that feeling where you're about to go live and broadcast to like thousands of
people, but like you're missing something. Something's not quite right.
Like every single time we host the W show. Um,
yeah. Okay. I guess that that could be cuz there's like there's there's always
the Okay, something's probably wrong.
No, we did a pre-show today. There's nothing wrong. Everything is fine.
I'm not hormonal right now. We didn't test any of the scenes.
Uh, that's okay. Most of them are the same. And
you didn't test your laptops. Um, uh, no, we tested the laptop.
Oh, we did? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I tested it while you weren't looking. Boom.
I test all kinds of things while you're not looking. That's awkward.
Do you test poll results while I'm not looking? Poll results? No, we're not going to get
into that yet. I have a whole I have a whole thing I have a whole thing on
that. Speaking of a whole thing on stuff, um,
hold on a second. So, the WAN Show
Soundcloud, I'm going to try and find it, but we actually have a WAN Show
podcast feed now. So, Teran, uh, Taran
set it up and I don't know where the email is about it. And apparently, you
can't just Google podcast. Hey, uh, Taran,
can you send me the link to the SoundCloud thing so I can share it with
the peeps? Thank you.
Thewan show. Oh, we got it.
Got it. Yep. Okay, so guys, it's
soundcloud.comthewanhow. I don't think we are quite caught up yet
because we don't really have like a smooth procedure for
taking the video feed which is a stupid LV file with the desync audio and the
all that kind of stuff. But uh there you go guys. All the entire history of the
WAN Show has been almost almost has been
archived on Soundcloud. You can download it as a podcast. Listen to it in the car
or wherever else people listen to podcasts. I've never been much of a
podcast listener myself, but not even almost. This isn't into 2014
yet. October 11th. Well, hold on a second. Are you sure
it's not just like later on or something?
I looked down there. It went further back. August 2013. July 2013. Well, whatever,
guys. We'll get this We'll get this all caught up for you and everything will be all good and fine and dandy. So, all
right. Let's get into our first real topic, shall we? Oh, no. We have to do
our introductory topics, which unfortunately these guys already saw,
which is a real shame because we accidentally streamed while we were
creating our YouTube intro instead of um
recording that locally and then uploading it. So, uh why don't we pick
different highlights for the folks here? Right now, ASUS has demonstrated a VRAMm
defroster feature. So, you're actually going to have a separate plug on your
graphics card dedicated to heating up
your memory, which sounds bad, but it actually makes
sense. Yeah, we'll explain that later. Also, Intel has a new Thunderbolt controller
that they are working on that should be able to derive two 4K displays off of a
single connector. They should be wearing my Holy Balls shirt, not my professional
unboxer shirt, because that's a big deal. It is actually. What else we got? Um, Google is is going
to be ending forcing Google+ integration towards everyone. And there's more
details on that later. Yeah, that's huge. And then Facebook has actually finally
been approved to actually buy Oculus. So, yeah, that'll be a short topic, but
we'll talk about that later. All right, so without further ado, intro
time. I really hope there's music. I didn't test it.
All right, there's music.
You know, I saw there was a poll about whether there would be music or whether I'd have to sing.
This is what happens when people let me see the polls ahead of time. So, never
show me your poll. All right. So, Hotspot Shield is one of our sponsors
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gaming laptops. Most gangster of all laptops. This Yeah. Yeah. Well, it kind of it
kind of went that way. Drop the Jay-Z thing.
You're going to keep You know what's even funny is I conceded I made your
joke. I made your joke in the video thumbnail of the actual review of the
laptop. And I figured that would get you to stop
making the joke. No, the joke isn't played out for you. The
joke is just going to carry on until eternity. All right. Well, that's that's probably it.
That's fine. That makes me very, very pleased. So, thank you, ASUS Sand
Hotspot Shield for sponsoring the show today. Let's get things going. Getting
to our first topic here. What should we get started with? Why don't we start at
the top? Let's start at the top and work our way to the bottom, if you know what I mean.
I didn't need it, if you know what I mean. That was fine.
If you know what I mean. You're all fine.
Oh man. Hitting on the entire audience one step
at a time. So, okay guys, we've got a fantastic topic here. This was posted by
Kaca Day G DJ DG whatever it happens to
be. What is that? Oh, I see it. No, no, it's okay.
This needs to be removed. There we go. Um, so this is an ASUS ROG article that
What are you doing? I'm modding certain people. Don't worry about it. Keep going.
Oh, okay. You can mod people. I've heard
of computer modding and car modding.
Well, there's body mods, right? Body mods. Yeah. Like tattoos and piercings.
Do you have any? No. I guess I would have known. You actually probably would have at this
point. So, there's an article on ASUS ROG that outlines why a graphics card
could ever want a separate heater module
for the memory. So, this is called their matrix memory defroster. And if you look
at the page you're supporting, I don't care. Go. I don't care. Go away,
Internet Explorer. Okay. So, it shows you a graphics card that's being cooled
by presumably liquid nitrogen or okay, looks like liquid nitrogen since there's
a uh a canister here. So, being cooled by liquid nitrogen and it shows how this
frost can accumulate on the back of the card. Now, memory can suffer from
certain issues like uh cold bugs in much the same way that processors can. So,
what this does is it actually keeps the memory at a temperature that isn't so
cold that it bugs out, but is still cold enough that you're going to get better
overclocking out of it. And it's just one less thing for pro overclockers to
worry about. I think my comment on this uh back when I first saw it is probably,
you know, about as as right as anything could ever be, just like anything I say.
I'm just kidding. I I can be wrong about all kinds of things. In fact, I was
wrong about something on the show last week, and I I owe an apology to someone
that I was wrong about something about um GPU versus CPU, actual total thermal
output. I was going based on temperature, not based on the actual
thermal output. So, GPUs, I have been informed, although we're probably going
to just test it at some point, even though I I believe them. I believe them.
So GPUs just have lower thermal density which means their temperatures are lower
even though the thermal output is actually quite high. So there you have
it. I can be wrong about things and I don't even remember what I'm talking
about anymore. Right. So the comment I made at the time was okay. So ASUS has
developed a feature for their ROG class cards that is going to have probably
thousands of people who know what it is and what it does and and why it exists.
It's going to have maybe hundreds of people who care and then it's going to
have maybe dozens of people who are actually going to use it. But you know
what? If you, you know,
it's easy to just throw up your hands and say, "Okay, it's impossible to
innovate on graphics cards. It's hard to
keep trying to find ways to push the envelope." And without, you know, guys
like ASUS building in features like this, we wouldn't have things like
built-in voltage checkpoints to actually
monitor the voltage of your GPU. Something that is a very cool diagnostic
tool when you're overclocking and like very usable even if you're not doing L2 cooling.
You can you can buy a multimeter for like 20 bucks at Canadian Tire if you're
Canadian. Um or wherever you buy those things.
American Tire.
Walmart. Yes, probably. Yeah, that's fine. Uh, so you can buy a multimeter on the cheap and
then it can really help you diagnose whether that voltage slider is actually
doing anything, whether your card overvolts or undervolts. So all this
stuff's really great. So without these kinds of innovations that might seem
useless one by one, we wouldn't have the great graphics cards that we have today.
So kudos to ASUS for thinking outside the box on this one. And I guess that's
all I pretty much have to say about that. What's our next topic? Because I'm
trying to do a thing here. Uh, sorry. I was also trying to do a
thing. I will find a next topic though. The next topic is Supreme Court decides
on the future of TV featuring Ario.
Oh, this is this is cray cray.
Is it Ario or Arrow? Ario, I would guess. Sure. Okay.
All right. So, this is actually probably the biggest topic of the day. So, the
way that Ario works is by Okay, by it
all depends on how you word it. So original article here is from
washingtonpost.com. Although there was another one that was actually uh quite
helpful when I was when I was reading up on this. Yeah. From the Guardian. And
there was another one I was reading. And another one I was reading that I mean the information about this is hard to
find from an unbiased source because
this is a topic that is extremely polarizing. So let's start with how
works. What it does is it takes OTAA TV
signals. So, these are just broadcast TV signals that anyone with, you know, a
duck, a hamster, a piece of toast, and most importantly, an antenna and a
television, especially those last two. Yeah. And then anyone with an antenna
and a television can tune into these signals and watch TV.
So, all the TV that I had when I was a kid. Yes. So, overthe-air television. What
ARIO does is it takes overthe-air television, lets you subscribe,
rent an antenna in their array of
antennas, rent because it's not
subscription, they don't Okay, they let you rent an antenna in their antenna
array, rent cloud storage space, and
then it allows you to tune in to OTAA
broadcasts through your internet connection and even use their um their
rentable storage space as a PVR or DVR
whatever video recorder without with a P with a D I don't care. So
what the Okay, so the issue here it's hard to not it's hard to not say
things that are worded as if they come off negatively or positively.
Yeah. So, the issue is that other broadcasters
are alleging that ARO is no different from cable and satellite firms that are
required to pay fees to rebroadcast their shows. What ARIO is arguing is
that a private broadcast, and this is this is like 40year-old rulings that
they're going back to here, that a private broadcast is not the same as a
public broadcast. because it's an individual user accessing content that
they would have otherwise had if they just got an antenna and hooked up a DVR.
