AMD SLEEP BUG BOOSTS BENCHMARKS?? - WAN Show March 10, 2017
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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and sink we don't have to sink sink the
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plan is never to sink the plan is to
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float that's right all right welcome to the W show you guys sinking for the
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editor we don't edit the W show why not
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why not because the L show is already as great as it possibly could be it is the
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greatest show and we've got a lot of great topics for you guys today so first
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up twitch to relaunch curse
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as social twitch desktop app so social
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sounds very social to me it's a very interesting actual shift I I do have a
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fair bit to discuss about that even though I have never once used curse and
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very rarely used twitch MH I it would be
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once a week but like other other than that um the first am4 ITX board
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appears Facebook strikes makes a deal to live stream major league soccer matches
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which of sorry excuse me football football football not uh not hand EG
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it's not football yeah no it's not football really are you going to be that
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guy that just has to go and be uh you know all American about it well when I
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was a kid we called football the the game with the ball with the p the pig
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skin on it you know Nintendo switch sales are
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apparently absolutely crushion ating
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everything and let's see W there was
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another really cool one where is it scientists have stored a movie an
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operating system and oh yeah an Amazon gift card in a single spec of DNA so
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we'll have more on this at 11 so far we
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have zero viewers apparently that must be an error I refuse to accept that we
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could have zero viewers on the W show there are twitch Chatters so there are I
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have 601 viewers all right rock on so 61
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viewers can watch an intro that works oh oh oh and I no no I got this mute mute
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mute everything is fine everything is awesome good stuff good stuff this is
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going well going as
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expected do you have music I believe
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so I'm busy uh I'm on a new
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laptop no no I got this i got this i got this don't worry I got this i got this
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I'm trying to help I fix it I fix it now
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I fix it not you fix it I fix I
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fix I I got nothing for that
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one my my space my space no no wait it's
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in a square no it's a square my my space
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is a square nope terrible terrible everything about it is
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terrible all right I got to get logged into uh twitch here which is such an
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ordeal the way that we have it set up because you know okay I can't give any
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details because it has a lot to do with the way that we have our account secured
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but let me put it this way it's not easy it is not easy to lock into our Twitch
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account are we doing the first topic first is that um is that what's
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happening yeah why don't we do the first topic first we got a lot of actually
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really good topics for you guys today uh first up is going to
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be ah yes to relaunch curse as social
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twitch desk top app so this is the
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original article here is from The Verge and as someone who hasn't due to having
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children and whatnot um who hasn't had a ton of time for gaming in the last five
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years wow yeah I know I know I'm
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basically an old man at this point except that old people you get old
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enough that you actually could have time for gaming again
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30 no balls three kids I I have balls
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they just just don't work # no balls in the chat please
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um okay you know that the chat bot will ban them right if it that's the plan if
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it turns into a Spam Fest yeah so anyone who listens to Nick ends up
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banned um so okay so tell me then as
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someone who may have actually looked at the curse app at some
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point or another yeah what's up what is it why would anyone care cuz I it's been
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installed as what I perceived as junk wear on my stuff to be honest with you
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curse was like kind of after my time as
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well which is really sad because now I'm an old person too um but yeah I think it
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was mainly just like a chat app that had some type of integration with some games
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um so it was steam but like not steam
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yeah I think it was meant to be like a voice and text chat service essentially
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I might be wrong um but that that was my
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understanding so it's Discord but older and not
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Discord I I think so so anyway the new I
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mean twitch chat let us know let us know if we're wrong here because here's okay
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so here's my problems right off the bat m is that there
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are it's it's like an overflow there are
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so many ways for gamers to communicate
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with each other while they're gaming there's The Voice and text chat that's
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built into the game there's the one that's built into your overlay through
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whatever online platform you purchased your game through if you're a smart
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person who purchases their games through an online platform so there's that then
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there's centralized Services lots of people still use Skype but there's ones
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like Discord for example then there's selfhosted Solutions like Mumble
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ventrillo um I mean do we do we need do
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we need one run by twitch um I don't think so and okay people in the chat are
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saying no you're wrong curse is a mod platform for wow yeah like 10 years ago
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curse was a big mod platform for wow what we're talking about is Curse Voice
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which was what is being translated into twitch is twitch's desktop app here is
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what my assumption is um so yes curse
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used to be a mod platform for Wow uh as far as I know it hasn't been that mainly
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in a number of years but yeah I I really don't understand
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why this needs to be a thing like Discord is pretty much the easiest thing
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to use that I've found um but there's
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tons of self-hosted stuff there is you know even like going back to the old
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days of Skype when Skype used to be used for gaming um I I I really don't
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understand what the kind of like value that's being added here is
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um and here's something that's really funny to me is is
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like it feels like everyone else wants
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to move things to mobile and move things to web apps MH and here it is a desktop
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app now with that said as someone who does genuinely prefer having a desktop
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app like Google Hangouts which by the way this is hilarious Google is
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rebranding their yes their messaging
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service again um so so yeah we'll talk more
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about that later I would love it if that's one of my main
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issues with Google Hangouts is that there isn't like a first-party Google
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Hangouts desktop application and that it has to run in my browser in a Gmail tab
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or or I can pop it out and I could like have it all over the place but it's very disorganized I would prefer if it was
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just a desktop app I just don't really see why for gamers it is considered a
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boon to have more crap uh running in the
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background so the app's going to include Community servers screen sharing which
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like why not just use a business platform if you're going to be screen sharing why would you need to screen
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share when you're gaming voice and video messaging and
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game content distribution so same thing
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like you could get mods or whatever else on it I guess it's meant to give game
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give streamers followers a place to connect but doesn't Discord already do
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that and keep people okay so here finally we get to the meat and potatoes
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of it and keep people on the site after game streams have ended with features
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like communities twitch creative and twitch presents so as far as I can tell
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they pretty much went like hey lots of streamers using Discord to manage their
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communities why don't we just like phase
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them out okay I mean I guess okay well now
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the strategy is clear at least we've got that sorted out
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yeah um so I guess that's that's that's
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what it is yeah so the launch is on March 16th and existing curse users will
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be upgrading to the new version just like that enjoy it's uh it's kind of a
