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Livestream VOD – January 30, 2026 @ 23:19 – Our Cable Launch Went TOO GOOD - WAN Show January 30, 2026

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0:00 Hey, when's our next thing next week don't say more details in that let me go lo
7:39 literally the audience calls me that from my computer so I say when you stop cal
10:39 okay all right hi I'm Linus Sebastian I'm Luke LaFrenier and together we host th
13:14 this is the equivalent to do a silly one and then it becomes the poster yeah oka
14:08 what is up everybody and a welcome to the WAN Show happy Friday we've had an int
17:07 the show is brought to you today by zero bounce updf motion gray and x-blit alon
28:01 again get super get super geeky super nerdy um hey speaking of super geeky stuff
36:13 play the thing i i don't think we need to talk about the cables anymore there's
44:16 anyway we're not doing a deep dive into this topic deep but it was just somethin
51:02 yes yeah let's let's talk about something pretty trash um i am i am not really t
60:06 other retailers permission to do the same thing and then all of a sudden nobody
66:32 um but yeah speaking of things that suck microsoft says it handed over bitlocker
80:25 just ring doorbell once and don't bat on the door loudly frightens me what are y
82:03 let's move on should we probably do uh sponsors we should really get sponsors do
91:53 okay well uh yeah i don't uh it's not very good okay it's funny cool yeah defini
92:47 they send a lot we have another thing to maybe talk about do you want to talk ab
93:47 time stamp that no don't time stamp that no he doesn't want to do that okay move
108:24 that's that's pretty cool speaking of pretty cool uh 1.
124:44 you know if you want to channel the voices in our community you could pick a sli
125:20 speaking of internal policies you're not allowed to insult the audience what abo
126:12 boy um anyways off of Linus's favorite topic of the show valve will face a 656 m
128:32 oh dad no pooping back and forth forever yeah the movie's hilarious what are you
131:02 anyway it included screen captures uh running a hp elite dragonfly chromebook et
149:07 iron mandalorian iron mandalorian is rough oh man oh my god it's rough because i
159:38 i don't know like i like i don't think luke's particularly into maple syrup um b
163:56 hi dll i hope that you're having a great friday Linus what was your favorite par
165:29 did you ever meet or talk to jason pamoa when you were at the tonight show i did
166:29 we're on the WAN Show it's about the next thing at all points in time and when y

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0:00 Hey, when's our next thing next week don't say more details in that let me go look it up
0:08 I see it messages like this create filter perfect day
0:17 There are some people that really are have a very unique relationship with reality you're
0:27 unique thank you you know you catch a unique rabbit no unique up on it you know
0:38 how you catch a tame rabbit tame way stupid unique up I know you used to catch
0:48 bunnies really that UVic huh yeah and eat them no this was in your school days
0:54 I wouldn't put it past no no yeah you lay on the ground in the grass and stick your arms
1:02 way out and then slowly like pluck the grass but you want to break it so it makes it kind
1:09 of sound like rabbits eating and then the little ones will come right up next to your
1:14 hand because they often eat communally and then you just be like whoop okay mine now
1:20 and then you have a pet little bunny for the day so they're like the ducks at the pond
1:23 yeah they're just free right yeah and then you just go put them back if you want if you
1:29 want right yeah sometimes it takes one little adventure show them to people and stuff eventually
1:33 they'd get like super calm and just hang out and then when I go let them go they just kind
1:38 of like stare at me for a while and I'd have to convince it be like no you're good you
1:42 can go and then it would it would bounce away it's good yes I did see gold today gold had
1:48 a day yeah didn't it oh yeah yeah not as bad as silver but yeah but if you if you look
1:53 at the one year like look yeah yeah yeah but but gold had a day yeah gold had a day started
1:59 last night didn't it um I think so yeah yeah I think it's still way up yeah like if you
2:06 look a little wider even if you look at like six months it's still way up I mean yeah if
2:11 you look at one month it's still up I just wouldn't say it's way up yeah yeah yeah I mean it's
2:17 kind of way up I kind of want to buy the dip it's still up like 10% I know I want to buy
2:21 the dip yeah talk me out of it I don't know anything about stocks so this is not financial
2:28 advice yeah me neither I know nothing look at the five-year chart for gold brother it's
2:33 a blip listen I may be well regarded but that doesn't mean that I am knowledgeable in fact
2:40 it means the opposite buy low sell high infinite money glitch thanks no key yeah like a day
2:53 return your day return is bad but your your year to date your year to date and it's still
2:58 January is great your year to date is 10.4% the S&P 500 is 0.62 like you're still fine
3:08 unless you're like literally swapping stocks on the daily you're you're frickin chilling
3:14 your three-year return is 211% like your one-year return is 142% that's if you're clairvoyant
3:22 and you bought a year ago though so fair yeah but three year 211% yeah five year clairvoyant
3:31 and you bought three years ago 206% is still pretty good assuming you're clairvoyant and
3:35 you bought five years ago yeah Genesis says IRC gold being worth a lot means there's like
3:50 lower declining confidence in other currencies yeah basically it's a bet on fine it's a bet
3:55 on financial chaos essentially world is crazy right now gold's going up what yeah I mean
4:02 not financial advice no but personally and this is not financial advice seeing what's
4:09 going on with the proposed bricks currency being at least partially gold backed and seeing
4:15 how the general chaos doesn't look like it's not financial advice gonna subside anytime
4:22 over the next say let's pick an arbitrary timeline three years I'm tempted to buy the
4:31 dip who knows not financial advice you should buy Ubisoft if I was a degenerate gambler
4:49 I was actually I was talking to Elijah about this like two days ago like it's like $4 right
4:56 now or something 471 yeah that says 437 but sure no it's well hold on previous closed
5:06 471 yeah like it would take some pretty degenerate gambling but like it's amazing yeah and to
5:17 be clear you know how I often will talk about what I think might happen and it isn't financial
5:23 advice the Ubisoft one this is really no there's no there is no coded like yeah I've
5:30 been looking at AMD and Intel's roadmaps and I can really see that AMD is going to be taking
5:34 a lot of market share over the next three to five years there is none of that here I want
5:39 to be so explicit that this is the finance this is financial advice I am not advising
5:45 you to buy Ubisoft that's all don't however if I was a degenerate gambler I would be tempted
5:56 because it's like what's the worst case scenario you lose all your money what drove Shopify
6:01 down so much I don't know I think generally stocks have been taking a bit of a beating
6:07 like very recently like it was a it was a pretty red Monday if I recall correctly in
6:13 the last month they're down 20% but in the last six months they're up 6.7% that is a
6:18 surprisingly volatile stock dude it's all gambling everything is yeah it's all gambling
6:24 so it's so everything's crazy oh we have to record a thing Dan should we do that now
6:30 okay hi Luke can you do this with minimal sarcasm you can do a high sarcasm version
6:37 for Dan to me man Sean and send to him but can we do like a proper read to please I just
6:43 said one word I know but we all knew where you were going with it all right can you use
6:53 the word degenerate less please it's not mean connotations what degenerate what the hell
6:59 does that mean is that word canceled down decline as it has a clear mentally I mean I can see
7:06 what you mean sounds fine biology racist what how no okay that would be the first I'd be
7:14 hearing of that and then again I'd never heard of the hard are so who knows having reverted
7:18 to a simpler form as a result of result of losing a complex or adaptive structure present
7:24 in the ancestral form I mean in the context of degenerate gambler though I think we all
7:29 know what it means and it doesn't mean any of those things
7:39 literally the audience calls me that from my computer so I say when you stop calling me that
7:44 I'll stop using it says Elijah okay come on Jen's from upcountry so I say when you stop calling me
7:54 that I'll stop yeah because they call him degenerate so you can control Elijah's speech it means
8:00 dysfunction but yeah that's exactly what I'm saying it's racist and that some people thought
8:05 some skin tones are less evolved than others I mean holy crap there's gonna be someone stupid
8:11 enough to think anything I don't know guys I really haven't seen I really haven't seen a whole bunch
8:18 that gambler is pejorative enough by itself no but they don't think so that that's the whole
8:25 thing and they're like look Luke and I have seen the one unicorn person with a healthy relationship
8:30 with gambling the one we both are talking about the same person right now so for that reason I feel
8:37 the need to specify because I do literally know a gambler who is not what I who I would consider
8:43 to be like a degenerate gambler he's just actually totally fine and has never been a problem for them
8:48 yeah I don't know guys this really feels like a bit of a reach hi okay are we doing it
8:55 all right let's do it do it properly on the first one you can't
9:04 okay hi I'm Linus Sebastian I'm Luke LaFrenier and together we host the WAN Show a once a week
9:11 podcast it's all about technology and okay yeah this is bad you don't have to do it to camera
9:21 it's audio only I know but it's just easier for you I know yeah yeah about um
9:31 right after you said technology I was like he's done okay all right and our
9:48 and and the decade plus this recording is degenerating so fast
9:57 that's kind of the WAN Show
10:13 okay I'm I've
10:20 I'm tweaking I'm tweaking the script mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine
10:39 okay all right
10:42 hi I'm Linus Sebastian I'm Luke LaFrenier and together we host the WAN Show a once a week
10:46 podcast about technology the tech industry and the decade plus that we've spent covering them
10:51 there will be tech there will be tips and there will be many side quests and tensions
10:54 that's the best part we're two dudes who love tech just hanging out so consider this your formal
10:59 invitation to join us catch every show catch the show every Friday here on Spotify or go
11:07 through our previous uploads right now do it you know you want to um Luke sorry just one tech tip
11:15 try not to there will be tech you're taking a sharp breath first it's hard to cut around
11:21 okay one more time hi I'm Linus Sebastian
11:27 forgot your name or what
11:31 do you want to go get it or do you want me to just pick up no just yeah just go go right after
11:36 though try to try to have it too much about not doing the sharp breath it and they'll just never
11:40 win it doesn't know his name
11:49 all right hi I'm Linus Sebastian I'm Luke LaFrenier and together we host the WAN Show
11:55 a once a week podcast about technology the tech industry and the decade plus that we've spent
12:00 covering them there will be tech there will be tips and there will be many side quests and tangents
12:04 that's the best part we're just two dudes who love tech hanging out and you can consider this your
12:09 formal invitation to join us catch the show every Friday here on Spotify or go through our previous
12:14 uploads right now do it you know you want to okay that's not too bad good that was
12:21 okay we can do your version now okay hi I'm Linus Sebastian I'm Luke LaFrenier and together
12:28 we host the WAN Show a once a week podcast about technology the tech industry and the decade plus
12:36 that we've spent covering it there will be tech there will be tips and there will be many side
12:42 quests and tangents that's the best part we're two dudes who love tech just hanging out so consider
12:49 this your formal invitation to join us catch the show every Friday right here on Spotify or go
12:57 through our previous uploads right now you know you want to you know they're gonna use that one
13:05 right all right thanks guys
13:14 this is the equivalent to do a silly one and then it becomes the poster yeah okay all right
13:20 that was truly awful use that one thank you all right uh let's go let's go youtube live
13:26 what's my heart out today again six oh shoot two hours 57 minutes 21 seconds
13:32 time to go all right I'm I'm punching it uh can you tell me when we're live sure we're
13:37 zooming this selected now
13:45 uh can I delete this
14:08 what is up everybody and a welcome to the WAN Show happy Friday we've had an interesting day
14:19 I was just having a long conversation with some of our leadership about
14:24 overstock on some items on LTT Store and cash flow and money being tied up and then today we had
14:31 the opposite problem we launched our true spec cables which by the way I've got to give credit to
14:38 I think it was Dave on the branding side you say the name right it's so good it's we man we had so
14:46 many different ideas for the branding they're either like this is widget number a or true spec
14:53 or they nail it yeah incredible spec is so good true spec cables are here and the uh we we sold
15:00 out of some lengths in like 20 minutes opposite problem good problem to have just freaking out
15:06 a little bit as a you know small to medium business owner that just you know can't ever seem to get
15:12 it perfectly right but but hey it's definitely better than the opposite problem uh what else
15:20 we got going on today okay I found one that's good news the iphone 5s from 2013
15:33 just got a security update I just want to take a moment to highlight that because that is so cool
15:41 what else we got going on reddit found a card skimmer on the canada computers checkout page
15:45 which might explain what's been happening to us for a few years now um also good news Luke I want
15:50 good news when so today um okay not that one not that one not that one that one's kind of neutral
16:00 not that one definitely not that one I already can't Dan get rid of them not that one get rid of
16:06 serability too can okay because I can't anymore I'm ready for this that one's debatable well it
16:15 won't be for you but you know what someone's gonna be happy about this youtube's anti ad block system
16:20 just got smarter and hard wait no no that is good for you and not other people but I'll find another
16:26 one I highlighted one for you I'm making it easier where is it wait scrolling up there's no way
16:32 oh yeah sure uh no no it's final count well that part I don't need to say final count for stop
16:37 killing games petition verifies 1.3 million of its 1.4 million signatures well above the minimum
16:43 to be formally considered by EU politicians okay so stop killing games has got some momentum
16:48 that's super cool
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17:32 learned about bevels they have figured that out all right why don't we jump right into our headline
17:38 topic which is okay fine it's a cw call out but we're gonna we're gonna do it anyway the long
17:44 awaited more like ad show LTT true spec cables are finally freaking here after oh god were they
17:53 were we actually on this for five years I think it spanned five calendar years but I think it was
17:58 more like four our cables have arrived in just five hours they have almost completely sold out
18:05 however we did anticipate that maybe this would happen we kind of hedged okay so we weren't sure
18:12 right because on the one hand we knew that they were going to be at the pricier end of the market
18:17 yep but in my humble opinion extremely fairly priced for the quality with how much they are
18:24 stressed how expensive they were going to be I thought they were going to be I'm not saying
18:28 they're cheap but I thought they were going to be more expensive yeah I mean I just I don't I don't
