boom we are live baby
oh man it has been
a pret i think calling it a rough week would be
a gross understatement like disgusting understatement it has
been so tiring like shot
three ltts shot and reviewed three faps
and also moved into a new office space
went to the strata meeting for our building complex here
dealt with the inspector failing us oh
also by the way i found out we are going to have to clear the path to at least
one of the rear doors that are now covered behind sets
uh do i need to go on like can i just
you know go off for a bit here about how this week went because i want to know more
about the doors we have had all hands on deck basically reorganizing this entire
place for three days and with all the stuff
that people had to do and just with all the stuff that needed to be done
it has been a nightmare like if you guys have seen any behind the scenes footage
we're gonna have a whole organization vlog series coming because that's the
only way that we can get around to cleaning stuff up is by vlogging about
it but like that unit on the other side of this wall
that i'm pointing at right there that wall the brown wall
the unit on the other side there total disaster if you were ever wondering what
happens when you tell a dozen people um hey there's an empty unit so like if
there's any overflow it goes in there if you're ever wondering what that looks
like after six months boy do i ever have
the answer for you a little something like that by the way
Colton that um that crate that you just saw that is leftover slash x when show
stuff and then that antec lan boy is the
recreation of Linus's first pc so that could be like a charity auction thing
for ltx next year or something i don't know what else we would do with it
so like oh man and like the kind of crap
that we're cleaning up like we're talking the rotted out husks of
old crts and like i thought you meant literally rotting i was like oh no no
but like dangerous yeah and like furniture that we haven't used in months
like the uh the the couch that used to be on the LTT set that just went to unit
101. oh this was a good one this was a really good one so you know those old
shelves we had back at the langley place in the background yes okay the that on
that was like the old a-roll when we were shooting in the dining room yeah
the like wood colored ones yeah the wood colored ones okay so all the shelves for them were in a
scrap wood bin and then those with just the mid shelves
had just like a plank across them and were being used as like a warehouse rack
and i'm kind of sitting here going you know we actually have
scattered around the two warehouses many many pieces of warehouse racks that
could have been assembled to make a warehouse rack but like to be clear i
understand why people are doing these things a lot of the time because they
don't have time to solve the problem properly and we're like constantly
working at a frantic pace around here like i get it
that just doesn't make it not frustrating
and yeah so lots of people moved locations
brandon and max are in the camera den now uh luke has his own office how's
your office baby it's co i stole two of the bean bag chairs yes all that so i
will have the comfiest meetings ever with my employees that aren't we
will have the comfiest meetings my friends call me they were like dude you
have the comfiest meetings uh yeah i know it's it's it's weird it's
very weird because i've been with john for like two years
actually slightly more than that because in the previous office i was also with john so you upgraded your workspace
because you have an office with a door but you downgraded your neighbor
yeah and i because i don't have one anymore and i'm massive
right now but he's not like he has to sit next to nick
but there's like a big wall and stuff like john and i had a communal space and
now like uh i got brandon's old desk yeah so my actual usable desk space
probably went down yeah actually like 30 something percent yeah
like it's actually a very i used to have all three of my monitors and quite a bit
of usable space now i have all three of my monitors and that's where the desk
ends maybe i was sending a message of what about all the [ __ ] that you
don't need to keep on your desk anymore i'm probably gonna get another desk
mostly because uh i want more monitors though dang it
i'm going to put monitors there i'm probably going to go like i was going to
win that one off craigslist for like 25 bucks each because i just need junko
crappy monitors to do like server monitoring right i don't need nice ones
you know what we could probably figure out is like we have uh an ifinity stand
that i don't think anyone knows what to do with like maybe we could anyway that would
you know what right before you do furniture for your office um you're
gonna want to oh wow that looks really different but
it doesn't anyway we'll solve that later we oh yeah we moved the lan show yeah
sort of yeah so it's like 10 feet back
from where it was where the camera is now is essentially where the desk was
more or less before frankly i don't think it makes a huge
difference to the quality of the show i mean this show wasn't great quality
anyway and i think it's gonna be a lot easier for people to move around because
now it's not like right in the middle of a high traffic area so this is
interesting you didn't know this oh sorry before no before you do furniture
stuff in there um check with Yvonne because like there will probably be like
a plan already okay and like we might be able to get you like some shelving i'm
not even super worried about it yeah like we'll deal with it but um the
hexagon like a little notepad of the things that i like want the hexagon wall
from the spaceship
so the plan is to just lift that up you know the RGB wall yes okay i think
that's just going to go like right here oh that's cool yeah yeah because the
spaceship is dumb and needs to go away getting rid of that yeah we're getting
rid of the spaceship and we're just turning that whole area into like a condo
but that's actually yeah coming back to the final inspection
so the theory was that the inspector
would come in and look only at the new tenant improvement and that was actually
why we built the new tenant improvement like
a half a centimeter away from the old one so that it would actually be a
completely separate structure so the inspector will not come look at
our old tenant improvement because if they did that then any code changes in
the last two and a half years would have to be retrofitted to that one you don't
want that that's a big problem yeah okay
so it turns out they also want to look at the warehouse space because that's
under the new tenant improvement so that needs three exits to the outside
and i thought that those two front doors would still count but technically one of
those front doors which is now enclosed and is a dedicated exit for the new
improvement because it needs dedicated exits because it's not actually technically part of the old improvement
that doesn't count for the warehouse even though
assuming that the employees of Linus media group are not a bunch of raving
idiots um i'm sure people would be able to figure out to open one more door to
get to the outside and there are already two exits but we
need three so those ones are technically
sort of obstructed right now well that one definitely is well i'm the
one behind where the the long-term dust project that one definitely is too so
there's one here one there we only have two
so the good news is that we were planning to
rearrange some stuff anyway that way um
so workshop is maybe going there but then maybe also staying here because
like it's pretty i like this set it's the one that i still really like yeah um
but the green screen is going to shrink and then the condos are going to move
this way but then what we could do is we could maybe come get our final inspection
while that stuff's kind of torn down and in
flux and then maybe the inspector could
gtf out of here and then if there ever was a fire there
would actually be two full exits for the maximum like five people that are ever
