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new? This is new, isn't it? Um, that is a thing that I believe I put on last
week when you weren't here last week. Where was I? Oh, yeah. You were um You
were You were inerson VR game watching.
Were you? Yes, that's what you were doing. Yeah. Which actually ended up not
being what I thought it was because you don't watch from the crowd. No. So, it
it was the same, right? Anyways, we have
lots of awesome topics this week. No, we don't. Um, we have like jack all. This
is probably going to be the best show we've ever had. Uh, in SpaceX news, uh,
Elon Musk wins a $112 million NASA
contract. Is this just all like is that all there is? SpaceX, Mars, Lander,
Tesla. So, it's all space and Elon Musk. Uh, welcome to the the Luke show. Uh,
really? Valve Game Awards. Things Luke is a fan of. This qualifies as news this
week. Uh, Samsung adding new obtrusive ads to
your old smart TV in more reasons to not
buy a smart TV. You can't buy a smart
TV. New dumb TV. Is it not possible? No. I've been looking into it. Every TV is a
smart TV. Can you dumb out your smart TV? You can unplug it from the internet,
but then you can't Netflix and chill.
But you could chcast that. You could chcast that. So, you would have to pay
for additional hardware. Black Friday deals. I think it's like 29 bucks on B&H
for a chcast. New chcast. Yeah, new chcast. It's actually a pretty solid
price. Okay. Well, I'm not even going to try for standout deals or standout
deals. Xbox One streaming comes to Oculus Rift on December 12th. Who cares?
Uh, not me. Uh, uh Oh, wow. All right.
Intro.
This is going to be our worst show ever, which is like a pretty high bar. So,
there's that. We could just talk about what we did
this week.
I don't even know if this game. I mean, maybe it's
Yeah, I know they're here. People are watching. Oh, hold on. Hold on. I got to do the thing. Hey, the couch move thing
is back. Why? This isn't that complicated. Is it
Colton's fault this time? I don't think so. It's not Colton's fault. Well, we'll
blame Colton. Just edit the same file.
Just move again. Well, that one didn't. No, I fix it and chef steps are the
same. Terrible. Terrible. WAN Show. Two
out of 10. Two out of 10. Half an hour
late with no explanation whatsoever. Yeah. And they can't even get the intro
graphics in the right spot. At least the laptop's pink. Look, if this was
pre-recorded, Auggman plays. Why wouldn't it be on
time? Why wouldn't it be? Why is the camera not set up proper? Look at this.
I think we Well, no, you you usually slouch. I think that's on purpose. I
think that's by design, but like to be proper, I would have to slouch this. I
don't know if I slouch that much. But if it was No, you sit back. See? Well, you
don't sit back that much. Okay. You know what? I I I think it tilted down.
Anyway, the point is, if it was pre-recorded, wouldn't we have cut out
the mistakes? No, we probably wouldn't.
Okay. But in my defense, it's usually me
editing this crap after the fact. Yeah. I don't know how video editing works.
No, you're just adding to the idea that it's pre-recorded and it's complicated.
Yeah. And it's No, really. Like, okay, it used to be very complicated back when
Xsplit didn't have an option to force constant frame rate. So, that was a
problem. So, to the conspiracy theorists out there being like, "Oh, so everything
is pre-recorded and then Lionus edits it." Uh, no. If we edit the show, it's
because like something screwed up, like we we uh the stream got disconnected or
like a capture card stopped working or whatever the case may or there was like
personal information leaked or like something that was an actual problem.
So, the problem is that a lot of the time, um, I don't know how much you guys
know about video recording, but if you don't gracefully terminate a video
recording, it can be like pretty screwed up and it can actually be very very
hard. You sometimes have to run it through like I've used everything from ffmpeg to Handbreak to Vegas to Premiere
to uh, what else have I used? I've even used like weird tools like whoever media
converter, whatever. Like sometimes I'll just have to run it through like
multiple different transcoders and then one of them will figure it out. One of
them will figure it out and then I'll be able to get it onto a timeline and
stitch it together with the other stuff. Like when WAN Show needs to be edited
it's usually an enormous problem. Yeah.
So uh so wow we have like speaking of
enormous problems nothing today we don't have anything to talk about except
Black Friday deals and Floatplane Black Friday deals. I mean, are there even
whatever? Okay, so the Verge has Black Friday deals. Oh, I didn't 20 best
deals. That's 20 best deals. That's a good way to go. Is that a book? Atlas
Obscura. Yeah. Okay. There's two books there and Field Notes. Field Notes.
Space stuff. You're a dork. I love Field Notes. The
Vive is $100 off. Okay. If you were going to buy a Vive, then $100, I guess,
is not a trivial discount in the grand scheme of the thousand plus dollar PC
and now $700 thing. You do get a
Microsoft Store gift card. I'm sure someone has bought something from the Microsoft Store at some point. Hopefully
not a game because that seems to be going terribly. PS4 Slim, uh, 250 bucks.
Okay. Uh, Xbox One controllers for 40 bucks. Okay. So, if you're if you're a
PC gamer and you want to play uh games on your PC with an Xbox One controller
or PlayStation 4 controller for that matter, I'm surprised they don't have the Steam thing on here. I've heard that
you can get a Steam controller and a Steam Link together for 50 bucks, which
is like pretty solid if you want a Steam controller. And a Steam Link. And a
Steam Link. Maybe that's why it's not on here.
Oh. Oh, damn. Rough. Oh, damn. Although
Sil 6 is out, so you have one game that makes sense to play with it. There's a
Pixel deal where you have to pay the entire cost of the phone up front, but
then the difference gets deducted from your wireless bill monthto monthth. So
it's like they subsidize Hold on a second. You you get it's a
like is this a reverse subsidy? I don't really I don't really understand.
Um it's pretty weird. The Apple Watch Series 1 is $200 and it's still totally
not worth that. I'm I'm back to using it. Okay. Actually, that's something I
can talk about a little bit here. I'm back to using the Apple Watch. Yeah.
Why? Okay. So, something I've been trying to figure out an angle for my
MacBook Pro review because there's there's a couple. Are you doing like
Apple ecosystem? There's some problems with me reviewing the Mac Pro. Problem
number one, I am not a Mac user at all.
Actually, that's the biggest problem. I am not a Mac user. I am not really an
Apple. Number one for a reason. Yeah. Yeah, that's Yeah, that's that's number
one. And when when you're number one, you don't need number two. Um,
so I'm pretty rusty. I actually did use a Mac for like six weeks back when I did
my iMac videos, uh, when they released the 5K iMac, but that was a really long
time ago. And quite frankly, some of the
stuff that continues to make me really mad, I had completely forgotten about.
So today I was like literally screaming
over in the corner of the warehouse because there is no way at least okay I
actually didn't Google it again but I did research it last time. There is no
way to force refresh Finder. So, you
know how in Explorer it can kind of bug out sometimes and you'll go and add a
new folder and it's just like not there or the rename doesn't take um and then
when you go to click on it it's like this folder doesn't exist even though you're looking at it because it's been
renamed in the background somewhere but you just got to refresh it and it'll
show up properly. Okay, you know how that can happen sometimes. Okay, so in Finder if something changes within a
folder and Finder doesn't realize it, you just wait.
You just wait until it finds it because it's Finder. It's working on it
actively. It's working on it. Um, you don't have to worry about it. It'll do
it for you. So, there there there are some things that are driving me crazy.
Anyway, so the point is Sorry. CNET's Black Friday buyer guide is the worst
thing. It's just you just have to like go Yeah, check this out for Sorry to
like I was trying to research for the next topic. You derailed me so hard
there. This is the worst. Like, okay, first off, there's that thing in the way
and then you can't like all the information is in the right hand side.
Uh oh. What's going on? Hold on. So, you got to scroll here. Yeah. So, there's
like a little mini scroll wheel and then there's just random picture and then you
just have to go to like next slide to find the next product. There isn't like
a list of products
and then there's like name. So, if you're just like scroll to the wrong
part, it's like at a really weird part of the page.
