Facebook sucks, Future AMD GPUs could be GREAT! - WAN Show Apr.13 2018
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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13,484 words · ~67 min read
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okay here we go we are live this is uh
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between two ferns uh the lioness tech tips edition i have laser james with me
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here today and we're gonna talk about a whole bunch of different privacy news
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including the whole facebook thing with mark the zuck zuckerberg um AMD navi GPU
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being potentially amazing or not nothing to do with privacy no and other
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non-privacy news yes there could be a new successor to the chromecast and
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competitor to amazon firestick i'm actually stoked on this oh stoked okay
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um and and mostly other privacy stuff but also the ftc says
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warranty void stickers like warranty voided for move stickers are bs
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which is awesome that makes me really happy but stay tuned to see that and
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more on the WAN Show that is actually going to have an intro today we're doing
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the intro oh no it wasn't ready Colton
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oh spoiler alert
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so the answer that question was no
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and we're dead
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okay
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be quiet! which you already saw i think synergy 2 and
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squarespace awesome you're going to put subscribe to
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the channel it works next time and go like that there we go
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welcome to the wine show you might be able to tell we've had a little bit of change of scenery we're actually in
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pretty close to the same area but i can't tell you why
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things have obviously changed or for how long or if
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they'll go back or when they'll go back or any of that detail so
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speculate as you will that's i think that's i think all i can do so
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good buddy let's go i've been good you've been away i haven't seen you and like i have been mostly awake i was like
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i'm gonna be in office way more from now on i made it in one
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day this week it was great wait you were in the city like in the country all week
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yeah you've been back from pax like that whole time yeah oh oh yeah i thought i
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was like yeah he's back from packs cool like what happened tell us about it no i
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i got back on sunday pax was good um
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i did there was really not a lot of hardware stuff there we used to so like
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back when i first started working here um i asked lions my first time off
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request ever was to go to pax okay and i was like just assume that i'm
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gonna ask for this time off for the rest of my career working with you um and
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then immediately the next year he was like
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you're gonna work it just at pax and i was like okay well
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that sounds like a pretty okay compromise so i started making videos at
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pax about computer hardware now in retrospect
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good compromise it was it was it was interesting it was a fun thing to do um
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i really like pax so i've been to like 15 of them so working some of those was
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probably okay but there used to be an abundance of new
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interesting stuff at pounds usually peripherals we get a lot of keyboards we
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get a lot of mice get a lot of headsets that kind of stuff but we'd sometimes
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get cases and a few other things there's there was never like a graphics card or
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something but there was always a lot of technology videos to make sure that
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slowly started dwindling over the years the amount of potential technology
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videos that pax slowly started reducing constantly over time but here's my
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question yes so do you prefer to go as luke or as
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luke from Linus media group i i can't
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not go as luke from Linux media now yeah i guess but like on your third or fourth
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time there when maybe people didn't know you were luke from Linus media group as well okay
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so you were working there but you weren't like super famous
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so the that would be yeah there was like one year in that gap um and that that
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was pretty good it was funny because my dad always does this so okay
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a little bit of backstory when i go to pax i was born for facts back in the old
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days i was conceived at the Corsair
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booth my dad's been to a millionaires yeah i know so my my dad brought me pax
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as a like uh as a birthday present and he brought myself my best friend and so
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we went from when i was like really young uh and the first year that any
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amount of people knew me at all which was a very very small amount of people
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because i think i had been in one wayne show that's it oh wow by the time i went
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to this packs um that year my dad would like look around
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for anyone that stared at me for too long and then would go like get them and
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get them to come over
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uh so yeah that was pretty cool but yeah no it's i still i really like meeting
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people um i think the reason why i would have probably preferred the old one was
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because i liked pax more back in the day but that's not actually
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that doesn't have anything to do with yeah well that was my question ultimately was now that there's fewer
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videos to make do you get to enjoy the show more and it's kind of like
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the best of all worlds i would have if there was more stuff to check out the
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show overall is just it's much bigger now and when you become
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much bigger in terms of those types of shows it usually becomes a little bit more corporate a little bit more stale
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there's more rules now like back in the day a booth would have
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like a giveaway and everyone would swarm it and they'd like throw stuff out and
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it was crazy no you're not allowed throwing things because probably someone
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got hurt which has to ruin the fun and everything
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um and like i don't know it just it became bigger became more corporate it's
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not as like niche and nerdy anymore um it's still really cool it's a great
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event i love going i hope ltx never suffers from that remember how much
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stuff we threw last year we exactly almost got murked
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it was like serious it was serious like looking at the size of your eyes biting
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your finger like that like that was actually too bad
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that was too far again yeah the case toss yeah we we are in closing at this
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time that's and that's what i was actually going to say not to promote ltx
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too much i don't even think we're supposed to on this show but i'm doing it anyways
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it was amazing the first year we had it was so much fun and i think there were
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some definite problems like the main stage was kind of under produced and
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there was a couple others the sound was a big issue the music was an issue Linus
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wore a took and that really bothered me
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personally i love that that's like you're like the main stage
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is an issue the sound is big issue Linus wore clothing that i didn't appreciate
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i mostly saw him when he was on stage and every time he came out and he had a touch on i was like who's this like uh
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opening hip-hop act like who's this guy and then it was latinus and i was like
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what a chook isn't part of your like he's like never worn not part of your uniform
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yeah i hear ya i hear you um yeah i don't know i'm really excited for the
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next one it's gonna be bigger we're gonna have more booths the main stages will be better
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i'm not gonna let them the enclosed uh case off is gonna be sweet because you
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can do bank shots and try to damage it more by getting some kind of angle
