boom we should be live on the WAN Show i'm going to yet again pull it up on my
phone because because of the should that i just did you get them no
okay you guys are going to witness some fly hunting throughout the show because
there's one that just will not leave us alone and i believe lewis is going to murder it before we're done uh but to to
introduce people here louis rossman um
fighter of apple repairer of everything
uh what's your like channel and stuff what various callouts uh rossman group
with two s's and two ends that's a good way to do that uh level
one text wendell how's it going Linux masterman if you oh don't hit me
now where'd it go
this will be a recurring theme it's a big one too
oh it's it's it's been feeding it would be well it would be an honor to be assaulted by lewis rossman
yeah he'll repair it afterwards i am also down to be a target just go for
gold let's go
right on the face i love how you're like i'll take it and
then it goes okay here we go right here yeah okay yeah uh channel level one text
any other callouts you want to do how's it going yeah there we go wendell
jay's two cents you guys probably know jay uh
everywhere yeah with a z it's not jay-z on twitter no but if
you're gonna tag me tag beyonce too yeah i might as well include it uh and this
WAN Show will probably not be super standard we have some news topics i
don't know what almost any of them are we know that the uh there's some
updates to the macbook pro uh chrome is
using more RAM wow that's surprising and some other stuff but i doubt we'll get
to a ton of it because we'll probably go into crazy tangents and we might kill a
fly i'm gonna roll the intro and we'll be back in a second
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so new macbook pros coming out um they have replaced the keyboard
uh but as we were talking before the show it's not gonna fail anymore
wrong it is a third generation butterfly
keyboard however this design was was not
intended to solve the recently highlighted butterfly keyboard issues
that's a direct quote from apple isn't it i i believe so it's not in quotes
here but i believe so well not well i mean there was no problem with it to
begin with right you're just typing too hard so what what was theatrica i generally
stay away from from those but what was the actual problem well people would say
that the key is either not working or it'll type 20 times when you press it
once and usually people would show up and say i didn't get any water on it it
just happened that i'd open it and it would be yellow and brown and ugly but
some of these look like they're just new out of the box and the keys just don't
work on them and then it started to be something where once a day somebody would show up
then five people a day would show up then when we had like 20 to 40 people
showing up a day with the same problem and calling and emailing about it i
realized this is going to be a thing yeah yeah
that's the super shallow flat real thin key yes the thin key that goes
like every time you type it that really obnoxious annoying one it's not like a
nice mechanical keyboard noise it's a mechanical keyboard noise without any of
the mechanic part yeah there's no bass to it it's just
yeah they just have like i was not a fan of that keyboard
at all like i couldn't type on it yeah the throw is just so short
but basically what i'm hearing here is we got a new keyboard but
it could potentially have all the same problems as the other one well yeah they
they specifically didn't even roll this keyboard out to fix the
problem so i assume i assume there will because it was never a problem
right i got i got to put the apple hat back on do you have a sense that if it
it's more than like a year old it's exponentially more likely to fail
unnaturally or is it is it age related at all
i don't know i think it's even age related because some people showing up at this have had it for six or eight
months and they'll show up and ask if we can fix it because they don't want to wait a week or two for the apple store
to do it weird
not good well just like iphone 4 just don't hold it that way yeah
it's just this really weird level of utopianism where i think like if
it honestly reminds me what my history teacher used to talk about with the with
uh russia and the soviet union where somebody would be we called the counter
revolutionary because they did something wrong and they would that guy would get thrown in prison and then the guy that
was throwing him in prison would wind up getting thrown in prison by somebody else it's like somebody will say my
machine is getting really hot and i get lines on the screen and they'll say why
don't you get applicant if you had apple care then it would it would have been covered and then the guy and then the
guy that says that winds up one day out of applecare uh with a machine where
like it'll just start randomly crashing and he's like oh my god maybe that other
person was right but then he'll post in the forum and they'll go why didn't you
get they released the replacement program for it why didn't you get it and
one of the funny things was the 2010 macbook where they it had a crashing
problem because they used the wrong capacitor they released the replacement program in 2013 that only covered the
machine three years from the date of purchase and the machine was manufactured in two thousand twenty two
so if you were sitting there going f5 f5 f5 f5 on their warranty page maybe you
would be able to get it but but if you believe that apple products are this
great because in some ways they are you know they're easy to use they use pci
express ssds in 2013. um they have really great screens they don't crash as
often if you're comparing its older Windows and something goes wrong you
really don't want to believe that the product is bad yeah so you either have
to admit that they have faults or you have to deny your own experience and
what drives me nuts is when people will actually believe i'm typing on it wrong
i'm holding it wrong i'm encoding video on it wrong and that's what drives me
nuts it's not that the product itself is terrible it's that when something goes
wrong with it people will just treat themselves as if they did something wrong
rather than if the company did something because they truly believe the product
is fail-proof yeah it's like you know it's not like other companies don't have
faults too it's just if somebody buys an hp and that happens they will yell at hp
they won't but if something happens with an apple product and it's the same fault
they'll just believe that they did something wrong and it drives me up a
wall yeah and it's it's it's
it's a frustrating experience too because like i i've generally liked
apple's ecosystem because i will send certain people there uh like like for
instance my mom i tried to get her to get an iphone then she got used to
Android so there's no point trying to flip that over again but i try to get her to get an iphone because like you
said they're they're quite easy to use they're usually fairly intuitive all
that kind of stuff but then when you start having these problems it's like oh
okay you're spending with this new macbook up to like seven thousand
dollars if you want to get the crazy max to your oh they they get pretty
expensive what you can get six cores 32 gigs of RAM uh like four terabyte ssds
so you can get the specs ridiculously high which is i guess part of the factor because
anytime you tear up anything in apple's customizer it's really expensive and
there's things that they do well you know if david bowie was coming back to life for 20 minutes and i had one chance
to record you've been around again i would want to do it on a mac not Windows
10. right it's just i don't want to deal with all these other problems Windows 10
might try to you know like you update in the middle or yeah
nonsense like that man okay so for ltx which is tomorrow uh
we have we have two guests here from the forum two guys that i've never met
before which i think is actually really cool that they're coming i haven't seen them yet uh but two admins on the forum
and one of them came over here with his business laptop and he had a Windows
update hit him while he was here and it bricked his Windows i don't remember the
exact details but he had to rush here in the morning and borrow a computer in a
flash drive so he could get Windows onto a flash drive so he could completely
reformat everything so he could keep working microsoft genuinely earned the reputation that they have and they
earned the people that will put up with this nonsense from apple just to escape
it i completely understand it well i've had two systems completely fail on
update to the point to where it was the system was completely unstable and i i
remember getting Windows vista with a new machine where when it first came out
you couldn't even run programs without running an update you would just try to
open a new browser and it would just sit there and then 20 minutes later it would
