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0:00 Hi there.
6:47 Just massive dumpy.
8:01 Most measurements are now waste body fat or water displacement.
9:29 There's a lot of direct effects.
10:17 I mean, I've got this.
10:52 How many LTX hoodies did you have left over or are more being produced?
14:12 Hockey on the video wall was questionable.
28:31 The show is brought to you today by our when takeover partner, Thoram.
29:11 Speaking of removals.
32:30 Oh my God.
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0:00 Hi there.
0:11 Feeling cute, might delete later. It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
0:20 How you guys doing?
0:25 Happy Friday. You're so low and central right now.
0:31 I'm central. Sensual. Sensual. Yeah.
0:35 Always. Yeah. Whale Land coming up tomorrow.
0:43 Good hockey game today. In pretty good mood.
0:47 I actually thought I curbed my car right after the hockey game.
0:50 I hit my tire on the curb. I didn't know that at the time, but I pulled out of a parking spot and I didn't realize
0:55 I was so close to the curb. And Colton was in the car with me and I was like, oh no, I think I just curbed my car.
1:01 And so I stopped and I get out and he's like, did you, I'm like, no, but honestly, I'm
1:05 in like a pretty good mood right now. I think I'd probably have been mostly okay with it.
1:11 The game had just wrapped up.
1:14 We watched on the big LED wall.
1:19 It's big, maybe too big, especially for the quality of the CBC stream.
1:23 It's not good. Like Flo Plain CBC.
1:30 Have you watched Flo Plain videos on it? On CBC?
1:34 No, on the TV. Oh, no, I haven't, but I assure you, they would be better than what CBC is streaming
1:39 right now. Yeah. But it's hot ass.
1:42 Fun to check out. Like shockingly bad. Yeah.
1:45 It always is. It gets accentuated a bit when you show it on a screen that freaking big.
1:50 This is true. This is fair. Yeah.
1:54 What was up with the ads? Um, yeah, I saw more playing an ad and then it would play a different ad.
2:02 That's the American ads. So it'd start playing the American ad and then they would like insert Canadian ones.
2:07 So every once in a while. But then what was weird to me is cause I thought you're not allowed to advertise prescription
2:12 drugs up here. And I was totally seeing spots for like we go V and, uh, yeah, maybe the example ones
2:20 are the American ads though. I'm pretty sure I saw we go V ad in Canada though.
2:24 I think there was, I think the whole stream was like powered by one of those two.
2:30 Yeah. I think it was we go V. Sure.
2:33 I wonder like what the overall impact is. Like I don't live in America and I don't live like in a particularly fat Canadian city.
2:43 So I don't have a ton of exposure to like the obesity epidemic.
2:46 It's massive. Daily. It's double the percentage of all Americans are on it.
2:52 Really? That's what I last heard.
2:55 And like my understanding is they like lose a lot of weight on it, right?
3:01 Cause it's an, it's what it's an appetite suppressant basically, right? I don't remember.
3:05 Like you don't feel hungry or GLP want 12% of American adults are currently taking GLP
3:12 ones. So that's not one of the brands. It's like a category.
3:16 That's crazy. Whoa.
3:20 Nearly 12.
3:23 Whoa. All right. One in eight.
3:28 Hiobez says obesity, oh no, Crystal Fierre says obesity is a bullshit diagnosis.
3:46 Um, no.
3:49 What does that mean?
3:52 I don't know, but it's not correct.
3:55 Um, you can, I mean, you can argue all day about where the line is for it, sure, but
4:02 there is absolutely no sort of mystery that, and this is not medical advice to be very
4:09 clear. Whoa. There's no debate left about that.
4:13 Like being very, very overweight has very negative health implications.
4:17 That's not really like a conversation. Yeah.
4:20 The other guy said I lost 60 pounds with minimum to no change in activity level.
4:25 Really? Wow. That's nuts.
4:28 But wait, like what is it though?
4:31 Like is it, um, I don't know.
4:37 What does GLP-1 do?
4:42 Regulates blood sugar and appetite by stimulating insulin release, suppressing glucagon, delaying
4:48 stomach emptying, and increasing satiety.
4:51 Oh, delaying stomach emptying. That's an interesting one. So it like makes you able to eat less then?
4:58 I guess. Yeah, there's some. That would naturally reduce your appetite as well.
5:03 Right. Some lizard had saliva because it doesn't eat for like weeks or something, and they
5:10 made a different version of, was it glucagon?
5:14 Glucagon, um, which makes it last for much longer in the body.
5:20 Right. GLP-1 is glucagon like peptide 1.
5:24 Yeah, there's a bunch of different varieties of it. That's why there's like ozempic, which is one version, and there's a bunch of other
5:30 different ones. Yeah. There's a pill version coming out now or something like that, which is another different version.
5:38 Crystal says, it is when they use your BMI. Yeah.
5:41 BMI is bullshit. Yeah. No question.
5:44 Yeah. Like I think, I think my BMI is that I'm obese. Probably.
5:47 Hold on. BMI calculator. BMI is just, it's so outdated.
5:50 No, no one serious uses BMI at this point. You got a bunch of muscle in them legs.
5:56 BMI calculator for men, body mass index, diabetes, Canada.
6:02 Okay. Weight. Shoot.
6:05 I think I'm like 167 right now, 166, something like that.
6:10 Okay. Height, five, six.
6:13 BMI. Here we go, boys.
6:19 Calculate.
6:22 This is considered overweight. Yeah.
6:25 So you overweight bitch.
6:28 Yeah. Looks overweight to me.
6:34 All right. That's all elsewhere.
6:40 Just got a huge dumpy.
6:47 Just massive dumpy.
6:50 I do a whanty from a hard stool.
6:55 None of it went to the stomach. It's like this razor chair is only the back.
7:00 I'm sitting on the floor.
7:06 Oh man.
7:09 This is crazy. Emiker in Floatplane chat says I'm on Munjaro and it's a game changer.
7:14 I've lost 40 kilos.
7:17 Whoa. That is, that's like what?
7:20 85 pounds. Somewhere around there. In seven months.
7:24 Holy. That's like six dumps. That's crazy.
7:27 Wow. And my brother-in-law works for Pharma says the next gen of these drugs will be the same, plus no impact on muscle mass.
7:34 And apparently PS, BMI is still used by health professionals in the UK NHS.
7:38 That's sad. BMI has been outdated for so friggin long.
7:45 Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
7:52 I'm still worried about side effect stuff.
8:01 Most measurements are now waste body fat or water displacement.
8:05 So it sounds like my pinch test is actually the scientifically accepted way to know if I can have a snack.
8:13 Actually, probably true. They have like little caliper things that measure with a pinch test.
8:19 Yeah, there's dexa scans and stuff like that as well, but yeah.
8:24 Ultimately, you can't fully tell unless you do an autopsy.
8:29 How much fat you have? Really? Yeah.
8:33 Can't they like, can't they like like zappity zap you and like figure out if there's fat stuff?
8:37 And do a thing called the dexa scan and do lots of other things and none of it is perfectly accurate unless they do an autopsy.
8:43 Really? Yeah. All right.
8:46 Is that covered by an MSP?
8:51 You can do it. Like usually what people do, if they like really want to try it, like if they, if they claim a percentage of people are going, no, you're lying.
8:57 And then they really want to try to back it up is they just do all of them.
9:01 But when they do all of them, they show that like they'll do a dexa scan and they'll do the caliper thing and they'll do the electra, whatever thing.
9:08 And then they just try to like maybe average it out or something, but they'll all be different.
9:19 Are there side effects from an autopsy?
9:23 Technically, no.
9:29 There's a lot of direct effects. Depends how well they put it back together, I guess.
9:34 Panda says, y'all have to say sincere thank you.
9:38 Didn't realize my card had expired and it canceled my subscription.
9:41 You didn't make me pay the new rate when I signed up again.
9:45 We got you. Got you, homie. We got you.
9:52 All right. Should we do this thing?
9:56 Feel like we should do this thing. By the way, I just want to make it like abundantly clear.
10:01 Nothing we just said is health advice. Luke and I are not doctors of medicine at least that I know of.
10:09 I mean,
10:17 I mean, I've got this. I'm a computer doctor.
10:22 You were temporarily a computer doctor.
10:27 I'm not proud to have passed the A plus exam,
10:37 but I am proud to have challenged it without studying at all.
10:42 Especially because so much of it is just like... There's some crap questions.
10:45 Random BS? Yeah.
10:52 How many LTX hoodies did you have left over or are more being produced?
10:56 Really good question. A lot and no more not being produced.
11:00 This is it. This is the last shot.
11:05 It's felt infinite.
11:09 I was planning on asking you on the show,
11:12 how many of these freaking things do we have? Luke, I have...
11:15 And then I read the note that this is the last run and I was like, okay.
11:18 I have felt the infiniteness more strongly than you have,
11:22 I assure you. We are still cleaning up inventory mistakes
11:27 from years ago sometimes.
11:32 The confusing thing to me is like, how many more of these sweaters did we have
11:35 than attendees to the event? Because we must have...
11:40 That math must be off.
11:44 We've ran so many versions of this. No, I think it's more that we did over order
11:50 because of minimum order quantities because it was specially dyed.
11:53 This is not an off the shelf garment. This is our fabric.
11:56 This is our dye pattern. And then the major issue
12:00 was that we did the first run of printing
12:04 for the LTX logo when it was crooked.
12:10 I believe what's under this cat patch
12:14 is a crooked LTX logo. So I think we ended up having to get more or something.
12:20 It was a whole thing. And I'm hazy on the details at this point.
12:24 It's also fun and cool and I'm not against it.
12:27 It's a cool hoodie. I think we could have just called it the error hoodie
12:30 and just sold it and it would have been fine. I didn't want LTX branding on something
12:34 that people didn't go to LTX to get.
12:41 You don't sell the concert t-shirt to people
12:44 who didn't go to the concert. It just doesn't work that way.
12:47 Because otherwise it devalues
12:51 the ones that people made the journey to go and get.
12:54 That's true. They're especially cool when you get them from there.
12:57 But we would never just put them in a dumpster.
13:01 So we had to find a third path.
13:05 Because that's what they would normally do with that is they would just ship it to Africa
13:09 or they would just destroy it, put ink all over it or whatever.
13:12 That's the standard clothing industry way.
13:18 All right.
13:22 We sold LTX, LTX merch to virtual visitors.
13:25 Yes, we did. But we're not going to do it now
13:28 because clearly that didn't happen.
13:33 Wait, did I say merch? You know what? I would make the argument this was merch.
13:37 And LTX hoodie would be merch. I'll allow it.
13:43 I don't think based on your arguments that makes any sense.
13:46 Why not? Because it's our standard garment.
13:49 So it's of the quality that we typically try to push.
13:52 Yeah, but I think it was more expensive. Was it?
13:55 Yeah, which is one of the characteristics to me of merch is it's more about having a souvenir or keepsake
14:00 or supporting an artist or brand than it is about purely quality of the garment.
14:12 Hockey on the video wall was questionable. Really big.
14:17 Did you watch it there again?
14:20 I watched about half of the women's game.
14:23 I watched, yeah, I watched this morning.
14:26 So I watched the quarter semis and I'm going to watch the finals for the men's
14:30 and then I watched the finals for women's. And sorry, winners were...
14:34 6'10". Be there or be square.
14:41 Definitely not swag, Anglis. So swag has become a word that means like concert merchandise,
14:51 but it's short for stuff we all get.
14:54 It's supposed to be free stuff, like promotional t-shirts and stuff.
14:59 So swag has just... It's one of those words like scam
15:03 that has completely lost its original meaning
15:06 and now just is a synonym for another word.
15:09 So we don't need that. What we need is a word that means what it actually meant.
15:17 This is going to be a good show.
15:21 Torpedo bench. Oh my God, swag was an acronym.
15:24 Yes. Luke, are you still super into swag at cons and expos?
15:28 I would be. Yeah, if there was any. There isn't any anymore.
15:32 Yeah, like where would you even go to get free stuff? No idea.
15:36 It's dead everywhere. I'm not bringing LTX back.
15:40 I don't know where you're going with this.
15:43 Good try though. I might want to save this for the show. Preempted so early.
15:46 I went to a con and it made me so pissed off
15:53 because of how much better LTX was ran.
15:57 Like it's not even sort of close.
16:01 It was insane. Yeah.
16:04 Like you could maybe sell event organization at this point.
16:08 Nope, that's the worst part of it. Yeah, but you could sell it and you don't have to do it
16:14 because you have employees.
16:17 Yeah, but those employees could do literally anything else.
16:22 They'd probably be happier.
16:25 People were so miserable about it.
16:28 Employee happiness does not make money line go up.
16:31 No, it really doesn't. But LTX doesn't make money line go up either.
16:34 Don't worry about that part.
16:38 Ignore that part. Yeah.
16:41 Don't worry about that.
16:45 Swag was used in Australia in the 1800s
16:48 and apparently meant sleeping bag. But do we all get one for free because...
16:53 That would be fine. That would be fine. Any thoughts on the Discord persona hack?
16:58 Wait, what? Did it already happen?
17:01 No, is that the older one? Two hours ago.
17:06 Hackers exposed Discord age verification system issue
17:09 after persona front-end code left wide open.
17:12 Two hours ago.
17:15 No, I don't have particular thoughts on that other than,
17:19 good job.
17:22 I wish I could shake your hand.
17:25 I really do. Fantastic work.
17:29 Oh, you're a legend. Actually, hold on.
17:32 I'm having second thoughts on the title for WAN Show. Should we lean into Xbox Boss?
17:38 Gone. Um...
17:44 Ooh.
17:51 I feel like it was hack to prove a point. Yeah.
17:55 For sure. Yeah.
17:58 Definitely. To be fair, a lot of things are.
18:03 But yeah, I think this one, definitely.
18:07 Xbox thing. What's the current one? The resolution thing?
18:11 Yeah. Gamers overwhelmingly prefer fake resolution.
18:14 Versus...
18:17 Xbox more like Xbox.
18:20 Phil Spencer, no longer Phil's...
18:25 Phil's for unemployment? Phil's for unemployment dance.
18:31 Savage.
18:40 Are we happy with this or no? With what?
18:43 The Phil Spencer thing. I feel like that's a topic for the show.
18:47 Yeah, probably. You know what? Let's just run with it.
18:50 Let's go for it. Let's do this thing. With resolution?
18:53 Yeah. All right. All right, let's do it.
18:56 Dan, I'm just going to get you to punch it. I don't think there's any reason for me to do it.
19:00 Okay.
19:04 By the way, when are we going to start simultaneously streaming on the other channel?
19:10 I do not know. Should we just do it?
19:13 Literally whenever you want. Whenever I'm told to do it. Should we just do it now?
19:16 He would just have to receive a streaming key from it. I mean, I could do that.
19:20 And then just put it in the... Well, he wouldn't, I guess.
19:24 We just have to put it in the panel. I can do that.
19:27 Or you could. I have access to that now.
19:30 And we decided we're going to do it on here? Sure.
19:34 We might want to like...
19:41 I mean, yeah.
19:45 What could go wrong? What could go wrong? I feel like it makes sense.
19:49 A lot of sense. But we might want to change the channel name at some point.
19:53 Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
19:56 We have a bunch of stuff. Okay.
19:59 Are we both filling in the same thing? Review and accept.
20:03 Terms and conditions for going live? Yeah.
20:06 Okay. We're both doing exactly the same thing. I'm not able to put it in.
20:09 So you're going to have to do that.
20:12 Nokia, other channel. Does this mean I'm working twice now? Well, you could copy-paste.
20:18 Just an idea. I wouldn't recommend redoing the whole thing.
20:26 You know, don't work harder.
20:32 What are your thoughts on the YouTube outage? And what can YouTube learn from the flow plane?
20:38 Nothing. For sure nothing.
20:41 I guarantee you, literally nothing at all.
20:45 And what are my thoughts on it? Dang.
20:51 That sucks. Yeah. I saw it.
20:54 There was like a thread on Reddit where they're like, Oh my God. I can't.
20:57 I can't believe what they're going to say is going to be crazy because of flow plane.
21:01 It's like we're not even in the same.
21:05 I don't even know if I'm a grain of sand on their beach.
21:08 You know, I think you could be a piece of like dog on their shoe.
21:16 I think it's too substantial. They'd care too much.
21:19 No, that doesn't work. You'd be upset about it.
21:22 It would be big and important enough to be upset about.
21:26 It was just, it's not true. Okay.
21:29 You could be, you could be a piece of dog on Mars.
21:33 There we go.
21:36 That works. Hmm.
21:39 Interesting. Actually, anyway, that's too interesting because then some rover is going to find
21:44 it and they're going to be like what? And then Google would care.
21:48 No, a rover would find it and go.
21:52 Come on. That's pretty fun.
21:55 I have to say the, the, the, the like physical animation of your face and the
22:01 sniffing noises was like way too good.
22:06 It was a, it was a making kids laugh hack that I picked up from someone at some
22:13 point, but this is going to sound a lot weirder, especially in the context of, you
22:19 know, Joe Biden smelling kids or whatever, you know, whatever that all was.
22:23 But like with my kids, if I like get all up in their business and I like go all
22:29 like, like, like dog sniff, they can't help it.
22:32 It'd be funny. They just, they lose it. Of course it would be funny.
22:35 It's so funny. If you have, if you have any kids in your life, your kids, your niece or nephew or
22:38 whatever that you like to kind of play around in rough house with, try the dog
22:42 sniffing trick, I guarantee you it gets a laugh and they're taken so off guard that
22:48 it's like, cause like in the air, if you, if you get in their neck, it like tickles
22:53 too, especially if you have like a beard.
22:56 So if I, like, if I get my youngest going with this, she's like, if I don't have
23:03 something in my ear, like I could probably suffer hearing damage, how loud she'll be
23:07 like laughing and screaming.
23:10 Glow says my partner does this to me, can confirm it works.
23:16 My kids would probably go to WTF dad, but they're teens.
23:19 Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's probably a little, well, it might work all the better.
23:24 What the heck?
23:32 Children's humor. I keep clicking it. Accept it.
23:35 It won't. I meant the, the, the audience has, has not really decided.
23:40 I'll get comments that people love my laugh and I'll get comments.
23:44 People hate my laugh and I'll get comments that people said I laugh too easily at things
23:49 I maintain. I just prefer to be a jovial person.
23:53 And if something's funny, I'll laugh at it. I don't see any sophistication.
23:57 I don't see any sophistication in, in not laughing at things that are funny.
24:02 So I just don't care. Celebrities who refuse to be photographed smiling drive me.
24:07 Yeah. It's like, you know, it's just lame.
24:10 Yeah. Like whatever dude. And the whole thing where models, what did you just say?
24:16 Did you say kill yourself? No.
24:19 I said get over yourself. Oh my God. Sick Luke is just.
24:24 Wow. See, it's funny. I'm going to laugh.
24:27 I'm going to laugh at that. My turn to save the company. I didn't even say it.
24:30 It sounded like you did. I don't think I'm the only one who got that.
24:35 Did you hear that? No. I heard.
24:38 I heard what you thought you said. Yeah. I think this is you.
24:41 All right. All right. Oh man.
24:44 Giggle maxing. Yeah. There you go.
24:47 To instead of saying. Yeah. Yeah.
24:50 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
24:53 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
24:56 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
24:59 Yeah. Instead of saying be jovial, I'll cater to the young ins and say I giggle max.
25:05 All right. All right. I'm a little bit like your hope posting bro.
25:10 Hope posting. All right. It seems like it's pretty split.
25:14 Most people heard what you said, but some heard what I said, what I heard.
25:17 I think people heard what you heard because you said it. You think so?
25:21 Mm hmm. I think it was suggestion. Let's just say I heard what both of you wanted me to hear.
25:26 All right. Now that was a goodverage. All right.
25:30 Elliott JD says is the background to do with Chinese New Year?
25:34 No, no, it's Valentines Day. Okay.
25:38 Belated. I'm.
25:41 I'm good.
25:45 I'm sure. Yeah.
25:48 Yeah. Exactly. Sounds good.
25:52 to do this thing. Is it black history month? I can never keep
26:04 track of all the months. There's a lot. What month is black history month? February. Yeah,
26:12 okay. There you go. Yeah, sure. That's what we were going for. Yeah, definitely.