18:32 know man I just really push the like they're going to cost a lot and I was like braced for it
18:36 maybe I was this was the first time I saw the prices when it was online maybe I was so fixated
18:40 on how much they were costing me okay because they're really they're expensive like compared to
18:47 what I would normally expect my inbound cost to be on like you know a three-foot cable or a six-foot
18:55 cable or whatever the cost is very high remember we sampled from in the video we said we sampled from
19:01 dozens do you want to different oems you haven't seen this I don't think do you want to see where
19:05 some of that cost went we have luma field scans of the cables oh let's get to that let's get to
19:12 that soon let's get to that soon but first yeah so so I would so yeah they're they're very expensive
19:18 because the cable stock is really expensive and and it's you know they're good right but no I don't
19:25 think they're unreasonably priced at all for what they are and so I wasn't sure because we
19:34 like we can guess but we we have no analog for this market category not at all you've also never
19:40 sold anything from this market category not at all and so we kind of went okay well we don't want to
19:46 go crazy and just buy five million dollars worth of cables or whatever because then like we we don't
19:53 have we don't have venture capital in our company we can't just spend someone else's money to have
19:59 a bunch of stock and then spend someone else's money to market the bejesus out of it and then
20:05 and make sure we move through it we just are spending our own capital right as a company
20:10 so we so we were sort of conservative on the initial load in the other thing we didn't know was what
20:17 the mix would look like because we tried to do something a little bit different and offer
20:23 what I call sort of tweener skews and that's a term I don't know if that's an industry term
20:28 but it's certainly a term that I've heard before in the IT industry in between yeah so I remember
20:33 learning about this this concept back when I was working at NCIX and I was talking to one of our
20:41 senior product managers about hard drive sales I was like this is so weird to me the enthusiast
20:48 who goes in the bulk aisle and then goes in compares to the packaged one right to find out
20:54 which one I'm paying more or less for per hundred grams like should I buy lindore chocolates in the
20:59 bulk bin or should I buy them in the package because often the package is actually cheaper
21:04 but not always but in the bulk bin you can pick exactly which flavors you get so these are the
21:08 kinds of considerations that I might make when I go to the grocery store so it was really confusing
21:14 to me that we had a really great price on 640 Gigabyte hard drives because they weren't selling
21:22 and I was like this is so weird and actually now that I'm looking at it the 750 gigs are priced
21:28 really well too and those aren't selling either everyone just looks for one terabyte but the 500
21:32 gig and the one terabyte so I need a cheap one are moving like billio yeah and and so my boss
21:38 was explaining to me he kind of goes yeah no it's it's um the problem with these ones is that they're
21:44 tweener skews we don't make the rules people just like whatever they perceive to be nice round numbers
21:52 sure and they will gravitate towards those even though you know this one might have an advantage
21:58 of being a single platter design or all all these techie deckie you know details that a big nerd
22:05 like you might care about the average customer doesn't care about or notice at all they just
22:10 want to see nice big round number and I'm like okay um and so I had this kind of idea for the
22:22 true spec cables which is sorry which is funny because sorting out all the junk in my house I
22:28 found my old hard drive like bin and a bunch of 640s I didn't really think about that until now
22:35 but yeah like our water bottles and like our desk pads I wanted the idea to be a fair price
22:41 regardless of the size and you shouldn't need to buy a six foot cable if all you needed was four feet
22:49 in order to to reach wherever was you were trying to go so I had this idea that we would we would
22:54 offer in between sizes as a way to differentiate um and and as a way to sort of reinforce our our
23:02 ecosystem of cable management products so our magnetic cable management solutions
23:08 but I had no idea what the mix would look like
23:13 was the entire industry right that everyone wants a one meter or three foot or a two meter
23:21 or approximately six foot cable or was there a market for a five foot cable or a four foot cable
23:27 I didn't know and it turns out everything in the middle no in between or doesn't matter go for it
23:35 or don't go for it just everything in the middle when you look at the drop-down thing just the
23:41 the really short ones are still there the really long ones are still there and everything like 10
23:48 feet to basically one and a half feet everything just below 10 feet and everything just above
23:55 one foot is just gone yeah so that's which by the way if you're watching this and you checked
24:02 them earlier and it said unavailable and you had the same confusion Iowa had for like a split second
24:07 which was like why did we not order any of the ones in the middle uh no we did it just sold out
24:12 unavailable means it's coming soon so they added restocks in wording just right before the show
24:16 yeah um so so so yeah we wanted to get an idea of the mix so what we did was we brought in a guess
24:24 and then what we also did was we ordered more raw cable stock that is sitting staged ready for
24:32 production smart so what that means is that our first restock instead of coming in may or June
24:40 is going to be hitting in March because we have pre-produced raw cable stock and terminations
24:45 sweet and we just need to do a little bit of number crunchy go crunch and figure out exactly
24:52 what lengths we're going to cut them into get them produced and get them shipped over here so
24:58 we're going to get on it as fast as we can that's a good idea nobody is less happy about us being
25:03 out of stock than I am I promise you that um but hopefully now that you guys can kind of
25:11 see what the process looked like for that you can kind of understand why we did it I saw the most
25:16 ridiculous post on reddit yeah uh typical they bring in just a little bit to hype the demand
25:23 and make it seem oh my god do you really think that I didn't want to sell more cables today well
25:31 some companies do do that sure for like actually not a hype beast limited edition like we're gonna
25:38 make three of them supreme brick or something yeah fine whatever but these are their cables I want
25:44 to sell as many cables as humanly possible we would love to sell cables
25:48 come on man I want to do a super nerd version of the cables video any thoughts peeps float plate
25:55 oh this is tinen um I actually I saw that and I actually flagged it for writers so we're gonna
26:05 talk about it um I think I don't even know if it would go on a cw channel um if we get around to
26:13 a lab channel in the near future or maybe or maybe even a full LTT release on the restock
26:20 is is the way that I'm leaning right now because I think that a lot of people really want a deep
26:26 dive on the cables I would so I'd be potentially down tinen I'm not committing to this right now
26:32 but I would potentially be down for us to look into a rental of one of the really high speed
26:38 scopes because one of the challenges for us in doing the 40 gigabit cables was visit someone
26:44 possibly but even then like that will take some time but what would be what would be really uh
26:50 what would be really cool is one of the challenges for us to do 40 gigabit cables was that we can't
26:55 validate them internally it's really freaking fast 40 billion per second this is like incredibly
27:04 short timelines here and so for you to actually measure the eye so the the the gap in the rising
27:11 and falling um we don't have equipment that can do it like our cable tester I tinen if you could
27:18 give me give me a hand on this but I think our cable tester was able to do up to 10 gigabit
27:23 and I think we had to go external for 20 and 40 you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong on that
27:29 it might have been that we could also do 20 but I know for sure up to 20 thanks tinen so I know for
27:34 sure we couldn't do 40 internally so we had to we had to go outside for that validation
27:39 so I think it'd be really cool for us to get our hands on the equipment and show like guys this is
27:46 the timescale we're operating on and this is what our eyes look like and really really deep dive
27:53 um I don't know man it's uh it could be could be a good opportunity for us to talk about the cables
28:01 again get super get super geeky super nerdy um hey speaking of super geeky stuff do you want to
28:09 pull up the luma field I have a few things to show in regards to super geeky stuff hold on I should
28:13 probably just start a couple more things okay they come in usb a to c and USB-C to c for now
28:19 lots of speed and length options for a clean setup makes a great pairing with our magnetic
28:24 cable management solutions for the ultimate desk setup they also come with our trust me bro warranty
28:29 so this is a limited lifetime warranty and is meant to show you guys I mean we stand behind
28:34 our products regardless but this is meant to formalize how much we believe in this product
28:40 obviously like any limited lifetime warranty you know there's terms and conditions with respect to
28:46 okay obvious abuse and wear and tear and you know that kind of stuff um but go ahead read through
28:51 the full thing um we're extremely proud of this product and we uh and we stand behind it though
28:58 so if you want you can flip through the google drive link there to see all the photos and then I
29:04 can load up the actual luma field link if you want to like view it in some other way and then I
29:08 love that because the the on laptop luma field viewer can struggle sometimes
29:17 all right what are we looking at here oh my god oh my oh my girl she's so sexy the twist when you
29:24 get to see the twist from the back from the back it's pretty when you see it from the back it's
29:29 pretty cool you can see all the little wires yeah dude it's uh it's thanks lucas for doing this by
29:37 drives me crazy how much we take stuff like this for granted we look at a cable and we're just like
29:43 cable whatever but like look at it it's beautiful isn't it yeah wait till you see some of the other
29:52 ones man there there's a bunch of photos uh I mean you can just click the arrow you don't have to
29:57 oh oops there you go oh my god that's a fun shot or my girl and you got to think like that's that's
30:05 blown up pretty big that's really small yeah that's so like it's there's a lot of there's a lot of
30:14 engineering that goes into just a quote unquote simple cable termination so you can see here's the
30:23 the shielded uh coax high speed lines right here uh hey tynan what are these ones are these uh are
30:31 these ground or low speed data tynan would know it'll take a sec but yeah yeah um
30:42 probably cc lines thanks tynan
30:46 she's gorgeous that one on the ride's fun yeah
30:54 and yeah to do something there to do something properly guys nothing is so sick there's also
31:00 some differences here nothing simple people that are watching um there's some differences here in
31:06 like the the lengths and capability of the cables there's also a versus c and stuff like that
31:11 so I believe this is one of the like higher spec ones uh Lucas was explaining to me
31:20 hopefully I didn't but um tynan's addressing a question that a lot of people have had with respect
31:25 to Thunderbolt so okay couple things DisplayPort alt mode should work perfectly fine with the 20
31:31 gigabit and 40 gigabit rated cables um as for Thunderbolt we are not certified in any way for
31:39 Thunderbolt but what I will say is that I plugged my laptop's Thunderbolt port oops let's get that
31:47 out of here not sponsored by that in fact I've been having some issues with that um so I plugged
31:54 into a Thunderbolt port on my laptop and I plugged into the back of that big del 6k Thunderbolt
31:59 display that's in my office and our cable worked I've been running a Thunderbolt this way off my
32:04 laptop for the last six months off of one of these yeah so it depends um when Intel opened up
32:10 Thunderbolt to third parties when they basically kind of gifted I believe it was Thunderbolt three
32:16 was when they did it when they gifted it to usb if um all of a sudden magically regular usb cables
32:23 as long as they were rated for a high enough speed started working so just because you're not
32:28 Thunderbolt certified that doesn't mean that it won't work we're not promising that it will with
32:34 a Thunderbolt device anymore because Thunderbolt three and usb four if I recall correctly are kind of
32:40 like they're not the same because Thunderbolt is Intel's certification level where it supports
32:47 some optional features um but they're like kind of equivalent-ish in terms of of bandwidth and
32:54 many cables that do support usb four should support or should work between Thunderbolt devices what it
33:01 won't do is it won't do the maximum Thunderbolt five bandwidth for sure that we know um not that
33:10 we know like that we know of like that we know for certain that's all neat you got to keep going
33:15 through those slides um sorry sorry tight tight and said that that is either the 20 gig or 40 gig
33:20 which makes sense which one the one we're looking at oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's not a usb
33:24 two cable yeah this has too much girth and too much sex appeal to be a usb two that's the shielding
33:31 god it's beautiful cable section and shielding and then this is fun this is a longitudinal scrub
33:38 oh yeah so you can like see the twist going through it oh wow that's pretty cool it reminds me of a
33:46 loading screen yeah for like you know playstation or something that's super cool I mean there's
33:51 more but we have kind of seen most of it yeah um yeah the other one is that there is an article
34:00 now on LTT Labs on true spec cable voltage drop testing yet again from sir lucas you can scroll
34:09 down and see that they did test results on a few different brands of cables and they did it you've
34:17 got your output voltage on the left current on the right and then your your drop over distances it's
34:23 fun it's very cool check it out uh capes said Thunderbolt devices do fall back to dp alt modes so
34:30 Thunderbolt monitors will work um i did not know that because i had not really looked into it since
34:37 the like og Thunderbolt monitors like apple's early Thunderbolt displays and i think there was like an
34:42 lg 5k back in the day that was like Thunderbolt only and those ones really were Thunderbolt only so
34:49 my bad if that's the case then make of it what you will these are usb cables they're not Thunderbolt
34:54 certified um another thing about this is that we have a new style for our articles we have table
35:01 contents on the right and a little loading bar is you're reading through them and people kept asking
35:05 us where the like rss feeds and stuff were so we called it out here so you could see it cool and
35:12 then if you didn't see it there it's at the top of the latest articles thing here and then if you
35:17 didn't see it there it's down here uh so i think you'll find it i think you'll be fine now anyway in
35:27 a nutshell i'm really happy with how the product turned out and i'm really happy that we at least
35:32 have some additional cable stock staged and we will uh we'll let you guys know as soon as as soon
35:40 it's back in stock um but in the meantime what you can do is you can sign up to get a notification
35:49 so if you find a length that you want you can click this button enter your email address
35:53 help inform how people are interested and yes that'll help us help inform us in terms of how
35:58 many we order of each size so definitely a good idea to pop in there and get a get a notify me
36:03 all right uh what do you what what what do we want to do next um should we play the thing
36:13 play the thing i i don't think we need to talk about the cables anymore there's okay next topic