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it's kind of a funny thing like do you feel a little bit like a um do you feel
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a little bit like a like a baseball player where you just kind of get we
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getting traded you know like when when one company that you've you're kind of
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you've got your loyalty to yeah does anyone still use Razer comms speaking of
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uh do Razer com still a thing oh yeah or is it part of like synaps now no Razer
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commoms is a thing razor coms look at this you can see you
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can tell something's a thing when it doesn't just have like the the top the
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top line here when it has like lots of other crap under it that's important
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mind you some of this is Razer coms L scouter okay I don't know what that is
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but mobile to desktop free in-game
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overlay connecting Made Easy okay all right um I forget what the point I
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forget what the point I was trying to make was I completely forget what the point I
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was trying to make was
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okay so twitch is getting this thing oh yeah yeah yeah yeah right we're like you
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you sign up for a service or you give your like you create a profile with a
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company and you give them personal information like your your phone number
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your email your payment your payment details or whatever the case may be and
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just like you know one day you're you're Jose cono and you're like you're
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literally out in the field playing and
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it gets announced on the news that you've been you've been traded you've
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been traded now you belong to someone else uhhuh and they can just sort of
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acquire it they can Rebrand it they can change the features the entire Vision
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can change and as a user you have no
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influence here at all does it bother you that you can be a
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twitch streamer so I mean we're okay because it's one thing as just a user
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but let's say you've invested significant time whether it's U
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developing a mod or whether it's building a following on a platform
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perfect example of that was um oh that stupid platform that I never got into
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Vine right vine where just like boom no now we're Twitter yep no Vines uh just
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if you don't have Twitter followers if you're just a a pure Viner you're done you're dead um where twitch can just
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kind of go oh yeah we're we're selling to Amazon then curse okay yeah we're selling to Twitch which is owned by
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Amazon and it's just like it's almost like an exercise in just kind of
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collecting users I mean yeah that's at
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the end of the day that's kind of what it seems like right and that's you know the game that a lot of people nowadays
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including us to agree you're playing is like how do you get more eyeballs you
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know what I mean like the acquisition of twitch is all about okay how do we
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integrate Amazon products into this thing that's already garnering you know
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hundreds of thousands to millions of unique users per day and sell through
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that um so yeah from a user perspective
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it kind of feels you know it just feels crappy to
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kind of go okay well here's this thing that maybe I really liked maybe I really
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liked Cur voice maybe I really liked you know the way twitch was before Amazon
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and now it changes but the you know there's always two
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sides to the coin yeah okay fair enough
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um what's with your obsession with Jose
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Cano I like came in your office the other day and you were like looking up
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like Jose cono steroid something okay
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okay so the the the back okay backstory there you it's not here right now but I
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was trying to I end up on these tangents sometimes when I'm writing no kidding so
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no kidding so I was writing up my video on the LG gram
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2017 and I wanted a way to describe the
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change in the battery life okay so what
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LG did was they increased the overall
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weight of the unit by about 10% uhhuh of
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which all of of it is pure battery just
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like cramming in more battery so the
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line in the video I wanted it to be it was like going to be like more roided up
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than x and I was trying to figure out what could possibly be the most roided
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up thing on earth and so I ended up doing a bunch of
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sometimes just for one reference or one
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line in a script cuz I think the the finished script ends up being something
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like more wred up than uh late 90s
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baseball or early 9s baseball or something early 90s MLB I think is what
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I say um and in order to write that line
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and make sure I get like the era right and make sure it's about as roided up as
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anything can be I actually end hour and a half of research I end up down these
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rabbit holes where I'm like okay so is it cono or Maguire you know who's the
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who do we who who who royed the most wasn't Bon's part of that era too uh
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well I think bonds never admitted it so and like I didn't want to because
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remember too it's more than just me getting the era of the roiding right
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it's making sure that it's confirmed and and that I'm not going to get sued for
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liable um or like defamatory statements or whatever the I mean can you imagine
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if that was the end of this story if like I busted my butt and built
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this company and all these people came together and helped me run this company
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and we were all like doing a great job and kicking ass steroids so YouTube
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kicked you off not I'm like you don't get kicked off
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YouTube for doing steroids no but but if I made a careless
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comment about some baseball player who
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may even have been on steroids and they
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come after us they sue us they sue my pants off and I can't yeah you know get
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my pants back on and twitch knocks me
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off their platform for not having pants on that could happened did you see the
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guy on the news this morning who likely wasn't wearing pants the thing where like he was on the he was interviewing
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about Korea he's like a Korea expert his kids come into the room and he's just
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he's sitting there at the table like this and just like looking back and then
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like somebody comes in and wrangles the kids but he doesn't move an inch I'm like that dude is not wearing
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pants the second I saw that I'm like that dude's only got brief on man holy
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I mean holy crap sorry
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oops this is the PG show okay I'm not
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I'm not on the the live TV very often uh
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the CIA listed blackberry's car software
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as a possible Target so the original article here is from Bloomberg there's
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there was a big thing with Wikileaks this week we're not going to get too far
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into it but we thought this was pretty interesting just cuz Blackberry is one
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of the few Canadian Tech firms that
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remains and news news about black is
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this just an ad news about Blackberry really couldn't get much worse than it's
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uh than it's been over the last yeah well ever since Steve Jobs stood on
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stage and went this is the thing that is going to absolutely crush the rest of
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the smartphone market y um so in a
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nutshell oh man like they're trying to Rebrand around security um but in a
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nutshell on Tuesday Wikileaks released over 8,000 CIA documents some of which
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detail cyber attacks on iOS and Android phones Samsung smart TVs oh the Samsung
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Smart TV one was really creepy uh what
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what was the detail of that details of that one again I can't remember top to
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the effect of like it infects your TV with malware and puts it in like a fake
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off mode so that even when it's off it's
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still recording like everything essentially yeah there we go uh it's
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called the the Weeping Angel tool um and so the CIA could listen in on Samsung
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Smart TVs and it's like I don't know about you guys but I watch
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all kinds of stuff on my TV
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okay right you know you know what I'm saying I mean big screen TV right 4K I
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mean what are we using Lord of the Rings not necessarily lord of the something
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lord lord of the something I mean there's there's rings
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out there let me tell you about Rings
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okay wow wow well that got off the rails fast
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uh I think I think there were a few of those in the weirdest purchases on
