Uh, hey, got it. Okay, good. And we are now
live. We We're late, but we're 8 minutes late.
Yeah, it's not it's not Yeah, for us that's really not bad. Like 8 minutes is
pretty damn bad, but like Yeah, for our track record, I feel like that's not the
worst thing. It's like going one mile over the speed limit. It's like, who
cares? Yeah. compared to last week where we went 50 over the speed limit and had
our car impounded because we were like we were so late that people got the time
zone wrong and thought that we were a little bit early cuz we were like 58
minutes late so people thought we might have been 2 minutes early. How does that even happen? It's just when when time
zones start coming into play. Yeah. So good. Anyways, this week we have lots of
topics most of which are AMD based. There is so much AMD news, which is
great because their stock needs to come up. Um, so hopefully that goes well, but
we'll get into that in a moment. Other than that, we also have a 200 Hz
ultrawide monitor. And North Korea has started manufacturing their own iPad.
What does that look like? I don't know. Let's find out. And we're going to start
the intro using the Stream Deck. So
hopefully this works. I just tried it like a million times and it did. So we'll see.
That was awkward. Oh no. But it's fancy, but it doesn't
work. Why? It worked before. It It
worked fine. Like literally, literally just when we weren't live, it worked
completely. Okay, Taran. It broke. Well, I don't know what
to tell you. Hang on. Say hi to Taran, everybody. Hi. Trying to get this here.
Just close. Give Give us a second. Close the thing. Oh god, it's gone.
So, this this is the stream deck as you guys. It's very fancy. What did that do
it? Well, we can't see now cuz No. Well,
just click on it. Okay. It worked when we weren't live. Just click on it.
Oh, good gracious. That kind of sums things up right now. Is that like So,
there's no exploit integration right now. That's the issue. They have OBS,
but they don't have exploits. What? So, I told them that that's important and
like it is. We don't need Windows anything other than 10 nor or XSplit.
Screw it. Anyways, iFixit. You can screw things with their screwdrivers. That
would be fantastic. Thank you, iFixit. Also, LTX Tech Carnival 2017. If you
want to go to that, get some tickets. Meet me there. And Squarespace. Thank
you very much to Squarespace. Going to shove this back to the top. And then I'm
going to try to use the Stream Deck. Nope. Going to click on it. That worked
better. Sometimes an easier solution is better. Not always, but sometimes. I
feel bad because I was kind of attacking Elgato on Twitter because their stream
deck only works with Windows 10 and I don't like Windows 10, but I like the
Stream Deck and like I have one now
because Catboy boiler bought one for me which was like amazing. Well, but I I
can't use it cuz I use Windows 10. Aren't you currently using the version
of Windows that has the current least market penetration except for maybe
Vista? Probably close to that. Okay. Okay. But
like supporting the last two is a fairly general thing. I think that's fair. You
think but okay. Anyways, I still think it's a super cool product for a pretty
niche crowd, but still a super cool product. So, I'm I'm actually not trying
to roast them by having it not work right now. There's something going wrong
because it was totally working flawlessly when we were offline and I
will completely admit to that. So, that's how it always happens. It works
perfectly when no one's looking. Taran is the one that's trying to do the
review on this thing. So, if you guys are interested in the stream deck um and
have any specific questions about it or anything like that, hit Taran up on on
Twitter. I don't Do you know what his handle is? I don't know handles off.
TaranVH. That Yeah, that sounds right. So, TaranVH on Twitter. If you have any
specific questions about the Stream Deck, he will vet those, see if they're
important enough, and maybe include them in his review. But to start the show,
we've got AMD news, not Stream Deck news. Um, the first of the main AMD news
topics is AMD announces new Thread
Ripper details. And these are pretty freaking juicy. You want to start firing
through them? I'll get this on screen. Yeah. So, Threadripper is conf
confirmed to be half of an Epic processor. That's EPYC. And I had when I
first read this, I had this slide Gary Johnson moment uh where I didn't I
thought it was an acronym, but it's not. It's just Epic spelled with a Y because
it's supposed to be their super high-end thing. So, um, we're looking at 16 cores
and 32 threads on the top end, uh, made
of two processor dies. So, that's pretty interesting. Um, all products feature 64
lanes of PCI Express with 60 of those, uh, coming off of the chipset. Uh, for
reference, uh, the top end of the new Intel i9's on the other side are 44. So,
you're getting quite a bit more with this. um all products featuring DDR4
quad channel RAM pre standard 16 megs of
level three cache uh an X399 chipset and
which is so annoying. Yeah, cuz I saw this I had yet another moment like that
where I saw X399. I'm just like is Intel releasing like two families of chipsets
back to back because of 299 but they're not. This is an This is an AMD thing.
Like, so yeah, I I wonder if they're just trying to zet Sintel with the
naming a little bit there. Ours is 100 better and and Yeah. And like And you're
not going to want to name your next platform this one cuz we already had it
and blah blah. Yeah, exactly. The naming
schemes for the last like few years just I can't even get over it. And I know you
guys are probably even like tired of hearing it at this point because I feel
like every single video that a product has a stupid name. uh like the like the
Surface Pro instead of being the Surface Pro 5 or almost uh any Razer laptop at
this point. Like it's just it's so frustrating that all the reviewers freak
out about it. I don't know how interesting it is for the viewers, but
like uh just I don't know. At some point
I'm just expecting someone to get sick of it like a new company start model
names company name company product name one and just start one two three four.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, perfect. Skew one product one done. Why not? We've made
500 products. What is this product's name? 500. It's It's like Intel's first
ever processors was what the 404. What
happened to one through 403? Like Like I
know there was a reason behind it, but still, you know, anyway. But, okay, so
there's a new there's a rumor about the Threadripper, and that rumor is that
the Threadripper might be under $1,000,
which due to the, you know, more recent
news from the Intel camp is a little bit cheaper. The 16 core version of the Core
i9, which is not the top end. The top end is 18 cores and cost two grand. the
16 core. I don't know the pricing off the top of my head, but you have to think it's at least a $1,500 part, you
know? So, this is going to this is going to be quite a bit cheaper. Yeah. And
like this isn't this is a like a random
tweet leak kind of deal thing, if it even is a leak. This is is a little
loose, but yeah, I don't know. A49 is insanely
cheap for what you're getting. And the thing is that that sounds like a move AMD would try to pull. So, I'm not even
like way too it doesn't seem unrealistic.
