this, too. So, she's also not the only one. prone to
crashing and reportedly unusable for multiple days. Goldstein reached out to
Microsoft customer service to attempt to resolve her issues and filed a suit once
the company failed to resolve her problems. And you know what? This is
something that I've always been upset about. Why is it that Microsoft, a
company that charges
$110 to $180 depending on the addition that you
buy, why is it that a company that charges that much for their products
doesn't have to pick up a phone when you have a problem with it?
Can anyone else figure that out? Why is it that they just get to have like a a
support desk? At the tech shops that I've worked at, if someone's like
operating system is screwed up and we have to reinstall it and use a key and
the key that's on the side of their box doesn't work because it never freaking
works and you call them, they're just like, "Not our problem." Every time.
Like, what the hell? Did you know that
there are like the the discount for
system integrators is not as much as
you'd think? They actually still pay a significant amount of money for for
Microsoft Windows. So like the fact that they just get to kind of go nope nope
nope nope nope should be upsetting.
Yeah. Anyway, super frustrating. And then if you buy it yourself, they just
do the same thing. That Yep. I mean, I've had conversations
with Microsoft where I mean, a lot of you have probably noticed that in the
corner of a lot of our screen capture, all of our benchmarking systems, it
says, "This copy of Windows is not genuine." How on earth are we supposed
to be using a genuine copy of Windows on a benchmark machine? Every single time
hardware changes, it invalidates the key. I have spent literally hours
because it used to be that I would go to the trouble of calling in and
revalidating it every time that I changed a motherboard, for example.
Certain components it it it dislikes more than others. Graphics cards are
pretty good, but not always, too. And not always. I've changed a car a
graphics card and I've had it get pissed. Boom. So, so basically I used to
call in all the time and I got to the point where um one of my bench test
copies of Windows had been reactivated so many times they just refused to keep
doing it for me. And I'm like, "Well, what am I supposed to do? This is the
same computer." And they're like, "There's nothing we can do." I'm like, "Well, what am I supposed to do? My job
is to test hardware and change out the hardware on the machine. So, when I
change a motherboard, I am not changing the system. I'm just changing a
motherboard." It's like uh and they're like well there's no
solution like so I so I just so so what
I I can't I can't bet you understand there's an entire industry of like
people who have to test computers and you're basically just telling them all
to pirate Windows because I have literally no other choice. Actually I do
have another choice. So the reason that
that's always down there because if I was pirating Windows it wouldn't be
there. Yeah. The reason that's down there is because I'm just running within
the 30-day trial. So, we just have to reformat the machines periodically and
just not enter a product key. We just skip it. The reality of it is these are
not production machines and they're just for testing purposes of
keys. We also have like a shelf of keys just for laws. Just in case, you know
why? It's in case someone walks in here and is like then we can just be like
key. It's like Yeah. Like what? And I'm like, "Look, I didn't know what to do. I
talked to Microsoft support. They couldn't tell me what to do. So, I just bought like a pile of pro keys." Like,
fine. I don't know what to tell you anymore. Just look here. Here, pro keys.
Like, I don't know. I don't know the answer. It's not a small pile.
Um, so the $10,000 figure reflected the
estimated lost compensation. So, maybe
she was self-employed or something. Um, maybe as well as the cost of a new
system. They had to buy her a new computer. Wow. So, uh, they appealed the
initial judgment but dropped the appeal last month. That is hilarious. The the
problem I would have here is I didn't contact customer service and I just
fixed the problem immediately by myself. So, it took me like a couple hours and
then updates and then I was done. Well, they should have to pay you for the
training and experience and expertise that goes into having been able to fix
the problem. That's how life works. That's true. I mean, when you bring in a
plumber and it takes him 15 minutes to fix the problem, you're not paying him
for 15 minutes. You're paying him or her for the years of experience that they
bring into your house in order to fix it in 15 minutes. Speaking of or her, a
female plumber friend of mine just got engaged. Oh, really? Yeah. So,
congratulations to them. Not going to say names because I don't know, but
yeah, I'm not even joking. My dad taught her. Do I know
this person or uh I doubt it. I went to
high school with them. I don't think you've ever met them though. But yeah,
anyways, it was like yesterday or the day before. It was very recently. I
don't remember. On that positive note, I have more bad news. Um so we're on the
Tesla blog here, tesla motors.com. And
yeah, so you know what is the saddest
thing about this?
