the start of the show. You know, it's really good that you're the one who
sings copyrighted theme songs and jingles um whenever we sing them on the
show because I think your interpretations of them are very
unlikely to get us uh to get us sued.
That turned that turned from I think Indiana Jones
into Star Wars.
Like I I I it would be very difficult to attack.
Which Harrison Ford movie is this from? I'm not criticizing you. I'm saying it's
a good thing. Uh welcome to the WAN Show, guys. Sorry
we're a little late. I know that you grow you've grown tired of our excuses.
And there really is honestly it was I have never seen this one before. Please.
So, the funny thing is is this is at
least partially my fault, even if I didn't realize it a little bit. So, I
had requested to XSplit, and this is actually really cool. I had requested a
feature in the software because we had one camera in particular that you cannot
turn off the output of the onboard
microphone over HDMI. And we have one
capture card that does not allow you to
select a single mono channel and output
it in stereo mono. Okay. So I requested
a feature that was that would allow you in XSplit to clone the left channel to
the right or the right channel to the left.
They obliged. They provided said feature. So I was trying to set up the
show today. I realized this. Okay. I was trying to set up the show today and I
had levels on the microphone and I was talking into the microphone and the
recorded file, which I always check now because I'm tired of you guys being the
ones to inform me that uh that I'm doing
it wrong. So, I did a pre a pre-recording and I checked it to
discover that uh oh, there's there's no audio on the output file.
Turns out my features there except it
was cloning the empty channel because we
have a mono microphone to both channels
which the audio level monitor doesn't account for.
So uh maybe additional feature is to check if the channel is empty and then
make the default option to copy the non-mpy channel. One store range says
pre-recorded to which I would reply I am either a freaking genius or uh big and
tasty posted posted two Squirtles. I like Squirtle a lot. I like Squirtle.
Yeah. Uh and we've got a bunch of you saying
there's no audio, but we've also uh a I checked and b we've got some of you
saying that indeed there there is there is audio. So um so there you go. That's
what happened today. I have been diagnosing why I have audio levels on my
on my indicator and no audio in my files, you know, because I'm not audio
file and that's like, oh, dang. Um,
snore, but whatever says totally not live. U, so there you go. All right,
let's uh let's get into the show. We've got a lot of great topics for you guys
today. Number one is of course Google IO, sort of a big deal. Uh, number two
is after I scroll through all the Google
things, um, NVIDIA has posted official GTX 1070 specifications. Pretty similar
to what we were thinking, but uh, it's nice to have that confirmed. Yes. Also,
there's an English bank that is literally going to electroshock you if
you spend too much money, which is fantastic. I I I think that is wonderful
and hilarious. Also, Uber is joining the race for driverless cars because screw
employees. who needs them, who may or may not be employees, by the way. You
know, because because Oh, if AI gets so sophisticated that we create a massive
AI force to do all the work for us and then we have to pay them, wouldn't that
suck?
sponsors. Wow, that is a big sponsor call out. That violates our normal
sponsor guidelines. Cookba. Cook.Ba.
Cook.Ba. Blue Apron started by Vikings. Not true.
Possibly true. Not sure. What the hell are you talking about? Cookba.
That's what I'm talking about. Okay. So, I feel like the first thing that we
should probably acknowledge
um is the way we tried to pull the wool over your eyes last week with a
pre-recorded WAN Show. So, to be clear,
not a whole lot of forethought went into that. We sat down to record the show and
I was like, "You know what? We should do it would be funny. We should pretend
that it's live. We should pretend we're live." The internet connection there was
awful. There was no way it was going to be able to be live. No, that was that
was not going to be a thing. Um, and I
will confess that while our plan did not
extend to altering the time on the clock
in the bottom right hand corner of my screen.
Whoops. It did extend to um us starting the
pre-recorded broadcast a little late so you guys wouldn't think something was
up. And we did like a few people said this. Uh, we did say that like the
chat's complaining about the camera or whatever else, which if we were noticing
those things, we probably would have super noticed the massive glaring audio
issues that we apparently had. So, I figured out after the fact what the
audio issues had to do with it seemed like they were related to um the audio
input from that recording camera
not coming in anymore because the battery died or something. And then it
just it took it took the microphone
a bit to get its crap together. The weird thing about it is that we were
using a single microphone. We were recording on a Razer siren, and that
microphone was running the whole time, and that was responsible for both the
left and the right channels, but only one channel was messed up. So, that's
why the archive didn't have the audio issues, which took me until about 6:00
a.m. to fix, by the way, because um non-fixed frame rate footage is a
nightmare. Um when the camera switched to the webcam was causing a desync even
in Sony Vegas, which handles um
non-fixed frame or variable frame rate footage, not non-fixed, variable frame
rate footage better than anything else. I went through Handbreak FFmpeg because
I'm familiar with taking variable frame rate footage and turning it into
something that Premiere can recognize with FFmpeg. There is a procedure for
that. It's a pain in the butt, but it's doable. But I tried that. That didn't
work. Handbreak didn't work. Premier didn't work. Vegas didn't even work. And
to make matters worse, I didn't have any of those programs installed on my
laptop. The internet was awful. So, I was trying to do all of this stuff
remotely because I had actually already sent the file back to the office, right?
And then I would have to upload them from the office to YouTube, wait for
processing on a 55 minute video, and
then I could preview it back in my hotel room to find out if the synchronization
was working. That sounds horrible. Uh, question
though, how does XSplit footage end up
being mixed frame rate? So, uh, right because it's not always mixed frame
rate. I think they have a I think they Okay, it was a new install. Okay.
Because I was streaming off of a machine that I don't normally stream on. Okay.
So, I hadn't gone through all of my all of my procedures. But the weird thing is
that it wasn't FLV. It was variable frame rate MP4, which I think may have
actually had to do not with XSplit screwing up, but with XSplit covering my
butt when the camera changed to the webcam. Oh. So, I think we ended up with
a variable frame rate MP4 that XSplit
somehow managed managed to merge because the webcam was running at a different
frame rate. Yeah. Okay. Cuz I was going to say I've used XSplit to record things
a number of times and imported into Adobe Premiere and had no problems. But
I do also know that people have had problems doing that. Yes. So, I wasn't
sure how that worked. But we had no choice because the battery died. You know, the funny thing is about after
that broadcast where I had and some of you actually noticed this is hilarious.
My laptop was running off of a portable battery bank that couldn't output enough
current to run my laptop. So, I had to constantly keep turning it back on cuz
the overcurren protection was triggering. Um, but right after the
show, I found an outlet on the wall. It was like right beside Yeah, that was
that was rough. Oh, man. That trip was
actually pretty tiring. I had a lot of fun. uh travel day back was uh was kind
of a kind of a drag. It was I don't know. I just like went on my uh Yeah, I
don't I don't mind layovers as much as most people do cuz I'm in like this
place that has everything that I probably need and it pro especi
mostly unless you're in like Malaysia. Yeah. Then it's fine. And most airports
in the States have those things. So, I just like plugged in my laptop, plugged
in my earbuds or my other headphones,
which I bring both of just in case I get annoyed with one of them. Like, I don't know. I have everything that I need in
my bag always, and I'm in a place that has everything else that I would really
need. And it's just like, oh, okay. Well, yep. Yeah, I don't have as much of
an issue with it either, which probably made me less empathetic than I probably
should have been. Um, all right. So, this was posted by
Suicidal Franco on the forum. Well, like the yeah, the general discussion thread
was posted by Suicidal Franco and then we're going to have a bunch of like
different things from like The Verge or TechnoBuffalo or whoever else happened
to cover it. Yeah. So, uh, Google IO
kind of a big deal. So, first up, our
original article here is from Techno Buffalo. Let's go ahead and, uh, Techno
Buffalo screen share here. Our good friend John Rettinger over there. No,
no, Brandon Russell. So, one of his guys, but I'm sure John glanced at it at
some point or another. This is the Google Home.