What? Oh, sorry. I wasn't screen sharing. They missed all that. They
missed all the epicness. Do you know what I'll tell you though? Back to my
topic, having completely skipped yours, but this is terrible. This is just Is
this like a blank ad spot? I probably like, are they just not serving it? This
isn't even like a proper topic. I just wanted to show how like really really
bad this is. Yeah, there you go. Oh, there it is. Okay. Um,
anyway, back on the subject of of So, okay. So, why? So, I've switched to the
iPhone 7. I have switched to the Apple Watch and I'm using the MacBook Pro as
best I can as a daily driver. Um, in
order to even if I'm going to have
frustrations that come along with not being an experienced Mac user, I want to
try to experience some of the best things about it. Um, stuff like
continuity really is amazing. Being able to have a text message come in in my
pocket and not even have to look at my wrist, just have it pop up on my
computer. Blippity blopity, I'm done. I mean, I don't use text messages a lot
anymore because that's like it's 2016,
but um anyway, the point is there is stuff about it that's really, really
cool, and I want to make sure that I'm experiencing all of that that best case
scenario stuff to help offset some of the things that I'm not going to like
about it. Uh the touchpad is amazing. Touchpad's amazing. Um I'm trying to
think what else is amazing. Um I there
are things that there are things that I do like about the Touch Bar.
Yeah, I can see that being cool. Um I Oh, shoot. I don't think I put down Oh,
yeah. Okay. When you open up calculator, so even though you don't have a number
pad because it's a laptop, uh the touch bar puts all of your um your functions.
So, plus minus and and there because it's above the number pad, they're
close. And I was like, oh, that's cool.
That just saved me time. However, most of the time as I'm typing, it has word
suggestions for some completely like who types such so slowly that it would be
faster to move their hands off the keyboard and press a suggested word. Oh
man. And especially because spellch check is built in OSwide, which is
another thing I like. I don't even need it for autocorrect.
Why is it there? Um,
so anyway, that's what I'm Dion says that he types slow enough for that to
help and Beta Rage says he does and Zach
says that his dad does. So, here's my feedback. Get typing. There's websites
that you can go to where you like type the names of words that are on like fish
and stuff. They have them in elementary school and they make it so that you type
faster. They make it so it's fun to learn to type. Yeah. Um, one of them is
probably called learn to type. Typing is an important life skill. Now, with that
said, I do see it as a pretty cool like
disability feature. Like, if you actually can't type. Okay. Yeah. Like,
let's say you like you were in an accident and like, you know, the last uh
joint of a couple of your fingers got lpped off or or something like that. So,
there's like a specific reason that is not trainable. Yes. To like why? Yeah.
Yeah. So, I could see that. Um, I could also see people just having a really
hard time typing on that keyboard. Oh, because it's just terrible. Yeah. Um,
I'm getting faster though. I'm getting faster on it. I'm still gonna do I'm
going to actually speed test in my like that's going to be part of my review
because for me this one's really bad, too. I like it. I'm really fast. This
one specifically is worse than Oh, you're on the stealth. Yes. Oh, that's right. Okay. Um, anyway. Oh, right.
Other issues that I'm running into. So, I'm having such a hard time switching to
it as a daily driver because of just how fundamentally broken certain things are.
Uh, for example, browsing network shares. And yes, they're SMB shares, but
it should still be okay. Holy balls. If
you go to a directory you've never been to before, you can wait like 20 seconds
for the files to populate. And it it's not even like like like thumbnails like
where they'll start to pop in. It's just it it's just empty for like a long time
and then it's like oh I got it. Um also
HDMI output is broken AF on many capture
cards. So I'm not going to blame my AVIO 4K because and these guys are awesome by
the way. They already have an alpha firmware to us for capturing PS4 Pro.
Nice. I don't know if I told you that. I don't know if I told John that. I should
tell John that. Aren't they Canadian? Um, that would explain why it says made
in Canada and why the number that they call me from is based in Ottawa. So,
yeah. Anyway, they're cool guys. Epipan. Um, and they're the reason that our
capture streams don't fall fall off the
rails anymore. And that even test through one though. When I don't test I
know. I told them that. Okay. Um, when I when every time I don't test my screen
capture, it just like works. Yeah. Anyway, these guys are great. um they're
already aware that the MacBook Pro cannot be captured and it's not just
them. If I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure they use these on the ISS.
Really? I remember because I was doing research into them. Um
but I just I need I need pass through. Yeah. Yeah. Pass through would be a very
very good thing because it's really janky to use an HDMI splitter and Yeah.
And like I can do that but I would just rather not. Yeah. Um, so, so that's
where we're at on whatever I was talking about just now. Uh, oh, I actually have
a new egg black Friday deal that's also on ncx.com.
So, you can get it in the states or Canada. Uh, Intel has a crazy deal.
These Black Friday deal things that we're calling out are not sponsored, just so everyone knows. Yeah. Just so
you know, this is just I'm planning to buy a whack of them. Um, I hate how
Newegg will just glitch out because you're not in do you're not in the
States. Well, it's a render. make it like go. Yeah, I think it's a high DPI
screen issue because it works fine on some of my computers and not others.
They should be able to fix that. Well, they should. Yeah. Well, that's And even
if they can't fix it. So, just to show you guys what we're talking about. Um,
if you load a page Don't think it's going to do it worked this time. Yeah.
Holy crap. So, sometimes the What just
happened? What? It just Oh, wow. It took
me to new egg. It took me back to the homepage. So much fail. It'll it'll like
gray out the screen to put that popup being like, "You're in Canada. Do you
mean.ca um but then not bring up the popup." So,
you just have to click somewhere and then it'll go away. Actually, no, because new egg.ca is terrible. Yeah.
Anyway, uh this is on for like $300 off,
which works out to like $450 Canadian off. So, or like 400 something along
those lines. So, I'm actually and it's limit two per customer, but I think I
can gain the system because I actually want to try and get 24 of them. Yeah.
So, I'm working on a plan to convert our SSD server to a pure NVMe server. We
have we have 15 people that work here. Well, it's not so much just that as that
there could be two ingest stations out there streaming high bit rate video onto
it while six people are sitting in there. Oh, no. in order to get that many
of them. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're just going to we're just going to have
people buy them and expense them. You could do that, right? Like it's not
illegal. It's just breaking New Egg's terms of service, which quite frankly, what do I care? Um,
so this is the machine I'm planning. It's really funny because in a video
recently, I basically made fun of people for browsing the super micro website
recreationally, but it is 100% something that I do.
So, I'm planning to put it in one of these that I just discovered and had not
seen before at all. 24 NVMe drives. It's
a 24 bay NVMe server, so you can install
I think three a half height and two more full height PCI Express uh cards off of
risers. It's dual socket uh 2011 three
and then it's can take up to whatever that is like 24 memory slots. Um yeah,
so I've talked to them. Oh yeah, quad 10 gig LAN.
So we will be definitely taking advantage of that bigger 10 gig ser uh
10 gig switch that we got. That's really epic. Um so this thing is disgusting.
Now with that said, there are some issues that I do have to figure out.
Unfortunately, the deal ends in like 2 days, so I don't have a lot of time to
decide. And because Super Micro's American office is closed for, as far as
I can tell, Americans, like if you're American out there, you guys celebrate
Thanksgiving for like a week, right? Like, is it As far as I can tell,
everyone in America takes an entire week off for Fourth of July, Thanksgiving,
and Christmas? Pretty much like, am I am I wrong? I
like that's my experience when trying to contact Here's here's John. What's up,
John? Am I off here? How much time do we
take off for what holiday? Like a week for Fourth of July? No. Oh, come on.
Like it's usually an extended weekend. An extended weekend he calls it. But
like does an extended weekend mean like it's not seven days. A day on either
side. Okay. Not seven days. Okay. How how how long? Seven days. What's that?
