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Welcome to the W show. We are 21 minutes

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late and Lus isn't even here. Well, Lionus, that's why we're late. Yeah,

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I was here on time. James is here many hours before on time. Trying to figure

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out whether or not we should start it without him. I think he's going to relieve me soon. Yeah, they're filming a

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video like right there. So, us talking is probably going to be super annoying for them, but they told us to do it,

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right? You said do it. Not our fault. Welcome to the WAN Show. We got great

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topics. user benchmark controversy. They change the weights of how things are

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scored and it moves some processes around in the ranking system in some

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funky ways and some people especially the AMD crowd are very upset about it

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and Cloudfare stops servicing 8chan

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but free speed. Oh my god, they're a private company. Anyways, AMD Epic 702

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series Rome processor. I'm not even going to say anymore. All that and more

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on the W show. Roll the intro.

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whatever they call it. It's all AdSense taken

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demonetized for hamster dance. Yeah. Is

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Freddy Fatty Freddy.

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Wait, what? Squarespace. Squarespace

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and rul.

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Oh my. AJ is crying right now. Pissed.

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absolutely balling at this moment. Anytime I say anything French, I I think

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I like the hair and the veins on his body are just like he like partially

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Wolverines. Okay. Did you know that in uh America the Kia Sportage is

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pronounced the Kia Sportage? Really? Yes. Like act like in ads and stuff.

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Yeah, as far as that's what I heard. Whoa. Sportage. Interesting. Speaking of

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Sportage, Cloudflare terminates. They did this, right? They terminated the

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Okay, so Cloudflare terminates 8chan. That's I believe I mean Cloudflare isn't

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a like a server host. So they probably terminated like DNS setup and all this

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other kind of stuff. So you wouldn't be able to get there. But they didn't like

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delete the you know they they don't have that type of relationship. But um for

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all intents and purposes the website's down until they find a new replacement.

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From what I've heard they did and then that's gone now, too. Right. So, what

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happened was they got another potato. They went to a competitor uh whose name

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is on here, but I'm not in the right part of the dock. Sure. Epic. Epic. Yes.

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And then it was Epic with a K. That's the most like most epic type of Epic.

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Absolutely. Um Epic in turn though was relying on the services of Boxility uh

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who pulled the plug on Epic after it learned that that a chat had moved to

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Epic because they had the same uh philosophy as as Cloudflare. So, as far

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as I know, you still can't get on to 8chan. Okay. I think I'm not going to

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try right now, but uh I tried earlier and all I got was like literally if you

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just type in achan, all you get is articles about how it's down about like

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all the recent news about it. I couldn't even get It used to be fun when this

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kind of stuff would happen and you would get like the FBI website seized page.

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Have you seen those? It should just be a like a gif of an FBI guy. Just we're

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taking your website. What are you What are you doing

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here? Uh, let's see. Like a guy and like a like a detective guy. Yeah, these

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these were epic. Yeah, those are cool.

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Show them. Yeah. What do your Elvis see?

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Seizure of mega upload. It's like so aggressively

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official looking. Seized in the background repeated over and over and

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over again. And then it's like government stamps. It's like strobing

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government seizure. Government seizure. It's like the purest form of justice

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porn, I think. We did it, guys. Let's put our stamps and stuff all over it.

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It's us. We took it. So, yeah. Okay. So,

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what what happened? This is related to a recent recent tragedies. Um,

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particularly the shooting in El Paso. Um, so I'll just read it here. The

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suspected gunman in the recent El Paso shooting appears to have been inspired

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by the forum website known as 8chan, which is of course related to 4chan, but

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even less moderated. even less. Yeah. Some people call it infinitan, infinity

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chan. It's just it's basically described

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as like a blank piece of paper. You can just write whatever you want there. Okay. Anyone can start their own little

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micro blog there. And it's unmodderated. Okay. For the most part, uh it appears

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that this gunman posted a 2300word

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manifesto to the site just 25 minutes before beginning his attack. That's he's

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that guy is online 25 minutes before

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like Well, we'll see. The I like the stickens. Okay. Okay. Um, nearly the

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same thing happened on Hchan before the terror attack in Christ Church, New

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Zealand. Oh, yes. So, it's I think

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there's at least three big tragedies linked to Achan at this point. That's uh

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that's pretty intense. Yeah. Um, the El Paso shooter specifically referenced the

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Christ Church incident and appears to have been inspired by the largely

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unmodderated discussion on Achan which glorified the previous massacre. That's

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a dark stage of humanity. If if you have unmodderated

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uh conversation, it just turns into that. Ah, I think I think that there's a

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few different things going on. I think when populations get significantly large

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or sufficiently large, there's just a minimum percentage of crazy people and

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when there's billions and billions of us and we can all connect with each other.

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As long as you speak you both speak English or you both speak the same language, you can find each other and

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everything's so broadcasted and people won't shut up about their names and like

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they get glorified to a certain degree. Yeah. They can find each other. Yeah.

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And when there's just so many people on Earth and they can find each other like that, there's there's bound to be a

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handful of them that congregate in the same space. And on top of that, I think

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that there's like people get radicalized. Like you see this other

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content and it pushes you into places you haven't been before and you actually

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get worse. And so it's a there's a feedback loop there. It's like like riot

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mentality but website based. Yeah. It's I just I find and this has been talked

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about a million times by people way wiser and more intelligent than me, but

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it's really really frustrating when something like this happens and they broadcast pictures and their writing and

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their name and everything because it makes them famous within various

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circles. Well, on the bright side is I was researching the story today and I

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still don't know the dude's name. Perfect. Okay, so that's cool. Good. Um,

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so what happens was CloudFare uh steps up and they made a big blog post

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statement saying why they they pulled services from this particular website

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which is they stress not something that they want to do. We have some quotes

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here saying um we reluctantly tolerate content that we find reprehensible like

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we try to host a lot of companies that we think are bad people in the name of

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free speech and giving platform to as many different voices as possible. But

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there's a line um quoting again, but we

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draw the line at platforms that have demonstrated they directly inspired

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tragic events and are lawless by design.

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Han has crossed that line. While removing Han from our network takes the

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heat off of us, it does nothing to address why hateful sites fester online

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because that's a big thing. A lot of people are saying, well, like this isn't going to do anything. The site's just

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going to go back up online tomorrow. And if it doesn't, another site like it

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will. Websites are really hard to squash. There's a lot of places you can

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go to stick around. And yeah, I mean the

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people that were on here are still gonna be on the internet. So yeah, although I

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think I don't know, sometimes when you remove a forum like that, you just have

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to find somewhere else to hang out and maybe you dradicalize a little bit. Maybe. But it's the internet. I find it

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interesting that uh they're not onioned because like that's not even hard

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anymore. I paused for a second before I said that because I was like maybe I shouldn't give them the idea, but then

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like it's pretty freaking obvious. They're internet people. Yeah, they can

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probably figure it out. A prime is here. He must hate something about the show. No, I didn't realize you guys were. I

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thought he was an Enderman for a second. What's an Enderman? He just What is it?

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Like those Minecraft units where if you if you if you look at them, it's like a

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problem, but he just and he just like stands there and takes things every once

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in a while and you're like holding something. I feel like the fact that

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I've never really played Minecraft is like a kid never having played Lego. I

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feel like it's a like a What a shame. What a shame you never played Minecraft.

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Yeah. And what a what a um tone pivot we

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just did. Yeah, absolutely. Back to the dark stuff. Okay, so Instagram made a

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response because well what happened was after the cloud flare thing. Yeah, the

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CEO of 8chan made a video and it it's

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pretty interesting. It's really free speechy. It's really like there's a

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superimposed Benjamin Franklin like

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picture in the background like a wolf t-shirt almost. Okay. And um he

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basically says like look like we abide by the law. Um, we're always forthright.

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We work with the police like within minutes of these attacks. Like we're not

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evil people. I'm not an extremist. Uh, and this is a blank piece of paper that

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people can use for whatever purposes they do. And sometimes evil people like

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this use it in evil ways. Okay? Cuz that's not free speech doesn't mean as

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far as I know literally everything in because I'm talking about the American

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one. Um, this is not my own country's laws so I'm not 100% on top of it. But

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as far as I know, you can't do like uh

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calls for violence and stuff. M. So, it's not purely a blank piece of paper

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as far as I know. Um, cuz that's not

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allowed. Yeah, there's definitely you're not you're not Yeah, you're not allowed

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to say certain things like free speech to a certain degree. Yeah. Um,

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yeah. I don't know. But then there were some there were certain things that he

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called out as facts like um he said that

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the the shooter posted not on the

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manifesto not on 8chan first but indeed on Instagram first and he then also says

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that um the manifesto was not uploaded

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by that same user. The shooter did not upload it. He may have written it but a

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different user uploaded it. Obviously if that's true then it would have been someone working with him. Yeah. Um

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But and he also says that CloudFare has an impending initial public offering and

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they just want like good PR in the leadup to that. Okay, because like there

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Okay, so something to talk about uh in in Cloudflare's I say this every time

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something like this happens on Wow, which is fairly often is Cloudflare is

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completely within their right to do this. Cloudflare is not the American government. They're a private company.

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They can do whatever the hell they want. Um we work with Cloudflare. they could

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take full plane and line of tech tips for them off their service if they

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wanted because there that's completely within their rights. So sometimes the

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free speech argument when you're talking about a company doesn't make a ton of

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sense to me. Um you can go after their policies in regards to how they deal

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with that. Um cuz like an example that I like to bring up is that the forum does

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not have anything like that at all. You there's no like free posting rules on

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the forum. It's a tech forum. We have an off-topic section where you can talk

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about some stuff, but we usually try to stay away from political things. We try

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to stay away from whatever. The reason for that is there's no paid moderators

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on the forum. And those kind of topics

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create a lot of work and they're all

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volunteers. That is actually the reason is because we have a bunch of volunteer

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moderators and when you do that, they can't moderate the rest of the forum,

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which is actually the important parts in my opinion. just go somewhere else. It's

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a tech form. There's a big old out there. Exactly. So, like I I like to

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defend the company's ability to kind of do whatever in that regard because we

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have a similar problem on the forum. Um, this is obviously a redonulously

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different scale. Um, but like yeah, I think I think it is definitely up to the

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companies to do whatever. Now, Cloudflare has positioned themselves for

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a long time as a defender of these types of things. So that's where it starts to

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get a little bit interesting because Cloudflare has refused to take down a

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lot of different websites. Well, in their own words, they're struggling to

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create a policy that can be broad and

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consistent and applied again and again. Like how do you word that perfectly so

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that it aligns perfectly with your values across all these myriad

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situations that are just getting crazier and crazier every day. It seems like how

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do you make a blanket rule? Yeah. Yeah. So, like I I can sort of understand the

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response to a certain degree because they've positioned themselves as that entity that will defend kind of

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whatever. Um, but then I just want everyone to keep in mind that it is a

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private company. It's not the US government. That law doesn't really apply. Well, the mission statement is

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something like to create a better internet. And the definition of better

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though really depends. Does that mean freer or does it mean safer? Yeah. Who

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knows? Um so after um the CEO of HN made

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that statement actually Instagram or Facebook responded saying Instagram said

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uh said that the shooters manifesto um

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wasn't was not first uploaded to to

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Instagram indeed um they did find an

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Instagram account that was tied to the gunman and they disabled it but it had

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been inactive for over a year. So, who knows? What is this 8chan CEO

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know? What is this Facebook PR person

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telling us? Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of interesting how it's turning

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into like a no, the crazy guy posted something on your site first kind of

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battle. That's That's a little funky. Um

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I don't know. None of this is good. But when the Christ Church shooter did his

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thing, he streamed it. Was that not on Instagram that he streamed or was it

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Facebook? I think. Well, I don't think it was Twitch. I'm

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not sure. Oh, right. Yeah, good call. Um, I'm actually not sure, but I think

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it was a Facebook owned entity. I thought it was Facebook itself, like

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Facebook.com. I don't know, but I'm not I'm really not sure. But that that one

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had weird ties to like he called out

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subscribed to PewDiePie and he did all this which was like really stupid and

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didn't make any sense at all. And there was a bunch of other stuff that

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it's really interesting how it's it's kind of the reverse of the like NASCAR

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idea where like when one of these crazy things happen, everyone tries to figure

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out anything that they had any interest in and then applies evil to that. You

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know what I mean? Oh god. Speaking of evil,

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that was awesome. Out of focus. And that's the end of that topic anyway.