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that's not gonna be my strategy okay you know you're gonna try to go off the sidewall or the roof
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i don't know hi or like roof sidewall ground you don't even have to i guess
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it's a distance challenge not a damaging challenge because if it was just trying to break the case you could just go
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completely laterally ready
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break the whole booth in half like yes i'm sure there'll be some kind of troll
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shots like that yeah probably anyways we should probably talk about
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actual news um i think we already introduced a bunch of topics but we can
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start with probably uh the most yeah
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expected topic of the week uh is that we learned this week that zuckerberg drinks
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water like this
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he's been working on this it's actually pretty good at this point
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yeah yeah then you gotta do the smile meter thing
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i can't do it i can't do that smoothly his smile is so granular the steps are
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tiny
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it's so good okay so i'm going to let me hold on i got to be Linus here for a
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second which i'm not used to there we go uh facebook users aren't changing their
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privacy settings despite uproar so this has been a pretty interesting wait a
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second who posted that in the forum uh shorty 88 junior
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good job always forget we do thank you very much i appreciate it um yeah so
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people aren't really leaving people aren't changing their privacy settings
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apparently people aren't even changing what type of things they share with the platform so there's this like giant
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uproar well actually i think it kind of speaks
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to the whole issue because if you watch any of the congress uh i don't even know
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what you call that the inspection of
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zuckerberg a lot of it was like um
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he keeps defaulting to be like okay we do tell them everything our terms of
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service is all here nobody reads it it's garbage we know that nobody reads it so
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we also have these these little um dialog boxes that are the top your news
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feed that tell you like hey in plain english
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you can share this with the world or not they do all these things to make it
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transparent what they're doing it's just no one cares though
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no one cares i like by and large no one cares so i
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think a surprisingly low amount of people actually care about their privacy
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there is like and i bet you a a abnormally high percentage of the
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audience here and i think an abnormally high percentage of tech people in
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general because uh i think those people actually understand better what's
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happening when they're putting their privacy out there um i i think the
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average person sees it as like oh some mega corporation knows that i like uh
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thong sandals yeah they've got nothing to hide maybe they'll sell me a few
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thong sandals and they don't understand that like it's going further than that
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and your data is being picked apart further than that and facebook is selling it to people that you don't
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necessarily know well they don't sell the data well it
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gets given away improperly yeah well it still does yeah
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it really did before yeah so i don't know and like the fact that uh a myriad
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of platforms get hacked every single year and people's data gets pulled out
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of that not saying that happened to facebook but it happens to a huge amount
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of people you can check out uh i think it's have i been pwned.com yeah yeah
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that's not specifically facebook data no i'm i'm saying
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i'm talking about privacy in general yeah i actually said specifically i don't think it's happened to facebook
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like at all correct um but there has been huge companies that have had leaks
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like that and and those leaks could could make your facebook vulnerable if
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you're using the same password across lots of sites so what normally happens
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is like linkedin got hacked so the dark webs has your password for linkedin that
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gets bought by someone else who takes that password and tries it in a bunch of
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other sites like your email your bank facebook and if you're the type of
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person that has the same password everything you might be compromised on lots of
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sites that never actually got hacked themselves
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yeah um it's it's and like
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what i was more getting to is just the idea that people don't understand how
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their data can spread um and like not just on facebook i mean
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in terms of using the internet as a whole non-tech people don't necessarily
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understand how like putting their data in some place or
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putting their credit card information in some place can result in it getting to
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other places um but
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it kind of leads into the regulation discussion here because there's there's
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yes there's a lot of talk uh about regulating facebook and there's
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kind of three different ways that that could go the first is what facebook
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would probably like which is just to self-regulate
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and that seems more and more basically everybody wants
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it seems more and more that it's like maybe less likely
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to me anyway because like to happen yeah okay yeah yeah
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because there's this awesome article that's been written by zainab what's her
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last name she's that security researcher i'm really bad with
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especially last names so she's awesome she wrote this uh kind of article that
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blew up about like 14 years of facebook's apology tour since the
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beginning like a lot of people gave uh props to
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zuckerberg for kind of taking ownership of what has happened at facebook and
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apologizing for it not like deflecting or saying mistakes were made but the
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same time he's been doing that for like a decade and a half so at some point
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it's like stop stop letting him screw up so much
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yeah so option one facebook self regulates
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option two they regulate the entire industry
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that would be really stifling to innovation yeah really if
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you've ever worked at a company that was undergoing some kind of like
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um you know we're going to implement compliance for hipaa which is like a a
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health healthcare security thing
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that stuff is intense and drains company resources more than you could ever
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imagine unless you've actually gone through it yourself it's crazy and there's a ton of ton like that so if
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there was something like that for the social media industry
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you can basically guarantee yourself that there would be no new upstarts
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like that's hard enough to to make a new social network is hard
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enough given that network effects are such an important part of it like you need to have a bunch of users before
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it's useful to people if you're going to have this other layer of compliance
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you're basically solidifying facebook's position and all incumbents positions so
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that's yeah i don't i don't think you're guaranteeing that there will be no
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challenges um but
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i haven't seen even without this i haven't seen very many successful
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challenges to facebook at all anyways google plus completely failed um and
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anyone that really tries just gets bought and consumed anyways well that's
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what was funny when that one senator was like who's your biggest competitor it's
