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Livestream VOD – April 17, 2026 @ 21:44 – YouTube Killed Shorts - WAN Show April 17, 2026
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2026-04-18
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25,917 words · ~129 min read
WAN Show Topics
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Sorry, I'll be there in a sec.
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Alright.
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What is up, everybody?
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for it I think they're very informative let's talk about a California bill that
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speaking of big impact against your will I got the numbers it's before tax $62,0
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because they do they do the seat thing right it's supposed to be good news mind
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shot sweet next up is the shirt that Luke is wearing if you're a frequent viewer
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that's funky speaking of funky hats I searched for double brim trying to find wh
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let's talk about Apple launching after giving up significant education sector gr
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that it's so frustrating to use right now hey speaking of things from the late 90s while attempting to reduce the siz...
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speaking of things that are funny struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarr
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next topic quick Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in
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now the next thing I want is a single close button on all mobile ads because I p
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Sorry, I'll be there in a sec.
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I think that's going to work.
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Yeah. Like for the sides?
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No, no, no, no. For the audience, too.
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Oh, I have no idea.
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Just gotta try stuff.
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Alright.
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Everything matched today, too.
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Prism shirt at the prism underwear.
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Nice. Solid.
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Now it's all ruined. Solid.
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My ability to can is gone.
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Oh, yeah. Nice.
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Nice. Solid.
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No, not prism underwear.
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Prism. Prism.
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The heck is going on with this thing? Oh, it's upside down. That makes sense.
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That's how it should be.
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Yeah. No, mine's definitely way worse.
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Yeah, no, I know.
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That's a solid like four seconds of wobble.
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Oh, man.
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Okay, my brain.
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Let's go to turn it on. I had like a glorious
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three hours of brain functionality today. It was like off this morning
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and now it's off again and then it was working for a bit when I was
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doing a script review with Sean and then it...
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Did you have like four? Is that right?
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I heard there's like, you have like four hours of like peak performance in a day.
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Something like that. You may not like it, but... It doesn't mean you can't do anything
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outside of those hours, but like... Oh, I don't know. I think it does.
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I'll do my best. I'll do my best.
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We want unhinged Linus anyway. No, the world needs less of that. It's not good for
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everyone's morale and job security
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around here.
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Elijah was talking recently about the... The hard hour incident
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made another round like on the internet. Had like another wave.
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Yeah, did it. And so Elijah was talking about how he like was watching that.
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Not sure if he was going to have a job on Monday. Like just...
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I think... It's all good.
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And I think at that time, if I had actually been a user of the
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word people thought that I was talking about, that could have been career ending
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for me. Yeah. I think it could have been.
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At that time, not now? I don't know, man. The rules seem different
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these days. The rules do seem a little different. I don't mean me. I just mean
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like, in general. People on the internet. Yeah, like
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not even on the internet. Just like, they're just... People just
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come to... The
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cycle, the news cycle is so fast. And like streamers
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in particular can do the most
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abhorrent things and...
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Probably just gain viewers. Just go live on kick. What's his
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nuts? The Lux Maxing guy
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like overdosed on stream and then just was like streaming the next
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day. Did he? Apparently. Like actually OD'd? Apparently.
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On what?
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Dude, I don't know. Overdose.
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Hold on. TMZ. Yeah. Okay. The New
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York Times reports what we know about Clavicular's
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overdose. After a parent
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overdose, he's back at a club. This is from yesterday.
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The New York Times, sir. But like
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hospitalized after suspected overdose
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swears off drugs after live stream overdose.
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PR dropped him after hospitalization.
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I really just... Rolling Stone has an article about
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this. Is this guy that big? Like am I
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missing something here?
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I don't know. Do you follow
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him? No. You look very Lux Maxed.
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I just mean you're a very beautiful man. That's all. Oh wow. Oh wow.
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Oh wow. Yeah, no key says even NBC has an article.
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I'm gonna start obsessing over Min Maxing that and start smashing the
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bones in my face. You gotta
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smash some bones, dude. I think it's
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a little late for me, dude. If you're not smashing your bones, are you really trying?
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If you're not destroying your bone structure regularly, I don't know
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if you're really trying. Oh man, I
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don't think that anything I do would qualify to him as trying.
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I mean I do stuff. You did the thing, the pokey thing?
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Yeah, I did the pokey thing. I don't know what that was. Yeah, microneedling.
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Yeah, I've done microneedling and I've done like energized microneedling, which is very
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painful. Very
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painful, very unpleasant. Have you ever
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been in so much pain that instead of being more awake, you're more like
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you just want to sleep?
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No. I don't
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think. It goes on for a really long time. It almost reaches
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the point where sleep seems like a reasonable alternative.
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I have a hard time with
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pain that I can fight versus pain that I can't fight.
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I've noticed that I've had conversations with Emma about this, where I'm like
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kind of confused about it, but like I will run
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into a wall for like a good joke
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and like be completely fine, but that's like under my control.
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I inflict it to myself. I get to decide when it ends, all that kind of
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stuff. If it's just like, oh yeah, just sit here and we're going to do this thing and it's going to hurt
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and we'll be done whenever, then I'm like such a baby.
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I don't know why there's like a difference in my head.
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What about something like hair removal?
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Where you're the one inflicting it. You can technically
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end it whenever you want. If I'm pulling it myself. But the job's not done until
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the job's done. If I'm pulling it myself, totally fine.
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If someone else is doing it, not okay. Not okay at all.
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This is what I mean though. Interesting.
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If I'm in control of it, the pain doesn't really bother me very much at all.
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Interesting. But if someone else gets to decide when it starts, when it ends, when they're going, when
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they're not, then again, I'm such a baby.
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It's funny that you used your face as an example because I actually
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plucked my cheeks. Oh yeah, you'll get straight ones up here. Yeah, I prefer to pluck them
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rather than having to shave it all the time. Sure, yeah.
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I thought maybe I was the only one who does that though. I thought that was a weird thing.
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No, I don't know. There'll even be like, I'll have a weird one
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on my eyebrow and Emma will go to try to grab it and I'll be like, okay,
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just let me do it because I'd rather
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deal with it myself. That's pretty funny. I don't know why this
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is a thing.
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Yay, can just thaw your face.
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What? You can just, okay, I don't know what thaw means,
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but I think the first one is you. Okay. You can just thaw
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your face.
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I'm lost.
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Yeah, dude. Oh man, like thick coarse facial hairs
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are really, really, really painful. I don't do any more of them than I absolutely
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have to. See, if I just do it myself, it just
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doesn't bother you. I'll have like a brutal, those like quadruple
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thick grays that you get every once in a while. I'll rip one of those out, it's totally fine.
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But if someone else does that to me, I'll be upset.
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The first time a girlfriend plucked an eyebrow hair on me,
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I cried. Not gonna lie. But you can probably do it yourself, no
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problem. Yeah, it's fine myself. Yeah, it's weird. I don't know what's up with that.
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Thaw your face, use the hammer. Oh.
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Is that what they call it? That's that bone smashing thing?
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Oh no, this is a different person responding. They just both have green names.
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Thaw your face looks maxing. Okay, I'm looking this up.
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The world's shortest looks maxing guide.
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I thought this was PewDiePie for a second, just looking at the thumbnail.
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I don't feel like he would do that. No, I really think he's too based.
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It's so obvious that Thor's looks maxing. Okay, so
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hammer is something to do with this? Well, they literally hit themselves in the face
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with like a hammer. Okay.
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When I said bone smashing, I wasn't kidding.
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I only know about bone smashing because someone tried to like
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make a joke about it to me and I was so confused and then they had to explain it.
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This is so bizarre.
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Hard maxing trend. Here are dangers.
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Thank you, University of Nebraska.
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Just have such a hard time with this. Like imagine, if you're
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wondering whether you should hit yourself in the face with the hammer, the answer is typically no.
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Thank you, Forbes. Why do you need to
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write that sentence? Bring deep wisdom. You shouldn't need to write that sentence.
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Deep wisdom, dude. Alright, we should do the show because I think I got to go
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at 5.30. Is that the time?
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Alright, let's do this thing. Oh, my back.
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I heard that. Oh, I heard that one too.
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Oh, I'm good. I'm good. Okay.
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I'm alive. Have you been training your back? No, my back is just stiff.
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Is that okay? Yeah.
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Alright. Okay, there is one
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thing that I did. Would you do? Yeah. Well, I trained my back. I was like sit and it was like
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I was like lie down and it was like, oh, I'm too old.
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Okay, sorry.
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Yeah, go for it. Do it.
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Okay.
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What is up, everybody? And welcome
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to Friday. It's Friday, which means
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it's Friday. It's the WAN, stop it right now. It's the WAN
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show. We've got a great show lined up for you today. There will be no
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singing of that song, but what there will be is talking about how
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YouTube has yielded and finally is allowing
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not just kids, but all users to limit their YouTube
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shorts to zero minutes, which is pretty
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flipping incredible. Another incredible piece of news
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I don't know if this really falls in with our
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positive news WAN Show thing that we've got going on for the month of April,
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but it's certainly hilarious. Struggling shoe retailer
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Allbirds has made a bizarre pivot from shoes
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to AI, which has caused their stock to absolutely
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explode in value. I don't know if
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that's a good news WAN Show topic. It's funny. Fair enough.
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Fair enough. California bill would require long term support
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for server connected games. Cool. That's
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freaking awesome. At least it seems on the surface. Yeah.
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Other than that, I don't know. I'm going to go with this one. DaVinci Resolve
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21 is now a Lightroom alternative with raw editing, tethering, masking
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and more, which is great because it's free. This is so cool.
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That's great.
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Music
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Music
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Music
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Music
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The show is brought to you today by Zero Bounce, AMD, MSI and Square.
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Alongside our rap partner Dbrand, our laptop partner Razer, and our chair partner also
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Razer. Why don't we jump right into our headline
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topic today, which is that YouTube is now allowing you to hide
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short. So if you're the type of person who just plain doesn't
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enjoy them and doesn't want to see them, or if you're the type of person who's on
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completely the other end of the spectrum and enjoys them
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too much and wants tools to help you with your self-control,
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YouTube has... is
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moving in the right direction. Yeah, because I don't think what they're doing hides shorts.
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I think saying it hides shorts is actually just incorrect, is it not? So
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it seems a little complicated. I haven't done it. Depending on the coverage
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I've seen of it, either it sounds like shorts will still appear
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within the interface, but they will be treated like regular
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videos rather than just allowing you to swipe endlessly
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hard time believing that too. Or it sounds like
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if you set it to zero minutes and then actually fully like close the app and reopen
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it, they should just be gone. Maybe people didn't reload their app.
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So what I'm thinking is, hey, f**k it, we'll do it live.
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I like it. Let's pop over, let's pop over on here. I'm going
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to fire up my YouTube app. I've got... yep, okay cool.
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I'm on my account with premium here, so instructions.
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Where do I go? I go into... Show the camera a little bit more.
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Yeah, well I'm trying to be careful just in case something incriminating comes up. That makes sense.
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Linus watches Spider-Man and Elsa content.
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What is it? How did you know? Can't show that to the camera.
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Okay, you might have to actually find instructions because I thought this would be
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really straightforward. I don't actually see it.
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Purchases of memberships. Oh, time management.
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There should be a shorts feed limit menu. Okay, I got it.
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So I'm here in time management and then all I got to do is go to my daily
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limits. Shorts feed limit and...
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Mine is still 15 minutes. Well what
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the crap? Okay, I'm going to close the app. Do you need to update the app maybe?
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I mean, this wouldn't be the first time that I've run into
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issues where foldable devices do not necessarily get the
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best version of the app. Let me get it installed just in case.
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Daily limits. Nope. Alright, well
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good news everyone. As long as you're not me, then
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you may have the option to limit your shorts to 0 minutes.
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Wow.
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That blows. Okay, how's it going for chat?
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I'm updating and checking mine. Rocketman619 says
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I'm doing it on mine. I don't see the option either. Nullifier says
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isn't there on my graphene pixel. Crystals got it though.
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Okay. Mine is at 0.
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How does it behave though? Headline says not me on latest iOS.
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I don't have the option. It worked for me. It says Blake Mavericks on a
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Pixel 10 Pro XL. So it looks like it depends.
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So a lot of people are speculating that this might be a regional update
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but I suspect less than being regional
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it's probably just a slow rollout because when you operate at the
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kind of scale that Google does... You do percentage rollouts for sure.
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You do not roll something out to 100% of users
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all at once because you never know what something might break
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and it's way better to break 3% of your users
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than 10% of them than 20% of them
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versus just immediately breaking 100% of them. It gives you a lot more
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flexibility to stop the slow roll that you're doing
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like trying to take these back seas like catastrophic global rollout.
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So unfortunately we don't get to
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try it today unless of course Luke's works. Nope. It did not.
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Nope. Dan?
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Did you try it? Oh yeah. Oh you got your phone right there. Yep. Alright cool. He's mute today
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I suppose. No it's not working. Dan doesn't talk anymore. You know what I like it better this way.
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Don't forget it. No I'm good.
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Why did you attack him?
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Yeah why did you laugh out at him?
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Alright thanks Dan. He's saying he has too many buttons
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and he just accidentally pressed the wrong button because he has too many buttons. There's so many things to do.
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Either way
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I look forward to this being rolled out to me because
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I just don't want to see many shorts
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if it actually works I look forward to it as well. While I don't necessarily
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know how useful this is going to be for people who find themselves
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quite addicted to doom scrolling and quite addicted
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to shorts because I don't know if you've ever set a time limit on an
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app in your phone how easy it is to say. It's too easy to bypass. Add more time.
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That's why I just uninstall them now.
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I also found that that was the only thing that worked for me. It worked for a long time
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and I just didn't do the bypass and then there was I think I was using
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YouTube for work reasons and bypassed the timer
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and then you get the brain worm of like that was easy.
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It was. It didn't hurt at all. And then it's like oh no
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they just have to be uninstalled now. You know what was really nice for me
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do you remember I was talking did we talk about it on wanshow how reddit got rid of r slash
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all? Oh no I don't use it enough to notice.
