Linus Attacks YouTube Commenters - WAN Show January 27, 2017
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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11,276 words · ~56 min read
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are live
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all right my friends welcome to the wan
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show some of you are friends that i only know through the occasional
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little sort of snippets of insight i get into you and your lives through the twitch
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chat and some of you are my friends who i um have met once in person
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and i guess we dm'd on twitter a little bit so welcome to the show this is
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wendell from level one text he is going to be co-hosting the show with me today
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luke is attending a nintendo event and uh i think i'll leave it to him to
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introduce himself and talk a little bit about who he is before we get started
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howdy i'm i'm wendell i'm just another nerd it's fine you can check us out at
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levelone.tech but uh
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i don't really know what to tell you my background's computer science i like nerding out i've got some earl grey tea
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and we're going to talk about the news and it's going to be awesome and i don't
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know why that oh right i don't have this there we go all right there we go there
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we go all right so i just posted a link to his youtube channel
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in the twitch chat there so you guys are going to want to go check that out we're
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going to have that linked under the youtube archive as well in the meantime i'm going to roll the intro which i
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spent most of the time prior to the show being late today putting our entire
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audio setup back together because and this was a very ill-advised move on my
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part i took it all off and unplugged it
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all about half an hour before the show was supposed to start because i was
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actually making a video about wendell you you would love this thing uh
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actually you know what here hold on a second let me uh let me see if i have my
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uh oh oh i do have it can i just can i just throw this up here yeah it's sick
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okay so i'm just gonna i'm just gonna full screen this
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all the usb cameras check this thing
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out that is a server cabinet
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wait he can't see it no wendell can't see it he's he's on a different he's on
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a different computer okay four post server rack that uh is amazing
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and magical hold on well okay they can see it if you were watching the twitch
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stream then you'd be able to see it can you see it now
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uh is it the oh that's the one that looks like a uh yeah that's from uh i
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star usa that's right yeah that's uh you know there's a law
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firm i'm aware of a law firm that bought one of those because of an unfortunate
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placement of a 24-port switch and they're like where they're the line came
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in for like their fiber or whatever
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the lawyer's offices and he's like this is this is uncalled for and that totally
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is like a good solution for that yep i think it's a great solution if you're
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looking to increase the sort of wife factor appeal of something like a um you
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know a bunch of audio recording gear so so basically i was trying to find every
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rack mount cool looking thing with lots of dials and switches on it and throw it
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in there and i took pictures of where all the cables went because i have no
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idea how to set up our compressor our preamp our headphone amp for monitoring
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in our mixer i had no idea focusrite flew here to set it up for me
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and uh so i but i i forgot
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even taking a picture wasn't enough for me because i forgot
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that i had taken a picture of the front where there was also some very important
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stuff so i put all the back stuff back together like why isn't the morning room
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working anyway
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let's roll the intro which doesn't work and
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sorry there's a bit of a delay on the line there i'm sorry i'm sorry i don't
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know i was gonna say it doesn't matter you've got 465 people so it's fine
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yeah all right we'll be right back we'll be right back intro time
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yes i haven't fixed this file yet it has no audio
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that has a picture of luke but luke's not on the show today because it's
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wendell
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okay yep i'd pause the thing okay Linus tech tips
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and they have sponsors because
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otherwise they would not be able to pay their bills which is cool i guess okay
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and we're back
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so i've got a few people asking me to turn wendell up a little bit i'm going to
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turn you up a little bit see if that makes them happy although a lot of people are saying it's perfect 10 out of
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10. so uh i'm going to go with that and selective taking selective feedback this
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is the new way is it not taking the the things you want to hear and focusing on
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those how is it down in america actually we don't get political on the show anymore
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so you don't have to answer that
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yes yes
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i'm glad you asked i'm just gonna drink some more of this
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tea that's code for i don't know what's
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going on help me fortunately this tea isn't from mexico or i'd be paying 20
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more for it now
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so much for nafta i mean
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yep okay why don't we talk about something
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that is a far less political and uh less
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controversial subject that was you know a source of less strife for you in the
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last little bit you got to explain why are you level one text now
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well see there's much less drama right yeah we kind of we kind of started over
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i you know i wasn't really sure it was a lot of fun i kind of like doing this you
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know so i'm i've i've been a consultant for you know the better part of a decade
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and um i do programming and this this