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like you don't understand network economies because but by virtue of way
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they the way they work there are no competitors it's like it's a win winner
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take all such a situation where like everyone's on this platform therefore
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everyone's using this platform you can't split them there could never
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be half people here in half there yeah with com completely overlapping
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functions it doesn't work that way option three for regulation would be um
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if facebook itself just has a like dedicated third party or agency
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that only regulates facebook like some kind of steward of the data um
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to me that's like the most likely situation but this one too
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enshrines facebook's current market position because
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if it's the case that facebook has so much data about you and they regulate
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such that that data can never leave facebook
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then no one else has no upstarts have access to that data in the way that um
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the developers on the facebook platform did in the past and that's how cambridge
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analytica came to get the big data that leaked anyway
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so if no one has access to that then they're just sitting on this gold mine
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of data that no one can compete with so you're kind of in a pickle any either
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way so i'm going to make a straw poll here
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which is how should facebook be regulated or not um
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you need four bro yeah it it self expands oh oh oh watch
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this dude it self regulates wait oh oh i think i have to fill this one out maybe
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and then hit enter uh not regulated self-regulated third
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there we go nice congratulations
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but like dedicated like they only regulate facebook
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uh
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i can't type on this keyboard for some reason probably because it's way over there it's just a really weird one you
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know like it's this qwerty layout i don't know
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i'm used to divorce i know it's been around since the 1870s but
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whatever
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okay so we have not regulated self-regulated third-party regulations
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specifically for facebook and government-wide spanning regulations are
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going to put a troll on sir no donkey balls
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donkey come on nope last week it was donkey balls
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we've been regulated internally self-regulated
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okay so check that straw pull out hit us with the feedback i want to see what you
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guys think um i kind of have my own opinion but ooh do
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you have a while we wait for that let's fantasize
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about some kind of future epic uh social
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network startup that's all blockchain based where
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every individual's data is completely owned by them is on a blockchain so that
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the entire internet is modular so that you can switch from one social network
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to another and bring your data with you and release to each social network
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exactly what you want that would be the most beneficial to new
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innovation because you could start up your own social network and people could
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come to it and be like here's all the data and here's all the connections
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here's all the people i know and suddenly you'd have like this really
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thick market and strong network effects right away
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someone said it's called steemit wow i don't like that platform but i is that
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how that actually works i know that platform is blockchain based but is it
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like what you're describing i don't think so i have no idea but what i have
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heard is that all the current social like blockchain-based social media
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projects are junk yeah i heard it on a podcast i don't
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actually know i haven't tried it myself pied piper
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i wouldn't put steam in my title sounds
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like steaming pile you know it's like it's like s-t-e-e-m-i-t
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or something like that i don't remember exactly how it works um i'm going to
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check in on this straw poll actually let's see okay wow okay not a meaningful
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split at all really oh donkey
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second place oh okay that plays into what we were saying earlier where it's like honestly most people don't really
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care um or even in our car but they just
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don't know well that's fair
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i should have had a like i don't know and then i don't care that should have
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been that's donkey i guess the two together but yeah that's the problem is
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that they're both together so right now oh right i'm not on the screen
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right now we're looking at 25 for third party regulations specifically for
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facebook i'm kind of surprised by that um
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do tell i'm just kind of surprised by that because in that situation you're putting
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a weight on facebook which i don't think anyone's going to care about but you're putting a
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weight on facebook so that opens the door to more other platforms but then those
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other platforms are probably going to have the same problem and then do you at that point once
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they're big yeah take the regulations specifically for facebook and then push it on them
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or like so do you just let people run rampant
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with other people's data at the beginning and then go like
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you shouldn't have done that but we didn't tell you not to so it's okay but
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now you have to stop yeah it kind of sounds like you need to
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have a hybrid approach where there are certain ground rules for everybody to begin with but there already is existing
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laws plus you also have to consider uh users
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choices right not like because this is happening let's just
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there's a societal shift where people are prioritizing and caring more about
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this kind of thing right so if a new upstart comes knocking on your door
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asking you to become a user you're more likely to ask like well
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what kind of data like what are you guys doing what do you want from me yeah so
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in that climate then like maybe a light touch regulation is enough
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i don't know and then uh people the the next highest category that wasn't donkey
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was government-wide spanning regulation which i'm not super surprised was up
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there not regulated i'm honestly pretty surprised that that even got 13 percent
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um but then i guess there are well those are the people who know how to set the
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permissions the way they actually want they're just like it's going fine just
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read the tos yeah people who are going to actually
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like manage it properly themselves um which unfortunately isn't everybody
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which is i guess the problem i have with it because like my mom is not going to
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understand what to do hi mom what she's listening she's probably watching but like i'm not
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saying that she's sitting there nodding she's like yeah yeah like it's it's
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my mom's actually surprisingly good with some things but she can also somehow
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manage to send emails with her text messaging program without any of us
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being able to figure out how for like months at a time um like it's it's
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there's there's people that have a special touch with technology and
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there's people that when they use it it falls apart magically um
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and like as far as i can tell it has nothing to do with being her fault but
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anyways i love you um
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but like i don't know there's people that are super in the know in a platform
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and there's people that aren't and it varies i took my socks off right