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Amazon yeah I think there were a few of those anyway so blackberry's Automotive
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software was specifically mentioned as a potential Mission area by the CIA
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embedded devices Branch it's used by 60
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million cars it's unclear at this time if the CIA moved forward with the
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attacks but Blackberry basically said the only thing they can say we are not
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currently aware of any attacks or exploits against Blackberry products or
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services that's actually that's a very broad
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statement yeah we are not aware of any attacks or exploits against Blackberry
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products or Services a very very uh strong blanket statement yeah but
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they're not currently aware so they definitely could be
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um so they make uh specialized operating
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systems for Industrial Products like this Q andx makes uh the wind turbines
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anti-tank missiles and most importantly incar infotainment systems which by the
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way are terrible we should do a video on like incar infotainment system done
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right I was shopping for a Min van um
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back about wow a year ago almost back about six six eight months ago something
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like that yeah and I drove a used one that was from like 2005 or 2006 like it
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really wait what year is it now 17 crap no it was newer than that sorry
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it was like 2015 or 2016 or something like that you thought it was 2007 just
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shut up okay
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just anywh who um the one I was driving
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was the Rees so rear Entertainment System version Oh yeah and so I crawled
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back to look at it I'm like this is the worst TN panel I've ever seen are you
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for real composite and S Video in I mean
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that was all it had it wasn't even like it might not have been two or three
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years old like it was right before a refresh or something like that and it
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but it wasn't like 10 years old either and I was like this is stupid you got to
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be able to do better than this so that was when I was kind of inspired I think we should do something around that at
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some point I agree um I think um you
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know the the counter to the to this uh you know the concern about they have all
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these exploits blah blah blah blah blah blah blah that I've been hearing you
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know people in the no making is okay well don't you want us to have access to
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these that we know what people are capable of and so that we can spy on
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potentially dangerous people but we all know like but aren't that that's that's
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like if that was really the objective they'd be closing the back doors yeah
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yeah exactly and that's that's the thing where it's like yeah if you guys were
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being totally honest that these would not be a thing anymore so okay let's
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wrap up this topic and then I've actually got a a new one that I was
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inspired by an email I just received to cover because it feels like it's
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something that I really should have talked about a long time ago and I'm
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going to I'm going to do it once and for all now so maybe I won't get these emails anymore um actually I guess
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that's pretty much it so security research showed they could hack into a
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Jeep taking control away from the driver on the highway Blackberry was quick to say it Tech wasn't involved in that
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breach um but yeah anyway uh okay so I
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just got an email um from someone asking
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about like under licens doing a French version of the WAN Show and I get people
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messaging me about this all the time uh you know we'd love to work with you to
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create like a UK branch office of lonus
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Media Group or we'd love to work with
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you guys to create a Punjabi version of
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your reviews or whatever the case may be
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and the answer is no because the thing that is special
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about lonus tech tips or the W show or
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um what what do we do all day Techquickie or Channel Super Fun sleep is
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not the idea of having a
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podcast about what happened in the
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technology world this week that's been done people tune in to the W show for
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some inexplicable reason that goes
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beyond that apparently um because
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because if it were as simple as taking
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the approximate format of the W show which quite frankly doesn't have much of
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a format it's probably the least formatted show there is I mean basically
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okay here's the format we have a list of topics we're going to maybe talk about
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them a lot of the time we don't um that's that's the format no no I I I I'm
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going to take you guys deep inside the bowels
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up uh okay what are you talking about no
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bowels is not necessarily the rectum like like like bowel where I was going
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bowels of the earth is not like dirty can you get to the point okay so I'm
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going to take you guys deep inside the bowels of the inner workings of Linus
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Media Group and the inspiration for the
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W show was some other Tech podcast that
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I had never actually watched but I was vaguely aware of I was
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like okay like this format people seem
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to be watching it let's like kind of do
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that but then I never actually watched it and I just kind of like was like okay
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we'll just look at like we'll make it the forum's problem we'll just look at
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the tech news subsection of the Forum and we'll incentivize people to post
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Tech news there by calling out that they posted Tech news there on this show and
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we'll create a positive feedback loop where effectively our show will get
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written for us just by hosting a show
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that was where the WAN Show came from I was like we don't have time we don't
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have time to do seven video uploads per week if we set aside an hour and a half
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on Fridays to good Lord to host to just sit
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there then that content kind of makes itself that's the inspiration for the W
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show and that's why the vibe of the W
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show is that it's just like me and Luke
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or me and someone else else or Luke and someone else or someone else and someone
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else goofing around on a Friday afternoon talking about tech because
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that's all it really was we needed to fill an upload slot and we had this
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great resource that was our community sitting there discussing the tech that
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they thought was most relevant and we figured hey let's take those two things
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and let's put them together Boom the lcho was born it's like I don't know a
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lot of the time people I think think we have like some master plan master plan
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a
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of the master plan's usually about 30%
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plan and 170% execution that's right yeah just
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just we have this vague idea it's like on a whiteboard that like someone like
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that someone knocked over and then kind of rubbed across the carpet so you can't
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okay here's step one and step two step three four five 6 TBD we're just going
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to do it let's just go a lot of the time there isn't even a profit plan like w
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show these days is actually one of our easiest spots to sell the sponsors is
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that still correct I don't know I don't do that anymore like does anyone do that
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anymore I don't think are we I don't know okay well anyway um we
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we'll take that meeting offline
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um anyway for at least some time the W
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show was one of the it we had no idea
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how we were going to make money on the we were just like you know what um TWiT
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TV is a thing mhm all they do is
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podcasts there must be a business model here so let's just create a podcast with
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all those other factors that I that I told you guys and like surely someone
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will want to get involved at some point maybe someone will watch it and if they
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do then maybe sponsors will care oh that
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was that was the master plan anyway getting back to your point about people
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you were talking about regionalizing our ideas stuff it's about the people who
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are in the video you know usually um it's not necessarily about the format of
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the show or what's on the screen outside of the people who are in it the idea of
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creating a video reviewing the iPhone 7
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is not good I mean it's a good idea but