This seems like something they would do. I mean, there's also the whole IPC
argument and what single threaded like. Yeah, there's more to it for sure. But,
you know, at the same time, Ryzen's been mostly good as far as single threaded so
far. So, you have to think, okay, then then we've got even I'm just going to
try to power through some AMD news here. Hopefully, everyone wants to hear about
AMD stuff. I do. It's kind of what's interesting right now. Um, so AMD trims
prices of the Ryzen 7700
and the Ryzen 1700X.
Uh, so I showed that to you guys on stream. The current price of the 1700 is
$319. That's going down by 10 or sorry,
the current price is $329. That's going down by 10 to 319. Not a major
difference, but the 3 uh 17 hundred X, which was 399, is going down by 50 bucks
to $3.49. And the eight hundred X has a
little bit of a smaller change. It's going from $499 to $469 with a savings
of $30. That that 1700X discount is
pretty sick, actually. It's pretty substantial. It's just like booking a
hotel at Disney World. The more expensive thing gets the bigger discount when it goes on sale. And that's kind of
what's happening here. Well, not entirely. Not entirely, but the most
expensive You're not going to you're not going to um save as much on the very low
end, though. But that's, you know, I I think, you know, $50, you know, get
yourself get yourself a AAA title, get yourself a few 12-packs of Mountain Dew,
get yourself whatever else you're into. Yeah. Fill the mini fridge. There you
go. There you go. Uh but yeah, I know. I think that's pretty cool. My nightstand
with a mini fridge. I'm thirsty middle of the night. Just reach over. But my
fridge is all the way downstairs now. It's like, get some nucaca. Yeah,
perfect. Um Yeah. But like I I think that's pretty substantial. 400 to 350.
There's that like golden number that's like around. It was 300 for a long time,
but then I think there's been some inflation and now it might be like 350,
right? Um, but for a long time, like consoles were right around 300. Like a
lot of like nicer things that you could get for like your house, like different tabletop things and whatnot. Tried to
aim at like 300 cuz it was a digestible
but relatively expensive item that you could buy. But like a digestible, like
you could save up for this over a little bit and get it and it would probably be fine. Yes, that that's the trick in this
industry, right? You you want to price things high but not too high. And
there's there's always a spot to hit there. So, so I think that might help them actually getting to that 350
number. That's pretty cool. And on top of that, AMD Vega release dates. This is
cool. The Vega Frontier Edition card will be available on June 27th. Can we
bring up a picture of that cuz it looks pretty ball. Hopefully they've got it in
here because it Yeah, that's pretty cool. Mhm. the I like it.
You might not be able to tell from the screen cap there, but the that little yellow thing on the upper right is it's
actually a um it's a cube. It lights up.
It's illuminated. The R, of course, for radon. So, um and it also comes in a
kind of a reverse color scheme. I think they have a gold one with like a blue cube on it, too. So, stupid clickbait
stuff. Come on, Anantech.
I've always hated like not not to rag on an Nantech while we're here, but I've
always hated when there's article clickbait ads on a site that is based
around articles cuz like it makes you think that like
reverse hair loss with this brilliantly simple home remedy. An Nantech is now
talking about like uh this secret that
will cure your diabetes and this ear
tonitis ending trick thing and like weird other stuff. #fake news. Except it
literally is. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. But
yeah, that's a pretty sick looking card. I'm also stoked that it's coming soon
because I feel like Vega has been this like cherry that's been dangled in front
of everyone for so freaking long. And it's been actually really annoying
because people have been asking me forever on my stream, on this stream, on
all the comments, on all the videos, on the forums, everywhere like, "Oh, should
I buy this card or should I wait for Vega?" And it's been like, "I have no
idea." Yeah, because I don't know when Vega is coming. Information's been a
little bit hard to come by. I actually wonder if they're going to have that sick looking shroud for the consumer
line because the Frontier edition is is is more of a professionals card, you
know, so it's not really for gaming. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like the Founders
Edition there. There's a lot of originality
going on over there right now. X399, the Founders Edition. Now they need to
combine the two. The X399 Founders Edition. Oh, good. Or sorry, Frontier.
Frontier edition. Frontier Edition. I'll I'll get it right. Sorry about that.
Frontier edition. Come on, guys. Anyways, that's actually super cool. I'm
really stoked on that release date. And I'm assuming that mean cuz like as far
as I know, we don't have one yet. So, I'm assuming that means that we're
getting one fairly soon and we'll be able to like screw around with it, which
will be cool. Um, I look forward to it.
Yeah. The the Frontier edition of AMD's is is AMD's first batch of Vega based
cards marketed towards early adopters. Completely unlike the founders edition.
Yeah. Okay. A price has not been announced. Um
so that sort of sucks. It's going to I mean if it's a prolevel card, it's going
to be it's going to be like quadrole probably. So it's going to be pretty
high. It will Yeah, it will be many. Expecting it's not going to be cheap.
Um, some Intel news. Finally, Intel
getting on the board. So much AMD news. Intel announces Skylake X bringing 18
core HCC silicon to consumers for
$2,000. They've also simultaneously announced
KBLEX, which is very confusing. Yes. So,
so Skylake X is like the super high-end
and then KB Lake X at least for now is going to be I think mainly four core
8thread i7s, right? Which going through puberty there
apparently. Yeah. But uh that was wild.