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sort of thing was fun to show off stuff but we have this really amazing
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community and so i didn't really want to abandon the community as it were because
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there's a lot of people in the community that are like it pros or their students
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that are like coming up and they're like i don't know if i want to study computer science or if i want to get into
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networking or i want to do whatever and it's like well you know maybe we could take a sort
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of different a different tack on this and do
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some you know admittedly niche content niche stuff the the Linux content was
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really popular i get to meet some really amazing guys um i got i get to meet eric
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raymond and tron guy you know tron guy you've seen tron guy right
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i actually am not familiar with tron guy
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yeah he's i'm sorry if you google tron oh just oh the meme
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okay yes yeah yeah so it turns out that guy
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is an insanely brilliant um mainframe
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expert and so i've met him and actually
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got to talk to him about um system 390
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and he works in the hercules emulator and uh he's just a fascinating brilliant
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guy and so it's just level one is about that
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kind of stuff it's about those kind of projects because you never know
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you know who the celebrity meme person is going to be that actually works on a
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you know like a mainframe emulator yes star wars kid he's he's a sound designer
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oh i didn't know no no no no no i think he ended up getting bullied
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and dropping out of school or something like that i'm not sure exactly what
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happened there oh well that kind of sucks i guess yeah
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no that's actually not very funny um
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let's have been good yep okay
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so are you going to are you going to touch on any of the i mean i'm sure
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people would be would love to hear your side of the story the entire chat is
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going like uh blah blah blah text indicate this text indicate that are you
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gonna are you gonna talk about it no i don't think so
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it's just it was fun while it lasted
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uh this is a little bit different and it is what it is so
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yeah having fun so far yeah so far it's actually been i was
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actually kind of surprised by the community the the community was like you
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should do this and you know don't go away and blah blah blah it was like okay
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well i mean i guess that's fine uh and so that that worked out really
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well i was really surprised by you know the support from the community
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so far and just kind of trying this as an experiment and doing doing fun
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interesting stuff but you know i don't this this whole like youtube e-celebrity
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whatever i don't really like honestly i really don't fully get it like i just i
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don't really i'm just nerding out and i guess the
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audience is along for the ride so what you don't uh you you don't
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you don't get uh you know why someone might think that
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like jenna marbles is the most amazing person on earth or
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i just i feel every time i make a video there's a little voice in the back of my
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head that is like you self-important blowhard why are you doing this this
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doesn't make any sense at all and it's just like well
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i get i mean it's like i'm spreading the gospel of open source and and uh and
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Linux and and you know knowledge is power and all that kind of stuff so i
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guess it's all right yeah you guys i mean just from like a
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purely sort of um you know self-important blowhard sort of uh
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you know but really focused on being an e-celebrity sort of perspective you guys
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are doing really well i mean for such a new channel 130 000
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subscribers but more importantly than that the last four videos are averaging
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about 30 000 views give or take
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each or the last five or so which means that a quarter of your audience
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is watching is interested yeah everything you put up
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i mean for me people can look at it and they'll go oh yeah he's got like 3.6 million
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subscribers but we're averaging like 500 600 000 views per video so that means
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that like one seventh and i'm not that
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great at mental math so hopefully that's pretty close but closer to a sixth or a
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seventh so those are like really really impressive numbers
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it's it's really kind of weird though because like some of the content is
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really really esoteric like we did like the smb multi-channel video and i can't
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i can't imagine that anybody would have just a casual interest in that but if
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you're a system administrator or somebody that's like been through that banging your head against a wall there's
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information in there that you just you can't get anywhere else because
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uh nobody has bothered to ride it up and plus microsoft's changed it like 12
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different times so uh you know but there's a it's really
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dense technical information so i guess that's good and the Linux videos are
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kind of like that but um the storage server video there's
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not really a lot of technical content in that we the first version of that was
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like an hour long and it had a lot of technical information but we sort of did
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a funny skit in it i don't know if you saw it or not but you you there was a little picture of
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you and on a picture and there was on the wall and some other you know tech
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youtubers and yarn it was kind of funny but uh you have to watch it
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when we're building our storage server and so it's a it's a it's based on a
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fedora which is a distribution of Linux and it's using zfs and so there's about
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a hundred hard drives and four rack mount chassis and an old
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google server and so it's 172 terabytes and i had a blast not only building that