26:20 I was like, I'm not ready yet. I don't even have my non-sponsor compliant laptop out of the frame.
26:32 All right. All right. Let's do this thing. Let's do this thing. Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Hit it.
26:38 Hit it. Welcome to the web show. It's the year of the horse, baby, and we got a great show for you guys
27:09 today. There's big changes at Xbox after nearly 40 years. Phil Spencer is out at Microsoft. So
27:19 we'll be talking about that. We'll also be talking about how gamers apparently overwhelmingly prefer
27:27 DLSS over FSR and in some cases over native. Could that be right? What else we got today?
27:37 If you didn't like GPUs being up, if you didn't like RAM being up, well, you're not going to like
27:41 hard drives being up. Hard drive capacity for Western Digital is sold out for 2026. That's
27:48 more sold out than Linus from Linus Tech Tips. Got them. I don't know. Oh, come on. Come on.
27:56 There's no way Colton's team has everything sold out through the end of 2028. I wouldn't be surprised
28:02 if they're close. There's no way. Don't make me call them. And speaking. No, I don't have a
28:08 transition for this. Google suddenly carries about IP theft. What an applies to them, I guess.
28:15 And no one else.
28:31 The show is brought to you today by our when takeover partner, Thoram. Do I just say their name
28:42 more times? Thoram? Thoram? Also our rap partner, Dbrand, our laptop partner, Razor, and our chair
28:47 partner also Razor. That was only three. One more. There's one more. You're going to say fourth
28:53 time. Laptop chair and rap. Thoram. Thoram again. That's too many. That's seven. That's too many.
28:58 Take one back. There you go. There. We're back. We removed one of the Thoram logos.
29:11 Speaking of removals. Yeah. Big changes at Xbox. Yeah. After nearly 40 years with Microsoft,
29:19 including 12 years leading the company's gaming efforts, Xbox chief Phil Spencer is retiring.
29:26 Now, before we go any further, Luke, I think, asked the big question on all of our minds before
29:32 the show started, and I wasn't sure what to say. I don't remember how I phrase it, but like, what
29:38 do we think about this? Is this good? Is this bad? Are we mad? Are we mad? I mean, 12 years at Xbox
29:45 oversaw a lot of Xbox, a lot of really good. And a lot of really bad. A lot of really, really,
29:54 really not good. Unfortunately, mostly really bad. Well, especially if we factor in like the
30:00 recency bias of it. Yeah. Things haven't been. That's the thing that I'm struggling with. Yeah.
30:05 Things haven't been good lately. But. What Halo game came out 12 years ago. But give me a second
30:12 here. Give me a second here because as much as things have been kind of bad for the last little
30:17 while, things might get worse. So let's get through the rest of the, you know, the notes here.
30:24 CEO Sacha Nadella announced to the departure in a memo to all staff earlier today, thanking Phil
30:29 for his extraordinary leadership and partnership. Phil Spencer will remain in an advisory role
30:35 through the summer to support the transition. And Spencer's time at Microsoft saw him working on
30:40 everything from in Carta. Now that's a name I've not heard in a while. Remember the Encyclopedia on
30:46 CD-ROM and MS works in the early years to the two and a half billion dollar purchase of Mojang
30:53 Studios in 2014, which seemed crazy at the time, but ended up being like the smartest thing maybe
30:58 ever. And their 75 billion dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023. Xbox president
31:05 Sarah Bond is also leaving the software giant to begin a new chapter, according to Spencer.
31:11 Asha Sharma, current president of the core AI product, will be taking over as CEO of
31:24 Microsoft Gaming. Look on your face. You look like you smell a turd. You look like somebody
31:32 smeared dog s*** on your microphone and you just caught a whiff of it. It's just
31:38 Sharma left a marketing role at Microsoft in 2013, returning in 2024 and away from Microsoft spent
31:45 time as Meta's VP of product and engineering and later as Instacart's COO. The Verge notes that
31:53 Sharma is not a gamer like Phil Spencer, but does have consumer experience that should help with
31:59 leading such a large division of Microsoft. Okay, the memo. Okay, just calm down, calm down.
32:08 I'm reading the internal memo. In an internal memo, let me, let me read the memo. You don't read so good.
32:17 That is rude. In a 10 journal M no, Sharma, sorry, I'm trying to do it like you.
32:30 Oh my God. In an internal memo, Sharma stated, we will celebrate our roots with a renewed
32:40 commitment to Xbox, starting with console, which has shaped who we are. I assume the console.
32:46 It connects us to the players and fans who invest in Xbox and to the developers who build
32:52 ambitious experiences for it. Microsoft's video game revenue dropped by about 10%
33:00 year to year in the December quarter compared to a 17% increase company wide,
33:04 but it doesn't appear that Sharma will be pushing for a short-term fix stating,
33:09 as monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency
33:17 or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop games are and always will be art crafted by humans
33:26 and created with the most innovative technology provided by us.
33:31 Matt booty, previously head of Microsoft's gaming studios has been promoted to executive
33:36 vice president and chief content officer under Sharma. So
33:41 huge AI background. I always liked that Phil Spencer was legitimately a gamer.
33:51 Yeah, I thought it was good. While I did think there was a lot of missteps,
33:57 the naming of the consoles was actually so insanely bad that I think it genuinely
34:02 significantly negatively impacted sales. And the brand, it just makes you look like
34:08 incompetent dunderheads. Yeah. And like we knew this from Wii U when like a massive percentage
34:14 of people thought it was just like some add-on thing for the Wii and didn't realize it was
34:18 a new console, like you actually need to name things properly. And they just didn't forever,
34:23 which was crazy. The wildest part is whether it's within the same vertical or even sometimes
34:29 within the same company, when it's so clear by the overwhelming incredible success of simply
34:36 named products that are easy to understand their positioning within the product stack, see
34:43 PlayStation one, two, three, four, five simple iPhone. Okay, there's been a little bit of confusion
34:52 in there, but generally speaking, for the most part, they've stayed true. Yeah, we got the
34:57 three GS in there and we got the X 10, whatever you want to call that. There's been the odd weird
35:03 one. They would deviate a little bit here or there, but they'd come back. But in general,
35:07 we come back to higher number, more better, easy to understand. And then you'll have Microsoft
35:15 with just the most bass-acquards naming scheme that I think probably exists in technology.
35:22 And then even Apple themselves, where you have this completely indecipherable iPad naming scheme,
35:28 for instance, where we start getting into AJ 129 model year. Just put a number on it,
35:38 my God, just put a number on it, please. Just tell me what generation of product this is.
35:43 And yeah, sorry, I hijacked your point. So there's been missteps right now.
35:48 There's been a considerable amount of missteps, but at the same time,
35:52 it would be really reassuring when like you'd hear that story of people that were like trying
35:58 to camp him and fall out 76. And he'd just like fight back. It was like, okay.
36:06 I could kind of feel like he's one of us. Yeah. A little bit. And it did feel like
36:13 while there were missteps, he was probably trying to steer in the right direction.
36:18 I think maybe. I mean, there's been some big. There's been some really big missteps.
36:24 Really big missteps. I mean, I don't think Game Pass is ultimately turning into what we were sold.
36:33 We were sold an incredible value. And I think what we're getting is you'll own nothing and be happy.
36:39 Can I make a really weird take here? I mean, I don't think Microsoft intended Game Pass to be what
36:45 it is now. I think they wanted it to stay cheaper. I think they wanted it to do a lot of things.
36:54 And I think user behavior wasn't exactly what they expected. I think developer behavior wasn't
37:00 exactly what they expected. And I think their franchises didn't do what they expected.
37:06 That's fair. I think they thought. See Starfield. Starfield.
37:13 Like I looked into what game released the year Phil Spencer took over.
37:19 It was Master Chief Collection. So it's like, okay, that's not really fair.
37:22 Terrible, horrible, legendarily bad launch. But same year he joined. I don't know.
37:28 The next one was Halo 5 Guardians. I played that here. I don't know if you remember that.
37:35 But I had to do a controller review of like the first elite controller, I think.
37:41 Oh, okay. Yeah. So I went to Willow and I rented it and then used some Xbox we had here. And I played it
37:46 up in the conference room upstairs over like a weekend just to like play the heck out of the
37:51 controller. And I remember finishing that campaign and just being like, oh,
37:59 as like a massive fan of the first three games.
38:04 Halo died because Bungie left, not Phil Spencer, IMO. Sure.
38:10 If you look back at the history of what happened there,
38:14 they hired people that didn't like Halo intentionally.
38:19 Yeah, it's kind of like, I mean, and I hate to beat this dead horse, but it's kind of like
38:24 what happened to Star Wars. It's almost exactly like what happened to Star Wars,
38:28 because Star Wars did the same thing. They intentionally hired people that did not like
38:32 the franchise. They did that because they're like, we're trying to make something different.
38:35 That doesn't, you can make something different while hiring people that like the franchise.
38:41 Here's my worry here. So I mean, Phil Spencer's legacy is absolutely complicated.
38:47 Very complicated. He oversaw incredible innovation. I mean, like let's not overlook some of the
38:53 really cool stuff that Microsoft did. They were at the cutting edge when it came to accessible
38:58 technology for gaming. Like genuinely really amazing controllers. I mean, I cannot sing
39:04 Microsoft's praises loud enough for what they did to make gaming more accessible for people with
39:12 physical disabilities and other challenges. And they really pushed the envelope in a way that
39:17 couldn't possibly have paid off in money. Maybe it was, you know, the cynic in me goes, well,
39:25 maybe they only did it because, you know, they were hoping for the positive press around the
39:29 brand or whatever. But I don't actually think so because it seemed like a genuine earnest effort
39:36 to make gaming for everyone. And I just, I thought that was so incredibly cool.
39:41 So based. I don't want to take anything away.
39:46 And that cost a lot of money. Oh, real money, actual real money.
39:49 Yeah. But then there's no question that they just couldn't. It's like they had a multiple
39:58 franchises. They closed studios that made amazing games.
40:02 It's like the it's like the it's like the driver was using one of their controllers with drift.
40:09 And they just couldn't aim anywhere but down at their own feet sometimes, you know, like you just,
40:13 they couldn't stop themselves from owning themselves. I'm genuinely not confident that I could get the Xbox models in the right order right now.
40:22 Really? I'm not 100% confident that I could.
40:25 I mean, that's not that's not that hard. You've got Xbox.
40:28 Yeah. Xbox 360. Yeah. Xbox one.
40:32 Okay. Okay. And then what? Xbox one X.
40:36 Is that true? And Xbox one S. Okay. Yeah. And then is it serious?
40:39 And then you've got Xbox series S and series S.
40:43 Yeah. Okay. I think, did I get them all?
40:46 I think I got them all. I would have forgotten Xbox one, but I mean, if I saw the names, I think I would have gotten
40:52 that in order if that was correct. Yeah. Like it's comically stupid, but I mean,
40:58 anyway, sorry, back to your point. As complicated as his legacy is for exactly the same reason that, you know, I don't love
41:06 non-Star Wars people being in charge of Star Wars. Yeah. And I don't love non-silicon people being in charge of Intel.
41:14 Yeah. I don't love non-gaming people being in charge of gaming.
41:18 And I'm not saying there's no chance. I'm just concerned.
41:22 Well, it's extremely concerning. I do really appreciate that one line.
41:27 We're not going to fill it with AI slot. Coming from the AI side of things, they needed to say that.
41:34 Okay. They probably got some PR thing that was like, hey, you need to say this.
41:37 But hear me out. In that same sentence, right in that same sentence.
41:42 As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future. No, no, no, no, hold on.
41:45 This, no, no, just this sentence. Games aren't always will be art crafted by humans.
41:50 Okay. Doing really good here.
41:56 And created with the most innovative technology provided by us.
42:03 What innovative technology?
42:08 Okay. Hear me out.
42:13 You know, I've noticed a problem.
42:18 I like watching a bunch of YouTube and I that one's for the millennials.
42:23 Yeah. Yeah. That was pretty good. I like watching a bunch of YouTube and I've noticed that especially a lot of history videos.
42:31 Yeah. Have started a lot of AI slop showing up.
42:37 AI generated picture slideshows with an AI voice.
42:40 And I'll notice like a few minutes in. I'll be like, hmm, there's not really breaks between sentences and like
42:47 I'm starting to get a little sus because the voices are pretty good when they're really tuned in.
42:52 And I'll scroll down into the comments and you try to search. Like did anyone else kind of pick this up and you control F for AI
43:01 and you get 10 trillion responses because it's like part of different words and stuff.
43:06 It's, I feel like it's convenient that it's just AI.
43:11 I ended up on Tech Talk, Tech Talk Tech for the first time in several years
43:19 because we're doing another trying Tech Talk hacks. Like you saw it?
43:24 Like I saw Tech Talks. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:28 Like is that what you're saying? Of what? What? Are you saying that you appeared on there or you looked at it?
43:33 No, no, I was looking at it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was, I was, we were doing another reacting to, to Tech Talk Tech hacks.
43:40 And so Adam curated a bunch of like
43:45 shockingly large popular creators, shockingly popular pieces of content
43:55 that are just either AI slop with like tens of thousands of hearts.
44:02 But like bad, like wrong advice that you should never follow or people who seem to be just
44:13 as an agent, as a human agent for their AI puppet master,
44:20 regurgitating AI garbage that is stuff that no one should do.
44:25 And like I can't believe how much of it goes to your point unchallenged or is not easy to tell
44:35 that it's fake and that it's just garbage. An interesting thing too is there was a thread on the, on the Reddit.
44:42 Yeah. Where somebody was like, is this true?
44:45 I think you got to say the subreddit. Otherwise you're at risk of sounding like you consulted the Google.
44:51 Sure. Yeah, sorry. I don't, I don't read it that often.
44:54 The subreddit, I only go to ours and it's not even ours and that's confusing and blah,
45:00 blah, blah, whatever. Old man yells at cloud. Nice. But I went to the subreddit and there was a thread of somebody who saw some article that was like,
45:11 I don't remember, I'm going to misquote it, but like HP Abandoned's Windows or something like that.
45:16 And they're like, is this true? And it was like, or it was a video or something?
45:19 I don't remember what it was. But it was like very clearly AI generated junk.
45:24 It was not true. And the comments like roasted him for it.
45:29 And I feel like we're falling. He's doing the right thing. I feel like we're falling back into shaming people for falling for scams.
45:36 No, he did the right thing to ask.
45:40 Yeah. This is the worst memory recollection of all time.
45:44 Oh, you have, you ain't seen nothing. This man can, this man.
45:47 Tell me what happened then. Tell me what happened, huh?
45:54 We should get it. Doesn't remember.
45:57 No, I'm good. I don't, don't touch. I like this one. I like this one. I like doesn't know.
46:03 But yeah, no, we need to, we need to support each other rather than attack each other for
46:09 seeking truth in a sea of AI slop.
46:12 So let's all, let's all form an alliance.
46:15 We'll make a pact that that's how we're going to respond to people asking about AI with kindness
46:22 and with compassion.
46:26 Okay. Cool. Good chat. Why don't we jump into another topic?
46:31 We, are we done with this one? The conclusion is basically just.
46:34 I have no idea. We'll see how it goes, but I don't have it. Honestly, there's no, okay.
46:39 Okay. No, you know what? We're not done because to me, the frustrating part of bringing in a non gamer is not that I
46:45 think there's, it's a guarantee that they'll do a bad job. Yeah.
46:49 I'm not a fashionista, but I think that I have done a good job of trusting the team at
46:56 Creator Warehouse to do a good job of that part of it, while also providing the financial
47:01 backing and creating an environment that gives them the resources to, to create quality products.
47:09 See, I'm more focused on like, how long does it last? Can I throw it in the tumble dryer?
47:13 You know, these things that I know matter to our customers and then their job is make
47:18 sure it like looks cool and is, is not going to, you know, it looks professional at the
47:25 office and, and addresses the little details that I would overlook because that's my background.
47:30 But Phil being a gamer theoretically helps him understand what our customers want.
47:35 You being dialed in with the audience helps you understand what our customers want.
47:40 Yeah. I don't know that she is dialed, maybe she is, I have no idea, but her not being a gamer
47:48 makes me question if she's dialed into that audience.
47:51 So I'm not saying, I'm not saying that they're going to screw it up.
47:57 I'm just saying, would it have been that hard to find a leader who was a gamer?
48:02 It doesn't feel like it. Like everyone games now, would it have been that hard?
48:09 To me, it's the main reason why I cringed when it said like, oh, she came from an AI
48:12 area in Microsoft. Is that just seems to be the path now?
48:16 Like if you're a corporate jockey in Microsoft, you're just getting yourself into some form
48:23 of AI something because that seems to be the path to everywhere right now, which doesn't seem good.
48:30 And you know, maybe this is a pattern recognizing when there is no pattern, but
48:36 I mean, it seems kind of like a pattern. Seems likely.
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49:50 Speaking of rings, what is happening right now?
49:53 Does anyone hear that sound?
50:01 What is, what is going on? What is happening?
50:05 What is happening right now? Something's happening. I was just handed a thing.
50:09 This is a Thoram box. This is, this is extremely confusing to me right now.
50:16 I see DMS is here.
50:20 What do you think is happening right now? I think you're getting married.
50:24 You were such an observant person.
50:27 I'm so proud of you. Are you getting married to me? I mean, I wasn't worth thinking about that.
50:37 Okay. This has never happened on windshield before.
50:40 Nobody told me I'm so underdressed.
50:46 Where do I go? What do I do? If you guys just scoot your chairs back a bit.
50:49 You guys are going back. Okay.
50:54 Oh, she's pretty critical to the process. Yeah, okay. Sorry. We need the efficient.
50:57 Oh, because otherwise it wouldn't be efficient.
51:01 You not being aware of what was happening was pretty critical to the process,
51:04 but your business team is amazing.
51:09 I'll go here. Yes. Okay. I'll go here.
51:13 Does anyone need this? Well, I figured you guys are going to hold onto those for a minute.
51:16 Oh, okay. Okay. Here, join us in the middle here. Okay, cool.
51:20 Here. Trying to mix some space. A little bit of shuffling.
51:24 Beautiful.
51:28 Yeah, surprise, you're a legal witness.
51:32 Yes, for words. All right. All right. Welcome, everybody, to the marriage today.
51:39 I see it's quite a bit of a surprise.
51:44 Oh, exciting. But we're gathered at this place to witness the formal joining in the legal state of matrimony
51:50 of this couple, according to order and custom prevailing and under the authority given and
51:55 provided by me by the province.
51:59 I charge with you both in the presence of these witnesses that if either of you do not
52:04 knew or sorry, do know of any legal impediment to this marriage,
52:07 you do now reveal the same. So let DMS repeat after me.
52:12 I solemnly declare. I solemnly declare. That I do not know.
52:16 That I do not know. Of any lawful impediment. Of any lawful impediment.
52:20 Why I. Why I. DMS. DMS.
52:24 May not be joined. May not be joined. In matrimony.
52:27 In matrimony. To mochi. To mochi.
52:30 Let mochi repeat after me. I solemnly declare.
52:34 I solemnly declare. That I do not know. That I do not know.
52:37 Of any lawful impediment. Of any lawful impediment.
52:41 Why I. Why I. Mochi. Mochi. May not be joined in matrimony.
52:45 May not be joined in matrimony. To DMS. To DMS.
52:52 All right. The I do's. Do you DMS.
52:57 Take mochi to be your lawfully wedded wife.
53:00 To undertake and to afford.
53:04 The love of your person. The comfort of your companionship. And the patience of your understanding.
53:08 Oh I very much do. Do you mochi.
53:13 Take DMS. To be your lawfully wedded husband.
53:16 To undertake to afford the love of the person. The comfort of your companionship.
53:20 The patience of your understanding. Hell yes.
53:24 Now you.
53:30 Want to join hands.
53:34 Repeat after me.
53:37 DMS. I call on those present. I call on those present.
53:41 To witness that I. To witness that I. DMS. DMS.
53:45 Take. Take. Mochi. Mochi. To be my lawfully wedded wife.
53:49 To be my lawfully wedded wife. To have unto hold. To have unto hold.
53:53 From this day forward. From this day forward. In whatever circumstances.
