Apple is slowing down your iPhone - WAN Show Dec. 22 2017
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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hello welcome to the when show everybody
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we've got a great show for you guys today you seem hesitant
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we don't have a great show for them is it a bad show we have we have intense
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fairly intense news the apple oh i know
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right yeah so it turns out apple is
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slowing down your old iphone well except for those of you who are like haha
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joke's on you i don't have an iphone um except for you apple cannot slow down
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your iphone but they can slow down your friend's iphone so you should still care
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about this we'll talk about a little more later uh Intel ceo brian krasanage
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came out and said we are going to take more risks
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so basically Intel is getting into they're becoming they're going to get
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into like like the energy drink sector nice and they're going to start inside
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they're going to have a new slogan Intel we want to be inside you right now right
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now over and over all night all night all
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night oh i love it
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oh we're off to a good start today um i can't get into the dock but uh
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there is other good news good news yeah facebook strikes a music
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deal with universal like which is great news because we needed another music
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streaming platform yeah i needed another thing to subscribe to okay i'm actually
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okay this is about to get really bad okay um
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so taylor swift's album oh
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oh no you didn't just hold on you did didn't you just for that you know what
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we'll talk about it later um also magic leap magic lead finally has a product
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yes you ordered it i well i signed up you can't order it yet so i signed up so
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i'm expecting you know 10 years might show up so we'll talk about the the
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ultimate secrecy freaking these guys are ridiculous i don't know how they got
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funding because they didn't they've never shown anything no they have
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only behind individually yes yes yeah like mdad literally up the rectum yeah
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so no one's ever no one knows what's going on toe inside uh intelligent side
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okay
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i can just talk louder does that work for everybody great squarespace is that
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cool for freshbooks okay we can just yell all show it i'm
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down yeah i'm down to y'all i'm down to yell all show heck yeah apparently rip
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rip ears rip yours oh sorry everyone apparently it got louder so i have no
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idea what you people are talking about um that's a global audio setting so yeah
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yeah i don't know what's going on okay so why don't we get into our first topic
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for the day apple this was posted by dr mcintosh
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on the forum uh the original article that we have
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here is from yahoo finance it's posted in twitch chat but that's uh
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that's an odd one i don't think i have actually which which one have we tested
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is is that is that the luke one or is that minus one do we do we have any idea if
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either of these this one works i believe that one works i think uh okay
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let's um let's see what
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happens right rock on so about a week ago a massively popular
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and widely circulated thread on reddit posited that apple purposely slows down
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performance on iphones with older
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batteries which people have been thinking
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for kind of ever yeah but now we've been able to you
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know so in a nutshell iphone users have noticed their older phones not
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performing as well as they did before iOS 10.2.1.
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but they've also noticed that performance can increase
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after getting a new battery so it turns out that apple has admitted that they
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are intentionally gating the amount of power that the CPU demands from the
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battery this is because the phone will shut down to protect itself if the CPU
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demands more power than it can supply so there are three scenarios where
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batteries are less likely to be able to produce the big bursts of power that the
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CPU might ask for when they're cold
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when they're low and when the battery has degraded over
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time so what this means is that right out of the box you might run into a
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situation where your CPU effectively throttles for a reason other than
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thermals except that it could be thermals but cold thermals not hot thermals yes
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but the other takeaway here the third reason means that
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out of out of a hundred iphones how many
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of them will slow down a hundred a hundred yeah
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because if it will throttle once the battery decays well i shouldn't say
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decays degrades these degrees they don't they don't necessarily decay i mean they