36:21 what is this thing i don't know what is this one thing what do you this is a tech topic
36:26 what are you talking about willis uh this i don't okay is it a tech topic i can't see what you're
36:32 pointing at highlighting on the dock it's all this oh it's tech ish internet yeah sure uh a
36:38 one percenter is not what it used to mean a now remove post from me irl was outlining on r slash
36:45 me irl it's a subreddit i know oh well the way you said it sounded super weird okay all right um
36:53 um sure uh was outlining an adult creators income for being in the top 30 the top 37
37:02 percent of creators on the platform uh it's an adult creator platform you can put it together
37:09 um yeah keep your pc really cool yeah yeah if you only use fans for that yeah not like yes other
37:16 cooling methods um they they uh they stated that they brought home less than a hundred dollars a month
37:22 several commenters followed up on the post outlining some examples of other industries
37:26 that have similar effects for steam over 50 never made more than a thousand dollars
37:31 and only the top five percent make more than two hundred thousand dollars so i just thought i just
37:35 thought this was really interesting because we think of like when you think of a top one percent
37:41 if you thought top one percent anything whether it's only fans whether it's steam spotify twitch
37:47 youtube you might think oh you're like you're you're ballin or whatever it's also really crazy
37:54 even going from um in in like any performance field basically and what i mean by that is not like
38:04 singing dancing or this thing um what i mean by that is like anything that is effectively competitive
38:11 if you go in in almost all of those fields if you go from the top one percent
38:15 to the top like point one the variance between those is like similar to like i don't know the top
38:22 one percent to the top 50 like it's it's crazy the last little bit is nuts yeah it's like the extremes
38:29 at the edge of the bell curve are there's that guy i don't remember his name but he was in the nba
38:36 he was benched almost constantly but he was in the nba and he made this comment of like
38:42 uh yeah but i'm here and like the gap between me and you is enormous the gap between them and me
38:50 is a lot closer than the gap between me and you and you like think you can make it and then i i'm
38:54 going to get some of this story wrong but like a bunch of people challenged them and he went out and played basketball against them and just wiped all of them well yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah brian uh
39:05 scalabrine yeah yeah yeah that guy so if you want a more accurate i'm closer to brawn than you are
39:10 to me yeah that was his quote yeah it's like so uh another one and and to be clear none of this is
39:15 like verified it just it was really interesting to me to hear these anecdotal stories but we
39:20 have lots of examples of this from youtube from twitch from all these different places so for
39:23 spotify someone piped up saying that their band which is in the top 20 never made more than $500
39:30 in a year and that's not just on spotify that's across all services yeah so you can be one of the
39:35 top one out of you can be more popular in terms of streaming than four out of every five bands on
39:43 spotify and we're talking like like 40 bucks a month and this is exaggerated by platforms like a
39:50 couple meals that you can create an account for in sure roughly a minute but even if you look at
39:57 more older school traditional businesses like the competitive nature of restaurants yeah for example
40:04 meanwhile on twitch meanwhile on twitch uh elijah put this together for the topic
40:09 someone with about 20 viewers which you would look at and go bro give up yeah you know if you were a
40:17 negative nelly yeah big mean guy yeah someone with that with that 20 viewers would be in the top
40:22 one percent on the platform to hit 0.25 you would have just 120 viewers and like i can tell you as
40:33 someone who has seen twitch checks before that you ain't like working full time with 120 viewers
40:42 unless you are able to also leverage off-platform revenue sources i suspect there are some people
40:48 that do but this is we're getting into like it's it's on average probably not it's gonna be tough
40:53 that's gonna be tough and then with an average viewership of 1500 that would put you in the top
40:59 0.01 percent this this exactly lines up with my comment top one percent is 20
41:06 top 0.1 percent is 1500 like the the range you start getting is insane in those like little
41:12 percentages yep so anyway this this this reddit thread sparked a lot of discussion about how
41:20 concentrated earnings are and spending among top creators across all these industries
41:26 and even had people comparing this to real-world wealth distributions
41:30 such as salaries so this was this was a pretty cool little table here okay so the 1% right you
41:39 think of a lot of people would think of the 1% as like the problem with society right like we had
41:44 the 1% occupy movement and all that so the 1% on only fans is getting like shy of a quarter
41:51 million dollars a year and that's your top that's your top one out of a hundred so there are 99
41:59 people showing their butthole that are getting less than that specifically that out of every
42:03 hundred out of every hundred uh and then real world right so you're basically 1% you're like
42:11 a successful dentist if that kind of makes sense and i don't know about you guys but i never really
42:17 a successful dentist is 600k a year in the states yeah depends what you're doing
42:23 not if all you do is like cleanings all day but if you're doing if you're doing anything
42:27 beyond that yeah yeah absolutely um if you're running your own practice in particular and
42:33 like i don't know about you guys but personally i never really felt like my dentist was the problem
42:38 growing up with society um definitely like i'd like a good surgeon would be able to bring that in
42:47 so that's not in italy this is fair enough yeah we're talking we're talking usd here um
42:58 and then what's what's really wild is the fall off you can be in the top two to three percent
43:05 and now you're still making like a like a good income here you're still making a good income here
43:13 but look at the fall off 90th percentile dentist in the u.s is 263k um is that okay but private
43:19 practice owners report oh i already uh private practice owners report over 600 so yeah if you
43:26 own your own practice and it's going well okay sure um by the time you get out of the top 10 percent
43:35 this is wild you're literally making one 360th am i doing the math here right
43:45 one 360th oh wow yeah in the in the top 12 of the top 0.1 percent
43:52 that is flipping crazy that it is again a lot of these platforms where you can create an account
43:59 in a minute yeah um are kind of like this the barrier of entry is effectively zero zero plus
44:16 anyway we're not doing a deep dive into this topic deep
44:20 but it was just something that it was something that i just thought was pretty interesting um
44:32 because i and like obviously what now that really is a low barrier of entry
44:43 i mean there are chastity belts i'm just saying it is it is low yeah yeah that makes sense
44:50 oh man full plane chat you're doing good okay sorry um i just i just thought i thought it was
44:58 pretty interesting because i think that um that this sort of perception that uh just sort of let
45:04 anyone who's kind of getting views on instagram or you know through their reels or you know anyone
45:09 who's getting views on youtube or twitch or other websites um it's quite an accomplishment like raking
45:17 it in or whatever um and that's not necessarily the case at all unless they are people really are
45:25 yeah but like you know clearly you know i i have been i've worked hard my team is amazing and
45:33 i've been very successful on social media but it's not a it's not a given at all um and so i
45:42 don't i don't know man i just i thought it was interesting that's all so i brought it to the
45:48 wandshow hopefully it was interesting and the only takeaway wasn't just butt jokes
45:57 it's a pretty good takeaway yeah i'm pretty okay with that takeaway
46:03 okay yeah Windows phone fans rejoice next computing's upcoming next phone dual boots
46:11 Android and Windows and even db and Linux let's go when when docked okay uh the device runs the
46:17 full ARM version of Windows with a custom skin made to look and feel like the old Windows phone
46:23 ui that is so cool it's kind of xda has a great article on this this is really cool it's built
46:29 around the qualcomm dragon wing qcm 6490 a modified snapdragon 77 uh sorry 778 g uh when docked you
46:38 get a full desktop environment and that's cool but uwp or universal Windows platform is no
46:44 longer recommended to developers so Windows apps don't have the response of design required to
46:49 adapt to small screens that is unfortunate xda content director rich woods said the experience
46:55 of launching a Windows app on the phone isn't too pleasant yeah that sounds about right i
47:02 suspect that's a kind way of saying it yeah i mean i can't say that i super miss uwp because
47:09 there were definitely some problems um around gaming with it if i recall correctly i honestly
47:15 have not thought about uwp for quite some time i'm not convinced man this is this is not uwp but
47:23 but i had to download and install minecraft last night that's yeah that's just with microsoft
47:30 store our Windows store i know so i went to the minecraft site went to go download it i was like
47:36 oh nice i don't have to go through the store because that's the worst experience ever so i can
47:40 just download it that's good download it go to the launcher it failed the install because i didn't
47:46 read the little part there's there's a hyper text link it's not even a button it's just a hyper text
47:52 link that's like make sure you're signed into the store i didn't read that i just clicked install
47:58 so then i went and signed into the store it was already signed in it just wanted to launch yeah so
48:03 okay whatever and then i click install again download goes to the complete end never completes
48:08 have to close that then i try to launch it again and this time it i try it all the launcher does is
48:13 it launches the store then the store launches the launcher again if you want to really what are we
48:18 doing if you want to really play on hard mode set up a computer for your for your minor dependent
48:26 and then try to play with them seriously it took me like an hour plus to get all the permission
48:34 sorted out for me to play multiplayer games with my kids who are in my family unit did you play
48:41 minecraft together minecraft dungeons minor
48:49 all right you know what i don't know if you can ding for himself i think you know no i dinged you
48:53 yeah but i i was checking to see if you've made that joke he didn't though he said minor
48:58 it's a pun he just didn't know he made his own pun you gotta stop saying minor doctor disrespect
49:04 gonna show up oh and maybe a few policies the doors are locked we're okay
49:12 a gaggle of politicians i can hear them driving up now
49:17 we're flying i mean at their age
49:23 waddling yeah um
49:27 uh man i had a point don't know what it was quality show i honestly i find microsoft universal
49:33 sign and stuff is just universally terrible well i it's not universal yeah and oh like how is it
49:40 that i sigh i they they force me to sign into Windows and then i still have to sign in again
49:47 to the store again to edge and again into minecraft launcher to remember my login don't ask yes
49:55 thank you stop it's so annoying i always click yes out of hope
50:02 i just know it won't work but i'm like please i know me too every time i sign into teams i say
50:10 don't ask me again and this application only not device wide because this is my home computer
50:17 i just need to message somebody on teams right now and it's and it's frustrating because they have
50:21 like amazing compatibility with everything and stuff it's just so bad frustrating use multi mc
50:29 is that some other like launcher client thing i'm not surprised there is one um that makes a lot
50:34 of sense to me multi mc what is this alternative launcher yeah okay cool yeah maybe we'll grab
50:42 that instead it's like pretty annoying the microsoft one is pretty annoying
50:48 all right oh there's arguments there's other alternative launchers okay all right i think
50:54 i found the the Linux community of minecraft people uh i will figure this out on my own yeah please
51:02 yes yeah let's let's talk about something pretty trash um i am i am not really that happy with this
51:13 so yeah this sucks this is uh from best buy and this is in their like product details
51:19 why does your site say the comparable value is four hundred fifty nine dollars the aser
51:25 website says the msrp is two ninety nine okay so here's the answer uh i don't know this is no no this
51:33 is from uh someone uh but basically best buy oh my god has started pulling this horse shit
51:43 where instead of showing a regular price and just you know a special price or whatever their prices
51:52 they've added this compare value so this is a two hundred and ten dollar monitor
52:00 which honestly yeah doesn't look like a terrible deal for two hundred and ten dollars
52:06 thirty one and a half inches one hundred eighty hertz tell me the resolution what's the resolution
52:12 why is that 2560 by 1440 you know what looks great uh not at four hundred and sixty dollars
52:21 definitely not that so what is it what is a comparable value our comparable value prices
52:30 are based on the price at which the product or a comparable item was or in the future will be
52:38 offered for sale by best buy marketplace sellers manufacturers suppliers or other retailers
52:43 online or in store such prices may have been identified by best buy or provided by marketplace
52:48 sellers manufacturers or suppliers purchases from best buy offer many advantages over purchases
52:53 from others and we invite you to learn more about our pricing the services we provide and our price
52:58 match policy that's just obviously ridiculous you know that they have like gold leaf burgers
53:02 that cost like a thousand dollars yeah so mcdonald's could just be like well i mean a big mac is
53:06 comparable to yeah it's available now for uh you know one thousand dollars off yeah um yeah yeah
53:14 yeah snow pig put it pretty well lul so it's any number you want to quite literally is what that
53:20 means yes if they've ever seen it they can kind of go yes that one please no not even they said
53:29 we'll be in the future so yeah so they don't even have to have seen it right so i'm kind of thinking
53:35 this needs a dedicated LTT video where are we basically go okay look starting at compare at
53:44 and what was the other one that really made me mad uh hold on hold on there was there was another
53:50 one that i wanted to add to it um and up to starting at compare at and up to need to go
53:58 they've they've got to just be starting out is incredibly annoying yeah because what does it
54:02 even mean there's almost always some like obvious junk thing in there yeah there are exceptions
54:10 so the current gen mac mini starting at just buy it love it love love that computer it's like
54:18 actually an outstanding value for what it is but by and large starting at means here's a
54:25 craptastic configuration that we created so that we can have this price but the one that you really
54:30 want costs way more like actually way more and we're making a ton of margin on those upsells
54:37 and then it's honestly it's the same thing for up to i mean we ran into this um oh i don't think
54:45 this video is up yet well it's coming soon we finally got our hands on an rtx pro 6000 so that
54:51 i don't know kind of inside baseball we tried a new workflow for this video let us know if you
54:56 like the video um it was prepped by the Labs closer to like a ShortCircuit product sheet
55:03 and then instead of just hosting a ShortCircuit off of the product sheet i spent a couple hours
55:07 turning it into an LTT script and so it's like an LTT but it's like a hybrid between like the Labs
55:15 sort of product test workflow the ShortCircuit um like host prep workflow and the LTT writing
55:22 guidance editing workflow like so we're trying some stuff we actually did a very similar thing on our