Like they're not doing anything they couldn't have otherwise done there. It's
so it's a private broadcast. So I I
don't remember if that sentence made any sense. You know what guys, I have slept so little this week like even less than
usual. And this topic is very convoluted and awkward and
and the topic is convoluted. Whereas what the broadcasters are saying is that
Ariel is taking copyrighted material and
profiting off of it without paying
anyone any fees. So they're just taking
money and profiting off of it. And then advocacy groups for the other side are
saying, "Well, hold on just a minute. Why should they be paying for it anyway? There's already commercials on it." So
you guys, so start firing back at the broadcasters. You guys are just trying
to maintain your whole double dipping business model and squash a potential
competitor who really all they're doing is enabling consumers to use the
technology or to use the content that is already there. Use the technology they
have to access content that is already there and already accessible to them.
One thing that was missing from both this Washington Post article and the
other one that we're referring to here was actually posted by a commenter on
one of the other articles I was reading about this who said, "Well, hold on a
second. Something people are kind of missing here is that Ariel only allows
you to subscribe within your own catchment area." So you you actually
can't subscribe to Ario in, you know,
New York if you're in Florida, for example. you you have to subscribe and
of like anything there are workarounds and actually that's another big thing is
uh is that even on the dock? I think it is that Hulu is shutting down VPN users.
If it's not just throw a note in there and we'll we'll make sure we talk about
that later. But there are of course ways to circumvent it. But the way that it's
supposed to work is just as a way for you to access the OTAA content without
subscribing to an expensive cable package that contains a lot of stuff
that you likely don't care about.
So, I see both sides of this one. So, that
was the whole me struggling through the the explanation of what's going on. I
hope you guys kind of get it. Let me know if you don't. Post in the Twitch
chat if if it doesn't if what I said didn't make any sense. But I'll give
sort of my two cents on both sides of this. On the one hand, if you're
creating premium content and someone is
profiting off of the distribution of it, they are effectively undercutting the
distribution partners who are paying you. And I can understand why you're
going after someone who's pursuing that model. Uh, one of the justices that's um
I don't think they're actually going to be involved in the case, but one of the
one of the US justices that has commented on the situation said that
looking through Ario's business model, they seem to be it seems to be
structured entirely to circumvent the
existing laws and that the actual the
essence of what they're doing is just flat outright wrong. And I'm
paraphrasing a little bit here because I can't find the quote right now, but I
don't necessarily I I see it from Ariel's side as well because what
they're doing is just allowing people to use 21st century technology that they
have. And I mean, quite frankly, you're you're already going to be helping out
your local cable provider by paying for an internet subscription anyway. So,
they're using technology that we have to just do something that already exists
and do it a little bit better.
One interesting thing that someone has brought up is that you can rig this up
yourself. Yes. And that's that's the whole defense
here for Ario is that this is something
you can do yourself. Yeah. It's just that they're making it
accessible and they're charging people a convenience fee.
Yeah. Now, if they were if what they were doing was they were tuning into
OTAA and then they were um and then they
were like retransmitting
it over the the airwaves or if they had
um a site I guess that you that you went on to and then anyone like a site like
twitch.tv, okay, where anyone can tune into their rebroadcast. That would be a
public rebroadcast. But the way that it's structured is that antenna, you're
you're renting it, you're leasing it, you're you're whatever. I guess if you
really wanted to, you could buy an antenna, but then you'd just be doing it yourself. But like instead of buying it,
you are renting it. And that antenna is just for you. So they're not
rebroadcasting it publicly. I think they're going to lose.
I think so, too. But it's a really interesting argument. I think they're
going to lose, but I think at the end of the day, this is just going to be
whack-a-ole where someone else will find
a similar loophole and the conventional
media guys are just going to have to keep knocking these little guys down one
at a time and something will get through. I mean, the thing here is that Ariel has Sorry,
Ariel. Yeah, sorry. Really tired. Ariel
has already won a couple of cases in lower courts. This is the first time
it's going to the Supreme Court. They've already won a couple. They lost one. They lost the most recent one. So, this
really could go either way. And I I think according to the letter of the
law, Ariel is probably right currently. Yes. But like what I've been
reading on some of what the justices have been saying is they might need to
kind of fix things. This can't happen because when they wrote that law,
it was a long time ago. That was a long time ago and they didn't expect stuff like this to be able to happen.
So now that it can happen, maybe the laws have to change, which is annoying
to preempt to like after the fact change a law. I hate doing that with things
like the COC on the forum and stuff because it's really annoying. But
but the thing about it is that laws need to adapt. I mean, how would you make a
law about cyber crime 50 years ago when it doesn't exist?
When it doesn't exist. Yeah. you know how. So I I totally
understand the issue here because
the entire business model of creating this content is based on getting
kickbacks from the distributors of the content. I understand that. But on the
other hand, I understand the argument that that system is fundamentally broken
right now and something needs to shake it up. I don't know if Ario is going to
be the thing that shakes it up, but what I do know is that something
will have to shake it up because it's a problem. I mean, it's gotten to
the point where I will not pay to watch
a hockey game because for me to pay to watch a hockey game, and I just don't
watch them. That's that's the solution for me. because for me to pay to watch a
hockey game, I have to buy a cable TV subscription that includes a bunch of
crap I don't care about and I have to pay a whole whack ton of
money for it. And I'm kind of sitting here going, "No, I refuse. I won't do
it." For for big events like uh the Super
Bowl and all that kind of stuff, we we just we all my friends pack up because
we all don't have cable TV. None of us.
And we all go to my parents. Well, it's funny because everyone talks about cord
cutters, but there's a whole other the like the entire the group of people my
age are I I heard the term cord nevers and I really liked it because the only
time I've ever had a cable TV subscription that I've well I was going
to say that I have paid for was when they gave me a free trial with my
internet that I didn't pay for and then canceled as soon as I had to pay for it.
I never even took the free trial. It was kind of handy. I don't even want it.
It was playoffs. That makes sense. I took the free trial and I was like,
"Oh, it was great." By the time this is over, I don't have any hockey to watch
anyway. Yeah, exactly. My thing was I I was
scared because I just assumed that after the free trial, it was just going to start billing me.
Yeah, it does. Yeah. And I was going to school at the time and I was like, I'm going to forget about this and I'm going to get a bill
and I'm not going to be able to afford it and it's going to be bad. No, I just I just set up a Google
calendar reminder and then I just I the the Shaw office is actually between mine
and my in-laws house. So, I just grabbed the box, dropped it off there. I'm like,
"Yeah, we're done." Like, do you still want your internet?
Yeah. Yeah, I'm good with the internet. Thanks for the trial, though.
So, I mean, for me, the fundamental problem here is that the is that the the
providers, the cable providers in particular, can't decide how they want
this to work. Okay. When it comes to TV,
they want us to pay for large all you can eat packages
and then just give us whatever we whatever we could possibly want. And
then when it comes to cell phone and internet, by the way, in Canada anyway,
and I know in a lot of places there's a lot of overlap between TV, cell phone,
and internet. So, so when it comes to cell phone and internet, oh well, hold
on a second. We want more of a pay as you go type model here. And you you pay
for the things you use. And I'm kind of sitting here going, "Okay, you know
what? I get it either way. Okay, you
want to you want to package things. You want to have a flat rate sort of fee.
Okay, I get it. I won't I'm not going to subscribe because I don't care about
that stuff. But I understand your point. Okay, you want me to pay per usage
because there's a certain amount of congestion on a network or whatever
else. You want to minimize that. I get that. But you got to make up your mind.
You can't be like, "Oh, well, when it suits us, you can pay as you go, and
when it doesn't suit us, then we we want you to take the the whole thing."
saying, "You got to give me options here because that just that does not that
does not fly for me." Cuz I would have no problem paying for TV if I could say,
"Okay, I want Sports Net, TSN,
and like I don't know, Cartoon Network.
It's like it I remember when when my
parents were actually somewhat interested in getting a cable connection way back in the day and we went through
the show catalog and I was like I want that one and maybe that one and then I'm
done. Yep. So I don't care about like any of that.
And my dad, my brother and I had overlaps on all of those and then that
was about it. Right. And you guys never did end up getting one, did you?
I think we had one while my grandpa was here and then I think it was gone rightly after.
And then that's about it. All right. So, why don't we talk about your back door here?
Oh, wow. It's not my back door. Well, it's a back door. It's many people's back doors.
All right. Cuz that makes it better.
So, um, a security researcher has found that there was a back door at DSL
routers that was found a little while ago. I think like a month ago or something. And then there was a path.
You should talk about what the back door does. So, the back door allows you to I was
getting into that after the cover up and then I was going to tell them what that
was. So essentially there was there was then a patch which fixed the problem.
The same guy then found that the patch was just kind of a cover up and it
couldn't be removed very easily. So what it does is it allows you administrative
access to the router. So all administrative controls you can control.
So GG router um you can flash lights,
you can do you can see packets, you can do all that kind of stuff. It's pretty
aggressive. The way that the secret is removed is just literally by sending a
knock. That knock though is in an Ethernet packet. So like a raw data
Ethernet packet. So it can only be sent from inside the network or from an ISP.
So this scares people because of NSA's level stuff. Um it's on 25 rout 24
models of different routers it has been found on so far ranging from I believe
like Lynxys and Cisco so both levels there and Netgear different routers. But
then this is one guy, so I fully expect it could be more than that because the
problem is actually based around a piece of firmware that they all share. Um,
yeah, it gives it it gives them root shell access for people that knows what
that really means. So this is kind of scary just because everything in this
form is scary right now um because of like what the NSA was doing. What were
they up to last week, right? Heart bleed. So it's just like every single
week it's just like one more terrible thing. Um, oh, I al I forgot Diamond.
