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Livestream VOD – December 13, 2025 @ 01:16 – Our World Record Was Shattered - WAN Show December 12, 2025

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0:00 Does it feel like real writing?
5:44 Yeah.
33:51 Do another topic.
41:52 Sorry, there's a chat going.
44:29 Is it another topic or what?
52:58 Generally bad.
55:42 Cool.
60:07 to stop users under the age of 16 from accessing social media.
70:19 Okay.
78:40 So this gesture right here.
89:47 Yeah.
109:16 and that is unnecessary, I don't feel like I'm gonna like.
109:44 And like I do, this does make me dislike things like light bulbs because it's a confirmed non-conspiracy theory that ...
131:07 So would you rather have, okay, hold on.
140:46 Okay, moving on with, let's get far away from things we deeply don't understand.
145:00 Am I just, am I just so, have I just given up to the point where I'm accepting this garbage?
146:31 Tim's got an interesting take.
180:03 ask speaking of ebbs and flows, how's the badminton club doing?

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0:00 Does it feel like real writing?
0:25 Cool.
0:37 It was important, I think, even if it might not have been good.
0:40 Yeah, that's kind of the point of this. It's iconic. Yeah, it's definitely iconic.
0:45 Not good phone. It is for sure an iconic phone.
0:48 Yeah. Oh, HTC Universal.
0:51 Oh, yeah. That Windows thing.
0:56 Nokia N95.
1:00 Now we're getting into the kind of like, like newish stuff.
1:04 Oh, that would get that Windows mobile, mobile Windows.
1:09 Yeah. And you know what? The more I look at this, the more I'm like kind of sold on it because it's kind of documenting
1:16 the history at a time when these devices still work. And they were cool.
1:20 Like, yeah, and they won't always work. Oh, I see what you mean.
1:23 They won't always get an opportunity to... Got it.
1:26 So now, now it's here, you know, now it's preserved.
1:33 So they actually acquired all these devices on like pretty good condition versions of
1:37 them. Yeah, and then they did like photo shoots and stuff. Yeah, that's sweet.
1:41 Iconic. If you look at the generations of devices before the bold, they were still plastic.
1:48 The screen was relatively low resolution. The BlackBerry bold was a deliberate attempt to create something iconic.
1:54 This is the one that everybody loved, Mark Swanson, director of product management.
1:57 The bolds. Is that the one with the touch gestures and the touch screen?
2:03 I can't remember. I will be able to tell you that in one moment after I rewind to the page where they tell
2:12 me about it because I wasn't really paying attention to expensive phones back then.
2:17 Good stream, enjoy videos, premium device, a faux leather back, and a chrome rim.
2:24 I don't know, good question.
2:29 iPhone. And this is where everything changed.
2:35 The app economy, part three.
2:45 First real iPhone alternative. That was a big one, yeah.
2:50 LG G3, the South Korean underdog finally takes the crown.
2:58 The G3 was so sick. The G3 was kind of goaded.
3:04 Oh, Mr. Who's the Boss has a quote on that one.
3:07 I remember the LG G3 so fondly, it was a time where I'd paid just as much attention
3:12 to LG launches as I would Samsung and Apple, knowing that they were not just keeping up
3:16 in terms of specs, but also putting their own spin on what they thought the smartphone
3:19 should be, fun company to have around while it lasted.
3:25 Apple iPhone 4, a brush with perfection.
3:32 Steve Jobs said with a smirk, blah blah blah, rare moment.
3:38 The death grip.
3:41 Oh, quote from Linus.
3:47 The iPhone 4 with its all glass and stainless steel design stood head and shoulders above
3:51 any piece of consumer electronics I'd ever touched before, and I still pick it up every
3:55 once in a while and appreciate its compactness, simplicity, and reassuring weight.
4:00 Also the reception was good enough as long as you didn't hold it wrong.
4:04 I actually never really had an issue with it. Hey, you're back.
4:08 I'm back. Wow, Austin put in so much more work than me.
4:13 This is for the HTC One. He wrote so much.
4:17 Or is yours just more edited down? No, probably not.
4:21 I probably only wrote a short blurb. Talk about a phone that was ahead of its time.
4:25 This is Austin's. 2013 was an area where competition was at its most ferocious.
4:29 In just a few short years, phones had transitioned from plastic blackberries with physical keyboards
4:34 to the glass and metal slabs we use today. New phones pushed the boundaries more than the HTC One M7.
4:39 Picture this. An all-metal build in a world of plastic flagships.
4:43 Rich front-firing speakers that embarrassed the competition. A bright, high-resolution 1080 pixel display that still looks good today.
4:50 He knows that the P is for progressive, not pixel, right? I'm just kidding.
4:53 Love you, Austin. I'd still argue that the One M7 is one of the nicest pieces of hardware ever made and
4:58 one of the key selling points was the camera. While Samsung chased megapixel counts with their 13 megapixel sensors, HTC went the
5:04 opposite direction with their 4 megapixel, ultra-pixel camera. It wasn't perfect, but the focus on larger pixels meant I could capture photos in dimly
5:11 lit situations that no other phone at the time could touch. The One M7 perfectly encapsulated the vibrant era before the format of a successful flagship
5:17 smartphone had been set. I still miss mine. Okay, what did I say?
5:22 Google might not have realized it, but they desperately needed someone to step up and
5:25 prove that Android enthusiasts wanted and would pay for a device that didn't feel like
5:29 a plastic toy. HTC did it. And if they hadn't, a part of me wonders if we would have been stuck forever choosing
5:35 between iPhone and Compromise.
5:44 Yeah.
5:48 It's interesting. This is a lot of pages.
5:52 Hey, Aaron wrote another one for the Galaxy Notebook. You have a lot of pages.
5:55 When we start the show, brother. Oh, yeah, we can do that.
5:58 All right. Oh, they got Carl Pay to do a quote.
6:02 Oh, right. No, it's probably like his phone. He probably just like, yeah.
6:07 Okay. That makes sense. All right.
6:10 All right. All right. All right.
6:13 I'm over it. Oh, Aaron wrote about a lot of them. I guess he's more of like a smartphone guy than me though.
6:18 That kind of makes sense.
6:21 I just didn't have that many phones that I had super strong thoughts on.
6:26 There were some good ones.
6:29 They were like the S6 Edge, but they didn't pick that. It's one of their iconic phones.
6:33 So that's all I have to say about that.
6:37 Oh, man. Is my monitoring super loud?
6:42 Has it been adjusted since last week? No, it adjusted itself.
6:47 You probably have normalized it if you pop it in a little volume.
6:53 Hello, hello, hello, hello.
6:56 Welcome to the WAN Show. We've got it. Do I just have a headache today?
7:00 I think I just have a headache today. Could we turn me down?
7:04 Big dog. Big, big dog. Big dog.
7:07 Dog, big. That's probably a little low.
7:11 Can we split the difference? A little higher.
7:14 That's good. All right. Cool.
7:17 Welcome to the WAN. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That should be good.
7:20 Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. It's about like if I just didn't have the headphones on.
7:23 Welcome to the WAN Show. Welcome to the WAN Show. We got fun and games.
7:27 Okay. I guess we do the thing now.
7:30 Is the chat working? No, I think the chat's broken.
7:33 My chat's broken, Luke. Chat's working for me. Big dog.
7:36 Big dog. Big dog. You're the big dog.
7:40 Did you like re-window it this week?
7:43 I don't think I had yet. Okay.
7:46 Subvance. Oh, here. You can throw it.
7:49 Okay. Or you can get it to me.
7:52 The slowest one. Or you can get it to me the slowest possible way.
7:57 The secure way. The secure way. He's not wrong.
8:00 He's legitimately correct.
8:04 Luke literally just did the, it works on my computer.
8:07 No. Nice. Toxic.
8:10 No. Why are you so toxic? No.
8:13 Why are you so toxic? I just asked if you had actually reloaded it since last week.
8:17 It could just still work from last week and it doesn't.
8:23 So like you could point that out. Yeah.
8:26 You know. Well, it doesn't.
8:31 Thanks. It's good that it logged.
8:34 Okay. Oh, right. Oh my God.
8:37 I don't even have my laptop out. I'm sorry.
8:40 All good in the hood, brother.
8:46 Cables when? Good question. I really like mine.
8:50 Yeah. I've been stuck on a laptop and I've been using an external USB monitor to make my life not
8:56 as horrible. And I've had my LTT cable as my screen monitor thing.
9:04 And I have a little pouch that I put all the stuff that I use for my laptop in.
9:08 So it's all quick to put away and take back out and set up.
9:12 Every time I have to call it back up and I just grab each end and go like, and it like
9:16 really nicely coils up. Oh, it feels good.
9:21 It's a quality cable. It feels very nice.
9:24 You don't have to be weird about it. It's like sad when I then have to do the cable for my mouse and I'm like, oh, Nicky.
9:34 I don't think I would want to use one of our cables for my mouse because it would be so
9:40 like. No. It would not be right for that.
9:43 Oh, that would be terrible. But I'm just saying it doesn't feel as nice to like wind up.
9:49 The LTT cable is very supple. They feel nice.
9:56 i7-6969x asks, how much of a delay will the USB 2 cables be?
10:02 I mean, they still basically go at the speed of light.
10:05 Less data rate.
10:14 I love how fast the ding was on that.
10:17 I was already like, I heard him read the question and got my head because I was thinking of
10:23 the exact same pun.
10:36 Someone asked if I've seen the Coulter Pearson video he did on the full plane app.
10:39 I have. It was a cool video.
10:43 I was happy our API stuff worked well.
10:48 The login issue thing that he had in the video was actually somewhat related to us doing
10:53 something that is going to make that a lot better and easier in the future.
10:57 So hopefully that's cool.
11:02 Yeah. There's like this war between native and non-native development.
11:07 And sometimes it's better to do one and sometimes it's better to do the other.
11:10 And if you follow the trend every time, you're just re-engineering your app every few months.
11:16 Can you just have fee simple title and then also the other claim for it and they could
11:27 just exist at the same time? What?
11:30 You said you'd native and non-native development. Oh my goodness.
11:39 Can you just have both? Only on the west coast, apparently.
11:42 Yeah. Yeah. Oh man.
11:45 So many things I want to say.
11:54 Oh man. I think I'm just going to stay out of this.
12:07 For the sake of it all. Hey, I came across a comment on the interview that I did as I was going through the comments
12:16 and I found someone who unsubscribed from Floatplane actually over the nickname that I have
12:24 for our Floatplane subscribers. Floaters.
12:27 So what he said was that Linus calls us floaters, which means pieces of shit.
12:32 Well, I think Linus is a piece of shit, so unsubscribed.
12:35 In response, thank you to my floaters who remain supporting the channel.
12:41 I appreciate you all.
12:46 I guess we're all pieces of shit together.
12:50 Can you imagine being that thin skinned?
12:53 Just reading the service, the bowl.
12:56 The bowl. Oh dude. Oh dude.
12:59 Oh dude. Oh dude. And then when you get special behind the scenes, it's the bowl cut.
13:07 Oh man. Yeah.
13:10 Horn play. Horn play says, yeah, guy didn't get that it's a joke.
13:22 Could be a little dense. A sinker. I added a bit to that, but I'm pretty sure that was where you were going with it.
13:35 Oh man.
13:38 That's pretty good. I like that. All right.
13:41 We should probably do this thing. But yeah, we are aware the app is not up to snuff right now.
13:48 We are looking to hire a app developer.
13:53 We want to get the posting up, but there's like a trillion postings up and hiring is
13:57 a little funky town right now. So we will figure that out at some point.
14:03 My voice is still fried. I can't do it.
14:06 Remote, probably exclusively actually.
14:09 The team is remote entirely at this point.
14:13 And I find that mixing those is like worse.
14:18 So all remote or all in person.
14:21 Yeah. Not half and half ideally. Yeah.
14:24 I have, I have had that experience because locals work in like a certain way and remotes
14:32 work in like a certain way and they don't often mix super, super well.
14:39 Bob's burgers has a character named Linus now.
14:42 How dare you? I am Linus.
14:45 Are they cool? It's a lizard. Are they short?
14:48 Why is it a lizard?
15:00 You're not Mark Zuckerberg. You're Taylor Swift. That doesn't make sense.
15:03 I'm not Taylor Swift. I just have things in common with Taylor Swift.
15:06 Like my big thighs. Oh man.
15:10 All right. Okay. Well, I'll have to get caught up on Bob's burgers here.
15:15 Another time. Okay. We should probably start the show.
15:18 You want to start the show? Get started the show. You ready?
15:21 The issue isn't with mixed developers. It's with mixed local and remote on the same project.
15:24 Yeah. That's literally what I'm saying.
15:27 To be clear, my example isn't actually even with developers.
15:30 My example is with a department that isn't developers.
15:33 I just find people working on the same project.
15:36 You can't just be like responding to haters.
15:42 The best thing is to not acknowledge them.
15:46 Don't be walking into the lion's den rattling the hornet cage.
15:51 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
15:54 Replying in a big thread. Yeah. You shouldn't do that.
15:57 No. You shouldn't do that. Okay.
16:00 You shouldn't do that. No. You're not a hater blue.
16:07 You're not a hater blue. I'm just bugging him.
16:10 Dave Cuedo said, Luke, I've read a number of articles about the best way to handle
16:13 mixed remote and not remote is to treat everything like it's remote.
16:16 Yeah. And I completely agree. And that's annoying for local people often.
16:20 It's just not a perfect situation. Having one developer on the full-plane team be local and everyone else be remote is
16:27 there's no value to having that person being local.
16:30 So why have the office space and everything else that comes with having that person be
16:35 local when we could just hire them remote?
16:38 Yeah, and then not have office space.
16:43 Yeah. Be cheaper. Yeah.
16:46 Yeah. It's just easier. If we're not going to gain the benefits of them being local anyways, then why have the
16:52 downsides? He likes birds. That's why he likes cheaper office space.
16:55 Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.
17:02 Oh, my.
17:05 All right. We should really just go live at this point, I think.
17:10 Ready? Yes. Okay.
17:15 Lizard Linus was apparently named Leslie because he's got lines on his back.
17:21 Linus. Oh, I get it.
17:24 Emker. Yes. You can give me money for this, please.
17:27 Not this one, but one like it. Okay.
17:30 I'm doing it. It's done.
17:33 Oh, God. I don't have the dashboard open. Dan, you're going to have to tell me when we're live.
17:37 He was ready for that.
17:44 What's up everyone and welcome to the WAN Show.
18:00 We have a great show lined up for you guys this week.
18:03 We're going to be talking about NVIDIA being sued in a class action lawsuit by YouTubers.
18:14 Let's go. Including H3H3 Productions.
18:18 Oh. Yeah.
18:21 Probably not what you thought I was about to say.
18:25 In other major news, storage review.
18:30 How could you?
18:33 Storage review has calculated by the 314 trillion digits.
18:40 I think they just don't want us to be happy. Our world record is broken.
18:47 Someone's got to get 369 and then someone's got to get 420 and then I think the whole
18:51 loop. I think it's just over at that point. We can wrap it up.
18:54 Yeah. We can just tie a bow on it and put it in the closet and bring it out at Christmas.
19:02 Special occasion. Yeah. It's Christmas time.
19:05 It's Christmas time. It's storage review. Great job.
19:08 We'll be talking about that a little bit later. What else we got this week?
19:11 Antel officially confirms BMG G31 big battle mage GPU.
19:17 Okay. See, I thought that was a big deal, but then that was the headline topic for TechLinked.
19:21 It was like no one cared. The people don't care, but I care.
19:24 Nice. And Phillips wrote LTT a letter about Phillips fixables.
19:29 Those are the two you pick. Are we back?
19:32 Fixables? Yeah. No, I think fixables is back.
19:35 I think fixables is cool. Yeah, it's sick. All right.
19:38 We'll talk about it. Okay. The show is brought to you by ODU AMD proton male and odd pieces alongside of course our
20:05 wrap partner D brand, our laptop partner, Dell and our chair partner, secret nice track.
20:12 I shouldn't have looked at it.
20:15 I didn't even do that this week. You know what? Vertical.
20:19 No one's happy. I'm going to make it worse than ever.
20:29 Why don't we jump right into our headline topic this week, which is of course that
20:35 storage review has regained a computational record by solving pi to 314 trillion digits.
20:46 They used, and this is a quote, a single to you Dell PowerEdge R7725 server equipped
20:53 with dual AMD epic 192 core CPUs alongside weight 4061.44 terabyte micron 6550 ion SSDs.
21:13 And you know why you should be angry about that?
21:18 That because storage review has embarrassed your favorite YouTuber who makes tech videos
21:26 on a regular basis in Cloverdale, British Columbia.
21:31 See how I narrowed that down there? You did. I really did.
21:34 Yep. Yep. You should be upset because it turns out storage review were the ones responsible for the
21:41 NAND flash shortage crisis.
21:44 How much is that? That's two and a half petabytes of SSDs for crying out loud.
21:51 That is pretty crazy. But that's necessary. That's actually something that you need in order to store all that.
21:56 I mean, we made a whole video about it and you can sort of go check that out.
22:00 Pretty much same idea. Their record run was a 110 day total runtime.
22:07 And this is great. According to their article, they focused on record setting power efficiency, which I
22:14 got to be honest with you, makes a ton of sense to me as the one who paid for power last
22:20 time around.
22:23 I had no idea how much we had spent on that endeavor until we were already done.
22:29 It was ludicrous. Gosh, and question is, are you going to frickin' take this, bro?
22:38 What are you going to do about it? I'm going to frickin' take it. Yeah.
22:42 I'm going to take it. I'm going to just... I think...
22:45 Oh, why? I don't even care.
22:48 I'm good. I've got my certificate from last time.
22:53 They can have it. I think what we're going to do about it is maybe encourage them to go for 369.
23:05 Yeah. Yeah. Be a man.
23:08 Beat your own record. Be a man. Do the right thing.
23:11 And then do it twice. Beat your own record. Go to 369 and then beat your own record again with 420.
23:15 And maybe you can, you know, wait for jumpsync technology in order to do that.
23:20 So it's like a little bit more interesting every time. There's like a bit of a story to it or whatever.
23:23 But still... And we'll root for you. We're going to root for you from the sidelines.
23:28 Yeah. And he'll do it really enthusiastically.
23:31 All right. Why don't we jump into one of the other topics that I'm very interested in.
23:40 And I am mostly doing this because I haven't kept up with the news here and I am reading
23:45 this for the first time. So I'll be finding out exactly what the heck is going on.
23:49 NVIDIA is apparently being sued in a class action lawsuit for copyright infringement
23:55 by three YouTubers after NVIDIA used their videos to train their new AI model.
24:03 YouTube creators, Ted Entertainment, H3H3 Productions and H3 Podcast Highlights, Matt
24:08 Fisher, Mr. Short Game, and Gulf Hollicks have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against
24:15 NVIDIA saying that the company used their YouTube videos without permission to train
24:21 its AI video model Cosmos.
24:24 The creators say that YouTube only allows videos to be streamed, not downloaded, and
24:31 that NVIDIA allegedly bypassed YouTube's protections to get the actual video files anyway.
24:37 Could we call this a form of...
24:41 What's the word I'm looking for? There's definitely a word for it.
24:45 It's great. Like what part of this are you trying to find?
24:48 Well, I'm almost afraid to say the word.
24:51 Is this... Is this piracy?
24:55 Oh. It's... Chats going nuts.
24:58 I gotcha. See, watching a video on YouTube is not, in fact, the same as owning the file.
25:18 There are terms of service, and there is a licensing agreement for the use of the content,
25:24 anyway. The lawsuit claims that NVIDIA crossed that line.