Every additional incident that happens from now on will get less and less
attention. Yeah. The only reason anyone's paying attention to this is
because it's the first. But, you know,
with that said, um Tesla is Tesla is kind of, you know,
being sympathetic while also protecting their own interests in their statement,
pointing out that in fact, um this
shouldn't have happened if the operator of the vehicle was following the
guidelines that they to be fair, they
didn't like push on that a ton. No, they didn't. But they did point it out. Yeah,
I think legally it was a responsible thing to to point that out. But in a
nutshell, they didn't try to make that the focus or anything, but yeah, the
autopilot sensors on a Model S failed to distinguish a white tractor trailer
crossing the highway against a bright sky. So Joshua Brown had put the Model S
in autopilot mode to control the car during highway driving. The car
attempted to drive full speed under the tractor trailer. It impacted the
windshield, veered off the road, crashed through two fences and into a power
pole. So, um Joshua Brown has passed
away. Uh the incident was disclosed by Tesla on Thursday night and happened on
May 7th actually in Willist, Florida. So, it actually took a little while for
them to start talking about this. They were probably looking into how it
happened and all that kind of Well, I think they wanted to know what the story is before they start talking about the
story. Otherwise you end up with you know widespread changing stories and all
this kind of stuff and you know how the internet loves to speculate. I mean the number of people who think
uh who was it I think like Google is
responsible for the uh the Twitter yeah that's not accurate thing that happened
with us. It is a company but it was not a thing. Yeah. Um just crazy. So, they
detailed in their statement that this is the first known autopilot death in 130
million miles driven by their customers. Uh, this isn't in my notes, so don't
quote me on the exact numbers, but I've got it here actually. Um, so among all
vehicles in the US, there's a fatality every 94 million miles compared to 130
that were in autopilot mode. So, they were quick to point out that they're still ahead. Yeah. And worldwide they fa
fatality approximation is at about 60 million miles. So that's not I don't
know how apples to apples that is though because I don't think Teslas are all
over the place in like Cambodia where people drive like they all just make up
their own rules as they go. Like I think the US but that's why it's lower, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Because the US comparison is more fair. Yeah. The 60 is not
specifically not a onetoone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Um, that's still
not like we're not trying to be like, "No, they did great." Like, uh, still
sort of sucks. Yeah, still sucks. Um, you know, there's still supposed to be
other sensors on the car that should have known that there was a very large
object actually in front of the car. Um,
but you know, Tesla is taking this opportunity to remind people, some of
whom have been posting very irresponsible videos to YouTube, even
like the guy sleeping. Yep. Of abusing their autopilot mode. Um, yo, it is an
assist feature that requires you to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all
times. You need to maintain control and responsibility for your vehicle while
using it. I'm just glad that it didn't carry them onto, you know, a pile of
school children or something like this could have been worse. Um, and it's a
really important opportunity for us to
remind ourselves that they are a two out
of four in terms of autonomous driving
standards. They are four is fully autonomous. They are not that they are
two. Um, keep your hands on the wheel.
Be prepared to take over at any time.
Um,
yeah. So, that's a drag. Um, you know what? Maybe now's the
time for a for a Twitter blitz
here. I want to hear from you guys. U
So, tweet at Lionus Tech on Twitter. Um, oh, I guess this is also a good
opportunity to tell you guys that the Linus Tech Twitter handle is actually
going to become the official Linus TechTips Twitter handle. And I'm gonna
be switching over to something else. Personally, it's sort of TBD, but it's
probably gonna be at Linus G. Sebastian. I couldn't get at Linus
Sebastian. Darn. Did you contact them? Um, I've tried to contact Atlinus
Sebastian before. I wasn't able to get through. So, the Oh crap. I need to uh
get in touch with the Atlinus TechTips guy. He's going to hand that over to us
as well. So, we have
atteing a bunch of spam. It was like a bot for a while. And then at Linus Tech
Tips is coming, but we're not going to switch the Linus Tech Tips cuz ideally I
would have liked at Linus Tech Tips to be the publication and at Linus TechTips
to be me. And theoretically, you could do that, but you lose your verified
check mark. So, I don't want to strip the company of its verified check mark.
Also, all of the Twitter handles in the
videos and under the videos would have to be replaced with the official one,
which is a real chore and I don't feel like doing it. So,
um, this vehicles, sorry, I'm just I'm
going to create a straw poll here as
well. Okay, so let's get that posted in
the Twitch chat. Want to hear from you guys. want to hear from you guys on Twitter. But basically the question is,
are you still comfortable with autonomous vehicles? And the answers are
yes, no, I never was. Or I mean, if you
want to hit us up on Twitter, then I guess you could say something a little bit, you know, more complex than that,
but still limited to 140 characters or whatever it
is. Uh, sorry, I just got to get us signed into Twitter. Do you want to jump
on to the next topic in the meantime? Then we'll come back to this, please. So, US Border Patrol could start asking
for your social media accounts. Now, to be clear, this is a um like when you're
filling out your I believe it's like your customs incoming form or whatever
the questionnaire thing that you fill out when you enter the country. I don't
think this is US border patrol as in driving over the border. I think this is
US border control uh control as in
flying into the country. Um, it would be added to both electronic
system for travel authorization and the
you have got to be kidding me. 94W. Oh, I still had my screen share on. Okay,
I'm going to have to deal with that immediately. Okay. All right. You should
do that very quickly. Um, anyways, gonna
keep uh talking.