So, so, so we're not used to seeing four core 8thread SKs being considered an
enthusiast product, but apparently now at least some of them are. So, that's
happening as well. Yeah, I it's it's very speaking of
confusing naming schemes, but yeah, top end i9 um 18 cores, 36 threads, uh
$2,000. It's cool. But I think this is going to
be an interesting fight. And I think at least um as far as our our viewers are
concerned, AMD is probably going to win this fight because just the value
proposition of those dollar amounts is pretty intense. I feel bad for anyone
who bought a 6T950X with it with its puny 10 cores because they're selling a
10 they're selling a 10 core i9 as the
lowest end i9. They have score excuse
going from 10 to 18 cores. So if you
spent that much money on a 6950X, I feel bad for you, son.
I I got 18 problems. I guess I got Yeah,
but only having 10 isn't one of them. I failed that pretty hard. Let's revisit
this joke later. I feel like this is one that's worth like processing in the
background for a few minutes. Yeah. Okay, cool. Uh, speaking about
processing in the background possibly not happening anymore. Elon Musk to
Trump, you quit Paris, so I quit you.
Um, this is some political jargon, so we're probably not going to spend too
much time on this. Um, but Elon Musk and
Disney boss, didn't know about that part, quit Trump's business panel over
the Paris pollute. Basically what happened, uh, there was this thing
called the Paris Accord. It was agreed to last year. It was a ton of countries
came together saying, "Hey, let's do something about global warming." Then
Trump got elected and he said, "No, I I ain't about that." He He's going to try
to pull the US out of it and Elon Musk is not very happy about it. So Elon is
no longer sitting on I think President Trump had like some sort of technology
council advisory group thing. Um Elon's
not too happy with the Paris decision, so he's pulling out. And that's pretty
much that. Yeah. So Elon's tweet said, "Am departing presidential councils.
Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is
not good for America or the world." And
there you go. Although in counter news, because I'm trying to explain the whole
playing field, I believe there was like a surge in the stock market or
something. I have no idea. Stock market did well or something. If you're
interested in that, go check it out somewhere else. We're not very good at covering political topics. That's not
our mo. Correlation is not causation. Or is it? Decide for yourself. Also, it
should be noted, however you feel about this issue, the Paris Accord actually,
to my knowledge, it doesn't mandate that the signatorries actually do anything.
So, it's not like, oh, you must reduce carbon emissions by X percentage by year
or there will be consequences. It I don't think it does anything like that.
Um, but uh there which whichever way you
feel about this, uh there you go. So, this is another like uh kind of
political topic kind of deal where we're
probably not going to dive into it too far, but you guys might be interested. So, we're at least going to give you
like the kernel so that if you are interested in it, you can go try to find
the whole popped corn. I don't know where I was going with that, but the
whole piece of popcorn. Yeah, there we go. Well, one is a precursor, the
others. Yeah, I guess I guess that works. Yeah. Okay. I don't know. Um, so
this is US approved social media background checks for visa applicants.
The so the reason why we thought this might be interesting to you guys is social media I guess tech things social
media stuff I don't know if you're this is definitely tech is it I mean like
it's social media sure but I mean how like like do you call someone who's on
Twitter a lot a techie go on our forums go on ours technica go on any of the
major sites that cover tech news there's always about either privacy or net
neutrality which affects social media and is is discussed as a tech topic So,
I think it's completely appropriate. Yeah, I've always just thought it's been
a little weird, but I do agree with saying it at all. There's a
questionnaire which we can check out here in a second um because it was
linked by the glorious person who made this doc. So, here we go.
Here's the Wow. Okay. Um, yeah, we're
not going to look that closely at that. Social media identifier, nameandle,
social media platforms. So, you can see that right there.
So I guess you'd have to declare I wonder how like what is defined by
social media. Please provide your unique username for any websites or
applications you have used to create or share content, photos, videos, status
updates, etc. as part of a public profile within the last 5 years. So like
what qualifies? If someone is not from the states and they use Linus
techtips.com, I think they would have to declare their
username and the site.
Let's just get right down to brass tax. Well, if you have a Pornhub account, you're leaving comments on that. Does
that I mean seriously, does that like I think it would if you want to embarrass
yourself to that like point like because that is in a for it says status updates
which is just text and then etc.
There's also the thing where I think I also wonder how they would find out like
let's say you just put let's let's say you just put Twitter. All I use is
Twitter. I have a public Twitter handle. You put that down. You you declare it.
If you had five other things, would they necessarily know we're finding? Maybe
they're going to like cross search your handle. They could potentially do that.
Boy 52 and find you on Pornhub as well.
I don't know if you're maybe if you're a known person of interest to Customs and
Border Protection and you only declare one handle and be like, "Oh yeah, we
need to like look at this guy." So there's this huge like veil of secrecy
around it, you know? Um cuz you don't know exactly what that information.
Yeah. And it's really vague to the point where like I feel like if you signed up
for some random site 4.45
years ago and completely forgot about it and tons of people have Yeah. accounts
just around the internet they've forgotten about because they don't need, oh, I want to access an article when I
have to sign up for a stupid free account. I'm never going to use it again. But, um, it does say though that,
uh, this isn't like an auto request. It
says that additional information would only be requested when the department determines that quote unquote such
information is required to confirm identity or conduct more rigorous
national security vetting. So, this sounds like they're going to ask you if
you're already like flagged, if you're already some kind of person of interest
to them. It also says, "If you're unsure of the answer to a question, please
provide a response to the best of your knowledge." Mhm. So, I don't feel like
you're going to get crushed too long. The vast majority of dealings with the
federal government is you're not going to get in ridiculous trouble as long as
you're trying to tell the truth. Like, that's kind of how the IRS operates, you
know? They they they don't they don't typically come after people for honest mistakes. They really go at you if
you're if they think you're like intentionally intentionally like lying or defrauding them. So don't forget
linesttips.com. If you're trying to get a visa in the
US, make sure you list that as a social media platform. I want as many US
officials searching my site for people's usernames as possible
just cuz it sounds fun. Okay. So if we get guys in like dark
dark suits showing up Yeah. one day at the door and sunglasses. Awesome. Yeah.