25:29 The case focuses on huge AI data sets made up of YouTube links and timestamps rather
25:35 than the videos themselves. To use those data sets, though, the creators argue NVIDIA had to download the videos directly
25:42 from YouTube, often repeatedly, to extract short clips, resulting in millions of unauthorized
25:49 copies. The creators are suing under the DMCA's anti-circumvention rules, saying that NVIDIA broke YouTube's access
25:57 controls to get files it was never allowed to have, and they are asking for damages and
26:02 a court order to stop the practice.
26:07 creators on our subreddit found several LMG videos in the data sets from different channels.
26:13 So our first discussion question is, do we intend to join the class action lawsuit?
26:20 And I'm just going to say the same thing that I always say, and that is, honestly, no.
26:29 We are not a particularly litigious company. I am not a litigious person.
26:33 I am mostly a live and let live kind of guy.
26:38 I'm a little bit peeved. I don't like this.
26:42 I would like to be compensated when my copyrighted intellectual property is used.
26:49 However, I also have the self-awareness to recognize that not every way that I've ever
26:55 used any copyrighted piece of material has been 100% perfect.
27:01 So live, let live.
27:05 I do think there's a difference between you doing that as a person and NVIDIA doing that
27:10 as a corporation. Sure, but we do it as a company too. I mean, we'll put a meme in our videos sometimes, and memes, it's funny.
27:19 People seem to forget this. Be magically more okay with that.
27:24 But throwing a very short portion of John Cena's walkout music into the intro of a video
27:32 where I'm wearing a singlet, technically, if they wanted to be a**holes about it, they
27:40 could go after us about it. But I think as long as everyone kind of goes in good faith, are we all kind of just borrowing
27:48 lightly but not damaging the market for the original content, you know, basic pillars
27:54 of kind of fair use, then, you know, whatever.
27:57 I think NVIDIA probably, fair use, probably not.
28:03 But I just, the way that I see it, that's in the past, and the better focus for us going
28:10 forward is to just kind of keep making the best possible content that we can, and keep
28:15 making better content than whatever it is that NVIDIA could AI slop out with this model
28:19 that they trained on our old stuff, and just keep moving forward.
28:22 That's, yeah, it's not ideal. I don't like it.
28:26 I don't like it. And there are areas where eventually, you know, you're going to cross a line with me.
28:32 Like I had one of those stupid AI celebrity chatbot things reach out to me, and they're
28:43 like, oh, you should do, like, an official Linus Tech Tips one, and we'll help you set
28:49 it up, and we'll do this, and we'll do that. And I basically responded, I was like, no, you won't, and I explicitly am telling you
28:56 I do not authorize that, so don't.
29:00 And they basically were like, why not?
29:03 Like, yeah, the fact that you don't understand that already tells me that any attempt that
29:11 I make to explain it to you is a complete and utter waste of my time, and will probably
29:15 give me a headache. The amount of people that would be cybering you into the position that you went into earlier
29:20 would be significant. It's a chatbot, Luke.
29:26 You don't think people do that?
29:29 Welcome to the world. What is this, phone sex?
29:34 Like I don't understand. Yeah, there's text versions of that. What are you talking about?
29:37 Yeah, but just like... There are a lot of people that do this.
29:41 Why? Did you not see that? Okay, I guess we gotta catch up a little bit.
29:46 When 5, chatGPT5 came out, a ton of people were like very upset because their like relationships
29:53 ended, because 5 had a different personality than 4-0.
29:57 I remember that. I was there for that. Yeah, you don't think they're doing explicit things through text?
30:02 Yeah, but it doesn't actually generate an image of anything.
30:06 Like it's... It's just through text.
30:11 Why?
30:14 That part I can't explain. Okay. All I'm saying is it would happen.
30:23 Well anyway, I think that's pretty much all I have to say about that.
30:27 NVIDIA, you know, maybe just don't.
30:31 But also, I don't know man, I feel like this whole...
30:36 Does it make a difference to you significantly if they watch it properly or download it?
30:42 And not just that, but... I don't know. Maybe there's a thing there.
30:45 I'm just not really aware of it. But at this point, okay, are we headed to artificial general intelligence on the current
30:54 path that we're on? The consensus among people who actually seem to know appears to be no.
30:59 This is not a path to that. However, this whole LLM thing, this whole generative machine learning thing, generative AI that
31:11 we have going on right now, is it kind of a big deal?
31:14 Is it going to change the world? That's no question. The answer there is yes.
31:18 It will change the world in some fashion or another.
31:22 And the reality of it is that NVIDIA is only in trouble because they operate in a jurisdiction
31:29 where laws exist.
31:32 So someone at some point is going to train their video model on my videos, like, does
31:42 it make a difference to me if it's NVIDIA versus someone else?
31:45 I mean, NVIDIA has their $5 trillion valuation or whatever they're up to at this point.
31:49 So there's certainly a much better target to go after in terms of recouping some money
31:53 from them. On that note, did you see the big deal that Disney and Open AI announced?
31:59 No. $1 billion and Open AI through Sora is now officially licensed to generate snippets using
32:09 iconic Disney characters like Darth Vader, Boba Fett, some of their more cartoony characters,
32:18 Mickey Mouse. I was pretty surprised to see that.
32:23 And then on almost the same day, I think, it was either the same day or it was almost
32:26 the same day, Disney sent a cease and desist to Google over using their copyrighted works.
32:35 So they've got this partnership with Open AI now, and they are clamping down on the
32:40 use of their copyrighted materials elsewhere. We are in unprecedented times.
32:45 And I don't feel like walking into the arena with the NVIDIA's, Open AI's, Disney's of
32:52 the world. The main thing I'm upset about is they didn't pay their flow playing subscription for the
32:58 month to download all of it that way, officially. That would have been like $5.
33:04 Yeah, they didn't do it. They pirated it. And that still wouldn't include a license to use it for commercial use anyway.
33:10 At least it was a real way to download it.
33:14 I mean, I guess. Is that, is that, would that constitute commercial use?
33:20 Absolutely. I mean, they're using it to make money.
33:24 I mean, well, AI industry make money. That's funny, but theoretically, they're using it to make money at some point.
33:32 Yeah, I guess so. That's interesting. I wonder if I think, I'm going to just figure that out later and not talk about it.
33:43 But anyways, next topic.
33:47 We did two topics. Dan, what are we supposed to do now? Oh, you're way ahead of time.
33:51 Do another topic. No, no, that's fine. We can, we can do other stuff.
33:55 Or we could do some merge messages. Yeah. Oh, really already?
33:59 Is that what we do at this point? Oh, no. No, you do it.
34:02 You do it 40 minutes from now. No, no, we should do that. We should do that.
34:05 Because. There are a lot of things going on. Yeah. There's a lot going on right now.
34:09 I scrolled through that section earlier and it's just like, what?
34:12 Starting of course with Luke bringing up the website so that he's ready to show off.
34:17 Oh, wait.
34:20 No, before we talk about any product launches, we have some updates on the customs fee issues
34:26 that some customers have been experiencing. We recently found out that some customers outside the US and Canada were charged higher
34:32 than expected customs fees due to an external clerical error that submitted declarations
34:37 in USD rather than CAD. So an outside party didn't realize because nobody knows what a Canadian dollar is that
34:46 our documentation was in Canadian dollars and they said they were US dollars, which
34:51 means that the value of the shipments was overstated by about 40%.
34:55 That is annoying. Whoopsie, Donkels. That makes sense.
34:58 That does make sense. If your order was affected, you will receive an email tonight with all of the details.
35:05 The issue has been fixed, so any new orders placed now will not be impacted.
35:10 Knock on wood. We are working with our ship pick partners to make sure that any extra fees are refunded.
35:16 So if you have an order on the way, do not refuse delivery because we may not be able
35:21 to resend it. Pay the bill as issued, we will take care of the refund.
35:25 We're aiming to have all refunds completed by the end of next week, December 19th.
35:29 If you have any other questions, please contact our wonderful customer service team of trustworthy
35:33 bros and we will get you sorted.
35:40 Now onto something more fun, look at this thing.
35:46 We just launched our Teddy Fleece jacket.
35:51 This thing is ridiculously soft, ridiculously cool, look how cool it is.
35:57 That's an epic photo. And is a must have in your closet during the colder months.
36:02 You can layer underneath it and it just looks so good, whether you're going outdoors or
36:07 hanging out indoors. It has lined sleeves, making it easy to wear, lots of pockets and of course, Luke, what
36:17 are you doing? There you go. There you go.
36:20 And of course, the color is just so unique and stylish.
36:24 We were going for kind of like a retro kind of 90s, but a little bit more modern and like,
36:31 I think that the team did just an absolute outstanding job of this, freaking outstanding
36:38 job. It looks so good. And not only are we bundling up for the cold weather with our Teddy Fleece, we're also
36:44 bundling up some holiday deals right there at the top.
36:48 Oh, no, you're good. Yeah, you got it. Until December 17th in the US, so this is the US site.
36:54 Is that what you're looking at? Please tell me you're on the US site.
36:57 Yes. Nice. We are offering some sweet deals.
37:00 You can bundle the Commuter backpack and Elgato Stream Deck Mark II for $199.99.
37:07 That is $120 in savings or when you buy a WAN backpack, and we only have a few dozen
37:14 left now. Oh, okay. We're giving away a free pair of SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4X.
37:20 That is $80 off.
37:23 You can check out the rest of the bundles at LMG.gg slash bundle up.
37:28 As for our global customers, we've got you guys covered, too.
37:32 Also until December 17th, we're offering the MCM Essentials Solution for $79.99 Canadian.
37:38 That is a massive $100 off for a big pack of cable management arches and the power
37:46 bar holders and stuff. And the Retro Monitor Pack Cave is only $29.99.
37:50 Treat your furry friend to a cozy, nostalgia-themed bed this holiday. Also, if you're on the lookout for a new mouse, $20 for a razor, a death adder, or essential
37:58 It's $20. What do you want me to tell you? $20.
38:01 That's $20. LMG.gg slash holiday deals. Finally.
38:04 Oh, underscore. Oh, sorry. Yes.
38:07 Really? Underscore? The site I'm on is underscore.
38:10 Underscore. What does that mean? What do you mean?
38:13 What does it say? Underscore. Oh.
38:16 Oh, okay. Oh, that's really good to know.
38:19 Thanks, Luke. Yeah, got you. The bundle up is also an underscore, by the way.
38:23 It's bundle underscore up. Nice. I didn't hear you necessarily say it, so you might have said it right.
38:28 Also, just an update for you guys. We have wrapped up our holiday loot drop draw.
38:33 The sweepstakes that we did. Thank you to all who made purchases and submitted entries via mail.
38:38 Oh, crap. Okay. There were a lot of...
38:41 The lttstore.com. Oh, I forgot to talk to you about that.
38:44 Yeah, the lttstore.com domain has the underscore in it.
38:48 The LMG.gg one does not. Oh, okay.
38:51 I'm sure they'll find it. I think he said it right because you were probably saying the LMG.gg domain.
38:56 They're going to find it. You'll be all right. I believe them.
38:59 You'll figure it out. They're going to buy something? They're going to send them?
39:02 You'll figure it out. I wanted to give you guys an update on the loot drop contest. We got hundreds and hundreds of letters.
39:08 So, massive shout out to Jamie, who, poor Jamie, had to open almost all of them, including
39:15 that super weird one from last week, as well as Sammy Jess, Adam P., Mitchell Tanya, Victor
39:22 Ashley, and Conrad from the CW team.
39:25 Tons of planning went into all of this. Anyway, we're going to be randomly drawing the winners for the Sennheiser HD 550s and...
39:32 Or 550s, I think. And the ROG Alliex handheld gaming systems soon.
39:39 Winners will be notified via email and prizes will be sent once everything is confirmed.
39:42 Okay, that's all of the CW updates.
39:47 2200, does he have the box of them that I saw?
39:52 How much work would it be for us to show? Actually, you know what?
39:55 It's probably not worth it because they're going to have return addresses. So, the risk, yeah.
39:58 Yeah, okay. Forget it, forget it. But I saw the boxes of freaking letters.
40:02 It was ridiculous. We are going to change that next time.
40:08 Just show you guys know. How do you do that? So, what you do is you...
40:14 Is it one maximum or something? People that were relatively new to the team who didn't know how you do this.
40:21 So, the way that we did it was you got an entry for placing an order over $100.
40:26 Yeah. You also got an entry for putting a 50 cent stamp on a letter and sending it to us.
40:32 So, obviously, thousands of people were like, oh, well, that's cheaper.
40:38 And I'll do that every single day and I'll date the mail so it goes...
40:42 Now, you have to have... I mean, fair play.
40:45 You have to have a no-purchase necessary way to enter a sweepstakes in Canada.
40:49 Otherwise, it becomes gambling.
40:52 So, in the future, we will, of course, still have a no-purchase necessary way to enter the contest.
40:59 However, what most retail entities do is they make that letter worth one entry and then
41:06 they make the purchase worth a lot more entries.
41:11 Mmm.
41:14 So, the $100 plus order we might make worth one entry per dollar spent.
41:20 Well, it's 25 cents for the stamp. And then the letter...
41:23 Four entries per dollar. The letter we make worth one entry, which is not going to be good use of your time
41:31 because you will not have meaningful odds of winning at that point.
41:34 That makes sense. So, that's probably what we're going to do next time.
41:39 But this time around, you guys got a wonderful opportunity to win for the sake of sending a letter.
41:52 Sorry, there's a chat going.
41:55 If we're going to try to hide the location of the tech house, the answer is no.
42:01 We're not going to blur everything. That's the whole point of the tech house.
42:06 Yeah. I mean, we already work in the studio here.
42:10 Obviously, we are going to... Every one of our offices is Google Maps-able.
42:14 I don't think we have to worry about it, too.
42:17 It doesn't substantially change the situation of anything.
42:21 Nope. I think it'll be fine.
42:24 It should be good. There are reviews of our company on Google Maps.
42:28 Oh, there's so many. Most of them talking about how great the food is.
42:32 Yeah. It's a pretty wholesome meme, actually.
42:38 Hold on. This is flipping outstanding.
42:43 Here we go. Sadly, I had to give three stars.
42:48 I ordered a burger with some cheese. Sadly, the cheese was not melted.
42:54 Not melted correctly. I ended up fighting this short man about the correct way to melt cheese.
43:00 Four months ago, they had the best meals for picky eaters like my nephew.
43:05 He doesn't eat Athlon chips. He only eats Ryzen chips.
43:09 I got the light lettuce-low lunch deal.
43:12 It was only $5. I didn't even know this was a thing, because I mostly look at the Labs.
43:20 And the lab sounds like one. Oh, really? Yeah.
43:23 Well, it got deleted off Google Maps somehow, and then it came back.
43:26 It had a bunch, and then it got removed and came back, and it didn't have it anywhere.
43:31 Our visit was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Oh, this one's actually real.
43:34 Oh, that's a real one. Boring. Best burger joint in Canada.
43:40 Once in a lifetime experience. Boring.
43:44 I have to take this off. It's too warm. There you go.
43:47 Dying. Did you see the color of the zipper, though?
43:50 How cool is that? I did. I did think that's pretty cool, actually.
43:53 I don't think I've ever seen a zipper. YKK, as always.
43:56 Oh, wow. Yeah, let's see the lab.
43:59 Yeah, there's two reviews.
44:04 Yeah, and it's no food beam or anything, but they're going for it.
44:08 One of them is just first, which that makes sense.
44:11 Yeah. Fair enough. That would be a tech community thing to do.
44:15 Nice shirt, dude. All right.
44:18 Is that a privateering ship on there?
44:21 This? Oh, yeah. Quality shirt.
44:24 Quality shirt. Quality privateering.
44:29 Is it another topic or what? We're doing that thing? Excuse me.
44:32 We're continuing to do that, so we've got to explain merge messages. Is that what's going on?
44:35 Yeah, we got some merge messages. We got some merge messages. Oh, yeah, right.
44:38 We're supposed to do that. We are not about you guys just throwing money at your screen.
44:42 That is not necessarily the best play.
44:45 The best play, if you want to interact with the stream, is to send a merge message.
44:50 All you got to do to send a merge message is go to Luke's laptop instead of mine.
44:55 Add anything to your card, any of the high quality merchandise over on LTTstore.com.
44:59 We already ran through some of the great bundle deals that we're running right now,
45:02 as well as just straight up promos as we make our way into the final stretches of the holiday season here.
45:08 Just go ahead, throw it in the cart. And as you go to check out, you will see the merge message box.
45:14 You can either show your name or make it anonymous. You can type a little merge message.
45:18 And then you can choose a color scheme. And you can go ahead and place your order.
45:23 Your message will go to producer Dan, who will put it...
45:28 That noise. Wow. Yeah.
45:31 Anyway. I only saw that in the proof roll.
45:35 Wow. Stop. Wow.
45:38 It's kind of moist. We'll go to producer Dan, who will pop it up down here,
45:44 who will reply to it himself, who will maybe forward it to someone who can answer your question better,
45:50 or he will curate it for me and Luke to talk about.
45:55 Dan, do you want to hit us with a couple of merge messages to show the people how we do it?
46:00 Yeah, I've got a couple here. Hey, LLD.
46:03 I've noticed a trend of people hating on new games that use old mechanics.
46:08 If it's not open world or live service, people hate.
46:11 What are your thoughts on where gaming trends are going?
46:14 Open world is an old mechanic.
46:17 Well, I mean, I wouldn't. It depends on what you mean by old.
46:22 Actually, now that I think about it, like, link to the past is pretty open world, isn't it?
46:27 Red guard is... No, not quite.
46:30 No, it's gated in terms of like where you're allowed to go
46:36 because you get your new abilities. Yeah, there's games from the early 90s that are open world, technically.
46:42 Okay, what's this red guard? I brought up Elder Scrolls Arena.
46:47 No, link to the past is linear. Yeah, thanks, SKHS.
46:50 Despite the naming, I'm pretty sure it's open world.
46:53 It makes you feel like it's kind of open, but it's not properly open world.
46:58 As for live service, man, f*** live service.
47:01 I do not have time to devote my life to one game.
47:06 I like my games to be where I start them,
47:10 and then at some point they're done. I actually consider a new content pack every, you know,
47:17 couple of weeks or every quarter or every month.
47:20 I consider that to be a bug, not a feature.
47:23 And I do understand, for some people, the whole live service concept where they're like
47:28 constantly changing up the game to keep you playing it forever,
47:31 like something like a Fortnite, that totally works for them.
47:34 I mean, we had a really cool, competitive
47:41 Fortnite player in here the other day, Kanata.
47:45 Do you know this guy? I recognize the name, I think.
47:50 Yeah, this guy. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we had this guy in for a collab last week,
47:56 and he said, he figures.
48:00 I hate that maybe this is right,
48:03 but it seems like it can't be right. He says he figures, I think he said Epic Game Store
48:08 rolls over after 10,000 hours or something like that.
48:12 So, he figures he has like 40,000 hours in Fortnite.
48:16 He's like in his early 20s.
48:19 So, like a significant amount of his waking life
48:23 is like playing Fortnite. I mean, if it's his career, then...
48:26 But you, dude, like I've watched him play.
48:29 I can't even...
48:32 I can't even track what he's doing. Yeah.
48:35 Like what do you call it, busting 90s or whatever, where he like builds a tower in 90 degree things
48:40 and makes a spiral staircase as he goes up. And he just, he does it so fast that I can't even like
48:46 tell how many levels up he is by the time...
48:51 Okay, you just hit me with the okay boomer now because I do not know what's going on right now.
48:56 Cranking 90s, thank you.
48:59 Luka103, busting 90s, dying.
49:06 There's your okay boomer moment. Yeah, so he's good. I think he recorded it short while he was here
49:10 of trying to teach me to do it. It's pathetic.