Uh anyways, uh and it would be an optional field. So
you would have um the option to put it in or not. Uh I
don't necessarily think that this is the worst thing ever. One, it's optional.
Two, this would be what is currently I
don't know. See, it's kind of weird. This would be what is currently public
on your social media account. So, if you had things that you didn't want people
to see, you would theoretically have it uh posted in a private way. So, it's
probably not the end of the world. And you could have like
uh say you were a like cam girl or porn
star or something like that, maybe have your work account and your personal
account and give them your personal account when going over the border. I do
think it's a little bit weird for things like stalking. You go over the border,
someone thinks you're attractive, they give you have to give them all of your
information, including address and social
information. I don't know. I'm not entirely sure what the inspiration for
it is. Um, you could theoretically say like,
oh, like ISIS members and stuff have social media accounts, um, whatnot and
so forth, but I seriously doubt any of them would give that one. Like I just
said about the like if you're an adult star of some form, um, you would have a
work one and a nonwork one. I have a feeling someone who's as blatant as an
ISIS member with a Twitter account wouldn't put their ISIS affiliated
Twitter account on a travel
authorization form to go into the US
because that is just ridiculous. And
it's also an optional area. So yeah. Okay. Well, that
was potentially the end of the world but isn't. Yay.
Yay. If I could copy this, that would be
great. Jeez, I've had a bad enough week with that kind of crap going on. That's
the last thing.
Yeah. Yeah. No, I know. I No, no, it was much It was much worse than that,
actually. It was much much worse than just the password. Um, it was uh it was
that and a backup code. So it was like
so it was it was the password and the means to uh circumvent my two-factor
authentication. The best part is too I saw through my administratory stuff that
people were storing backup codes in that
and was literally going to bring it up in the Monday morning meeting next week
that people should not do that. Yeah. Well, there you go. There you go.
Um sorry, I'm just going to need a minute actually. Okay. Hey, no, I did
want to weigh in on that topic and I'm actually like I'm good now. That was uh
that was the only thing that showed up there and it's all it's all sort squared
away now. Ant Venom being a bro in chat was like you post pictures, you get
timed out, talk get
hit. So, uh when crossing the border,
like honestly, some of the easiest times
that I've ever had crossing the border have been when I explain who I am and
show them a video. Because like if I'm going down to attend uh a conference or
something like that, I'm like, "Yeah, I'm this guy. I make videos about tech on YouTube." And they're like, "Oh,
okay. So, you're you." Um
um you're going to want to figure that out immediately. Okay. Yeah, I'll figure
that out. Um so I have kind of the same thing. Someone will ask me what I'm
doing. I'm like, "Oh, I'm going for meetings." And like before they even ask
me like, "Uh, what kind of meetings?" cuz you know the border control guy is
just like I've had 10,000 people come through here today and I'm tired of
asking these questions every single time. So instead of just like vomiting
information at them because they also don't want that either and that makes you look super suspicious. I just have
my formulated obvious question ready.
I'm like I'm a YouTube person. I make YouTube videos. I'm going to visit a
hardware company because I make YouTube videos on hardware and I'm going down
there for meetings. Um, yeah, it's actually pretty
straightforward. So, for me, being able to show like here's my Twitter account,
which is for work, and here's the YouTube channel that we have. It's for
work, and here's my Facebook page. It's private.
So, there's my picture, I guess. Cool.
Um, actually, I don't have any problems with that at all. And one kind of cool
side effect of this could be that people are more wary about what they put
publicly on their social media cuz
man, some people aren't careful with that at all. Like
Dennis just posting dickpicks on Twitter
all the time. Yeah. Yes, he does. That's why his Twitter handle is Dennis is
hung. Yeah. Thought it was Denny is hung. Is it Denny is hung? Oh, it's
Denny's, huh? Ever so slightly different than that, as in Denny's,
the uh restaurant chain. Anyways,
uh talking about another thing that could be seen in either way, Apple has
granted a patent that can prevent iPhones from recording at concerts. I'm
going to post the 9 to5 Mac article in the chat so you guys can see it as well.
My immediate gut reaction is that uh
sorry, I should probably take this. It's my sister, which of Yep. Yep. What's
going on right now? I would also recommend going. Yeah. Um,
so I my immediate Come on, Dennis. My
immediate knee-jerk reaction is that I don't care at all because cell phone
recordings at shows are stupid. What we're talking about right now is Apple
has been granted a patent that can prevent iPhones from recording concerts.
Oh, what do you think? How How do they prevent that? I'm not in I actually have
no idea. One second. An infrared emitter can be located near an object and
generate infrared signals with encoded data that includes Oh, so up on stage or
something they would blast out infrared. Yeah, you like that. I I hate
people Snapchat entire concert. Yeah.