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before the show but now i want them back on why my feet got cold oh my goodness
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you're having cold feet about this regulation platform idea yeah
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changed my mind uh if we could get like four more people to vote for donkey that
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would be great because then it would be in first place and then we can just be done with this straw poll uh but i think
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we're probably done with this topic in general meanwhile AMD nabi gpus yeah
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rumor mill time let's uh let's get away from don't come through this way go away
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please thank you uh
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let's jump down to AMD navi navi is the
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next generation of architecture from AMD gpus and it is a seven nanometer
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architecture and the rumor these days is that it's not gonna
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it's not gonna be the source of the next wave of enthusiast cards
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it's not going to be the next vega
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in fact it's going to be a what they call the mainstream uh lineup
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which or mainstream tier which right now is the rx 580s those guys also thank you
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ryujin 2013 on the forums
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yeah so what they're saying is that when
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these cards launch in 2019
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they're gonna have a comparable performance to a gtx 1080
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which came out in the end of may basically june 2016
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but it'll cost about 250 bucks
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which is nice well because buying a 1080 right now is
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more than that msrp 250 bucks who knows what it'll actually cost fair
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mining stuff is going down a lot because bitcoin's super down right now well it's
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going up in the last day or two oh has it yes oh no it's coming back again yes
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it's back baby back again
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oh dear da nana and then with new cards that are high
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performance for lower dollar value it might become more profitable
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so we'll see but yeah msrp has not been a realistic thing for actually quite a
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long time um especially on the AMD side we've seen
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accidental artificial whatever uh uh
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spawned from bitcoin inflation whatever you want on gpus for quite a long time
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even well before it was identified as being a bitcoin mining problem uh we had
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inflation and graphics card prices all the way from back to the launch of these
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cards which was well before mining bitcoin was like super
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trendy well the gtx yes yeah okay yeah
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i thought when i first read that and i i read that they were aiming navi at at
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this particular market segment i thought are they doing that like to satisfy
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shareholders is it just more cost effective and they're gonna it's a bigger addressable market because
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stop it max you're doing that thing you said you're gonna just get out of here
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all right there's just more people who have the money to buy a cheaper but like still
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good like well 250 is a really nice price point for a
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graphics card around 300 bucks is fairly reasonable for a quite a large amount of
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people for a graphics card yeah 250 bucks is pretty good still if if you can
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like pcs aren't going to get here
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realistically but if like at least not in the short term but 300 bucks in like
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2013 was like the golden i remember there was articles about it
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all over the place where like 300 for a relatively high ticket item was really
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good for consumers because a lot of people could gather that much money in a
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reasonable amount of saving time this should be uh comparatively cheaper
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than because with inflation and everything with inflation and it's 250
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yeah uh but it isn't the full component for a computer but it's a nice upgrade
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it goes all over so it's a sound business it's a good product if they're just doing this strategically that would
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make sense but then i learned that actually
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history is repeating itself here because this is a new
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what they call manufacturing node this is a seven nanometer uh
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part the lithography that is they can't get the yields on all their
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wafers uh at a at a rate
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or a quantity that makes a lot of sense economically for them so
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that was really convoluted let me just say what i actually have written down
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from a manufacturing point of view it is not feasible to produce a large GPU like
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a 1080 like a big one or a vega on a brand new cutting-edge process like
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seven nanometer early in the nodes life cycle because it's just a new technology
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and they haven't ironed out all the manufacturing kinks yet so once they do
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it's conceivable that in the future maybe in 2021 that they could use the
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seven nanometer lithography to make bigger cards
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yeah makes sense the more you know
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hooray it's it's i don't know this is good uh
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for a lot of reasons AMD needs to keep doing well they're doing quite well right now uh one interesting observation
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that i had at pax we were talking about pax earlier on in the show Intel did not
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have a booth there that was weird Intel's had a booth at
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pax like every pax as far as i know for the last five or six years uh and video
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wasn't there that's not super surprising they used to be at every pax then they
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started dwindling off but okay no Intel no NVIDIA ASUS booth was much smaller
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than normal AMD had a fairly big booth that was poppin the whole event it was
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full there was queues for all the different stuff they had they had vr
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setups but there was vr setups multiple other places on the show that
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didn't have a line but the line at AMD was full all the time it was an
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interesting experience to see that the community has kind of opened up to AMD
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as a whole if you look back into like 2014 they were actually the very much so
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underdog that like the underground people were like yeah i'm gonna buy one
26:04
of these even though like you know maybe it doesn't make a ton of
26:08
sense i'm gonna get it anywhere my money is just a donation name yeah basically
26:12
but now it's actually a lot more logical to go for their stuff which is really
26:17
cool and it's it's really cool to see them coming back um it was
26:21
a pretty awesome moment to see their booth packed at pax yeah because
26:25
even at pax west which was i guess in
26:29
the very beginning of september 2017
26:32
um the AMD booth was not that packed so
26:36
you're saying now that this hasn't even been that long now that there's no competition
26:40
their booth is popping well it helped i guess um and like they
26:46
did a much better job with their booth which in a way
26:49
kind of sort of not really but kind of indirectly maybe there's a lot of
26:53
caveats there i keep drinking water not like zuckerberg he's gonna work continue
26:57
um oh he's got it he's got it
27:00
sorry i'll ignore it i don't know um it it kind of shows success in the company
27:05
they have the money to flaunt at an event spending way too much money on a
27:09
ridiculously small roi of having a booth as a shareholder that angers me
27:14
yeah yeah that makes sense it's if you look at the roi of a booth you're actually
27:19
not showing to that many people and it costs a ludicrous amount of money you're
27:22
probably gonna end up giving a whole bunch of product away uh you're probably gonna have to pay a bunch of staff like
27:27
it's a really expensive thing to do but it's it's to cater to your super
27:31
fans and the the roi is hard to describe but it it reaches um and
27:36
then it is branding's huge in this space and you're you're making yourself a
27:39
constant part of the conversation and you're trying to spread that roi beyond
27:43
just that event that's kind of the idea so i don't know it was really
27:46
interesting to see that i'm very happy about AMD's fairly recent success and i
27:51
hope they keep going and i hope this is part of it because if you can get 1080
27:54
performance off a 250 card that breaches people into a way higher
28:00
level of gaming yeah but this is three years after the fact though like a year
28:04
from now you're gonna have a 1080
28:08
yeah which is like and we'll have to see like if mining does crash super hard and
28:12
people start selling mining cards for dirt cheap then it might not matter because you
28:17
might be able to get 1080s for around that price anyways they would just might
28:20