How long do you think? Um Fourth of July
is on a weekend. It might be if it's on a weekend. Three or four day weekend.
Three or four day weekend, but not Okay. But like Thanksgiving, um, when I was in
school, um, they can't hear you, so I have to kind of like translate. When I
was in school, they did one day on each side. Okay. So, it became, so
Thanksgiving would be a five day weekend. Be like a five day weekend, but
Christmas people can take a lot of time. Okay. Okay. So,
so anyway, getting in touch with anyone down there is kind of an issue right
now. Um, but I did get in touch with one of one of my reps who get this. I was
like, "Okay, so what I don't know about this kind of configuration, because
obviously you don't run out and buy a RAID card,
duh." Um, so you you know, because I my first
question when Lionus asked or told me he was going to do it, I was like, how do you even plug them all in? Windows
Storage Spaces is a gigantic dog turd. Um, the last time I used it, though I
haven't tried it on 2016 preview. Um, I
mean, okay, so the list kind of kind of goes on here. Like software RAID in
Windows is basically a terrible idea.
Um, and the performance hasn't been great when I've toolled around with it
in the past. So, I'm kind of sitting here going like and and yes, I'm aware
of the issues with RAID cards to all the people. I haven't looked at Twitch chat,
but I'm sure that Twitch chat is full of people talking about how Raid is dead.
No, there is still a place for RAID. What Raid is not is foolproof. So what
you want is RAID with some kind of real
time uh real time failover. So I
actually have that. So anyway, so I so I I call him up and I'm like, "So what am
I going to run this on?" Because I found one post somewhere that talked
about free .naz and NVMe. Um so as far as I can tell, most people
concerning themselves with a machine like this are not using it for video
editing. They're using it as like like a caching server for like very very high
traffic pages or something like that. Like they're looking for massive IOPS.
They're probably running some kind of completely custom software solution. Um
they could be running some kind of like you know tens and tens of thousands of
dollars uh per piece of software or like
you know sand type of system or whatever the case may be. It would be like it'd
be like a solutions provider
working with something like this. Anyway, so I'm just like, "Okay, so but
I have to decide now if I'm buying the drives." And he's like, "Um, just go for
it." And I'm like, "Well, can you get in touch with someone who knows what we're
supposed to run?" He's like, "Yeah, no, I don't know, but I'm I'm sure there's something." I'm like, "Dude, this is
like $16,000." He's like, "Yeah, it'll be fine."
Like, you're not being very reassuring right now. So anyway, I happen to have a
handful of 750 series drives and I've been tooling around with just Windows's
built-in RAID 5 software. It said call Wendle. Call I could call Wendle. Not a
terrible idea. I I actually I You'll end up with a Linux solution.
No, I meant to message him. Yeah. Um and then I No, I I remember what happened.
That's when I was looking for my phone. Oh. And then when I found my phone, I forgot to message him. Anyway, so yeah,
I could call Wendell, but the problem is that I do already have a solution for
our real time synchronization that is working very very well. Um, it's and it
is a Windows or I forget what it is, but
it's like something else and not Linux.
Um, uh, uh, what is it called? Is it called
uh, Piercyn? Is that what I'm using?
Yeah. So, I ended up buying Piercync,
which is like a $2,000 piece of
software, which is ridiculous.
Um, but it work. Okay. So, it runs on
uh Azure, Windows Server, NetApp,
and Cloud on Tap. And that's it. And
that's it. So, it runs on Windows. So, uh, what it, but it's it's it's like
amazing. It's bulletproof. That's this is not a sponsored piece. I paid for it.
Although, freaking knows. I've gotten my money's worth, uh, with tech support
because our use case, once again, was very unusual. Um, and I I found kind of
a weird idiosyncrasy of the software that made it so that if I had an
off-site backup that had a much much slower link, it was basically nerfing my
on-site backups and bottlenecking it. And there was like some tunable that I
had to. Anyway, uh the point is whenever
I make a change to our SSD server, it is
replicated within about 2 seconds to a
mechanical server elsewhere. And it also allows me to have a recycle bin for a
network storage uh device that is
bulletproof. So if someone deletes something, it moves into a recycled
folder on that other machine. even though we don't have to deal with
actually having the space taken up by a recycle bin on the actual Nazbox. So I'm
really really happy with how that's working and I really just don't want to
touch it. So I would like to use Windows and what that means is even if that
software RAID 5 is garbage, what I'll probably do is take the existing WX
server and I'll have that as my real-time backup. So I'll be fully solid
state on both the A machine and the B and the target machine. So that's kind
of that's kind of the plan. That's kind of what I'm thinking. Um I'm sure
someone's going to tell me I'm wrong. And hey, with my track record, you might
be right. But with four drives running in a RAID five over there right now, um
I am able to pull not in a single um not
with a single file transfer. Single file transfers, I'm reading at about two
gigabytes per second and writing at about one, but with multiple file
transfers, I can pull off of it at about two and a half, three gigabytes per
second to a RAM disk. and I can write to it at closer to um one and a half
gigabytes per second. So, I'm I'm super thrilled with that. And I'm really I'm
really pleased with thanks to the IOPS of an NVMe device or not an of NVMe
devices, I'm really pleased with the way that it scales with multiple users
instead of hitting a brick wall when you
hit it with multiple users the way that mechanical does and to a much lesser
extent uh regular solid state, especially off of a RAID card where
trim's not working correctly. So, um,
that's that's kind of my plan for that.
That's going to be pretty nuts. We have no topics today, so I made a topic out of that. Are you going to do a holy
episode about like just unboxing all the NVMe drives? I I think it makes a ton of
sense. I think uh once the server and the NVMe drives arrive, that would be um
Hold on, calculator. This is another thing that's really great about uh
Apple. Watch this. Uh start menu works. Oh,
okay. It actually worked that time. Oh, wow. Brilliant. Uh, well, whatever.
Search works. Oh, yeah. Search actually
works, which is amazing. Um, start menu works. Search probably works. Yeah,
Spotlight is awesome. The calculator probably works more than 75% of the
time. The calculator works in Windows. The calculator's bricked on my work
machine and my house. Really? Literally can't open the application. If you do,
it'll just load infinitely and you have to end the task. Oh, well, get wrecked,
son. Yep. So, it would be a 28.8 terabyte NVMe.
Nazbox, which would be pretty sick. That's ridiculous. Yeah, I think that I
think that justifies a holy But then I would also want to do a video um
benchmarking it and showing it in use. Remember the like really old like viral
nerd video of that dude linking all the SSDs into that machine? He's got like
colored hair and they make a weird song out of it and it's like his whole office
singing and stuff. No. Isn't it all like Samsung SSDs or something? I have no
idea. He like copies a CD before he can drop it out of a window.
No, you don't remember this. I think it's like 24 SSDs in RAID zero or
something.
Let me like this used to be like
just Why don't I do a rapid fire topic while you go ahead and uh and look that
up. Yeah, it it sounds like the hottest thing. Samsung, what what happens when
you raid 24 SSD hard disks? It has 2.3
million views. It was uploaded in 2011.
There's Paul the IT genius with like reddish pinkish hair. Oh, what happened?
That's it. Yeah. Okay. All right. Let's pull this up. Let's pull this up. I'm
game. Being marketing people, we thought of
some pretty rubbish adverts.
Something something. So, he like builds the computer.
hacksaws mounting for his almond cooler.
He's using skull trail for some reason
and then
Yep. Okay. Well, that's uh and then go to the go to like near the end because
they they turn it into like a song and stuff, but you got to get to like
So, he's like showing loading pictures and then he shows like
jumping with all the SSDs and the computer keeps running because this is
like very early on SSDs and people don't realize that that doesn't matter at all.
Hell yeah. Hell yeah. This is where they like just have weird music and they just
go like whoa.
