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0:17 You know what you don't have up need to Your face just Need to go post my little water bottle Um What were you fidget...

2:13 Animated series, okay.

5:07 And this is not the game Yeah, because this is like freaking x-wing versus tie fighter.

6:11 Math workshop No, but I feel like it had the graphics kind of feel right, but this is not it Math space workshop Hello.

10:01 So is crazy Um jumpstart sixth grade like I think this one was it Who Copernicus

11:03 Try that if not, I'm gonna put you on to four I don't think that's gonna work.

12:57 That's how everyone else felt seeing how good you were at jumpstart adventures.

13:32 Oh my god, I can buy Oh my god, it's 33 dollars.

15:00 I got a cool, uh, I got a cool picto in expedition 33 That picto.

19:39 Blue wackadoo.

20:47 Sigma employees only That doesn't work very much Those work too well, but there you go.

23:03 Interesting am Kerr in full plane chat said I'm the coo of a research institute here in the uk And I actually got my ...

24:47 What is up everybody and welcome to the wandshow I forget Which one was the headline title today?

25:54 Speaking of wild uh, and companies maybe like kind of not existing anymore ubi soft just Are you okay?

27:02 The wancho is brought to you today by Rove lab Squarespace Factor meals and odu alongside our rap partner dbrand and ...

43:09 I don't think that much more which might be an unfortunate answer Maybe a lot of people that I know that have android...

50:25 Nice I thought there was a follow-up to follow these Yeah, it That was a that was a fairly weak ding.

51:14 I don't know.

56:19 See I don't know the ai overview estimates around 69 000 channels nice as of mid 2025, but I haven't actually found A...

67:18 Okay, so my my thought was basically like, you know We could probably partner with somebody we could partner with ubi...

70:22 We could do merge messages now.

82:16 Money makers says mickabane Well conrad does get final say and he says rambi dans, so We're going with that.

84:21 Loot messages as long as the words don't start with r.

85:44 Man Sorry, you keep going.

89:40 Comms is probably better Or you could just say check out jets.

93:51 Was that two merge messages sure was okay slew by time flies and you're having fun sure did you want to pick one?

105:39 As for how I feel about buying a sony tv at this point There things are a little

115:41 I Mean for a trillionaire it's worth at least trying luke Yeah, this is a futurism dot dot com article says there's r...

116:22 Meanwhile speaking of which are we transitioning to the same topic?

125:06 That's a fire quote Oh my god Wow, that's a huge yikes.

141:56 Oh, no, my mic was unmuted I was You get to the end of the game and you have to just delete your entire save and star...

160:33 RIP star wars um Speaking of open sourcing algorithms Elon musk has been talking

163:14 Okay, our next topic gigs in space And the first note for this from mr.

168:06 It's very interesting to me though, that's crazy like it sounds Kind of uh pretty epic.

168:58 The way it's worded is anyways, whatever we're moving on The show today is brought to you by factor meals James from ...

176:01 Maybe I should just give up on all of this and go be a gay frog somewhere I Did not see that coming at all.

181:34 Are we ready, I don't know I think we could be We need to do some work to make o

187:48 It's not an easy decision Right, because I've gotten Pretty comfortable Do I want to Bed it all again Do I want to co...

221:00 Downer maybe I should try and do that You never know unless you try right Thanks

239:48 Can't remember the name of the other brand But it was There's wolf for stoves I

243:36 Take it with you when you move I would make it work Well, we know you would, but

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0:00 Oh

0:06 Right hi everyone. Hello

0:17 You know what you don't have up need to

0:22 Your face just

0:25 Need to go post my little water bottle Um

0:30 What were you fidgeting with before is that camera gear? Yeah, you steal camera gear. I mean it's been sitting there for

0:37 So the fact that something was so you know if someone took the Statue of Liberty like Carmen San Diego for instance

0:44 Her defense would just be well. It was just sitting there for yeah

0:49 That's a pretty good defense. We should go steal the Statue of Liberty

0:53 What happened to Carmen San Diego I That's not where on the world called not wearing the world, but what happened what happened to Carmen San Diego

1:05 But that why did that franchise like die everyone that I know of thinks back to it like very positive

1:10 I mean, I feel like it's the kind of thing that did you ever so I watched the first door of the Explorer live-action film with my family

1:17 Okay, it's awesome. Didn't know that was a thing nice. Yeah, it's it's like actually awesome

1:22 We haven't seen the second one, but apparently it's rated really well as well

1:25 Like I really had to twist my family's ARM to watch it. I was like look it's rated really well like

1:33 Can we just be a little open-minded and particularly my teenage son was like?

1:39 Okay dad sure But like everyone literally the entire family enjoyed as far as teenage son things go that seems pretty reasonable

1:46 Yeah, it was legitimately really good

1:49 But I could see I could see like a like a modern

1:53 A modern spin on Carmen San Diego hitting Millennials and the nostalgia feels like super hard right now

2:01 What's up? Apparently there's a show on Netflix. Of course there was it must not be very good then because I had not heard of it

2:13 Animated series, okay. Yeah, this looks like it's for babies it does

2:18 That's not what to do with uh

2:21 With a like nostalgia IP

2:24 Apparently it's good though Go figure

2:28 89% liked it on google 7.9 on imdb 87% on rotten tomatoes. Nice

2:35 Cool. Go go Carmen San Diego. Yeah, apparently it's uh

2:40 Yeah, it's still fresh Okay

2:45 Carmen San Diego who owns who owns that IP?

2:49 Program creators Broderbund software. Wow Broderbund software is still a thing

2:53 Was an American maker of video games defunct in 1998

3:00 Oh interesting, okay

3:06 Mavis B can teach his typing

3:10 Prince of Persia Missed

3:16 Hmm reader rabbit

3:22 Is now the brand name for river deeps graphic design productivity and edutainment titles. Okay. Yeah, okay

3:28 Heck is river deep man. There's some like space station game

3:31 When I was I've brought this up on wanshow before and I

3:35 We weren't able to find the right one the audience and I but

3:39 There was some like space station game that I played with when I was a kid Which I'm pretty sure was like a math learning game

3:45 And it was awesome space station math learning game

3:49 I've ever had something to do with space stuff. I'm gonna ask AI

3:53 It was not I don't think it was math blaster

3:57 Math circus you were just a really confused child

4:05 Yeah, it wasn't math blaster. Okay, does this sound right?

4:09 Late to late 90s early 2000s educational game involving space stations and math not math blasters

4:15 Very 90s graphics, but not pixel art. It was supposed to be 3d set on a space station

4:19 Goal was to complete very basic math problems to do things in space

4:22 You could link up pieces of circular portals outside the ship that you could activate and fly through

4:26 Does this any of this sound familiar the last bit lost in space math adventure

4:31 CD access.com here we go. Hopefully this is oh, hopefully it's not that kind of CD

4:37 Nope Definitely not. Definitely not this oh 404 not found. All right, so much for cdaccess.com and

4:45 Entire generations of information are going to be lost now that they're not in books

4:51 What else you guys got People are saying it was definitely math blaster. It was not math blaster. Okay. All right, like 3000

4:59 spaceflight rescue

5:07 And this is not the game

5:10 Yeah, because this is like freaking x-wing versus tie fighter. This is from that reddit post

5:15 They're like not this game, but it had this feel

5:19 This is a star wars game

5:24 Should we should we go live we should probably do the show at some point

5:27 You guys down you guys ready to do it. There's multiple math blaster games. I don't

5:32 Your face is a math blaster game got him Uh, yeah, I'm ready whenever

5:38 Um Oh, uh, right. I wasn't here last week. My headphones are still messed up. I still only hear Linus in my right ear

5:44 Oh, should we fix that?

5:48 Got him. It's like actually terrible I did the whole last show with it because like we weren't going to fix it live, but it's it's horrible experience

5:55 It just in the right ear still

5:59 No, now I hear nothing. Oh now it's just left ear

6:03 Uh, it's because I'm doing things down

6:11 Math workshop

6:17 No, but I feel like it had the graphics kind of feel right, but this is not it

6:26 Math space workshop

6:32 Hello. Oh, uh, okay. Hello. So it's yeah, it's not left here. It's what's not left here. There's no sound. Oh, there's no sound

6:41 Oh, um I only hear it in the right

6:45 Um, all right. Forget it. No show today. The streak is over. Luke's left ear can't hear anything. Wow

6:51 Give me those headphones. Maybe it's your left ear. Okay, it's not

6:57 Operation Neptune this doesn't look right. This is too old

7:01 Minor vga, maybe

7:06 Quality game Hey, are you coming to whale land this time? Yeah, hell, yeah, that's a plan. When is it? Uh, february something

7:16 Have we sold the tickets?

7:19 Oh, I don't even know if we ever actually did we ever actually call it out on land show. Yes, we did. Okay

7:24 And then there was uh dates for the future ones and they pulled them down. Oh, did they?

7:30 Oh, cool

7:33 There's an upcoming. Oh, it's back up

7:36 All right Okay, but yeah, february 21st 22nd. I should be here. Okay whale vip is sold out

7:44 Um regular whale land and whale land plus one foot are both remaining

7:49 There's uh, oh, there's still like a hundred tickets left. Okay, cool

7:53 Kids math quest this doesn't seem right either

7:56 I think the problem with this is my description

8:00 I think I like I'm pretty sure it was math based, but like maybe it wasn't space

8:03 Maybe it was just a laboratory or something. I knew it math circus

8:08 Is that wait? Is that actually a game math circus?

8:13 Oh, no, yeah, there's no way it was definitely like sciency of some kind it's math blaster. You're just remembering wrong and you're crazy

8:19 Whoa, okay Wow, that's some quality

8:24 It's not math blaster guys like I'm actually Pretty maybe I'm not sure Dan. How did you do this and can you undo it? Please where I cannot select my audio output devices

8:38 That makes me extremely unhappy. Why is that part of our process? I don't like it

8:46 Oh, okay The hell is sound panel jumpstart adventures. Whoa jumpstart adventures sounds that's a

8:54 It's a jumpstart adventures

8:59 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this might be it Yes, I would like my speakers enabled please

9:05 Thank you

9:08 Raymond I don't know which version of it, but I think it's this thing. I think it's jumpstart adventures jumpstart adventures this in particular

9:17 Oh, does that have a nostalgia feel to it? Oh my god that desktop

9:22 Yeah, daemon tools. Yeah, I think this is right. Yeah, this is right 100%. This is it. Holy crap

9:30 That's amazing Uh, right. Hello. Hello. No

9:37 Just right side. I think the headphones might be like bjorked or something

9:41 Oh, maybe it's on that side. Linus. He did. Yeah, he did. Linus unplugged it and plugged it back in and then it just never worked again

9:48 Sorry I have that effect sometimes

9:52 Does this come out? I thought he did. That's why Von's not in the office today

10:01 So is crazy

10:07 Um jumpstart sixth grade like I think this one was it

10:14 Who Copernicus I think this was it and

10:19 You see that like kids are

10:23 Behind on like every cognitive test right now

10:27 Yeah, it's the first time in recorded history that IQ is going down generation to generation

10:32 So maybe they just didn't have enough jumpstart adventures. They need more jumpstart adventures, dude

10:38 I loved this game too

10:43 I'm start adventures Yep

10:50 Oh, well, there's your problem right there. I believe

11:03 Try that if not, I'm gonna put you on to four

11:10 I don't think that's gonna work. I think it is the

11:15 I'm gonna talk Linus. Oh, hello. Keep talking. Hello. Yeah. No

11:22 Okay, hear me out math circus wait, there's no sound in this video. You got to be kidding me. Oh, it's muted. Uh, yeah

11:30 Hold on

11:34 Well

11:38 Yeah, I'm hearing in both ears. Yeah Now this isn't the math circus I know

11:47 Math circus hold on

11:50 Okay, I think I played like a bunch of the jumpstart adventures games

11:55 I don't think it's one particular one this guy's showing off

12:03 Showing off my jumpstart adventures experience

12:06 So good at them Dude, I beat all of them. I'm so good

12:11 I'm in like grade 10 playing grade six jumpstart adventures. I'm so good at this game

12:19 Oh man, you're smurfing

12:23 Just smurfing jumpstart adventures I love that. Oh dude, even oh man. Yeah, I must have played all these because I remember the art for jumpstart kindergarten even

12:33 Nice, he was so good at them, dude. Oh kicks bought it jumpstart kindergarten

12:39 That was amazing

12:49 Look at this look at this face

12:57 That's how everyone else felt seeing how good you were at jumpstart adventures. That was me

13:01 That's that's how good I was I did that

13:05 Oh, Al Linus, I'm told you have to put on your clothes. Otherwise, Jamie won't be allowed to go home

13:11 Um, oh, okay. There should be a sweater. Why would I want Jamie to go home? Jamie's cool. He can hang

13:16 Yeah, Linus says You're cool

13:21 And we'll stay here

13:32 Oh my god, I can buy

13:36 Oh my god, it's 33 dollars. My goodness

13:41 Jumpstart adventures sixth grade brand new in box cd rom

13:49 I wonder how much of this I would fail now Uh, because they do they it's not just math. It's probably more than you'd think

13:55 What province is Yugoslavia in my son was trying to get me to help him with his schoolwork the other day and I was like

14:03 Yeah Yeah, because they have poetry literature world geography estimation geometry fractions. Well, I don't want to be fine

14:12 Spelling and grammar art history

14:17 No, I'm failing that for sure, dude

14:20 Music ancient history biology and life science environmental science metaphors and analogies

14:26 percentages critical thinking Oh

14:30 Watch out for that one. That's a difficult chapter, man

14:34 I don't know. You were pretty critical right before the show

14:40 I was Someone's gotta be

14:45 Someone's gotta or else we just have unchecked spending all over the place. Otherwise we end up with regular hits

15:00 I got a cool, uh, I got a cool picto in expedition 33

15:04 That picto. Yeah, don't worry about it. It's a relic

15:08 There um cool

15:12 And it gives you 109% crit chance. Whatever the crap that means

15:17 Is there like critical resistance, but it reduces your, um, maximum hp to one

15:23 So you have to dodge everything but you hit twice as hard every single time

15:28 Huh, which is pretty cool. That is pretty cool

15:31 I don't want to scroll pictures of this thing

15:34 All right Oh

15:42 I didn't have the toys I had cd-roms

15:45 But some of which were very very likely pirated

15:49 I already have cheater. No knowing my dad

15:54 Cheaters op Is that one of your picdos? Yeah, one's called cheater. Yep

16:01 Naturally, I equipped it immediately to my fire god mile

16:05 so Yep nice

16:10 Which is probably not the like min max way to do it, but i'm not looking up anything

16:15 So i'm just doing my own builds weird having you talk about strategies and min maxing in a new video game

16:21 And me having no idea what you're talking about. Oh, yeah, and it's not even like some niche ass like no game

16:26 It's like literally the game of the year like absolutely swept the awards

16:29 I haven't had a chance to play it. That's hilarious. It's really good. I'll play it soon. Yeah

16:34 I uh Almost exclusively played it on a handheld up until the third act

16:42 and then I um only recently like

16:45 Got home and got um, I had an issue with the fan in the system in the theater room

16:50 So i've been playing it in the theater room for the last

16:53 Very short amount of gameplay time. I'm not that far into the third act

16:58 I don't even know if it's a third act so much as i'm like doing stuff now like the world's completely open now

17:04 Um, is it an open world game? I don't know. Isn't every world game kind of an open world game

17:11 Final fantasy six is kind of an open world game. You know fantasy six more or less is yeah, there's a world

17:18 You know you open doors treasure chests

17:24 Corners of your soul

17:27 I just I saw we'll talk about that later actually that's very specifically tied into the ubisoft topic

17:32 So I'll I'll chill for now Yeah

17:35 Um, I'm avoiding looking at chat right now because this is a highly spoilable game

17:41 So I don't know how much you do or don't know but I just wouldn't be looking at chat anytime we talk about it at all

17:45 Understood. I don't know anything about it. So yeah, yeah, and it's better if you don't I've been trying to keep it that way

17:50 Yeah, because like I actually do care about enjoying this game because it sounds amazing. Yeah, it's really good

17:56 And I just I haven't really you know a little obtuse sometimes but really good

18:02 Yeah, they the opening like Like sequence before you actually like like the tutorial

18:09 Like sucks you in like crazy. Just gets you super engaged in like the world building. They're doing they don't tell you anything. They just like

18:17 You gotta put you in let you figure it out. That's cool. All right. Should we do this thing? Let's do this thing, Dan

18:24 Oh, wait, I'm the one who's supposed to do them Oh, why do I always forget?

18:29 I Reminded him earlier

18:35 Apparently people are playing uh jump start adventure

18:41 Heck yeah Can I do that instead of merge messages? No, ah

18:48 No, I'm not as good as math as you is luke

18:53 Need more practices I kind of want to play oh, I kind of want to like go back to school by

18:59 Going from kindergarten to grade six through jump start adventures

19:12 I can't believe someone figured it out

19:21 I didn't even recognize who it was. Sorry I got too excited

19:25 I

19:39 Blue wackadoo. Well, thank you appreciate it. I like your name

19:47 Okay, all right, okay All right, okay

19:56 You Make sure I only ever screwed that up one time Dan one time only telling you this because it changed this week so mean

20:07 No Yes, he's trying to be helpful minus. Yeah, so why does he do it in such a mean way? He's not

20:15 He is

20:18 Oh my god, I prefer a median way

20:25 Oh, man

20:30 Now on all employees have to be exactly average never mean

20:37 New company policy

20:47 Sigma employees only

20:50 That doesn't work very much Those work too well, but there you go. Yeah, and we'd have to get rid of me

20:59 We all know on beta as fuck

21:02 That's gonna is it or are new babies beta generation yet?

21:06 No, I don't think so. That's gonna suck. Yeah, that's rough. That's gonna be so brutal

21:12 Yes, they are really when does it start? um

21:16 I think my son's gen alpha. Yeah, I'm pretty sure which makes sense

21:21 Does it though? I mean the names are so stupid. No, I well, how could we possibly have greatest generation?

21:26 I was saying and then what no generation can ever be greatest again

21:31 Like I what about silent? I could be silent. I see how silent my

21:37 The worst member of silent generation ever I don't know what you're talking about

21:43 Oh Greatest generation two

21:48 Greatest generation alpha Greatest generation two electric boo boo like what are we?

21:56 I tried to I tried to talk jordan into calling a video something three electric beagle

22:04 We're not titling the video that I

22:09 Like that a lot apparently gen beta started 2025. Oh, okay. Yeah, it checks out

22:18 That sucks Okay, I am resuming the selected. We ready to go

22:24 Oh, apparently there's uh, some debate about it and I don't care. So I'm not gonna look into it. Cool. All right. Got him

22:32 Dan's ready. Oh good. Thank god Dan's ready

22:37 He's locked in look at him go. He is ready. Actually, you know what? I'm sorry. I mocked him. I regret it

22:44 This was one of the worst choices I ever made in my life He's very good at lying, isn't he?

22:50 Yeah, well, you know True true true

22:55 Oh

23:03 Interesting am Kerr in full plane chat said I'm the coo of a research institute here in the uk

23:08 And I actually got my researchers to stop using generational breakdowns because the academic consensus on when they start and when they end is so

23:15 Loosely defined. No, it's it's total nonsense. It just means nothing. Yeah

23:20 like there definitely are

23:23 kind of like things

23:27 But where they start and end trying to just assign a date to it is just obviously stupid to me a lot of it's like

23:33 Did you substantially experience pre-internet? Yes or no? Did you substantially experience pre-smartphone? Yes or no?

23:40 Yeah, like those are those are create differences and like the experiences that people have absolutely

23:46 Did you substantially experience pre car pre television pre radio? Whatever?

23:53 And I know like it makes sense for me to tie it into technological leaps

23:58 But I think that just actually does make sense because that changes the your experience of your life

24:03 And how you consume information stuff, which is going to change

24:07 people largely

24:12 W culturini and Floatplane chat goes on the last of the boomers 1963 and no I do not have all of your stuff

24:23 Before you ask It ain't me

24:27 All right, I'm resuming the selected now Dan. Do you want to signal me when we're good?

24:30 Okay

24:47 What is up everybody and welcome to the wandshow I forget

24:53 Which one was the headline title today?

24:56 Ah, yes, of course. Thank you producer Dan for whispering my ear

25:00 We've got a lot of great topics for you guys today

25:03 apple is reportedly working on an ai wearable pin because

25:08 That worked so well the times that other companies tried to do it

25:12 I mean, who knows apple does tend to do that They take something other people do kind of crappily and they do it better if only anybody wanted that

25:19 Yeah, also Uh, sony has given up 51 percent of its bravia tv business to china's tcl and a new

25:31 strategic partnership which sounds an awful lot more like a uh

25:37 Strategic, uh, well, you know what when you give someone a controlling stake in your business

25:41 Look, I'm just saying that sony doesn't control their tv business anymore, which is wild to me as a 90s kid

25:50 What else we got that was wild

25:54 Speaking of wild uh, and companies maybe like kind of not existing anymore ubi soft just

26:03 Are you okay? Yeah, I just I couldn't tell if our chair partner isn't okay ubi soft

26:09 I

26:15 Can tell if our chair partner razor has their ARM rests at a different level or if I am just a lopsided human

26:23 I think based on that they both tuck under the table at the same height. It's me. Hi. I'm the problem. It's me carry on

26:30 speaking about Lot lopsided. I don't know youtube blog. What's new for youtube in 2026? Oh, I'm actually excited about this

26:38 Yeah, I saw one thing I liked and then I ignored the rest of it and so hopefully the rest is good too

26:42 Uh

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27:13 They already got a shout out for the chair so they don't get another one

27:17 That's all i'm contractually obligated to do What do we want to get into first? How about we jump right into apple?

27:25 Reportedly working on an ai wearable pin the information

27:30 Great domain by the way great snag the information.com fantastic work with that you guys the information reports

27:39 That apple is working on an ai powered wearable pin

27:44 The pins tech features are speculated to be many packed with two cameras

27:50 Including a standard and wide-angle lens three microphones a speaker and a physical button

27:58 Its shell is Rumored because this is all all rumors functionally pure speculation at this point

28:05 Its shell is rumored to be aluminum and glass with a magnetic inductive charger like the apple watch

28:12 And the target size is apparently a little thicker than an air tag with about the same circumference

28:19 Can I interrupt myself for one moment here?

28:23 Yes, sure. No problem Linus. Go ahead. Thank you

28:27 um I would like to point out that if apple does go ahead and make this out of metal

28:33 Aluminum is a light metal, but it's metal um and glass which is rocks

28:39 um Thank you for that. Yes. Let's flash our no the ai pin. What are you trying to show the people out there very deep

28:49 You really you really send it on that one I mean, is it any deeper than I usually go? Yeah

28:57 Well They have these great ads on these fantastic websites about you know

29:05 Improving your ability to you know what the point is

29:08 That this wouldn't be the first time that apple made a device that needs to be light

29:15 For its use case And they just need to make it and they go and they make it out of these heavy more but yeah, and what if it was made of

29:23 meddling glass um

29:26 Anyway to be clear none of this is confirmed But I hope that they would think to make it out of something really light if it is intended to be worn as a pin of any sort

29:35 It seems that apple is wanting this wearable to compete with a product that is coming from open ai's collaboration with jony ive later in

29:43 2026 however Allegedly the apple product is not likely to launch until 2027

29:50 um, our discussion question here is Apparently apple plans to produce around 20 million units at launch

29:57 Is that a realistic number of ai pins?