in the warehouse no there would definitely be three three full exits people for the five x's
five exits yeah many all the exits
we have the best exits make america pay for the exit
um those jokes like just never get old i
know right it's like we haven't introduced the show yet oh
right yeah did anything else crazy happen this week we just finished the inspector part
anything else crazy oh man i don't know all the things like it was
like archaeology town around here man like honestly organization vlog could be
as much fun as moving vlog because even
though we didn't no i don't i don't know yeah yeah
someone broke into my van and so now we're talking about it yeah
no i'm not gonna go not to like specific bits yeah um
but like i was a really loud train honestly we've actually here wrap your
brain around this okay i'm about to blow your mind all right we've been in here
longer than we were in the langley house no i know i had that realization i
walked out of my office today to come down to here and was like by office and
then just like brainwave hit me and i fell over into a beanbag chair cause i
was like holy crap because i was like it's like that felt more impactful than
leaving the old office and i was like i wonder why and i was like oh wow you've
been in there forever yeah yeah isn't that crazy it's my two year
anniversary on monday it's you're you're watching two years yeah buddy is that
past the point where i can just fire you for no cause and with no notice
i mean you are the owner of the company is it max
all right well then i guess you're still on the team Colton
yeah whoa Colton's still on the team let's do some ads
i'll get to the ads later later um so
yeah there's actually like more archaeology to do here yeah than there
was there and you remember how freaking crazy yeah that place was
um so yeah it's gonna be a lot of fun and
there's a lot of personalities involved okay
things got snippy a little bit because like i know you weren't here this is why
you saw some of the team chat though things have gotten a little snippy you
know there have been some there have been some messages to the group chat
about grading people's ability to park
their cars yeah far enough back from the sidewalk yeah um you know like there's
been way too sassy that was probably that's probably over
the line sassy and uh
so yeah stuff's uh stuff's gotten real this week
meanwhile i'm like sitting on a train yeah meanwhile you're on a train i can't
really tell about what my event was retrieving our broken company van yeah
which was like so i was expecting this train trip to be
horrible i only got two hours of sleep beforehand sucked but like it's a train
trip so whatever yeah um got held over
at the border they didn't want to let me down because they couldn't understand what i
was going to do don't let me don't let me well they were like why are you going
i need you i need you i need you right now
don't let me don't i can't remember okay so
they're like they're wondering why i was going so far to pick up the vehicle and
then like stopping off somewhere else it's a fair question it wasn't my
vehicle yeah it's a fair question and then he kept on getting confused about who i worked for
okay which was really difficult also a fair question well not really because he
would be like who do you work for and be like lioness media group be like who owns a vehicle and Linus media group
okay so is it your vehicle i was like no it's the companies what companies
Linus media group okay so you did make it pretty easy on him
yeah like it wasn't it wasn't super complicated but then yeah we got pulled
in and it wasn't it just took an annoying amount of time when like
there's a train that's going to leave right but i left intentionally like way
early so i ended up being totally fine which is part of the reason why i got
such a small amount of sleep but whatever and then the wi-fi on the train
was legendary no streaming of any kind allowed
yeah not even not even music okay and any files above 10 megs they
just killed really yeah you can you know you can vpn
it usually yeah some of the some of the others on the ferry and stuff like i'm
not new to that but it's just like ah all right come on come on and then so i
get down there get the vehicle it's fine check out rod's shop it's amazing yep
holy cow his cnc is incredible it's so it's expensive but it's badass
um broad's pretty dope and then i went up to microsoft and things happened
and then you guys will hear about that later
yeah so my my week was uh definitely more eventful than yours
i mean mine was pretty eventful yeah maybe you know but we wouldn't know that
no right get owned right
um all right so i guess we should get
into the news for the week we haven't even rolled the intro well okay without
looking without looking at the doc okay uh uh vega Threadripper uh core i9
uh maybe NVIDIA did something
yeah cool sounds good all right forget it screw it
all the first topics are i9 Threadripper and vega
sick
sick brah i'm trying to see if NVIDIA did something but i don't think so
maybe it just wasn't newsworthy because like it didn't make it into the circle
jerk right yeah am i allowed to say circle jerk while
i'm flashing our sponsor logos on the screen
let's just hope they don't look at that part all right
and yeah it must be the wind show that's
weird i resized it now it looks so different to me
it kind of does yeah we could probably move it a little closer even try and take up even less space out there yeah
all right so why don't we move into our first tech topic of the week so the core
i9 CPU lineup specs have been finalized
this is according to pc pern it was posted by the benjamins
over on the forum now there was a lot of speculation
that the reason that Intel wasn't finalizing um
some aspects of their of the rest of the core i9 lineup was
because they had no idea if they were gonna be able to make these bloody
things based on how much power they were gonna
consume and how much heat they were gonna output which okay is kind of a
weird trend can i just say we have these processors being a huge
amount of power huge amount of heat vega huge amount of power huge amount of heat
where for the last longest time it's just be like those things don't matter
because they're just constantly going down well that's i guess what uh what
competition does is it forces you to push the envelope a little bit yeah
which is cool um so here we go so sky lake x
goes up to 18 cores as we already knew
but this is some interesting stuff it will turbo up to 4.4 gigahertz at turbo
boost max speeds and it'll turbo boost
at turbo boost 2.0 speeds of up to 4.2 gigahertz
so that's uh that's pretty sick i guess it'll cost two grand which we already
knew and it'll have 18 cores 36 threads
as we already knew so the pricing looks like from the 7900x which is kind of the
flagship right now at a thousand bucks you're going to pay 200 200 300 then
another 300 to get 12 14 16 and 18 cores
respectively and they pretty much are all going to turbo the same except the
7900x and the 7820
which are gonna hit 4.5 gigahertz so
those are your single thread kings if you need a high core count processor
because otherwise you're just getting a 7700k because you're not stupid enough
to spend money on an lga 2066 motherboard so you can put a 7740 on it
how that stacks up with threadripper is that basically multi-core at the same
core counts performance is gonna look fairly similar remember skylake is a
generation behind kaby lake on the consumer side so that is one fewer
generational improvement that AMD has to fight with on this platform
um so at similar core counts they're going to perform pretty similarly except maybe
a little less for AMD because their max turbo is 4 gigahertz
but what AMD brings to the table is higher base clocks so in those highly
threaded workloads AMD is going to look pretty good and they bring lower pricing
to the table so uh your 16 core is going to cost a thousand bucks so AMD's going
head-to-head against Intel's 10 core and their 12 core gets to go up against
somewhere between an 8 core and a 10 core but that 8 core is actually
kind of kneecapped with only 28 PCIe lanes versus redrippers full 64.