Yeah. Super cool. I'm excited.
What What's the chat saying about this? I kind of want to know. I have no idea.
Probably nothing good. We'll do. Yes.
Thank you very much, Roy. I appreciate I appreciate your uh your willingness to
do so. Yeah, at least I'm a US citizen. Yeah, I feel the same way.
I was I was actually crossing the border the other day. I was I was driving down
um to Bellingham and I got a pretty gruff gruff border officer. I gave him
my passport. He he saw it was from the US. His whole tone completely changed.
Oh, welcome back. He just he started he was just started becoming super chill
with me cuz cuz I have BC license plate. So he must have thought I was Canadian,
but he saw that and it just it was so funny. But another person come over the
border and pick up a darn package.
So many of them. Oh lord. Okay. My favorite question is,
"Uh, what are you coming over for? I'm just picking up a package." Uh, sir,
it's it's 3:00 a.m. Why are you picking up a package? I don't sleep, man. Well,
yeah. You you you know what I would say if I were you, and this would also not
be lying. Um, is that the border weights are much less. Yeah, there's a few I've
had to get into it a little bit more a couple times, but that's that's a big
one. There's I can just roll up and there's usually only nobody or one or
two people in front of me, which is Greater Vancouver has two major highway
uh border crossings and they're both usually extremely busy so you can wait
quite a while. Yeah. Next up is North Korea's iPad. Oh boy. Which is just I
Oh, wait. I air quotes iPad. Yeah. Yeah.
So, a North Korean company named Wow. Uh Moyang Moyang. Sure. Uh,
Mioyong it released a new tablet and
they called it the iPad. So that is not
Yeah. Okay, good. It's It says in the corner of this photo, actual iPad
designed by Apple in California. I like how designed by Apple in California.
Made it all the way to that subtext. Goodness. Okay. I Okay, I think the
reason why I made it there was cuz he's trying to be like making a joke like not
designed by some random obviously a joke like it's it's not made by Kim Jong-un
and Pyongyang. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Apple hasn't commented on this development um its use of its most
popular trademarks. And while the company undoubtedly isn't pleased with
it, it's unclear what kind of legal action it could take against a company
that's controlled by the North Korean government. I guarantee you they don't
care. Their lawyers don't care. Um I don't think there's really any
significant market in North Korea for Western consumer goods. At at the same
time, you know, I don't think there is a market in North Korea. Yeah. There's not going to be this isn't going to be
shipped out of North Korea. It's probably going to be one of those dealies like with the radios and TVs
over there. Oh, it's set to like three channels that only broadcast government
approved like content and propaganda. This is probably going to be the same
thing where they have it running through like a firewall just for North Korea.
Yeah. So, Apple's not going to care. It doesn't matter. So, it it can This is
fantastic. It has a 1 GHz CPU, 512 megabytes of RAM, 8 gigs of internal
storage, 16 gigs of external storage, an 8 in display, and it promises 6 hours of
battery life. Honestly, that is not quite as bad as I expected. The next
part, though, is rather fantastic. It's currently unknown what kind of apps the
device will be able to run in a region like North Korea, which is not
surprising. But it has a total of 28 websites that it can access.
That's a pretty good number of websites. It's probably 8 GB is also that's a lot
of compressed JPEG. I think Lionus owns more than 28 domains just cuz he like
likes buying domains. Yeah. So So how many images of the deer leader is that?
8 gigabytes. And how much how much does how much would like you know there has
to be a minimum quota like you you have to have a certain percentage of your
storage on your tablet filled with various angles and various images of the
of the leader. Yes. Oh yeah. And like and like the the the the
The uh the game is probably something like it's like Space Invaders except it
was like you know Kim Jong-un like a little fighter fighting the capitalist
or something like that. It's probably something like that. So shooting American flags in an asteroid simulator.
Bastards. Yeah. But so so yeah, that's happening. Uh that's pretty epic. Can
Apple even do anything to stop this? I seriously doubt it unless Apple decides
to get an army, which at this point they could probably do. They probably could.
But I mean I mean again like if If
you're going to say, "Okay, will this violate some sort of like intellectual
property statute with North or not statute, but agreement that North Korea
is probably not even a signatory to they still have to enforce their laws inside
their own borders. It's kind of like, you know, Team America World Police where Hans Blicks comes in. Yeah. Or
what? Or we'll write you a letter saying how angry we are with you. So, yeah,
probably nothing's going to happen. And some folks in North Korea will be
getting their um commie pads. So, yeah, there you have it. After that, we've got
ASUS with an announcement of a 35 in ROG
Swift PG35VQ display with quantum dots and a 200 Hz
refresh rate. My question
is, I'm actually getting a little bit disturbed by this. ASUS, where the heck
is the 4K um HDR
G-Sync beautiful Swift that they announced at CES that I saw in person
working, you know? Why can't I buy one?
I tweeted them and they just liked it. They didn't say anything. Oh, the long
troll. Okay. Well, you know, you know better than to see a prototype at a
trade show and then be like, "Oh, where can I buy this?
It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Maybe it only worked for
the length of the show and it like died 5 seconds after it left. You don't know
that. So, funny funny story about the seeing the prototype thing. U in 2012,
just before Christmas in 2012, I decided
uh that I was This was remember 2012. This is early Kickstarter. This is when
people still like believe that things might happen. I saw a hammer on there.
It was super cool. It's called the coalar hammer. Let me see if I can find
this. Is this like the two-handed great sword?