Diamond is also another brand that's having problem with them as well. That's
actually pretty much it. So, there you go, guys. We don't have a
solution for you or anything. No, because it it has to be fixed unless
someone's going to make their own firmware, but I don't even know if these
routers are susceptible to that. Um, it's it's it's not going to be fixed
because they obviously don't want to if they just made a cover up. Um, so yeah,
I guess I guess we'll see where this goes. But all we can really do is just pay attention and hope that it goes away
and check to see if your router is on that list so you know you have if you
have to change something. Does it sound bad or Yeah, a little quiet. Oh, okay.
People are people are asking for you to be louder. Oh, the mic's in the shot
now. If you It's It's the source was from RS
Technica. So if you want to see those routers and other stuff, go to the RS
Technica article. Easter egg DSL router patch merely hides back door instead of
closing it. you'll find that article and then you can find other stuff out to see if your router is a problem or not.
Absolutely fantastic. So, speaking of things that are absolutely fantastic,
assumptions about the OnePlus 1. Very few people have actually had their hands
on this incredibly
confusingly named phone. I mean, what
the heck? So, the company is OnePlus
and then the phone is called the One. And it absolutely baffles me. As much as
I as I hate to see uh needless lawsuits
between companies, like I it just it drives me crazy. It baffles me that they
can get away with this. Did is is HTC's the one or is just one,
right? It's just one. It's the HTC one. Can we stop naming things one?
Like they named their entire even company one plus.
Yeah. So like any anyway anyway. So specs have been
revealed. Um, can we nickname it the two? No, cuz I already call my HTC1 M8 the
two. But this is one plus one.
Breathing intensifies. You're you're you're freaking me out
here. I don't know what to do. Anyway, so it's going to arrive in midMay. Right
now, you actually can't pre-order it in the same way that you could pre-order a
normal phone. And they're doing a weird invite-based system, but the full specs
are out there. It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801. It's got four Crate 400
cores. They're clocked at 2.5 gigahertz, making it the fastest phone on the
market. It uses an Adreno 330 GPU. It's got a 1920 x 1080 screen. It's a 5 and a
half inch screen. So, this is quite a large phone. Yep. Like coming in on fabt territory there.
It's got 401 pixels per inch in terms of
its pixel density. It's got a 5 megapixel front camera with a 13
megapixel rear camera. It's available in 16 gig or 64 gig configurations. They've
all got 3 gigs of RAM and
it's $299 for the 16 gig and a mere 3.49
for a 64 gig phone. Very cool.
Yeah, that's a big deal because I've been upset about this for a long time. how
much cheaper flash storage has gotten and yet how we're stuck with the same
price points on these phones with the same capacity as like four years ago.
And like this is fantastic, but that price jump of 50 bucks is they're
they're still making money off that which is like that's still fantastic
though. I'm I'm happy to pay that compared to other phones where it's like
you get eight more gigabytes, we'll take $100. So the phone runs on Cyanogen Mod. It
has an anodized faux metal rim and swappable back plate. It's going to be
manufactured in the same factory as OPPO phones. It packs triple noise cancelling
microphones for allegedly superb call quality and packs stereo speakers
similar to HTC's one series. However,
one extra thing is the the back is supposed to be removable and you're
supposed to be able to customize your back similarly to the the Moto X
customize your own X style thing where you can get like wooden styled ones and
all these other stealthy ones as well. That's cool. Yeah. And then this is
this is this is a marketing disaster in my mind. So, they're running a they're
running a never settle campaign called
talking about trademarks. Smash your phone. I know, right? Like
AMD does that, man. Smash your phone.
Okay. So, what they're saying is you can buy the OnePlus 1 for a dollar by
applying to be one of the first to own it. So, you'll also be one of the first
to have it. Okay? So, you apply, you stand out. So, they're going to choose a
100 applicants to be the Smashers. Smash and share. Share a video of your Smash
on YouTube and a OnePlus 1 will be yours. you will get a 16 gig silk white
and three invites for other people to purchase the phone. Something that's
actually a pretty hot item right now. People people want to buy these phones.
Now, one sort of challenge here and I Okay, I see they don't have their uh
There we go. There's a list of the qualifying phones which I can't find
right now. I think it's on. If you click on I'll smash my right there.
Ah, there we go. Yep. There you go. There we go. So, there's a list of the
qualifying smashable phones. So, a few problems here. Problem number one is
that the vast majority of those smashable phones can probably be traded
in for anywhere from $200 to $300. So,
you could do the um environmentally and
just generally responsible thing and
trade in your phone and then just buy one. Number two, actually is is a sort
of part of that last thing I just said is the environmental impact of smashing
phones. I mean, some of the chemicals that that are in phone screens, phone
batteries are things that should really be disposed of safely. Not just
if you're going to do this, like at at the very least, go remove the back,
remove the battery, put the backpack on so no one can tell, and then smash it
because on the other hand, you know, iPhone 5 is on the list, so it's not like you can
remove the battery from that. Like this is this is like really brutal.
Um, so that to me just smacks of irresponsibility.
And then on top of that, we've had this issue a number of times where we
announce a contest and people just don't
listen. Completely don't read. People can't listen for 20 seconds
like at all. For example, the HTC1 M8
giveaway. We've got two phones. I am announcing the winners during this show,
by the way. the HTC1 M8 giveaway that we did. I said, "Click the link in the
video description. There are instructions there." The
number of people who posted their favorite thing about the 1M8 under the
video was like in the hundreds. And I'm like, you guys, you you didn't you
didn't listen. You're not entered in the giveaway. And I'm sorry. I mean, it's
great that you posted that. It actually generated a lot of great discussion. And
maybe some people double posted. I know some people did, but guys, you're not in
the giveaway. You got to pay attention. So, here we go. Example of not paying
attention being a big problem. Ahead of the contest, people are already smashing
their phones. This is an article on Android Authority where they complain
about some of the same things that I really didn't like about this whole
contest. So, uh, this was this was an Android Authorities, uh, article where
apparently one of these guys here didn't even fully understand what product was
being given away and thought that it was actually an HTC1. Yeah.
So, here this guy, I don't know if this was the one or not, but this is this is
painful to watch because unless OnePlus
decides to do some some PR, you know,
fixing here and give phones to the
people who already smashed them before they knew they were entered. This guy
just wrecked a perfectly good iPhone
and it's dead now and he's not getting a
OnePlus 1. So
Oh, wow. Yeah. No, no. Okay. Yeah. Not recoverable.
No. No. This will not be being used anymore.
At first I was like, uh, it's not that hard to replace iPhone screens in the
back. It's probably Nope. Snap a nap.
Kind of brutal. I was looking at this earlier. Um, and I wouldn't be surprised
if a massive amount of the entrance are Z10s because you can get those a lot
cheaper than the rest of the phones. And because you don't have to you don't have
to smash your phone first. Yeah. Just making sure people got that part.
Um, people entering could say that they have one and then go out and buy one and
smash it if they get selected. Not that that's a good thing, but like I
fully suspect a lot of people are going to do that though. We still don't want people to do that.
Okay. That's also not the point at all of what they're trying to do. So, their
whole PR thing is also not going to work because it's just a whole bunch of
people going, "Oh, well, I don't have to smash my phone. I can retire it to my
mom or do whatever and get someone else's or it's going to be a lot of
phones that don't work right already and then they're going to smash
them and then throw them away." I don't know. So, those should still be disposed of
environment in an environmentally friendly manner. All right. All right. So, this was posted by Jop Pat Jop
whatever that guy. Um, Intel is
allegedly working on a new Thunderbolt controller chip to drive two 4K displays
at the same time. So, it will use PCI
Express Gen 3, which means that hopefully by the time this rolls out,
AMD and NVIDIA will be like comfortable
enough with the level of performance that Thunderbolt is delivering to give
us drivers to enable external GPUs because you can already hook up a
graphics card on a PCI Express to Thunderbolt bridge that should work.
It's AMD and NVIDIA not providing a driver that is causing it to not work.
And I don't know the reasons they're not providing a driver. There could be very good reasons, but hopefully when this
happens, we'll get that. What we'll definitely get is 40 Gbit per second
bandwidth and enough to, like I said, to drive two 4K displays off of a single
cable. I mean, that's one of the reasons probably why Apple has six Thunderbolt 2
connectors on the Mac Pro. because it's not uncommon for a creative professional
to have two, usually two, and often
three or even more displays connected. So, even though we joke about the Mac
Pro and we go, "Oh, that's all the external expansion it has." And you and
there's that there's that awesome picture of of the then and now with the
old Mac Pro and the tower and the new Mac Pro with all the like with like the
CD drive like connected externally and all the crap piled around it. We joke
about that, but a big part of the reason is actually well, you just need to be
able to drive displays off the thing. So, right now, you can't do a single 4K
display yet off of a Thunderbolt connector or so,
right? You can, sorry, you can do only a single 4K display off of a Thunderbolt
connector. And with 4K coming down in price so quickly and so dramatically,
running multiple 4K displays, it's going to be a thing really soon.
One of the coolest things, too, is its ability to drive up to 100 watts of
power. I know that's solid. So get this. I mean again like the
notebooks of the future, right? Where you take I mean this has Thunderbolt
like not Thunderbolt 40 gigabit per
second charges off of things. So, the way this is going to work, guys, is
you're going to plug into your your Thunderbolt enabled monitor that also
has a Thunderbolt, you know, external GPU slot that also has a Thunderbolt
everything else you're going to need. You're going to plug your laptop, one
cable, your laptop will be charging, it
will be running, it will be outputting to the display,
and like all your other peripherals,
mind blown. They need to start calling these things really cool names like
Alpine out the the chip.