55:29 Ryzen 9850x3d video which was also that one was actually written in an hour and a half by me with
55:38 some really good prep done by the Labs team let's go and i think i want to say i want to say it was
55:46 shoot was it pluf or elai who did the guidance whatever one of the one of the writers one of
55:49 those two i'm pretty sure i did the guidance for it and i just feel like having people do
55:54 smaller bite-sized chunks of the work in this way is actually helping their creative juices
56:01 flow a little bit better we talked about this in writer's meeting today but um like i thought that
56:08 i thought that both elijah and pluf who have been the main guys who have been doing guidance on
56:11 these videos that i've been writing recently really did their best visual guidance work for the
56:17 editors on those videos that i wrote which is kind of unintuitive because you'd think that as you're
56:24 writing you would have a better idea in your mind for what you want visually i think i get why it
56:29 would work actually but what what elijah said was like it's it's more just like fatigue from looking
56:35 at something for too long and when you're coming into it fresh and alt and offering like a like a
56:41 new perspective they're seeing this thing and being like oh i would like to see this here
56:44 let me go find that thing and suggest it exactly that's cool so yeah it's i don't know it's it's
56:49 pretty cool but um what was i talking about we did the we did the oh right up to so up to we
56:57 found was doing some extremely heavy lifting when it came to clock speeds on that rtx pro card and
57:04 we ran into multiple situations where it actually underperformed compared to an rtx 50 90 even though
57:12 it has three times the v RAM and costs three times the price um it has 10 more coup de course
57:19 it theoretically i think either clocks the same or higher basically there was no downside normally
57:25 these pro cards right they'll have more coup de course but to account for the extra power they'll
57:32 they'll advertise a lower clock speed in this case it didn't it just had more everything so
57:37 theoretically it should just be faster across the board but it wasn't and we found that sometimes
57:44 it wasn't clocking as high because up to up to sure compare at yeah starting at i'm just i'm tired
57:56 of it man yeah yeah yeah it's probably a good opportunity to discuss dark patterns bayzag
58:03 says it's like it's like saying the new LTT true spec cables start at a dollar but just having a skew
58:10 that nobody would want and pricing it at a dollar and then everything else is you know 15 to 30 bucks
58:15 we do something else that's kind of funny oh what do we do uh well the the 0.032 feet cable
58:22 is the same price as the 16.4 feet cable well yeah because okay well that's so you could you
58:28 could say starting at 2999 canadian it also ends at 2999 canadian you could do that you could have
58:38 a really short cable that was free and then just out of stock all the time oh is that illegal
58:46 probably starting at free you could sell one and then i think it would be illegal
58:53 you could restock one of them every like quarter not a bad idea
58:59 there are multiple prices it's complicated oh wait really yeah there are multiple prices for some of
59:04 them oh wait there is yeah but it's it's not by that much so you reach a certain point where it
59:13 where it becomes not just about the labor cost and like the actual size and weight of it start
59:18 to matter and the sheer length of cable stock that you're using do start to matter oh there is yes
59:24 yes yes yes yes it does vary a little bit not not not as much compared to um other things and it
59:32 seems to only get cheaper than what i said so i don't feel too bad sorry i'm just noticing
59:40 something here that i need to sometimes deal with spending a session of noticing is is something i've
59:46 learned is valuable from wendell sometimes you just need to notice things yeah i'm noticing a thing
59:53 that i need to follow up okay cool um anyway so yeah not cool best buy and the thing that annoys
60:06 other retailers permission to do the same thing and then all of a sudden
60:10 nobody knows what to compare anything at unless of course as part of that video we may be kind of
60:16 review various price comparison tools cool and shopping tools nice that way it's more than just
60:22 because so we need to make vinegar i mean look right like i we did that i don't want to be angry
60:29 anymore video recently right and i don't and and i do think that there's a lot of upside in in the
60:36 world of tech right there's a lot to be really happy about there's a lot to be really grateful for
60:41 but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't call out bad behavior when we see it i just i want us to be
60:47 really focused on offering up solutions to it if that makes sense at the same time like still
60:54 approaching everything that we do with constructiveness at its core if that makes sense because
61:02 i've seen some people go okay well so what Linus you're you you you don't want to be negative so
61:08 you're just going to be positive about everything absolutely not but i want to have an intent i want
61:16 to have a point to the the the negative things that we're we're shining a light on i want to
61:23 accomplish something through it i heard from a company that has gone through some
61:30 some difficult challenges and you know restructuring and rebuilding over the last little while and one
61:36 of the things that and this was an employee of the company not a member of the leadership team
61:41 but one of the things that they flagged for me was that you know some of the some of the coverage
61:48 of the struggles that they had gone through did not in any way help them turn the ship around
61:54 and if anything made it much more difficult for people to stay employed and people to get paid
62:00 and to and to and to please their customers it was just in some ways you know there were good
62:11 elements of it you know where the kick in the teeth are kicking the teeth kicking the butt was needed
62:16 some motivation was needed but the the destructive rather than constructive approach was like
62:26 super unhelpful for anyone involved and i thought that was uh that was a really interesting
62:31 perspective to get from someone who's gone through something like that obviously you can't name but
62:37 i'm interested yeah i can just tell you yeah oh yeah yeah that makes a lot of sense yeah apparently
62:47 they're like doing a lot better now and things are going good and uh they want to like partner on some
62:52 stuff and we're we're really we're really excited to see them come back because we they've been an
62:58 innovator for many many years and uh yeah they you know made some mistakes but i don't know much
63:05 about it i think how you how you recover from your mistakes says a lot more about you than
63:09 whether or not you ever make them what else we what else we got what else the mistakes are but
63:15 yeah okay yeah you know what that's an interesting i that that's an interesting conversation i saw
63:21 that there was a um there was a convicted murderer who was who was um appointed to like uh like a
63:31 police advisory board of some sort like a like a citizen advisory board and um this caused like a
63:40 major fracture within the community where uh it wasn't that he he didn't hide anything but they
63:46 like didn't ask and just you know and went through it and there were people on both sides um some
63:54 that were basically like look that's a felony offense you like killed someone uh you should
63:59 have nothing to do with any kind of law enforcement ever ever ever ever ever and then there were other
64:04 people that were going okay but hold on this guy like seriously reformed and has spent considerable
64:10 energy trying to make amends and when you're doing advisory stuff uh yeah someone just pointed out
64:15 like if catch me if you can i mean i don't think you killed people but uh catch me if you can is
64:20 a good example of like sometimes you need people who are informed from the other side to help you
64:25 be better at what you're doing yeah i um anyway i i honestly i don't i literally i'm not even
64:32 trying to trying to go all centrist on this i don't have a take on it i don't i don't know
64:36 how i would feel about that uh if i if i was someone that had a connection to the victim
64:42 i'd feel i can tell you i'd feel super emotional about that and i'd be i'd feel very negative
64:47 about it if i was removed from it though and you know looking at at at some of the well like you
64:56 said like practical um benefits potentially of having you know a reformed offender involved
65:05 i i i don't know it's really hard for me to say
65:10 um
65:15 i think we're getting into topics that we're far from experts on oh yeah i not that that
65:19 isn't effectively always true but like i don't think that's always true i mean a little bit
65:26 we've been an expert on something at least once always is such a big word i talked about
65:32 buttholes earlier in the show maybe that was it i mean i've got one i think that entitles me to
65:38 an opinion sounds like it to me i think like yeah i don't know it's uh
65:49 are people redeemable is maybe not a topic for the WAN Show
65:55 i'm just sitting here thinking like should i say anything is that probably not
66:01 we're gonna move on sure um what was what was that how did we get on that i don't know
66:07 does it matter sure i really don't know like maybe it does maybe it doesn't i don't know
66:16 i do think you making a video about the best by thing could be good yeah i want to be a good time
66:21 to yet again highlight uh dark patterns yeah stuff like that yeah dark patterns a little bit
66:27 multifat i think that could come later on in the video yeah but i think it'd be a little multifaceted
66:32 um but yeah speaking of things that suck microsoft says it handed over bitlocker encryption keys
66:38 when the government asked cool microsoft has confirmed that it handed them over uh and the
66:44 f to the fbi during a criminal investigation last year and says that this isn't unusual yes it is
66:53 apparently not but it should be to me that means we've done this a bunch um according to the company
67:00 it receives around 20 requests per year and will comply again if the government follows the proper
67:04 legal processes if you sign into Windows with a microsoft account bitlocker keys are automatically
67:09 backed up to microsoft servers tying them to your account and devices from microsoft's perspective
67:14 turning those over is just another lawful data request but privacy advocates argue that quietly
67:19 holding encryption keys defeats the point of encryption that thing that thing he said just
67:26 interesting microsoft notes users can request to delete stored keys and local account work
67:31 around still work they're trying to make that not a thing to be clear did they actually say that
67:38 it's become such a hassle though did microsoft actually note that local account work around
67:42 still work that's crazy uh but most users don't even know this is something they can do
67:49 is that did they actually say that i i don't i don't see that in the Windows central article
67:55 the way this is worded it could mean that they just noted that you could request
67:59 to delete your stored keys and also they didn't say this but it might be what they meant okay cool
68:09 if they said that that's crazy i doubt it i don't think they did
68:14 more bad news lg subscription program for audio visual devices lg launched a new
68:20 subscription program called lg flex in the uk whoa uh in the uk for premium devices such as tv
68:27 soundbars monitors and speakers they have partnered up with ray low which offers subscription services
68:32 for other brands such as dyson apple and nintendo i've never even heard of this me either is that
68:37 a uk thing but the devil is ray low lg flex subscribers can opt for a one to three year
68:43 subscription with longer terms having a lower monthly payment at the end of the term the
68:48 customer can decide to get a free upgrade with a new subscription that's not free with a new
68:54 subscription keep paying monthly or return the device to leave oh to leave the subscription
69:01 terms i guess ours technically calculated that under a three year plan the subscription would
69:05 cost more than buying a tv after 27 months okay so here here's a nintendo switch to refurbished
69:15 oh very good ray low certified refurbished okay very good uh 36 months would cost me 11
69:23 pounds 99 a month okay calculatrice so 12 times 36 is 432 pounds nintendo switch to refurbished
69:39 no no i'm gonna compare to brand new okay i because i'm curious smith smith toys is this a uk
69:48 thing no idea sure i'm happy it has a little banner like you see that little dark pattern
69:53 there yes i'm happy yeah what was that it was a cookie banner yeah it was a cookie banner yikes
69:59 wow that's a yikes 385 brand new not refurbished oops what did i do here what were you calculating
70:08 uh cool yep there's your problem right there there you go 432 so literally i could get the
70:17 nintendo switch to mario kart world bundle so you get a game so if i plan to have this thing for
70:25 three years then i should not do this and you could buy a snack you could get the console a game and
70:32 a snack and own all of those you know you might eat the snack but you could own all of those forever
70:39 this one's so weird i know that carrier subsidies for phones are not as much of a thing
70:44 like overseas but as someone where who grew up with carrier subsidized phones where you
70:50 effectively pay for the phone monthly anyway seeing buying like a non-carrier locked for like
71:00 the price of what a plan used to be yeah yeah it's like what like i used to get i used to get stuff
71:07 with this along with the phone yeah um wow okay
71:16 so this would cost me like a couple hundred bucks a year for an s24 ultra that doesn't actually
71:22 seem that bad the iphone seemed like at the end though yeah i might not own it at the end you
71:26 have to give it back yeah there's no there's no not giving it well okay hold on this is another one
71:34 we actually shot a video on this week i don't know if you know this but um oh yeah yeah i remember
71:43 now yeah you could you you you only get to keep it if you just keep paying monthly i don't think
71:48 they have like a pay the rest and buy out so we actually did a video on this this week hp
71:55 has a rent your rental laptop service now yep so hold on wait one of the hold on relax one of the
72:06 skews um comes with a sim card and your rental includes your data plan for it it includes uh
72:16 next day onsite service and you can just apply for an upgrade so when we were looking at it we
72:25 compared it a a couple of different ways we compared it to buying the device outright
72:31 and like where's your like where's your break even point there right and then we also compared it to
72:38 reselling where's your break even point if you resell your old device and then the last one that
72:45 we looked at was okay um but what if you are like a frequent what if what if you're a frequent
72:53 upgrade and you would be like buying a new device and then we looked at it both in terms of if you
72:58 right right right if we've looked at it in terms of if you resold and in terms of like if you didn't
73:02 if you repurposed um there are skews that we've looked at and we went okay this might not be
73:12 absolutely crazy depending on who you are and what exactly it is that you're trying to accomplish
73:18 if you're someone who is not tech savvy does not want to deal with buy sell trade and just
73:24 wants a working laptop all the time there's like one skew that is like a pretty decent laptop
73:30 and comes with the data plan and like could potentially make sense and it seems like um
73:38 hp kind of figured out that the value was too good for some of them and the other program for
73:46 gaming laptops that they launched later it was pretty hard for us to find anything that made
73:51 any sense have i been a good boy can i respond now okay do everyone there you go that's honestly
73:59 pretty much all i have to say yeah as long as you can count on them to keep the price the same
74:07 then it's great except well yeah this exhibit a um however however we actually found that the best