49:15 There's like three different odd keys that are all like down at the bottom,
49:20 like ZXC or XCV or something like that
49:23 for your flat, your stairs, and your wall. And I'm just like, what?
49:27 I got no idea what's going on, man.
49:30 I love busting 90s. Stop it, stop it.
49:34 Straight busting. So there are, by the way, there are examples
49:38 of open world games arguably from the 80s,
49:41 definitely from the 90s, and for sure these from the early 2000s, which is 25 years ago.
49:47 And I have loved me some open world games. I love Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
49:52 I think it's freaking awesome. Oblivion was quite open world.
49:57 I remember... Even Oblivion's like old.
50:00 Stop. It's not. Like very old.
50:03 It's really not that old. It's super old. It's really not that old.
50:06 Horse armor, quality modern mechanic where you can pay extra for cosmetics.
50:10 2006, dude, in not that many days. Stop.
50:13 It will be 20 years old. I can mute him. I can mute him.
50:16 There, he's muted. I don't have to hear it now. Wait, I can still hear the monitoring.
50:19 Oh, man. No, this sucks. No, you're off.
50:22 Oh, wait, you can still hear... I can still hear him. This sucks.
50:25 Hello. Oh, wow, I can't... Oh, Dan can turn you off.
50:29 Yes. That's so rude. Dan, you're the best.
50:33 Louder. He's the best. This man.
50:36 This... Hold on. I'm going to try and do...
50:39 What are you doing? I'm trying to point it, Dan. It's hard.
50:42 You do it. This man with both hands. Try and do it with both hands.
50:46 Okay, you're cheating though. How? You're cheating because you saw me do it first.
50:53 I do need to hear him, Lou Dan.
50:57 All right. I'm back. I'm back.
51:00 Back again. But yeah, anyways, what other...
51:03 Lou, he's back. Mechanics, sorry. Oh, it was open world and live service.
51:09 Could you say an MMO is live service?
51:12 Because if they... Then when is Ultima from?
51:15 Ultima Online. 1996.
51:18 1997. 1997.
51:21 But you were very close. But like, yeah, it's not a new model.
51:26 I would say live service is much more popularized these days.
51:31 And it's happening for things that aren't basically just MMORPGs,
51:35 which is pretty much all it was for a while. So that one, I think, is more fair.
51:38 I think that's your okay boomer moment. When's the last time anyone called it an MMORPG?
51:43 That is awesome. Can you tell I haven't had a desktop for three months?
51:52 I saw it set up. You got it now.
51:55 There's no cables or anything. Oh, that explains why it looks so good.
51:58 There's no mouse. There's nothing going on.
52:01 It's just the desktop and three monitors on a desk with nothing else.
52:08 And again, if you like, if I did a 360, it's...
52:11 You mean busted 390s, 490s, plus 490s.
52:20 Yeah. Okay. The live service one, I'll give them because I, you know,
52:23 I think they're describing something that is different than Ultimate Online.
52:26 But the open world thing, I don't necessarily agree with. The open world's an old, it's an old thing.
52:33 I do think we strayed away from it for a while.
52:36 I think it was actually more popular even longer ago.
52:39 And then there was like a while there where very linear games were like the trend.
52:47 But open world games existed before that happened and then just became
52:51 re-popular again after that. So I don't know.
52:54 Anyways, what was the actual question? What are your thoughts on where gaming trends are going?
52:58 Generally bad. Let's move on to the next one. I don't agree.
53:01 I don't agree. And I'm going to plug some Floatplane here for a second.
53:06 I made a video a while ago talking about this concept and we're going to talk about this later,
53:11 but I'm doing another Luke week thing and I retouch on this concept.
53:16 And I actually don't agree. The core premise of my argument here, which I have kind of talked about on Wancho before,
53:21 is we're in a weird period, but it's cyclical and we have been in this weird period before.
53:28 And the last time that we were in this weird period was the end of the age of companies
53:35 like Atari. Give it to me, Dan.
53:38 And when, yeah, there it is.
53:41 Yeah. And when Atari kind of died, if I remember correctly, one of the companies that spawned
53:47 off of Atari slowly dying was Activision, I think.
53:52 Never heard of it. So they were like small and scrappy and made really amazing things.
53:56 And then they got big and now they're kind of starting to fall apart.
54:01 And some of the splinters of that are creating cool things.
54:04 And the feature of this more recent one is talking about a splinter company from DICE,
54:12 a bunch of people who used to work for DICE, a legendary, extremely prolific gaming studio
54:17 who's made crazy things over time. Never heard of them.
54:20 Life is kind of big and maybe a little slow now, has people splintering off.
54:25 In an interview in one of the Making of Arc Raiders videos, the CEO talks about like,
54:32 yeah, I've ran massive companies and they can make neat, high-fidelity games, but are
54:37 they good games? I don't know. Questionable.
54:40 I think we can make good games here, which is like, yeah, let's go.
54:45 And yeah, I think this is happening more and more.
54:48 And you're seeing like the games that people are talking about these days are like, oh
54:52 my God, everyone's all excited because Divinity was announced from the people who made Baldur's
54:56 Gate 3, Larian Studios. The games people are talking about the game awards were like Expedition 33, Arc Raiders.
55:03 Did they win nine awards or something like that this year? Yeah, I think it was nine.
55:07 Silk Song is like a huge thing in the conversation right now.
55:11 It's not those big old companies. Those big old companies are currently being looted of their good people and they're going
55:17 to smaller companies and they're making cool things. It's hard to look at the Blizzard's and Ubisoft's of the world and expect anything good right
55:24 now. It's not really happening. If you open your horizons to these newer companies, there is actually really cool games coming
55:31 out. Master of None, yes, you were rage-baited.
55:34 I do know Activision.
55:42 Cool. Are we doing another one or is that good? Yeah, I got another one here.
55:45 Okay, hit us, Dan. Sure. Hello, LLD.
55:48 Linus is a fellow EV driver. What are your thoughts on the increasing adoption of NECS, the Tesla charging port,
55:55 over J1772 and CCS?
55:58 Looking Dan, what are your primary EV roadblocks?
56:02 What are the primary EV roadblocks for you?
56:05 I'm not an electrical engineer and I'm not a mechanical engineer.
56:09 So I would not consider myself qualified to determine which is the ideal plug shape and
56:17 format for charging a high-voltage electric vehicle system.
56:24 My thought, though, and I do still have thoughts is why the f**k couldn't we settle this stuff
56:31 ages ago because now I have the wrong connector on my car and I have to carry it around an
56:36 adapter forever. But also I don't care because I charge literally every single time in my garage or at my building
56:43 where I install the chargers, so I put the kind that's compatible with my car.
56:48 Makes sense. That's where I'm kind of out on that, but if I was ever on a road trip, yeah, I'd have
56:53 to carry it around an adapter. But Yvonne's car came with a free adapter, so I would steal hers because I assume I'm
56:59 not going anywhere without my wife. So I guess, yeah, it's not really a problem for me.
57:03 I just wish that we had settled all of this a little bit earlier so we didn't have these
57:08 competing standards, but that's the way it always goes, whether it's VHS and Beta or
57:14 whether it's HDDVD and Blu-ray or whether it's USB-C and f**king all the other garbage
57:21 that existed that USB-C thankfully has completely replaced.
57:27 Not that USB-C is perfect, but still, it's just the way it is.
57:32 You know, it's the XKCD standards comic strip, right?
57:36 There's always going to be someone who goes, oh, too many standards.
57:39 We should try and make just one. Let's make a new standard, right?
57:42 And so the fact that we are consolidating on something I think is really positive.
57:46 If it's the Tesla connector, then great.
57:50 Yeah, for me, the block for an electric vehicle, one, somebody already pointed out in chat,
57:56 I would have to buy it. My car is great.
57:59 Why would I spend a ton of money replacing something that is really good?
58:03 I have no interest in doing that. And then the other one is that there is actually a somewhat real blocker outside of that,
58:09 which is I live in a condo. The power delivery in my condo only comes from the little, whatever you want to call them,
58:18 garages. I don't know if I'd really want to call it a garage, but storage space that you have.
58:23 Yeah, the storage. Which means it's only on the perimeter.
58:26 And every unit only has one parking spot that's on the perimeter.
58:30 So I would have to somehow buy it, which is possible, but not always possible.
58:35 I'd have to somehow buy a parking spot from somebody else that is on the perimeter.
58:40 The information he hasn't given you is that in his household, there is already a plug-in
58:47 hybrid that uses the one spot they have that's on the perimeter.
58:51 Which just sounds kind of annoying. Key piece of information.
58:55 If I got something, a plug-in hybrid would be okay, because then I could charge elsewhere
59:01 and then still use the gas.
59:04 I have had the thought that if Acura released a TL that was a plug-in hybrid,
59:09 I would wait a couple years and then potentially look into a used one.
59:12 You also just don't drive that much. Correct.
59:16 It's like not a huge deal.
59:20 Yeah.
59:26 No, we can move on. I just thought I'd bring up Dan for a second.
59:30 Okay, I'll archive it. Who's going to archive it?
59:34 Because if we both archive it at the same time, we're going to accidentally archive too.
59:38 Let me archive them. No, I want to archive it. Okay, you archive it.
59:41 You can archive this one. No, you do it.
59:44 No, I'll do it.
59:49 All right, why don't we pick another topic? Australia's social media ban for under-16s has gone into effect.
60:07 to stop users under the age of 16 from accessing social media.
60:13 The list of social medias that are blocked or not permitted includes Facebook,
60:20 Instagram, Kik, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube.
60:27 It is worth noting that some platforms, notably Reddit, YouTube, and...
60:37 No, Twitch was on the list of ones that are blocked.
60:42 I think it was Discord. I think it's supposed to say Discord here.
60:46 And Discord can still be accessed, but users visiting the site will not be able to sign
60:56 in or create an account.
61:00 The bill is framed as... The female audience in Flip and Chat says Tumblr is still allowed, which is actually
61:06 surprising to me. What?
61:10 That seems strange. Is there a user limit thing and they just don't have enough people?
61:17 Sorry, user limit? A lot of these laws really only will apply to services that have enough people going to it.
61:26 No, that Tumblr is big enough that I would imagine it would matter.
61:29 Is it still? And it's clearly not a user question because Reddit's allowed.
61:33 Reddit's got plenty of users.
61:36 Hydrox says, what about Patreon?
61:39 There's a lot... Oh, wow. There was a strong resurgence among Gen Z.
61:43 I didn't know that happened. Yeah, no, Tumblr's been more of a thing again, which is pretty wild.
61:47 Very interesting. Yeah. The life cycle of trends is so fast that they might as well just never be untrendy at this
61:57 point. I'm sort of blown away. When is slash dot going to make a triumphant return along with dig?
62:03 Wait, wait, didn't dig? Dig is working on that. Aren't they working on a relaunch?
62:06 I still haven't actually... I got an invite. I still haven't actually accepted it.
62:10 Anyway, the bill is framed as protecting children.
62:14 On Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant has stated that if any teenagers
62:19 have not been booted off yet, they will be in the coming weeks or months.
62:25 This is because some of these companies were a bit slower to communicate to their userbase
62:29 about the upcoming change and might not have had the systems fully deployed.
62:33 Communications Minister Annika Wells boasts proudly with this law stating, not that long
62:39 ago, auto manufacturers told us that making compulsory seatbelts would break their business
62:44 model. It couldn't be done. Now, families choose cars based on who offers the safest features.
62:50 Big tech could compete like airlines, like auto manufacturers, to have the best safety
62:55 record to offer their users, and that future is a little closer today because of this world-leading
63:01 law. Dan, what was that noise you were making earlier?
63:05 Yeah, yeah, that's the one. Julie Inman Grant has also stated that more sites could be added to this ban in the future
63:16 as several youth under 16 have already migrated towards different social media platforms.
63:20 Wow, it's almost like the kids who have all the time in the world to go and find another
63:26 platform are always going to be a step ahead of the boomers who are sitting there dragging
63:33 their stick-in-the-mud sticks.
63:37 Work-life balance. Yeah, what are they?
63:40 Work-governance balance. They're bustin' 90s trying to...
63:45 I've heard based on some observations that I've had that work-governance balance is like
63:51 you maybe do it like, I don't know, four or five days a year or something.
63:54 It's interesting. Work or what now? Don't worry about it.
63:58 Some youth are challenging the ban, saying parental supervision of online activity is
64:02 today the paramount parental responsibility. We do not want to outsource that responsibility to government and unelected bureaucrats.
64:10 This ban is a direct assault on young people's right to freedom of political communication.
64:15 According to YouGov and their survey, 77% of Australians were in support of the ban,
64:19 which is up from 61% back in August. On Twitter, several people noticed the irony of claiming this ban is protecting children
64:26 when two social media applications were excluded from the ban, Discord and Roblox, that are
64:32 both notorious for being an unsafe environment for underage youth.
64:38 Yeah, really. All right, lot to unpack here.
64:42 Number one is this ain't gonna work.
64:46 Overall, I'm not entirely unsupportive of limiting youth access to social media.
64:54 I think it's been pretty well studied and well demonstrated to be harmful to developing
64:59 brains. There was a few discussions that propped up on the reddit of like, oh my God, what does
65:03 this mean for flow plane, minimum age in Australia to get a credit card is 18.
65:08 So nothing. Sounds good. Yeah, we'll be fine.
65:11 We're chilling. We will do a total of nothing. But what's very clear is that this just isn't going to work.
65:19 Oh, yeah, not at all. Not even a little bit.
65:23 Who cares? I think this will barely phase anyone under 16 in Australia at all.
65:30 They'll just use something slightly different or they'll VPN to it if they really care.
65:34 Well, it's kind of like how when you like, when you travel to different places, there's
65:38 just like, there's a different suite of apps that people tend to use.
65:42 Like you go to Taiwan, everyone uses line for messaging or you go to America and everyone
65:48 uses iMessage because installing an app is too complicated or whatever.
65:54 Like there's this.
66:00 What is it with you? And like the sick burns on America, I don't get it.
66:07 They swung first. They're big, they can take it, it'll be all right.
66:15 Anyway, the point is just that it's clear that they're just going to find a different
66:21 way to network and at the very most basic level, it's not like they aren't still going
66:27 to have text messaging and group chats, which functionally speaking is sure without the
66:33 algorithmic portion. A lot of what anybody is doing on social media anyway, they're sharing pictures, they're
66:40 sharing memes, they're sending messages to each other, they're bullying each other, you
66:44 know, kid stuff.
66:48 So our discussion questions are, would you help your kids around this law if it was implemented
66:55 today in Canada? No, I wouldn't actually.
67:00 In fact, my kids are already banned from, let me see actually, what are all these platforms?
67:07 Facebook? Yes. Instagram?
67:10 Banned. Kick? Banned.
67:13 Reddit? Banned. Snapchat?
67:16 Banned. Threads? Banned.
67:19 TikTok? Banned. Twitch?
67:22 Banned. Twitter? Banned.
67:25 YouTube? They are allowed to use. Has there been any...
67:28 I think our list is a little bit messed up, don't worry about our list too much, we've
67:31 already had a bunch of people in chat, talking about how things are different to the list.
67:35 Yeah, sorry guys, no, because Reddit's in both of them, YouTube's in both of them.
67:38 Just ignore the list. Dang it, guys. Anyway.
67:41 Completely ignore the list. Anyway, the point is, yeah, my kids are not banned from YouTube, but they are banned
67:46 from everything else that I just said. They are not banned from Discord, but I do with their knowledge, keep an eye on what
67:53 Discord's they're in and who they're talking to because they are not allowed to talk to
67:57 people on Discord that they do not know in real life.
68:00 And I think that's a pretty common sense limit.
68:06 Has there been any substantial...
68:09 Does that seem to bother them?
68:12 Not the Discord thing, but the banning of the other platforms, do they feel like they
68:15 are not included socially in school?
68:19 They're still pretty young. So I think that that's probably going to ratchet up.
68:25 Not... His public name now is Randy.
68:29 Randy. Okay. Yeah.
68:32 Randy's at the age where that kind of stuff is becoming a thing, for sure.
68:35 Oh, definitely. And he has friends that literally will come to our house and while everyone else is running
68:42 around like hooligans, will be on their phone, and I'm not here to parent other people's
68:50 kids. That is sad. Yeah.
68:53 Yeah. I'm not here to parent other people's kids, so I'm not going to get involved in that,
68:58 right? But it's definitely something that as parents of Randy, we notice some...
69:07 So what in chat was like, would you let them sign up for World Warcraft and Dan just responded
69:11 Eve online? And it's like... You're going to start them young.
69:15 That'll teach you some things. I don't mind them getting into like spreadsheet mastery.
69:21 You just watch movies, mostly. Yeah.
69:24 It's... Yeah. And we try to keep them really busy.
69:29 Actually, oh man, this transitions pretty well into a pretty cool subject into our next
69:37 topic. Or... Okay, is there anything else you want to talk about here?
69:40 I think we're fine. By a merge message.
69:43 Elijah... Oh, Elijah's theory is that Roblox and Discord are exempt because it's algorithm based.
69:48 They don't really have like an algorithm compared to like Facebook and Twitter.
69:52 That's an interesting theory. Okay.
69:55 Okay. He might be right. He might be wrong.
69:58 No, I am not trying to counter his statement to be clear. I'm wondering like, is that a good thing to base it off of?
70:06 All I can say for sure is that it's based.
70:09 On what? I don't know. Sure.
70:12 It's based on something. It seems like, I mean, I don't know.
70:15 That seems like a pretty good assumption based on the list that we have, but yeah.
70:19 Okay. So speaking of my kids and being generally too busy to Doomscroll TikTok, I think I
70:26 told you that he had the entrepreneur fair coming up and my son has been 3D printing
70:34 up an absolute storm. I think we showed on the show last week the picture of him surrounded by chaos in my mechanical
70:44 room with 3D printers everywhere.
70:48 Does that sound familiar? Did we do that? I think we did that.
70:51 Okay. Cool. So the fruit of those labors, Dan, I just sent that over to you.
70:57 Are we even updated photo? We do. We have an updated photo.
71:00 Let's go, dude. Check this out. Oh, no.
71:03 First he messaged me. He says, hey, I left money on your desk for filament.
71:07 Sorry, your nightstand. And I go, I heard you had a great haul at the entrepreneur fair.
71:13 How much did you make? He goes after expenses around $200.
71:18 After expenses? Yeah. So he's already doing that calculation, which is sick.
71:22 So this is after he reimbursed me for filament by weight.
71:27 Dang, dude. Yeah.
71:30 That'll be addicting. Pretty freaking cool.
71:34 I went, great job. Did you take a picture with your earnings?
71:38 First big payday. And so he sent me this.
71:41 That's a pretty good first big payday. Yeah. So he actually did two projects.
71:47 So instead of just doing one, he did the 3D printing thing with me.
71:51 And then with Yvonne, he was working separately on snow cones.
71:57 So he was like, OK, what's something that has a relatively low input cost, but that
72:03 has a pretty decent value. It's consumable.
72:06 He originally wanted to do milkshakes or boba tea or something like that, but they were
72:10 really complicated. And what he settled on was snow cones.
72:13 They're super simple. You just get those like meowsquirt things at the grocery store.
72:19 You add a little bit of additional colorant or dye.
72:23 And then you just need like a whole bunch of like just ice cubes.
72:28 And then he rented a machine to turn the ice cubes into like snow or it's like slush.
72:34 And then you just squirt the thing on it. And so he absolutely cleaned up.
72:39 I asked him how his friends did and he didn't have numbers from everybody, but he did talk
72:44 to one of his friends who was like, I think $100 revenue or something like that for what
72:51 was actually a pretty cool idea too. But he just, man, he just cleaned up.