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it's not a unique idea it's not going to like it's not going to make it so that
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the French version of The W show or the Indian version of lonus tech tips or
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whatever the case may be it's not going to make that successful if you want to
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have a podcast and you want to have a
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tech review YouTube channel or Daily
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Motion Channel or whatever they're French um do it you shouldn't be
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licensing our brand to do it that's not
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going to make you successful that's like um so so this was this was actually a
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great conversation that I had back when I was doing the house painting okay so
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the guy who runs uh student Works painting in western Canada bought rights
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to the name from the guy who runs it in
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Eastern Canada and those two companies
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have zero affiliation financially I I'm
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pretty sure they don't even write each other Christmas cards in fact I don't
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think the relationship is very good but then he has to pay money to the other
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guy I don't think it's ongoing I think he bought it bought a license bought it
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bought the license like outright bought the rights to the name so they could
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they would carve up the the the territory that way and what he said was
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that was one of the biggest mistakes he ever made because why no one in western
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Canada had heard of student Works painting he might have he might as well
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have called it ass Works painting I mean
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probably not that but but the point is he could have called it pro- student
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painting or student summer painting or
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what whatever it doesn't matter wouldn't have had to pay a licensing fee the idea
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is just as good and it's ultimately came down to him to hustle and build the
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brand anyway regardless of that name MH
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and in much the same way that nobody should license the idea of making
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reaction videos from the Fine Brothers
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nobody should license the idea of the wow from us so I'm not saying that like
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you're stupid for wanting to have a French Tech podcast great idea I'm
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saying that what's a bad idea is trying
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to clone what we're doing because you should be out there trying to do your
28:39
thing finding what someone else is doing and copying it is not successful in fact
28:44
well it could be but I mean it won't necessarily lead to success in fact it
28:50
is my personal belief that one of the things that works about lonus Media
28:54
Group is the fact that when we try to copy something it's often without having
29:00
ever watched the original where we just take the idea and
29:04
then it's really mostly our own ideas like I think you know and and this is
29:09
sort of this is me kind of going off on even more of a tangent one of the things
29:13
that I think is really cool about the way that we make videos is that I don't
29:17
have any formal video production training at all everything that we've
29:21
done has been through trial and error and I think that you see not okay not
29:26
everything we have people here who are anyway to wrap it up my ideas are
29:30
usually trial and error why don't we say it that way to wrap it up you should be
29:34
doing your own thing don't you know try to follow in the footsteps of somebody
29:38
else of course you should take influence from others who inspire you and who make
29:43
you want to create and do what you do Be Inspired don't license yes Be Inspired
29:47
don't license and um just grind hard and
29:51
and you'll you'll make it happen so this is this is what like I just work hard
29:56
and bust your butt growth curve looks like you might not ever this is CES that
30:00
like doesn't count count so is this and so is oh no wait no this is computex so
30:05
so is this so is this the these spikes these are these are CES spikes um so
30:10
what you're really looking at here is just slow and steady wins the race have
30:14
new ideas try new things iterate on them see what works see what doesn't keep
30:18
what works throw away what doesn't by the way you're fired all right later I
30:23
didn't realize this was a motivational speaking podcast I thought this was about technology well the W that's the
30:28
thing is the W show is about whatever the W show is about that's and that's
30:31
part of what makes the W show special as well am I actually fired like I would
30:34
love to go play breath of the Wild next week instead of coming to work no you're
30:39
not fired you had your time off you spent it at Disneyland you could have
30:43
been playing breath of the wild that is not my problem that's true do you have
30:47
you played much breath of the wild how is it uh it's excellent it's like my
30:51
favorite game in years literally um so
30:54
I'm down yeah it's excellent It's like probably one of the best uh open World
30:59
Games I've ever played like hands down so like climbing a mountain in that game
31:05
is fun really to me at least like there's like
31:10
challenge in exploring the scenery cool
31:14
which is like something that I haven't experienced in a game before and of
31:17
course there are problems with it and some of it gets repetitive and blah blah blah blah blah but it is the most fun
31:22
I've had in a video game in years so I
31:25
might have to play it then yeah I don't even have a Wii U you can borrow mine
31:29
after okay sold yeah done sold uh next
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topic thank you physical media heck yeah actually do we need new sponsors uh oh I
31:38
don't know maybe I don't know what time it is because this is set to the wrong time 40 minutes in 40 minutes in okay
31:43
yeah sure why don't we do uh speaking of the W show being uh being a good draw
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for sponsors Colton is does the w show still sell well yeah yeah yeah okay cool
31:53
good job people like people like the W show people like the W show sponsors like the W show okay people like the W
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show people like the W show it's easy to
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sell why uh why is this why am I not able to open up a new freaking window
32:06
here you doing wow I'm I said frecking frecking is not a swear word said fre
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you know what eat eat a dick that
32:15
wow good thing we have the new audio set up so hopefully that didn't hopefully
32:19
you didn't just destroy everybody's ears
32:22
um yeah some people consider dick a swear word well it is no it's a dirty
32:28
dirty word it is not a dirty dirty word you just have to shower once in a while
32:32
get the cheese off and on that note wait there's
32:36
there's food down there the
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uh I wouldn't tell you to eat it if there wasn't any
32:49
food I'm done and we killed Nick Nick's
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done Nick's done um
32:59
oh yeah I mean it's it's a terrible show
33:04
you you don't want to have this show you don't want to be the one responsible for
33:07
this show really want be talking about dick cheese yeah oh my God this is a
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tech show okay can you keep things respectable please oh yeah me uhhuh
33:18
totally okay Tech topic Tech topic then we'll do sponsors I don't want the
33:22
sponsors to accidentally tune in too early tune dick and realize realize what
33:27
that's what they're paying for okay so cladin posted on the Forum
33:34
um is this the yeah okay what has been a oh by the way huge shout out to cladin
33:39
for being a Floatplane
33:42
pilot after sponsors we should tell people what's on FL yeah we should
33:45
definitely do that um so as I was looking on YouTube about riseing
33:49
overclock and blippity bloy overclock sleep bug etc etc uh basically the
33:55
summary of all of this is that um and
33:58
we've done a fair bit of Investigation we're working on our own overclocking
34:01
guide but when the high Precision event
34:04
timer is off if your machine goes to
34:09
sleep then wakes up your benchmarks will
34:14
appear to have higher scores okay so
34:18
this is actually because the system timer is running slow so Windows is
34:24
clock and anything that uses
34:27
timing is actually slowed by a fair margin so benchmarks which measure
34:32
compute time will score higher so I
34:36
believe these notes are from Anthony hold on one second hey Anthony those
34:40
cine bench scores those are your scores right okay cool thanks man okay so we
34:47
got 1750 in cinebench pre-sleep put the
34:52
machine to sleep woke it back up over
34:55
2,000 so there seems to be a fair bit of
34:59
confusion out there right now around ryzen performance because if people are
35:05
reporting benchmark scores based on some
35:09
of the tips and tricks out there that involve turning off H pet and going to
35:14
sleep and waking those benchmarks are
35:17
not actually representative of Real Performance to be clear ryzen does
35:23
perform very well but what this seems to
35:26
IND to us and actually hold on I'm just going to hey
35:31
Anthony uh our scores on the Crosshair
35:35
did not change after we uh disabled H
35:40
pet as long as we didn't go to sleep
35:47
right got it okay so our review was done
35:51
with hpet on because we didn't receive
35:55
the reviewer guidance that H might be bugged on the Crosshair on would be
36:00
correct right correct scores on means that our scores while maybe not quite
36:08
optimal are at least not affected by the timer button not affected by the bug
36:13
that makes them appear artificially inflated okay so there you go
36:20
um yeah so the window sleep bug makes
36:24
AMD ryzen overclock High and gives better Benchmark results so it
36:30
requires further investigation which is why our OC guide is coming out probably
36:34
next week or the week after and not this
36:38
week so like as a relative Layman like
36:41
what would cause something like that do we have any
36:44
idea basically the the Scuttle
36:48
butt is that AMD could have delayed the
36:53
launch of ryzen and squashed some of the
36:56
these types of bugs um these bugs don't
37:00
appear to affect like you know they
37:04
don't appear to cause risk of user data loss or anything devastating like that
37:10
but that there are some definite early
37:13
adopter um quirks quirks and Oddities
37:18
that could have been fairly easily dealt with if they had put it off a little bit
37:23
longer okay so that is sort of the
37:27
that's our takeaway and you know why I I
37:30
know the question's coming because it's a question that I ask and we debate it
37:35
internally and and it's a fair question um why not report on this in the ryzen
37:41
launch review and the reason for that is because we can say with a very high
37:46
degree of confidence that smart people
37:49
like AMD and ASUS are going to get their
37:53
heads together they're going to get feedback from early adopter users who
37:57
again it is my personal belief know or
38:00
should know what they're getting themselves into buying a brand new CPU
38:04
on a brand new chipset running a brand new memory controller brand new PCIe
38:09
controller brand new freaking everything it is my belief that AMD and ASUS will
38:14
solve little weird bugs in short order
38:20
that review covering the performance of the ryzen 1800 x has to sit there for
38:26
the next decade if all goes according to plan and I'm not going to spend you know
38:31
20% of my video the the precious little
38:34
time that I have to talk to you guys talking about some weird crap we ran
38:39
into that by the time you buy one by the time it gets put in a box and gets
38:45
transported on a truck to your house and you plug it in is going to be irrelevant
38:50
so that's why we tend not to overdo it on that stuff and the concern is
38:55
obviously there with you know what if this is causing people to
39:01
make purchasing decisions based on you know inflated benchmarks numbers etc etc
39:05
etc um which our numbers are not inflated Y which our numbers are not
39:09
inflated and the other concern is causing people to avoid purchasing
39:14
something that is legitimately very good
39:17
because of a very small issue that will be ironed out in a number of days yeah