I actually had a call with someone from Intel today and I found out how Intel
does their code names. Really? Yeah. That's actually really cool.
Yeah. So, um, sometimes and like there's no there's no hard and fast way, but he
gave me two scenarios. So sometimes they
the the the project lead, whoever owns the project, literally picks from a list
of code names and goes, "That one seems pretty neat." And assigns it.
Do you know how Devil's Canyon was done? No.
There's a group within Intel that puts on, I believe it's Landfest is the
events that they work on. And the way that the whole Landfest project works, I
had no idea, and this is really cool, is that Intel employees who are passionate
about gaming donate their time really. And then Intel pays but not the
employees. They pay to a charity of the choice of the employees donating their
time to the project. So Intel is ultimately still paying for all the
Landfest stuff, but it's the employees who are truly passionate about it
driving it and then Intel is turning that into a charitable donation.
So I thought that was really Anyway, that is really cool. So, the way that Devil's Canyon, the alleged rumored
upcoming Intel uh CPU refresh, was named
was by polling those guys.
That's kind of cool. So, they gave them a bunch of options. They were like, "What do you think is
like the coolest one for an enthusiast grade product?" And they're like
overwhelmingly Devil's Canyon. Devil's Canyon. And I was like, "Oh,
that sounds badass." Yeah. So, like that's cool. I think that's fantastic.
Just It's like Alpine Ridge, which sounds like a body wash.
Or like maybe a sports refresher energy
drink. Yeah. Yeah. It could be a drink drink. It could be like um it could be like ski
goggles. Yeah. Like I could see it being a piece of apparel.
Definitely. But why not like Thor? Thor. Well, I think there's issues there
with Marvel. But it's a Greek god.
That's true. You shouldn't be able to. You're
probably not wrong. But that's stupid that you're probably not wrong.
Yeah. I don't like that. I mean, they wouldn't like it.
No, I'm sure not. Isn't it like Sony owns the rights to Mutant or something?
Oh, I don't know. I I don't remember what it is. There's like some super common word and it's
part of the reason why Spider-Man kept whatever. So, one issue here is that the powered
Thunderbolt 3, I guess, whatever we're going to call it, the 40 Gbit per second
Thunderbolt connector would actually have to be a different connector,
unfortunately. But there'll probably be some kind of an
adapter system. I mean, the thing about PCI Express, which is what Thunderbolt
is based on, is that it is forwards and backwards compatible. So, as long as you
had a physical adapter, your older Thunderbolt gear should still be okay.
Something that will be good news to folks who have heavily invested in Thunderbolt
to whom I would say, why?
I still don't quite understand why people buy Thunderbolt gear.
It's so much more expensive. I know. But you're saying that's why
they buy it? No. I'm like agreeing with you being like, "Yeah, I don't know. I don't get
it." We don't use anything that's Thunderbolt. We actually do own one Thunderbolt piece
of gear. What thing? We didn't pay for it though. Oh. Um, we have an external drive from
Western Digital. Oh, yeah. That's like a dual drive drive and uh
it's kind of cool actually. Yeah. But we didn't pay for that.
That's true. We did not. I don't know. We own two pieces. We have a hard drive
dock also we didn't pay for. Okay. I'll
let you handle this one. This one's really short, but has Virtuix managed to make themselves
relevant again? Uh, no. Okay,
this isn't going to consumers, at least right away. Um, so that's why it's like
what? Um, anyways, there's a there's a modif modifi modification kit thing for
the Virtuix Omni. Right now, it's one package. Hopefully later it'll be a kit
that consumers can buy, but right now it's upgrade existing Omnis.
Yes. But it's it's right now it's just for it's it's it's a design project with
the UN with Rice University in Texas.
It's R&D for possibly military training applications. It's not a consumer level
thing, but I fully expect people to scream for it. So, it'll probably become
a consumer level thing at some time. They said they may offer it, but they're
not dedicated to anything right now. And like Lina said, it's going to be an
upgrade kit to the existing Omni. So, if you already bought one, you don't have to worry about buying an entirely new
kit, which is going to cost way more money. You just buy an upgrade kit,
which could possibly be even more looking at the size of the thing, which
we have only the one picture of. So, you can show that. Oops. Sorry, just poked
the crap out of your screen. Sorry. So, you you can see it's it actually looks a
lot more like the ghetto omnis that people have been making, having the four
post system with the supports coming in. So, the idea with this is that it can go
up and down with you, but then still provide support,
right? It's a pretty interesting project, but I don't expect it to be cheap. And I think
that's part of the reason why it's more of a uh military training application
idea and not necessarily consumer idea is even as an upgrade kit, I expect this
to be really expensive. So, current
level omnis, you can run around and you can jump.
Yeah. Um, can you imagine jumping on that thing though? That'd be tough. I was actually just
going to bring this up is that currently you can run around and you can quote I
should have done quote unquote jump because that makes more sense. Um and now you'll be able to crouch. Part of
the problem with them claiming jumping is one of the abilities is I fully
expect if you did that all the time, you would end up breaking things or yourself
because they have essentially if you've ever been longboarding or if you have
friends that have been longboarding, if they have those longboarding gloves with
the like slick plasticky kind of pad things on their gloves, you're
essentially wearing those on your feet on a plastic surface. So you slide a
lot. That's the whole point. So it feels like you're running as you're putting your feet on plastic. It's because it
slides down. So jumping on that type of a surface if you're actually trying to
get a lot of air. Yeah, it's going to be kind of scary. So there's not a ton to
say in there. If you do want it, I'm sure contacting Virtuix would help it
come to the consumer end. Uh but just remember it's going to be really expensive.
How would you feel as an Omni Kickstarter backer at this point? That
thing has been so up and down with the recent thing out of um out of Oculus
being Yeah. We're focused on a sitting down experience, not on a moving around
experience. So there's there's
I know someone who backed it. Do you? Yeah. And like bought the whole thing.
Yeah. Like a fold back like the $400. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I don't um I I don't
know. Um I would be paying a lot of attention to the the small groups. very
small groups right now that are working on a I can't even call it ghetto
solution because it has to be pretty advanced for this to work properly. Um,
but like the the the the the moving of
the camera, they're trying to make that a reality, but having it based off your physical
movement is going to impede you a lot for one, right? And there's gonna be if unless
it's like hardcore strapped in, which is going to be highly uncomfortable,
there's going to be mechanical lag because you're going to turn and then
it's going to have to pick up with you, right? And then there's software problems with
it shifting too much. And then motorized
versions that detect your movement based off of the connect are going to have
problems again. And there's Yeah, I
don't know. They're they're trying to make something work, but none of the
solutions are very feasible yet. And they're all aftermarket ones. Omni
hasn't said anything, right? About it actually happening.
You mean Oculus? No. Or Omni? Omni. Oh, okay. Sorry. Yeah.
No worries. Virtuix, I should have said. Yeah.
Huh. It's It's an interesting situation, but
I just people do have to realize that that quote is very real. Um they're
they're focusing the seated forward- facing this box of field of view from
the camera position. I mean, cool stuff's going to happen in the future,
but for now, they want to focus on one thing at a time, and I totally get that,
and I respect that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I hope it happens fairly quickly, but
yeah, I respect that. Wow, what's going on? Yeah, it's okay. Anyway, speaking of
things that are are good, I guess, uh, the Facebook Oculus acquisition is a
done deal now. It's been approved by the feds. So, there you go. I guess that's
all we really have to say. that the last thing is and I apologize guys this is
another Oculus um this is another Oculus story but it's
one that leads into a very interesting conversation Oculus Facebook sees movies
as the next big thing for Oculus Rift. So this is an article from Techraar
and I would like for us to have a bit of
a conversation here. We haven't we haven't primed this one at all. Um other
than just to have sort of notes on it, which I just closed. So now I've got
nothing. But you know what? Here, why
don't you do the facts and then we'll have the discussion. This one?
Yeah. So, uh, what do you mean by facts?
I mean the things in there. Okay. So, according to Corey, I can't
say your last name. Facebook's VP of mobile engineering, virtual reality is
destined to go well beyond gaming and movies seem to be the obvious next
conquest. People have been talking about going to IMAX essentially and wearing an
Oculus and how that experience could be with the the awesome audio and
everything else that there is in an IMAX. Um, another quote by the same I
can't pronounce your last name, I'm very sorry, Facebook's VP of mobile engineering. Uh, I am completely excited
about the intersection of Hollywood and virtual reality. I think we're going to
I think we're going to see the next uh
I think what we're going to see I've missed one word there over the next coming year is going to be truly
spectacular. So essentially there's just a lot of were interesting. One of the
problems is going to be you're not going to be able to shoot content that's
actually properly designed for a Rift by
using the same kind of camera setup that we use and what a lot of much better
camera setup but what a lot of movies would use, which is like a prime camera
and maybe one or two other shots and then that's it. You're going to need an
insane amount of cameras because you're going to have to be able to capture everything. And part of your problem is
going to be like people and stuff which would normally be behind the scenes.
Well, if someone goes like this, what's going to happen? It's Yeah.