and then the 1900x is that kind of weirdo skew where it's only got eight
core 16 threads just like
the consumer top end ryzen 7
but it's got 64 pci elaines for being
able to put like lots of gpus or other devices on it and nick needs something
what can i do for you you need me like water like the other
words i'm gonna show you guys something while Linus is gone that i just think is
absolutely wonderful is this i opened it on the wrong
computer it's okay i'll figure this out perpetual windshield hock
so this happened on twitter you guys might have seen it it was pretty popular
on the reddits today but NVIDIA tweeted out welcome back AMD threadripper and a
GeForce 1080 ti make a compelling pair it's interesting because you have to
remember that they're technically separate business groups the graphics cards and the cpus on AMD's side so
NVIDIA is like totally okay with doing stuff like this
whoo the fight is coming
me one second i think with that we're gonna move on
wow
oh what okay hold up how do we turn this back on
does it automatically you can talk normally yeah it just automatically turns back on
okay so unfortunately a light that is like right here was unplugged and it
takes like a long time for it to heat up which does that make sense because it
was already we'll figure hot out we'll figure it out
because i'm plugging it vacuum and i plugged the wrong thing you're going to vacuum here
right now no no i'm plugging oh unplugging that
okay anyway sorry moving on
huh enter max is gonna have the first out of the gate aio for Threadripper
i'm gonna drop this into the chat and then try to get it up on screen real
quick
i don't see it warming up so i'm really not sure about that
yeah that might be a good idea what's up what's up what's up uh we're gonna talk
about threadripper's first water block and i showed off yeah uh Colton
accidentally unplugged that i showed this off did he accidentally copyright
strike our own channel while he's at it
yeah you heard me Colton
uh i showed this off real quick oh cool
what yeah that so that happened on twitter no
yeah you know with how much bad blood there is between those two companies
like that almost comes across as like
throwing shade man yeah
like oh man that is like
honestly like the way okay so first of all
oh so AMD did
segment the company so they switched over
yeah i said that when you're gone AMD and radio technologies group so like
technically NVIDIA is just talking to the CPU side yeah and technically
a lot of the bad blood really is
between NVIDIA and ati yeah that's how far back it goes but
like the engineering teams like the engineering team at AMD
contains ati people still like for sure
yeah like there's a lot of lifers that are still around there
um hey brandon is it like coming back i
think so so like
here here here no it's fine it's fine don't worry about it i don't see it warming up i got a solution here look
it's not plugged it's not what oh nice yeah yeah yeah we use the flashlight
flashlight on the phone baby there we go no problem okay we got this
we got this um so what's what's your vibe what's your
vibe genuine genuineness welcome back to the
enthusiast party or uh
or or are they throwing shade like like ha ha you weren't you weren't around for
five years i would give them uh benefit of the doubt here you would give NVIDIA
the benefit of the doubt when it comes to crapping on AMD
okay but it is crapping on them the welcome back
the welcome back part is crapping on them but they are legitimately saying
like we think our gpus will work well with your cpus which they will yeah
that's a good point and they are legitimately saying that so i think
they're like like to the guy who like goes on
vacation for a year and then scores his first touchdown after like a really
really really long time and you're like welcome back you did a
good job like it's a little sassy but at the same time you're like okay good job
or it's just broken now yeah it's possible that we like hey
the lights on okay oh lordy
okay uh what else we got in the news this year
wow world's worst throw sorry
this is interesting so this was posted by knickknack on the forum more
threadripper news the original isn't on it's warming up now you guys will it
yeah it's coming right it's coming it's coming uh the original article is from
tom's hardware okay so there was a lot of controversy
over Intel's um i don't even remember the stupid
features called anymore but their bootable raid that bypasses the pci express
controller and the chipset and goes straight off this ah something something
rock dang it v rock
uh so v rock uh Intel's software raid that's running straight
off the CPU that's bootable there's a lot of controversy over Intel's
intention to allow users to upgrade to it with like a
hardware like enabling key that they have to plug into
their motherboard although so i'll give them this though
they were a step ahead of AMD who is straight up not able to support
bootable NVMe raid at all right now
so there you go how many people do you think this excludes
okay two answers answer number one
very few yeah answer number two within the community of users that are
going to buy they're buying a thousand dollar processors
400 motherboards if i'm spending this kind of money on a
motherboard i better have cashola to just drop on NVMe rate but
even then buying a one terabyte NVMe drive is just your bootable drive and
then doing other stuff with other things like hard drives and whatnot for like
huge amounts of storage beyond that seems pretty reasonable i think yeah
even my crazy stupid overbuilt computer
just has one NVMe drive and
and it's lightning fast and i can't tell the difference between the stuff that's
on the seda rate yeah
because it's pretty fast having like three really quick ssds in raid zero so
there aren't a ton of of uh consumer applications for NVMe
raid boot drives however drives that's that's the part
that i'm trying to make very clear here that i'm talking about because you can
always software rate NVMe drives yeah that's been i have a software rate of
NVMe drives that we're running our our editing server off of yeah so we're
specifically talking about boot drive yep um and honestly i have a hard time
telling the difference between an NVMe boot drive and even a good SATA
SSD boot drive like not even raid zero unless i'm hitting it pretty hard yeah
um however
threadripper is being targeted at the
workstation user as well as the enthusiast who's just like
herpadip i want the bestest i want to go
faster and just like buying more NVMe drives
even though they know they can't tell the difference and on the workstation
where you're working with some like huge data set or something
we're talking 16 cores crunching it
you could run into an i o bottleneck well how do you care about it being on
the boot drive
also they're enabling the feature in the future
so this is kind of a it was kind of a non-story this is i haven't even noticed
that part at launch okay
now it's just my house is mostly so like it barely matters and it only matters
for a limited period of time yes all right this is kind of okay this is
one of those things where like it's kind of like Intel having okay so
Intel had support for uh
NVMe raid within their um what's that stupid uh rst uh rapid storage
technology or uh srt no rst their rapid
storage technology like their driver like software raid doodad that lives in
the system tray there you go okay so they had support for NVMe raid going