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but also sort of documenting it on video at one point i rode the rack
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it's on a wheeled rack and so at one point i rode the rack like a skateboard
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around the office and there's a little a little bit of that in the video
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but uh doing that kind of like i'm gonna i'm doing that stuff anyway whether or
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not it's on camera and so now it's just like oh i can do it on camera and people
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watch that and you know there's ad dollars for that okay sounds good i
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could just buy more random crap so i mean the intention for you is never
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to turn this into your full-time gig is it i don't think so
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the the the interesting situation i mean maybe but the situation is that a lot of
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the stuff that that we would be doing videos on
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are things that i'm doing professionally or things that are connected to things
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that i'm doing professionally and so like we're working on a video right now
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on docker which is like a programming thing and if i weren't doing that
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professionally i don't know that i would
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know enough about it to do a video that's like this is how you get started
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with docker this is how you're productive with this same thing with like zfs and the server it's like if i
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wasn't doing it professionally i don't know that i would
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sort of figure that out and i don't know the content would be
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interesting i'm just throwing up your uh throwing up your video here on the on
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the screen share so people can see you sitting next to what is that a 6u
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uh it's two it's four for you cabinets and one to you server well that i think
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oh you're probably not looking at the same uh frame of the video as me okay so
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there you go there's this is a good view of it so there's the there's the two
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four u's right there you guys and then there's the 2u right up there
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um let's see if i can find your fun little
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skit part where do you where do you ride the where do you ride the
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rack because that sounds amazing
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there's a gif of it somewhere that the people have already made so it's it's
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probably it's there's it's probably in the description or something i don't know but it's uh
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uh yeah it just ended up being kind of nuts
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and it's not insanely fast it's only got one 10 gig interface right now i've got
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to get a dual 10 gig adapter for it but it can move a
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Gigabyte per second no problem and it's all spinning rust i do have one NVMe in
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there for caching but but uh other than that it's all spinning
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rust which is not bad so we are we are finally uh oh i ha i
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have figured out how i'm doing the archival storage actually
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so it looks like we're gonna be using blaster fs
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cool that's awesome that will be good i think so that's um right now
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we've got all of the super fast stuff so the pure NVMe storage server that's
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running Windows server native smb there's
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a lot to be said for it um is it perfect no
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but support for pure NVMe diy solutions
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right now as far as i can tell is sort of
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yeah not really exist not doesn't really
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exist i mean if you want to go to ibm or something and you want to buy some hyper
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fast you know 100 you know Gigabyte like you know super
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flash storage doodad that plunks into a proprietary system sure go for it um
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yeah you gotta be careful with those because they'll happily take your fifty
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thousand dollars but it doesn't always live up to the hype i mean
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uh it's just you gotta get one and play with it and don't be afraid to send it
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back even though it costs you know five six figures but that's the thing is on
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the very high end there's that on the very low end there's you're not buying
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48 NVMe drives because you're trying to do it more cheaply than that so and
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there's this there's this in between that super micro built this server that
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i don't understand who the customer is for but i ended up with one and uh and
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so Windows Windows server it is i guess for now anyway so we've got that for
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high speed and then we're moving to uh gluster fs uh running on i forget some
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Linux distro once again i'm having people who understand it better than i
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do uh fly up here and set it up for me so uh brett from 45 drives is actually
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coming up to set us up so we are actually aiming and i'm not sure if
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we're going to get there yet because that moolah but we are aiming to do a
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one petabyte storage machine the petabyte price nice
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nice seagate just laid off a bunch of people though so i don't know what that means
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for the hard drive industry spinning rust yeah well they laid off a bunch of
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people we talked about this on the wine show last week actually so i don't think we can do it as a full topic but they
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they laid off a bunch of people and they closed down like
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significantly into double-digit percentages of their hard drive production capacity
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at that time had they announced the 14 and 16 terabyte drives i had just
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noticed that the last few days no i don't think so
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yeah they just announced 14 and 16 terabyte capacity drives
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but i can't get any information out of them on the throughput of the drives
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because it seems like the capacity of the drives have been going up and up and
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up and up but the throughput on the drives really hasn't improved all that
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much and like our i mean you know our storage array is basically
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uh surplus so it was retired i got lucky though because the power on hours on all
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the drives are only about 18 months and the you like mechanical hard drives you
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can set your watch by their design at least enterprise grade they're designed