53:57 In whatever circumstances. Or experience. Or experience. Life may hold for us.
54:01 Life may hold for us. And mochi. Repeat after me.
54:05 I call on those present. I call on those present. To witness that I.
54:09 To witness that I. Mochi. Mochi. Take DMS.
54:12 Take DMS. To be my lawfully wedded husband. To be my lawfully wedded husband.
54:16 To have unto hold. To have unto hold. From this day forward. From this day forward.
54:20 In whatever circumstances. In whatever circumstances. experience or experience life may hold for us life may hold for us great in as
54:30 much of you have made this declaration of vows concerning one another let's get
54:34 the ring shall be the very important rings
54:41 all right so when you just switch because that one's you know whoop all good
54:47 let DMS place the ring on the third finger of Mochi's left hand repeat after
54:52 me with this ring with this ring as a token and pledge as a token and pledge
54:56 of the vows and covenant as the vows and covenant of my word of my word I call
55:02 upon those present I call upon those present to witness that I to witness
55:06 that I DMS do take thee do take thee Mochi Mochi to be my lawfully wedded wife
55:12 to be my lawfully wedded wife all right let's do that Mochi place the ring on the
55:21 third finger of DMS left hand with this ring with this ring as a token and pledge
55:26 as a token and pledge of the vow and covenant of the vow and covenant of my
55:30 word of my word I call upon those present I call upon those present to
55:34 witness that I to witness that I Mochi Mochi do take thee do take thee DMS
55:39 to be my lawfully wedded husband to be my lawfully wedded husband
55:53 I'd like to just look at one another and repeat both of you at the same time in
55:58 receiving this ring in receiving this ring I promise and give I promise and give
56:03 to you to you the truth the truth the unfaithfulness and faithfulness of my life
56:09 and marriage of my life and marriage now for as much as DMS and Mochi have
56:15 consented in legal wedlock have declared your solemn intentions in the
56:18 company before these witnesses and in my presence have exchanged these rings as a
56:23 pleasure of your vows and each other now upon the authority vested to me by the
56:28 province I pronounce you as dueling buried you may kiss your bride
56:37 congratulations
56:42 well we just met but congratulations
56:46 congratulations dude thank you
56:52 wow thank you congrats
56:55 hand to the witnesses thank you
56:59 you're welcome we'll get out of your hair and let you resume the show
57:05 alright congrats you guys
57:08 alright I'm gonna squeeze around yeah yeah yeah yeah
57:19 yeah yeah sure sure sure okay here let me get the chair out of the way
57:23 alright Sammy way to go
57:26 and we'll get mad at me okay here I'll go
57:31 here I won't block this sorry guys
57:34 alright three one two
57:39 thank you fantastic alright congrats
57:42 congratulations
57:53 hi
57:56 well that's the thing that's never happened before
58:04 does that mean we're all invited to the reception I think that means you're all witnesses
58:10 wow
58:13 just so we're clear
58:16 like that was very real well that was a hundred percent real
58:20 yeah yeah legally blinding yeah we both just fully attended a wedding
58:25 yeah that was a real wedding and so did Dan and so did all of you
58:28 yeah everybody here yeah first on wancho
58:31 that um
58:35 there has got to be a story here it was so hard to not laugh the whole time
58:40 because I looked over at you
58:43 I could watch your brain as every step progressed
58:47 you'd just be like really and then I saw at one point in time
58:51 you were like wait this is really long for like a bit
58:54 and then you're like wait does that mean it's real and then like some step happened
58:57 I saw your face just go like no way
59:03 I was watching this like
59:06 all this computation happen and then Linus' head
59:10 and that was that was so entertaining the whole time
59:15 wow that's so cool I um
59:18 very very honored
59:21 I wish I had dressed up a little bit but nobody told me
59:25 that was the whole that was the whole point okay
59:29 I was supposed to have a dress shirt under my jacket but then I left it buttoned
59:33 on the hanger and I and I only had the ad spot to try to get it on
59:37 so I was like trying to unbutton it the whole time ran out of time just through the jacket
59:41 so this is my undershirt all I saw I saw Sammy come in
59:47 I saw Luke start changing his clothes and I was reading about husband and wife
59:51 Caleb and Steph and whatever and I thought maybe there was like a funny thing
59:55 that Luke was gonna do that involved him being dressed up then I saw Dan
60:01 for the main camera and I was like okay
60:05 what are we doing I had so many cues to hit in like
60:09 five seconds did you not notice it was it you on the boom Mike Dan or was someone else back there
60:13 that was uh that was Jordan that was sorry Jordan
60:17 block yeah nice solid
60:23 did you not notice anything about me I mean I noticed you changing
60:29 oh you're like wearing fancy shoes even I have cologne on
60:33 yeah I would never in a thousand years notice something like that I thought you would have actually because I'd never wear it
60:37 no okay I thought I was gonna give it away the whole time
60:41 in the pre-show you did your hair
60:45 so that was something but you occasionally do that sometimes I do that yeah
60:49 I didn't think the hair was gonna get it every once in a while it happens the beard
60:53 less often especially not at the same time that should have been a clue
60:57 sometimes he'll clean up the beard sometimes he'll clean up the hair very rarely on the same week
61:01 yeah I was trying to hide like color matched
61:05 a bunch of things the jacket was hanging there the whole time
61:09 oh are they still here I think
61:13 they're busy yeah and I didn't
61:17 didn't get them anything what the heck
61:25 oh man
61:29 I can't believe that just happened
61:33 I thought this was Chinese New Year that's good
61:37 was that the scam I don't think so
61:41 because when is Chinese New Year it's soon right
61:45 I think it was this week hold on
61:49 oh yeah it was three days ago it's right now
61:53 perfect it's totally Chinese New Year
61:57 right now blah blah blah Tuesday February 17th
62:01 2026 and that's the beginning of the year of the Fire Horse
62:05 which lasts until February 5th 2027
62:09 celebrations including Lantern Festival typically run for 16 days ending on March 3rd
62:13 2026 so I was like this totally checked out I just didn't
62:17 understand so this is why you guys are memeing earlier because I was all
62:21 like you said something to Sammy
62:25 about how like yeah didn't you set it up and I was like yo he's
62:29 Korean what the heck anyway
62:33 um so does that
62:37 I actually didn't know it was Chinese New Year I just assumed that we just had these
62:41 I know the red and white was intentional but the rest of it like I don't know
62:45 well I thought the red was because it's Chinese New Year like that's the thing
62:49 that's probably both yeah um
62:53 I think that's very funny so did Thorom sponsor the wedding yeah
62:57 yes that's cool yeah that's why it's a cool takeover
63:01 your business team did a good job
63:05 because there's actually been like a bunch people in the loop on this for like a while
63:09 what
63:13 Terry nose I think probably like the whole business team knows
63:17 not everybody at the company yeah uh Chewie says this may
63:21 actually be the most genuine that Linus has been pranked on camera every prank
63:25 on me on camera was genuine so it's just whether um
63:29 you know it came across in the in the edit or not is basically what it
63:33 comes down to like when Dennis was living in my house multiple times I did
63:37 not know um I would never fake a prank
63:41 that is that should be a crime
63:45 that you should go to youtube jail for faking a prank
63:49 except it's like most pranks yeah that's not okay uh
63:53 alright so he's still there I couldn't find him
63:57 uh alright if you guys want to do another topic I'll go have a look
64:01 listen I will never deny getting teary-eyed at a wedding
64:05 it's uh it's a very emotional time
64:09 and I cannot help but be happy for super cool people
64:13 starting a life together that's it's it's exciting
64:17 and it's happy and uh anyone who thinks men shouldn't cry at
64:21 weddings can go f*** themselves that's my hot take for today
64:25 I can or should say but I'm I'm very happy for them
64:29 I think it's their story we'll let them tell the story in the way that they
64:33 deem best yeah once they have figured out
64:37 um you know whatever it is that you know
64:41 they're doing for for right now that is not in the public eye
64:45 no that's not stop it no
64:49 no no I know immediately smile that looked at me because I realized
64:53 I just meant whatever they whatever they
64:57 they can talk publicly about their personal lives
65:01 when they're good and ready that's what I'm trying to say stop it
65:07 yeah sure man that's why they left so fast
65:11 they're just really excited to go talk about their the rest of their personal lives
65:17 anyway exclusive
65:23 I mean it wouldn't violate any rules with the platform technically no all
65:29 why do you have to think they'd have to make it artistic no
65:33 no why are we talking the payment processors
65:37 oh that's right yeah so that's that's why lore
65:41 for some people that's why for a long time adult
65:45 content creators on patreon would do cosplay that's why that was so
65:49 popular for a really long time was because it was considered art if they could
65:53 put it under the cosplay category oh there is there's things I have things for
65:57 you yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna come and see you guys okay yeah
66:01 congrats dude yeah
66:05 yeah no kidding definitely a surprise
66:09 here let me know what's right okay they're off they're off doing stuff over there
66:15 while they're doing that why don't I talk through the cat patch hoodie
66:19 or something or what should I do did we do the gamers
66:23 dlss topic yet we did not did we do anything yet
66:29 okay why don't I do like a couple rapid fire things while they while they chit chat
66:33 um steam deck is getting pretty hard
66:37 to get right now valve has added a note to the steam deck page
66:41 saying that the handheld will be intermittently available in some regions
66:45 due to memory and storage shortages
66:49 I knew that memory shortages were already having a significant
66:53 impact on pricing and I knew that storage shortages were coming
66:57 but I didn't know how hard the storage shortages were gonna hit
67:01 and how suddenly they were gonna hit yeah we're working on a thousand
67:05 dollar build video and ploof
67:09 ploof did something that
67:13 made me very upset that
67:17 I worked with him and tried to resolve and couldn't resolve
67:21 he used a SATA SSD
67:25 in a build I think that's the first time we've recommended
67:29 a SATA SSD for any reason that
67:33 in five years maybe because
67:37 there's no reason why it should be cheaper even because
67:41 part that costs more is the NAND flash but just I guess because
67:45 the demand is a little lower and the stock is lagging
67:49 the increases in price or whatever right now SATA SSDs are
67:53 anywhere from like 15 to like $35 cheaper than NAND
67:57 that too I absolutely see it making sense
68:01 and for gaming it doesn't really matter so
68:05 our thousand dollar build that's coming soon is gonna use a SATA SSD
68:09 and to be clear when I say that it made me upset
68:13 I don't mean like ploof made me upset he did something
68:17 made me upset because we shouldn't be in that position and yet
68:21 here we are crazy yeah for a boot drive
68:25 yes scrappy DP for a boot drive and I looked at the config with him
68:29 and I was like you nailed everything else
68:33 and we've got a budget that's the reality in a perfect world
68:37 would I love to spend another $35 and I've talked about this before
68:41 that's a slippery slope logic that takes your thousand dollar computer and makes it $1,200
68:45 if you spend another $30 on every single component
68:49 you're not adhering to a budget when does that stop and real people have
68:53 budgets and that's just the way it is so we have to act
68:57 like we have a fixed budget so that's what we're gonna do it's still not quite $1,000
69:01 it's like $1,012 or something like that but $1,012
69:05 is $1,000 $1,040?
69:09 yeah not really that's $1,050
69:13 that's not $1,000 I think if it was over
69:17 $1,015 it starts to feel a little weird
69:21 oh yeah I think $1,015 is probably the line
69:25 I think you could get away with $1,018 you get away with it but it starts to feel weird
69:29 I think $1,012 is like an automatic when you hit $1,020
69:33 it's like come on man because that's like
69:37 a real bill like a $20 bill
69:41 is like I'm not gonna put that in my pocket
69:45 that one goes in my wallet like $5 bill
69:49 that could be in my pocket I might even put that in with the change drawer
69:53 $10 bill we're getting sketchy $20
69:57 right in the wallet no question no question
70:01 yeah this is lunch
70:05 for sure is this financial device? no not financial
70:09 $5 goes in the car, $20 goes in the wallet I mean yeah sure maybe in the 90s
70:13 $5 does nothing for the car now
70:17 no I think they mean like oh I thought like to fill your gas tank
70:21 no no no I read that comment for one
70:25 but for two I think they mean like in the like yeah I get it in the change pouch
70:29 yeah no I thought like I remember when money was tight my dad putting
70:33 $5 in the gas tank and I was like dude that was in like
70:37 1993 not so much anymore
70:41 yeah sure on a motorcycle chewy but that's not what we're talking about
70:45 our discussion question for this is do you think the steam
70:49 machine and or the frame could be delayed beyond
70:53 Valve's current target of the first half of the year I heard the steam machine was
70:57 so it was supposed to be early in the first half of the year
71:01 but they never actually promised anything other than first half of the year
71:05 and yeah I do think that's possible if they can't even get enough stock
71:09 to make steam deck right now like how are they supposed to launch a new
71:13 product because you're kind of damned if you do and you're damned if you don't
71:17 if you delay it people are going to be upset because you delayed it but if you launch
71:21 it and there's no stock and it's a whole scalping situation
71:25 where let's say the launch price is $999 and they're going
71:29 for $2,500 on ebay because you know at the beginning they will
71:33 because to someone for whom money is no object there is nothing
71:37 exactly like the steam machine
71:41 tell me something that completely fulfills the function of the steam machine go
71:45 I'll wait not that I'm aware of you could
71:49 do it you could make it yourself sure you're going to go get
71:53 an IR receiver and you're going to go get like some relay system
71:57 that's going to turn on your TV and your PC and everything all at the same time
72:01 you're going to go you're going to make your own steam controller
72:05 with the touch pads with controller yeah what's
72:09 what was buddy's name we did that collab with recently he I mean he made his own
72:13 steam controller alike with touch pads he made his own touch pads is the controller
72:17 tied to the con yeah I guess the launch of that probably is
72:21 are you going to are you going to work out a way to remotely power on and power off
72:25 all of the stuff from the controller like there's a bunch of work that
72:29 valve did on the integration side of things that is completely
72:33 separate from just how many FPS does it get
72:37 and sure you could you could just roll an Xbox or a PlayStation instead
72:41 but then you don't have steam you don't have
72:45 no offense Microsoft and Sony but you don't have good pricing on games
72:49 so to me no there is absolutely nothing
72:53 that is what the steam machine is it's it's completely unique
72:57 in the market and I think that regardless of the performance there are people who are not going to
73:01 be playing the most demanding games that just plain fucking want one
73:05 and just have more money than sense and I just like whatever it doesn't matter or I just shouldn't even say more
73:09 money than sense they might just have more money than they care about
73:13 they're just like forget it I don't care I will just buy it I mean I've bought
73:17 stuff that's a bad value before the work that I'm doing on my motorbike
73:21 it's a terrible value I could have bought a brand new motorbike and instead I'm going to be
73:25 riding around on a 2003 with a paint job that's insane
73:29 it is objectively it's crazy
73:33 but I love the look of it I have a lot of memories on that bike it's my first
73:37 bike it's still enough for me it's 650cc it's really comfortable
73:41 and I did the paint job myself which I think is super cool so I'll be like
73:45 ripping around on my own paint job Tommy B
73:49 Tommy B who did that theme control is super cool so
73:55 sucks alright you want to talk about next should we
73:59 do the other big headline topic yeah let's do it let's do it
74:03 you guys might not like to hear this okay but I need you for one moment
74:07 to just here just
74:11 just grab that and just
74:15 what that chill pill
74:19 just take it and calm down go ahead
74:23 gamers overwhelm we'll get into it we'll get into it
74:27 but to listen to the title gamers overwhelmingly prefer DLSS over FSR
74:31 in a three way blind test over six games
74:35 German tech publication computer bases readers overwhelmingly found DLSS
74:39 4.5 upscaling to have the best picture quality
74:43 over FSR or native rendering and that last one that's the bomb shell
74:47 the native rendering is the the games used for this test
74:51 was ANNA 117 ARC Raiders
74:55 Cyberpunk 2077 Horizon Forbidden West
74:59 Satisfactory and The Last of Us Part 2 now that is also another huge bomb shell
75:03 these are not just like ashes of the benchmark or even cyberpunk
75:07 games that are just overwhelmingly optimized
75:11 or because they're the traditional showcase games
75:15 and these are showcasing games beautiful games pretty much across the board
75:19 other than maybe Satisfactory um
75:23 but these are real games that people are playing this is not
75:27 like contrived yeah and all those real games are ran at 4k resolution
75:31 with upscaling set to quality videos were played
75:35 to were played to readers in NVIDIA's iCat player
75:39 showing game clips rendered in DLSS 4.5
75:43 FSR and natively side by side this is the
75:47 it's a video it is but if anything
75:51 to me that is a disadvantage
75:55 to DLSS it could be because DLSS
75:59 when you're actually using it remember we're talking DLSS upscaling
76:03 not DLSS Framegen
76:07 so there's no latency drawback of DLSS upscaling if anything
76:11 the latency will be better because you will be running at more FPS
76:15 because you're rendering at a lower resolution then upscaling
76:19 it through machine learning
76:23 it's just a weird note it is
76:27 respondents could indicate whether they preferred or answer equivalent
76:31 so they could be like yeah they're all the same DLSS won in every
76:35 game with an overall result of 48% of votes
76:39 from a pool of 6,747
76:43 native rendering was also preferred over FSR in
76:47 every game with 24% of the overall vote to FSR's
76:51 15 that doesn't uh
76:55 so 15% of people preferred FSR or 15% of votes
76:59 were for FSR 24% of votes were for
77:03 native and 48%
77:07 12.8% of the responses were equivalent between the three categories
77:11 so just done care one out of eight gamers was like whatever
77:15 whatever dude responses weren't ranked, respondents only voted
77:19 on what they thought was the best video now if these were
77:23 closer if it was like
77:27 20 30
77:31 25 I'm looking at it going like okay well you've
77:35 obviously got a bunch of normies who literally can't tell the difference
77:39 and then a bunch of other normies who literally can't tell that FSR doesn't look
77:43 as good as native I'd be ready to be pretty dismissive of it
77:47 but the sheer volume of voting
77:51 and the overwhelming preference
77:55 for DLSS is kind of
77:59 f***ing right now like
78:03 seriously there is a lot of variables that hold
78:07 it was a video that was played all that kind of stuff but
78:11 are you surprised by the results no
78:15 yeah that's the spicy part of this I was waiting for
78:19 is we can nitpick how the like you know how the thing
78:23 was done we can nitpick the science and I'm sure there's lots
78:27 to be done there as there is with everything ever
78:31 but I'm not particularly surprised by the result
78:35 have you tried it yet is your gaming machine up and running
78:39 you're on 4000 series right so you can run it
78:43 I think you have a 4080 you should try it
78:47 like immediately are you
78:51 afraid to like it
78:57 a little bit I was too
79:01 but not because of like external perceptions like it's kind of like the first
79:05 time that you you know try it with it no
79:09 how no I don't think at all
79:13 my thing is that I'm worried about I guess you knew you'd like that
79:17 yeah my thing that I'm worried about is
79:21 what this will do to multiple industries
79:25 which industries hit me
79:29 gaming and hardware hardware it's already happened
79:33 like NVIDIA set this course
79:37 years ago not just when they launched the 20 series
79:41 they set this course when they started developing
79:45 the 20 series so this is like 8 years ago or like
79:49 9 years ago or something that's really fast
79:53 for this level of impact it is