back quite a quite a ways um but the problem for me when i bought that 48
NVMe server you feel old i didn't sorry i shouldn't say bot because super micro
sent it to me but i bought the drives that went in it going back quite a ways
i still remember making the video for like the first drive let alone right
anyways okay so when i got the 48 drive
server i ran into all these problems trying to
create a raid array because it turned out that it was capped at 12 devices
and i was like well this is a spectacularly first world
problem that affects very few people like
like me no one else had ever brought it up to supermicro i was like hey so
you've got this 48 drive enclosure like how do you run all the drives
together and they're like nobody's ever asked
i'm like what do you mean nobody's ever asked they're like well
don't take this the wrong way Linus but most of the people using a device
like this kind of know what they're doing
i mean they said it a lot nicer than that like way nicer than that
but it was pretty savage and i got all the way to like one of
their like a like class support texts
and the guys just like yeah like we're shipping this crap to
like you know tier one software companies like they've got their own proprietary
crap they're running on it like like they're like forking
Linux distros to like build their own yeah freaking thing and i'm like
so like get it you know you got a number for someone over there maybe they want
to hook me up for like oh brutal yeah so i ended up with
Windows storage spaces which is a huge great by the way
which is working great by the way working great what for me what's not
working great i i have i've talked to multiple people about it i tried to set
up my system with storage spaces oh yeah do you remember because the like i had
lots of problems with those two boards the first one wouldn't boot with certain
RAM configurations yeah yeah the second one had just no raid set up yeah it just
didn't exist on the board at all yeah so i was like uh
i'll try storage spaces and everyone was like it'll be fine it's been fine for
everything except for ubisoft games
oh really okay well that i didn't see coming steam games launched fine yeah
origin games i think i've had problems with like one
or two and they were like super retro ones all the new ones work fine
and then every single ubisoft game doesn't work at all you know you have a nas anyway if
i were you i would just be software five and then mirror it yeah it doesn't
matter yeah it's just it's just annoying like why
am am okay we could definitely blame ubisoft here
but at some degree it's probably i wouldn't be surprised if it's both sides
to a little like a little bit yep i don't know i think your nas also supports iscsi you
could set up an ice cream would be totally fine yeah that would probably that would probably do it
um i'd be loading games off hard drives
i don't want to put everything over there yeah right yeah
oh this is cool this was posted by the angry computer masher on the forum the
original article is from video cards apparently
red ripper water blocks are coming which is important because Threadripper is
also the heat ripper yeah um so it's available in a variety of
different colors there's red there's silver it's a variety of sorts and it's
by a company called biski byski it's a chinese there are so
many chinese case and like cooling manufacturers that i had never freaking
heard of when i went over to computex like
cognitively i'm aware that there is a billion people in china
and cognitively i'm aware that that's as
many people as there are in north america
and like i think most of europe combined
like cognitively i'm aware of these things
so it makes sense then that there would be
like for every ek and swift tech
and swift i i've never heard of this company before and i'm going to assume
that they're bigger than both of them it could be so for every ek and every
swift tech there's probably a brand that exists solely within china that's as big
or bigger it's like that's gotta be great for that
company because then you only deal with that country's
issues and you're shipping although it has some pretty special issues but right
we've learned that yeah like apparently there's a whole like
bribe economy in in the tax system yeah so when you're paying local taxes
there's like bribes that you have to pay along with the taxes and that can depend
on like who the person is and what their status is and it changes over time
almost impossible to automate yeah and like like it's pretty
it's pretty sketch actually but yeah carry on but but you'd probably get used
to it if you're there your whole life and you get used to it um and like
shipping stuff is probably relatively simple not going over tons of different
borders not dealing with all that although i think the last mile is legitimately by bicycle in china so
there's that not all oh not all of them
yeah i mean shipping to like stores and stuff yeah
but yeah carry on well it's impossible that it's all of
them no no okay yes not everything yes you would have yeah but because like big
apartment buildings yes yes yes i doubt you're shipping a threadripper to like
a hut you know what we should go on a field
trip to china at some point like i've been there now you've been there right
but i was there for like 48 hours tops
similar yeah like i was like in my hotel room float planning almost the entire
and like i was in a hotel that specifically had instructions for how to
bypass the great firewall of china so yeah my only exposure to it was like
on tv something came on and i was like
like i know what's behind that but like why are you even bothering like
huh i like i couldn't even figure out why they didn't want people to know
about that specific thing but i was like oh yeah look at that they really do
censor tv how about that um
but but it would be it would be interesting to just go see like chinese
land parties and like oh my god that would be super cool like
that would be pretty that would be pretty fun like isn't one of NVIDIA's
like big like certified we should try to meet center's there i think so and we
should try to meet with like a big chinese uh like computer hardware
reviewing group yeah that would be very interesting to
see what they do just be like you're like a studio what's up yeah yeah like
how do hardware reviews work in china because like honestly like what are your
big brands yeah like the truly global manufacturers the guys like Intel yeah
like they could put us in touch yeah for sure AMD would probably be easier
actually because they're less segmented from region to reach right because
they're a smaller company um you know because they haven't had a
great five years um but yeah like someone like AMD could
probably be like yeah like here's the guys who matter in china be like yeah
that would be super interesting i wonder if we'd be able to get a visa for that
it's media so it would be harder yeah but speaking of uh meetings or something
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um did i say it was 30 day free trial speaking of free trials you and i
got a huge variety of spectrum glasses
to try out and i am planning to wear mine for the rest of the show i don't
know about you okay i'm down i am totally down i've picked mine already i
actually checked out all of them oh really those are kids
oh really so you can try that and i think these are more for ladies
you know what you know what cat eyes i'll try them all right so they got a