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if you put enough like if you put enough chicken soup on them they could probably
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decay do you remember that old camera we used to use for uh tech tips videos
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lines tech tips videos that i got the chicken soup on yeah that decayed oh
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yeah wow cause it yeah because it was in my backpack for like like over a span of
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a week i didn't realize yeah chicken soup i didn't know it actually decayed
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well it smelled oh so the soup did it souped it that's yeah well i don't know
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the uh oh the contacts in the battery compartment were like corroded and stuff
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okay that makes sense it's still not decay kind of a decay it's erosion
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well you know i've had enough of your crap
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how long do i have to put up with you again like when's your last day at Linus media like slightly over a week yeah
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like just just over a week perfect perfect can't come soon enough
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two days i'll get to put down that piece of tape that will make it totally
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different than before yeah
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you'll be working in you'll be working in a separate office an office
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all by myself while i talk to people over the internet marked by the masking
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tape that'll be your office yeah um and i won't have to be in it uh except when
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i have to meet with you about four times oh oh oh we should talk about flow plane
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stuff on the show come on
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i want to show the pre-healthy site oh but see every single time that this
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happens people get confused despite no matter how many times i say this isn't
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the site you're supposed to be using everyone goes to go use it okay also you
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never actually ended up telling all the editors that they're supposed to upload
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things in a certain way and use that setting
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so it hasn't been being used so there's things that aren't supposed to be viewed
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yet on there and you're not going to tell them until next week and then
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you'll probably forget so it's really not
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up to you i'll think about it but people are going to be seeing videos with the
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wrong titles i'll think about it i'll think about it okay um
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anyway the Floatplane side of things going great we have a new live stream
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panel thing set up so uh we'll show it later and yes i did uh
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he's not streaming till later tonight we'll talk about that later we're gonna go through like you know what we're
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doing it okay we're going through the thing because i'm out okay anyway so starting with iOS
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10.2.1 max CPU power draw is stepped down in proportion to battery capability
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uh it's not just like a like your battery's good so your phone runs at
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full speed or your battery is a little bit okay the twitch chat is really confused about me leaving might want to
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explain that okay starting january 1st all right all right
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new okay okay can i finish the apple battery thing and then can we get into okay we'll come back to that we'll come
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back to you it's not coming back to not that scary don't worry about it um no it's a little scary i'm scared
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i mean it's are you a little scared it throws me off pretty hard yeah but we'll talk about it in a moment okay okay
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anyway anyway so um so it's not a matter of like your
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battery's good or your battery is bad so your performance is like great or your performance is like poo um yeah it's
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it's like it's a spectrum you know um so this was originally applied to the
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iphone se 6 and has now been applied to the iphone 7 and the 6s and it's being
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planned for future devices um so part of the problem though um
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okay blah they could have broke the phones up front instead of breaking them a year after launch they wouldn't be as
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oppressive and competitive okay you know what let's let's get into this because the rest of
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this is all kind of opinion stuff um
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hit me what are your thoughts i don't like it
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okay can i i'm gonna can i play devil's advocate on this one because if you're
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gonna be if you're gonna not like it then i'm gonna make the counter argument here
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um your Android phone gets slow within a matter of weeks anyway
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even if the battery is perfect i haven't really used an iphone very
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much but don't they do pretty much the same thing and mine doesn't do in a matter of weeks
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to be fair okay so the pixel lasts a little longer
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it lasts quite a while quite a while longer and then i just reformatted it and then
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it was totally fine again i'm on the pixel 2 xl right now i'm quite happy
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with the with the uh mine took like over half a year okay look i'm not supposed
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to be on your side so and then i reformatted it and then it was fine
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again let's all let's bear in mind though that like samsung owns the lion's
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share of Android right now okay and i'm
