All right, and we're live this time with
my screen sharing working and no blue
screens. And no blue screen. You know what's interesting? This will be a good
uh very early show discussion is someone told me when we ended the show last week
and then like popped right back back in.
Um they don't see the first 30 seconds because of the ad. Oh. So, whenever we
do the first 30 seconds of our show, it actually gets cut off because the way
that Twitch integrates ads is they just put it over top of the content, whereas
YouTube has a different approach that I'm used to. So, I thought that was
interesting. So, that means no one will see this until it's uploaded in the
archive. Yeah, it's cool. They'll never know it was there. We could do anything.
I mean, except that the other thousands of people will see it. So, yeah, there's
that. Someone says no sound. Yes, there
is. Um, yes, there is. I'm monitoring. Well,
yeah. Okay. No, there is sound. Cuz I was going to say, remember in the
recording we did, there was no sound. That was the whole problem. True. There
wasn't. But the levels are all going and the monitoring is working. So, way to
troll us. We love you guys so much. So,
very much. All right. So, so let's kick off the
show with Oh, right. No. Yes. Wait. What are our topics? Right. Razer has the new
Blade 14, which is an allnew version of the original Blade 14 that takes
everything that I thought was shite about the original one and improves it
to the point where, and this you know what, Min, their their CEO, backed me
into a corner on this one because at CES, he made me promise that if they
fixed everything I complained about about the original Blade 14 that I would
go on camera with a revised model and say that it's the perfect notebook. And
I was like, if you guys can fix everything I complained about, then I
will. And they did. So that's going to
be that's going to be awkward. Um, what else we got this week? Awkward,
actually. PEL is a new wireless standard
that looks to replace those monolithic cell phone towers with something that's
smaller, easier to install, but would require many more of them, but could
potentially give us much better speeds.
Uh then we have Google is now going to be encrypting your searches and more on
that and then the fact that a thing called popcorn time existed for a very
short period of time and everything entailing that. All right, so let's uh
get this rolling.
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to daylight savings time is stupid. So
if you Google daylight savings time is stupid and uh it'll come up with
thoughts from a gamer it's stupid why it should be abolished. How it's stupid. 14
reasons that it needs to end forever. Daylight savings time is a thing in some
parts of North America, not even all of them, which I was baffled to discover
when I was a kid. Yeah, like I actually recently discovered that. I thought
daylight savings time was literally a worldwide thing. No. And then like
fairly recently, I was like, what? It's some parts of North America, even within
Canada, there are provinces that do not use daylight savings time. So confusing.
So every 6 months the clocks jump forward an hour or back an hour in order
to in the spring give us more usable
daylight during the day which is a factor when everyone's working outside
in the fields and less of an issue in
the modern age. So that is that is why
the show is a little bit you could just shift your like sleep cycle. Yeah, you
could do that. Yeah. So companies could have their own thing, but there's no
real reason for us to just be not in sync with the rest of the world every
six months. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you're farmer in the field, you need more working daylight. Well, that's why
farmers get up early. Exactly.
You don't need to change the time for that.
Doesn't Doesn't the rooster crow at a certain time depending on the sun, no
matter what time the clock says? That's my understanding. Although if there are
any farmers watching, we would love to hear your thoughts on rooster crowing.
If they all have a watch on and then that's how they crow. I don't know. I
don't know. All right. So, our better than Bieber segment today is
significantly better than Bieber because anything in outer space is automatically
better than Bieber. It is the 80th
birthday of Yuri Gargaren. I'm not 100%
sure how to pronounce his last name. I'm very sorry about that. I know Neil Armstrong cuz he's like, you know,
because we're so Americanized up here, the only thing we know is like American
heroes and celebrities. But it is his
80th birthday and he was the first man
in space. So congratulations, Yuri.
Congratulations, human race. What a big
deal that was. So that was uh March 9th.
That was 5 days ago. So he went into space for a
108minute flight on April 12th,
1961. He was born into a poor family March 9th, 1934. In 1955, he was called
up for military service and sent to study aviation in Orinberg. And then on
December 9th, 1959, he applied to join a
squad for cosminaut candidates. How cool
would that be? Actually really cool. First man in space. I always wanted to
be an astronaut. Then I was like, "Wow, I'm really not intelligent enough for
this." After his flight, he was never allowed to fly into space again.
Something he dreamt of. And he was actually killed in a MiG 15 UTI crash
near the town of Kerach. Sorry, I don't know how to pronounce that either. You
weren't even I saw that coming and I was like, "Oh no."
So that was on a routine training flight, but he would have been 80.
That's how. Isn't that cool? That's actually
really cool. I I I like I like all the space news. That's part of the reason
why it always gets in the better than Bieber segment because space news is just interesting. People have heard my
rant. And it's better than Bieber in general. Yeah, exactly. I mean, so is
anything. So is this t-shirt. So is this t-shirt. Well, oh, I forgot to wear my
Linus Tech Tips t-shirt today. You wore it yesterday. I have my holy balls one.
Yeah. Oh, bummer. All right, so let's move into our first real news item of
the week. The original poster for this is DM012 onlineus techtips.com and Amazon
Prime. It's official. The cost is going
up. The good news is that if you already have a subscription, you can lock in for
one more year at your old rates, which I actually think is pretty generous.
That's not too bad. I honestly when I first read this, not this one, but when
we first reported on it a few weeks back, um I thought they were just going
like, "Yep, as of this month, it is now this much more." because that's how like
everyone else on the planet does their rate increases.
Yeah. But no, they I think they took a very consumerfriendly approach to it. So here
we've got someone posting their letter. This is DM012's post. Um so hey, you
know, just to let you know it's going to be increasing. So as of July 31st, 2015,
I mean the guy's got like like 15 months
to enjoy it at the old rate. uh your membership will renew at $49 a year. Um
and so that's the student rate. So the student rate went from 39 to 49 and then
the grown-ups rate went from I'm not saying students aren't grown up. I'm
just saying like there could be students that are older than you. Actually there
is students. Yeah. 100%. Students of life or students at school. Did you know
that in BC actually I don't know. Did you know this um post-secary education
is free for seniors? What? No. Yeah. You
can just go take classes at university at like UBC. What? Is that like a
government sponsored thing or is that done by the schools? I have no idea. That's so random. Yeah. So, my my mom's
talking about like her retirement plan and she's like, "Yeah, you know, well, I
went to school, you know, and then I went to high school and then I went to
university and then I started teaching in a school and then I'm going to retire
and go back to school." Like, mama, I love you, but I would go for
certain classes if they were free and I was retired. I definitely go for
certain. So there you go. Very few people take advantage of it. Um so
anyway, so for for other people it goes from $79 a year to $99 a year. And I
don't know. I mean given that the rumor was it could go up anywhere from up to
like $40. $100 a year. I don't know.
What do you think? I'm still not going to get Prime because Amazon.ca is
terrible. Okay. If you were in the US, would you pay $100 a year for Prime?
Probably. When you consider that you get instant video, um, when you consider
that you get free shipping, when you consider there's it's it's free
shipping, right? And the Kindle loaning library, lending library, and I would
get it for free shipping. There's something else that they have coming, right? I don't know. I don't pay as much
attention as I probably should because I'm not American. So, it does not Well, it's in the docks. So, I was giving you
an opportunity to talk because apparently there were complaints you didn't talk enough last week. But since
you're not going to take the bait, uh there's a rumor that Amazon will be
launching some kind of a music service. They already have that and that would
MP3. If you buy MP3s, you can stream it through their website. No, but this would be a streaming service. So like
some kind of like all you can eat style streaming service. So So there's a rumor
that they're going to have a streaming service and then that might be bundled
with Prime as well. Nobody really knows what's going on. You know why I knew
they had at least what they had so far for that? I was trying to buy because I
was like, I should buy my music because I'm getting frustrated on trying to
listen to YouTube albums of people's music because ads will play while I'm
trying to run and sometimes it's like a half hour ad. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm just
like, okay, I don't really want to like stop and skip the ad. So, I was like, K,
I will buy my music. I'll be a good citizen and I will buy my music. Not
possible to buy digital version of what I wanted to buy because I wanted to buy
Arctic Monkeys album AM and I was like, okay. So, I go on Amazon.com, try to buy
it. Oh, you're a Canadian citizen. Can't buy. So, I'm like, "Oh, okay. I'll just
get it from Amazon.ca for what I'm guessing is like two bucks more or
something. Go there. No MP3 version. MP3 downloaded not supported in Canada."
It's like, "What?" I have to go buy a music CD from
Brick and Mort. Like, when was the last time I've done that? I don't even know
where to go. Like, I don't know if Best Buy even has a music section. Do you remember A&B Sound? Yeah, they don't
exist anymore. But that was probably the last place I actually bought a CD. And
they don't exist. They're gone. I know. What do I do? It's because their entire
business model was selling CDs and it's dead. Oh my goodness. Did you try
iTunes? I don't I don't want to do iTunes. I don't want iTunes on my
computer. It's a big piece of garbage,
but it works. I've bought songs through iTunes. I I had to there. I was looking
for some stupid obscure thing like at some Christian band or something and I
needed this song cuz I thought it was awesome and I was like okay where can I
get this like nope iTunes nope that's
it. So, speaking of the difficulties
that exist with legitimately obtaining
legitimate content, let's move into what
I think is going to be one of our biggest topics this week, and that is
Popcorn Time. So, this is a service that
launched. It launched this week, right? This was fast. This was really fast. So,
it launched like days ago. And the idea
was, I think, for it to be used for legitimate things, but let's be honest
with ourselves, that was that was not even if they didn't have the intent for
it to be used for piracy, the internet had the intent for it to be used with
piracy immediately. So, the idea was that it was kind of like a Netflix for
pirates and it was going to allow the
Bit Torrent protocol. So, that's peer-to-peer sharing to let people
stream movies and TV shows and videos.