bunch of different styles of shots i'll try the kids one this is artist
you're not going to fit the key i'm going to try it all right so this is the
artist style oh my god they're amazing you know what's funny
they even have like oh these are adorable
heck yeah these are awesome you know what's so
funny about like hipster people
hey they've got the uh they're double jointed so yeah when they drop them or
sit on them or whatever and even even the ends are all flexible and stuff okay
the funny thing about hipster like artist people is that these
were legitimately what my grandma was wearing in the late 90s
now that's a cool trendy thing for young people because that's how it works
apparently i'm liking these i'll wear these for the rest i actually i'm i'm down for i'm
down for the hipster i'm down for the hipster like uh because they got like
the the the yellow and black kind of alternating kind of pattern around them
it actually looks pretty good right right those look good on you too i think
they're slightly too round but when you're looking at the set like this
pattern looks really good on you cool yeah well i'm happy to be trendy anyway
the point is spectrum glasses are for folks who stare
at a monitor all day they filter the blue light but let through the yellow
and they are meant to make it more comfortable to be using a screen all day
some monitors do have a blue light mode but that's only really gotten popular
within the last few years so there are literally millions tens of millions of
monitors and laptops actually out there that do not have a mode like that and
while there are software solutions it is not the same type of filtering yeah
these do yeah they're stylish that's one of their talking points we'll let you
guys be the judge
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okay all right so let's see what else what else we got here or uh float we got
we got news oh yeah oh yeah cool what's up on Floatplane right now
um oh i never well you're giving that up i can talk about this i don't think we
need anything on screen for this necessarily uh discord is announcing
video chat and screen sharing although one big thing that's going to lack on
this launch is there won't be any audio pass-through for the screen sharing
although i don't necessarily know if i care all that much um
i'm sure it matters to a certain degree is that like something where they're running into like drm
sort of restrictions possibly or like they're passing the video through yeah but if
they can't pass the audio like that it's less likely it would make
the group movie watching experience a little less right likely i could maybe i
don't know i don't know does it though i'm just guessing so but
then skype maybe has a bigger legal team or something i don't know uh they are
saying now friends on discord can watch each other play their favorite games
while talking face to face that sounds weird i don't know if that's really
gonna be a thing uh but it might be a lot easier for streamers maybe you're
just getting old maybe that's possible um i could see it
being a much bigger thing for streamers discord already has streamer mode and
like ties into twitch where you can have all your subscribers in your twitch
channel and all this kind of stuff and if you can have voice and video calls
streamers could have like a streaming room and be in streaming mode right and all
kind of stuff and use that instead of like skype for playing doing streams
collaboratively right which makes a lot of sense
all right i've got a lot of good stuff on Floatplane this week actually we've
got the cheapest pc case on the market
oh man we found it we hot rodded the snot out of it it's actually awesome it
looks really cool it's actually sick alex did a great job
um i love how now that we have like alex and these other guys yeah it's like oh
this thing sucks we'll like tear the trash out of it and like make fun of it
and then make it awesome because we're just gonna mod the hell that's right baby uh 4k gaming at 120 hertz on a diy
monitor what yeah baby
wait did you make that well it's it's a kit okay that's cool unboxing the real razer
toaster nice is NVIDIA ruining your performance
by sandbagging their drivers oh that's a
triggery video i know i know but it had to be done of course it had to be done
um we've got a couple of other things we've got a lot of behind the scenes
vlogs and stuff like that we've got a couple tech quickies
um the crappiest decile i set up of all time we've had a lot of simultaneous
releases lately so it's pushed out um some pretty old videos that have been
taking a while to make their way to the platform but we've got some but like kind of in place of that there has been
a lot of sounds on uh there has been a lot of
like the new moving stuff i've actually got one more vlog and then
i'm going to start doing some meet the team pieces because people have asked for like kind of proper intros to some
of the new people you know what's interesting talking about stuff on youtube now that did
really well on Floatplane as well and if you're on Floatplane you would have seen it earlier is the the pippin video yeah
it did really well people love that still going dude it's beating the thread
ripper 1.1 million views on uh
maybe did it help that we had a sealed some people were pretty salty that we
opened that thing hey really yeah they were like
that was vintage and and i see their point like it was not
sealed it's not like you can make a new not sealed one i don't really
agree with that but we didn't damage it i collect old games and stuff but in my
opinion they're there to be played yeah see that's a philosophical thing
though that a lot of collectors like okay so this is this is i hear like
i i know that there is a lot of people that view it this way i just don't
personally so it's a stupid tangent um my one of my wife's friend's daughter is
turning one okay and so
Yvonne is getting for her daughter something that's really for her mom
because like what does a one-year-old do with a toy no eat it um
and she started collecting polly pockets do you remember polly pocket and mighty
max oh you're younger than me i know i know like people that i knew were you
wrong people that i knew were into it i
wasn't i don't know but like kids my age were into that stuff okay fine
so anyway she's just just for like for laws she's started collecting polly
pockets and she has a little like thing for them and stuff and i was looking
into it and polly pockets and mighty max for that
matter are one of those toys where i can legitimately see
how the sealed one would have a lot more value
than the non-sealed one because the pieces are so small and there's it's
really hard to track down exactly what they're supposed to come with but that's
a lot of value to sell yes
so tell me what if i bought it to play with it so if you and not to sell it if
you collected mighty max let's say for example okay you know what no let's say
you collected polly pocket i'm not judging i'm just sure saying no that's
probably what you would claim either way would you buy something would
you collect something like that to sell or would that be more of a display piece
like if you collect collecting it to sell
then in my opinion that's a business what if you collected it just to own it
because that's a third that i would want to do something with it you would want
to do something i want to play with my little polly so you would take it out of
the package even if it's just to like put it on a nice display case and like