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not defending samsung yeah so okay so so you know hey at least your
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performance is good for a year and then i refer
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but then you can just you can't do that on an iphone it doesn't solve the
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problem no it doesn't solve the problem you're right so i have the ability to
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solve the problem my iphone doesn't
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you're not winning here
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okay i don't like that because this way like say say i'm not a
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techie person look i tried
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say i'm not a wreck say i'm not i've read wrecked in the in the
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chat uh say i'm not a techie person yeah let's say that and you're my buddy and
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you're like wow way to be way to be with that little eye gesture thing um and and
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i have a phone and i'm complaining to you that it got slower yeah if it's an
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Android phone you can be like hey back up all your stuff reformat it put it
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back on everything's fine if it's an iphone you can be like
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go buy a new iphone no i guess yeah
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so really the upsetting thing here is not
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apple um degrading the performance to me
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that actually doesn't bother me and it wouldn't surprise me if other people
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were doing it and it wouldn't oh yeah a big deal to me oh i would not be even
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remotely surprised at all if it was on the other side of the field as well so
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the part that is bothering me is that
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apple is shipping these devices with batteries that are not only not user
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upgradable because i've that ship has sailed i've gotten over that but that
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are difficult to diy repair upgrade um
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or i shouldn't have said user upgradeable user replaceable but they're difficult even as someone with a
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reasonable amount of diy knowledge like i have replaced phone batteries before
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even on ones with non-replaceable batteries like it's it's not rocket
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science if you're careful and you go slow yeah um
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but they they're making these devices that are difficult to replace the battery for
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and they are running them so close to
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the red line that surely they must know when they're
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shipping these things because it's not like lithium ion or lithium polymer
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batteries are especially new technology at this point apple in particular has
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done tons of research in this field they
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know exactly what's going to happen with this thing
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pretty much perfectly and they're making a conscious decision
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like the fact that the iphone 7 is affected they're making a conscious
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decision to run them so close to the red line
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sorry this side redline that they can only handle it for a year
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can you imagine if a car manufacturer did this like
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let's say for example that volkswagen
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nothing against volkswagen let's say for example they're like not that long ago
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giant issues but yeah let's say for example volkswagen shipped a car that
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had great emissions for the first year
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okay yeah and then when all the press
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had stopped benchmarking it and all those users
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well they're just plumb out of warranty
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let's say hypothetically that when nobody was looking they made it so the
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emissions were bad
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would that not be kind of similar and now to be clear we're not talking
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about a a 10 year old car that just don't run
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the way it used to that's okay this is very targeted you
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know that's why you know that's why well bc used to anyway bc had a um a program
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called air care where people would have to take very old vehicles and they would
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have to demonstrate that they've been keeping them up well enough they don't
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have really difficult horrible emissions it was like a huge problem
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um and you know i i had a car before that i used to have
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to make sure i had a nice fresh oil change in it nice fresh oil change on
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the highway for a while anyway uh premium gas yeah yeah we know all the
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anyway so the point is the point is this is
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um i really don't think okay so my iphone 4 my iphone 4 is really slow and
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i get it that's a really old device that also you know is not getting security
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updates anymore like really has no no right to be to be used like as a daily
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driver at this point um and and i could and the thing too is like i could
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replace it with something that would be a much better experience for an amount
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of money that i consider reasonable to tell someone
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just upgrade your device like i could upgrade to an iphone 5s and that would
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be way better i could get a cheap 5s i'd get a way better experience and i could