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Yeah. Perfect. Cuz I didn't really want to talk about it anymore. What up? What

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up, ladies and gentlemen? Uh, what topic? This is not my laptop. What topic

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is no fun and no good? Uh, 8chan taking or Cloudflare taking down 8chan. Oh

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lordy. Yeah, we thought we'd get rid of that before you showed up. Yeah, that's

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a complicated topic. I actually had wanted to talk about that. Okay, throw

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your input. Um, cuz I feel like a broken

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record on these types of topics. Oh. Oh,

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yeah. I love BIOS updates that are

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completely like, okay, I can postpone

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it. Wow. There's a there's a there's a countdown on Sure. Nothing should ever

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automatically BIOS update. Can we just agree on that real quick? Yes, we can.

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We can. You know what? No, I'm going to play I'm going to play devil's advocate

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because in I just watched a video from Paul. He said one of the highest shame

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things to do is have your computer break because you you uh power goes out while

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it's while it's files updating. In the event, remember this is a device in this

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case which has a built-in UPS effectively. Okay. So, so there's that.

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They do have that does help. They do have one safeguard in place. This is

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really not going well. I think it went away. Never mind. It went away. That was

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a weird error. Like unrecognizable error. Um Okay. Okay.

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Okay. And it did it again. Okay. Now I I

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It's hard for me to do this, but I'm going to I'm defending this behavior right now. I'm playing devil's advocate

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here. What's that box? I I don't know. Just just just just hold on for a second

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here. Okay. There's some kind of

00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:05.839
horrendous CPU security exploit. Okay.

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The only mitigation is like a microode update. Okay. Your computer's BIOS. It

00:16:09.040 --> 00:16:16.959
should it should update. It should like make you do I don't think it should automatically happen on a timer. No, I

00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:21.839
don't really disagree with you. I'm I think it should tell you and be like,

00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:25.360
"Yo, you should like really do this." Um but yeah, I don't think Okay. So,

00:16:22.880 --> 00:16:27.920
honestly, what if your battery is low? Well, you'd think it would check. Like,

00:16:26.800 --> 00:16:34.560
the BIOS can read the battery percentage. Are you sure that did?

00:16:31.839 --> 00:16:37.440
Maybe. It didn't look too sophisticated. Okay,

00:16:36.079 --> 00:16:41.759
so hold on a second. Let's talk about Let's talk about the the whole 8 Chan

00:16:39.680 --> 00:16:49.759
thing that went down. So, my main take on this. So, there's a couple of things.

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Um, I am pro- free speech, but here's

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the thing that a lot of the people upset

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about Cloudflare blocking 8chan seem to

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have overlooked. Free speech, I mean, okay,

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there's a number of ways that free speech gets misunderstood by the average

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person. Way number one, free speech is protection from government

00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:18.799
persecution, not the right to just say anything you want to anyone you want

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with uh no ill effects. That is not what

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free speech means. So the other thing too is the general concept of your

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rights ending where someone else's begins. Cloudflare is a private

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enterprise exercising

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their very similar to free speech. Like there's a lot of things that are not

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technically speech that get protected by free speech. Um but they are effectively

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exercising their free speech rights to

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not deal with or have any association with ach. Okay. Point number three that

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seems to get misunderstood by a lot of people. The United States of America is

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not actually the world.

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I didn't bring up that one. I did I did bring up the previous one. That's

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usually one of your favorites. Yeah, I know it is. Yeah. Yeah. No, I brought up

00:18:08.320 --> 00:18:13.919
the like it's a private entity thing, but I didn't bring up the America isn't

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actually the entire world argument, which is I don't know. That one just I

00:18:16.080 --> 00:18:21.600
just I get such a kick out of that one because I always get these messages um

00:18:19.840 --> 00:18:25.840
whenever I'm in another time zone. Lanus, why are you uploading at three in

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the morning? Because East Coast USA is just one of, believe it or not, more

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than 24 time zones.

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There are a lot of time zones out there. It's amazing. You'd be You'd be floored. You'd be floored by how many time zones

00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:39.919
there are. Um, all right. So, we can go

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ahead. We can move on to the next topic. Yes. Uh, why is this not why is this

00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:47.840
doing this? How many times do I have to load my browser to the perpetual Wow

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document? Okay. What have you guys talked about so far? Just the Achan

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thing. it. I think we should do the user benchmark thing because it's in the

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title. Okay, let's do that. So, I got you. The user bench controversy. So, we

00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:05.679
were actually supposed to talk about this when we did W show live at LTX. Oh,

00:19:03.679 --> 00:19:09.280
we Yeah, we we said it was one of our highlighted topics. We were like going

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to talk about it and then people got mad at me because they were like, "You guys

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are covering up for Intel again." And I'm like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, chill

00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:20.240
chill for a second." We got all wrapped up like giving away cool stuff to the

00:19:18.320 --> 00:19:24.000
audience. like we were just like having a good time and actually we didn't cover

00:19:21.600 --> 00:19:27.280
a ton of topics for some No, not at all. For some reference of how much I

00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:32.320
completely forgot this, I'm the one that decided it was our headliner topic and I

00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:35.760
got him to pose for it and everything and I had I don't think I'd ever seen

00:19:34.320 --> 00:19:40.559
this before. So, the only reason I brought this up was cuz I saw a couple of comments that people were like, "Hey,

00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:44.080
you guys said you were going to talk about this." I was like, "Yeah, we did

00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:46.720
actually. Okay, we should do that." I hope you called it out as your caller

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topics cuz I don't remember this literally at all. So, user benchmark or

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user bench or whatever it's called. Yeah, user benchmark which I have

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actually never heard of. Should I have heard of user benchmark?

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Uh, let me go make

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uh Okay, I have maybe I've heard of it at some point. But user benchmark has

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never actually been um part of our

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benchmarking suite. You're sharing screen sharing by the way right now. It's never been part of our um

00:20:15.120 --> 00:20:22.080
benchmarking suite here at Lionus Media Group. Um I have never run it out of

00:20:19.600 --> 00:20:26.080
idle curiosity. Um so I thought it was something else. No, I've never seen this

00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:31.360
either. Okay, cool. So anyway, apparently they get millions of website

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traffic every month. So that's cool. Apparently they recently adjusted their

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score weighting mechanism. So previously they weighed single core performance as

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40% of the score, quad core as or quad

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threaded mid jump back real quick. Jump back to your screen for sure. Uh

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quadthreaded performance as 50% of your score and multi-core performance as 10%

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of your score. I have fixed it now. So you can see on their scoring things they

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have percentage values, user rating percentage values, single core,

00:21:00.159 --> 00:21:05.919
multi-core. I don't actually see the quad core thing which is the highest weighted one. So not sure but don't

00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:11.280
worry about it but they have everything like set on the top here. Okay. So they

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came out and they were like however due to unrealistic scores of many core CPUs

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like Ryzen 3000 series userbench changed

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their waiting system as follows 40%

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single core 58% quad core and only 2%

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multi-core. So, previously it was 40% single core, 50% quad core, and 10% uh

00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:39.200
multi-core. So, they dropped the multiore by a lot. All right. So, this

00:21:36.159 --> 00:21:41.200
riled up AMD fans who want to see their

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team's processor at the top of the chart. And you guys shouldn't be fans of

00:21:44.679 --> 00:21:52.559
microprocessor manufacturers because I'm I'm going to let you in on I'm going let

00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:56.480
you in on a little secret. Okay.

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They don't care about you. What? I know

00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:02.159
they care about their shareholders.

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Oh, I I'm sorry, Luke. Hurts my feelings. I appreciate it. Fair to I'm

00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:13.919
damaged now. Uh anyway, so this this riled up the people who are fans of AMD.

00:22:10.159 --> 00:22:16.320
Um and to be clear, I'm not down on

00:22:13.919 --> 00:22:20.720
being excited about competition in the marketplace. I'm excited about that, but

00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:24.799
I'm not a fan of AMD. I am not a fan of Intel because at the end of the day,

00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:31.480
business is business and that's all it is. Okay, so this riled up AMD fans who

00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:36.080
are fans for whatever reason because the

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$120 quad core Core i38100 now beats Oh,

00:22:36.080 --> 00:22:41.919
wait, no, sorry. This is a point of clarification. So, here's the thing,

00:22:39.760 --> 00:22:46.320
though. AMD processors were not the only ones negatively affected in terms of

00:22:44.159 --> 00:22:53.679
their perceived value by these changes. So, the $120 quad core Core i38100 now

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actually beats Intel's $2,000 18 core

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Core i9 99980 XCE in the rankings because of its higher boost frequency.

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Oops. Um, so User Benchmark has hundreds

00:23:01.360 --> 00:23:06.320
of thousands of benchmark submissions in its database that influence the purchasing decisions of nearly 10

00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:11.200
million visitors each month. Wow, this sounds like an ad for user benchmark, which I've never heard of. No. Uh,

00:23:09.360 --> 00:23:14.720
following the July 2019 cohort, we noticed the CPU, gaming, and desktop

00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:19.120
indices were overestimating all CPUs with core counts beyond eight. until we updated that index. So, this is

00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:24.000
basically them sort of clarifying why this was done. You know what? I

00:23:21.360 --> 00:23:28.000
understand why AMD fans are mad because, you know, their Threadripper CPUs um

00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:33.919
now don't look as good. But the thing that people have to understand is that

00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:35.679
while I don't necessarily agree on 2% as

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the right number for workloads that will take advantage of a Threadripper for

00:23:37.120 --> 00:23:48.559
the average user. Yeah. Um it's definitely less than 10%. Yeah.

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So, and like from the wording that I've

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seen, it it literally says

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uh it's geared towards gamers. They say

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that in the text on their website. So, I think user here I think what they could

00:24:00.080 --> 00:24:07.039
do is a couple of things. They could improve this system by either updating

00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:12.240
it frequently because if the idea is that they want to weight

00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:18.000
um they want to weight the workloads that are likely in the present day more

00:24:15.320 --> 00:24:23.360
heavily that's that makes total sense. That absolutely makes sense. Um or what

00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:28.240
they could do is they could allow you to run it a couple different ways. So you

00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:30.080
could you could run it in like um today

00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:34.000
mode or you could run it in forwardlooking mode. As as software gets

00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:39.200
more multi-threaded, I'm going to care more about that. I want to buy a future more I hate the f word, but a more

00:24:37.360 --> 00:24:43.120
future proof a future proof processor. Yeah. No, I like one of the things that

00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:47.520
I like about that concept is just you could even ch pick the future one

00:24:45.760 --> 00:24:54.080
knowing that you have some use cases now that could use multicore more and just

00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:55.840
be like I am a future man future man.

00:24:54.080 --> 00:24:59.120
But like it's I like the idea of being able to mess with it. So you could go

00:24:57.520 --> 00:25:02.240
like, "Okay, multi-core is this percentage important to me. Quad core is

00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:06.480
this percentage important to me. Single core is this percentage." The some of the problems there is some people aren't

00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:11.600
going to recognize how important single core is um due to a whole bunch of

00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:17.360
reasons and other various things. But yeah, I mean it's interesting. I do

00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:20.400
agree with multicore being downed again and I but I don't know about the 2%. I

00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:24.320
don't know about 2%. That seems pretty low on the other hand. And like if

00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:28.640
they're looking at it going, "Yeah, you know, an upcoming 32 core Threadripper

00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:31.760
or wait, there's a 32 core now, isn't there?" Yeah. So, an upcoming like 64

00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:38.000
core Threadripper or something like that for the average user's workload, no

00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:42.400
is not going to perform, you know, 80% better, you know,

00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:46.480
in I don't know, Far Cry 5, whatever, Battlefield 5. It's not it's not it's

00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:52.480
not actually materially faster in workloads that most average users are

00:25:49.840 --> 00:25:55.600
going to be running. Yeah. Um, no. I will restart later, computer. Wow, it's

00:25:54.400 --> 00:26:00.000
really annoying. You know what could be kind of fun? Yeah, benchmarking. Not

00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:09.960
that this news matters enough to necessarily do this, but having a video where you benchmark the i9 99980 XE

00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:09.960
versus the i38100.