Okay. I I loved this video. I somehow
missed this little piece of I watched this video so many times. I showed it to
so many people, man. Apparently 2.3 uh
2.3 million of them. Yep. Yep. This was
like before anyone I knew had even seen an SSD, right? And this dude had 24. And
I was just like, whoa, it's so fast. So,
you can you could just remake that video. There you go. I probably won't. 2.3
million views. I like the Yeah, I 2.3 million views. You won't remake that
video. All right, let's get on to the uh
in Paul the IT genius's name. In Paul's
name, we remake the You're just not going to let me move on to any real
topics. There's no real topics. Well, okay. Elon Musk won a contract, which is
fascinating. That's new. That's never happened before. An ocean surveying
satellite. Sweet. The cost of launching the probe is valued at 112 million. That
is assuming that uh President-elect Trump doesn't completely cut all the
funding for Earth observation. And just for you fact checkers out there, that is
more than the cost of uh 24 NVMe SSDs.
Barely, but it is um we've done the math. So
designed to scan the planet's oceans and provide the first ever global survey of
Earth's surface water. satellite something something SpaceX's
Falcon 9 rockets. Wow. Okay. Uh comes at
a higher value than previous launch contracts NASA has awarded to SpaceX.
Um cool. Nice. Uh well, okay. This one's
also from The Verge. Here we go. Samsung
is adding new obtrusive ads to your old
smart TV. Apparently, they feel they did not make enough money on that TV the
first time they sold it to you. So now they need to put some ads on it. So this
this was like top of Reddit and all this kind of
stuff. And the the Reddit thread's name was like right when your return policy
ends, they start giving you ads and all this kind of stuff. And uh they don't
seem completely wrong, which is pretty brutal. I have zero
interest in a smart TV at all. One, I don't watch TV, so slow clap for that
one. But then if I was going to watch something like Netflix or whatever, I
would do it through a chcast because it would be a better and easier experience.
Anyways, you know what? The Netflix app on my smart TV is actually very good. Is
it literally easier than like while you're sitting down just saying what you
want to watch and then it just happens? Um, it has an air mouse so that's really
nice cuz like I don't I Okay. I haven't decided what I'm going to watch before I
sit down. Oh, like I browse. Oh, I don't? Yeah. And I have like children,
so there's like debate. Oh,
these things that I don't experience. That makes sense. Yeah. So like, and
there's like research to see if it's actually okay to watch, maybe. Um, yeah,
sometimes. Although I guess you probably already know. I could do that on my
phone while we're like looking at
things. We also have four, five now people sitting down in front of the TV
at one time. So many people. So like one of them could be could be checking
Rotten Tomatoes while the other one of them is like, "Oh, what about this one?
Why don't you check this one?" Are you going to have to move? Could be a collaborative maybe.
I don't want to talk about Did you guys think about that? So okay, we've thought
about it, but we've both come to very different conclusions.
So we have both come to the conclusion that we I never thought about this that
we don't have to move. However, we have arrived at that
conclusion in two very unique and different ways.
Okay. Would you like to hear my conclusion or Ivon's conclusion first?
Both, but yours first. Okay. So, my conclusion is that the two kids, the two
same-sex kids can share a room forever,
which will encourage them to move out sooner.
Okay. That that sounds Yeah. Okay. Ivon's theory is that I am not going to
have an office upstairs anymore and I'm not going to have a server room
adjoining set office and my world's most
comfortable gaming setup which is over on the other side of set office will no
longer be accessible to me because that will be the room that the kids will
share and I will be stuck with one of those bedrooms for me and her to have
our computer setups and for me to have all of my server crap which clearly is
stupid. That is stupid. Also, Windows is force
restarting my computer right now. While I'm live on a show, there's no delay
option. Geez. Yep, man. I don't want Windows 10
anymore. Anyways, that's that's Wow.
Yeah. Are you actually going to lose all your stuff? Another option would be to
give up all three of the rooms upstairs and they could all have their own rooms.
But, um I don't know. I guess it depends on how mad the teenage
eating pooping machines um are and how
how forcefully that hopefully they never find this show where I even say I'm
considering it because if they ask me I'm going to be like nope these two
rooms are kid rooms you divide up the space in them as as you see fit but like
once they're older those rooms aren't that big. No they're not like at all.
No, they're really not. Our house in general has a storage space issue. Yeah.
Like in the downstairs, think about it. Yeah. There's the pantry off the kitchen
in the back room, which is not huge, which is like not even big enough for
all the food for all the people that need to live in that house really. Um,
part of the problem is that the kitchen layout was redone by the previous owners
who were dinks. Um, so so there's like
Oh, that kitchen layout totally makes sense. There's like a lot of room for
wine glasses and there's like not a lot
of room for cooking supplies.
Um, yeah. So, there's that. So, then
downstairs, we also have that one tiny hall closet next to the laundry room,
and that's it. Yeah. And that has like winter coats and shoes in it, and it's
already completely full. It has like the built-in vacuum hose. Like, it's full.
Upstairs, there's two small closets in the bedrooms. The walk-in closet, again,
this was a remodeling choice made by the previous owners. The walk-in closet was
torn out to make room for a gigantic
bathroom with two sinks,
a twoerson standing shower, and a really
nice bathtub with like tile on all sides and it's like awesome and everything.
Really nice, but it means that you take up a lot of the space in that room with just like wardrobes and stuff because
there's no I'm pretty sure your bathroom is bigger than one of the kids' rooms
will be. Um, so, so anyway, that was it until we
put the, uh, the the ladder up to the attic and then we got a little bit of
space up there, but other than that, there was nothing. There was nowhere to
Yeah. Well, and it doesn't help that I turned those two little closets in the
office into a server room and world's most comfortable gaming setup. So, I
have contributed to my own problem here. This is a thing that I acknowledge.
Yeah. Uh, I really don't want to move, but I have actually And I don't think
Avon wants to move either. It's really funny you're bringing this up cuz I have legitimately looked into what it would
cost to jack up the house and put a basement under it and it is not trivial.
No. No. Like those are really expensive. It can be done. But like even aside be
sweet though. Even aside from the like deep into six figures that that's going
to cost like it would be an additional mortgage item. It wouldn't be like write
a check item. Yeah. Um, in addition to that, when they pick it up and when they
put it back down, structural issues, not so much structural issues. They're
pretty good at it, but all your drywall cracks. Well,
okay. I didn't mean like structural integrity. I meant like Yeah. Yeah.
structural integrity should be okay. Yeah. But like you basically have to
redrywall your entire house and like probably refloor it. like you you you
basically don't do that unless there's like a very compelling reason. But even
if we were like, "Okay, let's move to
the Philippines for six months and just
tear it down and build something else entirely on the because like by the time
you're spending that by the time you're reorggaging and spending that much money, uh screw it. Let's go on holiday
for half a year while they rebuild a new house on the property or something
stupid like that." I don't even know if we'd be able to do that because that
whole area is like a planned neighborhood and there's going to be all
those bylaws about what color your house can be and what the facing looks like
and blah blah blah blah. I might have to
move. I would hate to move. I love where I live. You should have had less kids
because there's going to be a big conflict there.
You know it, too. Or you're going to completely You know this to be true. You
do. or you're going to completely lose your office. And if and if you
completely lose your office, that room will be far cooler than all the other
ones. Front-facing window, two little
side rooms that are like sick. And a bigger area by itself.
So, which kid gets that? That's going to create a huge conflict. Firstborn
birthright. That's pretty much the only way to do it. still going to create it
probably, but that's still going to create. I mean, that was honestly what
I'll tell you though is in our house growing up, that was how it worked. So,
my older sister got the first crack at the basement. So, so the way it worked
was our basement. So, you like you queue through essentially. Amazing. Okay. So,
you went it was set up as a suite. Um, so, so you went down the stairs and
there was like a shared laundry room, which is like an amazing way for a suite
to work, by the way. Um, and then there was a second door like kind of an
airlock style thing. So this laundry room and then there was another door.