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probably do that for i don't know what a 5s is worth it can't be more than like around 100 bucks like i can't even yeah
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not very much i don't know i don't know don't quote me on that the point is
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apple is not doing that with
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six-year-old devices apple
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is doing this with devices that are well within
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what i would consider to be the the prime of their lives a one-year-old
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phone is not an old phone you're looking at used 150 give or take 10 20. okay and
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new 200 240. okay and but i consider i
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consider a used phone if you're on a budget a perfectly reasonable thing to
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do yeah so so i'm not that far off
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um so i can't i can't defend what they're
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doing because it really feels misleading i'd like for them to be chasing that
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headline they're chasing that headline the iphone's the fastest have they um
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posted anything in response to this um
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i'm actually you know what to be perfectly honest i'm not sure because to
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flip sides on you a little bit i wonder if there is some legitimate technical
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reason to the point of trying to reduce
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issues with these batteries um
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maybe using them at the same rate as before it could could produce critical
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situations where you have because batteries
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sorry shut downs shutdowns
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yeah preventing shutdown we talked about that already preventing shutdowns uh
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battery issues having a lithium-ion battery in your pocket is
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like not cool um and has become really common but is like
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super sketchy and luckily these manufacturers of things have been doing
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things mostly right outside of samsung that one time you know yeah bombs um
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you know funny to joke about now uh
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so i don't know it could have something to do with that i haven't personally
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seen an official statement anywhere yeah they they've acknowledged that they're
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doing it they've said it's to prevent shutdowns um but basically the the the
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cold hard truth is they're only doing this so that they can they can run it
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right at the red line for a while
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knowing that no one's gonna no one's gonna benchmark
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it and no one's gonna give this the kind of press like even now we're talking
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about it now but when the iphone x2 or whatever maybe they'll take on
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like a final fantasy-esque sort of naming yeah i don't know what they're
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gonna do yeah um maybe when the the iphone x2 rolls around
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by the time that happens we're not going to be talking about this again we're not
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going to be like here's the review of the new iphone x2 by the way your iphone
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10 now performs like this and your iphone 8 now performs like this
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wow but we can but you can't because it won't even necessarily be applicable
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maybe maybe mine is still running at 98
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but maybe there are other people out there who let's say they use wireless charging all the time uh
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which by the way like apple won't say yes it degrades it
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and i can't say like like with absolute certainty yes it will degrade it this
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amount but it will degrade it some amount we don't know how much but heat
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is bad we know this heat is bad for batteries
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and wireless charging produces more heat so someone who's running around like
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leaving their phone on a wireless charger trickle charging all the time for example or who just uses a wireless
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charger at night unnecessarily instead of plugging in
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they could be at risk of actually degrading the performance of their phone
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a year or two down the line so this is something like we're going to
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want to keep talking about but i really don't know if it's uh
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i really don't know if it's going to keep people's attention the way that a shiny fast new iphone does
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enter the WAN Show in the how to do your vote section oh that's weird our lower
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all right so you're leaving Linus media group or are
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you being fired i don't i literally don't know how is that going to work does it have
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to leave that has to legally work in a way oh yeah oh yeah like you're gone
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you're done no i know but which one like it has to be one right oh uh
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no well no it's it's that it's yeah i'm not paying your weight off yeah and
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you're not laid off so i think technically you have to quit i have to
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have to quit what if i don't quit this sucks
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um what happens um yeah no i'm pretty sure you have to wait
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because your other employer Floatplane media
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it's gonna be like what the hell yeah it's gonna be like uh yo
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by the way it may actually be a conflict of interest for you to maintain your