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Okay well reddit got rid of r slash all for reasons that
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the sort of you know community conspiracy theorists
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seem to believe well the homepage is more algorithmic
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whereas r slash all was just top surfaced topics
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from all subreddits. Okay so now the homepage is like curated for you
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so the prevailing theory is that it's to it's to get you more
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algorithmically hooked and siloed and deliver more personalized
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content to you rather than just have a convenient no sign in
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required spot that you can go and just check what the top
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upvoted stuff is today and it has actually been
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a blessing in disguise because I was spending a little bit too much time just like
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browsing stuff on reddit and them removing r slash all
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has pretty much completely killed my habit. Nobody tell him. Yeah I'm
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actually very very thankful. Don't tell him. Good job
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reddit I have. Don't tell him. Probably cut my time on your site by
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about 90% because I'll just check on you know what's going on in
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our most relevant subreddit. I also quite like WallStreetBets
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just because I find their attitude
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delightful. Yeah. I enjoy a good loss porn
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as much as anybody else does. And then that's about it.
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Is this loss? It can be. Sometimes it
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is. I'll check like the LTT subreddit see how Lucas's posts are
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doing. Two people's comments on the mar. Hey why don't we jump right into
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that. Sure. In yet another what is becoming a common
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LTT Labs win. Yeah. Lucas
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uploaded an awesome article this week here if you want to find the topic I'll
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load it up on the site. Sure yeah I'll read what the notes are I'm interested
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I don't know if yeah Lucas didn't write this okay so in a new article from LTT
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Labs this week we examine testing for a minimum display brightness
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something that's becoming a selling point with a variety of different brands
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it's not part of our current test suite when we're like reviewing phones or anything
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but we are equipped to test down to fractions of a knit so we
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tested a half dozen common phones and found that they were all capable
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of impressingly low brightness dimness whatever you want
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to call it of a single knit or less we found that one of the phones tested
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was able to get down to just a thousandths of a knit
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and if you want to learn more about our test equipment the process see the results all that kind of stuff
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go to the article it's on lttlabs.com you can navigate to
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lttlabs.com and then it's just in the sidebar
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if you want to see all the articles that come out it's in the sidebar if you want to feed
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of them there's a variety of different feed options for getting
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notified about them or they also get
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posted sometimes Lucas generally posts them to the reddit to
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like the LTT subreddit but some other people post them on other
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subreddits around the reddit and the internet
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and all those fun things but yeah check it out we're trying to do cool stuff over there so
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yeah it's really cool I mean I don't know about you but really low
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minimum brightness is an absolute game changer for me in terms of like
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my wind down late at night I like to have all my lights down
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it's light emission from devices it's supposed to be bad for your brain trying
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to fall asleep right so if you lower it your circadian rhythms get kind of
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mucked up from from light supposedly look I'm not going to make
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any kinds of health claims I will I know this for sure
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it is it is definitely a fact we personally
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actually ran a peer reviewed study of 400,000
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people and their sleeping patterns for two decades and know
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this for sure this is a health podcast we are
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experts and scientists and doctors
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for anyone listening right now I was furiously
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mashing the doesn't know button
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so everything that he just said was completely nullified by that I just want
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to make sure I get out there yeah as Noki said as well every single one of those
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test subjects only ever have used Firefox they've actually never used
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chrome never used edge they would install Firefox off
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of like USB drives they might not use edge but
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do they edge when using Firefox yes okay
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that that makes sense using
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Firefox can be very exciting yes
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any who was that was that it for that topic I think so
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we're just kind of pointing people there we can talk about the
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article if we want but I also think it's just like you know go give it a read
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okay I'll spoil one thing I'll spoil one thing with a certain combination
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of settings it was the latest iPhone that was able to reach
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a thousandth of a knit and actually I learned something
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reading that article because I already knew about some of the tweaks
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that you can use to push the display brightness even lower but I didn't
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know about all of them and so one of mine and Yvonne's like
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wind down is we'll sit and play wordscapes in bed sometimes
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and I honestly it doesn't work for me as well
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as it does for her but like if we play wordscapes in bed she's usually snoring
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within about like four minutes afterwards so we'll sit and we'll play like a few rounds of wordscapes
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and having it any higher than absolute minimum
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she's on an iPhone right now and then also
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turning down the like white point there's like a white point setting and accessibility
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it's just a stupid word jumble
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it has really obnoxious ads I'm not recommending it
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I play the every once in a while we'll dabble with we use one phone
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and collaboratively play the New York Times games
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like Wordle and all that kind of stuff
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Crystal apparently tested the time limit
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New time limit doesn't hide them
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it just gives you a limit that you can
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immediately bypass yeah so I'm just not going to have the app
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installed still well I guess because it's like
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a Google device it's still installed but it's disabled
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yeah let's see okay so there's a short
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if I click it you've reached your limit so when
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you go to scroll it says you've reached your limit and there's just a big glowing button you can press
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them anyways yeah so they didn't do
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jack that is useless but it's good news
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so on to more things and you can also just not have it installed
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so that works cool
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Talon says no it actually worked for me it's not showing shorts
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inconsistent okay Talon
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Crystal can you close the app and restart it
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you can actually even restart your entire phone
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HunterDOS says my app shows no shorts
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not showing the short would be enough
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if it's not enticing you
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there's a number of people saying it shows zero shorts
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I'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic
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not because I think Google suddenly developed a conscience
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but because I think that the recent ruling determining that
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they had created their apps intentionally in a way that harms
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the development of miners we talked about that either one or two weeks ago
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maybe pushing them to swing the pendulum back
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the other way a little bit in terms of how aggressively
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attention sucking their app design is and you know
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we should be encouraging of anything they do in this direction no matter what
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incentivize them to ultimately move this way
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if it behaves the way it did in crystal screen capture
27:18
then I don't care about it at all but if it isn't showing shorts then that's fantastic
27:22
and if you like click a link to a short and it opens up in the
27:26
YouTube chat in the YouTube app and then you decide to scroll
27:30
I don't know whatever if it then warns you like hey you're out of time
27:34
you set your time limit to zero and you decide to bypass
27:38
you've done so many things to go around the setting
27:42
you know at a certain point we have to be accountable for
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our choices yeah exactly so like I don't expect them to go way above
27:50
and beyond but if you say hey I don't want shorts it shouldn't
27:54
advertise them to you it should actually stop there
27:58
in other good news it removes it from the main feed but you can see it in a creator's channel
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if you go there I mean I think that's fair I think that's also fine
28:06
yeah in other good news DaVinci Resolve 21
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is now a lightroom alternative raw editing
28:14
tethering masking and more black magic design announced this
28:18
at NAB 2026 and the biggest surprise
28:22
is the dedicated photo page that turns Hollywood's go-to
28:26
color grading suite into a direct lightroom competitor
28:30
the update supports raw files from Canon, Sony, Nikon
28:34
and Fujifilm and brings Resolve's node based color tools to
28:38
still images for the first time the tool
28:42
the photo tool includes album management with ratings and filters
28:46
AI magic mask for one-click subject selection, AI ultra sharpen for upscaling
28:50
tethered shooting with Sony and Canon cameras and the ability
28:54
to import existing lightroom catalogs most of the
28:58
photo page features are included in the free version only AI magic mask
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and film look creator require the $295
29:06
one time studio upgrade one time
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one time dude that's so good
29:14
one time is no problem black magic dude they don't do everything
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right but they are pretty
29:22
based while they do some things wrong and most things right and that's okay
29:26
and they've been winning with DaVinci for a long time I've had a number of conversations
29:30
with people in the video creative space that are talking about how
29:34
like and I think I've talked about this on my show a couple times but the kids coming out of school
29:38
are all using DaVinci
29:42
so like the industry is shifting pretty heavily right now
29:46
and why shouldn't they for context here Adobe charges $10 a month
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for lightroom which adds up to $120 a year with
29:54
no end in sight and that's just lightroom and with the way that Adobe is going
29:58
no realistic future where that's going to become
30:02
cheaper rather than more expensive DaVinci resolves free version
30:06
now covers most of what lightroom does and the full studio license is a one time
30:10
purchase that never expires for hybrid photo and video shooters
30:14
having everything in one app with matching color tools across stills and footage is a genuine
30:18
workflow game changer and
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man I'm almost afraid to say it
30:26
feels like finally we're getting to the point where maybe Adobe
30:30
is going to have to start to acknowledge that they have competition
30:34
like do I go to our production team and basically say
30:38
like okay hey are we getting close now? I have asked
30:42
it was four, almost five years ago I think that I did that video
30:46
where the thumbnails like me holding out all the money and I'm like I pay $10,000
30:50
a month to Adobe dude yeah if I remember correctly it's like more than
30:54
a full time employee you're paying to Adobe a year and it's not
30:58
like I'm getting a full time employee's worth of like attention from
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Adobe that's for sure hold on let me see if I can find this line
31:06
as Adobe
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and you can see how many people this message resonated
31:14
with like 4.7 million views
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why do I pay Adobe $10,000 oh was it a year back then?
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it's a lot more than that now sorry it's not $100,000
31:26
a year but I think it's is it closer to like 60 now or something like that?
31:30
I think it's around there or above I don't remember
31:34
when we did how does LMG spend money? I remember it being either number one or number two
31:38
for the software solutions that we pay the most for
31:42
very highly up there and that's US dollars if I recall correctly
31:46
so it's pretty yucky the number I've seen
31:50
would be CAD okay so that would be like a 40% uplift on yours
31:54
either way it's a butt ton
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it's crazy it's a ton that's so big I don't even know if it would fit
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in your butt anymore it's a greater than
32:06
greater than butt ton it depends on the domination of it
32:10
oh yeah right that would make a big difference $100 bills would be a much bigger
32:14
butt ton than fives anyway
32:18
Petricor Imperial asks the chat
32:22
not the point the point is I'm always going to root for
32:26
a disruptor coming in and making life more difficult
32:30
for a monopoly or a de facto monopoly especially one that
32:34
I frankly feel has abused their position
32:38
I'm not the only one who feels that way Adobe recently had to settle
32:42
that thing around their billing practices and I still remember
32:46
how outraged I was when I found out that you can't just
32:50
they treat it like signing a contract with them every seat that you
32:54
add to your organization absolutely ludicrous and I think they might have
32:58
changed some of those practices now but not until they were forced to
33:02
