Get Your FREE* AMD CPU... no seriously... WAN Show Feb. 16 2018
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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i'm good now confirm start dot text
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i'm wondering am i high again oh wow i meant uh
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i meant the height of the chair welcome to WAN Show how's it going we have a
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bunch of great news this week twitter made money that's weird i don't think
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that's ever happened before no no i don't believe it has um the homepod
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stains your furniture permanently AMD is
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apparently potentially sending out free processors
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we'll have to get to that later what uh google removes the ability to view
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images now requires you to save them to your account
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and um i think we've called out enough news
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stay tuned to watch the rest intro roll
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i am so hungry like i need that savage jerky spot today
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yeah i am so excited for
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this average jerky spot yeah
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yeah but that's savage jerky
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p.s the sriracha you know what whatever screw Colton um
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it is really good yeah it's fine but it's not okay ah i think it's healthcare when
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everything on a 10-point scale starts at nine you still you know yeah
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but there's tens but there's tens Colton
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see Colton he's not a you know he's not a 10 thinker you know he's more of a
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it's more of a nine thing as long as it's past the post
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yeah
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all right so we have got a lot of great news for you
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guys why don't we kick it right off with twitter made money so this might not
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sound too crazy uh but if you've been following twitter at all they have never
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been profitable twitter turns a profit for the first
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time in 12 years and just like so many other look
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at this like look at this look at that
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they've lost as much as 500 million dollars in a single quarter oh man like
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what do they do and like regularly a hundred to two hundred million they made
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a hundred million dollars like they are clearly still many many years in the
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hole but like 91 million dollars profit on 732 million
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revenue and there's so many social kind of tech companies like
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this that just make nothing and burn for
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so long i don't know like snapchat is actually at the point now where it's
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like old and people don't really want to use it anymore because it like feels old
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wow and i don't i still don't think they're
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really making money so like yeah they didn't really make
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enough uh it says here the profit was modest 91 million on a 732 million in
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revenue so the profit was 91 million yeah revenue was
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732. their shares soared as much as 30
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which is the most since november 7th 2013 did they really go public that long
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ago it's been a while like what
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see this is what this is why i don't invest in stocks because i don't
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understand it
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it's it's it's basically if you're okay
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now to be clear there are situations where i kind of look at and go okay yeah
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that sort of makes sense like there are companies that pay out a dividend on
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their profits to their shareholders so if you do the math and you go okay
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well this is blue chip enough and stable enough that i think that they
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are blue chip terminology blue chip a blue chip stock is like a predictable
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one that basically rises and falls as the market in general does i think
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you're bad at stock i'm like a tier below okay so
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so if you look at and you go okay this blue chip stock pays out dividends at
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sort of x rate and overall we're tracking this and the economic outlook
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is why and whatever i can't buy any right yeah
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then you could kind of go but and and in in eight years i'll have made back what
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i spent on my stock in just dividends so as long as you still own the stock and
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then you still own the stock like if there's some kind of math that you can do where you kind of go okay yeah sure
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maybe that sort of makes sense to be clear it's still gambling because it can
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all still totally be destroyed the company could vanish yeah um
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but this whole betting on companies that don't make money that one
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really confuses me like i've always the way that i've always believed in running
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a business is is
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small is fine big is good big is better
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but profitable is essential i believe in
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sustainability everyone who gets hired at Linus media group should know that
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even if i fail in my efforts to go around and get on my knees and do
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whatever it is that i need to do from my knees be it like this or like whatever
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else i don't even see what you do with vc capitalists they need to know that
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even if my efforts to to raise money from people who just
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you know don't know what to spend it on fail they will still have a job yeah i