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position yeah absolutely yeah yeah so um
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so luke is not quitting quitting he's just
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quitting um yeah confusing so i'm still going to be
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on WAN Show if Linus ever actually lets me uh make a video i will make a video
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uh i'm going to be at sea we're working on that one soon together
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oh yeah that's not really oh that's going to be fun it'll be fun yeah it's
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not like it's not real and you have i'm not sure if i should make a video on that thing i think you
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should i don't it's not as cool oh all
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right well if nothing else we could do the classic
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react and just have some fun with it yeah yeah anyway we'll see well i do
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want to still do some stuff um you might just need to sign up okay i
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got this i got this um okay so anyways
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Floatplane has been my full-time thing for quite a while now so most of this
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stuff is just stuff happening on paper that doesn't actually mean anything for
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you guys i'm still going to be on wayne show every week um
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uh we'll be doing ces coverage and we're doing ces coverage so i'll be making
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videos down there for sure uh i won't be making as many as you
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until i get to handle like most of the load myself this year which is great
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yeah i'm hoping i still think uh planned for that
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there's some perceptionally confusing stuff with the scheduling side of things
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i think i can do more than i'm currently scheduled for oh okay so we'll see how
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that goes but um
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yeah i i yeah basically nothing's gonna change on your side of things i'll still
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be doing ces i'll still be doing WAN Show i'm just going to be doing a video
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every now and then just
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kind of you know not that often and i will be more on paper same with
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everyone that is currently a Floatplane person will be more on paper a float
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plane person because right now we're all technically like Linus media groups yeah
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so right now Linus media group is paying the bills but starting january 1st
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formally Floatplane media is starting up as a separate company
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Floatplane media is acquiring the
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employees and the intellectual property from Linus media group that will um the
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trademarks all that kind of stuff and it will become its own
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separate legal entities so we were joking about it earlier on the show but
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we are actually going to like put tape down on the floor maybe put up a sign or
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something like make it kind of fun and Floatplane media will have an office
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it'll be here within this building but legally speaking
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well it'll it'll be it's it's like you have to listen to yeah it's like you're
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renting space Linus media group will be subleasing yeah some of the property to
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Floatplane media and floatplay media like has to pay for it like like legally
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other you can't give stuff away at least here in bc yeah like you can't give away
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a car to a friend unless it's like under a certain value
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because you have to pay tax on it there's there's taxation problems with
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that so like Linus media group can't just be like we're buddies you can use our office
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space um so we have to actually start doing everything by the book which is um
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both terrifying and uh really exciting
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because yeah i have something really cool to show you guys that we weren't
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100 sure if we were going to show you i still don't think it's a great idea but
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you know what i want to do it this is so cool um
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line is the screen i'm even i'm even going to put i'm even just going to get
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rid of us we're just going to we're just going to go float slow plane front and
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center oh yeah that's all fine that's just places i go um
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here we go so this is the sign in screen now to be clear this won't work for you
27:00
guys yet my account was manually created by
27:03
manually creating entries in the database we're just going to not talk about that and we're not going to talk
27:07
about that okay what just happened
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lol there it is okay crying out loud
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okay so this is a sneak peek
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at the pre-alpha pre-alpha of Floatplane.com
27:26
so you can see here um there's a few things like like what what can i what
27:30
can i show should i click on a video sure okay that one so razer phone um the
27:35
review of the razer phone is one of the videos that is up on Floatplane but is
27:39
not yet up on youtube so you can see here the video content is really front
27:44
and center in the design um some of these things are going to end up tweaked
27:48
just to be clear like this is we're calling it pre-alpha because
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everyone hears beta and thinks basically finished product yeah because that's
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changed in my lifetime but this is yeah let's call it pre-alpha even though it's
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it's if you like go with how that structure worked when i was
28:05