30:01 Given how other ai pins have

30:04 Catastrophically failed and maybe the bigger conversation here is what would you even want from an ai pin?

30:11 What would be a useful ai pin to you?

30:15 I have noticed two separate people

30:18 That I know Really deep diving ai stuff recently. Yeah, and I okay. I don't mean

30:24 Getting really into like how it all works and stuff like that. I mean really just letting it take over their lives completely

30:31 um including like

30:34 Some pretty important things just being left to like the ai autopilot as far as I can tell I got to know you got it

30:41 You don't have to name any names, but like like what are we talking meals?

30:44 Are we talking? Oh, yeah, how to talk to their spouse like like relationship?

30:49 Yeah, okay, so these are very important things. Yeah, okay meals

30:53 Honestly, I think for a lot of people meals are not a deep dive for ai stuff right right right right pretty common

30:58 Like okay, so although it does a terrible job and you probably shouldn't do that right in my experience

31:05 Right right right because it recommends something other than chicken which it's obviously everyone knows is the 100 success meal. Yeah

31:12 Yeah, yeah, I you know my meal plan might just be actually even more chicken

31:19 Moving forward really you're gonna eat more. How could you eat more chicken less rice less rice more chicken? Okay

31:26 uh good

31:30 Sorry, I'm just trying to I'm trying to find something because I tried to use ai for

31:37 Not quite the first time But one of the first times when okay, when is that video coming out?

31:44 Oh, no not that one when is that video coming out? I know that needs to come out at some point, but that's a separate conversation

31:49 Okay, uh, so I I was in this ultimate fighting bots like robot fight thing and I'm trying to find the freaking

31:59 um ufb

32:02 What what Hold on okay

32:06 Anyway, I was in it and I had to look up who one of the other competitors was

32:12 Because they you know, they were super cool. They were super nice But it was one of those things where I like I didn't catch their name at the very beginning

32:19 And we were hanging out for long enough that it reached the point where it was going to be kind of embarrassing

32:25 If I had to ask again So my brilliant idea was I I took a picture of the of like the the operator

32:35 card like little handout that they had and I I circled the person

32:41 And I used my oh, oh, this is a video. Good lord

32:46 Uh, here we go. Oh, of course. It's a video. Everything's a video. Why is everything of freaking video?

32:52 I just want a not video video make man

32:59 Listen I am doing my best right now. Okay. I am not perfect

33:05 I am trying ultimate fighting bots 5. Okay. I'm just trying to find the post. You know what? It doesn't matter the point is

33:10 I held the button on my thing. I circled the person and I said who is this and it was like

33:17 Sorry, I can't give you results about people

33:21 And I was like, this is literally a tech influencer

33:24 This is a public figure. I'm not it's not like I'm it's not like I'm discreetly

33:28 Snapping a picture of someone at the gym being like give me her home address, you know, like it's it's not

33:34 It's not creepy. I just want to know like you gotta use grok for that

33:38 Yeah, like like if if someone has hundreds of thousands of followers or whatever

33:43 I I would think that it would just tell me like who is this

33:48 Sort of broadly speaking and I tried it for myself too. It wouldn't even tell me who I was

33:53 Which is Like where so where's the where's the line? It feels like an existential crisis waiting to happen. It just feels it just feels kind of

34:02 useless Um And so I'm dude. I I tried to call someone on staff while I was driving

34:10 And I I did like hey google called this person and it called some like random grocery store with a somewhat similar name

34:17 It's it feels like the same problem as google you've talked about this with trying to call your wife

34:21 Um, it feels like a similar problem to like Windows search

34:25 Where it's like if there's a close match In my contacts list

34:29 Maybe go with that first instead of a random grocery store

34:34 I I tried to navigate to a community center in surrey

34:39 And it uh, it tried to navigate to somewhere in like the states

34:43 When I when I tried to use my voice for ways I I am I am at the point now where I am just I want to

34:50 I want to put my fist through the Through the freaking dash of my car every time I have to use my voice to interact with Android auto or carplay

34:59 I I just I'm so done with it It's so much slower and so much less reliable

35:05 Then just being allowed to type a couple of letters and let the auto complete go and then and then press the thing

35:11 I I don't understand the completely

35:14 freaking

35:17 Wrong Thinking that has gone into these these alternative interfaces

35:23 Whether it's the little like like I draw on a touchpad here or I have a knob to go through the letters

35:29 Here or I draw on a screen up here or I use my voice, which is just it's it's so

35:34 So unreliable that it causes so much more distraction than if I could just

35:40 Tap what is usually just three or four letters and it will it'll auto complete wherever it is that I'm trying to go

35:47 Um, anyway, so so what would what would we want out of an ai pin?

35:52 I guess I guess my issue is that every interaction that I don't believe it's going to work had with it has been so

35:59 Unreliable and so useless that I just I don't want anything

36:03 Like okay another perfect example And I know that this is something that is tunable by the car manufacturer

36:09 So I don't know if this is across the board with Android auto But I'll be having a conversation with my kids in the car and I'll hit my my my voice button on my steering wheel

36:18 And I'll be like hey tell me about the

36:22 The the battle of waterloo

36:25 And it'll be like I'm sorry. I can't do that

36:29 f***ing why I can listen to audiobooks

36:34 I can listen to the radio I can talk to other people in the car. I can

36:40 I I the only successful things I can routinely do through voice controls is set alarms and start music playing

36:48 Even getting it to play really specific songs can sometimes be a problem

36:52 But I can just get it to like just play music and it will it will generally do it

36:58 So i'm just kind of sitting here going I know how some of the people around here use their their metaglasses

37:05 For instance, like start recording video stop recording video

37:09 I guess that's something but I can't think of any reason why I would want that to be on a pin

37:14 Rather than my my my field of view feels objectively faster to be sorry objectively better to be your glasses because pin is

37:21 Effectively never going to be pointed or stable exact right spot. Yeah, there's the pro honestly if it weighs

37:29 almost any amount And like has a battery in it. So there's like a bit of a floor

37:35 It's going to tug down on your shirt if you remember that that ai pin that epically failed

37:41 In all of their marketing and all of their test videos and everything they were wearing relatively heavy clothing

37:47 And pinned it on that it was like seemed pretty obvious as to why they were doing that

37:51 And then the other main use case is that kind of just

37:56 Uh, tell me about this. What's the how many us dollars is this?

38:01 You know it and it's in some other currency or whatever like like that sort of thing, which again

38:07 I would much rather have on glasses

38:10 From my point of view rather than like what i'm gonna i'll like hold stuff up to my

38:17 pin And hope that I have it framed correctly and it has the you know enough

38:23 Situational awareness to understand what exactly it is that i'm asking it about

38:28 I don't know this just and I understand like some people aren't going to want to wear glasses

38:31 But I don't think the answer to that problem is

38:34 Pinnable things we also have to remember that apple has enough r&d budget

38:39 To buy the earth and all the heavens so they could conceivably r&d this entire product all the way to

38:45 manufacturability And and then just and then just go hey, that was a really great learning experience. Let's make it into our glasses

38:53 Yes, that makes far more sense to me personally

38:56 Or they can just pull another apple vision pro. What's the what's the last?

39:00 I don't think they do want to pull another apple vision pro. I don't think anyone does

39:03 What's the last product that apple released that was net new?

39:08 That went well. I mean we talked about this is it watch we started to talk about this on the show earlier

39:13 And it's been it's been tough apple has been

39:16 Tim cook has done a lot of things really well um

39:20 Like apple is is a supply chain management monster like they're absolutely incredible

39:27 They have they have executed on the yearly cadence for iphone with

39:34 Precision so Good, you could set your apple watch to it, you know, like they've they've come up with accessories for the iphone like the apple watch

39:43 um Guys airpods 4 is not a net new product. I'm talking new product line

39:47 Well airpods, I would say is but is net new. I agree hugely successful

39:54 But was that after before the watch but again?

39:57 Uh post watch. Yeah, but again, it's it's it's an iphone accessory, right?

40:03 It's not a completely new category of product in the way that I think you're you're asking me. Yeah, uh apple silicon is

40:12 Unbelievable absolutely incredible Um, it's a component of but it's a component of a mac book which was already a thing that existed and

40:21 I I think I honestly ai pin

40:25 Just kind of feels like like like like desperate thrashing

40:30 Trying to find yeah something new and some some relevance in this ai obsessed corporate world right now

40:38 Um frizer says mac mini. Yeah, there's a new mac mini, but the mac mini has not a new existed forever

40:45 And it's just a computer. Yeah What when did the first mac mini come out? We're essentially

40:51 Drilling down to 2006. No 2005 apparently according to ai

40:57 um Yeah, wild Wait, was there a mac mini?

41:03 Holy crap. There was a mac mini before Intel

41:07 power pcg for mac mini Support dot apple.com is the source. I think I'll take their word for it

41:14 That ati graphics brother so

41:17 Yeah, mac mini is not it is not what would count as a as a new

41:22 A product for for apple apple tv. Yeah, I'll I'll accept apple tv

41:27 What it even looked like surprisingly modern

41:32 That's pretty cool. Like this is the back of it. That's pretty cool. That's crazy

41:39 Huh Okay

41:43 Home pod. Yeah, but we were asking for successful products

41:48 Like they've they've really struggled to come up with a new thing

41:51 They worked for years on that car project and then just canned it the watch came out one year before the air pods

41:57 You write air pods came out uh came out uh after air takes cool, but I stand behind that's an iphone accessory

42:03 um It doesn't work without an iphone anything that doesn't work. I do

42:09 Okay, this is interesting One of the things that I've gone off on multiple times is the way that apple treats

42:18 Buyers of their products like second-class citizens if they haven't bought

42:22 Enough of their products and I do start to wonder if that's something that culturally at apple could be holding them back

42:30 If they're afraid to make something that

42:34 Isn't an iphone accessory because air pods don't have to be an iphone accessory

42:39 They could have all the same functionality. They could on Android or on a pc. They could

42:45 But they decide that they don't they decide that you can't even so much as update your firmware

42:51 Unless you have an apple device to connect it to and and so I

42:56 You know i'm thinking you know, you know air pods How many more air pods could they have sold if they were cross platform and you you could just use them with anything

43:09 I don't think that much more which might be an unfortunate answer

43:12 Maybe a lot of people that I know that have androids just also have air pods and just deal with them being crap

43:19 Yeah, no, that's fair Um, yeah, I've heard of libra pods super cool project. Um, I haven't actually started using it

43:28 Um, correctly But yeah that that whole that whole mentality that they have that you're not really an apple user. You're not

43:36 You're not you're not really like a customer that we need to take care of and provide basic

43:42 Personality that we advertise for the product or the ability to keep the keep it software firmware up to date

43:48 Unless you've you've bought more of our products. You have to buy you have to buy more of our products

43:52 You really should have an iphone the fact that you I mean you don't have an iphone

43:55 Why would you need to be able to man? What was it? I was trying to I was trying to like cancel a subscription on my apple tv

44:02 And it was like a super super tedious roundabout process if I didn't have an iphone for some reason or another

44:09 I forget the exact details around it um

44:12 uh Yeah, I don't know. I don't think ai pin is the answer and uh, it it really does seem like they're just at sort of a loss

44:22 They've become kind of a follower like vision pro has been such a disaster

44:27 And I I think I can say that objectively at this point

44:31 When's the last time you saw somebody using one?

44:34 This is an apple product Like if it doesn't move millions and millions of units, it's it

44:41 Was not worth them lifting a finger to to develop it. Um

44:49 Yeah, apple mac pro wheels that those were new you're right, but I don't think those are going to go down as a major success

44:56 Yeah, I do think glasses would kill

45:01 Yeah, assuming they're good if they had good smart glasses they would destroy

45:06 I mean, it's not like anyone That I know of

45:10 loves meta Yeah, you know, I don't think that facebook slash meta

45:17 Slash oculus slash whatever you want to sort of cull what they're doing with their augmented reality stuff. Um

45:25 I don't think anyone is rooting for them to win. No, it's just they happen to have a product that

45:32 Is admittedly quite appealing like the video quality out of those glasses is mind blowing to me for how compact it is

45:40 Like super cool Personally, I haven't

45:45 found myself craving Them and I and I do I am starting to wonder if I'm just becoming a bit of a boomer

45:52 Because I've been I actually saw there's a post on the red at asking Linus where the heck's your Garmin smartwatch video

45:59 And part of the reason that I haven't done the ShortCircuit yet. It's it's going to be a ShortCircuit is that I just

46:07 Haven't interacted with it very much

46:10 I don't really care about it Um, I it got my attention today because I left my accidentally left my phone in my office and I ran to the washroom to

46:20 Pick all of the mucho burrito out of my braces after lunch because that's part of my life. It's a fun experience

46:26 Yeah, it's good. That's it's nice. There's a whole second meal in there. Um, yeah

46:31 Anyway, uh, so someone called me on teams and I was like, oh, oh shoot

46:35 Oh, so my my wrist starts vibrating and I and I realized I was like, oh, I can't

46:39 actually interact with this because they're calling on teams and

46:44 Um, all I can do is decline the call. I can't send a message. I can't

46:49 Accept the call. I just it's okay. So I'll just run back to my desk then so functionally

46:53 I it didn't it didn't do much. It didn't change. It didn't really change my life

46:58 I use it to set timers when I do badminton training on uh, Monday night

47:03 I feel like everything for you and me is like that that uh

47:07 Whatever that tv show is uh, where there's a little robot. It's like, what is my purpose?

47:12 And for us, it's always just like you set timers You see like all the ai systems just suck at everything else. So we're just like whatever you set timers now rick and morty. Yeah, there we go

47:20 Yeah, yeah, uh, yeah, you pass butter

47:24 uh Yeah, I I just and the glaces

47:30 I feel like it would be the same for me. There's there's there was one time

47:34 Uh, well, we're starting a family vlog. So there you go. There's that

47:37 Um, so there was one time we were we were playing volleyball at the at the on the beach

47:43 And I realized afterward man I brought metaglasses with me on this trip so that I could like try them

47:48 This would have been a perfect use case for it. So like like vlogging or something like that

47:53 Yeah, I could I could see having a camera mounted to your head all the time being super useful

47:58 I haven't seen a lot of Maybe this is my sphere of

48:02 of uh content, but I haven't seen a lot of like

48:06 Video filmed with metaglasses content

48:10 Maybe you didn't realize I don't

48:13 Really? I don't think so. Okay It's really good though. Like shockingly good. I was really surprised by how good the quality was when I used it

48:21 I just actually don't really think so though

48:26 I like are you they just have you guys is there big creators doing this?

48:31 Have you guys seen anybody? Yeah, let us know I mean everyone's talking about adult content in chat because classic degenerate chat. That makes sense. Sure. Yep. That makes sense

48:42 Yeah, because I just I don't know I'm kind of surprised that I haven't but then I I also wonder if that's more on like the short form content realm

48:50 Which I generally try to stay away from

48:55 I haven't seen either shorts creators

48:58 Yeah, dna. I'm not I'm not like seeking out Um videos from people who have them to be clear. Um

49:06 I just haven't actually like seen a lot So if it's if it's mostly just shorts creators that make sense because I kind of avoid that

49:13 Yeah

49:16 Okay I got a browser add-on

49:20 that removes shorts from

49:24 My youtube page. Nice. They're just gone. How's that going for you? Great?

49:28 cool I tried the I tried the official way which is show me fewer shorts

49:34 Doesn't work at all. I I've yeah, I've heard that but I don't think I've used youtube since I clicked the button

49:40 So I haven't noticed. Yeah. No, I tried that. I didn't do anything

49:43 Uh, which browser add-on is it? I don't remember the name. Cool

49:48 Uh, apparently there's a pilot according to dense one in Floatplane chat

49:52 That does some cool long form videos with meta meta glasses. That would be awesome

49:57 See, that's like a cool use case that I think those are probably particularly good for because like a gopro

50:02 In that scenario would be very annoying to wear. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah

50:06 In a lot of scenarios, they're pretty annoying to wear. Yeah pain in the butt. Um

50:11 Amariah says my show fewer shorts button works for like a week and then they come back. Well, it's probably because the sun came out

50:25 Nice

50:29 I thought there was a follow-up to follow these Yeah, it

50:33 That was a that was a fairly weak ding. I think well listen We need like a ding damper so you can get like the first like bing, but then it doesn't

50:39 No No, that would be yeah, like that satisfying gross. Yeah gross. No, that's what that deserves

50:49 Great fun Linus

50:56 What's the opposite of Pavlov Ah, so now that we've trained you to have a dopamine response to the good ding

51:04 What's the opposite of dopamine? Probably like man slaughter

51:14 I don't know. I'm not sure All right, I'm not gonna unpack that one speaking of youtube

51:21 YouTube CEO Neil Mohan published a blog post on january 21st about new things coming in 2026

51:29 Some of the notable ones include shorts feed changes to allow image posts

51:35 YouTube tv will be getting multi view allowing users to watch up to four different youtube tv feeds at once

51:43 That's right. My friends you can have quadruple the brain rot on your tv. Amazing

51:49 There will be updates to parental controls and they will be simplifying parental controls, which I am

51:55 Very much in support of there will be more monetization options for vertical streaming

52:01 Which actually probably makes a ton of sense right now

52:04 Updates to youtube shopping including having purchases baked into the app

52:09 Instead of redirecting to another store That'll be really good for people who are interested in selling things on the platform and really bad for people with impulse control problems

52:18 Yeah We've got tools for creators to swap out

52:23 They're baked in ads and then resell and replace those ad spots at later dates

52:30 Which is going to be an absolute goldmine for like very evergreen content creators

52:37 I don't know that it'll be as useful for us, but if you make videos that are

52:42 About the war of 1812 for instance very good. Then absolutely nothing would prevent you like uh, oh actually a perfect example of this would be um

52:51 Oh Man, what's his name? He does the the queue oversimplified

52:57 It's a perfect example of someone who could benefit from this immensely because he does those

53:02 Like uh, like limited edition merch drops in his videos

53:05 So if he could go back and replace his entire back catalog with whatever his current merch drop is

53:14 Wow Uh, that could be that could be pretty uh, that could be very powerful

53:20 Um for creators like that. Uh, what else we got some ai transparency labeling to help users identify when videos are made with ai

53:28 Assuming they can even tell um Combats to ai slot didn't get into much detail there. I like the idea. Hopefully it executes well

53:35 They also gave some stats for youtube, uh 200 billion views every day on shorts alone

53:40 I really wonder how they calculate views on shorts. Yep, according to a 2025 kantar survey

53:46 93 percent of 18 to 27 year old us viewers agree youtube helps you learn new skills

53:53 I wonder what the other seven percent are probably not shorts as much. Maybe they've never heard of youtube

53:59 Uh 79 percent of us teachers are using youtube to teach students

54:04 100 billion dollars was paid out to creators artists and media companies in the last four years

54:09 That is a truly astronomical number That's a lot. Uh, and then in 2024 in the us youtube says they contributed

54:17 55 billion to gdp and supported over

54:21 490,000 full-time jobs

54:24 That's wild Almost half a million full-time

54:30 Maybe not creators right because there's a lot more full-time jobs than just me like here at LTT

54:36 um But like half a million full-time jobs. I could see that for sure. Yeah

54:42 I guess but like I just never really thought about it that way

54:47 It's interesting creator economy, man I wonder how they calculated that but

54:51 I'm not too Stunned by the number egg nog in april says. Yeah, I don't believe half a million jobs. I mean, why not? I kind of do

54:58 I know so many creators that have enormous

55:02 teams Oh, and when I say enormous, I don't mean like a thousand people, but I'm talking like like 10 or 20

55:10 And there's the amount of like so many two to three people youtube teams is like endless

55:16 huge Like it used to be Not that long ago

55:21 Back in my day man yells at cloud back in my day that you could literally take all the youtubers with a million subscribers

55:28 And put them on stage at once and give them giant youtube play button plaques. That was a thing

55:34 Whereas now Yeah, like how many channels are there with a million subscribers?

55:39 How many youtube channels have a million?

55:43 Subscribers Quite a few

55:47 You also don't need a million subs to hire people and make a team

55:50 Especially in modern youtube I would argue where there are certain like crazy niches where you can be super successful with 20 000 views of video

55:59 Um, it's just an audience that like supports really heavily or monetizes really heavily

56:05 Like they'll buy the things that you're talking about a lot and you get big affiliate revenue or whatever else

56:11 Uh, okay

56:19 See I don't know the ai overview estimates

56:23 around 69 000 channels nice as of mid 2025, but I haven't actually found

56:31 Awesome creator academy says 69 182 as of when uh in 2025. Okay

56:38 So Out of date It's 2026 now

56:43 The point is a lot Now obviously not all of those are in the us

56:47 But as we already talked about a lot of those channels probably are

56:53 Either directly or indirectly responsible for the full-time employment of a lot more than one people

56:59 One people one person like LMG. For instance directly employs like 100

57:05 Plus, I think we're at sitting at around 120 right now. Is that sound about right? Yes. Um ish

57:11 But there are also People who are indirectly full-time employed who don't necessarily work for us like for instance, um our

57:19 Our third-party logistics company is one of the reasons why I said it to I wonder how they're counting it because we're over half of their business

57:27 So by that logic half their headcount is

57:30 Is do you count some amount of employment for all the services that support us?

57:35 Absolutely internet. I would think so. Oh

57:39 Uh, that's not going to be a whole person. That's getting pretty fuzzy, but it's part of a person

57:45 Yeah, here it says youtube supported over 490 000 full-time jobs. So it's very I think it has to be more direct employment

57:53 Unclear exactly what they would mean, but then you're counting the shipping thing. Yeah, which I think is I think is fair

58:00 Where is the line though? Yeah, not sure

58:04 Not sure, uh, I think the biggest one for me was actually that um for the parental controls

58:11 I can now I have the granularity to turn off shorts or limit shorts directly

58:19 for my dependence Which is

58:23 That's actually huge. Thank you because I don't mind my kids using youtube at all

58:27 I do mind a lot them doom scrolling shorts shorts is a different thing

58:33 The different beasts entirely. Yeah

58:36 I feel like I I do I do feel a little bit like every generation goes through this

58:42 Books were once the devil and and an idle pastime that rotted your brain

58:48 And then it was radio And then it was tv and then it was video games

58:54 And then and then and then and then and then and so, you know, I'm sitting here going well

58:59 You know, I grew up with youtube and I turned out okay

59:03 But these shorts these shorts are bad. They'll rot your brain except

59:06 I mean they do seem to kind of do that. No, actually though

59:10 Uh, yeah Anyways, I I really like the

59:16 learning new skills And the viewers agree that youtube helps. Sorry

59:20 Teachers are using 79% of teachers using youtube to teach students. I was kind of wondering

59:27 Time for business meeting on wansho time

59:31 There was a thread on the the reddits recently of

59:36 About the vimeo thing No, um a Techquickie episode

59:41 Oh being used in a classroom. Yes

59:45 I lost it. It's somewhere in here, but that you know that we'll get a little

59:50 Reddit post about that every once in a while everyone's been a consistent thing for a long time

59:54 Have you ever thought of like working?