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believe in that i like not being vc based it's kind of cool
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even though flow plane sort of is but in a different way in a different way like
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so in a quite different way yeah so the way it works is i'm the vc yeah yeah
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which is i i think that's different yeah it is different when i have a long
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working relationship and like i'm directly involved in the
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company it's not it's not like it's inside investment that sounds like a bad
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thing is that what it's called it's probably not called that because that
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sounds like it sounds sketchy it sounds something like something illegal but
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it's specifically the point is this whole pure speculation
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on i'm gonna buy this stock because like someone else is gonna look at it and go
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wow i should have bought that stock and they're gonna jump in they're gonna buy it for more and then i'm gonna sell it
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like that has always been scary to me for the same reasons that
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cryptocurrency is scary yeah or
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putting more because it's the same or mortgaging my house and putting it all
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on black is scary like all of those things are scary to me
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um and uh so so so i just want to make sure that
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even though we're getting kind of amped because twitter made money which
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i have never seen an ad on twitter so i
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have where are okay no they're not ads they're promotions i don't see ads
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they're promotions i actually just like i have like a learning disability like i
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can't or like a visual impairment we talked about that yeah yeah like i can't
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see them where are they they're kind of hard to see because they're here okay
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let's let's all let's all go on a journey to twitter together let's go to
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the home okay
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so uh i think you can pay to get here on
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worldwide trends i could be wrong but sometimes you'll see something that has
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like like here this doesn't have many tweets yeah exactly
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so there's ones with like huge amounts of thousands watch
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something on netflix so is this sponsored but it's not disclosed
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i have no idea okay i think you can pay to get there i
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don't necessarily know that anyone's that are there right now did i could also be completely wrong so you can
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advertise with twitter it's not real clear what you get for your money
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from looking at my home page or the Linux tech tips home page anyway check
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it okay so why don't we go to why don't no no no i won't know where
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the ads are i don't want to know where to spend money to buy these supposed ads
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i don't think you're going to see any notifications i think you only see them in home and moments
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okay um
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no this is for my network okay okay so like
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um so this is what i'm trying to figure out
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here is like you know so i think it's really cool
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that twitter made money i can't figure out
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how why they made money because i can't figure out why anybody's buying
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advertising on it and lots their revenue is huge yeah it's like 700 billion
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dollars of revenue like it's not i mean to be clear like that's nothing compared
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to a giant like google or facebook but i i'm sure twitch chat is tearing me
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apart here they go turn off adblock i don't have adblock yeah neither of us
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have that block that's not it for sure
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like here here here you know what no yeah no i wanna i wanna make sure that
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like that that the error is clear where would adblock be if i had it up here
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the only extension you have is lastpass yeah or the only uh extension that
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requires an icon but i'm pretty sure i block like where where where would i
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show my where what shows my extensions would it show up as an app i think it's
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under more tools and then yeah more tools than
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extensions so more tools more tools extensions extensions here we go i
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actually don't really use browser extensions as you guys can plainly see
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okay you have a fair amount but most of them are not enabled you can see from the check mark check mark box so there
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you go there's mike's there's every extension i have ever like tried for five minutes
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there you go yeah so no ad blocker is not the issue
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i i just maybe maybe part of it is that i don't
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see them and i don't click on them so maybe they
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just stop bothering yeah okay cause i'm on mine and i decided that i was just
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gonna sit here and just constantly scroll through home until i got to one
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yeah and i haven't i've seen them before though i have seen
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sponsored tweets they definitely exist i know i don't use hola vpn
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i think i i think i grabbed it like years ago
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for i know what i used it for
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uh we did a sponsored spot for hulu
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and i had and hulu yeah yeah and we needed to get some
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screen capture of hulu and i just needed to go on like their
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website so i think that's why i grabbed