There's al there's also home.google.com if you want to see uh news directly from
Google. It's it's kind of Google's response to the Amazon Echo, which did
we ever actually release a review on that? Okay, so the Amazon Echo, we we
bought one, we got it here in spite of the fact that it's not available in
Canada. We realized that nothing worked in Canada and we couldn't even like VPN
trick it in any kind of it just didn't know how to do like with uh Microsoft
for for Cortana. I don't think you have to anymore but for a while there to get
it to work you had to VPN out to get it to work but then it actually was kind of
fine. I understood why they didn't do it because it didn't know everything for
most general things it was fine. Not Echo. Echo just Yeah. No. So, we had a
contract writer that was writing techies for us for at the time, and we sent the
Echo to him to do an LTT for the first time ever, and he basically disappeared
off the face of the earth, and now he has an Amazon Echo. I was just going to
say, got that Echo, though. He's a nice He's a nice enough dude. I I harbor no
ill will towards him. There was some crazy stuff going on. He probably just
misplaced it. His life was complicated at the time, but uh he has an echo and
we do not. Yes. Um, Google L. Hello.
Hello. Google Alo, I guess. Oh, really? We're not going to talk anymore about
the Echo or I thought we were done. I guess I guess that was the problem. I
feel like we stopped talking about the Echo, but we actually just Yeah. Anyways, you're right. You did it, too.
Anyways, it will answer questions. It will play music. It will have LEDs.
Thanks for them notes, bro. Um, it will be customizable with different colored
shells. So, you can like if you just need to kind of put it somewhere in a
dark corner where you don't really see it, you can probably get it in black. The one that they have in their main
picture on home.google.com is in white, which looks like nice and clean and
stuff. It can communicate with a chcast. That's cool. Which is actually quite
cool. Y um, but it won't support multiple Google accounts on launch, but
it might uh do that later. I don't know if you said it plays music. It does do
that as well. So, that should tie in pretty well to the the Chcast tie-in.
Uh, yes, because hopefully Chcast music or Chrome music or whatever they decided
to I forget what they call it. Yeah, but the music version of the chcast can tie
in with this thing and then it can play sound because I don't really trust this
like tiny little speaker to be very good or useful in terms of playing sound.
Google's branding sometimes in its simplicity gets complicated. Yeah.
Because we're working with the Google store on like a Father's Day thing. I
don't know if you know about this. I've heard about it. Um, so I'm I'm going to be um actually I don't know if the
contract is signed, so maybe I won't be, but um in theory, I'm actually going to
be showing a bunch of Google technology to my grandpa in not necessarily just
like a straight up elders react TM uh
type of ripoff, okay, that I will probably get, you know, sued for or
something. Um, at least we know. But more it's more about, you know, here's a
guy who I tried to set up with an internet connection 10 years ago with
like a hand-me-down CRT monitor and like a cheap tower and and like I I tried to
make it as affordable for him as possible and he loved it, but it was like it was like really hard on his eyes
because the screens were small and stuff at the time. So So here's me kind of
trying to bring that into the year 2016
and show him some of the cool applicable things that some of Google's
technologies would would allow. um things like better medication
notifications and reminders. Um I'd love
to see him try VR. Um so I've just Yeah,
old people in VR are like So I think they're sending a smartwatch um a Nexus
6P, so a nice big smartphone. I'll have to see if it has like old man vision
mode. It probably does. I think it does. Well, there's an app you can get. Y um
they're sending a Google Cardboard. Um
uh that there's some there's some other stuff, too. So, I'm working on that. But
anyway, getting back to my point that I was trying to make. Uh, one of the things that they were saying was, "We
want you to be really clear that you're working with Google store." I'm like,
"Yeah." They're like, "That is not a retail like Google store. It's like a
website Google store." And I'm like, "Yeah." And they're like, "It is separate from the Google Play Store,
which is not the Google store because the Google store sells physical items."
The Google web physical store. Uh,
Uh, so, so anyway, but doesn't the Google Play Store also sell
devices or is that wrong? I think it has. I thought you could. I think it has
at times. Yeah. Oh, man. So, so so so
back to where we were trying to figure out chcast. I was going to suggest that
maybe maybe it was like Google Google Music, but then no, that like play music
because I couldn't remember what they call the damn thing. Yeah. And um that's
a nightmare. Yeah. So, so, so
like is it chcast music or which is
different from Google? The best thing is we could have just Googled this the whole time. I know with their own
software we could find it out. Um
Oh, there's people commenting in the chat about the uncensored fbomb in one
of our recent videos. What? What video? Oh, was it me? No. Oh, good. That Well,
you wouldn't have edited it anyway. Like, it was an editor. No. Did I say
it? No, it was an editor saying it. No, I said it. Oh, yeah. Wasn't me this
time. Yeah. So, no, I just said uh I
just said here is uh you know, gold star
for Smartyp Pants is already knowing how like um IPMI or wake on land and like
all that stuff works. I was just like, well, here's a gold star for the rest of
you. Here's a video. Um and it was
supposed to be I should have said that on the synergy video. Yeah.
It was done by Yeah. Well, you know,
part of it was seeing those comments on some of your videos as well where people
will like people will watch our videos and they'll go, "Is this the first time
you ever heard of Wake Land? I've known about this for 15 years." It's like,
"Okay, yeah, that's good." What if it's someone's first year into computers,
bro? Then why are you clicking on a video about Wakeland?
Maybe just don't. Maybe just don't. I mean, click it anyway. We love your
views, you know? We love to talk to you guys. Sometimes we make jokes and maybe
maybe there's something in there that you didn't know about or or maybe
there's something that we missed and you can help inform people in the comments.
You could say something helpful or constructive. It's like I've known about
this forever and so so I was I was proactively responding to those comments
and giving them gold internet stars. Um
which I think is important. You know, you like a gold star for something that
you've known for a long time that I didn't. Right. Sure. Makes you feel like
a big man. Yeah. Gold star right there, buddy. That would actually be wonderful
if we all got gold star stickers. Like
anytime someone around the office helps you, you like put a gold star on their
shirt.
You know what's you know what's horrible
is like from my experience as a parent
and as a swimming teacher managing kids
and from my experience as a small business owner managing
adults. It would probably work. The principles are really not very
different. And you know what's really funny is what you're saying and joking
about is really not that different from
the kinds of principles you will read about in management books. The only
difference is the physicality of it gold star because walking around basically
doing the same thing. Giving people little attabo for doing something right
is actually by far the best way to reinforce positive behavior and actually
by uh by doing so eliminate bad
behavior. Yeah, maybe I should get sheets of gold stars. I I think people
feel like I'm patronizing them a little. Yes, I think that but that's that's why
you remove the physicality because then it doesn't seem to feel so patronizing.