The cobbar. Here it is. Cobbar hammer by Lance Brandon. Let's see. Was I right?
Was it 2012? This thing does look pretty cool. Um, yeah, hit updates. So, yeah,
expected delivery of June 2013
and my gift to him was the backing of the project. Um,
project launched April 25th, 2013. Okay.
So, it was a 2013. It's been a long time, but it's been a while. Um, so I I
backed the cobbar hammer. I decided to back this thing from my dad. It's super
cool in theory. It usually I'm not into
like multi-tool stuff, but this one actually looks pretty sweet. Um, you can
see like a lot of people covered it. You can turn it into a crowbar instead of
just being a hammer. It's it's a socket wrench. Like it's a whole bunch of
different things. And it's it's their destruction tools. You can take them
apart completely. It's that is amazing. Like it's pretty cool, right? It's still
not out. But the best part about this, because most Kickstarter projects, if
it's been like four years, they would
have just given up, right? Cobbar has not given up at this point. If you go to
their updates tab, which I check every once in a blue moon just out of
interest. Fifth month, 10day, 17th year.
They are still giving updates for backers only, so I can't see it cuz I'm
not logged in, but dang. It's basically a modular hammer. Why is it taking so
long? Like, does it does does it have Bluetooth or something? Like, what what
like why is it? And yeah, that's the other part. Okay, so the whole reason
why I got to this story is in their demonstration videos, they have one and
then like the guy like jams it in a little thing and hangs off of it and
like they they do tons of tests with it. So, I'm like, "Okay, you know what? I'll
back this because they physically have the product and I can clearly see that
it is working." Maybe it was a very very very well done hologram.
Oh, man. At this point, I have to wonder if it's been 4 years. That thing crushed
my soul. That destroyed any possibility of me being into Kickstarter. That like
fueled the Kickstarter Kickarted series. Well, it's funny cuz it's a literal
hammer. So, it smashed your faith. It smashed my faith. Yes. Kickstarter.
There you go. Just buy a hammer and a multi-tool. I know. Well, I was trying
to like my dad is totally um of the
persuasion and I agree with this to be completely honest of just buy the damn
tool, use it till it breaks, and then buy another one. And like toss them
around, do whatever. The the job is what's important, but try to not buy one
that's like too crap. But like he's not super into like, oh, this is such a
amazing tool. Whoa. He just like wants something that he can do the job with.
Yeah. Like so I was going to try to buy him something that was above the tier
that he normally shops at so he can have like so he doesn't have to be the one
that buys it so he doesn't feel bad about spending too much money on something. Mhm. But it's also not like
god tier. Yeah. It's just kind of a cool nifty thing. And then nope. Never got
it. Completely failed. So when chat said
I hate sand. Yeah. It's coarse and it gets everywhere. Just
the story. It's funny every time. It is. It absolutely is. Uh, speaking of funny
every time, every single time it's funny. We're going to go to looking at
Channel Super Fun on Floatplane. Uh, so
here we go. This is a Floatplane club. Where's Channel Super Fun? Meanest
YouTube comments. This was actually genuinely hilarious. I had a great time
with this one. So, everyone that you can see in the thumbnail right now, including the the one and only Nikki V
and John who's sitting right beside me, read through comments. That's what
you're doing every day. You're living it. various platforms and discuss how
mean they may or may not be. You know, it's a great video, but Colton could
have picked far meaner things. There's some pretty intense things. Some of them
are brutal. Dennis has some pretty brutal ones. Th this one on screen, how
to be Dennis, be terrible at everything, cheat, and then lie about cheating. That
honestly sounds a little bit more like Lionus with Lionus. Lionus is like the
perpetual. If you watch Kenny versus Spenny, Lionus on Channel Super Fun is
Kenny. I can't remember a Channel Super Fun where he did not cheat in some way
or attempt to cheat. Yeah, I think the last the batting scrapyard wars, am I
right? There you go. Yeah, the batting
cages wasn't a competition cuz we were just literally hitting balls, but other
than that, yeah, every time. So, you can see it scrubs pretty quick, which is
cool. You can watch this video now if you're interested, which is cool. And
you can even download to watch it later. You can, which is awesomely fantastic.
Scrapyard Wars. If you guys have been enjoying that, the last episode of
Scrapyard Wars will be on Floatplane this weekend. They've been on Flowplane
every Saturday so far, but the main editor for them, Edel, got pretty
freaking sick, actually. Um, so the next one is going to be slightly delayed. It
will be coming out on Sunday instead of on Saturday, but it is still coming on
Floatplane first. So, you can see the actually insane, probably the most
insane conclusion of any Scraphead Wars we've had. The last season of Scrappy
War season 4 was my favorite one. But in
terms of conclusions, this last conclusion is insane and by
far the most nutty freaking balls conclusion we've ever had. Like no
question about it at all. You don't know, do you? I've only watched through
the first episode. I have not had time to watch. I I fully intend to watch the
rest of them. I'm not just saying that. But, uh, everyone that was a part of it
has been trying to stay rather closed about it around the office cuz a lot of
people around the office if I don't have any much going on this weekend, I might just sit down and like binge like the
last couple of them. Yeah. So, yeah, I
think this week, not not to uh bash on my own platform, but I think this week a
fair amount of the things that were released were from Computex, so they're on both platforms. Um, but we do have a
few different things that that meish YouTube comments on Channel Super Fun is
genuinely hilarious. Would highly recommend that. Uh there's some tech
wiki stuff on here. Why do people still use fax machines? If you guys like the
sketch that we did um for our scanners
um fast as possible. Uh you're going to love this one. Um so yes, why do people
still use fax machines? Uh featuring the one, the only Dennis Leowl. Um currently
on Floatplane Club just went up today. And yeah. Hey, it's you. Hey, there he
is. It's coming out of a phone. I love it.