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uh just like some because that was prior
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to our tunnel bear sponsorship i don't think i had even heard of tunnel bear at
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the time yeah so uh
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so yeah so that's why i had a couple of random like that that's from like four
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years ago
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an actually insane amount of scrolling and i have seen zero ads
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i've scrolled through a lot of stuff while we're just sitting here so yeah like i just i um i i don't i don't get
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it so so back to so their total advertising revenue was
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only up one percent year over year because maybe there's a lot of people out there
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who can't find the ads on twitter um or maybe you know what you know what it's
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mid q1 oh no one's buying yeah maybe just maybe
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they actually are just like
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don't have any ads to serve yeah that could definitely be it yeah so i
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mean just so you guys know like there's a there's a very um there's a very
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cyclical nature to online advertising
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spending and we've been doing it long enough that you know we're very familiar with
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the the ebbs and the flows so um in quarter one of of any given year
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since Linus media group has become a thing
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we we've been running around with our hair on fire trying to figure out how
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we're going to survive for the next year because we do our annual employee reviews
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we try to get them finished uh in december and during that time uh everyone gets
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sort of the feedback on how things went this year for the company how things
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went for them and a lot of the time people get raises
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so and that's also the time of year that we
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do all of our budgeting for the following year where we'll go okay uh we
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need to set aside this much money to hire this person and this much for that
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person and whatever else and then every q1
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like we're not surprised because we know
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it's coming okay i'll show that in a minute we're not surprised because like
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we know it's coming but we're always kind of surprised by the severity
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because the calendar flips over figuratively who uses paper calendars
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it's ridiculous but the calendar flips over and like
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all of our sponsors are just like yeah we don't have any budget right now and
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and adsense goes like this
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and we're just like oh how are we going to survive
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we're paying people more than we used to but we're making less than we used to
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this is not a good this is not a good uh
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oh i've got sorry i got a coffee
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damn it there's there goes that bingo piece so the point is um
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this happens this happens every year and so it actually shouldn't surprise me
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that much if twitter doesn't have a lot of uh advertising inventory to to pump
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out to the people who are least likely to click on it people like me with that said here
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we had someone provide the system twitch chat uh no is a tweet to both of us to both
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of us to both of us no like they tweeted this screenshot to
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both of us so one thing to note here is someone
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brought this up in the chat as well i don't know if i want to like promote
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this too much what is this i have no idea don't go to it there you go uh yeah
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this this looks like pretty scummy it does like i've never
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heard of it it might be fine but like
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investment advertising on twitter that compares itself to crypto
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and is like yeah we provide even better returns than crypto like what does that
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even mean it sounds like it sounds like the worst
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thing i would in particular not go there how about that we'll give them negative
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promotion um but yeah like apparently
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it's more popular in the mobile app which might be part of the reason why we're not seeing it so january so
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there's less of them it's not january but q1 so there's less of them um and we're
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not mobile app so there's less of them that both of those actually does make
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quite a bit of sense okay so there you go twitter made money but that doesn't
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mean that i would necessarily recommend going and you know investing your life
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savings because uh revenue is only up one percent as i said before
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and 2017 as a whole was down six percent
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from uh 2016. yeah which i don't know what that means if your advertising
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revenue is up one percent oh maybe they have other sources of revenue like
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data sales i don't know what does twitter do is twitter sell data i have
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no idea i assume so i totally assume so
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because they have a lot of it yeah we got to be careful you know because we
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don't want to get caught up in a slander libel disbargement thing so we don't
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know there we don't know um and we mostly it would be logical that
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they would we mostly don't give two two poops and uh half of our rats rear end
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about sort of twitter's financials yeah um