79:57 8 or 9 years for this level of impact is wild like
80:01 it's actually very wild look at almost any other comparative industry
80:05 however it's also like damn near clairvoyant
80:09 when it comes to seeing where
80:13 the where the winds are blowing within the tech industry
80:17 and getting it this right when it was in such
80:21 early stages of development at that time when the hardware didn't exist
80:25 when the software tools didn't exist when it hadn't been
80:29 embraced by game developers you gotta give them credit
80:33 they nailed it and now everyone else
80:37 is playing catch up whether you like fake frames whether you don't like fake frames
80:41 AMD and Intel are all in on upscaling
80:45 and frame gen now the warden is kind of
80:49 getting to my point how are you fellas gonna pivot when consumer computing
80:53 is completely gone in 5 years um this is kind of
80:57 what I'm talking about is like the and it's not even just the work
81:01 right we can actually do a lot of different things oh yeah
81:05 where's a lot of the revenue coming from these days
81:09 that stuff so like you know that's of course
81:13 that's a little bit of it but I'm worried about the hobby I've had for literally my entire
81:17 the memories that I have of my entire life is being
81:21 interested in this hobby from before I was interested in this hobby
81:25 I don't remember anything like it's been forever
81:29 and then there's what this will continue to do
81:33 the gaming industry um gaming industry is in a really weird
81:37 spot right now and I think this doesn't necessarily help so hear me out
81:41 we've had this conversation before but it always felt kind of like
81:45 eh sci-fi
81:49 and maybe someday and blah blah blah and it always seemed kind of easy to dismiss
81:53 but I feel like it's time to have it again
81:57 if someone say Microsoft
82:01 built a gaming experience that simply wasn't possible
82:05 with many clients all over the world
82:09 connecting to a central server to exchange game data
82:13 if they built a gaming experience that could only
82:17 run on the big iron and that you remote into
82:21 and it beams frames to you like a like I know we've had
82:25 massively multiplayer worlds right but I'm talking
82:29 like a massively multiplayer world where it's just it's just not even possible
82:33 to run it on the client side anymore could you be convinced
82:37 in this in this hypothetical you know universe scale
82:41 game where everything is physics based
82:45 and everything's persistent man what happened to physics NVIDIA games
82:49 anyways that's a different topic but but let's say
82:53 that by having enormous banks of
82:57 AI servers and crap they could model and simulate
83:01 the world in a way that just wasn't possible to render locally
83:05 I mean the more interesting part to me is the anti-cheating that comes with that
83:09 yeah could you be convinced to cloud
83:13 game to play that like let's say it was a game
83:17 that had a moment like Arc Raiders is having right now
83:21 would you just be like let's go
83:25 would you be sad like tell me walk me through it
83:29 so far I've resisted I haven't joined any of the subscription things I haven't joined
83:33 oh because you know it'd be a subscription oh yeah because you're running on their hardware
83:37 at that point yeah I'd like have to be so I yeah I haven't joined
83:41 Xbox game pass or the Ubisoft service or EA's thing
83:45 or anything like that even when it like probably made
83:49 sense and I'd be like okay there's some new shooter coming out maybe it
83:53 doesn't even have a single player or I don't really care about the single player for this one and
83:57 you know I know my friends are only gonna play it for like two weeks so like whatever
84:01 really every single time if I'm gonna play that game I've bought it
84:05 I have not joined the subscription services I don't know at a certain point
84:09 when there is no longer an option which is the reality you're describing
84:13 yeah I don't know necessarily what I do there
84:17 I think there's definitely a lot of interesting aspects the anti-cheat is very
84:21 interesting would you still be able to cheat absolutely but the level
84:25 of cheating would decrease and at least at the beginning
84:29 the barrier of entry would increase like
84:33 using machine vision to read a screen
84:37 and literally a robot ARM to move a mouse and operate a keyboard
84:41 oh you can still digitally send inputs there's nothing I just mean
84:45 that's sort of the the ridiculous
84:49 lengths to which we could go and people have gone
84:53 to make something that is completely undetectable by software
84:57 but you can still read a screen and then snap to a head
85:01 like you said still detectable by things etc yeah
85:05 so we'll never be able to completely eliminate people who are determined
85:09 not to play the video games that they pay for but I think it would make it so that it's not like one
85:13 per freaking lobby like some games are right now yeah
85:17 so that is kind of exciting but
85:25 I don't think I'm romanticizing this I think I'm always going to have a computer
85:31 there's like it's kind of funny
85:35 during the reno I spent the longest period of time in my life since I touched
85:39 a desktop without touching a desktop because at work I had a laptop
85:43 and I would take that laptop home to I mean most of the time
85:47 continue working but also like if I play games or whatever anything I did on a computer
85:51 was on a laptop for a while and then I got my desktop back
85:55 and it like shouldn't matter when you're connected to a dock
85:59 like it does and I don't know why it does they're just not that fast I don't know like
86:03 what it is I like I daily a laptop right now for work I don't have a work desktop
86:07 right now and I haven't for like six months and there's just
86:11 there's just something about it like I went to be in a big box on a desk and I don't
86:15 know why no they're just there just I don't know they just
86:19 even that stuff just feel like they work better even always would talk to me about
86:23 this like and I kept telling her it was her imagination because it doesn't make any sense but she'd
86:27 be like yeah no laptops wear out they just like don't work yeah good after a while I'm like
86:31 that doesn't make any sense because but it anecdotally it's
86:35 like it just kind of seems to it just kind of seems to happen whether it's the way that these mobile
86:39 chips have a tendency to to be very bursty in their performance or whatever
86:43 it is like they just ah man I don't get it I don't get it
86:47 right now it's an elite book X
86:53 yeah an elite book X G1 A it's a Strix Halo so it's
86:57 it's like a four thousand dollar laptop that I would never buy
87:01 because there's like things about it that are like like broken
87:05 level of stupid like it has by default this the screen ships at 40
87:09 Hertz I know right you can turn it up to
87:13 60 what is it an engineering laptop or something or like what
87:17 like an engineering sample you know why would it have a Strix Halo in a 40
87:21 Hertz screen is it I it's a it's a work it's considered like a workstation
87:25 because it can be configured with up to 128 gigs of RAM like Strix Halo
87:29 you know tends to do I was trying to figure out like what
87:33 what configuration ever would someone buy that thing in when it's 40 Hertz and then I was
87:37 like okay maybe it's just for CAD or something and maybe they don't care I'm not sure maybe they do care
87:41 I feel like if I was an engineer I'd be kind of annoyed that my screen's running at
87:45 40 Hertz it can do 60 it can do 60 but it's like super dim like it's
87:49 not like you compare this to like a like a top top-end
87:53 MacBook right now and you're like not good
87:57 not good but man that Strix Halo but yeah
88:01 I feel like I'm always going to have a desktop and if I'm the dude
88:05 running a desktop off I can only keep it alive
88:09 through second-hand hardware because literally no one makes this stuff anymore I feel like
88:13 I'm going to be that guy and does that mean I'm just aging
88:17 poorly or whatever maybe maybe when I'm 70
88:21 and I'm still keeping my desktop alive I will be seen as aging
88:25 poorly yeah but I don't think I care I like my spot
88:29 I like having a desktop
88:33 I like how it works
88:37 and if that's the equivalent of having a Windows 98 machine now
88:41 I think that's still fine because I think having a Windows 98 machine now is pretty cool
88:45 yeah I don't think it's going to go away go away because you're not
88:49 going to be the only millennial left in 30 years from now so
88:53 I won't be 70 30 years from now well I will
88:57 right there buddy
89:03 yeah like I don't I don't I'm just saying like and I'm giving a theoretical scenario
89:07 right and there's and there's happens or not and I think that especially
89:11 with how diverse the game development industry is
89:15 even now and I think will become I mean that's something you've talked about a fair bit
89:19 this this splintering off that's happening right now from the big studios
89:23 you're going to have a lot of people who in much the same way that
89:27 game developers are spreading up who are nostalgic for the rich single player
89:31 like pixel art RPG experiences of their youth
89:35 or whatever it is right and are are trying to make that but better and more modern
89:39 I think you're going to have people making games that are designed to be played
89:43 from the client side there's always the indie space yeah but and
89:47 and by and always yeah sure always is a huge word
89:51 very loaded maybe it won't always but in our lifetimes I don't
89:55 see the desktop completely going away it might take on a different form
89:59 the the kind that we use now might not make
90:03 sense anymore we're already seeing soldered memory make its way to
90:07 the desktop not because it's being crammed down our throats but because it runs
90:11 faster like the fact that framework went that route
90:15 was pretty mind blowing to me and the first thing I told them was like hey
90:19 huh like this is not that modular
90:23 and they're like look AMD
90:27 literally like worked with us on this you cannot build
90:31 Strix Halo with with memory modules and maintain the
90:35 performance and it's not that it needs it for the CPU it needs it for the GPU
90:39 and the and and the GPU is becoming integrated the way they
90:43 are in a really weird way that happened we went from that
90:47 conversation right where Intel started talking about you know the
90:51 igpu on the CPU becoming like very powerful and an important part
90:55 and AMD with their fusion way back in the day and the CPU
90:59 and the GPU becoming integrated and we all went yeah but igpu's are so crap
91:03 they're so bad I feel like it just kind of
91:07 everyone was talking about it and it like definitely wasn't going to happen
91:11 and then there was a period of kind of quiet and then it just happened
91:15 happened he's a really how fine is the soldering
91:19 on soldered RAM that's not that bad
91:23 bga RAM can be upgraded a lot of the time
91:27 the issue around both that and then comes down to like like firmware
91:31 handling the firmware but no one is going
91:35 to build a mother board that is designed to have
91:39 the RAM desoldered and resoldered on to it willy nilly and so
91:43 because of that you're never going to get friendly firmware
91:47 even from companies that do have the best intentions and you can make there are
91:51 boards that allow bga chips to just be like like like bolted
91:55 on to them but they're for engineering it's not practical the interface is way too
91:59 expensive and bulky just trying to think like is it possible that's
92:03 the return of like repair shops basically oh yeah
92:07 100% it might not even be upgrading but it might be replacing
92:11 fixing stuff like that 100%
92:15 right the other thing I was going to say is I think Strix Halo is just
92:19 the beginning too because one of the things that was
92:23 most exciting to me about Panther Lake was not
92:27 and this is why I think our Panther Lake coverage back at CES was so
92:31 different from everyone else's because I was
92:35 moderately excited to see Intel return to competition in terms of battery life
92:39 put out a really good IGPU okay no I was more than moderately
92:43 excited for the IGPU moderately excited for the performance
92:47 gains and they moved some caches around and all that kind of stuff that they tend to do
92:51 as they make a new chip but what I was really excited about was
92:55 the modularity of the underlying
92:59 platform like they've got all of this stuff that they were
93:03 talking about for years like Foveros is like
93:07 working it's in shipping silicon
93:11 right now we can just like
93:15 take out and they talked about using third party vendor
93:19 IP so the idea like
93:23 holy crap of getting something like the SOC
93:27 on the Nintendo switch right with like an NVIDIA GPU
93:31 but like an x86 CPU and then like some custom
93:35 you know AI Tom Fulery over here and
93:38 whatever they want over there and having like a like a mega chip
93:42 on something like a framework desktop like a really compact desktop form
93:46 factor that's that's exciting
93:49 that's cool and if they're able to do that
93:53 not on a monolithic die right but through packaging
93:57 then the yields might actually not suck
94:01 and the performance benefit of having it all tightly integrated
94:05 might be worth the cost maybe here's a
94:09 here's an interesting comment from uh
94:13 fartmuncher69 420 uh
94:17 in floodplain chat fartmuncher69
94:21 underscore 420 says enthusiasts will change to running servers
94:25 inside their house instead of desktops in my opinion this is
94:29 really interesting comment because we've talked about that before first of all we have
94:33 second of all in my opinion
94:37 if you look at like tech media what is the only
94:41 thing that like really feels like it's growing right now building like local AI
94:45 crap homebrew yeah or home lab yeah
94:49 I don't know why I said homebrew but yeah like and doing things like that and that's
94:53 a big part of the reason why I think it's growing but also people are looking at like
94:57 oh man like I mean I've been mulling over this this this particular thought
95:01 in my head for a while now it's it's this like you know I'm not
95:05 trying to be a I'm not trying to be a gray man I'm not trying to a gray man is that a thing
95:09 gray man yeah where you like blend in with the crowd and like you're you're you're
95:13 you can't like you're you're all tactical but people can't tell
95:17 I'm not trying to do that I'm not trying to like hide from them the government whatever
95:21 but there's also like
95:25 you know I don't take a picture of my junk every time I go to the washroom and send it to you
95:29 so why should I share all my private things with Google and everybody
95:33 else right so like there's people that are like alright there's a certain level
95:37 of invasion of my privacy that is just like dang dude maybe back off a little bit
95:41 so I think people are trying to split off from certain major services
95:45 not out of again like paranoia oh my god
95:49 I need to be ultra tactical but it's just like whoa like this is actually
95:53 too much I should probably own a little bit more of my data dude I think these two
95:57 things are happening at the same time we did an AMD ultimate tech upgrade
96:01 I guess we shot it a couple of weeks ago for Nate one of our
96:05 guys at Creator Warehouse did I talk about this last week I don't think so
96:09 okay so so we shot an AMD ultimate tech upgrade and one of the
96:13 things that he wanted was a NAS which is like
96:17 yeah sure that's a thing that comes up on these AMD ultimate tech upgrades
96:21 but the difference is that Nate doesn't really do
96:25 any video editing doesn't really
96:29 want a Plex server he doesn't do the stuff
96:33 that we typically think of people wanting NASs for
96:37 and this was really cool and very exciting
96:41 investment disclosure in esh tech
96:45 but they have gotten to the point where what he was after
96:49 was quite literally a matter of like
96:53 maybe 10 clicks to get image setup
96:57 on his remember hexOS is based on TrueNAS
97:01 so the underlying the underlying system
97:05 is TrueNAS, ZFS good stuff
97:09 and he was able to get it setup pretty dashboard, get image
97:13 installed and syncing from his phone in like I kid you not
97:17 about 10 minutes with no trial and error
97:21 and no BS and that was what he wanted it for
97:25 he had a kid recently and he just doesn't want
97:29 to upload to a cloud service because there's a freaking
97:33 limit yeah like it's
97:37 really not it's not edgy
97:43 like you hear these stories oh man this is gonna make conspiracy theorists like
97:47 so
97:51 I'm not gonna say the word for it but yeah I guess
97:55 but it's not why are they feeling like that
97:59 it's not fear of the unknown, it's knowledge did they see someone who's pro-consumer
98:05 jesus christ jesus can't help you
98:09 where we're going brother it's not fear of the unknown, it's knowledge of what's happening
98:13 widely this is an old story
98:17 but you hear about the Tesla stuff where they were like sharing videos
98:21 from inside of people's cars for fun on their slack like this
98:25 is happening we have accepted that even if a company
98:29 is like morally perfect
98:33 well they're gonna get hacked anyways like it's if your data is
98:37 is just publicly out there
98:41 people are gonna get it people you don't want to have it will have it eventually
98:45 and realistically most people
98:49 probably not that important yeah but
98:53 but it kinda doesn't matter maybe I still don't want someone seeing it
98:57 maybe that just sucks yeah maybe that's actually an irrelevant part of this conversation
99:01 and maybe we could just not because I know that gets brought up too
99:05 and it's just like dude whatever that doesn't mean I want
99:09 yeah I don't know just
99:13 owning your own stuff I think is shifting from
99:17 paranoid people and hyper enthusiast land to normies
99:21 this is actually just kinda normal now dude I think that
99:25 as cool as it was investing in framework
99:29 and as many good business decisions as I've made for LMG
99:33 and mistakes the investment
99:37 in eshtec and the timing for hexOS
99:41 is gonna end up seeming like clairvoyant
99:45 when they get their product out of
99:49 pre-release and like dude the timing
99:53 like I think they're aiming for sorry I'm gonna jump in while you find that
99:57 dark guy said AI being on your junk for AI porn
100:01 see this is part of my problem though is like you hear stuff like that
100:05 and it's like okay maybe I think he's probably joking but I've
100:09 heard more recently that apparently one of the ways that they prey on women
100:13 is they look for when you delete a bunch of selfies
100:17 because it shows like a low self-esteem moment and then they'll target you
100:21 with ads for like makeup and cosmetic surgeries and stuff like that
100:25 seriously and it's just like maybe I'm just
100:29 gonna host my own photos and you can actually just f*** off
100:33 I just don't actually want you involved with this at all
100:37 so there's a certain level where it's like you're doing stuff with this information
100:41 that is just not okay and like
100:45 you know self-esteem issues in men and women are a problem
100:49 but I think it's pretty well known that like negative emotions
100:53 and negative thoughts and self-esteem issues like that are much more heavily
100:57 present on with
101:01 women and it's just like I don't know get out of here
101:05 so if I can help solve that by like hosting it myself yeah okay maybe I'm gonna do that
101:09 now because I'm tired of this stuff and I think a lot of other people are tired of this too
101:13 I think Instagram was doing that too yeah I don't I don't necessarily know
101:17 so here it is Q1 of 2026
101:21 by March 31st 2026 we will have 1.0
101:25 of HexOS which will include the local UI
101:29 that people were rightly upset wasn't
101:33 initially planned for the launch
101:37 Q1 of this year yeah and like that's
101:41 that's awesome and if you don't want to go that route there's tons of other routes as well
101:45 yes lots of other options what I love about this one
101:49 is the philosophy of making and secure and robust
101:53 simple but if you decide you're going down this route
101:57 regardless you can go that route and skip the steps
102:01 or there's a massive extremely vibrant community around doing it for free as well
102:05 yes level 1 forums is really good for it
102:09 there's stuff on I mean there's stuff on the line of executives forum lots
102:13 there's stuff on reddit everywhere there's tons of YouTube creators there's tons of people all over the place
102:17 that would be more than happy to help you with all of these things
102:21 the discord age verification thing people are posting about that as well like this is yeah
102:25 this is just another example of like this to me is very
102:29 clearly within the law
102:33 mass data harvesting and it's just
102:37 everywhere now and it's just too much
102:41 just tired of it
102:45 I think I don't have much more to say I think having your own
102:49 NAS is going to go from a thing that weird pirates do
102:53 to a thing that just is like a normal thing that people
102:57 should do if they care about the privacy at all
103:01 I wouldn't be surprised maybe I'm being too in our own bubble
103:05 about this but I wouldn't be surprised if in a certain amount of time
103:09 it's like weird if you don't have some form of your own owned
103:13 large storage I mean
103:17 it's going to get hard with what was it?