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to last five years anything beyond five years you are on borrowed time and and
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that that comes from a decade of experience and uh
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the the drives that we've got they're only two terabytes there's like 100 of
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them but uh but the time to replicate them is really
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really quick like those drives have a have a streaming performance or just you
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know transfer rate of like 150 megabytes per second 100 450 at the
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fastest part of the disc so re-imaging two terabytes not a big
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deal re-imaging 14 terabytes at say 200
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megabytes yeah 7210 maybe yeah i mean that's going to take like
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days i mean not to mention you look at what western digital is doing for their
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12 and 14 terabyte disks so their 12 is going to be a
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standard um perpendicular magnetic recording but their 14 terabyte is only
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going to be available in shingled
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yeah the rewrites on that aren't going to be fun
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i guess it's good for archives but yep which is about it which is exactly what
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we plan to be using stuff like that for but um
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yeah it's going to be uh it's gonna be a very interesting next next few years i mean uh look uh
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walking around in seagate's booth at ces i don't know if you were were you down
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at ces or no no no i skipped ces i'm hoping to make it to computex but uh you
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know it's only 125 000 subs i've gotta i gotta spend a couple of years growing my
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subscribers or whatever well we'll try to throw a few your day
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wait today thanks appreciate it i'm learning the lingo learning the
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vernacular as it were subs yeah
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all right so um next topic of the day i don't know if you i don't know if you
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looked at the video i'm sure you didn't because you would have already known the answer to this um we did a video
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yesterday i think it was yesterday yeah yesterday called does a thousand dollar
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Windows perform better
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where we took a server version of Windows and basically you
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know ran your typical desktop benchmarks
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against good old-fashioned Windows 10
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and the comments on this video are just
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just poisonous um so so this guy says
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wow the ignorance in this video is tremendous no one is actually paying the
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server edition of Windows for performance they are paying that big
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buck for its features uh i really thought that Linus would research first
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before making these kinds of videos
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so tell me something wendell you've known me for about four years now actually i think
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you've known me for about four years do you think that i expected
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the server version of Windows to perform dramatically different from the desktop
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one yeah probably not do
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you think there is a case to be made for making a video because perhaps somebody
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else other than the host might not know
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this yeah that that could come out i could
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see that maybe i could see that as it relates to the
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game mode the upcoming game mode for Windows honestly because if you look at
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like um the host processes and the default loadout on like which services
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are enabled and what server is doing and blah blah blah yeah especially
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especially if you start with like core os and you just enable the desktop
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experience and that's all you've got uh depending on what you're doing that
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can actually be faster if you can do whatever you're doing without the
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desktop experience then that would even be better but for
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desktop workloads you're probably going to need the desktop experience you probably will um
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and honestly the the most frustrating thing about this is that like the very
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beginning of the video i even point out old forum threads from back in the vista
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days of people asking does vista ultimate perform better
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oh actually i think that was true i think that not vista ultimate but i
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think that like server 08 actually did perform better than vista because vista
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was just a huge steaming pile of trash
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i ran vista for a long time maybe you just didn't have the horses
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that's right that might be true i mean it's possible i mean i wasn't trying to
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run vista on a on a netbook either though so that i mean that was painful
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you remember that when they were shipping netbooks with vista
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oh yeah i tried to use one once i was just like this is ridiculous
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um so let's talk a little bit about Windows 10 game mode because i've actually got like i'm sure you have the
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same video in the in the works so it's going to be the race to who can make it
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first but Windows 10 game mode versus those
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Windows 10 d bloatify scripts that you can run versus stock Windows 10 out of
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the box how interesting of a video is that going to be
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you know in the preliminary testing that we've done there's not like the the game
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mode the the build we played with was the very first version that enabled game
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mode and honestly i couldn't really tell that it did a whole lot other than it
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disabled search indexer while you're while the game was running which
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okay and uh there was something else that it did it
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did something with the dvr the xbox live dvr sure and and that was and it's like
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okay i mean sure the the blow script that we have mostly disables the
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telemetry and all that crap so do any of these things fix the start
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menu yet no you mean when the start menu just
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randomly doesn't respond sometimes yeah yeah no isn't that baffling yeah it
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really is i'll give you one better uh Windows 10 the the builds that we that
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we use in the like for business stuff uh randomly after like three or four