So, it had you can see what the interface was because it already doesn't
exist anymore, but you can see what the interface was. You could browse by
category with thumbnails. And the idea was that unlike traditional Bit Torrent
clients, which allowed the user Oh, yeah. This article was submitted by Top
War Gamer on the forum. Thank you. Um, the idea was that unlike traditional Bit
Torrent clients where you can specify a seed ratio or a maximum seeding speed,
the way that this worked was that once you committed you were going to watch
that movie, it would store it on your computer and you would automatically
seed it until you actually rebooted at which time all the associated files
would be wiped from your computer. So, as long as something was reasonably
popular and up to-date and people were watching it, it would be available on
the service and it would be streamed quickly and reliably. And actually
because it wouldn't rely on Netflix's
constant struggle with the internet service providers to allow their service
to be closer to their users because it's
peer-to-peer. You could actually be streaming it from your next door
neighbor if they happen to be watching that movie. Someone down the street. They don't even have to be watching.
They have to have watched and not have restarted their computer yet. That's
right. Which would be quite common. But the idea is that you could be very close
to where the content is being streamed from as a content delivery platform.
It's absolutely brilliant.
But if you go over to uh getpopcorn
tai.me. So we're going to go ahead and have a look at that website. This was
never meant to be. Um it says goodbye.
You know, we started this to challenge ourselves. They thank the community for
translating it into 32 languages, some of which they had never even heard of. I
just realized that Oh, no, never mind. That's uh that's up. I thought maybe it
wasn't. Um so they they thanked the community for helping them translate it.
They they basically said, "Look, we checked like four times that what we're
doing is legal in much the same way that the Bit Torrent platform and Bit Torrent
clients are legal because they're not specifically hosting any pirated
content. Um but they basically went look um
there's an industry here that is established and they don't like what
we're coming in and doing and whether
what we're doing is legal or not. We are going to have to defend ourselves and
we're going to be bearing a burden that no one should have to bear um
monetarily. And so I mean even even the stress I mean people have ended up in
jail over u you know rulings that come
from judges that don't necessarily even understand the issues involved and and
that's a big problem. Do you want to be that guy or do you get your cease and
desists from absolutely everybody? I mean these guys were getting covered by
everyone. It was a huge Techrunch, Time magazine, RS Technica, Washington Post,
Huffington Post, Yahoo Finance, Gizmodo, everyone was covering these guys. Us, we
were covering these guys. I mean, as soon as this popped up on the form, I
was like, "Wow, that's amazing. We have to talk about it." And I meant to try it, but it's gone now.
Um, but they basically went, "Look, we
created this not because we were trying to do something illegal or pirate
content, but because we really feel like the distribution platform for content is
fundamentally broken." And one of the most interesting things in their letter,
I'm going to try and find it right now, was uh here, right here, where they say,
"You know what is the best thing about popcorn time?" I'm going to blow this up
so you guys can read along with us if you want. And that tons of people agreed
that the movie industry has way too many ridiculous restrictions on way too many
markets. And this is word for word. Take Argentina for example, and this blew me
away. streaming providers seem to believe that there's something about
Mary is a recent movie. That movie would
be old enough to vote there. And I like that's awesome. The bulk of their users
were not in the US. It's everywhere else. Popcorn Time got installed in
every single country on Earth, including
two that don't have any official internet access.
That blows me away because what they
were doing, even if it did enable piracy, which come on guys, we can't
have this stupid argument anymore. It's wrong to steal things. And you can argue
the semantics of the word steal all day, but it is wrong to not pay people for
their work that they did. And you can argue about whether the publisher
deserved the money or the actor deserved the money or whoever deserved the money.
Somebody got to get paid for the work that they do. You don't work for free,
neither should they have to. And if you do work for free, then you're doing it
by choice. And if someone else didn't choose to work for free, you have to
respect that. That's their right. I tried to buy the Arctic Monkeys album.
I'm still going to have to try to figure out how to buy the Arctic Monkeys album
without paying the ex without paying more than the cost of the album in
shipping. Sorry, that's a that's an option I found. Oh, and guys, Twitter
Blitz time. I'd love for you guys to just kind of weigh in with your thoughts on this, but but anyway, so even if they
weren't setting out to create a piracy platform, what they were doing was
amazing because it was going to level the field. That's the point of the
internet is that we should all have access to this stuff. And you know what?
Screw geographical restrictions. Aside
from a PAL or NTSC format, why are we
country locked? Why can we only use this phone in that country or play this game
in that country? It's absurd. And the fact that we have the technology now to
enable us to not deal with that crap anymore
is frustrating.
Any kind though. We had a debate before the
show that which you did not carry a which you did not carry into the show.
Oh, what was our debate again? You were saying that they were obviously creating
a pirating platform. They were, but they
did it with all good intentions. During my thing, I said, "Even if they
weren't." I mean, do you have any idea how many millions of dollars a site like
Pirate Babing brings in a year? You monetize a piracy platform and manage to
keep it up. There's a reason that the I don't remember how much it was, but the
ISO hunt guy. Um ISO hunt. Especially when you go the direction that Pirate
Bay has gone with their ads, which they're just like, "Yeah, we're not
going to filter any of it." Yeah. Just put whatever you It's like here's like
boobies on our site or something like that. Um it's like I feel real awkward
ever going there to be like, "Yeah, this is what the pirate bay is and like blah
blah blah blah blah blah." than showing anyone and explaining the whole system
to anyone because I'm like, "Yeah, there's tits all over the place." Yeah,
this is weird. This is sort of the underbelly. Here's another reason why you shouldn't use it, Mom. Um I think
the iso hunt guy paid 110 million or
something like that. Yeah, 110 million. So, okay, think about this. They had to
think that he had 110 million. Like the
am I hunt I think was number four. Not
even not even one of the top guns. Like Pirate Bay is bringing in some serious
money. So if it wasn't in the back of their minds somewhere that they wanted
to drive massive adoption and we've had this conversation, piracy drives a
platform. I personally believe that piracy is a big part of the reason that
Android is so strong. I was going to say Windows and Windows for that matter as
well. Piracy drives platform adoption.
And so if they didn't if it didn't occur to them that someone was going to pirate
content. That's true. But you can tell that they didn't even though it occurred
to them that it might have driven piracy, you can tell that they didn't expect it to at least get as big as it
did because they shut down so fast. There's no way they couldn't have pushed
off lawyers for a little while, but we don't know what's going on behind the
scenes over there. That's true. For all I know, they could be selling the tech
to the pirate bay. The Wow. So that would be so smart
because then they could back off and not have to touch lawyers and just sell it for so much money or the Pirate Bay
being who they are could just build it themselves or whatever just be like like
and that could have even been the point. It could have been a group that was like we're going to make this just to prove
that it can be done and then we're just going to like do it and deal with it and
then we're just going to like dump the source code on some like back door of
the internet somewhere. stage two when we see like Forbes and Yahoo Finance
source code for Popcorn Time leaked.
So, there's a lot of places this can go,
but um Popcorn Time obviously doesn't
intend to to keep I mean, if that's a legitimate video platform, I would have
loved to see something like this. I mean, I love YouTube and I love Twitch,
but they will always have the cost and
logistical difficulties associated with centralized hosting. Well, people have
been talking about the torrent version of Twitch for a little while now. Oh, of
like torrent streaming. Torrent streaming in general. Uh, it's not a
thing yet, but people have been talking for quite a while about how that would be a lot easier because then you
wouldn't necessarily even need certain backbones in place. Tell me this though,
what would you rather do? Would you rather pay a monthly subscription for
the privilege of using twitch.tv, which I'm not saying they're doing. I'm just
saying which would you rather do? Or would you rather use a service like
Popcorn Time that mandates that you have
to use your uplink to upload videos? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. That
mandates that you have to utilize your bandwidth to support the rest of the
platform and potentially puts you in a position where you're just paying for a more expensive monthly internet
connection anyway. Uh, I don't know. Maybe Twitch, I'm not sure. But the
reason why the torrenting streaming thing actually came out was the Venezuel
Venezuela riots. Remember, I actually did talk about this very shortly on the
show because people are talking if you could get one slow pipe out, right? And
just stream it to one person and just barely stream it and then that person
can share it to two or three and then it can escalate, right? That's how you can
stream information like that out. So maybe it's not as widely used, right, as
something like Twitch where they control the whole platform and they monetize it like crazy and all this kind of stuff
goes on. Um, but having it available would be really cool as well. And
another thing that ties into your your increased bandwidth side of that two
option thing is the Time Warner bandwidth thing that's coming out. Yes,
that was interesting. So, okay, you know what? Let's do remember that we're doing
that topic next because I think that's uh that that ties in really well. But
let's uh let's take let's go to the Twitter boards here. Hear what you guys
have to say. What's up? What's up? What's up? What? Oh, the source code is
already
available. Uploaded four hours
ago, which is right when they closed, isn't it? Oh, man. That's classic. They
closed a couple hours ago. That's interesting. It's like close leak. Bye.
All right. So, let's go. Let's go to Twitter. Acid Alamo. You know what, man?
You can't be more wrong. I think piracy helps artists get their music heard.