That's how I had that's how most the places that I've So that opened up into
a really big kind of like living room den area and then there was a small
hallway to a gigantic dining room that
had like a it was even though it was a basement, the way my they built the house themselves, the way they did it
was really smart in certain ways. Uh, not in others. Uh, so they actually
lifted the they lifted the basement up a
bit so that it made the house really tall, but there were no building
restrictions in the middle of like buttthump nowhere in Maple Ridge anyway,
so who was going to care? Um, but they lifted it up about 3 feet 3 and 1/2 ft
above the ground so you could have Windows in the basement. Yeah. So in the
dining room in the in the downstairs kitchen, you actually had like bay
Windows, which is like super nice looking out into kind of like the sky
backyard area. And then there was a kitchen and then there was a single
bedroom with a bathroom. Um, and the idea was kind of you could have like
kind of a master bedroom and then you could have like a sleep space outside or whatever the case may be. So anyway, she
had a shot at that bedroom and the outside den was like a playroom TV
watching area and then you had your own kitchen fully functional. It always
worked. And she took the attic.
She took the attic. You had the basement, didn't you? She took the
attic. So, okay, in her defense, the attic was
bigger. Okay. Because it was an entire story of the house, but then again, so
was the basement. Yeah. But and but like it sl the roof sloped. Um and but it had
like pull down like ladder style stairs to get in and out of it and and like
it's like she wasn't thinking at all. And to get into your bedroom, if you're
out late, you had to walk past my parents' bedroom.
What an idiot. I had my own entrance.
What a tool. So anyway, we did it on the
Birthright system. Okay. So when I moved out, someone else the next one down was
eligible for the for the basement bedroom. Yeah. But um I everyone
accepted it. So, we'll see. We'll see. I
especially accepted it. I was thrilled you don't get an office. I don't want to
talk about that because like everything's too expensive or server
like moving. Honestly, moving will be too expensive. Where would you put your
server? I could put it in the garage, but I'd
have to rewire everything. And then, honestly, with Corning's Thunderbolt
cables, I could even move all the systems to the garage still. I I I have
thought about this a fair bit. I could see I knew you would have thought about it. That's why I'm pushing the topic.
So, what I was thinking is I would off of the studs in the garage to keep them
away from the cars like kind of like tire storage is I would build out like a
cabinet like a rack style thing and I would still rack mount everything. And
then if I had it in the garage, the garage actually does stay relatively
cool even in the summer um cuz it's not
right up against the roof. So, yes, I have given some thought to it, but yes,
I will be highly resistant to it anyway. But yeah, moving is basically
impossible. That's why I've like casually looked into every every one
every like probably six months I go like what would it take for me to get my own
place and then I'm like oh yeah I live in BC. Yep. Okay. Especially the
Vancouver part of BC. And the problem is that even if I were to look at a new
place like so you know what there's really no point hiding this. It's not
like it's not like no one can look it up. So, uh, places in the area that I
live go for like a million dollars now.
A mere, what was it? Six years ago, that
number was a little over half of that.
So, okay. So, that's problem number one. So, so if I wanted to upgrade, so like
good luck trying to catch up to that. You'd have to save 500 somethingish
grand. And theoretically, I I sell my place and I and I make up a lot of that
money, but that only buys me a place in the place where I am. So, if I'm trying
to upgrade to something because you want more rooms, because I want more rooms,
then I have to pay proportionally more,
like it it gets it gets to the point where it's more expensive even to
upgrade unless you're willing to reorggage, which quite frankly, when I'm
done being mortgaged, I'm I'm done. Like
I don't want to be like 45 and like
having a new mortgage. That's that I get
very I get very stressed out about debt.
Yeah, me too. Um I I want it to be done as quickly as possible and I have no
desire to go back into debt. Um especially because I've already had all
the stress that I can handle with all the debt that I've had to go into on the business side of things. You've heard
some of my stress about debt. Yes.
So basically, Right. Okay. Okay, so problem number two is that anything with
a bigger house is usually newer construction because that's in vogue
now. And any newer construction, unless you're doing something custom or you're
buying like like an estate, like something on like an acre or two with
gardens and waterfalls and crap is pretty terrible is on a tiny lot. That
too I want for the foreseeable future my
kids or grandkids to have a yard to play in. And that's something that's not in
fashion anymore. So, if you want a bigger house, you have to have a smaller
lot, unless you're willing to pay like way more money than makes any sense. So,
I don't want to move. I don't want to move. I don't want to jack up my house.
And I don't want to give up my office. Do you want to talk about Flip Plane?
Uh, we should probably do our sponsor spots first though. Funny funny thing.
Uh, we have 6,400 viewers right now, which is about as many, if not more, as
when we actually talk about technology. Yeah, this this was the like Lionus is
trying to make up for topics, so he's going to talk very quickly and constantly show.
I'm really good at it. It's worked really well. I'm not complaining. I'm
just observing. Well, you know what? I mean, it's been a long time since we've
done a show like this where it's just like kind of life updates and that kind
of stuff. This is sort of the the show
that I sort of pitched the other day. Yeah. The like car talk, the original
car talk kind of thing. The car talk show. Yeah. We don't talk about cars.
Don't worry. It wouldn't be It wouldn't be nearly as bad as that. Okay. The idea
came from he would drive me home because I couldn't afford transport. Um, you
could afford it. It just took a really long time. It usually wasn't running
anymore by the time we were finished working. Yeah. I could I couldn't afford
transport that I could take. Whole other issue.
Um, and then we would talk in the like actually really long time that it would
take to get me home. So, that's where the idea came from.
Um, okay. I fix it. Oh, what's this? We
have new essential electronics tool kit, which is like a chopped down version and
probably a lot cheaper. The electronics repair starter kit. You know what? Even
though this is a sponsor spot, I'm not going to lie, I'm going to be pretty
critical if I don't like this thing. Oh, dang. because the iFixit ProTek toolkit
is like actually amazing and has saved
my butt a lot of times. And I am
personally of the mind when it comes to tools that you buy properly once and you
take really good care of them and you don't lose them. And that is the way to
be about tools and they serve you really well for a long time. That is why
This screwdriver has been in my life for
almost 15 years now. This exact
screwdriver. That's why I invested in a $100 screwdriver. And that's why I'm not
afraid to spend the $60 or $70 or whatever it is for the ProTek toolkit.
Um, now with that said, let's have a
look at their value option and see what we think of it here. So, it's it's One
thing I like about it already is that the kit is pretty flat, which is a
little bit nicer for sliding into a bag. The back of it is totally flat. The
front of it is a little bit of a I just mean it's thinner. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I
like So, it has a magnetic I'll take that from you. Um, you can take this. I
take that. Yes. Because it's Oh, no. Yours is actually fine. Oh, no. Yeah.