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so someone just tweeted me this which was they tagged me in a sponsored post
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that they saw on their feed that doesn't show me that it's sponsored because of
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how twitter works you just make a normal tweet and then you promote that normal
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tweet and it will be promoted to individual people but if other people
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see it it's just a normal tweet so you can't actually tell like there's
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no there's no hashtag ad or anything because it's coming from the actual home
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company so
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that's kind of interesting actually i just found out why my hard drive mining
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um test machine wasn't booting after the power outage
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what boot drive got nuked
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so like it's not the hugest deal but i
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need to put a new os on it no no all the pop files are still there so you can
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just read it oh yeah the plot files are still there it's just it's a pain in the
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butt because it has like 25 drives in it
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and so i just need to go through and tediously
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re-add all the plots and like get it all signed in
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luckily the plot file names should have your nonce counseling yeah it was a pain
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and no yeah no it does like it's fine it's just like i mean i plotted all of
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them on separate machines already anyway oh okay yeah it's just it's the actual
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rig that runs it and it's just it's a pain in the butt because
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um i had a really really hard time finding a driver that worked for the lsi
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controller cards because the problem is that lsi got
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acquired by whoever who then got acquired by someone else so finding
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drivers for the old lsi staff even if
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there is a current product that's the same thing it's just kind of like a pain
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in the butt and i figured it out like a few months ago so i'm just gonna have to do it from scratch it took me like half
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an hour so it's just like not the end of the world you know
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speaking of my 800 burst coins worth a total of like 26 dollars are safe
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so far by the way guys the results for mining adventure side quest hard drive
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mining not great um
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if you have to actually buy a hard drive for it
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not recommended yeah not so much but yeah anyway sorry what were you saying
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uh speaking of not the end of the world but not recommended have you been
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watching the olympics at all no okay so i haven't seen anything there's
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a few different people talking about how different coverage has been going and
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one thing that i do have to give a shout out for is cbc has been great so you can
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see rocks at olympics medium broadcasting company corporation but
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sure sure they're not a company oh that makes sense um it's been awesome
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watching their stuff has been really great they stream all of it
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which is pretty sick it's been interesting though watching
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twitter because i started like someone someone mentioned that nbc
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sucked for some reason and i was like cbc has been great i heard nbc's been
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like cutting off the like middle of events
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forever for like certain yeah for certain events and then other events
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like i think it was uh ice dance or figure skating or something
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they're doing like picture in picture to make sure we like see the reaction cam
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like some of them they're trying like really hard to cover really well and then others they just like don't give a
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crap okay so anyway with cbc apparently
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because a lot of people have been tweeting about it
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yeah with cbc uh people have been tweeting about this if you run ad block the
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stream just keeps going when the ads are supposed to be running
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so the announcers think that the ads are running and they keep talking
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really
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and it's been pretty bad but like there's constantly through the
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cbc there's like none of this shall be reproduced or like cbc will come after
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you basically it's constantly broadcasted so there's not a lot of clips of it but there's like man i don't
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want to effing commentate the next game blah blah blah blah blah i wonder if
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they're gonna you know send any to our hotels
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like bad stuff stuff that should not be on the air no way so you're not supposed
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to copy it you're not supposed to record it and but if someone did
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wow that'll be golden
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you know i i'm not even convinced that any scandal matters anymore
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yeah i mean you've got it well it made me salty because i was so happy with how
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the cbc's coverage was working their web streaming was working great you could
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watch vods you could watch live coverage their commentation was going really well
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the the timing of ads was very sensible everything was super awesome everyone
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else was complaining i was like yes this is great and then none of it's going to
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stick because like we don't we don't really get political on the show anymore
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but i i it's probably worth
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at least mentioning that right now the president of the freaking united states