create like a little like and i have a still life and i have done that because
i have the i have the halos master chief helmet on a stand that's out of his
packaging i have uh the dragonborn
fighting a dragon statue thing from skyrim okay i have soldier 76 i have um
master sword in a stone i have
the chick from horizon zero dawn i have a few little statue kind of thingies
that are right kind of around my house i think they look really cool if they were
in their box it would be um the game box or plain
white foam okay all right fair enough which sounds
super lame honestly looking at these mighty maxes and polly pockets
man i think there's a legitimate business
model there of just buying like like actually huge
quantities yeah and like that's of like every toy go ahead but like i'm
the person that's buying it and then using it right
because like if you want to buy it to resell it sure nostalgia man like as
like who has nostalgia of a pippin
yeah i guess that's a fair point like a maximum of 42 000 people if
everyone loves loved it yeah and i like pretty much guarantee that's not what
happened so
i'm kind of thinking okay this is our next but we just forget
that yeah forget this Linus media group that's great okay you and i just no one
else is listening right well yeah i know what i'm gonna do okay so you and i are
gonna go into business okay we're just gonna find cheap storage space nice and
every night i mean someone's probably selling theirs now that we're out of this right right okay
every new stupid crappy trend yeah we
buy like a pallet of it perfect okay we buy a pallet of it we just store it all
indiana jones warehouse style okay and then we just wait for 20 years
because i i kid you not like sealed poly
pockets we're going for like 80 100 bucks yeah we're talking a 10x increase in
value over 20 years that's actually a not freaking bad return that's not bad
you just gotta nail it every time you don't even have to if you get it right
half of the time and you can probably flip it for
something the other parts of the time exactly it's like you know it's a really
good business model right now actually sure kind of frustrating is making like
advertising more aggressively and getting better seo using trendier
websites than companies that are actually doing what they're supposed to be doing and just buying knockoffs from
china like there was this new bra thing it's
like kind of a sticker and then you pull the thing in and it pulls i don't know
how it works i don't get it oh it's like a strapless push-up bra right yeah yeah
there was a lot of online pop-up shops that happened and it's essentially like
little mall kiosks but on the internet and they just pop up with crazy seo they
advertise through like facebook and youtube super aggressively
like really really aggressively so that they're always in your news feed and you're just like oh i've seen this
advertised everywhere i guess that's the one that i've seen that people are
talking about i guess i'll just buy that one and you just make it something if
it's just super generic you just buy a crap ton of them ship them over on like
a drop ship and then just throw up a whole bunch of
different you can even have one company that just has like a hundred websites
there are a lot of like skeevy crappy ways to make money aren't they yeah some
people are bringing up fidget spinners in the twitch chat and honestly
here's what i would kind of tell you because i think they were being
kind of sarcastic but here's the thing
and some of you might not be old enough to appreciate this yet
but nothing is as good now as it was when i was a kid
and i actually mean that objectively wagon wheels would be a perfect example
of a candy that was delicious and tastes like utter trash now
but like there's actually been changes to the recipe yes
uh honey nut cheerios are another example oh my gosh when i was like six
they were awesome they killed honey nut cheerios yeah like
poor marquez who loves his honey nut cheerios so much has never even tasted
honey nut cheerios i had the good old days ones okay so anyway
here's what will happen with something like fidget spinners they'll come back
but they'll be crappier so if you bought a bunch of cheap ones
today that would be a bad play but if
you bought a bunch of like premium and specialty ones like a bunch of like cool
ones or ones with like um
timeless branding like i don't know if pokemon is timeless but something like
um uh oh man i don't know about like toy
story but like like like gundam branding like some kind of
really resilient anime or something like that a really high quality one from like
a reputable maker a palette or two of those would be worth
a gold mine 20 years ago i'm sure of i wonder if even like uh
dude perfect ones no i okay
nothing against dude perfect but i wouldn't bet on any youtuber including
ourselves because they're too short-lived it's potentially too flash
in the pen right um and you look at every youtuber has what i call the curve
where they go yeah they go like sorry i'm gonna go across your face because i
was right behind the thing where they go like this everybody grows really slow at
the beginning because that's that's the nature of the algorithm and then they
grow and then they plateau
and then they decline and sometimes it's a slow decline and sometimes some come
back phil defranco ijustine these are examples of creators that that bucked
the curve and and you can also just kind of
flat and then manage to come back up again and then go flat and then you'll
come up again and then you'll fly yep but that curve i've seen it so many
times and there can be a thousand reasons uh got into tv yeah just lost
their passion team fell apart got bored uh
decided to form an mcn didn't adjust
with the current like meta didn't adjust
didn't change their thumbnails i just didn't care anymore like there's a
thousand reasons why people fade off the
platform but i have seen very few
examples of turning your platform success
once you are no longer supporting the youtube audience
into some kind of actual sustainable
off-platform success um i think uh harley from epic meal time would be an
example but i do have to wonder if his fortunes
today would actually be even better if he had stuck with youtube for longer
because youtube is kind of like the investment phase
of a modern web video production business
it's like it's like where you're burning money it's like when you got your seed
funding and the see the funding might just be your own time yeah but that's
where you're investing into the business and you're growing the audience and then
there's like a monetization phase where people might try to go off platform or
they might try to us sell shirts open a merch store they might try or they might
try to pewdiepie's mobile game where they try to monetize in other ways if
pewdiepie spent all his damn time on his mobile game
then the plateau would happen because the
youtube audience and investing into that audience and growing it is how you open
up new opportunities for all that other stuff down the line yeah
um and basically the second you stop focusing on youtube that's where you
start to see a decline generally speaking some people are like
uh this guy because you didn't like call them out
like yeah it's not the point yeah the point is in any particular individual
right now this is a this is a greater observation about the platform
um anyway i feel like we've gotten a little