So, in my mind, the only way for a VR
film to work properly would be autonomous an autonomous array of
relatively inexpensive um omniirectional cameras. So if and you
won't be able unless you can make drones much much quieter than they are and much
much more advanced than they are. You're not going to be able to record sound
with any I guess okay you could mic up everyone and everything but still that
wouldn't help for ambient sound collection. So, you're going to need an
autonomous array of drones, and then you're going to need to have a crazy
sophisticated way of having each of them
overlap each other's images enough to cancel each other out so that you can't
see the drones or whether it's drones or whether it's something else, the way
that the camera arrays will have to work will have to be so that for every camera
that's positioned, so so let's let's say you guys are looking at a top down view.
So, for every camera positioned here, there's going to have to be one here and
here so that we can see anything that would have been blocked by this one from
this camera position here. Because someone has to be able for to for me for
me for VR to be a way for me to compellingly be told a story, um,
it's going to have to work the same way that VR would work in a game where I can
walk around in the environment. Which leads us to the other reasonable future
scenario, which is maybe we just do away
with sets and actors and the whole thing
goes full CGI. Um, I mean, you're still
going to have that you're still going to have that not it's not quite real. It's
it's still a little bit creepy effect,
but not if it's not if it's designed to not look real.
Okay. Okay. If it's not designed to look real, then I guess there's that. But
that still doesn't address any kind of um
any kind of footage of anything that's like actually
real. Like I I don't know. I don't know if I'm explaining this properly. I think
this could be the first the first technological thing that happens that
really makes me feel old because I get
the feeling much like anyone who, you
know, kind of looked at MP3s or still looks at MP3s today and goes, "Well, the
radio was good enough when I was a kid, so the radio's good enough now." And you
know what? The radio is still great. But I think for me, this is not going to be
a compelling way to watch a movie for an hour and a half.
I don't think it will be. Now, one of the problems you see when you uh come
out with a new medium, like let's look at video games. When video games first
started being a really big deal, what a lot of people started trying to do was,
and now I'm not saying Pong, I'm saying
stuff beyond that. They tried making movies that were interactive. Like you
remember that people were trying to merge movies and video games and they try to make these like stupid playable
on your DVD player video games because they were like movies and games. Yeah.
The second you try to merge things like this, there's going to be the people
that kind of halfass it at the beginning and it's not going to work very well.
What people are going to have to actually do is create an experience
focused around the idea that it's a
movie for virtual reality. And it's going to have to be filmed
completely differently. is going to have to be written completely differently. All the sets are going to have to be
made completely differently. Everything is going to have to be totally
different. I think it's going to be a long time till we get there. Even if we start trying now, I think everything's
going to be kind of crap at the beginning. Um I mean, there's a lot of different ways
VR could work for a movie. I mean like um I guess you wouldn't even need to be
VR in order for like as camera technology changes. if you could watch
the movie flat or if you could watch the movie from the perspective of any one
character that you pick, like if you could cycle through or whatever else.
Like there's a lot of different things that can happen here. I just don't know
which one of them which ones of them will be enjoyable. That's something that's interested me as
well is if you can be like I am the lead character or I am the supporting role
and you want to see it from their angle. I want to be Sauron. Yeah. Like something like that. But then
what's your movie going to be? Yeah. That's another part of the problem. when
I brought in sets and scripts and all that kind of stuff because he's not
actually in that much of the movie. So, how do you make that a movie,
right? Well, there'd be much more filming. And then part of the problem is you're
you're bringing in way more angles and you're bringing in way more possibilities. So, that is going to
raise cost by a lot. If you have to produce an entire movie from different
people's perspectives, but the same feature length,
that's a lot of editing and production. It sounds like a crazy Kickstarter
project that just might work. Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me. It
sounds like someone's going to try. Someone will try. Oh, definitely. Like
this will happen. And I fully expect I think it's all I'm all I'm trying to say
is I think there's going to be growing pains. I don't I don't think it's not going to grow. I don't think it's not
going to happen. I'm pretty sure Facebook has made it extremely clear
that they want this to happen. Um
yeah, I don't know. It's going to be interesting.
I have a feeling I'm going to be a geyser about it though because it just
doesn't sound that appealing to me. gaming VR. Yeah, heads up. Or like
definitely two thumbs up. Um, augmented reality VR. Oh, yeah. I'm so into that.
Yeah, for sure. That's I'm actually more excited about that than sitting down in VR.
Me, too. But I don't see that as being very good for a while.
Oh, it's going to be a long time. But that's that's the holy grail to me.
That's why I'm focusing on VR. I mean, that goes all the way back to our virtual like flying RC things at
each other. Yeah. The football field worth of Yeah. That goes all the way back to that. That
is exciting. That's the kind of thing that I would have seen the the digital trips thing
from Watchd Dogs. No. When you go around, I'm trying I'm I'm
going to This is stuff that's been already released. So, if you're waiting for Watchd Dogs, maybe plug your ears,
but this is not I don't think they're trying to hide this. This isn't really a spoiler alert or anything like that. Um,
but digital trips, you can walk around and people on the street will just try and sell you like digital trips and you
will it it like changes how the game plays
and like one of them I can't remember what it's actually called. Um, but you
turn into this giant spider tank, right? So you're a tank but it has like spider
legs and stuff and you just run around and jump around the city and just blow
crap up and you have like a cannon and it's just ridiculous. But you're it's a
digital trip and I I don't remember exactly if there's like side effects or
crazy things that can happen or anything like that. I haven't looked way too far
into it, but like that kind of stuff would be really cool. Like altering that
like alternate reality with the the football field and stuff if you take
that idea where you're just like sitting on the bleachers and it's a normal day,
but then all of a sudden there's spider tanks and helicopters and stuff and
you're fighting your buddy and like Yeah, it's going to be awesome. That would be really cool.
All right. So, that's that's it for virtual reality stuff for today. Don't
worry, guys. Yep. Um, Amazon Amazon has secured a deal to
provide HBO premium content to Amazon
Prime members. That title is You will be able to access HBO shows,
not all of them. Um, HBO is going to be sticking to like a multi-year
delay between when they release content
and then when stuff's available sort of
elsewhere. But what's amazing about this whole thing is this is this is HBO's
first move towards any kind of purely
digital distribution network. So, uh,
HBO content has already been available as on demand, but this is the first time
you're going to be able to stream it in an unlimited fashion using just your
Amazon Prime membership. Now, Amazon did recently increase the price of Amazon
Prime, but as you can already see, it
looks like that was for good reason, and they are looking to add more value to
that increased subscription in order to continue to justify it for people. So,
um, but the first question in my mind was, oh, are they going to have Game of
Thrones on it? Nope. No, no Game of Thrones. So, it's going to have Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Six
Feet Under. Um, so all seasons of some
of the some of the older stuff. It's going to have select seasons of newer
stuff like True Blood. It's going to have some original movies like Too Big
to Fail and You Don't Know Jack and some documentaries, some comedy specials from
Ellen Degenerous and so folks like that. Uh, it's going to have some of the
miniseries like Band of Brothers and there you go as an Amazon Prime member.
So, if you have a Kindle TV or whatever that Fire TV, thank you. If you have a
Fire TV, then you I'm really off today. That's cool.
Then you're going to be able to stream these to yourself. And I think that's
that's great, but just plain not enough.
Yeah, I h I HBO needs to figure it out
in my opinion. They need to they need to start because what was it like Game of
Thrones was the most downloaded thing through Torrance ever? Didn't they win
that twice or something? I think so. And like come on guys, maybe figure it
out at some point in time. Get a website. I'll pay a subscription. I
don't even have a cable connection, but I'd love to watch your shows. I honestly
haven't. I think I've watched like the first almost the first season of Game of
Thrones because I watched it at my parents house. Like I'd love to see it
going through the books, but I I'm kind of holding out because HBO's got to
revolutionize in some form at some point in time. They have to. Like, come on,
guys. Every everyone's moving off the TV. Maybe they'll get intented at some
point. And what was their name? Ariel. Maybe Ariel will figure out some way.
Oh, that would be tough. That would be tough. I'm pretty sure they'd lose that fight.
What's up next? Um, well, I wanted that to lead into uh here we go.
Right here. Uh, oh, is that is that the article? Awesome. I couldn't see that for so I
can't see that for some reason. Where is that? Oh, it's way down at the bottom.
There we go. Okay, so here we go. So,
again, it's not good enough and the situation is terrible. So, this is from
slash dot. Actually, there was I had a better article on it before, but
whatever. The point is Hulu, apparently worried that too many non- US residents
are using cheapVPN services to watch its US programming have started blocking IP
address ranges belonging to known VPN services. Hulu didn't announce the ban,
but users of affected VPNs are getting this message. Based on your IP address,
we noticed you are trying to access Hulu through an anonymous proxy tool. Hulu is
not currently available outside the US. If you're in the US, you'll need to
disable your anonymizer to access videos on Hulu. So the problem in there now
there's there's the link I meant to put in there now. That's okay. So the problem here is that
it denies access to Hulu from people who
are in the US just because they want to use a VPN to have a slightly more
anonymous internet browsing experience which is okay. Like that's fine. Um, the
other issue here is that this again, so HBO, it's not good enough to kind of go
like, oh yeah, well, like some of our old stinky content that is still good,
but quite frankly, if you were that interested in watching The Sopranos,
you've probably already seen it. Yeah. Um, like some some of our old stuff,
it's like, yeah, it's okay. We need legitimate ways to access premium
content in a timely manner. Blocking
things and holding on to things is not
going to last forever. And I wish we would just hurry up and get over it. I
can't even remember what it was, but I tried to watch a video last night or the
night before on some website and it was like, "You can't watch this because
you're in Canada." And I was like, "Oh geez." piece and then as I'm going to
close the site, it has a popup which is like, "Can you answer our survey about
using our website?" And I was like, "Yes, I hate everything."