One thing once the Snapchat gets out you can't hear anyways because it's
just like Yeah. Yeah. Oh, if you Snapchat two story of this
concert is fine, but if you snatch an entire story,
that's not good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you
can sit on the show if you want. Go ahead. Okay. Let's finish this topic. Um
I think I think this they have right they
have like copyright thing, right? You cannot record a lot of concert that you
are not allowed to record. Mhm. I don't know in here in Taiwan. That's and like
even outside of because I agree and that makes sense and if I was hosting a
concert I would want people to just go instead of just watching recording. So I
get that but even just like people standing there like this recording with
their phones being obnoxious and super annoying and like getting videos from
people that are like okay this is even even you recording when are you going to
look at it again? You're never going to watch that again. You can't hear the
music properly. like it's going to be blown out because all the lasers and
lights and crap. I don't mind they do that taking pictures or anything before
the concert actually start. I think still pictures are probably fine. Yeah.
But if you want just like one momento of like this is cool click or like selfie.
Yeah. Or something. But like no selfie stick though. No selfie stick. That's
That might be better cuz then your arms aren't way up in there. No, it's too annoying. It's very crowded and takes up
too much space. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I was thinking if they go like
straight up. No, even some place some places in Japan they b Yeah, they banned
Disneyland did too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's too dangerous.
Yeah. Um apparently there's more positive uses
for the technology as in museums.
Um Oh, that could be cool. So, museums
could use it in a different way. while you're trying to take a photo of something, they could display relevant
information about it. That's cool. That could be pretty sweet. Is that what's
Oh, okay. I'm not sure. It sounds like
there's too much potential for misuse, though. Cuz if they can display things
on the screen about what you're pointing the camera at in a museum, could someone
not use it to just put black over your screen so you can't see what you're
trying to film or record? You mean when they are in the museum?
No. Like as a civilian,
I feel like someone could use this to like Oh, to see your stuff to No, to
like block people from taking photos of different things when theoretically
you're allowed filming or taking photos of whatever you want on public property.
Someone could try to block you from doing so by using this exact same
technology. Am I being like way too tinfoil hady?
I don't know what you're talking IR blasting a license plate number. Yeah.
Like someone's saying if you had like the museum thing, right? Yeah. So, if I
try to take a photo of my wallet. Yeah.
I'm at the museum and my wallet is somehow important even though it's
really not. Um it it says on screen,
this was so and so's wallet. He he got it here and used it in the great battle
of buying things at Walmart. Um that's kind of interesting. Was it on Black
Friday? Probably. Yeah, that's funny and
relevant. Um, you could theor, if say
this is someone's license plate, they could have the same technology blasting
so that when you try to take a picture or video of their license plate, it's just black
or it covers your screen with something.
I could be way too tinfoily. That's probably I don't know that
situation, but I agree with that. Um they that's a
cool thing if they use that in a concert or
maybe some meeting submitting is like
um confidential. Okay. Maybe that would
be cool if people try to record things.
So like if we tried to do like a factory tour and if we have that technology in
our office no prank then no pranks.
I'm sure you'd appreciate that. Then you can't get Burkel back though. Oh, we can
do outside the office. Okay. Yeah. At
your house. Are you saying we can prank you at your house? No, I'm moving.
Oh, right. Actually, that's not funny. Um
Oh, do you know those channels uh mainly
in Asia where you can watch someone eat? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Stream. Twitch is
allowing that now. They banned that before. They're Yeah, they did. Before
um they didn't have a section for it. Twitch likes having a section for
different things. So, they now added a category called social eating. What? It
sits along other non-gaming categories like Twitch creative. Creative I've
actually used a fair amount. I don't know if I'm going to use social eating although people have commented that a
lot of times if I'm and a section called life or life. Yeah. What? Because social
eating is weird. What? I don't know what that term what does that term mean
social eating but the the the Asian
streams where they just eat on camera that's social eating. You're eating and
you're you're you're talking to the people that watch social media eating
eating show. Eating show. Yeah. Sure. I
mean if you can have a cooking show, you should be able to have an eating show, right? Yeah. But if you can eat, you can
also have a different washroom show. You
want a washroom show? I'm sure they have that because you this is what that's
your logic minus.
So you just you just took it to the next step when you get rid of the food. So
when you make the food when you consume the food and then you get rid of the food. Okay. But we know the full we know
that Twitch has um nudity guidelines. So
So if you were going to have a washroom show, it would have to be what? Like
neck up and just facial expressions. You can have your shirt on when you're on
the toilet. You can have your shirt on when you're on the toilet. So like so like like waist like medium just above.
Yeah. Here like right there. Okay. Oh, I think it
makes sense. No one's going to watch that. Is there any pretty sure someone
would watch that? Yeah, someone would. Is there any like obscenity problems? I
don't I don't think so. I mean, it's a natural thing. You know, going to the
bathroom is very natural. But okay, but sex is also natural. Sex is Well, it can
be pretty unnatural.
Oh, right.
Okay, fair. Speaking of speaking of Twitch
streams for going to the washroom, Android N is called Nougat. Um, Android
7.0 Nougat. Here, I'm going to jump in. Okay. Thank you, Dennis, because I got
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What have we got for our next uh next topic here?