a little off topic uh this was posted by mr troll on the forum the original
article is w from wccf tech so you can take it with a grain of uh
wccf tech but AMD is rumored to be
building once again a dual AMD top of the line GPU card
which would surprise me a lot um but apparently they're going to throw
a couple of vega 10xts on
a single graphics card really
wow apparently nearly 600 watts of power draw because
yolo
um wow i would recommend not buying it if
they make it
like directly
and that's the end of that chapter
um over 50 teraflops of fp16 compute
25 teraflops of fp32 compute so this
thing is like it's almost like a workstation card except that they're
gonna aries gamer brand it out to the nines it is 600 watts per single card
you know and you can just put two the power supply makers
have to be just giddy right now oh yeah because for the first time in quite a
few ever a 1500 watt power supply might actually
be necessary like i'm serious if you went 18 from
what i'm hearing rumor wise an 18 core core i9 but who's doing this
just hold on hold on that's what i don't know hold up that's what i don't
understand these new processors that everyone's pushing in the consumer space
are not consumer processors
i don't like i don't understand why everyone like on reddit and all this
kind of stuff is freaking out over these processors who's why are you bought are you buying
this why are you buying this it's not for you
it's not for me okay why does anyone care okay you could
have used a computer with that much wattage before if you just bought server
parts okay let me jump let me jump i'm gonna let you finish but i'm like
you can go ahead it's just so stupid i don't i don't know it's a chicken and
egg thing though will we ever get software development that is really and
truly honestly multi-threaded if
it doesn't come to the high end i think we're going to wait for constant and eventually trickle down
i think we're going to wait for cars to consoles yeah
but it's got to start somewhere so can we be excited just for the
beginning of it even if we don't want to buy it is like old as hell now that's
true but knight's corner didn't have
single threaded performance like these new ones do that's true
these are like they're the everything so when people are like uh like that one's
too expensive this is like are you gonna buy the other one is that one more
affordable for you this is the happiest you're still in the red i need it to
product like okay but think about it this way too what about the used market
three years from now you could use market on a two thousand dollar process
yeah it but it would be like you know six hundred bucks
because we've seen the curve in three years yeah maybe
before would be cheaper at least the process is finally starting
because here's the thing for the power supply makers
for all this time they've had a product that has
no legitimate they they tried to be the
first one out so they're like everyone else can now make things that need more whatsoever
there was no upgrade at all
yeah yeah whereas now there is legitimately okay when all of
my baller friends get tired of their vega 64s and buy
something more efficient probably and their and their you know core i9s
because word on the street is like overclocked you could be looking at
hundreds uh not a couple
hundreds of watts through an 18 core
core i9 through the socket okay so you know i could buy this stuff for
pennies on the dollar and have legitimately a baller ass gaming machine
but i but i need a baller power supply for it so like scrapyard wars
2026 is gonna be banging yeah pretty
much and and and like the one thing that
we're going to make sure that we invest in this time
is a good power supply
like a really good one yeah yeah
um what else we got here
paris is apparently considering esports for the 2024 olympics which i like
i've defended esports on the lan show against you for years and i think this
is so dumb yeah i would be down with there being like an
easy olympics sure but that should be like it should be
like okay and don't take this the wrong way careful
now but it should go olympics
paralympics and then e olympics
because quite frankly even if you just see it as like first
one into the gate the audience overlap
is like negligible yeah probably you could run
them at the same time no because then i think that's like
okay think about like you know households with one screen you know okay
yeah yeah yeah junior doesn't want to fight with grandpa over you know who's
got the tv yeah um but you know what what have we got here
they'll consider an inclusion as a metal event accordingly okay you gotta read
this quote you have to right there we have to look at it because we can't say
it's not us it's not about olympics then the next one the youth yes they're
interested in esports and this kind of thing let's look at it let's meet them
let's try and see if we can find some bridges the youths
they like they like the electronics
we need to find a way to incorporate it so that the youths are interested
oh my goodness all right uh this was posted by the beast pc on the
forum the original article is from tom's guide
this is apparently what the iphone 8 looks like
it's an iphone 8 dummy unit and it's a video
dagnabbit looks like a marquez video looks like a
marquez video i like that that carpet right there that still
doesn't have his uh thing that i told him to put on it when i inspected his
studio um okay
well we'll see how that goes i wow i i can't actually believe how
much i hate this really i don't mind it oh i think it's
because the screen extends on each side of it it's a terabyte i think it's just
a way to get more screen real estate because you have like little notification things up there like your
battery status and stuff is in line with your camera
i don't mind it at all personally
that i really hope that's not the touch sensor on the back
that is pure cancer right in the middle
is mine written i don't know is it i think so i thought it was up a
little bit uh no you might be right actually that might be closer to the lg
approach let me i'm going to i can't remember my phone on me wow i actually
don't remember the last time i was that
not caring about a uh an iphone apparently not in the middle
at all oh yeah okay i'm sorry apparently it'll have wireless uh
charging it'll still have a camera bump on the back
and this is ridiculous okay this is posted
by snorting frogs on the forum we have been hounding seagate to let us
play with their 60 terabyte SSD since they announced it like a year ago
they still haven't gotten one to us and now they announce a 64 terabyte NVMe SSD
gosh darn it you guys no i'm real upset now
well i'll just ask for this one instead there you go disney to pull their
content from netflix this is originally from bloomberg this is a big deal
actually yeah so the
happy ecosystem that where you just pay one flat fee
and you get pretty much all the content that you could want
is getting fragmented so much for the idea of pulling the plug
or cutting the cord or whatever it's called there's a tied
commercial so much for cutting the cord and being
able to get pretty much everything you want for like 15 bucks a month in 4k
um it is you're gonna have to start building your own cable package the way
you used to subscribing to a bunch of different services and there is a huge
gap that is that just got formed
in the market for someone who's the aggregator
who's like okay basically a cable network yeah the online cable network is