74:20 deal was to rent it for a year return it and then buy the same one after it had depreciated for a
74:32 year which is interesting that's kind of funny just i so that is kind of funny however however
74:39 however however we found that the pricing for this particular model on the buy it outright
74:47 so your compare at uh was felt really high compared to what we could find this particular
74:53 laptop for in the used market today so basically what i'm trying to say is your point isn't invalid
75:00 and this whole you'll own nothing and you'll like it thing is toxic but that doesn't mean
75:05 that there might not be deals out there and we should be open to something that's a better deal
75:11 and then immediately closed once it isn't a better deal if if there isn't a reasonable
75:16 alternative and i don't feel like they're going out of their way to make it so that there isn't
75:20 a reasonable alternative and it takes constant upkeep a subscription is fine to me yeah but
75:26 in a lot of cases that's not it's like the the heated seats subscription like no you can just
75:31 leave that could just be a button you don't need to constant upkeep that that is unnecessary that
75:35 should not be a subscription go away and it depends on and it depends on how you use it too like if
75:41 i used game pass to play a whole bunch of single player games over the span of a year and then i
75:47 canceled my game pass subscription it could be a freaking great value if you're playing an entire
75:52 single player game a month yeah it's probably still not that bad no yeah however paying playing
76:00 new ones i don't know if microsoft is publishing new full fat triple a titles once a month well yeah
76:07 but you might have a backlog it like true you check out what's on games are not going to be that high
76:12 value sure when it's at 30 usd a month however however if you're the kind of person who know
76:19 life's one game for six months at a time it's crazy to be paying for game pass right so it's
76:28 look i'm just saying you know horses for courses sometimes something can be a really great value
76:34 and then the next month it can't be and we just have to have the discipline to cut off that
76:39 subscription when it's not a good value anymore but that's how they get you right that's the lock
76:44 in that they want they want the laziness lock in if that makes sense yeah i'd never heard of this
76:50 relo thing before but uh oh man this is always funny to me 4.5 stars on trust pilot it's not clickable
77:01 okay is it though relo trust pilot it's trust pilot one of those ones that it's basically
77:07 just like you bribe them to have a good score i don't know okay okay they do have 4.5 stars on
77:15 trust but how do they have 21 000 reviews and they're all five star do we believe do we believe this
77:25 though i mean i don't it came next day promptly it was in pristine condition wrapped up perfectly
77:32 feel happy with the phone it's a perfect gift to my kid bro who's been down these days hope it
77:36 will lift his spirits there is no way that this is real is there some reward for leaving trust
77:44 pilot reviews this reviewer was automatically invited to write a review following their experience
77:49 with the company this type of review is automatically labeled verified automatically
77:56 good service is that a link deliver on time this one i actually believe i believe that one i believe
78:04 this one yep the why would you leave a four star review and this is the only thing you had to say
78:14 about it um i kind of might believe janine's one as well sorted my problem i had and very grateful
78:23 for the help and understanding they were problem solved and very nice was the manager i don't know
78:28 dude that does not sound like an lm output no but it's shocking to me oh check our history yeah
78:34 yeah i'm about to it's shocking to me how much spam doesn't seem to use an lm output
78:41 like the number of bots that are not writing like might be more expensive i guess bother
78:49 all right it's working anyways all right janine so four days ago on trust pilot
78:56 very understanding and compassion very efficient and lovely friendly i just so positive of low well
79:03 what is low well debt collecting no fucking combination way is brutal no way there's no way
79:17 no shot let's keep going we look too far into the abyss let's keep going back the next one run
79:25 okay so very adjective and adjective very adjective and a couple more adjectives lovely
79:35 friendlies great for more than dot com i'm gonna use lovely friendly often insurance agency
79:42 oh this is so paid so paid you just reviewed a device rental company an insurance agency
79:57 and a debt collector four stars or more these are the four star reviews that are designed to
80:04 make the five stars seem plausible brother there is just no way that this is a real person
80:12 sorry i would like to see more there's a three every
80:25 just ring doorbell once and don't bat on the door loudly frightens me
80:31 what are you talking about they just want the person to ring the doorbell once not like
80:38 because it scared them logistic come on now it's just esl stuff uh no it's not this is not a real
80:44 person okay i'm sorry there's no way sure but like that sentence is you know there's no way this is
80:51 real also like okay what's her first language
81:03 well okay i i have some familiarity with the patterns that you might see in written language
81:11 for various first languages most of the people i've encountered whose english second language
81:20 looks like this do not look like this i can tell you that much
81:29 origins last what is brsk internet service provider dude these are all spam now it is
81:38 it is possible that this is human spam that is possible i also think it is highly probable
81:46 that this is highly highly probable that this is bot spam as well all right anyway so congratulations
81:58 lg on the partnership with ray low did you finish getting through this topic yeah you did okay
82:03 let's move on should we probably do uh sponsors we should really get sponsors done okay or we
82:12 can do merge messages you know what let's get sponsors done let's do two of them the show
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83:16 that was a lot of luke styled mistakes thank you made right there thank you
83:20 you know what i feel strong i feel jacked and like i have a more positive outlook on the world
83:28 your stat block changed apparently soc two is pronounced sock two i don't have a ton of familiarity with email
83:40 email systems uh so thank you i appreciate that sock two type two that does make it easier to say
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84:45 all right should we do merch messages yeah if you are not through wait
84:52 Dan you baited me what do you mean you put up the sign it needs to say check out chats
85:01 oh did we decide on check out your ads well we're definitely not calling that anymore
85:06 i ended up in a whole debate with someone on the subreddit over this where basically they were
85:10 like i fundamentally disagree with Linus's objection to the word merch to describe the
85:14 products they make because i view merch as something that i buy for a higher price that's just to
85:20 support the person i like and i was like buddy okay you you just you weren't even done your
85:27 sentence and you proved my point we don't want anyone's charity and we respect your hard-earned
85:33 money enough to make products not merch products not merch that are a good value and good quality
85:42 and that we stand behind so calling them merch just doesn't work for us i i like supporting
85:47 other creators i've bought a decent amount of random merch stuff um i'm a huge supporter of
85:55 something that i think we were at the the front of the curve for which is like
85:59 youtubers getting into like real products um a huge range of youtubers by the way not just
86:04 like reviewer people i think that's super cool it's a really cool industry it's really cool
86:08 having people stand behind their product and be excited about things and blah blah blah
86:12 vary into all that a lot of merch is just trash well yeah that's the problem too manufactured
86:20 waste uh so we're trying to get away from that that's all it is it's tough because it's like
86:27 literally the word just means merchandise which is definitely exactly what it is but then
86:31 words are how people use them realistically and the way people are using merch in this context
86:37 is describing it as something that is uh at a cost level that does not equal the value return
86:44 that you're getting um but you're doing so in order to specifically just support someone
86:48 which is not the goal of the store so it makes sense that they might want to redefine um
86:56 hopefully that makes sense all right cool so check out chats if you're new to the show the way to
87:04 send in a message is not via super chats or twitch bits or anything like that instead you
87:11 can send a check out chat all you got to do to do so i think we need a better name than check
87:15 out we're working on okay we're gonna call it that for now all right all you got to do is head
87:20 over to lttstore.com and you can throw oh tech commerce communicate tech pants tech pants are here
87:28 oh tech pants okay add to cart all you got to do is add it to your cart and you will see the uh
87:35 well whatever we're gonna get this updated don't look at it the point is you will see this you can
87:40 type a message and it will go to producer Dan who will uh put it in the you know one of the little
87:47 boxes that appears or he will respond to it or he will curate it for me and luke to respond to
87:56 oh you do have to actually complete your order listen it's been a very chaotic week i'm doing
88:01 my best product prompts is pretty okay really peepee merge yeah exactly so if people buy a lot
88:07 they send a big peepee yeah do you verify your gamers do you actually verify your gamers do you
88:12 make sure that they are verified actual gamers i mean i've been known to do that before yes
88:16 interesting do i have to do that now i think we should still cook on the name i don't know if
88:22 product prompts is merge messages flows nicely we can we can find something and we can just make
88:28 it cc instead of cock and then it's like you know also credit card give us your give us your cc
88:37 give us five ccs of love that sucks through the that's terrible through the internet
88:42 i'm not saying i'm not saying peepee is the way to go but i i think well well i mean we could try
88:49 it out i've got a pretty short peepee here from sure deal howdy lld any update on the diy home
89:00 battery has it made you more conscious on how you spend daily um there is an update coming
89:10 it has been in the works for quite a while uh pankrat's i'm one of our new writers danie who
89:15 is now off probation have been working on it uh we have our so we already did part one which you
89:23 saw which was there were a lot of comments about what could have been better it's great thank you
89:27 keep them coming uh part two will be the proof of concept for what will be the the final deployment
89:35 and then part three will be the scale deployment and i gotta say being conscious of how much i'm
89:42 spending isn't helping me spend any less right now which is frustrating because i just have a
89:48 bunch of stuff to do before i can sort of tone down our energy use but it is absolutely something
89:54 that i want to do at home because yeah it's it's a lot is what i'll say
90:00 let's see another one here we're going hey d ll any new updates on the solar at your house
90:11 what works well and what would you change now having had the solar system for a couple years
90:15 okay yeah updates so um the plumbers who plumbed it into the walls of the pool they filled it and
90:23 didn't tell me or maybe they did tell me and i forgot anyway all the pvc piping cracked in the winter
90:29 so the plumbing side of it doesn't work at all as for the solar side the good news is they're
90:34 perfectly functioning solar panels and we got a deal from the manufacturer on them so it doesn't
90:39 really matter if the plumbing doesn't work because i didn't pay more for them than i would have for
90:44 regular solar panels i'm still up on the deal i guess apparently maybe probably not the point is
90:52 in vancouver solar panels were more of a hey so that we can like make content and it's cool
90:58 um and less of a practical you should definitely spend money on this because we just don't get
91:03 enough sunny year uh but man there's there's days when it's a sunny day and i'm looking at i'm like
91:08 dang that is wow that is a lot of power coming out of these and that's pretty neat
91:16 oh man there's a robot messaging me about like a bunch of bunch of you could call sorry
91:31 ginger-nutted great name info plain chat uh gave a really interesting idea you could call them tweets
91:39 oh my god we can can we see oh i would why not i think so wasn't there somebody going
91:44 after the trademark already um
91:53 okay well uh yeah i don't uh it's not very good okay it's funny cool yeah definitely
91:59 it's definitely a meme it is a meme um check out tweets now would probably be since we're
92:05 since we're talking about um check out messages
92:09 calm that's kind of neat calm you know i don't know i'd send a message through the
92:17 comport that's not too bad check out messages is better than check out chats
92:23 check out messages is better comport that's that's actually not bad
92:28 we're doing comms comms now i check out messages i like comms i like the abbreviation more than
92:34 the wording but i think that's fine okay i'll see store comms yeah and if someone
92:40 sounds like a really strong one it could be like a calm dom
92:47 they send a lot
92:52 we have another thing to maybe talk about do you want to talk about it now this thing we should
92:55 probably finish talking about like all the products that we launched this week oh that's
92:59 that one last that one last for sure so um luke is actually oh oh luke is i'm wearing everything
93:06 decked out head to toe in um a couple of legitimately really exciting new products for us
93:12 so he's uh look at my butt he's where everyone look at my butt i mean okay but okay hold on don't
93:19 go away yet so what's cool about the tech pants is that yeah cool they're very you went and stood
93:25 right behind the laptop for crying out loud luke now you got the do not put it there
93:35 hey no i do i still need you to stand
93:47 time stamp that no don't time stamp that no he doesn't want to do that okay move that
93:54 where do you okay the point is what's cool about the tech pants is they're very office
94:00 attire friendly they are but they have extra hidden pockets if you're more of a cargo kind of boy
94:07 so there's a pocket there you could stash a phone there that pocket actually goes all the way across
94:11 the front by the way so you can actually put like a ton of stuff in there grill cheese sandwich
94:16 while following the office dress code so there's like a little hidden zip um there's another hidden
94:22 zip on the right hip i believe um in the seam so you've got your regular pocket no no up there you
94:30 go oh there's a hidden zip right there you'll figure it out oh god okay yep there we go so you've
94:38 got yeah so you can put like something that you want to be a little bit more secure in there
94:43 uh to be clear it doesn't have like rfid blocking lining or anything like that i'm not talking about
94:48 that kind of secure i'm talking like just you don't want anyone to put their hand in your
94:51 pocket and notice it uh zipper pockets on the regular pockets as well and then at the back
94:55 i believe uh hold on yes so in addition to the two back pockets there's a hidden zipper pocket
95:01 right where your right finger is i believe there it is or is it just a pocket i think it's just
95:07 yeah just okay extra pocket so they're kind of like uh they're kind of like a an office friendly
95:16 like cargo but not a cargo pant they're like cousin is a cargo pant yes yes they are not
95:23 and they don't really give the the visual indication no they're like a white collar cargo pant
95:30 really really excited about this product it's one of the things that we've been legitimately
95:35 extremely successful with is office friendly but really tech forward clothing people asked