Uh well uh Nougat, right? Android N. The
N word. Nougat. Yeah.
Uh the original article here is from Android
Police. Let's go ahead and Oh, you did
it. You beat me to the punch. I was going to I was going to do it. I was
just like I was in I'm not here with Luke because he's away last week mode
and and lots of other weeks. And lots of other weeks. Android N is now officially
Nougat. Yay. Um I really wanted them to
make it Namy McName face. Did you see about the one that got like voted the
most or something? I It just it they put it in like a teaser trailer and I was
like just do it. I know you do your candy thing, but like it's funny and it
it's cool. I actually think Nougat has got to be like the worst. It's pretty
boring. And do people even know what it is? Blocks.
Like do people even know what Nougat is? Like I know what Nougat is only because
I love Toblerones. That is the only reason I know what Nougat is. I know
what Nougat is probably because my mom
likes it. I believe someone that I know
has liked it a lot. I think it might have been my mom. It could have been someone else. I don't know. And Tlberons
are awesome. They're just too expensive. Yeah. So, Naimo Bar, what else? Well,
Naimo Bar, remember, I think that's sort of more relevant to us because we live
near like is is that the origin of Nimo Bar or is it a thing? Uh, I don't know
if that's the origin of Naimo bar or not, but I know it's not just a Canadian
thing. Like Naimo bars are they're pretty cool. Okay, let's find out the
origin because if it's like a local thing. Yeah. From Naimo, the name of a
city in the Canadian province of British Columbia. So, I don't think I think that's probably worse than Nougat. Okay.
Can we do a poll to see if people know what Naimo bars are? Sure. Because I
feel like they're Let's not say if they know what they are. Let's hit a poll if
they've tried one. Okay. Yeah, cool. I like that. Okay, that makes sense. Let's
do it. So, have you tried uh Nimo bar?
See, look. Spell check didn't even recognize it. That's not a good sign.
No. And don't worry, we are going to get back to that Twitter blitz. Uh hopefully
if we can find all of the I feel like it's a bigger It might not be. I could
definitely be wrong. Kind of lived here forever and
stuff. So, yeah. So, it's hard for us to really say, but let's go ahead and and
try and think of what some of the other uh I mean, there's not a lot of Wow.
Yeah. There you go. Get wrecked, son. All right. Cool. They're not very good,
quite frankly. I think they're gross. So, you're not really missing. They're
very strong. Yeah. My mom loves them.
Yeah. Absolutely loves them. Yeah. I I
think we just got told here that that the results are clear. All right. Thank
you, everyone. That's enough results. At the same time, how many like little pastry cake style thingyamajigs have
different people tried? Probably some, you know. Yeah.
Um, okay. So, let's go ahead. Like, what
what what were the other options here even? Because I I remember hearing
Nougat and I remember also hearing some ones that were better. Nerds. Oh, yeah.
That that's a that's a company thing. That's terrible. Uh, Nutroll. Ooh,
Nutella. Okay, I gotten behind Nutella. Isn't Nutella Is that a brand thing?
It's a brand thing, isn't it? It is, but Oh, they also did Kit Kat. Yeah, but
they did Kit Kat and they reached a deal with Nestle. This was one of the
suggestions. Android Nestle Crunch. Uh, this list is coming from Fandroid over
here. That's cheating. That's like saying that's like if it was H and it's
like Android Honda Civic.
No. Android Napoleon. Android Noodle
Pudding. GH Nish Tart. Android Nimo.
Yeah, they're all awful. They're just all terrible. Yeah. Android.
I'm on Wikipedia under list of desserts
and I'm going through all the different categories and looking what they have for N and there's not much. Oh, what's
that? Nonivot. I've never It sounds like another Canadian thing to be honest.
Nam Kangai. Yeah, that doesn't sound
Canadian unless it's like in Richmond.
Nuns Puffs. Wow. Nuns Puffs.
That nun nut roll. Yeah, nut roll. That
that one was there. Wow. Is N just not
like uh not very not a delicious sounding first letter or something? I
don't don't get it. Well, there you
go. Huh. Go figure. All right. Yeah,
there's like really not much. Let's go have a look at that uh let's go have a
look at that Twitter blitz that we were uh Oh, they probably should have came to
a
um agreement with Nutella.
Oh crap. Did you just do that again? No, no, no, no, no, no. There we go. Okay.