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days it's just stops being responsive you have to restart the whole machine
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eventually explorer will crash for no apparent reason
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really did you try turning it off and turning it back on again did that fix it that
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does fix it oh good well i mean yeah i'm talking to the
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level one text guy right so i got to throw these jokes in here
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so in a nutshell oh for uh for those of you who aren't familiar
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with game mode uh we've got an article here from rs technica that we got all of
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our information from because we don't do any actual research but the idea behind
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it is improved resource allocation gives a boost to frame rates and in a nutshell
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um they're saying that when game mode is active the os will lean towards
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allocating CPU and GPU resources to the game i don't know what else it would be
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allocating GPU resources to but who knows for games that are CPU or GPU
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bound um kevin gamel partner group program
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manager for the xbox platform said that they were seeing frame rate improvements
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of two to five percent i mean
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the thing about frame rate improvements from two to five percent is that it's one of those things where it sounds kind
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of good on paper but in practice a two percent frame rate improvement is what
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at 60 FPS yeah not enough is that the difference
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between like the hardware that you had now you're like really getting the most
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out of it and uh a terrible gaming experience
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i don't based on the testing that we've done i don't think we're gonna do a video on this but here's something that
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you could try for for yours in task manager as a control
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just right click on the game process and set it to an elevated priority not real
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time not high just the the one that's above normal
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and um i bet that will result in a two to five
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percent performance increase hmm
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just elevating the process i mean there's uh
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that was one of the fixes from rockstar when gta 5 first came out
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um for like middle of the road i5 systems they were like everything is
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fine but sometimes it goes glitchy and weird literally the the thing from
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rockstar was uh right click on the thing and set it to
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above normal and people were like oh my god that fixed it
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so and it might be the Windows is doing you know like the search index or
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in the background or whatever the malware service is executable is the
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one that keeps killing my like my my razor blade will be sitting on a
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table like 10 feet away from me and it'll start
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going i go over there i'm like what do you
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mean 18 CPU usage there's nothing open
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it's doing a background scan because that's what you need right yeah i need
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that when i'm running on battery thank you thank you
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um so anyway game mode in case you do care
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about it will work for both traditional win 32 games and new universal Windows
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platform games um the creators update will ship
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with a periodically updated white list of known games for automatically
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enabling game mode so that's cool i guess
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whitelist for increasing the priority like i can do that with a powershell
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script done
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anyway back to back to making videos that we already know the answer to i
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think probably i think this is one of my biggest
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frustrations as a content creator because we actually did one quite a
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while back um does water cooling
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make your room cooler or something along those lines i can't remember exactly
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what we called it yeah there it is does water cooling make your room cooler and
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the one that drove me craziest on that one at least with the Windows versus
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Windows server video people were like Linus you're an idiot because
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of they got the right answer they they knew that like there shouldn't
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be much of a difference with this one
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half the comments are Linus you're an idiot you why would you think this and
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the other half of the comments are Linus you're an idiot of course it makes your
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room cooler how did you not know that
26:04
i'm sitting here going that is why i made the video
26:12
now i'm probably going to get some hate for saying this but uh yeah
26:16
you know you've got your computer and your computer is drawing you know 700
26:19
watts 800 watts or whatever uh that is that is functionally no
26:23
different than having a space heater that is dumping 700 or 800 watts of heat
26:27
into your room it's like oh the computer is like you you really want to get
26:31
pedantic you can be like oh the computer is doing the work and the amount of
26:35
energy that's going into doing work is not going to generate heat that is
26:39
negligible yeah that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard because it's
26:42
pretty obvious okay like when you have a heat sink on your CPU okay you touch the
26:47
heat sink it's very hot and when you have a water cooling
26:50
radiator water is inherently cold
26:55
somewhere else yeah no no no no no water the water is much cooler much cooler you
27:00
touch the radiator no no
27:03
i mean that my friends is why when you have a laptop that's running really hot
27:08
and you take it into a room you can look right out the window and
27:13
bam temperature goes down global warming defeated
27:16
if that's one of the things did you guys do a video on um
27:20
alternative uh fluids for liquid cooling because that has come up a lot on our
27:25
forums and it's just like jesus the specific heat capacity of water is
27:28
really good it's hard to beat it no i haven't i mean that's one of those
27:31
things where we've shied away from some of the really really nerdy enthusiast
27:37
topics like that um it's something that i've been aware of for a long time i
27:41
don't know how long how long have you been in the water cooling scene you're more of a like an enterprise tech guy
27:47
i've never done a custom loop water cooler ever okay so
27:51
um i've been in the the custom water cooler scene since about 2006 or so and
27:57
back then the the popular one was an additive called water wetter that was an
28:03
automotive additive so people were putting that in their in their water
28:06
cooling loops and i think people were getting quite confused um in those days especially
28:12
because there was a lot of a lot more even a lot more misinformation
28:17
so people were putting water wetter in
28:20
on the advice of friends and water wetter was supposed to be was supposed
28:24
to it was advertised that it would help with cooling but i think one of its more
28:28