yeah hiding fees preventing customers from easily cancelling software subscriptions
33:06
it's like don't you have enough money can't you just have the customers
33:10
who willingly pay you
33:14
coffee as s*** you know
33:18
I'm getting the number oh it doesn't matter that much it's fine
33:22
it's more than 10,000 less than 100,000 I think that's a fine enough
33:26
sort of nebulous spot to leave it
33:30
alright
33:34
we're still moving what are we doing that just says headline topic
33:38
Dan we finished the headline topic like 15 minutes ago
33:42
he's gonna put up two more topics he's just gonna make us yeah
33:46
you guys can't see it but he just put up
33:50
a sign that just Ross says more topics
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oh it's pretty good
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yeah it seems right to me it seems totally right to me wow
34:06
wow wow forget it I don't even want your cue cards
34:10
for it I think they're very informative let's talk about
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a California bill that would require long term
34:18
support for server connected games stop killing
34:22
games is backing California bill AB 1921
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introduced by state assembly member Chris Ward and expected to be up for
34:30
debate in the assembly soon to him the protect our
34:34
games act proposes new regulations that would apply to digital games released
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after December 1st 2026
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I don't like it but I do understand
34:46
it yeah I know I get that I get it I get that there's an entire
34:50
there's an entire epoch of games that could end up
34:54
lost because this will only go into effect for new games going forward
34:58
but I understand why you can't just change the rules
35:02
midstream after companies have already this will still be
35:06
changing the rules midstream for some people yes but I get it
35:10
at least they get a little bit of heads up under the act digital game operators
35:14
would be required to provide 60 days notice before they shut
35:18
down any services or servers that are necessary for the ordinary
35:22
use of the game they must provide details about which features will stop
35:26
working they must explain how the user can continue to play the
35:30
game after the shutdown and warn of any security issues
35:34
that might arise from the shutdown notice would need to be provided both
35:38
in-game and on the operators website and as originally written
35:42
the game operator would also have been required to seize sales and distribution
35:46
of the game at the 60 day notice but this has since been changed to the shutdown date
35:50
as the bill has worked its way through reviews which I actually I
35:54
think I kind of get because if for whatever reason you're still able to use it
35:58
in some way afterward then I if I was like
36:02
oh that sounds pretty good I want to buy it I wouldn't want to be prevented from
36:06
doing that that it should be my choice if I want to buy it or not sure I could
36:10
see making a warning mandatory hey this game is shutting down on this day these are going to be the changes
36:14
but just telling me I'm not allowed to buy it I mean that seems
36:18
like it's punishing me I can even think of certain games like a
36:22
Titanfall to I don't think I think there's a
36:26
community server mod but I don't think it naturally
36:30
had community servers on launch I could be wrong with this I don't really remember
36:34
but it costs like four dollars now when it's on sale and it's like always
36:38
on sale and I would highly recommend people buy it for the single player
36:42
and if the multiplayer doesn't work like whatever like it's still worth buying the
36:46
game so like yeah as long as there is some flag like by the way the multiplayer doesn't work anymore
36:50
if you want to make that decision I think that's still fine it's 40 Canadian
36:54
dollars right now that yeah it's just on sale like practically all the time
36:58
only buy it on sale for sure yeah it goes it goes on like 90% off sales
37:02
all the time so I'll just wait for one of those
37:06
starting on the shutdown date the operator would be required to provide
37:10
purchasers with at least one of a new version of the game
37:14
that can be used without the operator services
37:18
fantastic a patch for the existing version of the game that
37:22
works without the operator services fantastic based
37:26
a full refund of the purchase price that also works
37:30
that also works I don't prefer that one but
37:34
what this does is it gives companies an
37:38
out if they're in an absolutely desperate situation
37:42
can't do the previous two for some weird legal reason or whatever else or for
37:46
cost reasons sometimes that might not be practical what was that
37:50
Sony game concord or was that the one
37:54
one of the games the enormous game that they had that they shut down after
37:58
like a couple of weeks one of them I feel like they did it to more than one but that is one of them
38:02
yeah so like for a game like that where the entire problem
38:06
with the game is that they've poured all this money into it
38:10
and then practically no one bought it
38:14
it may actually make more sense because practically no one bought it
38:18
for them to just issue like a few tens of thousands of
38:22
dollars of refunds or even a few hundred grand worth of refunds and basically just go
38:26
okay forget it we just we put this in the dustbin of history
38:30
but in that case we're talking about a game where there's not going to be
38:34
nearly the same degree of like loss of
38:38
shared experience and loss of gaming history necessarily compared
38:42
to something that people played for many many many years and then just
38:46
you know is turned off and can no longer be accessed
38:50
well there is still loss but not the same scale I guess it's scale of loss
38:54
importance importance and so and so having that
38:58
having that that pulse that pull cord that they can basically
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just go okay for whatever reason we cannot do this
39:06
if it is because no I don't think any company
39:10
would want to choose to refund every copy
39:14
of a game they ever sold yeah like if you were to tell rockstar
39:18
so yeah GTA 5 you can do a new
39:22
version of the game that can be used without your services a patch for the existing version
39:26
so it'll work without your services or a full refund of the purchase price which one
39:30
you think they're going to pick this is also like just just as a note this is
39:34
long term support I don't think this is necessarily forever support
39:38
of course there are exceptions these new rules would not
39:42
apply to subscription based services that are clearly
39:46
advertised as only offering access to a game for the duration of the subscription so something
39:50
like wow would not be covered by this MMOs in general
39:54
it does not apply to free games and this is where things get
39:58
a little bit hazy for me because if you've spent
40:02
$300 on say for example league skins
40:06
sure one skin okay are yeah is that
40:10
a free game
40:14
yeah exactly yeah a lot of
40:18
free games people spend more money on the games
40:22
yeah so I'd be interested as this makes its way
40:26
through the drafting process I would be interested to see
40:30
how they're going to tackle that and then the third one is that games
40:34
that the seller can't revoke access to after the sale
40:38
seems that the seller can't revoke access to
40:42
I'm not quite sure what that means but the first two were pretty I don't know what that means for games that require
40:46
server connected yeah yeah
40:50
yeah okay so maybe that's just for games where it wouldn't be relevant
40:54
in other stop killing games news the EU parliament held an introductory
40:58
hearing yesterday on the European citizens initiative stop destroying
41:02
video games organizers were able to present their initiative to parliament but
41:06
a parliamentary response is not expected to come before July you can find
41:10
video of the hearing on the European Parliament YouTube channel
41:14
this is far more momentum than
41:18
I expected stop killing games to get
41:22
oh yeah I'm impressed it's yeah on the one hand
41:26
you know maybe my pessimism was partly
41:30
rooted in a belief that there are
41:34
really important other things that the world kind of needs to deal with other than
41:38
like video games and stuff and maybe I just even though
41:42
it's something that's very near and dear to me I expected
41:46
you know stuffy octogenarian lawmakers to just
41:50
look at the whole games thing as just
41:54
video games and not care about it but then on the other hand
41:58
there's enormous amounts of money at play
42:02
there's a lot of money at play art is important and I think I think
42:06
there's different people that do different things there's different people that have different expertise
42:10
and you can you can do more than one thing at once
42:14
yeah no key says and all it took was for one guy to
42:18
speak out against the movement that's what popularized it I
42:22
don't think it's that simple although it did I do think it had
42:26
a pretty big impact it definitely did shine a lot of light on the movement
42:30
speaking of big impact against your will I got the numbers
42:34
it's before tax $62,000 for creative cloud
42:38
just creative cloud and before tax
42:42
and then before tax just for adobe acrobat pro
42:46
it's $4,500
42:50
why do we need $4,500 worth of it
42:54
who's doing pdfs
42:58
I know we get pdfs signed
43:02
both of them
43:06
that shouldn't be a
43:10
controversial statement we do get pdfs signed though
43:14
I think it's very convenient to have like the cloud version
43:18
of pdfs signs
43:22
is it convenient enough to be $4,500 a year
43:26
I don't know I don't know what people use them for I don't use it I mean if it's an alternative
43:30
to like fax then I suppose
43:34
I haven't used adobe acrobat in a long time
43:38
I've recently been using only office
43:42
it's pretty easy right seems fine it's free
43:46
is that that website where you just go and it's pictures of people in suits
43:50
no it seems to be like
43:54
that was canadian dollars by the way the like Linux bro open source
43:58
there's a thing that isn't libra office there's like
44:02
both of those exist people in chatter saying libra office
44:06
someone said some other thing up above I don't know where I saw it
44:10
I don't remember what it was called but there's like there's lots of options for pdfs
44:14
you can sign pdfs with the free version I think people at work
44:18
have yeah pdf-exchange I've never heard of that
44:22
but a few people are saying that
44:26
it's a pro one I suspect it's for the you can email someone
44:30
the link and then they can sign it digitally in their browser
44:34
and it gets like receipts for everything in both directions and stuff and it's just
44:38
I will admit it's very professional I would have to guess that that's probably the business
44:42
team that uses that or accounting business accounting HR for
44:46
like getting people hired and signing employee contracts and stuff like that
44:50
yeah 4500 to like seem professional to people
44:54
you do outreach to in those contexts probably it might matter
44:58
probably maybe possibly makes sense I suspect one of the reasons
45:02
why it might be so expensive is we probably have a bunch of dead subscriptions
45:12
because they do they do the seat thing right it's supposed to be good news mind show
45:16
well the good news could be that we might get away from that
45:20
yeah you might maybe possibly save money that's a reach
45:24
that's a reach good news everyone
45:28
another good news okay Dan I
45:32
apologize for what I did before can I please have them back thank you
45:36
alright we're supposed to do the CW announcement
45:40
this week we've got oh lordy I scrolled too far
45:44
we're hiring
45:48
we've got a few open roles on our site including a junior fashion designer
45:52
and a purchasing manager both for creator warehouse as well as a contract
45:56
role in inventory and warehouse management based out of Atlanta
46:00
Georgia if you think you'd be a good fit for these roles we want to hear from you
46:04
head over to linusmediagroup.com slash careers to apply
46:08
yay this week's product launch
46:12
has the variety and has quite the
46:16
pop you know what this week's product launch is
46:20
pretty exciting for me personally this is something pretty
46:24
different from what we've done in the past if you love motor sports
46:28
the Moto T is for you I'm gonna
46:32
what are you doing over there you shopping for adobe subscriptions
46:36
I saw I saw those adobe subscriptions
46:40
we're supposed to be going to LTT Store
46:44
this show is such a disaster oh look it's really cool
46:48
if you love motor sports the Moto T is for you
46:52
it's a race inspired jersey but instead of sponsored patches
46:56
they are tech inspired patches and 3d puff prints
47:00
it's designed on a 100% cotton top so it's breathable
47:04
and feels premium and you can get yours at LMG.gg
47:08
slash Moto T
47:12
very very different kind of design from what we've done in the past
47:16
super cool the pink and green is obviously inspired
47:20
by the old Lambo color scheme isn't that cool
47:24
I know right of course you should never ride your motorcycle
47:28
without a layer over top of a cotton T or long sleeve like
47:32
this but hey you can you can still look the part
47:36
when you are not actually on your bike
47:40
is that just actually her bike did they actually bring Natalie's bike into the
47:44
studio it looks like maybe
47:48
that's pretty sick cool okay
47:52
next up is uh that's a great
47:56
shot sweet next up is the shirt that Luke is wearing
48:00
if you're a frequent viewer of the WAN Show you might recognize this character
48:04
sir ability to can
48:08
he disappears whenever something really ridiculous happens
48:12
and I can't anymore or I lose my ability to can
48:16
he's super cute it's a it's bleach printed so it has kind of
48:20
this vintage washed look and is very crack resistant
48:24
and you can get yours at LMG.gg slash ability
48:28
to can do you want to show the back of it Luke's actually wearing this shirt right now
48:32
there you go missing sir ability
48:36
to can it's a bird don't worry about it it's more of just like
48:40
a WAN Show inside joke but it's also kind of a fun shirt design
48:44
pay line is for making puns pretty much I mean
48:48
yeah I mean it wouldn't be the first time last but not least for those
48:52
who just want something basic we have our blank baseball cap
48:56
it's the same design as our LTT had is adjustable doesn't
49:00
have the top smarty or button whatever you want to call it
49:04
see are you gonna he's gonna bring it up he's working on it he's working on it
49:08
there we go no no is it
49:12
is it missing LMG.gg slash blank cap oh there we go
49:16
it's adjustable and it's in medium and large sizes it doesn't have
49:20
the top smarty so if you ever like you know bump it on anything you won't have
49:24
that to deal with it's really comfortable and is now available in black and kangaroo
49:28
you can shop now at LMG.gg slash blank cap and this
49:32
is one of yet another products that
49:36
is coming into the LTT Store with creator warehouse branding
49:40
that could ultimately hey if you're another creator out there and you're looking for
49:44
branded apparel opportunities be rebranded to
49:48
something else ooh interesting
49:52
Anywho if you're looking for a good reason to
49:56
send in an order to LTT Store as always the best way
50:00
to do so is to wait when we're live
50:04
oh man my brain is so fried today um when we're live go to the
50:08
store go to a product find the one you want click add
50:12
to cart then this little thing will show up this is the easiest way to do it but you could also
50:16
just click on this and then this box will be here probably
50:20
looking like that and you can click this little check box and be like oh I want
50:24
to say something you can make a name anonymous or not and then you can be like
50:28
whoa car shirt cool
50:32
thanks man smiley face and then change your color
50:36
because you feel like doing that opt in for email communications because you're like
50:40
by the way where my order screw
50:44
driver no show up please help thanks
50:48
and then the customer support people can message you because you did this thing
50:52
and then you check out and then it shows up on the stream
50:56
to producer Dan who will either show it up on the stream
51:00
or reply to it or he will curate it for me and Luke to respond to
51:04
we feel this is way better than just people throwing their money at their screen and then hoping something good will
51:08
happen um we like you to get high quality merchandise in
51:12
the mail instead or in addition to Dan do you want to show them what a curated
51:16
check out message looks like did I call it a did I call it a
51:20
large message yeah I know you're not saying anything because you're
51:24
in the same room as me Dan am I allowed to say things yet
51:28
yes of course fine hey LLD but mostly
51:32
Luke everyone else can answer I guess what is your favorite
51:36
version of boy kibble simple carb plus high protein
51:40
other than just chicken and rice oh well
51:44
actual actual kibble I know I know people
51:48
go really hard they'll make they'll make like a like ground beef
51:52
mixed with like egg and
51:56
maybe some maybe some spice and that'll be like
52:00
the predominant portion of their meals for a week they'll just make one big
52:04
trough of like meat
52:08
something I've been going for lately is sticking with the
52:12
chicken or really or potentially
52:16
having steak instead but try to make that more rare I find
52:20
cook it less oh my god I did I didn't mean
52:24
that but you know don't overcook me whatever you don't make the chicken rare
52:28
yeah I don't do that but then I've been mixing
52:32
the the other things up so go for like a sweet potato instead
52:36
of rice or or instead of broccoli do like cauliflower
52:40
or spinach or kale or something else
52:44
and just keep changing things up a little bit
52:48
I have heard that if you just eat the same thing all the time
52:52
and it's really boring that it can act as an appetite
52:56
suppressant so if you're trying to lose weight maybe that works
53:00
maybe it doesn't I don't know contrary to what I said earlier
53:04
in the show not a scientist not a doctor but yeah I've been
53:08
I've been mixing up the the carbs that are included basically
53:12
but keeping the proteins pretty basic
53:16
yeah yeah
53:20
hopefully that's an answer. Nipolas Cage in Floatplane chat asked us to make
53:24
the hat that Jay wears in Jay and Silent Bob it's a baseball cap without
53:28
a brim and literally no one sells one sell me one
53:32
are you sure are you sure we need this
53:36
wait really there's no brim yeah I never noticed
53:40
it I think I always just thought it was on backwards
53:44
yeah no this is the seat of the this is the car seat behind him
53:48
there's no brim on it how did I never notice that
53:52
oh my god
53:56