No, no, no, no. Sorry. I'm not I'm not
operating at It's all good. I just wanted to make sure you didn't do that
cuz if you did, I was going to be like, "All right, you need to blitz and fix it again
and I'll keep doing whatever." Um,
hold on. I need a minute. All good. Florida man, um, who at this point has
probably been in jail for an obscenely long time and owes a lot of money. Um,
has Florida Man. Florida Man. Yeah. You don't know that thing? No. There's a
subreddit called Florida Man. Okay. Well, whenever you hear like crazy
complete idiots, whenever you hear crazy news, it seems to be like Florida man
dies after threatening an alligator with a chocolate bar, like just like crazy
stuff. It seems to end with like or start with like Florida man. Oh, cuz
it's just like so it's not a specific from Florida, not Florida man. But how
the news does it Florida man blah blah blah. Anyways, Florida man sues Apple
for10 billion US. What? Says he invented
the iPhone in
1992. Uh yeah, there's a Gizmodo Gizmodo
article. There's also a comparison picture which is
fantastic. Um that is his drawing. Oh,
hold on. I gota I got to bring this up. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. Okay.
Sorry. Florida man. Florida man for 10
billion US dollars he wants. Okay, so
here's the comparison picture. Here we go. The iPhone according to Florida man.
The iPhone according to Apple.
So, I mean, at what point does Gene
Rodenberry start selling people or start suing people for inventing things
and like or George Lucas, I mean, when
someone releases a lightsaber, actually, you know what's
you know what's kind of crazy is Disney
probably would be on that.
What if someone created a lightsaber? Do you think Disney would try to claim that
they own all the applicable rights? Like a real life lightsaber? Yes. I feel like
if they tried to call it a lightsaber, then they'd have a problem. But creating
a a theoretical fantasy depiction of
something, I don't think gives you the rights to its actuality.
I think if that was a problem, but could they make the argument that it is so
culturally pervasive that the inspiration would have had to come from
Star Wars? I think once we got to the
point where we could make something that was like that powerful based on mostly
like light. I don't remember how it works in the Star Wars universe. What is it exactly? It's an crystals emitting
energy, right? Um, so it's a basically a laser, a crystalline thing that is
emitting energy which is somewhat like a laser, but only goes out a little bit
and has obscene amounts of power, but only goes to like a point that looks
like a sword. Once we get to the point that we can do that, I don't even know
if Star Wars will still be relevant. Or maybe it's all going to be like
galaxy quest all over again and we'll think that they're historical documents.
Yeah. rewatched that recently. Still very
good. I love Alan Rickman. I've actually heard that. Yeah. Oh man, that sucks.
Sorry. Um, anyways, I haven't rewatched
it in a long time, but I've heard from a lot of people that whenever they rewatch
Galaxy Quest, they're like, "Holy crap, this movie is awesome. It's still just
as good. It is equally relevant."
Um, yeah, it's it's not that often that you get a movie that that ages that well
because nerds are still exactly the
same as in 1994 or whenever that movie
came out. I think it was actually a little later than that. Quest
uh 2000. No, what couldn't have been 2008? That doesn't make any sense. Maybe
it came on DVD then. 1999. 1990. Wow, it
is pretty old. Holy crap. So, in 17
years, nerds have not progressed at all. Not to mention the movie was probably
being written a couple years before it was actually, you know, and then it went
through filming and editing. So, like in 20 years. Yeah. Yeah. Not not a thing. I
think you could say that. Um,
okay. Let's see. Wow. We've actually covered a lot of the a lot of the best
topics for today already. Um, oh yeah, the AMD RX 480 is a thing, but like we
have a video on that. So, so another thing to add to the Florida man thing,
um, yes, the US Patent and Trademark Office declared the application
abandoned in 1995. Oh, I've been screen
sharing for a while again. Great. I'm just really like not on my Did you do
anything crazy? I don't think so. Okay, cool. Um, so yeah, there was that. Um,
it also like if you scroll down a little bit, he had one where it's like
basically a book and it like closes.
Yeah. Okay. So, I think there's like writer and reader mode.
Okay. So, it looks more like microphone antenna speaker optional solar cells.
So, basically this is just like the scribblings of a of a dreamer. Yeah.
He's like, "What's a cool thing? I'm going to put it in here." Awesome. Three
and a half inch discat drive. How big is
it supposed to be? It's 5 in by 3 and How is he planning to put a 3 and what?
How's he planning to put a 3 and 1/2 in discet drive in a 5 and 1/2 in? And how
big is this? So that's three and 3/4 in. Rechargeable battery is here. That's
where the rechargeable battery is. Page forward is here. Uh numeric. So the
whole typewriter keyboard with a spacebar that big is in half an inch because it's 5 and a half inches, right?
No. Five and five inches to here by three and Oh yeah. No. Well, it looks
maybe an inch. Let's let's say an inch. Wow, it's really small. Okay. Features
each device 80386 SX processor 16 MHz 80 megabyte
hard drive writing device 160 megaby D
RAM reading device reading device options either A or B
uh calendar clock typewriter keyboard
magnetic latch that's a good idea oh more solar cells
Back lit LCD super twist display screen
monochrome or color. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Well, good luck with that,
buddy. Good old Florida, man. You know,
it would be kind of fun if the iPhone had an 80 megabyte hard drive and 2
megabytes of RAM and a 16 megahertz processor. That
sounds like the iPhone. Uh, what's the next topic? I
don't know. I don't really know if I see much much else here. Oh, uh, this is
just a quick one. Samsung has a 1 terbte
M.2 NVMe SSD. the
SM961. So, right now it's an SM961. So,
that's an OEM OEM product. Tom's Hardware has a review up, but it is
speculated that this would be uh this will be rebadged as some kind of a of a
some 9 something Pro at some point here.