It's not all bad. If the artist believed
in free music and you look and some of
them do. Weird Al Yanovic very famously
released for free on a dedicated website for it a song called Don't Download This
Song that basically just makes fun of
the MPAA and the RAIAA. It's just like
and makes fun and like just parodies the
idea that grandmothers are getting are getting sued for pirating music and some
artists believe in that but the issue is that you don't get to make that call and
people like Logan can do it in a even from tech syndicate can do it in even a
different way he doesn't have them available for free but publicly says buy
it give it to everybody yeah and that's
fine too but that's his Right. If you
create the content, it is your right to decide how people will use it. And you
can think people are stupid for doing whatever they are doing as much as you
want, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're right. What's the point of the O-rings in the G710 Plus? Good
question. It softens the uh the presses when you bottom out the keys in theory
and makes it a little bit quieter in theory. Um, as for the ISO hunt guy,
yeah, he was from Vancouver, my hometown. It's not stealing if you don't
get caught. Stealing. It's still stealing. You're not a You can argue
semantics all day. I'm not going to do that on this show cuz it's stupid. Uh,
best example is Game of Thrones, the most pirated series there is no legit
way to watch in Europe. And that is a fantastic example of a completely missed
opportunity because the content providers, the local governments,
whoever it is, can't figure out how to just freaking work together and cash in
all that money because people are willing to pay. I could be totally
wrong, but don't they film part of it in Europe? I think so. And it's not
available in Europe. Are they high?
Well, it's kind of like um I'm not I'm not sure if I I forget what it is. I I
It's not oranges, but there's some fruit that's grown in California
predominantly, but it's actually more expensive there than it is here.
It's not oranges. You said it's not oranges. I don't think it saddens me to
see stuff like this get shut down because what they're doing is wrong, but
because not because what they're doing is wrong, but because they got too big doing it. And but that's a lot of the
time what happens, you know, when you're when what you're doing is with the best
intentions. Like I mean, you know what, a great example is when we do worldwide
giveaways. You know what? The way we do it isn't really legitimate. And if we
turn into, you know, um NBC, Linus Media
Group turns into the next like multinational media conglomerate, we
won't be able to do worldwide giveaways anymore because you're under more scrutiny. I was I was going to say you
might want to explain how it's not like it's it's it's not um you can't there
there's local law laws and giveaway laws in many different places which really
screw with giveaways. We're able to fly under the radar because we're not big
enough but we're not we're not what we're screwing with is a lot of places
you're not allowed gifting people things. Yeah. or you have to pay 100% of
the cost of the item on top of the actual item, on top of import fees, on
top of taxes to be able to give someone something. We might as well just send
you the cash. Like it would be Yeah. At that point in time, it would be
literally half the cost to just send you money. Yeah. So, yeah, there's lots of
problems. Georestrictions money. No,
sometimes georestrictions just result in no money for anyone. That's the problem.
Um, that page is awesome. You were right, Linus. They have to change region
locks. Yeah, my first time. I love it. I have no idea what you're talking about,
Teddy. Feels like the first time. It's really
hard to sing with your voice in your ear slightly delayed.
Uh, just embrace iTunes, man. No, I
don't want to. I might build like, you know, my like secondary computer that I
let people use when they come over to land. I might just like put iTunes on that.
Screw you guys. We are not doing the bronze gay Ben statue. I'm sure that
would creep him out way too much. If big movie companies don't want to be stolen
from, they can't charge what they charge and expect to be profitable. Yeah, but
this is another thing that isn't really the right of the consumer to decide. Um,
you don't get to decide a car's I mean, and like I know this is the analogy they
use, but they're right. You don't get to decide that car is too expensive, I'll
just steal one. If it's too expensive, and I've said this so many times, don't
buy it. But you also don't get to watch it or listen to
it. That's just how it works. And if enough people don't buy it, they will
lower prices. But people refuse to just
boycott things. You know what? You don't like as a whole, we just can't seem to
do that. No, we just can't do it. Like, we've tried so many times. People are
just like, "Nah, because I won't make that big of a dent." But then hundreds
of thousands of people are like, "No, my dent's not that big." I feel like that's
the same as ad block. If I don't like um
you know, say for example, an artist, who's that one that was caught with the
child porn? I don't know. I can't I can't remember off the top of my head. I
thought it was the the guy making the
Oh, yeah. Uh oh. Apparently, he was
acquitted. So, allegedly child porn, R. Kelly, whatever. He can be acquitted all
he wants. I won't listen to any of his songs. Comes on the radio, won't listen to it. Pay or not pay, if you don't like
something, don't use it. And then it will go away, you know, if you if people
don't like that. Uh oh, who's that? It won't go away because no one else is
gonna do what you do. Who's that other stupid guy?
Um the uh the South Park fish fish
stickicks one. Uh Kanye. Kanye. Yeah. If
you don't like Kanye selling a plain white t-shirt for however much he
charged for it, do you remember that thing? Wasn't it like $500 or something? I don't remember. I could be totally
wrong. I don't remember. I remember it sucked. $120 plain white t-shirt that
had nothing special about it. If you don't like it, don't buy it and it'll go
away. But people cannot handle that. All right, so back to this. So $500 was a
lot higher than it actually was. Um, YouTubempp3.org. Okay, that's no idea
what that is. Not allowed, I believe. Haven't actually used it. Um, about your
new segment, better than he who must not be named. Never show his face or I
mention his name again. Did that end up in the news in our news this week in our
doc? I don't want to talk about that. It's awesome. But that is about him.
Well, it's Oh, come on. That's completely against the segment. Oh, no.
Not as the as the segment. Can we just talk about it very briefly? That's
completely against the whole ideal moral
of the show and the point of having that segment in the show. We can't talk about
news. It has to do with him on the show when we have a segment
that's about how much people have to do with him. But that's why everyone's
talking about him all the time. All right, fine. We need to stop. I'm from
the US, so every time I hear about content restrictions, my jaw drops. Yep.
Yeah. I mean, even here in Canada, we're relatively sheltered. Um, I refuse to
use iTunes and Google Music isn't available in the UK, but then you just
Well, you you can't just refuse to use gas stations and then expect to still be
able to drive. Like, if
the h maybe I don't even want to hear from you people about this.
Let's go ahead and move on to our next topic. What was it again? Uh there's the
the Time Warner bandwidth cap voluntary thing that no one did because it's dumb.
Yeah, that was ridiculous. So, we were talking about uh would you rather pay
for higher bandwidth caps or would you
rather pay for um where is it? Like to
use services because someone has to pay at some point for something. So, you're
either going to be contributing to a peer-to-peer network or you're going to
say, "Okay, no centralized servers are better for me, but I have to pay for this somehow." Whether it's through
watching ads or whether it's through um whether it's through just paying for it
outright. So, here I'll let you cover this one. So, they decided that you can
save about $60 a year, which is like
really not that much. time winner. $5 a
month and have bandwidth caps of 30 GB
to which less than 1% in the thousands
of their 11 million customers decided to actually opt in for because it's a very
terrible thing and you're
dumb. I don't even like know what else to say. Um, he said practically the CEO
Rob Marcus said practically no subscribers took the ISP up on its offer
for cheaper service. Cheaper service. $5
a month. Shut up. Give us a halfp price service with a very limited bandwidth.
Now maybe we're talking. Yeah, exactly. $5 a month. Like you're not winning
battles there, man. Um, for service with
a data cap. A data cap. It's 30 gigs for a home internet
connection. What? Like I just downloaded Titanfall that would have crushed the
whole cap. What the heck? I don't know. This
is This is something that I brought up before though actually when we were talking about Call of Duty Ghosts when
people were talking about how it was like 50 gigs, right? Yeah. And I was saying physical media might come back
for games specifically because if you're downloading these like 50 Gigabyte
games, it took me all freaking night. I I started downloading Titanfall after
work. Couldn't play it that night. Had to play it the next day because still at
2 in the morning. It wasn't done right. and like I have a pretty good internet
connection. It was not my side. It took way too long. If I just decided to go to
the store and drive back, I could have had the game in 15 minutes, 20 minutes.
So, I've got a straw pull for you guys. I'm going to go ahead and post that in the chat right now. Would you agree to a
30 gig per month cap for half of your
current rate that you're paying? And I think I already know the answer, but
whatever. Wow.
Thank you. I wouldn't
either. Two people. Two people. Yeah.
You guys rock on. You rock on all two of
you. All right. So, we'll go ahead and leave that for a little bit. But
crushed. So, you know what? This actually looks
in line with the number of people who actually did it according to Time Warner
Cable. Couple percent. They said less than 1%. Did they say less than 1%?
Yeah, but people are probably trolling as well. So, yeah. Well, considering it
sat at two for a really long time and then we called it out and then everyone was like, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes."
Yeah. So, it's one of those things where
Yeah, I think we can just all agree on this one except you 16 people. And I'm
sorry, but you're but you're you're probably watching this show. Yeah, if
you're watching this show, your like whole bandwidth is going to get taken up
from watching Wan's show for a month.
Maybe they are so hardcore that this is the only the only thing they do on the
internet is watch this show. They get to
watch one twoour segment four times a
month of this show. That's it. And we
love you guys. You're awesome. Thank you. You like 20 people or whatever it
is. That's great.
Oh man. The best part is it's still slow.
So you're you're paying half the price, but it's still a lot of money because
half the price is still not that cheap. It's still really slow
internet and you have this crappy data cap. Or you can be San Antonio and
possibly be getting Google Fiber. Yeah.
Okay. Okay. Let's move on to that. Like actually both of these topics the the
upcoming ones are about how infrastructure it just like needs to get
better and uh may may just be getting
better. Hold on. Where where is it? You can use the headers, but it's right there. I'll use your headers. All right.
So, let's go ahead and pop over to this. So, this is from my San
Antonio.com. San Antonio city council's
Google fiber contract. San Antonio, you
guys are awesome. The people who live there are awesome and Google is awesome.