open yeah there's a i don't know
really bad my what my computer was one of the
admittedly i guess probably over the overall spectrum of the amount of people
that had this happen to them not that high percentage but my computer was one of the ones that when they forced the
upgrade to Windows 10 i wasn't even at home i had denied the upgrade so many
times then i was at work and while i was at work my computer upgraded from
Windows 7 to Windows 10 and bricked itself that was when they implemented the like click here now before this
countdown's gone if you don't want it yeah because they knew people were leaving their systems on walking away
going to work yeah whatever you come back suddenly in mid update and i had
even ran the scripts that are supposed to stop it but then they'd release some
update that would get around that and it was just very frustrating i one thing i've
enjoyed this entire conversation uh is that wendell has been almost silent
if wendell hasn't said anything yet we're not wrong
well no yeah okay yeah i agree with that but it's just the Linux man it's just
like Linux uh there are systems that i have
that have up times of like 600 days which is actually really bad because
there are kernel updates and security updates and stuff like that so those
machines are potentially a typhoid mary but yeah 600 days of uptime
yeah i like running Windows in a virtual machine because then it's
it's like oh look Windows update itself i can just hit a button and it's like oh
look it's the way that it was yesterday nice try microsoft you failed one of the
things we're actually working on back in my studio right now is um he landed on
my hand right now so we're gonna we're gonna get him okay okay um he's back we
will actually we're actually gonna do some rollbacks and force updates we're
gonna do comparative benchmarks to see how much it actually impacts your system
both high end and low end because there's times we're doing benchmarks and we're like what the heck suddenly
something's weird like we start going you know really super stuttery or
something we realize like oh look a background process update's happening
it's eating 25 percent of our resources yeah anatec ran into that with their um
their zen plus coverage yeah um the like
rise of the tomb raider and a whole bunch of games were running as good or slightly better on AMD than
Intel and it was because they had the high precision timer which reading and
writing from hardware registers triggers the meltdown spectrum mitigations more i
guess yeah so depending on what you're doing you could have a significant reduction in
performance right it's an interesting situation uh do you
want to talk a little bit about not too much because we got a video to release
but you want to talk a little bit about what you're doing here with Anthony it was exciting
yeah i spent i spent monday and tuesday with Anthony doing Linux stuff and it's
Linux on gaming gaming on Linux and so we look at native Linux on gaming which
is pretty cool basically works and then gaming through wrappers like wine and
all the various flavors of that running 12 different versions of wine at the same time easily
and then finally virtualization and the horizon for doing everything through a
virtual machine and not really sacrificing anything in terms of performance so i'm really looking
forward to that that'll be really good we'll have companion guides and stuff on the forum for
like really nitty gritty step by step if you want to do fedora or ubuntu or you
know arch or whatever and everything he just said is why we were talking earlier
about how apple is sometimes more uh easily accessible
like 12 different versions of wine uh yeah oh so you're writing a game for mac
well you're going to have to do the metal API sorry
it's gotten a lot better now like compared to let's say 15 years ago if you wanted to do a digital audio
workstation Linux was terrible for it but it's gotten a lot better yeah it's
not you know yeah it's still got some rough edges i
extremely rarely uh do do the hip things
and go to clubs and stuff but uh the only time i ever will is for one
of my friends and on his birthday and we went to one place and i noticed that the
dj had a giant MSI laptop with an art full RGB keyboard
and stuff and i was even thinking like that's just like weird
like i took a photo because i was like oh it's cool yeah usually but it's it's usually a macbook and even
just it was one of the like thick ones because it had the i believe it was one
of the mechanical keyboard ones so like this is huge yeah it's a massive massive
cumbersome laptop that he brings to shows
i firmly believe that this like we want laptops to stand as paper i don't think
that a lot of consumers really want that i think consumers like thin and light
but i think if you tell a consumer hey you can get five more years out of this
machine if it's got a replaceable keyboard and it's just a hair thicker
that doesn't seem unreasonable you've talked about this a bunch with phones uh
not to admit that i watch a huge amount of your content and have since way before i made videos but um you're
talking about how you see a lot of reviewers review a phone and it's different than consumers
looking at a phone yeah because thickness plastic backs all that kind of stuff there's this big disconnect when i
read a review and then when i talk to people who come in and say what they want on a phone just well you know let's
say we're fixing somebody's phone we can have a 15-minute conversation i've never
heard a normal person that i've met in real life talk about the bezel of a
phone every single reviewer they'll spend two or three paragraphs talking
about the bezel and like you know how it goes out to the end and now we find no
casing at all i've never heard somebody talk about that or care you know in real
life they think you know it would be nice if i drop my phone from here to
hear that it not break they don't care about the bezel or they'll say the back
is made of premium materials but the regular person will say i can see
fingerprints that's ugly yeah or they're going to stick it in the case anyway
yeah and it has to you know like a phone like this has to go in a case because it's it'll crack if i go from here to
here yeah and the back of it looks nice but if i actually touch it you can feel
the only thing i care about with bezel is whether or not it's slippery but
without a case yeah and the things are getting more slick over time you know
and that's that's always bugged me but other than that's why you don't really see
phone reviews on my channel because i'm one of those people that just don't care about any of that yeah if you sold the
phone imagine if you i think that if you put it in a bullet point two years from
now it will still work the battery can be replaced and it's not gonna slow down
too terribly that somebody may actually consider buying it over something else
you know you have an extra eighth of a millimeter but you can replace the
battery i have a lg g5 for just that reason it's you know ancient by today's
standards but removable battery and metal back and still has a fingerprint
sensor and it's not like super heavy and i see a lot of people say yeah but in two years you're going to get a new
phone anyway it's okay you may get a new phone anyway in two years but somebody
that doesn't want to spend an extra two or four hundred dollars isn't it yeah i think i used to be i'm sorry i didn't i
used to be an annual upgrader but not anymore like i'll go i'll go two years
plus and usually the only thing that will make me upgrade is if i start seeing battery degradation that's only
because i've been on iphone for the longest time now it's because it's super simple and that's only because it's not
easy to service battery swaps you know for an average end user i think so i
think that design kind of peaked around probably the galaxy s3
because removable battery upgradable storage and it still had a plastic back
yeah and there were cases for that you could replace the back like you got you
could take the back off and have like a leather back if you wanted to well and
when i was still working in it we had an entire fleet of s3s out there and you
could do the extended battery with the extended back cover you know we were sending those out into the field yeah i
don't i don't know why that went out of vote yeah a lot of people said well the battery life on modern phones is good
enough that you don't need a second battery to get through the day but that totally ignores that
yeah after it's not even that that's not even the issue so much as it is one year
or two years later when it barely has any battery life i want i'm going to keep this thing for longer than two
years no reason to buy it and i think more
people would buy it if you actually advertise that and i haven't seen anybody advertise longevity as a feature
no but it could be one thing in twitch chat i posted a poll uh because i'm i'm
interested on the exact percentages at least for our audience which is a