39:21
yeah so or weeks or whatever whatever it ends up being that's that's where we're
39:26
at okay okay another thing people can stop messaging me about paladon 123
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Canadians don't like this okay what time is it in can we have we have four and a
39:35
half time zones okay it is many times in Canada Canada's
39:40
really big we have lots of trees rocks
39:43
water oil and time zones that's what we
39:47
have not a lot of people we do all live in Igloo
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though but at different times sponsors
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that's something special um Colton's judging me right now so I'm losing track
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of uh of My Talking Points uh you do
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like the hip thing you do the hip thing when you're judging you're like you're
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like angry the angry girl no no yeah yeah when you're when you stand you
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stand like this and when you judge you judge like
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that that right there that is all the body language you need for judging you
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strings not threads thread same thing no no credibility same credibility see that
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computer no do you see they're just like popping I clicked it like 30 times and
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they're just like popping up every once in a while this this alien wear quality
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right here bug report actually I have no idea at the it probably just needs a
42:05
reboot um oh yeah I'm working on a review of the new Alienware 13 so that's
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coming soon what's different about it KB Lake that's all uh but I'm I in order to
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make sure that uh okay so this is okay I guess we'll split up the sponsors today
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in order to make sure that I'm not okay this is something I've struggled with
42:24
tell me more in the earlier days of the channel M I would pretty much avoid um
42:32
reviewing a laptop unless it was a new
42:35
shell sure so do you know what I mean by shell uh yeah like clams are in them
42:41
right no so laptops get refreshed a
42:44
number of ways they can get like a single like okay they can get a spec
42:48
update where they might get like um a
42:51
new buildout that you can do for it for example now available with 32 gigs of
42:55
RAM where they have haven't materially changed anything about the actual product here they're just giving you
42:59
different options okay they can receive a uh like a like a complete internal
43:05
upgrade so they could get like new motherboard um and that in that case
43:09
you'd usually be required to build a new motherboard for like a sky Lake to KB
43:14
Lake upgrade or something along those lines um they can get or like a new
43:18
graphics card in these These Days especially for thin and lights usually
43:21
requires a new motherboard because it's built right into the same board um or
43:25
you can get a shell or um or like a
43:30
chassis upgrade where there's like a significant change to the io or the
43:34
keyboard the screen because for us a lot
43:37
of what we review about a laptop is the usability the the day today interaction
43:43
with the device and so trackpad display that's right so if the only change like
43:48
the weight we care about things like that so if the only change is that we
43:53
went from a 6700 HQ to a uh 7700
44:01
HQ um which for all intent and purpose
44:04
is very very similar then I don't have a ton to say about it other than maybe we
44:08
got some battery life Improvement but in order to make sure that the piece of
44:12
content that I'm making is materially different from last time um I had them
44:16
send over their uh graphics accelerator external GPU thing so they sent over one
44:21
of those and I'm going to Tool around with that and the review will really be
44:25
focused on that rather than and I'll make some comments on the kbl lake
44:29
upgrade but there's not much to say it's still a great laptop I still love it um
44:33
but now with an external GPU um quick spoiler are they uh certifying any
44:39
Brands other than Alienware for that external dog no so there uses a
44:43
proprietary interface oh right yes yep instead of Thunderbolt but what I also
44:47
do want to do this time around is I want to look closer at whether the razor core
44:53
will work with this because I had an experience recently on the Dell
44:57
inspiring gaming was it the inspiring gaming or was it something else I've
45:01
actually looked at a lot of Dell stuff this year we finally like know the right
45:04
people at Dell to to get laptops in so
45:08
we can hi uh yeah uh the XPS uh 21 maybe
45:13
yeah yeah that's the one it was it was the um XPS 13 2 in1 12 13 whatever it
45:18
was anyway the point is that thing um
45:21
when I plugged in a razor core with an external graphics card in it it's
45:26
specifically said there was a message that came up not supported but if I just
45:30
told that message to GTFO my desktop then it works then it actually worked so
45:35
I got scared off by that message last time I had an Alienware 13 in the shop
45:40
and I never really pursued it any further so what I want to know when I'm
45:44
investigating this and its external Graphics solution how does it stack up
45:48
how does it Stack Up Howes the performance compare because those kinds
45:52
of apples to apples comparisons are lots of fun for me and I know that the whole external graphics card thing is still in
45:57
its infancy like most people are not that interested in it right now but I
46:00
mean that's that's where I get my jollies right like weirdo Tech that's
46:05
going to be like accessible 3 five years from now but that is like really buggy
46:10
and you know entertaining therefore for me to play around with on my weekends
46:13
that I would otherwise spend with my children somebody wants you to know that
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you've ever had something that's broken and you've searched for a guide on how
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to take it apart or how to fix it how to replace a a screen how to replace a
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know is that aside from the beautifully written well pictured guides are
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beautifully Illustrated guides they also have a complete lineup of tools
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including everything from screwdrivers in the Protech toolkit here to their
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basic tool kit I forget what that one's called exactly what's what's it called
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um Essentials Essentials to I think that's right well we're going to call it
49:20
Essentials toolkit don't worry about it anyway everything from the Protek toolkit to the essentials toolkit all
49:25
the way to like the fullsize bag that has this guy uh the other screwdriver
49:30
set like the little magnetic pad for putting screws on that uses um like an
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overhead projector marker so you can label what everything is and where it
49:38
all goes the suction cups for moving displays they've got replacement parts
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for things like the adhesive seals that go into certain products so we used that
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back when we did our iMac upgrade guide they've got everything and it's all
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in my notes um so check it out Canadian can apparently get cheaper shipping on
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iFixit products through amazon.ca so here's a fun story a long time ago I
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think it was like I don't even know how long a while ago there was a post on the
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Forum where one of the Forum users was like Hey I really really like the iix
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protect toolkit I really want to get one
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I'm in Canada and it's like the shipping is like ridiculous like it's almost as
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much as the toolkit itself right which sometimes unless you're shipping
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enormous volume sometimes that's just reality of it that's how much UPS or
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FedEx is charging so we passed along the feedback to Rix at rep and because of
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the lonus tech tips audience Canadians now get a better deal on shipping
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because they worked out a deal with their with their shipment provider so if
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you guys are in Canada and you've been waiting to get a pro a Protek toolkit
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cool you should go get one because the shipping is much more reasonable
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nowadays so if you're not Canadian head over to ifixit.com
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Linus when are we going to get that vanity URL fixed I've been chasing you
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guys to fix those vanity URLs for like a year # blame Colton okay let's blame
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Colton uh ifixit.com Linus use code wow
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we even make YouTube videos anymore we could do we could I've been saying we
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should be consultants for like since I started working here because Consultants
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as far as I can tell just make buttloads of money doing not a whole lot just for
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telling people things that are obvious you should do this $110,000 please it's like what
52:00
speaking of things that you should do you should care about the variety of AMD
52:07
motherboards coming out so there it is I
52:10
believe uh that's biostar with their uh racing brand um yeah biostar racing
52:16
brand yeah I know it's very racy it's like edgy but like the old
52:21
word for it I understand so here it is
52:25
first am4 motherboard pictured over on video cards.net uh there's a few things
52:30
that we can tell about it just from looking at it uh number one is that it
52:35
appears to run off of only a four pin connector so it is my expectation that
52:41
people would be um encouraged to run like a 1,700 or less on here like 65
52:46
watt chip although there's no reason that you couldn't get away with an 1800
52:50
x you just probably wouldn't be doing a ton of overclocking uh there's not much
52:53
in the way of vrm cooling here um so this looks like not like a a balls
52:58
to the wall like an Rog competitor but more like kind of a mainstream decent
53:03
board uh you got four SATA ports right
53:06
there no m.2 that I can see that's a
53:11
little discouraging unless it's on the back which I have seen in the past so
53:14
don't quote me on that USB 3 PCI E6 DNX
53:17
two RAM slots looking pretty good I mean to be fair they don't have much room on
53:21
that board to begin with they may have just been prioritizing like okay we're
53:25
hitting this certain budget Target we don't expect that people in this range
53:29
are going to be buying m.2 cards yet yeah you know what though this is
53:32
something I really wish that AMD had done differently with am4 is this socket
53:37
yeah so two things number one is AMD has
53:41
now done this
53:44
uh three times okay so they had their
53:48
original socket 940 okay then they had socket 754 so
53:54
those used a particular mounting system so it was a single screw on either side
54:00
and then it came out to like a plastic clip bracket thing like this and the
54:04
problem with that was that third party coolers only had two anchor points and
54:07
that was kind of crappy then they fixed it with uh crap I think 939 also still
54:14
had this so I think it was am am2 was
54:17
what the first one was called anyway they fixed it they put four posts but
54:21
like they still Mount their own stock coolers with this stupid thing so I kind
54:24
of went okay fine you I realize why you changed it this time I get it fine this
54:30
time all they did was move the Hool slightly so all they've done for no
54:34
apparent reason is kill backwards
54:38
compatibility with old am3 am2 am2 plus
54:42
coolers MH and they've still got all this bulky plastic crap all over the
54:47
socket like if they had gone and they had kind of like gone okay mounting
54:51
holes here like done something LGA 2011 style where it's just got threaded holes
54:55
in around the socket that would have been super cool um I really don't like
54:59
the way they did this cuz it takes up a lot of space it moved the mounting holes
55:03
and all of this as far as I can tell was done for no reason other than to
55:07
decrease compatibility with older coolers so that cooler manufacturers can