My favorite thing about reading this article, everyone that's watching right now, I highly suggest checking out this
article. Maybe I'll post it. Post. Okay. Um, read through it and read the quotes
from the guy that's on city council who's pushing for it mainly. He is the
biggest, and this is awesome. I'm not saying this in a negative way. Usually when I say this word, it's negative, but
he is the biggest fanboy ever. And it's
hilarious. The whole time he's just like, "Yes, he's saying like, "Win it
tier. Win it here. Win it here." And then he goes into like, "A big important part of my job is managing expectations.
We don't know when it's coming or if it's coming." Blah blah blah blah blah. All of his other quotes. When it's here,
when it's here. It's like, yes. And then
right at the end, he says, "I don't actually see where it is right now. Uh,
when when we get this, remember what I just said. When we get this, and I
believe we will. I would I would like to request a San Antonio themed Google
homepage. That would be really nice."
Awesome. Like that's so cool. Oh wow. I
want this guy on my city council. Me too. Me too. That's fantastic. So good.
So what else is there about it? I mean there are some challenges. Um right now
the company or the cityowned CPS Energy
owns 86% of the telephone polls but AT&T
owns the other 14%.
Oh no. Although I do bet you those are in fairly confined areas. And while 14%
is still very large when you're talking about this kind of stuff, it's probably
able to be bypassed and probably won't be the biggest deal. It's still going to
be a hurdle that they're going to have to jump over. Yeah. What else? What else they got? Something interesting that I
noticed was that they haven't pinned down the locations yet, but they're planning to install them in libraries.
We haven't said what they are. Oh, for fiber huts. So, they're planning on
installing 4B 40 fiber huts, which are 12 by 26 foot communication. I would
live in a fiber hut. Even if it was just a hut, I would just live there. Like 40
gigabit in up and down.
You just want anything click. Yes. So
good. Sorry. Go ahead. Um, so yeah, 12 x 26 foot communications shelters, which
are just going to house all of the fiber communications infrastructure that they
need. They're going to install these in most likely, they don't have pinned
locations yet, but most likely libraries, fire and police stations and
other city properties across San Antonio, which I immediately thought
about. This seems like the setup and
like windup part of the next Batman movie.
Google Google this big corporation
installs these these fiber huts in big
city buildings and then they collect all the data because um have you read and
Eric Schmidt is the the Joker or something like that and then Batman has
to come in and like shut down all these individual huts that are protected by I
hope Warner Brothers is watching because they're stealing because they might
actually do this because they're stealing data from because like police
fire libraries and other city properties. So if they install it at
like city hall, all the police stations and all the fire stations, they could know all the foot traffic of all the
different things. Oh yeah, totally seems like next Batman movie.
Fantastic. This just immediately thought of that. And what made me mainly think
of that is if you've read the thing on John McCaffy, his recent thing about how
the he was spying on police in Bise or
something like that. I was like because he donated computers. It's like this is
like Google Fiber except for instead of donating computers, they're just
installing little structures inside the instead of spying on police, they're
spying on everyone. Yes, but
specifically mainly government. This doesn't even necessarily have to be
Batman. This could be almost anything. This could be pretty much whatever.
Yeah, you could call the movie like The Biggest Brother, Die Hard. And it
wouldn't be about a large black man. It would be about your idea. I mean, it
could be about both. the large black man is the one that
takes down all the Google. To be clear, I know some people don't like black or
white or whatever, but I'm just kind of going treat others as you want to be
treated. I'm totally okay if people call me white. I know their skin's not black
and my skin isn't white, but it's very convenient. Um, that's all I have to say
about that. What was I going to say? And I apologize in advance to anyone that I may have offended cuz I probably did
offend someone. disclaimer. You know, I've I think the last like six WAN shows
in a row, I've had someone message me after the show and tell me how upset
they are because of something I said. I'm sorry. It's a live show and sometimes I talk without thinking. Um
anyway, was there anything else to say about this? There was, but I don't even
remember. Um right, so despite the excitement of the city council member,
which is fantastic. You have to read through the article. Um he said it's
still going to be a really long time coming. They still have legal loopholes to jump through like the AT&T owning a
whole bunch of the um polls thing and
other legal loopholes that they have to go through. It's been approved. They
still have to go through a huge process. They won't even be done doing Google's
required paywork for at least two weeks and then they have to get through
testing and figuring out where all these
fiber huts actually even should go. Then they have to build them all and then
they have to run lines to everyone houses and like blah blah blah blah blah. going
to be a really long time, but it's going to be like full scale Google Fiber, not
in like the middle of nowhere. So freaking awesome. Well, I kind of want
it in the middle of nowhere. I want it here. Yeah, I want it here, too. Okay,
so this article is from Business Insider. This is supposedly the
technology that is going to make your phone's internet a thousand times faster
than 4G. Now, to be clear, guys, a
thousand times faster than 4G is probably more like network capacity
because we're a long way away from flash chips that are capable of leveraging
that kind of throughput. That's what I thought when I first read that. I was
like, "Oh, this isn't real at all." This is kind of like when we talk about, you
know, 100 gigabit, you know, internet
because we're so far away from that even mattering. Um, we're going to need like
light based storage in our computers for that to even be a thing. But, um, okay.
So, what's it called? PEL. PEL. And the idea is getting away from giant, very
widespread out cell towers so that when you're kind of in between, you're
running at like a bar or no bars. And the idea is installing these fairly
small boxes kind of all over the place so that you constantly have really good
signal. And then the individual boxes will be very powerful, just not as wide
range. So, you'll be able to get a lot faster speed while you're in range, then
they're all over the place. Um, which has its own complications because now
instead of having a tower that's kind of away from being in the middle of
anything or on the top of things like on the top of buildings or something like that, you now have to have these boxes
freaking everywhere. So, figuring out where they can put it, stuff like that
could be an issue. That is one of the biggest uh that is one of the biggest
logistical challenges I see with something like this because at least thing about a cell tower is yes it's a
process to get the permits and get it get it built and buy the land and
whatever else you have to do but it's one project whereas I mean if you've
ever tried to do any kind of project management even something as simple as
planning a kid's birthday party if all you had to do was invite like one kid
but like it's complicated and you have to like go to their parents house and
you know prove that you're going to be feeding them you know a vegan diet and
they're going to have a nap at 3:30 and whatever else you're doing one thing
whereas if you have to invite a hundred kids even if it's as simple as emailing
them all and then managing the email responses it's still a ton of work so um
we have the results for our straw poll by the way there you go 5% said yes so a
lot than the not necessarily fairly
hardcores on Time Warner service. So I I don't think our poll is accurate. Yeah,
I don't think so. I wasn't really expecting it to. Um I mean there's a lot
of uncertainties with the new technology. Um the idea is you could
combine the signal for many Pwaves to get a full signal at all time. They cost
less. They're smaller. Um of course they're going to cost less. There will
be an initial roll out in Q4 2014 in San Francisco. So I guess it just kind of
remains to be seen. It it theoretically will use less power. Although if you're
running a phone that is natively LTE, you won't see any of the power savings.
You need a native PEL phone to see the
power. But LTE phones will work on PEL networks in theory, which is actually
really cool. So you could take advantage of this. Now, the speed though, not
necessarily the and the coverage. And the coverage, I mean, especially
coverage in places where they just can't justify a massive tower project. Yeah.
Makes a ton of sense. Um actually we have one more infrastructure improvement
thing here. This is a collaboration between Brazil and the EU that is um
basically just a direct response to
spying by the NSA on foreign dignitaries. And this is like spying on
their allies. And one of the comments in the article, which I just found
laughable, is that President Obama has
since banned spying on the, you know,
uh, spying on close allies. I'm just like, or you could
like there are so many. One, there's no way that's actually true. He's probably
publicly banned it and it's still totally happening.
Um, two, I I don't know. That's that's all I really have to say about that. One
thing that I noticed with this article is, hasn't Brazil been flamed recently
for spying on their residents? Anyways, so this is like, hooray.
We don't want other people spying on you. Only we get to spy on you,
citizens. So, it's $185 million project.
Um it's going to be a joint project between some of various ISPs and uh it's
going to basically the only existing line right now. So it'll run from hold
on a second I forget whoever whoever wrote
this down forgot to say where it actually runs from. Ah there we go.
Lisbon to forella. And uh the only
existing line between Brazil and the EU is so slow that it's only used for voice
communication. So, you know what I mean? Infrastructure upgrades in general, you
know, is never a bad thing. And it's really interesting to see how quickly
the US is losing its very tight grip
over its position as the hub of the
entire internet. Interesting. Um, what is it? Ukraine is dealing with Russia
right now. Um, server hosting has been
hopping out really quickly, right? Okay, so like server hosting for different
games and stuff has been hopping out and you would expect oh they might go to the
states or somewhere like that. None. We've even seen some of them hop
to Canada. Who hops their server hosting
to Canada? Yeah, no one. Those people
apparently not to the states though. Like
I mean it goes to show you, you know, power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts
absolutely. Yeah, I know it's been said over and over and over again, but that
doesn't make it any less true. As soon as someone is in a position where they
can control something, they'll abuse it
every time. Not necessarily every time.
At some point, someone will abuse it. It's a high possibility. I'd say I don't
think everyone is inherently bad except for Lionus. I'm not
inherently bad. See, there you go. We agreed. Now you're agreeing with me. We
agreed I was chaotic neutral. Or was I lawful neutral? I
don't remember. You were chaotic neutral. I was chaotic neutral. Edel
thought you were lawful neutral. Yeah, Edel figured that I was um Oh, no. I
think you said I was lawful evil and
then we agreed I was No, I said lawful evil and then we agreed I was chaotic.
But then I think Edzel figured I was lawful because I operate based on a set
of rules even if it's not necessarily everyone else's rules. I'm like uh I'm
like that uh the the kid and family guy. I don't play by anyone's rules except my
your whole piracy stance is a little weird now. My piracy stance is weird.