95:44 about the fit of the polo it feels longer i believe which i like they are jamie was saying
95:51 something that it was a bit longer yeah it's a bit of a longer cut probably if i stand up and
95:57 measure it on my longness it's slightly longer than normal i would say which kind of makes sense
96:04 so i think that can maybe look a little bit professional and is probably nicer for the
96:07 people that want to tuck it in yep so just like some of our other sort of office attire uh we've
96:13 added just you know a little splash of fun a little splash of color obviously it's a high quality
96:21 garment so it's a 10 cell cotton blend um so really soft really smooth feel custom knit
96:27 coloring cuffs plus a do not drop branded button uh or actually sorry all the buttons are um
96:34 they just have like a little cute can you see it they say do not drop on oh that's just a subtle
96:39 LTT touch adorable you're not going to read that unless you're like the person wearing the shirt so
96:44 it won't it won't stand out in an office environment and there is LTT branding on it even though it's
96:50 probably pretty hard to tell oh yeah very small embroidered right here black on black LTT branding
96:55 so should be totally fine right above the nips i think i i've been really happy with the photos
97:00 coming from creator right house for a long time now i think the photos for this shoot were like
97:05 sick really captured the vibe really effectively they've been doing a really good job i just want
97:09 to give props and then there's one more product launch today i know what a day for product launches
97:16 we had the cables we have the premium polo we have the tech pants uh tech pants i think have been in
97:21 in development for like two years or something like these feel nice they're really nice these feel
97:26 very nice uh people have seen me wearing them on camera a few times i've been i've been demoing
97:31 them for quite some time i've been really pleased with the stain resistance of them uh that's not
97:36 to say that that's necessarily an advertised feature i don't want to set incorrect expectations or
97:42 anything like that but for a light colored garment to survive in my environment where i live in is
97:49 pretty remarkable um there oh there's a couple other little other little things there's a subtle
97:56 safety feature so there's a reflective stripe inside the cuff that becomes visible when it's
97:59 rolled up so if you were say for example someone who bikes to and from work and you still wanted
98:04 to look workplace appropriate you can roll them up and there's a reflective stripe in there
98:12 cool i think that's probably enough that's neat i wouldn't have noticed that i think
98:17 it's not like you don't really feel it which is good a gusseted crotch so just extra extra comfort
98:24 whether you're biking or just running between meetings or whatever i did notice like i i put
98:29 them on and walked for a bit and it was nice and then i came to the set here except put them on
98:32 right for the show and sat down and when i sat down i was like oh yeah that's pretty get a comfy
98:38 they're really nice they're pretty comfortable all right i don't mind wearing these for a bit
98:42 all right luke intro it intro it last one last product this might be my favorite packaging for
98:51 anything we've ever done it's so cute my goodness i even like that when it's like a little bit out
98:57 it just feels like there's sand at the bottom nice i like it so much i'm so happy with these
99:03 i i sort of knew these were coming wait can i have that yeah okay one quick thing i'm going
99:07 to jump in with we are rebranding yes we're rebranding the precision screwdriver that has
99:13 the bit storage in it the pro um what does that mean i don't know we'll find out later but this
99:21 is going to be the pro now i heard the whole story and agree with it but i do wonder what would
99:29 line us say if this was like a tech product and that it's pro and that it got renamed um oh that's
99:37 interesting w w ls yeah i'd probably be annoyed with it but i understand why we did it exactly i
99:47 don't necessarily disagree and there makes sense there have been times when that rationale did not
99:52 exist so i don't know man trying to capture it there it is hey check it out check it out yeah
100:00 and like that's cool and it still has the i'm not gonna fully oh you i spoiled it it still
100:06 has the magnetic door but behind the magnetic door Floatplane exclusive precision driver
100:13 i gotta line these up before people get upset with Floatplane color scheme i will i will
100:19 fix it for the ocds i got you hold on hold on okay it's all good okay it's it's it's all right
100:27 it's okay i fixed it also is the anodization on that driver incredible or what
100:35 there now it's in focus it's okay luke's new to being on camera he's never done it before
100:40 first time no that probably is my eye stock so i can't see
100:45 so i can't tell you could get glasses that it still has this i they're in the car
100:51 devil nice satisfying bearing
100:56 yeah i mean it's the same driver yeah it just looks cool it has multiple different colors of blue
101:03 because the Floatplane blue is not exactly an official thing so uh which is kind of nice
101:07 yep still comes with the detachable magnetic parts tray with the little segments in it and uh
101:14 yep it's everything that you already knew and loved about the the precision kit pro which is what
101:19 it is now but uh a little more blue available exclusively to folks who are subscribed to
101:28 LTT on Floatplane dot com all right okay there now we're through all the products that we launched
101:35 this week geez only a couple that was crazy how many how many cable excuse were there like 60
101:42 yeah something like that damn yeah that it's been it's been a whole thing
101:46 there's been a couple merch messages today just a few okay but what else we got for today
101:55 what do you want to talk about we could talk about iran's internet blackout
101:59 this is brutal man it's now been 22 days since the iranian authorities have imposed
102:06 a near total communications blackout in response to anti-government protests during which has many
102:11 as 30 000 protesters are thought to have been killed uh fixed line internet mobile data and
102:17 internet voice calls have all been cut off with domestic communications and starlink
102:21 communications also seriously disrupted uh some connectivity is now slowly being restored
102:28 but the iranian government is reportedly utilizing deep packet inspection and a white listing system
102:33 to impose what an anonymous iranian cybersecurity professional has called digital isolation
102:40 international internet access won't be reopened until at least march
102:44 but it will never return to its previous form according to an iranian government spokesperson
102:50 this new approach is also expected to have a major impact on the effectiveness of vpns and
102:55 tour connections so this is seriously um it's not good a problem and a trend that as
103:06 technologically driven control tools get more and more sophisticated and better understood
103:14 is only going to increase in certain parts of the world hopefully hopefully hopefully not all of
103:20 them and uh as few as possible so just wanted to flag this for you guys this is a real problem
103:30 our stance is that this is terabad uh just was there anything to add mr luke i don't think so um
103:39 um starlink is an interesting one because i'm not sure necessarily how they are like jamming it
103:47 or stopping it i don't know if they've requested that it doesn't because i know that that is a
103:51 thing that you can do not sure not necessarily that they would comply i'm not saying that but
103:56 i know that you could ask for that um in in places like china with the great firewall uh
104:04 vpn usage is like a extremely open secret like everybody kind of knows i have a feeling iran
104:12 might not go quite the same route with that this is yeah this is what i'm kind of thinking i also
104:17 don't know exactly how this is happening like would it even be possible are they even connected
104:22 um at all far now asks i wonder if the global internet is dying if there will only be regional
104:28 nets that's exactly what this means like ru net's a thing china's own firewalled internet
104:38 ecosystem is a thing um the tools exist and it's big business providing these tools to
104:47 authoritarian regimes uh yeah it's yeah it's happening it's coming yeah
104:56 magic cheeseburger says mulvad vpn apparently has several anti-censorship methods to obfuscate
105:02 vpn traffic i wonder if they can get around this packet inspection i hope so um you know i i hope
105:09 that the that the vpn companies win the arms race here but i um that's i mean obviously this is i
105:18 feel like when it when it gets to white listing i think there's only so much you can do bro what's
105:27 up is it team speak um sorry no key linked this thing obviously like this you know the whole
105:35 thing sucks but it's it's kind of fun hearing things like this apparently over a thousand
105:40 iranian dota players like at once we're playing dota 2 local hosted lobbies and this looks like in
105:47 a locally hosted team speak server um and the the video that we have on this if you full screen it
105:54 is just scrolling through all of the different voice lobbies that they have going um in a in a
106:02 team speak server that seems to be called dota iran um which like that is it's so cool
106:09 seeing people come together in horrible times yeah like obviously it's a horrible situation i
106:14 don't want to praise that but like it's pretty sweet that not only were people able to get
106:20 together to a certain degree but they also got so many people together and like this this you
106:25 know spark of unity amongst terrible situation is is cool so i'm i'm props to props to the people
106:33 getting that going yeah ginger nut it says it's both sad and terrifying to see people who are
106:39 just like you and me just regular gamers who just want to live in peace and play some play some
106:46 f***ing dota like just be left alone to live their lives and function and you know sometimes
106:55 dysfunction for being real about the dota community you know but do it on their terms yeah
107:05 cool um the iphone 5s just got a security update apple quietly released updates for some very old
107:14 iphones and ipads including devices running iOS 12 15 and 16 some of which hadn't been patched in
107:20 years the updates renew a security certificate so services like i message facetime and apple
107:25 account sign in will keep working past january of 20 27 our discussion question is should apple be
107:33 praised for keeping decade old devices minimally functional or is this just the bare minimum
107:39 to avoid breaking its own services well i wish it didn't deserve praise and yet
107:47 in the world we live in in the in reality yeah they they this is something that that has to be
107:54 noted like i'll be the first to call out apple when they do something that's anti consumer
107:59 or monopolistic but this is cool that means the rule is that i got to be the first one in line
108:05 to put their in my mouth when they do something that is genuinely cool like making sure that
108:11 someone who bought an iphone 13 years ago is still able to use it if they can tolerate the
108:20 you know the the experience that they're having on that device gotta be pretty rough but still
108:24 that's that's pretty cool speaking of pretty cool uh 1.3 million of its 1.4 million signatures were verified for
108:37 stop killing games that's which is well above the minimum to be formally considered by EU
108:42 politicians i had no hope for this really yeah stop killing games i just i mean we talked about it
108:49 we promoted it we were like yeah if this works that would be great but i just i didn't think it
108:55 would make it i do i do the odds obviously in support of the idea i think i think when this
109:01 when this first became a thing and i like tried to talk about it with some nuance it got a lot of
109:07 hate but then we were luckily able to lean back on the many years of examples of us supporting
109:12 this general concept uh the the problem i have with things like this is i just hope that they get
109:20 good consultants on the result that's all sure but i just didn't think we'd even make it this far
109:25 totally yeah and i'm excited about it and the EU's done some cool stuff so hopefully this goes well
109:30 and i'm feeling good about it i just i'm just a little bit concerned that they might do something
109:35 yeah that or they might do nothing or that but at least it is forced onto the agenda of the
109:42 european commission that is something cool and if one region forces game developers to do this
109:50 to whether it's to open source the the the server software or whatever it is right partner with
109:57 the community to to to run the services that are needed to keep the game alive whatever it is if one
110:02 region forces it well at that point they've done all the work anyway and a lot of the time it will
110:08 bleed over into other regions which is what i'm hoping for because so far canada's got its hands
110:14 full doing a lot of other stuff right now i'm pretty busy maybe maybe we don't work on this right
110:18 now the us is there's this big got his hands full doing a lot of stuff right now yeah doing a lot
110:25 of stuff right now um they're definitely things yeah there's definitely they're definitely boy are
110:30 they ever doing stuff i'd say things are going pretty good down there right now
110:38 yeah this is funny uh bernardo baruch said about the apple uh the apple topic it's like seeing a
110:48 mayor actually do their job yeah it's basically like that it's like i shouldn't have to be impressed
110:55 by this but i so am i so am all right what's next reddit found a card skimmer on the canada
111:03 computer's checkout page a canada computer's customer has discovered a card skimmer embedded
111:08 directly into the company's website checkout page the malicious script was found siphoning names
111:13 addresses and credit card details to a third party server in real time suggesting a server side
111:18 compromise rather than a single browser based attack reports indicate fraudulent charges dating
111:24 back to early december meaning the breach may have gone undetected for weeks or i mean really
111:32 potentially longer considering it's saying fraudulent charges they might have been harvesting
111:36 for a long time before they started actually using uh which is extremely common in these cases so i
111:40 suspect it was a lot longer than that canada computer says not yet issued a public statement
111:44 and affected customers are being advised to review recent credit activity via an email
111:52 dang is an email enough of a notification when dealing with this big of a security breach what
111:58 should companies do to handle this i don't know how much more you can really do than that i don't
112:03 know other than like not have it happen in the first place but clearly that ship sailed yeah
112:08 they're a relatively small shop running a internet commerce operation um it can be tough out there
112:18 this is one of those things where it's like totally the consumer advocacy of this like
112:23 something's got to happen all that kind of stuff are we effectively just funneling everyone
112:29 to big players managing their stores for them is that a good thing do we want that we don't want
112:34 that then sometimes there's going to be some security problems even with the big players
112:39 are going to be security problems i know but this is this is the issue though the overreaction to
112:44 stuff like this can result in no you're so right scaring people away do you get tired of it from
112:50 being responsible like it's just exhausting to be you not right no but this is one that i got to
112:58 admit i would not have seen that angle on and if you gave me if you gave me like two hours to
113:05 sit and think about it i wouldn't go oh my god we need to chill out we need to kind of let
113:12 canada computers regroup and we need to continue to support them because otherwise oh my god our
113:16 only options are just going to be freaking amazon a new egg yeah to be clear canada computers like
113:23 almost certainly brought this upon themselves in a variety of ways they never responded to