terrible uh section if we want to be scientific but whatever i want to see
the exact percentages of people that care about ultra thin bezels so check
straw poll in the chat and uh s3 specifically i have one interesting
story with that that ties into what you're talking about with it should be able to fall right
i was i was at university and i was late for class so i was sprinting and i ran
down a huge set of steps and i had too much momentum and there was one of those like uh poles that stopped cars from
going into areas so i decided i'll just hop over it and i jump and i remember
that my as i'm mid-air remember that my phone is in my sweater pocket not in my
jeans pocket it goes flying smacks into
the ground the battery goes one way the bat goes the other way the rest of the
phone goes the other way tiny chip in the corner put everything back together
turn it back on works perfectly what phone was that s3 seriously that was a
hard phone to break yeah and like i think one of the things that actually
helps is that it kind of explodes and it like says it's i can't remember
the correct terminology for it but the force of the impact goes with each part
and lets it blow out the s3 one of the earlier gorilla glass yeah
yeah yeah when that actually meant something yeah before they kept making the grill gas
thinner which then just made it as brittle as anything else yeah yeah well
the with the g5 where it's got the replaceable battery and still kind of
modern i've replaced the battery in it twice yeah i mean it was basically a
launch day phone and it's you just slide it out and slide a new battery in it's
eight bucks from china yeah yeah that's the other thing you can get those
batteries so cheap if you buy them third-party so the the poll results for
people that didn't click on results when they ended is about 78 of people do not
care about ultra thin bezels and 28 well
i guess yeah 22 percent of people do that's the audience about people
watching a tech in tech review channel yeah yeah
so it's skewed but i don't necessarily know in what
direction it's still it's such a high percentage that like we've seen it
though we've seen these early polls you let them go for five minutes or five days it tends to
whatever like the first few minutes ratio it won't change a ton
yeah it will generally stay there yeah yeah so like i and well the thing is if
you if you expose that pole to a much different audience yeah it might shift
it a bit more but i i kind of doubt it i i've had a
similar experience i'm sure you've talked to more people about it but i've had a similar experience talking to just
friends and family yeah like what would you want in a phone i remember reading
so many phone reviews for this and i saw one eli the computer guy clip of a video
very you know with his 500 camera pointing at it saying this is me loading
google maps this is it not lagging and i just thought sold yeah cause that's all
i really care about the things that i do every day when i go to you know hell and
uber is it going to take forever when i want to scroll around is it going to
take forever is the does the battery last you know things like that with
phones these days that can like play
relatively decent uh graphic fidelity games at relatively decent frame rates
like they can probably open uber and google
maps relatively i just feel like we've progressed so far in the mobile
computing uh biologies and the passings are like the early days of smartphones
back when i had my blackberry storm and and the droid one was out and the the
iphone 3 and 3g or 3gs you know it's like
back then it was a big deal like this one scroll smoother where the Android
was choppy and stuff where obviously there was big variants between the
devices but now everything's so damn close yeah it's really hard to
differentiate a winner it really comes down to the to the interface i think the
interface battle is the thing that keeps Android iphone and then i think like i'm
surprised blackberry is even still around but the only other person i've met that had a storm that was i had a
storm because you feel about the first generation storm it was terrible
i never used i never used the uh because i think i had a physical keyboard too if
i remember correctly that was no that there was no physical that was the one that clicked that's right it had the the
click like the whole screen yeah but it only had one button in the middle right
as you got further out to the edge you got weaker a little bit more detail
i got it because i mean i was on verizon and we didn't have any other options at
the time yeah you know iphone obviously didn't come to verizon until the the 4s
was out and then um it lagged so badly
right and then seven minutes so as soon as the droid one the original droid came
out i replaced the blackberry with that um and then i carried both iphone and
samsung at work for quite a while so i've got a very unique perspective of at
least back in 2013 what it was like to
be a dual wielder you know yeah yeah i never had any experience on the other
side of the road back then but i remember when like the first Android butter update came out that like that
was the biggest deal i had seen in a while because it massively i think was
like one of the first ones i was on oh yeah yeah yeah okay you know what phone
was massively underrated was the uh last generation t-mobile sidekick
i heard a lot of people really liked it yeah it ran java which is like you would
think it would be a pile of garbage because java especially in those days
because that was before Android but the thing with the phone is that if it
does what you want it to do really well that it's a really good phone it doesn't
need to be a status symbol the sidekick was kind of like it looked like a toy
but had a good keyboard and the screen was decent but it also had a color lcd
that was reflective so you're not going to get like photorealistic color but you
could get color and so the battery life would last forever like days
because it wasn't actually having a backlight unless it was dark outside you
mentioned status symbol too here's a here's a straw poll it might be interesting how many people choose a
phone based on it being an accessory or a status thing
yeah right because i i think a lot of people choose their phone based on where
people gonna think of my phone i think it's kind of sad but i feel like there's a good percentage of people that care
about that how many people are gonna admit to that though probably very few
it's not really much of a problem anymore but there was a there was a
while there where like the the pricey phones couldn't connect to like
corporate email and stuff like that properly and so i was on the receiving end of that and it's like you need to
get this phone or this phone if you wanted to work properly with your email system and they're like i'm gonna buy
this because it looks like i'm wealthy and it's just that was one of the
reasons why i had the blackberry to begin with because when i was working in software at the time in our it
department um we had you know all of our own mail servers and stuff it wasn't
through standard pop or any of that stuff so it was the phone that could connect to
it um but i'll be the first to admit that one of the reasons why i got iphone back
when it first came to verizon was simply because it was something i couldn't get
before and suddenly i could and everyone had it and i wanted it because of that
and i literally it's just stayed with it ever since because i got used to it and
i'm comfortable i'm not really a mobile power user and i don't need well nothing
crazy but iphone 4 it was not completely unusable but the iphone one that didn't
have copy paste i just can't imagine that world yeah see i joined long after that
obviously but speaking of not being able to imagine that world uh we'll start from over here
and go across what was your favorite phone
like at that point in time i guess at that point in time i think the htc
incredible in 2010 because the other Android phones were slow and clunky i
was coming from a blackberry storm so six minute boot time opening browser
takes a minute every time you do something it stutters and i got that phone and when i would tap something it
just opened immediately there was no lag i'm sure if i upgraded to a new version
of Android with it or a newer i shouldn't say new yeah
and it also actually fit in your hand comfortably right very few phones will
fit in my hand comfortably now because they're large just really big yeah Linus yeah Linus
has a similar problem to that he likes uh old iphones because they're much
smaller what about you i've never had a phone that i like for more than six
months like it'll it's okay for six months and then with the software updates and
whatever i'm doing to it it starts to run really bad okay what phone had the
best six month period then probably the t-mobile sidekick yeah like the very
last generation one because you could really quickly but switch between a