Mine Mine's good. Uh, I wish I could kind of show this to you guys in some Do
you want to hold them up while I go through them? Okay. So, you get one of
their plastic pry tools. If this was the original Protek tool kit, not the the
new version. Oh, yeah. You have them. So, you get one of their little pry
tools. Then I would actually object pretty strongly to this. Um, but the new
ones are a lot more durable and they don't break as often. They These guys
are pretty smart, though. You push here and it pops up. I think it's the bottom
for all of them, which is kind of cool. Um, you get one pair of tweezers, and
I'll give them credit. This is the only pair that I use. the the angled uh sharp
nose ones. And I've used this for everything from grabbing a screw out of
somewhere that's hard to reach, like a non-magnetic screw, to I've actually
used it for motherboard socket repair. Oh, wow. It's fine enough that I was
able to get in there. I I didn't have a needle on me, which is my preferred tool
for that. Yeah. And I was able to make do with this. I've had to do it with
like a credit card before. I've made it work. That's terrible. I know. Um you've
got their uh Oh, there it goes. They've got their pry tool, the the little like
knot sharp knifey tool. Uh I believe
these ones are what are actually called spudgers. I can never remember. But
anyway, it's got like um like a like a prying thing on one side and then it's
got a pokey thing on the other end. Uh use that for everything from what's it
called? Yeah, that is called a spudger. Uh everything from like pressing reset
buttons and routers to pretty much you name it. This is enough stuff outside of
a like heat gun to replace the sc uh
screen on a Pixel. Um some guitar picks,
which is pretty solid. Suction cup. The suction cup is actually something I was
pretty upset was not included with the original Protek Toolkit. So, it's nice
to see that. Um it's enough to work on a phone, not enough to work on like an
iMac or something, but that's why I called out the Pixel. All right. Now,
let's look let's look at the bits here because that is that is what I'm pretty
worried about. So, you've got torques from T4 to TR10,
and the R ones are the security torques. That'll cover taking apart SSDs, um,
many, many laptops. Um,
no tri-wing. No Tri-wing. I'm pretty disappointed that there's no T-wing. Uh,
that means you won't be repairing any Nintendo devices, though. Nintendo are
the main ones that I know of that use Tri-Wing. Uh you've got a P2 and a P5
pentalobe, so that should take care of your Apple needs. Um you've got a couple
slots, three slots, including a very, very, very slim one. A SIM removal. See,
I would have rather seen a tri-wing instead of the SIM removal, but for some
people, I guess that'll be handy. I do like that they have the SIM removal. And
F, you use the SIM removal. Okay. Well, I carry like a handful of SIM removal
tools in my backpack otherwise. So maybe that's why I don't For the last while,
I've finally freed myself, thank goodness. But for the last while, I've
been using Sony phones, right? And they don't need them. Okay. So, I would never
have one on me. And if I did actually happen to need one, I would just go to
And then you've got five Phillips head all the way from triple0 to two. So, if
I were to give iFixit some constructive feedback, which I'm sure they're not
asking for during a sponsored spot, but if I were to do so, I would drop the
size two Phillips and I would drop the SIM removal tool and I would replace
those with a couple Tri- Wings. But then again, that's probably like the gamer
centric thinking part of me. And like
not just because I'm a Nintendo fanboy, but they don't break that much.
I just put a new optical drive in my Wii. Yeah, you The only DS I've ever
owned had the shoulder buttons die just like everyone else's DS. They don't
break that much for normal people. All I played was Mario Kart. We we we
talked How long ago did we talk about this? I don't know. You can fix
everything, but everything breaks around you.
It's not even his fault. He'll just like be near it and it will stop for stop
working for literally no apparent reason at all. Like the Wancho computer. Why
did it have so many problems? I have literally no idea.
I stream like a lot. Like it doesn't I don't have I don't know anyone that has
the amount of problems that we've had. I don't know anyone that has like a tenth
the amount of problems that we had. And every single time it would just be like
what the heck is going on? And he'd find some like weird way and it would fix it
and it would be like oh okay great. But but we shouldn't have had to do that.
Exactly. I don't I don't know. So, the screwdriver is their old style, which I
definitely don't prefer, but is still functional. Um, and a pro tip for those
of you who are using it. Yeah, this is actually pretty important. You want to
jam things in the top whenever you need more torque. Yes, that's how you do it
cuz these rubber O-rings slip. Yes. So, overall, that will save you at the price
at 20 bucks. Not bad. 20 bucks. Not bad.
This will cover what casuals will need.
Uh, but I personally, and again, like it
is my job to sell this today, but I sort
of don't care. I personally would go for
the Protek tool kit anyway, just because I think that at that price, it's pretty
reasonable considering that that's kind of it's like in that it's in that magic
how much money you would have to spend if you paid someone to repair your
stupid thing. Anyway, yeah, that being said, if you're shopping for
someone, 20 bucks, that's true. Christmas, not a
bad drop. Get them started. Not as good as the Protek Toolkit, but it's not
supposed to be. Yep. Okay, that's fair.
Um, okay. We have another sponsor spot that I promise will be shorter. I'm
sorry that turned into like an unboxing. Are you sure? Well, I don't know if
it'll be short. Yeah, you could talk about this thing forever. Literally forever. We should get the background
first. First he bought one. Yes. Then they didn't deliver it forever.
Then Colton was like, "Hey, who should we work with?" And he's like, "Yeah,
I've loved this thing. It's so amazing. I don't even have it yet, but I'm already in love with it. My pants are so
tight right now." Pretty much. Um, so they reached out and they sent us one
before Luke ever even got one. Buy a lot again. Um, so I had to bring it back to
work. Oh, that was so heartbreaking. Anyways, when you're cooking uh meat,
which isn't at all the only thing that you can cook in with this thing. Uh but
you haven't even said what it is. It's it's so it is a sousie cooker, but like
an immersion cooker, but like almost no one knows what that actually means unless they already have one. Um when
you're when you're cooking meats, you what you're the goal is to make the the
the whole thing get to a minimum temperature, including the very middle,
which is rather difficult to do. and you're using heat that is much higher
than what you're actually trying to get to. I'm just mouththing sousvid cuz it's
fun. Um, so you usually will overheat
the outside just to get to the temperature that you're trying to get to
in the middle. Um what a suvid allows you to do is you you vacuum seal or
evacuate the air out of a ziploc bag so that the ziplockc bag is touching right
next to um the meat and then you dip it
into water. The sousvid cooker is extremely precise and will keep the
water at an extremely Hold on. Actually this is really important. We interrupt
this program to bring you this question from RT Chaser07. Can you cook hot
pockets in it? Uh I think you could. I think you could you
can't cook a turkey unless you cut it first and then you can cook it. Okay.
Sorry. Carry on. Yeah. Yeah. You can't cook a turkey because there would be
like pockets in there. Mhm. Because of where like this organs are or would have
been or would have been. So like that wouldn't really work because the heat
wouldn't be able to go all the way through. Okay. Carry on. Carry on. It
makes it essentially So all that you have to do is put like your meat and
some herbs and spices in a little bag with some olive oil. I always put my
meat in a bag with olive oil. Put that in a pot, put this thing in it, and in
the app, which is amazing. Go like, I want it to look like that. It has a
visual dness thing. And then it just does it for you. You sear it for like 20
seconds, serve, and it will probably be one of the best cooks of that meat that
you've had. Yeah, it is actually really good. And it's available now for holiday
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Some people, for some people, the holiday season is about buying for
others. Yeah, Colton. Not for Colton. Yeah, I
wouldn't buy for Colton. Sorry, Colton's wife. What a jerk. I don't know if I can
say your name. Hate that guy. Um, all right. So, another funny story. We have
more We have more viewers now than we
did before we started doing ad spots.
I'm convinced that the more that the more fun we have just like
having fun of like Okay, I was actually ready to make fun of that keyboard. Like
I was super ready for that. But it was sweet. But it was actually pretty good. Anyway, I'm convinced that that the more
fun if that's what you're going for, the closer it is to being just as off topic
as the entire rest of the show, then you can't tell the difference cuz you're
like, "Wow, they're pretty informal about these ads.
They're literally like attacking the companies that are giving them ads.
Look, if if they wanted a professional ad
read, they know where to go for that.
And if they and if they want this approach, then by all means, give us
money. Yeah, why not? There you go. Um, okay. Let's talk about the float playing
club. So, you finally get a topic today. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going Linus' screen. I'm
putting us in the background. This is all about I'm just gonna illustrate
whatever it is you're talking about here. Okay. So, under the forums
section, you'll see the hub and the hub is where like we expect most people on
the site to go because, you know, holy crap, go away. Off topic is there. And
there's almost 1.2 million posts because it's off topic. And there's like the
memes thread and the cars thread and the holy crap, that's a big thread. Anime
cards is still pretty good. It is. Yeah, it is. But off topic. Off topic is
ginormous. But there's also the Floatplane club. Rip vessel. Whoa. What? What
is that? What? Oh. Oh, that is so like
savage, man. Rip vessel. Rip vessel. Savage. Anyways, so you can go in there.