113:27 my email guys come on like i remember i remember them being a meme internally at ncix you saw
113:34 how broken our it infrastructure was and our internal systems were like i think i showed you
113:40 like like our like product management portal and stuff oh yeah and then the punchline was
113:45 yeah but canada computers was still using fax till like a year ago so like
113:54 right but still at least at least they exist and i guess that's something that is that is kind of
114:02 good you know yeah yeah shout out memex too i guess those are those are canadian our canadian
114:09 computer retailer bros and that's the problem is their their holdouts and uh
114:16 i'm not going to single them out i'll single out everything basically it's not just the
114:21 computer industry it's every industry shops like this are holdouts and in a lot of cases
114:26 they're not long for this world because things like this can potentially crush them out of business
114:32 and then you just funnel people to amazon or or whoever else basically amazon and walmart
114:41 and the big box places that have extremely long histories of abusing people on much deeper
114:47 levels than credit cards which are often fixable because your credit card company if you report
114:52 it properly we'll just give you your funds back and give you a new card compare at unfixable
114:56 yeah like do you want to funnel to the to places like that no right so it's like okay i don't know
115:07 no i mean it's the same argument that i used to have with people who would rage at uh blizzard
115:12 developers who would say kind of silly things at blizzcon yeah is like the result of that
115:16 which we saw happen was less developers on stage taking less questions and if they do take questions
115:22 those questions being curated beforehand which is less transparency and less good for you like
115:28 you sometimes have to think about what like not what is the result that you want but what is
115:34 the result that will happen based on your actions yeah uh so canada computers has released a statement
115:39 thank you the female audience for posting this in Floatplane chat so they're they're doing their
115:43 best complimentary to your credit monitoring and etc we're investigating we're doing stuff so you
115:49 know thank you for you know doing stuff and uh hopefully this isn't too damaging to either the
115:55 customers who were inflicted or to canada computers by and large we do want smaller even if they are
116:01 chains we'd still rather have a smaller chain exist can you imagine that we'd be sitting here
116:07 today saying that i'd rather i'd rather root for like my smaller chain than the large like
116:16 giant mega fish that eats up everything i mean the mom and pop computer shops are like gone yeah
116:23 there are a few yeah even black lab i think shut down really or the the stored it anyway yeah
116:31 let's see uh we have gone mobile yeah there it is there is another way of saying that we don't
116:38 have a brick and mortar anymore we do on-site services same great number same trusted service
116:44 so this is the one that i that i bought out all the inventory of and um that's a sick acronym
116:49 yeah black lab on-site that is a sick acronym i mean he's a funny guy like he had a lot he had a
116:55 ton of personality that's that doesn't surprise me that he would have like a pretty cool brand
116:59 super not surprised and the next one on the the order to get knocked over is places like canada
117:06 computers and memex and again all the other industries i'm not i'm not like signaling uh them out
117:12 singling sorry um i still have like a uh uh that's less you have a clogged throat from being
117:20 sick i'm still i still have like minor symptoms from being sick i still have a bit of a clogged
117:23 throat from that apple praise oh yeah we need to talk about whale lan hey our first whale
117:35 lan of 2026 is just three weeks away on february 21st as always we will have contest challenges
117:43 and big team games that everyone at the land can participate in our gaming lounge zone is
117:47 being amped up as we expand it with an additional projector and enough controllers to have eight
117:52 plus players at each of the two 120 inch setups plus we'll have a product booth
117:59 there so you can grab some LTT Store items alongside a unique whale lan shirt or hoodie but
118:08 you know it might actually do quite well at a land is true spec cables yeah that makes sense
118:14 um usually eating it i don't know if we'll have any by then but sure um some tickets are still
118:19 available at whale lan dot com chewy asks if the ice cream machine will be back yes it will
118:25 uh whale lan dot com so you guys can go check that out february 21st and 22nd it is at smash
118:33 champs badminton club and you just click here for buy tickets and here's all the information
118:38 including parking schedule hotel recommendations uh oh yeah star forge we're partnered with star
118:43 forge for the the whale ticket systems i think we still have yeah whale the ip is sold out uh but
118:51 by oc plus so you have an extra foot of table space is still available oh goodness not many
118:57 nine tickets available for by oc plus and we still have a hundred tickets for by oc but
119:03 don't just sit on that um at last time at around this time like three weeks prior
119:10 we had like a hundred plus tickets available and there were quite a few people that were like
119:14 oh yeah well there's a lot i don't know there's like a hundred laughs no and then in the days
119:20 leading up to the event they were like where did all the tickets go it's because a lot of people
119:23 make these kind of decisions last minute don't be a last minute larry get your ticket because you
119:30 never know when a group of 20 people is gonna all buy tickets together and they're just gonna start
119:35 disappearing in very large chunks i eat cool good i eat i eat i eat what do you eat not cake
119:45 that's for sure uh for dinner it will be chicken and uh sweet potato he turned down score flavor
119:53 ice cream cake prior to the show that's crazy things got bad dude having no kitchen for six
119:57 months because of renovation was bad things got bad this is my plate i couldn't resist but i'm on
120:02 i'm back on track again things are going good heck yeah i got some progress remake up it'll be fine
120:07 all right we're we're also supposed to talk about Floatplane apparently where's that i don't even
120:16 see it oh yeah hey what what we had five Floatplane videos this week three clips two bangers
120:25 just circle and highlight the clips no need to watch can you bring up the float Floatplane if
120:30 you're a tech upgrade fan you can check out adam's tech upgrade where are they now showcasing what
120:37 changed from the very first AMD ultimate tech upgrade spoiler adam and shea are engaged now good
120:46 for them let's go if you're more of a wan pal you can check out episode 19 holy f*** it's been 19
120:54 months of this of why is wan late or somehow Linus is the reason why wan was late for all of
121:00 january wow i know that's crazy uh also Floatplane precision screwdriver very epic wow v cool
121:07 wahoo what am i even okay no looking at here no he keeps who wrote this oh for sure sammy is this
121:14 sammy for sure sammy that makes sense very epic wow v cool wahoo definitely sammy okay LMG.gg
121:20 slash fp when there you go i did it sammy no no key really wants us to watch the last four seconds
121:25 of this with audio i don't actually know what the last four seconds is um i've got it queued up
121:32 okay uh so i just go to luke laptop Dan are you ready luke laptop rear when is this from
121:39 oh this is on why wan late okay no this isn't on why wan late what is this this is from like
121:45 yesterday or something oh okay ready wait where are you oh what oh i got so confused because
121:57 what was that was that clip mirrored can i see that again what are you so confused about
122:04 are you standing right here
122:09 oh it's pointing the camera is pointing to you the camera person is over there
122:12 yeah okay i'll show you okay no no i get it i get it i get it yeah no no i'm just an idiot okay
122:19 okay yeah cool good chat all right all right all right all right what am i supposed to be doing
122:24 now Dan we have sponsors it's the only last obligation we should do a couple more topics
122:28 that was a good recommendation okay thank you all right youtube's anti ad block system just got
122:34 smarter and harder to dodge youtube users are reporting a spike in Linus rejoicing
122:43 what line is so happy Linus winning what do you mean by winning okay oh my god is it this again
122:52 i have never line is so happy about youtube changes i have never told people don't use ad
122:59 block Linus number one benefactor of youtube anti ad block system unless they are internal staff here
123:05 for the express reason that because we make as a company so much of our income via ads it seems
123:14 a little hypocritical for us to block them on our work i think ultimately that you know that
123:20 people have to review videos on the channel at work and you just want their ad money
123:28 youtube users are reporting a spike in this content isn't available try again later errors
123:34 that appear to only go away after disabling ad blockers or subscribing to youtube premium
123:40 the reports add to growing evidence that google is continuing to technically restrict or degrade
123:46 playback for users running ad block discussion question at what point does fighting ad blockers
123:52 cross the line from enforcing terms of service into intentionally breaking the user experience
123:59 i mean to me they're kind of one and the same enforcing terms of service would be you're not
124:05 allowed to use the service unless you adhere to the terms of the service aka like would you say
124:12 that if you were going to a concert and they didn't let you in without a ticket that they are breaking
124:16 your user experience i mean they are but i wouldn't frame it that way if that makes sense at what
124:24 point does this go from fighting ad blockers to crossing the line into Linus enforcing his will
124:30 on youtube who would love to not do this but is just you know Linus might talk about our
124:35 ranch our Linus controls what every large company does so
124:44 you know if you want to channel the voices in our community you could pick a slightly less
124:48 stupid one is that possible it's fun though it's that possible it's so
124:59 holy crap you just tried to cleave everyone
125:07 oh my goodness oh my god okay you know my thoughts are my own and are not representative or
125:13 Linus and luke or Linus media group i have to show your face while you say that to them
125:20 speaking of internal policies you're not allowed to insult the audience
125:27 what about what about my peers i'm insulting you i'm talking about my peers and my friends
125:35 you you did on this show that there is no way that i didn't say i'm always perfect and i i didn't say no i didn't say i'm
125:46 always perfect and that i shouldn't be admonished when i do it i'm just saying it is policy to not
125:52 insult the audience no matter how stupid they are i'll have to keep that in mind that will be very
125:57 useful even if they're really stupid sorry i forgot that it's not publicly against policy
126:03 not publicly part i'm sorry oops
126:12 boy um anyways off of Linus's favorite topic of the show valve will face a 656 million pound
126:20 lawsuit i love that the uk's currency is pounds yeah because it just that's a heavy lawsuit you
126:28 know 656 million pounds not like that tiny cost of doing business one that google got recently is
126:35 that in the dock so this is in the uk over alleged unfair prices on steam following a tribunal ruling
126:42 that the case could continue um that's basically it um the case could affect up to 14 million
126:50 uk users who may be eligible for compensation if valve is found to have unfairly charged
126:55 commissions of up to 30 percent what i don't know but i'm interested to see what happens
127:01 that is strange i don't really know what this means me neither to be honest we'll keep an eye on it
127:08 are you talking about google paying 68 million over recording private chats is that the one yeah
127:13 like what do you mean 68 million yeah it's not even nice sounds like a lot of money it would be
127:19 my entire family would never have to work again for generations wow amazing to google that's nothing
127:24 that means nothing yeah they'll just do it again they like almost certainly made more money off of
127:31 that than it cost which is just again like come on you have to cross that line at the very least it
127:36 should be way more than that but you have to cross that line well i mean also at least one million
127:41 more dollars yeah come on that'd be pretty nice 68 sucks yeah if it was going to be low it could
127:47 have at least been funny yeah so 68 would be doing it with someone with two butts
127:56 or one really big one no well yeah okay interesting that would be the largest of butts
128:09 that's a that's a that's a that's a 0.1 percenter man
128:17 you're looking at me
128:21 have you seen that movie oh man it's a good movie
128:32 oh dad no pooping back and forth forever yeah the movie's hilarious
128:39 what are you talking about the Gilmore D says more cake than betty crocker love it
128:44 you me and everyone we know okay all right okay um no notes here cnn is now putting emergency
128:54 weather information behind their paywall i think this was actually from last week but like so oh
128:59 my god this this flip-flake check he got paid to type that from jack logan
129:06 i know i'm the one who did it i have to take some responsibility for this
129:15 that's it that message in flip-flake chat was it i even got it wrong it's it's it's actually this
129:21 yeah yeah it's the there you go yeah so um no notes that's bad
129:29 yeah the enshrification of everything sucks in other news an early build of google's Android
129:36 desktop interface that is going to apparently replace chromo s has leaked and we have some
129:44 screenshots so like here's some stuff this moved hey it looks a lot like Windows 11
129:50 yep why is the middle becoming the norm i blame apple they even have the four okay what can you
129:58 zoom in on the taskbar there's even the four things one of them is a search bar look no look
130:04 just the left of the phone i know it's like an app thing but if you look at the the Windows one
130:10 very similar yeah could we just can we not because you don't because then you don't need to look
130:17 where you're clicking you can just drag it all the way to the bottom left and then you open the thing
130:22 like that's the reason it matters i click on it
130:26 should i think that because i because i actually just run it in the middle because i just never
130:29 bothered to change it because i wanted to see what it was going to be like and then it never affected me because i think i just press a button but if it was in the bottom left would it bother
130:35 you no okay then we're good yeah yes i know i can hit the Windows key i don't always have my hand
130:42 on the keyboard say for instance i was mousing and my other hand was occupado why would i want
130:50 to click my keyboard like with that point one that's not even sanitary the big eight big eight stop
131:02 anyway it included screen captures uh running a hp elite dragonfly chromebook etc nine to five
131:08 google is where you can go check out the full article on this um apparently it's going to be
131:12 called aluminum os or aluminium os excuse me the codename for the Android based desktop
131:17 os agree on how to say no no they'll change it um the bug report has since been taken down but
131:23 nine to five google managed to save these screen recordings it essentially looks like Android
131:27 16's existing desktop mode with some minor alterations uh the other big thing here is the
131:32 extensions button to the right of the url bar in chrome which is uh only there on desktop versions
131:37 of the browser so that's you know not the Android one so that's cool i guess we'll see how that goes
131:43 for them yeah tesla is discontinuing the model s and model x in the second quarter of 2026
131:53 this was announced by ceo elon musk during an earnings call on january 28th of this year
132:01 the reason for the discontinuation is apparently to free up space at tesla's fremont factory for