bunch of tasks the web browsing wasn't terrible instant messaging wasn't
terrible email was pretty good there was a there was one device before
that that was like really it was a little before that arrows the there was
like a motorola pager thing it was not a phone that thing was awesome i don't
remember what it was i had that before i had a cell phone and that was like because then people
couldn't call me it was great i uh mine would probably be my s3 i'm
going to be easy basically that story yeah um s3 was awesome
the thing was a tank i had it for so long i think it still works
we got close it's on your shoe i know um we i had that phone for a very very
long time i hit him did you see it hit the ground and he spiraled and he came back up you won't actually hit him
you've got him but he's not dead he spiraled and he keep flew back up i think we're at one
level he's gonna get sucked into that machine and be on one of the fans with all the friends
you guys can't see that but that that uh that fangirl is pretty nice
yeah he's right there there's another over there wait there's another one yeah there's two there's
three i was so excited i felt like my leg was
gonna be the death platform for this fly and i was i was stoked uh but yeah my s3
what about you i really liked the s3 just because it was a good size
improvement but i don't want to copy your answer so probably my original
droid because i i actually played around back then with a lot of rooting
different roms actually wrote it my own soundboard app
back then for like playing my daughter's first words and i wrote that for my wife
so she could have it on her phone and so it was a lot of fun um
but then i think back then obviously there was a lot of limitations to their
first moto droid and battery life kind of sucked and early Android wasn't as smooth it was
clunky it took them like a year to make touch wiz not a giant polygon
right but my problem with the samsung phones was the amount of bloatware they came with yeah so that drives me nuts
yeah i've never i've i've that's one reason why i'm on a pixel right now it's
just the stock experience is always preferred for me most most other phones
that i've had i've tried as hard as i possibly can to revert it to a
stock-based experience i do not like any
of the custom uis i don't like any of that kind of stuff it's all it's all
garbage this phone's too amazing let's crap it up boys yeah
i don't think i've never seen somebody ask you know say i would like this phone
to run slower please add your own software to it yeah you've never seen
anybody ask for the bixby i would like a little bit more lag well it's kind of
like it's kind of like laptops now we're like MSI is notorious for a crap ton of
dashboards and bloatware and stuff you know it's like you get rid of all that stuff it's a good experience but
otherwise when you work in a shop that sells not necessarily a pair
repair shop but when you work in a shop that sells laptops and one of your main
services is making them not junk out of the box that's that's like a weird weird
place to be we have poll results for the the question not surprising um i don't
think it's true at all
oh yeah definitely most people are lying well it might be a little bit of lying
it might be a little bit of subconscious shifting where you've decided that you
want that phone because of status anyways and you'll justify it because of performance or future reasons
and i think probably the strongest factor is that the audience that we have
well there's smartphone mvt right if you have a crappy phone the guy next to you
pulls out the latest version you're kind of like oh right i want that and the same thing if you got the latest one you
kind of want to be like everyone look at my phone you know i mean because it's
it's sad but it really is like an accessory yeah yeah yeah but like again with our
audience though it's it's a bunch of pc performance freaks i'm not that
surprised that pc performance freaks want high performance and high feature
phones if we did this survey across everyone
on the planet and everyone answered honestly i bet you status would probably
be higher than anything else probably but with this audience and with natural
skewing i'm not surprised it was 95 would people really admit that because
then they have to admit to themselves i spent an extra 400 for status and that's
not a pill that i think most people would swallow
yeah it's it's it's an interesting question like the do you buy things for
for like like functionality over aesthetic or aesthetic over
functionality i think a lot of people will say that they buy something for
functionality but they might even be buying the aesthetic of functionality if
that makes sense if something looks like it's highly functional then they want
that thing it's it's a really interesting mind game scenario because
you might be convincing yourself of something and not even realizing there's a
there's a dimension of that that's sort of uh related which is
taking your customizations and your settings and stuff and that has always
been like if you spend a lot of time customizing your phone or customizing
whatever it is to make it exactly just so you will be punished because every
time there's an update or every time you switch phones it is super difficult to
get all those customizations from one device to another and it shouldn't be
yeah that's one of the few things i liked about apple's operating system is that when you use migration assistant
and time machine it just copies everything every app even the
settings within your applications will get all even your third-party
applications all get copied over perfectly it's really one of the reasons why i stayed on excuse me iOS for so
long was simply because new phone copy from previous backup you know
restore up and running and everything's exactly how i left it i don't even use
the ecosystem i don't have a watch i don't have an air i don't have an apple
or what's the apple tv thing i don't have anything i have no other part of the
ecosystem i even have a macbook but even they aren't connected yeah yeah
microsoft really screwed the pooch with the registry because the registry was
supposed to be that and also your application data folder and like theoretically you can move that between
machines but in reality you can't it ends badly every time yeah
you can copy certain features of certain applications but not everything and you
have to reinstall the applications yourself i noticed that when when you
upgrade to a new phone new device right it doesn't save the apps or anything it
saves the app data and then re-downloads the apps fresh and then re repopulates
the data yeah which before it used to be like you said a direct copy which was
even i believe in the earlier days was even copying the battery data which was making new batteries perform like four
batteries because of that efficiency scale yeah so i did notice that when i
upgraded this one yeah that was one of the worst things like uh
working in a like computer shop and you'd be doing
services and you someone would buy a new computer and they'd want a data transfer
and i try to because i tried to be at least somewhat honest i would try to explain to them
this is pretty easy to do on your own but if they wanted it anyways sure
whatever sounds good and you go to do it and then you have to tell them that they
can't bring any of their programs and there's just that kind of
that's a 20-minute conversation and there's like this ratio where like as
the customer is older the conversation is longer yeah yeah yeah
there's yeah and then you have to explain well you have to remember your own wi-fi password and you'll have to do
this and that because we do data recovery and sometimes we can recover it
to where you can do a you can use migration assistant when you
get older programs and sometimes you can't and i'm just copying your data
folder from here to here and a lot of people even if i explain to them you
have to reinstall your programs your settings will not be the same when they
show up they go where's my where's my stuff yeah wait it's all in this folder
i'm like yeah your music is in the music folder okay but where's the library
and it's like well no it's in there you just got a little bite
and it's just i mean yeah i've had people actually break down with tears
because they didn't remember their email password yeah your email password was in
the i'm like i can't get you that it's like
yeah and the email password's an interesting one too because one of the biggest things is
is uh like they won't have a password manager they won't have written their
passwords down which i guess that's good but they won't know how to log into
anything yeah and it's just like it's
painful carrying those sessions over would be super nice yeah what they're
paying for is not for you to transfer the data they're paying for the half hour conversation you're going to have
about every single program yeah yeah there's some people that it's it's literally it's just not even worth