Yeah. Yeah. It's probably weird. All right. So Tesla, I still think you're
lawful evil, was banned in New
Jersey, not from selling cars, but from
selling them directly to customers, which is how they sell cars, which is
how they sell cars. So they've been kind of banned from selling cars. Now, you
could you could take either stance on this. Okay. Why don't you give the
overview and then I'm going to kind of jump in and make everyone mad.
Oh, really? Yeah, I'm going to do that. just just h I don't even have the topic
up, but essenti Oh, there it is. Um, essentially cars can be sold by
dealerships. So, there has to be a middleman. Uh, you know how dealerships
work. It's usually like the guy's name who opened the dealership and then like
Chrysler or Oh, Shay Chevrolet or big
thumbs up to anyone who gets that reference. Go ahead.
Or or or whatever else, right? Like that's often how guard car dealerships
are done or other ways or whatever, but there's always a car dealership. You don't usually order like mail order a
car or order it online, but that's how Tesla does it. And they've banned that
in New Jersey. You have to have a dealership, which isn't yours as far as
I know. Yeah. Like someone else has to open a dealership for your cars and then
buy them from you essentially. Yeah. Um, so Texas and Arizona have the same law.
However, New Jersey is been becoming a big hub for luxury cars and Tesla is
luxury cars. So Tesla wants to be there because they want to be able to sell their cars, which makes tons of sense.
Um Tesla is claiming it's claiming I can
talk that it is an affront to the very concept of a free market and I
agree. They also say it isn't just about
cutting out the middleman. It also wants to give buyers an experience to which I
would say BS. It is about cutting out the middleman whe like okay well if you
agree with that then we have nothing to argue about because Tesla's concern here
is strictly self-interest it has nothing
to do with a better experience for the customer necessarily I'm sure I'm sure
there's some of that because if they can give a better experience and it's more
premier and they can control the whole thing they can charge more well there's
there's always profit behind the idea but creating a better experience
experience for your customer creates a premier shopping experience which is
literally some of the target audience for I mean they have the option okay I
agree with Tesla that they shouldn't be banned but I think a middle ground might
have been that New Jersey could say okay
well then you're going to have to open up um negotiations with x number of
dealerships per square whatever mileage
to have the option to sell your cars and you're going to have to offer them a
reasonable margin structure and all that stuff. And if you can provide a better
shopping experience your way, then customers will have a free market right
to choose. I still don't understand why they're banning that though. That still
doesn't make any sense. That's stupid. Banning makes no sense. Yeah, that's
But for them to for to but to protect an industry that is very very
important to the local economy. I understand even if I don't necessarily
agree with I do understand it and I think he's totally right. It's yeah it's
an affront to the concept of a free market. Totally agree. The part that I
was upset about was that Tesla was saying that it wasn't about cutting out the middleman which it absolutely is.
Yeah. I mean it's all about cutting out the middleman. Look at he says it's not
it isn't just about
it's very carefully worded. Yes, it is. And yes, it is just about cutting out
the middleman. I mean, look at I like Okay, I'm going to It's not just It's
just mostly
I'll pull up Apple as an example here. Apple stores deliver a better experience
than Best Buy. Have you ever shopped at an Apple store? Uh, I haven't shopped
there. I've been inside an Apple store though with someone who was shopping.
I've I've bought stuff there. I have gone through service there. I've gone
through their service because my girlfriend at the time had to repair iPhone. Okay. Outstanding experience.
You feel like you're in like this, you know, zone where you're going to be
helped and it's like very futuristic. The one thing that I did really like is
that we never got approached by someone in the way that you get approached going
to Future Shop or for people not in Canada, Best Buy or something like that
because I didn't feel like I was beingounded. More than once I had someone come up and ask me how my day
was and I was like, "That's an interesting intro. I've worked in retail
before. No one has ever told me to start with that." Um, so I talked to him for a
little bit about like random stuff. Then he's like, "Is there anything I can help
you guys with?" like and she saw that he saw that she was holding her phone. He's
like, "Is it broken?" And I was like, "Yeah, we're having problems with it." So he's like, "All right, I'll be back
in a sec." Go grab goes and grabs the tech and has the same intro. They have a
service first approach, which I thought was cool. And so if
Tesla with a service first approach can
effectively out compete car dealerships,
then great. But I don't think they should be forced to allow to sell their
cars through other dealerships. That doesn't that's against the free market
thing. That is when I said I was being very literal. That's very
backwards. That is pulling back. That is I didn't
say that was the right solution though. I said it would be a middle ground. But
it's a bad that's that's a middle ground where there should not be a middle
ground. There should only be the one side. Sometimes the world is about baby
steps. And this is baby steps in the
wrong direction. No, no, no. Okay, hold on. Hold on. Okay. Well, let Okay. So
right now what exists is a law that you
may not run your own dealership. Yes. Okay. So you're saying okay. I'm saying
it's a baby step. I see towards the right direction. And it's better than
just saying no. Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm I'm applying my when I was saying it's
backwards. I was applying my logic to before this law existed. You're talking
about what we have to do now that it's already here. So I Yeah, that makes more
sense. Uh, it's just like why stop them?
Because it's it's it's an established
it's an established part of the local economy and you can talk about how
that's part of the economy and what kinds of kickbacks exist where and what
going on, but it's established and it takes baby steps to
change something. You're not going to be able to walk in and replace VHS with
digital downloads overnight. It took us
what, 15 years? That's laws in place stopping for people
from selling DVDs. No, but there's all kinds of legislative issues associated
with streaming videos online. And we're still working our way through that. It
we go through this every time there's a shift in technology that means that
someone is not making the money that they're used to making. and really like
making. That's all. But I also wonder if it's not even just the dealerships
though. Like is this another step from big oil to try and stop electrical cars
from being sold? I don't know. I mean, everything in the States somehow comes
back to big oil. Ever since the NSA thing broke, I have not been able to
just say, "Ah, that's just a conspiracy theory anymore." Yeah, I
know. It's horrible. Everything sucks.
Anyways, yeah. On that note, um Verizon
wants to charge. This was a topic we talked about last week. You know what?
We talked about it briefly. Okay. Yeah. I don't want to uh I don't want to jump
into that. Okay. Let's talk good news. Haswell E and X99 look like the schedule
has been stepped up. This was posted by Milner Fred and the original article is
from Kit Guru. And so we're looking at
potentially a Q2 launch. What's up? Oh
yeah, a Q2 launch on the LGA
2011-3 socket. Like really Intel, just
call it like socket Blackbeard, isn't it? Like I don't know, something cool.
Um, so on a new socket from Intel, we're going to be looking at up to 20 megs of
level three cache, quad channel DDR4
memory, 40 integrated PCI Express 3.0
lanes. Um, and then I believe the rumor on the street, although I haven't seen
any kind of um, confirmation of this is that the extreme edition will be an
octoore finally. So, that's extremely exciting
and I am uh, very very happy about that. Is it only the extreme edition and not
the highest end K edition? No idea. Okay. Not sure. If they keep with their
what they've done for the last two gens, then it will be the extreme edition and
the like $600 piece. But going back to
when they first launched six cores with Gulf Town and the 980X. So if we go to
when they first launched a new number of cores and when they first launched quad
core, Yep. Yep. Quad core was for an entire generation extreme edition only
and six core was for an entire generation extreme edition only. Yeah.
So we'll see. So maybe I will be waiting for the next version. Yeah. Because
remember I was like I might Yeah. Anyways, so very flexible tuning and
overclocking capabilities are what they're saying. But uh I think that
basically just means they'll all be unlocked. I don't think that's going to mean anything in terms of actual
overclocking ability compared to Haswell and LG 1150. Although I'd love to be
wrong. Yeah, cuz it's not been fantastic for a little while now. Uh we're going
to get six USB 3.0 ports. We're going to get uh 10 SATA 36 Gbit per second ports.
Um no SATA Express, which is an interesting omission. I mean, I would
love to see an Intel chips. Is there actually anywhere saying no? No. Okay,
so maybe I'm wrong. And maybe I mean I wouldn't be surprised if we see SATA
Express being implemented um with third-party controllers and then
utilizing those 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes, but I
don't see any guarantee that it's happening and I would have liked to see a native solution because I think you
and I are very much on the same page as this on this. Um third party chipsets
are okay, but if I can use an Intel LAN controller, an Intel USB controller,
they just even just the drivers
I've been so big about drivers lately because I'm testing stuff all the time
and swapping benches and doing all this kind of stuff. And like when I did that recent platform swap and I was like it
was fantastic. It just worked. That's one of the nice thing about having
native stuff. Uh and other good news,
Google slashed prices on Google Drive.
So let's go ahead and head over there. So um I did a few comparisons and some
of these comparisons were in the news articles but not all of them. My
favorite one was actually a comparison that I didn't see anywhere else, which
was comparing to the launch prices for Drive. So, the launch prices for Drive
were Wow, awesome. Yeah, there we go. 5
gigabytes for free, 25 gigabytes for 250. So, I see people going for either
the free version or the one step up mainly. So now it is four times the data
for 50 cents less because it is a $1.99
for 100 gigabytes and that's per month per month and it was 250 for or 249
sorry specifically for uh 25 gigs. So you're getting four times the data for
50 cents less is actually pretty solid
for two years. Like you you expect it to get better. You don't necessarily expect
it to get cheaper. Um, but you do expect there to be more hopefully. Um, but
they've done four times the amount in two years for less, which is kind of
awesome. And then 10 bucks for one terabyte and starting at a hundred bucks
for 10 terabytes or more of Google Drive
storage. I mean, the future is going to be fantastic, eh? if you could pay, you
know, um, like let's say, okay, so let's say another 10 years down the road or
another five years down the road or whatever. Let's say we get another 10x
increase in the the storage space or whatever that you know it happens to be.