young this is like a beta if you go with how that structure works now with things
28:10
like the early access games on stream then this is a like pre-alpha
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however however you want to see it it's early on yeah so
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man that player that's good man so there's a lot of
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stuff that you might not have expected from a pre-alpha stage type product so
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we've got thumbnail previews working one of our guys yuki has worked really hard
28:34
and gotten it so that our color profiles
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are wider than places like youtube so if you have something like a really dark
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shot you'll be able to see more on our platform we can't show you the proper
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comparison for that right now it's not my content don't think it would come
28:48
through twitch anyways yeah so we can't really show you um also
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there's a guy that i don't know if i can say his name yet i haven't asked him has
28:57
been working on live streaming really heavily uh you can see live testing i
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don't think i'm currently running it right now so yeah that's really worried about that but um
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should we talk about that yeah i think we should totally talk about it hold on
29:09
i want to go i want to go a little bit oh yeah oh yeah yeah let's talk about
29:12
that okay hold on let's let's pull back to us for a second then yeah
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so kyle from bitwit he's gonna be
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the plan is the last time i heard from him is um
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oh oh he's like now is now a good time for
29:27
you to show me the ropes no i'm streaming right now um so kyle is actually planning to do
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the first public facing Floatplane
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live stream like the first official one not a test yeah um tonight so if you are
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subscribed to bit with ultra on Floatplane then uh right now that's
29:46
still running through the linustechtips.com forum yeah uh i'm just
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gonna paste that link another guy on the team that i don't know if i can say his
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name publicly has been working really hard on the new payment system which is
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awesome because the current payment system is horrible terrible and we're
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going to do it right um and we're going to have an awesome payment system coming
30:05
yep the best payment system the best the greatest payment system um
30:09
so that's really exciting so you guys might want to check out bitwit that'll
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be the first Floatplane live stream from a creator
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um let's just go back to let's go back to this here Linus's screen
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so that's still running which is good yeah i i can't show you guys right now
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um but we have a chat system working for
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the live stream um and that chat system has like basic
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moderation tools and highlighting for when the creator talks in the chat and
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all this other kind of really cool stuff that um
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i don't know if i can say name has been working really hard on um and it
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actually looks pretty good this is pretty cool uh we've got comments
30:48
working we are going to have thumbs down because we believe that some comments
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deserve a thumbs down damn it yeah um they do downvoting is important these
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are real people by the way these are people actually using the site these are our pre-alpha testers
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so this is one you can see it's uh shaded green because i thumbs it up a
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few people thumbs that up we don't have replies working but that's coming yeah
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that's coming yep it's being worked on uh everyone on the floor playing team
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has been like going super hard i i i
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even told like everybody that they could leave early today and people are still
31:24
talking in the work chat because they're watching the stream um right now i can
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see you on my phone um which is like that's that's pretty
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hardcore i don't know so this is pretty cool there's a live button here um so
31:37
kyle's channel when he's live hopefully we would be
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able to uh yeah we're gonna have so we're gonna have the standard like there will be a thumbnail sitting here kind of
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situation there will be some stuff you can fill in here this is just placeholder text right now
31:49
i'm subscribed to kyle as you can see and then this is that this is a chat so
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yeah so that you can talk hello
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just go ahead and just do that there so you can oh wait they could see it
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already so uh so that's what the live streaming will look like um let's go ahead and go
32:05
back to our stuff we can talk about some of the stuff that's on there so we've got um the lg gram late 2017 that video
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is up we've got best case under 35 bucks this is what luke was referring to
32:16
earlier when he was saying the editors when they upload the videos or not using
32:20
like the real title like this is just our file name um
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yeah they don't they don't realize that it's public facing now because that's a
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feature that we've had for a long time the ability to put a title and
32:30
description and keywords and stuff but it's never actually been public facing
32:34
because we've just been posting them into the forum so that's great dale the sleeper is live
32:39
now so that's uh the sequel to hubert the sleeper this is a really cool
32:44
machine you guys uh razer phone is up uh the oh the quad core blade stealth
32:49
that video is up lenovo thinkpad anniversary edition that's up on
32:54
Floatplane and we do have some exclusive content over there as well so this is a
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pretty cool little look at the um
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the guts did you see this uh yes yeah so this is like kind of the