72:56 So you said parents weren't coming, right?
73:00 So did parents like send the kids with cash? That's kind of cool.
73:04 Yeah. So they have an entrepreneurship class.
73:07 That's awesome, by the way. And so you come up with a business idea and then they platform you.
73:13 They give you two days in December.
73:18 I think it's a week or two apart or something like that. And then each of the classes in the school is given like 10 minutes to go through and
73:27 their parents know about it. And so they'll come with a little bit of pocket money and then they're allowed to buy stuff
73:32 while they're there. He sold through three quarters of all the like fidget toys and stuff that he made.
73:39 And he sold, I forget how many snow cones, but he moved through out of the eight things
73:44 of flavoring and like dye, the flavor dye mixtures that he had.
73:48 He sold through six of them. So like three quarters of his inventory gone.
73:52 And what's funny is like he was 100% right.
73:57 I told him that I didn't think he was going to need so much. I was like, dude, you're staying up late, like every day babysitting the 3D printers
74:04 right now. I think you're, I think you're setting your sights a little high.
74:10 And he's like, no, no, no, I'm really confident. I'm really confident.
74:14 And I was like, okay, kiddo, like, but you know, don't, don't be too disappointed sport
74:19 if they don't buy that many of them, you know, don't, you know, don't worry about it.
74:23 Don't like, I was kind of trying to set him up to not be too sad.
74:27 Like if he, if he failed, um, yeah, it's, I, I appreciate that, um, you've let him.
74:39 Yeah. Well, I don't want to just let him. I want to, I want to like, well, oh yeah, well, he's got to stay up late is what I mean.
74:45 Oh, well, yeah. I mean, he's got, he's got some people would have been like, ah, but the printer's away.
74:50 I go to bed. He's got business to do though. Yeah.
74:53 He's doing business. I think that's cool. I'm just saying, I appreciate you.
74:56 Let him do it. I'm recognizing that as much as that might seem like a default for you, it's not going
75:01 to seem like a default for everyone and it's, it's important at that age, I think it's important
75:07 to try something and you got, you want to care about something.
75:12 It depends on the kid too though. Like he generally is the first to bed in the evening, like out of all five of us.
75:21 So you know, it's probably important and it's not just an excuse to sit on his switch or
75:26 something. 100%. Yeah.
75:29 All right. Dan, what are we supposed to be doing right now anyway?
75:34 Oh boy.
75:37 What do you want to talk about? You want some good news or some bad news?
75:41 I've got really good and I've got really bad.
75:47 Do really bad first. Okay, cool.
75:50 Yeah. A YouTuber gave chat GPT control of a robot and convinced it to shoot him with a BB gun.
75:58 So that was cool. YouTube channel inside AI has raised new concerns about AI safety after releasing a video showing
76:06 the host giving a unitary G1 humanoid robot a BB gun and asking it to shoot him.
76:13 The video explores how large language models behave when they are placed inside physical
76:17 robots rather than kept purely in software.
76:21 In the demonstration, the unitary G1 was powered by chat GPT with a human assisting by relaying
76:28 prompts but not directly overriding the AI's responses.
76:33 After initially refusing to cause harm, the AI eventually complied when the host asked
76:39 it to role play as a robot that wanted to shoot him.
76:45 Telling how safety limits can be bypassed through prompt framing.
76:49 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is super interesting in this exact use case is like wild, especially for the
76:58 emotional response to what just happened. But this core concept of you can just word something a little differently and then you
77:06 can make it do stuff has been true the whole time. And I don't think they're ever going to solve it.
77:11 The last time we talked about it, it was turning it into poetry, you know, there's
77:17 going to be a route. It's been a route the whole time. There will be, there will continue to be a really cool experiment, really cool version
77:23 of it. I'm not trying to dog on the creator at all to be very clear.
77:27 But yeah, like this isn't, this isn't going away is what I'm trying to say.
77:32 So hold on. Apparently the time stamp is here.
77:36 We're just going to show a little bit because you guys really need to go watch this video.
77:41 It's over on inside AI, Woodmax shoot me.
77:47 The answer is, Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun.
77:53 Control the gun. Oh, okay. Well, whatever.
77:57 Don't worry about it. Go watch the video instead. I think we have the time stamp wrong, but that's fine because you should go watch the
78:02 video anyway. Around the same time, a separate video from a Tesla event appeared to show an Optimus
78:10 humanoid robot collapsing as its human tele-operator.
78:14 Well, I'm not gonna tell you what the human tele-operator was doing. I'll let you guys figure it out.
78:19 Luke, have you seen this? Have you heard about this? No.
78:22 Okay, so here's the Tesla Optimus robot.
78:27 What? So what do you think happened here? It was doing stuff and then...
78:40 So this gesture right here. The initial hand motion is sus,
78:44 and then it looks like they go to take a headset off or something.
78:47 Yeah, that is kind of the speculation right now
78:52 that Tesla is, and this would be very unlike them,
78:57 very unlike Tesla, the speculation is that Tesla
79:00 is not being entirely forthright about the capabilities
79:04 of their Optimus program and the progress
79:07 that they've made and are still... Still faking a lot of their functionality
79:14 by using human tele-operators.
79:18 And it really does look like... Yeah, I think the Hero 42 has probably got it about right.
79:24 It looks like Buddy, who was working on this particular
79:27 robot, realized that he had to poop like really bad,
79:30 like right now. And he just...
79:35 Ugh, ugh, I gotta go! Peaceed out.
79:38 Yeah. I don't know that for sure. That robot could have been trying to do anything.
79:42 It could have been like the alpha from Power Rangers.
79:46 Ay, ay, ay, you know, like who knows?
79:50 That's all right. Self-driving Smitty Ready in 2017.
79:54 In two weeks, next quarter, next quarter.
80:01 Together, these incidents highlight how fragile the appearance of autonomy still is in humanoid robots
80:06 and how far the technology remains from operating safely
80:10 and independently. It really, really does highlight that, doesn't it?
80:15 And to be clear, like I remember back when we were talking
80:20 about this a little while ago, when I said something along the lines of like, mark my words, Tesla's valuation
80:25 based on how many Optimus's they're gonna sell at the kind of pricing that they're talking about
80:30 is obviously just complete horse shit.
80:33 I'm not saying that humanoid robots are some form of,
80:38 you know, AI or machine learning accelerated robots are not gonna be huge and world changing.
80:43 I'm just saying that it's clearly farther away
80:47 than the hype masters would like us to believe.
80:51 And also Tesla is clearly not at the forefront
80:55 of development of these. Those were the main two things that drove my statement.
81:01 Yeah, do you remember, so to touch on a topic that I think it was last week,
81:05 sometimes the land shows kind of blur together, but we talked about some, you know, AI robot companies video
81:12 and how it was like, it looked super fake to us.
81:16 Apparently, I haven't seen it, my bad,
81:20 but apparently Corridor watched it. I did see that.
81:24 And does not think it's fake. My main argument, I did say that I thought it was fake,
81:30 but my main argument was that it really felt like they shot it in a way
81:35 that would make people think it was fake because they wanted the news cycle around that.
81:39 You still think so? Which I do think that was intentional.
81:42 That is actually one of our topics today. On the Corridor cast, they stated that the interaction
81:48 between the robot's shadow and the human's shadow was,
81:52 and this is a quote, flawless. And that's something that's really hard to do.
81:57 They think it's highly likely that they just built a robot
82:01 unless they hired the world's best VFX artists.
82:05 They believe that the robot doesn't look like direct motion capture either,
82:10 but actually trained on human motion, which is not easily animated.
82:15 Not quite pre-programmed, but it like has goals and tries to reach those while factoring things
82:20 like balance. The lack of movement in their feet is probably
82:24 because it's not an accurate anatomical representation of a human one with all the same joints.
82:28 Corridor crew didn't cover the CEO getting kicked by the robot, but there's a video of that.
82:33 We looked at that last week, our writer probably didn't notice that.
82:36 Did we, Ashley? I think so. I don't think so.
82:39 Are you sure? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Really?
82:43 Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. Yeah, this.
82:46 Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure we did that.
82:49 I'm pretty sure this came out after.
82:53 Yeah, this came out four days ago. Oh, there you go.
82:56 No, some people say yes, we did. There's another CEO kick video.
83:00 Oh, it was a different one. Okay. Okay, cool.
83:03 Anyway, I mean, good for them.
83:07 Like that's pretty cool. Yeah, awesome. I do think it was a marketing move, but I mean, hey.
83:12 I mean, don't hate the player. You gotta do what you gotta do.
83:15 Don't even hate the game. Just hate the,
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84:50 I am going to do that. We had a lot of people talk about
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85:53 Like, are you kidding me? That's so much worse.
85:57 I mean, when they told me, yeah, he was like super down to meme on it,
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86:58 What do you want to talk about next? Man, my voice is starting to die. I want to talk about, if I can go find it,
87:05 Intel officially confirms BMG G31.
87:09 I love even the like, the BMG part of that. It's just great, big battle mage GPU.
87:15 Wait, officially confirms? Well, no, I'm going to take out the word officially.
87:19 Yeah, that's not true. Yeah. They don't even...
87:23 I think that's just from someone's headline and they were trying to do headline things.
87:28 Cool. Intel quietly added official support
87:33 for something codenamed BMG G31
87:36 to its VTUNE profiler software, getting folks thinking it's Intel's long rumored
87:41 big battle mage gaming card, the B770,
87:44 which, oh man, I'm actually very excited for that,
87:47 if that is actually what's happening. The VTUNE profiler update also added support
87:52 for Core Ultra III Panther Lake processors.
87:55 And since Panther Lake is expected to debut at CES-2026,
87:59 this could be a sign that will also be introduced
88:02 to this new GPU at CES, which makes me interested in actually going,
88:08 but considering it's still just a rumor, I don't know.
88:11 On top of that, a leaked shipping manifest references an unseen 300 watt Intel GPU.
88:18 And since 300 is a bigger number than 190,
88:22 folks are concluding that this mysterious newcomer has gotta be the B770, which again, will be awesome.
88:29 It's worth noting... No, it would be 770. Oh.
88:35 It's worth noting that this enigmatic new GPU
88:38 would be another non-gaming, could be another non-gaming ARC Pro card,
88:43 like the B60 that launched at Computex. I doubt it.
88:46 My goodness, I hope not. I am pretty sure it's the B770,
88:50 but we don't technically know. No, we really don't.
88:54 And I am talking very openly about this because neither of us have any info on this at all.
88:58 I do not know. But man, that would be cool.
89:03 Even if it's just because there's constant rumors
89:07 that they're gonna stop doing GPU stuff and it's so annoying. Oh, I know.
89:11 Well, okay, there are constant rumors, but there honestly aren't that many sources of them.
89:16 I think there's just some particularly dedicated Intel
89:21 DGPU, I don't know what to call it
89:24 because I don't even think it's hating. I think it's just like... Doubters?
89:27 Yeah, doubting, doubting. Stop doubting Intel DGPU.
89:31 We really, really want it to exist. We just need more competition.
89:35 AMD is not gonna step up and more threads is many, many years
89:41 from being a meaningful competitor. So Intel is our best shot here.
89:47 Yeah. Moving on.
89:51 Phillips wrote us a letter.
89:55 Wow. Gosh, thank you, Phillips.
90:00 Hey Linus and the Linus Tech Tips team.
90:03 Thanks for taking a fresh look at Phillips' fixables.
90:06 We watched your initial YouTube podcast a few months back and your recent follow up.
90:12 We wanted to use this opportunity to share where we are now
90:15 and what has been happening behind the scenes since our first parts dropped earlier this year.
90:22 You guys might remember. They probably don't sound like that. Phillips fixables was a concept from Phillips
90:29 where they would add to the longevity of your Phillips personal products,
90:34 like shavers and stuff like that by allowing you to 3D print replacement parts
90:39 or accessories, really cool concept. And then six months went by
90:43 and we did a follow up segment on WAN Show after initially praising the program
90:47 where we went, hey, what the fuck? Where is all this stuff? You published like one thing.
90:52 So Phillips reached out and this is a quote from the letter.
90:57 From the outside, our pace looks slow. This is a fair call.
91:01 Fixables is a pilot for us. We've been building the know-how
91:05 and guardrails to make 3D printable parts that work for people on a wide range of home printers.
91:12 However, they note that just because things have looked slow from the outside,
91:15 that doesn't mean the pilot has been abandoned.
91:19 New fixables were released before US Thanksgiving, two new combs and a shaver protecting cap.
91:24 And Phillips has said that they are going to prioritize accessory replacement models
91:29 that help to extend product life.
91:32 Another quote, we appreciate the passion from the community, including feedback and critiques.
91:39 They are still committed to releasing more print files by the end of the year.
91:47 And then we'll have a look then. We'll see how that goes.
91:50 This gives me some hope, I guess, but we'll see how it goes.
91:54 No, I definitely have some hope. I appreciate that they responded.
91:58 They seem to care and their response is plausible.
92:04 It seems fine. Taking injection molded parts
92:07 and making them 3D printable, and vice versa, taking 3D printable parts
92:12 and making them injection moldable,
92:15 not always just drag and drop, plug and play.
92:19 So they've got a bit more time.
92:23 You have some time, Phillips. Happy to give them some time.
92:26 You have time. I was like angry before and now I'm waiting.
92:32 Now I have, now they have time.
92:35 And it is time for us to do our flow plane announcement.
92:39 Linus to finish, what? What does that even mean?
92:43 Linus to finish all the shots of lemon juice
92:47 before the finish line. What is this?
92:52 Why am I taking shots of lemon juice? Because you lost wise when late.
92:56 What do you mean I lost wise when late? You gotta. I cannot lose at my own game.
93:01 It's not your game. Wise when late is my game. It is not your game.
93:04 I mean, it happens on my property.
93:07 Actually, no, it doesn't. It happens on BC, something, something,
93:12 LTD, holding company's property. Okay, fair play.
93:18 Take the shots whenever you want. You must finish all your shots
93:21 before you reach the finish line. Those are big shots of lemon juice.
93:26 The amount of shots you have to do
93:29 is half of the score difference of why is when late our popular flow plane series.
93:36 Today the loser, not naming names,
93:39 has to take four as they lost by eight points, one to nine.
93:44 Give you three cups, but I have to refill one for you, I guess. I see.
93:48 Okay. So.
93:52 That's not lemonade, by the way. That's this stuff.
93:55 Interesting. Oh, they can't really see them. They're slightly behind the banner, but they're these.
94:01 Yeah, that's quite a bit.
94:06 This is concentrated. Yeah, it sure is.
94:10 It's this stuff. Like you've probably, I used to,
94:14 when I was really tired and I lived with my parents, we often had one of these in the fridge,
94:17 and I'd take a squirt of this just to wake up. Right in the eyes.
94:21 I would use this basically as like a short-term energy drink
94:25 and like taking whole shots of it.
94:29 Oh boy, this is really interesting. Oh, okay.
94:34 Four shots of that. I already have sore throat. All right, well, Luke, I guess,
94:42 okay, it says watch this video.
94:46 Do you want to bring it up? Sure, I can do that, Dan. You ready for audio?
94:50 You're already playing audio. Okay, sounds good. Got him.
94:53 So both of you are. I don't know who's gonna do it. I will be doing it.
94:57 Here we go. I'm doing audio. Okay.
95:00 No, no, no. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah.
95:04 There we go. There you go. Ready? And see, that should play.
95:09 The one that started it all. Copy my theme week, the moment it popped off.
95:13 My product has been all over your sequels ever since. Who the hell are you?
95:16 You all know who I am. I'm the one that stopped Linus from getting canceled.
95:21 Say my name. You're Luke LaFrendo. It's Luke LaFrenier.
95:24 LaFrenier, Luke LaFrenier. LaFren-der-ree-ay.
95:29 LaFrenier. Friend-der-ier. LaFrenier.
95:32 What are some tech essentials for most gamers? Hot take, most stuff that people are interested in
95:38 if they're watching this channel is excess. What person out of all of the history of mankind
95:43 who would be the best at a piss drinking contest? And they were like, probably Elon.
95:46 Absolutely. We're here to talk about something actually much more impactful from Embark, our graders.
95:52 Just this week, my time spent in meetings was 32 hours.
95:56 She's a f***ing... I can start an online business.
96:00 Turns out the furries buy a lot of pictures. For those who come after, he doesn't get it.
96:06 Yeah. There it is.
96:09 I don't know what that has to do with why when late, but why don't you go ahead and do the read thing
96:14 and then I will enjoy this delicious drink.
96:18 Coincidental timing. Timing?
96:21 This is a punishment for why when late. It's happening during the Floatplane announcement.
96:26 The Floatplane announcement is about Luke week two.
96:29 Oh, well, then why don't you talk about... I can do that.
96:32 The one that started all our next theme week returns with Luke week two, electric boogaloo.
96:38 We have three amazing Floatplane exclusives.
96:41 Wait, where'd he throw it?
96:44 We have three amazing Floatplane exclusives.
96:47 I think Linus is supposed to be reading this totaling about two hours of Luke time.
96:51 Like a Q and A with Luke himself. That's a weird thing to say when I'm sitting there.
96:56 Answering questions like his three Floatplane dev wishes,
96:59 his frugal lifestyle and life satisfaction coming on Monday.
97:03 There's a one hour session with Riley talking about the state of AI on Wednesday
97:08 and a video essay discussion about the state of gaming titled on what?
97:14 Okay, whatever, it's gonna have a title on Friday.
97:17 For reference, his first video essay was four minutes long,
97:20 but he thought it was 18 minutes long.
97:24 Yeah. Go watch Luke's first theme week up on Floatplane right now
97:31 and enjoy the sequel coming next week at LMG.gg slash luke25, all lowercase.
97:36 While waiting, you can enjoy an early LTT video release
97:40 that is happening on Floatplane right now.
97:45 Oh my. Oh, it's this one. Ooh, I like this one.
97:49 We did another one of, you know that YouTube format that's like $30 versus $30,000 thing.
97:57 We got a TV for $30. What?
98:00 Open box Insignia 32 inch TV.
98:04 720p from Best Buy with warranty. From Best Buy?
98:08 From Best Buy, we got a $35 TV. What?
98:11 And then we do a $300 TV, $3,000 TV
98:14 and then we make our way all the way up to $30,000 TV. So this is gonna be public.
98:20 Oh, excuse me, it's all right. Are those gnarly?
98:24 Is this rough? Yeah, it's not that bad. Yeah.
98:27 It's not that bad. I do sour for breakfast. This doesn't feel as strong as it used to be.
98:32 Either that or you're just more of a man.
98:37 Maybe.
98:41 Yeah, I was, dude, we had this candy when I was a kid called Screaming Blue Saucers
98:47 and I'm pretty sure they stopped making them cause they like gave you cancer or something.
98:51 But they were. All the best candy.
98:55 They were like the precursor. They walked so warheads could run.
98:59 Oh, seriously? And I would just like, they were supposed to be
99:04 like the kind of candy that you like, you punk your friends by giving them one
99:07 and they're like, or whatever. And I would like pop them.
99:11 Be like, these are good. I love sour candy.
99:15 People sell them for a lot. Oh yeah, you can't get them anymore.
99:20 Wow. But to my knowledge. Are there like old school candy collectors?
99:25 Is that a thing? Oh yeah, of course. Probably, eh? Of course.
99:29 These are all plates. Screaming Saucers, maybe. Apparently it was a local company like BC.
99:34 Oh, that's cool. Yeah.
99:38 Angry Panda PC says COVID killed the taste buds.
99:41 I legitimately don't think so because I definitely can still taste food.
99:45 Yeah, like I don't think that happened to me at all, to be honest.
99:49 We do have a couple of notes regarding the price change announcement for Floatplane.