If you have a Google Fiber account at that point, you will actually have a 100
megabyte per second connection to terabytes of storage. You will not need
local storage anymore. But personally,
and I think a lot of other people still will, and there are still a lot of
arguments for personal cloud versus cloud storage. And you know what? I I
see a lot of people going the route that we have, which is where you just have both. Yep. You have public cloud storage
for stuff that isn't super important and
well, it could still be important if it's on the cloud, but isn't super like
personal. Yeah. And then that you can access really easily. You want to be
able to access it all the time. Blah blah blah blah. And then very personal stuff uh you store on your own kind of
cloud thingy with a NAS. There's free NAS. There's tons of other things out
there. And especially with computers lasting for so long these days. If you
upgrade your computer down the line, you can still use your old computer, install
free NAS, and then have like a beast NAS
for relatively nothing. That's actually a really great way to set up a NAS. If
you're not concerned with getting a really nice prepackaged software suite
like Synology's DSM and you're willing to do the work yourself, you can build a
NAS on the cheap with like old parts on
eBay or whatever and get just beastly performance and you know and it can and
it can have so much more functionality like the ability to I just found out that Emit has a web client. Really?
Yeah. So you could stream you can stream video and music to yourself through emit
over the web. It's not going to be as like clean and yeah, it won't be as
clean and shiny as a prepackaged solution like DSM or whatever, but you
can do it for it's called freess. So, I
guess you can figure it out.
I don't know. All right. So, this is neither good nor bad. Uh, Google has
removed underlined links from their
search results. So, if you uh here, I'm just going to just going to blow this
up. So, you can see that the blue one is
underlined. And then if you click the image, you can see what a new search
looks like where it is no longer underlined.
I actually think it's more interesting than you do. My favorite part was that
was a legitimate yawn. Okay. Okay. Uh
the original article is from The Verge, by the way. And you know what? I I
actually I like underlined links. Me,
too. Because it's very obviously a link. But I have noticed over time no one
really does it anymore. That no one really does it anymore. And so much of
the internet experience is clickable and the web design has gotten so much better
in terms of making things look clicky. Yeah. That I guess it's okay. But if
they do away with blue for hyperlinks, that's Yeah, I don't see that coming
anytime soon, though. Look at our Google Drive right now. Yes, the clickable
links are blue. Every every like clickable link everywhere is blue. Um,
yeah, I don't see the blue going away anytime soon. I wouldn't be too worried about that. All right, so this article
is on time.com and Google will start
encrypting your searches. Now, I'm going to do the I'm going to do the fairy
tales and butterflies and sparkles version of this, and then I'll let you
do the like the the cane version of
this, the gloom and doom. All right. So, the good news here is
that this will make it more difficult for your data to be intercepted by third
parties. And of course, the the Edward Snowden leaks are a big part of why this
is happening right now because Google doesn't want their customers information
being stolen. Another big awesome happy
time thing about this is that it can potentially allow them to circumvent
censorship and make the internet more free because it will not allow ISPs or
other intermediaries to not only not to not only steal the data, but even know
what the heck it is. So, a more encrypted internet is better. And they
say the reason that they're doing this is to encourage other companies to take
a more security-minded approach to what they're doing. Now, let's get the sort
of what they're doing part. They're saving their profit
margins because they can do this to help protect against ISPs replacing ads and
gathering data on their customers, which is talk about what that is.
What what is ISPs replacing? ISPs can detect ads. Ad block can detect ads. Ads
are incredibly easy to detect and an ISP could remove that ad and input their own
uh therefore taking all of the profit for that and screwing with customers
essentially and potentially making websites a lot worse. Like if an if an
ISP is injecting ads like we were talking about earlier like the pirate
bay does, no one's going to want to go to your website. I don't think they
would do that. I don't think they would either. But it's but even if they were
injecting ads that we're not approving like linesttips.com has ads but we
refuse to have things like those splash splash screen ads. We don't want any
that have sound. Like we have guidelines. We can blacklist ones that
we don't like. Whereas if our ISP or your ISP was just injecting crap, we
can't control the web experience of our users. And that's not right. And like
okay, what if you are a religious website? Yes. Yes. And you get ads for a
religious dating site, which is not the
religion that your website is, which is awkward. So, if you had like a like a
like a Christian site and they didn't and it was like um you know, find Muslim
singles or whatever. And none of these are necessarily bad things. It's just
not a very good like why is that there?
Um so yeah, and then and then collecting data on you, which is what they do, and
then they sell that. So the ISP won't be able to do that. And then they have more
market share in that area as well. Mind you, if if they're so okay, I guess that
aligns with what they said about Google Fiber where they don't want to be an
ISP. They just want the ISPs to sit in
the corner like little children and do what they're told and collect no data
and just plug the thing into the thing and then transfer the thing to the thing. That's why Google has no interest
in being an ISP because there's absolutely no value in it whatsoever and
they are determined to take all of the value out of it.
Yep. So, I hope that they have to be coming at high speed because I'd rather
have Google Fiber. Anyways, yeah. So, there's that.
Uh, another thing is Whoa, my thing just
went totally away from that article. Yes. Oh, I don't remember where it went.
But it's not 100% security either. I don't know where the article is, but I'm
just going to wing this. Uh, it's not 100% security either, which is something
fairly important. They've been talking about uh they started doing this in China. I
believe they moved their offices in China to Hong Kong in I believe 2010.
That's actually what I was looking for in the doc, but I believe that's how it's done. From Beijing to Hong Kong,
which is Hong Kong is now a part of China again, but it's still
semi-autonomous. Um, so they dodged that and they started encrypting searches in
China already. Um, but they're scared that people are going to think that it's
100% security because it's not 100%
security. It's nothing is. It helps you.
It's not if if you start searching very incriminating things, whether or not
that incriminating thing should be incriminating or not doesn't matter. If
you start searching those incriminating things, people could still potentially
find it. So, don't don't just be like, "Yeah, Google searches are encrypted
now," which they're not yet. Probably where you are. Um, but once that
happens, don't just think you're behind the iron wall because you're not
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one on WordPress was kind of terrible too. And this one we created. Did we
spend more than two days on this? Total total man. I think so. But I think it
was rebranding, right? Not like like art
assets, not building the site. Yeah. And it was like ideas and oh, we don't
necessarily like how that looks. Let's go a different direction with it. Yeah,
like stuff that wasn't complications. It was more furthering of the Well, what
happened was when you create your account, you select a template based on
the kind of site you want to create and I just picked a random one because I
wasn't sure. And what I didn't realize is you can't go back and just change it
because the way the templates work is they're very tightly integrated. That's
how they get it to work well on the desktop, well on a phone, on a tablet, or whatever else. Um, so I think we had
to we were trying to use the wrong template and then we had to undo it and
then start over. And if we hadn't wasted time because I just was like click click
click click click then it probably would have been fine just like you did with
our original forum software.
I love you man. That sucked. Anyways, continuing time.
Uh smart cover. Yeah. Ah I don't really
care about that. Let's just we'll talk about that when they actually send us a phone and a smart cover. Um
All right. Oh, something that doesn't suck. Razer Blade
14 new edition.
Wow. This is the notebook that I want.
Like are they sending you one? I don't know
yet. For for Blade 14 original, I think
I was like number four on the list. So, and then just despite despite the uh the
call out and everything, yeah, might not might not be number four. You know what
I mean? This is something I hope that viewers understand is my relationship
with Razer is not always peachy keen. They they
they sponsored the WAN Show for like months. So, yeah, we've taken money from
them, but if you look at our my Razer Blade 14 video, I call them out pretty
hardcore on that screen. and we don't have them as sponsors on the way
anymore. And yeah, but that's not why that just ran out. They're still willing
to sponsor it. It's just that their internal targets for how many new comms
users per dollar doesn't align with how much a W show sponsorship costs. So
that's that's the only reason we're we're asking for too much money. And so
they're just like, well, whatever. Then we just won't advertise with you. And so so that like that's fine. So I called
them out on that. I called them out on like they weren't even talking about who
was manufacturing their switches in my video. I'm like, "Yeah, they're, you know, kale switches." You know, like,
uh, what was what was the other one that I was pretty brutal on? The Kraken Forged Heads
headphones in my video. I'm just like, I don't like it, but you might if you like
this thing that, you know, I don't personally like. So, like, it's not
always 100% Peachy Keen. And then, you know, I had a meeting with them that was
about an hour long at CES where they're awardwinning, what's it called? The
Naboo, their smart wrist thing. Oh, yeah. I was just like, I don't think it
makes a ton of sense. And they're just like, well, we think it's great. I'm
like, okay, well, when I see the final one and you guys send one, then I'll
make up my mind at that point in time. But like, we had a pretty strong
disagreement about that, too. So, this one
though, if this arrives and it's what
I'm expecting it to be, then I personally told Minlang Tan, their
CEO, when I did my original review, I he
he made me promise. He's like, "Look, if we fix the things you complained about,
will you say that the Blade 14 is your ideal perfect notebook?" And I said,
"Yeah." Cuz I couldn't think of anything else that was wrong with it. So, the new
one is the world's thinnest gaming laptop now
with a what is it?
2800 by 1800
display. Holy crap.