What is that bad word? Um it's only bad
in certain contexts, I think. Like cuz
Okay, so let's break it down. Patron. So
like But that's a different word. Okay. Because a patron is like you could be a
patron at a bar. No, no. Okay, that's a different way of using the word. But
patron can be the same as matron, which would be the male form of of of like a
like a mother or a father figure. So patronizing, it's funny, we talk about
how the gold stars would be more like dad and the kids means treating you like
a child. Yes. So that's where that's where now that I've sort of because
patronizing is so bad, but then like maternal instinct is a good thing. Yeah.
and and like and and feeling cared for
in the same way that your parents would care for you is something that we crave
and something that we want. We just don't want them to act like they're our
parents. Anyways, after all that, it's called chcast audio.
We got there. Um, all right. So, original article here
is from Techno Buffalo again. We've got Google Aloe, which uh heals your burns.
Yeah, I needed some of that. Still sort
of do. Yeah, Mexico was fun for everyone but Luke on the day when he got he got
second degree burns on his freckles. Yeah, which sounds like a very specific
injury, but it's a thing. Yeah, I didn't
know that. Yeah, that's apparently a thing. The rest of my skin was like, I'm
fine. Where the freckles are roasted.
Wow, it was bad. H Yeah. So, I want you
to find this. It's not that hard to find. Google him. find this thing
because this ties into what we're exactly Yeah. Yeah. I'll I'll find the
tweet. I'll bring that up. Okay. You you talk about it in the meantime. Okay. So,
Snowden has tweeted about Google's Aloe thing. Uh he says that Google's security
expert blogged discussing about how Aloe is unsafe by default. Um hours later, he
erased that part of the uh uh blog. Um
and he says below that, I believe I have it up. Google's decision
Yep. There's another tweet actually. Google's decision to disable endtoend
encryption by default in its new Alo chat app is dangerous and makes it
unsafe and he recommends to avoid it for now. That has 8,000 retweets and 7,800
likes. So, with that warning in the back
of your mind, let's talk a little bit about what it is. Yes. Uh, it's a new
messaging app for mobile only. To which
you might kind of go, what the hell? Why do we need this? What happened to GT
talk? And then what about don't we have
Hangouts? And uh doesn't uh Oh, man.
Doesn't Google own like uh some other
stuff? I think Yeah. So, hold on. Who is Snapchat again? Is that Facebook?
Snapchat is I think Facebook. I could totally be wrong though. Yeah. Snapchat
owned by Facebook. I thought Google bought something. Anyway, the point is
why do we need
another messaging app? And maybe maybe
this is more of a question for the people that use other messaging apps.
Like I still can't quite figure out why people need um any more than just like
yeah, one. I can't figure out what happened to that concept of like awesome
desktop clients like Trillian that just
um amalgamated all your different chats and made it it's like and I used
Trillian for a long time. I loved Trillion, but they just couldn't keep
the bugs out of it because it feels like the
um the chat platform owners were constantly changing things just to screw
with Trillian. Um I don't know if it's really good these days. I'd love to hear
from you guys, but um the answer is that
it is meant to be a fresh start for Google's new communications division.
You sign up with a phone number and you can connect your Google account to it.
So it's WhatsApp but with additional
nonsense. Yeah. Speaking of which, who
owns WhatsApp again? That's Facebook. Owned by Facebook. Oh, okay. Yeah, there
we go. That's Facebook. Yeah, I know that one. Yeah. Um, you can shrink or
enlarge text before sending it in messages, which sounds super annoying. I
mean, remember when MSN Messenger had the ability to change your font size?
Okay, that was kind of cool. You had pink font. Yeah. No, I just mean that's
not innovative, right? Okay. Remember when MSN Messenger added the ability to
write with your mouse? Can Microsoft just make MSN again? I would actually go
back. I would go back. Yeah, 100%. Like that. Especially if it worked on my phone. Oh my god.
So good. I would hardcore go back to MSN. It was
by far the best. It had like the ability to send files to people and it actually
worked. Remote desktop control was built into it. I diagnosed so many computers
that way. I was like, "Oh, do you have MSN?" "Yeah, okay, sweet. We can just do this." You know, now it's like a huge
mess. We're going to have to implement a new policy for W show. Anytime we talk
about a messaging app, we can't just talk about MSN. Okay, that's probably
fair. We I think we MSN's emoji support
was worlds ahead of what other applications were doing at the time.
Your own and you could send them. Yep. Which was freaking awesome. Um I wasn't
a huge fan of them when they implemented them, but when they when they introduced
like the higher definition ones like
that you had like all this variety like Yeah.
Okay. So speaking of which, you can send and receive indicators, emojis, and
custom stickers. They do say that uh
conversations are encrypted on the wire, which means nobody on the internet
can read them as you send your message, which is a funky way of saying that. Um
they're they're the response to Snowden's thing about it being not end
to end encrypted is apparently that that is done because of um the voice command
side of things. Um my response to that
is figure it out. There is some cool stuff to be clear
like for example if you're discussing with a friend like uh hey we want to go
out for dinner you can actually bring Google now features like recommending a
restaurant right into the chat that's super cool which I can't think of any
reason why you wouldn't be able to do with hangouts which also has video and
works crossplatform. Why do companies think that single platform mobile only
is better? That's very stupid. Um, one thing that I do like is the uh, if your
friend sends you a message, Aloe puts some suggested replies at the bottom.
That's super cool because if your phone can tell that you're like working out or
you're at work or you're I thought work was in both of those. Or it can like
tell you're doing something like you're working it or that although you might
not want an automated reply unless it's a lie. Yeah. Like, hey, I'm petting the
dog. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um or like like driving or something. If
you're doing something where you don't really have time to respond, you can be
able to respond easily in a like pre-done little packaged thing, which is
kind of cool. Um this is actually a
suggestion, not for Aloe, but for a messaging application that I'm actually
likely to use, like maybe Hangouts. So, if anyone from Google is watching, this
was actually Taran's suggestion. I think he was like cuz I was just reading the
bit about how it has a feature where you can doodle on the pictures that people
send you or it can like suggest to you whether your the picture of your
friend's dog is cute or not. Yeah, I don't think that's that useful. Um, but
what about this? What if you could set
contacts to send you pixelated versions
of their images by default so you could tell if it's a dickpick before you open
it? I thought that was Edel. Was it Ed?
Maybe it's Ed. I don't know. Someone in someone here talked to me about that,
too. Yeah, someone in there was talking about this. I was like, that is
brilliant. I mean, who wouldn't want especially like at work like say say for
example if you know Hangouts wasn't a complete piece of trash and had a
desktop client, which it should have um so that you could actually have settings
that stuck with computers rather than just being accountwide. You know, there
are reasons that client applications still make sense. Um, so at work, you
could enable the feature that automatically blurs pictures so you
wouldn't have an awkward situation where someone, you know, walks and looks over
your shoulder and there's like boom, dickpick. Yeah, here's a good idea. Free
of charge. It's a thing. Um, speaking of good ideas free of charge, um, let's
see. So, that's kind of boring. Yeah, there's Google Duo, I guess, which is a
video calling app because they need another app for communication.