00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:19.200
Just go like how does Wait, we've done that video that exact video. Not quite,

00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:22.240
but I think we did $100 CPU versus um

00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:24.960
what? $1,000 CPU. Okay, so close, but

00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:31.039
we're talking 120 versus two grand, but similar. Um, very similar. Uh, let me

00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:36.000
see if I don't remember exactly what we Oh, no. We did. It's a $600 CPU, 10

00:26:33.520 --> 00:26:40.799
times more powerful than a $60 one. People hated that video. Why? They were

00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:43.360
just mad. I don't know why they were mad. Yeah, it has like a lot of

00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:48.840
dislikes. Yeah, it has like a 10% dislike ratio. I don't I don't get it.

00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:53.039
Uh, what were people mad about? mad about.

00:26:50.520 --> 00:26:56.880
Um, oh, some people were mad because I kept calling it a Core i7 because this

00:26:55.120 --> 00:27:02.320
was back when Core i9's were new and I was like, uh, that was a hard vocal

00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:09.000
shift. I I don't blame you too much. Uh, is a $600 Linus more powerful than a $60

00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:11.840
loop. What even are these

00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:17.760
comments? Title is clickbait. $64 instead of 60 reported. Get over it. Um,

00:27:15.840 --> 00:27:21.679
okay. You know what? Piano banana. Let's answer your question. I'm watching every

00:27:20.159 --> 00:27:25.039
video from you for years and I have an important question you never answered.

00:27:23.600 --> 00:27:29.279
What should I do when I want to share my mouse and keyboard between multiple computers at once? Wait, are they just

00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:35.279
joking about it? Must have had like a It's got to be an ad spot. It has to be an ad spot. I'm sure you mean sponsor

00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:39.440
spot. Oh, sorry. But yes, Spawn. There was a sponsor spot for Synergy. Oh, very

00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:45.360
very funny. There was a lot of synergy spots at sponsor spots. Uh, we don't do

00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:49.440
ads online as tech tips because ads might compete with Google's ad formats,

00:27:47.520 --> 00:27:53.520
right? That's why we only do sponsor spots. I am so sorry, Google. I

00:27:51.919 --> 00:27:59.679
apologize. I will take whatever punishment you

00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:03.600
seem. Yeah. Go sacrifice a marshmallow

00:27:59.679 --> 00:28:06.480
to our overlords or a piece of pie or an

00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:09.520
Oreo. You can sacrifice them into your tummy.

00:28:08.159 --> 00:28:13.919
That's perfectly acceptable. So, it's it's actually good for everyone. That's

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ridgewallet.com/LTT. Now, I want to move into what is actually the main topic of

00:29:51.360 --> 00:29:59.360
today's WAN Show. Okay. So, there have been some epic battles. Oh, you've been

00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:04.159
so excited about this on YouTube over the years. Some epic battles. Oh, one

00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:10.640
epic battle. Oh, no. We're going that direction. One epic battle was

00:30:07.080 --> 00:30:12.480
between the epic rap battles characters

00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:16.720
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. That truly was a a spectacular episode of epic rap

00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:22.799
battles. More importantly, there was the epic battle between T-Series and the one

00:30:19.840 --> 00:30:25.520
and only Felix Kielberg. Is that how you pronounce it? Whatever. It doesn't

00:30:23.760 --> 00:30:30.480
matter. Pewdiepie. Okay. Pewdiepie. Yeah. You know, for top subscribed

00:30:27.760 --> 00:30:36.120
channel now. Keyberg. I like it. We're not we're not in a position we're not in

00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:38.559
a position to battle over the top most

00:30:36.120 --> 00:30:45.840
subscribed YouTube channel of all time. Yeah. But there is a rivalry that has

00:30:43.679 --> 00:30:52.520
actually been heating up over the last little while. And so I just want to take

00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:56.600
this opportunity to say it.

00:30:52.520 --> 00:30:59.000
Um, Marquez

00:30:56.600 --> 00:31:05.120
MKBHD, I choose you. Consider yourself called out

00:31:02.360 --> 00:31:10.279
because now people who creep YouTube stats might know this already, but most

00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:16.720
of you probably don't. Marquez actually what four years ago

00:31:13.360 --> 00:31:19.679
five years ago I think skyrocketed past

00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:23.440
Linus tech tips for most subscribed tech channel and then Lou actually blew past

00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:30.480
both of us but we're not talking about that this is a race for the silver

00:31:27.080 --> 00:31:32.000
medal second English speaking okay

00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:38.559
technical guruji technically over 10 million subscribers second Englisheaking

00:31:35.600 --> 00:31:43.200
tech YouTube channel across the 10 million ion subscriber mark. Marquez,

00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:47.840
consider yourself called out because, and I'm sure you noticed this, man. We

00:31:45.360 --> 00:31:51.919
actually passed you for subscribers about what was it about six months ago.

00:31:49.760 --> 00:31:57.279
Brandon, does that sound about right? Okay. Now, with that said, the race is

00:31:55.200 --> 00:32:04.240
going to be super interesting because Marquez actually passed us again about

00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:07.679
two or three weeks ago. But then, check

00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:10.880
this out. So, he's gaining an average of

00:32:07.679 --> 00:32:13.440
around 4,800 subscribers a day. Yeah.

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:18.960
Yeah. That was a Note 10 launch, don't. So, so he he can be very spiky, but he's

00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:24.880
gained an average of about 4,800 subscribers a month, and he's sitting at

00:32:21.159 --> 00:32:26.960
9.054 million. Now, by comparison, the

00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:30.880
Linus TechTips channel, 4,800 subscribers a day. A day, sorry, a day.

00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:34.640
Like 140 a month. By comparison, the Linus TechTips channel is a little

00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:39.120
behind. We're actually about 80,000 subscribers behind, but that is not an

00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:43.840
insurmountable difference when you look at our daily average, which is about

00:32:41.120 --> 00:32:47.760
5,500. So, we can win this fight. Also, one

00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:52.000
thing, a little bit of hot fire. He's uh B+ rated. You're a minus. So, yeah. So,

00:32:50.399 --> 00:32:55.120
Social Blade, Social Blade knows what's up right there. A minus. You like that?

00:32:53.679 --> 00:33:02.080
You like that A minus right there? Heck yeah. It's green. His is yellow. Just saying. Yep.

00:32:59.080 --> 00:33:02.080
So

00:33:02.120 --> 00:33:09.919
Marquez, it's on. What's up, bro? It's on. So I'm challenging Marquez to be the

00:33:07.919 --> 00:33:13.679
next one, the next tech channel to 10 million before

00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:18.919
us. And I'm challenging you, our community, to help help me out here,

00:33:16.600 --> 00:33:23.559
please. Because I've we've been watching it

00:33:21.760 --> 00:33:27.760
internally. Like, it's it's something that I don't think I've met a YouTuber.

00:33:26.080 --> 00:33:31.200
They might deny it in public, but I don't think I've met a YouTuber who

00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:38.559
doesn't creep other YouTubers on SocialBlade. We all use SocialBlade to

00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:41.440
like be like, "Hey, how are other people

00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:47.600
in the space doing?" Yeah. Um, it makes sense. So, we talk about it internally,

00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:50.399
but now it's public. So, I really need

00:33:47.600 --> 00:33:55.679
you guys to help me out because I am now officially out of the closet when it

00:33:52.399 --> 00:33:57.840
comes to my YouTube stating habit. And

00:33:55.679 --> 00:34:03.039
uh I would like very much to not be embarrassed. So guys, share Lionus Tech

00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:06.399
Tips with your friends and family. Uh preferably the ones that'll actually

00:34:04.399 --> 00:34:09.919
watch because it can actually affect us negatively if people subscribe and then

00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:13.359
don't watch. It makes YouTube think that like uh people subscribe and don't like

00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:17.280
the channel because the content sucks. So like find someone who's actually

00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:21.200
techie and make sure they subscribe. If all

00:34:18.720 --> 00:34:24.639
7,000 of you do that today, then we can at least keep pace with him over the

00:34:23.200 --> 00:34:30.000
last couple days cuz he's had a nice little bump from the Note 10 that I uh

00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:31.919
had not anticipated necessarily before

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:36.240
conceiving of the idea of challenging him on the W show today. You should pull

00:34:33.520 --> 00:34:41.200
in Mr. Beast and buy out all the billboards in an area, but just to troll

00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:47.520
really hard. Buy them all out in his area so that he like drives and stuff.

00:34:44.399 --> 00:34:49.839
So don't don't say anything because we

00:34:47.520 --> 00:34:54.000
have some plans and I don't want you to accidentally say anything that we

00:34:51.520 --> 00:34:59.359
actually have planned. Okay. And ruin it. Okay. Okay. So we'll talk offline.

00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:02.800
Sounds good. But yeah, we're we're Okay. Tell you what. Tell you what, I can't

00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:08.000
tell you guys this unfortunately because it would really it would really ruin a

00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:10.480
thing. But um I'm going to tell Luke and

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:15.040
you get to judge by his reaction. Okay. How funny this is. That picks up really

00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:18.040
Okay. I'll be very quiet. I'll be very quiet.

00:35:23.680 --> 00:35:29.240
Okay. I haven't even told you the funny part yet. Okay. Okay.

00:35:44.640 --> 00:35:50.760
You should. So that's how good it's going to be. Okay. Okay. And then hold on. Hold on.

00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:08.050
Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:11.680
This is going to be amazing.

00:36:11.680 --> 00:36:19.200
Okay. Okay. Okay. Sorry. So, anyway, Marquez, I choose you. Um, bring it on.

00:36:17.839 --> 00:36:23.200
That's all I have to say about that. Oh, God. Uh if he responds with anything

00:36:21.680 --> 00:36:28.880
anywhere near that amazing, this is going to be absolutely fantastic.

00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:35.599
Officially best tech feud of all time. Wow. Uh because the tech feud between

00:36:31.680 --> 00:36:38.800
AMD and Intel is officially over. Um

00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:41.119
Intel is just not really participating

00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:44.079
in the feud anymore, it seems. Uh oh wait, I didn't mean to actually share my

00:36:42.640 --> 00:36:48.760
screen there. That doesn't matter. Uh, the original article here is from our

00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:54.400
bud Patrick Kennedy over at servethehome.com and his headline pretty

00:36:51.200 --> 00:36:58.720
much says it all. AMD Epic 70002 series

00:36:54.400 --> 00:37:02.400
Rome delivers a knockout.

00:36:58.720 --> 00:37:06.079
So, if in the consumer space Whoops. So

00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:08.640
if in the consumer space AMD got

00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:13.359
competitive with Intel and managed to pull out ahead in given workloads,

00:37:11.359 --> 00:37:18.079
particularly multi-threaded workloads, because when we talk about AMD being

00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:22.880
great for gaming with Ryzen third gen, we're talking AMD caught up to Intel and

00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:29.119
they now like beat them a couple times, but Intel still at the top end of their

00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:32.320
stack is the best performing CPU

00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:35.920
strictly for gaming.