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equivalent of a developing kit a developer kit for automated cars really
33:10
cool it's really cool stuff i don't recognize almost any of these
33:14
but the number of sensors in this thing is freaking bananas so it's just a
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little three minute uh three minute tour of that i actually think i have another
33:21
update that's going to go up uh probably sometime this weekend so
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um should i show them the cms so another
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another cool thing that's working um there's no way to set it manually right
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now uh but automatic uh quality changing
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yeah yeah you can definitely show that automatic quality changing is going to work on the stream which is really cool
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aj's been working on that and a huge amount of other things um for quite a
33:46
while so that's i'm stoked that that's working so
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um oh someone says they don't see dale on Floatplane oh crap i wonder if it's
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like someone said it to the wrong status very recently we finished uh update uh
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okay uh well what you'll know for sure then having seen that is that it's
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coming very soon because the video is ready
34:09
we very recently finished an update that allows for like the public private
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unlisted style setup that most uh video platform sites have
34:17
and uh the people uploading the videos haven't started using it yet so
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everything's just been public on that site
34:24
so there you go um got people asking about ijustine um i
34:29
definitely have talked to justine about it um i'm okay here's the thing
34:34
i haven't talked to that many people about it just because i haven't had
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anything to show them up until about this week other than like um still
34:43
images and because you don't want to it's a
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weird balance of like we don't want to do the
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always in beta thing yeah then we've been in production since before we had
34:56
anything yeah so we have kind of always been in beta but then we didn't want to
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like advertise other creators before then and it's a chicken and egg thing
35:04
too because it's hard to you don't want to spend a year working on a platform if
35:07
you don't have any creators but you don't want to talk to creators about a
35:10
platform that doesn't exist that you don't have you don't want to make
35:13
promises that you can't back up so we've been really cautious and really careful
35:18
about what we can commit to and um you know we're we're doing our best
35:22
to to to keep from to keep from disappointing anybody i
35:26
think that's that's really the main thing for us is we're trying not to not to screw
35:31
anything up um will Floatplane
35:35
allow can girls i'm sure you mean cam girls and
35:40
no comment at this time one thing i will say about Floatplane is that we do
35:44
intend for it to be fairly non-restrictive in terms of the kind of
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content creators that can be there well there's there's also yeah there's no
35:52
should we go into that and go into it slightly i don't think we should go into
35:55
a ton of detail i mean this is rancho we can still do a little bit of tech news we've done like two topics um but it's
36:01
something that it's extremely unlikely that a
36:04
conventional cam girl will be on the platform
36:09
but if there's like an artistic element we're going to look into that side of
36:13
things maybe yeah so we'll see we're not sure yet we're going to work with like
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we're going to work with creators and like friends of ours like that's who we're going to work with in terms of
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like what they want this platform to be because right now we're just building a
36:26
toolbox and we want people to use it the way
36:29
that the way that they want to use it my phone's dying uh buy all the Floatplane
36:34
people that i don't know if i can say your name great work people are like body paint very happy to show it that's
36:39
going to be a great area see like i don't we don't know um
36:42
we're going to it's it's going to take talking to people it's going to take planning we're not really focused on
36:46
that right now yeah Intel cp uh until CPU yeah Intel ceo and
36:53
kind of the CPU um we are going to take more risks the original article here is
36:58
from techsbot.com let's go ahead and actually
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click that and see if that's going to work for me there yeah how's that going minus the screen
37:06
we're going to take more risks we are taking the bull by the horns
37:10
that is some pretty corporate speak right there here's a letter that um
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brian kurzanich wrote to the employees
37:18
2017 comes to a close almost impossible to predict the future one cool thing is
37:22
that Intel is almost a 50 50 company which is to say that half the revenue
37:26
comes from the pc and half from new
37:29
things that they have tried to create and it's weird to think
37:33
of Intel as an underdog but in a lot of those markets they are you know you look
37:36
at Intel and the way they tried to break into phones for example yeah disaster
37:40
yeah um but that doesn't mean that they're gonna
37:43
stop doing that they're just gonna keep trying new things and uh see if they can
37:47
grow that way apparently so that's good
37:51
i guess um do you want to talk about the magic leap
37:56
we still don't really know much yeah i guess we can go through this pretty quickly i can talk about it though one
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they have an amazing website you should go to their actual native website it's
38:05
really cool yeah it is really cool i'm just gonna i'm gonna go to it
38:09
it's like you scroll down like it's like coming out of like it's crystal ball
38:13
it's actually worth looking at um
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just because it's like just really cool yeah that scroll didn't work as well as
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it's supposed to there you go yeah see that so i'm scrolling with my
38:24
touchpad right now and it like goes out of this like thing and then you start
38:28
actually scrolling down the page then it looks like a normal website so there's a few things that we can see here one is
38:32
that this is photoshopped
38:35
is it that's hilarious that's a render yeah yeah there's absolutely no way
38:40
look at this i don't buy it that's hilarious yeah
38:44
like let's see see the light coming off his face on this side and see the way
38:48
that this is lit like you can tell they tried
38:52
but no i don't buy it huh either way i believe those are
38:56
translucent lenses they show it somewhere else
39:00
that's pretty cool and the fact that you can yeah so you can see through it
39:04
uh which is super cool digital light field