So, maybe a 960 Pro or something along those lines. Very very
interesting. It's like wicked fast. like what what one one terabyte at 512 bucks
and 512 gigs at 280 bucks is pretty
cool. That's pretty cool. I mean one honestly 480 gigs to 512 gigs is the SSD
size where I really don't feel limited by it anymore. Yeah. Um I'm pretty
comfortable with 256 still unless it's a
gaming machine. Um, but if it's a gaming machine, I want my 500. I want my 500
gigs, but one terabyte is at the point where I feel like I can be like a data
packrat and I don't really have to clean up any after myself anymore. Yep. Not qu
with the amount of I have a NAS. Yeah. My only thing is you said gaming
machine and game load times can still be
nicer. Yeah, but I don't mind putting a
games that aren't important like Lego Batman is on a hard drive. Yeah. Yeah.
just have a couple Steam libraries. There's no real reason not to do that.
It's very easy. Actually, I made a video on it. I think it just came out. It's
SSD hard drive optimization thing. It's really easy to have Steam have different
save locations and it'll ask you every time. And it's it's actually really
nice. Um there's where is it? Uh Activision
issues DMCA takedown against developers of Orion Prelude. And then there's
comparison images in there that you got to check out. I'll post the Steam
article, but check out the comparison images here. I think the bottom one
might be the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Um, yeah. Wait, sorry. So, this is
supposed to prove Yeah, that Orion ripped off Black Ops. Yeah.
So, uh, apparently it was taken down
from the Steam stores due to the DMCA request. It is now back in the Steam
stores. Um, the official quote says, "On
behalf of Activision, who alleges that the game Orion used weapon art content
from Call of Duty Black Ops 3 and Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. The weapon art
in question includes the M8 A7 rifle,
the Haymaker rifle, and the BAL 27
rifle.
What? Uh, the developers of Orion Prelude were not contacted or notified
before their game was removed from Steam at all. Wow, that's pretty
brutal. Um, a Reddit post on RPC Master
Race goes into how the DMCA claim may be legitimate. And apparently some of the
main uh points address that parts of the
3D models are apparently exactly the same. So if you click on that one um
yeah, let me bring up the uh the thingaboo here.
That is actually a more interesting look at it because that's actually how you
hold the gun in the game. So the images that were given up were of side isolated
models that you don't really see in the game. Mhm. This is more when you're holding the firearm.
At the same time, the red dot site is more telling
to me than the iron sight because like the little area with the lights on it uh
here and here. Yeah. Are actually just
like a button panel. Mhm. And that could
be taken from some other gun. I'm not sure. Um, and iron sights are pretty
generic. And the side of that gun looks pretty generic. Um, the red dot site on
the right, which they can't see. I'm sorry
about that. Oh, sorry. Um, also
looks a little generic, but I kind of
see where they're probably coming from.
Mhm. Okay. All right. Well, we'll see how this plays
out. I'm not going to be the uh I'm not going to be the judge on this one. Yeah.
I don't really know. I don't know how that legally plays in. I think we'd both
need to know a lot more about different rifles. Like if that red dot site was
taken from like something in real life, then who cares, right? Uh there's more
rumors. So, original article here is Nintendo Inquirer.com. More rumors that
the NX will be cartridgebased. Wow. Blast from the
past. Possibly a good move to be perfectly honest. I think that's kind of
cool. I might be the weird one there. I mean, I I don't see I've been wondering
why media doesn't come on SD cards for a
long time. Like a really long time. Well, not I've been wondering. I
understand why. It's because they're cheap. It's because the companies that
sell this stuff to us don't want to spend another, you know, 82 cents on uh
on the media that they're giving us. They'd rather have something that costs
82 cents less, a disc. Um, but basically
in the final months before it's formally unveiled, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Admitted hoaxes, etc., etc., etc., but there's been, it looks like a trademark
app. Um, hold on. So, NeoAF user
Athereos noticed something in Nintendo US's trademark for The Legend of Zelda:
Breath of the Wild. User goods and services section. Both video game discs
and video game cartridges are listed.
This contrasts with other Wii U software trademarks. So, it could be Nintendo's
just updating their verbiage so that they can use the same thing for our
portable games, which already use cartridges and um full-size console
games. But I choose to believe that we're going to have a cartridge-based
console again. That would be cool. Which would mean Nintendo only ever had three
disc based consoles then.
Yeah. Uh then again, so has Sony for that matter. So has
Microsoft. So there you go. Right. the GameCube. I always forget about the
GameCube. Yeah, the Gamecube was a thing. Just because no one cared.