103:21 was it WD who said all of their hold on
103:25 hard drive you know what let's jump right into this topic then
103:29 hard drive capacity for western digital is sold out
103:33 for 2026 WD's CEO revealed
103:37 during the company earnings call that they're pretty much sold out of HDD production
103:41 capacity for all of this calendar year with firm purchase orders from their
103:45 top seven customers WD has also signed long term
103:49 agreements LTA's with two customers that extend into
103:53 2027 and one into 2028
103:57 this demand is driven driven almost entirely by AI
104:01 data centers cloud revenue now accounts for
104:05 89% of WD's total revenue
104:09 while consumer revenue has shrunk to just
104:13 5% let's take a moment
104:17 and wrap our brains around that
104:21 and obviously it doesn't quite work like this but at the western
104:25 digital factory okay as the drives
104:29 are rolling along the conveyor and dropping into the bucket at the
104:33 end of the conveyor those drives they're all done now
104:37 one out of 20 is destined for a consumer
104:45 what 19
104:49 out of those 20 so for every hard drive
104:53 you see in a consumer system shipping today
104:57 19 more are going elsewhere
105:01 with 18 of them headed to the data center
105:05 to the cloud
105:09 hard drive prices have already surged nearly 50%
105:13 in the last 5 months according to Tom's hardware following a similar pattern
105:17 to RAM and NAND which are also in shortage
105:21 because of the current AI build out yeah I forget this out
105:25 unintentionally I was trying to help someone configure a build and the
105:29 performance like was not
105:33 very important so I actually recommended
105:37 the core most important thing was hard drive so I recommend
105:41 to get a hard drive we check the use market because of course and I was like
105:45 oh everything's really high
105:49 I feel like these are just like people expecting too much value because like the use market
105:53 around here is I know what I got is not yeah the use market around here is not
105:57 always super vibrant for everything so it's like okay let's
106:01 jump on stores because I've seen literally during scrap yard wars yeah where it's
106:05 actually cheaper to just buy a new drive sometimes which is whack yeah like that has
106:09 happened it's a thing um so like okay let's just jump on the stores and I was like what is
106:13 going like why are the hard drive so expensive and then I started diving into things and I was like
106:17 oh no it's coming again isn't it I found three WD greens
106:21 two terabytes each from um
106:25 just to give you some idea of how old they are they have archived footage from
106:29 when we were at the Langley house on them they were the old cold storage
106:33 drives yeah so each of them only has I think
106:37 around a few dozen power on and off cycles and like
106:41 a couple hundred power on hours
106:45 I bet those are worth close today
106:49 to what they were worth then which is so
106:53 messed up completely wackadoodle
106:57 Dan chime up say it
107:01 yeah sure I didn't want to interrupt no but yeah my uh
107:05 my ass is they're nearing their five year kind of scary age
107:09 and I have five 15 terabytes in there
107:15 I'm gonna be poor how much is that gonna run you right now
107:19 oh my god Luke please check Luke I'm working on it I have
107:23 a WD green is worth 80 bucks
107:27 for a two terabyte that's nuts okay so no they're not as bad
107:31 as they would have been like 12 years ago or whatever but that's
107:35 too much to be paying for a two terabyte drive you said 15 terabytes Dan
107:39 Seagate Barracuda is what I have in there right now or Exos
107:43 something like that oh god they might be the same Exos we're like kind of cheap for a bit
107:47 okay okay in fairness four terabyte drives are around
107:51 the same price here's one from Seagate for 90 bucks but he needs
107:55 15s no no I know I'm just talking about those stupid greens
107:59 is this a phase where you would expect to upgrade are you looking for 20s
108:03 if there's 20s I didn't do the math recently because power on ours
108:07 weren't getting too crazy but like I got to think
108:11 about it I was looking at SSDs and
108:15 remortgaging my left kidney yeah that's uh
108:19 so yeah 18s for like a red pro nas drive
108:23 is 400 dollars that's probably cheaper than it used to be
108:27 I'm seeing I'm seeing four to four to seven hundred
108:31 dollars depending on the models yeah that sounds about the same
108:35 but I'm also not seeing 15s the sweet spot seems to be a little higher than
108:39 15 right now the 20 the 20 terabyte is 420 nice
108:43 um okay so I'm fine sick you're fine
108:47 oh really you're buying 15 I mean that's still
108:51 that's still too grand and this is us dollars sir okay that's
108:55 because I remember paying about 400 bucks a drive
108:59 five years ago yeah sorry Canadian I'm seeing on the Canadian site
109:03 I'm seeing iron wolf pro 20 terabytes for 600 bucks
109:07 okay that's not that far off he's getting 30 percent more capacity
109:11 for about 30 percent more it's not better
109:15 it's not like it used to be the price was always the same
109:19 where the price would always go down per Gigabyte
109:23 but we talked about this it keeps coming back to that bloody video I made
109:27 where I was like YouTube premium should cost more money or whatever
109:31 what was the premise of that but basically I was like hey look
109:35 you gotta understand Moore's law is dead the law of
109:39 storage being cheaper is dead this platform costs more and more
109:43 and more and more to maintain people use it something's gotta give
109:49 well it looks like I'm not as homeless as I thought it was gonna be
109:53 just a little bit John McGee 1996 asks is this gonna get worse
109:57 or is there any indication of balancing out type of situation hold on just give me
110:01 one second
110:05 you can't see it but this is
110:11 just gonna polish my ball here the gaze into it
110:15 consult the orb we're going full gaze here
110:23 I don't know
110:29 I thought you were gonna give some whole impassioned speech about
110:33 trying to tell the future and stuff and then I don't know
110:37 that was good and the thing is
110:41 like obviously I was kicking myself for not just stockpiling
110:45 a bunch of DRAM but I've been in this industry for so long
110:49 do you know how many times I've heard DRAMs going up
110:53 it's going up and like what for a month or two it'll trend up
110:57 for a little bit maybe for a quarter or two but it always
111:01 it always comes back down because at the end of the day it's
111:05 people who they earn their money
111:09 working on all the forecasting for all this crap years in advance
111:13 that mostly have done a pretty good job over the years of predicting
111:17 where demand and supply is going to go and making sure that they're striking
111:21 a balance between maintaining the profitability of their fabs and also
111:25 not over supplying or not under supplying the market
111:29 making sure that they can supply all their big customers including direct to
111:33 consumers and I don't think there's a precedent
111:37 for them f***ing it up this badly nobody saw this boom
111:41 coming and there is no quick fix there's no like oh well let's
111:45 just I'm trying to think of a game where you
111:49 were built yeah ANO there's no ANO just plopping down
111:53 a new fab and then you just run a little road to it and now the supply chain
111:57 is fixed it just doesn't work like that so
112:01 I don't know because the bubble could pop and if the bubble
112:05 pops all these purchase orders
112:09 just be sitting there they as far as
112:13 I can tell they they like what are you what are you going to do like what's that
112:17 what's that famous saying if you owe the the bank
112:21 a thousand dollars you have a problem if you if you owe the bank
112:25 if you if you have a loan from the bank for twenty thousand dollars that's a you
112:29 problem if you have a loan from the bank for twenty billion dollars that's the banks
112:33 problem yeah and so that quote something along those lines and in the same way
112:37 like if if this whole thing just
112:41 crashes there's literally going to be no one to
112:45 you know fulfill this one trillion dollar RAM order
112:49 or you know whatever whatever magic on on paper money
112:53 has been exchanged in advance or whatever commitments have been made so
112:57 if anything there will be a huge crash in the
113:01 pricing of this stuff and it'll be it'll be a free RAM for
113:05 all but when that will happen
113:11 I have no way of knowing if any I like from my point of view and I'm just I'm not a
113:15 finance guy right like I'm I'm a tech nuts and bolts
113:19 guy from my point of view we should have all figured
113:23 out that this is not going to result in the kind of
113:27 the kind of revenue generation that would justify the investment
113:31 that's going into it ages ago
113:35 we should already be there so I'm just sitting here going well
113:39 can I stay solvent longer than the market
113:43 can stay irrational
113:47 the answer is no
113:51 yeah Dan check your email full planchats cooking
113:55 are they finding them deals
113:59 or I think I might actually just need four which is kind of nice
114:03 sick get shocked
114:07 mega cool asks hey question
114:11 are tariffs responsible for this consumer hardware shortage at all or is it really just
114:15 because of stupid AI tariffs aren't helping
114:19 yeah but it's a shortage globally
114:23 yes so like tariffs are not helping
114:27 I can tell you that much but the shortage is
114:31 a much more macro problem that is not to do with
114:35 a tantrum that a particular world leader is having at a particular
114:39 moment does this affect you guys as a channel absolutely
114:43 in like so many ways constantly and every day
114:47 this hobby has never been more difficult to get into
114:51 ah no I actually wouldn't say that ring true it's
114:55 even more frustrating to participate in yes I'll say
114:59 that yeah it was definitely a lot more difficult to get into in the
115:03 like much more further past in the 80 days yeah like where would you find
115:07 resources to to learn to I mean there was laptops that were $3,000
115:11 in like the early 90s you go way back to like the hobbyist days
115:15 yeah and I mean never mind even from a pricing standpoint
115:19 but it sucks right now you can still buy a sick game I mean I told you we've got that
115:23 gaming PC video coming you can still buy a sick gaming PC for $1,000 we went
115:27 to David and I this video is coming out really soon I talked about this one we went to
115:31 Costco and we brought a we bought a great computer for like 1250
115:35 US or something like that very capable little gaming machine
115:39 am 5 like like modern platform gaming
115:43 machine with the was a 9600 I think it was the
115:47 I think it was the XT 9600 XT perfectly
115:51 excellent gaming card I played some expedition 33 on it and I was like yep this is a gaming PC
115:55 and and that's really great it's really amazing that you can
115:59 you can get into it like that but it's also really
116:03 frustrating that we had it so good for so long
116:07 and it's been it feels like it's been torn
116:11 out of our fingers and the reason the reason
116:15 is the hard part like if if Moore's law was just dead
116:19 and everyone was doing their earnest best to overcome
116:23 it and the answer was fake frames I think everyone
116:27 would go okay sure
116:33 but not everyone but I yeah not everyone but you I think
116:37 you get what I mean yeah yeah but if the reason that this stuff is not affordable
116:41 and the reason that we're going the direction that we're going is because
116:45 you know I don't know if you Sam Altman needs more RAM
116:49 then I think that's a lot harder to swallow it's a lot harder to be passionate about
116:53 to get excited about I also think
116:57 that I mean if if companies like WD
117:01 are having 5% of their revenue be consumer
117:05 and you see more patterns like what micron did happening where these
117:09 where these
117:15 traditionally known in the western market brands
117:19 that's all I'll say it start kind of exiting
117:23 I'm not saying western digital is exiting but micron did for reasons that western digital
117:27 is experiencing so it wouldn't be unreasonable to see other brands
117:31 do a similar thing I think
117:35 maybe in a really weird way one of the saviors of the desktop
117:39 PC market might be
117:43 China because
117:47 there is a consumer market yeah definitely so like if certain
117:51 brands are just going well all the monies in
117:55 data center well that's not true
117:59 it's just there's a crazy amount of money in data center so like
118:03 I don't know somebody's going to step in
118:07 and there's a lot of very hungry Chinese companies trying to
118:11 get into computer components so like I think it was
118:15 hardware unboxed that made a video on
118:19 one of the Chinese DRAM companies
118:25 hardware unboxed
118:29 CM rcx rather hold on
118:33 cxmt xmt
118:37 ymtc I think one of them did a
118:41 yeah 32 gig king bank
118:45 kfrw ddr5 6000 cl36
118:49 soreblade cxmt review hardware unboxed
118:53 and it was like fine I guess
118:57 that could help but
119:01 I don't think they have a ton of capacity at least not right now
119:05 not right now not right now I'm not talking about right now
119:09 but that's the thing about China is how long
119:13 did it take them to build hospitals during covid like days or something
119:17 um China builds hospital
119:21 in 10 days that was nuts
119:25 that is nuts that is nuts
119:29 and this is a different type of scaling and a different type of building and all that kind of stuff
119:33 but like if there's opportunity there somebody's going to chase it
119:37 and if the traditional brands are going data center it doesn't mean consumers
119:41 are out of the market right like it's we're still here there's still a big market
119:45 we're still hungry we're interested in things there's still billions of dollars to be made
119:49 selling to consumers and I think consumers are probably less
119:53 able than data center is
119:57 if data center uses something and it works oh dude that's where you have all those quotes
120:01 of like nobody was fired for buying IBM yeah dude AMD has been
120:05 well okay it's not as cut and dried as AMD has been better than Intel
120:09 in server for years but they've been a very compelling
120:13 option compared to Intel for years and years now
120:17 and how slowly that market share shifts compared to consumers
120:21 who just seem to be able to are willing to pivot a lot faster
120:25 it's less relationship and contract forecasting driven it's more like
120:29 I go and I see what's what's good right now
120:33 it's like recommended by my enthusiast buddy I want more FPS you know
120:37 like it's a very different decision making process SuperWisk says
120:41 how long until NVIDIA just gives up on GeForce I
120:45 don't think they will and my reason for that is largely
120:49 geopolitical really
120:53 I think they are much more geopolitical than
120:57 a lot of the other brands I think I think in my opinion
121:01 NVIDIA is extremely invested in Taiwan's
121:05 market dominance and wants to
121:09 hold themselves there but why do they need gaming for that
121:13 because I think they would take anything they can
121:17 and if they can take data center and gaming
121:21 and anything else I think they'll grab it and hold on to it
121:25 I think they will continue to make gaming GPUs but for a different
121:29 reason I think that for many years the gaming
121:33 R&D fueled the data center products
121:37 and now we're seeing that kind of flip around
121:41 where the data center R&D on things like machine learning
121:45 is fueling advancements on the gaming side
121:49 but I I think it's less about
121:53 geopolitics and I think it's less about
121:57 Taiwan and for me I think it's more about tradition
122:01 I think there's at least as long as NVIDIA's leadership remains
122:05 as it is I think there's a lot of ego
122:09 and a lot of pride and I don't necessarily even mean those
122:13 negative ways I think that
122:17 GeForce dominates gaming is a point of personal pride
122:21 and part of the origin story of NVIDIA
122:25 this is definitely part if not the majority of it
122:29 if anyone were to challenge NVIDIA in what has been traditionally
122:33 for the longest period their stomping ground
122:37 I think NVIDIA sees the gaming market as
122:41 basically their birthright at this point and fuck anyone who tries
122:45 to take it from them I think they would cut open
122:49 their money bags and bleed it rather than lose their dominant market
122:53 sharing gaming quite frankly because we've seen them do it when AMD was competitive
122:57 they were willing to do anything sometimes it wasn't even just
123:01 to sell more GeForce it was to just fuck over anyone
123:05 who tries to dare sell a graphics card and I don't even necessarily
123:09 again I don't even necessarily mean that in like a negative way
123:13 I mean that in a highly competitive way
123:17 they've done stuff that I would describe as anti-competitive
123:21 but what I'm talking about right now is the competitive spirit of NVIDIA
123:25 and sometimes that competitive spirit can lead them to do things that are anti-competitive
123:29 but it's not what I'm talking about right now it also feels like
123:35 yeah I mean I think this is fair we have more of that than a lot of companies
123:39 NVIDIA feels very raw raw
123:43 oh yeah I mean I think Jensen takes it personally when like he loses market share
123:47 yeah and that kind of passion
123:51 is important from a leader it's probably not a small part
123:55 of NVIDIA's ongoing success I mean pointed a company
123:59 that has executed so consistently
124:03 for like 20 plus years NVIDIA founded it was like 1990
124:07 people also like notoriously don't quit and like they have this
124:11 internal culture of like
124:15 reeducation and internal classes that you can take and stuff because they
124:19 feel yeah it's all very interesting
124:23 I don't want to glaze NVIDIA too much when they do a lot of things I don't like
124:27 but yeah I mean you can't deny that they're winners
124:31 yeah
124:35 speaking of winners you can be a winner
124:39 by um
124:43 learning about check out messages or calm
124:47 sorry it took me a second to remember what they're called now
124:51 the way to interact with the mark of a great name the way to interact with the when
124:55 show is of course not through super chats
124:59 not through twitch bits but through check out messages
125:03 I believe that when you throw money at your screen you should get something
125:07 in return and in our case
125:11 it's high quality merchandise from lttstore.com and the product we're launching
125:15 this week is kind of a funny story
125:19 do you want to bring up the page on the site this is called the schrodinger's cat patch hoodie
125:23 shout out to Matthew on the fashion team for coming up with the name because
125:27 it's kind of genius um there may
125:31 or there may not be an LTX logo under the cat
125:35 patch you can't see it which means it's in a state
125:39 of superposition until someone does something to test that theory
125:43 which we would strongly advise against because it would mean that your cat patch is no longer on
125:47 your hoodie if you've been around since the LTX
125:51 days you will recognize the tie-dye base of this particular
125:55 hoodie this is officially the last of those finally
125:59 we're done and for anyone newer it's our 100% french
126:03 terry cotton hoodie soft breathable structured and now featuring
126:07 this schrodinger's cat patch on top you can find it live
126:11 now at LMG.gg slash cat patch
126:15 hoodie so the reason for these is that our first
126:19 batch of LTX 23 hoodies had the LTX
126:23 logo crooked it was aligned to and you know what
126:27 seriously our printer has done so many perfect prints
126:31 for us over the years that I don't even I don't even blame him
126:35 because it was aligned to something but then something
126:39 about the way the garment fit meant that when you wore it it was like
126:43 angled it was angled off the relative to the floor
126:47 and so we had to reprint all
126:51 of the hoodies for the show like I think it was like three or five days before something
126:55 like that I can't remember the exact timeline but we had to reprint the hoodies and then
126:59 we spent years trying to figure out what the heck
127:03 to do with those hoodies no the logo was not sewn on it was
127:07 silk screened so the cat patch being sewn on is new it's an
127:11 upgrade look at this quality cat patch I think this was Lisa's handiwork
127:15 isn't it adorable anyway
127:21 it took us until now to figure out what to do with them so this is your last chance
127:25 to get the tie-dye hoodie and it has a cute little cat patch on it and Luke
127:29 showed you guys how to find it on the site and next he's going to
127:33 show you guys how to send a merge message all you he won't he won't do that
127:37 I'm sorry he will not do that oh crap he will show you how to send a
127:41 com a checkout message bloody hell
127:45 okay all you got to do is add anything to your cart
127:49 say for example the off-site laptop bag in a
127:53 small size cool neat view cart and there it is the checkout
127:57 message interface that will go to producer Dan who will
128:01 put it up on stream or he will respond to
128:05 it or he will curate it for me and
128:09 Luke to respond to Dan should we show them a couple checkout messages
128:13 and show them how it works yeah I've got a couple here let's have a look
128:17 hey DLL question for Linus do you guys have a product list from
128:21 oldest to newest would be useful for my project
128:25 we are launching a new version of the site I believe
128:29 in Q2 I think that's the current roadmap and then
128:33 once that's done we're going to be working on a product archive
128:37 and once that's done we're going to be working on a way to allow
128:41 people to kind of vote maybe once a quarter or a couple times a year
128:45 on the top products they'd like to see us bring back
128:49 because I know it's been an ongoing problem with LTT Store that we're always
128:53 moving forward never
128:57 restocking things that are gone and I think that's something that would
129:01 be a way for us to kind of meet in the middle because we can't carry every product that we
129:05 ever made that's not really realistic but we can bring back some
129:09 if there's enough demand for them Luke Nukem
129:13 that's a the shirt
129:17 that one's not coming back you should have gotten one when you had
129:21 the chance I wear mine actually quite regularly on weekends
129:25 so like not every product will be available to vote on then
129:29 like your super special ones it would be there but that's never going to win
129:33 it's not going to get enough votes we did not
129:37 we saw the sales numbers we did not sell many of those
129:41 hey Luke, Linus and Dan Adelaide, Australia
129:45 what do you think of the new Pokemon fire red leaf green
129:49 release for Switch and Switch 2 news that dropped in the last 24
129:53 errs did they seriously not put a space
129:57 between two different words fred
130:01 so this is the Colton edition
130:05 that's just a good joke and leaf green
130:09 yeah what are they? are they games?