Okay, so as a companion to the brand new messaging app, yay, we're splitting it
up so we have more than one app to do the same thing. Yep. Um,
so yeah. Um
so basically it has caller ID which is
the unique feature where you can see a
stream of the person before you answer the call. Yeah.
Um
which I guess is the kind of thing that's going to lead to a lot of
accidental nose picking
while someone's looking at you while people figure out that that's a feature.
I I I can't think of a any possible
reason on the planet why I would want someone else's stream when they're
calling me to start automatically before I pick up the call. I know who it's
from. Why?
Why? And I mean, this is not like I'd like I
hope to I hope I guess like if you're
gonna do like a We're gonna get a little TM out here for a second, but if you're
gonna have like a FAP session with your partner and it happens to be their mom
that is using their phone to video call you, it might be a good idea for you to
know and be like, I should cover up before I answer this. Why would you ever
answer a video call naked? I mean,
you're just ready to go.
Okay. So, why would you be ready to go if there wasn't some kind of
pre-planning in place? And if there was pre-planning, wouldn't you know that who
was operating the other end? Because if if it's their mom while you're having a
discussion about video calling, maybe
maybe communications with this person are just so often uh that that you're
just, you know, you're just or maybe you want to like surprise them. It's the the
naked man tactic from How I Met Your Mother.
where you're like, I'm ready to go. And then it's their mom and you're like,
crap. Maybe I'm still ready to go, but it's not appropriate, but a little less.
Wow. Um, Luke getting his freak on here. I mean,
you know, uh, the Twitch chats Twitch chat's exploding
now. Sex each other. What? Says Tristan.
We can't do that. We're in person. It's got to be over the phone. It's against the Twitch regulations anyway. Come on.
get your act together, Tristan. Yeah. Um, so, okay, another app that I'm
clearly too old to understand the value of, so there you go. It's apparently
very simple to use and quick, as demonstrated by The Verge. I managed to
teach my 67year-old father, who was still running iOS 6 like 3 months ago,
how to chat on Hangouts in like 40 seconds. So, I'm pretty sure that a
video call in Hangouts probably wasn't that hard to use. The entire app is
approximately 5 megs. Five megs of duplicating a function of an app that I
literally by default definitely already
have installed on my phone if it's an Android phone
and it's mobile only because screw you.
Yeah. I screw you people who, you know,
want to sit in a chair at a desk and see a reasonable size image and not hold
something while they chat with somebody. Yeah. I mean, because that that ties up
one of your hands. Why is it always coming back to this?
One thing that is really annoying about the mobile only thing though, actually the main thing in my opinion is a lot of
work stuff. Like of course I'm going to usually use that app on my mobile
device. Yeah. to be completely honest, but if I'm sitting at a desk, it's
really nice to be able to not pick up my phone and access it there. Lenovo, if
you can figure your crap out, will eventually be releasing the Lenovo Link
32GB, which looks great and has been waiting
to get it ever since CES and have been on an email list so that once they
release it, I can buy it personally, bring it in here, and then make a review
about it. And they still haven't. Oh my god. What is it? It's a USB pass through
device kind of thing that you plug into your computer and then you plug a charging cable to your phone into and
then it makes it so that you get your phone on your computer which can already
be done with like ASUS includes that I think. But who runs an ASUS phone? Yeah.
And it's it's device agnostic so you can do it with whatever the heck you want.
Um it's very fast. There's some that you can do with like uh having your computer
be a server and your phone communicates with it wirelessly. Yeah, it's Wi-Fi,
but it's extremely fast. The Link has storage built into it, which is nice.
Um, and it has like a few other features like it can tell what orientation the
phone is in. Okay. And it like can you can drag and drop file there. There's a
few things that it could do. I can't remember exactly what they are right now that are better than the thing that the
app could do and the other solutions. It was it's
looks very nice and they likes his PC like he likes his girls oily.
Sometimes I don't need oil.
Sometimes it is good to go. Um, so the
Android N beta, speaking of being good to go, has started. It is an open beta
type of relationship if you know what I mean. And the full release will be
coming later on this summer. I don't need that. I have done absolutely. My
relationship is 100% satisfactory. I have uh no need for really that's not
what you told me.
Um I have actually done literally zero research into Android N and why we would
care because I actually follow very little pre-release uh news these days. I
kind of wait till the product lands and I go, "Oh yeah, I like this or I don't
like this." Because the reality of it is a lot of the features that get announced for products or software never end up
making it into the product in the first place or the implementation is just kind
of halfass and stupid anyway. Um so anyway, Android and open beta coming. So
it's supported by the uh Nexus 6, Nexus 9, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player,
Pixel C, and General Mobile 4G.
And that'll be a story that's the full release coming this summer, not like
more beteness or whatever people might have interpreted that to mean. Um,
speaking of coming this summer, coming this summer to a kitchen near you is
Blue Apron. And the Oh, by the way, this is cool. The first 250 people to use
this link get two free meals on their
first order. So, Blue Apron is the most
upsetting sponsor for me that we have ever had. Yep. Because it's only in the
US right now. Just going to complain. Yep. I know. I know. And it sounds
amazing. It sounds so cool. So, they
deliver farm fresh ingredients that are locally sourced right to your doorstep
in the right proportions for you to create the meal that they send you. Um,
they have two plans, a twoerson plan and a family plan. The recipes are delivered
in a refrigerated box, so the ingredients will stay fresh even if you're not at home. and they offer a
large selection of recipes and they're always adding new dishes to the menu
every week. Each menu is about 500 to 800 calories per person and the meals
can be prepared in 40 minutes or less. So with Blue Apron, you cook for
yourself, but you get a quality meal.
You don't waste food. Yeah, it's a huge thing. If you It says one to two people.
So like I live on my own. Wasting food if I want to make interesting
complicated meals is basically inevitable. It's like even if you buy
like one stupid thing of cilantro, it's more than you need. Oh yeah. And unless
you're going to use cilantro again tomorrow, it's all wilty and gross.
Yeah. Exactly. So like making anything fancy is really frustrating. And like I
just cook chicken every day. It's one of those things where it's like it's a fundamental problem with the system.