59:57 with

60:02 Content like for classrooms. Oh interesting. That's not where I thought you were going. Um, so youtube actually has features where educational

60:11 Solutions can license your content for use in classroom. Yeah, um, we've always opted out just because uh, I don't I don't care

60:20 Whatever dude, just use it. Yeah, that's always kind of been my stance

60:25 As for like like supplemental materials that are specifically designed in partnership with

60:32 with some kind of Um educational institution. I think that's super cool. I'd be there's a neat idea

60:40 Yeah, and like obviously, you know, if

60:43 The ideal for us would be that it's stuff that we could still upload

60:48 Yeah on youtube. So I wouldn't want to go into much more depth than something like a Techquickie already would

60:54 Yep, um, but if it was meant to be like, hey, here's the new unit. We're working on today

61:00 Here's a fun fast-paced engaging

61:03 Top level primer of what we're going to dig into over the next two to three weeks of our coursework

61:08 I'd be I'd be super interested in that. Yeah, for sure. Awesome to me. Yeah, that'd be great

61:13 You should make a comp to your rival just to troll them. You can certify yourself. No, I wouldn't need to do that

61:19 That's that there it is. Uh, I mean look

61:24 You've got the paper. It's good enough

61:30 Last time there was like a lot of spiders on the back of that just a heads up

61:33 Oh Seems like you're probably fine. There's a dead one. Um

61:40 Listen, they can take away the actual certification online

61:46 But they can never take away this piece of paper that I printed for myself

61:53 You should you should pause the video and freeze frame that and then zoom in and replace the name

61:59 Linus Sebastian with your name and print your own Nice, you should not we would never endorse such a thing

62:05 Um What stands out to you from the youtube blog?

62:10 I mean, I didn't even see it in here, but that thing you told me about shorts and being able to control your kid's feeds is amazing

62:15 Yeah, um, that's awesome. I'm

62:19 I'm actually surprised that 79 of us teachers are using youtube to teach students

62:23 Really like I know we get those posts every once in a while. I didn't think it was going to be effectively

62:27 80 percent of teachers. I mean so many teachers are like friggin millennials now like they're

62:33 I get it. It makes sense. I'm just surprised that it's that high

62:37 Um, and that that number is why I thought of the like man like maybe we should support this more

62:42 Um, I don't know if that's a desire from anybody, but I mean it does seem like our videos get used

62:48 I have usually seen our videos getting used in

62:52 Universities that's usually the the what people are talking about when it when it comes up or technical colleges or whatever

62:59 um So I don't know if maybe maybe we'd need to aim differently to show up in in like high schools or whatever

63:06 But stay the path says yeah, I have a bunch of friends who are teachers And I'd be very surprised if they never showed their kids youtube videos. Yeah, okay cool makes sense. Yeah

63:14 I mean I I used it as a military instructor for airplanes says bordaga sweet. I mean if somebody else did the work

63:21 Of no, yeah, I get it. I just like I don't remember

63:25 You know, they'd roll out bill nye every once in a while, but it was it was like pretty rare

63:30 That we watched things in class

63:33 Yeah, I guess that's true, isn't it So like is that more common now? I would assume so probably more ubiquitous now

63:40 Our school only had like a handful of like av cards tv. This is my point. Yeah

63:45 Yeah, so like I am I I'm just super out of touch with high schools

63:49 I guess because they probably I'm assuming do they just all have projectors now or like what's the

63:54 I think so. Actually, I think so. I think my kids school all the classrooms have projectors in them

63:58 So our schools like a huge client for projectors like when the oh, oh, yeah

64:02 Oh, yeah, like Ben Q. Ben Q. My school had none lives or dies on like universities how many school projectors they sell

64:10 like big big university And and uh, I was gonna say yeah, like I was I was helping out in one of my kids classrooms

64:18 They had like a parent helper day This was a few years ago. My kids are all a little bit older now

64:23 But it used to be when they're younger you could go in and you could like help run

64:27 Like a unit that they were doing or whatever. It was a nice way to just kind of see your kids in their

64:32 environment at school see how they're doing Um, see which are their friends

64:36 Probably we like shouldn't invite over, you know

64:39 the rabble rousers anyway, like

64:44 So I happened to be there when they did the morning announcements and it was like a video

64:49 Oh, yeah, so like the principal was like on video in the classroom and I was like, oh, I guess that's pretty smart

64:53 Was it a live stream? I don't know. I actually don't know. I didn't think about it. Interesting

64:58 But like they definitely all have like You know projectors in their classrooms. Sure. Yeah, and like if you think about it like yeah, why not? Yeah. No, it makes sense

65:07 I just I just yeah projectors like back to high school since high school projectors like a few hundred bucks a grand

65:12 You get a throw a little screen on there and like some networking like it. Yeah, there's it's nothing that

65:18 I mean, you know a person who worked in in school it for quite a few years

65:23 It's nothing that guy wouldn't have been able to figure out. I mean he probably did

65:28 I just mostly talked to him about like server stuff. So we never got into like what are the like classroom configurations that you have

65:35 um But yeah, it's really interesting. I

65:39 The the whole story is very long So I probably won't go through the whole thing

65:43 But I was recently on a Trip that ended up a little haphazard and I ended up in a location

65:48 I did not expect at a very very very small town and I had a

65:51 Are you not going to talk about are you not going to talk about the town visit? I was going to ask you about it later on this show

65:55 It's just a long story. Yeah, sure fine. Maybe later. Maybe later

65:59 Um, but something that I did think of was the internet there was so

66:04 So bad That I kind of had this thought like I mean

66:09 There was none at the airport. There was no cell signal. There was no whatever at the airport

66:13 Solid to drive into town to like get signal solid. I had this thought of like it would be kind of fun to do a

66:19 I don't know if it's a series or a one-off or whatever, but you're doing tech house

66:23 Could there be like tech tiny town where it's like you are just trying to push this Linus town thing we set up

66:29 Oh, I didn't think that's brilliant. No, it's not brilliant. That's a great idea. Great idea. Linus. That's fantastic

66:36 This is why you're the mayor of Linus town that makes sense

66:41 He's so smart. He's so intelligent That's that might be one of the best ideas you've ever had our greatest dear leader

66:48 You could totally just buy a tiny town getting cookies

66:52 What a phenomenal idea always one after the other look at them go walking off the stage not running this time

67:05 I

67:18 Okay, so my my thought was basically like, you know

67:21 We could probably partner with somebody we could partner with ubiquity whatever but because ubiquity has those point-to-point dishes

67:27 Right, so like could could we make this a little bit better while I was there?

67:30 I speed tested which probably brought the whole thing down, but I speed tested and I got 2.4 megs down and it just

67:38 Crit failed on the upload Nothing. I didn't give me a report speed test just gave me the download. I've never seen that before

67:46 um, and it also had 900

67:49 latency to the closest server a second

67:53 Yeah, but not only that it felt like it was like on an analog on off switch that was constantly running

67:58 Because if I sat there with a web page open on my phone and just refreshed repeatedly it would

68:04 load and then Like fail web page not found and then load and just rotate that constantly

68:11 Interesting and apps like basically didn't function because it wouldn't have like the continual connection that an app would expect

68:18 it was Really bad like I don't think I've experienced internet that bad in

68:24 um decades So I was just thinking like is there something we can do to like

68:30 Help basically, um, and is this interesting and like to me. It's kind of interesting

68:36 I'm I'm trying to get into some home labby stuff recently and whatnot

68:39 Um, that's why I thought ubiquity because I was on their website looking at different things that they had

68:43 I saw their point-to-point things like really good and affordable point-to-points

68:47 They do and I don't have a use case for it, but I find those things fascinating. Um, they're super cool

68:52 We have one on the ceiling here still going to I think we might have gotten rid of it

68:57 It might be a backup link now um, uh, that makes but for the price

69:03 That's like crazy cheap for what you can do with it. Yeah, and this I mean this isn't uh

69:08 This isn't a ubiquity add. They also are a sponsor. So are they sponsored right now? I have no idea

69:13 Who knows this has nothing to do with that, but they just they have some cool stuff

69:19 And I thought it could be an interesting experience to to do some network connection stuff for future linestown

69:25 You're still talking about this

69:29 I tried to time it for your return

69:32 And I think it worked nicely done

69:36 Geez Because of you I had to get two packs of cookies two packs of cookies to deal with my stress

69:44 Oh

69:48 Part of the park benefits of linestown is if you're feeling particularly stressed out you get free cookies

69:52 Yes, you get two packs of two too. You had a hard day. Yeah, you have two packs of cookies

69:57 Yeah, these will make you feel better very temporarily automatically deducted from your monthly linest bucks

70:06 All right, it's double your daily portion of food

70:12 All we need to say about The youtube announcement

70:16 Uh Then that was topic too. So what are we supposed to be doing now? Well, we've got 10 minutes

70:22 We could do merge messages now. We could do another topic that was quick. We've got lots today

70:27 Uh, sure. Why don't we do a quick topic? Let's do a quick topic. Yeah

70:30 Uh, what's a quick one? Oh, uh, yeah, okay. So I have a proposal

70:35 Microsoft needs to have their new coke moment. Oh

70:40 Sorry, I read this before the show and got really excited because I like can't agree more they

70:45 Think about it Coke was having trouble with coke. Okay

70:51 So they come up with new coke. Everyone hates it. They bring back coca-cola classic

70:56 Everybody loves it sales go hockey stick. Okay, right brilliant

71:02 Microsoft has this kind of problem with their their helper monkeys their assistants

71:08 You know back when clippy was their current helper. I mean even I think I think the

71:16 Which one came first clippy or the dog the search dog?

71:20 I genuinely don't know, but I thought it was search dog was

71:24 That was xp and then but I thought clippy was office xp clippy was also

71:28 I think they were like that was their characters era clippy was apparently word 97

71:34 Damn

71:37 Okay, well whatever the point is

71:41 At the time At the time everyone freaking hated clippy. Oh, yeah, right everyone hated the dog, right?

71:51 Until they gave us cortana and then all of a sudden

71:55 I felt nostalgic for clippy You know, I was like, oh the dog

71:59 I remember the dog that dog that never found anything that was so cute, right?

72:02 The flashlight would go like this and you oh no, the dog was after the flashlight. The point is wow, the dog was first

72:08 1995 it didn't get better They gave us they gave us cortana. We hated cortana until they gave us co-pilot and now I'm sitting there going

72:17 How much would I love to just have cortana back? Okay, but but seriously, do you think back positively?

72:23 Nostalgically for cortana. I think compared to co-pilot. Yes. I think it's all relative easier to get out of the way

72:30 I think microsoft just needs to completely new coke this

72:35 Throw away the co-pilot branding entirely

72:39 And make their big ai push around clippy

72:44 I would unironically want to try clippy. I would too and this is why when I read this I was like, no way

72:50 AI pin called clippy you clippy it to your shirt if it was just a big paper clip that would actually go so hard

72:57 That would be amazing

73:03 All right, take out the stream

73:06 That's wild. We should make an ai pin. It's not like it's hard

73:12 Actually though There it's all just

73:15 Do we know or do we know hot glue look if we want to baby

73:19 Luke if we want to grift we all know that the answer is an icl minus 10. Oh

73:25 The answer is gonna be a coin both linestown and coin and let me tell you something

73:33 We've had some conversations lately

73:37 We've had some conversations don't be surprised if in the next

73:43 You know two months in a bit We have a coin

73:48 Don't let it surprise you. That's all I'll say. What is it for? That's all I'll say. What is it for luke?

73:54 It's a coin What do you mean? What is it for so it's

73:59 It's for rugs. It's a coin. No. No. Oh god. No heavens. No. No. No, it's it's the the unrugged coin

74:07 It's a coin. That's all that's all I can say and we'll have an offering. Okay, that will be initial

74:16 Stay tuned the first ever coin offering initial stay tuned

74:20 Look, you can tell you can tell he's not sold you can tell he's not sold

74:25 But he hasn't seen all the details yet. He doesn't know the details. Tell me now. Are you sold?

74:37 Yeah, kind of hold on hold on hold on hold on

74:42 Oh That's actually awesome

74:49 See there's what I'm talking about It was that it was that easy to get them on board. You guys will get on board. I will buy

74:56 One Linus coin you'll I mean if you're lucky, I mean, I should have bought one bitcoin 20 years ago or whatever

75:05 Not quite. I will buy one Linus coin. Well, I'm not going to lose this hard drive

75:13 Oh, damn. All right. Oh, damn

75:19 Dan, what are we doing again? I think we're at the whole top of the message. That was the whole topic. Yeah

75:22 Okay, let's do this

75:26 Oh, okay, so, uh, where's that? At the very top. Okay. We have no main topics today when you hide things from me at the very top

75:33 I can't find them down. They're supposed to be in the middle. I didn't write the topic. We talked about this

75:38 Is you Why are you so mean?

75:41 You gotta put it on a lower channel

75:46 This week's launch That's what Luke gets

75:51 I like it more, baby, which is so not good

75:55 Okay, do you want to fire up the uh the store and then lost screen share? Sure

75:59 This week's launch takes the old cleanup wizard from your computer

76:03 And gives it a full-on fantasy Makeover the collection includes how cool is this hoodie you guys the cleanup wizard t-shirt in solid black

76:14 Plus a limited run tie dye version. Oh, I have that. Hold on one second

76:19 Uh Yes, we are still trying to get rid of the last of the LTX tie dye shirts. That's sick though

76:26 Yeah, I hadn't seen that one. Yeah, brother

76:30 Limited edition only the LTX 23 tie dye shirts that we have remaining we printed cleanup wizard on the rest of them

76:37 And uh, so we've got it in black. We've got it in the tie dye

76:41 And then we've also got it in our uh zip-up hoodie printed on the back

76:47 Um, you can shop the collection. Oh here. We've got luke laptop

76:50 You can shop the collection at LMG.gg

76:54 slash cleanup wizard So with these photos

77:02 The the ones where they actually like try to be a real wizard like oh my god, that's incredible

77:09 That's so good, man. Like he he's the one who made our um, who made the trophies for the last grap yard worth

77:19 That's so good. Oh, there's another one

77:23 That's amazing. Sorry. I really like these

77:26 Oh, man, that's great. Now I need to hide my camera so I can buy a tie dye one before they

77:31 Really cool design. I believe this one was either entirely or predominantly a lisa innovation who

77:39 technically works for the fashion team not the design team, but she obviously has a design background and um

77:48 This basically I I think I asked for like a couple small tweaks

77:53 But pretty much she showed it to me and I was like

77:57 Amazing print it. I love it. It's so cool

78:01 Old old microsoft of mascots that were awesome

78:04 Everyone loved the wizard. Yeah, everyone loved the wizard. Yeah, even

78:09 When it was current and this is like cool gritty reimagined wizard and like I love that it looks like a band shirt or something

78:17 I thought okay Dan was walking in in front of me and he was wearing the hoodie

78:23 I'm pretty sure and I saw it on the back and was like, huh like

78:27 You know Never heard of that. That's a cool concert hoodie. You know when did Dan start dressing will?

78:37 It just and then and then I think he told me it's like, oh, yeah, it's like, you know a reference that I was like

78:42 Oh, obviously because yeah, I thought it was a band shirt

78:46 crazy Now I need to continue trying to buy one. Thank you

78:50 before we move on A quick reminder about the LTT true spec cables drop

78:56 They're going to be available in usb a to c and USB-C to c with plenty of speed and length options for a cleaner setup

79:03 You can check out our sign up page at LMG.gg

79:06 Slash cable sign up to get more information and features and to get notified as soon as they go live

79:14 I would not probably screw around if you want to get exactly the length that you want

79:19 Because we ordered somewhat conservatively on the first round

79:23 And I can't guarantee that all sizes will stay in stock unless unless we nailed it and we got the mix exactly right and we

79:33 Are you leaving a merch message? I

79:39 What the call the call is coming from inside the house like I'm a customer

79:43 He's within his right leave a merch message. I mean you're entitled. Yeah, you're entitled to leave a merch

79:47 But you could I mean don't sorry don't let me stop you go ahead and leave a merch message

79:51 Well, now you know I'm sending it so now I need to send something different

79:57 I mean you're not subtle Everyone can tell when you're on your phone on the wind show. I'm not trying to I'm not trying to creep here

80:04 It's that big You think I don't know what our own store looks like. I didn't know you could actually see my screen though

80:11 Linus, what if somebody else wanted to send a merch message? What did they do?

80:15 Right, okay All they would have to do is head over to lttstore.com where they could pick up some great merchandise like last week's

80:24 Crash out shirt, which I actually love how how cute how cute is the little sad face here?

80:29 Or you could pick up the Clean up wizard collection

80:34 Um, just drop something in your cart How about this one? Let's go with this add to cart and then in your cart

80:41 You will see this checkbox right here I would like my order to appear as a merch message on the LTT stream

80:49 You can do it anonymously. You can change the color however you like

80:53 See that one was purple the one that just faded away in the top up there

80:56 And then you can type a merch message that merch message will go to producer Dan

81:01 Who will throw it down there if it's just like a shout out or something or reply to it himself if

81:06 He knows the answer or it's one we've seen a hundred times or he might curate it

81:11 That is to say he will put it in a queue for me and luke to address later on the show

81:16 We like merch messages because they're a way for you to throw money at your screen

81:20 Like you would with any other streamer except instead of just throwing money at your screen and getting

81:25 I don't know what Noticing in return you also get high quality products

81:32 by the way, I've been using the m word and

81:36 We had a meeting this week. Yeah the m word. We had we had a

81:41 We're not going to call it merch meeting anymore. We had a product meeting this week

81:45 We are officially banning the word merch because it's not merch. What are these things called that? Check out chats

81:51 We talked about this months ago. Yeah, we're going to call it something else. Let's call them checkout chats

81:55 So it has the same abbreviation as ccleaner I like it. Okay, we could call them. It's good. Um

82:03 Okay, what what would be m m help us out here guys?

82:08 Mm. Yeah

82:16 Money makers says mickabane Well conrad does get final say and he says rambi dans, so

82:23 We're going with that. No, we're not calling it that. Um

82:29 Mercantile messages, thank you for that market manipulators

82:37 Money messages, um stream shouts is kind of cute says when bingo quantified mandatory meetings

82:46 Money makers, I think we could go with checkout chats send send your cocks

82:52 Yeah, uh elemental exposure. Thank you for that. Perfect. Okay, check. Let's go with checkout chats

82:58 So nice. Yeah, well, it might take uh might take a week or two

83:01 But let's get the let's get the rebrand in here and let's do uh, let's call them checkout chats from now on

83:06 Because we got to stop calling this stuff merch. It's not merch. It's uh, we do we do product development

83:11 like they were I think this this might have actually been lisa as well. Um

83:18 But she was uh telling an anecdote and someone was getting like a tour through there and they were like

83:25 So Was like all this stuff you guys do

83:29 Would you consider this more like a like a fashion department? And she's like

83:35 Oh

83:38 Like wow you guys do like so much testing on like the like the materials and finishes and everything like you get every it's not

83:46 Yeah So we've just we've got to just stop calling it that

83:50 Yeah We've got to respect ourselves enough to call it what it is merch really does just mean merchandise though

83:56 I know but it but it has that connotation of just being

84:01 Cheaply reproduced aliexpress stuff with a silk silk screen logo on it. You know all languages cyclical though

84:09 People just get like tired of a word so they decide it's bad and then you just make a new one

84:14 That does the same thing

84:21 Loot messages as long as the words don't start with r. I won't get confused

84:31 Calm down

84:34 I don't know if his mic was on but I could

84:39 Giggling through gritted teeth Uh, I don't want some merch messages to read sorry check out chat. Damn it. Um, show me show me your cock

84:49 Shall I shall I show you some of these cocks I got sent?

84:53 Talking of this could not go poorly talking of cocks. Can we get a sock update? Oh?

84:58 Oh, yes, um, I'm wearing them today. I'm not wearing them today. I'm wearing old prototypes today

85:04 I am so happy I'm so happy. Are you excited to do time stamps?

85:16 Every week

85:21 Curated cocks

85:27 I mean at least Dan's best cocks of 2026

85:36 Oh

85:44 Man Sorry, you keep going. Um, sock up. Sorry. Yeah sock update. Did you work me on the cock? I'm super happy

85:54 I'm with how the the latest samples are going. They're really durable. They're really breathable. They're

86:02 Not the softest socks in the world. They're they're like a marina wool blend. We found that the

86:09 Percentage of marina wool was not what the manufacturer told us that it was

86:13 Which is why we do all this materials testing and stuff that makes us. Yes. Uh, like a company with a fashion team

86:20 Um, not just a merch, you know off outfit. Um

86:25 And so that that was super cool Tatiana full credit for that

86:28 And uh, what we decided was that we're gonna stick with the composition that it is because it's great

86:34 It's very wearable. Uh, but that just is going to affect the way that we advertise it. I had a meeting with, um

86:43 Dave Adam the head of customer care, uh, Tatiana

86:48 So the material specialist and then and Bridget who's head of the fashion department not not merch department fashion department

86:55 And um or had a fashion design. I can't remember her exact title, but basically the honcho and

87:02 We that's the new title. Yeah The honcho the hon. You know

87:07 Bridget and I are pretty chill. I think if I was like, yeah, we're printing you business cards that say honcho on them

87:11 I think she might actually be down I'm not a hundred percent sure on that though, so I

87:16 Riley's she's the kind of person who you definitely get approval before you do something

87:21 But if you do the wrong thing She'll tell you in the nicest possible way that you have royally fucked it up

87:34 So I'll let her decide what her job title is Riley's badge for cea said the hon. I think it was honorable

87:40 That was amazing. I know I'm so charades was doctor

87:45 Because of course it was anyway The point is I had a long meeting not long short meeting with those folks and I think the socks are going to be

87:58 The third fourth fourth entry in the trust me bro limited lifetime guarantee family

88:05 To be clear everything on the store. We stand behind it. Um extremely

88:10 You know strongly, but this is one where we're looking at it going. This is going to be a very premium sock

88:16 I think people are going to have For the price that it is very high expectations for how long they should last everything is within reason

88:24 Just like I've discussed before with the how a limited lifetime warranty works

88:28 Whether it's the backpack or the screwdriver or the socks or the cables or whatever else

88:33 There's going to be language in the warranty that

88:36 Limits it that's what a limited lifetime

88:40 So, you know, it's not going to cover things like flagrant abuse of the product

88:44 Um When it'll it'll have wording in there that basically gives us the right to weasel out of whatever it is

88:51 We don't want to do which is exactly sort of my point on the whole warranty thing in the first place

88:56 But what we're going to be doing through calling it that is sending a very strong signal

89:01 This is a product that we expect to last for an extremely long time

89:04 If it does not get abused and that you will be extremely happy with the value that you'll get out of it

89:09 And that we are going to stand behind very strongly. I'm extremely excited for this product. Oh, that's pretty good. Sorry

89:17 What do you look at? Check out messages comms I like it being comms. Hmm comms is pretty good

89:26 I don't know if we can go long term with cocks

89:29 I mean speak for yourself Only if you use the it's just a fling for me

89:40 Comms is probably better

89:43 Or you could just say check out jets. You could you could have the long one rather than the short one

89:48 But there's no way you didn't do that on purpose Yeah, it was on purpose, but okay. It's pretty pretty bit of a stretch honestly. I like it check out jets

89:57 Uh, let's have another one for today. They're check out jets. Oh, they sure are

90:02 Uh

90:07 Let's just do the one at the top. How about that? Hey, wonderful tech bros

90:11 I know in the past it's been said that RAM slots on gpus wasn't gonna happen

90:17 But with the RAM Pocalypse here now. Does that change your answer sell cheap gpus with bring your own RAM?