Like, this is so stupid. I can't use your website. It's a pretty big problem.
It's so frustrating. I I like it's not clear
to me what the solution is because I mean, you know, part of the problem is
that advertisers aren't going to want their advertising impressions wasted on
people who can't even benefit from their find a monetization platform that works
so that ads are different on when it's in being viewed in a different country.
So your solution is to create a a ginormous, you know, advertising network
that gets puts ads everywhere. I don't think anything like that exists.
At first I thought you were serious. I was like what?
It's one of those things where to me if the issue is is advertising and
licensing then figure it out. But what the real issue is is protecting the
providers the the existing relationships with providers that are geospecific and
geospecific just has to go. It was
stupid back when certain game consoles worked in certain regions.
I know. And it's stupid now. It the whole thing is stupid. DVD region locks
are stupid. Everything is stupid. You create the content, you get it in front
of the eyeballs, you collect the advertising revenue. If the model needs
to change, the model needs to change. Yeah. Um, so
it's just frustrating and like I'm I'm honest. I I could have VPN to watch that
video. I could have figured it out, but I was just like, no. Speaking of which,
speaking of VPNs, I actually haven't that the way that I It's funny. The way
that I did my Hulu Plus integration not that long ago on Alinus Tech Tips video
was by using Hotspot Shield, our other sponsor to let me access it so I could
watch the videos. And I haven't actually tried again since this news came out
like hours ago to find out if Hotspot Shield is one of the ones affected. But
but anyway, when it comes to Netflix anyway, or you know, at least other
video streaming services that aren't specifically blocking VPNs, I can say
with certainty that Hotspot Shield is the fast, easy way to access content
that is locked out of your region. So, Hotspot Shield anonymizes you and also
provides you with an IP that is based in a completely different location. So, you
they have UKbased ones, they have US-based ones. So if you want to go on
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boom, make sure and you enable hotspot shield. You can actually turn it on and
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also got Barnacles. Get out of here.
That was from Barnacles last week who was weighing in on our G750 Jay-Z's.
Isn't that awesome that we have like matching laptop? What's that guy's name? Who? Who hides
behind the fence? Yeah, we'll have a Wendle. No, the guy. No, where he's facing.
Yeah. Oh, well, Wendell from Tech Syndicate does it, too. I know. He never shows his face,
but it's more Wilson. Yeah, we'll So, we'll have You'll still hear us.
Um, it's all right. It's not great. Yeah, it's the audio is not great. So,
maybe we'll just we'll we'll go with this. So, the G750 Jay-Z is the next
evolutionary step in the G750 series from ASUS. And what it basically brings
to the table is a lot closer to desktop
grade performance and a lot closer to desktop pricing than we've ever really
seen before. Now, we had some people question our desktop. You remember the
Yeah, you ran the benchmarks. Okay. So, we had some people question our desktop
when we did our comparison because what we discovered was that matching this
feature for feature, spec for spec, it was going to cost us about 200 less to
build an equivalent desktop in terms of sort of, you know, the similar Intel CPU
and a GPU that performs about the same and all that stuff. But this one
actually performed within what it was about 70 to 80% of the performance of
the desktop. I I said on the stream though that if we went for just performance on the
desktop, I could have smoked it. Yeah, we were going for feature. We were going for feature parody. So, a
lot of the things that we included are things that maybe you wouldn't choose,
but you still have to acknowledge that they're features that are going to
matter to some people, and they're features that do cost money. Like, for
example, we could have bought the cheapest possible motherboard, but we
didn't. We bought an ASUS motherboard because we were looking for quality
parody and then we bought one with Thunderbolt because this laptop has
Thunderbolt which is a feature that some people use. So that's that's that's all
there is to it. We threw in, you know, a $20 webcam budget with the desktop
because a lot of people use webcams. This notebook includes a webcam, so
we're going to have to include a webcam to make sure it's fair. Because while
you guys might not look at that and go, "Oh, well, it's, you know," you might look at that and you go, "Well, oh,
that's not the hardware I would have bought, therefore it's not fair." Well,
the laptop's available in different configurations. This is the one we
happen to have, so we have to build
something that's equivalent to it. So, that's basically all there is to it. It
runs extremely quietly at idle. Here,
that's our microphone. He put the vent. Yeah, he put the vent of the laptop like
inside of the fur of our whatever this is called. It's called a dead cat.
I don't like calling it that. I know it's called a dead cat.
Anyway, so the point is it is extremely quiet when you're not doing anything
intensive. It runs cool when you're doing crazy intensive stuff. And I think
is it fair to say you were blown away by how well it performs?
Yeah, I I I'll be completely honest while doing this ad integration, which
might not be the greatest thing, but I generally don't like laptops. But I've
used this a couple times now and like when we used it in Boston to output
videos really fast which is really nice and I used it to play I don't even
remember what quite a few different games with my buddy Victoria and never
had a single problem. I think this was actually faster than his desktop.
You took this on a trip to Victoria? Nope.
Seriously,
it's company property, man. You can at least tell me. I didn't. I was talking
about my laptop. No, you weren't. It doesn't even have a
video card in it. It does, actually. So, we've managed to make it serious.
We've managed to make it this far into the integration without even explaining. So, it's got a Core i7 4700HQ. It's got
an 880M, which is actually just about equivalent to a GTX 770. Delivers a
great gaming experience. It's still portable even though it's obviously not
a Zenbook. And there you go, guys. is the ASUS G750. Jay-Z, sponsor of today's
episode. I can't even believe you. Jay-Z would have just owned his own to
bring it to Victoria. Yes, Jay-Z the rapper would have
You know what's You know what's the worst part is I'm going to have to listen to this joke for another five
weeks.
I'm not going to give up. Speaking of jokes that lasted longer than five
weeks, Plus integration on YouTube,
Google has allegedly, well, no, it's
happened. Google has cut between 1,
and,200 people from the Google+ project and
reassigned them to other divisions with
a huge chunk of them going over to the
Android side of things. So that means
that products like Hangouts, for example, they're not being cut. They're
still going to exist. They're just going to be less focused on Google+ and more
tightly integrated into Android or or other YouTube or Google projects. Sorry,
I got YouTube on the brain. So, one of the one of the reasons for this,
actually, we don't have a clear idea about the reason, but one of the reasons
for this that I think is just how much
negativity there's been around Google+ and how it's been forced on users. It's
one of the few things that Google's really done that has made literally
everyone mad. Like, the entire internet was upset about this. Google has always
been really, really good at making something and then just having it exist
and people find out about it and then people do their own marketing around it.
They've always been incredibly good at that. And that might have worked for Hangouts
if it wasn't such a giant piece of crap. Yeah, Google+ is terrible. Hangouts,
did I say Hangouts? I'm sorry. Okay. No, I I'm okay with Part of Hangouts is terrible.
I'm getting better. I'm I'm more okay with Hangouts now. I still don't like the SMS integration. I still don't like
the fact that it doesn't have a proper desktop. You need to fix that. I can't use it as
my main thing until it's on all platforms. So, okay. Okay. So, so hold on. But
Google+, sorry, giant steaming pile of garbage. I mean, honestly, I'm not the
best at navigating social media websites. I hardly know how to use
Facebook. The only thing I know how to do is to reply to people who post on my
posts and post on my page. Other than that, I figured it all out at one point
and I like integrated my Twitter feed
and I did all this stuff and then
I forgot everything because I don't use any of that stuff cuz I don't care. Like
I don't care that my cousin's second
nephew's nephew. I'm really tired. My like like my
cousin's third cousin had a birthday. I don't care. So, I basically don't even
open it other than to manage the Linus Tech page. Um,
you can like filter people out of your So, I forgot how to use all that stuff.
Google+ I couldn't even figure out in the first place. And not because I'm an
idiot and I can't figure out how to add someone to a circle and post some
something that they can see. What I couldn't figure out was how to make it
part of a workflow for me. How to integrate it into what I'm doing on
Twitter and Facebook. how to manage it
so that it is correctly tied to some of
my YouTube channels but not my other ones and so that I can have people
administering it. And these are the logistical problems that I had with
Google+. The fact that it was a little bit confusing in the first place because
nothing's really labeled. So yeah, I imagine once you're a Google+ genius,
it's pretty quick to navigate, but nothing's really correctly labeled in
the first place. And second, because of Google's history of permanently tying or
untying accounts to each other and being fundamentally broken from then on, I was
afraid to experiment. And so unless I created an entire new
batch of YouTube channels, an entire new Google+, and like trial and errored it,
it just wasn't going to work. And that's the problem. Pretty big problem.
Pretty big problem. If you if you expect a social network to work, you're going
to have to have influencers on it. I'm already in your ecosystem, Google. I'm a
YouTuber, okay? And you can't manage to
capture me. That's a problem. It's pretty bad.
It's terrible. You know, when when when when they first started talking about how they're going
to integrate Google+ with everything and how it was going to be this giant ecosystem, I was really excited.
Yeah. And then I was like, "Wow, this is bad." And now I'm no longer excited. It could
have been amazing. Should we explain why we're both tired and why laughing at your jokes hurts?