Okay. I end up buying a bag of carrots this big every time I buy carrots. Why?
because the bag of carrots this big at superstore costs as much as buying the
three carrots that I need to make pasta sauce today at Nester's market. So even
though I might only use three of those carrots and that's this is an extreme
example obviously I'm going to use more of the carrots than that we actually like do cook and stuff and munch them
and whatnot. Yeah. So yeah let's even if I'm only going to use three of these
carrots I'm still better off on my grocery trip to superstore which I'm
going to do anyway. I'm better off stocking up on stuff that I don't need
only to end up wasting it later than I
am buying the correct quantity from a place that sells lower quantity things
off the shelf. And carrots are not even the best example because you can
actually buy individual carrots at supertore if I recall correctly. Same with celery uh celery stocks. You can
buy individual sticks. Yeah, you can buy individual sticks. Funny story, more
expensive. I didn't realize that a celery stock was all of them and a
celery stick was one. Yeah, I used to work in the produce section very
recently. Um, so Blue Apron lets you get
out of your comfort zone, it actually takes if you can make the meal in 40
minutes. That is, and my wife and I have done the numbers, that is actually less
time than it takes to drive somewhere, sit down, like be seated, especially if
it's like dinner time and you got to wait 15, 20 minutes to get seated, order
your food, and wait for your food. It is actually more efficient to eat at home
and more affordable with Blue Apron. So, uh, I've talked about this for a really
long time. I want to add one quick thing before we're done. Sure. And I probably won't bring this up if we do sponsor
spots for them in the future, but I just want to bring this up here. Uh my
girlfriend, she has a uncle or like some
form of family connection who's this really fantastic chef and he had
basically this idea and made a Kickstarter for it and
checked out the Kickstarter and I was like, "Wow, this is a wonderful idea,
but the Kickstarter is bad." Yeah. And the Kickstarter failed and I was kind of
sad and now I just hope that Blue Apron comes up here. So, I again I won't do
this next time we do a spot for this, but um Ivonne and I have a business plan
for this from like about a year ago.
That's that's actually pretty in line with the Kickstarter. I hadn't seen
that. Um, I was trying to convince her to uh to leave Costco. And even if she
didn't want to pursue a career at Linus Media Group, I still really felt like
her talents would be better suited to something bigger than running a
pharmacy. And we actually kicked this idea around and we came up with it
together where we would leverage the strengths of Linus Media Group to
promote and to uh provide video guides
to go along with the recipes. I would Oh man, I would have loved to do that. This
it was like it was a really cool idea. Oh, that would have been fun cuz it was
and it was I know the idea is not the newest thing ever like like food being
delivered. Um but we we sort of had this concept for how we could leverage
partnerships just locally and start it locally and then create this this kind
of this fun cooking with whoever it is.
Um and these personas and these these video personalities to go along with it
that we really thought could take it to the next level. and would be way cooler.
Um, but uh, so there you go. If Blue Apron's watching this spot, guys, video
video uh, video instructions would be like super duper cool. Um, and you guys
could have like a side thing which is like like call it like fun food and do
like not necessarily just like a meal. Do like have like a fun food Super Bowl
edition. and you know some really cool video content creators up in Vancouver,
Canada who would love to do more around food. I'm just kind of saying, yeah,
speaking of things that I'm just kind of saying, um, iFixit, I'm not going to
deny that iFixit is sponsoring the video today, like I did with that other video
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the screwdriver kit. It's got a better swivel top precision screwdriver. It
actually feels a lot nicer in the hand. You can get more torque. Um torque was a
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didn't, which I actually used on our trip to Mexico to pry open an iPhone 6S.
It's not as good as their special tool for opening iPhones, but I was able to
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you do it. Oh snap.
Speaking of when you do it. Oh snap.
Squarespace. Has Squarespace done more WAN Show
sponsorships than any other brand? They've probably done more WAN Show
sponsorships than like a fair number of other brands combined. I think that is
probably a fair thing for you to say. Uhoh. Uh oh. Nick's Nick's given Nick's
sending me messages during the sponsor spots. That's never good. It's always
bad. Nope. I'm I'm not going to look at it. Sorry, Nick. Oh, no. I'm just
kidding. I I looked at it. I looked at I'll get to it, Nick. Um, so
Squarespace, simple, powerful, beautiful. That's the slogan they had
when we first started working with them, which is when these notes are actually
from. They've got 247 support via live chat and email. It's only $8 a month.
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Squarespace, his beautiful templates have got you covered. And if yeah, you
should find yourself looking for, you know, other features to spice up your
Squarespace site, they've got little things like their logo design helper.
Um, they've got, uh, let's see. Yeah, you can you can dig into the code a
little bit more if you want to. You can play around with those things. Um, you
can keep it accessible and just use all of the web- based, you know, UI
modifications. Drag this here, move this there, alter this text, and you can
start a trial with no credit card required and start building your website
today. But don't just do that and forget about it when you decide to sign up for
Squarespace. You should make sure you use offer code Linus to get 10% off your
first purchase. Thank you Squarespace for supporting the WAN Show. That's
actually in there. I never say that. Squarespace, build it beautiful. You
should. Those are old notes. Yes, they are.
Simple, power, be powerful, beautiful. I mean, how old is that slogan? I'm going
to go on Squarespace's website right now and see if they have like a new slogan.
I don't think so. I think it's still you should. Still you should.
Oh, hold on. No,
I don't see you should anywhere. No.
Perfect websites trusted by the world's best. Why aren't we on here? Cuz Oh,
so we're not as cool as like Fast Company and Freeman's. Yeah. And what
the heck is hashtaggirlboss? I don't know. I'm sure someone knows, but I
don't. Over 1 million paying customers.
Wow. You can do that math. Hey,
pulling so hard. That's like the new World of Warcraft. Squarespace of
Warcraft. World of Squarespace. I mean, can you imagine an MMO based on website
building? The boss is like this really
complicated, extensive website. It's like Flash.
And inherently, because this is classic world of Squarespace, you need a 40
person team. And a huge part of the difficulty is just coordinating all of
those developers to create this like
intense flashbased website. You know what the worst thing about this
conversation is? is this sounds like exactly the kind of asinine idea that
would get thrown around in like a boardroom full of exec like how do we
gify building websites like well you know I
heard a world of Warcraft once you know maybe we need like like website craft
squares in spacecraft squares in spacecraft it's like Starcraft but like
not just stars all of face.
Oh no. Uh, all right. Android Wear 2.0.
Getting back on topic somewhat, is a huge new update. One about which I am
extremely disappointed. I recently
Oh, yeah. I recently,
completely my own fault. And I have no one to blame but myself, broke my
Zenatch 2 by diving to about 70 ft. You
should blame the Zenwatch 2. Salt water. Zenwatch 2 should have a warning being
like, "We're detecting water. You should resurface." Yeah, that's why I'm so
salty. Not because of the water salinity. Yeah.
Um, to be fair, I'm kidding. That was a
joke. So, it includes a new smart reply feature, allowing you to respond to
incoming notifications quickly by scribbling on the touchcreen. Well, this
just means you're going to get a new watch. Uh, I think it should be a
software update. I guess I I'll find out because I still there's still a Gwatch R
over there. I might just steal that. Um, but you know what I want is more
granularity in the control of what I do with notifications and ways to
synchronize across devices. That is really my only complaint about Android
Wear. It kind of already does everything I could possibly want it to do other
than the fact that it really makes me mad when I reply to something with voice
and then that email is still sitting unread in my inbox
because it's just why. Let me know what you think about this. I'm going to deviate a little bit. I was just
thinking in my head about how like you do the traditional watch thing and I'm
thinking about doing the fitness watch thing. Um I'm going to still do the
video that we had planned first. Yeah. Um should I say okay? So, I'm going to
benchmark um a bunch of traditional
fitness trackers against like a Fitbit,
not like a Zenwatch, but like a Fitbit against a chest strap, which is
traditionally a lot better um at accurately determining your heart rate
and then comparing how well the wrist version does. And then what I'm thinking
is take the top one, maybe two, and do a proper review on them. That's a good
idea. So, be like, "Okay, these ones are really accurate. These ones are probably
the ones you should be going for if you want a fitness tracker. Now, I'm going to properly review them. Are they
actually any good just as a usable device? There's huge amounts of issues
on that side of things. Holy crap. Um,
and like I'm very frustrated right now with the fact that the like more like
I'm going to say traditional, but that is so literally the wrong word. Um, the
like smartwatch side of things are kind of really bad generally. I'd like to see
the people who call you burger boy fight you. Burger boy. Someone called you Luke
Burger Boy. I would love to fight them too. Um the Yeah, the like smartwatch
kind of stuff is usually really bad at doing fitness stuff. The Apple Watch is
pretty good, but then it has other issues. And then the fitness watches
suck at being smart watches and we just need them to Yeah. do the thing
together. Um Yeah. No, I think that's a great
idea. I think that makes a ton of sense. Um,
so let's see what else it's got. It's there's updates to the fitness software
allowing you to leave your phone at home and track your activity automatically using a third-party app on Android Wear.