be kind of sketchy um but you're just the most tired car yeah
28:25
or you might just got some games in me
28:29
you turn your computer off it just falls apart because it's like i've been running for so long the dust was holding
28:33
me together um or you might get 1080 tis for that price or whatever else right
28:37
who knows but if mining does stay up there and the price of this does inflate
28:42
that might still even be helpful who knows
28:45
she's just trolling you man she's trolling me there's a door that's open here for
28:49
people who don't know yeah max's loitering we like have to have the
28:53
contact because if i go to close the door oh i can't there's a sandbag in the
28:57
way but if i go to close the door it will it will block the camera well not entirely actually you just have to look
29:02
through like a fire rated window i would like to end the show that way actually
29:05
by closing the door yeah i'll crawl under there remove the sound back
29:10
okay okay i'm down wait wait till the end of the show that's going to be your
29:13
easter egg it's going to happen yeah so anyways there's a weird a bunch of
29:17
documentation showed up this is the next topic okay
29:21
a bunch of documentation showed up uh uh at a random
29:26
i mean to to our ears rise anyway people who
29:29
aren't in the know of these things a random seeming manufacturer in china has
29:34
the documentation that describes like specs out this new mysterious google
29:39
branded dongle which is like a 4k
29:43
Android tv dongle as you can see yeah
29:48
and some people might think this is boring because they're like yeah okay it's a
29:52
roku or it's an amazon yeah i was wondering why you care so i'll tell you
29:55
why i care so much i have a chromecast at home okay
30:00
and i also have a google home okay those things work together
30:04
they're attached to my tv which is a smart tv the smart tv has a remote
30:09
and i use that remote and that smart tv to use apps like youtube a lot
30:15
the problem is that google home
30:18
and casting by voice is incompatible with my remote when i
30:23
cast if i'm like google play the latest
30:26
Linus tech tips video on the tv and it plays it
30:30
i can't then grab my remote and hit next video and start scrolling around and
30:34
stuff like that because my smart tvs
30:37
youtube app is a different app than the app that gets used when i cast things by
30:40
voice i basically have two youtube apps on my tv
30:44
with this you're going to be able to do that just like when you have a amazon fire tv
30:49
stick they actually the microphone the excuse me the remote is a microphone
30:53
you can talk into it this remote is the same deal it has a
30:56
dedicated google assistant button on it so this is the remote he's talking about
31:00
by the way and presumably i'm going to be able to say
31:04
googstar play this video on i don't want to hotword people i know i was going to
31:09
say you guys got to appreciate that he didn't include the first word yes when
31:12
he he's paying attention play the latest video i'll be able to watch that video
31:16
and then i'll be able to just use my remote
31:19
and then back and forth and that is gonna be sick
31:22
that's huge for me hey google play the hipster song with the whistling
31:29
i had to i'm sorry continue hey you don't want to leave
31:32
those alexa play the hipster song with the whistling people out is that going
31:36
to work though because i think that's a fairly specific
31:40
keyword for google play no that that or sorry the key phrase oh
31:45
the hipster song with the whistling because they put that in an ad
31:49
and i tried a whole bunch of other descriptions for songs that i thought were pretty good
31:53
it didn't work at all oh did you try the one the russian guy that goes
31:58
does that work yes we've done it even on land show before oh that's awesome yeah
32:01
yeah okay it's awesome okay sweet that's cool i'm surprised that works actually
32:07
that's a great song you know the song i'm talking about it's called like
32:10
seventh element by vedas get out
32:14
i think that's that was my choose that's what i wanted so people in chat are
32:18
saying that it's like basically a shield tv
32:21
but in a small compact dongle but i think it does a little bit
32:26
less and plus the price point those things
32:30
are over 200 bucks oh yeah so this is probably gonna be way cheaper the shield
32:34
will also be able to like cast games to your tv which is like
32:38
you're you're you're in a little bit different of a of a range there the shield also has a
32:42
voice controllable remote and the easiest way to think about it is
32:46
going to be there are already Android tv boxes it's just going to be that with
32:52
google assistant integration and voice remote
32:56
people in chat
32:59
i'm guessing that the price point will be like what 120 130 bucks is that how
33:03
much a fire tv stick is let me search the american internets
33:08
yeah where these things exist oh my
33:11
god
33:15
while you do that fire truck no they know it from last
33:19
tech tips
33:23
what did you guys think about the fire pole video good god it's thirty dollars
33:27
fire tv stick with alexa voice from 30 bucks that's really cheap even the 4k
33:32
one is only 50. a 4k chromecast is like 70 usd
33:37
isn't it i don't know hold on let me google some more
33:41
do it do it
33:44
you can get a chromecast on amazon now can't you wasn't that the whole thing that they argued about before
33:49
can you do it now though because i know they're arguing about it but i don't know if it's like already an option oh
33:53
that got pretty settled it auto filled i don't see it i see a shield they sell
33:57
NVIDIA shields for 200. it comes with a gamepad though yeah
34:02
because you can play Android games on it some of them i guess
34:09
yeah i'm totally going to sell my chromecast and get one of these donald if it comes out they're probably going
34:13
to announce it at i o i o is in a month it's in may google i o
34:17
it's going to be sweet can you work on this heck yeah yeah okay i thought so so
34:22
while you're looking that up i'm gonna do a little Floatplane moment 70 bucks
34:26
i was right i have to 70 okay okay so it is a little bit more expensive uh
34:30
Floatplane has awesome stuff on it kyle from bitwit currently has cool cooler is
34:34
cool what happens if we if we remove the fans it's a be quiet! cooler that should
34:38
be a pretty interesting video also he has a 32x9 gaming setup that he wants to
34:43
show off in a different video Linus tech tips has a wearable coast
34:48
house a merged keyboard and mouse
34:52
it is a cause i like it that was by accident but i'm
34:57
kind of down with it uh it's so can you tell me a tiny amount but what this
35:01
thing actually is so it's these rings that you wear on your fingers yeah if
35:05
you lay your hand on a table okay it's a mouse
35:09
if you don't and you just put your wrist on the edge of a table and you tap on a
35:12
table it's a keyboard and it can know based on like if you
35:17
stretch your finger or whatever it's not
35:20
uh spatial it's not like a is over here and p is over here okay you actually
35:24
have to learn a bunch of gestures like it's his own language
35:27
like that's a that's n oh that's r
35:32
yeah okay i learned it all can you type properly that way i can
35:36
type how fast uh i can survive
35:42
like probably dial up like i could describe it as okay okay that's cool
35:46
though i don't know it's sweet i like it a lot and it's good at what it's doing
35:49
like it's it doesn't register i'm not gonna give away the video no yeah don't
35:53
go any further perfect uh there's also uh the continuation of the apple fiasco
35:59
with the imac pro um
36:02
buying a video card without getting screwed and some other cool stuff like
36:06
the history of the motherboard i haven't seen that video i'm going to watch that
36:10
video because i grew up with these super janky
36:13
weird motherboard setups and i grew up with like my dad's computer where
36:16
basically to build the computer you had to have a whole bunch of add-in cards
36:20
because the motherboard was so bare and it didn't have like like you didn't have
36:24
onboard nick okay he didn't have on-board lan for Ethernet connection so
36:28
he had to have a nic card in order to have connections i remember when we
36:32
bought our first uh computer my like i remember being in the shop when we were
36:35
buying it and it was like for hours and
36:38
we like bought a sound card yeah like that's just totally integrated didn't
36:42
have audio on board probably yeah so like that i'm 100 certain that that is
36:47
going to be a sick video so be sure to check that out check out Floatplane you can go to Floatplane.com and sign up
36:51
there or you can do it through the forum but we are moving over to Floatplane.com
36:56
and honestly the payment system on Floatplane.com works way better so if
36:59
you want to have less issues i would probably go there um but it only supports credit card
37:04
right now we will be supporting uh paypal in the future but
37:07
cryptocurrencies
37:10
kitties yeah well you can get a year of flow plane for a single crypto kitty
37:15
what is a cryptokitty what you don't know what cryptokitties is
37:19
it's nothing worth describing it's like come and gone this is like a four month
37:22
old is it like a meme it's like a it's like a
37:25
ethereum based game where you trade
37:29
digital kitties
37:34
you just zuckerberg
37:39
are you telling me to zuck off uh i just
37:53
there we go i think we've completed our ritual we didn't get to watch that but i
37:57
think we were in sync i think so yeah i noticed when mine was like going down
38:01
that yours was going down at the same time and stuff and i was like i saw it in the corner you were doing that smile
38:05
yeah yeah oh you did the smile meter thing yeah it was later there okay so as long as we did do we just
38:10
become best friends okay that movie was amazing i just have
38:13
to say that uh let's get back on topic though actually no let's do ad spots
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we might as well synergy
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yes yes correct synergy two synergy is a
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mouse and keyboard sharing software so you can have multiple computers even
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multiple different types of computers like a laptop and a desktop and you
38:34
could have like Linux on one of them and Windows or mac or whatever and you could
38:39
share your mouse and keyboard across all of them it doesn't even matter which mouse and keyboard you use you can even
38:42
use a cause yeah yes i want to make that a thing um and
38:49
now with synergy one you had to have like one of the computers set up as a server
38:53
and i think that was the one that had to have the most keyboard plugged into it
38:57
and then you had like all the client boxes and all kinds of stuff all that's
39:00
been massively simplified uh it doesn't really matter which one you have the
39:04
stuff plugged into you can share it across all of them it's like super simple now uh there's ssl encryption so
39:09
you don't have to worry about someone like taking over your stuff which would be not great
39:15
just you know not in good in general
39:18
you can even use a raspberry pi now which is pretty nuts
39:22
they fixed issues with reconnecting all the computers after one of them goes to
39:26
sleep they fixed issues where redundant connections were being created between
39:30
machines which would also be not necessarily good things things are great
39:34
if you have multiple computers if you go to work with a laptop and then bring it
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home and want to be able to put it on your desk and easily transfer files from
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one to the other just by dragging and dropping from one desktop to the other