Well, I'm working on it. Okay. I'm trying to make your terrible sight look
good. Wow. No, I just I noticed No, the output is
1080p, but I'm high DPI, so like it was it was a little small for them to see
us. Okay. Okay, I'm just bugging you. Oh, I'm just bugging you. It's okay.
We're still friends. Hello, darkness, my
old friend. Um, anyways, this is the Floatplane club and we have an
interesting announcement for you guys. I wonder if Eric and Catboy boiler are
just screaming right now because they're like everything's going to break. Uh,
Eric the tech guru and cat boiler the uh
amazing dude but should probably get a different name. Yeah, I mean it's
against our ter it's against our forum like uh terms to change your username,
but cat boiler, you have my personal permission. Yeah, I'll change it for you
if you think. Apparently, it came out of a name generator and also like a cat
almost like killed him when he was younger.
Cut his artery or something. Okay. It was like actually a big deal. I don't
Sorry if I screwed up the story. Okay, anyways, they have been absolutely
great. Uh, Catboy boiler came in and was like, "Hey, so I have an idea for how
you should do everything." And I read it and I was like, "You haven't explained what this is." Holy crap, it's a lot
better than ours. So, RIP Vessel, we tried to make our own.
So, I guess that's actually like right now it's a sub forum on the Linus Tech
Tips forum. It won't always be that. It will not always be that because that
sucks. Yeah, that's we we're aware that this is not the ideal solution. like
there aren't there's not a graceful way to give people notifications. Are we
going to show them like an early vid? They're they're able to see all the videos here for one, so they know what
videos are coming up. Yeah. I don't know if we thought about that. That's fine. One of my favorite ones to show off is
Brandon's cuz whenever he films anything, it looks better than all the
other videos because he's filming and editing. He cares more about his own
stuff. Yeah, basically. So, check this out. Notice how it's orange. The color's
a little off. We're going to fix that. Yeah, I did not notice it was orange. I
thought it was just like a broken YouTube clone. We'll figure it out.
Okay. Okay. So, right now, what we are
about to witness is a video running off
of Can How much detail can you give them about this like solution you guys
clutched together in like three weeks? Cat boiler back end is is boiler. Yeah,
100%. So, it's we have edge servers. Yeah. That are like distributing things.
So, H I'm going to be light about the
details for now just because can they expect a video about how it works at
some point? Yeah. Okay. Okay. But give
us some give us some idea how you have we have a little bit of load balancing
going on. We have we have the edge servers that don't really use their CPUs
very much. Are they all on the same continent? They all are currently in the
same continent. They will not always be, but we haven't figured out geo targeting
yet. So once that gets figured out, then we'll spawn some in other areas. but
they're all North America right now. That being said, I do know outside of
North America people that have watched full bit rate 1080p streams and had no
problem at all. So, I'm pretty sure it's fine. Um, but we will make it better for
people. We're going to make it great again. We're going to make uh early
access private high bit rate video streams great again. Um, should I should
I just Should I just uh watch it watch it totally break?
Oh no. Oh god. Oh, it's horrible. Oh, of
course. Do you think one of them was literally breaking it in the background so that we would have to go through
this? Maybe. I'm on edge. Is that a problem? Oh god, that might be a
problem. Who goes on edge? Oh, right. We had to do that. That makes sense. Uh,
anyways, the other part of the story is that it's still very much in
development. It's alpha. Yeah, it's alpha right now. Okay. Can you can you
do the thing? Can I uh you know the thing? Uh no, I don't have your sharing
working right now anyway. So, uh bear with me. I'm going to I'm going to do
this thing. I don't have your screen sharing working right now. No, I just
want to see if it works on me. Uh no, no, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. We got this. We got this.
Okay, you by time. By time. Anyways, so we've been developing this thing. How it
started uh was that people that were on
Vessel were served a video right before Vessel went down saying that they could
sign up for a newsletter. And we sent an email to those people saying like, "Hey,
we're trying to do this." We tried to send an email to We tried. It only
worked for some of them. Uh because we got super flagged pretty quick. Um we're
trying to do this thing. It's in early production right now, but what you're going to be able to do is download the
videos um at probably lower resolution,
but much much higher bit rate. Like our 720p looked better than YouTube's 1080p
right away. And that still works even if this continues to not work. Um which
would be, you know, pretty good. There
we go. Okay, so that's 360p,
which I mean they're watching on Twitch. We can chance it again. And see, there
you go. Oh, look at that. Look at that black bar. Brandon magic. Yeah. Okay.
So, like, okay, here we go. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, dang. Oh, we're Oh, we're
stepping it up to 48. So, this it does that weird thing. So, we're going to
maybe try to figure that out at some point. Yes. Yes. Step it up again. Step
it up. 720p. Stepping it. Step it. Step it. Step. Stepping. Oh, is that 720p
stream 720p stream? Oh, damn. Do 1080.
Do the last do the last step. Hold on. Should we Should we show off the uh risk
it the thumbnail thumbnail preview? Oh. Oh. Thumbnail scrubbing. Thumbnail
scrubbing. Hold on. I want to see Brandon touch that camera. So, let's
skip to that part. Oh, look at that buffer speed. Oh, beautiful. Oh, look at
it. Look at it buffered. It's playing. Look at that. Oh, yes. This isn't even
1080p either. Hold on.
It takes a sec. Give it a sec. Give it a second. Hold on. Wait. There you go. Oh.
Oh. Oh. Oh. We are live. We are live at 1080p. Look at Brandon touching that
camera. Look at him. Oh, he's like massaging. I could watch Brandon touch
cameras all day. And it's touchscreen. Wow. Brandon could touch my touchcreen
any day. Look, it's a 50D versus a Wait,
look, it's a 60D versus a 5D. Anyways,
so Eric has done a ton of work on like
the CMS so that like Nick and other people in the office can naturally
upload videos to this thing. Um, and
he's done work in other spaces as well, like getting the transcoding stuff to
work. Cat boiler has been all over the place in terms of how everything works.
He's boiling cats over here, boiling cats over there. He he like cats
that are already boiled over there. he theorized and actually did the whole
like actual infrastructure which makes this work at all which is great. Um
Mortise has been really helpful guiding over the whole time he's like in school
and stuff right now but in his the very
limited spare time he's actually done a lot in trying to like help guide how
it's going to integrate with the forum and all this kind of stuff and then he's going to be a much bigger part of it uh
over the next little while once his school's in kind of a break.