00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:38.760
When we talk about the serverland world

00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:44.640
place thing in the clouds, those are workloads that are

00:37:41.640 --> 00:37:48.800
inherently heavily multi-threaded, an

00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:51.960
area that AMD has uh cemented a firm

00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:55.079
grasp on when it comes to performance

00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:57.599
leadership. Um, and this

00:37:55.079 --> 00:38:01.440
is bad. So, remember that video I made a little

00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:06.680
while back where I talked about how I can't hold tech stock um because it

00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:11.839
would be a significant conflict of interest if I didn't feel that that was

00:38:10.240 --> 00:38:17.520
too much of a conflict of interest. Here's the thing. I make my money

00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:20.880
through ads and sponsorships and uh

00:38:17.520 --> 00:38:24.400
merch sales um and and all all kinds of

00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:26.240
different ways. Um, so I the way that I

00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:31.760
look at it is like look it, I can't have my hand in every honey jar. Okay. So, so

00:38:29.839 --> 00:38:36.160
playing tech stocks is going to be a honey jar that I just cannot ethically

00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:39.359
participate in. And you know what? I need to be comfortable with that because

00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:43.040
I have all these other ways that I make a very good living. I'm not complaining

00:38:41.520 --> 00:38:48.640
at all. So, I'm just be like, you know what? I'm not going to do that. But if I

00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:53.040
had had the opportunity, I legitimately, even though I don't actually participate

00:38:50.480 --> 00:39:00.880
in stock trading, I would have bought so much AMD that day. And honestly, it was

00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:02.400
not because desktop Ryzen was like going

00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:08.880
to be competitive or whatever. That was what the word on the street was. That was what AMD was broadcasting, shouting

00:39:05.839 --> 00:39:12.520
from every roof rooftop that they could.

00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:15.880
The thing that I was actually excited

00:39:12.520 --> 00:39:19.480
about was

00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:23.040
this. That is the epic

00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:26.000
announcement. Wow. Okay. So, when we go

00:39:23.040 --> 00:39:30.000
back to when was Computex? Like sometime in June. Okay. So, Computex is like

00:39:28.160 --> 00:39:34.480
what? Mid June. Oh, yeah. No, this is the spike, right? Yeah. Early June. Here

00:39:32.240 --> 00:39:39.200
we go. So, so it's actually pretty similar this kind of like downward trend

00:39:37.040 --> 00:39:44.079
and stuff like this stuff can be all over the place, but you got to remember

00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:50.320
when you're when you're buying a stock based on the uh the quality of the

00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:52.480
product portfolio, right, and the

00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:58.800
competitive position of the other players in the same market. We're not

00:39:55.280 --> 00:40:00.880
talking about holding something for like

00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:05.040
a month or two and going, "Okay, that was my gains. I cash out and like you

00:40:03.040 --> 00:40:10.000
flip it and buy something else. Because the thing is for for an actual

00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:13.839
competitive advantage, not just like, oh, there's a rumor of a buyout or blah

00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:20.800
blah blah, like that kind of stuff that really causes stocks to spike and decline or like large shareholders um

00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:24.160
dumping to artificially deflated and then buying in low or whatever. Like

00:40:23.040 --> 00:40:28.800
like there's all kinds of things that can affect a stock. If you want to

00:40:26.160 --> 00:40:32.440
capitalize on something real, like the actual position in the market of the

00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:39.839
company, you need to take a longer position. And what I had an inkling of

00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:42.960
at that time was that over the next

00:40:39.839 --> 00:40:46.000
couple of years, AMD was going to win

00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:48.560
back significant market share in a

00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:53.680
space, not gamers, guys. There's no margin in gaming chips. Like, there's a

00:40:50.960 --> 00:41:00.400
little bit, but come on. Not not gaming chips. I'm talking the

00:40:56.560 --> 00:41:04.800
big stuff. I'm talking $7,000 CPUs of

00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:09.240
which two go in one blade server of

00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:12.640
which there are four per freaking like

00:41:09.240 --> 00:41:16.000
like server of which there are like you

00:41:12.640 --> 00:41:17.839
know 16 or 18 per freaking cabinet of

00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:25.040
which there are a hundred in a data center. That's the big business. That's

00:41:21.839 --> 00:41:26.640
the big money. That's where AMD is going

00:41:25.040 --> 00:41:30.160
to be coming back in their next quarterly earnings report, maybe not

00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:35.040
even the next one, because after you launch a product like this, it takes a

00:41:32.240 --> 00:41:38.400
while for those big uh requests for quotes to come in, or I think it's

00:41:37.040 --> 00:41:46.800
actually short for request for quantity. I think it can go either way, whatever. That's where those RFQS come in. And you

00:41:43.520 --> 00:41:49.280
know, you look at it, you you uh you put

00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:53.200
together a quotation, the buyers take it, they talk to their upper management,

00:41:51.359 --> 00:41:56.240
blah blah blah. There's a whole process validation, but it's going to Yeah, it's

00:41:54.640 --> 00:42:01.599
going to take a quarter or two, maybe even three, but that's where AMD's

00:41:59.040 --> 00:42:07.520
quarterly earnings at some point in the next year are going to look like

00:42:05.319 --> 00:42:10.960
this. That's where it's going to spike hardcore and that's where I was looking

00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:17.040
at it going, that's why I would want to take a position. Now, heed my warning.

00:42:14.560 --> 00:42:21.599
Since I said that, since I made that video, AMD has already spiked

00:42:19.240 --> 00:42:27.680
significantly. And I am not in a position where I am advising anyone to

00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:31.119
buy or sell stocks. That is not my job.

00:42:27.680 --> 00:42:33.480
I am not an analyst. Remember, no matter

00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:40.319
how good things look, stuff could go wrong. Dr. Sue could die of how excited

00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:44.880
she is about how amazing her company is performing right now. Or a fab could

00:42:42.240 --> 00:42:49.359
have a problem. Yeah, TSMC could explode. Okay, that could actually

00:42:47.520 --> 00:42:54.240
happen. China could get really upset. Yeah, remember remember when uh what was

00:42:51.520 --> 00:42:57.839
it? Floods in Thailand that like well with that said WD and Seagate stock

00:42:56.400 --> 00:43:03.200
actually spiked because of that because they just sold hard drives for more margin. But anyway, that's a whole other

00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:08.240
thing. Um something I've been Yeah. Yeah. The point is stuff can go wrong.

00:43:05.200 --> 00:43:10.160
I'm guaranteeing nothing. But, uh, this

00:43:08.240 --> 00:43:13.839
was what I was actually amped about, but couldn't really talk about because I had

00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:20.000
nothing concrete to go on at that time. Zen 2 is a freaking beast. I wish I had

00:43:17.680 --> 00:43:24.640
my swear button so I could bleep myself cuz I wanted to use a different word.

00:43:21.520 --> 00:43:26.400
Okay, so Epic 7,000. Can you Can you

00:43:24.640 --> 00:43:31.599
show your doc for a sec? I can. Who wrote this? Uh, James. Why? We need to

00:43:30.319 --> 00:43:36.079
do like a word count thing for how many times AMD and Epic were typed in this.

00:43:33.839 --> 00:43:42.319
Well, AMD is having a pretty epic run here. just it's amaz every single line

00:43:39.040 --> 00:43:43.680
AMD epic the AMD epic the AMD epic AMD

00:43:42.319 --> 00:43:49.160
pretty much you should read through Patrick's uh article because it's great

00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:52.800
um but pretty much almost across the

00:43:49.160 --> 00:43:55.440
board except at the very low end epic is

00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:59.119
just I mean it's just crushing it I mean for a single socket we're talking 128

00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:04.160
PCI Express lanes versus what is it it's either 46 or 56 something stupid like

00:44:02.319 --> 00:44:07.839
that like over double the PCI Express lane count when we're talking big data

00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:13.839
and machine learning and stuff like that. A lot of the processing isn't done

00:44:11.200 --> 00:44:18.400
on the CPU anymore. It's done on GPUs. So this these or not even GPUs. I mean

00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:22.880
there's other specialized processors. Intel just released their FPGA thing.

00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:26.720
Yeah. Like Intel themselves seems to know this. Okay. And then aside from

00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:30.800
that, you need massive storage. You need PCI Express for that. Everything is PCI

00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:34.800
Express now. Uh they've got way more memory bandwidth. They actually run at

00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:40.160
faster memory speeds. DDR4 3200 versus 2933. And they've got two more channels

00:44:37.200 --> 00:44:43.280
per chip. They completely rearchitected the way that the memory actually

00:44:41.520 --> 00:44:47.839
connects to the CPU. And this is really cool because I was actually doing a

00:44:45.359 --> 00:44:52.319
video on Intel Skull Trail the other week. Remember Skull Trail? Yeah. Okay.

00:44:49.680 --> 00:44:57.599
That was Intel's dual socket uh gaming enthusiast platform. It was eight cores

00:44:55.200 --> 00:45:02.319
at a time when nothing had eight cores. Nope. Uh in the consumer space anyway.

00:45:00.160 --> 00:45:07.040
And um I was blown away because I pulled up task manager and I noticed that it

00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:09.319
only had one NUMA domain and I was like,

00:45:07.040 --> 00:45:15.200
"Oh my god, it had a north bridge." So the CPUs the CPU bones

00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:21.119
connected to the north bridge bone over the front side bus and the north bridge

00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:24.319
bone connected to the the FB DIM memory

00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:27.200
bone. So there's no latency penalty for

00:45:24.319 --> 00:45:30.400
this CPU to grab data from RAM that's connected to this CPU's integrated

00:45:29.040 --> 00:45:34.560
memory controller because there is no integrated memory controller. Okay, but

00:45:33.040 --> 00:45:39.440
integrated memory controller is still has a benefit over that archaic

00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:43.440
architecture because basically having a north bridge means everybody gets a

00:45:41.520 --> 00:45:51.560
latency hit instead of only when you have to cross into another domain. Now

00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:54.599
with Epic second gen, AMD actually

00:45:51.560 --> 00:45:56.440
architected effectively a more

00:45:54.599 --> 00:46:04.000
Northbridge like system with fewer NUMA domains

00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:05.359
except it's all on it's all on chip. So

00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:10.720
they're I forget what they call it. What's their IO hub thing that they're building into the the thing? They made

00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:14.400
the IO die the center of the server. Blah blah blah. I forget what they

00:46:12.160 --> 00:46:17.520
actually call the damn thing though. Um, sorry, you'll have to forgive me. I

00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:23.760
don't remember what their what their term is for it. But what this means is

00:46:20.560 --> 00:46:25.440
that the best case scenario, so just

00:46:23.760 --> 00:46:30.079
like with the north bridge, the best case scenario for memory access actually

00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:35.200
gets a little bit worse, but the worst case scenario gets way better,

00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:38.160
especially in dual socket configurations. What's that? I think

00:46:36.720 --> 00:46:41.760
it's still called Numa nodes. No, no, no. The IOHub. The IOHub has a name.

00:46:40.160 --> 00:46:44.560
Yeah. Yeah. I forget. I forget what it's called. Um, you know what? We can

00:46:43.200 --> 00:46:50.079
probably You know what? Let's give Let's give Patrick's article some shout outs here. It's pretty awesome. Let's just

00:46:47.520 --> 00:46:55.000
find it. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Oh, Patrick, you

00:46:53.359 --> 00:46:58.800
don't label your pages.

00:46:56.520 --> 00:47:02.560
Dude, was to move the traditional north bridge functions, blah blah blah, etc.,

00:47:01.040 --> 00:47:08.560
etc. Come on. You're killing me here, dude. Okay. Something something

00:47:05.720 --> 00:47:14.160
something. I'm dying. Andy's approach is different. Integrated server controller

00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:16.720
hub. The SCH. I think that's it. Uh, no,

00:47:14.160 --> 00:47:20.000
that's not it. Is that it? Maybe that's it. You know what? It doesn't matter. I

00:47:18.560 --> 00:47:24.800
don't care what they call it. The point is, the point is they have smoothed out

00:47:22.560 --> 00:47:30.160
the latency for memory accesses. They have sped up the memory. They have more

00:47:26.720 --> 00:47:32.720
channels. They have a 15% IPC uplift

00:47:30.160 --> 00:47:38.880
over first gen epic, which is freaking phenomenal. They have up to a 64 core

00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:45.200
product. I mean, we are talking Intel's dual socket servers having a difficult

00:47:42.160 --> 00:47:50.960
time competing with AMD's single single

00:47:45.200 --> 00:47:50.960
socket chip. And we're ignoring

00:47:51.319 --> 00:47:56.920
price. AMD's 64 core chip, the top spec

00:47:54.720 --> 00:48:04.480
one is like $7,700. A single Intel 28 core, okay,

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:08.240
single one is 10 grand for their topsp spec chip. Now, you're going to get

00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:11.599
those at lower prices if you're buying in volume or blah blah blah, whatever.