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has a porn star and an ex-playmate
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both of which have given very credible accounts of affairs that he had with
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them and it's as simple as no it's all a lie it never happened
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and it's like barely even news
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yep and now with deep fakes okay and all this other kind of stuff and i'm sure
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they'll come up with like a deep fake equivalent for audio
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that'll be a bad combination so yeah like whatever the commentator
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said the best advice i can give them if anyone from the cbc who said something
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yeah no no no you don't even have to ignore it just be like nope fake news yeah
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i'm just like okay nothing sticks anymore like i'm at the
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point now where i'm kind of looking at it going why do i even stress out about
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this stuff anymore yeah like i should find something like
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scandalous to do and then just see see how quickly it goes away
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gain temporary attention yeah which is helpful yeah and then it'll just
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disappear like do you have any idea how healthy uh tampon gate was for the the
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overall momentum of the channel was it oh
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because i guess a bunch of people came to watch it to see the context and stuff
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oh and a bunch of them subscribed
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and that's why like youtube saw that video saw it had great traction and
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promoted the heck out of the next few i found it really really interesting when
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everyone that hated on ex-youtuber i'm not even gonna bring his
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name up because that's my whole point um just
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tweeted out his name and links to the videos that they're
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upset about and we're like i can't believe this is
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happening and i'm like you're just growing his channel
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like if if you're just saying like i'm upset this is bad you're not actually
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deconstructing the person so people don't actually really care and
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they just want to see what's going on and then they're like oh okay let me just move on so you're actually just
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helping them yeah i mean uh your anger
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what are cheers cheers that's that's money we have a top
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cheer by squantoon i think that's what's a thousand channels i think ten dollars
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really i think i could be wrong why would anybody give us ten dollars i
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sorry oh this is good and get this
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so we lost our box of savage jerky
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okay someone misplaced it
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um someone misplaced the savage jerky so
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they sent us a new box of savage jerky yeah which got held up in customs
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so they sent us a new box of savage jerky
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in one day both of the boxes that they shipped
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arrived and we found our other box so we have
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oh that might have legitimately been bad bad for the laptop so much
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because there's actually so much of it so much savage jerky
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oh my god i've been actually craving this for so long me too so i'm gonna go
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for oh man my mate they sent over how much maple buffalo bacon did look how
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much moho there is there's so much um
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so savage jerky the idea behind
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their company was to create
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a snack that tastes great and isn't bad
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for you and they've got lots of different flavors my personal favorites
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are the moho and the maple buffalo bacon which i'm
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going to crack open in a minute here um luke you're a big fan of the
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hoe's my favorite but i actually really like traditional and i'm a big fan if
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you're into spicy stuff i'm a big fan of i believe it's mojo habanero yeah
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oh look at that you
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oh cool so they've got a new package design that lets you see the jerky
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inside oh that's their reaper so they've got a lot of jerkys that are made from
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some of the hottest peppers in the world uh
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something not spicy try the mojo it's a little bit spicy but it's good
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it's really tasty um
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they also make spice rub they make a hot sauce
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oh brendan see this is this is
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you can take one which one do you want you want one
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that's the best one
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anyway um head over to
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savagejerky.com or oh wait no genie dot us
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savage jerky i'm gonna link that in the twitch chat or
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savagejerky.com with offer code LTT go
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check it out you guys can save 10 over there and uh go try it out
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um they've got some really tasty stuff they've got some really spicy stuff and
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they've got some really spicy stuff that's really tasty and vice versa
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all right so we have managed to do one news topic
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so far so we should probably get a move
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on um
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let's uh let's do that so line is the screen uh the original article here is
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from the verge it was posted on the forum by good bytes
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okay good bytes