90:25 No, it doesn't change the answer unfortunately because the reasons that they are doing things the way they're doing them

90:32 Are economical or sorry are technical reasons not economical reasons

90:38 In order to get that memory running at the kind of speeds that they need it running at

90:44 The traces need to be extremely short and every time you add trace length or you add an interface

90:51 so so a a pin and a spring or

90:55 anything like that you are you are

90:58 Contributing to signal loss at that will ultimately result in not being able to run it as high of a speed

91:05 That's why the faster the GPU

91:10 The more important it is that we bring the memory closer and closer to it

91:14 So you look at something like hbm where they're bringing the memory right onto the package versus a typical GPU where your memory

91:23 um Dies are laid out around the GPU and you notice they're never far away like they would literally rather

91:32 Have it double-sided on the pcb, especially look at like um some some higher capacity cards

91:38 Where they'll have memory chips laid out around the GPU and you flip it over and there's memory chips all over the back

91:45 Excuse me, um It's the same reason that

91:50 That AMD requires strix halo to have the memory soldered to the board. So that's their Ryzen ai

91:59 ai max 300 but whatever the actual brand rise an ai max an ai max plus if i recall correctly is the the branding for it

92:08 But framework took some flak for making the framework desktop with strix halo and having soldered memory on the board

92:17 But the cold hard truth is the reason that that memory is soldered is because to feed that high performance integrated GPU

92:26 It has to be You could put socketed dims in it, but you'd be giving up so much performance

92:32 That you're basically defeating the purpose of the product in the first place

92:36 socketed GPU's were a thing

92:39 but It just got to the point where

92:43 It just wasn't worth it. It didn't make any sense and the vast majority of the time

92:49 It was pretty clear Pretty much how much memory was needed for that GPU performance in

92:56 The kinds of applications that it would be running. There are certainly exceptions

93:00 We're just having way more could allow you to run a way larger ai model for instance now today

93:07 But from a gaming standpoint NVIDIA and AMD Intel they have a pretty good idea

93:16 How much memory that GPU could really benefit from before you're getting into games that need way more memory

93:21 But would also just need way more GPU horsepower I also think they have a pretty good idea of how they can push people into higher price bands through manipulating that

93:29 Absolutely, but that's a separate conversation. Not a wrong conversation

93:35 totally valid point but is not

93:38 The reason why we don't have socketed GPU's

93:43 at this time

93:51 Was that two merge messages sure was okay slew by time flies and you're having fun sure did you want to pick one?

93:57 um yes

94:00 I do I do want to pick one sony gives up 51 of its bravia tv business to china's tcl

94:09 In a new strategic partnership very very odd. This is done with the aim of leveraging sony's high quality picture and audio technology

94:18 Which includes some class leading image processing? Sorry, I didn't wince to that statement. I wince because it's like interesting that is going in that direction then

94:25 um Which includes some class leading image processing and tcl's and then this is crossed out

94:32 Um advanced display technology global scale advantages. Oh, okay. I see

94:38 industrial footprint end-to-end cost efficiency and vertical supply chain strength

94:42 Also known as cheap manufacturing In a joint press release sony said the joint venture will

94:48 Will operate globally handling full process from product development to design to manufacturing sales logistics customer service everything

94:55 Sony has partnered with numerous other companies to manufacture their TVs in the past

94:59 Um, maybe not to this degree. I'm not necessarily sure on that one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is to this degree. Yeah. Yeah, okay

95:06 They gave up 51 of their business. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, but like they they they have

95:11 Had other factories oem manufacture their TVs. That's not yeah

95:15 What I was talking about was giving up 51 of their business. Uh, because doing that repeatedly is

95:21 confusing Sony has partnered with

95:26 They partnered with tcl's own china star opto electronics technology csot

95:32 Um, at least for now the bravia navel continued to exist But in this new arrangement tcl will take full control of the manufacturing process of sony's tv's

95:40 And likely their soundbar speakers avr's and turntables

95:43 The aim is to have definitive binding agreements signed by the end of march 2026 and for the new company to commence its operations

95:52 in april of 20 27

95:56 Dang does this new surprise you personally? Yes. Yeah big time. Definitely

96:03 This was a major surprise to me because Sony's tv business has has been seemed pretty strong in dire straits at times

96:13 But not right now, right? But it didn't seem like it was right now. Now admittedly like it

96:18 admittedly Every time i've gone out shopping for a tv

96:23 In the last little while whether it was you asking me for a recommendation or whether it was my grandparents needing a new tv

96:30 And me just like going and buying one

96:34 Sony hasn't been in my consideration at all

96:38 So sony has been in kind of a weird place for me where they have a lot of mindshare with me

96:44 I I see it as a high quality product But i'm not willing to open up my wallet

96:50 to pay the premium for it but

96:54 Sony's been in that position for the better part of my adult life

96:58 So I guess what i'm just trying to understand is

97:02 What changed is it maybe just is it just even further

97:07 tighter Pressure to to consolidate like it's I think that the tv game for a long time has been raced to the bottom with prices

97:14 Well, yeah, and they just probably can't compete that way anymore You look at what we saw in that high sense factory tour

97:20 Where they were talking about how important it was that they had this new automated glue dispensing machine for adhering the thing to the thing

97:27 That saved some percentage of glue and i'm like was it expensive glue? They're like no

97:33 And i'm like well, then why does it matter if you save like a few milliliters of glue and they're like well

97:39 because We make a lot of tv's and i'm like, oh, yeah

97:43 That makes sense. Yeah, like they're they are squeezing

97:48 Every penny that they can save out of these things

97:52 In order to keep tv's getting bigger and prices staying similar or in many cases

97:59 Going down here's a question. Have you found that?

98:02 I'm not much of a tv guy. Have you found that tv failure rates have been going up?

98:08 I haven't experienced it personally. I've heard people anecdotally talk about it. Yeah, okay, but

98:15 Like I don't I can't remember the last time I heard anyone say that their tv died of like natural causes

98:22 Like actually so that doesn't seem to be happening because I I have a

98:27 My my fridge at home is having a problem and just because I everything is in my place apparently right now

98:33 Um, we had an appliance guy come in and he was basically just like okay Yeah, I mean I can fix this but realistically this thing's old enough. You should just buy a new one to that

98:41 I was like, huh? My parents have had two fridges that I can remember my entire life

98:47 This fridges does not seem that old. What are we talking about?

98:50 Um, and I did a bunch of research also known as I looked up threads on reddit

98:55 Um, and this is like a thing now. Oh, yeah people are like, oh, yeah fridges last like five ten years now

99:00 Ten years on the high end five on the like average and I was like what wild it's a big box of cold

99:07 Now there are there are tv

99:10 Longevity issues So for instance ratings did that really great investigation into edgelit tv's finding that especially if they were on for very extended periods of time

99:20 At high backlight power What was happening was it was like melting and discoloring the diffusion layer behind the lcd screen

99:29 and That was like a widespread issue with budget tv's for instance

99:34 But what I was going to point out was that you and a lot of people in your social circle are probably

99:40 More middle class. Yeah, and therefore

99:45 Have not the the cheapest tv that makes and so

99:50 It seems to me that you still can buy a quality product that lasts for a while a lot of my friends that aren't necessarily

99:57 um A lot of my friends

100:00 The two that i've been in their living room and seen what they have

100:04 Have not opted to go buy a cheap tv from the store. They've opted to

100:11 get used stuff Um, so they have higher quality things that might be slightly older

100:17 um But like and they let someone else pay the initial

100:21 Depreciation cost which on a tv because they're so cheap

100:25 It seems to be like you got that crazy tv for what was 100 bucks or something crazy for scraphead wars

100:30 No, it was more than that I don't remember what it was, but the the deal was crazy. Whatever. I think it was four

100:35 I want to say 400 canadian dollars and it came with a free soundbar or 600 dollars and it came with a free soundbar

100:40 Whatever it was for the quality of tv that you got. It was fine

100:44 fantastic totally acceptable Our scapid wars tv was 550 with a hundred dollar free soundbar, but it was worth way more than thanks bank rats

100:52 So like the use market for tv seems pretty good

100:55 I think you'd really we bought that one new though as a one. Oh, wow, which puts pressure on the use market as well

101:01 When new tv is just goodness. Yeah. Yeah, we bought it from like open box warehouse, but it wasn't open box

101:07 I know right crazy

101:11 I was going to say was if you're going to buy a tv use check for bernand, but um eddie coltrick says tcl

101:16 Is probably one of the very cheapest tv brands available in the uk

101:19 It's weird to see them taking on what I would consider as a luxury tv brands

101:24 especially sony bravia pro line and

101:28 This is one of those things that I think

101:31 I think i've been guilty of many times in the past as well this perception

101:37 That chinese brands or chinese manufacturing or or or low end brands

101:44 can't Make something better a lot of the time. It's that they choose

101:49 Yeah to make like a budget crappy one. Yeah

101:53 um Sometimes it's because they can't make something better, but a company like tcl like I was

102:00 I was blown away When I first got that 115 inch tv like two years ago or whenever it was and I was like this is not only the biggest tv

102:09 I've ever seen. This is one of the best tv's I've ever seen. I was not

102:12 Expecting that and it has still held it spot in my theater room to this day in spite of

102:18 Heating up competition in the ultra-large tv segment. Yeah, which is

102:23 Crazy kind of wild right? Yeah um

102:26 And and like going back even further Remember how we used to go to ces in the early days

102:33 And hyacinths always had the booth right next to Intel right at the entrance of the central hall

102:39 And I'd be like who the f*** are these guys like I know who Intel is every year for a while

102:44 But who the f*** is hyacinths? Why does the why does the

102:48 Perspective back then Relax. Yeah, like junk tv company have this like massive booth

102:54 I didn't even know who they were at all the first time I saw them because my first ces was like 17 years ago now or something

103:00 Like that. I literally didn't know who they were. I had to look at other like and it was like

103:03 Oh, it's like a weird chinese tv brand that literally doesn't exist in north america at all

103:09 What are they even doing here? And now they're battling it out with tcl another brand that I wouldn't have heard of at all at the time

103:16 For number one number two if I recall correctly is samsung is samsung still up there?

103:22 top tv brands Brands us. Is it hyacinths and tcl now? Are you measuring it by sales? Yeah, would be the volume of sales or or like

103:32 Total dollars

103:36 No, I don't want best

103:39 Yeah, top selling tv brands from accio accio statistics

103:48 So Average star rating last month sales volume hyacinths tcl sony

103:55 That's a cheap sony. So I guess that makes sense samsung at algae visio samsung samsung sam. So oh, we're into

104:03 What are these? I don't know how reliable this is last month sales volume. There's no way. What is this?

104:09 Okay, you know what? I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to be able to find this But the point is they absolutely have a very strong presence in the u.s. Market. We can say that with certainty

104:20 and uh I guess where I yeah where I was going with this is that there's nothing about tcl's

104:28 budget low-end tv's and them not being very good

104:32 That means that tcl doesn't have the manufacturing expertise

104:37 And and facilities to make a high-end tv

104:41 And that's how a lot of these brands ultimately make their way it to having a retail presence is their

104:48 oemming for Much more recognized bigger brands

104:54 And then they eventually kind of go. Sorry. What do I need these guys for and they start making their own stuff and their own stuff kind of

105:02 Sucks, um, not because they don't know how to build a better one in many cases

105:06 Sometimes that because they don't have the color science down or they don't have the good processing chips or whatever the case may be

105:12 and then other times it's because they just recognize that they're going to have to

105:16 Lucky gold star it and start at the the bottom of the quality and perception pile

105:21 And work their work their way up until their manufacturing volumes get higher and their expertise raises and then all of a sudden they're lg

105:29 And they're like a globally dominant electronics brand

105:39 As for how I feel about buying a sony tv at this point

105:45 There things are a little bit more confusing sony still owns 49 percent from my understanding

105:51 So sony is still going to be literally

105:54 Like very invested in bravia tv is being

105:59 Really good

106:02 But would I pay extra would I pay the bravia premium

106:07 For a tcl tv with sony's special sauce knowing that I already

106:12 Wasn't willing to do it and also that nothing's really changed

106:16 Because tcl may very well have been manufacturing them before anyway. Like the whole thing is

106:21 It's funky. It's changing. But is it changing most people aren't going to know that ever happened?

106:27 Oh, yeah Yeah, a hundred percent

106:33 I I think this might be somewhat Sony throwing in the manufacturing towel

106:37 I mean this is talked about a lot where people would be like, oh apple apple or coca-cola coca-cola is not a

106:43 Not a pop company. They're a logistics company whatever

106:48 Tcl I think if you're making that argument about other companies

106:51 I think you can make the argument of them being logistics and manufacturing and

106:55 Efficiency and stuff like that not necessarily a tv company. So if at a certain scale, it's it's very true though. Totally. No

107:01 I'm not I'm not even countering that I'm just saying that you might also I don't know enough about tcl

107:05 But you might also be able to apply that same logic to them And if so, sony might just be like look, we just want to step back and be like a really premium technology and rnd

107:17 group That can contribute that to really good tv's that these other people can pump out

107:23 Um, and if they're getting, you know, if they own 49 percent of of the joint venture

107:29 Big part of the pie, especially if they don't have to mess with the manufacturing side of things

107:32 Logistics and everything they leave that alone. Like it it might be fine. I don't know if I want to be too doomer about this

107:39 Um, as someone who has never purchased a sony tv. It doesn't necessarily matter that much to me

107:44 Yeah, sony was always like an aspirational brand for me even going back to like

107:51 Like portable cd players and stuff. It was like they're usually quite premium. Actually, hold on. No, I did have us

107:57 I did have a discman I remember I had a discman and panasonic was actually the the more premium brand around the time that I finally got one

108:04 I didn't get an early discman like I didn't get one when they were square I got one when sony had kind of started to have their

108:11 Their ability to compete in the premium space eroded when they had the rounded ones

108:17 The conversation we had on when about rechargeable batteries reminded me that I probably needed a few more

108:23 um, so I I treated myself to one of those like

108:27 The in a loop kits nice comes with the the charger and the adapters and stuff

108:33 It showed up. I'm pretty happy about it. I wonder which one I had this looks a little bit too squared off

108:39 To be mine, but this display looks extremely familiar

108:45 Uh, this this branding came way later

108:48 I don't think it's there anymore But I remember when there was a sony store in the willowbrook mall

108:51 They used to go through there all the time and never owned anything from sony, but I always thought it was cool This was absolutely directly competing with like panasonics. Uh, look at the time

109:02 These uh, these early, uh square ones were pretty pretty wild. Oh

109:08 I think this is the one. I think this is the one I had scroll downs like one row digital mega base

109:14 One row right? What yeah, what do you have to like orange and black one at the top of your screen?

109:18 Oh, yeah, this guy. I don't know if I've seen that before but that looks awesome

109:21 Is that relatively new like is that like going for like a retro vibe?

109:27 Can can this not be here? I'm trying to oh my god. It moved stop

109:32 2023 what wait no vintage vintage. Yeah, okay

109:37 It looks awesome late 1980s. That's pretty wild. That's pretty cool. That's quite a vibe going on there

109:45 The kids the kids whose parents loved them more had had panasonics though with their better anti skip

109:52 It's true

109:55 Did you have a panasonic? No My parents love me then your parents didn't love you that much. I don't know about that

110:03 That sounds fishy to me

110:06 I remember there was this one kid in my class who had uh, like I don't remember exactly what we had

110:14 But it was one kind of like the c Dan's parents loved him. Yeah

110:17 Well, I'm pretty sure they didn't buy it. It's probably a repair. Nice. We never bought anything electronic ever

110:23 It's like, oh, this is too much of two repair. We'll just fix it I remember this kid in my grade seven class showing off his panasonic shock wave

110:31 And basically his demo was that he would like give you his headphones and then he'd be like, okay

110:37 Now start shaking it and you'd like you'd shake it for as long as you could before you like got tired

110:43 And it would keep playing the whole time because I think it had 45 seconds of read ahead

110:49 So like you would you would have to like You'd have to shake it for almost a minute to get it to finally skip which was probably

110:57 Terrible for it Like probably awful for it. Totally but a fun demo, but it worked. Yeah. It was a cool demo. He didn't buy it

111:05 Yeah, what does he care? Yeah, I don't know how to feel about this

111:13 It might be fine It might not be fine. Cool. Good chat the 51% of its bravia tv business is also interesting because as far as my understanding goes

111:21 If you're a foreign company and you want to work in china, you just have to do that

111:25 And they said the new company will start operating. Oh, yeah, hold on a second. Um

111:30 definitive binding agreements will be signed by march of 2026 for the new company to commence

111:36 So they didn't just like sell part of their company They made a new company and in china if you're going to make a new company a chinese company has to have

111:45 Uh Majority they have to have at least 51 percent. So this is this I don't even think this was like a negotiation

111:53 They wanted to start a new company in china making tv's and they just had to partner with somebody and they partnered with tcl

112:00 Well, I wish them luck with that. This is part of

112:03 Do I want to talk about this because I don't know enough of the facts

112:07 Uh You might know some of it This is part of carney's plan as far as my understanding goes is 51 percent for

112:15 The canadian side He's trying to do effectively the same thing they're doing when uh when an outside foreign company wants to come to canada and do business

112:23 Especially like natural resource extraction. Yeah, it's been it's been a real problem for canada for a long time

112:30 That we have foreign entities coming in setting up shop um doing a bunch of mineral

112:36 and um natural resource extraction and then

112:40 Funneling the profits outside of canada where there's

112:44 Uh, no contribution to the canadian taxes historically been extremely permitted by canadian leadership

112:52 To the point where there's like almost certainly backroom deals happening

112:55 Um, but yeah, this is this is a discussion about car companies coming in from from china to canada potentially setting up

113:03 Manufacturing and whatnot and a canadian company would need to have

113:07 Majority ownership it's it's and that's that's not a you know, amazing new playbook idea

113:13 That's just hey china did that it worked really well for them. Let's do the same thing

113:17 so Yeah, I mean I I see nothing wrong with learning from our geopolitical rivals

113:25 Hardly rivals. Yeah. Yeah From the big dogs. I mean

113:30 Listen every pokemon game you meet your rival. I know i'm gonna crush him still a rival

113:37 Fair enough um

113:42 All right. Hey, what do you want to talk about next? How about

113:46 Tesla's robo taxi service actually goes full robo for the first time in austin

113:52 Since launching in the summer of this year, tesla's robo taxis have come with a safety monitor

113:57 In the car who can hit a kill switch in the event of an emergency

114:00 But now they've started offering unsupervised trips in austin texas

114:04 Nice, they apparently plan to phase out these safety monitors and move to a fully autonomous fleet over time

114:09 I mean, yes that that has been the plan for That's that's been coming in two years for quite some time now. It's coming in two years. Is it? Yeah

114:18 There have been approximately eight crashes in the five months since the service launched despite the safety monitors

114:23 Which depending on how you interpret that number is either really great or really not as great

114:29 um, I remember reading about some college student who

114:33 Created an app that pings their service constantly from a bunch of different locations to find out

114:39 How many robo taxis they actually have deployed and it turns out it's not very many

114:44 Um Which was pretty interesting

114:48 Good job. Anyway, the cyber taxi program still has a wait list for new riders

114:52 But the company is pushing to open in more cities soon

114:56 um There's a full play i'm asking for a source, but there's a full plane chatter that said this is not true and supervisory

115:04 Safety monitors are in following cars. That's hilarious. I don't have like a source for this or anything yet though

115:11 At what point do you think it would be easier

115:15 For tesla to just Do the things they say they're gonna do instead of pretend to do the things they say they're gonna do impossible

115:24 I'm just wondering impossible. I'm just wondering there'll be two uncharacteristic

115:28 Like what like would it be easier for them to actually make a useful humanoid robot? I can change him energy

115:41 I

115:44 Mean for a trillionaire it's worth at least trying luke

115:50 Yeah, this is a futurism dot dot com article says there's reportedly a car secretly

115:56 Following every tesla. So this is not like I don't know if this is real or not

116:00 um And it says when elon musk said there would no longer be a safety monitor in the car. He didn't mention the other car

116:06 I don't know. This doesn't necessarily mean anything. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not the whole thing

116:09 Basically, doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's been pretty clear that this rollout has been a desperate attempt to prove

116:17 That they're actually definitely for real definitely actually gonna do self-driving this time

116:22 Meanwhile speaking of which are we transitioning to the same topic?

116:26 Yeah Tesla autopilot comes to an end in north america

116:31 Tesla has quietly removed autopilot from all vehicle purchases

116:34 Based on what elon has shared in the u.s. And canada replacing it with traffic aware cruise control or tac

116:41 TACC as the default driver assist feature the change follows tesla's recent announcement that full self-driving

116:49 Supervised is moving to a subscription first model

116:53 Existing owners won't lose autopilot But new buyers now have to pay for fsd or full self-driving if they want features like lane steering

117:02 Oh boy Tesla is offering a longer 90-day fsd trial

117:08 But after that, it's it's 99 bucks a month or a one-time purchase is available until

117:14 February 14th of 11,000 canadian dollars or 8,000 u.s. Dollars

117:21 Autopilot has been a core part of tesla's value proposition and removing it means even basic lane keeping is now pay walled really

117:29 Something many cheaper cars include by default yokes. Is there gonna be comma ai kits for tesla's?