130:13 are they the same game again? capture wild Pokemon and recapture
130:17 the nostalgic feel of the Game Boy Advance system when the Pokemon fire red
130:21 version and leaf green version games return for the first time in over 20 years
130:25 on the Nintendo Switch also playable on Switch 2 just in time for Pokemon day
130:31 there's a lot to unpack here in these Nintendo Switch versions
130:35 of the 2004 remakes of the first
130:39 Pokemon games, red and Pokemon green so this is
130:43 sorry, these are halfway to Skyrim right now
130:47 for your toaster these are remakes of
130:51 remakes it's a $20 GBA game and every language
130:55 is a unique listing on the eShop
131:01 you really do have to catch them all emulators win again I guess
131:05 there's like no way this is not one of the most easily emulated games ever
131:15 I don't know man I've never done it but I have to imagine it's like
131:19 brain dead easy Pokemon blue master race that's all I have to say about that
131:23 never cared about red or green sorry
131:27 there's another Pokemon comment here somewhere green wasn't like
131:31 you're talking about the previous era oh I'm talking about like original
131:35 game boy yeah yeah yeah yeah wasn't wasn't green like not a
131:39 North American thing I thought it was like Japan only or something maybe all I know
131:43 is Pokemon weird rumor is the only Pokemon game I ever played
131:47 and from every conversation that I've had with a Pokemon fan about it those were
131:51 a choice they were like yep you had the experience yep good job
131:55 and I played it on a Game Boy color emulator so I like
131:59 got to see it in color I think or was it
132:03 I don't know it doesn't really matter you don't even need my nostalgia glasses say it was in color
132:09 sure it might not have been you're right green was Japan only yeah okay
132:13 cool so for us it was it was just it was just red and blue
132:17 and then yellow came out and that was like weird and
132:21 yeah growling says real chads played yellow but like yellow
132:25 wasn't out yet so I was just to OG for yellow so that's why I said it was
132:29 weird red and blue were first whatever whatever
132:33 I still have my cartridge of blue nice solid blue homies yeah
132:37 I got to follow a Pokemon question for you both
132:41 seriously I think yeah I mean might as well have two everybody seems to
132:45 be care about Pokemon today yeah what's the one do you like Pokemon I think you like Pokemon yeah
132:49 okay hi Wancho question for Luke what is your favorite
132:53 Pokemon are you looking forward to the any potential announcements for the series 30th
132:57 anniversary no I'm not looking forward to
133:01 any I know that might suck but like
133:05 I don't tend to like the mainline games anymore
133:09 I actually don't even like the game that I play
133:13 I think Pokemon go is just like objectively a pretty bad game
133:17 other than the fact that it tends to usually
133:21 incentivize going outside and there's so few things
133:25 that do that on your phone and I think that is super super cool
133:29 gamifying going outside is fantastic while you finish this up I got to go use water gun
133:33 sounds good but the
133:37 concepts around how
133:41 the PVP works I think are terrible I think the rating system
133:45 is in a lot of ways really bad I think the max battle system
133:49 is terrible I think how they deal with catching especially
133:53 things that you technically paid money for in some way is horrible
133:57 I think their event management is just trash
134:01 like in so many ways it's a terrible terrible game
134:05 that sucks it's one of the reasons why when people are like oh you have to have
134:09 remote rating because of like people who are
134:13 immobilized it's like okay I would highly recommend
134:17 playing anything else because it's a terrible game I guess I'm
134:21 supposed to look over here sorry if you're stuck at home
134:25 there's like near infinite other things you could play that are just
134:29 better like ah you don't need to spend
134:33 money an extra amount of money to be able to play from your couch
134:37 to be able to play a bad game from your couch
134:41 the only good thing about pokemon go is that it gets you outside
134:45 and it gets you moving so if you can't do one or either of those things
134:49 just play a better game I would highly recommend
134:53 playing just a definitely better game
134:57 that's my main stance there the mainline pokemon games I bought
135:01 whatever it's called scarlet or something oh man
135:05 because I bought it I've been kind of like forced
135:09 myself to play when I play on my switch it's starting
135:13 to get better the beginning was really really slow and
135:17 it's starting to get a little bit better but still it's like
135:21 I don't know it it is different it's an open world game
135:25 in a more real way than the original pokemon was
135:33 I don't think they're that great hot take I love
135:37 zea I haven't played those ones
135:41 I haven't played a ton of them I don't have really great takes on it but anyways in terms of
135:45 announcements I'm not particularly excited I think people in the
135:51 indie scene that are making semi ripoff things
135:55 are doing a much better job with the pokemon IP than pokemon is
135:59 I think that game poke mmo or whatever that was a long time ago
136:03 where you could play in your browser and it was like an mmo of
136:07 fire red or something and you could see all these trainers around
136:11 on the map I'm wondering if full plane chat is going to
136:15 correct me on the name but there was a pixel art game of pokemon
136:19 that was an mmo that I believe was in your browser
136:25 and it was that was like super cool and really fun and really hype and then pokemon killed it
136:29 pow world was like a really interesting take on pokemon that was actually
136:33 really fun multiplayer in the same world
136:37 wow how has that not really been a thing
136:41 having your pokemon be able to like work with you to build things like super cool
136:47 I think an actually official one for pokemon would have been way better
136:51 and not having the guns and stuff I think have actually would have legitimately been
136:55 better I think pow world needed to do stuff like that in order to
136:59 not infringe too much so hooray that was definitely the right choice
137:03 but I would prefer to just play a first party one that was actually well made but none of them exist
137:09 but yeah people are saying poke mmo yeah apparently that
137:13 let me see if I can find it poke mmo
137:17 if there's still more oh they have a website still
137:21 what the heck are they still alive wild
137:25 I thought they got like banned off of the everything
137:33 but yeah like these these experiences made by others
137:37 have been
137:41 better so no I'm not particularly interested about announcements
137:45 favorite pokemon Kadabra my reason for that was
137:49 I never traded back in the day when I had my my pokemon blue
137:55 I think I like we didn't have a link cable or something I don't remember
137:59 but never really traded and I
138:03 remember above misty's gym you cross the bridge
138:07 you go to the left and then you come back down there's this patch of grass
138:11 and if you go up and up and up and up and up and down up and down up and down up and down
138:15 my brother told me you could catch an Abra in there so I would go do that and I would finally catch an Abra
138:19 and then if you do the the old brutal exp trip
138:23 where you have to send the Abra out first and then swap out to something that can tank it
138:27 and you eventually get a Kadabra that Kadabra will just hard carry you for like the entire game
138:31 Kadabra is sick in those old games
138:35 I found a lot of the pokemon that you either needed to trade to evolve
138:39 or that you had to get in weird ways were some of my favorite ones
138:43 like Gyarados giving that magic harp from the guy who thinks he's scamming you
138:47 and then you turn into a magic harp, fantastic pokemon Kadabra
138:51 Machoke
138:55 Graveler Why do you keep going for like mid tier evolutions of these?
138:59 I was just explaining cause I think we didn't have a link cable or something
139:03 so we couldn't trade to those ones required a trade to evolve
139:07 it was the only way to do it You could get him a champ
139:11 No I don't think so
139:15 I'm pretty sure I thought you had to trade it
139:19 By the way weren't you going to ask me if it was very effective? Was it very effective?
139:23 Super effective even
139:27 Am I wrong that they were trade only? Trade only
139:31 Really? I must just remember fighting them or something
139:35 In fairness to me this was like 25 years ago You would have fought them
139:39 I think there's a gym leader that has them or something But yeah
139:43 Machoke you needed to trade in order to get him a champ
139:47 but then it would just give him a champ to the other person you could trade it back but like I don't know
139:51 Kadabra in order to get Alecazam you had to trade
139:55 in order to get Golem Those are the
139:59 three that I really remember Yeah
140:03 The other really cool one Oh yeah Gengar
140:07 That's why Haunter is my favorite one out of that chain Is because
140:11 to get Gengar you had to trade So I really liked Haunter
140:15 That's why my one laptop was called Haunter and not Gengar Because Haunter is my favorite one because I was never able to trade up
140:19 And Haunter is also incredibly powerful in those games
140:23 Because Ghost is just like immune to a ton of attacks Which is crazy
140:27 It wasn't a particularly balanced game
140:31 No not at all It was more about selling toys
140:35 Yeah Yeah
140:39 Yeah Kadabra has always been my favorite one He's my hard carry
140:43 Yeah Sammy's favorite Pokemon is Gengar Which is pretty sick
140:47 It's so common for people to be like Charizard or whatever
140:51 Pikachu Yeah Pikachu, Eevee, whatever
140:55 Alright What's your favorite Pokemon?
140:59 When did the Eevee obsession show up? Because
141:03 Is it? Does Eevee feature really prominently in
141:07 modern shows or something? I don't know but I know they pushed it a lot more
141:11 There's a ton more Eevee evolutions now Oh dude
141:15 I got this Pokemon find and seek
141:19 book for my kids I don't know some relative gave it to us
141:23 It was all like Eevee Who cares about Eevee? I thought it's all
141:27 Pikachu and like Charmander and Charizard and whatnot
141:31 There's also like communities that form behind different Eevees
141:35 Tumblr says Crystal Well Tumblr I think was largely because Sylveon
141:39 is a lot of people in the trans community because Sylveon has the trans colors
141:43 have bannered behind Sylveon But then similarly
141:47 there's like other Pokemon For
141:51 for reasons people like Vaporeon
141:55 There's other stuff going on
141:59 Yeah, but Eevee got more popular like way later on
142:03 I would need to be reminded original sprites let's go
142:07 I need to be reminded of all the original Pokemon before I could pick a favorite
142:11 I also really like Pidgeotto, Pidgeot
142:15 I was about to say I Loki loved my Pidgeot
142:19 They're actually awesome Like late game Pidgeot is actually pretty
142:23 pretty solid I actually kind of loved my
142:27 Raticate I like that. I don't like Raticate
142:31 but I like that you like Raticate. I think that's cool Um
142:35 The Niddo's are pretty sweet Kadabra
142:39 Let's go I was a huge fan of Geodude
142:43 Did not love this Catching early Geodudes? Yeah, me neither
142:47 Didn't care about that Geodude is
142:51 sick when you first recruit him Yeah, exactly. Like he just will one hit
142:55 basically anything just hits so hard. It will take so little
142:59 damage from so many things Okay, I love horses
143:03 so therefore I immediately love Punita, but I just didn't really need it
143:07 because by the time you get this I think you have like a
143:11 pretty solid. Is that even in blue? I thought I thought we had
143:15 Growlith. Maybe not. I don't remember which one. Don't remember which one.
143:19 There's some Pokemon that aren't you have to trade for them. I think you can
143:23 maybe you might fight a trainer or something that has You definitely do. There's the gamblers that
143:27 have them. There's the old guys. They like their pony dis. Um
143:31 That's why Man, there's more
143:35 than I remember there being. There's a Rihorn Enchoyer in chat. That's based
143:39 That's a based favorite Pokemon.
143:45 These fighting guys are pretty cool, but I never really bothered with them
143:55 Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
143:59 I just really liked the design for this one. I don't know if I don't think I ever had one.
144:03 They're cool.
144:07 Man, I wish they did more with Ditto over the years and you'd have to be like
144:11 you'd have to have a heart of stone to not love it. Yeah, very
144:15 true. Yeah, you know what if I had to
144:19 I really dislike a lot of the modern systems. Um
144:23 I've often talked about how a lot of the
144:27 modern Pokemon systems just make it feel like Digimon to me.
144:31 I don't even know what Digimon is. Mega Mode EX
144:35 I don't like it. Um, but
144:41 but I do think Gigantamax Norlax is awesome.
144:45 The fact that he just he's just still sleeping on the road and just stuff grew
144:49 on him. Hilarious.
144:55 But then they do stuff that's like you might actually like this.
144:59 Gigantamax Meowth is just he's just like
145:03 buildings tall.
145:09 It's all very power rangersy to me. I think that was probably
145:13 my first exposure to like
145:17 Japanese style fighting media
145:21 where the fight has
145:25 three stages every time you fight the putties
145:29 and then you fight the boss and then
145:33 you both level up and you fight again and all of the foreplay was
145:37 completely unnecessary. Yeah, that's totally yeah. Now there's Megas
145:41 and all this other junk it gets a little ridiculous
145:45 and like, okay, I know anytime anytime you make it compare like you look at
145:49 new Pokemon and you're like why is there keys
145:53 why is a set of keys a Pokemon and people go yeah well you can look at
145:57 Gen 1 and there's like some silly garbage
146:01 as well. Is there though? Poragon.
146:05 What's Poragon? He's he's
146:09 yeah. Sorry, what's it called? Poragon.
146:13 I don't know what you're talking about. I don't think that's Gen 1. Yeah, he is.
146:17 How do I spell it? P-O-R-Y-G-O-N
146:21 100% Gen 1. Oh this. What is this? This is my point. He's just like
146:25 he's a duck. He's just like some shapes. No, he's a duck.
146:29 He's a racist duck. What are some other silly Gen 1 Pokemon?
146:37 There aren't really that many. I mean I think my thing is like for the most part it was
146:41 like this is a mouse except it's electric. Hooray.
146:45 Yeah. I mean yeah Machoke is just like a jacked guy.
146:49 There's a jacked like kind of well okay. Mr.
146:53 It's just a creepy guy. Kind of a frog.
146:57 Yeah. And like the gas one is like so that we
147:01 could have like a gaseous thing obviously.
147:05 I have no problem with ghastly personally.
147:09 I thought it was kind of like random. Magnemite is just magnets.
147:13 What's the one that's like? Magneton is just a lot of magnets.
147:17 Yeah. But I think like I am very cool
147:21 with things like Onyx. It's a bunch of rocks in a row.
147:25 Neat. Geodude. It's a single rock. It has arms for some reason.
147:29 I don't care. Neat. I like stuff like that. I don't like
147:33 this is a space demon. Like I
147:37 don't want that. I'm just glad we're all passionate about it.
147:41 I'm glad people have things to be excited about. Like what is that?
147:45 Why is that a Pokemon? I think it's a
147:49 Lobster
147:53 Lobster, Eagle
147:57 Scorpion. Does that as a Gen 1 only
148:01 or does that feel like it belongs in Pokemon? No. Yeah, exactly.
148:05 That's my problem with some of the new stuff. And I will always be a Gen 1
148:09 only or because I'm sorry but I just cannot be arsed to collect them
148:13 all more than 151 things. So many more.
148:17 How many Pokemon are there total? They just don't exist to me. There's 151 Pokemon.
148:21 You're welcome. So for the delusional people
148:25 that think there's more than 151 there's apparently 1,025.
148:29 That's crazy. It makes no sense. That is crazy. There's 121.
148:33 151. No, you know what? Forget it.
148:37 There's 121. Great shopping. 30 of them off. Anything I had to trade for doesn't count.
148:41 Oh, man.
148:47 Okay. How many people did we just bother? 152. Missignal. I like that.
148:53 I like that. No, the glitch doesn't count. I like that. Glitch, please.
148:57 My delusion is that there's 152.
149:01 Alrighty then. What's next?
149:05 First. We had a wedding. We fought about Pokemon.
149:09 First, Apple adopts RCS. Now it tests
149:13 end-to-end encryption. In the latest iOS 26.4 beta
149:17 build, Apple explains that it is now rolling out testing end-to-end encryption
149:21 in RCS messaging on iPhone. Currently not shipping on certain devices and carriers
149:25 but the big news about this was that it is only testing
149:29 the RCS encryption between iPhones. Not between androids.
149:33 They're not saying that they will never support it on Android but
149:37 while other people are super negative about this saying, well, isn't the point
149:41 of RCS end-to-end encryption so that you can have encryption when you're texting
149:45 with an Android acquaintance. I personally am choosing to believe
149:49 that this will this is just the start
149:53 and they will roll into an encryption to Android
149:57 friends at some point and so that's why I cared to talk about it.
150:03 I'm in good faith believing that Apple is going to continue to do
150:07 the right thing and continue to move RCS forward.
150:11 Speaking of good things that I'm super excited about
150:15 Android finally
150:19 after all these years finally f***ing did it.
150:27 Whoa, really? Finally. Android, not like Samsung or something?
150:31 Apparently. I don't care about running a Pixel
150:35 but what I do care about is I want a Sony.
150:39 I want an Xperia.
150:45 I expect it won't have it yet. It's probably going to take a little bit
150:49 but when that propagates I am like
150:53 I don't care about running a Pixel but what I do care about
150:57 is I want a Sony. I want an Xperia.
151:03 First in line. I'm going to import an Xperia from Japan
151:07 and I'm so ready. I'm so excited.
151:11 They're so good. Yes, I know Samsung had this for so many years
151:15 but what if I wanted something other than Samsung?
151:19 OnePlus also supports it. I believe nothing supports it. There are vendors that support it
151:23 but Google themselves hasn't supported it and
151:27 Samsung, excuse me, Samsung and Sony to my knowledge
151:31 just kind of sticks as close to stock Android
151:35 as possible and has not supported it
151:39 so I am super, super excited. I'm on 16 right now and it's not here
151:43 so if it's 17 then I'll be getting it soon and I'll let you know
151:47 and then you can buy one too. Yeah, there was commenters on the reddit
151:51 that were saying it specifically Android 17 and I still haven't
151:55 wiped my old one for you to play with Luke. That's okay.
151:59 Yovo Azido asks, remind me, which side is the right side-Linus?
152:03 You can always tell because
152:07 the left hand makes an L so this is the right
152:11 but if you meant correct side the answer is that there is no correct side
152:15 which is why we need a choice depending on whether you're left or right-handed
152:19 depending on whether you prefer the task switching button
152:23 being closer when you're holding it in your right hand or being closer when you're holding it in your left hand
152:27 that is completely personal preference and there should never have been any reason
152:31 that you should have had to choose. This is good.
152:35 This is a win for user choice.
152:39 All right. What else we got?
152:43 Let's see here.
152:49 What is this? You want more good news? Why Charge when you can use Why Charge?
152:53 Yeah. A company that has been pioneering wireless charging
152:57 has announced their second batch for their wireless power kit.
153:03 So I did a ShortCircuit on this thing a little while ago
153:07 and the difference and the reason I wanted to highlight it again
153:11 is that it's way cheaper now. It was like a commercial
153:15 only solution not that long ago and now they have support
153:19 for the Schlage encode which is, from my understanding
153:23 a much more popular smart lock. So you just
153:27 take out the battery cover, put on the receiver module boom!
153:31 You never, ever charge your smart lock again.
153:35 You don't put a battery in, you don't have it just randomly die
153:39 at an inopportune time and you have to use a key it just has power forever.
153:43 I've been using my commercial one with the Alfred smart lock at my house
153:47 it just is always charged and will always be charged forever.
153:51 It's super cool. We first covered these guys at Computex
153:55 like 10 years ago and it took them five ever
153:59 to whether it was funding or partnerships or a development
154:03 to get this technology rolling and it's finally
154:07 happening. So they just seem like cool people who are
154:11 finally catching a break and I just wanted to highlight that. Good stuff.
154:15 Oh! This one's less fun.
154:19 The registry from Save the Life
154:23 a pet microchip company became inaccessible
154:27 when the company went out of business in January 2024. For those
154:31 unfamiliar, pet microchips are simple RFID chips that produce
154:35 a unique string of numbers when scanned. Databases like Save the Life
154:39 link that identifier to pet information that vets can access.
154:43 There was apparently very little notice of the shutdown
154:47 leaving many pets unknowingly unidentifiable to vets
154:51 and shelters. Since Inadi Animal Care says it's found
154:55 65 dogs with useless chips only about half of their owners
154:59 were found. Pets registered to Save the Life should re-register their
155:03 chips number with another microchip company which is usually free. This whole
155:07 thing raised a whole bunch of questions for me. Namely, what was
155:11 the f***ing point of putting a microchip in my pets?
155:15 I've microchipped every one of my pets that I've ever had
155:19 thinking that the idea was that they scanned it
155:23 and the information was just there, readable and plain text
155:27 which I don't actually mind if somebody has my cat because I want it back.
155:31 I thought it was too. So this was insane
155:35 to me. I kind of understand like the privacy
155:39 potentially of like an animal is roadkill and you go and you scan the microchip
155:43 and what you get. You get a girl's phone number that way. Like come on, man.
155:47 Like I, if it's an alternative to a collar
155:51 or a tattoo probably
155:55 plain text would have been fine what was the point of this?
155:59 Yikes. So frustrating.
156:03 I hate that on like multiple levels. Like I had
156:07 hope, you know that when I, when
156:11 the Bengal cats escaped that someone would find them
156:15 and they would eventually even if someone stole them, they would eventually make
156:19 their way to a vet, eventually get scanned and I would eventually be contacted
156:23 but this whole ecosystem is just more stupid and fragmented
156:27 than I could have realized. I guess I could have looked it up
156:31 I could have found this out but I mean
156:35 nowadays we tattoo and microchip our animals and we don't
156:39 let them outside under any circumstances so it hasn't been as much of a problem.
156:43 The Bengals were also just escape artists they just really wanted to get out.
156:47 Rumble was able to jump up and hang off of the door handle to open the door.
156:51 Just like, really? And when you we had little kids and we had people like coming in
156:55 and out and then yeah, anyway that's, that's history at this
156:59 point and it's a lot easier now all of our cats
157:03 that we have right now started their lives outdoors
157:07 and they are like fucking stoked to be inside
157:11 none of them try to get out we accidentally, one of the kids left the door open
157:15 for half an hour, like a few weekends ago and
157:19 we were like, ah, panic, cat check everyone find all the cats
157:23 no one went anywhere near it
157:27 especially the boys, brownie and noodle are
157:31 like, they lived outside until
157:35 they were old enough that I was
157:39 worried that they would be difficult to socialize
157:43 Didn't the vet even have a concern about that? I thought there was something
157:47 No, our vet was pretty chill about it No, that was to do with
157:51 whether they had feline HIV and we had to
157:55 Yeah, we had to isolate them from the other cats for quite a while
157:59 before we could be sure that they didn't have a dormant infection that could get the other
158:03 cats or whatever but yeah, they were
158:07 outdoor cats for quite a while and we caught them with a live trap
158:11 and brought them in and tried to socialize them
158:15 I shouldn't say tried with brownie especially, very much socialized
158:19 noodle is still a little bit skitterish he was a wild
158:23 thing at some point and those guys especially
158:27 are just like nope, they hunted
158:31 they hunted for their food when they were just little boys and they are not
158:35 into it
158:39 Did they go particularly away from it?