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okay scale of one to ten
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microsoft how about we talk about microsoft
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how okay is he pro microsoft or anti-everything
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else or some combination of the two i was
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just gonna say why not both why not um so he posted this on the forum home
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pods are apparently staining wooden tables with a white ring it seems to
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have something to do with the rubber bottom and some kind of
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a chemical reaction that takes place with wood and to be clear apparently so
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not rubber sonos does too apple has confirmed the issue stating that this is
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great the marks can improve over several days
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after the speaker is removed from the wood surface
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also known as get owned yeah
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the company also recommended that users try cleaning the surface with the
27:43
manufacturer's suggested oiling method if the white rings don't fail there is
27:48
apparently already an accessory
27:52
uh so paddin quill.com
27:56
is selling and this surely surely was a leather ponytail
28:00
oh whoops this surely was a leather coaster they already had oh my god wow
28:04
go away uh surely was something they already had
28:08
that they are just calling leather surface protector for
28:13
home pod yeah that was absolutely just a coaster or something 20 bucks you can get a
28:18
leather surface protector for the home pod uh but surely this is not going to
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be the last uh solution
28:26
um we've got a note in the in the notes from james here wouldn't apple have
28:30
known about this why didn't they warn consumers you know i can see this being
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the kind of thing that apple might not have noticed
28:37
i would okay i would probably see uh i would give them the benefit out there as
28:41
well and i'm kind of king of like no
28:44
don't do it but yeah in this case i honestly would uh but
28:49
their response how fast was their response
28:52
um i think it was within a day or two so they might have
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right right so you're saying anything that
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they wouldn't if they didn't take three to five days
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to validate it or wait no right the fact that they think it might
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fade in three to five days yeah and they didn't have three to five days to figure
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so i would normally give them the doubt but i think they played their cards
29:16
pretty clearly here they must have already known
29:20
because they apple's king of just like i don't know
29:24
so if they do totally holding it wrong and they're like three to five days this
29:28
is it blah blah blah blah
29:31
maybe get on our level and get more glass furniture if it doesn't fade out
29:35
in three to five days use this specific oiling method
29:39
like i i don't know i i think they knew
29:43
i would give them benefit of the doubt except
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uh yeah i think they basically told us that they knew
29:51
all right well at any rate um if they didn't respond
29:54
i would say oh yeah i don't they know
29:58
i don't think any of my smart speakers are sitting on you know what no i do have one i have the sonos uh play three
30:03
that's sitting on it's sitting on the um so i have and it says sonos does it too
30:08
so i have a wardrobe that has two drawers in the bottom and then it just
30:12
has like an open slot where you can put like um you know belts or ties or
30:16
something like and i have a i have a plate i don't have any i don't have any
30:19
ties and i only have one belt so i have the sonos play three in there
30:23
um so i should check i should check and see if see if it's stained
30:27
um this wasn't posted to the form apparently james found it over on arse
30:31
technica AMD
30:35
is sending out free processors to solve firmware flashing catch 22 apparently
30:40
so AMD will help you out if your new motherboard needs a new BIOS to work
30:45
with your new CPU now these kinds of issues have come up
30:48
before so this really surprises me that they
30:53
would be doing this so one of AMD's
30:57
selling points compared to it's weird over the last
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little while has been forwards and backwards compatibility of their cpus
31:05
and their motherboard and chipset platforms and
31:08
for for most intents and purposes when we're
31:12
talking am2 aim2 plus am3 um was there a name 3 plus can't
31:16
remember for most intents and purposes this hasn't really mattered much
31:21
because um there wasn't really a significant
31:26
upgrade to make like anyone who went from an 1100 t what
31:30
was that two bin to uh to a pile driver
31:34
i think i can't i can't remember all the code names anyway anyone who went from
31:37
their their high performance six core to their high performance eight core
31:40
actually lost performance in a lot of situations so there wasn't really a
31:44
compelling reason to to want to cross
31:47
contaminate your your platform but
31:50
and the other thing too is that they were comparing themselves
31:54
themselves to um to Intel who's notorious for going okay
31:58
yeah a chipset has a two year life span that's it
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um so one of the big pitches with am4 was
32:05
like hey you're you don't notice every am4 board has a has a graphics output on
32:10
it you're going to be able to take AMD upcoming
32:14
zen based apus so CPU and GPU
32:18
combination chips with integrated graphics you're gonna be able to plug them into these boards and go
32:22
now in this case there is a compelling reason why you might actually want to do
32:27
that and aside from upgrading because you wouldn't you wouldn't upgrade to one of
32:31
the new i'm not i hate calling them apus but one of the new cpus with integrated
32:34
graphics um you wouldn't really upgrade to them but there might be boards out
32:38
there that have been sitting on a shelf for the last three months and someone
32:43
just goes and like buys it and buys a new CPU with integrated graphics that
32:47
doesn't work and might be in a situation where they
32:50
can't flash their BIOS without an older style CPU so
32:56
basically what they're doing apparently
33:00
is um
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AMD's boot kit yeah to flash your firmware
33:08
so you actually get a free CPU a dual core a690 500 you're supposed to send it
33:14
back but you don't have to send the heatsink back
33:19
what what the whole thing is just super
33:22
weird i'm like do you have to sign some agreement to get it i don't know
33:28
because if not i suspect the majority of people just won't send it back so here's what i want
33:32
to know ASUS has had this figured out for like
33:35
five years why does everybody else not have
33:40
CPU lists motherboard BIOS flashing sorted out at
33:43
this point yeah why is it still hard to flash a BIOS is it patented
33:48
that's a great question i have no idea yeah i don't know either but like okay
33:52
this laptop razer's BIOS flashing method is super
33:56
simple you download an exe and you run it and it updates your system firmware
34:00
updates your BIOS and you reboot like
34:05
how if you can't get into Windows though but that's what that's been around for a
34:09
while but that sounds more complicated to me
34:13