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one and just really nice seamless stuff like that check out oh i guess seamless
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seamless dot com synergy slash wan five
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use the use the five yeah it's important
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also speaking of kyle's video on
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Floatplane we've got be quiet! they're a sponsor of the show you can
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check out their dirk rock pro 4 and their nadas pro but still pretty cool
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dark rock pro 4 CPU coolers uh
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include virtually inaudible silent wings
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135 millimeter pwm fans uh it achieves a
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quiet 21.4 db at maximum fan speed which
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is actually pretty sweet um smells pretty good in there too oh my you know
40:32
okay slight tangent while we're on topic sorry be quiet! but mouse pads smell
40:37
terrible when you first take them out of the box but anyways
40:40
um they they eventually this is pretty bad
40:43
it smells like a tire yeah that's yeah that's true i mean it could be worse i
40:47
was expecting like the smell of fingertips
40:50
but it's not that interesting okay uh it
40:54
supports an additional 120 millimeter fan clips are included in the scope of
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delivery uh there's a brushed aluminum top cover which looks pretty nice it
41:03
like covers up the the fin stuff so that's what you see inside your pc we
41:07
can replace my face with it now i'm like the man with the apple in
41:10
front of his face anyways moving on uh there's a three-year manufacturer
41:14
warranty which is great uh and and yeah if you need a CPU killer check them out
41:18
they're on newegg and other websites but we have links for
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newegg which will be in the video description on youtube
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moving on squarespace i feel like we haven't had a squarespace spot in a
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while but i'm here so i'm happy 24 7 live chat and email support for your
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41:58
one of those crazy wide computer monitors all that kind of stuff it will adjust your website to look good on all
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of them it has commerce modules so you can sell stuff through your website
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which is great and everyone can publish an apple news format which is great
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because that format can go into a whole bunch of other formats so you can
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first purchase back to the show boom the beginning of the end of passwords yes so
42:34
there could be a future soon where you very
42:39
very seldom enter a password
42:42
which would be dope because passwords suck
42:45
so what happened is there's this there's this new security standard called
42:50
web often like authentication yeah
42:53
that's so stupid it's weird thanks guys i thought it was a typo at first like i
42:58
was like oh it appears more than once oh you didn't account for people saying
43:02
this out loud but okay um web often has won near final approval
43:07
from the world wide web consortium which is the governing body for these kinds of
43:11
standards so what this is is
43:14
on your phone you're unlocking your phone with face id or with your
43:17
fingerprint all the time right but you don't do that when you go to
43:22
facebook.com or basically any other website all recipes for them you enter
43:27
in just a password um setting up a face
43:31
a biometric um a password on all different websites
43:35
would take a long time you'd have to not only would they have to implement that
43:39
that technology but then you'd have to like do your all those different finger
43:42
taps on every different finger for every website and that'd be really annoying
43:46
so what this is is it's an API
43:50
an application programming interface that all the different websites
43:53
will will hook into and then you only have to
43:56
set up your biometric passwords once and then the whole web
44:02
can rely on them which is going to be be a name yes so
44:06
for hackers all you really need to do is break one system yeah and then you get
44:12
all of them yes sick
44:15
i might be wrong but this is how i think it works because the i had to do some
44:20
some digging beyond uh just what was found on the forum the forum post by the
44:25
way was posted by matthew valencia thank you very much thank you matt
44:30
you sound italian what valencia that's spanish sounding to
44:35
me i'm really bad at that so you're probably totally right it
44:40
could be really hard it could be either uh yeah i don't know it sounds like it
44:44
could be cool it sounds like it could be a single point of failure it just
44:47
depends on i guess how they exactly
44:51
implement it you can require something
44:56
like a yubikey which i think is actually pretty cool
45:00
so if they if they add power to the user in terms of like oh
45:05
i'm okay with fairly weak authentication and you want
45:09
to go that route that's fine i don't care if someone doesn't really care
45:12
about their accounts that's okay if you have one password for everything and you
45:16
think that's okay that's fine um as long
45:19
as it's in your control to amplify that
45:22
and have more security if you want to go to like
45:26
having two factors still like a yubikey and something else that could be pretty
45:30
cool um well you kind of already have a single point of failure like if someone
45:34
were to get my phone which they would unlock with fingerprint
45:38
or if they were to get my laptop and unlock with a password then i have all
45:42
those autocompletes set up so they kind of have everything anyway see but then
45:46
that's that's uh an in your control thing yes mine doesn't
45:50
if someone got my phone yeah yeah they have access to
45:54
not very much i would have access to my email which is pretty bad
45:57
um and i guess they would have but they they don't have access to like my
46:01
password trove and nothing autocompletes but they would have my email so they
46:06
could probably reset most things um but like yeah i don't know but even if
46:11
even if you're the kind of person who like doesn't care about things um
46:15
wouldn't those like how are they gonna get a hold of your
46:18
of your biometric information isn't that just hashed isn't it totally
46:24
yeah but okay so the there's there's different types of of
46:28
hacking so you could find a vulnerability in the
46:33
system that no longer requires you to use those sure yeah okay right there's
46:37
like things yeah it's and and someone will probably find one of those okay uh
46:42
whether it ends up on zero day and gets solved or whether it gets sold or what
46:47
happens with it who knows and having
46:50
one central system if it's open source uh and you have a whole bunch of huge
46:55
companies working on making sure that it stays secure could be really awesome and
46:59
could like really lock things down um one thing that's awesome about this is
47:03
if you're not even that savvy or serious about your privacy
47:06
um you're more protected with this because you can't be phished with this
47:11
because your password is like a secret that you know and
47:16
just because no one else knows it doesn't mean that they can't get it just
47:19
by asking you what it is which is what phishing is
47:27
my wife actually got an sms recently that was like your your telco
47:32
has given you a refund or your isp is giving you a refund of 114.61
47:38
click through you click through and it's got tiles for each of the common banks
47:43
in canada totally branded looks totally professional looks awesome and you just
47:48
you click on that and it's like you enter your banking credentials and then boom they have everything if she didn't
47:52
explicitly know like uh this isp never texts me they never text
47:58
me and they have no reason to give me a refund but like how tempting is that like oh
48:01
free money free money yeah anything's possible sms
48:05
people get fished all the time so you can't get fish with this
48:12
you still totally could because if it would just be done in a different way
48:16
because you would have to have it capture your authentication i guess
48:22
so because you're saying this is a general API for everyone right so they
48:26
would be so you would go to the phishing site and it would be like scan your fingerprint
48:31
and you'd be like click when you have to when you get like it on
48:35
Android or iOS when you get a a permission prompt that was like share
48:40
your fingerprint with this website and you'd be like that's weird i already did
48:43
that and then even if you did say yes to that they'd scan your fingerprint it would
48:47
just be once which may not be enough to like totally get super dangerous may not be enough i
48:53
don't know it still might work its potential you could also algorithm it
48:56
out to like angle it slightly to try to make it slightly different um and
49:00
honestly i would honestly think most people would go like oh yeah go away
49:04
to any prompt that's like do you want to share this with the website could be um
49:07
it's it's still possible there's there's phishing attempts that succeed that are
49:13
super garbage all the time uh and
49:16
there's actually some people who intentionally make things like fishing
49:21
uh attempts that are really bad
49:24
because they don't want to get savvy people ah
49:28
so they actually weed out savvy people by making it
49:31
fairly obviously fake so if someone does fall for it they can probably get way
49:36
more from them that's because they're really gullible yeah there's there's oh that's amazing
49:40
the the world of of people trying to
49:43
benefit off of other people uh is vast and well-educated that actually is a
49:48
pretty good segue into another thing that happened which is this ransomware
49:52
that asks yeah pubg get this ransomware it's like your data
49:57
is encrypted the only way to get it back is to play this video game
50:03
like we're not affiliated just play it because it's awesome or if
50:07
you don't want to do that just enter the password that's actually written right
50:10
here on the screen so it's just like just like a joke
50:14
i don't know maybe someone just wanted to play it maybe it's a viral marketing
50:17
campaign it's obviously like bad and stuff viral
50:23
it's a viral it's a virus
50:27
i like that i didn't pick up on that right away first um it's it's obviously like bad
50:33
and stuff but i think it's hilarious i i think this is very funny um just play
50:38
pub g for one hour and apparently you don't even have to if you just launch
50:42
the game at all it just that's what happens yeah when you launch when you launch it and the or restore code is and
50:48
you can just type that in i think it's i think it's funny um
50:53
it's it's i mean i'm not condoning it it's not a good thing all that kind of
50:57
stuff but i just i think it's hilarious i was like kind of hoping it was going
51:01
to happen to me just because i'd be like well i guess i gotta play
51:05
pubg right honey
51:09
luke it's date night ignore that code
51:12
i have to say that i have to save the pictures although all the family pictures are all
51:16
super important yes family pictures
51:21
my family videos
51:25
my family vr videos yes of course
51:29
so apparently warranty sticker stickers that say if you remove the sticker
51:33