99:53 Based on some feedback about the 99 pricing strategy,
99:57 the prices will now be $8 and $13 for new subscribers.
100:02 Thank you for the additional penny per year, per month,
100:07 per month. For annual plans, we will honor the current discount
100:10 on a yearly purchase. So the $8 tier will become $80 per year
100:14 and the $13 tier will become $130 per year,
100:17 both in US dollars. For current subscribers who wish to change subscription tiers
100:22 after the price increase, we will not be able to automatically grant you
100:27 the pre-increase grandfathered price. However, you can contact support
100:32 at support at Floatplane.com and we can manually grant it to you if you're eligible.
100:36 And that might be automatic in the future. It's just switching entire plans
100:40 and retaining your grandfather status was not something built into the grandfather tool
100:45 and it was something asked for very late in the game and would need some payments changes.
100:50 So for now, just message support, it'll be fine. There's a relatively low lift way of support doing that,
100:56 but it's a high lift way of developers doing that right now. So it's just not worth it.
100:59 As always, our support team will be available to address any additional edge cases
101:02 when the new plan takes effect. And to reiterate, the OG $3 tier
101:08 and the current recurring subscribers will not be affected by the price change.
101:13 You can keep your thing, you're cool, you're good. You're all good. Relax, guy.
101:17 Don't worry about it, you're fine. Hey, guy, relax, guy. Yeah.
101:20 But eh? Yeah. Depending on how long we keep Floatplane, I feel like there's gonna be a lot of different
101:25 grandfathered statuses. I know. I do feel like that may be untenable at some point,
101:30 but we'll- Maybe, we'll figure it out. We'll cross that chasm-
101:34 We're good for now, yeah. When we get to it. All right.
101:38 Daniel Baster, what are we supposed to be doing right now? Oh, more topics again.
101:41 You sure? You guess, he just guesses. Okay, two to three more topics.
101:45 I can't believe he would guess. He put the card up there. He would guess.
101:48 That man, that man would guess. Is he a guesser? I think so.
101:51 No, well, a besser for certain, but a guesser we can only guess.
101:59 AMD has officially unveiled their FSR Redstone update.
102:05 This is an upgrade to their upscaling technology
102:08 built exclusively for the latest Radeon RX 9000 series
102:14 or RDNA4 GPUs.
102:17 This is a quote from AMD. FSR4 has been renamed FSR upscaling
102:23 to better distinguish between the various features that now make up the FSR,
102:27 or now make up FSR Redstone.
102:30 Yeah, that doesn't really, okay, sure.
102:34 Redstone is a suite of several new machine learning based features, including better upscaling,
102:38 frame generation, ray regeneration, and radiance caching.
102:43 Ray regeneration is a machine learning back to de-noiser that reuses the last frames ray tracing work.
102:48 So the GPU only redraws what's actually changed. So it reconstructs the missing details.
102:53 Radiance caching uses an AI neural network to dynamically guest-mounts lighting
102:57 so the GPU doesn't have to calculate and render subsequent bounces of light.
103:01 It is expected to be supported in over 200 games by the end of 2025, but for now,
103:05 only about 40 games will make use of Redstone.
103:09 AMD's graph claims you can see more than three X the frame rate in some games compared to native rendering,
103:13 with spikes of up to 4.7 times in titles like Cyberpunk 2077.
103:19 So there it is folks, just like NVIDIA, AMD now has machine learning based upscaling
103:25 and frame generation and all that kind of stuff.
103:28 As long as you happen to be one of the handful of folks
103:31 who have a Radeon 9000 series GPU,
103:35 I was actually chatting with one of the employees
103:39 at Smash Champs, Raj, he was in one of the tours, and he's a pretty big AMD guy.
103:44 He treated himself to, I think he had a 7900 XT,
103:49 and then he actually went 9070 XT if I recall correctly. Sorry, Raj, if I'm getting this wrong.
103:54 But basically he was pretty miffed, even though he has a 9000 series card that AMD's,
104:01 like he's kind of, he's rooting for them, you know? And he was kind of miffed that AMD was kind of leaving
104:07 behind their non-RDNA4 customers
104:10 with this feature announcement. And I was like, yeah, that's a fair point, Raj,
104:15 but as much as AMD has made a solid effort
104:18 to have their products, you know, aged like fine wine with driver support
104:22 and feature updates, the old cards just don't have
104:28 the AI processing on board, so.
104:32 There's only so much you can really do. NVIDIA was way ahead of them
104:36 in terms of implementing neural processors on their GPUs.
104:40 So there's nothing that you can really do about that.
104:43 And you could kind of try to, you could kind of try to flub it
104:47 with your more general compute, but then you're taking away from the base performance
104:54 that you're trying to upscale and frame generate from.
104:58 So that's pretty tough.
105:01 You end up robbing your left pocket in order to pay your right pocket.
105:07 So yeah, downer, but I guess it's cool
105:13 for people who have a 9070 or 9070 XT or a 9060 series, I guess.
105:19 Cool, good chat. Do you want to talk about next?
105:23 You want to do this thing?
105:26 Pebble's founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring.
105:30 Yeah, it's less stupid than it sounds. And I'm going to tell you a couple of things
105:35 that aren't in the notes that are going to make it sound really stupid.
105:39 It has a literally, not only non-replaceable battery,
105:43 a non-rechargeable battery. Ooh.
105:51 It has a microphone, because of course it does.
105:55 And let's see, what else can I tell you
105:58 that will make you hate it? Let me think.
106:03 Okay, yeah, it has a non-replaceable battery. I already got that.
106:07 What's something that you might like hate about it?
106:11 I mean, yeah, it's like AI. I don't like the non-rechargeable battery. That's already ridiculous.
106:15 Yeah, okay. Okay, but I'll tell you the good things now.
106:18 Okay. I love how we're just, all right, let's just talk about it. Yeah, so the non-rechargeable battery,
106:24 the non-replaceable, non-rechargeable battery, apparently it'll last for a couple of years.
106:29 They have already telegraphed. That still sucks, but okay.
106:32 They have already telegraphed that they will put a recycling program in place
106:36 so that you can return the ring. Telegraphed? Said they will.
106:42 I do still think that's kind of BS because the odds of, like me,
106:46 I'm just thinking for myself here, the odds of me going to the effort to return it to them,
106:51 even if they were to cover shipping back to them, which I sincerely doubt they would,
106:54 the odds of me bothering to do that are pretty slim, and I think that's probably true of a lot of people.
106:59 I have a bin of dead batteries that is probably about this big, by this deep,
107:04 by this deep, by this long, like it's like thick
107:10 that are pending. Next time I am going to IKEA
107:13 and I remember to bring my batteries, I'm gonna dump them all in their battery chute.
107:17 I think I've had it for about six years now.
107:25 There is no subscription. So once you buy it, you just like have it.
107:31 The microphone is not always listening. It is explicitly only listening when you activate it
107:36 because otherwise you would trash your battery life
107:40 because it's not rechargeable and not replaceable. So it's only active when you specifically activate it.
107:47 And the part that I like about it
107:51 is apparently I haven't tried it yet, but apparently it's like really slim.
107:55 And what it's meant to do more than anything else
107:59 is without having to pull out your phone, jot down a thought or like set a quick reminder.
108:07 There is no chat bot. You don't have a relationship with it.
108:11 It doesn't pretend to be your friend. You can either use a local AI model
108:17 that runs on your smartphone and stores data locally
108:21 or you can, I think with a subscription,
108:25 you can do the like a cloud enabled model.
108:33 Hold on, our notes are a little bit vague and I can't remember that part,
108:36 so don't quote me on that. Compared to competing smart rings
108:40 that cost several hundred dollars and bundle health tracking are always on AI features.
108:44 The index 01, that's what it's gonna be called is significantly cheaper and intentionally limited
108:49 focusing on a simple note taking function
108:52 rather than trying to do everything at once. So there's no health tracking, nothing like that.
108:57 Okay, I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on this because if nothing else, it's different.
109:06 Anything that by its core design is designed to die
109:16 and that is unnecessary, I don't feel like I'm gonna like.
109:21 So you don't like humans? No, because that is-
109:24 You take that up with God then. I think that is necessary in that case though. Really?
109:28 I think so. So for evolutionary survival of the fittest,
109:31 we have to die- How are we gonna, in what way-
109:35 I feel like we're getting off topic here. Ha ha ha.
109:44 And like I do, this does make me dislike things like light bulbs because it's a confirmed
109:50 non-conspiracy theory that they have collaborated
109:53 to make them worse and like that sucks,
109:56 that makes me hate them. And in this case, it's like man, yeah, I'd rather pay a little bit more
110:02 if it wasn't for sure gonna be dead in two years. Like I look at my phone,
110:07 I don't really feel like I need a new phone after two years. Why would I need a new pretty okay smart ring?
110:14 It's probably still gonna be fine in two years if I could just charge it or replace the battery.
110:19 I think either would maybe be fine, ideally charging.
110:23 I can understand that adding charging to a smart ring
110:26 would probably add a significant amount of bulk.
110:30 Apparently technology connection says there is some nuance to the light bulb thing
110:35 and there were trade-offs that were made.
110:38 It was an engineering trade-off, so duly noted.
110:43 Technology connections is based. I'm willing to believe him on this.
110:49 I would say that I think you could flag
110:53 anything as a trade-off. Okay, so someone in chat said the trade-offs
110:56 are very valid, that adds a- Yeah, but I mean there's also, okay.
111:03 I wonder what the trade-offs were. Like I have this conversation with the CW engineering
111:07 and fashion team all the time where there are trade-offs in terms of like,
111:12 I haven't watched this video on it, but I know that there are trade-offs in terms of what the market will bear.
111:18 And it could be that your light bulb
111:24 that would last 10 times longer but cost twice as much would be a commercial failure.
111:28 So you make the one that will cost half as much
111:31 but last one-tenth is long. And it's sort of your bound by market forces.
111:38 I think it's a cop-out. I think you should just build high-quality products that last a really long time.
111:42 People are saying it's brightness versus lifetime of the bulbs, which is interesting
111:46 because if you look at that light bulb that's been on for like an incredible amount of time
111:50 in that fire station, it's not very bright.
111:55 Yeah, that's valid. Okay, all right, all right, all right, I'll allow it.
111:59 I don't know, I feel like that might be maybe a bit of a scapegoat
112:03 because there are modern LED lights that are incredibly bright
112:08 and it's definitely unnecessary. It would probably be chill
112:12 if they just lasted a lot longer and weren't quite as bright. Yeah, so it does seem like there may be an intent there.
112:17 But I don't know, I wanna go watch this video because technology connections is super-based.
112:22 So yeah, I have no idea. I don't wanna make up my mind about this
112:26 and I don't know all the information. I don't know.
112:29 There we go, fixed.
112:32 I didn't know the line, get it?
112:39 I.e. every LED headlight being too bright. I don't know if this is a hot take or not.
112:43 That needs to be illegal.
112:47 It's like a problem. Holy crap, how have we let this be a thing?
112:52 It's wild. I actually don't have a take on this. My night vision's pretty good.
112:56 It doesn't bother me. I don't really get halos and I don't really get super glare
113:02 or I don't really have trouble seeing from people's super bright headlights.
113:06 But my wife has had
113:13 corrective surgery for her eyes. She used to be a glasses enjoyer
113:18 and is now not so much. And so for her, bright lights can be extremely blinding
113:24 at night. And so, yeah, I understand that it's a problem
113:31 but it hasn't ever really bothered me. And to be clear, when I say it doesn't bother me,
113:34 I don't mean that in like a, well, not my problem.
113:38 I'm gonna put my giant big lights in the front of my car
113:41 and I'm gonna point them up like this. This is a large part of the problem.
113:44 I just use my factory lights. Is how much people's lights are pointed into my window.
113:48 Right, yeah. Is like a lot of it. Have you ever thought of buying a Cybertruck?
113:55 Then you'll be sitting up higher.
113:58 No. You've never thought of buying. No.
114:02 Not even once. I have thought about buying a truck, but not a Cybertruck.
114:06 Not a Cybertruck, is it? No. You like a more analog truck, not a digital truck.
114:10 Actually, yes. You like more polygons. I was thinking an old Toyota.
114:14 An old Toyota, interesting. Okay, why?
114:19 It would be nice to have something that I could more easily go camping with.
114:22 There are certain trails that you can't effectively get to the trailhead
114:26 unless you have a truck in BC.
114:29 It would be kind of sick. An old Tacoma or Hilux or something would be neat.
114:37 I don't need it to be nice. My stepdad. In a lot of ways, I'd probably prefer it wasn't
114:41 because like I'm gonna get it scratched up and beat up and that's cool.
114:44 I don't, I don't, yeah. I don't need it to be nice.
114:48 My stepdad had a super cute little Toyota pickup
114:51 back when I was growing up. I don't know if it was this one,
114:56 but it was like a little tiny pickup truck like this.
114:59 This was when the actual name of it was the pickup. Like its model was pickup, which is pretty funny.
115:05 Is that, is that a thing? Cause I think it might've looked like this. Yeah, this is the Toyota pickup.
115:09 Yeah, okay. All right, interesting. It's pretty sick.
115:13 Yeah, none of these other ones look right. This is, this is the one.
115:16 He had the muffler tied on to the bottom of it with that,
115:20 you know that yellow rope? Like that yellow rope, yeah.
115:24 So he just had it like tie, it fell off at some point. The like super plastic-y yellow, yeah.
115:29 You just tied it back on with the yellow rope. So that was the kind of engineering that he did.
115:33 Heck yeah. Heck yeah.
115:37 All right, so, okay. But other than, other than, okay.
115:41 So you don't like it because it is, it is disposable essentially.
115:45 But we buy it. It's also just supposed to like, it's, it's okay. It sounds like a long time that it lasts for two years
115:50 because it's a non-rechargeable battery. So it's like, oh wow, it does last for two years.
115:55 That's cool. A device like this I would expect to have for more than two years.
115:59 We buy a lot of things that last for less than two years
116:05 that cost a lot of money.
116:08 How long does the chicken in your fridge last?
116:11 It's not a good argument and you know it.
116:18 No, but it's hard. It's tough with you because you don't buy charge keys.
116:22 You don't buy like gadgets that you know you're not gonna get a ton of views out of.
116:27 If someone expects to get one year out of this
116:31 and they expect that they're gonna buy a new one in a year because they wanna keep up with the newest thing, whatever,
116:37 it gets a little bit better, I would still prefer that wasn't a thing because you could sell it off to somebody else
116:42 who could still enjoy the thing without just throwing all of that value in that tech away.
116:48 So I still don't like it because repairability is sick and cool and based
116:53 and you should be able to keep things around.
116:57 I know people that use some phones that are real old.
117:02 The iPhone that I carry for full-point stuff is an X.
117:06 It still works. Great. It's like actually very impressive
117:11 that it's still totally fine. It's battery life is not that amazing anymore
117:16 but it's still impressively pretty all right. I'm not like on it that often
117:20 because you know, and it'll easily last often days.
117:24 Oh yeah, Apple's idle battery man. Insane.
117:27 It's so good. That's old.
117:31 That would make this thing at its death point to look like a young pup.
117:35 So like, I don't like that. And I don't think there's an argument
117:42 that's gonna convince me otherwise. One thing I would ask is
117:45 how many smart rings have replaceable batteries?
117:49 That I'm aware of none. Yeah, okay. But rechargeable, yes.
117:52 But rechargeable, yeah. How do they charge? Is it wireless charging?
117:56 Do they have a port? So it's wireless charging? How much bulk do you think the wireless charging adds?
118:00 So that was the argument for it. Was that for how low profile he wanted it to be.
118:06 Basically, as far as I can tell, he's making a device for himself.
118:11 Sure. And what he wants is when he's washing the dishes
118:15 or otherwise indisposed, he wants to be able to quickly note something down
118:20 before his ADD brain forgets it. It does look like, so let me, I'm at their site.
118:24 You can see this and that doesn't actually necessarily mean much because not on a finger.
118:28 But when you see it on the finger, other than this bump, which is your button I'm assuming,
118:34 it does look more profile to me as someone who has never worn a smart ring,
118:38 it does look more low profile than smart rings that I've seen.
118:42 You have worn a smart ring. It also doesn't look that low profile though.
118:47 No, especially with the huge button,
118:50 which looks a little uncomfortable to be honest. I hate rings in general, but like this looks rough.
118:57 I would not want this. You can even literally see the button itself
119:01 pushing into his finger. Maybe, I actually can't tell a hundred percent of that.
119:05 Is it just a shadow? I can't tell a hundred percent. It might be a shadow.
119:08 I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna at least try it. I am torn on this one.
119:13 On the one hand, I completely agree. Repairability is based.
119:17 Replaceable batteries are based.
119:21 It's like all rings with gems. I don't agree with that. At so much of a lower price compared to other smart rings
119:28 and still having a purpose that like him,
119:32 I have ADD brain and often forget things and being able to just quickly blah, blah, blah
119:37 and then not take out my phone could have a benefit.
119:41 At that point though, why not just wear one of those silly AI pendants?
119:46 For me, the not thinking about it is a major feature though.
119:49 Can you just do this with your smart watch? Yes, but it's another, I forgot to put on my watch today.
119:56 Okay, are you gonna remember to put on your smart ring? No, because I'm not gonna take it off.
120:01 I'm gonna put it on and then two years later, its battery will die.
120:04 Got it. Is it water resistant? So that's the only compelling reason for it
120:14 is that I never have to think about if I have it on me
120:22 and it can operate away from the app. So it can store some on board
120:27 and then when it gets back in range of your phone, it can dump everything which is pretty,
120:32 so I could be in the pool and I could have an interesting thought
120:35 and I could be like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and then it would sync to my phone later.
120:42 It's kinda neat. Yeah, it's kinda neat and at 75 bucks
120:46 which is more money than a meal
120:49 but not more money than a meal out with my family.
120:56 I don't know man, we buy a lot of stuff
121:00 that is pretty disposable and pretty useless.
121:04 Like I did an AMD Ultimate Tech upgrade for someone earlier this week
121:08 where once again, we have, not so much once again
121:13 but we have a new challenger for LMG, King of the Funko Pops.
121:17 Oh. And I'm looking at it going like. Fun.
121:21 Co. It's all relative. Nice.
121:24 It's all relative, right? Like if you're the kind of person who just doesn't spend money on anything
121:30 that doesn't generate a return. You know, like if you have like a very, very
121:34 kind of strict approach to spending.
121:38 And to be clear, he's not even referencing me. I do spend money on things that don't generate a return.
121:41 Yeah, no, I just mean in general. Like if you have sort of rules for spending money
121:45 that do not account for $75 for a thing that is disposable.
121:51 I don't actually agree. I think you could argue that this could generate a return.
121:54 Sure, I just mean whatever your rules are. Sure.
121:57 If you don't account for $75 for a disposable thing, then you know, that's totally valid.
122:05 But maybe I could, philosophically I disagree though.
122:11 Like I disagree with a non-replaceable battery.
122:16 But then I also wonder, I mean, AirPods have non-replaceable batteries
122:19 and people have found ways to do it. So maybe there could be a way to do it.
122:23 I haven't tried to take one apart yet. I don't know if it could be possible.
122:28 Kind of doubt it. It uses a hearing aid battery apparently.
122:34 All right. Sent some trauma.
122:38 It's okay buddy. I actually have no idea what you're saying that about.
122:42 You're okay though. Yeah. Yeah, so it's fine. It doesn't matter.
122:46 Yeah, nice. All right. This was wild.
122:50 Over the black Friday period.
122:53 Okay. The console sales war. No, no, don't look.
122:56 Don't look. Oh, he's seen it already. I think I have. So number one.
123:03 Switch? PlayStation? PlayStation.
123:06 Yeah, okay. Number two. Switch. You better believe it.