117:36 That's a thing. Oh really? That's that's a thing. Yes

117:40 This is pretty wild to me because a huge part of the

117:44 The tesla package From my understanding has been the

117:50 the advanced software and it seems like this

117:54 This push to making it all a subscription

117:59 Is either Oh my god, it is it either means that they're actually ready this time and it's actually working and they're finally like

118:08 We can actually charge money for this because it's not just

118:11 alpha level software running on beta level hardware

118:16 um, I shouldn't say beta level hardware, but

118:20 It's not working as advertised. They've been they've been making claims about full self-driving for many many years

118:27 With respect to the capabilities and the timeline that have simply not turned out to be true that we can all agree on

118:34 um so either

118:37 Secretly they're like really ready this time and they're like, yeah, we can charge for it now

118:42 or This is a desperate attempt to phomo people

118:46 Into buying a bunch of full self-driving right now so that they can juice the numbers

118:51 For their next investor call and talk about how much people love full self-driving and how much they just bought of it

118:56 I I can't I can't tell

118:59 if if every move in this chess game

119:05 is um Just a way of staving off the ultimate crash of this stock for another quarter or if it's something else

119:16 Can't tell

119:22 Um, yeah, it's uh I don't know it's it's it's it's interesting because they I mean they've got something like I

119:29 I sat in a car with somebody who was driving a tesla and driving is like

119:34 in enormous air quotes because their their legs were crossed in their seat and they were like

119:42 clearly on their phone and uh showing me the the how they know the limits of

119:48 When autopilot will get them to like pay attention again

119:51 And how they like play within the limit so they just never have to do anything

119:55 And it drove them all the way from where we were to the next location with no intervention whatsoever

120:01 Yes

120:04 Yeah

120:09 I don't want it to come back to that person But there was other stuff going on as well like it was uh, it was honestly quite impressive

120:17 But then that's still not technically the advertised full self-driving

120:22 But the thing that gets me is the removing of of even things like lane keeping like that's

120:27 Crazy because clearly they have something like that was that was quite an impressive experience to be honest

120:33 um But to just rip it away it's like yikes, man to be clear everyone who has

120:41 autopilot which is Advanced cruise control with lane keep not without it. Um

120:47 Everyone who has it in their existing vehicle already will still have it

120:53 Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So they're not taking it away from anyone who does have it

120:56 They're just not providing it as an included option on vehicles

121:01 Going forward. So you'll have to pay a subscription to unlock it. Okay. Just like

121:06 You've had to pay to unlock the heated rear seats in the past for instance. Yeah

121:10 I mean that still kind of sucks them, but that's not as bad as I thought I I misinterpreted this

121:13 I thought they were taking it away And I was like what like if that was my experience which you know, maybe you shouldn't do that

121:19 But if that was my experience, um, I'd be kind of pissed

121:23 Going back to like a fully manual car. No, definitely not. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool

121:29 Uh more Elon news

121:33 Yeah, let's do that instead that sounds like a better idea

121:36 Mm-hmm

121:39 Floatplane announcement this week on Floatplane. Do you want to bring it up? Sure

121:44 Is all about what Linus does when he's not in Linus youtuber mode? Oh, okay. Interesting

121:51 The tonight show behind the scenes vlog is finally out

121:56 showcasing what happened during the event including the parts where the laptop did in fact work

122:01 And a quick meeting with Jimmy Fallon himself

122:05 Um, yeah, Luke got to meet him too this time. Yeah, it was cool. Uh, here he is

122:09 He didn't chat with us for as long this time as he did the first time

122:13 It was pretty short, but he's a he's a busy man. I'm trying to find the laptop opening

122:18 Uh, you'll find it We didn't end up capturing how frustrated I was right after the segment

122:23 Uh, but you did get to see how depressed the room felt

122:27 So that's something. Oh, yeah, he must have been filming in there

122:31 I talked to sammy about it and he was like, yeah, I was

122:35 I I've never actually seen you like really upset before and I was like scared to film you and I was like sammy

122:41 You still have it You you well, I didn't say that

122:46 um I was like sammy

122:51 Even if I say don't The right thing to do is to film me. Yeah, because later. I don't use it. Yeah, we can always

123:00 I can always tell you later when I'm like not upset anymore

123:03 Let's not do that. Let's not upload it But we can never recapture a moment and the example I gave him was when wanik server

123:12 suffered that enormous data loss incident and I was like

123:16 Actually, like I I think I snapped it. I think it was taryn van hemert

123:21 Like put away the camera like like was like

123:24 Not okay in that moment And he basically was like I disagree. This is very important

123:31 In that way that he sometimes did

123:36 Which I didn't have time to argue with him about and ultimately I came to him afterward and I was like you were right

123:42 You were right to capture this moment because this was really great very real

123:48 content that I wasn't in the mood for

123:51 Making at the time, but I'm very grateful that we have captured now that I can look back on it after the fact

123:58 And so I basically I told sammy that story about how like even if I tell you know

124:04 The better thing to do is capture it. We can always not use it. We can always even delete it

124:09 If anything, I would take it a sign to maybe be

124:13 Less intrusive with the filming but keep filming. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah

124:18 Um Anyway, what else was I gonna say? We also had sammy following follow me around during my day at ces

124:24 To see what it looks like when I don't have 12 shoots at the show floor

124:28 This ranged from troubleshooting and inconsequential laptop all the way to some behind the scenes of us at the robot fight event

124:34 Also funny moment at 1919 to 1929. Okay. Okay

124:41 1919 oh hold on hold on hold on

124:46 Uh, okay audio Dan. Do we have audio?

124:57 I'm not gonna yuck your young

125:06 That's a fire quote

125:12 Oh my god Wow, that's a huge yikes. Um

125:18 If you

125:21 If you prefer riley though Riley and bjorn sat down to talk about the behind the scenes and some insight on how to make their fun

125:29 Creative sponsor spots. I saw that. I'm excited to I haven't watched it, but I saw the thumbnail

125:33 I'm excited to watch that stay tuned because next week we have a Floatplane exclusive product

125:38 Not clothing that is very cool. That's launching LMG dot gg slash fp

125:45 When go check it out Do you know about this?

125:48 I my brain just went to like cables. Nope. Okay

125:54 Oh, I love that you don't know about this. This is gonna be so much fun. It's gonna be a great surprise

125:57 I wonder I can't speculate though. I'm not gonna tell you nothing right now. Absolutely nothing stone cold poker face

126:04 Um, how do I

126:08 Okay, I can't no I can't

126:14 Yeah, I'm gonna try again. I'm gonna try again. Okay. You can't put it on me Dan. You can't put the camera on me

126:18 I saw I saw you do that. No, you can't. Okay

126:25 This is gonna do it again I'm actually really surprised you can't do this. Are you are you are you throwing for content?

126:32 But no, why would I do that because it's so easy

126:35 Fine, you do it

126:41 You're so smiling

126:45 Stoic when zoom in on him

126:52 I saw I saw twitch. I didn't laugh at you though. That's not fair

127:00 I did not laugh at you. I got I got I had a more difficult version

127:05 Sure

127:09 Uh It's actually a really great trick for uh

127:13 Photographing kids when you have uh, when you have a bunch of kids and like like they won't smile or whatever else

127:18 And you just try to fit the love of god. Can we just be serious? Yeah. Okay, everybody

127:22 Everybody make the most serious face. No I'm telling you you've got to be completely serious right now. That's not that's not serious enough. Hey, I'm warning you

127:32 They'll all crack up. I guarantee it every time super cool hack

127:35 I remember um, I was probably a teenager So I still had young siblings and a photographer

127:42 Pulled that move on us for like our family portrait that year or whatever

127:46 And I was like i'ma file that away because that's gonna be useful

127:50 I don't know why this made me think of this, but I saw somebody recently who fed

127:54 You know pills to their dog and they did so by

127:57 Accidentally dropping like a piece of meat off their plate

128:02 But it was the like it had the pill in it. I don't remember what it maybe it wasn't a piece of meat

128:05 But like something off their plate, but their dog is like super fast about getting it. Yeah

128:10 It's actually pretty smart. That's really smart

128:14 It was pretty good Okay

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130:09 wan All right, a couple more topics shall we?

130:13 Yeah, what do you want to talk about mr. Lafrendo, what do I want to talk about? What do you want to talk about?

130:20 Ubisoft Do you really want to talk about no to be honest?

130:24 But I think we should after announcing a sweeping company restructure that includes the closure of two

130:31 studios The delay of seven titles yikes and the cancellation of six more yikes including the prince of persia sands of time remake

130:41 No That was oh, I was uh, I love prince of persia sands of time that one

130:48 I mean, I wouldn't have given you bisoft money for a remake of it, but whatever

130:52 It was off lowered its financial year expectations by 330 million pounds euro euros now euro

131:03 It's singular fun fact really yep Why did they do that? I don't know because they're a bureau

131:11 Now a 1.5 billion euro

131:14 With an operating loss of around 1 billion euro

131:19 Shares dropped 34 in value on thursday an approximate 95 loss from five years ago and the lowest point in 14 years

131:29 How do you get to keep your job as ceo at that point? Well, you're the family that owns the company, I think

131:35 All right, so oh the same reason I I've kept my job. It's pretty good. You're not the ceo anymore though. That's true

131:42 Mm-hmm

131:46 That's uh, wow, that's a wow

131:49 Huh, how about that that decline doesn't exactly look like it's stopping either

131:54 Well, I mean, that's the thing about you know stocks is they can you know, they stock they can stonks or they can stonks

132:00 They can kind of they can upside down stonks. Yeah

132:04 Wow discussion question ubi soft ceo yves guimÃ³n

132:08 Is calling you right now and says i'll do anything you say to save this company. Please help me. What do you tell him to do?

132:15 Uh, he could try um

132:20 Oh man, what would I do to save it would be soft at this point?

132:24 I gotta say I don't know necessarily enough about their problems

132:29 Like obviously they have the problems with the product that they're delivering

132:33 But I don't know enough about their product I don't know enough about their problems internally because you can

132:39 You can have like a super toxic company that's hyper dysfunctional behind the scenes but manages to

132:45 To churn out good product even for like a very long time with that dysfunction

132:50 And you can have a company that is very harmonious behind the scene

132:55 Behind the scenes but has bad luck and and is not ultimately

133:00 Successful obviously there would be a correlation between companies that are operating harmoniously and are executing and are making money and succeeding

133:08 But it's not a guarantee. So I don't I just don't know enough

133:13 about How

133:16 I don't know enough about what's wrong with them like obviously i'm playing expedition 33 right now

133:22 And it seems like the kind of game that ubi soft could have made. Yeah, it really does externally like yeah

133:29 So much Like where where those where those guys from anyway

133:34 33 yeah, they're from france

133:37 Yes, I know from france. Uh, hold on team

133:43 But where's the uh Oh, no way

133:47 No way Okay wikipedia the ideas behind expedition 33 originated in 2019 with guillombrouche

133:55 An employee of ubi soft not long before the covet 19 pandemic began

133:59 I I can't I can't just keep taking all these w's from my videos that no one cares about on on flow plane

134:06 My my little series on gaming things. Have you watched any of them?

134:10 My whole point is that way back in the day with atari and stuff like atari's

134:16 Slow death was the thing that spawned companies like activision and my whole argument is we're going through that again right now

134:22 Yeah, and this is my example as to why is these types of things keep happening

134:27 This is an offshoot from ubi soft in bark studios the guys that made arc raiders another game of the year, but for multiplayer

134:34 Uh winner this year is an offshoot from

134:38 A dice right like all these companies that are releasing like

134:42 He's like new feeling companies that are releasing amazing games are very often people leaving these giant

134:50 No longer properly functioning companies of of effectively the past now right and making new

134:57 Uh, it's hyper successful often. It's basically what happened with zip-tie tuning

135:03 Oh my Oh my

135:08 Are you the activision of youtube? In relative years it might make sense

135:16 I think i'm still doing all right get owned We've got a fun collab coming with them by the way. I'm very excited. I shot it monday. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, that's sweet

135:25 Yeah, we uh, that's exciting. I think I think

135:28 I think this is uh, I think I think it's going to be a very exciting future

135:35 Is you know what I won't say more than that. Yeah, it's going to be an exciting future

135:38 Yeah, I mean I could talk for way too long about all the things that I think ubi soft could do to to fix themselves

135:43 I have lots of opinions on this I don't know if it makes sense to talk for an incredibly long time on that topic

135:48 Um, but I think I mean some of it feels like really obvious to me

135:52 Um, like we can start with skull and bones. It was like clearly an obvious massive failure when everyone on the

135:59 F***ing planet told you exactly what to do and you were like, no

136:04 Like maybe just listen to people. Maybe you should have just made another

136:09 like And I think they're remastering it as well do that Assassin's Creed 4 was one of the best things you ever made

136:15 Remaster it sure, but also make another one

136:18 Make a single player pirates game. That is awesome

136:22 No one cared about the assassin's creed portion of assassin's creed 4

136:27 All they cared about was the boats Make a single player boat combat game. It was sick. Just do it again. Oh my god

136:36 You're you're obviously best assassin's creed games were two and then the brotherhood and and ascension

136:44 I think I got the names right

136:48 Go back to Ezio make a like return of Ezio. It's been I think over a decade. I think it would be okay

136:54 I'm sure you can find a way to slot another story in in his like some age gap

136:59 He got he got a pretty old the fireman correctly between brotherhood and ascension

137:03 Find some stories in the middle there. It's probably fine. You can do it again

137:06 There's there's like a version of this for every single franchise. You're telling me you can't make a far cry game based around

137:13 What's happening in america right now? Are you kidding me?

137:18 Far cry was always the like political tension game. You think there's political tension right now in the states like

137:25 Find a way. There's a way for all of these things. It feels so

137:29 Obvious they made any like rayman games recently. I'm not sure like I they did some weird collab with mario like forever ago

137:40 Rayman they did already one of the Far Cry's was said in america. That's not current year problems

137:47 I mean a lot of america's current year problems are not exactly new

137:52 Mostly fair There was some there was a little bit it was a little bit

137:59 Yeah, I kind of like that one. I still have one of the figurines from oh, yeah, okay

138:02 Mario plus rabbits spark of hope it doesn't even have rayman in the name of the game rabbits just rabbits

138:10 Oh, whoa Seriously

138:15 Yeah, they haven't done like a mainline rayman game in

138:21 Freaking forever who cares about rabbits

138:25 I don't know that's crazy

138:29 Splinter cells seems like a huge dropped ball lots of potential there

138:34 um Well, am I missing something here? Yeah, rayman legends

138:39 Apparently was was the last one 2013

138:46 Whoa I

138:52 Just I'm looking at like some of their franchises right now

138:55 And it's just there's like so much potential and it just feels like they've like wet noodled every one of them

139:01 Like far cry when far cry was like banging with like far cry 3 far cry 4 around that area

139:07 They were very topical right very topical and they've just ditched that

139:13 um What are their other ips just kind of curious

139:20 Uh, you be soft the new anno doesn't seem like it's reviewing super well

139:24 I do wonder if that has like an expansion fatigue problem where the previous AI and

139:30 Things a lot of the like I don't know if they've fixed this yet But it came under fire a lot because all of the like loading screens and stuff like that

139:38 Uh, the painted backgrounds seemed to mostly just be AI generated. Um

139:43 Um It might have changed, you know

139:47 But a little disappointing It feels like a classic ubisoft decision though. So it's just like

139:54 I don't know

139:57 So here's some here's some ubisoft

140:00 ip's Man a lot of these have weakened

140:05 A lot all of them. I think I think pretty sure every single one anno was strong until the very most recent release anno 1800

140:12 Was an absolute yeah, the one in the photo was wicked

140:16 um Man beyond good and evil has been I don't know if that's been relevant for a really long time

140:22 If I was I I understand this is like literally not the point if I was running the steep project

140:28 I would probably do like, uh, uh, I don't know what you would call it like a remix version where you go back to like

140:35 SSX tricky style gameplay and release one of those remember when they released that far cry

140:40 That was like blood dragon. Yes I would do like a blood dragon for steep and make it more like, uh, the like old snowboarding games like 1080 and ssx tricky

140:51 And release a version of that If for no other reason to like just get people talking about your studio in a potentially positive way

140:57 Like there's answers all over the place. They have so many legendary ip under ubisoft and it just feels like every time

141:05 They just have to piss them away and it makes me want to scream

141:09 Um, the the skull and bones thing was such an insane disappointment

141:13 It was such an auto win that they just spent

141:16 Incredible amounts of money on making sure it would fail horrendously

141:20 So frustrating Okay, we're good. Do you want to talk about Bethesda now?

141:26 You seem like you're on it

141:30 I don't know Maybe we could talk about the decline of blizzard. Oh, am I like, oh, no

141:37 All right

141:40 Oh, you're not serious. Okay. I thought there was a Bethesda topic and I was like, I'm gonna

141:44 Vane's gonna pop out of my head. No. Okay. All right, test six is actually set in the starfield universe

141:56 Oh, no, my mic was unmuted I was

142:00 You get to the end of the game and you have to just delete your entire save and start over again because

142:05 For some reason that was a good idea. It takes you do that again into starfield and then you have to play that

142:10 Nice. Nice. And then it's a prequel. It's a prequel. Yes. Good. Good. Good. Good

142:15 Hey, that hey the worst mechanic in the entire game. Let's make them do that again. Let's let's do that another time

142:22 The microsoft ceo microsoft ceo acknowledges that they will lose

142:27 Social permission to waste electricity on ai unless they do something useful with it

142:32 Wait

142:35 In a surprising moment of self-awareness Microsoft ceo satcha nadella admitted at the world economic forum that ai risks and this is a direct quote

142:46 Becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies

142:53 He also said that ai companies will quickly lose the social permission to take something like energy

142:59 Unless it's used for improving health outcomes education outcomes public sector efficiency private sector competitiveness across all sectors small and large

143:11 More quotes For this to not be a bubble it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread

143:18 And he also said that the a telltale sign that ai is a bubble would be that only tech companies were benefiting

143:30 So it turns out they do hire really smart people to be CEOs of tech companies

143:34 Way to go. They just never say the quiet part out loud except when they do except for this time

143:39 man Davos and the World economic forum this year where just absolute fire a banger

143:46 Who needs the real housewives of beaverly hills when we have

143:50 Davos in the world economic forum

143:54 What a wild couple events I mean, I guess that's what happens when you hire a reality star to be the head of the world's largest economy

144:05 You end up with reality tv in your politics. It is. I mean the ratings are high

144:10 Everyone's watching. Yeah, they have the best ratings

144:14 My friends told me they said you've never seen ratings like this. Did they have it? He's right

144:21 Way to go um All right, so this comes after microsoft reaffirmed investments of tens of billions of dollars into building ai data centers

144:31 And after nadella asked the public To stop calling ai slop slop

144:38 To which the public responded by changing microsoft branding on things to microslop

144:45 Because of course that was going to happen. It's so easy now that they can just do it with ai. Ah, yes

144:50 Yes, anyone can meme on microsoft now

144:54 Our discussion question is should big investors into ai be sweating?

144:59 Yeah

145:03 Unless you think you can time your exit really really well

145:07 I mean I like I think we talked about this on wancho before and I've heard this argument elsewhere as well, but like

145:13 I don't think a lot like a lot of like the the the googles of the world

145:17 Whatever man, they have so much revenue flowing in

145:21 um They're gonna be fine the microsofts of the world. They're gonna be fine. Oh, yeah

145:26 Because they have they have real revenue. Do we have a real business ad thing in here an open ai ad

145:33 So open ai is talking about putting ads into their

145:37 Like free tier and stuff, but there's a for chat gpt There's a quote there's a quote from sam altman talking about how putting ads into the service would be like

145:46 a last financial resort and that quote was like

145:50 Not that long ago and now they're adding ads into the service

145:56 um and The discussion around this is is a little bit nuanced because some people are going like, okay

146:02 Well, he said last financial resort. So are they failing?

146:06 Like is this is this the beginning of the end? Here's a source from pcgamer dot

146:12 Whoa, what site am I on again? Which one just in case you I didn't know

146:17 Yeah, one's called it a last resort, but chat gpt is about to get stuffed with ads. Yeah, but

146:22 the the counter

146:26 Oh, sorry, oh my god. Yeah, it's a pretty good one

146:30 Oh because sam altman is such an ethical person that he was always

146:36 Never otherwise Even if they don't sell the data of the companies, they can still target you to all hell. So just be ready for that

146:42 um But uh, there is a counter argument that while it might actually genuinely be a last resort

146:50 It doesn't mean that they're necessarily failing

146:54 Um, if you look at I mean, they might have been

146:57 But this move might literally be significant enough that it actually solves their problems

147:02 Because there is just so much freaking money in ads

147:06 And like if you look at this is a direct argument from

147:11 Uh dug dug, I believe um

147:14 Which was basically like if you look at if you look at facebook and google

147:18 Clearly ads be banging. So like this might actually be enough to just bring them all the way up. It'll be interesting to observe

147:26 um Because I I really wonder how they're going to implement it because

147:31 And

147:35 Will this open the door for all the other ones to do the same

147:39 Absolutely as soon as I mean, this is why I always go off about apple doing something that's anti consumer

147:46 Because the second apple does it it gives everybody else permission to do it. It's not because I will even necessarily use the apple product

147:53 it's just because Everyone else blindly follows once something becomes a norm because there's another dollar to be made by

148:00 Not including a cable or a charger or whatever else is in the box. So if the household name

148:05 LLM service Then everybody else is

148:10 It's it's easy and they don't have to tank the reputational hit because opening. I will just do it somebody else did it first. Yeah, yeah

148:17 Yeah, um Our next discussion question is haven't these companies already lost their social permission to burn energy?

148:25 No, no, I mean, that's the thing. So this was written by david who I think is a very

148:30 He's a very dialed in person. He knows

148:34 He knows stuff about a lot of stuff and he's he's got a high high awareness level

148:40 You know, like, uh, high high awareness intelligence. You might say ai

148:45 um Sorry david, I would never say something that rude about you without it being a joke clearly a joke

148:52 Uh, but anyway, like david has a high level of awareness and um, I think that

148:58 I think that often We

149:02 And I mean I'm talking to you guys too right now. That's right. You I'm talking to you. Whoa, you guys very serious

149:09 We we live in our bubble We we hang out a lot of you probably work in in the tech industry a lot of you

149:17 Probably gravitate towards people in your lives who who keep up with and are interested in talking to you about the tech industry

149:24 You're watching How how long have we been how long have we been live?

149:28 You are you're two and a half hours Into a podcast that is at least loosely I was gonna say loosely like

149:38 Maintains a facade. Yeah, there you go. I'm being about technology, right?

149:43 And so I I feel like we end up with this inherent

149:47 I don't know if I would quite call it an echo chamber because I would like to think that we are open to new ideas

149:54 But it's definitely a self reinforcing

149:58 Perception that the things that we are knowledgeable about are

150:03 The same things that everyone around us is knowledgeable about and more importantly cares about

150:09 but no like My sister-in-law doesn't know how much power chat gpt is using

150:18 She doesn't even know it wouldn't even occur to her to ask

150:21 I I think there's a lot of people that are just going to be like, you know what I am invested in

150:27 the The stock market in general. I my pension is invested in the stock market in general

150:34 I want these companies to do whatever they're going to do to make money And I I think yeah a lot of people aren't going to say that out loud

150:39 And that's even a tier of awareness above Yeah, like what we're what we're talking about here where we where we care about the the technical details of

150:48 which NVIDIA accelerators and how much VRAM they have on them and what impact that has on the supply of silicon wafers

150:57 That's going to micron or sk hynix for the production of consumer memory and how that's affecting the pricing of the steam machine

151:03 Like that's the kind of stuff that we're talking about on this show with the assumption that you guys are all kind of saying

151:08 They're going yeah, yeah, I have all the context to kind of follow along with this

151:13 um but there's Other people who are like way more interested in nutritional supplements or in

151:21 The in in in min maxing the performance of their truck or whatever else it is that they do and they're passionate about and they care about

151:28 I'm not saying that these are not aware people. I'm just saying they might have a lower level of awareness

151:34 This particular topic. Yeah about this particular topic. I don't know what's going on and probably whatever they do

151:40 be either I couldn't I couldn't tell you who makes the best

151:44 Drill right now. Yeah, I don't know

151:48 Milwaukee Mekita. Yeah, DeWalt

151:53 I'm on the team of the probably not ryobi company that I have the battery compatibility with. Yeah, exactly, right?

152:01 To the project farm Yeah, yeah, to be honest

152:05 Exactly, right? So I'm um

152:09 so none of this really Surprises me that or none of this surprises me that

152:15 No, people Haven't gotten fed up with what ai companies are doing unless these companies are operating in their backyard and

152:23 and Emitting a bunch of you know toxic gas and smoke into the air that's like drifting over there over their house or whatever

152:32 um, and no, it doesn't surprise me either that david probably

152:37 lives in enough of a Technological bubble that to him it was like obvious that this is bad and to a lot of you guys like a lot of your your

152:47 Your adamant opposition to ai is based on understanding exactly what's going on right now

152:55 Um and being kind of powerless to stop it. I mean we talked about this in the um in the bright side of tech video

153:02 where it's like, yeah, you're you're 100 like

153:05 We got the I got the messaging wrong when I talked about it live on the WAN Show where I was like

153:10 We need a perspective adjustment a lot of people bristled at that wording

153:14 And so we we avoided that wording when we did the bright side of tech video, but it was thank you for beta testing our video

153:21 I know right it was but it was it was the same it was the same point

153:25 The point was that you're 100 right to be mad

153:29 100 um You're 100 right to feel powerless and frustrated 100 but just

153:39 Okay, can we direct it to the right places?