that's just a beanie say people I thought
54:00
this is what Americans call a beanie yeah like
54:04
this is a baseball cap line things in it
54:08
without a brim it has the seams and everything. Scrappy DP says we do
54:12
not want that I don't think anyone
54:16
does
54:20
we want a double brim hat too says Minji no you don't you are
54:24
so lying you do not want a double brim hat
54:28
that is not a thing you want alright Dan hit us with another checkout message
54:32
hey LLND for the same price oh my god hold on there's a
54:36
full company that sells them of course there is no brim
54:40
co oh my god
54:44
that kind of has a brim though it really does yeah it has a full
54:48
brim do they sell this squeezy jibs one original no brim brimless
54:52
hats what about the long brim I saw a long brim on there
54:56
wait long brim that was somewhere what
55:00
I think you made it up might have been the previous
55:04
one I think you're a liar
55:08
that's funky speaking of funky hats
55:12
I searched for double brim trying to find what I think
55:16
obviously would have been one in the front and one in the back
55:20
but instead I found this that's the one I saw it on your
55:24
screen super brim dude
55:28
I love how the dude wearing the hat just looks completely normal
55:32
I don't think that's this hat there's no way that that's this hat
55:36
I was actually working on my notes
55:40
for the megane x8k
55:44
VR headset and
55:48
I know it's one of those things that doesn't really affect
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your ability to make a good quality product but
55:56
bad or not even necessarily bad but like clearly
56:00
fake product photography just really puts me off of
56:04
something and this is a classic
56:08
example where is she
56:12
where'd she go dang it
56:16
okay well oh here she is
56:20
she is not wearing that headset
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at all like
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this
56:32
somebody tried a little bit though this is the fakest she's not wearing the headset
56:36
this is not even a picture this is a render of the headset
56:40
on her face and it gets worse they put a little shadow on there
56:44
oh no here it is
56:48
this is the exact same photo you can tell from the pixels
56:52
of the hair that this is exactly the same photo
56:56
you can see it in like the little flyaways and stuff
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he's a pixel scientist that it's the same picture
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and here's the same picture three times
57:08
three times the same picture on one page
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two more times the same picture
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come on man
57:20
it feels so low quality
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I don't like that
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I haven't actually tried the product yet so don't take this as a judgment on the
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quality of the product itself it just the quality of the product page
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though the quality of the product page is not great
57:40
anyway in other news I had to go to AliExpress
57:44
but I did find a double brimmed hat and it is exactly as amazing as
57:48
I hoped yo inspector line
57:52
should we do one of these inspector line
57:56
you could wear that in your next secret shopper or something
58:00
sorry Mr. Bester do you want to hit us with another check up message
58:04
hey LLND for the same price it could get a 77 inch
58:08
Samsung QLED mini LED
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what would you do bigger or OLED
58:16
this is a tough one
58:20
Samsung has a lot of QLED TVs
58:24
and there is a wide range of quality depending on
58:28
how many local dimming zones they have and how bright they are
58:32
with that said
58:36
at the same price I could have a 77 inch or a 100 inch TV
58:40
it depends a little bit on the space
58:44
if you have a smaller room and just
58:48
sitting farther is not an option anyway
58:52
the C5 OLED is going to give you a better picture
58:56
it is going to give you a poppier punchier
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more exciting picture
59:04
however if you are in a large space
59:08
and you want to have a big group the bigger the TV
59:12
the wider you can spread your couches and chairs the more you can have people
59:16
kind of spread out and eating snacks over there and whatever the more people
59:20
you can kind of gather around it and even if you have a smaller
59:24
room the more immersive the image is going to feel
59:28
if it was me and I guess
59:32
it is I would choose the larger display
59:36
over the OLED in my theater room I could have
59:40
if I really wanted a 97 inch OLED
59:44
then not to instead I have a 115 inch
59:48
mini LED so that is what I would choose
59:52
however if for whatever reason the size of my
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at least that is the case today with RGB backlighting
60:04
coming that is the one I am more excited about but it sounds
60:08
like you are getting a deal on a last gen TV so that is not going to be
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necessarily relevant to your purchasing decision anyway
60:16
I hope that helped I didn't really give you an answer but
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cool what would you do you do smaller
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OLED I would think right probably that is what you did yeah so it is not even hypothetical
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I went bigger TV he went smaller OLED
60:32
I also have less
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viewing distance I guess like
60:40
you know shotgun apartment hallway room things
60:44
and you just have like standard couch position standard TV
60:48
position the throw distance is really not that crazy
60:52
high so I would rather just a way better picture 100 inch would be a little bit ridiculous
60:56
at that seating I think so yeah so I would rather just have a better picture
61:00
Genesis 8925 says if money wasn't a problem
61:04
projector but man I have a really hard time getting
61:08
behind that like the the wife acceptance factor of a
61:12
projector just from my experience seems to be
61:16
much smaller and I don't know what it is
61:20
but it's like they don't look good
61:24
yeah I mean they can but there's so many other things you have to
61:28
align that the wife acceptance factor starts to
61:32
decay and then the second someone gets up to go get popcorn in the middle
61:36
thing and there's a they interrupt the image or you have to tell your young
61:40
kids hey that's a laser projector don't look into the lens and you know there's
61:44
like eye safety concerns and then you accidentally
61:48
leave a door open and so there's like a weird kind of like bright
61:52
spot across half of it where the shadow of the couch covers it like it's just
61:56
it's not as friendly and there's something just
62:00
kind of intuitive about the TV
62:04
seeing the thing you like press a button on an emergency if you forget versus like
62:08
going to the back of the room and like pressing a thing on the ceiling if the remote
62:12
has the batteries dead or whatever like it there's just so many little
62:16
things about a projector that are more you know
62:20
bearded dude and less family friendly
62:24
no offense Dan
62:28
I painted my wall just an entire the entire wall
62:32
gray you've seen it there's no wife factor there
62:36
you also can't go anywhere near it or put anything in front of it or touch it ever where it's ruined
62:40
get a TV
62:44
yeah that's what I'm talking about get an OLED she'll like the colors
62:48
yeah she probably won't care
62:52
she likes the colors okay
62:56
mine doesn't care it's whatever is in the most
63:00
I know exactly where
63:04
he's going she will be in the family
63:08
room where there is an OLED TV
63:12
and she'll be like doing
63:16
yoga on a mat or something and she will be watching
63:20
on her phone and I'm just like
63:24
really
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oh
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um
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anyway
63:40
let's talk about Apple launching
63:44
after giving up significant education
63:48
sector ground in recent years decades question mark says our notes
63:52
Apple appears to be making a new push to engage potential users
63:56
as early as possible with Apple education
64:00
redesigned landing page highlights the benefits of various Apple hardware and software
64:04
for lifelong learning starting with low cost iPads and MacBook
64:08
neos and errors for the K to 12 crowd and then moves up through the product line
64:12
for college and postgraduate studies with all the essential productivity and specialty
64:16
apps for your field the site also offers special Apple care
64:20
packages and flexible financing for educational institutions and that's
64:24
that right there is the big one and when it comes to
64:28
hooking them young I mean I have talked for
64:32
ever about how Apple like
64:36
allowing Chromebooks to become a thing and it looks like they finally
64:40
figured it out and they are making a concentrated effort to just
64:44
un Chromebook the world and
64:48
I think these stop on Chromebooks oh dude
64:52
I've been daily not close I think I've been daily in the Neo for
64:56
over two weeks now I think I can't remember the time
65:00
but basically it's not bothering me I feel like you would remember the time if you hated it
65:04
yes because you'd be like counting it's the same thing as
65:08
this Linux challenge compared to the last one yep the last one we're all checking in with each other
65:12
and how many days were left and this one I think the timer passed and no one cared
65:16
yeah yep Apple also
65:20
like Google with their Chromebooks seems well positioned to keep
65:24
users in their ecosystem after schools out with a redesigned
65:28
Apple business landing page that launched about a month ago
65:32
so our discussion question here is did Apple make the right call in seemingly
65:36
abandoning the education market after the eMac and I mean I think
65:40
I've made my position on this very clear over the years no absolutely not that was
65:44
entirely the wrong call Apple went from being the only
65:48
computers in one of the like elementary
65:52
schools that I attended to be basically becoming utterly irrelevant
65:56
in schools in a span of like what five years ten years
66:00
something like that almost nothing it was just it was just all PC and then it was
66:04
all Chromebook and Apple became
66:08
just a complete non-player outside of from my understanding
66:12
very affluent educational
66:16
organizations but now man
66:20
this thing this thing changes everything
66:24
because an iPad is only useful for certain stuff
66:28
for a lot of things I'm sorry but you just plain need a keyboard
66:32
what is the difference right now between a Neo and an iPad with a keyboard
66:36
um the fact that it's running
66:40
proper desktop software to me is a big one just in the
66:44
the day to day usability of the device or did you
66:48
mean in terms of price no yeah that that to me is the
66:52
big one the fact that I'm not just limited to iPad OS
66:56
apps and I can run any software that I want on it because
67:00
there's just I mean it's inherent to the app store model
67:04
that these apps are designed to be
67:08
less open you know Apple dictates what's in the app store
67:12
take a cut out of everything that's in the app store which you know
67:16
whether you believe that that's a monopolistic practice from them or not
67:20
is a tax on the developer's ability to operate
67:24
within that ecosystem there's just there's things about it that are just plain
67:28
not as budget friendly and not as user friendly
67:32
I find it interesting how open they are
67:36
surprising price yeah it's like yeah it is a surprising price from you
67:40
yeah it's also a surprising price for just the general quality of the laptop
67:44
but do you think this is Tim Cook wanting to like go off on a high note
67:48
like there's been a lot of discussion has been a lot around his legacy
67:52
over the last couple years because he's getting close to probably retiring like hasn't
67:56
even been pretty open about I think so yeah and so
68:00
it's just it's been this open conversation like what is Tim Cook's legacy because
68:04
it I mean I'm sure he would love if it were not
68:08
the Apple Vision Pro right and you look at
68:12
like there's a lot of things that he has undeniably done
68:16
incredibly well Apple is a logistics monster
68:20
the way that they the way that they handle messaging and their launches
68:24
is perhaps unparalleled
68:28
there's just so good at it but what product
68:32
did Tim Cook
68:36
because even AirPods was before his time was it not
68:40
actually maybe not I think EarPods might have been before his time but
68:44
I don't think AirPods were no I think you might be right
68:48
Tim Cook was
68:52
AirPods was well after he made the thing that kind of murdered the entire audio industry
68:56
which is pretty impressive so that was relatively early on
69:00
in his tenure and then towards the end
69:04
is the creation of the laptop computer that basically murders the entire
69:08
entry level business and education laptop
69:12
segment from everyone else I also think there's an angle which is
69:16
what a punctuation mark to put on your career Apple spent a really long time
69:20
basically fighting with chip manufacturers
69:24
like they got in this huge war with NVIDIA they got in a
69:28
bit of a tiff with Intel a bit of a yeah like they
69:32
are not being very friendly with chip manufacturers
69:36
they came up with the M series chips those chips are just
69:40
smashing everything their fire how do they pipeline
69:44
people into their like okay we figured out bailing on the other
69:48
chip manufacturers now but the pipeline into max is not
69:52
necessarily the easiest and it's not exactly the cheapest so how do we get people
69:56
kind of re interested in max we've we own the world of audio
70:00
we own the world of phones well the North American world of
70:04
phones but yeah yeah we own the world of spending
70:08
money on lots of phones you know what's really
70:12
interesting to me though is like what will Apple take
70:16
away from this lesson will they take away
70:20
oh we could have charged more for the Neo and will they go back for higher
70:24
margins or will they take away
70:28
holy crap we have been leaving so much volume on the table
70:32
by pricing things out of reach of normal
70:36
ordinary people and do we get like a really aggressive
70:40
iPhone like do we get like a $400 iPhone
70:44
because if they can build this computer for
70:48
$500 to an educational customer right
70:52
convince me you can build a cheaper
70:56
convince me they couldn't do a $400 iPhone if they really wanted to
71:00
they've got their own silicon for the processor they've got their own silicon for the modem
71:04
now even the Qualcomm tax is she's a hefty tax
71:08
tell me they couldn't do it
71:12
no they absolutely could I think
71:16
this might this might piss some people off I think their gamer move in the future is to
71:20
basically only ever have you know they have two skews for this one they have
71:24
like the higher storage plus touch ID and the lower storage and no touch ID
71:28
I don't think you ever expand beyond that
71:32
oh for this one yeah for the Neo oh yeah Neo tier laptops as like
71:36
there is maybe two options maybe in some generations there is
71:40
one and it's just the cheap
71:44
laptop you can get from Apple and then everything else is you're jumping into M
71:48
chips and it's like performance laptops and I actually I like that they
71:52
gave it a really unique color because it clearly identifies me
71:56
as a scrub who you know but it's a good
72:00
a real Mac still yeah but it still it still looks good it has it
72:04
has its own very clear identity the thing on the bottom is a D brand
72:08
oh yeah that's a deep end skin sorry people know yeah sorry about that so it's this
72:12
looking at the like that's what we're looking at greenish yellow yeah yeah
72:16
yeah so I really like what they did with that I could see them continuing to
72:20
do that that's something that they have done in the past to differentiate otherwise
72:24
very similar looking you can still get it in silver and pro yes
72:28
but I would actually like to see them lean into this I see
72:32
most people that one is the most popular color way I've personally
72:36
seen is like the yellow but I've seen most people get colorful ones
72:40
which I have to say like thanks
72:44
God it's been so boring
72:48
I'm always picking the most boring possible color options for everything and seeing
72:52
a bunch of people get the colorful neos brought some hope
72:56
I think it's like oh wow the world can not just be gray again
73:00
this is great nah don't get your hopes up what it's gonna
73:04
not everyone is full of hopes the only reason Apple can do that is because
73:08
would they sell 8 million of these things high hopes oh
73:12
so Apple so all the others are sold out so you just had to buy
73:16
just mean Apple can afford to do a gray one and a
73:20
yellow one oh no I mean people's selection oh sure I just mean but
73:24
Apple's the only one who has the volume to gamble
73:28
and do a color sure sure because they can even if the color
73:32
bombs and only one in 10 customers selects the color
73:36
one then they are still gonna sell 800,000
73:40
of them yeah so they're fine I hear you I just I think like
73:44
I think you just see people who have a selection of colors
73:48
always going like gray white or black oh yeah and that's just kind of
73:52
boring they're just safe I mean I was I was talking to the creator warehouse team
73:56
about commuter bags I or hey this shirt
74:00
the Lambo shirts so cool here
74:04
so commuter bags it's so sick I've been rocking this
74:08
kind of like olive like tactical green one
74:12
for a little while that I really like yeah and we were just we were talking
74:16
about you know yeah what would what would a future look like
74:20
where we have like a range of colors of bags and we were talking through what the
74:24
minimum order quantities are for each of these colors with fabric sourcing
74:28
and factory time and
74:32
one of the things that Dave brought up is that we have
74:36
access to you know industry trend data and
74:40
basically it becomes kind of like
74:44
like a self perpetuating cycle yep because the
74:48
only thing that actually sells is black
74:52
and gray and then that's the only thing anybody makes
74:56
so then it's the only thing that anybody sells and
75:00
and it's it's a huge financial risk and I think your apple that's why I'm
75:04
saying I just appreciate that people are not just buying just the silver one
75:08
is like the more you make it so that people don't just buy only
75:12
ever just the black one it's like oh sweet okay we can
75:16
actually have more colors of things in the world again and like okay
75:20