I'm going to show you guys just the first little bit of this. sitting there
minding your own business and you go, "What's that strange ticking noise? Oh
my goodness, it's my god, it's a bomb." So, you call your friend. Anyways,
that's your teaser. And there there's there's there's another episode um about
um about SEO, I believe, which
isn't as exciting, but it's still very interesting. A cool a cool topic. The
TechWiki is interesting because it doesn't have like the like sex appeal of
certain channels, but it's more interesting than a lot of other things.
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And back to the real show. Okay. What is
there even to talk about still? This week was weird. Most of the like
interesting news from this week is in literal videos that Lionus hosted from
Computex, but um Microsoft has rolled out not one but
two bad builds on the Windows Insider program.
Thanks guys. It's like every so often they're like they remember, oh, we're
that company that made Windows MI. We should remind people that from time to
time when they do things like this Windows MI Millennium Edition. No, I
know. I just don't hear it called that very often. But yeah, I that's kind of
how they marketed it. Like me, oh, it's my version of Windows is for regular
people in the year 2000. Except it wasn't. It just made everyone very very
mad because it didn't work. Yeah, the marketing was terrible. But Windows 7
professional update. So yeah. Uh I like I don't know.
Okay. And now people in the chat are saying or appear to think that I said
Windows meme emme. Oh my god. which it
kind of was. Someone needs to make a custom Microsoft OS that is skinned all
with memes. It's like every day when you log on there's like a different courage
wolf as your background. He's saying different things. Cartana is advice dog.
Is it just advice dog? Yeah. Yeah. It should just be It's been a while since that meme was popular, but like Yeah,
you you could even do like a twoin one with that. You could have it be advice
dog, but it could start every sentence to you with yo dog, like the exhibit meme. There you go. Nice. When whenever
your system has like a pretty heavy slowdown and then comes up with like an
error, it can be slowpoke. That'd be good. Please, someone do this.
That would be fantastic. You're You know what? You're like, you're you're you're
developing an idea for another line of tech this video as we speak. The custom
meme. Windows meme. Yeah, there you go.
Oh jeez. John's pics. What is this? This
is just crap I sent to James. Okay. What is this? Tell the people. Tell the
people. Okay. Um, well, first thing I
will do is I did find this earlier and I did read it, but I've been busy since
then. So, let me click on the article first. And right to speak freely about
engineering is subject of First Amendment lawsuit. An engineer was fined
$500 for discussing traffic light engineering without a license. So, this
happened down in Oregon, which is not too far from here. Uh, so Oh, I heard
about this. Apparently, this guy sent the state some advice about um traffic
light timings. Um specifically, he wanted to make yellows longer. Um which
is which obviously can be very important for traffic flow reasons and also not to
surprise people when they think they have enough time to drive through an intersection, but they actually don't.
Anyway, so um but instead of the state saying, "Hey, thank you for speaking
out, concerned citizen. Let's have a look at this." they instead slap him
with a $500 fine for doing something along the lines of practicing
engineering without a license. Now, as some of you know, um I went to law
school. I have a law license, which is currently inactive because why do I need
it right now? But I do have one from North Carolina and it there and in every
other state and also up here in Canada, you can't do a thing called unauthorized
practice of law. You can't practice law or give legal advice without a license.
It's against the law. So for engineering um I also believe every state has like a
professional license by for engineers licensing body for engineers where
they're doing the same thing but just like I can sit here on the WAN Show and
generally discuss legal topics like I am doing right now actually without giving
anyone specific advice. You would think an engineer could do the same thing but
the state of Oregon is saying to him no you can't even talk about it without a
license because I think this guy doesn't have his license yet. So, this is a huge
problem. Um, ended up going to court. Uh, he ended up suing uh the state of
Oregon uh for breach of his first amendment rights, which is free speech.
You can you can say what you want to. Um, and I think this is still going on,
but they basically said that he can talk
about this as long as the lawsuit is pending. So, that is where where we are
with this. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. I don't understand legal stuff, so I have
concerns and questions, but I'm just going to move on because they're probably juvenile. Uh, big leagues,
$10 million League of Legends tournament. Holy butt chunks. Team
applications for the new LCS open today. The buyin price is $10 million.
Players on the 10 selected teams get a guaranteed salary of at least $75,000.
Wait, the buyin is 10 million? Yeah, that the buyin for the World Series of
Poker isn't even $10 million. How how how does that
Jeez, pretty nuts. Yeah. Yeah. Um Riot
Game said it end goal is to create a strong and stable system that's
profitable for pro players and provides entertainment for fans in the long term.
And I guess they plan to do that by charging $10 million for 10 teams, which
is $100 million. How many people on the team?
you know, like there there would be five active players, but you have like a
roster where you have coach and benches.
Like there's there's other stuff going on.
Once the 10 teams are determined, they are in the league for good. Ry says it
will offer incentives to teams that play well and penalize the squads that
purposefully that purposefully stay at the bottom of
the ladder. What?
Um, teams that tank for for on purpose for some reason. Why? Okay, so
admittedly I don't really watch esports. It's been a very long time since I've
played LOL, but uh what I can say in um
in more traditional sports um what
certain teams at times are um especially
in the US and Canada, it doesn't really work this way in Europe, but in the US and Canada, um teams will be accused of
tanking if they have no no hope of making the playoffs. So, they end up
tanking for a better draft pick. So, so
whether this has ever actually happened is a matter of debate, but like there's
accusations of it happening that pop up every now and then. Maybe it's something
like that you get some kind of extra benefit. Are you draft picking in League
of Legends though? I don't think so. I don't think that's how it works. To be
clear, we're not talking about draft picks in terms of like when you're
drafting heroes for that game. Um No, we
probably have a lot of people that don't watch sports at all. Yeah, it's we're talking about like like the NFL's
college player draft where the worst the worst teams can pick earlier to help
make them better. So, yeah. pick a player like a person, a human being. Not
not draft picking like, oh, let's let's ban Ezreal or something. I don't know
why you'd do that. I don't think he's very strong right now. Someone says they say not to get relegated, which may be
true. So, that would be more like a not to get relegated. More like soccer, you
know, about promotion, relegation, soccer. Okay. Interesting. Okay. Uh,
that's pretty nuts. That's That is That is so much a $10 million buy in. I
wonder how well they're going to do. I don't know. I almost wonder if if they
would if if it would help them to have like teens represent specific areas like
real sports or traditional sports. I won't insult anybody, but I don't see.