you're going to your buoyancy is ward
51:37
you know what i'm talking about this was posted by steve uh grabowski on the
51:40
forum and the previous topic was posted by
51:45
no one hey grabowski thanks for the topic yes
51:49
warranty void if removed that sticker apparently is and illegal so
51:53
the ftc is cracking down they've sent
51:57
letters to six major companies they haven't said who these companies are but
52:00
they're rigged yeah and they're in the sectors of
52:03
their car manufacturers of cars they are
52:07
did i even write it down video yeah here we go automobiles cellular devices and
52:11
video game systems uh makers like i'm pretty sure they're
52:14
big companies like so yeah yeah so
52:18
they've sent warning letters to these companies writing that statements that
52:21
consumers must use specified parts or service providers
52:26
to keep their warranties is actually illegal and it has been
52:29
since 1975. and we've kind of always sort of known
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this to be completely honest okay okay um but it's been so ah okay
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maybe i shouldn't say we have but like a lot of people have been on this side and
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kind of known this for a long time but that being said because there hasn't
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been a big public statement that's super easy to point out like this there's you
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can point at like really old laws and whatever but most companies just act on
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the idea that it that it is enforceable so we'll make it
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a nightmare to actually get your stuff repaired to the point where it's not worth it uh i
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think even if even if the case was that like
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you know i'm gonna take the sticker off and there's nothing the company can do
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and they're gonna have to uh honor the warranty anyway
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just the fact that they have a sticker on there and are deterring a large part
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of the population even that is getting cracked down on right which is good
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because that sticker like you're right deters a huge percentage of population
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basically almost everyone and then uh even if it doesn't like i love breaking
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those stickers uh if i did want a warranty repair for something that i
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broke the sticker on uh it would be a nightmare and probably not worth my time
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and it would probably never end up happening and to get it fixed i'd probably have to take them to court
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which is not going to be worth it so this being enacted is awesome i love it
53:52
it's great this is good one quote that i like here is from thomas b paul acting
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director of the ftt ftc's bureau of consumer protection he said proficient
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provisions that tie warranty coverage to the use of particular products or
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services harm both consumers who pay more for them as well as the small
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businesses who offer competing products and services
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you know like if there's a say a mac store that's not max certified but the
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people that are yeah they know how to fix them
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those people should be able to start businesses and fix up these computers yeah
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i completely agree they're right to repair you know let's not waste as much
54:29
stuff sounds good to me homebod
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homepod no i mean like that's dude no i know let's do it i'm down
54:39
uh this is this is interesting apple hasn't what's the
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last thing that apple released that was a new product
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um airpods okay yeah no you got me immediately well
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that goes out the window um i was thinking like they're they're watched it
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hasn't done very well their homepod now hasn't done very well but you're right
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airpods have done great but they're okay they are well headphones the watch
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game's steamed has
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everyone knows it's the best smart watch out there i mean it's not safe okay but do people care about yeah exactly do
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people care about smart watches no no the category is is still yeah pretty
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niche so here's the story with the home pods
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um when it was when the pre-orders went out
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that weekend the the sales of like the pre-orders
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there for the home pod accounted for 73 of all smart speaker sales that weekend
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and for the first month i believe it was ten percent
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of the market basically the market share of homepod
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relative to other smart speakers like the amazon echo and google home is abysmal
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and shrinking had a depressing rate
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if at first it looked like the homepod might be a hit pre-orders were strong in the last week of january it grabbed
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about a third of the us smart smart speaker market in unit sales but by the
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time homepod arrived in stores sales were tanking during the first 10 weeks
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they had 10 of the smart speaker market
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but three weeks after launch sales slipped to about four percent
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that it didn't help that they missed the entire holiday season and that when they
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did ship they were missing two critical uh features that they're gonna have to
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wait for apple airplay two uh before they have which is gonna be like july or
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something all that not withstanding uh the end
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result here is that apple has actually slashed the quantity that they're
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ordering from their suppliers now from 500 000 units to 200 000 units
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and the people who are working like anecdotally i guess the yeah employees
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at apple stores are saying that like yeah we sell like 10 of these a day like
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they're not really flying off the shelf which is interesting because at
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quite a few stores 10 a day would be pretty good so i don't know what yeah
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who said that because if that was at pacific center like in vancouver it's
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like damn yeah they sell like 10 iphones a day yeah yeah yeah exactly but
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yeah and like yeah there's a little apple section of
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the local best pie and like if they sold 10 home hots a day they'd
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so it really like i don't know if they have 10 customers a day at that apple
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thing they're stoked so like it depends on the scale um
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of where you're dealing with but essentially they're not selling very
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well so there's a rumor here i believe it's just a rumor
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i mean it's definitely just a rumor i just don't know how how like
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authoritative that rumor is but yeah people are saying that apple could be
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considering making a smaller homepod
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i guess it would be cheaper because i mean it's a pretty competitive
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market yeah this isn't a bluetooth speaker but
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bluetooth speakers are totally uh totally commodity by now and the thing
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with smart speakers is apple's the only one that's not decoupled from their own
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proprietary device like you can get sonos to have or you will be soon
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someone else to have google assistant in them yeah you can get
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someone to have alexa in them there's some devices that have amazon
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alexa as well as google assistant in them oh i actually didn't know uh sonos
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is going to be like that soon and i believe there's a company that
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i think it's called the wand and it's on its way here that does that how cool is
58:29
that to address alexa and then address i said it to dress her and then address
58:34
google home like for whatever you want like that's awesome anyway um here's a
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few reasons why i don't think it's true that apple is making a smaller homepod
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and maybe i'll be wrong but i don't think it makes very much sense because
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when you make a speaker that's cheaper like if you think about the echo and the
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echo dot everything with the google home and the google home mini the thing that
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makes it cheaper and smaller is that they've compromised on sound quality
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like the google home mini doesn't have the speakers that the bigger one does
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but with the homepod that's the only thing that the homepod does well is the
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sound quality so if they got rid of the sound quality all you'd have left is all
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the reasons why homepod isn't doing well you'd have a crappy assistant that