uh or rook in Floatplane chat says I would
75:24
totally get a pink backpack but it's tough because
75:28
we sell like 10 of them back when back when steel series
75:32
let me see if I can find steel series did like a pink
75:36
watch attacks has more success with this I would say
75:40
yeah yeah I just the reason I brought up steel series is just because they did it a very
75:44
long time ago before everyone else did it yeah true and I can't
75:48
find it um probably because it didn't sell like
75:52
2010 yeah it was it was really old and
75:56
I remember I either was the product manager or I sat next to the product
76:00
manager for it and it was an unmitigated disaster
76:04
we sold like three of them or something like that and then we had to liquidate the rest of them
76:08
that has changed to a degree right to your point things are
76:12
a little different now and logitech seems to have done better with it
76:16
I think logitech has also succeeded in like it's not just hot pink
76:20
like they'll they'll do colors like this
76:24
or like it's a it's a nice like soft purple that you don't have to
76:28
like they call this one heartbreaker and it's the pink one but it's not just like
76:32
glowing hot pink either like I think they played with the colors
76:36
a little bit more I hate though that to be a trendy girl who uses a
76:40
computer you can only have a fantastic mouse
76:44
no this is just the first one I clicked on oh I'm pretty sure there's there's a like I just
76:48
was scrolling down and so they have like a high performance mouse like that
76:52
okay I probably have to go watch that G hold on
76:56
yeah I think it's like a different site yeah
77:00
I think they do have some pretty cool color ways
77:04
the super strike I'm pretty sure is just black and grey
77:08
oh my god go away
77:12
magenta that's a pretty aggressive pink
77:16
I found the thing that I was thinking of
77:20
I didn't find the mouse but I did find the mouse pad so
77:24
steel series had their iron lady brand
77:28
which was that's pretty rough pretty cringe that is pretty rough
77:32
it was pretty cringe that's what I mean though is like these
77:35
logitech ones not to glaze logitech too hard but the logitech ones like
77:39
kind of look nice and they don't say iron lady on them
77:43
which here we go I found it I found it
77:47
there it is the iron lady gaming mouse
77:51
yeah see that's hurry that's kind of yikes and then look at this
77:55
this is the one I was actually talking about the G203 pretty good mouse
77:58
lilac that's actually looks nice that's pretty cute
78:02
okay cool
78:06
anyways it's time to talk about our
78:10
Floatplane announcements Linus try to guess what this means
78:14
Dan show the free shipping
78:18
yeah that's pretty obvious
78:22
don't don't don't don't applaud me for being
78:26
good job Linus
78:30
he did it he's our good boy
78:34
for next week oh man it okay
78:38
how ridiculous is it that like a few months
78:42
ago I was talking to the creator warehouse team and we were discussing like
78:46
our sale calendar for the year and we had decided that after the
78:50
success of our shipstorm sale event last year that we should
78:54
we should do a repeat of it we should do a shipstorm sale event
78:58
and we were like talking about it and we're like well yeah but
79:02
you know that whole thing was precipitated by
79:06
you know the actions of a certain one of you know
79:10
the country leaders so is this one hold on
79:14
story spoiled
79:18
so anyway it's they're all they're all gen zers
79:22
gen alphas whatever they don't have time they already know where the story is going
79:26
I'm just helping so we decided to do
79:30
a shipstorm sale event on the anniversary of the first shipstorm
79:34
we had no idea that the certain world
79:38
leader was going to do a thing again that was going to completely
79:42
global logistics again you probably could rely on it I guess
79:46
did so anyway the shipstorm sale event
79:50
is coming back and we have something very excited for
79:54
our Floatplane supporters everyone on Floatplane
79:58
will be getting their usual 24 hour early access to
80:02
the event and additionally LTT supporter plus
80:06
tier subs will have a $50 lower threshold
80:10
to get free shipping for their entire order worldwide
80:14
so that's 13 bucks to save
80:18
not spending $50 more but
80:22
still qualifying for free shipping that's awesome but that's not all
80:26
LTT supporter plus tier subscribers on Floatplane will continue
80:30
to have free shipping on LTT Store
80:34
if the minimum spend threshold is met even after shipstorm is over I'm going to say
80:38
for some time I am not
80:42
walking into that forever I don't know who wrote this
80:46
thing in my notes but I'm putting an asterisk here
80:50
for some period of time TBD
80:54
Luke how are we making money off this I don't know I warned that it
80:58
might be a problem okay cool
81:02
anyway when we announced our price increase earlier this year we said we'd make an
81:06
effort to add benefits to our Floatplane subscribers so we're looking to deliver pun intended
81:10
and I guess this is part of it so if you're a frequent shopper on LTTstore.com
81:14
this could be worth considering and you get to watch some amazing Floatplane exclusive videos
81:18
like cutting room floor like the
81:22
heavily divided $20,000
81:26
PC extras and also sometimes early releases
81:30
so I'm just going to go ahead and launch a couple of videos hey guess what
81:34
do you know about this nearly 700 exclusives by the way do I know about
81:38
this no I don't we were sponsored by Red Bull sick sort of
81:42
someone else was sponsored by Red Bull and Red Bull had us build computers for them
81:46
also sick yeah right so that's going live
81:50
Red Bull does cool stuff yeah and then we've also got
81:54
another video that's going live right oh oh oh boy
81:58
this one is going to be a little
82:02
controversial probably and you can watch it early on float
82:06
plane it's going to be the highest
82:10
PC build ever
82:14
okay so you wait what why
82:18
because it's going to be at 40,000 feet no I get it why is it controversial
82:22
seriously have you not been following the smoking drugs the community drama
82:26
over the last couple of weeks oh because it's in your plane
82:30
because it's in Linus Media Group Incorporated's plane yes who owns that company
82:34
me so it's in your plane well it's okay
82:38
you know better than that I can only use it for work
82:42
unless I like it's a taxable benefit etc etc but
82:46
but yes Elijah came with me on the data center tour to
82:50
equinex in Virginia and this is a small
82:54
small spoiler he forgot the
82:58
case
83:02
he left the case on the ground
83:06
that's pretty funny
83:10
film it on the way so we were supposed to film it on the way
83:14
while we were filming while we were flying during the day and then that was
83:18
supposed to be our work day that day and then we were supposed to sleep
83:22
and then get up super early our time because we're
83:26
three hours ahead now do the data center tour and then
83:30
sleep on the way back but instead
83:34
had to abandon me for the data center tour he had to
83:38
go to micro center by a case and then we had to shoot
83:42
it on the way back did you shoot the whole thing on the way back or did you do part on the way there
83:46
we had to shoot the whole thing on the way back there was like almost nothing we could
83:50
there's almost nothing you can do without a case you put the CPU on the motherboard and like
83:54
put some RAM in and then that's it you're done whereas like the
83:58
computers yeah right
84:02
apparently I told everyone last week well whatever I think it's
84:06
I forgot the detail on if you did part of it on the way there or part of it or
84:10
all of it on the way back anyway the videos out it is
84:14
it is controversy aside an absolute
84:18
banger it is so funny it's just ridiculous you've already been
84:22
like I
84:26
people might not like seeing the plane but
84:30
I mean it's just a computer I don't think it's controversial
84:34
some people you know what there's some there's some people that are upset about it but
84:38
most people seem to be enjoying the window into something that otherwise we would have
84:42
absolutely no access to do you hear about Ford
84:46
I did I did I did
84:50
okay so key difference so we had a politician a Canadian politician
84:54
is in hot water right now for using and this is
84:58
incredibly important taxpayer money yeah to
85:02
acquire a private aircraft way more expensive way more expensive
85:06
private aircraft for and
85:10
reasoning was so funny I didn't see the reason what's the reason he was like
85:14
other people have planes and he pointed
85:18
at like some other politicians that have access to planes and he's like I want one too
85:22
it was so good
85:26
I actually started laughing reading the article
85:30
I think it's something like Quebec has a plane or something he's like they have a plane
85:34
I want a plane too
85:38
it's like really bro right now Canada's on fire
85:42
do you actually need a plane I don't know
85:46
it was funny it was good it was a good time
85:50
and I can I can say with 100%
85:54
certainty that he could have done it on a tighter budget than that
85:58
also the plane that he chose is so unnecessary for what he would be doing
86:02
it's a it's a challenger 650
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I don't know anything about dude he's a provincial politician where is he even going
86:10
opposition leaders dump it the gravy plane
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hahaha
86:18
hold on challenger 650 range this is hilarious
86:22
so the challenger the challenger 650 hold on where's
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guardian jet here we go CL 650 no I don't want the brochure
86:30
online tools range rings here we go okay
86:34
here's our range map so what's an airport so let's say
86:38
Toronto sure whatever mark them it doesn't really matter
86:42
Bombardier uh but but but CL yeah here we go
86:46
CL 650 so this is what this is what you got
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oh shoot I screwed up oh no I screwed up again oh man I'm such
86:54
a bloomer sometimes Toronto seriously come on
86:58
okay so mark them uh yeah here we go check this out
87:02
so CL 650 this is the range of that thing
87:06
okay does a provincial politician
87:10
ever need to fly nonstop to Ecuador
87:14
how often do you think that comes up for context this is
87:18
Ontario yeah the what what I
87:22
read was that he was mostly can be flying within the province of Ontario
87:26
yeah he's a provincial politician sometimes going to the states to deal with tariff stuff
87:30
okay that was like it even that who would he be talking
87:34
to he would be talking to bordering states so like
87:38
here or he'd be talking with you know maybe
87:42
Washington which would be the like whatever
87:46
in here in here somewhere I don't remember exactly there you go or in like DC
87:50
dude he could be on a prop plane and make these flights
87:54
like there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to have a challenger 650
87:58
so here's the uh one sec here is
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the statement issued by Ford's office contrasts the price of Ontario's plane
88:06
to $107 million that says Quebec paid for one used in two new challenges
88:10
650s and 753 million the federal government paid for
88:14
six new global 6500 jets okay I will say this
88:18
um you know if Quebec spent that much that's also ridiculous
88:22
that's that's the only thing that set out to me on that was like oh wait why
88:26
did Quebec spend $107 million on private jets
88:30
I can understand why the federal government needs them
88:34
in terms of like federal statecraft you actually have to travel internationally
88:38
you actually cannot just put your entire
88:42
like cabinet on like a commercial flight to
88:46
you know Madrid and if they have six of them maybe you can borrow one now and then
88:50
or something I doubt it you can charter one from them I doubt it
88:54
I mean I don't see again it comes down to taxation and who actually owns it
88:58
which is where yes the distinction between a person and a corporation or
89:02
one level of government and another level of government actually does matter
89:06
like it does matter in terms of moving funds around and
89:10
who is paying for the wear and tear and how all that's accounted for like it legitimately
89:14
does matter so you can't just be like hey federal
89:18
Canadian government you own this thing therefore I can use it right
89:22
actually doesn't work like that but besides
89:26
you wouldn't need a global what was it a global 6500 or something like that
89:30
that's the federal one yeah you wouldn't need that six new one
89:34
they bought six brand new ones
89:38
I mean
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and they spent 753 million
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I mean they would cost that probably that's the
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that's what brand new ones go for which is why that was never going to happen
89:54
that's why 1990 was a good year for me
89:58
they have they have Rolls Royce Pearl engines
90:02
well that's just common that's not like having a Rolls Royce engine is just like it's a thing
90:06
there's only so many efficiency there's only so many turbofan
90:10
engine manufacturers Honeywell Rolls Royce
90:14
I'm trying to think of who else yeah GE
90:18
thank you Dan at least it's Bombardier so they bought it like from Canada
90:22
yeah I would have loved to go Bombardier instead
90:26
I mean if it's a government purchase you'd kind of hope it's from Canada
90:30
yep I kind of wanted to
90:34
rep Bombardier but it just it didn't make sense
90:38
it didn't make dollars actually it was a lot farther off than not making
90:42
sense it made too many dollars yeah all the all the dollars
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as usual AMD has a little bonus question for us
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Luke when it comes to your setup do you prefer running everything on one powerful do-it-all machine
94:10
or do you like to split things up with dedicated systems for like
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gaming content creation server stuff home lab
94:18
I like just running everything on one
94:22
but it's not really the answer and
94:26
as I progress forward I'm going to be splintering into multiple devices
94:30
I see within a year probably having at least
94:34
three at least a hard at least two
94:38
systems but very likely
94:42
three before a year's up I'm kind of delaying right now
94:46
I'm just hoping you're seeing RAM do that
94:50
so I'm trying to hope and I can wait a little bit more and get some cheaper RAM
94:54
but yeah I want to move I have a few services that I have kind of running all the time
94:58
not that many and I want to have a lot more but what's been
95:02
holding me back from having a lot more is that they're all running on the same system and that just kind of sucks
95:06
so yeah so I'm just split off time to have a powerful
95:10
mass that can do a variety of things basically what you shouldn't do necessarily
95:14
is go as far as Mr. Nick Harris
95:18
I was at his house yesterday
95:22
I've seen pictures of his setup Nick
95:26
runs software development for the lab he also just
95:30
is sort of general manager of things for the lab he
95:34
reports to him he also oversees
95:38
mark bench like benchmarking he also just sort of bench he also just
95:42
it's got a new name now but I still call it mark bench deal with it
95:46
he also just kind of like is a voice of reason
95:50
you know when you have a group and you need to have a conversation he's just kind of
95:54
he's a presence is I think the best way that I could describe him because
95:58
having him around is a gift so the point is I was at his house
96:02
yesterday though
96:06
I and I cannot emphasize this enough
96:10
I had difficulty navigating
96:14
his spaces due to the
96:18
unprecedented level that I had here to for never
96:22
seen before of tech clutter
96:26
the in the intro
96:30
I talk of the line is
96:34
how do you upgrade the setup
96:38
of someone who has not one not two not three not four
96:42
not five not six but seven computers and the worst part
96:46
of it is that after we did the intro when I was doing the part where
96:50
I like poke around in people's living spaces and we kind of get to know them a little bit
96:54
I found more computers
96:58
I found was apparently a dedicated machine to run his base pedal
97:02
he literally
97:06
had a dedicated machine for pretty much every function
97:10
was his story and then I found out that actually
97:14
one of them is a proxmox box and he does have
97:18
virtualization running so he's got like more than ten
97:22
dedicated computer functions in this place I just can't fathom it
97:26
but hey that's the kind of person that you want
97:30
in your testing lab
97:34
someone who enjoys the pain of tinkering and troubleshooting and experimenting
97:38
when we were going through the interview process
97:42
in one of our video interviews I kind of
97:46
talked about like you know this was a long time ago but I talked about
97:50
the idea of this benchmarking software that we would have
97:54
well at the time I don't think it had a cool name and much of an idea really
97:58
but we talked about like the concept and kind of bounce ideas back and forth
98:02
on the concept the next video call that we had he had built
98:06
like a prototype and I was like alright there's the
98:10
job basically
98:14
that's the gg right there not that we're saying that you should
98:18
do unsolicited and unpaid work for a job
98:22
you're applying for that's not advice
98:26
however it certainly got our attention
98:30
yeah I'll say that much it showed like passionate interest in the
98:34
subject which I cared about a lot
98:38
no we'll do that later
98:42
NVIDIA's mythical N1 SoC has surfaced on a real motherboard and it's packing
98:46
128 gigs of LPDDR5X
98:50
NVIDIA's long rumored N1 SoC has shown up on a real motherboard for the first time
98:54
spotted on the Chinese resale platform Goofish before the listing was taken down
98:58
the board appeared to be a laptop engineering sample
99:02
described as an NVIDIA N1 AI book and was packed with
99:06
8 SK Hynex LPDDR5X memory chips totaling 128 gigabytes
99:10
running at 85 33 megatransfers per second
99:14
the N1 is supposed to share its silicon with the GB10
99:18
chip that powers NVIDIA's DGX spark workstation
99:22
and reportedly packs a 20-core ARM CPU
99:26
designed with MediaTek alongside a Blackwell architecture GPU
99:30
with up to 6144 CUDA cores which would put it roughly
99:34
in RTX 5070 territory this would be NVIDIA's first
99:38
crack at a consumer PC chip after years of Tegra SoCs
99:42
for mobile devices phones and consoles like the Nintendo
99:46
Switch. All signs point to a Computex 2026 reveal
99:50
in June with Dell and Lenovo reportedly already testing laptops with the
99:54
N1. The chip is designed to compete directly with Apple
99:58
Silicon, AMD's Strix Halo, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite
100:02
in the growing Windows on ARM space.