Uh, it's going to have to do with the poll. So, let's let's finish up first
here. Okay, I think we kind of are. We're kind of done. There's a couple other things. I just thought this was
awesome. This is posted on the forum. All of Denmark has been recreated in
Minecraft. What? Posted by Joners now. Not now. Okay,
this has kind of been done before. Like the UK did a topographical map, but no,
no, no, no. this is the Denmark like
buildings and stuff. So, they're releasing it. Uh the only the only
things that have been changed to to make it not completely uh sandbox is they
have removed explosives and they have there's one other thing.
And all the roofs are flat. That's it. Other than that, it's Denmark.
Wow. Isn't that amazing? That's pretty cool. I love it. I think that's fantastic.
That is actually really cool. Uh, and then I had one other thing I think,
right? Um, okay. Someone someone figure
out the logistics and kickstart this. I wanted to make it myself, but I give up
because I just don't have time. And if you can give me like a couple bucks for
the idea, then I'd appreciate that. Otherwise, just make it and send me one.
And if you can't even manage that, then just make it and I'll buy one because I
really need this. I want a smart lamp. Okay, lamps. The only innovation that
has existed in the lamp market has been aesthetic design and putting different
kinds of light bulbs in it. What I need and someone please make this for me is
an LED smart lamp that is that is for
your devices. Okay, so I think maybe the
Gen two product. Okay, maybe Gen two product gets wireless charging on one of
the levels. But basically the way I want the smart lamp to work is I want it to have a lamp on the top lamp shade. I
want it to look pretty nice, modern aesthetic. So maybe like white shade,
black structure. And basically, I want the entire thing to be kind of shaped
like this and have shelves on each level. And then down one side, maybe you
can turn that into like some kind of of a stylized thing. So one side's thicker.
I want cable management. And then I want the whole smart lamp to have one plug
that goes into the wall and then maybe a base that has a whole bunch of USB ports
in it. So, what you can do is on your shelves, you can have little wires
coming up so that basically all you do is you you can plug all of your devices
into your smart lamp so that they don't all take up a bunch of space on your nightstand. That's what I want. It needs
to exist. It couldn't be that expensive. It couldn't be that difficult to build.
But there is, for some reason, there's a
crazy shortage of multiple hub chargers.
Ant has one that's pretty good. There's another one that's pretty good. But why
isn't there one that just has like six, seven, eight ports, all of which are 2.1
amp capable with all the latest charging schemes? Please, someone make this for
me and then follow it up with one where the bottom one is the large wireless
charging pad and I think slides everywhere. You might not even have to follow it up
with that. That could just be like the more expensive tier.
I think because that also doesn't sound hard to set up. So yes,
like at all. Lamp with lamp with hub would like it.
people asking what happened to my hand. That actually ties in pretty well to the
next thing as well. Yeah, that's coming later. So, um, do you want to do Okay, here. Do
you want to do a random.org um prize winner pick for the HTC1 M8s?
Sure. What's the number range? Which uh Oh, here. No, no, it's okay.
Here, just um use my computer. Okay,
I want that one. Okay.
So, just do it do it in our standard way. So, uh, random
I know random.org random page and then random person on
the page. And then guys, we're going to validate to make sure that you haven't
posted twice. Do we know how many pages there are? Yes, we do. It's on the forum.
We know how many pages. 490. I know. We got a lot of entrance.
Oh, no. And HTC has confirmed. They were super
nice about it. Again, not not reading the fine print for giveaways, you guys.
Uh, you were supposed to click the bit.ly link that HTC gave us. Yeah, I'll
I'll do that. Uh, you were supposed to click the B.ly link in order to qualify
for us to have two phones to give away. We needed to get 10,000 clicks. We have
over 10,000 entries and yet we don't have over 10,000 clicks, but HTC was
super cool about it and they gave us two phones anyway. So, what are terms? They just have to
post in here at all. They have to post in here at all without double posting. So,
so the the content of the message is not Nope. Don't care. Okay.
It's supposed to contain their favorite thing about the 1M8, but come on. Whatever.
We're not going to draw someone and then not give them the award. We're just going to We're just going to scold them
for not paying attention. So, scold everyone for not paying any
attention.
210. Of course, 210 of what?
It's page 210. Oh, okay. Cool. So, yeah, we're picking
those winners, guys. Stay tuned.
Picking them winners. All about them winners. And we are also going to
explain why my hands are black. Oh, are you out?
Yeah. Uh, is the fastest possible ready to rock?
You are the man, man. Four. Have a great weekend.
10. See you Monday. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. So, you have 20
per page. Okay. Yep. Sorry. I could have told you that,
but I was not listening to you cuz I don't care. Number 11.
Got to find him now.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, 10, 11. George Hart, the
best thing is the build quality. No replacement for metal.
Nice. Yeah, metal. Yeah, there we go. Now I put up these two. I'm
like, nope, that's hanging loose. Got to fix that one. Okay, so do I just
message him? I don't think there's Yeah.
Uh, whatever message later. Yeah, it's all good. I'm going to copy the name down though.
You don't think there's what? Uh, I don't remember.
Sure. Okay. So, are we going into the thing now? Uh, no. You got to pick one more.
Another one? Yeah. Pick another winner. We got two phones, man.
Okay. 420 it was for pages. Uh, 490, I think.
490. Yep. 490. The result is
129. Can they even see that? Oh, I don't know. I can zoom in on it.
No, it's okay. Probably doesn't matter. They trust us. What was it? 129.
129. Yep. Checking. Oh, yeah. They can see it. Never mind. It's all good. So, page 129. Here we go,
guys. HTC18. Just in case people are confused, I'm
URL editing to get to the page. Screw clicking next that many times. 20 per
page. Here we go. Second phone winner.
Nine. Nine.
I feel sorry for anyone that we're scrolling over right now.
Seven, eight, nine.
Let me recount that just in case because I laughed partway through. One, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, n.
Yeah. Okay. All right. 8878.
There's an N in there. Oh,
I like the 1080p screen and build quality and but Battery Buri.
Better. Yeah, Buri and cameras and speakers. And I liked the video about it. So, he likes
everything. Apparently, a ber is kind of like a wh house where you have to take care of yourself.
Oh, no. That's horrible.
Wow. Or a place where you uh you get stuff to
feed fish. Yeah, there we go. That's Yep, that's
it. Oh, these stupid stupid high bit
rate clips. These aren't going to play over wireless.
Oh, that's that's that's super unfortunate. Okay, hold on a second.
Okay, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna find a clip for you guys that um here. Okay,
you know what? Why don't you do like drag that one over a Twitter blitz or something?
I have another topic I can talk about. Do you? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do a topic. Do a topic.
All right. Is this going to work? Whoa. Yeah, that should be fine.
So, where is it? Let me get to this. Bit
Torrent is suggesting that Netflix should move to peer-to-peer networks uh
because of all the crap that's been going around right now over people
charging Netflix, like ISPs charging Netflix and ISPs charging other people
for premium bandwidth lanes and all the net neutrality issues that are happening
right now. That may still be resolved at some point, but for now are not.
But for now or not. So, they're suggesting that, like I just said,
Netflix goes to a peer-to-peer network. Um, the reason why we hadn't covered
this topic yet is because I have no notes about it at all, but it's been
proved that this could work because of stuff like Popcorn Time. Imagine you had
Popcorn Time, but on the scale of Netflix, I don't think the bandwidth
issues would even have a problem be a problem because uh Popcorn Time seemed
fast enough. I never even ended up trying it, but from people that I know that tried it, it no one had any
problems watching videos in high high quality. So, this would totally work and
it actually does totally make sense. It does pose a problem though um as that
would be like super easy as you're storing the file on your computer,
right? And I don't think right now with Netflix, even if you view it through a
website, it's just streaming. You're not actually saving a file or anything,
right? Yeah. No. So, is this working fine now?
Yeah. Yeah, this is working. Actually, the solution was just to plug in wired. By the way, don't gunk up the uh
Yeah. Okay, here we go. So, couple of things.
So, number one, actually, before we uh
hold on before we get too far into this, first up is guys, uh we need your help
because we have a shoot. The link is in the dog.
Yeah. Which browser are you using? Firefox. Okay. Right. That figures. Okay. Link is
in the doc. Okay, so guys, we are posting this in the where is it? Oh,
I hate that how sometimes it has the drive favicon and sometimes it has a
little document one. It's ridiculous. Yep. Okay, so there is a problem on the
internet right now on Twitter
where the problem is that here I'm just going
to post this guys. We need y'all I posted that as Luke in in the Twitch
chat. We need everyone to get on the Twitch chat. Click that link. Um, we
were actually losing this straw poll
earlier today for which tech YouTuber
would be the last one standing in a winner takes all free-for-all fight. And
first of all, this is a problem because my team as of May 1st will contain six
people. So, we would obviously win. Number two, our team has this massive
hulk of a warrior specimen, so we would
obviously win. So, I need you guys to
take care of this poll because And if
you're on the fence, if you've already voted for someone else or if you're on
the fence about voting at all, what I need for you guys is to here, I'm just
going to I'm going to keep posting this. I need for you guys to check this out because this is is from the shoot uh
that we were on yesterday where we were dressed up and where my hands got all
covered in black marks that I actually can't remove and the reason why both of
us are incredibly sore today but should tip you over the edge and help us secure
your vote. So, if you want to just keep posting the Yeah, you handle that while
I show them what went on yesterday. So
that first I'll give you guys the view from a distance here. All right. So
did you watch this one already? I haven't watched this one. I don't know. It's pretty good.
I don't know how how great how great it is. So this is this is all
Is this just preamble set up? Yeah. Okay. So preamble preamble.
There you go. Starts soon. Okay.