153:42 That's all can we just can we point it in the right direction?

153:47 um was kind of what I was trying to what I was trying to get across and

153:51 and and directing it at this at this

153:57 At this all in bet for the next

154:01 The next 5g the next iot the next big tech trend that will make the stock

154:08 Go go go hockey stick higher um at the expense of

154:13 You know anything else getting better for the the average consumer

154:18 um Yeah, definitely be mad about that, but you know, maybe not

154:25 Maybe not everything we I don't I just I don't think we have the energy to be angry about everything

154:31 I don't it's also just like really bad for you Well, yeah objectively

154:36 This is this is this is based in true. Yeah

154:42 Pick your battles and avoid the ones you don't have yeah Andre B says the bright side of tech video was a somewhat surprising video really appreciated it. Yeah, I

154:50 I um I wasn't sure how it was going to go It was one of those ones that we talked about a lot in the writer's room and we kind of

154:57 We knew that we were doing something a little bit risky

155:01 It's a lot easier to go. I am a consumer advocate. I am that was on paper mad on your behalf

155:10 Um, uh, that is effective. It's not effective. It doesn't do anything. It can be

155:17 It can be if it's done in a way that is effective, but

155:23 I haven't I haven't seen it With respect to anything around

155:27 What's going on with AI right now like being mad about micron

155:32 Shuttering the crucial brand is not going to change that decision I think the biggest impact we've seen actually is in gaming with a few companies coming out and saying that they'll

155:41 Limit their usage of it or whatever. Yeah, um, which is interesting and

155:46 Also, I don't know how much I don't know if I believe it's gonna last man

155:50 And I also have heard that that is

155:54 causing Some issues within a couple studios not one. I've heard more than one

156:01 um Where some of the workers are actually really frustrated

156:07 By not being able to use it. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all

156:11 Because there was certain cases where the higher ups didn't even know

156:14 To what degree it was being used and then made statements being like whatever dude

156:19 I I found out I found out about an AI tool that we were using

156:23 Yesterday in a meeting with an external company

156:26 I had no idea. So apparently, you know, the the safety pass on our videos

156:32 Where we check for exposed email addresses. Oh, yeah, IP addresses

156:37 Um physical addresses phone numbers Are you doing an automated run of that as well?

156:42 Apparently there's an automated run of that before a human goes in and checks it

156:46 Yeah, so you do the classic you don't actually remove the human step

156:49 But you added that one to help and we we we've tuned it to be extremely sensitive

156:54 So out of 20 positives probably only two of them will be real

156:58 Sure, but then when the human check happens, I can just verify those things But I literally didn't even know we were doing that and uh and and um a member of our a member of our team

157:07 James was telling this this other entity that we were chatting with and sort of sharing

157:13 Exchanging trade secrets basically. Yeah learning from each other

157:17 um He he was like, yeah And like the best thing about it is that for a 20 minute video it doesn't take 20 minutes to watch it

157:24 It can do it in like a few seconds and then you can just be surgical about what you're then reviewing as a human is like

157:33 It doesn't surprise me at all then that the leadership at these companies literally just had

157:38 No idea what the employees were doing because at the end of the day as long as the work output quality is high

157:44 The way we're going it's just gonna it's gonna be another tool whether you like it or not

157:51 Yeah, and for a lot of people already is and for a lot of people it has been for a long time

157:54 As well like there's nothing you could do as you know, let's say larion

158:00 There's nothing that you could do as larion to prevent your concept artists from generating a bunch of ai slop on their computer at home

158:08 Being inspired and then being inspired the next day when they come into the office

158:12 You literally can't Yeah, you can't actually technically control it

158:19 You can you can set uh

158:22 Like a tone for your company you can you can try to set like a general expectation

158:26 And then people would have to work around that and be sneaky and dodgy about it

158:30 Which will significantly reduce it potentially to zero

158:34 But you can't actually guarantee that it will be at zero the the cat's out of the bag

158:38 This is this is the same argument i've made in the past about like

158:41 Um the ai regulation stuff is like i don't know what you can do at this point

158:46 Um, and i'm a very open to ideas to be clear. I'm not saying don't do anything but

158:51 Like the the models have already been trained and then open sourced. They're out there

158:56 There's no we're you can't turn this off. There's no turning the faucet to close. It's it's

159:02 It's out there people are are running this in home Labs. You cannot take it fully away anymore

159:07 And in fairness a lot of the ideas are really good like look at this tiger polar bear

159:16 Can you imagine can you imagine star wars?

159:20 With creature design of this caliber that is what ai's

159:27 It's just so sad man. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry

159:31 Pond crackers goes. Oh, no not again

159:34 It's so sad for so many reasons because like that obviously just in and of itself is

159:40 Depressing but then just seeing what has happened to star wars and then seeing that that is

159:44 A genuinely like praised idea coming out of that camp just is so sad. That's not even the worst one

159:50 This is the worst one. Yeah, this is by far the worst one

159:56 They're all so bad though

160:01 So

160:04 He looks he even looks He scrolled down like he actually just looks sad. He's like, why did this happen to me?

160:13 This one is this one is upset that he has to wear that costume

160:16 It sounds like why did they why did they put weird dots on me? I would never show this

160:20 Just show don't show it to no WAN Show it to no one and talk about it

160:23 Not at all that would be the solution pat them on their head and tell them to run off to their cubicle again

160:28 And go do more productive things

160:33 RIP star wars um Speaking of open sourcing algorithms

160:38 Elon musk has been talking about open sourcing the recommendation algorithm behind x

160:42 Since before he bought twitter and attempted to rebranded x earlier this week news broke that it was finally happening

160:48 But the story evolved rapidly with the target date shifting from next week to march 31st

160:54 No There is an existing github repository

160:57 Purporting to be the code behind the algorithm But most of the code is from before x was x with the latest changes coming back in september of 20

161:05 25 I wonder if when they open source it if they ever do

161:09 We'll be able to find the part where his tweet is always at the very top of my feed regardless of whether I follow him or not

161:16 Yeah, probably not probably not

161:19 Probably not Google begins rolling out

161:23 Personal intelligence beta for ai pro and ai ultra subscribers

161:28 Gemini with personal intelligence hopes to combine the data from across many different google products gmail youtube photos drive search calendar

161:34 Etc to provide highly personalized answers Google's pitch as to why you don't have to worry about privacy is literally

161:40 And because this data already lives at google securely you don't have to send sensitive data elsewhere to start personalizing your experience

161:46 Which love it. I have to insert

161:50 Is just true They already have it all anyways

161:54 They're not like it's Maybe this is a quiet part out loud thing, but like I read that and I was like, yeah

162:00 They also promise that gemini doesn't train directly on your gmail inbox or google photos library

162:06 But they will train on prompts and responses within gemini. Okay, and I think a key word there is directly

162:12 For example, when prompted gemini will tell you where it pulled the information from so you can verify it and you can correct it on the spot

162:18 i.e. I don't like golf or I just dropped my son off there for work

162:22 It will also filter out or obfuscate what it deems to be personal data. I don't good luck with that

162:27 Yeah, sure it definitely will definitely do that also ai's have no history of gaslighting

162:31 You're telling you things that are false ever they definitely would never do that. This is not a problem

162:35 I'm kind of tempted to try it just to see if like it does anything useful at all

162:39 But I also just feel like it's gonna end up being a waste of time probably set an alarm for you

162:44 It's just one Just one, yeah

162:48 Oh the fact that like set timer and set alarm were not just like running locally on my device

162:53 And I have to wait around for the cloud delay is nuts in 2026

162:57 I I didn't have networking on my phone and I tried to set an alarm and it just sat there spinning and I realized why and I was like

163:05 Oh my god, I want to smash this thing It would be so simple to process that locally

163:11 But no But no

163:14 Okay, our next topic gigs in space

163:20 And the first note for this from mr. Jordan block is sorry. I've been rewatching old muppet shows

163:26 That's kind of based really good. I uh, I forget how old I was but I was an adult

163:31 I didn't watch the muppets as a kid because it was a little before my time

163:34 Um, but I I did watch the old the muppet show. It's so good

163:38 It's like so funny and subversive and

163:42 I am old enough that I at least know who a lot of the people they're making references to are

163:50 Um, yeah, it's uh, I don't know that younger people would enjoy it. I think

163:57 Like mid to to elder millennial is probably about as young as you'd want to be but it's it's really good

164:03 Yeah, and the reboot movies were good too. At least the first one or two were

164:08 On wednesday this week blue origin the bezos founded space technology company announced their upcoming

164:14 Terra wave a network of more than 5 000 satellites in low earth orbit that they say will deliver

164:19 Symmetrical speeds of up to six terabit per second anywhere on the globe

164:24 Uh, well, I'll believe that when I see it the new network is expected to serve up to 100 000 customers globally and will offer both rf

164:30 144 gigabit per second and optical six terabit per second connectivity options

164:36 Current low earth orbit constellations are serving millions of customers with asymmetric speeds up to 1 gigabit per second download and 400

164:43 megabit per second upload with the main one being of course

164:47 starlink, uh, there is another one. What is it called? Um

164:55 Galileo Galileo, um, how many satellites?

165:01 But I think starlink is like way ahead of the others

165:06 AI overview says as of

165:09 late 2025 the Galileo

165:14 Figaro

165:19 What is this a is this a reference to yeah, I heard about

165:23 Oh, you got I got duped by a Floatplane Kerbal space program mod

165:28 That was a good one chat. I like that That's good. Dang

165:33 You got I haven't had egg on my face for a while tastes good

165:42 Yeah, apparently there's really not a lot of Galileo satellites up there yet. Um, no Galileo is also, um

165:51 People are saying Galileo is gps equivalent. Well, hold on a second. What does um

165:59 Hold on hold on I'm gonna figure this out. Um

166:04 I mean, it's definitely it's definitely a thing

166:09 Leo satellite go go Galileo broadband connectivity for every airframe like it's

166:15 Definitely internet connectivity high speed low latency internet to business aircraft. Um

166:22 I don't know how many I don't know how many satellites they have

166:27 Apparently Galileo is europe's gps. So maybe it's just a double naming thing maybe there's two

166:34 Go go Galileo uses the utel sat one web low earth orbit satellite constellation which consists of somewhere around

166:42 600 satellites according to the ai overview. Okay, so it's the utel sat one web

166:48 How many one web satellites are in orbit?

166:53 As of early march 2023 according to wikipedia, there are 584

166:57 Okay, got it got it got it got it got it got it got it got it Okay

167:02 Well Anywho a discussion question. Could this be a viable solution for remote ingest of footage when we're shooting on location?

167:09 I mean potentially, but it's all going to depend on like starlink what the power requirements are and the the fixture requirements are for the

167:17 Uh for the base stations, which I haven't seen yet

167:21 What is starlink operating over?

167:25 Like what frequency or uh, well this was saying rf or optical

167:31 Starlink's definitely not optical Yeah, I feel like optical is going to be tough and they're they're trying to talk about the the six terabits per second

167:39 But optical so it's like

167:42 Yeah

167:45 I don't know dude sounds pretty awesome, but like I I wonder um,

167:51 does your Does your transfer get cancelled if a plane flies overhead or if there's a cloud or a

167:58 What if a complicated flies overhead

168:06 It's very interesting to me though, that's crazy like it sounds

168:10 Kind of uh pretty epic. I would like to know more. I'd like to know what the complications are and stuff like that

168:15 How much of a difference is it in latency if you're at like 40,000 feet versus if you're on the surface of the earth

168:21 For like a for like a low earth orbit internet connection. I wonder

168:24 Huh like how high How high in feet

168:29 are Satellite to satellite is optical for starlink that makes sense

168:33 But am I am I misreading this is is their optical just satellite to satellite? Oh, okay. They're like

168:39 1.8 million feet, so it wouldn't make that much of a difference

168:45 Are the notes of this like kind of weird is it not optical down to earth?

168:49 Is it just optical to each other's satellite? Yeah, it can't be optical down to earth

168:54 So then it's our

168:58 The way it's worded is anyways, whatever we're moving on

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171:01 Should go and watch more advertisements for the plane chat

171:04 Please yeah flow plane. What are you doing? I have you know, I have seen you not even have ads

171:09 I've seen people asking like can we have like compilations? Yeah, we should do 2025 compilations probably

171:15 Oh Man, I'm sore. Are you good, bro? I did badminton three days in a week sunday monday tuesday. I just wrecked myself

171:24 I'm just I'm not as young as I once was

171:27 I mean in fairness. I went pretty hard. I think even when I was younger

171:31 I probably would erect myself pretty good doing this, but I think I like I kind of like

171:36 Pulled something in here my left ARM ironically. What's up with that?

171:40 Yeah, right see that's what the face. I made

171:45 Us muscles in the back get real weird The u.s. Government will be taking a 25 cut of AMD and invidia's ai sales to china

171:53 Uh, the u.s. Government has decided it will take a 25 cut of revenue for certain ai chips that AMD and invidia sold to china

171:59 As part of new tariff rules. This isn't just a tax It's tied to a broader export policy that now lets those companies export advanced ai processors like invidia's h200

172:08 And AMD's mi 325x to china after importing them into the us first

172:14 So basically, yeah, there isn't actually a problem with our geopolitical arrival having access to these advanced processors

172:21 They just need to like pay a bit more

172:24 And be shipped around for no reason or chips only qualify if they meet specified

172:29 Specific performance and technical thresholds exporters must prove to the

172:33 Prove that the us market is fully supplied first and that shipments to china can't exceed half of what's sold in the us

172:38 All of which limits how many gps will actually move the idea behind the cut is to let us firms get back into china's ai market

172:45 While the government extracts revenue instead of outright banning the sales

172:48 This policy is unusual and it is meant to survive legal challenges because it applies only to certain chips that meet specific

172:54 Criteria. So good luck everyone with all of that. That seems like a

172:59 Perfectly good plan Meanwhile, the us department of health and human services is worried about the dangers of radio signals

173:07 And has removed web pages that assert that cell phones are safe

173:12 Really Nice So at the highest level

173:16 Of the world's largest economies government

173:20 We're actually like 5g

173:23 Paranoia really nice. This is this is this real this timeline that we're on

173:29 Nice. Yeah, mu says uh back to this again

173:33 An hhs representative Directed by the maha initiative said that they removed the web pages that had old conclusions that required more research to

173:42 Identify gaps in knowledge and radio wave safety

173:46 A lot of the 5g hate that's out there is based on a handful of studies

173:50 Like one that showed a link between the persistent use of cell phones

173:53 Which resulted in the formation of tumors and nerves surrounding the hearts of male rats, but not female rats or mice

173:59 Um Optional editorializing says our notes from mr. David gochie most scientists see this study and say that the field requires more research

174:07 But many conspiratorial social media health influencers see that as the most convincing proof they've ever seen

174:13 Because they've never seen real scientific proof before

174:17 Or if they have seen it they wouldn't recognize that I added the last bit

174:20 I kenneth our foster phd professor emeritus of bioengineering at the university of pennsylvania said in a 2018 article that

174:27 People have been using cell phones for decades and so far there's been no noticeable increase in brain cancer

174:32 Dr. Foster said this means that the risk if it occurs at all is too low to detect with any reliability

174:37 so it's basically where we're at on that and um

174:41 We have apparently moved backwards now in terms of

174:46 understanding of all of this which is

174:50 Pretty neat tylor says there was a lawmaker in florida posting about chem trails this week

174:55 So here's the thing it's so chem trails is one of those ones that's super easy to logic your way out of because

175:01 the conspiracy theory is They put chemicals in the air for mind control to which you reply

175:08 Okay, then why isn't it controlling your mind and how are you able to see through it?

175:13 Ah, I have superior lungs

175:16 I guess You should test that

175:21 Try putting a plastic bag on your head. Nope, and then seeing how long you can breathe in it for I can resist that

175:28 Because I have resisted the mind control

175:32 I am undefeatable You will never win see that's the problem with using logic to argue with illogical people

175:39 They're impervious to it. It's it's remarkable because I am undefeatable. I can mute you

175:49 I am impervious to the mute. You would have to mute yourself as well. I cannot be defeated

176:01 Maybe I should just give up on all of this and go be a gay frog somewhere

176:05 I Did not see that coming at all. They never see the gay frogs coming. Oh my

176:16 ASUS smartphone development is apparently on pause while the company shifts its focus to AI

176:21 ASUS chairman Johnny Shee has stated that ASUS will no longer add new mobile phone models in the future instead

176:28 ASUS will focus on developing AI products such as robots and smart glasses

176:32 With that said existing phones will continue to receive software updates and warranty support

176:37 Our discussion question from mr. David pan crats is has there really ever been an ASUS phone that you would actively recommend?

176:42 Anyway, is this a huge loss? I strongly believe a significant amount of companies are branding

176:49 fairly obvious company and operational and directional changes as we are pivoting to AI in a hope that that gets enough attention to pump their stock

176:59 That's it same thing as people branding layoffs has returned to office

177:04 Um, I think it's the same thing. I think it's just companies doing company stuff and just

177:09 Branding the company stuff in the most stock pumping way possible. And I think that's it

177:14 Mi gore and Floatplane chat says Is he still made phones? Yeah, but this is my point

177:20 Like why were they still doing that? I don't know. It's a good question. So if you're on their side, maybe you want to stop

177:27 Yeah, and maybe the way to stop Is be like we're gonna do uh AI stuff instead right right when you probably could have done both

177:35 Yeah, it seems to me red magic has sort of like a monopoly on gaming phones that actually make any sense at all

177:43 For sure. Is there is there anyone i'm missing? I think uh, I don't think there's a massive market for it. I mean

177:51 Red magic exists and as far as I can tell they don't have they don't do anything else. Sure. Yeah

177:56 I've also never seen one in the wild

177:59 I have oh, I've actually also seen an rog phone in the wild and not one that someone won at our christmas party

178:07 um I was quite surprised to see it Someone took a picture like at a taiwanese tech mall or something and they like had an rog phone. I was like what?

178:17 There you go. It feels a little unfair that it was at a taiwanese tech mall. Well, I don't make the rules

178:22 Yeah, yeah, um anyways, I think that's all this is personally

178:29 I don't blame them for the change and I don't even blame them for trying to market it in a way that pumps the stock

178:33 Is just companies doing company stuff

178:37 So what will be our AI pivot?

178:42 We don't benchmark anything anymore We tell the AI the specs and we tell it the historical performance of various things

178:51 We inform it that companies generally go after price bands

178:56 We tell it what the cost of the device will be and then we ask it how it performs. That sounds really cheap. I'm in

179:03 I'm convinced. Let's do it. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice

179:09 Okay Vimeo is laying off staff globally after it's 1.38 billion dollar sale to bending spoons

179:16 After being bought by italian tech firm bending spoons for about 1.38 billion

179:19 Vimeo has cut a large chunk of its workforce with former employees saying it felt like almost everyone was let go

179:25 Including reportedly the entire video team, which isn't that like what Vimeo does video

179:31 Established in 2004 a year prior to youtube. Vimeo has carved out a niche as a high-end video hosting platform

179:37 Catering primarily to professional creators and businesses rather than viral entertainment

179:42 It's actually the second set of job cuts in a few months back in september

179:45 Vimeo trimmed about 10 percent of their staff before the acquisition wrapped

179:49 Bending spoons has a bit of a history of buying tech platforms like we transfer evernote meetup

179:54 Bit of a history and then making deep cuts afterward, which makes this feel a little less surprising

180:00 I think you could I think Calling this a bit of a history is completely fair for the person who wrote this but I will editorialize a little bit and say

180:08 This is what they do Um, they they they enter into spaces

180:14 Purchase companies up Consolidate simplify

180:18 Layoff fire Take profit and then who knows after that

180:28 Yeah

180:32 Acquisitions I'm just trying to see like who they Products vimeo evernote event bright we transfer meetup

180:38 Komoot aol stream yard is

180:42 Sue Mile IQ harvest break cove and remony

180:46 Apparently they have a thousand employees

180:50 Wow Wow indeed

180:54 Private equity go ber Yeah, no kidding

180:58 So Here's a question

181:02 Doesn't drop out use Vimeo. Yes

181:06 They do should they use Floatplane That'd be pretty sick

181:10 Um

181:14 That'd be pretty sick. I've always seen getting them on full plane as the like

181:20 I don't know the special artifact the holy grail whatever

181:24 I always thought that would be really cool I really like what they do over there

181:34 Are we ready, I don't know I think we could be

181:40 We need to do some work to make our thing more like what I think that they want

181:48 I'm not sure Like that'd be

181:52 I wouldn't obviously think that they would just upload to Floatplane that would be stupid

181:56 But well if they were to do something like sauce plus where they had their own

182:00 But they they do I think yeah I haven't dove into this in a while, but I would make the assumption that Vimeo is just delivering their video

182:08 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so their site is actually just theirs anyways

182:12 Man, they have so much cool stuff. My goodness

182:16 They make so much content. It's actually mind-blowing

182:20 They're an extremely interesting company. It's it's it's funny because they have a crazy amount of subscribers from what I've heard

182:26 I don't know if it's real or not But they have a they have a wild amount of subscribers claimed at least

182:34 They have a insane amount of like shows and originals and different things that they make

182:40 But they're so like Not super

182:44 Public because all their stuff is paid access. Yeah, and it's it's just fascinating how like successful they've been at this model

182:52 Um

182:56 Yeah, I don't know they're a cool group

183:02 I wonder what that would even Look like

183:06 Like us just doing info info and not doing the platform

183:10 It would look like yet again something we've never done before

183:18 We could do it we've we've like Theorycrafted scenarios where it's something like that, but that's not a

183:24 Like becoming Vimeo was never a target because Vimeo exists

183:28 You know like it was oh wow. Yeah, this was just linked by max o drive in Floatplane chat

183:36 Websites using Vimeo Download a list of all two million one hundred fifteen thousand seven hundred and one current Vimeo customers

183:44 Oh, yeah built with is a really cool website. Oh, that's super cool. Yeah built with is awesome actually

183:52 Huh I mean is

183:56 At some point should we like try and make it fly or should we just like not really bother, you know

184:00 One of the problems Um

184:04 And this is like it's a problem and it's also a big part of the reason why we still exist

184:08 So I don't know you want to call it but some of the original tenets of philoplane was basically like

184:14 It should always be either neutral or pa or real I mean

184:18 The philoplane was basically like it should always be either neutral or pa or profitable as much as possible

184:24 Oh, yeah, you better believe it It needs to be as independent and and self-reliant as possible all these other types of things all of those pillars that we initially laid out

184:36 Strongly resist explosive growth

184:40 You how do you how do you how do you build to scale when you can't out hire your profitability?