00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.800
But you have to assume that AMD's got discounts on offer, too, depending on

00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:19.200
how much you're buying. The point of the matter is just that Intel is not

00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:24.240
competitive and then their pricing is out of whack. There is basically now I

00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:27.119
want to get Epic in-house here. I want to play with it. I want you guys to play

00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:31.280
with it for like a video transcode server. Um, I'm working on it by the

00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:37.599
way. Okay. Um, so I want to get epic in house, but as far as I can tell, outside

00:48:34.720 --> 00:48:42.240
of some very specific use cases, like if you must have

00:48:39.720 --> 00:48:50.079
AVX512, which is an instruction that AMD has not implemented yet, if you must

00:48:44.640 --> 00:48:52.319
have it, um, AMD don't got you back. But

00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:56.720
that's about it. I was going to say for a vast majority of other stuff, AMD list

00:48:54.480 --> 00:49:00.880
prices on competitive parts are 25 to 35% of what the compute performance

00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:06.000
would cost to get from Intel Xeon comparables. That's compute performance

00:49:03.599 --> 00:49:09.920
cost, not like chip for chip. Yeah. So that's actually like more important in

00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:14.480
my opinion. It's savage. It's savage. We're bringing that back. It's savage.

00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:16.880
We're going to like 20 to 18.

00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:20.079
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Savage beating. It's like it's hard to watch, you know?

00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:23.440
Yeah. It's hard to watch. Like Jake Paul. Yeah. Oh, equally hard to watch.

00:49:22.240 --> 00:49:28.240
Nice. I don't know. I've never watched a Jake Paul video. It might be great. I

00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:31.280
wouldn't know. Um, speaking of things, I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know how to

00:49:29.520 --> 00:49:34.640
get rid of Nick other than to tell you guys about the hoodie I'm wearing right

00:49:33.359 --> 00:49:38.000
now. That's what you want, right? Really? Oh, that's not on sale yet. Oh,

00:49:36.640 --> 00:49:41.920
it's not? I thought they just took pictures now. Oh, okay. This is not on

00:49:40.640 --> 00:49:46.559
sale yet. Sorry, Nick. What can I do for you? Uh, did you see the thing that

00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:49.599
Light sent you and stuff? Oh, that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's talk about that.

00:49:47.839 --> 00:49:53.280
Also, did you guys talk about how like there's a rumor that Dr. Se is going to

00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:56.559
IBM or whatever? What? Dr. Sue might be going to IBM. Well, like there's a

00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:59.920
rumor. There's a rumor. It doesn't seem very The thing that makes it more

00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:04.880
legitimate to me is that she directly responded to it being like, "This is not

00:50:02.160 --> 00:50:08.760
true." Which to me makes it more true. She said it's not true. Interesting.

00:50:07.040 --> 00:50:13.880
Yeah. Uh denied a rumor. She wants to be IBM's

00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:19.119
next chief exec. Uh that would be lame.

00:50:19.200 --> 00:50:28.079
That just be a lame move. Anthony, we're like maybe IBM just buys AMD.

00:50:25.680 --> 00:50:31.599
I don't know if IBM could buy AMD and retain the x86 license though. I think

00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.319
that would be the issue. Yeah, there'd be like no value. The licensing around

00:50:33.040 --> 00:50:39.440
that kind of stuff is crazy. Yeah. And also there would that would be a significant market consolidation because

00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:42.720
IBM and AMD actually AMD is poised that's a really interesting thing too.

00:50:40.640 --> 00:50:47.440
They're also poised with these massive many core CPUs, PCI Express Gen 4.

00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:52.880
they're poised to take on IBM potentially in applications where um

00:50:51.520 --> 00:50:58.880
firms wouldn't have to completely rearchitect because that's one of the things that IBM does so well is they

00:50:56.559 --> 00:51:03.599
focus on the interconnect rather than focusing on just the the performance of

00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:07.200
their power cores. Um, so, so their their like Z series in particular is

00:51:05.680 --> 00:51:14.400
really designed for like many many transactions and connect all the freaking things to it. And AMD is really

00:51:12.160 --> 00:51:20.480
taking a very similar approach with x86 that Intel has largely ignored over the

00:51:16.240 --> 00:51:22.160
last four years. So, if I was Dr. Sue, I

00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:25.359
mean, I don't know what her executive bonus package looks like or what IBM

00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:29.359
could offer her, whatever the case may be, but if I were Dr. Sue and I were

00:51:27.520 --> 00:51:34.319
looking to leave a legacy behind, I would probably try to make it at AMD and

00:51:32.319 --> 00:51:40.400
just kick IBM's ass instead of joining them. Just for like a Bill and Ted level

00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:44.480
overview of this, it's just boring. Stay at AMD. It's more fun. Yeah. It's like

00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:49.280
it's interesting. It has made the industry so much more exciting. Exactly.

00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:54.559
Stay. Like I was so It's way more fun. I was so bored of CPUs for a bit there.

00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:57.680
Yes. Like everyone was. It was like,

00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:59.520
God. And then Jensen's niece was like,

00:51:57.680 --> 00:52:03.599
"Yeah." No, apparently that's false. I know. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So,

00:52:01.040 --> 00:52:08.480
apparently that rumor about Dr. Sue being somehow related like niece or

00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:13.200
something to No, I thought it was like second cousin. It's or it's No, I

00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:21.040
thought it was outright false. Lisa Sue related to Jensen. Here we go. That that

00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:21.040
autocompleted for me. Uh, let's see.

00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:28.160
Uh, technically her grandfather is Jensen Huang's uncle. They are not

00:52:26.319 --> 00:52:32.319
exactly niece and uncle, but relatives is what this says from 2018. I don't

00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:35.760
know. I had people calling me out when I was talking about it. Uh, and they

00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:40.800
confirmed her grandfather being someone's uncle. That's relatively far

00:52:38.640 --> 00:52:46.800
detached. Second cousin once removed or some crazy Yeah. Whatever.

00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:50.800
Okay. I can't find anyone. If you go far enough back, I'm probably I thought one

00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:55.680
of them denied it, didn't they? 14th cousin, 32nd time removed. Nick and I

00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:59.920
are related. Yeah. All right. Whatever. Doesn't matter. Let's uh let's move on

00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:03.839
to something pretty sick. Do you also want to see uh Oh, apparently our Twitch

00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:07.839
title is wrong. Dang it. Whatever. Oh, what do you have? Oh, wow. Okay. Nick

00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:11.599
wants Nick really wants me to do a merch update. Okay. I'm not that into the

00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:16.400
suede hat. Can I show him one of the other ones for context? Uh someone was

00:53:13.839 --> 00:53:19.680
wearing one earlier. Uh who was it? I think I know where one is. Yeah. Okay.

00:53:18.400 --> 00:53:23.920
So, we're working on a new hat for TechLink. Um, it's going to have like

00:53:22.160 --> 00:53:26.880
this little metal thing in the corner and then it's either going to be like a

00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:31.920
plain kind of suede style. What do you think of that material? It feels

00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:33.440
quality. It does, but I think it's a

00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:37.520
different kind of personality that wears a suede hat versus the other one. What's

00:53:35.200 --> 00:53:40.160
that? The like you can see. Oh, well, yeah. That's just like that's a

00:53:38.720 --> 00:53:44.160
characteristic of suede. No, but that's what I mean. That's one of the reasons why I probably wouldn't be super into

00:53:42.319 --> 00:53:48.640
it, though. Yeah. Um, one thing that I have as a completely outside person,

00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:53.359
this is very trendy right now. Yeah. But I like snapbacks. You like snapbacks?

00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:57.680
I'm that guy. But this is trendier. This is what people want as far as I know.

00:53:55.040 --> 00:54:02.480
So, I like the heathered one. Oh, this is nice. Yeah, I really like this one

00:54:00.160 --> 00:54:06.640
and this one actually. They look the same, but they're not quite actually.

00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:09.520
Oh, wait. Are these ones the same? Oh. Oh, it's the pin there. There is another

00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:14.400
color of heather that's a little lighter. I think the dark one is the one that I did. I don't normally like gold,

00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:17.440
but against that like the gray heather, I think it looks pretty good. So, that's

00:54:15.680 --> 00:54:20.559
pretty cool. That's not actually the one that I am most amped to talk about right

00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:26.319
now, though. So, I'm going to go ahead and pop out this Hangouts window because

00:54:22.720 --> 00:54:30.280
we are finally working on the LTT merch

00:54:26.319 --> 00:54:33.359
that was like Thanos inevitable.

00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:35.200
Yes. How close are we to this? Uh, we're

00:54:33.359 --> 00:54:38.160
it'll it'll be a while. It'll be a while. So, first should be before

00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:41.920
holiday. First, there's going to be a mouse pad. So, we're actually gonna

00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:46.000
throw this up. Uh, we're gonna pull people on this. Can I? Oh, yes, I can.

00:54:44.160 --> 00:54:49.119
Pick a design to to tell us what designs they like best. We might do more than

00:54:47.359 --> 00:54:53.200
pull people by doing pre-orders. So, we're gonna do No, that's a disaster.

00:54:51.200 --> 00:54:56.559
No, it's a bad idea. Um, so we're probably going to do a 10 key list and a

00:54:54.559 --> 00:55:02.000
full size size. Okay. With like a nice reasonable mousing area like this kind

00:54:58.640 --> 00:55:03.920
of key. Okay. Um,

00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:07.760
so we've got kind of your Okay. So, something that we've done intentionally

00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:10.480
is left the mousing area uh mostly blank. So, that's to make sure that we

00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:14.960
don't have any tracking issues introduced by the graphics. Now, most modern like high-end mice won't have an

00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:18.400
issue with that, but we want everyone to be able to use them. Here's a more

00:55:16.640 --> 00:55:22.319
colorful version. It's kind of like winter/n northern lights kind of

00:55:20.160 --> 00:55:25.440
inspired. I like um here's just like an LTT circle logo inspired one. I think

00:55:24.160 --> 00:55:29.839
this one's a little busy personally. This is my first time actually seeing these by the way, guys. Also kind of

00:55:28.160 --> 00:55:32.400
look like dongs. They they look like They do kind of look like dong. I think

00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:37.040
we're out. That's the first thing I said. Yeah, we're out on the dong. We're out on the the black and white dong

00:55:35.680 --> 00:55:40.400
design and probably the orange dong design, too. I Yeah. Uh, we could just

00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:44.880
do something a little bit more abstract like this. This is dead on arrival.

00:55:42.720 --> 00:55:48.799
Yeah. Um, here's Oh, the Techl one actually looks really good. Yeah, I like

00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:52.960
that. That one's That one's sharp, actually. The Techl branding lends

00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:58.960
itself really well to like clean, cool designs. Yeah. Um, and yeah, I'm going

00:55:57.040 --> 00:56:04.440
to throw out all my socks and buy a bunch of these. It is inevitable. It was

00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:08.640
going to happen. Also, uh I don't know if you guys can

00:56:06.720 --> 00:56:14.559
see this, but yes, confirmed. We are working on a

00:56:12.240 --> 00:56:17.280
sandal. Okay. Can I petition? I don't know anything about what you guys are

00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:21.520
doing. Long term. Way long. Yeah. It's going to be a while, guys. Like, you'll

00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:25.520
be wearing these sandals next summer. Okay. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, if it makes

00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:31.119
it by then, I'm happy. Everything If everything goes according to plan, you will wear them next summer. You guys now

00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:35.200
need second layer bottoms. So like not underwear bottoms because then if you do

00:56:32.640 --> 00:56:39.119
that with this you'll have everything. So I actually you don't want but that

00:56:37.359 --> 00:56:42.720
would be everything. I just killed that project. But that would be everything.

00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:46.000
Okay. Here's the I didn't Well, yeah. It was like a You could be 100% LT. Okay.

00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:52.720
All right. All right. All right. Chill out for a second here. Chill out for a second here. So pants are really tough.