100:06
It feels like a predominantly Strix Halo competitor. However,
100:10
it's in a bit of a weird spot
100:14
it's got like NVIDIA grade onboard graphics
100:18
but it will have ARM on Windows grade
100:22
game compatibility issues potentially
100:26
unless NVIDIA has done some black magic wizardry
100:30
which you know after seeing what Valve and Apple have done over the last 5-6 years
100:34
I wouldn't say is impossible
100:38
you know the migration from Intel to Apple Silicon was
100:42
incredibly smooth and the way that
100:46
I mean look that demo that I saw at Valve HQ
100:50
playing on the Steam frame like playing an x86
100:54
Windows like direct 3D game
100:58
on an ARM CPU on Linux like blew my freaking mind man
101:02
obviously it won't work on everything but I mean being
101:06
on Windows here's a question
101:10
does like kernel level anti-cheat work on Windows on ARM
101:14
is it architecturally similar enough
101:18
that it just like it's the Windows-ness that matters
101:22
did they bother to port that
101:26
like are you even gonna want a 5070 class GPU
101:30
on a Windows on ARM laptop like is that something
101:34
anybody is asking for because do the games matter
101:38
chat even seems like so unsure about it
101:42
it's like it's a question nobody seems to really be asking
101:46
Ebalrid says a kernel level anti-cheat is just
101:50
a driver and like yeah fair enough but it's a driver that needs
101:54
certain permissions and I just I'm not sure
101:58
if anyone has bothered to integrate it on Windows on ARM
102:02
as far as my googling is showing this is all true but it's not
102:06
everything is compatible with it because not everything has drivers for it
102:14
yeah
102:18
well anyway good luck with this NVIDIA
102:22
apparently EA is expanding anti-cheat to ARM 64
102:26
okay so like some companies are working on it
102:30
maybe this is part of NVIDIA laying the groundwork for exactly
102:34
this if they're starting to do stuff like that that might also help the Linux crowd
102:38
but I kind of doubt it
102:42
well I already closed that article but it mentions something along the lines of like
102:46
Linux also potentially being included in their expansion of anti-cheat compatibility
102:50
I'd love to see it I read a really long article and I think it was Ars Technica
102:54
talking about the sort of inherent challenges with
102:58
with anti-cheat on Linux and how it's just having the user
103:02
having the user like by its very
103:06
philosophy in control of the kernel
103:10
is just going to kind of make it not a thing forever
103:14
my I think counter argument
103:18
is that they're barely catching stuff at all right now anyways unless they
103:22
are like that's the thing how do you know that even
103:26
more people wouldn't be cheating if it was even easier
103:30
for me I think it's past the threshold
103:34
so it like doesn't really matter there's just such a high percentage
103:38
right now that it's already so bad that it being worse I don't think would
103:42
significantly change my life but that being said
103:46
the main game I've played that is a competitive
103:50
shooter in the last while which I have not played very much of at all
103:54
like genuinely less than five matches is counter strike
103:58
and that is compatible with Linux and that had like the biggest
104:02
and worst story of cheaters I've heard in a while
104:06
which was fairly recent so I don't know but as far as
104:10
my understanding goes a lot of those cheaters were actually just farming skins
104:14
did you see the news about the huge
104:18
warehouse full of PlayStation 4's that was farming FIFA stuff
104:22
this is hilarious
104:26
oh my god
104:30
Ukraine warehouse packed with thousands of
104:34
ps4's was actually a FIFA ultimate team bought farm
104:38
what yeah
104:42
I don't
104:46
quite I don't know how FIFA ultimate team works
104:50
understand this 3800 ps4's
104:54
this is so funny to me
104:58
look at the fans in the Windows you gotta cool the ps4's man
105:02
would all of those need whatever PlayStation
105:06
online subscription is would they all need those
105:10
I guess so ultimate team cards
105:14
card farming operation something something FIFA ultimate
105:18
cards this is so this is so funny
105:22
so if lucky purchased cards contain one of the rare cards which can be sold at a huge profit
105:26
with so many consoles set up to automatically play the game
105:30
there's a good chance a few rare cards will be discovered
105:34
this is like man imagine imagine the investor
105:38
pitch it's like okay bro I have a foolproof plan
105:42
I have a foolproof plan to make lots of money as long as they don't patch it
105:46
all I need is a small loan of 3800 play stations
105:50
what are you talking about
105:54
like the kind of money that's involved in the start up of something like this
105:58
and and like the kind of the janky operation
106:02
they're running like can you imagine the legitimate businesses that you could
106:06
start with a warehouse and enough
106:10
money to buy 3800 play stations not to mention the
106:14
ongoing monthly expense of 3800 PSN subscriptions
106:18
in the business chaos of doing that Ukraine
106:22
just to also put that out there you could just do something else
106:26
just an idea
106:30
I don't know it seems crazy but you could just do
106:34
anything else it's pretty wild like hey you could put your effort into
106:38
shocking the Linux community with a game changing
106:42
VRAM hack for 8 gig GPUs
106:46
this is pretty cool Natalie Vock a contractor on Valve's
106:50
Linux graphics driver team has developed kernel patches that
106:54
fix how Linux handles VRAM on 8 gig GPUs
106:58
previously when VRAM filled up the Linux kernel didn't know to prioritize
107:02
the game you're actually playing so it might accidentally evict
107:06
game data to slower system RAM to make room for background
107:10
for like a background browser tab which could cause stutters and frame drops
107:14
but fix tells the OS that the game is in the foreground and that should get first dibs on
107:18
VRAM if memory fills up then background
107:22
tasks are the ones forced into system RAM instead in her cyberpunk 2077
107:26
tests on an 8 gig GPU the games VRAM usage climbed from about
107:30
6 gigs to nearly 7.4 gigs while spillover to system memory
107:34
dropped by 53% the patches currently only
107:38
work on AMD GPUs because of NVIDIA's closed source drivers that don't allow
107:42
this kind of memory management modification and cache OS is already integrating
107:46
the fix and the patches are awaiting merge into the main Linux kernel which is I think
107:50
what we talked about last week the cache OS part this does not apply
107:54
to integrated GPUs like those in the steam deck or handheld PCs
107:58
because they are using the same graphics
108:02
pool anyway well not quite I mean okay the steam
108:06
deck would be but I think for something like a Strix Halo
108:10
it's a static allocation so maybe it would okay TBD
108:14
TBD on that last bit what else we got Mr. Luke
108:18
Xbox game pass apparently the what is it the new
108:22
CEO yeah a new Microsoft gaming CEO
108:26
Asha Sharma said in a leaked internal memo that game pass has become too expensive
108:30
for players and that Microsoft needs a better value option
108:34
Microsoft hiked game pass ultimate to $30 a month last year up from
108:38
$20 which was itself already up a bump from
108:42
$16.99 that's two price increases in 15 months and there was
108:46
price increases before that as well as far as my understanding goes game pass now runs
108:50
from $10 for essential to $15 for premium
108:54
and $30 for ultimate Sharma says the long-term plan
108:58
is to evolve game pass into a more flexible system though the details
109:02
are pretty vague the memo also comes days after
109:06
service that Call of Duty 2026 could skip game pass entirely
109:10
which would be a major shift given that adding cod to the
109:14
service was widely seen as the reason the price hikes happened in the first place
109:18
that would be wild also be the reason why she's saying it's overpriced if they're not
109:22
doing that anymore the whole point of game pass was supposed to be
109:26
that I subscribed to it forever and like you know that sucks
109:30
but you're giving me a good value in return for it and that's like
109:34
the real deal is I get all the cool games the Microsoft games
109:38
and it's a one
109:42
all you can eat for the price of it feels weird saying that cod is a Microsoft game
109:46
I know right sorry to just
109:50
wasn't there also like that weird whole thing around
109:54
the conversation for the Activision Blizzard acquisition
109:58
where like they weren't going to
110:02
have a bunch of f**kery with cod and which platforms I mean I guess
110:06
I guess not having it on game pass would ultimately be
110:10
satisfactory to someone like Sony. I think the main thing was they didn't want to have it taken away from
110:14
Sony so this still doesn't do that. Yeah well okay so this this is fine
110:18
I don't remember it's been a while but
110:22
is this kind of a killer for game pass if you're not getting the hot new
110:26
game I think it will be for some people yeah definitely
110:30
that's the whole point of game pass is that I'm entering into kind of like an understanding
110:34
especially a cod where like there's a new one every year
110:38
that's the kind of game you subscribe to yeah like that's the agreement I
110:42
have right is I give you money for game pass and then I never think about it again
110:46
I can just play the games but if all of a sudden
110:50
all my friends are playing that game that one game and it's not on
110:54
game pass what is even the point of game pass I might as well just buy that one
110:58
game and then I could see that kind of shifting people's mentality going like
111:02
like that could be the kind of thing that just makes me mad enough
111:06
to just cancel the subscription yeah and then give you
111:10
my money another way ultimately yeah so
111:14
Microsoft will probably learn nothing but
111:18
hey at least at least Luke is at least Luke is winning a small
111:22
a small maybe not decisive but small battle here I mean
111:26
you've been adamantly anti-games as a subscription
111:30
since the entire concept arose and at the in the beginning
111:34
I think I actually argued quite
111:38
passionately with you that at that original pricing it made a ton of
111:42
sense but it has ultimately was the entire
111:46
argument too was that if everyone ends up subscribing
111:50
then they have all of the power all the leverage and that's
111:54
like literally never goes well and the best way to play it
111:58
was still going to be to you know subscribe when
112:02
it was cheap play single player games or play experiences that
112:06
you would never want to have again and then once it's not cheap anymore
112:10
start buying games again but I still go and play Civ 5
112:14
but not everyone operates that way yeah or like not I mean not
112:18
everyone operates the way that they play a game and then they're done with it yeah I
112:22
used to be more of a like go back and play a game that I haven't played in a long time
112:26
guy but I'm not anymore I don't do it often but it's also nice to
112:30
just I don't know it's nice no okay so
112:34
10 billion years ago I did this stream for one of my birthdays I don't even remember
112:38
which one it was but it would be kind of tough to do this now
112:42
but I think I was 28 or something and I did I played
112:46
one game for one hour for every year that I had been alive so
112:50
I was born in 1990 so I played a game that released in 1990 for an hour
112:54
I remember that it was awesome it was actually really fun it did really well for charity
112:58
I think I suggested a couple of the games that you played I forget if you liked them though anyway
113:02
I don't remember but it sounds likely but that was really fun
113:06
I was largely able to play a lot of those games because I've had the same
113:10
Steam account for most of my life and I just launched it from Steam
113:14
some of them I had to go get of course especially the like 1990 era ones but like
113:18
a lot of games that I just launched on Steam it's nice that I can
113:22
I think I value the ability to do so a lot even
113:26
if it's not something I super commonly do
113:30
that's one of the things I actually brought up I wrote the Microsoft's year of
113:34
humiliation script earlier this week so that was my kind of video essay
113:38
video this week and that specifically
113:42
was one of the things that I brought up as my hey I'm not a
113:46
computer there's a lot of things that I love about Windows
113:50
how about the ability to like click compatibility mode and run
113:54
software from my childhood that's crazy
113:58
do that on your PlayStation 5 like come on
114:02
I think that's the thing that's been eating me up the most about
114:06
the Linux challenge going really well
114:10
is the frustration
114:14
with Windows it's like almost been
114:18
time for the weekly Windows
114:22
really needs to do better bit yeah it's mostly been kind of
114:26
sad I don't even know like I'm more sad about it than I am angry
114:30
like it's like dang I actually really liked Windows for a
114:34
long time
114:38
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 was just such a great
114:42
series of operating systems assuming you didn't have a
114:46
you had a powerful computer when Vista came out yeah so are we here now
114:50
I think like maybe 6.5
114:54
okay so we're sad I definitely spent a long time in 3
114:58
I think I skipped 4 entirely 4 and 5 I skipped entirely
115:02
and then now I'm like 6 and a half right now yeah alright
115:06
why don't you list 8
115:10
because when 8 came out it was trash 8.5 was like pretty
115:14
okay yeah 8.1 but yes one sure
115:18
yeah yeah yeah but but yeah when 8 first came out
115:22
it was like just it was comically bad it's like the worst initial release of an
115:26
OS that I had experienced at that time I'm not saying it's the worst
115:30
ever but it's the worst I had experienced well you hadn't experienced Millennium Edition
115:34
even I barely did like I was in I was in grade
115:38
9 or something like that when Millennium Edition was
115:42
my dad would have had it but I don't think I was exactly forming opinions on operating systems at the time
115:46
well a lot of people skipped it yeah well my dad like messed with computers like we had
115:50
2 or 3 computers that time and he would get random software all the time
115:54
remember for one of my birthdays I received a I think I've told you about this before
115:58
it was awesome actually I got a like
116:02
writable CD that has had Sharpie all over it with like 20 different games
116:06
it's like here's your birthday gift
116:10
it was awesome
116:14
yeah anyways it's just it's frustrating that it's
116:18
that it's so frustrating to use right now hey speaking of things
116:22
from the late 90s
116:26
while attempting to reduce the size of a 600 plus
116:30
Gigabyte backup of a discourse server
116:34
engineers at discourse discovered that a 1.6
116:38
megabyte GIF of Jennifer Aniston's Happy Dance
116:42
was duplicated almost a quarter million times
116:46
this isn't really good news
116:50
it's just funny news while trying to fix the duplication while trying
116:54
to fix the duplicate I'm so tired this
116:58
week duplication he got it we're good while trying to fix the duplication problem
117:02
a single instance of the GIF and hard links in the file system for each time
117:06
somebody tried to upload it again the admins discovered a limitation
117:10
of the ext4 file system that they previously
117:14
didn't know about a file can only
117:18
have 65,000 links pointing to it
117:22
so instead of one copy and
117:26
250,000 links for all the duplicates of it they got
117:30
one copy
117:34
65,000 links and another 180,000 duplicates of the file
117:38
Dan if you could throw the link to the blog
117:42
post that would be pretty funny the blog has a bunch more detail including their
117:46
eventual fix and you can check it out if you're into that sort of thing
117:50
these are the kinds of I guess bugs
117:54
that are really frustrating and can be sometimes
117:58
scary because when you're working with any time you're working with data
118:02
loss is it can be very frightening
118:06
you understood what I meant data loss can be very scary
118:10
can be very frustrating oh no I didn't mean it that way it's a meme
118:14
I know is this loss is it okay no no I know I just mean
118:18
I was memeing back at you of course not
118:22
yeah it can be very frightening but this is
118:26
I feel like the kind of thing that is like this is why we play the game
118:30
oh yeah I know this is fun to like to to find stuff like this because
118:34
because of course there might be a limit to how many link backs
118:38
because whoever did this however long ago they designed this must have gone
118:42
well surely nobody will need more than 65,000
118:46
link backs to a single file
118:50
yeah I don't know it's not really good news I just thought it was really funny
118:54
that's funny I like that they made a blog post out of it because it's
118:58
yeah exactly sharing the knowledge with the community
119:02
speaking of things that are funny struggling shoe retailer Allbirds
119:06
makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI and their stock
119:10
explodes in value Allbirds the wool sneaker company
119:14
announced it's leaving shoes behind entirely I think they even sold
119:18
off everything and is rebranding as
119:22
Bird AI an AI compute infrastructure company because
119:26
why not stock went from under three bucks to about 17
119:30
in a single day I got this from Atrioc but look
119:34
at the much bigger view go many years instead
119:38
oops the plan is to buy
119:42
GPUs and lease them out for AI compute customers who can't get
119:46
reliable access from hyperscalers what a plan secured
119:50
$30 million in funding to get started
119:54
CNBC's Jim Kramer oh boy called it ridiculous
119:58
so maybe it's actually really high value so I guess it's a really good idea
120:02
time to invest okay but not financial advice
120:06
pointing out that it fits the classic pattern seen during
120:10
the crypto boom dying companies bolting
120:14
blockchain onto their names to pump the stock and now it's AI
120:18
this goes back super super super super far beyond just the
120:22
blockchain push as well I don't forget dot com and others
120:26
the classic 90s bubble yeah Allbirds was a public benefit
120:30
corporation championed by Leonardo DiCaprio
120:34
Oprah and Obama the pivot includes dropping that status
120:38
entirely with filings stating the company would be less focused on the public
120:42
benefit of environmental conservation because I guess that was like
120:46
pretty inconvenient for being a data center defined so now they
120:50
have to get away from that which is also really funny
120:54
ah very good
120:58
man what a I mean I want
121:02
I want AI shoes I want I wonder if Allbirds will end up being like
121:06
worth a ton of money in like certain Silicon Valley circles I don't
121:10
know man that's like a almost a flex
121:14
I have no idea this is the kind of thing that again it wasn't good news but
121:18
it was just it was funny it was too funny for me to not talk about
121:22
maybe it can be good news and things that are funny like seriously
121:26
if I was if I was less
121:30
if I was less principled man just
121:34
an IPO with just Linus Media Group AI
121:38
infrastructure in Canada AI infrastructure in Canada
121:42
the cooling is easier here we're going to be making videos about our AI
121:46