Okay. I have no idea. It's so new. That's like a deeper topic, but I don't
think so because I think with esports it's more of a global thing and because
everyone basically everyone is watching online and they online. Yeah. Like there
I don't think there's a lot of
team like personalities you like or like I I
could see a little bit more like national spirit like if there was like
the American team that happens a lot in like individual sports a a little bit
more like traditional individual sports. You know we did have um a heroes of the
dorm in the US where uh the larger colleges all enter college teams into
this. So there was like a little bit of that but yeah so yeah interesting. Next
up, we have the first Ryzenbased all-in-one, which is actually pretty
crazy. It's It's a Dell all-in-one. Let's have a look at her. It looks
pretty nice, actually. Uh Dell Inspiron
27775
AIO. It's an 8 core AMD Ryzen 7. Hey,
six numbers in a row. All right. Great name. Pretty freaking nuts. Well, I get
the 27's got to be 27. Well, yes, but but even so, like even so. So, it's the
7775 AO or 7775, whatever you want to
call it. Uh AMD Ryzen 7 chip, Radeon RX
580, and a 4K LCD screen. And it looks
pretty sharp. You could actually do some like pretty serious gaming on it with an
RX 580. Yeah. Yeah. Um the the chassis
very vaguely reminds me of the the Surface Studio from Microsoft, like a
little bit, you know, like the way the mouse is, like the way the chassis is.
Yeah. Yeah. some of the 7775.
Uh, this is worded a little bit weirdly,
but I can get I'm going to I'm going to jump away from that actually. Come on
in. Well, I couldn't tell if they were talking. Whoa, I just screwed
everything. At first, the diabetes cure, now this. Okay, so despite being Yes.
So, it's actually the Inspiron 277000
series. The 7775 is a specific version.
There's multiple versions of it. Um, the low-end version is a quad core AMD Ryzen
51400 with an RX 560 with 4 gigs of GDDDR5
memory and then 180 W PSU. But if you
jump up to the high-end, I believe that one that I just noted is about $1,000.
Um, and if you jump to the high-end, you get an 8core AMD Ryzen 7700, which I had
just mentioned, and then a Radeon RX 580
with 8 gigs of GDDR5 and a 330 W power supply. And I believe
you can get up to 32 gigs of RAM with one of these. I do hope the lower-end
one didn't go for like the full like ball in 4K display because there's no
way you're going to get 4K consistently with say some low have the 4K. So, I
seriously doubt that the low-end one is so the bare bones one is a grand. So,
there we go. Here we go. If we scroll down a little bit, they do a they do a
better job with it. So, we're uh display or screen display. There we go. Um yeah,
so the cheaper one is 1080p. It's still IPS, so it's still going to be a pretty
good looking display, but it's going to be 1080p. Yeah. 1980 by That's got to be
a typo. Should be 1920 x 1080.
Yeah. That's pretty interesting, isn't it? I think that is a typo. In terms of
USB connections, which is like a topic of much debate these days, I do see
type-C, which is good. So, they have two USB 2.0, which is fine. They have three
USB typeA, or sorry, they have three two
USB 2.0 type A, which is fine. Three USB 3.0 type A, which is good. One USB 3.1
type C, which is solid. Um, and then one
USB 3.1 type A, which is also pretty good. The webcam is 720p, which is like
actually a little disappointing. Um,
like still seeing stuff showing up in 720p is H. Um, it's running Windows 10
Home 64bit, which is about what you'd probably expect.
It's kind of cool, though. It looks sharp. Um, I'm happy to see
AMD getting their products and stuff like this. So, that's cool. Yeah, it
also looks a little bit more elegant than some past gaming AIOs we've seen. I
mean, granted, a lot of that is most is more the GPU manufacturers, but even so,
and I think part of this is that it I don't think it's heavily aimed at
gaming. It's not it's game on if you
want. It's powerful enough. The the higherend one is definitely powerful enough that you could, but it looks more
like it's designed for like, oh, if you wanted to edit some video or photos and
stuff like the uh com the Twitch chat
says 580 for 4K casual use is great. And I would agree with that. So, yeah. Yeah.
There we go. Okay, moving on. We're a
little thin on topics. Are we talking about um
uh the the facial recognition thing with the monkeys? So, we want to talk about
that. Where's that? It's down here, right? It's under John's pics. This is
which is why I mentioned I didn't know what the heck was going on. # shameless. You want to start talking about it? I'll
get it on screen. So, uh, there's an article in the Guardian here about, uh,
scientists discovering how the brain recogniz recognizes faces by reading the
minds of monkeys. More specifically, analyzing their brain wave patterns.
Yeah, it's a little different, but you know, and what they what they did was
they they looked at their brain waves and decoded faces that the monkey like
human faces that the monkeys remembered. And you might be able to see it on the
screen capture here, but they were almost exactly the same as the subjects
appeared in real life, which is both cool and a little bit unnerving. So, you
know, you start wondering about, oh, well, things like, you know, reading
minds and that and reading thoughts were
once purely the realm of science fiction, but now you're starting to
wonder, okay, you know, is this something that, you know, actually has
has some some water to it? You know, some of them look like video game
versions of the real people a little bit. Yeah. So, so the so the predicted
faces are on the right and the actuals on on the left. Yeah, they're pretty
close though. Actually, for this one, I thought the predicted face was the
accurate one and the actual face was not. Isn't that weird? Cuz the actual
face on this one actually looks lower resolution
than the predicted face, which is kind of interesting.