184:46 Yeah, it's like it's we we set up the pillars to be the least silicon valley company possible

184:52 We really did while still making a software tool. So the team's like tiny yeah and incredible by the way

185:00 Yes, the fact that it exists at all at the size of the team is like fascinating

185:06 And I've had long conversations with people that have talked to me about how it actually doesn't make any sense and I'm like well

185:12 It is a thing. So I don't know what to tell you

185:16 Gibbarim says their platform website is a Vimeo website with a dropout skin

185:20 They need active platform support rather than just a back end Interesting, okay

185:24 And Rysau says dropout allegedly surpassed a million subscribers recently

185:28 Yeah, like a whole B I mean, I don't see any reason why we couldn't scale to accommodate it

185:34 We could scale to that, yeah Like philoplane is it's small but not because it has to be

185:40 It's small because it keeps costs manageable

185:44 I don't know what features they have and stuff though Like I deep dove this a while ago but it's been a while

185:50 I would think they would have a lot more in the way of like analytics and tracking than we do

185:54 Like we're pretty loosey-goosey about that They can give subscriptions

186:00 Yeah, we should really have that

186:04 We should do that, yeah And also trial subscriptions and stuff

186:08 There's things we would need to do Whenever you get to a look

186:12 We're not ready this second I would have loved to be

186:16 I wish this happened a little bit later Because I would love to work with them

186:20 Not even because the million subscribers thing Obviously company had on, that's really cool

186:24 But like I just think like

186:28 Man, they're such a unique I find talking to creators at events fascinating

186:32 Like OpenSauce is one of my favorite events to go to

186:36 And just hang around with a huge variety of different creators all the time

186:40 And just talk about like what they're doing and how it's working And man is dropout unique

186:44 Like, my god Rysauce says they've been getting some flak for a low quality merch

186:50 Maybe you could help them there too I don't know, we're like

186:54 We're in this weird We're at this weird kind of inflection point

186:58 Where I think we kind of have to decide where we're going

187:02 We We're continuing to

187:06 Scale the way that we used to Years ago

187:10 Just on our own And we're not really

187:14 It would require a large investment

187:18 And a huge leap of faith To become

187:22 Like a service, a creator services company

187:26 In the way that I think you guys are kind of Envisioning as a future for

187:30 For LMG CW

187:34 Floatplane And

187:48 It's not an easy decision Right, because I've gotten

187:52 Pretty comfortable Do I want to

187:56 Bed it all again Do I want to convince my wife

188:00 To bed it all again For what?

188:08 I don't think it would change My

188:12 Quality of life If

188:16 LMG CWFP was A ten times larger company

188:24 And that's the thing like we could I don't know

188:28 I don't love the idea of bringing in venture capital To take a chunk

188:32 To inject the cash To build and scale this thing

188:36 Managing people is the thing I like least About my job

188:40 To be clear it's not that I don't like the people Actually I

188:44 Love the team that I get to work with Everyday that's one of the most privileged

188:48 Things about my life actually Turns out managing people is not

188:52 Hanging out with people So lean

188:58 I hate doing that And nothing that I can

189:02 Yeah, I don't know Hyobiz as a company I worked for

189:06 I hit about 60 employees and stopped growing And it worked well

189:10 I don't think chasing more and more is always the best I really liked working there, yeah

189:14 But I bet you outgrew it So

189:18 That's another thing, there's never a perfect answer There's people on the team that will

189:22 Not want to grow I mean I've

189:26 Been rather outspoken About not having wanted to grow

189:30 And then I think we've felt the pain of that growth

189:34 We've also reaped the benefits Of that growth, it's not a simple answer

189:40 But there's some people that won't stay If you do that forced growth

189:44 And there's people that won't stay if you don't Yeah, so it's like

189:48 Steve and Jay asks have you ever thought of Putting CW outside of the merch space

189:52 Not that we call it merch anymore You have such quality products

189:56 I just bought a bunch of the plain shirts And when they arrived my thoughts were like

190:00 Why aren't these just a product And they are from our point of view

190:04 And yeah we'd love to But it's not that simple

190:10 Like from a logistic standpoint From an economic standpoint

190:16 Like you'd be Like on paper, right?

190:20 It seems simple Luke

190:23 Luke underscore Laffer Yeah

190:26 Twitch streamer Yeah Right?

190:29 I mean well like yeah

190:34 Not lately Yeah Okay

190:37 Sure Sure Luke gets this clean up wizard

190:41 Shirt from LTT Store and he goes oh Sorry who makes this and

190:45 Do the labels say CW yet or do they say LTT still? It looks like it does

190:51 Yes Yeah so he sees this label and he goes oh

190:54 Wow creator warehouse I'm a creator And I wear things and I'm in a house

190:59 Wow it's like it's a match made in heaven And he goes I'd love to

191:04 I'd love for my My Luke Laffer

191:07 I'm gonna make a burb shirt And it's just gonna be a budgie on the front

191:11 And the budgie is gonna be looking like this And it's just gonna be thinking

191:15 It's gonna have a thought bubble and it's gonna be like burb It's gonna be like war

191:19 Sure Do you know what? Love it

191:22 Burb war Burb war shirt And yeah yeah 10 of 10

191:26 Jeremy says I would buy One sale

191:29 Okay Yes Now what?

191:34 Luke has this idea He has this shirt that he's like this is pretty cool

191:39 How do we get that graphic on the shirt?

191:42 How do we get it onto a website where you will buy it?

191:45 How do we manage Luke's exposure to this inventory?

191:49 I don't want any exposure No he doesn't How do we manage the lead times of the inventory that we will

191:55 I guess we what we have to carry now

191:58 So that he has blank shirts for him to print bourbon once in a while

192:02 Whenever he feels like it What will be the minimum print quantities for the print shop that we work with

192:08 We don't own our own print shop We work with the local company and then there's another print shop

192:13 In the states that we work on next to our US US 3PL

192:17 That's gonna be helping us out in the near future They're actually some really nice prints recently

192:21 I'm gonna be the chat Just print on demand dummy

192:24 Yeah okay who Who will do it

192:27 What will be the costs of that Times

192:31 Yeah Like silk screening is way more cost effective over a certain quantity

192:35 And print on demand direct to garment printing

192:38 Is way more cost effective for very low quantities

192:41 But these are gonna be really expensive shirts And that's just

192:44 Oh I meant like lead times Like how long will it take you to get the shirt

192:48 Oh yeah oh dude It'll take Way longer

192:51 Take a minute

192:54 It's hurly time says just open your own print shop

192:57 I mean yeah if I had a casual I think the last time we looked into it is around $400,000 to $600,000 worth of equipment

193:04 Plus we need to space If I and people here are gonna be managing it

193:08 It's gonna need to be a space around here Which is money

193:16 Staff like nothing is that simple

193:23 How will we make sure that the customers that are buying from Luke

193:27 All paid the taxes correctly

193:30 And all the like customs and whatever nonsense on their shipment

193:34 And we make sure that are we handling Luke's accounting now

193:37 Will he remit all of those correctly and properly

193:41 Is that our responsibility or is that his There's also like Wanshoe Bingo said print to order is the only real solution

193:46 Have a three to five week time on all orders Like yeah I'm sorry

193:50 I don't know if I want the shirt that I just bought to show up in two months

193:53 Like Huh

193:56 I uh That's always been really frustrating for me about print to order stuff

194:00 Is like I don't know Am I a spoiled I have it now dopamine machine

194:05 Maybe But

194:08 Like five weeks lead time I'm assuming that's just production

194:11 And then they actually have to ship it and stuff like I

194:14 That's a really long time to wait

194:18 Yeah and and to be clear These are all things that are solvable

194:22 So everyone who's suggesting solutions

194:25 You are a hundred percent right But the question is

194:29 Is that where we want to invest our time And is that where we want to invest our capital because we have a limited amount of both of those things

194:36 What if instead of doing any of that

194:39 I just made another video Every week

194:43 That'd be kind of cool Probably higher profit margins

194:46 And we have room for that And I already know how to do that

194:49 We have upload slots Yep

194:52 Or we just Make another really cool product for LTT Store

194:57 And then we don't have to split margin with another creator

195:00 We do another podcast

195:03 Yeah we'll do the white dudes with facial hair podcast

195:06 There isn't enough white dudes with facial hair

195:09 Podcasts You're right We should add another one

195:12 You're a hundred percent right That's what the market needs The market is asking for us

195:16 I agree with you so completely that like

195:19 If I agreed with you any more we'd probably start beating each other off

195:23 We need more white dudes with facial hair circle jerking

195:27 In the podcast space Maybe we could

195:31 We could innovate by having three white dudes Yeah

195:34 I mean we could get another chair I could sit in the corner Yeah

195:37 Well no you can't be in the corner Because we'd have to be in a circle Obviously

195:40 It's just physics Dan Yeah but I mean technically like a triangle

195:44 Fits into a circle Oh he wants a cock chair

195:47 Thanks Dan Yeah

195:50 Didn't get it Didn't get it

195:55 That's okay I got more cocks for you later

196:00 Ugh Anyways

196:03 Yeah I mean

196:06 I mean we had a conversation about like how cool it would be to

196:11 Be the back end for Dropout like a month ago

196:14 In like a Floatplane staff call And everybody was like yeah sick also

196:19 Not quite ready for that right now But like that would be sick

196:23 We want to focus on our app We want to actually get a TV app out there

196:26 Like we're not blind to the people To the things that people have been asking for

196:30 We want to get those things figured out We've been having some trouble with our app

196:35 Where there's a new head of

196:39 Did I talk about that? I don't name them

196:42 But I can say that it exists The new role that was hired

196:45 Go for it now There's a new head of HR in here And I've already talked to them about

196:49 Hiring for app dev for Floatplane

196:52 Like it's we want to figure that out If that's figured out though

196:56 There isn't like a ton left

197:00 Like we're not ready But we're not far from being ready

197:04 And we spent like a solid like two years

197:07 You know dealing with a bunch of the Like early days tech debt and stuff

197:10 To the point where we're pretty modern

197:13 In terms of like the tech stack We're pretty scalable

197:16 The team like I said is super smart

197:19 And I think would be like ready for a challenge

197:23 As long as they're as they're resourced appropriately

197:26 Like I'm We're just small

197:29 Yeah it's small Yeah We have one more topic

197:33 By the way David's answer for what was the last Relevant Ubisoft game is

197:37 He thinks other than 2023's Principles of the Lost Crown

197:41 Which was great And then the team behind it was disbanded

197:44 The last great or majorly relevant Ubisoft game in his opinion is

197:47 Assassin's Creed Odyssey back in 2018

197:50 Which is rough Assassin's Creed Odyssey was sick

197:54 And in my opinion underrated Last topic for today

197:58 New leaks show NVIDIA's N1X gaming laptops

198:01 Are reportedly set to debut this quarter With N2 on its way for 2027

198:06 A new Digitimes report says that NVIDIA's N1X Windows on ARM laptop chip

198:10 Is back on the internal roadmap With a Q1 2026 consumer launch

198:14 Followed by three more variants in Q2 Likely aimed at the enterprise

198:18 This lines up with reports of an unreleased ARM based N1X CPU being spotted

198:22 In a shipping manifest for an unnamed Dell laptop

198:26 N1 and N1X is Confirmed to be the same silicon used

198:30 In the DGX Spark NVIDIA's AI workstation That kind of looks like a Mac Mini on steroids

198:34 Considering the sources say that The next gen N2 series is already on

198:38 Its way for your... Q3 2027

198:42 It seems a little strange that N1 wasn't Even mentioned at CES 2026

198:46 I had a little off the record Conversation with a fellow

198:50 Tech Journalism bro

198:54 That I respect a lot I'm not going to name him

198:58 Because I don't know if he was at Liberty To talk about any of this

199:02 But basically apparently This

199:06 Silicon has been an absolute cluster Bomb over at NVIDIA

199:10 And None of the

199:14 None of the external Unimpressedness with the DGX

199:18 Spark was a major surprise To my bro

199:22 I remember Carmack Pretty much the first thing he said about it was

199:26 Does this thing overheat? Something like that

199:30 That was a pretty epic burn Yeah, so DGX

199:34 Spark has Not been quite as impressive

199:38 And these ARM on Windows

199:42 Gaming laptops have been The first time they were supposed to launch was

199:46 Like CES 2025 Or was it Computex before that?

199:50 I can't remember the first time they were supposed to launch But they've been punted down the road

199:54 M-m-multiple Times at this point

200:00 Lullenverse says DGX Spark is great for concurrency Lol

200:04 Well, there you go

200:08 I think it's time for After Dark Should we do this thing?

200:12 Wow, you guys are loving the Cleanup Wizard merch

200:16 Products!

200:20 Got em

200:24 Yeah, Cleanup Wizard t-shirt is killing it

200:28 A lot of people picking up Linus Cat Tips pins Pins are great

200:32 They are, they're so cute I requested a couple of the

200:36 Mouse pads as well For a friend of mine

200:40 I might still want to Nice

200:44 Talking of mats Hey DLL, question for Linus

200:48 Will the mod mat have ESD protection? If so, what are you using to test it?

200:52 Yes, and I'm using Tatiana to test it

200:58 Also, I think the CW Engineering team Was involved in that as well

201:04 Linus, how often should one paint The walls of their home to maintain it for selling later on?

201:08 And are there any renovations That provide a lot of value to a house

201:12 Buyer Mom renovating house right now

201:16 So this is a funny thing, right? Because

201:20 There's a lot of different There's a lot to unpack here

201:24 So many people Wait until the moment that they're moving out of their home

201:28 To freshen it up for sale And

201:32 I have to imagine that people do this Because it's a tried and true

201:36 Strategy to maximize the value of your home I have to assume that

201:40 I don't know that for sure

201:44 And if it was me And I was shopping for a house

201:48 I would actually much rather they Didn't paint it

201:52 I would actually much rather They had, as I walk into

201:56 This house with scuffs And dings everywhere on the walls

202:00 One of those paint chip books And it just included fresh paint

202:04 Because then I could pick the color Which would obviously

202:08 Be more likely to be a color I wanted Oh wait, interesting

202:12 So you're saying like we will paint it for you Before you even get the home

202:16 Because I'm paying for it anyway So I might as well get a color that I actually want

202:20 Nope, you get white I think that painting a house

202:24 Right before you sell it Is causing an epidemic of blandness

202:28 Yes Because resale white is the only color

202:32 That's going to want to paint on it To make it look fresh and open

202:36 And bright And as soon as you move into a new home

202:40 And I've done this That's been freshly painted

202:44 You kind of go well It was just painted

202:48 I'd be an idiot for painting it now I'll do it later

202:52 You're never going to do it until finally You move out having spent the last 10 years of your life

202:56 Living in like dinged Dented

203:00 And only to go Oh wow man, this place looks so great

203:04 I wonder if we should have just lived here for longer Maybe we should have just

203:08 Spent money on the house At a time when we would be the ones to enjoy it

203:12 Instead of these new people who are moving in And they don't even like that color

203:18 Yeah Nice

203:24 I'd say the most important thing In terms of what I'm looking for when I shop for a home

203:28 Is that I'm not going to suffer From like death by a thousand cuts

203:32 But I don't know that that's the norm Like I'm looking for

203:36 You know, hey, is this a place that looks like They didn't just slap a coat of paint on it

203:40 Oh my god, sorry I saw a Reddit thread that

203:44 I think is actually a brilliant idea They said that you should get

203:48 Electro Boom out to come check out the tech house I did see that

203:52 I don't know that another video like going through it Again would add a ton of value

203:56 But I think with him it would be frickin' sick Alkins, I'm considering it

204:00 Oh, I think it would be cool Very cool

204:04 Love Mehdi, always love collaborating with Mehdi He's awesome

204:08 He is a walking content machine And he's such a nice guy

204:12 Just like the most genuine guy You guys

204:16 Love Mehdi

204:20 What happened to the Linus Does Vibe Coding video? It's coming

204:24 Good question I actually don't know

204:28 At some point It will happen

204:32 Our writers have a lot of Balls

204:36 Predominantly male department They do

204:40 And they gotta juggle them Sometimes you gotta

204:44 How many balls did they have? Terrible, stop

204:48 Don't take the paint Move on

204:52 Hey Hey, LLD

204:56 You do a seated floss

205:00 What is he even doing? What is he even happening?

205:04 What is happening? He's planking

205:08 This man's planking I genuinely did not see that coming

205:14 They never do

205:18 Hey LLD Linus, since Final Fantasy Tactics

205:22 Remaster has sold a million copies Do you think there is hope for a sequel

205:26 Or a prequel to it? Maybe pick up Orlando's story

205:30 And would you play it? I'd play the crap out of it

205:34 I mean the fact that it took this long For them to

205:38 It's good, but like Not super high effort

205:42 Remaster it is remarkable And gives me no faith

205:46 But also hey, they sold a million Friggin' copies, so that seems like

205:50 For a financially motivated company Like Square Enix

205:54 Like hello Maybe you should do more of this

205:58 Kind of signal, but maybe they'll just completely ignore I mean don't

206:02 Yeah, that's in Square Enix The one that has that activist investor

206:06 That's like hey, you guys are being really stupid And like you actually need to stop being stupid now

206:10 So maybe they'll listen, maybe they won't

206:14 Maybe Ubisoft needs one of those They do, won't be me

206:18 I mean I probably afford to buy A significant chunk of the company at that share price

206:22 But would I want it And to be clear, no I can't

206:26 That is, is joke Ubisoft is still worth

206:30 So, so, so much more than I If you own world or IP, we could do some cool stuff

206:36 Ubisoft Total value

206:40 What's their total value? The bar's pretty low, Luke

206:44 Exactly Yeah, so good

206:48 Linus Studios Sure

206:52 Would not call it that I would not call a company my name again

206:56 If you had Ubisoft you could probably employ Enough people

207:00 That it would make sense to do some form of like Stop it

207:04 Housing development Okay, Dan, next one, I've given you

207:08 Linus Town maybe I have given you frameworks in the past

207:12 Or just that Linus And he ignored me

207:16 Ubisoft

207:20 So what, we do all X-rated games?

207:24 You'd make some money, dude Oh man

207:28 Dang That's good

207:32 Hi, DLL, question for Linus Which LDD merch item do you think

207:36 Didn't get as much love as it deserved? I love some of your one-off products

207:40 That was so cute I saw mine the other day because Yvonne and I

207:44 Were getting ready for the ski season And we were sorting our outdoor wear

207:48 And I was like, the Ramsticks scarf That's

207:52 Well, probably a little depressing to look at For people these days since it's the only RAM

207:56 That they might be able to afford But it was so cute

208:00 It was so cute What didn't get as much love as it deserved?

208:04 I'm going to answer this even though it was specifically asked to Linus But that

208:08 3D printed down jacket Oh, the 3D town

208:12 Is genuinely like an incredible jacket And

208:16 I think it was like too expensive For a product that

208:20 People don't get to try on first Because everyone that actually tried

208:24 That jacket on was like, oh This is very nice

208:28 I love that jacket The Dropout hoodie

208:32 The Dropout hoodie is legit I love this hoodie

208:36 They don't let me wear it Because it's not for sale anymore

208:40 In any Sizes that matter

208:44 But I freaking Love that hoodie

208:48 And I love the idea behind it The multiple layers

208:52 Of the meaning, how it looks like University or college

208:56 Hoodie, but I didn't graduate So it just is LTT

209:00 And it's like I don't know, I love it

209:04 So just like in the tech space That whole

209:08 Dropout but be successful anyway Thing is such a thing

209:12 And also LTT is Sure, entertaining, but also

209:16 This may surprise Some people on some corners of the internet

209:20 But we do actually teach people stuff It's edumacational

209:24 It's definitely edumacational So I just loved all the layers of

209:28 LTT school of hard knocks Exactly charge nuclei

209:32 Hoodie and it was also just such a quality Garment, I love the fit

209:36 And the feel of it And I just

209:40 Yup Wanted that to do better

209:44 We ended up having to liquidate a lot of them Which hurt because it was

209:48 Just such a good product These are like burn them rather than like melt them

209:54 Nice Hi Dilo No, no, you gotta do it for yourself too

209:58 It's low quality ding Get out of here

210:02 Hi Dilo, what is the new Completely new hardware that you are excited about

210:06 That's not just an improvement On other hardware

210:10 For example, for smartphone For smartwatch

210:14 Is this asking us to like invent a device? I don't think so

210:18 I think this is like What is a new thing

210:22 Can you name a new thing? Kind of a Apple topic

210:26 I think the valve Steam frame

210:30 Is kind of a new product It is sort of

210:34 But it's like It's a stand alone headset

210:38 But also it's a It uses the onboard computer to do wireless streaming

210:42 Better than it's ever been done before For VR and it's a

210:46 It's a PC VR headset But it like

210:50 Has like really good quality And mobility

210:54 And you can also play like Windows x86 games on the ARM CPU

210:58 It's like Okay fine, it's an improvement

211:02 Yeah Because there's the first smartphone

211:06 First smartwatch Theoretically I'm still excited about smart glasses

211:10 But I just like Can't motivate myself to put a pair on

211:14 So I don't know how to reconcile If ASUS figures it out it makes some cool ones

211:18 That'll be kind of neat but ASUS on the software side though

211:22 Yeah, I kind of doubt it, sorry guys We've done some stuff that's been better than expected

211:26 Like their software on the ROG Ally is much better than I

211:30 Expected it to be Their overlay stuff, it just works

211:34 And from my understanding It's not that simple

211:38 I think if there's a robot that can do my laundry and do the dishes That would be huge

211:44 And not like fall over or smash things While doing so and not be

211:48 Not be remotely pirated Piloted, my goodness

211:52 That's also A fairly important one

211:56 I'd also really like it to not be Calling home about every single detail of my entire life

212:00 Including the layout of my house and where I am At all points in time

212:04 A home kit smart robot See, yes

212:08 It could turn off your lights For you, properly

212:12 Walking over to impressing the switch That is so smart switch with extra steps

212:16 That's so retro It's so vintage

212:20 Literal steps But yeah, if it's a home kit

212:24 I control it It doesn't phone home

212:28 Everything that ever happens And it's a robot that can do my laundry

212:32 Do my dishes and other various annoying things like that If we can take out the garbage, stuff like that

212:36 Huge You could ask it to set an alarm

212:40 And it would grab your phone And then just do that for you

212:44 See We just need

212:48 Like More Boston Dynamics robots

212:52 Because they can just do everything that the things can This is where we're going

212:56 How much do you think the robot that isn't just Adware is going to cost

213:00 And then everyone buys the one That's just spying on you

213:04 And serves you ads $25,000

213:08 There's no way, no shot, Luke I did cheap car

213:12 It's really, really hard to buy A non-smart TV right now

213:16 I'll put it I'll save that

213:20 That's the only way they reach these prices It'll probably be impossible to buy

213:24 A non Always internet connected smart home robot

213:28 But I would like it to be a thing Because I don't

213:32 Know if I can That's how you break it

213:36 So much fun though I was wondering why it was broken at that spot

213:40 Of all places There's no way I did that to

213:44 Or the chair, one of the two Then why isn't mine broken

213:48 Scale issue

213:52 Alright What do we got next time?