00:56:50.799 --> 00:56:55.760
Sizing is really challenging. Not like jeans. You got to hold on. Even then,

00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:59.359
you got to accommodate all the different waist sizes, all the different leg

00:56:57.520 --> 00:57:05.359
lengths, and all the combinations thereof. Okay? So, there's a huge like

00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:09.440
front-loaded investment to bring in all these different sizes. Um, that assumes

00:57:07.839 --> 00:57:13.680
that you can even figure out, you know, how to make the clothing fit nicely with

00:57:12.160 --> 00:57:20.640
all these different body shapes and types. Pants are hard. Number two, what

00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:22.799
kind of pants? Because jeans basically

00:57:20.640 --> 00:57:27.119
you're not going to take on I don't know what a popular jean brand is. Levi.

00:57:26.079 --> 00:57:33.839
Sure. You're not going to take on Levis's Gar. Um Jeno Jeno or whatever they're

00:57:32.240 --> 00:57:38.240
called. The pitch that I got the pitch that I got was

00:57:36.720 --> 00:57:41.839
joggers. I was just thinking sweatpants. I don't

00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:45.760
think I They're the same thing. They're basically very similar. Joggers are

00:57:43.680 --> 00:57:53.520
pretty much trendy sweatpants. And the thing is, I didn't actually kill the project

00:57:50.160 --> 00:57:55.480
so much as I put it on indefinite hiatus

00:57:53.520 --> 00:58:00.640
because um see the thing is, okay, so the reason

00:57:58.720 --> 00:58:06.640
that I put it on indefinite hiatus is that from a um from like a a a being

00:58:04.319 --> 00:58:10.480
excited about the merch standpoint, I don't wear sweatpants and I don't wear

00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:15.200
joggers. Those are probably closer to joggers than they are to sweatpants, honestly. The Dream Hack ones. Oh, yeah.

00:58:13.359 --> 00:58:19.839
Yeah. They're very joggery sweatpants. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like they're more fitted and stuff. They're not just like

00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:25.119
I'm sick today. Yeah. Those are those are those are probably basically those are basically like gray athletic. I

00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:31.280
would basic Yeah, I would basically want something that isn't I'm sick today

00:58:27.599 --> 00:58:33.359
pants but isn't jeans like Okay. I don't

00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:37.839
know fashion, but yeah, something you could wear out, but we're not trying to

00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:42.079
compete with jeans. So, um uh what's her

00:58:37.839 --> 00:58:44.640
what's her name again? the uh um the mom

00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:48.480
of all the the famous Kardashian people, Chris Jenner. So, believe it or not, it

00:58:46.799 --> 00:58:53.480
was actually after a presentation from Chris Jenner of all people where she was

00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:59.040
talking about how how they decide on which business

00:58:56.559 --> 00:59:03.920
opportunities to pursue because, okay, when you're the Kardashian/Jenner clan,

00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:08.880
you have basically an endless supply of people pitching you on endorsing their

00:59:06.240 --> 00:59:13.599
product or branding your whatever blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. and she

00:59:11.040 --> 00:59:17.440
went, "One of the most important things for us was to focus on what we're

00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:21.119
passionate about because then you will never get bored of it." What's up? You

00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:24.480
don't wear hats. I actually don't I actually do wear hats. Very rarely. I

00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:27.680
used to wear a hat every day. Okay, that's fair. So, I actually like I can

00:59:26.160 --> 00:59:32.160
understand the hat and when I go out on the weekend and I'm like out in the sun, I will I will take my hat. I do wear my

00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:37.119
hat. Do you remember when you used to wear them all the all the time? So, um

00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:40.960
So, and besides the hat project was actually already complete when I

00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:47.280
attended that workshop. So it anyway. Okay. The reason that I killed the

00:59:43.040 --> 00:59:48.880
joggers and fasttracked socks. Oh no,

00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:52.480
I'm cool with mouse pad. I just wanted to eventually happen. More colors of

00:59:50.720 --> 00:59:56.640
water bottle. It'll eventually happen. So what I told Lloyd and Nick, do you

00:59:54.559 --> 00:59:59.760
want more colors of water? Sorry. Do you want more colors of water bottle to

00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:04.720
show? Uh, no. That's okay. So what I told Nick and Lloyd was, we're going to

01:00:02.319 --> 01:00:08.640
do it, but we're going to do it after we've explored the things that I'm like

01:00:07.200 --> 01:00:12.880
really excited about and passionate about. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's cool. I

01:00:10.720 --> 01:00:16.960
don't care if it happens in 2025. I just want to eventually be able to walk out

01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:21.440
of the door wearing purely LT gear. I hate it when the ice breaks free. But

01:00:18.720 --> 01:00:26.000
the fancy new jacket takes the brunt of the blow and it wicks right off. It does

01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:29.359
actually. This is not actually a jacket though. Okay. Can you get the

01:00:27.200 --> 01:00:35.680
terminology right? I'm sorry. Okay. This is the swacket. What?

01:00:33.359 --> 01:00:40.880
SWAT jacket. Sweater jacket. Sweater jacket. Okay. Okay. Okay. So feel the

01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:45.920
material here. Okay. Okay. It's kind of like athletic sweater. Okay. Feel the

01:00:42.799 --> 01:00:48.240
material here. Definitely jacket. It's a

01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:51.599
swack. Athletic sweater between the So you can still get soaked while only

01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:56.880
getting a little bit soaked. It's a swacket. Okay. And it also has like more

01:00:54.559 --> 01:01:01.599
more like out at night features like this is reflective which is actually

01:00:59.520 --> 01:01:06.880
reflective strip on front and back. That's cool. Um, and I will also say it

01:01:04.640 --> 01:01:10.480
hit the sweater part of the sweater jacket combo and still wicked off. So my

01:01:09.040 --> 01:01:14.319
joke about getting soaked is not actually. So it's it's designed to be a

01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:17.440
little bit shoutier than stealth hoodie. It is a bit more expensive. I think it's

01:01:15.839 --> 01:01:22.960
going to be about $30. It's like particularly not stealthy, but it's YKK

01:01:21.040 --> 01:01:27.200
zipper. The material quality is really different. Like it's higher. Um, not

01:01:25.200 --> 01:01:32.799
that stealth is bad, just that this costs more. Um, and it retains one of

01:01:29.680 --> 01:01:34.720
the uh key features of Stealth, which is

01:01:32.799 --> 01:01:40.000
of course the secure phone pocket. I'm just gonna throw in there really quick. The the material on the Stealth hoodie

01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:42.799
is actually like particularly nice. Um, we've had a complaint that I don't think

01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:46.720
is going to get solved, but Brad from UFD Techch was like, "Dude, I'm left-handed." I know. I watched the

01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:52.960
video. I don't think there's any solution to that really. I mean, we could do like a oneoff for him, but

01:01:50.799 --> 01:01:58.240
other than that, no, we don't plan to do like a probably freak

01:01:55.400 --> 01:02:01.599
out. Is that possible? I mean, anything's possible. Is that doable?

01:01:59.680 --> 01:02:06.480
Like, they are actually working on an order of stealth right now. Is it

01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:10.720
possible to What size is UFD? I don't. Medium. Medium. Is he a medium? I could

01:02:08.799 --> 01:02:14.160
see if we could get him a lefty one. Okay. C Can you see what you can do?

01:02:12.319 --> 01:02:18.559
I'll see. All right. And we're not doing this for any guys. We're not We are not

01:02:16.319 --> 01:02:22.880
doing a left-handed skew because it's it's just another it's a nightmare. It's

01:02:20.799 --> 01:02:26.640
another inventory item to manage. We're not It sucks. You can go like this or

01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:31.839
you can pass it to your right hand. Yeah, but but it's totally possible. UFD

01:02:28.720 --> 01:02:36.480
has pimped our merch so hard that just

01:02:31.839 --> 01:02:38.559
for him we will we will try. Yeah, I'm

01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:41.839
not promising anything. So anyway, uh we've got a bunch of different sandal

01:02:40.240 --> 01:02:45.200
designs to look at. Some of them are immediately off because anything you

01:02:43.520 --> 01:02:49.599
can't run in like this, you're done. You're done. It's out. My biggest thing

01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:52.240
is you have to like it and want to wear

01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:57.119
it like a lot. So, well, there are key considerations for me. Like, I do I do

01:02:55.359 --> 01:03:01.520
expect even though I'm wearing sandals to be able to run in them. Yeah. And so,

01:02:59.520 --> 01:03:04.640
it has to be a design that straps for your for your video where it was I think

01:03:03.040 --> 01:03:09.119
it was Taran where you where you had like a battle with him about the the the

01:03:06.720 --> 01:03:13.200
pros and cons of sandals versus shoes that I know, but this sandal needs to

01:03:11.200 --> 01:03:16.640
win that. Yes. You know what I mean? So, it has to have everything that is good

01:03:15.200 --> 01:03:20.880
about a shoe. Some of these designs actually look kind of sharp. I think

01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:24.240
that's mainly just sock designs, is it? Well, it's not like the sandals stuff is

01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:29.359
like by accident. And we should absolutely coordinate the sock design with the sandals, which is I think why

01:03:27.200 --> 01:03:32.799
he provided it this way. But some of this is some of this is looking pretty I

01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:36.319
like this one actually. I think this looks pretty good. So my question about

01:03:34.319 --> 01:03:40.880
the whole like Chris Jenner stuff is like, yeah, where does the kimono fall

01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:43.839
in that? I have no idea. I don't actually pay any attention to their

01:03:42.319 --> 01:03:48.880
merch crap. So do you know what the kimono is? No. It's Spanx with an extra

01:03:47.200 --> 01:03:53.440
scooping of cultural appropriation. I don't know what Spanx are. Do you not

01:03:51.520 --> 01:03:57.599
know what Spanx are? No. It's like those like Why would we know this crap? Like

01:03:55.839 --> 01:04:04.240
why do you know this crap? Like not leggings, but like under garments to

01:03:59.680 --> 01:04:08.039
like tuck all the fat bits in. Oh, okay.

01:04:04.240 --> 01:04:08.039
Maybe I should know that.

01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:14.480
She called it a kimono and then cuz

01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:18.400
she's Kim and then everyone got upset. I actually give beyond the excellent

01:04:16.559 --> 01:04:22.880
message that was in part of that talk about business. I give so few cares

01:04:21.200 --> 01:04:26.240
about the actual content and products over there. I've had a I've had a minor

01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:30.480
I might be one of the people that buys a whole bunch of element shirts to expand

01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:34.799
their clothing because we I had my dad over last night. Yeah, that was epic. I

01:04:33.520 --> 01:04:39.520
I had my dad over last night to look into a plumbing issue at my house and we figured out that the hot and cold water

01:04:37.599 --> 01:04:42.640
is unreliable because when they plumbed the apartment building that I'm in, they

01:04:41.039 --> 01:04:46.720
run the cold water right next to the hot water and it heats up the other pipe.

01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:50.319
So, we've when I've been washing my clothes, they've all been shrinking. So,

01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:53.280
all my shirts are effectively larges now and they're supposed to be extraarges.

01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:57.760
So, I've like lost weight but look heavier which is sweet. It's really

01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:02.240
cool. So, what are the other considerations for the sandal?

01:04:59.680 --> 01:05:08.000
Durability. I can smell this sandals. I'm sorry. It's okay.

01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:11.520
Sandals always fail in the same spots.

01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:12.960
Okay, that makes sense. Here. Yeah. Uh

01:05:11.520 --> 01:05:17.839
there's just like a hand. You got less stuff holding on. Yeah. There's a handful of spots that they fail. You can

01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:22.960
see this is totally detached here. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, how long have you had

01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:27.200
that though? I expect a long lifetime out of my sandals. Yeah. No, because I

01:05:25.520 --> 01:05:31.039
think this is the like second or third pair since I've known you. Uh no, it's

01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:34.960
probably like number four. Okay. Yeah. So I do like one every one and a half

01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:37.520
years or so. And that's not bad. It depends on when they fail. No, I think

01:05:36.319 --> 01:05:41.839
that's I think that's pretty reasonable. So if we can if we can get to that kind

01:05:40.160 --> 01:05:47.520
of level of quality and remember I wear them every day like this. These are my

01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:50.079
everyday carry. Um

01:05:47.520 --> 01:05:53.760
everyday straps weaponized sandals. Yeah. Which mouse pads did we like? So

01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:56.640
Oh, which mouse pads do we like? Uh I can't figure out how to get back to the

01:05:55.119 --> 01:06:01.760
mouse pads. I can't close this for some reason. So I don't know. Like escape

01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:04.240
isn't working. I can't Oh, wait. Oh, are you guys doing a feedback thing? You

01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:08.400
guys doing a straw poll or some other kind of I think they're different files. I think we're gonna put it on Twitter.