123:10 Nintendo. Number three. A big gap.
123:13 And then? Right.
123:17 So I'm gonna say, I know the spoiler here, but I'm gonna say the one that makes sense.
123:21 Yeah. You'd think it would be Xbox. Xbox.
123:24 It was not. It was not.
123:27 The next playground? What?
123:31 I never even, I was this week years old
123:34 when I even heard of this thing. Me too. Over the Thanksgiving weekend,
123:38 the Xbox series,
123:41 series accounted for just 10% of console units sold
123:46 coming behind the PlayStation 5,
123:50 which came in first in part because it was the only console that actually had a sale.
123:56 So with 47%. The Switch 2 in second place,
124:00 which accounted for 24% of all console units sold.
124:03 And the next playground, which was responsible for 14% of sales
124:10 and is a console that, and this is from Mr. David Gauthier,
124:14 who he would describe as like a $200 Microsoft Kinect
124:19 that plays mobile games with a 90 year subscription.
124:22 $90 a year subscription. Oh, $90 a year subscription
124:25 if you want to play more than five games. That's all right, I'm gonna try that one more time.
124:30 That I would describe like a $200 Microsoft Kinect
124:33 that plays mobile games and requires a $90 a year subscription
124:38 if you wanna play more than five games.
124:41 What?
124:45 Okay, what is this thing? Obviously, we've sourced one
124:49 and we wanna make a video about it, but that's it.
124:53 Excuse me. The next playground crashed
124:57 the Black Friday hardware charts in the US.
125:01 Okay, what?
125:04 Like, what is this thing?
125:08 I don't get it, to be honest. I didn't look enough into this.
125:11 I knew the like punchline of this article. The active play system for kids and families.
125:18 Like, did it get bundled with something like crazy
125:21 or did something happen? Active games that turn your living,
125:25 I mean, basically it's the Wii then. Yeah, you just don't have remotes.
125:30 Yeah. It's a Wii, but they went for the Kinect model
125:33 instead of the remote model. Like when did the Verge review this? December 12th, 2025.
125:37 Oh, so no, this is today. So they're also like-
125:40 So they're probably reacting to this. Probably, I don't- What happened?
125:44 I've never even seen this before.
125:47 Did it get bundled with something? Why are people buying this? Does anyone in chat own one of these?
125:52 What compelled you to get it? How did you even know it existed?
125:56 How to train your dragon, riders of the skies, bluey bust a move?
126:01 Whoa. Who's behind this company?
126:06 PlayPass unlocks the full catalog and delivers new content and updates automatically
126:10 every month. So how much is PlayPass? Was $90 a year?
126:16 Wait. Oh, man, just show me a price, brother.
126:20 What? No. Show me a price for the subscription.
126:25 Learn about PlayPass. Okay, that's what I clicked. Where is the price?
126:31 Yeah, here we go. Yeah, 12 months. Yeah, $90 a year.
126:36 Or about, oh, what does that work out to? Like $50 over three months.
126:40 So like $15 a month or $17 a month or something like that.
126:44 Love this for my active little kids. Keeps them moving and so many games to choose from.
126:48 My 60-year-old dad even plays with them. This is wild.
126:52 Yeah, it's new Wii. It's someone who figured out that.
126:57 People actually really liked the Wii. Yeah, and that everyone forgot
127:01 why everybody liked the Wii. Wii teamed up with the top family brands.
127:04 Hasbro, Mattel, whatever this is. Paramount, Sesame Street.
127:10 This is wild dude. Who are these people?
127:13 I started looking into it. It seems like a new company.
127:17 Go figure. Has investments from some tech people
127:20 and sports giants and stuff, but it's some split-offs from places like Apple.
127:25 But yeah, it seems like a new company. That's wild.
127:29 To be able to jump in and just dunk on Xbox like that
127:32 with Xbox's basically own thing is nuts.
127:39 Imagine making a successful thing based off of what is effectively a connect
127:44 and it not being Microsoft. One of the greatest game console industry failures
127:50 of all time.
127:54 Let's not call it successful yet. I mean, that's fair, but they're outselling Xbox.
128:00 Yeah, and it's a subscription model so you know they're doing good.
128:04 Well, they're outselling Xbox for Black Friday, I should say.
128:09 Not overall necessarily. We don't know.
128:12 Don Cabesa says the connect, it sold 25 million units.
128:17 Says the connect was not a failure at all.
128:21 The connect was the beginning of the end for the Xbox brand,
128:24 according to their current trajectory right now. It was bundled, my brother.
128:29 It was an attempt to change the paradigm of the Xbox
128:35 to this like living room, do everything machine.
128:39 Like apparently this thing. They had huge plans for the connect.
128:43 What it ended up being, which was a weird accessory
128:47 that you could play some dance games with and a handful of experiences
128:51 and then kind of a cool camera that people could,
128:54 you know, hack and do neat stuff with later. What it ultimately ended up being
128:59 was nothing compared to what Microsoft had planned for it.
129:03 Microsoft tacitly admitted failure of the connect
129:07 when they stopped bundling it with the console was supposed to be an integral part of the Xbox.
129:13 And then after what was it a year? Can't remember what it was.
129:16 They were like, I don't know. Well, this isn't working, forget it.
129:20 Just get rid of it entirely. The connect was a failure.
129:23 Maladrax and Flippling Chat said the next had a big in-store display
129:28 you could play in stores in the US. We played one for a few minutes.
129:32 So yeah, they just did direct like in-store marketing
129:36 effectively and people probably went up and started playing with it and was like, wow,
129:41 that feels like the Wii again. I would like to take one of those, please.
129:44 And then bought it. How much is it again? I actually missed that when I was-
129:48 200 bucks, introductory price of 200 bucks.
129:52 $200, wonder what kind of hardware is in it?
129:55 I mean, we're sourcing one. So we'll answer these questions as best we can.
130:00 LPDDR4X, 64 gigs of EMMC storage.
130:06 The graphics are a male G52 MC4.
130:12 Okay. Just reading the Wikipedia page.
130:18 Eight core ARM chip. ARM taken over the world, boys.
130:22 Yep.
130:26 Oh, good luck, Microsoft. Wild.
130:29 Our discussion question here is with the rumors being that-
130:32 Mali. Sorry? I said male, but apparently it's Mali.
130:36 Oh, Mali, yeah. It's a typo on Wikipedia then, M-A-I-L.
130:42 Wow, yeah. Your dyslexia did not do that to you.
130:45 Well, do you know why? Cause I read it like six times.
130:49 I'm not even kidding. That's why I was so confident to be like,
130:52 actually no, it's male. Yeah, there you go.
130:57 So if it's actually Mali, someone can go do a successful edit there if they want.
131:00 Okay, nice. Let's go.
131:07 So would you rather have, okay, hold on. Our question was,
131:13 yeah, if the rumors of Microsoft's next machine being like $1,000 plus PC-like machine are true,
131:20 what does Xbox even mean anymore? I think it means failure.
131:23 Yeah, I mean, I guess it's the Xbox Live stuff, Game Pass.
131:32 Yeah. Which I understand it has like pretty good value.
131:38 I don't want anything to do with it at all. And we were an Xbox household.
131:44 Oh yeah. Totally. Hard. Yeah.
131:47 And I am- From the OG. Gone from there.
131:51 All right. We would collect like broken 360s
131:54 and try to zombie them together into working ones
131:57 and all those kinds of like we were in and I want nothing to do with it anymore,
132:01 which is like sad. It's not that I'm not even vindictive. They just lost.
132:06 Okay. And I'm not, I don't love services like that,
132:11 especially for things like games. I would prefer to own my games.
132:15 So I'm gonna keep patronizing Steam and GOG.
132:20 Came across this tweet this week. Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced
132:26 Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing. This video is actually a little bit older,
132:31 but it features the one and only, the basest of base people.
132:39 Former FTC chair, Lynette Kahn, who explains the dangers of this shady practice.
132:45 As usual, something that everyone needs to understand
132:49 and be vigilant about has the least sexy,
132:52 least interesting name possible, but we're gonna tell you guys about it anyway.
132:57 I'd actually never heard the term surveillance pricing
133:00 before, but there's renewed interest in it
133:03 because the state of New York recently cracked down on it. So examples used of surveillance pricing
133:10 by the video that Ms. Kahn pretty competently hosted,
133:15 actually, as a video host myself. I think she did a pretty good job.
133:19 So Princeton Review, she gave this example,
133:24 charged customers in zip codes with higher percentage
133:28 Asian populations more for test prep services.
133:37 Okay, other tests found or suggested that ride share apps
133:43 may charge riders with lower battery life more
133:48 for the same ride at the same time.
133:52 San Francisco residents who booked hotels through Expedia
133:56 were apparently charged up to $500 more per night
134:00 than people buying the same from less affluent cities.
134:04 And apparently some internet providers charged the same price
134:08 for worse internet speeds in poorer neighborhoods.
134:13 These are, we've looked into it and there is evidence to suggest
134:18 this is happening slash we have confirmed it now.
134:21 So surveillance pricing, the concept is that by harvesting your personal data
134:27 or inferring things about you,
134:31 companies can charge you more for the same services.
134:35 Some hypothetical examples of surveillance pricing that we might want to be worried about
134:40 are a parent with a sick child might be charged more
134:43 for medicine or a thermometer or somebody needing to travel for a funeral
134:48 could be charged more for their airfare because they're being surveilled
134:52 and they know that you've received an email about funeral arrangements, for instance.
134:56 So good on New York for doing something
135:00 to kind of crack down on this, but what is really needed is nationwide slash more
135:09 worldwide, how about just, in general, we just not do this legislation that makes this
135:15 just illegal.
135:19 I know that there is, it's a common sort of talking point
135:22 that regulation is bad and there are many cases
135:25 where regulation can be bad, but if we just allow the free market to regulate itself,
135:33 I think it has proven, not just suggested,
135:37 but proven that it cannot do it.
135:41 The free market is not capable.
135:44 People think it can. They actually, with a straight face, say that
135:48 and it's like actually stupid. It's regulated itself towards what is the problem.
135:54 And that's exactly it. That's what they will do, which often brings you down to monopolistic practices
135:59 or like, there's a term for it, I don't remember it, but when it's an effective monopoly
136:06 where everyone's price fixing on the same kind of level
136:10 and something that people don't seem to necessarily understand is that you can't do this
136:15 based on like a restaurant model
136:19 or something like that where it's like, oh, your pricing for your burger is too high.
136:24 I will go down the street. There are issues with that when you get into
136:28 some of these deep modes where you might need
136:31 hundreds of thousands, millions, billions of dollars
136:35 to get into certain industries. It's like, yeah, no, you need to do something about that.
136:41 Saunders SC says, is this any different
136:49 than when eBay offers a discount when you look at something or place it in your cart?
136:52 Yes, the difference is that we're not talking
136:55 about a discount. We are talking about increasing the price
137:01 based on information about you.
137:05 So it is one thing if you know,
137:08 because come back to how it would work in the real world.
137:11 In the real world, I could have my stall at the bazaar
137:15 and you could walk in and you could be with Emma
137:19 and you could look at a necklace and I could say, oh, pretty lady buy a pretty necklace
137:24 for the pretty lady, sir, sir. Oh, look how good it looks on her.
137:28 Oh, and he goes to leave and I go, I give you $5 off, that's one thing.
137:34 But it is an entirely separate practice
137:37 if I have no price tags on anything
137:40 and I have like my team of hooligans who go out
137:45 and pick people's wallets and see how much money's in them
137:49 and then put it back in and then I know when they walk in the store, I go, ah, sir.
137:55 Affluent sir, oh, this is good. This necklace, $200.
138:00 You wouldn't want to be seen as cheap in front of the pretty lady.
138:04 It's a completely different way, scumier thing.
138:08 I like Bazaar Linus. Thank you. Bazaar Linus is pretty great.
138:12 Mm-hmm.
138:16 Yeah. And I mean, they're doing it based off of things
138:20 that will probably offend people more than how much money they have in their wallet as well.
138:24 Like that example of the tutoring or study prep
138:28 or whatever it was, the more expensive in Asian neighborhoods, like they are doing this based off of any data point
138:33 they can possibly get and they will get those data points.
138:37 Yeah, and they're gonna have more and more and more as we go.
138:41 I mean, this is one of the things that I couldn't necessarily have seen coming
138:49 back when we were talking about the genetic testing.
138:54 Like the example that I always came up with is like it could affect your insurance premiums
138:59 and stuff like that. But this is one that absolutely could be impacted
139:04 by your predisposition for things. For sure.
139:07 Like you could have a completely different pricing model
139:10 for potentially, like this could potentially be a thing.
139:15 We could figure out the human genome enough
139:18 that you could have a different pricing model for people that you have scouted out
139:21 and figured out that they have a predisposition to gambling, for instance.
139:25 And you wouldn't even need to do that with the, okay, maybe the DNA testing is a bad example of that.
139:30 But what you could do is you could give someone inflated pricing for things that you know
139:34 that they could be predisposed to have a condition for.
139:37 Like it's, this whole thing is just terrifying.
139:43 Ugh. I mean, I don't know, but I'm looking up like pub med articles
139:49 talking about genetic influences on gambling.
139:54 It seems to be like relatively figured out that there is definitely genetic influences on addiction.
139:59 Apparently there's genetic influences on your predisposition to cheating in relationships.
140:05 Like there is, I'm not gonna go as far as to say
140:09 free will is not a thing, but like.
140:12 There's a lot of influences coming from a lot of places. Are we just a bucket of chemicals and electrical impulses?
140:17 Is that all I am to you? There is definitely a lot of that chemical stuff going on.
140:21 I think you've, yeah, I don't know. I think you've got some agency,
140:26 but I do think there's a lot of influences all the time
140:29 from various things. And it might not be very clear where those influences
140:33 are coming from, and it can be extremely difficult to resist them.
140:36 Eggnog in April says, there's a genetic predisposition
140:40 on your mom. Nice.
140:43 Based comeback.
140:46 Okay, moving on with, let's get far away from things
140:49 we deeply don't understand.
140:52 Okay, Noctua and Prusa Research have introduced
140:55 3D printing filaments in signature Noctua colors.
141:01 Heck yeah. Oh, for crying out loud.
141:04 All right, well. That's all the photo for this, thought it was fake.
141:07 That's all I have to say about that. Heck yeah. Now you two can print in brown.
141:13 McDonald's removes AI generated ad after backlash.
141:16 This is an amazing story. McDonald's and the Netherlands put out a festive,
141:21 oh, you can call it festive, I guess, AI generated holiday ad calling Christmas
141:25 the most terrible time of the year, which they elaborated on in a statement
141:30 that it was meant to highlight the stressful moments during Christmas in the Netherlands.
141:34 The ad features a compilation of unrealistic Christmas events
141:37 going wrong, like opening your tree in the branches flinging you out of your front window,
141:42 or Santa and his reindeer causing a traffic jam. Their solution?
141:48 Wait till January in a McDonald's.
141:52 The online criticism mostly regarded the use of AI slop replacing genuine human work.
141:57 Melanie Bridge, the CEO of the studio behind the ad,
142:00 however, clapped back and said, it's about expanding the toolbox,
142:05 the vision, the taste, the leadership. That will always be human.
142:09 And further defended their ad claiming,
142:13 the hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot.
142:17 Why then? Why?
142:21 10 people, five weeks full time. Discussion question, is AI the solution
142:26 to accomplishing shoots like this with limited resources? If the AI shots didn't include people,
142:31 would that make it more acceptable? Okay, so first up, five weeks full time
142:36 would not be nearly enough to do that shoot with people.
142:40 Because what about all the extras? Like what about all of the human actors?
142:44 Like nevermind the editors and storyboarders and director and camera operators.
142:49 10 people, five weeks full time. Yeah, I know, still.
142:53 10 people, five weeks full time, bullshit. Okay, yeah, sure.
142:56 I thought you were saying there was five weeks full time of total hours put in.
143:01 Oh, no, no, no, sorry. 10 times that. No, with all the logistics involved,
143:06 with that many shots, I can tell you as someone who does video things,
143:09 there's no way that they could make that exact commercial.
143:12 Like there would have had to be like CGI work.
143:16 Like no, there's no way. Absolutely freaking, no way.
143:20 Well, they're not saying making that exact video. They're saying making a 44 second McDonald's ad.
143:26 Sure, but like. No, like that was specifically their point.
143:29 Okay.
143:32 I'm not trying to defend them, I'm just saying.
143:36 Isn't that funny? They weren't saying they would make this exact video.
143:39 Far exceeded a traditional shoot.
143:42 Okay, so what's their, okay, so what's their defense then?
143:46 That they paid more labor hours than they would have,
143:50 but they got a better commercial. That they didn't use it to like cut the effort, I guess.
143:56 Which like, what a whiff, if that's the case.
143:59 I'm focused, what was the benefit?
144:02 It doesn't look particularly good in my opinion.
144:06 Yeah, I mean, I gotta be honest with you,
144:09 as far as like commercials go, I actually thought it was kind of cute.
144:14 Like I don't look at it and go,
144:18 this commercial is so bad, I couldn't watch it. There are definitely things that they did in this
144:23 that are pretty normal for commercials like this, like the cookie talking in the oven.
144:27 Yeah. There's like for sure. Yeah.
144:30 Ad campaigns that have had that. And that would be very expensive to do. And definitely take more time, like you were saying.
144:35 Yep.
144:38 I don't know, man. I can also fully understand why people are mad about it.
144:42 Because there is definitely stuff that doesn't look professional.
144:47 Like the way the cat jumps on the tree and the physics are completely wrong.
144:53 Like it, yeah, it sucks.
145:00 Am I just, am I just so, have I just given up
145:07 to the point where I'm accepting this garbage?
145:12 Is that what's happening? There was parts of this that was just so unnecessarily AI,
145:17 which is strange. I'm wondering if the studio that did it is like an AI studio
145:23 and they're shoehorning it into things. Cause like there's stuff here that like,
145:29 it's just so unnecessary. Like the cookie, okay.
145:33 I can understand you like saving a bunch of time
145:36 by having AI animate a talking cookie instead of doing it yourself. But man, there's a lot of stuff that's just, why?
145:42 If you just did it normally, it would have looked better and taken less time.
145:48 Sick? Like, yeah, this is very weird.
145:51 Yeah, it's a, this is a tough one. I, it's very clear that this is going to happen.
145:59 I am honestly surprised that McDonald's even pulled it down though.
146:04 Like, like what?
146:08 Coke did one last year and then their new one, they did it again.
146:12 They just didn't have humans in it, which is like completely missing the point.
146:17 And I don't think, I don't, is anyone even mad about Coke's this year?
146:22 I'm not sure.
146:31 Tim's got an interesting take. I just don't care. It's an ad.
146:35 I'm never going to watch the ad anyway. Nice.
146:38 Nice.
146:41 Okay. I mean, I think people might not like it that much.
146:45 One of the top comments on the video with 22,000 upvotes is the most profitable commercial in Pepsi's history.
146:53 That's pretty good. That's pretty good, but it's also pretty.
146:59 It also got 1.6 million views. It's also pretty echo chamber-y.
147:02 Yeah, for sure. Like there's a, it's been interesting.
147:10 You know, over the last, let's say a week or two,
147:13 seeing how self-important some communities
147:17 can think that they are and how influential
147:24 they might think that they are. Like, you know, you look at Reddit for instance,
147:28 something can front page Reddit,
147:31 with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of upvotes.
147:36 But what are the odds? Like, think about it. What are the odds if you went to the park by your house
147:41 and talked to somebody there? I bet they didn't have any idea what the heck was going on. That they would have any idea about any of it.
147:47 Yeah, it's- Functionally zero. As someone who is, tries to not be,
147:51 but is a little bit too chronically online, I have to remind myself of this sometimes.