It's set to launch this fall. Uh, devs can create watch faces that show
information from any Android Wear app. So, that's cool. I guess those are both
good things. Um, let's move into some of our more rapid fire news for this week.
Uh, original article here is from pcgamer.com or GeForce.com if you want
to get it directly from the horse's mouth. Uh, NVIDIA posts an Overwatch
advertisement. uh GTX 1070 specifications, which is super exciting
because it's actually quite a bit cheaper and it's probably the more
relevant one because that is that is
that is a thing. Well, the the 599 price point versus the 379 price point is like
whoa a lot more people are going to be looking forward. So, this is going to in
terms of performance effectively displace the Do you want to come say bye
to the W show people? No.
Oh. Oh, goodbye people. This is This is Ash. You
may recognize him from such YouTube videos as videos that he's made. Um
I'm I'm sure the Twitch chat's going to freak out and you're already going to be gone. Anyway, it was really nice hanging
out today and lunch and all that stuff. Is that a high 10? Yeah. Okay. Yes. Bye.
See you later and we'll talk soon. Um, so yeah. So at $37579
for not a Founders Edition. Yeah. Wow.
It's going to have the performance of a GTX 980 Ti. It looks like
cuz a 980 Ti is that's a thing. I mean, that is a good VR experience. Yes. And
you will have the new stuff which almost matters more uh depending on what you're
doing than the like raw performance because you'll have SMP simultaneous
multi-projection. Anzel if you're into that kind of stuff but mainly SMP. SMP
makes stuff like VR and multimonitor support like crazy amounts better. Um so
yeah, looking pretty cool. Okay, so you're really still Oh, we never
actually talked about what the specs are. We did a bad job. Okay. So the it's
still a GP 104. So that's not big Pascal, that's like smaller Pascal. Same
guy as the 1080, just a lower bend one. Yeah. So the core clock is 1506. The
boost clock is 1683. Very close to 1080.
Yes. Do remember that uh clock for clock
on graphics cards isn't really a thing. Um although 1080 versus 1070 it will be
more of a thing, but like compared to other generations, don't necessarily do that calculation. Uh, your VRAM clock
speed is 8,000. That is GDDR5, not
GDDR5X. You have 8 gigs of RAM. Your bus
width is 256 bit. Um, there's some
question mark specs on here, so I guess they haven't fully released everything.
I'm pulling up the one, the official one from NVIDIA here. Oh, sweet. Okay. Um,
yeah, it looks like they are not being 100% clear about everything. They've
released a lot of specs. 150 watt TDP,
um, two slot cooler, blah blah blah blah blah. The 1080 is being released on the
27th. So, I believe it's being released for sale on the 27th. And then the uh
launch date of the 1070 is June 10th.
So, is that rumored or is that confirmed? That's shown without a
question mark on here. Okay. So, I'm assuming that that's confirmed. Yeah,
that's from the PC Gamer article. Um, I actually haven't gotten a confirmation
from NVIDIA exactly when 1070 is dropping. So, okay. So, don't don't
quote don't quote us on that. get us in trouble because we talked about um 3way
SLI not being a thing on the 1080 on the WAN Show and I got this frantic email
from NVIDIA. Yo guys, they were like, "Actually, guys, Luke was like super
sick during that part of the presentation." Yeah. Um that's not a
thing to be fair. The way that they're doing it is really dumb. Yes. And it's
like kind of sketchy and it's probably going to suck a lot, like way worse than
it normally does. And we'll probably have a video on that. Yeah. And we super
don't agree with how they're doing it. Yeah. I I haven't talked to you about
it, but I don't agree and I assumed you don't agree. I don't agree either. What is your reason though? We might as well
talk about it. I think software unlocks for a product that you bought to enable
functionality that you gave me with the last generation product is a dick move.
Yep. Um I understand the reason why they're doing it because these are
people with more money than cents anyway. Um well, I think part of it
because the way like it is I think uh yeah, I'm still a little misinformed.
I'm waiting till we get the actual bridges. So, I'm probably going to get another mad email from BDR. Sorry. Um,
but I think if it's being enabled, it's through the back end through DX12 and
not at all through their stuff. So, I think they don't want it to happen. But
I think because of DX12, they don't have
a huge amount of choice because they'll either look like the super bad guy for
locking it down no matter what or
they'll look like kind of not very good
if they have it enabled for everybody and then it just sucks. I think it's
just going to suck the same amount as it always has. Really? I think it's going
to suck more. You think it's going to suck more? Okay, well then stay tuned.
Let's find out just how much. Yeah. Um,
but yeah, I I do kind of agree with the like if you're going to SLI, you should
probably stop at two. Yeah. Kind of mentality anyways. So, if you're going
to SLI, you should definitely stop at two. Three and four is for people with
more money than cents. It is legitimately not better. Take it from
me. How many video cards do you think I could take home at the end of the day if
I felt like it? That'd be annoying because then they
wouldn't be in inventory, right? But I But I get you. How many could I? Yeah, a
lot. I mean, I could just I could just So many titans. I could just Okay, I
could like call up anyone. Literally any video card maker. I could say, "Hey, I
need four video cards. I'm doing a personal rig update video and they would
be in the mail." Literally any video card maker.
I do not run those because it's a bad
idea. Yeah, it's it's an bad experience. NVIDIA themselves in an extremely
difficult demo that they were like pushing really hard to run ran two-way
SLI with a physics card, not three-way,
not four-way. So, like,
so please don't. Speaking of please don't, don't spend all your money. You
love this topic. I absolutely love this topic. It is so cool. Okay, so there's
an English bank um what is it called?
intelligent environments or something. I don't even really care. But it gives you
like a wristband and if the funds in your account go
below an agreed limit, the band kicks in
and will hit you with 200 with a 255 volt shock.
I hope it does it every single time that the value continues to go further down.
So it's like, man, I really want to buy a sandwich cuz I'm pretty hungry, but
I'm going to get electroshocked. And I really hope that like people don't
just take it off because that is so fabulously hilarious. There's another
thing. Um Oh, no. Oh, no. No. It's a British firm giving bank customers an
electric shop. So, no bank has actually announced support yet. So, it could be
across multiple banks, which is really cool. And they're looking to add more
functionality like the ability to turn down your Nest heating to save on your
energy bill if the funds are low.