doing it while the system is booted up the only thing that would make sense to me is it's got a it's got to be a padded
34:19
thing because i really because yeah it it doesn't seem like it should be that
34:23
hard right pull the file off the thing
34:26
you can do that without an os
34:30
because you know why like i don't know if you remember but back in the day
34:34
there was a few games that had little mini games starting though during
34:38
loading screens and that hasn't been a thing for a long time it's because some
34:41
stupid patent troll was just like no it wasn't a stupid troll it's like
34:45
atari or something yeah but then they never did anything
34:49
with it if i'm really quickly i want to see who did it yeah i'm looking it up already
34:54
um it's about to expire apparently namco bandai sorry yeah okay but it's like
35:00
it's like one of those like ancient irrelevant like sell the patent or
35:04
something yeah because it's really awesome yeah it's
35:07
great and you're just not allowing anyone to do it and it's really annoying
35:11
i i commented on that when i was doing that video with that should not be
35:14
patentable by the way oh my god so i i noticed that when i was doing the
35:19
video with my son on the kano that it has their flappy their stupid
35:23
flappy bird clone oh dear on the loading screen yeah yeah i was like wow this is
35:29
great why doesn't everybody do this and then the comments were just full of people being like
35:33
yeah cause they can't idiot and i was like okay great thanks yeah
35:37
thank you commenters i really appreciate you and your comments
35:44
wonder if kano got in trouble for that i missed jim carrey like yeah what has he
35:47
done lately oh other than just like being
35:50
bizarre on social media and on camera and stuff yeah oh there's
35:55
a movie down on camera uh he's he's uh
36:02
i don't want to get into it just in case i say something wrong but he's
36:06
yeah i don't want to get too far into it nothing like
36:10
yeah nothing too crazy didn't his wife commit suicide or something like that
36:14
yes this is part of the reason why i don't want to get you into it uh there's
36:17
there's been some oh there's been a civil suit against him something to do
36:21
with that interesting this is part of the problem
36:25
okay the fact that this is happening at all apparently is like extremely
36:29
mentally straining which makes sense um
36:34
yeah so there's been some pretty intense bouts of nihilism stuff it's a very sad
36:38
situation depending on whether or not it's true and all this kind of stuff and
36:42
i don't know and blah blah but yeah it's been a little a little complicated
36:47
for a little while
36:51
and i feel like it's going to be an extremely polarizing thing
36:54
huh
36:58
interesting okay then
37:01
um moving on to other tech news
37:06
all right then oh excuse me alrighty then oh right um are you allowed to say
37:11
that like if you can patent or like trademark let's get ready to rumble in
37:15
the way that that he said it can you can you can you do like other catchphrases
37:21
i assume are you wearing a savage jerky shirt i am you are such a sellout i was
37:25
so excited when i heard we had more it's my first food for the day so like
37:30
thank you for feeding me sponsor i appreciate it also clothing me we're
37:35
doing good we're doing good you put a roof over my head and we're done
37:39
actually you sort of do all right
37:43
can i help you you know you can't have more you were already here you ate the
37:46
whole bag already you ate the whole bag shared it with people well that's what
37:50
you get for sharing yeah what did we learn
37:53
sharing is losing things uh okay so google to tweak image search to help
37:58
protect photographer copyrights so it
38:01
used to be that it was as simple as this yeah
38:05
images may be subject to copyright which was google's way of basically what yeah
38:12
um well because they don't know because they don't know and because they don't
38:16
care so they have removed the view image
38:19
button that was next to it that would directly link to the high res photo
38:24
and they're going to make that copyright notice more prominent for users so
38:28
unless you just middle click or right click and open a new tab
38:31
so this change is a result of a partnership between google and the stock photo
38:35
agency getty images which has been lodging anti-competitive complaints
38:39
against google for making high-resolution stock photos easily
38:42
downloadable through google images um so they're saying this is a benefit
38:46
to all image owners globally we expect it to have a positive impact on traffic
38:49
to our site um less than 24 hours later oh this is fun there are already browser
38:54
extensions for chrome and firefox that bring the buttons back
38:58
however these extensions probably won't last long especially on chrome
39:02
the change won't stop people from uh using copyrighted images but it does add
39:06
a little bit more inconvenience unless you use james's method which yeah
39:11
is the right click on the image and select open image in new tab doesn't seem pretty i
39:15
love how that's james's method here's what i want to know if there's any
39:18
programmers out there watching that are sort of looking for a weekend project
39:22
that would make my life a little bit better um what i want to know is and
39:25
maybe this exists i just haven't been able to find it
39:29
um so copyright checker or something no
39:32
no there's something something entirely some important thing yeah well i don't
39:35
know i wanted to look for something important here's 10 important things to simplify your life copy link address
39:42
oh why did that work
39:45
what when does that not work no it usually has google's crap attached to it
39:51
oh the picture look at a picture look at a picture
39:54
oh is it only pictures i think it's pictures
39:59
what wow there's no important pictures
40:03
okay um and like if you copy that
40:07
if you copy the search no no that i'm not talking about i'm talking about when you just like right click yeah okay this
40:11
junk yeah okay can someone make an extension that removes all this like is
40:15
that possible because if you if you just mouse over it oh no it is it is the
40:19
stupid thing okay still how it must not be impossible is to open this search
40:25
with that thing extended if i remember correctly okay and there's another issue
40:29
in um you could maybe make something that copies the
40:33
click-through link like what's the thing that makes it like impossible to paste
40:37
things into hangouts i can't remember exactly what it is but you know that issue where if you try to paste if you
40:41
try to just link someone to something in hangouts you can't send them an exact
40:44
url it hang out suffice it
40:48
so there's like a couple things like that that are really frustrating how
40:51
about just stripping all that stuff out with an extension i would download the
40:54
crap out of that extension so you'd be among the like
40:58
very small handful of extensions
41:01
apparently there is a grease monkey or tamper monkey script for that i just
41:04
haven't been able to find it link cleaner and firefox apparently but i
41:08
don't want a firefox thing because hey quantum's
41:11
yeah quantum was really unstable the last time i tried it is it better
41:16
no i don't think so so okay as far as i can tell right now based on like a
41:21
machine by machine basis not even person by person just machine by machine
41:26
either quantum is super unstable or chroma super unstable
41:29
just one just one of them and it's on like a machine by machine basis
41:35
most of the machines that i have of course i just get randomly signed out
41:39
this happens every show i have no idea why um
41:43
on most machines that i have it's it's chrome but there's i've definitely heard
41:47
reports from people that they like can't use chrome because it just crashes all
41:50
the time which i've basically never seen or heard of that um but they use quantum
41:55
and it runs perfectly fine all the time on both my main machines quantum just
41:59
crashed and like full system lock because of quantum constantly
42:03
so i don't know i'm not sure