uh upgrading the computer because they would just lose all their stuff yeah
it's like okay well i guess i'll deal with a slow terrible experience because
it's better than losing all my programs and all my settings and
all my logins and all that kind of thing yeah and that especially winds up being true in broadcast or in the music
business because people will have certain plugins and if you upgrade to a
new operating system they won't they won't work anymore and you'll have to find alternatives or this program like
once they get a rig that works it works and they just they want to keep it as is
and that stuff can cost a lot like a new operating system will mess up this is
always used to happen with os 10 in pro tools new os pro tools wouldn't work
right or it's just that stuff can be a nightmare for people
yeah the copy protection they bury things
somewhere on the system uh and sometimes it's just a software
compatibility thing both of those things are terrible
what is it like on Linux because i've never actually tried every single Linux
version that i've had has been full pure from scratch every time so that's a
that's an interesting question i've never tried to migrate from machines
mostly it's okay so like i have um i have a file that
customizes the command line and provides some aliases and shortcuts
and stuff like that and i've been working on that for 20 years and i've never lost it and it's great and it's
just like the best thing ever so it's like literally 20 years of preferences
in that file other stuff that's the most Linux thing i've ever heard
other stuff not so good like other stuff the migration is a little bit more of a
pain one of the things that ubuntu has done
recently is they have this thing called snaps and so because you you like you
have this version of this library that this program needs and you need a
slightly different version of that library for some older program that can
be problematic to run those combinations of things and so one of the things that
snaps does for you is that it packages all of your dependencies inside this
file which uses more space but makes it aware that you have to worry about being
able to run those things less so in terms of like i want to migrate all my programs and just be able
to run it with those kinds of technologies generally you're a lot more
successful but like a lot of the things with like caden live caden live is a
great example because we get lots of support requests for caden live on our forum cadenlab is a great program but 90
of the problems with caden live not actually caden live it's the libraries there are bugs in the libraries and so
you can have audio sync issues and things like that and that is just the
libraries on the system and so snaps can help with stuff like that on ubuntu cool
and other technologies on other distros can help with that so
it's very user respecting but it's still not quite
as slick of a solution as it could be right i am going to
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he'll smash your screen and replace it on site nice that would be great are you
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i wasn't even informed uh anyone sitting here was going to be here until like the
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talked about that earlier i actually knew for three months yeah
communication around these parts is just absolutely fantastic yeah i just thought
i knew how to open or close an imac oh
was that his whole okay i told him like yeah you realize i've had employees to
like put those back together for the past five years
you don't know how to open or close this and i used to
figure it out yeah i'll just grab the board and go blink and he goes
and then the whole thing started chipping that was about oh yeah when i was just oh i don't think it's fitting
and i'm like yeah let me just push it hard
no spoilers but i legit got anxiety watching you guys work on that imac i
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eyesight because i was getting anxious watching i gave him the same service
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that's the uh that's the best ad i think i've ever heard no i've had like a store
manager come to me and say can you stop like showing us reading the letters that
customers write on screen because i'll be sitting there fixing a board and i'll
go oh this Thunderbolt doesn't look viewing or the other usb circuit looks
messed that we can always put that stuff back on later you don't really need that
and i'm saying it's kind of a joke because i'm going to get rid of that circuit and i'll put it back on once it
turns on but there'll be people watching going oh my god what is he doing to my
board they don't call them and say is that my word on the screen that you just ripped all that stuff off
you should know what you were getting
that's fantastic why is everyone spamming numbers i don't understand
i'm just going to mass ban people oh some people type f i don't know what that's terrible either that is f is pay
respects right yeah yeah people keep doing this so that's a that's a call of
duty meme where uh you you like walk up to i believe
they're lowering the coffin of your like friend into the ground you're your
friend and fellow soldier um and you
like you have to press f on your keyboard type r for respect
what is f i think f is just like it's like an easy macro key so if your
fingers are on like what yeah you can well usually the two interact keys on
the game on a computer yeah i've never played
oh everyone's spanning f i thought everyone was doing numbers and i was like all right i'm just going to go
start banning people but you know what f is okay is it because the stream died
no it's just not showing here this is oh okay yeah
my eyes aren't great so i'm like trying to monitor the chat from here you have good enough internet that you could
watch your own stream while you're streaming it that's on two different devices oh yeah you're experiencing new
york internet i'm so sorry if somebody if i play the stream while i'm watching
it i'll get dropped frames this guy from rush actually maybe a little plug-in for
open broadcast or it'll say this many frames stolen by time warner with a
little logo and it'll go up and it matches the open broadcast account why
is internet in new york pat oh it's real bad it's right we've done news stories
on it it's so controlled it's such like there's so many little agreements from
all the little isps there that they don't compete with one another that
there's basically no service or infrastructure upgrades last 15 20 years
you either have verizon dsl in my location which is three megabit down and
point seven megabit up for or you get uh
time warner which is 20 megabit up half the time for 409 plus tax the hotel i'm
staying at the hotel i'm staying at enrichment right now gives me 0.6 down 0.1 up oh i
went to upload a video today using the connection upstairs and i thought oh it
says six minutes remaining i must have uploaded the wrong file
audio by itself and it's like no that's 18 gigabytes and it says six minutes
remaining it's like at home and it'll say yeah 14 hours your video will be
yeah wow that's weird because like we have i couldn't operate
australia is horrible for internet and i've been learning that doing the flow
plane stuff that i've been doing speaking of which sponsorspot Floatplane.com heck yeah scrappy awards
this weekend okay i'm done um but uh
it's like even just getting servers like renting a server in australia is
ludicrously expensive because the internet's so crazy expensive and canada
has uh a similar problem of one of the problems
that australia has which is large landmass not a ton of people they also
have the problem of being kind of isolated and kind of off the main path
of most of the undersea cables but uh canada's problem were all extremely
spread out we all of canada has less population than just the state of
california and then a massive country so you put
those two together and it's not a really great combination luckily we're all
mostly nestled in these like cities that dot around the country so like vancouver
itself does pretty well this place has 1000 down 1 000 up uh my house
my like random suburbia house has fiber
uh 150 down 150 up
and i pay significantly less than you do
409 a month is like it's 4.67
409 a month for what 460 after time it's 20 megabit up 300 megabit down but the
20 megabit up it's like sometimes 20 sometimes 10 sometimes five sometimes i
actually had to get verizon dsl along with the time warner because the
time warner goes down so often that i got a pfsense router that will
automatically switch over to the hundred dollar a month verizon dsl when it dies
so that i can still process credit cards wow that's pretty typical for new york
yeah so i expect the time warner that costs 409 a month to go down often
enough that it's worth it to have another connection like me my studio is
in the greater la area and i've got 300 by 300 fiber for 99.