158:43 From the door? No, but they do they're like, not interested
158:47 I meant when it was left open or it's like some of the other ones
158:51 the two newer ones they were
158:55 just like little they were born in like a shed
158:59 so they've never really had to hunt for anything because the family found them and fed them
159:03 and took care of them and everything so they'll like
159:07 they'll sniff the outside and they'll be like kind of interested in it
159:11 or had the concern of being hunted no, they've never had to deal with that
159:17 Corey is the name of full paint chat said, my cat is terrified of the concept of
159:21 an outside existing it's a lot easier to take care of them that way
159:27 Hey, do you want to talk about Zillow? Yeah
159:31 Zillow launches a wow themed microsite as a marketing
159:35 as a marketing stunt I saw this in my Google news and went
159:39 and then kept scrolling because I was like there's no way that's actually real
159:45 The experience coincides with wow introducing player housing for the first time
159:49 tied to the upcoming midnight expansion the microsite features both player created
159:53 homes and blizzard built homes some with 3D tours
159:57 in a move that can only be described as savagely realistic
160:01 I can't interface with this You can't actually buy the houses
160:05 but users can hilariously
160:09 claim a free in-game Zillow inspired door mat
160:17 The listings are written in character with fictional Zillow real estate agents
160:25 Given the current affordability and housing crisis, does this seem tone deaf
160:29 on the part of Zillow and blizzard? Is it just fun? It's definitely just fun
160:35 I don't care about it at all but I'm sure it's fun
160:39 for someone but I don't think they're being
160:43 tone deaf dude People are buying houses
160:47 It's just not most people
160:51 And like, no I don't think they're just going to give you an entire house
160:55 in the game for free So a door mat is a collectible item
160:59 that's still neat as a free thing part of just a fun random promotional campaign
161:05 I think just don't think about it too much
161:11 The site's responsive again for me now Oh dang it
161:17 Stopped working again. What the heck Okay, well whatever that's kind of what it looks like
161:21 Good enough The site's working fine for me, that's weird
161:25 Oh here, I'll go to Luke's laptop There you go
161:29 Rugged rustic It's funny because the photos
161:33 and the videos that I'm seeing for these are actually a lot better
161:37 than most of the photos and videos that I see from realtors of actual homes
161:41 It's kind of funny and kind of sad Where's the HDR?
161:45 Yeah really Bektar Don Hamar
161:49 That's actually awesome
161:53 Wow, this is so much There's a floor plan
161:57 We are destroying most realtor posted homes
162:01 Oh my goodness Anything that lacks a floor plan is so
162:05 annoying to me Alright, meet the owner
162:09 That's not very normal
162:13 Neat, fun Oh speaking of neat and fun
162:17 We should talk about what's neat and fun on Flo Plain
162:21 Yes FB announcement, please read all the way through
162:25 before going off topic What?
162:29 I don't think we Let's specifically go on off topic
162:33 That wasn't the problem last time The problem last time was that they put
162:37 information that you needed at the beginning at the end
162:41 This week's theme is How many resources can Sammy steal
162:45 from the company before being fired? Hmm
162:49 We got a deep look inside what a week at LMG looks like
162:53 with some LTT leaks Sammy vlogged his entire week
162:57 showcasing things like how production shoots are scheduled
163:01 the behind the scenes on set our camera setups
163:05 we call it when we do packaging
163:09 so title, thumbnail, that kind of thing It also includes a ton of insider info
163:13 including leaking an entire month of LTT content
163:17 in the first minute
163:25 So that's this video Oh wow, people are loving this video
163:29 Alright Well, I'm glad that it was for something
163:33 We also have a refreshed meet the team
163:37 with Mr. David Pancratz, the technical production assistant
163:41 Sammy made Pancratz fix his PC in this video because if it's for content
163:45 you're allowed to make not IT fix your things
163:49 Okay That's good to know
163:53 as well I think he means his personal computer
163:57 What? Sammy
164:01 I think that's what he means Yeah, that is not a workstation that we
164:05 Yeah Provided to our employees
164:09 It doesn't look like he just fixed it It looks like he upgraded it
164:13 Oh yeah, that's the case from inventory Right
164:21 Okay Where are the lines here?
164:25 Oh, I see, it's signed out to lost We also took in viewer questions
164:29 which we're looking for more questions
164:33 featuring our new writer, Sean Frey We took in viewer questions
164:37 which we're looking for more I have no idea what he's talking about
164:41 And we're looking for more Sure, finally we also have
164:45 an early LTT video that went up a few days ago showcasing the Fluke
164:49 II915 and you would have known this if you were a Floatplane subscriber
164:53 Keep an eye out for more early releases like this one which will release
164:57 right now Oh, we're releasing
165:01 the Costco video That's not David's best thumbnail
165:05 I guess it's too late now Cool
165:09 Linus and David, buy a PC from Costco to answer one question
165:13 Is it the answer to rising PC prices or is it bait?
165:17 I'm going to take the A out there Alright, save
165:21 Boop
165:27 Fill your weekend with fun content Also, we'll have a behind the scenes of
165:31 TMS's wedding sometime next week Seriously?
165:35 Alright Sammy is like the embodiment of
165:39 anything for the content Seriously
165:45 Good stuff. Want to pick a topic? Do we talk about DLSS again?
165:49 There's two DLSS topics It sounds similar
165:53 DLSS is too good now We've talked about this before
165:57 Two Clicks Phillip Posted a video seeing how far they could
166:01 push DLSS while still having a Oh, I've seen this for sure
166:05 A quick recap for those who don't know
166:09 DLSS, really? We're going into that DLSS or Deep Learning Super Sampling
166:13 is NVIDIA's Okay, yeah
166:17 NVIDIA's image generation algorithm that allows gamers to render their games at lower resolutions
166:21 which are then upscaled to a more stable resolution while maintaining
166:25 high frame rates The YouTuber tested Kingdom Come
166:29 Deliverance 2 at 20% render for 4K
166:33 meaning 764x430 all the way down to 1%
166:37 scale or 38x22 just
166:41 38x22 Pixels
166:45 That's it. And it's impressive how well DLSS works now
166:49 and we have a maybe a short thing, but you should go watch the video
166:53 This is mind blowing The fact that that
166:57 you can kind of, you could totally play that is nuts
167:01 You could Not well
167:05 But you could Here is 136x76
167:09 So this is what, like 3% or something?
167:13 Or no, because it's probably not linear because that's actually a much larger, it's like 3%
167:17 in each dimension But you guys should definitely check out this video
167:21 It's got like half a million views because it's awesome
167:25 When did this come out? Because I feel like I saw this a bit ago. Yeah, here you go
167:29 So this is showing the difference between
167:33 This is 3 weeks old. Yeah
167:37 So this is original versus the upscaled one
167:41 It's genuinely pretty fascinating How it can take that
167:45 and turn it into that
167:49 This and turn it into this
167:55 Genuinely incredible Like there's a lot going on
167:59 over here where I would have a hard time telling if this is a
168:03 like my human eyes, if this is a path leading off this way or if it's a shadow of this tree
168:07 or like what the crap this is supposed to be. How it managed to resolve
168:11 any additional detail in the grass over here
168:15 Mind blowing
168:19 The way it kind of reconstructed the shadows and the lighting
168:23 and the bark here based on this Again
168:27 Mind blowing Pretty impressive. That was it
168:31 Just wanted to highlight that. Go watch 2kliksphilip's video. Super cool video
168:35 I knew I was like man I thought this was from a bit ago but yeah, 3 weeks ago. Yep
168:39 I watched that a while ago. Yeah, we never kind of talked about it so guys go
168:43 go check it out Really really really cool
168:47 Through the link in the chat. So did Dan Nice. Bookmarked that for later
168:51 Cause you're not done watching my show. Good call, I wouldn't have thought to put that in the doc but that was
168:55 awesome There's been a new world record set
168:59 for the tiniest QR code This source this time is Tom's Hardware
169:03 This is kind of incredible You want to do the story? Sure
169:07 With a pixel size of 49 nanometers
169:11 the smaller than a bacteria QR codes were created as a
169:15 collaboration between Vienna University of Technology and data storage company
169:19 Cerobi The codes are less than
169:23 half the size of the previous record and require an electron microscope
169:27 to read. The achievement will enable greater densities
169:31 in Cerabytes Yeah, Cerabyte makes more sense
169:35 I've heard of Cerabyte before Cerabytes ceramic storage
169:39 which they claim could enable very long term storage with capacities
169:43 up to 100 petabytes by 2030. And no, I actually
169:47 didn't dyslexia that there's just a typo Discussion question, how much storage do you
169:51 really need at home, you know, for all those Linux isos
169:55 Well There's been a lot of
169:59 very musically focused Linux distros
170:03 recently How big is that even though?
170:07 Not 100 petabytes. Yeah, like the Spotify rip was
170:11 I thought it was about a petabyte Yeah
170:15 100 petabytes I mean, recalling this
170:19 data is extremely challenging. This is meant for like, my understanding is like
170:23 a very long term resilient storage, like mass amounts
170:27 of storage. And for that we need
170:31 a lot but only if we care to preserve
170:35 everything that's being created right now, but so much of it is
170:39 so much of it, I don't I don't want. Wonder if we don't
170:43 really need to archive it? Oh, really? I thought it was a petabyte
170:47 300 terabytes
170:51 That sounds right to me. I had in my brain 30 terabytes and then I was like, yeah
170:55 it can't be enough, but I thought there was a 3 in it
171:05 Anyway, I thought this was cool That's all
171:09 No notes for this one Well, they put a few notes. Unreal Engine
171:13 Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004. Okay, who's responsible
171:17 for calling it Unreal Engine Tournament? You know what? It doesn't matter
171:21 we're not going to name and shame. The point is it was not called that. It was called
171:25 Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament 2004
171:29 is now available for free thanks to community collaboration
171:33 U.T. 2004, one of the greatest shooters of all time
171:37 just received its first public patch in over 20 years. This was
171:41 made possible by Old Unreal, a community support project dedicated to keeping
171:45 early Epic titles alive. This patch includes support for Windows, Linux,
171:49 and macOS along with various quality of life updates. Epic has given
171:53 permission for them to host the original files, so they have an easy
171:57 to use installer available Super cool
172:01 shout out Epic love to see it
172:05 that's all I have to say about that Yeah, I found it just
172:09 for people wondering it's definitely 300 terabytes I found some very early articles
172:13 that seem to just be kind of making out part of the story that said a petabyte, but it was
172:17 confirmed for sure a lot of times that it's 300 terabytes
172:21 All right meta wants to
172:25 oh yeah meta wants to make your grandma
172:29 immortal a patent granted late in December outlines
172:33 the use of an LLM to simulate a person's social media activity
172:37 when the user takes a long break or is deceased
172:41 the document states that the impact on the users is
172:45 much more severe and permanent if that user is deceased
172:49 and can never return to the platform
172:53 No s*** your new AI Nana could like
172:57 comment and respond to DMs from beyond the grave
173:01 potentially even joining audio and video calls
173:05 meta says the technology would be great for influencers who want to take
173:09 a break from social media without giving up income
173:13 get rid of it Dan thank you
173:17 one of the crazy things is I saw this in my google news feed
173:21 probably 10 minutes after seeing somebody
173:25 on facebook go to marketplace
173:29 there's somebody on facebook who's definitely passed away that you know
173:33 worked here and that was like
173:37 a sad moment to see them I'm pretty happy that I didn't have
173:41 a new message from them
173:49 I have some relatives that are getting pretty close
173:53 to the end and the last thing
173:57 that I want is fake
174:01 real conversations with them I'm instead taking
174:05 time now to talk to them while I still can
174:09 and that's what we should do if possible
174:13 and if it's not possible this is not the answer
174:19 cool hey but in other news
174:23 the netherlands defense secretary said on a podcast
174:27 that the f-35 like the warplane
174:31 can be jailbroken just like an iphone
174:35 implying that european forces could maintain the aircraft software
174:39 without us and lockheed martin support
174:43 currently the f-35 software has managed through lockheed martin's autonomic
174:47 logistics information system which is updates to the fleet every year or two
174:51 european countries own the physical planes but the u.s. controls the software
174:55 and update pipeline israel is currently the only country
174:59 that has negotiated a deal with lockheed martin allowing it to run its own software
175:03 on the f-35 fleet the comments came amid broader european fears
175:07 that the u.s. could remotely disable f-35 fleets
175:11 oh boy, gonna butcher this keem schramshofer
175:17 head of comms at german defense contractor hensult previously said
175:21 the idea of a remote kill switch was more than just a rumor
175:25 i gotta say the main reason that i flagged this
175:29 for the WAN Show was that while i realized that this was a problem
175:33 on a telephone and i realized
175:37 that it was a problem on a tractor i did not realize
175:41 that this was a problem on a military jet
175:45 for how much you pay for them you've gotta be f**king kidding me that you can't
175:49 oh i thought you meant the remote kill switch oh yeah, that too
175:53 that's insane how did we
175:57 all, even at that level accept
176:01 that this is okay can you make an f-35?
176:05 no there are alternatives
176:09 not a ton and they would all have probably a similar problem that's insane
176:13 i mean yes and no i bet if everyone got together
176:17 and basically just said no we will literally not buy any
176:21 if you don't deal with this how long do you think lockheed would hold out
176:25 i feel like they just try to hide it ugh
176:29 i mean that's a very military thing to do
176:33 in other german news, acer and ASUS have been blocked from selling PCs in germany
176:37 they could also just say no have fun being
176:41 not superior right
176:45 another angle they could take a german court has granted nokia
176:49 an injunction against the two firms selling desktops and laptops
176:53 stock that's already in the country can still be sold nokia claims acer ASUS
176:57 and tv maker heisense are infringing on three patents related to the
177:01 high efficiency video codec HEVC aka H265
177:05 heisense decided to enter a licensing agreement with nokia in january
177:09 but acer and ASUS continue to fight the allegations in court
177:13 HEVC is considered a standard essential patent due to its widespread use
177:17 which means special rules apply to ensure the technology is broadly available
177:21 while the patent holder is still fairly compensated and that's it
177:25 that's why HEVC never really took off because of stuff like this
177:29 which blows in other news google suddenly cares about ip theft
177:33 this is hilarious yeah
177:37 where we at where is that one top
177:41 yeah i think we've kind of talked about this one before i don't know how old this is
177:45 but google is accusing commercially motivated actors
177:49 of trying to clone the proprietary logic behind gemini ai
177:55 in other news the entire world is accusing google of slurping up
177:59 proprietary yeah yeah google says
178:03 distillation attacks have agents querying gemini up to 100,000 times
178:07 to try to extract the underlying model
178:11 this is hilarious this is also a thing that has been happening for a long time
178:15 and has happened to other people as well most notably open ai
178:19 model distillation ah hey okay model distillation attacks aren't a new thing
178:23 in early 2025 open ai suggested that chinese
178:27 startup deep seek had distilled open ai's models to create their own
178:31 cheaper more efficient model which as far as i understand it goes is like effectively confirmed
178:35 but i don't actually know that um where's the
178:39 um nice yeah where's the line how much does your company
178:43 need to be worth to ignore the law um i just think this is hilarious
178:47 because ip theft matters
178:51 immediately when it's their ip theft and it doesn't matter that what
178:55 underpins it was is ip theft on a scale
178:59 that i don't think the world has ever seen before yeah
179:03 yeah crazy last topic
179:07 harmful chemicals may be in your headphones
179:11 an EU environmental advocacy group called talks free life for all
179:15 released a study that tested 81 pairs of headphones
179:19 and supposedly found hazardous substances in all of them
179:23 the substances included known endocrine disruptors um which led to some
179:27 highly sensationalized pieces suggesting that speakers would be better
179:31 for your health compared to headphones if you are trying to avoid
179:35 cancer the study actually does seem to have some validity
179:39 to it but it mainly aimed to address companies that
179:43 circumvent regulations with equally bad alternatives since these chemicals are handled on a substance
179:47 by substance basis not to mention that these chemicals are only an issue from
179:51 cumulative long term exposure across many kinds of plastics
179:55 products like apple airpods pro 2s and sony w h 1000 xm 5s were rated
179:59 safe the real problems were knockoffs from marketplaces like
180:03 temu that's not surprising
180:07 but it's also like dang the ones that are safe
180:11 are really expensive um also
180:15 uh reilly sent me another kind of summary
180:19 of this that i had sort of expected to be in the summary that was
180:23 in the uh the wandshow doc um
180:27 but basically he was kind of saying that
180:31 a lot of this is sort of extrapolating
180:35 what may be a concern so commenters have connected
180:39 the headlines of that they might be using alternative chemicals that are less regulated
180:43 and um that some of these chemicals
180:47 still need to be like studied and turned it into connected
180:51 these dots and um gone like oh no all headphones are poisonous
180:55 and then meanwhile the other side has gone completely other side
180:59 of the pendulum swing and gone that's such an overreaction that it must be completely
181:03 safe and there is no problem but as usual the truth
181:07 probably lies somewhere in the middle
181:11 mm-hmm Dan i think it's time for after dark i've got one more
181:15 uh chat really wants me to talk about this one or us really
181:19 we've really kind of two more i guess youtube went down people wanted our comments
181:23 on this oh that's bad i think we're both like dang
181:27 whoops they should not do that
181:31 yeah it was for me it was really interesting for
181:35 for some people to see how compartmentalized certain systems are because people were like
181:39 oh like with direct links i can still play videos but like the home page is down
181:43 blah blah blah blah blah and it's like yeah it's fascinating um but anyways
181:47 moving on from that uh there's also this we talked about a little bit in the pre
181:51 show hackers exposed discord age verification system issue after persona
181:55 front end code was left a wide open uh we don't have topic notes on this but
181:59 uh this this is i think what i said in the
182:03 pre show was like whoever did this i want to shake your hand um
182:07 great work congratulations you made your point and that's
182:11 such a good point to make and such important timing
182:15 that you nailed it so fast this is why this is a problem
182:19 way to go thank you um
182:23 but yeah this just goes to show
182:27 that we need them to not collect data like this
182:31 because it's just gonna go out there um
182:37 yeah and again just like we were talking last week
182:41 try some alternatives have have a like fun random day with your friends where you're like
182:45 let's play three different games and each time let's try a different voice chat
182:49 service just for fun um
182:53 and and see how it goes and even if you end up having both or something
182:57 like that at least start legitimizing alternatives
183:01 one of the biggest issues when you have markets like the voice chat market
183:05 is there is only one thing that matters right now and that sucks
183:09 if we can even make it so that there's two that is such a massive gain
183:13 if there's if we start legitimizing make it normalize that there's other ones
183:17 that people use then discourse market show will fall quickly
183:21 and that's a good idea the whole 3d printed guns thing
183:25 is continuing to evolve california bill would restrict
183:29 3d printer sales to state approved models to prevent printing gun parts
183:33 joins washington and new york on legal offensive yeah that's not gonna work
183:37 so first of all it won't work second of all rough
183:41 because now there's now there's all this insider collusion of companies
183:45 bribing people to be on the approved list and there's already an incredible
183:49 amount of corruption in every single government everywhere so that's definitely going to happen
183:53 i'm not even calling it america it's just the world
183:57 if this was in canada the same thing would be a problem
184:01 especially bc hey
184:05 hey
184:09 yeah after dark? yes
184:13 after dark button
184:17 button button there we go
184:21 alright up first hey lld and future me
184:25 always watch vod on saturday mornings what's the
184:29 scariest thing about starting your own business and how did you deal with that fear
184:33 the scariest thing is not having money to eat and to pay the people
184:37 who work for you and
184:41 your mortgage and how did you deal with that fear
184:45 work harder so that
184:49 that doesn't happen
184:53 i mean it's just it's a tale as old as time right
184:57 there are advantages to entrepreneurship and there are advantages
185:01 to employment hitching your cart to a horse that
185:05 has been walking for a long time
185:09 and seems to have a lot of road out ahead of it offers
185:13 security while entrepreneurship can offer incredible opportunity
185:17 but i forget what percentage of business it is that fail in the first
185:21 five years but it's a lot so it's not a
185:25 guarantee and it's not right for everyone but it was right for
185:29 me and i'm glad it worked out the way that it did
185:33 oh i accidentally just archived the site no i didn't nope that was me nice
185:37 hi Linus and luke my grade school kids love