data center build out we're going to have we do this like
121:50
pitch video offering unparalleled transparency into the AI
121:54
data center build out in the frozen north we've solved cooling
121:58
just put it in the Arctic and we've got all the energy
122:02
and you know blah blah blah like you go you I don't
122:06
I don't know who the gullible people giving Allbirds 50 million
122:10
dollars are but I secure a meeting with them somehow
122:14
like I just it just seems like the playbook is so
122:18
simple and so dumb
122:22
and just so easy that I feel like it couldn't be that hard
122:26
it couldn't be that hard oh man dude did you see the one where
122:30
that that woman got a five million dollar refund from the CRA
122:34
under taxes so this is just
122:38
classic you know scammers are not that smart
122:42
kind of lower here so what she did
122:46
the ones you know what she did yeah right well
122:50
she reported nine million nine hundred ninety nine thousand
122:54
nine hundred ninety nine dollars in foreign income on her tax
122:58
return reported to the CRA that she
123:02
had paid income tax on it
123:06
and said that she was entitled to a five million dollar
123:10
refund hold on
123:14
the next part is the funniest part and I want to make sure that I don't get this
123:18
wrong because it's so funny
123:22
here we go court records say that
123:26
auditors later became suspicious after realizing that Wallace
123:30
the person who filed this claim was claiming status both
123:34
as a resident and as a non-resident of Canada
123:38
Wallace they noted submitted a vague two word explanation
123:42
in tax forms for the claimed foreign income
123:46
United Nations
123:50
this got passed two reviews
123:54
they wrote the check
123:58
a third review that got flagged because it was an outlier
124:02
refund found it and was like
124:06
yo what is this and they froze her assets but already
124:10
hundreds of thousands of dollars are gone
124:14
and like this is the kind of person that you gotta look at and go they got
124:18
no shot whatsoever there's no way they didn't waste that money
124:22
pull that off you gotta get it overseas and move out of Canada
124:26
so that's the thing is like she didn't
124:30
that's crazy
124:34
that's crazy and you have no time you gotta leave
124:38
that's the kind of scam that seriously
124:42
I would be a criminal fucking mastermind
124:46
compared to some of these people but again she got caught
124:50
yeah I guess I think that's a big part of it but like I would have skipped town
124:54
I'd be gone I'd have gone to Costco and bought all the gold bullion
124:58
in a bank
125:02
I don't get it dude
125:06
it seems so simple it seems like we could just
125:10
like if someone says they paid five million dollars in taxes you'd think there'd just be
125:14
like an AI check that's like did you though
125:18
well it's not in our bank account
125:22
this is like that thing I went through when we got like wire
125:26
we got it a while back remember that
125:30
when our pool contracting company
125:34
got their email server infiltrated so they were able to send us emails
125:38
from our pool company and then intercept our responses
125:42
was what happened and then so we wired money
125:46
like from a bank to a bank within Canada and then
125:50
we did ultimately end up getting it back but there was like a high risk that we weren't going to be able to
125:54
what is the bloody point of electronic
125:58
fund movement if it can't be reversed if it turns out that it was a
126:02
f***ing criminal like obviously fraud and like how hard is it to go hey
126:06
that was fraud when the person shows up
126:10
to take it out just handcuff them
126:14
like I must be missing something here
126:18
because I believe genuinely I also don't get it so I feel like
126:22
we're both missing something
126:26
law enforcement probably for the most part like you know tries pretty hard and stuff
126:30
I've met some very hard working law enforcement people
126:34
but it just seems like sometimes it really is that simple
126:38
as just hey you know that it was taken
126:42
you know illegitimately so just wait on the other side
126:46
okay so willing spy said lol at Linus wait till you find out how credit card
126:50
security works there's a reason why Mythbusters couldn't do an episode on it
126:54
I know about that but my understanding of that is that's why the
126:58
honestly ability to get your money back from credit card fraud
127:02
is so easy because they know it's kind of crap so they just cover you
127:06
yeah no I and then that's just part of what you're
127:10
like the one and a half percent or two percent merchant fee covers is just
127:14
I had my card skimmed once and I just had a call with the guy and he was like okay let's go
127:18
through your thing and just basically point out all the ones that seem not
127:22
legit and I did and he's like yep seems right just sent me all the money like it was
127:26
super easy because of that so that's
127:30
why this scenario is weird is because that part
127:34
isn't super easy so obviously fraud because every day
127:38
on every transaction you're paying for transaction insurance
127:42
if you use at least in North America if you use a credit
127:46
card please say no more I hear you but like it doesn't matter
127:50
if someone wants to rip off credit cards they can do internet research for roughly 5 seconds
127:54
and figure out how to do it like it's us talking about it on the
127:58
show is not going to move the needle that's one of the reasons why it's like fully acceptable
128:02
to make content about doing stuff like that
128:06
about security tools and what not on YouTube on the internet
128:10
publishing books about it doing whatever is because like
128:14
it's better to educate people about how it's done so they can protect themselves and it is
128:18
to no key no key just posted Veritasium apparently made a
128:22
video this is their most recent video on how you can make a payment with
128:26
no upper ceiling and stole ten thousand dollars from MKBHT
128:30
Veritasium is making a ton of like hacking content yeah
128:34
it's been doing really well it's been great
128:38
it's just a surprising pivot
128:42
yeah 3.7 million views exposing a flaw in
128:46
tap to pay yeah
128:50
I mean good for Derek and the and the acquiring company like they seem to be
128:54
he seems to have found the way to divest
128:58
of the channel that he founded without it completely losing
129:02
its soul and the acquiring company seems like they are
129:06
they are they have a strong interest
129:10
in being good stewards of the channel that they
129:14
I'm not sure what amount of it they acquired so just take this for
129:18
what it is I was not involved in the deal in any way
129:22
but it seems like from the outside that it's going pretty good
129:26
Avian says the new host is hard to watch I mean part of it might just be not being used to
129:30
used to them I thought they were fine
129:34
yeah I do think it's probably not being used to them because I think they're fine
129:38
yeah Balrid says they've gotten the kind of deal that Linus refused and now there's many writers doing
129:44
many kinds of topics and 9 out of 10 videos is like legit good yeah that's
129:48
that's cool I mean if we could find someone who was willing to
129:52
do it the same way as that I might
129:56
consider it again but it would have to be
130:00
there were a lot of factors there was the team as well
130:04
like I was I was very worried that they would not only
130:08
not be good stewards of the content but they wouldn't be good stewards of the team
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and I'd have to see what
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uh BYD is now upgrading some of its top selling EVs with five
132:44
minute flash charging this is nuts absolutely nuts
132:48
this is uh so this is uh it's going to be starting with the
132:52
plus so it sold us the add-oh three outside of China which was the 13th best
132:56
selling EV globally in 2025 and at first debuted in BYD's luxury
133:00
models like the Yang Wang U7 and the Denza Z9 GT
133:04
they claim it will charge from 10% to 70% in
133:08
five minutes 10% to 97% in nine
133:12
minutes and uh only add about three minutes
133:16
to those times in extreme cold temperatures like down to minus
133:20
10% in AC
133:24
BYD has already built out over 5,000
133:28
of their 1.5 megawatt flash charging stations
133:32
and is aiming for 20,000 by the end of the year in China with a European rollout
133:36
now underway as well dude
133:40
is this it is this the last obstacle
133:44
to widespread EV adoption
133:48
um the weight still sucks
133:52
it's interesting in North America because
133:56
like okay so there's some Chinese there's some Chinese EVs coming to Canada
134:00
that's going to that's going to move the needle here quite a bit but apparently
134:04
I've heard that you're not even going to be able to be allowed to like road trip through the states
134:08
like you might not be able to enter America at all in a Chinese EV
134:12
really I've heard that might be a thing
134:16
just longer than the next
134:20
2.75 years though let's be real
134:24
they might still want to protect their automotive program no matter who's in admin
134:28
I don't see how preventing someone from road tripping into the states
134:32
will help American automotive manufacturing
134:36
I think their idea is you can't
134:40
enter the states with them so they can't be like left there
134:44
like if you drove down and then happened to fly back up or something
134:48
you just left your car there and now there's a Chinese EV in China
134:52
you mean in the US but yes
134:56
yes there's lots of Chinese EVs in China quite a few
135:00
I saw them with my own eyes
135:04
next topic quick Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June
135:08
I love this so much I love I freaking
135:12
some sites will do it twice
135:16
like you'll go to go back and it'll not it'll just like go to some sub menu thing and you'll go to go back again
135:20
and it goes to some other thing
135:24
yeah Google is adding
135:28
a back button hijacking to its spam policy starting June 15th sites that
135:32
mess with your browser's back button trapping you in loops redirecting you to pages
135:36
you never visited or shoving ads and recommendations in the way when you try to leave
135:40
base ranking penalties or manual spam actions
135:44
they should have been done ages ago yeah Google is giving sites a two month
135:48
heads up and notes that some of the worst offenders might not even know they're
135:52
doing it since the hijacking can come from third party ad scripts or
135:56
recommendation widgets baked into the site that's brutal actually I don't care
136:00
yeah I don't care either it needs to go away yep
136:04
and like you're gonna have to be responsible for
136:08
the ad scripts and stuff that you put on your site yeah it is what it is
136:12
now the next thing I want is a single close button on all mobile
136:16
ads because I play word scapes with Yvonne like almost
136:20
every night I have had more exposure to mobile ads in the last like three to six
136:24
months than the previous my entire life combined
136:28
and they are so annoying my ad block works
136:32
to a certain degree to the point where I could tell you very few of the things I've ever even seen an ad
136:36
for like I can't you're not actually running ad block you mean
136:40
your brains yeah like I can't I don't care what it is or
136:44
know what it is but what I do care is that like sometimes the
136:48
exit is up here and sometimes it's over here and sometimes you have to wait
136:52
for a circle to complete and other times you have to like go
136:56
open it on the ads app store and then go back and then
137:00
exit it and there's this one really obnoxious one that the X never appears
137:04
until you just like press somewhere on the screen and it won't open the ad
137:08
but it will make the X appear so you have to like press it and then X and then
137:12
brings up another thing and then X again one X I find like I mentioned I play the
137:16
New York Times games it's been a while but I play them every once in a while
137:20
sometimes by myself usually with Emma they're they have ads right they're gonna have to
137:24
have ads to do whatever yeah but if you notice you can make it
137:28
perfectly perfectly go away
137:32
nice solid it's just gone solid
137:36
no problem I don't mind that at all solid I think that's
137:40
that's totally good um what's a little
137:44
less good this is the one exception to the good news
137:48
when show this week major news outlets are blocking the
137:52
internet archive wired reports that in an effort to limit
137:56
agents accessing historical data for training 23 major
138:00
publications including USA today and the New York Times
138:04
are currently blocking the internet archives crawler
138:08
IS-archiver bot the abuse of
138:12
fair use policies in the training of LLMs is a serious concern for both copyright
138:16
holders and the internet archive organization
138:20
the yeah hosting massive amounts
138:24
and for the internet archive organization because hosting massive amounts of data
138:28
has bandwidth costs associated with it um due to LLM
138:32
bots accessing it over and over and over and over and over and over again often
138:36
in an incredibly inefficient way because they don't care this is really
138:40
bad news because the internet archive has only grown in importance as the world
138:44
has increasingly abandoned print journalism and the archives
138:48
maintained by libraries and news organizations have fallen into disrepair
138:52
it used to be that you could go to your local library and pull up a microfiche
138:56
of the newspaper of any given day in history and you could go read it like you
139:00
could go read the newspaper the day that you were born for instance um this has gotten
139:04
very difficult in spite of pushback from copyright
139:08
holders courts have established that the archives actions are legal and that creating
139:12
a searchable index without making copies of the materials is impossible
139:16
but um I can also understand
139:20
why copyright holders are doing what they're doing because just having
139:24
AI agents trained on their stuff is also
139:28
not good yeah um wayback machine director Mark
139:32
Graham is reportedly in talks with several outlets so the archivers bot could gain access
139:36
to the websites once more but right now is an uncertain time
139:40
for archiving important
139:44
information that otherwise could just be
139:48
lost
139:52
subject rare bootleg concert recordings are coming to the internet archive
139:56
I do I just have to I don't know
140:00
one more topic
140:04
music superfan Adam Jacobs has built a collection of more than 10,000 cassette tapes
140:08
by attending and recording concerts since 1989 after Jacobs was featured
140:12
in a documentary in 2023 the internet archive reached out and now
140:16
once a month a volunteer named Brian Emmerich picks up 10 to 20
140:20
boxes stuffed with tapes and transfers the analog recordings in real time to digital
140:24
files that are sent to other volunteers to clean up organize and publish
140:28
so far almost 2,500 tapes have been digitized and added to the
140:32
Adams or the Adam Jacobs collection on the internet archive the collection
140:36
includes rarities like nirvana performing in 1989
140:40
two years before smells like team spirit was released as a single wow
140:44
that's cool they so they record smells like teams oh that's so cool
140:48
unreleased tracks by Tracy Chapman and previously unknown recordings
140:52
of sonic youth r.m fish Liz fair pavement neutral milk hotel
140:56
and a host of others
141:00
maybe a controversial take but I have never really felt the need
141:04
to record a concert I thought you're not really supposed to and
141:08
I've I've actually come around to the idea of a concert
141:12
being an experience for the moment and not something to be recorded but maybe
141:16
I'm maybe this is a it kind of goes against
141:20
my general stance as just like a data hoarder and everything should exist forever but
141:24
I don't know I
141:28
maybe I just grieved it already because there were really great experiences I had live that
141:32
I was never able to recall again and I just was like okay well I guess that's just
141:36
the nature of the beast I think there is also certain things
141:40
that you shouldn't be distracted by the camera you should just experience
141:44
I also remember I went to blink when a to had a concert
141:48
in Vancouver and my brother and I went yeah and remember I recorded it
141:52
on my phone and sent it to a buddy because I thought he'd like it
141:56
and then a few days later I went back and watched it and was like why the
142:00
would he like this yeah because I just sent him a really crappy recording
142:04
of blink when a to playing a song that he's heard before in a good recording
142:08
so like I don't know I do think like
142:12
I have heard
142:16
live recordings professional live recordings before of songs that I
142:20
prefer the live recording of the song I think also like
142:24
as a piece of history to have some recordings from
142:28
bands is cool do I think every single person in the audience
142:32
needs to have their cell phone out recording aggressively no
142:36
just enjoy the time concert when you know there's 40,000 other freaking
142:40
recordings in the audience out maybe you don't need your individual POV
142:44
and could have someone who's one foot to the side of you that's going to be posted
142:48
on the internet anyways and just use theirs and enjoy yourself
142:52
I know part of the experience to me too is like
142:56
I like I wish the performers could could be themselves
143:00
a little bit more and and not have to be worried about
143:04
everything from the concert just immediately being published like
143:08
the funniest concert experience I ever had was with Michael Buble of all people
143:12
he did a perform an outdoor performance in Vancouver
143:16
about must be about 20 years ago now
143:20
and Yvonne and I attended it we just like kind of randomly got tickets
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for it I think my aunt might have gotten them for us or something I don't know anyway the point was we went
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neither of us were huge Michael Buble fans but we had a really great time
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and one of the funniest moments was when
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we were interacting with the crowd that was like right up next to the stage
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and this I couldn't see her because I was like way back but presumably
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young lady like you know handed him
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passed him like a note and he made like an offhand joke he was like you're like
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12 you're a little young and everyone
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like laughs because that was you know not
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I guess that was pre-epstein files when
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you know we could kind of go like yeah a famous person saying
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no to that was common at that time and and just like you know the
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idea that he might say anything other than no was funny and it was just it was