Honestly, I think with the way that Okay, I forget who I wanted to add more
and be like if you leave the house and the the central heating is still on,
it'll just like shock you like every 10 minutes until you remotely turn it down.
Like, I want this thing to just be like, "Hey, you're screwing up. Hey, fix it."
This is why you shouldn't design the product. But I was having But I want one
for myself. Just mod it. Yeah, I'm sure there'll be
mods. I'm sure you'll be able I'm sure any company that designed something to
electroshock people, I'm sure you could convince them to make a more hardcore
version. I'm sure they'd be down. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but I was talking to to
Brandon about this where he's like, yeah, like it seems like our generation
doesn't save money, like can't save money. And I, you know, part of the
conversation with him was like, look at the way that, you know, everything from
the smell in a retail store is designed.
Like the amount of research and like psychology that goes into making people
buy stuff. I mean, I'm not saying that,
you know, oh, poor you. You bought that $200 pair of jeans and now you can't
afford your rent. You're such a victim. I'm not saying that. That's not that's
not what's happening here. But I am saying that you are up against forces
that are bigger than you probably realize when it comes to people trying
to get your money from you. There's even like uh road signs that you can drive
past that emit the smell of like steak before you come up to a steak shop. Like
there's there's some stuff out there. There's
lots of stuff going on. So it's refreshing to see intelligent environments giving a crap. Um, and my,
okay, my reason for this, a bunch of people in chat are calling it's the Pavlock wristband, by the way, is what
the product's called, which is kind of funny. U, but they're calling me Masso
or whatever, which is like, it's fine. I get where you're coming from, but my
actual reasoning for this is, uh, myself and a lot of other people, I will self-
admit this, find it easy to put things off because I'll just be like, "Oh, I
have something more important to do right now." The importance of things
increases when you are literally being electroshocked.
And if like I left the heat on and I'm like, "Well, crap. I'm doing whatever
right now. I'm driving right now. I don't want to do this." If it's like and
I'm like, "Okay, I should probably pull over, deal with this, and then keep
driving." Because honestly, that's fine. It's not going to take me that much time
to pull over to the side of the road, deal with it, and keep driving. It's not a big That's a crazy background. Um, but
likeh it just I don't know. I want it. I
think it would be good. Um, Uber joins the race for driverless
cars. The original article here is from The Verge. Meet Uber's first
self-driving car. It's a Ford Fusion hybrid.
How exciting. Um, so I mean this
shouldn't come as any surprise. I think two weeks ago we were talking about Lyft
working with whoever the crap it was to deploy a fleet of them like immediately.
Um, I mean, the amount of money that
someone like Uber could save. Remember, how much you can charge for a service
doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the cost of providing the service. It has to do with how much it costs
someone else to provide the service. So, if you are the first one to have a fleet
of driverless cars, you can effectively just make mad bank because you don't
have to pay the person that someone else has to pay in order to compete with you.
Um, there's not really a whole lot to say other than that. The things I'm
going to find interesting are like uh refueling them, recharging them, those
sort of things. Are they going to have to pair up with gas stations to make it
so the driverless car can drive up and there'll be an attendant that will fill it? And if you were a gas station, would
you want that Uber contract? Definitely. I sure would. Holy crap. Yeah. Um or are
they all electric? Do they do they know like like Roombas to go like pull back
into a parking spot so they can keep charging and then keep going or like how
was it Tesla talking about like wireless charging pads that but like but are they
going to have to program intelligence for them to like go home for a while and
charge? Um sounds fairly simple actually. It wouldn't be that bad but
like that would be really interesting to drive by like the little the little nest
of cars that provide all the Uber transactions for the city. Is this going
to become cheaper for a lot of people if there's electric driverless cars that
you just call on your phone and are there extremely fast than owning a
vehicle for sprawling cities like Vancouver like they're like where just
it's just this like suburban sprawl because there's already go-karts. I can
see this legitimately eliminating the need for people to own at least own two
cars. Like maybe they only need one now and they really like legitimately needed
two because they commute this way and that way. Yeah, he's talking about like
families. Yeah. Yeah. Not individuals needing to own two cars. The biggest
first world problem ever. Yeah. It's like, oh, which one should I drive
today? I mean, this one like looks cooler, but this one's more utilitarian.
I'm not sure. Yeah, I know. He's talking about like families that have to go different directions. Um, speaking of
going different directions, I'm going a different direction. I'm going backwards in terms of topics. What if your bank
account went below your limit while you were like in the checkout on like a porn
site and your hand was like occupied?
This is EP Pete's asking about what if you get a shock while you're kind of,
you know, busy. Well, then it's worse. Well, then it's worse. I guess you just
got to deal with it. So, you probably shouldn't be spending your last Yeah,
you should then be more aware, right, of what your current bank account is
through like watching like a a live cam or something like that and you're just
kind of throwing money at it, then you should be more aware. And you should probably be shocked. That's your fault.
Okay. Yes. Okay. Entirely. If you want to throw money at it, you
need to set yourself a limit. Yeah. And play within the limit. That's how
gambling works. That's like financial tips. Yeah. Yeah. Just the tips.
Exactly. Um unless they want more. Let's
see. Oh, this is horrible. Um, a
California dad accidentally
uh live streamed child's birth from the delivery room. Um, the mom says, "I was
okay. I was just focused on pushing. It's a beautiful thing. Nothing to be
ashamed of." Good response. I've had two kids. Um, I don't agree with that. I
don't agree with that either, but I have you accidentally live stream. I agree
that it was the right right response.
Um, you know, given this given the
circumstances, how do you again, how do you accidentally live stream? The video
was shown through Facebook Live has now been viewed over 300,000 times. Um, and
to be clear, guys, we're talking about this news topic. We are not recommending
that you go, you know, I would recommend that you don't. I would recommend that
you not because, you know, it's one of those things where for the 12-year-olds
in the audience, it might sound pretty cool. It's not. Nope. It's not like kind
of gross even. Yeah, it's not. Um, I
don't want a kid. Let's see. Let's see what else we uh
Let's see what else we got. Oh, yeah. This sucks. Uh, so I knew about this
already. This happened a while ago actually, but Oculus DRM kills the hack
that ports games to competing headsets. Um, they had already figured this out
when I was trying to play Ly's Tale on the Vive, which I believe I should have
every right to do. I have already paid for an Oculus Rift. They just haven't
shipped it to me. So, why can't I play Ly's Tail on my Vive anyway? Anyway, I
wish they just had it exclusive to the store, not exclusive to the headset. Uh,
I Yeah. No, I I understand their
perspective, but I also fully understand my perspective. I shouldn't have to play
on the headset I don't want to play on if I legitimately own the game. Even if
it's a game you can only get by buying a Rift. To be fair, if you owned both, the
uh setup use case of Ly's Tail would play better on a Rift, right? But I just
want to play it. I know. And if you don't own both, then that's better. The
reason why I say that is just because the Rift is more comfortable and lighter and it's just a seated experience
anyways, so it's better for that. So, they had it they had tweaked it so that
when I tried to do the hack, uh, your controller wouldn't work. So, maybe now
it's even more uh has been patched up.