55:12
sell you a new am4 bracket or cooler like that's the that's the the tinf foil
55:16
hat guy in me kind of going I I really can't think of another reason they would
55:19
have done that not that tin foil um go back to it for a sec someone says lineus
55:23
on the back look next to audio you can see screw
55:26
holes
55:31
um yeah I can see screw holes wow would
55:34
never miss a screw hole uh next to audio yeah not
55:39
necessarily so I I do see these but uh
55:42
those okay and those look like m.2
55:46
mounts but they wouldn't actually go all the way through necessarily like that's
55:51
not what they would look like on this side I don't know what that is
55:55
um yeah so I didn't want to I didn't want to say definitively that that's
56:00
what that is if I wasn't there's a lot of people saying there is m.2 on this one so maybe it's on the back cool so
56:04
maybe it is yeah uh that's boring is
56:08
this interesting Facebook streaming major league soccer matches does anyone
56:12
care about this I mean people in the rest of the world apparently James does
56:16
people in like in here's the thing in Canada if you played soccer as a kid
56:21
like 95% of your games were rained or snowed out so like that's why no one
56:26
cares about it here
56:29
a okay so Facebook scores a deal to live
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stream major league soccer match that and I'm pretty sure nobody cares about
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MLS I think John does well yeah but JN
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cares about every sporting league on earth like you could hey John do you
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watch professional Cricket no would you no he says no okay
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okay so okay so no Cricket all right never mind I take it back but but like
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okay okay an a sport that's interesting
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to Americans though I guarantee you he
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follows not only like the the top League
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like the national league but he follows like college and like the to be fair
57:14
sometimes even high school a lot of the college stuff that he follows is because
57:17
he went to Duke that's true he follows his college specifically and I think
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that's much of a a much more significant thing in the states yeah oh yeah I hear
57:25
that's like super not a thing like I like I think UBC has a hockey team show
57:30
Thunderbirds Thunder
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called yay let's do the do the Thunderbird
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wave no no that's not no you got to you got to do the wave you got to do your I
57:42
was doing the Thunder this was the Thunderbird wave I'm not fully in frame
57:46
I don't know but I'm a bird that doesn't look like a Thunderbird that looks like
57:49
a freaking uh Nancy bird it's not a
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car um Carin so Facebook has secured the
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rights to stream at least 22 live Major League Soccer regular season matches in
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English in 2017 and to enhance the video content with various interactive
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elements like Facebook specific commentators interactive Graphics fan
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Q&A and polling features um basically
58:14
the reason that the headline is like the nail in the TV coffin is that the money
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in advertising is going to online
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platforms uh online companies like Facebook and Google and the like and
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it's gotten to the point where they're getting very close to being capable of
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buying the rights to things like
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broadcasting yeah live sports I don't think you guys talked about this last
58:42
week but YouTube TV um they have I think
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40 40 channels that would include stuff
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like live sports and um just broadcast
58:53
television and they've bought up the rights to this stuff and people are
58:56
saying that yeah TV is in massive trouble because of this because not only
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do they have 40 channels it's only $35 a month compared to a cable subscription
59:05
which up here I think averages between $80 and $100 a month something like that
59:10
I wouldn't know I've never paid for one I have a bundle that's like really
59:14
discounted but um yeah I think a standard like decent cable package is
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between $60 and $100 yeah so um
59:23
basically the point is and I I I see
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Facebook as a I see what Facebook's doing as a bigger threat than what
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YouTube's doing where as far as I can tell Facebook's uh approach here seems
59:36
to be give the content for free like
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spend the buckets and buckets of cash
59:43
that you make by advertising to your user base something you're already doing
59:47
through other media uh through through other methods
59:51
anyway get keep people on the site drive
59:54
up more interaction by having this content basically eating the cost of the
59:58
content to get more data from you whereas I think YouTube is sort of in
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between that where they're trying to get a more traditional subscription
60:09
fee from you with that said I don't think that it's impossible that Facebook
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would try and get you to pay for a subscription at some point in the future
60:17
either Twitter Twitter did a similar thing uh I think this was just last year
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um with the national football League the NFL um where they're doing some of the
60:27
games um and I believe it's a similar thing I don't I don't think that you
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have to pay I haven't tried it um but I don't think you have to pay I think they're just eating the cost on
60:38
that oh my gosh Pizza Hut smart shoes
60:43
the original article here is from slashgear let's go ahead and bring that
60:48
up they do look amazing by the way I
60:51
would I would wear these like one of the stranger wearables um entirely
60:57
advertisement focused Pizza Hut smart
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shoes um the shoes are high tops they refer to
61:04
them as pie tops only 64 pairs are being made all of the pairs will be giving to
61:09
the media and influ and individuals considered to be influencers can we can
61:14
we get some can we get one I want one we actually have a piece of content planned
61:18
soon called wearables that aren't crap um although I don't necessar okay I
61:23
don't want to Bridges with Pizza Hut as a potential future
61:27
sponsor but if I had to eat pizza it
61:31
would not be your first choice it would not be my first choice it wouldn't be my
61:35
second choice it would not be my third
61:38
choice to be fair we have some really good pizza joints around it wouldn't be
61:41
my chain choice to be fair we have some really
61:45
good pizza joints and Pano's a thing so Pano's a thing yeah so anyway we need to
61:49
get Panago as a sponsor yeah good luck well they're like aren't they like only
61:53
Western Canada really is that right yeah I assumed they were I think they're like
61:58
just BC in Alberta oh yeah yeah yeah
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like we had a buddy who moved out here for school interesting ate Panago all
62:05
the time loved it moved back to Ontario and now he's like dude I wish I had
62:08
Panago yeah like it's it's still chain Pizza like it's not um what's that
62:13
really good local one uh Jims oh Jim's
62:16
Pizza is so good yeah it's so good it's not Jim's Pizza of which there are like
62:20
there's like two there's two locations in Langley and they're both in Lang
62:24
so go go screw yourself if you
62:28
want and I'm not talking langle Virginia okay oh dang sorry langly British sorry
62:34
CIA we know you're listening that's that's funny you made
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up for the not funny thing you did earlier CU that was very funny uh so uh
62:46
the shoes themselves don't do the ordering but rather connect with a
62:49
special py Toops app to place a predesignated order um and and you just
62:54
press a button whether you can accidentally order a pizza if you cross your ankles remains to be
63:02
seen great okay so this was originally
63:06
posted on the Forum by cloaked and uh this is ridiculous yeah
63:13
so Google is um oh man this is just this
63:19
is just terrible so the original article here is from Android police Google
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officially splits Hangouts into meet and
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chat new apps what new apps meet and
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chat why why oh
63:39
why wow this seems awful yeah it really
63:43
does so it's literally just Hangouts video and hangouts test text chat except
63:47
now you need two
63:51
apps like holy
63:55
actual crap and this is this is great so
63:58
uh clo actually did a wonderful job of this News Post doing a good job of
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putting quotes from the original article a really good link to the original
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article and uh his or her own uh
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feedback as well as going and searching out this tweet from
64:15
um so hero Harrison Hopkins sent a
64:19
message to Justin ubertini Justin Uberti
64:24
sorry uh hold on where is it there we go here we go so uh principal engineer
64:29
Google technical lead for duo coad for
64:32
Alo so basically the guy in charge so you want us to use four apps
64:38
to talk to people Alo Doo Google Messenger phone the point stands
64:44
all-in-one apps are not the
64:51
what so you think have you ever used
64:55
Justin have you ever used an Android
64:58
device have you ever experienced your pocket being on fire
65:04
because some Android app is
65:08
sucking battery for no apparent reason in the background do you have any idea
65:12
how hard I try to install fewer things
65:16
on my Android device in particular because I am so tired of being like my
65:22
phone's running really hot what do I have to force close
65:27
today no more apps is not the future at
65:31
all if it doesn't fit on a single home screen it is not going on my phone we
65:38
actually use Hangouts predominantly here
65:41
at work as our internal messaging chat
65:44
the reason for it is that it actually does work it's easy pretty great it's
65:49
crossplatform it's a single thing that works across Mac um Peace PC Android iOS
65:56
everything if you message someone on at if you message someone who works here on
66:00
Hangouts the odds of them seeing it in a timely manner is pretty
66:05
good why could you how could you
66:09
possibly think that instead of just
66:13
having a button for a voice call a
66:16
button for a video call and a text box
66:19
for a text message how could you possibly think that opening up a
66:24
different app is a better
66:28
idea so Hangouts meet okay is video conferencing with the
66:35
goal of making online meetings as painless as possible fired up meetings
66:40
can be started simply by sharing a link no fiddling around with logins plugins
66:44
or native applications up to 30 particip
66:48
so basically you can have a direct a
66:51
dedicated dial in number if you're a g Enterprise customer which we aren't
66:55
because they introduced G Enterprise after we bought our subscription service
66:59
like oh yeah g Enterprise it's like ever so slightly different and better uh cost
67:04
twice as much so screw that screw that screw Hangouts meet this is stupid
67:09
because there's nothing here that Hangouts meet does that Hangouts doesn't
67:12
already do just fine or that couldn't easily have been added you can already
67:17
send someone link to a Hangouts and they can join Hangouts chat is apparently
67:22
going to be more like Slack for Microsoft teams than previous Hangouts
67:26
supports multiple virtual rooms for each topic threaded conversations integration
67:32
with other G Suite services in a filterable search so it's going to be
67:36
yet another thing that because Google can't make up their freaking mind and
67:41
stay behind a communication application
67:44
yet another thing that's garbage you know what else is
67:48
garbage the Google SMS app that comes
67:51
built into Android you know why it's garbage because when you switch to
67:54
another Android device it doesn't sync that's garbage I thought the whole
68:00
point of Google was backing up all your crap you know what else is stupid the
68:05
fact that when you back up an Android phone and restore another one it doesn't
68:09
back up your home screen shortcuts that to me is just fundamental stuff that for