39:08
um scroll up a little bit i noticed one thing you know i've been talking been
39:12
talking about this this since the garage
39:16
compute that is untethered from the wall yup but is not
39:22
up on your head that's really cool um that's a way
39:27
better approach i remember we had joked about doing um like a wearable computer where we
39:32
literally like strapped a ups to the back and like a power supply so you
39:36
could have like a full desktop experience but wearing the whole thing as a
39:41
bodysuit as opposed to putting the whole thing in a backpack yeah um
39:45
but like that's actually a very cool idea having having untethered but also
39:50
tethered uh but where it's tethered to you is very cool sdk is coming
39:55
interesting i signed up as a
39:58
reporter there's different ways that you can sign up you can sign up as a
40:01
developer or whatever else i sign up as a reporter i'm waiting to hear back this
40:05
is super interesting open up displays all over the
40:08
room yeah gaming in
40:11
ar basically yeah
40:14
the fact that the fact that you can see through the lenses is very cool because
40:18
the there isn't that many of those that are
40:21
actually you can you can that you can get that are any good and
40:25
aren't basically just fakes so they're saying they're going to ship
40:29
in 2018 yeah and you get that controller which doesn't look like the most gamery
40:34
controller it looks like an experiential controller yeah but that doesn't mean it
40:38
won't be compatible with other controllers yeah usb type-c looks like
40:42
this looks like a wireless that's the compute
40:46
no no this looks like oh oh is it the whole thing is the compute thing i'm not
40:49
sure i think that might be wireless charge module on the bottom because if
40:52
not that's a lot to tuck into a belt or whatever yeah uh but that is the compute
40:57
unit we can run up and have a look at the the guy who had it on yeah i think
41:00
that's just it looks like it's in his pocket though that doesn't look like
41:04
it's going through his belt so it could be really bulky on the inside actually
41:08
um i haven't read the individual things i
41:12
think i think the bulk does go here actually we've got a better look at it here so you can kind of see that it
41:17
looks like that big bulky thing does go into his pocket i like that that looks
41:20
quite robust yeah i mean too because you're gonna be moving around quite a bit but the thing is is that if you make
41:24
it too robust then it just wears it uh yeah i know yeah so yeah we've run into
41:28
that before that's for sure yeah it looks really well done though so
41:32
yeah these guys have gotten a lot of funding including from Intel speaking of
41:35
experimental things that Intel's done um so is it better than a backpack i guess
41:39
i would i would think so it looks like it's gonna be about the same performance
41:43
scale as the ones that intend to have it built into the headset but adding weight
41:49
to the headset is not in my opinion the right way to do it and having it so that
41:53
it can go on in like your pocket or something that sounds cool alliance and
41:57
i've been talking about the compute and storage disk that goes in
42:01
your pocket for the last like four years um so i'm i'm stoked that it's happening
42:06
in a way um blah blah blah
42:11
i may be wrong about Intel having uh backed magically google for sure alibaba
42:15
for sure um but yeah i might be i might have been
42:19
wrong about that one i thought they were one of the ones that had put some money into it apparently they've raised about
42:24
two billion dollars so far geez and they have shown like basically nothing
42:28
publicly yeah uh NVIDIA ended driver support for
42:32
32-bit operating systems so the original article there this was posted by
42:37
matrix07012 on the forum the original article is from NVIDIA
42:41
whoops but i don't know what i just did there we go
42:44
um yeah so i get it
42:48
like if you bought Windows 10 32-bit like you really suck at buying Windows i
42:53
literally didn't even know that was a thing yeah it's pretty dumb why did they even do
42:58
that um i don't know compatibility was like really wacko stuff i guess i would
43:03
just run the previous os duran senkay uh yeah but then you wouldn't get security
43:07
updates like microsoft story has to be get the security yeah
43:11
blah last version of Windows etc um
43:15
AMD confirmed second generation ryzen processors to debut in q1 2018. cool so
43:20
they'll be like a little bit more better um
43:24
yeah to be clear second generation does not mean zen two
43:28
so we can expect tweaks not uh not not
43:32
twerks still cool yep still cool
43:35
um that's exciting it's cool to see them actually continuing to release stuff wm
43:41
groom aka posted this on the forum seagate has announced
43:44
multi-actuator technology yeah
43:49
so now uh i thought this was a graphic
43:53
here we go yeah there it goes so now
43:56
you can actually boost performance by
43:59
having the read and write heads
44:02
move to different parts of the disk independently so if you need something
44:06
that's on this platter this head can go get it and if you need something that's
44:10
on this platter this head can go get it and they don't have to wait for each other so this is kind of like sli for
44:15
hard drives but like inside the drive yeah
44:20
in the past and like is actually becoming a thing instead of becoming
44:24
less of things yeah so in the past all of those heads would have had to move um
44:28
in synchronization whereas now they can split up now to be clear you won't
44:32
expect to double the performance no much like sli um but what you will get is
44:37
potentially much improved uh random
44:41
reads and writes yes i mean i'm not gonna say that it's you
44:45
know gonna get up there with an SSD but it's gonna be a lot better i would
44:50
think and like if if you're in like a torturous
44:53
situation where hard drives would like really really really start bottlenecking
44:57
then this one should feel it much less yeah
45:01
um okay there's actually a lot more stuff
45:05
in here but like the show is most assuredly over because it is a
45:08
definitely christmas break and people definitely want to go home and i'm
45:11
definitely not done shooting mining adventure part two over there
45:14
so um that's pretty much it
45:18
uh oh wait no are we good yeah yeah i think so
45:23
uh if you are a bit with ultra subscriber yeah um either myself or kyle
45:27
or Linus will post a thing on how to view his live stream oh yeah right in
45:32
the bit with ultra sub forum yeah on the
45:35
actual forum forum like not on the Floatplane site the Floatplane site is
45:39
still closed pre-alpha oh yeah i'm gonna have
45:44
like at least a few hours of support tickets again this weekend explaining
45:47
that that is not the site people are supposed to go to uh
45:50
that happens every time
45:53
guys please do not write luca's support ticket
45:57
because then the site development will be slower
46:01
um it probably won't affect it that much
46:05
that's i'm trying to scare them yeah it'll be so all right see you again next
46:10
week same bat time same bat channel why isn't this playing
46:15
i don't know what's going on here that happened before right click yeah properties
46:19
yeah uh uh
46:24
okay wow
46:28
that should have worked but did the property okay
46:55
team i believe i'm on the why not both team
46:58
merry christmas happy holidays um jovial
47:03
time off whatever doesn't make you unhappy yeah
47:06
like mary ptl
47:10
that's what americans call it oh paid time off
47:15
yeah oh hold on hold on we're still streaming