So this is for this is for an upcoming commercial that we're making. We we do
that now apparently.
I don't know if there's audio. I don't want there to be audio. Hold on.
I don't think there's audio. Is this clip 426? I don't know.
Okay.
I don't think so.
Like to see Logan take this on.
I think we go off screen on this one. I'm not. Let's see. Why are they sore
today?
This one might not be as good as some of the other ones. It's not. That's why I asked you what
clip number it is. Oh, okay. I'll grab the other clip after
you appear on the other side of his head. Yeah, that might not be the best clip.
It's not. That was like the first one we did, wasn't it? Oh, okay. Okay, hold on. Hold on. It
gets a lot better. Okay, let me find a better clip. Hold on. Hold on. I'll be back. Anyway, guys,
go vote. Post the link. Post the link. Post the link. Post the link.
Vote for the night. Sorry, which one is it? I think it's 426. Try that one. I can't
verify the exact number right now. And guys, let me tell you, when this
kind of stuff happens over and over and over again, Yeah, we did it many, many times.
It becomes pretty challenging. That one was missing some of the best
stuff. I know this one has a flying double kick and like
Hold on. Don't Don't spoil it. I think this is the good one. I'm not
sure.
Trust me, guys. This was real tiring.
And uh So, how much did your chain mail weigh?
I we didn't weigh it, but I'm guessing 40 45 pounds.
Oh, this is the one where I lost my helmet. Yeah. Or one of the ones where I lost my
helmet. The helmet, in spite of being not that strong, actually helped a
little bit.
Yeah, there you go. All right. All right. The the like close-up awesomeness is
Yeah. There's one more clip. We don't have any of the slow-mo, you guys,
cuz we captured that in RAW. Yeah. So, unfortunately, we can't share that
with you. But, I'm going to look for the clip of the uh of some of the more
close-up shots, and then you guys will see it. It looks
It looks interesting from that far away, but up close, uh, honestly, even the
guys filming it, so Brandon was like,
"Uh, okay, that's a lot faster and a lot
more intense when I'm right next to it."
He got hit once. Uh, what's this one? One, take three.
Hold on. Do you know what one you're looking for? Did Brandon get hit
once? Yeah. Did he by my axe? Really? Or wait, no, that was the
camera. Never mind. Yeah, my bad. The camera got hit once.
When did we do the long take?
I don't know. I don't remember. Wasn't that near the beginning of these
ones? I think so. That's what I'm looking for. But in the meantime, do we have any
topics to keep people busy with? I don't think so.
There's the uh winners of the build blog contest, but I kind of want to go
through that with you. I can bring it up on this laptop, though. Oh, okay.
Cool. because we're doing the voting thing now and there's all that stuff
going on, right? That makes sense.
No, I keep forgetting it's this laptop. Be careful.
Okay, so build logs. I was going to do this after, so just give me a sec, guys.
I will be ready, though. Um,
this is I hate the way that this camera adjust. This is terrible. If if you guys are
wondering why it's taking him so long, it's
dancing. Hey, Nights Danced.
Okay, I think this is the one, right? It might be. How long is it?
It's pretty long. Very possibly. Yep. Okay. Okay. So, here you go, guys.
Sneak preview. Sneak preview.
So, here we are up close. These costumes, they were cool until it like
rained and we'd been wearing them for six hours. So, we had we were essentially wearing
towels and then under chain and scale and then plate on top.
What's up? I'm just curious.
Is it going to take a while for him to catch up? Did I already do my goofy little dance?
I think so.
I think this is just repeated slam and Oh, is that all this is?
Yeah. Oh, this is the wrong clip. Well, whatever. Okay, you guys will have to
wait to see some of the crazier stuff later. stuff like that like legitimately hurt
though, especially when he hits me in the face.
So yeah, that was just us getting some clips of of like me hitting him. Okay,
well I'm sorry guys. You'll have to wait till we actually release our commercial.
Um something else that you guys should definitely check out is by far the best
promotional video that my team has ever made. I actually had very little
involvement. This thing was awesome with this one. But you know what? Maybe we'll just play
it on the stream. Maybe we'll just play this one on the stream. Twitch does sometimes have problems just
like streaming YouTube videos for whatever reason. I don't know how that
even happens, but just a heads up. Um, it might work. We'll see.
Okay. Well, hold on a minute. Let me uh let me see if I can Where is Kingston's
channel? Nope.
So, this is actually posted on Kingston's YouTube channel.
I think they're under Kingston memory or Kingston technology. There we go. All
right, you guys. You guys should check this out. Check this out.
Wait, where is it? They Oh, that's weird. They posted it on Twitter, but I
don't actually see it here.
Bizarre. Um,
it is weird because it has way more views than like anything that's on there as well.
Yeah. Okay. A Uh, well, I'll tweet it
out later. Okay. Anyway, you you on that laptop need to go to the forum and then to the build log voting
thread. So, nope.
You're not streaming. Okay. You need to change accounts.
I need to what? Log out of mine. Oh, well, here. Just switch.
Sure. We'll do the old laptop switcherooni. Here you go.
Whoop. Oops. Sorry. Did I just get you in the junk?
Nope. It's close again. Just like the hammer.
Oh yeah. Or was it your foot? No, it was my foot.
Oh, okay. Yep. Junk foot. Yeah. Okay. So,
you are now here. It was Hivefire and
Project Rampage that won. So, Hivefire
is luckily the very first one on the list. Sweet. Wow. Look at that thing.
I haven't even seen this yet. Pretty ridiculous. We haven't done build logs of the week in a long time.
It is now builds of the month. Of the month. Yeah, that is of the month.
This is part of the reason why we made it build logs month. Unfortunately, last
time I checked, I don't know if it's still this way or not, but the build
logs actually for this coming month only had one submission. So, just so everyone
knows, if you want to be on build logs of the month, go to the forum um and
post your submission, read the rules because for this submission, I I let all
the people through that broke the rules, but for next submission, I made it very
clear who did it wrong. next submission, please do it correctly and then we'll be
we'll be good to go. This I like almost don't even know what to say.
It's crazy. So cool. Yeah, I mean different colors on every
Dominator module. Yeah. I mean, coloring the accents on this
motherboard looks outstanding. An insane amount of time went into this.
I mean, the amount the It's funny because stuff doesn't match, but it
almost looks better that way. Like we've got clear tubing, braided tubing. We've
got like a black and red and gray color
scheme here with black, yellow, red, orange here. And like
Oh, it's just it's just utter chaos. It actually plays into the whole hive
fire idea because the fire is not going to look identical all over the place.
That's fantastic. It's really cool. So, we're doing a
little bit. These are all crazy good. Yeah, for sure.
I was very obnoxious by my you broke the rules thing. This was the other winner
was Project Rampage. So again, check out the check out this thread on the forum
and you can click through to their individual forum threads by doing so. So
you can go down to Project Rampage on this thread. Click on his link and then
you'll go to his full build log which will have all the pictures and all the details and all that kind of stuff.
These are just short snippets. Look at this bent tubing. Oh man, I love
that. It looks really good. That looks clean. I mean, I'm not I'm
not much of an overdone fittings guy,
and this to me is a little bit extreme.
You can see how many fittings are stacked on top of each other here. I
don't like unnecessary points of failure. So, that's one thing. Um, but
love the aesthetic. Love the way these PCI Express connectors come in. Uh,
absolutely love this bend right here. Like bringing it up and then away really
breaks up that normal look of trii or
triric crossfire graphics cards with this kind of this red line on the bottom
one. Looks fantastic. Memory cooling is again something that I'm not a huge fan
of because it's completely unnecessary. Although that GSkill RAM that we have,
the 2400 MHz 64 gig kit does benefit
from active cooling. though I shouldn't say completely unnecessary cuz I don't
want to put fans on things either. Yeah, that's true. Especially if you're
doing like a crazy watercol build, you want your fans in very specific locations.
Fantastic builds, you guys. Those are amazing. Absolutely awesome. So, I'm going to try
and get something worked out in terms of like build of the month badges or
something. We'll figure that out. That's probably not going to happen immediately. Um but yeah, the build of
the something is back. We're going to be
doing another one next month. Cool. Um, and yeah, remember to go on
the forum, vote, and submit, and you'll be Oh, yeah. And remember to vote for us in
the straw poll as well. Yeah, I'm gonna post that in the chat somewhere.
Yeah, hold on. I'm I'm gonna post it in the chat, too. Guys, go vote for the
Knights. Go vote for the PC Knights. All
right, there's a straw poll. Go vote. My Twitch chat is disconnected because
who knows? Uh, because I turned your Wi-Fi off. Oh, that makes sense.
That is Everybody go vote. Go vote. Am I allowed to spam my own chat? Um, I think
eventually Twitch gets mad. Really? I think so. I'm not sure.
Interesting. We should have a look at how the where the results are sitting
now. Oh, yeah. We're ahead by a solid couple thousand now. Thank you guys.
Thanks everyone. Yeah, you took care of that stunning
abomination of a pole result that had us
losing. All right. How long did we fight for yesterday in full armor?
Hours. Like seven hours.
No, I think it was more like five because we had the armor on for a while
and we were just like kind of doing stuff. But like you were doing tiring things like you moved all of our gear
from the one table to the uh to the bleachers. All right, good night
everyone. Thank you for watching the WAN Show. I changed my mind about garage
sale because I'm just really tired. I want to go home. Um peace out.
Bye everyone. I got to sleep last night. You didn't. So that's very justified.