68:14
some reason Google can't clue in that people need you know else just garbage
68:18
while it shut up what's that called you
68:22
were tell you were explaining this to me the other day the guy in the rap song
68:26
that's just like yeah hype man okay get out of here hype man tell
68:31
okay you know what else is garbage go the contacts app I'm even moving my
68:36
hands like this the contacts app you
68:40
can't have multiple people for a single contact how am I supposed to enter my
68:45
grandma and grandpa who by the way do not have individual cell phones how am I
68:49
supposed to enter my grandma and grandpa as a contact okay
68:55
tell them okay well I'm angry now you know
68:59
what's kind of funny actually I'm kind of over it I kind of got it out of my system you know what kind of funny this
69:02
is like showing a very big difference between Google and Amazon to the Giants
69:07
in the US right now where Google is trying to separate everything and
69:10
segment everything and Amazon through twitch is trying to integrate everything
69:14
into one vertical I think I think
69:18
integration is the way forward I agree
69:21
but it's just that's really interesting to see these two different approach is in like an overall vision for how the
69:28
future of technology is going um but you
69:31
know that's just my opinion I've always wanted a rant Channel people were like
69:34
this should be a video like I would I would love to have a rant channel it's
69:38
just it's something that doesn't make sense for Linus media group's current
69:42
direction um currently currently we'll see uh Nintendo switch sales are
69:47
apparently absolutely crushing it and
69:50
Gadget says the switch is the fastest selling console in Nintendo history with
69:55
Zelda being the bestelling launch title the company's ever seen which is sort of
70:01
taken for granted given that they didn't ship it with a game and it's the only
70:06
game for the console so if it's going to be the fastest selling console it's
70:09
going to have to be the bestselling launch title well I wonder if they're
70:13
factoring in Wii U breath of the wild sales oh actually I'm not sure um
70:19
beating out Mario 64 though so bestselling Standalone launch title wow
70:23
that's fantastic you know I've never I have tried multiple times to get into
70:27
Mario 64 never managed to do it really yeah oh it a great game just never
70:31
managed to do it great game I should try again at some point I own it on Virtual
70:35
Console on my Wii so I just need to like go play it you should get a get little
70:40
man involved yeah well no I'm okay once
70:43
once you graduate him to the 64 first game first game I'm going to play with
70:47
him is going to be Final Fantasy 6 my favorite game of all time okay um and
70:52
you know what he's getting really close kid can read so like yeah so he that
70:57
doesn't mean he can understand the weird winding path of a Final Fantasy game no
71:02
but six is a lot I don't even understand the weird Final Fantasy game it's less
71:07
weird okay it's it's not entirely not weird it's just it's a lot less weird
71:11
all right um way to be in the shot come
71:15
on see she's not Pastor probation yet
71:18
which means Technically she's not supposed to be on camera well I mean she
71:22
did drop the very famously dropped the uh oh yeah oh
71:26
hey Max actually yeah can I wor you for a sec come come on over here for for a
71:30
sec come on have a seat come on in have a seat have a seat um come on in so
71:36
we've had some of our viewers accusing us of the um faking of Faking or staging
71:43
the drop the drop of the rise and test bench you're right behind the microphone
71:46
by the way yeah on purpose um so max can you tell me did you stage that for
71:51
comedic effect what what what what was was the objective when you uh dropped
71:55
the uh the the the test bench there I
71:58
don't know why I would stage anything for comedic effect um like that I think
72:04
the scream of Despair was comedy enough
72:08
no y okay this has been so
72:12
fun all right thanks Max Thanks Max bye
72:16
okay so the way it went down was against the advice of Brandon and
72:22
Max I propped up the test bench like that knowing did that yeah I propped it
72:28
up knowing that I would be standing right next to it to catch it the
72:33
doorbell rang Tyler wasn't in the
72:36
warehouse and I was like oh I'll I'll grab the door Max Max can you keep an
72:41
eye on that she's like yeah I'll watch it so she's standing there like this and
72:46
she kind of goes it's not moving at all
72:49
and oh shoot I left the camera on I'll go turn off the camera before she even
72:54
made it to the camera which is why the camera was still rolling before she even
72:58
made it to the camera it started to fall so that's why you saw her like dashing
73:02
over there trying to trying to get it that's how it went down it was not the
73:06
intent although what I will say is that mostly uh everything survived the Titan
73:12
XP is fine which is great the RAM's fine the only thing that Chip's fine our 1800
73:17
x is fine the only things that died are the cooler which got super bent um and
73:24
hey actually hey Max where's that cooler do you
73:28
know okay we should Instagram
73:32
it Anthony if you know where that cooler is can you bring it over here yeah so
73:37
the cooler died and our Crosshair 6 died so the board died is the does the board
73:42
have physical damage oh yeah oh yeah it was like can you can you bring the board
73:46
no I bent it back already oh oh oh never mind yeah so it was like it was like
73:50
bent it was like bowed cuz it cuz it fell down directly onto the cooler and
73:56
got like 50 million views yeah probably but like I don't think about that yeah
74:01
yeah here can I I don't think about that stuff likeu not in the moment that's
74:06
like there was one video recently where you were like wait this one's fine oh no
74:10
this oh oh never mind that's not fine
74:14
nothing is fine um has this already like reconciled removed from inventory marked
74:18
Dead all that stuff I believe so but I'm going to GL okay so that's like in that
74:23
there there was a video recently where you were like you can tell when there's a problem and then when there's a
74:28
problem and that was a problem so see it
74:31
looks kind of okay from here you got a couple bent fins and then you turn it to
74:34
the side oops oh no so that's that's the
74:38
angle that the so those heat pipes are
74:41
bent AF and I it kills me to uh damage a
74:45
knock to a cooler cuz it's like the bee's knees but yeah it's dead it's dead
74:50
it's dead fan survived so there's that um were they LTT fans no no it was just
74:56
a normal brown one then who cares um
75:00
what else we got here oh yeah Microsoft is launching an Xbox subscription gaming
75:04
service this is different from the other Xbox subscription gaming service so this
75:09
is like playing games online as okay so
75:13
this is streaming games online okay it is getting really hard to
75:18
describe online gaming Services yes because you stream a game that is being
75:23
being played on a server far away being processed on a server far away yeah like
75:28
why don't we have a word for that um I don't well we do it's called game
75:32
streaming but unfortunately that could mean almost anything yeah but like game
75:35
streaming is the same like is perceived the same
75:39
as streaming a game yes so like why don't we have like a separate word for
75:43
it we could call call G on demand we should coin a term yeah on demand gaming
75:47
no that's stupid well that's what it's called though we should call it bur
75:51
blogin no that's stupid no no that's stupid and not funny so you're now what
75:55
you're you're minus one dude I don't even you were you were you had pulled
75:59
even and now you're minus one what happened to you man you used to be cool
76:02
no I didn't that's accurate coming this spring to the Xbox One the Xbox game
76:08
pass will give console owners access to over 100 Xbox One and backwards
76:13
compatible games for $9.99 a month yeah cloud gaming thank you twitch chat it is
76:17
part of the cloud um what if it's not so initial supported titles include Halo 5
76:21
guard did anyone care about Halo 5 Guardians NBA 2 people cared about Halo
76:27
5 cuz it was supposed to be like the return of Halo to PC but then the PC
76:30
version is total garbage soulcaliber 2
76:34
Soulcalibur 2 I played that when I was like 12 huh how old is that game yeah
76:40
when did Soulcalibur 2 come out wow Soulcalibur 6 was one of the
76:45
auto completes on uh whoa it is the sequel to Soul Caliber
76:51
which was released in '98 20 it came out no no hold on hold on the game was
76:55
released on the Namco system 246 arcade
76:59
board before being ported to the PlayStation 2 Gamecube and Xbox in
77:04
2003 wow they're really uh really really bringing their a game there dare that a
77:10
game there great game Library yes um so
77:14
Partners providing at least some support include take two Warner Brothers Capcom
77:17
Bandai and Microsoft Studios if Microsoft Studios wasn't providing
77:21
support then EA is apparently hold out because they offer access to their XBox
77:25
One titles through a $30 Pere subscription called EA access sweet
77:30
GameStop shares apparently fell 7.8% on the announcement can I mean can who
77:34
still invests in GameStop why is GameStop still a thing okay so the point
77:38
of investing is that you expect growth
77:42
so even if you still believe that GameStop has like games to rent to
77:48
people or sell to people or whatever surely you couldn't be expecting it to
77:52
grow that business well that's why it
77:55
fell was that there was less demand yeah but like who still has their money in
78:00
GameStop anyone who's watching right now take your investment dollars out of
78:05
GameStop dude we don't we we do not certify this investment advice as advice
78:11
by a financial advisor please consult your financial adviser before making any
78:16
financial decisions and determinations consult your financial adviser before
78:21
ripping all of your money out of your game GameStop GameStop stock portfolio
78:26
and investing it in almost anything else you know what I'm going to go buy
78:29
GameStop stock and then when they come out with like the next big thing the
78:33
next big GameStop thing I'm just going to roll up in my Lamborghini and laugh
78:38
at you in this ply little office that we've got going no I'm just kidding
78:42
that's that's you know yeah good luck with that thanks man scientists
78:46
scientists are so cool they have stored a movie scientists are cool an operating
78:52
system and an Amazon gift card in a
78:55
single spec of DNA so the original article here is from sciencealert.com
79:01
there you have it the highest density
79:04
data storage device ever
79:08
created I mean number one bear in mind of course that this doesn't necessarily
79:13
mean anything I mean you could store a movie at like a super low bit rate and
79:18
the computer OS could be anything but this is DNA I know it's still cool DNA
79:23
it stored stuff in DNA before I just mean saying like but like okay saying a
79:29
hard drive can hold a billion movies doesn't tell you anything about the
79:33
quality that it's stored like you have to say it's Blu-ray quality or you have
79:38
to say you know whatever else yes I understand what you're saying anyway um
79:43
this DNA encoding method approaches the theoretical maximum for information
79:48
stored per nucleotide they were able to recover the stored files with zero zero
79:53
errors and their strategy is capable of recording 215 petabytes of data on a
79:58
single gr of DNA no I was I was reading
80:02
there was uh the day that this research was announced there was an AMA with like
80:06
the um the lead scientist the lead researcher whatever lead cool guy that's
80:10
what we're going to go with essentially the lead dope guy um and dope AF lit guy
80:16
there were a a bunch of questions about you know doesn't storing on DNA make it
80:20
you know subject to Environmental factors and wouldn't it be difficult to
80:24
store and apparently there are you know
80:28
relatively lowcost Solutions and even stuff like gigantic server rooms could
80:32
be relatively easily converted this is
80:36
you know uh 10 years out long time away
80:40
and this is all just stuff that I read on the AMA um but server rooms could be
80:45
relatively easily uh transformed into
80:48
areas that could store this stuff safely with a halflife of like 4,000
80:54
years which is like way longer than any other physical
80:59
medium we've uh we've come across so far
81:03
so that I think is the really exciting part is that this could be like an
81:07
incredible long-term storage
81:11
aspect sorry I moved on to the zombie proof 3D printed mobile house um so the
81:17
researcher spent s Grand to synthesize the DNA and another 2,000 to sequence it
81:22
so so yeah costs need to come down a fair bit but uh very cool zombie house
81:29
yeah um so the original article here is from Tech crunch passive Dom is a zombie
81:35
proof autonomous 3D printed mobile
81:39
house um apparently it's very efficient
81:42
compared to Brick it could be made off grid in a cold climate with some
81:47
upgrades uh so without like a complex and expensive engineered heating
81:51
solution the frame is made of 3D printed carbon fiber and fiberglass the entire
81:56
house is recyclable H it's 36 M and
81:59
costs €60,000 to pre-order they have a special
82:04
zombie apocalypse package that includes armored glazing an alarm system extra
82:08
toilet paper storage and a
82:12