it's pretty yeah i'm paying i believe it's 99 uh but
i had like a signing bonus lowered for a temporary period of time thing for a
while now uh for my one there's a new construction
a little bit like 30 minutes south of where i live and there were big old
billboards as they were like you know getting the land ready that it's going
to be it was a fiber community or gigabit community
and it's like it was like 59 bucks a month the other thing is uh on the
commercial side so like a lot of commercial internet is often much worse
than residential internet at the lower tier just because vra's in the time
warner in those companies they want at least twenty five hundred dollars a month for the internet connection even
if the companies like and they try and guarantee that ninety nine point nine percent up time which is absolutely
pg with something yeah
yeah i've had to put a sign up on the door enough time to say cash only no
internet yeah that is so aggravating when you know that you're spending over 450 dollars on
internet i'm going to say with both of those internet connections that's insane
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it's it's one of the editors uh so this is one of the editors dennis just
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yeah um what was i going to say next one thing
that i wanted to get through and i think we we might have time is because i always
find this quite interesting and we'll again actually we'll switch it we'll go
from this way over uh what got you into
computers and technology in general my dad my dad after the military he was a
project manager and he was one of the he was one of the first
i don't say pioneers but he was a vp a senior vp for a company that was
building mainframes and and doing you know crazy old-school tape drive backups
and stuff and he basically talked to the company was like guys we need to get off
the mainframe and we need to get into computer uh project management
computer-based stuff pc stuff and this was back in like
80 and they didn't listen to him and of course
that company went belly up because they were one of the leaders in the mainframe and everyone was getting off the
mainframe and but he uh so when when that happened he ended up going to
business for himself writing project management software and from my
earliest memories i was always on his lap while he was on the computer doing
his thing and he had no that he said the best thing he ever did for me was when i
would try and touch the computer he never was like no no don't touch don't touch he was always like he would save
his work and just be like have fun just type away and mash on the keyboard so he
never once told me i couldn't touch anything right so i've always done that
with my kids it's kind of gone you know three generations or two
generations at this point now my youngest daughter now is she's three and
a half and showing interest in the computer which is i think is fantastic sure um so yeah it was it was just my
dad and that was just life was computers and
as long as i remember so it's that simple i think i've told my story a
million times so i'll i'll do a very brief version of it uh but i i just
wanted to play diablo and the computer stopped working so i learned how to fix
it so i could keep playing diablo um and it's gone from there uh there's there's
longer versions but you've probably heard a million times it's i i don't really i mean i don't
really know where to start there was i find yours kind of interesting because you were like super in the middle of
nowhere right yeah i was i was super in the the the first event
really that led to that was uh there was this old guy and well i was sort of
bored in school and they were trying to figure out how to deal with that because
it was like kindergarten or first grade or something and there was an old guy
visiting from the stevens institute and he's like all right let's figure this
out so we set up an apple ii to with like a wooden break to measure
your reaction time when like you hit the thing it would it was like a basic
program that would run and tell you what your reaction time was for like breaking in a car and so he walked me through
soldering wires into something inside the apple ii and then writing a program
on the apple ii and doing all the stuff and i was like i have to learn more and so when you were in kindergarten in
grade one i was very young yeah that's quite because that's a project because i
like took everything apart i got in trouble for taking apart like the tv
yeah in school which is what led to that
okay i was i needed a machine to work on some
sessions in logic pro and the studio that i was working at it closed down so
i bought a macbook because i was broke used on ebay and it arrived broken i got
a discount on it so i bought uh the screen that i needed to fix it and then
when i didn't need it anymore i sold it and i realized i made a profit of two or
three hundred dollars so i thought let me do this again so i was buying and reselling them for a month or two then i
wanted to i started offering the services to other people i didn't think it was economically viable but then i
realized the part is 80 to 90 and apple charges 1200 at the time to replace the
entire screen assembly so i just kept doing that over and over again people
started bringing liquid damaged ones eventually so i started sending them off
to a company in china that would fix them they were doing worse and worse job
as time went on so i figured if i've been working on recording studio
equipment and consoles at component level let me see if i can figure out how
to do this so after a lot of i think a few years of painfully messing around
and bailing a lot and recording a lot of it for youtube i got decent enough at it
that i could offer it to regular customers and that was that i think the youtube thing
started from uh making a video because reseller ratings was trying to up the
rate by about a thousand percent so i did a video on their process that got
120 000 views that i thought would get 10 and
that was that cool and you you've mentioned audio stuff a few times
uh this way in show so what what was your involvement in the music
industry i worked at i went to avatar studios and i said that i would i
remember saying something like i would rather wash the toilets here than work at any
other place for money and i remember i showed up from my interview and the guy
asked what is this thing that i had in my pocket and it was a semi headphone amplifier that i put together myself
from stuff that i bought on ebay and he said you're hired i think that was roy
hendrickson that hired me so i worked there and i cleaned the toilets and i
cleaned the you know all the the floors and the consoles and everything
for three months and then i uh after working there for free after three
months i got to work in the tech room with the other people working on ssl
consoles and eve consoles to retape machines and that was that cool sweet it
was fun i think with that we are oh no we have about 10 minutes
left let's see if there's any actual topics to talk about
uh no topics no no turns out recycling
garbage in like the poor part of the thing that's also a really good way to
get technology that's how i got most of my first computers it's like let's
frankenstein stuff together i think i feel like
most people that are into computers have a similar story that like my favorite
one is uh i went to a like a country high school we didn't have very much
money especially not in the tech departments and uh
the way that we built a new computer lab because we needed one really badly because there's a lot of kids in the
school that were interested in computers it was just designed as a country school
so it was the most trades and stuff the way we built a new computer lab was
my teacher waited for the truck that went to all
the different schools and picked up all their broken computers because they did it once every like few years and called
him the guy directly i don't know how you got his number and diverted him to
our school which i really originally what he wasn't planning to go to because we had no computers to give up and he
was like yeah we got some stuff just like leave the truck for a little while
and he left the truck and we offloaded everything that was on there which was
like not supposed to happen i'm not going to say your name but thank you very much teacher um because i think the
hard drives and stuff that were on there yeah but we took everything we shoved it all in
one room and then my teacher was just like okay bye thank you leave now um and
we spent the next few months that whole computer class
just like we would like oh my goodness okay this motherboard actually works
let's find all the cpus and all the RAM and everything that can go into this
board and test all of it and mark everything as good or bad and like find
all the use those to find all the motherboards that work and like