important characteristics was actually an anti-corrosive additive that was in
28:32
it so back then mixing metals uh brass copper aluminum even on the same piece
28:38
was a lot more common because people were actually pulling heater cores out
28:41
of um out of cars and using them as water cooling radiators
28:46
yeah so uh oh okay apparently water wetter is
28:50
used in uh motorcycles apparently that's that's what it's for i thought it was
28:53
automotive anyway the point is that it has always been true and it continues
28:58
to be true today um you know whether you're talking
29:02
fesser one or whether you're talking fluid xp or whatever the case may be
29:07
pretty much any fluid that you put in a water cooling loop other than mineral
29:12
oil which i would strongly recommend against because it'll destroy the hell
29:16
out of all of your gaskets and tubing so please don't do that unless you're
29:19
putting like mineral oil or what's it called floor inert that stuff from 3m
29:24
yeah yeah or floor nerd or something into your tubing whatever you use will
29:29
eventually become somewhat electrically conductive because that's just the way
29:33
it works all those cooler fluid xp is water-based um it just has some kind of
29:37
glycol of some sort in it and then it has something else in it i can't
29:41
remember but eventually it'll pick up enough metal ions that it will become
29:44
conductive and the other thing is that the more you
29:48
add to water the worse it will perform that's why if i'm actually building a
29:52
water-cooled system that i actually intend to run for more than a couple of
29:56
months as a showcase then all i run is
29:59
water with a couple drops of iodine or with a chunk of silver in it that's the
30:04
only thing you should use for the best performance yeah and that makes sense chemically i
30:08
mean you would want to use even like the metal ions that the water picks up the
30:11
water itself is going to conduct electricity because the water becomes ionized
30:15
so you would i mean you probably is there any mythology around using
30:20
distilled water or something like that because it seems like that would also help it be more chemically stable
30:25
yeah a lot of people a lot of people want to use distilled water in their
30:29
loops a lot of people say that's the best thing to use personally we don't
30:33
have particularly heavy tap water around here anyway so i've always
30:37
you know what's really funny okay okay we're getting we're oh we're digging up
30:41
the stories now so every time
30:44
in a video you've seen me pull out a jug of distilled water and pour it into a
30:49
water cooling loop i am just appeasing the distilled water fanboys that's
30:54
that's tap water i drank the distilled water
30:58
or i found a jug somewhere like it doesn't matter
31:02
it's fine i won't tell anybody if you don't yeah that's right
31:09
so um so yeah there's that
31:13
and twitch chat's freaking out twitch chat's freaking out yeah no i it
31:18
it doesn't make a difference um you know what i do have to jump into now
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does anyone do anyone in twitch chat even know what bocce ball is
32:40
i don't have a clue what that is it's lawn darts but with balls
32:44
oh okay so you throw a little ball and then you throw a big ball and then
32:47
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wins it's like curling for americans where they don't
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have ice i think lawn darts are illegal here in the u.s lawn darts are super illegal in
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the u.s and in canada i've been trying to get my hands on a set for uh for a
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buy illegal to own they're basically illegal in every
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on any of that stuff uh sounds like you need to talk to a
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could have like instead of like a nine inch long spike we could have like a 16
33:27
inch long spike and they could be like they could the whole thing could be like
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so why don't we jump into some of our other topics here what else do we got
35:03
that's like interesting i don't even i don't even know this is like zoomed in it's the post ces
35:08
slow season it's been slow for us too on the news i know there's like nothing i
35:13
mean uh x verizon lawyer is now the
35:16
chair of the fcc okay so that's that's just that's terrible um
35:22
let's wait and see what evil things he does before we make fun of him okay sure
35:25
in the meantime there's a link to the rs technica article that uh that that's
35:30
from yeah okay oh man i
35:34
yeah okay no we don't we've been cutting back on on on the the
35:39
political sort of nature of the show ever since we got um sort of roasted for
35:45
talking about nothing but donald trump for an entire episode
35:49
of what is purportedly a tech show
35:52
oh the schadenfreude for my countrymen um all right oh vivaldi ceo calls on
35:58
microsoft to quote unquote do the right thing and stop aggressive edge pushing
36:04
so how excited do you get
36:08
when you're sitting there using Windows because i know using Windows gets all of
36:12
your juices going when you're sitting there using Windows
36:16
10 and you open up another browser and you
36:19
get a little little pop-up little pop-up from the taskbar it's all like hey did
36:24
you know that chrome is 22 percent faster than some arbitrary thing we
36:28
pulled out of our butt uh edge did you know that edges did i
36:32
say chrome okay yeah chrome's not faster than anything that was obviously a an
36:36
error it's it's been doing that i mean maybe
36:39
it's because i'm on the insider build on the Windows machines that i have to use
36:42
regularly i'm i'm not sure but it's been doing that for like six months but it's
36:46
not just chrome it's been doing it with a lot of things yeah uh even just like
36:51
the office pop-ups and it's like oh let's get microsoft office and let's do
36:55
a trial but the version of microsoft office that i have is for developers and
36:58
so it's like i've got microsoft office installed some dumb ass programmer
37:02
didn't take into account if you're running the developer version of office
37:08
yeah um so basically it's addressing and so so this is kind
37:13
of the quote so it addresses how microsoft's anti-competitive practices
37:17
create problems for the user so john tells a story about how a friend of his
37:20
had her pc upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 with the browser being
37:24
changed to edge um and again another quote instead of
37:28
building a better browser microsoft is forcing its product onto people in the
37:32
most unapologetic manner so i actually was planning to make a video about this
37:37
um i switched to edge
37:40
for edge has better battery life about two weeks because i was trying to
37:45
address the abominable battery life with chrome i'm a bit of a tab monster uh
37:49
this is something i'm attending regular meetings i'm working on it um i have a
37:53
sponsor um so i'm a bit of a tab addict and i
37:57
mean i was getting like a couple hours of battery on my laptop which is like
38:01
not very good so i was like okay i heard
38:04
from microsoft that edge has much better battery life i'm gonna try it
38:09
it's just such a piece of garbage
38:13
i mean just just fundamental stuff okay and i don't know if this will happen on
38:17
every machine but on my machine it definitely does if i click a link if i
38:23
click a link in an email in gmail in my
38:26
browser it manages to crash not only the tab
38:30
that spawns but also the tab with my gmail in it
38:34
maybe like 60 of the time like if i do a middle middle click
38:39
that's surprising i'm sitting here going this is this is ridiculous
38:43
how can anything be this unstable and there's all kinds of just rendering
38:48
issues um all kinds of crashing that i
38:51
mean i don't know what browser to use anymore what are you using
38:55
uh chromium chromium is a build of chrome with all the google stuff
38:59
stripped out yeah yeah and actually the canary build which is like the well
39:03
canary's the the like the developer build of chrome it's
39:07
like chrome plus one it's like the next version there's a there's a setting that
39:10
you can tweak in chrome so the non-active tabs don't get CPU and so
39:15
like any kind of like a background most of its advertiser's fault honestly yeah
39:20
uh because there's like all kinds of javascript stuff like that running in
39:23
the background of the tabs that's what's chewing up your battery because chrome was like yeah sure let's keep going
39:27
eight percent of the battery to this tab sure no problem yeah and uh animations
39:32
is also the thing a lot of like when you implement animations with javascript if
39:35
you don't use like request animation frame they'll just run continuously
39:39
right um and so nobody knows to use request animation frame
39:45
so it's bad but uh if you get the canary
39:48
version there's a tweak that you can enable and it may be it's i think it's gonna be in chrome 56 55 56 i think 55's
39:54
out now it's probably going to be in 56 um and when you enable that option you
39:59
should have reasonable battery life again from
40:03