Doesn't mean that it wasn't a thing. It's the I didn't have an NES when I was
a kid. Um I had friends that had them. We just didn't have one. So, I had a SNS
and N64. Then I never had a GameCube. And then I like very luckily got a Wii
pretty early on. And then I have my Wii U. So, I just completely skipped that
whole segment. All right, let's go ahead and uh fire up Twitter over there. I
don't even know if it Yeah, it's not really set up anymore. We don't really
use it that often. Let's just go ahead and boopity. Right about there.
Ohippity. Oh, that did not work. Oh,
that was supposed to work. Uh, add
screen capture.
Um, okay. Let's see if that works this.
No. Okay. Okay. Well, then I will just I will just read tweets. Um oh, uh I've
had this problem before. I I think it might be that browser. Um but what you
do is minimize the browser, highlight the area where it is, bring the browser
back up, and it works. What a chore. I know. It's super
annoying. I don't know if it's exploit or if it's the browser or what. Kind of
guess it's like thereish.
Oh yeah, this is my pain. I had to do it
during the charity stream that I did. Was super annoying.
Good enough. All right, there you go. Uh, bring back Dennis. Cheer up you two.
You're both so down today. Well, we both had kind of rough weeks. Uh, Twitchbot
is timing everyone out for using the uptime command. Is this intentional? I
don't know. I wanted Nutella. Hail poodles. Uh, I'm just glad
the media didn't make as big of a deal as it as they usually
do. Um, I think there's still time for
them to do
that. You need some tech tips. JK just
did a little love W show. Oh, we've got people commenting on
my uh on my leak there. That's okay. All
that information is completely out of date now, which is really good. Yep. Yay
for doing things quickly. Whoa. You get over the border easily.
What? Um, still safer
than 100% people on the road. Yep. So,
that's a good point. Oh, yeah. So, a lot of Oh, I don't like autopilot. I like to
drive by myself. All right. Yeah.
Yeah. See, James says, "My uncle's Model S tells you to constantly keep your
hands on the wheel." Yeah, that's what it's supposed to do. Time magnets. How
do they work? Would you consider buying an autonomous
car and Yeah. No, I would. Too expensive. Well, okay. Right. Other than
that, I would consider it.
Fair. I Yes. Okay. I would as well. And then I would go, it is too expensive.
And then I would stop considering it. Okay. Let's bring up the uh let's bring up the straw poll results since it seems
like that pretty much tells us the answer
here. 74% of you are still comfortable
with autonomous vehicles in spite of the death. Well, you're talking to nerds. Um
nerds are probably done with math. I prefer to call them a techsavvy
audience. Nerd. I know. I think it's okay when you call
yourself the thing. Anyways, um they're probably more down with numbers and
statistics and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and they're seeing
mathematically it is better. So they're going okay mathematically it's better
until we have a bigger sample size and maybe it's not better anymore. That's
also true. I mean we could have another death tomorrow and all of a sudden that
would make it uh sign as much worse than
people operating vehicles as now it is better. And there's also the thing that
I've been seeing from the start. Yeah. Um, which is what I'm afraid of is
uh it potentially going haywire instead
of just not detecting something, driving through it and crashing, right? It going
nuts. Um, that's scary because a human driver
unless can Yeah, they can they can go haywire. Unless malicious isn't going to
like if they crash into something I don't know like cuz that's
going to cause the big the big media problem. Oh, like if one just spazzes
out on one decides between the driver's life and the pedestrian's life
when there's a valid problem there which is if someone goes nuts and drives over
a bunch of people Yeah. you put them in jail. Yeah. If an AI goes nuts and
drives over a bunch of people, you go, "Oh my god, this thing is installed in
everything." Yeah. What do we do? Yeah. And that's a valid question.
All right. So, thank you guys for tuning in to the WAN Show. We hope you enjoyed
the show as much as we did this week. Actually, it was kind of a nice distraction today. Um although actually
for a lot of today, I was working on a really cool project. Uh, I am calling
this project the most comfortable gaming
setup ever. And Luke thought I was like,
what what did you think I was doing with this? Uh, I thought he was trolling. I I
I thought that you were uh How much can
I describe it? Um, I haven't disclosed
what makes it comfortable yet. I have So
here, so I have tweeted uh pictures of
the room. Okay. So I've tweeted like this. So that room is really small. I've
been in there. I've tried to stand in there, etc., etc. It's small and like
kind of cramped. Yeah, exactly. So I've
I've experienced the room. So when he says the most comfortable gaming room
ever, and I know the the back cramping
that I had to do in order to get in there, my mind is going he's going to
shove a whole bunch of tech in there because he's told me what he's shoving in there and it's going to be way too
much. He's going to be cramped and he's going to make like a funny video about
how he just had to have all these things so he made it work. That's what I
thought the plan was. I thought it was going to be a funny video. No, it's
going to be a badass video. Yeah. All right. So, we will see you guys again
next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Thank you very much for
watching. I don't know what that means. Oh, the
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