we ended up building like one and a half computer Labs out of it that was a
really really cool project we had uh i was accused by the time i
made it to high school i was accused of black magic because the local repair
place would always replace the motherboard whenever a ps2 whenever a
kid would something the ps2 ports were really bad because like if you pulled
the keyboard the wrong way blow the fuse on the motherboard and so it was not
surface mount it was through hole it was really easy to replace and i would be
like well let's just crack it open take the motherboard out and replace the
the through-hole fuse and the local computer repair company was like black
magic witchcraft burn him burn him at the stake
we got to replace the motherboard we can't just repair them that's like three cents we can't do it
so yeah that was not fun in a poor high school where they can't afford a thousand bucks a machine
to replace stuff and you i'm just i don't know why i'm
jumping back to this now i kind of skimmed over it when you were first telling the story but uh you built a
amplifier you said it was a semoy means they have all these guides online and
how to build them it's a headphone amplifier that you build into an altoids can that's powered off a nine volt
battery so what got you into that though i just enjoyed hi-fi audio okay yeah
yeah yeah so you wanted to like kind of build something yeah i just thought it was something cool to do in my spare
time and i've seen uh if i remember correctly you have those like the i'm
going to use the wrong term but the sound dampening panels yeah those sound
dampening piles uh panels yeah yeah yeah piles of cat yeah in my office and at
home yeah are you still into custom hi-fi stuff yeah yeah cool what's what's
like the most recent custom hi-fi project you've done uh like just the
vanderstein set of speakers that i have at home you really don't need really expensive stuff to make it sound good
you can find new stuff online like vanderstein speakers for four hundred
dollars a cheap amplifier and some of those uh corning 703 panels and it'll
sound amazing yeah i've i've actually been for a while now i've wanted to copy
your your sound dampening panel project you just can't have a cat because if you
have a cat then yeah yeah
they use it as a scratching post they've made it that entire section of my apartment look like garbage
that's right the cat is cute so it gets away you worked in it for quite a while
um i had several hats in that company um but i worked
very close well i started actually doing energy audits and stuff
within the company and we also wrote our own software to run on various devices
either ipads or the samsung devices i mentioned
and we had major contracts with the power companies and then
rit department was extremely overworked and supporting all these devices
upgrading getting ready to go repairing them
and we also had our in-house you know a software development team and then the
more they realized that i was the guy that was actually going around
in the field helping other people people so get a problem you have to call in to
the help desk right and our help desk was three guys trying to support a
company of 350 field agents and it was like that could get overworked really
easy yeah and that was the same rit department of three was the same guys
also building and managing our um three country-wide six major cities
vpn that kept all of our offices in communication so if they were doing that
or they were out at a data center or something we were just like
down in person yeah so i was the guy that everyone started calling out in the
field to come help them if they had tech problems with their equipment or something was broken needed it fixed
when the company realized i was doing that then they were like hey do you want
to manage our help desk and i was like i don't know we'll see so
because i knew i had all the end user experience as well as the technical
know-how to keep it all working well once i got into that role they realized
i also knew an okay amount of uh coding and design
from my dad being a project a software developer so then they were like you
want to be a part of our qcqa team if you're part of our automated testing and i'm like wait so you want me to do help
desk management and this so basically i ended up having like these three hats at
one time um which really burned me out to be honest
because i did that for almost 10 years right and then that was when i started
doing the youtube thing and just kind of moved out of there but it was fun i learned a lot um obviously it was unique
to have this kind of a venn diagram of experience right all three of those
aspects you know development support and then end user
which uh really gave me a unique understanding of what it's like from top
to bottom when it comes to product testing and use yeah so i i try and take
everything from a very practical perspective of how i approach tech
but i do have a a very high level knowledge too on where a lot
of it starts and but i try not to really go into any of that in my content
because i leave stuff for that like wendell and gamer's nexus yeah the guys
who can actually communicate in that in a manner which people can understand
because i'm very good at practical use but i'm very bad at technical
explanation okay so and i'm going to take something that you
said and something that you explained uh but so you you got into youtube because
you wanted to kind of express annoyance from who was it customer reseller rating
resellers.com uh and you mentioned that you started to get
into youtube at that time but why did you start to get into youtube it was a
dare oh someone dared me okay um so i
was live yeah well i was live streaming um
call of duty three close co close quarters when it launched because nick
coconut monkey and i were good friends we played that all the time and i had
started live streaming it because when when it dropped for um premium access
early access he was like with a family on vacation he couldn't play it so he's
all butthurt so i basically was like okay i'll find out how to stream it so you can watch and see the early access
um another gentleman by the name of holiday doc came in and just randomly
found my stream and he was a pretty well known like call of duty codcaster for
like mlg and he just thought that i was funny and entertaining and we became
friends and after a couple of months he's like you should do youtube people would find
like this tech stuff interesting because i became like the guy he asked pc
questions to because he didn't know anything about pcs and then he was like you should do stuff
like this on youtube i said and then and at the time i didn't know Linus tech
tips i didn't know people made livings on youtube i was this is 2012 i was
super ignorant to what was going on i was like who the heck would watch a
channel about computers that sounds like the most boring thing
anyone would ever spend their time doing he's like well just try it so he i
basically told him i'll i'll try it but what it fails will you leave me alone
he kept bugging me about doing it and so i was like fine i'll try it and then of
course it just sort of steadily took off and i've since like built him a computer
and sent him parts yes you're pushing me it's it's one of
those things where i only did it to show that it would not work yeah and fast
forward six years it's now my it's not incorporated and it's now
helping other people pay their bills because now i have employees so it's crazy
i uh that's that's actually really cool and i like the part where you sent them
a computer and parts and stuff that's kind of cool to pay it back i i
got into youtube because uh i was like really really into
mechanical keyboards like before america really had very many
mechanics that sounds rare but people are like really into that yeah it it
there there's there's forums dedicated to it and stuff it's just not that big
of a community um and i had like i had my own like
imported from taiwan keyboard and all this kind of stuff and i wanted to show
it off because i was proud that i had finally actually gotten a mechanical keyboard instead of just researching
them online all the time uh so i filmed a video of that and then never released
it and now there's uh some people have watching this have probably seen it but
there's a video of lioness and i watching that video both just
essentially maybe yeah because that was when it was like critiquing your first video like that a
lot of people were doing that yeah yeah so we we critiqued a video that no one
had seen because it was never released anywhere right um so that the director's
commentary thing we were talking about like as it's airing and then you're so embarrassed because you're like oh my
god i can't believe i said that yeah by the time you think like you nailed this video you go back and you look and
you're like wow i'm an idiot especially because i said something that was like