coming where they're just like a platform where you buy your your disney
and your netflix and your other packages you view it all in one space and it uses
all the apis to bring together a nice little thing or if that's gonna be plex
i think the tv makers are gonna jump on this oh
so you think there's gonna be like a sims i think google could jump on this
yeah i think samsung is going to try and do their own thing with tizen i feel
like google might fail actually i think google's going to try to do it through
youtube and people aren't going to want that i don't think they will i think they're going to do it through devices
like the NVIDIA shield tv because remember too that there are tv
manufacturers including sony that bake full Android experiences into
their tv yeah but there's people that want this on their laptop the the trend
of like yup like university girl watching netflix all the time on her
macbook is like that's on her macbook not on her
tv it would be interesting for plex to go after it i don't think plex would
have the i don't think plex would have a negotia i don't think they'd have a seat
at the negotiation table come on plex further but for their support of piracy
all these years they're like uh we don't support piracy
but supportive piracy for all these years i don't think they win a chance to
talk about this interesting so i'll be interested to see where this goes but
one way or another disney pulled their catalog from netflix
they will stop supplying disney and pixar branded movies starting in 2019
and launch an online product of their own going directly to consumers this is part
of the reason why lioness started it and i've been doing
it for a little while now i've been like collecting when they go on crazy sales
on amazon blu-ray copies of yep movies
and tv shows that i'm personally really interested in because like yep
oh yay it's on netflix then it might just disappear
who knows and like to be clear i'm still gonna have a netflix subscription and i
do as well but the blu-ray does look a lot better if you're a big snob and if
you're like a crazy fanatic of a certain show
there's extras and some of them are really cool i really like commentary yep
that's one of my things i've always really liked like one of my favorite things ever was the making of dvd for i
think it's halo 2 or halo 3 i don't remember which one that was amazing i
love making of things and i love commentaries i i really like interviews
with producers actually yeah um like honestly that's like the making of
usually the interviews with larry david on the uh on the seinfeld complete
collection that i got at uh i got it at costco it was like so cheap it was
awesome that's the thing you snipe them on sales don't buy them at full price
because they're really expensive like hmv shut down and i got like six seasons
of game of thrones i'm still i'm still not watching but like i know i'm going
to watch them i got like a bunch of seasons of walking dead six seasons no i
got i think four seasons of game of thrones like six of walking dead which i still want to watch haven't even started
it yet but um yeah so
apparently they'll continue the relationship with marvel marvel tv
i got billington's excellent adventure and billet ted's bogus journey in a
combo pack for like five dollars or something
which was awesome oh oh oh oh
okay now this might be a case of picking studies based on confirming your own
bias but um uh this is off tech crunch apparently
some study finds and i haven't looked at their methodology at all but this is
just funny to me because honestly i think fitness trackers are the stupidest
most useless fat of all we're very against them um
i think we're both very for like
physical health and exercise and taking care of yourself i'm about that if you
have to like track your steps you're really not doing it right yeah
so fitbit apparently turns teens off exercising
has to do with pressure from pressure from competition with peers
encouraged in app leaderboard and also all the other things that are like push
push push compete against this other person only work for short term style
motivational effects or and this is the other thing i believe that fitness
trackers are great for people who were already going to be
ripped as hell and exercising all the time anyway
like it's one of those things where i don't see the fitness tracker
as a as a solution if you're only going for steps yes that's another thing they
mentioned here the un completely non-personalized 10 000 steps per day
target was cited as unfair and pressurizing goal generating feelings of
guilt or lack of ability among users like if you're working on it but it's
really diffic like very difficult for you to get 10 000 steps a day and you
just feel like you're failing all the time because you're doing like 9 000 steps but you're like really trying you
know what i'm at today that's terrible i don't even know how to check it on
here plus no
wow crap i legitimately actually don't know how to check on here
uh i never use the apple watch so it's like
i i should just switch to a watch honestly yeah
i've said that for a while to start sharing your activity sync to
the iphone yeah i don't even have it synced to my phone right now um
gamer's nexus tests the knock Noctua fan
rumors so we'll post the original article here in the twitch chat already
oh already then i knew you're gonna go into this next um they tested differences
including appearance noise and effectiveness and the online community
was quick to crap on Noctua about this
but it turns out the differences in the tooling were mostly to do with just not
just having two separate sets of molds at two different locations and two
separate facilities that have different capabilities and tuning that took place between
creating an original mold and a later mold um
and their quality standards haven't changed at all i was informed by Noctua
that our LTT edition fans were actually produced in china all of them and the nf
a14 has been they were great yeah they were great the nfa14 i believe has been
over there for a long time um but basically
uh gamers nexus got a larger sample
and debunked the claims it was down to
unit to unit variability for the original posts and
basically it's all within margin of error there's no difference between
china and taiwan made fans except for the appearance
and Noctua has always had issues with their color matching we've got old
Noctua fans where the cream is closer to white
and the brown is closer to like a reddish brown
or closer to like i particularly don't like in terms of
color the newer ones are not that big of a deal so there you go so that's pretty
much it for the lan show did you have anything else to uh
uh don't believe i can't talk about what i did this week so i don't really believe
so all right it's been a long week so i want to get the heck out of here i actually have a bunch of stuff i have to
cart up to the second story over there after this anyway so okay all right
we'll see you again next week same bat time same bat channel bye
wow lots of viewers today 6 800 almost 6 900
6900 that's pretty sick
that's pretty six d nine hundred
yeah all right so i guess uh keep these organized
right i also noticed the kids ones for these comes with a
whole bunch of replacement ones so that even if you break the side off you can
just replace it that's sick that's actually pretty smart they know what's up with kids yeah
someone on their team has had a child