Bible that's uh so while this all could be nonsense it seems they actually have
82:16
a real model built already and all the technology is somewhat feasible so uh
82:21
there you have it there's that
82:24
wow interesting um yeah I guess that's
82:28
pretty much it for me Chad is telling us that we should
82:32
instead of doing like tape storage for long term we should uh do DNA storage
82:36
yeah we'll just like get right on that we'll just yeah build out like a a DNA
82:41
research lab and you know the next unit over no problem we got this 100% down
82:47
all right that would be some videos right there um well that's I guess how
82:52
how's your week been lus how's my week been yeah surprisingly tiring actually
82:57
this is um we've only just recently so
83:00
you're only just now seeing on the channel a lot of people seem to think
83:04
that I that I don't write videos for the lonus tech tips Channel um and that
83:09
people just write everything for me MH 90 plus so Techquickie aside which
83:15
John's been writing pretty much since he started so lineus Tech tips wise 90
83:21
plus% of what what I hosted until like
83:24
two weeks ago was written by me and like I remember talking about when we uh when
83:29
we hired Tyler and he was uh helping me out with a couple scripts here and there
83:32
when I said that we had a new guy that was helping with the scripts um people
83:37
someone posted a comment on a video slightly after that saying like wow that
83:41
was a really great decision to hire the new guys the today's video was like way
83:44
better written than usual like I wrote
83:49
it anyway the last couple weeks have been crazy because our three new guys
83:53
started and you're starting to see now on the YouTube channel a huge uh shift
84:00
in things being completely written by Me versus me sitting in more of like an
84:05
Editor in Chief role so most of my time now is taken up by meetings sitting down
84:10
looking at products figuring out the angles that we're going to tackle them
84:14
from um reviewing notes reviewing
84:17
finished scripts reviewing like the guidance for the editors reviewing the
84:21
final video so I more like a like a managing
84:25
editor than like uh like a writer these
84:29
days what's really cool is it has allowed us to do some really amazing
84:34
pieces of content in a time period that
84:38
previously wouldn't have been possible um like the uh the Windows 9 analysis
84:43
some people didn't like that it had kind of a click baity title and thumbnail um
84:49
but if they sort of remove their their
84:52
Prejudice remove their bias from from
84:56
this situation a little bit and look at that video objectively what was it it
85:02
was about a version of Windows that Microsoft doesn't want you to know about
85:06
it actually was it was about taking a Microsoft OS that is not commercially
85:10
available modding the crap out of it to take out all the te Telemetry and
85:15
monitoring and background processes that you don't care about and get a more
85:19
stable smoother operating Windows that's what it was about
85:23
and it was a massive amount of work huge
85:27
massive amount of work it took like a week of benchmarking to set up all four
85:31
of the different OS environments that we were testing on identical Hardware to
85:35
run a huge Suite of benchmarks to really analyze their performance and to do all
85:41
the work that was involved in taking the guidelines from Windows 9 and creating a
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more palatable version of Windows 10 and then creating a blog post so that you
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guys can replicate this on your own making taking Windows 9 which is not
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actually possible to buy unless you have like a special education uh license or
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something like that and making it applicable to our viewers Great Piece of
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content objectively and took a ton of
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time and was a lot of work that wouldn't have been possible without the writing
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staff same thing for stuff like our ryzen coverage it would not have been as
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good GTX 1080 TI it would not have been possible to test so many games on Intel
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and on ryzen something that very few other public did and so a lot of those things are
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coming through there's some Growing Pains uh there's a video coming now that
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I'm not that happy about the cohesiveness of like the overall flow of
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the way the b-roll cuts in and stuff like that but basically what's happened
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in the last two weeks is my job has changed in a big way and I'm adapting to
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that I have only fully written two videos aside from the ryz and launch
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coverage which obviously I did because I was the only one there uh in the last
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two weeks which previously would have been 8 to 10 that's crazy crazy yeah so
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it's bananas you're not you're not working any less that's for sure no if
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anything it's actually been more work it's it's been kind of crazy um like you
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hire a bunch of people expecting that to reduce your workload but you actually
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just end up doing more things and different things um with all of that
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said I do not plan to entirely leave behind writing I like tinkering with
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stuff I like being in the trenches and so I will absolutely continue to be
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involved um I'm writing the DJI mavic review that upcoming um I mean doesn't
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help that no one else here can fly a drone I was going to say there's specific stuff like that where only you
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can do it yeah um I'm I'm writing the Alienware 13
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so I'll be taking on I think especially stuff that I find particularly
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interesting and I think that that's another really cool thing about the
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three people that we have on board is they're all really different so I think you're going to see a different and a
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new level of passion that goes into the the projects that people are working on
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because nobody has to do everything so
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that's going to be really cool yeah um I guess that all that leaves is
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our shout out for Flo plane Club so Flo plane Club Flo plane Club is where you
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can get a mostly good experience
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watching yeah okay it's in Alpha it's
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Alpha well it's in a very early stage
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can't really say Alpha Beta whatever it's in a very early stage very early
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stage so right now the way it works is we're using it as an early access player
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for LT Channel superf fun and Tech quick videos over on the lus tech tips Forum
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the plan is to Move It Off The Forum at some point in the future but we're not
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going to promise a timeline for that and uh basically the way you sign up is you
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go over to the store you go to the Floatplane club
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which I am not going to screen share because I have no idea what's in my
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other browser going to open up Twitch here boom there we go going to paste
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that over there there you go that's where you can join the Floatplane Club
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is Twitch chat even working yeah there you go the LT bot was just taking a
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second to kick in and you'll have a week's worth of videos that you won't
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find on YouTube so it should be about 10 videos that you haven't seen so these uh
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this week there were a lot of releases so that content goes to both platforms
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immediately you mean simultaneous releases like time product releases oh
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yeah yeah yeah okay so like 1080 1080 TI is already there uh but there and the
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Intel extreme rig challenge but what actually happened s is that whatever was
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released on Floatplane before doesn't go to YouTube yet on that day it gets
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pushed forward by another week so what's already there is the ASUS
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g701 uh we've got a Techquickie on why do electronics get hot uh we've got o
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viewers Choice episode two is over there so where we take the most popular items
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you guys are buying on Amazon will they be the same will they be different some
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of them are the same some of them are different we've got the Del XPS 27 audio
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file grade aiio computer uh what else
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have we got over there
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every AMD video card tested yeah that's
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actually a pretty cool video uh LTT EVGA
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Sol that one's on YouTube already yeah yeah so there's oh yeah server room
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update Vlog episode three out of three the finale that's on there a great great
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thumbnail great thumbnail y that one would have been on YouTube by now but
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it's been pushed by some of these simultaneous releases anyway and it's
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coming to YouTube very soon is it coming very soon
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very sick should we do a sneak peek what do you mean should we should should we
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do a live demo of Floatplane Club working oh gosh so oh yeah there's so
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the the bit rate um is higher for playback for our 1080p so 1080p looks
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better on Floatplane also you can download I have to be in Luke's shoes
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this time and hope that it works we're going we're going full on we're going
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1080p man just give it a sec oh oh like
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I said it mostly works
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okay what's up what do you want oh wow
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that was quick oh rut R way to go lonus
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doing a live demo well whatever it usually work it
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works like most of the time that's why we're saying very early stages it works
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Mo most of the time um okay so I think that's pretty
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much it thanks for tuning in to the W show we will see you guys again next week same bat time
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same bat Channel
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bye-bye same same bat Time same bat Chan Batman it's from Batman from the
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70s yeah but like it for me it's kind of a
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joke cuz I it's like kind of like same bad time same bad late and it's a bad
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channel so yeah that's sort of that's sort of the
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point surprisingly people will actually
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get the
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Batman