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doesn't do that much stuff yeah so why would you buy that you
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wouldn't so it doesn't make any sense
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i i think if they are doing that
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uh i think it would speak to the like post
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steve jobs apple and like i don't know if they are doing
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that and if they're not i think that would make more sense so i'm not saying this is necessarily what's happening but
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old apple with steve jobs not old old apple without him or older apple with
59:44
him i mean like the the like third one uh not the fourth one that we're
59:47
currently in um they would have demanded
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no this is the right way to do it if they make something they would have been
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like no this is what people should have and people will learn that we're right
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eventually or whatever and everything that they would
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make would make tons of money and make sense and even if it didn't sell a huge
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amount the first time they made it they would just make another one which is a
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linear improvement as well from there i think you can categorize that by arrows
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and attribute to steve jobs but i think a lot of it is more attributed to just
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the maturation of the that particular market category and now
60:26
there's lots of different iphones because the smartphone market is just
60:29
way more mature in terms of speakers though like their their market strategy
60:33
now is like we're a hardware company whose principal product the smartphone
60:38
is under attack at all sides and being commoditized so what we're going to do
60:41
instead because we can't get more iphone customers is we're just going to get
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more money from our existing customers through all these
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kind of uh ancillary products like airpods and the homepod so
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we're going to make a speaker that's really good and we're going to get another 350 from each of our existing
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customers that's wicked i don't think they're going to compromise on that i
61:02
don't think they're going to say you know what instead of getting 350
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from our customers we're going to get 150 with this like weak ass homepod yeah
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because then who's going to get the expensive one it makes a lot more sense to me for them
61:16
to spend their resources on making the home pod that already exists more
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attractive why don't they just make it you know focus on the ecosystem
61:24
focus on the the uh integration with more smart home stuff makes siri better
61:28
make siri better if you can at this point yeah and that's gonna affect all
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your other products as well i think focusing on the ecosystem for them is
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is what they're gonna do it's that's consistent with their strategy that they're using today i think this rumor
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is bunk i think the first person to make a
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very personalized assistant is gonna start winning me over pretty fast
61:51
when it's like actual conversational oh yeah that would when it's scarlet
61:55
like sup like you mean from is that is that
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that's heard her yeah yeah okay have you seen uh why him
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uh why him yeah yeah with that it's a james franco movie no i haven't yeah
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yeah there's a uh there's a virtual assistant in that movie that's totally
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totally colloquial like it fights with you and stuff yeah perfect yeah
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like i i'm careful no seriously though like i
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i want it to be like you're late
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wake up yeah yeah then when i'm like no i want to get up
62:26
and like because it gets used to the fact that i have a hard time waking up so it becomes a little bit more
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aggressive so it tries to get me up like i i want one that learns who i am i
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would honestly mostly prefer that it was local and
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didn't have to call back to outside servers and would just use my own stuff
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so if someone makes one of those i'll spend exorbitant amounts of money
62:44
and i'll make that work if it's like good uh but they won't so that's okay um
62:49
but yeah well that'll happen eventually
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come on scotty i mean if we're talking like super long term but yeah what do
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you mean this isn't this is 10 years 10 years until you have a local one
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that's actually as good as the other ones i'm talking yeah i'm talking like okay
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conversational will definitely happen yeah and i'm but knowing about you and
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dealing with you the only data they need for that is data
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from you so why wouldn't that be local
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because they want all of it though i got confused for a second but it's
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because they want all of that data so they can train the rest of their
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their devices and stuff and so they can
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take things from it for the most point
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but yeah because they want that data ooh there's another like just get let's get
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one more in here okay uh speaking of google basically
63:40
there's some leaks of where the heck did i put this
63:44
there's a new gmail coming in the next couple weeks and it has some cool new features
63:48
yeah someone data mining is profitable basically yeah this looks awesome uh not only does
63:53
it aesthetically looks kind of cool or more Android
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but it has this new feature of like confidential
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email so there's like a little lock icon you can hit and when you hit that
64:04
lock icon your email gets all these new properties such as
64:08
the recipient can no longer forward that email they can't download it they can't
64:12
print it obviously they can take a screenshot because you can take a screenshot or
64:17
even if you somehow block that because of their native os they could just take
64:21
another thing and take a picture yeah sure sure for sure you'll never get past
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that um it disables copy and paste
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and it lets you make it explode so you can make the email itself expire after
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like a week or a month or a year or multiple years and when that happens
64:38
so there are other services that have these kind of
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properties already the notably is protonmail
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if a proton mail user sends an email
64:48
or a message to another proton mail user and it's exploding message when it
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explodes it just disappears from both of our boxes it's like just gone the way it
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works or is probably gonna work with the new google one is
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if you're the recipient you're gonna get an email looks like a normal email
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you're gonna open that email and it's gonna have a link to the confidential
65:08
email so when it expires i think it's just that link that expires and the
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email like line item will still be in your inbox when you click that link you're
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gonna have to enter your google credentials again which is pretty sweet because then if
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someone stole your laptop and just had access to your email because you left it
65:24
open they still wouldn't have access to that that confidential email and you can also
65:29
stipulate that they need to enter like a two-factor thing like a sms
65:33
when when they get that email too
65:36
just increases security someone steals your device and figures out your pattern
65:41
or your code or whatever and can get into it like we were talking earlier
65:44
like my passwords would still be locked but emails auto login so if all my
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emails had this thing or all the important ones had this thing
65:53
uh that would add a lot of security and you can make it so that the expiration
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date like you're saying it explodes you can make so the expiration date is like multiple years
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so if it's something that that person's gonna have to go back to it multiple
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times yeah well you could make it so that the expiration date is like way way
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down the line uh it also says etc so i
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could see a potential situation where it just doesn't ever explode but it has all
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the other security features like you have to go through that link you have to re-log in yeah all that kind of stuff so
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you can do it you could do it for just high security emails in general which is
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really cool um it doesn't just have to be stuff that is gonna delete if you're
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an accountant you could tell your clients like hey
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send me your your stuff just make it explode in seven
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years because you i don't need it legally after that time and i don't want
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to be holding your data in my storage sure yeah i mean it wouldn't be theirs anyway
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but yeah whatever i think that would be cool it's friday night
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