factually incorrect what was your first mechanical keyboard uh dk 9008 g2
from ducky oh see i mean ducky's announcement it's still the keyboard that i yes
my first was a razer black widow oh yeah
okay i remember i mean it was nothing super special but it was a blue switch
without that was super cool until i started streaming
i still stream with it i don't even care people are going to deal with it m or
bust do you use one i do okay i've got a
black model m actually actually that's cool a fairly impressive collection of
the uh ssk model amps as well the numpadless ones yeah i have a mask i
should be able to make it until i'm about 80 if i only use
the ssks because that's pretty sweet the model and the you know comp still makes
the model m but it's a little lighter it's not quite construction yeah um the
the earlier ones are better the later ones they've gotten a lot of money from
like the healthcare industry and stuff so unicomp is making higher quality products than they were even a couple of
years ago and uh there it's almost as good but
man those assets like it's nice the only thing i really missed
are the extra keys so i've had to like remap my keys for things on the right
side of the keyboard but it's not bad yeah i i have one properly functioning
model m but i generally don't use it
um i've got a bunch of the ones with the num lock you can totally have one
or with like the number pad yeah yeah that's fine that'd be cool i can even
give you new inbox i've got like four of those of like the original yeah holy cow
that would be pretty cool i will uh we'll we'll talk later
but uh how do you get into youtube um the very first video that i made was
actually even before the thing but like i used to well it's a long story but
even before all of that there is a video that i'm surprised that no one found and
it was when uh Windows vista came out i was so angry
i probably should have been medicated and i was really worried about privacy
and things like that but i made a driver showing how NVIDIA had completely
screwed the pooch on 64-bit drivers under 64-bit vista they literally took
their 32-bit driver and pasted it into a
64-bit uh wrapper i was so mad i could
not see straight i was seething with anger because it was like you know right
up to the beta launching video was like really come out with a driver and then after vista went into production they
were like okay cool here's a real driver and it was still the same garbage that
had been for like the last six months before that and so there's a video on
youtube of me losing my mind and ranting about this
horrible pile of garbage driver that doesn't work and it'll work for five
minutes and then crash and the whole reason was that as soon as a program
would try to do anything outside of that 32-bit address space with that 64-bit
driver it would crash because it wasn't really a 64-bit driver
so there's that and that's the very first thing i did on youtube technically
i guess yeah if i want to be specific the very first stuff i did on youtube
was uh again this is the only reason why i thought of it even i usually forget
about this but you mentioned no one found it so far no one has found this i
checked a little while ago and it was still there i don't know why the titles are so bad it's probably why people
can't find it but no click bait here but uh this was i
used to do guides on how to get 100 sync
in like assassin's creed levels
and like no one cared it was great um so
what another thing i want to ask you about is you recently developed and
started selling why am i forgetting the name of them right now
yes you uh like multi-port kvms with
really really really high-end features so that was another thing that was made
me almost as mad but not quite as mad as the NVIDIA driver thing that's why i
brought it up and it was like all right i can do something about this this is
the thing that i can fix because the world of kvms for like 4k and like
displayport 60 hertz it's terrible it's really terrible
and most i know of even now are still like vga stuff yeah yeah and like the
usb functionality is like it's designed for like the five dollar usb keyboard
which has like one of three of the cheapest usb chips known to man but if
you get an RGB keyboard it doesn't work or if you've got like the Corsair
keyboards once the driver loads it's not even really a keyboard anymore and so
good luck getting that to work with the kvm and so i just i found
i found somebody in taiwan that had basically the hardware that i needed but
i got them to tweet the hardware for me and i got to do software that solves the
problems for people like us that would be trying to do things with a kvm that
has you know a 4k displayport 1.2 whatever and
i basically already had a customer lined up for them so i was just sort of selling the seconds but they sold so
well that we did two other runs and it is shocking the people that have come
out of the woodwork to buy the kvms and generally it's done really well uh
interestingly macs are the things that uh have the biggest problem like the the
trashcan mac pros don't actually follow the displayport spec at all no way yeah
so that's the most surprised no way i've
ever heard
so they're a little problematic with max the modern max you have to use like a
Thunderbolt dock that has like a displayport socket you can't just use a
cheap cable and i don't know what that's about so i'm looking i'm working on that
yeah i know that the to every macbook with the since the touch bar with the dongle
if you use a dongle it's not the apple dongle your devices won't work yeah it's
a rule i plan to do a real review of that and once i got to the point where i
plugged it in and i realized the dongle didn't work unless you use the 80 one
and the 30 one worked and the two other machines i had i just couldn't stop that
well the one of the design choices on the kvm is that it does not have a
repeater and so a lot of the signal is like a lot of the
signal out of that displayport cable is just barely enough that if it's going
into the monitor it's fine but if you send it in through the
connector and then into the kvm which is like another four inches of cable and
then back out again the signal noise ratio is not high enough for it to do a
proper digital sync or whatever on that cable and
it's infuriating because the spec says that it should be able to
push an unamplified cable that's like eight meters or something like that and
it you're lucky to get four i'd be interested in what chip sets the the
trash can one uses because i think i've only opened one of those ever it's a
d300 but it goes through i think it goes through the board in the bottom and then
back out the connector in the back and so they have a repeater or something
in the board in the bottom and that's the problem oh yeah because if i like
just solder a little dongle directly on the
d300 it's fine so you'd have to tell your customers to solder it directly to
the mac pro yeah it's some some of the witchcraft
after the d300 before it makes it out of the mac because i'm assembling
yeah the you mentioned the like i think it was like four inches or whatever of
cable within the within the box that was a i'm going to tangent here a fair
amount but that was a really interesting situation when usb 3 start first started
becoming popular and you'd have those cases that have front i o usb 3 but that
were just cable extensions that would go all the way out the back of the case and
plug into the back your motherboard and then you'd have people with really long
usb 3 cables so you'd have people with like 15 feet worth of total actual
distance for usb 3 and then it won't charge their freaking devices that
remains a problem on cases i mean the front panel usb 3 is still hit and miss
it's still really a lot of cases yeah it's it's it's it's frustrating too when
you we're finally in the era where it isn't those weird extensions that have to go
out the case and then into the motherboard in order to make it so you can plug in usb but they some cases will
still have usb just like header cables for usb 3 that you could plug into a
different case like it's like why is it so long this is actually really bad but
yeah most people most people don't know about that that being said though i think we're going to cut it here because
you have to grab a plane i have a flight yeah he has to get out of here uh thanks
for watching the WAN Show this was a bit of a bit of a different way to do the
WAN Show uh we half covered one topic uh
but i think it was good it was fun to talk about a whole bunch of different stuff i'm going to let people shout out
their channels again uh so lewis rossman
group guesses 2 s's
perfect there we go i will see you guys next week i will possibly see you guys
at ltx i'm gonna enjoy some more of this savage i'll be there tomorrow do it
uh
yay private internet access for all your privates yeah ltx
i need to get shilling scenes in open broadcaster dude it's great that's great
i have to do it manually it sucks