185:41 gaming and learning about pc parts thanks to astro bot but
185:45 Windows feels complex versus console slash tablet slash
185:49 chromebooks any tips for teaching them a quote unquote real
185:53 operating system
185:57 you said they love learning just maybe try to make it fun yeah and i mean
186:01 realistically my i was kind of blown away
186:05 by some of the stuff that my son was doing so that he could mod minecraft
186:09 and stuff they just have to they have to have a reason to
186:13 learn it otherwise they're not going to bother Windows is not that complicated these days
186:17 if you are sufficiently motivated to do it and kids
186:21 brains are so malleable i was see do you see the do you see that
186:25 kid that like destroyed the sub three second solve on a
186:29 three by three rubik's cube recently kids like seven or something
186:33 i don't i don't know how old he is seven-year-olds with chess or rubik's
186:37 cubes are terrifying yeah hold on what's this kids name
186:41 teodor zad zad
186:45 zadster 2.76 seconds
186:49 2.76 seconds that's absurd
186:53 seven years ago
186:57 this was a question will there ever be a sub three
187:01 sub three i could see as the very edge of possibility
187:05 with an absurd solve well
187:09 2.76 like obliterated
187:13 obliterated the record
187:17 yeah when you're getting down into that such a small amount of total
187:21 time that's an insane amount of time to chop off
187:27 blah blah blah blah blah this isn't it is it yeah there we go
187:31 it would have to be like at an event so he gets 15 seconds to look at it
187:35 i
187:49 is that wild or wild like
187:53 wow i'm not a moron
187:57 but you'll never do that i will never do
188:01 that no matter how hard i tried no matter how long i worked at it doesn't matter
188:05 yep age ago which was like a six-sided
188:09 cnc machine attached to a rubik's cube and it did it in like one second
188:13 it's like twice as fast as a computer controlled robot
188:19 mind blowing katoa says i can solve in five minutes
188:23 yeah exactly it's crappy dp you'll also never kickflip 100%
188:29 so give your kids credit don't baby them they can figure it out
188:33 they just have to be sufficiently motivated give them a project
188:37 it's like people say learn programming by making a calculator no
188:41 find a problem do something more interesting yeah my gang
188:45 thinking about automate something around your house yeah thinking about age
188:49 verification who do you think would be able to reliably figure out
188:53 and implement safe age verification maybe steam
188:57 maybe def con well that's the whole point is that you can't
189:01 it's not gonna happen and we need to stop
189:05 like chasing this weird dragon
189:09 i'd uh the only solution
189:13 is for someone who already is tracking all of this
189:17 like the government except i don't trust them to keep it safe
189:21 so well that's what i'm saying though no i'm agreeing with you
189:25 yeah no except i don't trust them to keep it safe
189:29 any more than i would even less i'd say than i would trust a corporate entity
189:33 so since we can't do it safely we need to just
189:37 not do it it's like asking like
189:41 and what's it all for like who could figure out how to reliably make it so that i
189:45 can enjoy my crystal meth how about we just
189:49 don't crystal meth yeah it's
189:53 the thing is like it's going to be circumvented anyways
189:59 obviously okay this is pretty funny
190:03 mcbane says leisure suit larry solved that 35 years ago do you know what
190:07 the age check was for leisure suit larry just ask you questions that
190:11 only older people would know the answer to it wouldn't work in the age of
190:15 google and like chat gpt or whatever but
190:19 here here here here here here um maybe you have to like
190:23 um
190:27 control plain and simple there's yeah i mean we've been controlling
190:31 data collection but my my thing is like
190:35 if you try to think of it positively what is what is the gain and the gain effectively
190:39 doesn't exist because it's it's so la la land it's like okay we can keep the kids
190:43 from okay doing these bad things like yeah if they care they're gonna go
190:47 around it like it's you have you
190:51 let's play a game
190:55 tiptoe through the tulips was recorded by
190:59 it plays ukulele
191:03 very tall very high i wouldn't be able to play this game i'm looking at
191:07 some other questions i would not be able to play this game i mean you would know
191:11 probably this one yeah a kid
191:15 probably wouldn't care at that time do you know what a neighbor jacket is
191:19 no where's the beef where's the beef
191:23 okay i wouldn't have got that
191:27 tiny tim i'm upset about myself
191:31 uh does a pair of queens beat three deuces
191:35 i don't think so
191:39 three twos yeah
191:43 uh i assume this is poker yes in oh in blackjack
191:47 yes in blackjack good gravy
191:51 three pair of two pair this is multiple choice
191:55 oh you just have to type what jokers do you have type them in yeah
191:59 is my banana still there or not
192:03 have i upgraded my my card which is non-alcoholic
192:07 see perrier like this was their solution to age
192:11 verification which is pretty based actually that's so cool that's so smart
192:17 the result of watergate was
192:21 back when scandals actually had consequences
192:25 oh yeah any kid these days would just say nothing
192:31 sorry there was a little too real we paid them more money for some reason
192:39 moving on the result of watergate was someone made a watergate coin
192:47 in fts oh my god
192:51 this is a real world that we live in hi dll would you rather
192:55 lose five percent of your personal data at a at random
192:59 every year no buck backups are allowed or have one hundred percent
193:03 of your data perfectly preserved forever but completely unencrypted and publicly
193:07 accessible five percent gone see ya
193:18 he's trying to calculate how much of it's leaked anyways
193:27 a hundred percent of your data when you say data you got here help me help me
193:31 out a little bit are we talking digital files i kind of took this as like
193:35 your nas at home that's how i took it okay but do i have a chance
193:39 to scrub it first oh it's not like today
193:43 it's like if you want to store stuff in the future so i could go through
193:47 and i could like remove any pictures of my passport that i took at some point to like send
193:51 so you could book a flight but they would have to be deleted you couldn't have them anywhere else
193:55 yeah i think you could never store them ever either
193:59 i don't think you could take a picture of it i'd accept that
194:03 going forward i would just have to have like perfect digital hygiene
194:07 but that would mean you could never take a picture under any circumstance of your of your passport
194:11 that's how i'm interpreting i could message it to someone
194:15 because it's it's the picture is only for convenience
194:19 my convenience not the recipient too so like honestly it would
194:23 make me more considerate i think that's not in the spirit of the question
194:27 it just says personal data i interpreted it as like things i would
194:31 store on a nas but i think yeah you're maybe going a bit too far taking
194:35 a photo is is personal data it would be saved on your phone and then
194:39 it would be publicly accessible yeah so then i wouldn't take that picture anymore is what i'm saying
194:43 like i could send them text but i wouldn't count that as like that i wouldn't store that
194:47 on a nas so does that count because i interpreted it as
194:51 stored on a nas and that's what i'm even remotely considering if we're talking
194:55 every message that i ever send to anyone ever forever that is personal
194:59 data then okay so which one is it i
195:03 have leaned more to wire it to the nas side i think that that was maybe a little more easily
195:07 conceptualizable otherwise everything else is just like oh well i
195:11 just let's just not use the internet you have like your
195:15 taxes and stuff i mean i don't
195:19 think i keep that on my nas i don't do my taxes so that's gonna say does
195:23 your is your wife yeah but that's not my personal data then
195:27 like i don't have it so i'm just losing 5%
195:31 but you might be able to do the hundo what are you doing
195:35 i think it was on the nas i would
195:39 man that's just personal data i don't think you can be like just only
195:43 the things i put on my nas okay they said personal data then it's got to be the 5% and i'll just
195:47 take five of every picture and hope that
195:51 for me it's all about just mathematically game it just by a ton of extra hard
195:55 yes that's what i would do there's like
195:59 well no because i think 40 million pictures of one parking spot
196:03 i don't know that's your nas if you think about
196:07 don't look at my camera roll either
196:11 i think maybe more in the spirit of like 5% of like
196:15 you know if you had 40 million of the same picture you would lose that picture
196:19 yeah probably it's all hash so if it's the same picture disagree
196:23 i would no i would take i would just like you would gamble with it i'd hit my shutter five times
196:27 every time so they're all slightly different man i print photos
196:31 i think that would actually be a huge part of my
196:35 my countermeasures against this is i would actually print photos
196:39 yeah just go back interesting because for me anything else is like
196:43 replaceable but photos are not i think i'm gonna do the 100%
196:47 you're gonna do the 100% and just put it all out there because it's stuff that
196:51 i would not want to lose like there's a lot of stuff that i cloud replicate nightly
196:55 you know it's kind of my my super slide data
196:59 you can't pirate anything anymore ever again not that you do
197:03 well you can you'll just people just know yeah so then you can't why not
197:07 because you get sued to oblivion oh come on not in canada there's no
197:11 obfuscation though i think you still would i'll just i don't license and zip bonds
197:15 it'll be fine you can't be sued for pirating anything in canada
197:19 that doesn't seem right and no i really don't think so
197:25 someone not a lawyer but like i this would be like an insane haven
197:32 online piracy is a criminal offense in canada
197:37 yeah but what's the consequence for it like that someone would have to actually pursue it
197:47 and is that for downloading or is that for sharing
197:51 i'm trying to look through it i think i think just leaching
197:55 you can't really i get like
197:59 hit too hard for in 2022 22.4
198:03 percent of canadians access pirate services that sounds about right let's
198:07 go all right
198:11 with all the tech prices do you think
198:15 apparently thousands of canadians every year are the targets of legal action based on
198:19 piracy yeah but is that for redistribution
198:25 that's my understanding it doesn't seem too specific
198:31 anyway sorry keep going with all of the tech
198:35 prices do you think optane or ready boost might make a return
198:39 not optane because Intel and uh what's the nuts
198:43 micron completely divorced over that whole thing
198:49 optane was so cool but the concept of an
198:53 SSD cash i was actually thinking about that earlier as we were talking about our
198:57 drive and storage prices it works really well it does
199:01 it's it's kind of a a very underrated
199:05 solution to a problem that became not a problem but is becoming
199:09 a problem again which is kind of neat because i thought it was a fun solution as well
199:13 i use it on my nest it's fun it's cool it's interesting
199:17 nifty it's neat i tried to buy an optane drive because Linus
199:21 was talking them up so much uh and they were like 250 bucks
199:25 for a teeny tiny one when i was looking
199:29 and then really yeah i think it was like right near the end or something
199:33 and yeah i just got like 128 gig
199:37 SSD for like a dollar at that time
199:41 back in my day you can still get the 16 gig ones for like 10 bucks
199:45 20 with delivery yeah i wasn't looking at any of it because i'm stupid
199:49 alright here's 10
199:53 of the 16 gig ones for $53 stuff like this is always confusing to me
199:57 because i really don't think a lot
200:01 obviously people bought them right um
200:05 but like they were never popular that i was aware of
200:09 so like they clearly produced them at a
200:13 volume that like people have this many of them you know
200:17 like what who was buying these where where did
200:21 they where did they come from where did they go server offloading i think but like
200:25 16 gig for what
200:29 what who put these in anything what are we even talking about here no idea
200:33 yeah right wild anyway
200:37 where do you see the line between a company's agency and the need
200:41 to act upon the whims of a consumer base i.e.
200:45 why pressure apple to support air pods on Android if it's not the vision
200:49 for the product because they're bluetooth headphones that benefit
200:53 from the industry-wide standard that is bluetooth
200:57 and in my mind a
201:01 basic part of a product is providing ongoing support
201:05 which apple clearly agrees with given that they actually do a phenomenal
201:09 job generally speaking of providing ongoing software and firmware support for their
201:13 products and i bought it that's why
201:17 i bought it it's mine
201:21 you have an obligation to warranty it and support it and the fact
201:25 that i didn't buy another one of your products is just
201:29 utter arrogance
201:33 as for what their vision of the experience is
201:37 that's nice but my vision of the experience
201:41 is that when you provide a firmware update i have a f***ing
201:45 way to apply it without buying another one of your products because i already
201:49 f***ing bought one it's pretty simple to me
201:53 and the fact that anyone will put apples dong
201:57 so far down their throat to defend something like that
202:01 is mind blowing
202:05 they don't know you they don't know your name
202:09 they don't care about you you're pretending bad behavior
202:13 if google did the same thing or samsung did the same thing
202:17 i would think it was ridiculous if you buy the product
202:21 you are the customer and you should be supported
202:25 full stop thank you for coming
202:29 to my ted talk i'm thinking about
202:33 switching to steam os on my main pc but i have
202:37 different monitors or just wing it with the three I have now
202:45 wing it wing it save that money son yeah
202:51 does it not support mismatch monitors or something I think they just want their bezels to match
202:57 and like everything be even in the bases look the same don't worry about it
203:02 yeah don't worry about it hey LLD thinking of building a 10 gigabit nas
203:09 if I am running ZFs Z2 in true nas
203:14 would I benefit from buying SAS drives with HPA
203:17 the exos X24 SAS drives are almost the same price with current pricing
203:22 I wouldn't get SAS drives just because then you're limited to using SAS HPAs forever
203:28 and for a home user the benefit of SAS is just not going to materialize
203:37 I would I would go SATA assuming that the cost is equal
203:41 the only way that I would go SAS as a home user is that is if for some reason
203:47 there was like a lot like like not like a large quantity like like like an auction lot
203:54 like like a bunch of SAS drives and they were an amazing deal like way cheaper
203:59 so much cheaper that I could buy a SAS HPA and the backup
204:03 and that would be all my storage that I needed because
204:07 I don't see that happening right now yeah that's not going to happen right now
204:11 but that would be the only way that you would get me to go SAS
204:14 if I was just buying new drives I would go SATA for sure every time
204:19 this is like
204:22 if you don't know why you need SAS you don't need it
204:25 so someone was talking early I don't remember why I had this thought
204:29 but somebody was talking earlier about like oh yeah like buying buying new stuff right now sucks but like the use markets always there
204:37 and the use market sucks right now yeah it does
204:41 use market is terrible right now great crystal still talking about the the Apple firmware update thing
204:46 she goes if you pay for an escort you shouldn't be the one doing the deep-throating basically
204:51 you are the customer
204:56 assert your rights well it kind of depends I guess
205:00 I mean if you're into it I'm not going to yuck your yum or whatever
205:03 some people might be into that with Apple
205:07 there are people that are into financial
205:10 yeah yeah financial abuse kink like what
205:14 no that's a thing what yeah what
205:17 yeah that's not like financial
205:20 no it is what yeah it's a thing shut up yeah people might be that way with Apple
205:29 yeah look at chat that's okay
205:32 finn dumb oh I thought you said them dumb no no no no no no
205:36 you can have both I think usually it is usually
205:46 pay pig
205:58 it involves a power dynamic where the sub
206:02 would need to willingly relinquishes financial control
206:06 often without any sexual contact
206:09 sometimes through online platforms
206:16 the sub
206:19 will often be insulted
206:23 using terms like tribute or draining
206:31 this is wild
206:34 so maybe people like that about Apple
206:37 so maybe people like that about Apple
206:45 Avon Fox's line is how are you so online and yet often so not why would I go looking for this
206:50 how how could I possibly come across I didn't go looking for this
206:54 he's already got a wife does all his taxes and handles all his money
206:58 you're gonna say are you sure to me you think I have all people would be into
207:02 something like that are you kidding me
207:05 here's all my money that you won't spend
207:10 I don't mean when looking for it to engage in it far away from me
207:14 I could see I could see you finding your way through a Wikipedia
207:18 wormhole of like weird kinks or something I could see it yeah sure
207:22 if you're looking at like a if you you know those like political spectrum grids
207:26 yeah if there's like my interests and this
207:29 we're like oh a hundred percent opposite
207:32 a hundred percent this is so bizarre to me like I could
207:36 like I think I don't get it I think I've had a pretty clear stance that
207:40 like sex work is work and I'm not like
207:43 as long as everyone's adult and consenting and whatever I think
207:47 you know sex acts I'm this is being paid to go shopping
207:51 whatever is also work whatever works
207:54 for your relationship keep the stuff okay whatever works for your relationship
207:58 you know what I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I'm not gonna judge
208:02 I keep my nose out of your business you keep your nose out of mine everything's good
208:06 everything's chill but this is f***ed up I'm gonna try to not yuck your yum
208:10 but I'm definitely gonna go hmm yeah okay let's
208:14 yeah like like I could I narrow my eyes
208:18 enough to express my I narrowness for this one
208:22 what are you doing like it's like it's like if you're gonna
208:26 if you're going to if you're gonna hire a sex worker
208:30 like it's right in the name in it yeah you're missing part
208:34 you might as well at least get laid
208:38 but then it would be a glucose guardian situation
208:42 what the hell's a glucose guardian gender neutral term for sugar daddy
208:48 shut up no
208:52 it's current it's current year
208:56 is that real did you just come up with that no no I did not
209:00 oh my god
209:06 it's current year you're gonna be gender neutral come on it's fine
209:12 oh man ohhh
209:16 then baby's gotta you know have love too
209:26 hmm I mean
209:30 I'm gonna turn into a Minecraft villager
209:34 hmm hmm
209:38 alright I actually had a follow
209:42 up question about sastras sure yeah baby just get us
209:46 out of here I have a I have like
209:50 a bucket of sass interposers at home is that also
209:54 something that could be experimented with
209:58 this is you personally yeah me personally because I bought one of those facebook
210:02 servers I think or something like that so I got like what the hell
210:06 was it called I can't remember um those are those
210:10 they're port multipliers right it's something like that it
210:14 it kind of converts seida drives into sass drives and vice versa
210:18 oh it might only be one direction it might just be seida
210:22 two sass oh yeah that makes sense so that
210:26 again that would only be if you have sass HBAs or like a sass
210:30 um j-bot or something but but if they were
210:34 seida two sass drives would that be something to consider if you wanted to like
210:38 flirt with the idea of sass drives I just wouldn't flirt with sass drives
210:42 I just I don't I don't care about them for home
210:46 nas use what what now
210:50 ha ha ha ha ha no
210:54 hustle and full plane chas this is the stream dms's kids will see when they
210:58 watch when they see their parents wedding they won't watch the whole thing it'll be
211:02 fine we're talking about glucose guardians and fiddledove
211:06 ha ha ha ha hey it's after dark
211:10 ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
211:14 ha ha ha ha ha ha
211:18 oh no I'm sorry
211:24 this is also the first inaugural stream on LMG clips
211:28 yeah I forgot about that we never even mentioned that
211:32 we're we're migrating the WAN Show to the LMG clips channel over the next
211:36 little while so we're going to be simultaneously streaming on both channels
211:40 for some amount of time and then eventually
211:44 it's going to go LMG clips exclusive as we migrate it
211:48 off of the main LTT channel
211:52 I've been hanging out with them they're super chill oh yeah there's like
211:56 350 people watching over there yeah they're really cool yeah so you're
212:00 going to want to get in the habit of watching over on LMG clips sometime over
212:04 the next little bit yes LMG clips will be
212:08 rebranded Kevin says oh please no what difference would that
212:12 make now you're watching on Floatplane Kevin it's not going to
212:16 this is for YouTube crying out loud yeah um yeah sorry
212:20 just to clarify this only affects YouTube viewers yes yes Floatplane
212:24 forever relax everyone um okay well my brain hurts
212:28 um final merge message
212:32 sure calm
212:36 damn it thanks for that
212:40 are you going to read it Dan I was just letting a beat play out there
212:44 thank you greetings all is there any update on the light switches
212:48 in Linus's is at home did they get all of the kinks
212:52 uh-huh worked out yet um
212:56 the new ones are here I haven't installed them yet I will
213:00 but there's just a lot of stuff going on yes this is an adequate media thing David easy
213:04 we need to we need to get the show off of
213:08 an LMG owned channel and migrate a channel that's
213:12 like kind of worthless right now to um adequate media
213:18 merge message you mean pay pig post
213:22 send me your pps I don't think it can be because
213:26 you get the product yeah if if you bought it
213:30 and for some reason Linus got it then I think that would make sense
213:34 what if we just send them nothing yeah can they just can they just
213:38 like buy me screwdrivers is that like what do I have to do
213:42 I think nothing in this scenario you sure
213:46 I think you can do whatever you want I don't know though what if I want to do
213:50 really weird stuff with it then I think you probably
213:54 get more people we'll see you next week same bad time same bad channel
213:58 bye
214:08 you