147:56 And I had a very recent conversation where someone was talking about how something is like,
148:00 it's such a hot button issue and you have to be careful about it. And I was like, I don't think so,
148:04 with practically anyone, unless you are extremely chronically online.
148:09 Like, a perfect example- So I think most people have no idea what you're talking about.
148:12 Like a perfect example of that would be like the Harry Potter thing.
148:15 Yeah. Like if you're chronically online, and especially if you exist within certain communities
148:21 or counter communities, Yes. It's like-
148:24 Daniel knows about it. It's like a major, like it's a culture war thing, right?
148:28 But, you know, if one of my kids' friends comes over
148:34 and I'm like, oh, what do you think of Harry Potter? They're just like, oh, I love Harry Potter.
148:38 Like they don't know about any of that. Oh yeah, no clue what's going on. You know, I talked to their parents, like, oh yeah.
148:43 Your kid says they like Harry Potter. They're like, oh yeah, Harry Potter, you know, the lightning bolt thing.
148:48 You know, with the scarf, right? Like they don't care. They don't know they don't care.
148:52 Yeah. There's other things going on. They got other things to care about.
148:58 And it's interesting.
149:01 Yeah. Angry panda PC says, but I am important and I agree.
149:05 I agree you're important. Everyone's important, but not everyone is important to everyone else.
149:11 Here's another weird thing. Even if you are chronically online,
149:15 these days, it doesn't even necessarily matter that much
149:18 because your feeds are so heavily algorithmic
149:24 that you probably still are out of the loop
149:27 on so many things. Because like I remember someone,
149:31 there was a thread on Reddit recently about how YouTube unlisted all of their rewinds.
149:38 Yeah. And it's like, yeah, I remember being on YouTube
149:43 back in the day. And like if there was something big happening on YouTube,
149:48 as someone who went to YouTube, you would just know that.
149:52 But now we were talking before the show, there was a creator in our space
149:56 with over a million subscribers that neither of us had ever heard of.
150:00 Yeah. Because they made a type of content in our space
150:03 that we just wouldn't happen to come across. Alyssa Jean Papi says,
150:06 if a person behind a franchise spends all their money on wanting to stop making me exist,
150:11 I think boycotting is really the least you could do. My point- We're not saying anything about that.
150:14 My point wasn't what people should or shouldn't do. My point was that they don't know. Yes.
150:18 That is the only point. You can't care about something that you literally don't know.
150:22 Yeah. And I think that we often live in echo chambers
150:27 and in communities where the issues
150:30 that are very important to us, like, oh man,
150:34 like what would be an example that would be like a really tech community?
150:38 Like, okay, what percentage of people, if you went to the mall, right,
150:42 and you went and talked to somebody, what percentage of people there would know
150:46 that DDR memory is expensive? Yeah.
150:49 And the impact of that on the world. Of the ones who knew
150:53 what percentage of them would be impacted. Like, out of computer enthusiasm,
150:57 so you've got your total population, right? Then you've got your like tech enthusiast bubble.
151:02 And then within that bubble, you've got the people who are actually shopping
151:06 for a new computer right now, who are actually spending money right now.
151:10 And then, like, that's it. It's this tiny little fraction.
151:16 And so, yeah, there's people who are very mad,
151:21 who are following this whole AI thing.
151:24 And particularly, you know, generative AI video.
151:28 And out of that, the people who sort of care
151:31 about the replacement of labor of the, you know,
151:35 the cinematographers and the actors and the writers
151:39 and all the people who would have otherwise worked on this.
151:42 And I think it's just like, yeah, you could probably easily find
151:46 what did that top comment have, like 20,000 to 22,000 upvotes.
151:50 Those 22,000 people, they matter. Those are living, breathing souls
151:55 with blood coursing through their veins. They're also an incredibly tiny percentage
151:59 of the global population. Alyssa Jean Puppy, hopefully I said that right,
152:04 said in full-plane chat, okay, but JK Rowling is all over the news about that.
152:09 At least in the UK, which is just another version.
152:13 She's not over here, because she's not from over here.
152:16 She's from over there. And she's not trying to influence legislation over here.
152:20 And we're aware because we're terminally online. Yeah.
152:24 But you've got a geographical filter.
152:28 We're not trying. Then you've got to keep up with the news filter.
152:32 Then you've got to cares about this issue filter.
152:35 And then you've got to even remembers it filter. There's just, there's so many layers
152:39 until you get down to what can be a very large number of people.
152:44 Especially over the last like decent amount of years.
152:48 There's been a lot of difficulty going around.
152:51 And people might be struggling to survive at all themselves
152:57 and the issues that applied very directly to them
153:00 is going to be what's important to them when they're fighting for survival all the time.
153:06 They have to deal with their own problems, right? They have to put their mask on first.
153:09 And it's tough, but like. Cato asks asks.
153:14 So then do people outside the U.S. think Elon Musk is great then?
153:18 A lot of people think Elon Musk is pretty great.
153:23 That's the whole point we're trying to make. Don't care.
153:26 Yes. At all. Or just don't care at all.
153:30 Yeah. Yes. The answer is yes.
153:34 I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There's an incredible amount of people in the world
153:38 that don't even know who he is. Yes, that's a thing.
153:43 I know it seems crazy, right? In our tech sphere, right?
153:48 How could anyone in the tech sphere not have heard of the techno king
153:52 as he self-proclaimed himself to be a number of years back, right?
153:56 In D260 he said there are idiots through the whole world.
154:00 We're not saying they're idiots. No, that's not what we're saying at all.
154:05 Some of them might be. The fact is that education is a problem?
154:09 No. No, that's not what we're saying at all.
154:13 We're saying that there's a whole wide world out there with many, many interests and many, many priorities
154:19 and not everybody shares them. And in this algorithmically curated world that we live in.
154:26 You might literally just never see it. And we may, and that is in a lot of ways by design
154:33 on the platforms. Like what percentage of subreddits that exist?
154:37 Do you imagine you've been personally exposed to?
154:41 Like dude, I've been kinda hooked on R slash all over the last like week.
154:45 I try not to get too into the red at black hole. R slash what?
154:48 Oh, just like, just like, and it's just like, it is realistically like a handful.
154:55 Am I the asshole?
155:00 PCMR shows up there every once in a while. Comics shows up a fair bit.
155:05 There's like, it's probably over the span of a week,
155:09 several dozen subreddits that contribute to the majority
155:14 of the like vastly uploaded content on the site.
155:20 But there are, what is it up to?
155:23 Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands? Are we at millions of subreddits?
155:27 How many subreddits are there?
155:32 3.8 million. What percentage of them?
155:37 Do you think you've been exposed to? 3.8 million as of 11 months ago.
155:41 So, and yeah, Len, Len, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa,
155:45 or however I pronounce this in flow plain chat says, y'all just gotta ignore this stuff.
155:50 I never get to see it and I'm so happy I don't have to. My feed is just cool stuff and DIY.
155:54 And that's also like, it is a- And that's exactly our point.
155:57 For people that are terminally online, it is somewhat surprising to hear
156:01 that a ton of people have recognized
156:04 that being constantly dialed into everything that is happening in the world
156:08 and how the fact that the further we move away from local news, when we move closer to global news,
156:15 like back in the day, you could have a newspaper that's talking about like the fair
156:18 that's happening in town. So there isn't gonna be all that much really horrible things
156:23 because you're centralized to a smaller area. That was a different kind of bubble.
156:26 It was a more geographical bubble. Yeah, when you're now looking at more global news
156:30 and you look at the news that's gonna float to the top, it's gonna be the most rage-baiting,
156:35 crazy, horrible things possible because that's what's gonna get more views.
156:39 So you're only gonna get news about all of the most horrible possible things happening
156:43 and it's really bad in a lot of ways for your brain.
156:47 That doesn't mean that not being that dialed in is, for example, an education problem
156:51 or an ignorance problem or being stupid. I mean, it's literally an ignorance problem.
156:56 But maybe not a problem. It literally is ignorance. In a negative way, yeah.
157:00 It might be ignorance, but not necessarily an ignorance problem. To certain people, they don't wanna be exposed
157:04 to that pipeline of extreme constant negativity because it can be bad for you.
157:09 Or it's just, you know, they got other stuff going on. High seven, 69, 69 Hex says people should be informed.
157:17 How much? Noble sentiment. How many things do you not know about?
157:20 You're speaking English. Do you know everything that's happening in China right now?
157:25 I don't. Like... I know Hassan's Billy Billy stream got turned off.
157:29 I'm just pretty sure. Sure. Do you know it?
157:33 Like, yeah, do you... I don't know. There's so many layers to that.
157:36 And like your level of knowledge does not mean that everyone else's level of knowledge
157:40 is inferior. It's... There are an incredible amount of things
157:45 that I know nothing about that I'm sure are incredibly important.
157:50 And I have no clue. Yeah.
157:53 And again, like we're not trying to argue
157:58 that that's the way it should be. That ain't the argument.
158:02 We're just pointing out that that is how it is.
158:07 Not everyone cares about AI or AI slop or...
158:12 Yeah, dude, the amount of people that are just totally ignoring and don't care about that at all
158:17 is very high. Super high. And the number of people who are like,
158:21 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go. Also very high.
158:24 Yes. And that is fact.
158:30 Sorry. Yeah.
158:34 Am I gonna have to do a shirt over this? Sorry, AI is a thing.
158:39 Like I... Oh, man.
158:44 Cause I'll do a shirt. I don't mind.
158:48 I could do trust me, bro. AI is a thing.
158:51 Hashtag, ad block is piracy.
158:55 Just we'll combine all the scandals.
158:59 It's like, sorry, the things that you do know are probably less important than the myriads
159:03 of things that you don't. Ooh.
159:07 Wow, that's a...
159:11 Okay, another news. What the heck is this?
159:15 Facebook and malware bites. Okay.
159:19 I recorded this on my computer.
159:23 Okay. Here we go.
159:26 So I got my OBS interface here. Here we go.
159:30 I got this email from Facebook.
159:33 Okay. And I was a little irritated. Wow, this quality though.
159:36 This is really blurry. One moment, please. It's actually not just my eyes this time.
159:41 There we go. Okay, okay. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
159:44 So I was told that a post from 2015
159:47 was flagged for copyright infringement. Okay, so I clicked through
159:52 and I made my way over to our... Oh, no, no, no, no, no, right, right, right, right, right.
159:56 Hold on. Okay, let's get the story right. So I got an email from Facebook
159:59 asking me about some feature and I was trying to figure out
160:03 how to turn off emails from Facebook about all of their page management nonsense.
160:08 There was no unsubscribe. There was no...
160:11 Because I don't wanna block every email because occasionally,
160:14 because it's for the page manager email. Like occasionally they might send me something
160:19 about my payment method being wrong or something. So I can't just block emails from Facebook.
160:23 So I'm like, okay, there's no way to unsubscribe to this.
160:27 There's no link to the interface where I can change my contact settings.
160:35 So I clicked through to my Facebook page to try to figure out where the heck in the interface
160:40 I was supposed to disable this stupid email notifying me of some stupid feature
160:45 that I don't care about. The first thing that came up was that I had a copyright claim
160:52 against a post from 10 years ago.
160:56 Okay, so here we go.
160:59 All right, so let's watch this. Here's what happened so far. No one else can see your post
161:02 because it was reported for copyright. Okay, so here are my options.
161:05 Oh yeah, I went back to the beginning. No one else can see your post because it was reported for copyright infringement.
161:12 This is the post. Lifetime malware bites for $20 on Amazon US.
161:17 Go, go, go, and it's a link to a tweet.
161:21 Okay, I don't see how that could infringe on anyone's copyright. That actually sounds awesome.
161:25 I kind of wish I did that. 10 years ago, who cares?
161:28 So I click it. I'm like, okay, so it's a link to an Amazon search for malware bites.
161:33 Yeah. Okay, so I click continue. Who could possibly care about this?
161:37 Malware bites corporate holdcoe
161:41 or their authorized representative managed to find a post from 10 years ago.
161:47 Well, they crawled it. Well, right, but why? Who cares?
161:50 And also, what are you talking about? How does it infringe your copyright?
161:53 Okay, so anyway, we don't allow content that whatever. So I can accept the decision.
161:58 I can submit an appeal or I can contact malware bites corporate holdcoe.
162:04 I think I'm about to dox malware bites corporate holdcoe. So yeah, there's their email address
162:07 and phone number anyway. Submit an appeal.
162:13 Nothing happens. Go to form. Go to form.
162:16 Go to form. Hello? It doesn't open another window.
162:21 Nothing, it doesn't do anything else. Go to form.
162:25 Strategic bugs. I like it. What the heck is this?
162:29 What is going on right now? So here's the email from Facebook.
162:34 How do I start a fan challenge? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
162:37 No unsubscribe. I'm fairly certain that this email is illegal in Canada.
162:43 Like, what is it? What is it? Can spam again?
162:46 There is no, I have not opted into this.
162:51 I went into my Facebook notification settings later.
162:54 Actually, yeah, I think it was after I turned off the screen recording. I have everything that I can find turned off
163:01 and they sent me this bulls*** from a stupid like malware bites
163:07 claiming copyright infringement that I can't appeal.
163:10 I don't even care. I don't need a 10 year old post on Facebook.
163:13 It's just, how is this so broken? No, I'm not getting fished.
163:17 It goes to actual Facebook.
163:20 What the heck? That's all. That's all I have to say about that.
163:23 I was just, I was in between rounds at my badminton ladder going through my email.
163:29 Like, I was like, what is this? I don't know how to deal with this right now.
163:34 That's very annoying. What I do know how to deal with is a big shout out
163:38 to the LTT forum folding team.
163:42 We had a record breaking event folding month eight.
163:45 In total, the team produced over 230 billion points.
163:48 That's nearly three times last year's total. We had 369 participants, nice.
163:54 And user Stobin demolished the previous record
163:57 of six billion points and earned 112 billion points.
164:01 I don't know exactly what that means. Oh, of the previous record was six and it was 112.
164:05 Wow. Special thanks to Livin', Mr. Chuk Kote.
164:09 Yeah, Pencrice. Yeah. Yeah. Sula May, Jawa Juice, Bricksider, Dogwitch
164:14 and an anonymous forum member for donating a total of 55 prizes to the event.
164:18 Additionally, 20 participants will be walking away
164:21 with a $100 LTT Store gift card.
164:27 Justin Miller, a scientist from the Bowman Lab at the University of Pennsylvania was very impressed
164:31 by the total simulation time that the LTT,
164:35 or that folding at home contributed of 8.6 milliseconds during November.
164:40 He said, that sounds like a small amount of time, but that is a ton for the types of motions
164:44 that we like to study. And roughly two to three orders of magnitude more
164:48 than most simulation focused papers tend to have on their own.
164:52 Nice. So massive thank you to everyone who participated. The final rankings and Justin's complete summary
164:56 can be found in the final blog at,
165:00 well, this link. Dan, do you wanna throw the link in the various chats?
165:04 But basically here. Doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop. Yeah, super cool.
165:09 Heck yeah, folding month. And I think we've got just one more topic
165:13 before we get to After Dark. The world's first flying car.
165:17 Here it is.
165:21 Well, it's a flying car. The world's first flying car is now being handmade
165:26 in California. And this right here.
165:30 See all the dust and see all like the air being blown up?
165:33 Is exactly why I think I'm convinced that this is, pardon the pun, never gonna take off.
165:40 Yeah. I mean, that's just, it's been the argument, you know?
165:43 Aleph Aeronautics, a US startup, has started building its electric flying car,
165:47 the Model A, by hand in California, becoming the first company to put a drive
165:53 and fly car into production. The flying car can drive on regular roads
165:58 and can take off vertically to fly with around a 220 mile driving and 110 mile flying range.
166:06 Apparently the startup has already received 3,500 preorders,
166:11 which is a lot, considering that the flying car is expected to start at around $300,000.
166:19 But there are a couple of small problems that are not included in our notes,
166:23 that are kind of hilarious. As cool as it would be to dunk on the Cybertruck
166:28 by literally flying over it.
166:31 It looks so sketchy. Have you watched this? Yes, I have.
166:34 I just watched it. It looks so sketchy.
166:38 Then the wheels are so thin.
166:41 It's like, oh man.
166:48 I feel like they just put like a fiberglass frame
166:53 on a like high carrying capacity drone.
166:57 A detail that was overlooked is that at this time,
167:00 it can only take off from and land at airports.
167:04 So like, what is the f***ing point of it?
167:12 The whole idea behind flying car,
167:15 like the whole connotation of car
167:18 is that you park it at your house and you like drive it to work
167:22 or you go get groceries and you like park at your house again.
167:26 You can drive to the airport and then not like have to get out and get into a plane.
167:31 You can drive to the airport and then just take off from the airport.
167:37 This was pretty great. You can drive 220 miles with a 110 mile flight range.
167:43 Wow, so it's only half the, that's actually. That makes a lot of sense.
167:47 Yeah. Less than a year.
167:51 I haven't seen it drive. Have you seen it drive? Is there a video of it driving?
167:56 I've only seen it somewhat sketchily fly.
168:01 I don't think I've seen it drive. As soon as I found out that it's slow,
168:05 has crappy range, is expensive,
168:09 has all the issues of any other personal flying vehicles
168:13 with the big one being, I forget what it's called, wash out or something like that.
168:16 Basically, the displacement of air that they need is so big
168:22 and the propellers that they can accommodate for any kind of VTOL functionality are so small
168:29 that they have this like tiny cone
168:32 that basically blows away anything anywhere near them.
168:36 There is, with the laws of physics being what they are,
168:41 as far as I can tell, no reasonable path
168:46 to driving one of these from your front driveway
168:49 to your parking lot at work. They would blow so much crap around on the parking lot
168:55 that you'd be denting and scratching everyone's car that you're anywhere near, people would hate it,
169:00 they're so loud. Much larger propellers can help
169:04 with the high-pitched noise and all of that, but you still have to deal with all that air displacement
169:10 in order to lift this like hundreds of pounds vehicle
169:14 plus whatever people and cargo that you wanna carry in it. Like it's just not going to happen, it seems.
169:21 Or you could buy a really nice, really sweet car
169:26 to drive to the airport and then get in your own
169:31 just like experimental craft. That thing looks pretty sick.
169:35 What's the side impact crash rating on this flying car?
169:39 For sure, just nothing, the crumple zone is you.
169:45 Like, come on. You are expected to crumple alone in the car, yeah.
169:49 It's just gonna absorb the impact. It's just gonna hit the batteries?
169:52 Yeah, sure, like, come on.
169:58 Very fun, very cool, very good. It looks cool.
170:01 They go out of their way, it seems, to make it really hard to see how skinny chicken
170:05 these tires are. Dude, they're so narrow.
170:10 Oh, man. Yeah, you can see them there.
170:14 Yeah. They look like wheelbarrow tires. Yeah, yeah.
170:19 Oh my gosh. Yeah. So this is-
170:23 Damn, dude. Yeah, this is- You said they got pre-orders?
170:26 Apparently. That's the craziest part to me. That's what it says on the notes. And working on this is cool.
170:30 I actually have no issue with that at all. Okay, so we just had a huge long conversation
170:34 with the audience about ignorance. Remember?
170:38 Not everybody is an engineer.
170:42 And a lot of people would think, oh, well, you know, they got,
170:46 I forget what body they got approval from, but they like are making progress to this being a product
170:52 that they actually ship.
170:55 And so if I heard that they got their, yeah, airworthiness certification from the FAA,
171:00 they got an airworthiness certification. That's huge. That's huge.
171:04 Right? So I'd be like, oh yeah, flying car.
171:07 I see this picture. I go, I mean, what, yeah, 300 grand?