super mega i have i too have a problem with a lot of tabs and so
40:08
uh yeah yeah it's okay you can join my support group if you ever move out to
40:12
the west coast this is great just one one person's
40:15
complaint about chrome really struck a chord with me
40:19
how is it even possible that they still do this
40:23
bullcrap where the first time you launch it the the address bar is here for some
40:28
reason why why
40:32
it's like nobody in the microsoft ux
40:35
team for edge has ever heard of muscle memory
40:38
ever i think that this ui might be designed for geriatrics
40:45
because i could see how this might be easy for old people
40:51
you know what's really funny though is there's actually been i i'm trying to
40:55
think of what the other thing that really
40:58
had me thinking about that recently was
41:01
uh i don't remember if it was like an iphone thing or an Android thing or a
41:06
Windows thing but i was going through this a little while ago where i kind of
41:09
it kind of dawned on me because i was sitting there thinking this product is a
41:13
piece of garbage how could anybody like this and i went wow
41:16
old people that's it
41:21
and it was it was such an epiphany for me um
41:25
all right so hp laptops caught fire or something i don't know it's a battery's
41:28
catching fire seems feels like it's not even news at this point
41:32
a certain it's entropy i mean you cram a lot of
41:36
energy in a small space it can't wait to catch on fire i mean that's
41:40
again back to physics no no physics is boring we don't talk
41:43
about that on this show no physics no politics you keep your physics in your politics and you go you
41:48
put it on level one text we can talk about it
41:52
well not the politics where we we killed politics on our forum because the mods
41:56
were like i'm tired and i want to go home and it's like okay we'll eliminate
42:00
politics as not related to tech and they're like they're peppy and happy
42:04
again it's really nice it's great uh so there's a bunch more details on
42:08
the nintendo dot co dot uk website about the switch so they've got like a whole
42:13
like diagram and everything game cards sold separately technical specifications
42:18
all of this good stuff that nintendo has been kind of keeping to themselves for
42:22
the most part up until this time actually don't know what luke is
42:26
learning at the event that he's at right now but uh how excited are you about the
42:30
switch not at all oh okay well that was quick
42:33
uh care to clarify why so i really like like so i grew up i had
42:39
a nintendo the original nintendo i had like the original original one and a
42:43
super nintendo and i really like them i really love the titles zelda you know super mario bros all that
42:48
i really really like that nintendo has screwed the pooch
42:52
so much with community and like understanding the community and
42:55
understanding who their consumer is that i just don't care anymore and it's
42:59
really sad to say that like i hate to be like that because i you know like the
43:04
the nes mini like the nes classic whatever the the new one is that they
43:07
came out the rest of the emulator and it's probably some version of Linux and whatever uh
43:12
60 bucks i might buy that but i have a real hard time supporting nintendo just
43:16
because of the way like the let's plays and like the aggressive
43:20
quote-unquote protection of the ip it's just it's like
43:26
so i don't know yeah i um i i i share i share your
43:33
frustration um i really think i i really don't
43:37
i mean how do how do i put this like i've run into situations a number of
43:42
times in the past where i've kind of gone you know what i'm sure i'll be fine
43:46
to do x so we oh okay here's a perfect example
43:49
so we use a few frames from an from an episode of south park in a video that
43:55
will be coming up very soon so i actually purchased a child tracker like
43:59
a gps tr child tracker so uh south park did an episode about 15
44:04
years ago where all the kids get equipped with this like headgear with
44:07
satellite dishes and stuff going around because all the parents are concerned
44:11
they'll get they'll get kidnapped and so every once in a while i will do
44:15
something like that and i'll kind of go because i i nod to the episode i go you
44:19
know it's amazing how often south park calls it 15 years ago they did this
44:24
episode and we use a couple a couple frames from it and here we are all this
44:29
time ahead and here i am reviewing a child tracker the child tracker 9000 or
44:33
whatever um so every once in a while i will do something like that where i'll
44:37
go they get nothing but benefit from this technically i am on the wrong side
44:41
of the law i understand that i i have i have broken their copy right
44:45
here but i haven't given away any of the real
44:49
meaning of the content it's not like you had the experience of watching the
44:52
episode from the chunk that i used it illustrated my point incredibly well and
44:57
they got nothing but praise and positive encouraging support
45:01
for the wonderful program they've been producing for so long out of this few
45:04
seconds of footage realistically i consider myself protected by
45:09
the the human being factor someone
45:12
somewhere would have to decide that it is worth the na the bad will that
45:17
they're going to generate to sue me over this
45:21
and i consider that a reasonable protection in a lot of cases
45:25
nintendo breaks that that kind of that covenant
45:30
constantly constantly where there's nothing in
45:34
there's nothing in this for me other than being like a nintendo fan or like
45:39
you know spreading the nintendo gospel and you get nothing but negative
45:44
publicity out of going after me for this but they just do it anyway
45:47
did you see what uh jim sterling what he figured out to combat nintendo it's
45:52
amazing no i didn't so he was doing a
45:55
review of something nintendo and he used some he used a clip that he knew would be
46:00
flagged by nintendo of america just like one or two seconds and he used another
46:05
clip that nintendo japan would flag and because both of them have claimed his
46:09
video neither one of them get any revenue
46:15
i haven't seen the video but i actually did hear about that that is fantastic
46:21
that's how it's done with the master troll
46:27
um let's see what else we got here oh this
46:30
is pretty good microsoft hololens the microsoft admits that sales figures are
46:35
in the thousands but that's all they need
46:41
says the headset's commercial leads so the original article here is from the
46:45
enquirer.net man i remember when that site used to be like the go-to for all
46:50
of the dirt you know 5000 doesn't sound like many
46:53
but if those are developers and like hardcore users that actually could be a
46:57
big deal i mean assuming that let's say i mean i
47:02
wouldn't be dropping what is it two thousand pounds or four thousand pounds
47:06
depending on the dev only version or the enterprise model i wouldn't be dropping
47:11
that kind of money on it if i wasn't either a developer looking to build an
47:15
application that i expect others to use or
47:19
a high-end big business user who's looking to develop something for
47:23
internal use so there will be applications for it based on those kinds
47:28
of sales numbers i mean i'm not as um i'm not as what is it bear or bearish
47:34
bearing bearing a bull on the
47:38
no bullish is good so i'm bullish i'm not bear bull or bear market
47:42
i don't know the opposite of bullish i'm sorry i'm i'm looking like an idiot to
47:46
twitch chat but i'm sure they already thought that anyway um
47:50
all right ooh
47:53
this is exciting so the original article here is from endgadget.com let's go
47:57
ahead pull that up here the first ultra hd blu-ray pc drive ships next month
48:04
only there's a catch and i'm sure i'm going to get some ranting from you on
48:08
this you must have a kaby lake processor and
48:13
Windows 10 to play your uhd 4k HDR
48:18
movies off the disk
48:22
so just like netflix 4k streaming we are
48:25
looking at hardware drm built into your
48:29
Intel CPU in order to play back the content what do you think go go away
48:34
go wendell well so okay before we talk about the drm part of it
48:39
there is actually a legit technical reason for that and the the legit
48:43
technical reason is that kb lake has hardware acceleration not found on any
48:48
other CPU that will hardware accelerate
48:51
the decoding of this content because if you've got a low end kb like sku like a
48:56
like a portable device an i3 something like that it's not going
49:00
to perform well it's it's going to get hot and it's going to run the battery down so like if you've got you know a
49:05
surface pro 4 and well surface pro 5 because kb like
49:10
if well no yeah if you've got a surface pro 4 with a skylake CPU and you wanted
49:13
to watch high def content uh the battery's going to be dead in an hour
49:16
and it's going to be about 80 degrees c um and so okay i could see
49:21
i could see some legitimacy in that this is an internal drive
49:25
and so forth and a quarter inch drive yeah yeah so this is this is a little
49:29
bit more about drm but how crazy is it that we've gotten to a a a point where
49:36
the content manufacturers literally don't trust the computer and so like the
49:40
CPU and the dvd or the the drive are
49:43