And the way or no sorry 3200 by 18800
display. And the amazing thing about this is that while they did upgrade the
graphics card. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Not TN anymore. Exo. So that's a Sharp IPS
panel. So, they've put an Exo and it's a
touchscreen, which was my that was my off thereord complaint about the Blade
14 because I felt like most gamers wouldn't really care about touchscreen
as a feature, but when I talked to them, I said I personally like the touchcreen
and I'd love to see it implemented. Um, it's got new uh NVIDIA graphics. So,
it's got an 870M in there. Solid, which
is solid. That was like the only thing I cared about. And I don't I don't know if
you know this, but some 870M are going to be Kepler based and some are going to
be Maxwell based. Yeah. So, I'm hoping
that it's a Maxwell one. And if it's a Maxwell, this is going to be one power
efficient. And they're both about the same speed. Um, but it depends how many
functional cores they have versus what clock speed they're running at. But anyway, anyway, so if this one has the
Maxwell version in it, this thing is going to blow your mind. Now, I've had
people say that even though they amped up the graphics card in it, they amped
up the resolution to the point where it's just stupid and nothing can drive
it anyway. And you'd be right. This is pretty much a 3K resolution. But this is
something to remember. The reason that I
ponyied up like $750 when I was a student, which was a lot of money for
me, I like I bet the rent or like I paid
spent the rent on Adele 2405 FPW was
because even though LCDs have a native
resolution, you can work around it if
you can get um if your resolution is an even multiple of the resolution you're
trying to run. So, what's cool about
3200 by,800 is that it divides evenly
into 1,600 by 900, which on a 14-in
display higher than 720p is going to
look really good, and you're not going to get any BS interpolation because it
will be a 1:4 pixel mapping ratio. So,
everything's going to look crisp. So you can have beautiful, super crisp text and
you can have your gaming look fine and not be too demanding to run. I I have to
throw a joke in here before you keep going. Um I just want this notebook. So
it's uh Intel chipset
HM87. And when I read that, I actually read it wrong. I read as TM87 because
I've been playing too much Pokemon lately. So, for Pokemon fans and anyone
who wants to see a joke, Google TM87 and look at the first link and it plays into
how excited he is about this and then just keep going. I'm not even going to
explain. Okay, it's got a quadcore processor, Haswell, etc., etc., etc.
Anyway, I'm really excited about this notebook and I'm trying to convince
Razer that they should send one without
like a proper loaner
agreement cuz like a lot of the time I have to sign a contract that says that
they'll just bill my credit card if I don't return it. So, I'm going to be
like, "Yeah, you know what guys, we go way back. Just send it. Don't worry
about it." cuz I would trade in my
XPS12 like that even though it's a
convertible and I actually do use tablet mode once in a while. Oh,
I am Everyone in the Twitch chat figured it out. I am le
stoked. Oh my goodness. TM87 is Swagger.
Okay, I'm not even going to look at it. It's Swagger. It's TM87 is Swagger.
There's actually a song about TM87 and it's actually pretty I haven't played
Pokemon since like Pokemon Blue on I
played Pokemon Blue and then on Game Boy Color. Yeah, I played Pokemon Blue on
Game Boy Color and then I skipped everything and then Well, TM87 wasn't in
Pokemon Blue, so that's why you don't know it yet. And I never watched the show, so I got nothing. Yeah. Well, I
watched the first season and so and then I started playing X and Y because I've
played I'd play like 10 or 20 minutes of all the Pokemons between here and then
where we are now with X and Y and Blue and Red and I actually see X and Y as a
really good improvement. Okay. I didn't see the other ones as like major
improvements and changes, but I like the new one. Are you still using your DS all
the time? I really want to play Bravely Default. I'm at the Elite 4, okay, of X
and Y. So, when I'm done, you can play. Maybe we can work out a deal where I borrow your DS for like a month and then
you own the Bravely Default cartridge or something. I was going to see if I could
make that deal cuz I looked it up after you told me about it and I was like, "Wow, I want to play it. I want to play
it." Yeah. When people suggested it to me, I was like, "Oh, cool." Uh, I've
seen ads for it and I went on Steam cuz I didn't even I had no idea what it was.
You went on Steam, so I was like, "Oh, cool. I have a game." Oh, it's on the
DS. My DS Lite is broken. Oh, it's not available for DS Lite
anyway. And I really don't want to buy one because I'm not going to play any
games on it other than I just I want to play that. It's like I could play that
and like remakes of like older Final Fantasy games and that's the only thing
I could possibly care about that came out of Square Enix in the last like 5
years. I've been having a great time with Pokemon X. That's the one I have.
But I'm so stoked on Bravely Default. Like it's a JRPG that has like I think
it's like an 85% plus rating on Metacritic, which is like that's a
pretty strong indicator that it probably basically kicks ass. Yeah. So, okay.
Things that don't kick ass. No, expect not to talk for 5 minutes because I am
so mad about this. So Microsoft and
Google like okay this was one of the cool this was you know what some of the
stuff that won awards at CES like
honestly like I'm like shaking with rage right now. I'm going to jot in before
you keep going while you search for that. This brings in the brings up the trade agreement thing that we debated
about with Tesla. Anyways, keep going. Okay. Okay. I'm just gonna I'm you know
what? I'm gonna make you guys sit through this. I'm gonna make you I'm gonna make you watch my video from CES.
Let me just see if uh I don't know. Make sure your levels aren't broken. You guys
will have to let me know if you have audio here. I'm sorry. Okay, you know
what? Maybe I'll just maybe I'll just like go along there. This So, this is
the Transformer book duet. I'm going to go ahead and maximize it. Didn't even
get that many views. It didn't get that much attention at CES. It didn't win any
amazing CES Innovation Awards, but this was one of the coolest products at the
show because what it is is it's a
transformer. So, you can actually pop the top off here and turn it into a
tablet or it's a notebook. That's fine.
It runs uh Yeah, that's fine, guys. I'll walk you through it. So, it runs an
Intel processor, which means that the Windows experience is your normal full
Windows experience, not some ARM Windows RT BS. Full Windows experience. It runs
that same Intel processor on Android. They had games running like butter
smooth, man. It was amazing. outstanding Android experience. And what was cool
about it is you could actually switch. So all the hardware was actually in the
top half and the bottom half was just IO and keyboard and maybe an extended
battery. I can't remember. But what was cool about it was check this out. You
just hit the button and it takes literally this long. We didn't speed up
the footage. We didn't play around with it. You can see me. I'm just sitting there. Boom. Windows Android. And what's
cool about that is not necessarily that I think everyone, you know, needs to
have an Android tablet in the same way that I don't think everyone needs to
have a notebook, but if you were to offer me a device that is a hybrid
between the two so that I can enjoy,
maybe I actually really like Hangouts on
Android and I just want to sit with my tablet on the couch and, you know, video
chat with someone. That's fantastic. and I'm having like that Google native
experience, but maybe I want to get some real work done, which you cannot do on
Android. I'm sorry, but it just Android tablets are not up to the same level as
what you can achieve with a Windows notebook that is properly integrated and
this one was really wellb built. So, what if I want to have that experience
and the other one and I'm willing to pay a premium for it? That's where a product
like this made a ton of sense. Switching back to Windows took like five seconds
as well. So I could have my cake and I
could eat it too and it was amazing. And Microsoft and Google have collectively
screwed us by saying no, we don't want
hybrids between Android and Windows now.
ASUS has been doing this for a while and they have, I guarantee you, put a ton of
work into this. It started at CES 2013
when they first showed off the Transformer AIO and that was an
all-in-one PC that docked to a Windows machine and then you pulled it away and
all the Android hardware. I think it was a Tegra 3 processor was actually inside
the tablet itself. They have refined that technology over the course of a
year to have it all running on the same hardware seamlessly, letting you switch
between it. And Microsoft and Google have basically spat all over that
innovation and that R&D work and taken an extremely important product away from
customers. We should have the right to choose between the platforms that are
available on the hardware that we can get. And even if we can't necessarily
install it and dual boot it ourselves, someone like ASUS or MSI or Gigabyte or
I don't care who should have the right to deliver that to us if they're the
ones who did the work in the first place to allow us to have
it. So that's all I have to say about that. Um I don't know where my notes on
this went. And I don't always defend ASUS because they're not always right,
but in this case they got screwed. Uh I
don't know where my notes on this went. they seemingly have been deleted, which is weird. But um one thing that I find
interesting is that they didn't care. I know it's a different platform entirely,
but Android did not care about the Ubuntu Android mixture,
which is interesting because it's an OS. You could plug it into a hub of sorts
and then have a desktop experience and all that kind of stuff. It's a completely different platform, which is
a problem for the comparison, but still, they didn't really care. But now that
it's Windows and now that it makes more sense. And Microsoft has never cared
about dual boot. Microsoft has never cared about that. And this was so much more elegant. You didn't even have to
dual boot. You just switched. And like I
I actually really wanted this because there's a lot of really interesting
Android games coming out where you play it and you go, "Wow, this is a really
good game. It would be a lot better if I had a different interface." And with
Intel's improved onboard graphics, we were going to be able to get a decent
notebook grade gaming experience and with I mean now I'm even
more mad. Steam in home streaming would have run perfectly on this notebook. You
could play every Android game and every Windows game under the sun with one
device in your home and they just took it away from us. It was a fantastic
laptop. Absolutely fantastic laptop. Had actually already talked to people about
recommending. I know it wasn't a huge video. Um, but I liked it. I didn't even
get to go see it, but I liked it a lot. Um, and I've talked to multiple people
about it. I have people that like developing things for different platforms. One thing that's really
frustrating for those type of people is having to have some type of platform
with iOS on it, which is frustrating
when you don't want to buy an iOS platform designed device. I had to buy
an iPad mini because we couldn't test something that was only available with
that and we got a sample of it and committed to do a review. Yeah, it's like crappy. So, that that's frustrating
and annoying, but Android is usually easier to get. But if you this made it
so elegant it was ridiculous. I would have bought one of these and I I mean to
to be clear about that like I don't buy a ton of hardware because we get a lot
of samples and there's you know if I really need something get a lot of
laptop samples. We don't get a lot of laptop samples. This one was a sample though. This one wasn't. That's your old
one. This is my old one. Um, but I mean if I really really need something,
there's usually some way that I can figure out, you know, like, hey, we'll,
you know, we'll run an ad for you there or or like, hey, we we really need some
RAM for our test bench, so when we do testing, we'll like make sure we say
that it's your RAM in the test bench. Like simple stuff like nothing that
compromises integrity, but I it's not hard for us to get hardware if we really
need it. But this was the kind of thing where ASUS doesn't sample notebooks, but
I would have just bought it because it's an amazing product and it's a great user
experience and I'm I don't want to talk about this anymore. Why don't you do
builds of the week here? I'm going to leave this with you because um we have
something interesting coming up. I've been trying to figure out for quite some
time how we can how we can get rid of
some of the like buildup of tech stuff
that we have lying around here. And the Linus TechTips store, which you have to
log in on linesttips.com. Don't worry, it's easy to log in on linesttips.com.