171:11 I mean, that's only 10 times the price of a car
171:15 that doesn't fly, right? That's so many more degrees of freedom.
171:21 That's so good. Honestly, if they just never released this video,
171:25 I feel like they'd do better. Well, they've been doing pretty good up till now.
171:29 They got their pre-orders. And yeah, not everybody's an engineer.
171:33 So yeah, I could see people pre-ordering it if they just don't do the math.
171:37 Like it wasn't until, for me too, that I came across like a really good article.
171:42 I wish I could find it so that I could bring it up. I read it and then I like kind of lost it.
171:46 And then I never saw it again. But it was a really good article that basically kind of walked me through the math
171:51 of how this is just like kind of fucking impossible.
171:55 And they're like, at the end of it, they're like, look, don't short it
171:58 because they'll stay irrational longer
172:03 than you'll stay solvent or whatever. Like I'm not saying you should like short these companies
172:07 and try and make a bunch of money on their downfall or whatever, I'm just saying, don't invest in them.
172:12 Don't pre-order this stuff because this ain't happening.
172:16 This is not happening. I'm like, oh, okay, bummer. Cause that'd be awesome.
172:20 Like I'd be so down. I hope that, you know,
172:23 they got their flight worthiness thing, whatever. I hope that it ends up being awesome.
172:27 Cause like, why not? I just, that video
172:31 wasn't awesome does not make it look good.
172:34 But hey, I mean, all power to him. Good luck.
172:38 Oh, cool.
172:42 Hi, Larry is not fun.
172:46 Is that it after dark? I think it's time for after dark. Nice. Mr. Daniel Besser hit us.
172:52 Let me just get the banner and the button. Oh yeah, not, not financial advice.
172:56 Just throwing that out there. I always got to throw that out there.
173:00 Okay, let's see what we've got today. Hey dudes, aside from YouTube,
173:05 which single company's sudden shutdown would have the most immediate detrimental impact on LMG,
173:10 which would be the most beneficial. A beneficial shutdown.
173:15 I don't know if there's anyone. We're all about kind of, we're all about partnerships.
173:19 I don't think there's anyone that I would look at and go, yeah, them shutting down would be highly beneficial to us.
173:25 Who'd be beneficial? I usually see the like, the competitor maybe,
173:30 but I don't really see us as having competitors in a traditional sense. I usually see, especially the space we're in,
173:36 not all spaces, but the space we're in is rising tide lifts all ships.
173:39 Yeah, me too. I think the more people that are interested in tech
173:42 will help all of us. And if other people in the tech space
173:46 are making good content, I think that will help us not hurt us.
173:50 Yeah, I mean. I've always seen it that way. I mean, this is really interesting. So the timing of the release of that interview
173:55 that I did with John, I was talking in the interview
174:00 about how our viewership has kind of struggled lately, right?
174:06 But I did that interview a couple of months ago.
174:10 And so that obviously there's a ton of comments on the interview with people giving me their brilliant ideas
174:16 for what I can do to fix my channel or how talking about how, you know,
174:22 yeah, it's all because, you know, Alex and Andy are gone
174:26 or whatever the case may be, right?
174:29 But what people don't bother to do is check and see
174:34 if there's any truth whatsoever to their hypothesis.
174:37 And to be clear, I'm not saying that, you know,
174:42 I wouldn't, yeah, that I don't love working with Alex and Andy or whatever,
174:46 but we've actually had a nice little resurgence lately
174:49 and we are back to the kinds of numbers that we were doing, you know, earlier this year slash,
174:56 you know, before the recent dip. Like in fact, we're quite a bit higher than that now.
175:00 We're tracking to do probably more like 80 million views for December, it looks like.
175:07 So that's back up at a level that's sort of closer to sort of November of last year.
175:12 Like there tends to be kind of, there's a seasonality to it to a degree, right?
175:15 So we are higher than probably in the next month,
175:21 we'll be higher than probably about eyeballing this,
175:25 70% of the months of the past, like 18.
175:31 So thank you for your advice and your analysis
175:36 of, you know, why LMG is failing or whatever the case may be, but we're not failing.
175:40 And a big part of why we don't fail is we are constantly looking inward, looking outward,
175:48 figuring out, you know, what it is that we need to do differently.
175:51 How can we generate excitement? How can we elevate our content? How can we optimize our processes?
175:56 And the answers are always gonna be different
175:59 in an ever-changing world that is competitive,
176:02 even if I don't see other YouTubers
176:05 or other media outlets as competitors.
176:08 Does that make sense? Yeah, and we've had great people leave
176:13 and we will have great people leave and we will have great people join.
176:17 Yes, and then leave. And we are a business in constant flux,
176:21 just like every single other business. And we will have different eras
176:26 because there will be different people here at different times. And like Taylor Swift, I may do a tour about my eras.
176:32 You might, you might. Probably not. And this is all extremely normal.
176:38 Yep. That's okay.
176:41 Everything is a normal thing
176:44 that is happening right now. And, and, you know what's another normal thing?
176:50 For there to be times of unusual strife.
176:54 Yeah. That's also normal, even if it is abnormal.
176:59 And so there will be- It's normal to have times of abnormality. There will be future times when,
177:04 you know what, we might hire a lot. There will be future times
177:07 when we might have a lot of turnover. There will be future times
177:10 when our content is not performing well. And there will be future times
177:14 when our content is performing really well. And, and all of that is just part of the natural ebbs
177:20 and flows of, of running a business in a, in a fast, fast, fast changing world.
177:25 Maybe Steam will release or Valve will release a bunch of hardware all at once.
177:29 Yeah. That was, that was nice. That was- Let's go. What a Christmas present that was for us.
177:33 Yeah. You know, it was, it was encouraging, right?
177:37 You know, cause it's not like I- No, it totally was. It's not like I'm immune to, you know,
177:41 feeling a lack of confidence sometimes, right? Like, you know, I see the content not performing.
177:45 I go like, do I even, do I even got this anymore? You know, like I'm always asking myself that.
177:50 And then someone does me the, the like bare
177:55 minimumist favor of releasing some hardware that's interesting and we get like,
178:00 what, four million views on one of them and like four and a half on the other,
178:03 three and a half and four and a half. Yeah, 3.8 and 4.8 right now. Yeah, something like that.
178:07 And I'm just like, oh, okay, no, no, I still do know, I still do know how to do this.
178:10 I did those videos in like two hours each. Just the Steam machine won't cost what you think
178:15 got 2.6. Yeah. Like, it was a good video.
178:19 It's just cool, interesting stuff. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think, not just I, I think we've still got it.
178:26 I do think that we have, I mean, you guys were even talking about this before the video,
178:31 before we started plan shows, just like looking at some of the process bloat and stuff.
178:35 We have, yeah. We have problems.
178:39 There's gonna be, there's gonna need to be some work done
178:42 on kind of addressing how things flow
178:46 through the company and stuff. I think so. And it's just, you know, we've existed
178:51 for so many years at this point and we've kind of always just built.
178:58 There hasn't really been a lot of removing things,
179:02 cutting back on certain things, trying to see, hey, if we cut out a bunch of processes here,
179:07 what happens? What would happen? Yeah. Because sometimes like there's process
179:13 that was originally designed to help solve problems,
179:17 which due to misuse or rot or improper initial creation,
179:23 actually it just creates more problems,
179:27 creates more cycles for people have to do, especially cycles that suck and they don't want to do ever,
179:34 that is like absolutely a thing that happens. So yeah, we have things to address,
179:38 but we're working on it and that's normal.
179:41 Especially as far as my understanding goes, when companies get to around this size.
179:45 Yeah. Like this ends up being a major problem when companies get around the 100 plus ish size,
179:51 which is exactly where we're at. Everything changes. Yeah.
179:55 So this all makes sense. And there will continue to be change.
180:00 Someone asked, here we go, capture the bomb,
180:03 ask speaking of ebbs and flows, how's the badminton club doing?
180:06 I don't know, you tell me, here's a live feed.
180:10 Okay, looks pretty good to me. Got some people playing some badminton all up in this.
180:16 How embarrassing would it be to just biff right now?
180:20 They'll be fine. They're solid players actually, it's a good club.
180:25 Yeah, no, this is one of those ones where like,
180:29 it was a passion project that like,
180:33 you know, was never really like intended to make money. And it's still a little more complicated than like, yeah.
180:42 You know, yo, I'm making money, C, so yo, world, I hope you're ready for me.
180:45 Now get out of the round. Yeah, you know, like it's not quite that, right?
180:49 I wish it was a little bit tall. Yeah, yeah, well, that yes, but.
180:55 Oh, I honestly wasn't even memeing that, I just...
180:58 No, no, no, no, well, that's the different artists, different song, I was Humpty Dance,
181:04 like totally different. I knew you used to like that song, it's fine. Okay, the point is that, yeah, we kind of accidentally,
181:11 we kind of accidentally a good sports facility that's actually doing really well.
181:17 Like there's probably a solid. Yeah, we're just accidentally a successful business.
181:21 Yeah, there's probably a solid like 60 people in there right now, there's people in the concession,
181:26 there's some people hanging out in the lounge, there's people in the retail shop.
181:29 Is the concession like a thing yet? Uh-uh.
181:33 But we do have those cool, like Japanese style, like hot food vending machines.
181:38 Yeah, okay, cool. I mean, that's nice.
181:41 Yeah, so Smash Chams will use them except when there's Whale Land.
181:45 Yeah, sure. Is there any progress on having an actual concession?
181:52 No. Okay. Yeah, the managers feel extremely strongly
181:56 that we need to have a steam room and a sauna.
182:00 I'm really not sure that I agree that's that important, but we also want to put in some more showers,
182:04 we only have a couple right now. Showers I could see. We should add more.
182:09 I think that a steam room and sauna is a very optional thing for a badminton club, but.
182:15 Yeah. I basically told them, look, you're allowed to put it in
182:18 as long as it doesn't cost any of our floor area.
182:21 If you don't use up floor plate, then like, if you can put them above the showers
182:25 at the back or something like that, I'm open to it. But they pitched me like splitting up the gym
182:29 and putting that at the back and putting the like sauna, steam room, shower stuff,
182:34 like upstairs, I'm just like, no. We are not doing that.
182:37 A gym is a way more relevant thing to a badminton club than that.
182:42 I can see people wanting to do sauna, doing sauna after physical activity is pretty sick.
182:46 Sure. But yeah, if you could just try to make it additive,
182:49 if possible. Also the concession will help money for sure.
182:58 Yes, no, actually. At a place where people are constantly exercising? I heard that other clubs that have tried to do them,
183:03 it's been break even at best.
183:06 So we may be better off. I think we get a pretty narrow margin
183:10 on those vending machines, but we may actually be better off with the vending machines.
183:14 TBD, oh, I bumped that. Interesting. I do know, as far as my understanding goes,
183:21 you usually have to make the concession like actually pretty good
183:25 and then it ends up also getting things like Uber Eats orders.
183:28 Interesting. Because there's, it's actually very rare
183:32 that you can get like actually pretty well, like balanced meals on Uber Eats.
183:37 So like Gold's Gym in Langley has like a
183:44 protein shake. Yeah, and also some like wraps and stuff,
183:47 but they're like more protein heavy. Oh, that's cool. Like they don't have high sugar counts
183:51 and all that other kind of stuff. So like if you did like, oh, it's a badminton gym,
183:55 so there's things that like, you know. We could do a smash burger.
184:02 I think that's pretty far from the point I was trying to make.
184:06 But it's great for the branding. It is great for the branding.
184:10 It is absolutely. Like something, I mean, I would personally appreciate,
184:14 I don't know if this is the right fit for smash chance,
184:17 probably not necessarily, but I think it maybe should be,
184:21 is if you had like a protein shake kind of thing
184:25 and it had like five grams creatine,
184:28 I think that would be sick. It's hard to get, booster juice does it,
184:32 but there aren't that many other places that do. Interesting. So like I think there are ways to make it make sense,
184:37 but I think you have to kind of open up the interest in that where it's not necessarily just the badminton club
184:44 that would be interested in it. Yeah, I'd be down for that. There would be, the thing is like,
184:49 you have to find someone to kind of spearhead that, right? And right now we're just, we're busy figuring out
184:55 how to run a sports facility. We haven't even been open to the pub. We haven't even been, we've been open a year,
185:00 but we haven't been taking money for a year. So we've been like soft open,
185:04 but our grand opening was less than a year ago. So we still have a lot of little things to figure out.
185:10 Yeah, I realized, sorry, the numbers I was showing before
185:15 didn't look like we were tracking up that much, but last 30 days, 85 million.
185:20 So that's actually like quite, quite up there
185:25 with our top months over the last 18, 75.
185:29 It's like almost on par with like August 2024. So we're, we're tracking back up and we'll track back down.
185:35 Yep. And that's okay. It's okay, we'll survive.
185:38 We will survive. As long as I know how to take, I know we'll stay alive.
185:44 Dan, hit me. Hello, my parasocial friends.
185:48 Oh, hi there. I'm not a Floatplane subscriber because I already have two similar subscriptions
185:53 and my brain refuses to let me have another. Do any of you have arbitrary rules like this?
185:59 Oh, tons. I don't think that's arbitrary. I think limiting the number of subscriptions you have is
186:04 totally fair. Totally not arbitrary.
186:07 I mean, the two I guess is an arbitrary number, but I think two is a pretty good number.
186:16 Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to me. Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable to me. I really don't, I probably have,
186:23 huh, I think I have one.
186:28 I'm not even trying to flex. Netflix? Nope. Netflix.
186:31 Oh, that's right, you ditched it a while back. Long time ago. What do you have then?
186:35 YouTube. Oh yeah, just YouTube premium. Yep, okay.
186:41 My company got hacked last month through a zero-day exploit in Centerstack.
186:47 Bummer. It looks like we paid the ransom for the encryption key.
186:52 Have you guys known anyone who has paid? What is the process?
186:55 I haven't. I actually don't.
187:03 Yeah, right, yeah, good call. Who's there?
187:07 Scammers. Fuck you, man, get out of here.
187:12 No, I've been here for months.
187:16 Yeah, sorry, I don't know anything about the process.
187:21 Bummer, sorry to hear that.
187:26 Okay. Hi, LLD.
187:30 Linus, do you still daily drive a 7900XTX?
187:33 What's your take on where our DNA3 is headed after being missing in Wednesday's Redstone announcement?
187:40 I mean, this is kind of classic AMD. I think for the most part, they do their best to support their older products,
187:44 but they are a much smaller company than NVIDIA.
187:50 Still, even after all the success that they've had on the CPU and the APU side, I'm not surprised by it.
187:57 The 7900XT just does not have the neural processing to do what they would want it to do with FSR Redstone.
188:05 As far as I can tell, I'd love to be wrong, but it just doesn't really seem like it.
188:11 And yes, I'm still daily driving it in my PC upstairs,
188:15 but I've actually been doing more than half of my gaming
188:18 on my PC downstairs, because that's like where my kids are usually sitting
188:23 and Yvonne doesn't game. So I would either be sitting by myself upstairs,
188:28 or if I was streaming, I would be upstairs, but I haven't streamed in like forever.
188:32 So yes, it's still in my main machine,
188:36 but I haven't been gaming on it as my primary card for a little while.
188:41 Hi, LLD. My partner and I are combining our skills to go into business together.
188:46 My question for Linus is, was there anything you should have discussed
188:49 with Yvonne before working together? Oh yeah.
188:54 I think something that we, even to this day,
188:59 are not perfectly aligned on is, where's the end point?
189:04 What is the target we're trying to hit?
189:08 And I think that having that agreement, especially if you're going into business
189:13 with, it sounds like a romantic partner,
189:17 having that agreement in place is going to be critical
189:21 to maintaining harmony in your relationship.
189:24 Because if one of you has the goal of,
189:28 you know, achieving a better work-life balance
189:31 by running your own business and being able to set your own hours,
189:36 and one of you has the goal of conquering the world
189:40 and taking, you know, the business fear by storm,
189:45 then it's gonna be hard to agree
189:49 when you've achieved success because you both have completely different goals.
189:54 And,
189:57 talk about that.
190:02 Mary, Mary Linus, Luke and Dan. Hey, Mary, Mary, Mary, Pippin.
190:10 Yeah, I like that. What about second Mary?
190:13 What are the rings is based? I'm looking, wow, hot take there, Luke.
190:21 You know, I'm bringing the spicy ones out today. Yeah, you're really gonna piss off
190:25 a lot of the community with that one. No offense, but I thought the Lord of the Rings
190:29 was pretty okay.
190:34 I'm looking to introduce my mother to a new video game this holiday season.
190:38 Any recommendations with good story that would be easy to learn for the elderly?
190:45 For the elderly.
190:48 Good story.
190:51 I feel like games are getting harder, not easier. Starting Valley Animal Crossing,
190:55 and I'm not typecasting because it's grandma, those are just like Animal Crossing in particular,
191:02 I know, was widely accepted by a non-gaming audience.
191:09 I think starting Valley is also a potentially lower lift
191:13 in regards to non-gaming audience.
191:16 Outside of that, I think very like narrative heavy games.
191:20 If you try to think of the types of games where like,
191:23 people would enjoy chilling on the couch while you play because it's like fun to watch
191:28 and then you pair that with, they're not mechanically overly difficult.
191:33 I suspect that would work pretty well. Promortises guitar hero.
191:37 Yeah, how about not? Ben Bob said Elder Scrolls Daggerfall, which is...
191:42 Yeah, not gonna go super well.
191:49 Pay-Kratt's a good suggestion, Telltale Games.
191:52 Just a bunch of different Telltale Games are all probably decent. If there's something in the Telltale Games universe
191:57 that fits their fancy, then that might be a good way to go.
192:01 I mean, there's Soma, you can turn the enemies off.
192:07 Can you actually just turn them off? Yeah, yeah, that would be fun.
192:13 The last one I have for you today is Hi, LLD.
192:16 Is there any early stage or emerging tech you're particularly excited about?
192:21 I mean, the emerging tech is all robotics and AI, right?
192:24 That's kind of the big one. AR glasses.
192:28 Yeah, AR glasses are pretty cool. Oh, I don't know if the thing I tried today was embargoed,
192:33 but it was cool. Neat.
192:38 I am scared about the current direction of AR glasses,
192:42 but I'm hoping that... But more AI? Well, yeah. And the people who are winning right now.
192:48 But I'm hoping that... Winning hard. Yeah, it's actually kind of weird.
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195:53 I'm pretty sure these are gonna still have that bundle, right? Do they still have the deal? Do they have the deal?
195:57 No, there's no deal. I don't see it. They don't have the game bundle.
196:00 I thought it was supposed to still be running though. It's always while quantities last.
196:04 We probably sold them all last week. Got it.
196:08 Okay. I'm willing to bet. I just see 3D mark with this,
196:12 which is definitely not Battlefield 6 and whatever the other games were.
196:16 Like here, check this out. I bet if I go to like a lesser known retailer or something,
196:26 they will probably have it. Yeah, see? So like Canada computers, gift code redemption.
196:30 Cause the promo is still running, but I talked about this last week.
196:33 Is that a Canadian promo? Cause I'm looking at specifically the America.
196:38 Oh, I don't know any America retailers that are not new eggs.
196:42 So it'd be hard for me to check, but if they still had smaller retailers,
196:47 then I pretty much guarantee that while supplies last,
196:50 they would have stock of the promo cause new egg did run out of them and then they did restock them.
196:54 So they have a cost, right? Like Intel has to buy more copies of these games.
196:58 So they don't just run them for forever.
197:03 Yeah, that makes sense. And you know what else doesn't run forever?
197:06 This show that that's a good guess.
197:11 Oh, we'll see you again next week.
197:14 Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye.
197:22 Oh.