going to have this secret private conversation that we're not allowed to
49:46
know what it is even though it's our own hardware uh in order to be able to
49:49
decode the hardware and decode the thing and send it on that just seems a little
49:53
you know anti-consumer to me this just seems like the
49:56
the this just basically seems like the
50:00
content companies finally won the battle i mean it's it is no great secret
50:06
i i think i mean okay this is maybe this is my personal opinion but i think
50:10
piracy is ultimately what led to Windows being the dominant platform i think that
50:15
pirated pirated content of all sorts the fact
50:20
that you had this one box that could play all the music obtain all
50:25
the music play and obtain all the movies play and and obtain all the games for
50:30
free where it was like you could justify at a time when a computer wasn't
50:35
necessary for your job or anything you
50:39
wanted to do you could justify this multi thousand dollar expense because it
50:44
saved you so much money on all the music and movies and games you weren't gonna
50:48
buy um i believe very strongly that that's a
50:52
huge part of why microsoft and Intel had
50:56
their success and it looks like they have finally given in and gone okay
51:02
we're turning our back on on the on the piracy and we're kind of going okay
51:07
we're going to hardware drm this be utch
51:10
um so there there you have it then uh that
51:14
that's pretty much it i imagine at some point
51:18
someone will find some way to
51:23
to pull defeat it oh yeah to defeat it but um it looks like this might be a bit
51:28
more difficult than it has been in the past at the very least well i you know
51:33
the technical i'm honestly not really worried about how difficult it is
51:36
technically but the political climate and the whole like
51:40
you know legal climate of that is really really nuts i mean it's like uh
51:46
manslaughter uh you broke the copy protection on a movie uh it's kind of
51:51
the same things in terms of jail sentence and you know what you might be
51:54
facing and stuff like that i mean how crazy is that it's nuts yeah
51:58
i mean i don't know i don't know if we've got time for it but anecdotally
52:02
you know i i'll confess i'm a consumer
52:05
and i picked up all of the episodes of star trek the next generation on dvd the remastered ones
52:10
from 35 millimeter bought them all and i transcoded them uh
52:15
uh to my media server and i will tell you that
52:19
i would not enjoy the content at all if
52:22
i had not transcoded it to the media server i've got all the content i've got all the special features i got
52:26
everything but it's like i want to watch season four episode two click and i'm
52:31
watching it it is a two second operation if i if i had to deal with the
52:35
of the disc i would be ready to slip my wrist after two minutes and i still
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wouldn't be the episode are you a plex guy yeah well i've got
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plex but i've also been experimenting because plex has done some weird stuff
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and i'm experimenting with uh my sort of own home cooked web thing but yes i love
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plex so we're gonna do some videos on plex cody has gotten to the point where
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it it will basically run as a full-fledged media server as well and
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you don't really need the stuff with play you don't need the subscription or the account or anything
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with plex either that you would need with plex so yeah plex threw a free subscription at me so
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i'm just using it i didn't make any videos about it or anything but like i
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was like okay sometimes flex is is awesome but i don't
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know five bucks a month it's like i've already
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yeah i mean i'm just frustrated because this means that all of the content even
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some of that i've bought at 4k HDR
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i am not gonna get to enjoy in 4k the
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good news is that all of those discs came with a regular blu-ray so i will
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watch that in the meantime i suppose
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well i've really really enjoyed the crispiness of star trek the next generation the the remastered stuff they
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really did a nice job with that i should watch it i actually haven't
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watched star trek the next generation since they were airing new episodes like
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as a kid sitting on the couch with my dad so that would probably be worthwhile
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it's just as magical i mean it's like they really they've done a really nice
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and it came from 35 millimeters so they rated the effects but
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um you know they they haven't it was not like star wars they they kept everything
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exactly the way that i haven't watched all of them from beginning to end but i've watched some of my favorite
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episodes um as i've had time and i've been really really happy with it i'm really happy
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with the media server do you still spend about 60 percent of the time following
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the episode and 40 wondering how patrick stewart still looks the same
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yeah he's kind of ageless you know it's really
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all right well on that note our admiration our mutual admiration for
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patrick stewart gets to be the end of the show i think because i have a
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badminton class that i have to be at in 42 minutes and it's about a 45 minute
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drive so uh thank you very much for joining me on
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the show guys you can find wendell over at youtube.com
54:46
level1tx i'm going to have that link to do you guys not have a vanity url yet
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i think it's just level 1.tech
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oh no there it is youtube.com c
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level 1 tech so i'm going to drop that in the twitch chat i'm going to have that in the video description don't miss
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don't miss their content because they actually take this whole like pf sense
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Linux you need enterprisey security
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stuff seriously whereas i'm just like a chimp with a hammer oh wait wait on the
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last on last week's show didn't you say that you hired a veteran i.t guy or
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something yeah but he's not quite like what you guys are doing either but he's
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a lot better than me but yes we have we have three guys
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joining us soon i think that you know just looking at your growth over the
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last couple of years i think that that will you'll be fine it'll you'll be fine i'll
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survive i'll just keep making ugly keyboards that's that's my that's my i
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think second fastest to a million view video ever
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is i put gold keycaps on a keyboard
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i mean people are upset with me about like clickbait titles and
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i'm like yeah i share you're upset i don't want that to be my best performing
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video of all time well you've got the uh you started the
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trend with that i think with the datamancer keyboard it's that modded
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model m keyboard that keyboard is nice
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it's really cool isn't it
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all right well take care and we will uh we'll talk soon okay
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see ya all right and thank you for having me oh yeah my pleasure of course