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but it was it was like hilarious and he just like kind of he kind of like
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burned her in front of like 10,000 people
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I don't know I don't know if you can get away with that anymore
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well
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yeah all right
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all right time for after dark
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what do you got for us Mr Dan sure let me just push some buttons here
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okay and yeah I've got a couple
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for you today sure really need to like make this
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one single button that would make my life easier there we go
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hey when hosters
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Linus any update on the gpd win 5 review also did the
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when design backpack sell well enough for a restock
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keep up the great work love your products and the work y'all do I don't know if I'm
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ultimately going to end up doing a review of it but I do end up talking
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a little bit more about my experience with it in the upcoming ShortCircuit
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for the 1x player apex
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that's a competing Strix Halo handheld and
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both of them have their own unique selling points both
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are very expensive this one actually can be configured with liquid
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cooling is that us which is pretty oh yeah of course
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which is pretty wild liquid cool I mean the people who have it apparently love it
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but is that to refuse oh no nine or something
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it's a pretty wild little device and I talk a little bit more about the win 5 in my
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experience daily driving it in there as for the when backpack I don't know
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if we're restocking it you might just have to send in a message to customer care to ask about that
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hello from the UK my Android auto seems
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very sensitive to cable quality hoping this cable is the solution
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have you had much feedback on the type of problems the true spec cables have
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actually yeah there's been a ton of feedback about them if you
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if you look at the reviews on the site people
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some of them I think people are actually wrong and misunderstanding
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like what a cable does but there are
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also a lot of them where people do seem to know what they're talking about
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is there like some that says their audio sounds better or something
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there's some stuff like that which look if it makes you happy then I like guess
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whatever I'm glad you're happy but that's not really how it works digital signal
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but there are people that are like oh yeah no like I was getting
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transfer issues with my high speed external storage and now it's
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consistently faster or the more robust build
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quality is making it so that when my Roomba runs over it it's
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less likely to you know get destroyed like people are really enjoying this product
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so I'm just I'm glad they are we had a small restock earlier this week they're like
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almost all gone now if you want to get a true
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spec cable you are going to need to sign up for a notification
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like if you do not click this button you are not going to get one for
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a while our manufacturer increased their capacity
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just for us to make more of these cables it is still not even close to enough
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there's A to C's yeah there's short ones there's a few
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short A to C's and a really long A to C and all the ones in the middle are sold out
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yeah yeah
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for you Luke what's your go to care oh wait can you do Luke's after yep
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hi LLD hey Linus now that your kids are getting into 3D printing what CAD software do they
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also did you teach them how to use it or how did they teach themselves
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it they learned Tinkercad at
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local sort of STEM mostly computer
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kind of study thing called Code Ninjas
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which seems to be working
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pretty well for them they can make just about any kind of basic thing that they want
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my daughter did something for a project for school
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earlier this week yeah they're just they're still having a really good time
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with it both just you know using it as a toy factory and also to
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do legitimately useful things and Tinkercad is great
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I think Grasshopper is that free can we get them into
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Grasshopper I mean I guess
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they know it better than I do at this point they could go work with Seb
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hey Linus my 5 year old just had his first dental
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work and managed to chew his lip up due to the anesthesia by accident
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how so are
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you these days is the end in sight actually really sore today
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it's really hard to talk I don't when I'm not getting enough sleep
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it they like dig in extra and then they put
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in a super strong wire for the one tooth that like stubbornly stayed really
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twisted after the first rounds and like the bracket was not quite in the right place and stuff
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so this tooth here yeah turned like maybe 15 degrees
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with this wire like a lot okay maybe 10 but like
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freaking a lot which moved like everything
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and it's like you can really tell when they're moving a lot because you'll like
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kind of press on the bracket and you can like you can like feel them
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like moving and like it'll go like
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kind of reshift and stuff like like in real time if there's a lot of tension built up
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and then the the wire for this one
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can see there's a long sand of wire just like
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slices the inside of the lip there and then there's another one on this side that's doing the same thing
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I'm actually like in extreme discomfort right now the WAN Show is not a lot
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of fun when my mouth is as sore as it is right now I have to bail Luke's gonna have to do
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this thing I really gotta go I got a family thing bye bye have fun don't forget your bag
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I see you walking past it say the line
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oh yeah I forgot we can do that nice
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Luke what's your go-to character build when you play Morrowind
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Skyrim etc question mark please know Stealth Archer
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okay well I have to defend myself a little bit it's Stealth Archer isn't it
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defend myself a little bit it's Stealth Archer when I was
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a wee child and I played Morrowind and I didn't look up things
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on the internet of how to do stuff and you still ended up with Stealth Archer
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but Stealth Archer was not Skyrim level OP
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back in Morrowind I watched a video today
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I think that was talking about how Skyrim pushes you
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through into being Stealth Archer it kinda does
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so I liked Stealth Archer before then and then in Skyrim I actually
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didn't I don't think
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or I did a mix or something because it kinda did feel too
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overpowered I always liked being Marshall
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I found spellcasters in those games are just like always too overpowered
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especially Morrowind
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spellcasting in Morrowind you're just a god
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especially if you start getting into enchanting in Morrowind
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I remember one of my characters I made I think it was a ring
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and I called it the god ring because if you just
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used the like activatable ability on the ring everything just died
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so I would be like oh I can't get past this quest I'll go
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grab that and put it on and just win the game so I found
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it more engaging to
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work with like block or parry mechanics I generally like having a shield
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because I feel like fighting with the shield is like kinda more fun
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but yeah I was always more into Marshall stuff I liked the archery in Morrowind
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because Morrowind doesn't play around if you end up in a too high level area
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it's just too high level and they'll just wreck you but it's also
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Morrowind so there might be a way around it and the AI is really dumb
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so like I wanted to like you know
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kill everything in entire city because I was 14 and that's sick
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but the guards and stuff are way too tough for me so I just
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brought an incredible amount of arrows and stood on like this weird part
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of a building that they couldn't get to and just shot them for like
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an incredible amount of time until I killed every single guard in the entire
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city and then got all their super high value loot and stuff so I liked
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archery and stuff early on but always focused on
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always focused on Marshall builds I'm planning on doing a
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thing I was kinda dabbling with it a little bit in the oblivion remake
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but I'm gonna wait until the fan remake mod
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version called SkyBluvian comes out and then I'm gonna actually
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try to do it because I'm much more interested in SkyBluvian than just the official
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Blizzard remake but I'm gonna do a thing where you know how in the game you pick a class
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you pick what sign you were born under you do all that kind of stuff I'm gonna pick
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warrior for every single option because you can pick the warrior class you can pick the warrior
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sign you can pick the warrior whatever so I'm gonna do as many selections as I can it's just
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warrior and then the only magic that I'll use is restoration
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magic and I'm gonna see if I can beat the game while
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kill on sighting anything that ever casts a spell
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that isn't restoration magic if you use any school of magic
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other than restoration I will have to cleanse you from the earth and I'll see if it's
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literally possible at all
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you're doing it with like punching or sword or...
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yeah I'm a holy knight and if I see you casting a darn spell
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that isn't restoration magic I gotta put you
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down I told you about my punches and drugs Skyrim build
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character yeah that's surprisingly possible in Skyrim because Skyrim has some really
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good that's why it's possible it's also super broken
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it's just like high level bracers and then you just punch dragons to death it's like
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that's my it's even like rifting or something right
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you just sit there and you just make bracers and then you just punch everybody
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to death um because you're unarmed and
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your bracers are really good crafting in those games are always a mess
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oh yeah blizzard remake oh sure Bethesda that's my
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stealth archer I can't not to do that sure yeah there's fun ways to
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play the game I even think stealth archer can be fun it's just fun one time
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I think what happens is people want to play something different and then they just
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accidentally it's like crabs everything evolves into a crab
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everything also evolves into a stealth archer pretty much um like you
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usually have it as a fallback it's just it's so overpowered
154:56
I always wish actual stealth was like a little bit more
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viable in those games so you could be like a dagger build
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that was more yeah viable I guess
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but yeah usually I end up being some form of Marshall either like
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a two handed weapon or one handed
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shield or just both
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yeah yeah I think
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that's it I guess we can call them yeah hold on a second
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let's see
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alright we're trying
155:36
you like my dbrands game
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hello hello you gotta sign us off
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oh yeah before I do we gotta figure
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out the details around the Wansho channel I think we
155:52
may not be able to have the transition be as long as we had originally
155:56
intended because there's just like duplicate vods I think we might have to
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accelerate this so just throwing that out there make sure
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you're subscribed to the Wansho channel because we may have to stop streaming
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on the LTT channel sooner rather than later we'll see you again next week
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same bad time
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next week wow okay alright bye
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okay see ya
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you