You can use Facebook, Steam, or Twitter. Um, but if you go to the store, which is
right here, you can actually see that there's a bunch of stuff in there. But
it's hard for me to really publicize it because, you know, I don't want to I
don't want to turn it into like a mad rush of people heading over there. Um,
because a lot of this stuff won't have any warranty because it's a sample or whatever else. And honestly,
coordinating this many giveaways, you guys have no idea how much work
giveaways are. This stuff can help contribute to our daily operating costs.
So, we'd love to get some kind of um some kind of monetary compensation for
it so that we can reinvest that money into new equipment. And of course,
something that we've started doing more lately, reinvested into buying samples
of stuff that we otherwise wouldn't have access to, which lead us into the topic
about the things that are going to be released this video, this week. The video really the video that is going to
be released. Yeah. So, so there's lots of new stuff that we that we want to
reinvest in and this will actually help us. So, I am going to go and I'm going
to just go get some stuff that I'm just going to add to the store and we're
going to do like live like garage sale after the WAN Show today. So, once we
end the show, stick around for like a couple minutes if you guys are interested in the garage sale. Shouldn't
Yeah. So, we're still doing the show. You're not going right now, right? No. Yeah. Okay. I thought you were going
right now. Oh, I was going to. Yeah. No. Oh, you need me here? Well, there's the
leak thing about the video that's coming this weekend. Oh yeah. So, we are going
to be doing a couple pilots for you guys. Luke's wanted to do a gaming
centric show forever, basically since he started. Um, and then I have wanted to
do a toy centric channel ever since I
never grew up and like toys. So, we are
have each produced a pilot episode and we're going to create a thread on the
line of tech tips forum. So, stay tuned for this. I think the video is going to launch Saturday or something. Saturday.
Saturday, Saturday or Sunday night our time. And uh we'd love for you guys to
vote and let us know what you think of the concepts, uh which ones you think we
should pursue, what you guys would like to see changed because it is a ton of
work to build up a new channel. Techquy is one that I was really certain about.
Like I I knew that we needed that format that was really concise and well edited,
but this is going to be completely new territory for us. gaming or toys.
They're both like they're both geeky just like the tech that we already do,
but they're they're different. The the voting options, there will be four of
them. There's uh games only, toys only, mixture, or none. Personally, I think we
should go with mixture because I actually want to see you're coloring the
results when you tell them what we think. But I that's the one I hope everyone
votes for. So, if you're if you're a slick fanboy,
then I guess you could vote for his option. Well, what's yours? Probably a mixture
of the two. But I want to know what they think. I
do, too. Okay. But I'm just saying what one I We can vote. It's a public poll.
I'm voting for mixture.
It's only one vote. It's not really going to do things very much. Uh I'm
mainly going to be announcing the new system, but I'll also brush over those.
I'm going to go find some stuff. Okay.
Garage sale after the show. So, bill logs of the week have been a thing that
haven't existed for a long time. Luckily, that unplugged your headphones
and not this cable because it's screwed in. Good
job. Okay. Um, build logs of the week are something that existed for a long
time and then kind of disappeared. I've had a lot of people ask me about that.
Uh, the reason why was when the forum first started, there honestly wasn't a
ton of people around. There was a lot of people, but not nearly the amount of numbers that there is now. And it was
fairly easy for me to manage going through every single build blog posted
in a week and literally rank them
internally in an Excel sheet, giving them like letter grades and then going
through the ones that got A's at the end and then shuffling down to two and doing
all of that footwork. That was possible at the beginning. It's not really
possible now. I don't have the time to do it. It's way too difficult. And near
the end there when we were still doing build blogs of the week, every single
week I got tons of messages saying, "How did this one not make it? It's so much
better." Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, "Okay, well, it
maybe should have made it in as a third one. I've done three because there's too
many that were awesome before or something like that." And it's just like
I didn't see it. it it came up on Friday
or it was on the second page when I was looking and I didn't make it there or it
bounced around while I was looking and I missed it or something and that was
happening way too much and it just became way too ridiculous. So, I dropped
support for it because it was not able to do it anymore and left it pending on
the we need a better option for this stance. Now, we do have a better option
for it, but it's going to take a lot of editing to the website. And we're
actually waiting for the next version of Envision Power Services software suite,
which is what we're using, to come out of beta and then maybe get an update or
two before we adopt it because we're done with forum software betas. Oh my
god, we're done with forum software betas. Um, so we're waiting waiting for
that to happen because tons of things are going to change then and then once
that happens, we're going to release the new system which will be very nice and elegant and all that kind of stuff. But
as a standin for now, what we're going to do is we're going to have it set up
so that your submission, so your completed build log, not your build log
in progress, your completed build log has to be completed and submitted in the
week before voting, not the week during voting. Um, and your submission has to
be up to a maximum of 200 words. You can have a little description right up, one
picture, and a link to your thread. Um, after submitting all of these things,
uh, that will be in one pinned thread. There will be another pinned thread of
voting. So after submitting all these things, I'll g gather up everyone's
submissions and put them in a voting thread. So everyone will get their little blurb, which will be their one
picture, their 200word maximum description, and a link to their thread.
Um, so you can kind of see a picture of the idea of it. Go to their thread to see more information, to see their
description of their computer, which is very likely just going to be components, but we'll see what people do with that.
And then there will be a poll and you can vote and the top two voted systems
uh unless it's like a off by one situation where I might include three or
something like that will get through and then we'll talk about those on the way show. So that's how that's actually
going to work. Um if I go through here but that being
said, you know how many people used to complain when I would stall for time in
the middle of an unboxing by saying and say it was unprofessional. Really? Yeah.
I never cared. I just I noticed you doing it and I'm just wondering if it's something you've always done or if it's
something you picked up. I don't know. I
think I've always done that. I'm sorry I interrupted. Go ahead. No, no, it's fine. I I think I've always done that.
I'm not really sure though. You're logged in as Lionus Tech. Oh, yay. It's
not showing. Um that's weird. Can you log in as the other person? Yeah, sure.
Lionus when? Is there anything the talk?
Yeah, I think I'm just gonna I'm think I'm going to ditch the talk. It just
didn't impress me that much. It's not gonna help you sell it. That's fine. I
don't want people I don't want people like paying an unfair amount for anything. That's true. Well, yeah. It's
all going to be super underpriced. Yeah. The Sentinel. The idea here is that I
want people to be getting a deal and I want us to have a slush fund so that we
can buy stuff that we otherwise couldn't review. Like stuff for the toys channel
cuz we've done some of that already and the toys channel is going to have no
funding whatsoever out of the gate. So, that'll help a lot for that. Um, but
like I I right I had to buy um the Pebble Steel
that I have coming. I wasn't I wasn't seated a review unit. Yeah. Um I had to
I have a couple Kickstarter things that are still coming that I had to buy. Um I
had to buy that that one toy thing. Um
Kickstarter things that are still coming. It's it's so My dad will call me
every once in a while and just be like, "There's a package here for you." I'm
just like
what what is it? I haven't ordered anything. And he's like, uh, it says
whatever the heck on it. And I'm just like, I have no idea what that is. Cuz
it's usually from like some random fulfillment center. Yeah. It's like, uh,
okay. I'll be over in a little bit. Go over and pick it up. I'm like, oh, I
bought this on Kickstarter like over a year ago.
There you go. Okay then. Oh, man. It's kind of fun
receiving like random presents that I've forgotten about though. Oh, Kickstarter.
Or there's the guy that made the What? No, that's me again. Okay. I don't know
what we can do about that. Okay. Either way, everyone knows the new process
that's going to come out. Okay. Um I guess I'll actually go over these in the
afterparty next time. This time, I guess. Um because last week I was like,
"Oh, they should be in the actual show." But if we can't do it for whatever reason, then oh well. Okay. But yeah,
everyone knows the new system that's coming. So, I will be putting up that
thread for people to put their suggest or submissions in. I want the person
that actually made the build to actually
submit their own thing. If you're submitting for someone else, please don't. No, I'm just going to not take
it. Um, so yeah, we'll I'll put that thread up later tonight and then we can
start voting for next week. So, this is disappointing because it looks like I've
I forgot to bring my charger today and it looks like I've only got 11 minutes left on my notebook. Um, but I think
that's pretty much it for the official show. So guys, uh, I'll be back with a
QVC stuff. I've decided that I'm just going to like lower prices until someone
buys it because I have to get rid of this stuff. We have no space. We're out
of room. Okay, I'm not leaving then. Oh, all
right. Okay, guys. So, stay tuned. We'll be right back.
I don't know where it is. I'll try to find it. Don't do that one first. They
can hear you.