01:06:07.280 --> 01:06:12.480
Yeah. No, I know they're different files. I just I can't close this. I I

01:06:11.200 --> 01:06:20.559
don't know. I don't know how to close it. Oh, wait. I know what the problem is. It's a separate tab. There's Well,

01:06:17.200 --> 01:06:22.079
there's your problem. Uh, all right. So,

01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:27.440
yeah, I don't I don't want to look at that right now. I want to look at the socks. Okay.

01:06:25.240 --> 01:06:32.640
So, I like this one. What do you think, Luke? I like the top left one. Yeah, I

01:06:30.720 --> 01:06:35.440
like a little bit of color in my socks personally. But what about doing like a

01:06:34.400 --> 01:06:40.799
different color? We don't have to be married to orange.

01:06:37.680 --> 01:06:42.880
I like orange.

01:06:40.799 --> 01:06:46.400
I like also go like stealth sock. Are you guys doing one? We don't know yet.

01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:52.240
It's going to really depend on minimum order quantities. We found uh a supplier

01:06:48.640 --> 01:06:54.079
who seems like freaking legit. Like they

01:06:52.240 --> 01:07:01.280
make socks for brands that I've heard of, which is cool. Um, and like not

01:06:57.960 --> 01:07:03.119
Hannes, like like brands that make like

01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:07.680
high-end hiking socks and stuff that I have heard of. And I was like, "Okay,

01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:09.760
cool." Okay. Um, so we found like a

01:07:07.680 --> 01:07:14.799
really good factory, we think. Um, but their minimum order quantities are like

01:07:12.200 --> 01:07:18.640
3,500 pairs, stuff like that. Like really, really high per size or in

01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:22.799
total? Like dangerously high. Like like per I actually Oh, lordy. I don't know.

01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:28.160
Because I was talking to Jonno about this before the show and if you guys are vetting as well as you've vetted for

01:07:26.880 --> 01:07:33.599
everything else that's on the store so far, I'm probably just going to throw all my socks away and get these. And I'm

01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:38.880
not exaggerating. We're going to do our best, but making a like a sock that

01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:42.799
would satisfy me, which is what it has to be, is not going to be easy and might

01:07:40.720 --> 01:07:47.680
even take longer than the sandal. Yeah. So, but that's but that is why I'm

01:07:45.520 --> 01:07:51.760
probably going to do that. So, you know, the minimum quantity thing. Maybe I'm

01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:55.760
gonna make you start buying merch at some point. I Well, I know. Okay. I'm

01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:59.520
gonna have to cuz like I can't just give you your entire wardrobe for free. You

01:07:58.079 --> 01:08:03.599
actually don't work here anymore. I was fully expecting to buy all of that. I'm

01:08:01.520 --> 01:08:06.799
being very clear about this. The I'm probably going to do an underwear swap

01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:10.720
at one point in time. I've kind of decided that you're not the only one. We

01:08:09.200 --> 01:08:14.640
have gotten so many orders for specifically like two packs of

01:08:12.720 --> 01:08:18.799
underwear, which is like nobody orders two packs on their first order. That's

01:08:16.480 --> 01:08:23.920
cuz they already have a pack. Yeah. And like three is laundry once a week with a

01:08:21.759 --> 01:08:29.279
buffer. Yeah. It's gotten to the point where I get a little bit annoyed when my

01:08:26.799 --> 01:08:33.440
LTT underwear are not clean cuz then I'm like now I have to wear some other junk.

01:08:31.839 --> 01:08:37.120
I'm just like that sucks. Can't put other junk on your junk. No. Exactly.

01:08:35.759 --> 01:08:44.239
All right. Do we have any more topics for today? Uh there's some stuff. Oh

01:08:40.159 --> 01:08:46.880
yeah. Apple is locking iPhone batteries

01:08:44.239 --> 01:08:51.600
to the phone. Uh so the original article here is from iix it. So Apple has

01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:56.880
announced that only Apple batteries can go in iPhones and furthermore only Apple

01:08:54.880 --> 01:09:00.799
may install them. RC mail posted this on the forum. So if you replace your

01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:05.440
battery in the newest iPhones, so the 10S, the 10S Max, and the 10R, a message

01:09:03.839 --> 01:09:09.759
indicating that you need to service your battery appears in settings, battery

01:09:07.839 --> 01:09:13.279
next to battery health. This service message is normally an indication that

01:09:11.120 --> 01:09:17.359
the battery is degraded and needs to be replaced. However, even if you put in a

01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:21.920
brand new battery, a firstparty Apple battery, you take two iPhone 10S's and

01:09:19.279 --> 01:09:26.400
swap their batteries, they will both display the

01:09:23.719 --> 01:09:31.440
error. That is, unless an Apple Genius or an Apple authorized service provider

01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:34.480
authenticates a battery to the phone, that phone will never show its battery

01:09:33.040 --> 01:09:38.159
health and will always report this vague, ominous problem. So, the way it

01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:41.440
works is that there's a Texas Instruments microcontroller on the

01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:44.960
battery that provides information to the phone like capacity, temperature, and

01:09:43.440 --> 01:09:49.839
how much time until it fully discharges. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. As far as I I don't know of a

01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:55.280
phone that doesn't have that feature. I mean, Apples is a little bit custom, but like uh basically the thing that has

01:09:53.839 --> 01:10:00.400
changed now is that the chips in the newer iPhone batteries include an authentication feature that stores the

01:09:58.480 --> 01:10:04.400
info for pairing the battery to the iPhone's logic board. If the battery

01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:07.719
doesn't have the unique authentication key the iPhone's logic board is

01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:13.040
expecting, you'll get the service message. So, I wonder yeah, if anyone

01:10:11.679 --> 01:10:16.960
could figure it out and if it would be even remotely worth it to swap the

01:10:15.120 --> 01:10:20.800
microcontrollers. Uh, apparently yes, that would work. Yeah. Um, it's

01:10:18.920 --> 01:10:24.880
extremely difficult, but that's what I mean. It's more work than it's basically

01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:32.000
because and this is something that is sort of um I guess a saving grace of

01:10:28.480 --> 01:10:35.199
this move. um other than giving you that

01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:37.360
message, it doesn't have an effect. So,

01:10:35.199 --> 01:10:41.199
you know how if your battery is degraded past a certain lifespan, um Apple can

01:10:39.760 --> 01:10:45.040
throttle the performance because it can't deliver the peak um power that

01:10:43.440 --> 01:10:50.239
that that the phone needs in order to perform its best or whatever. Um

01:10:48.239 --> 01:10:55.280
Apple's degraded message here doesn't force the phone into that mode or

01:10:52.080 --> 01:10:58.239
anything like that for now.

01:10:55.280 --> 01:11:03.280
Hold on. It just says degraded and otherwise the phone operates normally.

01:11:00.080 --> 01:11:06.159
Okay. The problem, as you ruined my

01:11:03.280 --> 01:11:12.400
transition to, is that this is yet another bloody slippery slope for Apple

01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:14.239
to lock down their devices even further

01:11:12.400 --> 01:11:20.400
so that nobody without Apple's permission is allowed to open a device

01:11:15.679 --> 01:11:23.280
and service a device that you own. Even

01:11:20.400 --> 01:11:28.400
Tesla is improving in this regard. And like they do not have a good track

01:11:25.280 --> 01:11:30.159
record. No.

01:11:28.400 --> 01:11:36.560
So I don't really have anything else to say about that. Like I do I understand

01:11:33.280 --> 01:11:39.760
Apple's point to a degree. Um you know

01:11:36.560 --> 01:11:43.360
every time an iPhone blows up, it makes

01:11:39.760 --> 01:11:45.679
the news. Apple doesn't want that. And

01:11:43.360 --> 01:11:49.920
if they could, you know, look back at some telemetry data that shows that that

01:11:48.320 --> 01:11:54.080
phone was giving a message to their owner that the battery needs to frigin

01:11:51.840 --> 01:11:56.960
be serviced and be like, "Well, that wasn't the battery we put in there."

01:11:55.760 --> 01:12:04.360
That would be very nice. That would be very nice for them. I'm very conflicted on Apple right now because I kind of

01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:06.560
really want an iPhone as my daily driver

01:12:04.360 --> 01:12:09.280
because it would be very nice for security reasons and the sign in with

01:12:07.920 --> 01:12:14.640
Apple stuff that's coming and all that kind of stuff is really cool. On the other hand, do you know how much a

01:12:11.840 --> 01:12:19.360
battery swap by Apple costs? Exactly. Right. Yeah. So, there's like there's

01:12:17.440 --> 01:12:24.640
the like I really like privacy things and I really like right to repair and

01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:29.040
right now they're not going together at all. Yeah. And that's pretty

01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:31.679
frustrating. That being said, how many times have you had a battery swap in a

01:12:30.320 --> 01:12:36.159
phone that you actually Well, that you're a bad person to ask for this. Uh,

01:12:34.480 --> 01:12:40.159
no. Go ahead. Ask me. How many times have you had a battery swap on a phone

01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:43.199
that is your personal daily driver? Oh, yeah. No, because I know you've had them

01:12:41.600 --> 01:12:46.239
for like the security phones and stuff, but that doesn't really Yeah. No, no,

01:12:44.640 --> 01:12:49.760
like I've done phone battery swaps, but I change phones so often. You know, the

01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:54.400
Note 9 might be my first one based on how the Note 10 looks. Cuz I'm not

01:12:52.080 --> 01:12:58.159
upgrading to it. Can we do a quick straw poll? Sure. I want to use the new

01:12:56.320 --> 01:13:02.000
polling service, but it's not ready yet. Sure. Hit me. Hit me with that straw

01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:07.199
pull. What do you What do you want to know, Luke? What do you want to know?

01:13:04.719 --> 01:13:10.000
Should it be like more than once? Can we assume that getting a battery swapped

01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:14.480
one time in a phone is not that big of a deal? Sure. Is that fair? Yeah. So, have

01:13:12.880 --> 01:13:18.719
you had your battery swapped in your phone more than once? Yes or no? Sure.

01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:31.800
Okay. Okay. Yes.

01:13:29.080 --> 01:13:37.280
No. And then these types of polls have a

01:13:34.080 --> 01:13:40.719
tendency for people to only answer if

01:13:37.280 --> 01:13:42.880
they're in the upset category. So I want

01:13:40.719 --> 01:13:47.440
you to answer this. Yeah. No matter what. Yeah. Okay. Hit me with that poll.

01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:51.600
I'm dropping it in YouTube. You're dropping it in that

01:13:49.320 --> 01:13:54.400
YouTube. Good job. Are you going to drop it in that Floatplane? Oh, you don't

01:13:53.040 --> 01:13:59.760
have the Floatplane stream up. You know what? I'll do a couple super chats while we wait. It's already up. Floatplane is

01:13:57.600 --> 01:14:04.880
fast. Statwick Kumar. have my free money. Uh oh, thank you. Uh Stephen

01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:08.239
Ellswick, hey from someone deployed overseas, love your channel having your

01:14:06.719 --> 01:14:13.760
content to watch after a long day or relax and go Floatplane. Um you know

01:14:11.520 --> 01:14:18.719
that if you give us a tip on YouTube, they take a bunch of the money and if

01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:19.840
you do it on YouTube, um uh Floatplane

01:14:18.719 --> 01:14:27.679
takes a bunch of the money, which is good. Um I mean, thank you. Thank you.

01:14:24.719 --> 01:14:31.120
Appreciate it. Um you know what's really funny? We have had some people, we

01:14:29.440 --> 01:14:33.600
actually need a tip feature because this is probably an additional tip. He's

01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:38.320
probably subscribed on Flow Plan already. We do. We do need a tip feature. We have had people that have

01:14:36.239 --> 01:14:41.679
contacted us asking to pay the higher tier.