42:07
i would love to use firefox again but when it like significantly negatively
42:12
impacts my work productivity then i just i can't
42:17
all right there's some confusion around NVIDIA's
42:21
code names the original article is from
42:24
um digital trends apparently
42:28
NVIDIA may reveal dedicated touring
42:31
crypto mining cryptocurrency mining cards in march what
42:36
i find that very hard to believe
42:40
and this is even this is a little confusing given rumors about ampere
42:44
which is supposedly locked and loaded and ready to replace NVIDIA's current
42:48
gaming based cards on the pascal architecture
42:51
so right now it's pretty unclear what the crap is going on over there and they're
42:56
pretty good about keeping these things private um
43:00
so yeah i think everyone's initial thought was
43:03
that volta was gonna come to everything but this may be the generation that
43:08
NVIDIA not only so it's only recently even that they
43:12
started doing a different die even for the data center parts
43:16
but this may be the generation where we get a completely
43:20
different architecture for the data center parts
43:24
very interesting this is pretty huge
43:29
waymo gets okay for first driverless ride hailing service
43:33
wow alphabets waymo so that that google
43:37
parent company uh got a permit in late january from the arizona department of
43:41
transportation to operate as a transportation network company
43:47
this allows waymo's fleet of driverless chrysler pacifica minivans to pick up
43:52
and drop off paying riders in arizona through a smartphone app or website that
43:58
will compete with uber and lyft so
44:02
google alphabet that group kind of is directly competing with uber and lyft
44:06
now wow the service will initially have
44:09
thousands of cars prices could be competitive given those there's no
44:14
driver to pay and so last year they started a free
44:18
early rider program in the arizona capitol where hundreds of people used a
44:21
waymo app to hail and use cars within a hundred square mile radius in november
44:25
they began testing vehicles in parts of the city without a driver at the wheel i
44:29
kind of suspected that fast because that's a lot yeah well i and another
44:33
interesting thing here is my brain went to okay so it's got to be cheaper
44:36
because no driver and i was like okay but they cycle through the vehicles
44:39
really fast because it's a lot of wear on them to
44:43
drive literally all day but then they can almost definitely just move the
44:48
driverless tech from vehicle to vehicle
44:52
so they'll have to swap out like engines and vans and stuff
44:56
yeah they can probably just move over a
44:59
lot if not all of the automated driving tech
45:04
so that's interesting that could be way cheaper google could come in and just be
45:08
like this is the better option i mean
45:11
you don't have to worry about when you're in las vegas and you're going to las vegas convention center your driver
45:15
ends up being like super racist and super sexist you don't have to worry
45:19
about that that was incredible you heard about that i did hear about that so i'm
45:23
in um hold on a second hey max are you over there
45:29
cool can i tell people about your awful cabbie or do you want to tell people
45:33
about your awful cabbie okay okay so so basically
45:37
max is in this car okay and the driver
45:41
starts going off about here we go um
45:45
women drivers right asian drivers
45:49
uh canadians italians italians
45:54
there wasn't there one more french canadians
46:00
asians canadians women italians italians wasn't it young people young young women
46:06
especially 25 year olds explicitly yeah i remember
46:10
that managed managed i think there was more too racist sexist or otherwise
46:16
prejudiced comments about five things
46:20
all of which max is either is somewhere from 50 to 100
46:27
all in the span of what like like a 10 to 15 minute
46:30
drive like it was yeah it wasn't even and that only started like halfway
46:34
through like he was working through
46:37
he was on a mission and the best thing about this sort of um depending on your
46:41
perspective uh like if you appreciate uh the ironic
46:45
use of the word best the best thing about it
46:49
is that it was even pointed out
46:52
that max was oh yeah young female asian
46:57
canadian and half italian yeah
47:01
wow and like clearly no one in the car was
47:05
down with the conversation frosty universe says
47:08
sounds like he comments on youtube videos
47:16
yep sounds about right but yeah good observation
47:21
one of the terrifying things is if they start doing these ride
47:24
sharing apps they'll gather obscene amount of data of like how
47:30
driving works and automated driving and stuff so if this becomes a thing
47:33
it's going to massively advance all the rest of it grow exponentially yeah yeah
47:38
and like the transport industry is huge the amount of people that work
47:42
in the transport industry is huge and there's certain parts of the transport
47:46
industry that'll hold for a little while longer oh yeah these will still need to
47:50
be maintained yeah yep um and like
47:53
certain specific thing like very high like like black car
47:57
and limo might still have a person because being served by a person like
48:01
having someone come out and open your door and all that kind of stuff might be nice
48:04
um so people that are like super ballin might still pay for that um and very
48:09
specialized transport stuff i'm sure will still be covered
48:13
but a to b driving
48:16
someone says it's not hate speech if you hate everyone
48:20
well there's actually a couple of other pretty ridiculous comments here
48:24
first of all um max is a stupid who names a girl max
48:30
her name's maxine it's called a nickname
48:36
terrible i expect better from the twitch chat no
48:40
i don't never mind um have you ever called someone bob
48:47
their full name is very likely not bob yeah it's bobbert
48:52
all right and uh so moving on to uh what we've got on Floatplane this week i
48:58
think we're gonna there's someone watching named bobert i'm sorry bobby
49:01
down this show pretty quick here because i think i'm pretty much done
49:05
all right what do we got over there um oh we've got the homepod versus the
49:09
google home max i watched the very end of this
49:14
gold uh oh yes the very end is definitely gold uh we've got the job
49:18
posting that i think is actually up on youtube now so we're hiring again
49:22
i went snowboarding and the guy that got me my equipment was like
49:27
i want to apply i applied in the past i didn't make it it was for the writer's
49:31
catchment thing oh yeah he's like but i'm here i want to apply again i was like dude we're hiring
49:36
soon yeah there it is yeah uh this is a good video you guys are
49:40
gonna like it our review sample cpus cherry picked
49:45
viewers say epis up one
49:49
retail chip engineering sample which one
49:52
performs better and we did both Intel and AMD
49:57
have you talked about like the history of this though yeah oh yeah okay okay oh
50:01
like in the video yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah because it's happened
50:04
i don't know what the results of this are i haven't seen it but liquid metal
50:08
laptop cooling 20 degrees cooler that's really cool no
50:12
lies uh what the crap is floating point
50:16
performance everyone talks about it a lot of people
50:20
i'm not going to say most people you know what most people have no idea what it is
50:24
for into programming foreign um
50:27
handicap under 100 mostly gaming there's actually some really cool stuff
50:31
this is a credit card sized game console
50:34
that's literally in your in your wallet that's cool um what else we got here
50:39
that's most of it oh yeah oh 120 hertz pc gaming on a tv
50:43
still isn't up so that'll go up pretty soon
50:47
and i think that pretty much wraps it up all right so we will see you again next
50:51
week same bad time same bat channel bye
50:56
now to consume more baby yeah
51:18
so many people playing bingo yeah
51:25
all right please man when we don't have like
51:30
big technical strength yeah when we