213:56 Oh yeah, my job Hey LOD, Luke

214:00 My wife wants to know how your Birds are

214:04 I don't, but she wears the pants Thanks for all the fun

214:08 We'll cover your ears, I'll talk directly to your wife I wouldn't let him do that

214:12 Especially don't let him make the chicken There's birds involved, get out man

214:18 They're doing alright You can sit on the chair in the corner

214:22 Yeah, we can be friends Yeah, they're doing good

214:26 Actually the One of them was recently sick again

214:30 But it was very very short lived Which is great

214:34 The bird or the sickness I can infer

214:38 I'd hope so But yeah, they're doing good

214:42 All three of them now For people that don't know that update

214:46 Which I think is a decent amount of people know that one But maybe not everyone

214:50 There's three birds now One which was

214:54 We had already purchased it From a breeder to be a buddy

214:58 For our previous bird and then our previous bird passed away So then the time window from having a bird

215:02 To having a bird again was really short Because there was a bird that we were already receiving

215:06 As we bought it We bought that bird a buddy

215:10 And then There was a bird that was out in the wild

215:18 Was in the park in Langley, right? No, it was in Richmond

215:22 But it was in a park And this would be the

215:26 Second bird that Emma recovered

215:30 But this one No one claimed it and we

215:34 Tried very hard to Scream from every rooftop possible

215:38 That we had this bird and no one ever claimed it We talked to our vet about it

215:42 And they said it was Fairly tell-tale situation

215:46 Of someone just kind of threw it out a window Because they didn't want it anymore

215:50 There was other reasons why they thought that And it did make sense

215:54 But I'm not going to go into all of that And now we just have third bird

215:58 But third bird is female bird And other two birds are boybirds

216:02 So birds Cannot mix

216:06 I don't know how they can necessarily tell They look pretty similar to me

216:10 But the second There is a female bird in vicinity of the boybirds

216:14 It is party time They are very excited

216:18 And go a little Nuts

216:22 So it is very obvious that we can't Necessarily let them all kind of

216:26 Hang out together too much So that adds some complications

216:30 But yeah anyways long story Birds are good

216:34 Follow-up Luke question You mentioned earlier that you are building out a

216:38 Home lab. What kind of things are you Thinking of setting up?

216:42 Dude I want to do lots of stuff A decent amount of this is just like

216:46 I feel like it is hyper overdue I want

216:50 To know more about the people on About what the people on my teams do

216:54 So some Of the goal is to use similar things

216:58 That we use here So I can get more experience

217:02 And have a better understanding of what they are talking about And the like

217:06 The issues that they run into And just things like that

217:12 Good keep going Just making adjustments

217:16 It is a why It is like a better this way

217:20 No one is not perfectly level though It is fine just relax I like it this way

217:24 Stop it It still works that is fine

217:28 They are both crossing They both have a high point

217:32 It is very nice I want to get a

217:36 Plex server up to Livestream home videos

217:40 To my family Sure

217:44 Yeah I would like to do some local LLM stuff

217:48 There is just a lot of things I want to do I feel like I am very overdue on

217:52 Really actually pushing Yeah

217:57 As a student and IT worker At a university

218:01 I have noticed that the newer generation Is less tech literate

218:05 Do you think The oversimplification

218:09 And hand holding has contributed to this issue

218:14 Hold on I have got something

218:18 Yeah I have got something

218:22 To share with you guys A great meme I came across

218:26 And sent to Yvonne Phone or tablets because

218:30 I heard like what is a file system For a lot of people

218:34 Because they are mostly interacting With like a phone

218:38 Or a tablet or an application They do not have to know

218:42 What is a D drive Or a C drive

218:46 What is a network share Okay Dan I just sent you

218:50 My favorite meme from the last week

218:54 I want a YouTube app on my computer Shut up pug boy

218:58 Get out

219:03 I actually do Why

219:07 I wish less things were just browser Here is Linus' favorite meme

219:11 Favorite meme of the week

219:14 I am training a zoomer kit To use the computer at work

219:18 And it is exactly like training a boomer There is exactly one generation

219:22 To rotate a PDF and there will never be another The knowledge dies with us

219:26 So good It is kind of true

219:30 Go jellyfin and swim upstream Yeah I don't know if I want to do plex

219:34 Or not but I want to do like Video, home video distribution

219:38 To multi houses

219:42 Yeah

219:46 Hi WAN.DLO Hold on I just want to jump in and say

219:50 Generally speaking our staff has actually been Really good

219:54 We have younger people on staff And there are absolutely

219:58 Zoomers and younger people Who are

220:02 Very capable technically I just want to throw that out there

220:06 That these generalizations are just generalizations They are not universally applicable

220:10 Okay carry on Very good

220:14 Hi WAN.DLO I am a high school chemistry teacher

220:18 The Green Brothers Have a bit of an empire with YouTube

220:22 Education content via Crash Course Do you have connections with them

220:26 Would love education focused collapse I don't think I've ever met either

220:30 The Green Brothers I admire

220:34 Them from a distance

220:40 One of the ways that I can find out Is just checking my inbox

220:44 No I have never Corresponded

220:48 With either of the Green Brothers

221:00 Downer maybe I should try and do that You never know unless you try right

221:08 Thanks Luke

221:12 Very deep Hi DLL

221:16 Question for Luke As a software developer I come across

221:20 Other developers who see Errors as something only

221:24 Others can solve Any tips on how to encourage them to see

221:28 Errors as opportunities to learn This was

221:32 A little bit confusing Any tips on no no I understand

221:36 I understand it too That's a tough one

221:40 Some people I don't know if you'll ever Get that through to them

221:44 I think if you are Leading or managing those people

221:48 I think you make it very clear That this is a required part of career progression

221:52 But to a certain degree That's just a performance issue

221:56 Some people will never resolve that And it will make their careers

222:00 Halt in progression And that's sometimes where people

222:04 Just sort of stop Because they can't get their minds around that

222:08 It's a very difficult Thing to have as a programmer

222:14 I find a lot of people That

222:18 No, that train of thought doesn't make it Make any sense

222:22 I think like Solving errors is a natural

222:26 Constant state of a software developer So if they can't do that

222:30 They're going to be hyper limited in their career And if you try to communicate to them

222:34 That to them, hopefully they absorb it And grow, I've seen this happen with people

222:38 It's not that it doesn't happen I have just also for sure

222:42 Seen it not happen with people And

222:46 You can't save them all So do what you can

222:50 But yeah, I think I would tie it Pretty directly into like, look

222:54 You will stop progressing If you don't figure this out

222:58 So you have to figure this out Apparently John Green said that I gave him a computer recommendation

223:02 I don't remember that But I recommend computers to a lot of people

223:06 So That would be a little embarrassing

223:10 It's like, oh yeah You like built a server for Santa Claus

223:14 You don't remember? Like, oh yeah, sorry Just slip my mind

223:18 How do you forget something like that? I don't know That's a big you'd have to be more specific moment

223:22 Yeah Like the villain is like

223:26 Or the protagonist in a movie Or whatever, it's like you killed my dad

223:30 And the villain's like you'd have to be more specific You recommended a computer

223:34 You'd have to be a lot more specific

223:38 So Are there programmers that just

223:42 Program and then don't fix It when it doesn't work?

223:46 Is that what this is talking about? You used a lot of software in your life Dan

223:50 Do you think there are programmers who just Program and don't make sure it works? That's what I was a little confused

223:54 Because it's like, okay we have Errors or like doesn't compile, well would you just

223:58 Haven't done your job then? No, it's like If they're struggling to accomplish something

224:02 They'll just give up Oh, yeah that's

224:06 So much worse I think that's the crux

224:10 This is how I'm interpreting it So they'll be like I mean problem hard

224:14 And then they'll try to just go to someone else And I mean sometimes

224:18 That might make sense We try to

224:22 Do a thing where like you should try to grind on it for a bit And try to solve it yourself, but at a certain point

224:26 You should seek help Because you're just kind of wasting time

224:30 You heard it here first, at a certain point You should seek help, Luke 2026

224:34 The extremely deep

224:38 But you should try to Solve it yourself

224:42 Not wrong words Do you see a need

224:46 For wireless TVs that they had at CES

224:50 Wires are still needed Regardless of what they say

224:54 Well you answered your own question didn't you This is kind of like

224:58 Okay, this is my favorite thing, hold on I'm just gonna search for

225:02 We're gonna go on a little journey together Are they like battery powered?

225:06 I'm gonna search for projector, what the hell are the Bigly brothers

225:10 Anyway, that doesn't matter The point is we're gonna go to like

225:14 A mainstream type of Projector brand

225:18 Seriously Okay, let's

225:22 Pick on LG

225:26 Cinebeam, okay Let's pick on LG Cinebeam

225:30 So I'm gonna click Shut up

225:34 Trying to use your Stupid website, okay

225:38 Let's click this thing Wow, what a great design

225:42 That I'd love to Look at

225:46 Wow, this is such a Oh wow, this is a shockingly honest

225:50 Deployment, except it also isn't Because where's this cord going

225:54 Where's this going This is, your couch is there

225:58 Like you're Completely ignoring the fact

226:02 Look at this This, it's not plugged in

226:06 In any Of these situations

226:10 It's also not one of those times In a position that you would actually want

226:16 Minimal Q design, right, but It's all bullshit unless

226:20 It actually runs wirelessly Which, as far as I can tell

226:24 It doesn't There are so many

226:28 They hide the cable behind a coffee machine A coffee thing

226:32 I don't drink coffee What are you talking about? That?

226:36 Oh yeah Behind what, is that like a battery bank?

226:40 So they show, yes, so it can Be used with a battery bank

226:44 But they don't even show the cable going into the battery bank But like, where is the

226:48 Where is the projector in this shot That's awesome

226:52 This is clearly just complete Horse shit

226:56 And so I have a very Similar issue

227:00 With whatever you were talking about Yes, wireless TVs

227:04 I have a very similar issue with wireless TVs As I have with this type of

227:08 Projector marketing, it's all fantasy It's all pie in the sky

227:12 What if everything was Well, it isn't fucking wireless

227:16 It's not wireless, so what are you even talking about I'm gonna play on my switch

227:20 Well, I'm gonna have to have power for my TV Because I definitely need that

227:24 I'm gonna have to have HDMI into some box Somewhere, because as far as I

227:28 Can tell, the switch doesn't have Magical, lala

227:32 Wireless Display transmission

227:36 I'm gonna have to have power for my switch So I'm gonna need a media console anyway

227:40 So I might as well just have one then Yeah

227:44 So basically they're stupid And I think they're stupid

227:48 I do Glan and Dinus I could totally see myself putting one in the tech

227:52 House though, just because we can Yeah, drill some walls

227:56 Drill some walls Hell yeah

228:00 I do Glan and Dinus Is there any tech you'd like to see

228:04 Added to modern car suites Shout out to my wife for letting me do some gear shopping

228:08 Honestly? Dials?

228:12 Some switches More piano black

228:16 Maybe a slider Don't need them

228:20 We need less actually Please less

228:24 My car is almost all glass And I love it

228:28 Oh, I know, I don't like it I don't

228:32 It's interesting to me because I hear a lot of people talk about

228:36 How desperately they need Climate controls for instance

228:40 To be physical switches And I'm sitting here going

228:44 Why are you touching it? The fan is set to auto

228:48 You set a temperature you're comfortable with And then you never touch it again

228:52 You also Have discussed how

228:56 Your significant other Will change the things

229:00 Then you have to change them back So just because you think her opinion is wrong

229:04 Does not change the fact that you still Have to interact with it

229:08 It's so little though It's like I just

229:12 I'm just saying the point doesn't really land That's fair, that's fair

229:16 But it also just it's still I don't know man, I don't know what to tell you

229:20 It just doesn't bother me At all to do it on a touch screen

229:24 I was a Rivian not that long ago And

229:28 Had to interact with the touch screen And it just felt like the dumbest thing in the world

229:32 Why are these not buttons? I don't know

229:36 I don't think it needs to all be buttons again I think you can have some stuff in the menus

229:40 But like All I would want to see is just

229:44 Sort of more thoughtful I'd love to see Android Auto

229:48 And CarPlay be more reliable That's something

229:52 I'd basically I would just love

229:56 Like a minor feature and bug fix Pass on my car and otherwise it'd be perfect

230:00 So for example I have a couple of programmable buttons I have one on my steering wheel

230:04 And I have one that's like up on the dash here If both of those supported

230:08 Alternate functions with long press and double press I would be happy as a pig in sh**

230:12 That'd be pretty sweet If my Android Auto

230:16 Didn't occasionally just like Fail to Bluetooth pair and have my audio not work

230:20 Or if Depending on the

230:24 Audio source on my phone The volume wasn't either

230:28 Way lower or way higher So I would just send

230:32 Portia A list of all those sort of

230:36 Various minor Tiny insignificant inconveniences

230:40 Like the fact that I can't have it just automatically start up the car

230:44 In the driving profile that I always use I always drive in sport mode so why do I have to

230:48 Turn this dial every single time I get into my car It's stupid just don't do that

230:52 Then I would just I would just love it

230:56 I wouldn't want anything else I wouldn't want my car to really do

231:00 Anything other than when I press this thing It goes that way and when I press this thing

231:04 It stops going that way except When I also press a different thing

231:08 And then sometimes it goes that way When I press this thing sometimes it goes that way

231:12 When you press a different thing can you do that one again Do you press a different thing?

231:16 I don't even know what I did Okay don't worry about it

231:20 Yeah I want a dumber car And I want to pay a lot less for it

231:24 Well you're never going to get that second thing so No it's a thing

231:28 I mean well the slate looks pretty cool And there's like a bunch of them globally

231:32 Toyota has some truck that Is not sold in North America but it's very affordable

231:36 Well that's what I'm talking about though But it's not sold in North America because of

231:40 North American regulations on lane assistance stuff Really?

231:44 It has nothing to do with Toyota's decision making Interesting

231:48 There's like a certain reason with Certain safety laws that

231:52 A bunch of cheaper cars Globally are not allowed to come to North America

231:56 So irritating Especially because like an insane amount

232:00 Of cars on the road don't have these things Yeah because they're just older

232:04 And like dude oh my god Driving Emma's car the lane assist

232:08 Is dangerous Oh it can be

232:12 Like it's not okay And not just a lane assist but the emergency automatic braking

232:16 I've had At least three times

232:20 That my Taycan has almost killed me Because

232:24 I decided to go To turn left

232:28 And it was like there's a car in front of you I'm gonna stop and it stopped

232:32 In Oncoming traffic

232:36 And in a really jarring startling I need a second to figure out what the heck is going on

232:40 And why my car isn't moving And I need to hit it again to get out of the way

232:44 Absolutely insane I don't want these things

232:48 I understand they might make it better But it's like

232:52 There's a lot of drivers out there somewhere I think a lot of people on the road it's not helpful for

232:56 And I know a lot of people just turn them off So like

233:00 And my lane keep there's a particular spot between Smashchamps and my house

233:04 That it's just like And just tries to rip me out of the lane

233:08 Dude I don't want any of this stuff I don't want any of it at all

233:12 So like The fact that I'm not allowed to buy one

233:16 In North America that doesn't have those things Super cheap

233:20 I'm hoping this brings it up Toyota

233:24 Truck sold outside America

233:28 Is it the Hilux? That's what people in chat said

233:32 I think it's a Hilux Champ Yeah this thing

233:36 They have a bunch of different versions of it Um

233:40 It looks a little You know like a Lego truck

233:44 Um You can configure it in a bunch of different ways

233:48 And look $10,000 pick up

233:52 Wow Like

233:56 Let me buy the cheap truck thing That people do crazy stuff with

234:00 Whatever It's a $10,000 platform that has an engine in it

234:04 And you can drive around Cool

234:08 There's a bunch of these things It's not just this Toyota truck

234:12 There's other variants as well Oh

234:18 frustrating More TV focused questions

234:22 Howdy when? With TVs being so competitive

234:26 Nearing a race to the bottom economics Creating millions of pounds of e-waste

234:30 Should we have a minimum price floor On certain electronics?

234:34 Is quality the winner? Generally speaking I'm pretty pro free market

234:38 A regulated free market That prevents monopolists from taking advantage

234:42 Of their position But I don't think

234:46 You're ever going to get me advocating For

234:50 Minimum price? For a minimum price on something

234:54 I think that You know my job

234:58 Is educating people To make sure that they buy something

235:02 That is going to meet their needs For an extended period of time

235:06 In hopes that there will be less waste overall If people consume

235:10 As they will consume But consume the right things

235:14 So that there's less trial and error involved And I just

235:18 Don't see how you implement this Like it's not like

235:22 It's a terrible idea On the surface of it

235:26 I'd say You'd be better off creating

235:30 Like a warranty minimum So a minimum amount of time

235:34 That they have to support the product To incentivize them

235:38 To implement things Rather than regulating it directly

235:42 I like that, that should also spread to more products The more I'm learning about washer, dryer

235:46 Refrigerator Dishwasher

235:50 Holy crap dude The sheer amount of waste

235:54 In not even the electronics portion But just the metals and everything else

235:58 That is involved with this People just have to toss out

236:02 Because it's not worth repairing Is crazy

236:06 Yeah It comes with the house

236:10 Like how Is this turning into something that I'm going to replace more often than my TV

236:14 We were going to get new appliances When we moved into our current place

236:18 And the guy who came in Looked at one of them

236:22 When we were The motor and the washer went or something like that

236:26 And basically Yvonne was like, oh yeah I don't know if we want to bother

236:30 With repairing it and the guy's like, yes you do I will put a new motor

236:34 And this will last for another 25 years If you bought a new one

236:38 You would be replacing it in 5 to 10 Yeah

236:42 So like I said earlier in the show My fridge is going so I was like alright

236:46 Time to do some research because this is a pastime What can I buy

236:50 What should I get All of everything

236:54 Like there was literally I can't remember the exact comment

236:58 I could probably find it on my phone But there was like an appliance guy

237:02 Who says ending and I hate everything Because like he can't recommend

237:06 Something that's actually good Yeah I forget what brand it is

237:10 But my mom bought a new fridge From someone that like for me growing up

237:14 Was like oh that's a reputable appliance brand And they've been out I think half a dozen

237:18 Times To fix it

237:22 And she's been like at what point Is this a lemon you guys have spent more than

237:26 The cost of this fridge coming here And fixing it over and over and over again

237:30 And it is broken and that you're Not able to fix it and

237:34 It's just like The whole thing is so

237:38 Grossly inefficient

237:42 The comment was Appliance tech here

237:46 It's all plastic disposable crap Life is pointless and the planet is doomed

237:50 Because of the waste we produce Refrigerators within your budget are not by it for life

237:56 And it was like Oh

238:00 So then I was like okay Well this person's listed budget

238:04 On this particular reddit thread Didn't seem super high

238:08 Can you spend More than this and get

238:12 Something that's not just portable E-waste

238:16 Apparently yeah Nice

238:20 Is it like commercial basically You're talking subzero

238:24 And stuff which I've only like Heard of

238:28 Like subzero wins I don't know if I've ever actually even

238:32 Opened a subzero fridge Myself but I've heard of them

238:36 There's another one that I don't Remember the name of it but there's another brand as well

238:40 You do have to be careful sometimes because Not

238:44 Manufacturers just make for all the manufacturers Yeah

238:48 I mean if you want like commercial Commercial

238:52 But those go No listed price

238:56 Very interesting Qualifies for luxury

239:00 Kitchen savings event Required accessories

239:04 Excuse me I have to buy my own drawers for

239:08 A thousand dollars each Well what if you wanted it in

239:12 Stainless steel By now with live chat

239:16 You need to discuss your purchase Flush inset door panel

239:20 With tubular handle Man

239:24 Where's the No you have to buy now with live chat

239:28 You have to discuss your purchase What the hell is Fisher and Paykel

239:32 I don't know never heard of that What

239:36 Buy now with live chat But where's the starting price

239:40 Does it not have one

239:48 Can't remember the name of the other brand But it was

239:52 There's wolf for stoves I know Pretty typical like a high end install

239:56 I don't know if they're actually worth it How much does a sub zero fridge cost

240:00 Oh What

240:04 Oh my god But there's a ton of people on reddit

240:08 Saying that these things last 25 years And are highly repairable

240:12 That's like how much a fridge should cost For how insanely complicated

240:16 Some of them can be Called true

240:20 Those were the two that people were talking about True and sub zero

240:24 So do you spend No

240:28 $11,000 to $20,000 on a fridge Or do you replace the same

240:32 Genuine piece of garbage And fill landfills with

240:36 You know a thousand dollar Bridges I'm guessing I don't know what the price is

240:40 Especially because when you sell your house With that sub zero fridge

240:44 The new buyer will not Have additional value to it

240:48 So you're basically just paying for yourself To use it

240:52 Most people are not going to Be in a position in their life

240:56 Where they can afford a $25,000 fridge And have enough of their life left

241:00 That they're going to use it for the whole time And that's just

241:04 The cold hard truth Now for some cold hard truth

241:08 About b580s Being available at MSRP

241:12 They're not How am I supposed to do that

241:16 Do you have the gun year Intel arc Didn't think so

241:20 You have this one right here Always a versioning thing

241:24 Cool Don't worry

241:28 We're working on that and it's going to be awesome I don't know if we're working on that

241:32 Someday we will Lowest price in 30 days

241:36 Whatever It's not

241:40 And this one doesn't have the holiday bundle For some reason

241:44 So I don't know what's up with that Maybe contact new egg before you buy this one

241:48 LMG.GG slash new egg right Do I remember this now

241:52 The asrock steel legend is It was $259 for a long time

241:56 And it's $299 now But the Intel holiday bundle is still there

242:00 So free battlefield 6 I think you could say with a straight face

242:04 If you wanted battlefield 6 And you get battlefield 6 with it

242:08 It's pretty close to MSRP But it's not what it was

242:12 Just a couple weeks ago Where you could get it for $249

242:16 $259 And get the holiday bundle

242:20 Which was an outstanding value Man, what about 50-70 TI's

242:24 Are they just Dad, are we cooked? What's up?

242:28 Dad's in the chat He said take it with you when you move

242:32 Stop problem Nice

242:36 Assuming your new kitchen layout accommodates With the fridge

242:40 Yeah We ended up having one option

242:44 For oven When we needed to get a new oven for our kitchen

242:48 At our place because we didn't want to Completely redo all the cabinets and everything

242:52 And they weren't wood They were like some kind of

242:56 Mela, whatever They were like that kind of plastic covered thing

243:00 And so they're not like easily Modifiable

243:04 And it was like a top bottom stack one One option

243:08 So a lot of the time it's dictated by Like the space you're in

243:12 More than the Oh man, 50-70 TI's are really expensive

243:16 Dad, if you're continuing to comment I can't tell because my computer is restarting

243:20 Because Security or something

243:24 Nice It's your dad's username

243:28 Liquidus

243:36 Take it with you when you move I would make it work

243:40 Well, we know you would, but I'm not as handy As you would

243:44 He TVI, he would Alright, dad hit me

243:48 Okay Last one I got for you today

243:52 Were any of you impacted by the telecom bubble And the fall of Nortel

243:56 Loving the mechanical pencil I'm so glad you like it

244:00 No, I was, man, I was still I was still a young boy

244:04 When did Nortel fall? The history of all that

244:08 Super interesting Yeah, I was 14

244:12 So I wasn't really like Workforcing it up yet

244:16 Sleeping on those investments Yeah, you should have bought a house

244:20 And invested in Nortel very temporarily And then sold right before the crash

244:24 Right, right, right, right, right, right Hindsight, thank you captain

244:28 Captain Hindsight, that was really appreciated 2009

244:32 Um And now it's time to put this

244:36 Wanshow in Hindsight Thanks for watching, we'll see you again

244:40 Next week, same bad time, same bad channel Bye

245:02 Thanks for watching