Yeah. So, you know, you have to wonder about, you know, is this does this mean
that a person could end up one day with
the correct equipment seeing, oh, what is a person thinking, but or who they're
thinking about and what they're thinking about there. I think that they were also
talking about um your brain encodes like
faces a certain way and it does much
kind of like a GPU would do like mathematical transformations to like if
you're if there's a shape on your computer screen and it's like rotating
you can see it's like a cube or it's a circle or it's a sphere like whatever
else your GPU is doing mathematical transformations to it to figure out what
it looks like. So it's the article was saying the brain works similarly where
if you have met a person a couple times even if you haven't seen their face from
every possible angle your your brain can do these mathematical transformations.
So when you see the person again maybe just see them like from the side or like
from an angle when they're walking away from you but you can still figure out
who it is. So it's it seems like it's
tapping more into that part of the brain. As far as reading like emotional
thoughts that might be a little bit different. I don't know. But someone in the chat said how to hide your porn.
So like we'd we'd have to make like a version two of that video. Yeah. It's
like think of your grandma. Here's how not to think about what you've been
looking at. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like Well, it's like as soon as you say don't
think of a pink elephant, you think of pink. So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How to hide
your porn version two mind readading edition.
That'd be freaking awesome. I should make that video at some point in a
thousand years. This might get litigated. Does this cover the right to
p the right to privacy cover your own thoughts? You know, I would certainly think it does, but who I mean, who
knows? Who knows at this point? Who knows? They're allowed to record it.
Well, you know, when you think in public, you implicitly give up your right to privacy. Of course, I can see
some lawyer making that argument like hundreds of years from now. So, yeah.
Yeah, I don't know. But NVIDIA announces GPUs for thinner gaming laptops. So,
they've got a few different things going on. Uh, now NVIDIA is looking to find
the fastest and most power optimized performance level to allow laptops under
20 millimeters thick and sport a GTX
1080. Well, we're already getting pretty close, aren't we? Like with with the new
like the new Razer blades, you know, you can get a 1080 in those. And how thick
are those? You know, I'm not sure on exact thickness for those, but he's
showing pretty thin freaking laptops right here with his trademark leather
jacket. Very good. With his freaking leather jacket.
Max Q.
It's cool. Thinner laptops is good. Whisper mode, blah blah blah blah blah.
We're constantly getting ah see Forbes even.
At least they say from the web, but like still, come on, guys.
News websites that advertise articles
for clickbait news is such a weird situation. It really, really is. cuz
there's tons of people that really can't tell the difference.
Super lame. Anyways, that's that's just a cool thing. NVIDIA's trying to do
that. That's cool. Mhm. They'll they will, I'm sure, succeed if they're going
to be this open about the fact that the hey, we're going to do this. Yeah,
they've probably already done it. Mhm. Um ASRock announces ITX boards for AMD
Ryzen. That's super cool. Um, I've been
kind of waiting for I expected it was going to happen faster than it has been,
but I wanted MATX to get really popular.
There is a serious serious lack of um
really good looking microATX boards out there. And that's part of the problem.
Yeah. But ITX boards too, like I I expected to see more of this stuff going
on. I think with Fantex's new case, I
can't remember the new name for it. The old name for it was project 217, but as
of this competex, they have a new name for it. I think that might even help
because Fentex cases are super popular and this thing's freaking beautiful.
Yeah. I just want to talk about micro ATX for a second because because when
you think about it, if you're an enthusiast, it has to be the most
sensible form factor, you know, because because no one uses four-way SLI
Crossfire anymore, but you get two slots usually micro ATX. So, if you want to
expand, you can. You should get like a little bit more IO like but but most
people are doing external DAXs, not internal sound cards anymore. Exactly.
So you don't really need like but and even if you want like PCI Expressbased
storage, most people are using M.2 Optains coming up so that you don't have
to slot it into a traditional slot. So it's just like why don't you see more of
this? Because ATX is overkill for most people with the amount of expandability
that you're just never going to use. So yeah, and you can get some really nifty
kind of small cases, but that's part of the problem too. There isn't a huge
amount of demand on the motherboard side. So, the cases aren't there yet
really. There isn't a ton of cases for it because of that. And then there isn't
a ton of cases for it because of that. So, people don't want to build that form factor.
So, there isn't a ton of demand for the motherboards. We're in like kind of a
stuck situation, but I wish they'd get a little bit more popular. I hate stuck
situations. Ducklet Schwag says, "I didn't realize John knew this much
stuff." Yeah, I've had a nickel for every time I've heard that. Have you
ever watched Techquiki?
Techquikookie is is more or less unanimously written by John. It's it's
essentially like it's my channel and it's not. I'm basically creative
director for whatever it's worth, but tons of other people contribute to it,
too. But yes, so but like especially on
the writing side, like entirely, but especially on the writing side. I'm
trying not to sound like a jerk hogging all the credit. So, but yeah. I know on
the writing side is basically the John show right now. So yeah, I think that's
probably about it for the show today. Yeah. Do we
do we need to make Taffy stretch or are we stretch like stretch like Well, you
know when you come to the end of a program but it's not the end. You have
like blank space. Do we need to like Oh no. No. We just need to roll the intro.
Outro. I mean intro outro. It's the same thing.
I can try to do it with Nope. The stream deck's still not
working. Such a sh It looks so And look at this. When I press the button, you
can see you can tell it's just one screen cuz I'm like damaging it.
Hey, Taran, come look at this. That's so sad. Are you still alive? Thank you
Squarespace. Is it working or not? No,
it's not. LTX 2017. Thank you us, I
guess. And thank you iFix It. Bye guys.
Got to reset this. Bye. It'll work as
soon as you stop streaming.