01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:44.159
Really? That's why I had you update the description being like, "Hey, you get

01:14:42.960 --> 01:14:49.040
all the same things." And then we had some people be like, "Yeah, no, I just

01:14:46.239 --> 01:14:52.480
want to pay more." Like, well, when is 4K going to be ready? Okay. Pretty soon,

01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:56.640
actually. Okay. Well, we can roll out a 4K option. That'd be pretty sweet. And

01:14:54.400 --> 01:15:00.480
then I actually do we have uh do we have a feature yet to like quickly export

01:14:59.040 --> 01:15:05.280
like people's emails if they want to be on like a special mailing list or like whatever like when are text posts

01:15:03.360 --> 01:15:10.960
coming? When are all the features coming Luke? Um the the uh the the the user

01:15:09.280 --> 01:15:14.640
list export thing. Yes. Is something that was brought up very recently by

01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:18.960
Eboss Vox. I'm sure it was and is not currently roadmapped but is interesting

01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:22.320
interesting. We're currently trying to like fix some things now that we've

01:15:20.880 --> 01:15:26.239
onboarded some creators. some more problems have surfaced because we haven't onboarded creators in forever.

01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:31.199
So, we're trying to like smooth those over and then keep moving forward. Okay,

01:15:28.719 --> 01:15:33.760
I'm posting the link to Twitch. Twitch got ignored for a little bit. Can you

01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:41.679
guys do a show about trying to get FreeSync working on a G-Sync monitor?

01:15:37.199 --> 01:15:45.760
Uh, we could. I actually don't know. Um,

01:15:41.679 --> 01:15:47.679
I don't know if you can do that because

01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:51.920
variable refresh rate, like that implementation of variable refresh rate

01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:55.840
from Freync may specifically not be supported by NVIDIA Scaler, which is

01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:58.719
like a hardware piece in the monitor. I I I don't know. The answer is I don't

01:15:57.760 --> 01:16:03.120
know. So, I might have said something dumb just there, but it wasn't my fault,

01:16:01.440 --> 01:16:07.760
or at least wasn't my intention. All right, let's have a look at our straw pull results. Have you had your battery

01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:12.560
swapped in your phone more than once? Wow. So, not many people actually. No.

01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:18.159
And this is from an enthusiast crowd. So you are you okay? So okay, hold on a

01:16:15.679 --> 01:16:21.120
second here. So are you suggesting then actually I have a couple of different

01:16:19.440 --> 01:16:27.120
angles here. So are you suggesting that we should just treat a battery swap once

01:16:23.840 --> 01:16:28.880
every 3 to four years as part of device

01:16:27.120 --> 01:16:33.920
maintenance and then after that the phone has probably exceeded its usable

01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:37.360
lifespan anyway. So off to the recycler

01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:39.760
basically. Okay, let me suggest that our

01:16:37.360 --> 01:16:43.040
enthusiast crowd may have actually swayed this poll the opposite way you

01:16:41.840 --> 01:16:47.480
might think. Ah, cuz they're buying devices more. Cuz they're probably buying devices more often.

01:16:47.600 --> 01:16:54.560
Interesting. This is part of the problem with like pulling you guys. Yeah.

01:16:52.640 --> 01:16:58.000
Or any like specific crowd. We need we need like a wider net. That's

01:16:56.560 --> 01:17:04.719
interesting. That might actually be very true. I don't know because I I

01:17:01.400 --> 01:17:08.000
know I think the only person in my

01:17:04.719 --> 01:17:09.520
personal life that isn't me or you

01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:14.800
that's gotten their phone serviced or has worked on their phone to the point of taking it apart and swapping things

01:17:12.719 --> 01:17:19.920
that wasn't like the hot swap removable batteries from back in the day. Um is

01:17:17.280 --> 01:17:23.120
like one of my parents and that's it right. So like I I don't know of that

01:17:22.000 --> 01:17:30.719
many people that do it but that's also an extremely narrow scope so that doesn't help either. I don't know. Um,

01:17:28.400 --> 01:17:36.080
ultimate fails. Any plan to make a left phone pocket stealth hoodie? Oh, wow.

01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:39.840
We covered that. Uh, Ethan, uh, free speech laws in the US are sticky. Some

01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:42.320
speech becomes an action. For example, death threats are illegal regardless of

01:17:41.199 --> 01:17:46.000
how they're conveyed. Yep, that's a good point. We did bring this up. Um, Ilia,

01:17:44.480 --> 01:17:51.520
hey guys, before LTX, you promised to host the next W show wearing only underwear, including bras. Did you lie?

01:17:49.440 --> 01:17:55.840
We didn't lie. We forgot. And we also didn't promise, but I forgot. I totally

01:17:53.520 --> 01:17:58.800
am down to do that. Okay. Uh, well, you don't have to. It's fine. Win config.

01:17:57.360 --> 01:18:05.520
Today we learned Lionus is mostly libertarian regarding speech at least.

01:18:01.080 --> 01:18:08.920
Um, here's the thing. Labels are bad.

01:18:05.520 --> 01:18:11.920
Yeah, labels do not promote independent

01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:14.239
thought. So, no, I would never call

01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:17.840
myself a libertarian. I would never call myself a conservative. I would never

01:18:16.159 --> 01:18:21.360
call myself a liberal. I would never call myself right-wing, leftwing, or

01:18:19.600 --> 01:18:25.760
even centrist. Someone's going to grab one of those. Yeah, I know, right? And

01:18:23.840 --> 01:18:30.280
then use it against you. I would never say that Hitler was No, I'm just

01:18:30.960 --> 01:18:37.360
Okay, that that clip of me doesn't Now someone's I know. Yeah, I know. But if

01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:42.719
it didn't, someone would just deep fake the rest of it on. I know, right? Um, so

01:18:40.280 --> 01:18:47.840
anyway, I would never use a label to describe myself because a label does not

01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:52.040
adequately convey the thoughts that I

01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:55.440
have about these kinds of complex issues

01:18:52.040 --> 01:18:57.360
there. And they shouldn't for you either

01:18:55.440 --> 01:19:02.800
because just because the other libertarians think something doesn't

01:18:59.440 --> 01:19:06.560
mean that you should. Not every personal

01:19:02.800 --> 01:19:08.000
liberty makes sense. Some of them do,

01:19:06.560 --> 01:19:13.520
but you have to actually think critically about whether things are a

01:19:09.760 --> 01:19:14.640
good idea. Um, yeah, David says,

01:19:13.520 --> 01:19:18.640
"Depending on if you're talking about free speech as the first amendment protection or free speech as a concept,

01:19:17.440 --> 01:19:26.080
because there's a distinction there." That is correct. But either way, um,

01:19:23.040 --> 01:19:27.440
what I said stands. Um, nope. Says you

01:19:26.080 --> 01:19:32.800
should collab with mighty car mods. That would actually be sick. Yeah. Thomas

01:19:29.280 --> 01:19:35.120
says, "Name your upload time and beats."

01:19:32.800 --> 01:19:40.400
Um, really cool. NB67, any chance of purchasing a Floatplane t-shirt? Um,

01:19:37.760 --> 01:19:43.920
uh, we don't have plans for that right now, but it is something that we've

01:19:41.679 --> 01:19:50.080
given some thought to. Yeah. Quadro says, "Just replaced my GTX 780. Willing

01:19:47.280 --> 01:19:54.320
to sell it to Lionus for $500. Great deal. I bought it new for 650. Have

01:19:52.159 --> 01:20:00.719
original box and receipt. Can't hold it for long. GPUs are hot right

01:19:57.560 --> 01:20:04.880
now." I think that message took about a

01:20:00.719 --> 01:20:04.880
year and a half to come through to us.

01:20:06.000 --> 01:20:12.320
Spaghetti BVO, I'm auctioning the domain

01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:15.920
plainflat.com on GoDaddy. Yeah, he's been bugging me about that. Good luck

01:20:14.000 --> 01:20:20.080
with that. We have no interest. Have fun, dude. Uh, Sarah, thanks for the

01:20:18.080 --> 01:20:23.040
money. How to overclock a laptop i7. You need to have an overclockable laptop and

01:20:21.600 --> 01:20:29.679
then you need to press the overclocking button in most cases. Um,

01:20:26.360 --> 01:20:30.640
Captain Captain Nano, Captain, I don't

01:20:29.679 --> 01:20:36.880
know what you're talking about. Can't sleep. Take my sleepd deprived money.

01:20:33.480 --> 01:20:39.360
Okay, sure. Uh Sean says, "Unsubscribing

01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:44.480
from MKBHD, not my real dad." No, don't do that. This is all about more

01:20:41.360 --> 01:20:47.120
subscribers for LT, not less for Marquez

01:20:44.480 --> 01:20:51.440
because Marquez is a cool dude. Um IQ Solutions reached out to my communities

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for you. Keep it up. Awesome. Val says, "Bought merch in April to be shipped to

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Singapore back in April. Hasn't arrived. Support has been scarce uh because of

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the wind up to LTX." Okay. Yes, email support again. we will get it taken care

01:21:00.480 --> 01:21:05.120
of. If not, PM me on the forum. Um, actually, PM Nick. Don't PM me. I get

01:21:04.800 --> 01:21:10.000
too many P D P D P D P D P D P D P D P D P D P D Lego man says, "I'm watching while wearing one of my new element

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shirts I bought on last show." Yeah. Okay, so that's a case where we did ship it out quickly. Yay. Uh Megan says,

01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:20.080
"Luke laughs at everything. Tell us. I can't. I'm sorry." Oh, how about a hat

01:21:18.400 --> 01:21:24.159
or mouse pad for float? Okay, we don't have a plan for float. Make more float

01:21:21.679 --> 01:21:30.480
plane gear, says Megan again. Okay. Lwood says, "LTT swimwear when?" LT kids

01:21:27.120 --> 01:21:32.239
wear when my son every time I bring home

01:21:30.480 --> 01:21:36.520
a new merch item he's like daddy is there one in kids size yet? I'm like oh

01:21:35.120 --> 01:21:42.320
kid no what am I sorry Blizzard makes baby

01:21:40.320 --> 01:21:46.719
gear. Do they really? Yeah of course they do. They're Blizzard. Yeah. Um why

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not one phone pocket on each side? We actually like the symmetrical or the

01:21:48.320 --> 01:21:54.560
asymmetrical look. I'm sorry. It was it was a style decision. I'm sorry. I'm not

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exactly a style expert. Probably costs more money. I liked it. Not much. It's

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It's a style decision. Okay. Um

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Oh, Reggie says, "Just wanted to give some support for getting the epic news

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in there." Yeah, it's a big deal. Uh, joggers are running shoes. Do shorts

01:22:07.760 --> 01:22:12.960
instead. No, no joggers or pants, but depends where you're from. You might be from like the UK or something. Oh,

01:22:11.679 --> 01:22:21.880
you're from Australia. Okay. Well, that explains the lingo difference. Um, okay.

01:22:18.800 --> 01:22:25.360
I think that's all we have time for

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today. Oh, okay. Nicholas says, "I carry

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two replacement batteries to swap on business trips." Right. But you are an edge case and you know you're an edge

01:22:30.719 --> 01:22:36.719
case, so cut it out. Um, all right. So,

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that's it for the WAN Show this week. See you again next week. Same bad time,

01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:45.920
same bad channel. Except not. I'm out next week. I'm on vacation. Same time on

01:22:44.080 --> 01:22:49.679
the same channel anyways. I'm on vacay. But I'm not going to see you again next

01:22:47.600 --> 01:22:53.199
week. Same bad time. Same bad channel. But he will. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz you're not

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on vacation. I don't know who's going to be there with me, but someone will.

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Probably not physically. Bye bye.

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That was a good show today. Yeah, I had fun. Yeah.

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Oh, lordy. Did we not update the Floatplane title either? Dang it, Luke. Oh,

01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:23.440
yeah. We got that one. Twitch is twitch

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now. Oh. Brought to you by Squash Mast.