Really good feeling that someone's going to beat that because if they're just making it so that your controller
doesn't work, I got to imagine someone's just going to make a thing that tricks
it into thinking that it's a different controller, you know? I gotta imagine
that in the world of like dorky dorks who code dorky things for other dorks
and don't have money. That's always the best combination. Yeah, VR is going to
be like a thing for uh for for hacks. Um
speaking of being a thing, Nokia wasn't a thing for phones for a bit there.
They're returning to mobile with Android phones and tablets. I was just thinking,
you know what, we don't have enough makers of Android phones and tablets.
Yeah, when I read this I was like, "Wow, I don't care." So, yeah, I guess we're
in the same boat. So, Microsoft is offloading Nokia's old phone business to
Foxcon subsidiary and a company called HMD Global Oi for 350 million. It's
probably more than it's worth. Um, Nokia has revealed that HMD is also acquiring
rights to use the Nokia name on smartphones and tablets for the next 10 years. Headmounted display. No, no, no,
no, not headmounted H. Anyway, um, so
there you go. Nokia's involvement in the new devices will be very limited. So
basically it'll be Chinese smartphones and tablets with Nokia name on them.
Sure stuff. So there was one more topic that I wanted to hit before we close out
the show today and I Oh crap. I forget
where it went. Where did it go? What are you looking for? Where did it go? Oh no.
Oh yeah. No, I guess that was it. I just wanted to um Yeah, I just wanted to show
nerd sports. So, it's really funny. Um there was an
issue with our network connection. Last time I tried to show you guys a teaser
from a Nerd Sports episode that made it look like Vessel didn't work because the
timing was perfect. Um so, that's not actually what happened. So, this is my
followup to that where I wanted to show you guys some clips from the hockey
episode of Nerd Sport. So, all five episodes are out now and vessels
available at the link under the WAN Show uh for with a free oneweek trial. So,
you can actually check them all out and then decide if the early access is worth it for you or not. Um, so if you're like
Nerd Sports is behind a payw wall,
I mean, just if you can watch five episodes in a week.
Yeah, these guys were they were mostly nice except when they celebrated after
knocking over Dennis. Yeah. Is that was
that you trying to help him out? Yeah. Yeah.
I I couldn't skate either. A bunch of people have sent me things being like,
"I thought you'd be better at hockey." I'm actually pretty good at ball hockey.
I went like, "Uh, you're better than Colton. I went like
skate." Oh no, Colton.
So, this is them skating around in hula hoops. So, for those of you who don't
really get the whole nerd sports concept, we almost got that one. That
was you passing to me, I think. Oh, that was actually pretty good. That looked
not bad. I screwed up the shot. I remember I apologized to you about this
like so many times. You Oh, no. Oh, we
both almost got it. There was a few times that we did that, but I screwed
up. Oh. Oh, wow. So, at that point in the video, they're actually playing with
little plastic hockey sticks, skating with hula hoops, and I think they're
holding pineapples or something like that. So, the idea behind Nerd Sports is
that is not just that nerds go up against real athletes, but that we
actually try to level the playing field. Yeah. Um, as creatively as as we can and
uh sometimes we have to go pretty hardcore in order to get them to uh to
be competitive with us. that sequence like if if you ignore the fact that
those guys didn't have sticks and couldn't skate because they had hula
hoops around each of their skates looked pretty good. Like that looked like a legit like cool scoring chance. Yeah. I
like Yeah. To to reiterate my hockey thing, I played a lot of ball hockey.
Played on like a national level. It was great. Could never afford to play ice
hockey. Ice hockey is like easily one of the most expensive of that type of
sports. Um like the gear is extremely
expensive. Like American football, you
get your gear from your club and then you give it back at the end of the year.
Ice hockey is not that way. You buy all of your own gear and it's extremely
expensive. Could not afford it as a kid. Never was into ice hockey.
Not very good. I knew like where I should be and what I should be doing and
was just not really able to do it because of the skates, which was so
frustrating. So my the extent of my hockey experience
is watching it on TV. Yeah. And I uh I
had played ice hockey at like a company event about I was still in university.
So this was must have been about 10 years ago. Um for about 20 30 minutes
and I had never I had I I had done a lot
of like I'm pretty good on rollerblades um inline skates, excuse me. I used to
be. Yeah. like I I am pretty fast. I'm pretty stable. I'm I'm pretty good on
rollerblades. And I had done a lot of like skating around on the concrete slab
at home with the orange ball and the hockey stick. And the way that that slab
was set up, um there were no walls anywhere. So if I missed the net, I had
to go hike. Um so I I'm like an okay
shot with a ball. So like I I know the wrist action. Yeah, it's different. Um,
but the extent of my ice hockey experience was like that 20 30 minutes
at like that company thing. And the extent of my ice skating experience is
probably less than 10 hours on ice, including all my elementary school trips
to the rink. Yep. I wouldn't be surprised if I was similar. So, we did
our best, but uh it was not good. Um,
and then the last thing, the thing that Nick was bugging me about is that he
wants me to do a call out for the foil shirts like the ones that I am wearing
right now. Those are limited edition shirts. I'm going to go ahead and post those in the Twitch chat here. Boom.
There's the silver one. And uh here's the gold one. The gold one. Actually,
the consensus around the office seems to be that the gold one looks better. So,
maybe check out that gold one. That's the second link I just put up if you want uh a limited edition foil shirt.
Not this at all, but the idea of what I'm doing that ties into this. Can I
call that out? Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh I'm doing a charity stream starting afterparty,
but not but it's Oh, it's not starting tonight. So, I'm going to be doing an
afterparty tonight for sure. Um, which is going to be setting the whole
afterparty thing is going to be working on like DOSBox and like setting up a
whole bunch of stuff because I'm doing a charity stream starting tomorrow,
Saturday, at noon PST, which is going to
be I think like 27 plus hours long, which is ridiculous. I'm starting in
1990 and you better be conscious when you come in on Monday. Yeah, it's the
reason why I'm starting at noon is so that I have enough time to sleep for
like 12 hours or something before I have to come to work. Um, yeah. No, it's it's
okay. It's it's planned out. Um, so I'm going to be doing a different game every
hour, starting with a game from 1990 and iterating the year every time. So the
first hour will be Super Mario World from 1990. The second hour will be
Civilization 1 from 1991. And then I think it goes like Wolfenstein 3D Doom
and like progresses all the way through and there's a bunch of different games
throughout the way. It's not like what was the best game from that year. It's
what was the most like influential game on me. So there's a bunch of Elder
Scrolls, there's Halo 1 and two, there's like some some series stuff like that.
But yeah, I think it'll be a lot of fun. And it's going to be a giant charity stream for Extra Life. So come on by.
Should be fun. All right. I uh posted a link to Luke's channel in the uh in the
chat there. So guys, check that out if you're into that sort of thing. Got
people asking you to play Total Annihilation. I still need to teach you Supreme Commander so we can play
sometime. It's such a good game. I think there's still like an underground like
group that maintains uh rankings and servers and stuff like that. That's
awesome. You know, a game was really good when that happens. It was just too
cult. It's too niche. Yeah. All right. So, good night, guys. Thank you for
tuning in to the Wshell. We'll see you again
next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Bye.