So, people have been really busting their butts getting this working and
it's working. Tech side of things, these guys have been unbelievable. Yeah. Um,
but what we actually still haven't quite figured out is the business side of
things. Oh, yeah. What we're actually going to do with the technology. I
haven't been worried about that part at all. So what so what we what we want um
because Flowplane Club is three bucks a month right now and it's only but it's
only for Linus Media Group stuff. We have no way of having other content
creators on the platform like it's just through the forum. Everything someone
just asked if cat boiler uses a sousvid cooker. Sousvid cookers don't boil. I
just needed to I just needed to You had to say I just had to Okay. Well, I'm
glad you clarified that. Thank you. And I don't think they have a setting for
whole cat anyway. No. Um okay. So, we we
still don't know exactly what we're going to do with it, but the objectives
are pretty clear. We want members of the
Floatplane club, which will likely serve the same kind of purpose, at least
for now, for Linus Media Group, as
something like Patreon and Vessel kind of rolled into one. Um, and we're going
to be combining it with the existing contributor badge system that we had on
the Linus TechTips forum so that you can
start to um, so so for example, bronze, silver, and gold contributors already
get Floatplane club access. Yeah. But bronze contributors who are paying $5 a
month also get no banner ads on the forum. So, we're going to try and figure
out how to turn flowplane club and forum contributors
into some kind of a larger sort of system that would take the place of what
something like a Patreon and something like a vessel would have in the past for
us. Um, so we're trying to think of like other ways to give benefits to other
people on the platform. And should we talk about some of those ideas? Yeah, so
some of the benefits I'm just going to stick to uh Floatplane club benefits
for now. So some of those benefits include early access. Although what's
kind of cool and also makes it not as compelling about this is that we are way
dialing back the way that we're handling early access. So if we think something's
time-sensitive, it's going simultaneous release because there's no contractual
obligation anymore for us to release um
things one week early on on this platform. So that's that has been
frustrating for both sides of the equation. Yeah. Um sometimes there would
be something that like we really thought should have been pretty timely, but we
had done too many simultaneous releases in a short window. So we like couldn't
release it simultaneous and it was like okay that's pretty rough. People really
need to see this on YouTube because it's like an embargo product that just came out. So benefit number one is we want to
manage the our releases better. Benefit and that that's for everyone. Uh benefit
number two is we want to provide a higher quality stream than what you can
get on YouTube for free. Um and I mean
that in the sense that it won't have any bakedin ads anymore. So our pre-roll and
our integration ads at the end, those will be gone. And we want the quality to
look better. Benefit number three is for the foreseeable future, we want to
continue to offer downloads DRM free to
Floatplane club members. So and what I would love to figure out and it it's not
complicated. It's just a matter of getting it together. Um, is how to make
it so people could just subscribe to an RSS feed, download the video, and drop
it into Plex with all the metadata populated so they could watch it off
their Plex server. Yeah. For Flow Plane Club members, we would consider for
personal use that to be within the
license that they have for the content for personal use, but yeah, that they're
subscribed to for personal use. Um so DRM free is another one of the benefits
that we want to have for this whole concept. And then uh there was another
one that I was thinking right. And then finally um at some point in the future
we would like to find a way to make it ad supported. And I this is getting way
ahead of ourselves I know. We would like to find some way to make it ad supported
so that the benefit could be for us that
we are able to pull people off platform ad supported for people who aren't Yes.
Flow plane members. Yes. Just to make that optionally ad supported. Yeah. So
if you like a free tier that ad supported. Yeah. Um so the benefit for
us would be that we actually
engage directly with our viewers and the benefit for viewers would be no more
YouTube subscription box nonsense.
Um so that is that is where we are kind
of and that's a big maybe. That's a huge maybe because it depends. We would
probably have to double or triple our sales team. We would have to get other
creators on board. Um, there would be a lot of things we would have to do, but
we have we have some interesting tech.
We just need to figure out how to do with it, what to how to do with it, how
to English it at all. Um,
and that's where uh that's kind of that's kind of where we're at on it. I
haven't actually been paying close attention to what Twitch chat has had to
say about it, but basically
um yeah, I mean, what what else is there to say? I mean, there's a lot of stuff
still to be worked on. Like, one thing is if if you're if you load the thread
and you look at the video and stuff, it all works. And then if you go to like
the last page of the thread and then back to the first page of the thread, it
won't work anymore. You have to refresh. Yeah. And like we know why and we'll
figure it out. Um, the downloads thing
is a little janky right now, but that is actually very close to being finished.
Catboy has been figuring that out. Um, just like everything else. Um, so like
there's there's still a bunch of work to be done, but it's it's coming along
incredibly fast and it's already to be completely honest a pretty good
experience. Um, there are some problems like I know Jake was using an iPhone 6S
with Chrome installed and it didn't seem to work for him. So there's like some
use cases that don't work super awesome.
I wonder if they have changed some stuff. What do you mean?
because uh this isn't playing on Safari right now either and I played one
yesterday. One thing that we need to do is get a dev server. Um
because we're doing live changes on everything. So when things break it's
just like oh crap. Uh everyone has that
version right now. Uh so we'll be getting a dev server soon. It's still
all very early on. We're what like three weeks in. Well did it? Yeah. No, that
was a different thing. Sorry I was looking at something else. Okay. That was a YouTube video cuz I definitely
showed this to my dad like the other day. Yeah. So, I don't know. Still
figuring it out, but it's coming along incredibly fast. Um,
and on a desktop at least, it seems to work fairly well. If you do have a
problem, refresh the page. If that doesn't fix it, uh, let us know. Yeah.
Uh, it definitely works on Android. So if you're like
like Chrome on Android or Chrome on
Windows, then you're good. Yeah, those
ones are the main tested things, which is probably the most of our views. So
yeah, I just I wanted to demo it working on
mobile. I was trying to do that and it didn't fly.
Here we go. Look at it go. 1080p mobile.
Yay. So it's working on Android. Yeah, which is why I always carry an iPhone
and an Android phone. So, I think everyone should do that for for float
play. That way I can have better an better Instagram experience on my
iPhone. There you go. And I can watch Floatplane videos on my uh on my
Android phone. We'll figure that out at some point. Um
Okay. Yeah. So, do we have any like actual topics for this week?
Uh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Xbox One streaming comes to the Oculus Rift on December 12th.
Um, does anyone care?
I mean, I don't know. Free update. Well, it
better be free. I don't think anyone's going to pay for it. I hate I really,
really hate this like kind of description of virtual reality. The uh
free update will allow users to play Xbox One games in front of a huge
virtual display. Have you ever had that feeling in VR
when you're like, "Wow, this is a big screen." Like, have you ever felt that?
Yeah, actually. Really? Yeah. Yeah, I'll buy that. I've had the experience that
this is a huge uh relatively low definition virtual display. Like in like
in a like a theater mode. I hate theater
mode. Yeah. No, I don't I didn't say I like it. I just said I felt like it was
a really big virtual display. I didn't think it was a great experience. Yeah.
So, like is that the view? because that's rough. Yeah, I think it's
supposed to be like um I think it's you're supposed to be like sitting in
like a cool like harbor or something and then you play a game on like this it
yeah I don't think it's a very I don't think a lot of people are going to do that. It's like, yes, I want something
on my face so I can play Xbox games. And like, you own a Rift,
meaning, and that was Forza, so you own a Rift and a PC and a game that works on
PC, but you're going to run it on your Xbox and use your Rift on your Xbox and
play it in that house thing.
What? Like, I don't know.
Um, wow. Okay. Uh, this the original article here
is from the next webb.com.
Apparently, you can delete yourself from the internet by pressing this button.
Instantly get a list of your accounts matched with direct links to delete
them. Sign in with Google. Um, hey,
another Lionus.
Nice. There you go. I think it's Linus in Sweden. So yeah,
he's Swedish just like all the other links. That would be kind of cool
actually because you could get the links for like everything and not necessarily
click all of them. Yeah. So you log in with your Google account. It scans for
apps and services you've created account for. Every account it finds gets paired
with an easy delete link pointing to the unsubscribe page for that service.
Within a few clicks, you can be freed from it. Sounds great in theory, but I
haven't actually tried it. So there you go. Speaking of things that sound great in theory, Valve introducing the Steam
Awards. Uh, this was originally posted by Arcane
Kitten on the forum. There we go. Okay. Coming this December.
Nominated in the following categories. The test of time award, which presumably
will be won by Civilization 2, the I'm not crying, there's something in my eye
award, the just five more minutes award, the wo dude award. Okay. The villain
most in need of a hug award. The game with these are really tryh hard awards.
Wow. Yeah. The best use of a farm animal
award. Can Goat Simulator win? I guess.
I mean, is that just supposed to be the goat simulator? The we didn't think of
everything award.
Um, it's kind of cringe, actually.
Well, I'm sure someone's having fun with it. Um, all right. Thanks for watching
the WAN Show. I'm sure someone had fun with that, too. We will see you again
next week. Next, same bat time, same bat channel. Bye.
Bye. Oh, whoops.
Oh, the we didn't think of everything award is apparently No Man's Sky, but I
still think that's inaccurate because that would be more We didn't think of
anything. Yeah. And we didn't do it either. Yeah. Okay. Well, now we're all
page. I guess we thought about a lot of stuff. Yeah. And then stopped there.
We had a bunch of ideas, but a bunch of people told us
that we were like, you know what, those are good ideas.
We contemplated that.
Wow. Why is the intro like
Why is my life? Why does nothing work? Why?
Oh my god.