132:05 optimus humanoid robot production uh okay now this is a very optimistic set of notes that
132:14 we've got here this is part of their strategy to transform tesla from an automaker into an
132:18 ai and robotics company the third generation optimus is described as meant for mass production
132:24 but then again you know tesla or well more specifically their ceo also predicted that
132:30 5 000 robots would be produced in 2025 and said in 2024 that they were already doing meaningful
132:36 work and then said a completely different thing on i believe that same earnings call this year
132:42 and admitted that they weren't doing any meaningful work and that they were all just
132:46 development in development um so that's that's something i'm not even going to bother with
132:52 these timelines because a timeline from tesla means absolutely nothing whereas the roadster too
132:59 anyway uh sales of both the model s and x have apparently been declining steadily
133:04 in 2025 tesla sold only just shy of 51 000 other models which can combine model s model x and
133:11 cybertruck they don't break out individual figures for these vehicles uh for context tesla's focus
133:17 has shifted to mass market model 3 and model y which make up the bulk of their sales evidently um
133:23 elon's one trillion dollar pay package depends on him making literally a million of these robots
133:28 not to mention getting 10 million full self-driving subscriptions um so
133:36 there's a lot of people mad about world's first trillionaire and the trillion dollar pay package
133:41 yeah it's not happening doesn't have it so he gets it he did get the last one that everyone
133:47 thought he wasn't going to get though that's true so but if only past performance was an indicator
133:53 of future success then we could just buy every stock that's going up right now assuming that
133:58 it will only ever go up which seems to be what a lot of people are doing right now which is
134:03 blowing my freaking mind it doesn't seem to matter what any of the fundamental product or
134:08 technology developments are companies or sales or anything but uh hey gambling
134:15 apparently it's a thing people like yeah did you see that um for my appearance on jimmy fowlin
134:24 there was one of those market uh market prediction what what are they called those like betting on
134:29 anything prediction there was a prediction market thing on like keywords that i might or might not
134:34 say during it i would dude i was so tempted to just bet a hundred thousand dollars on myself
134:40 and then just not say a word like it dude it it would be free money man it would just be free
134:47 money to me slip up on that would feel so bad in the moment oh i know right holy if you bet on
134:54 not saying something bit of bit says that would be illegal what is fucking enforce it yeah these
135:00 prediction markets are completely unregulated as far as i can tell yeah like immediately that's
135:09 fair like that was awesome a law i mean we've talked about this before you know a warranty
135:21 only has the value of a company's willingness to uphold it a law only has the value of an
135:28 administration's willingness to enforce it like if something's a law that nobody is going to enforce
135:38 and it's just a giant open uh it'd be a shame if i anyone knowledgeable bet it on this thing that
135:45 they know the outcome of why don't we have a completely unregulated gambling market where
135:49 you can bet on anything that's a flaw in the system the mighty reptar hate the game in full
135:57 point chat says something interesting he said it it occurred to me why elon's selling the full
136:00 self-driving subscription at a low price compared to the perch compared to purchasing it outright
136:05 is to sell more subscriptions because his pay package is based on volume of subscriptions
136:10 not dollars generated from the subscription oh that actually makes a ton of sense i added some
136:14 square brackets that makes a ton of sense yeah yeah interesting interesting
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137:59 off your first subscription jiff jiff jiff jiff deal with i heard la la la la la i felt that
138:07 inhale deal with it did i inhale was that you had yeah i don't think it was that bad no that's
138:16 what it felt like my goodness in other word in other news ubisoft continues to fall apart
138:22 after after last week's horrible ubisoft news the company wants to cut up to 18 percent of the
138:29 staff from its french studios are about 200 jobs in response to everything that management has
138:36 done wrong french ubisoft workers have voted to strike february 10th to 12th in a press release
138:42 on blue sky announcing the strike workers said they were calling for a halt to management's
138:47 obsession with penny pinching and worsening our working conditions saying there had been no dialogue
138:52 and no respect and that they were being treated like children while their management gets away
138:56 with lies and breaking the law that's not even the end of the ubisoft labor disputes the workers
139:02 of the recently closed halifax studio rallied downtown this week to urge ubisoft to reopen
139:07 their office workers on the picket line say the closure was very suspicious as the office had just
139:13 become ubisoft's first studio to unionize in north america ubisoft responded by saying that the
139:19 process to restructure the company began two years ago well before the unionization process started
139:27 our discussion question is why are the french so much better at striking than north americans
139:33 they have a lot better laws very colorful history of it they really do lots of reds
139:41 tons of reds
139:46 a legend political censoring and other fun tick tock news days after tick tock finalized
139:51 the sale of its us business to mostly trump friendly american investors tick tock users have
139:56 apparently been unable to send the word epstein in dms really allegedly allegedly allegedly
140:05 tick tock says it's investigating these reports and say they don't have rules against sharing the
140:09 name epstein do you imagine having to issue that press release can we try this i have it installed
140:15 but it's not logged in okay multiple users have also been reporting that videos critical of ice
140:22 are not being uploaded or shared one example is comedian megan stalter who uploaded a video
140:27 to her instagram encouraging the abolishment of ice which was reposted 12 000 times while that
140:32 same video failed to upload to tick tock multiple times tick tock denies the implications and says
140:37 the issues were due to a power outage at a us data center okay possibly in a separate story
140:44 tick tock has reached an 11th hour settlement to avoid being involved in something they should
140:50 absolutely be involved in which is the landmark social media addiction trial
140:56 that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately
140:59 design their platforms to addick children which they definitely do the defendants currently
141:04 include google and meta snapchat landed a settlement last week and tick tock should for sure be
141:10 included so the problem with settlements is that so what they're trying to do is they're trying to
141:16 settle so that there's no legal precedent yeah there should for sure be legal precedent
141:20 i yeah if i am i would strongly prefer that this does not get settled with settlements yes yeah
141:28 yep in a very different kind of tick tock story and this is nuts i don't know if you've heard of
141:32 this cabbie lane i hope you're saying that right i did see this has sold his company yeah which is
141:38 a lot more than that his entire life as far as i can tell
141:44 like everything about him yeah his his likeness his his like mannerisms his voice
141:51 for forever i think in a 975 million dollar oh all stock all stock deal so i think and
142:03 and listen man sorry you gotta know the name it's so it's 75 million shares in ordinary shares
142:11 in rich sparkle holdings yes
142:14 hmm so basically he got no money
142:27 for his his work and likeness forever
142:36 maybe is this gonna be the next maybe his twin will be point one percent only fans like is this
142:42 is this gonna be the next smosh because they got f***ed sideways they sure did on that deal
142:50 where smosh was acquired for in an all stock deal who this is the supposed to know who this is
142:56 isn't he like the biggest tick tocker or something is this guy he does this
143:01 yeah i'd never something that's kind of silly and he goes i'd never heard of him either to be
143:04 honest with you i don't i don't know beyond that he might do things other than that he might do that
143:11 thing differently than i just did other than that i don't know uh yeah yeah right see yeah yeah
143:19 he's apparently like a huge deal sure um rich sparkle holdings yeah rich sparkle holdings
143:27 what a name most followed tick tocker apparently so this really does feel deceptive given that it's
143:36 an all stock deal yeah if it was stock in disney that would be different yeah totally yeah but rich
143:46 sparkle holdings what is rich sparkle holdings can i short it not financial advice i mean even
143:57 disney stock rich sparkle holdings oh they went up hold on hold on this is just the one day view
144:03 this doesn't mean anything so people liked this story okay people people liked people liked this
144:07 rich sparkle holdings spend a billion dollars on someone's name wait since when has it existed
144:12 i searched for five years and it has only existed since july of 2025 apparently nice or at least
144:20 that's how far back yahoo finances history goes for it okay what do you got uh this one low so even
144:27 if it is in disney it would have gone down 33 percent in five years um good job bluey
144:38 bad job superhero movies i was i was joking about this and someone's going away party um before the
144:43 show uh what will be the mark of the end times for disney if you had to pick something i already
144:51 know my answer so i can do mine first if you want to if you if you want to think about it for a bit
144:56 but i thought you might have you might have a thought i don't know if my gut thought here is
145:00 good or accurate but i'll throw it out anyways because it was the first thing that came to mind
145:03 yeah would be the closure of a park oh that's good that's good okay mine is an mcu star wars
145:12 crossover movie like like iron man fighting a jedi here's some oh she stepped down a
145:23 kathleen kennedy she's stepping down oh interesting and i i think it's like the guy who's who's
145:28 stepping up i i always forget john favreau who's the other guy there's like two uh philoni
145:36 i think it might be him dav philoni yeah i think it's dav philoni
145:42 potentially exciting we'll see chat chat hates this made my stomach hurt never speak that
145:50 that was disgusting to hear
145:54 like vision versus darth vader like dual like star wars is another one of those things where
146:01 like it feels very ubisoft coded where it's like this was actually genuinely hilariously easy to
146:09 not do the way that you did um like the path was laid out he did like george lucas sold them
146:17 effectively a money printing machine not just that what you should do
146:22 for the sequel series this is what you should do and they were like nah
146:28 are you nuts and even if they didn't like his idea for it at least there was the there was
146:33 the expanded universe yep or extended universe whatever the e you there were so many and kathleen
146:39 is quoted many times being like we don't have like source material to go off of and it's like
146:45 yes you did stop i and the world stuff was kind of out there yeah you don't have to use all of it
146:52 yeah but you could have used i don't know something and man i think the the first people to admit
146:56 that some of the extended universe stuff goes a little out there yeah would be fans of the
147:00 extended universe stuff like you don't have to use all of it pretzel parkour says vader lifts meal
147:06 near
147:09 oh it's so bad it's so bad you know you know like captain marvel like like flies through uh flies
147:18 through a freaking star destroyer in hyperspace and splits it into do you know about white
147:26 it's only slightly stupider than what we got do you know about white armor vader no so this
147:33 is where like you know e you gets kind of weird there's a white armor vader jar jar has the
147:37 infinity stones imagine white armor vader steps into into view and it's like his first introduction
147:43 just walks up picks up the hammer cinema cinema cinema cinema okay okay someone brought up space
147:53 balls too in chat um kishan pd brings up space balls too dude i don't i don't know how they're
147:59 gonna parody like new star wars it's not funny i think it would be i think it would be kind of
148:04 funny if they just did like the same thing over and over again if they had like a two minute
148:09 sequence where they just repeated things a bunch okay if they if they in one movie if they effectively
148:14 did the arc of like you just do the same thing for a while that you did in the past at the beginning
148:19 of the movie and then you just kind of rewrite everything that happened and make everything
148:24 kind of weird and then you come back and try to kind of like i don't know do it again like if the
148:28 movie is in three parts similar to uh pulp fiction um but they're like loosely linked
148:34 just like how the movies were like really not well linked and were definitely three completely
148:39 different things not made in collaboration which is insane if they if they do it like that in one
148:44 movie it might be kind of funny roman they can figure it out roman 21023 says robert downey junior
148:49 is also a mandalorian oh god oh god i don't know palpatine comes back again and it's robert downey jr
149:07 iron mandalorian
149:12 iron mandalorian is rough oh man oh my god it's rough because it sounds too real
149:17 oh we have we have groot and and the tiny baby yoda thing groots on end door yeah baby groot and
149:27 baby yoda dude the merge sales would pop they should put us in charge we could make we could do this
149:34 i mean we could legitimately have done a better job we'd sell so many toys we'd sell so many toys
149:41 oh man
149:45 you know i'm not one to make a statement like that lightly i know it's very easy for armchair
149:50 quarterbacks to say i could do a better job no i think we could have i literally actually think
149:56 you and i as the creative heads of star wars after the acquisition probably could have done a better
150:02 job just go walk up to dav felonii and john favreau and be like hey guys what do we do
150:08 yeah yeah that would have that would have worked i don't think we need to do much more
150:14 hey oh so i heard there's um there's some like uh story prompts from the guy who did this the whole
150:20 time so i guess we should like read them pull those out maybe just read them and then just like you
150:26 know work on those develop those i know you guys know like a lot about the lore more than we do so
150:31 like you want to help us kind of fill this out we'll follow your guys i heard you guys know a lot
150:35 of people in the industry yeah that's who we don't so yeah we'd love your guidance on that thanks guys
150:41 that'd have been pretty cool nice yeah we we noticed we have all the money in the world
150:47 enough to buy the earth and all the heavens so we could just hire the coolest people to work on this
150:51 maybe uh maybe this this idea where he just goes like
151:00 yeah we could just throw that away maybe we don't do that we could do that to that idea
151:03 yeah yeah yeah nice nice nice nice okay we're cooking we could have our most beloved character
151:08 like maybe be cool that'd be cool
151:17 stupid stupid thing yeah that's good um i think was that our last topic no we have one more quick
151:25 one LTT Labs article anchor nano smart charger 45 watt testing and exploration this popped off on
151:33 reddit Labs did a thing yeah and it was really cool and i i was as surprised to see it as anyone
151:39 and i was like wow this is really cool so Labs has been doing this thing for a while with articles
151:44 where we're trying to ask questions dive into things someone who's really been leading the
151:48 charge on this is lucas so a lot of them are around you know charging things and stuff like that
151:54 because these are interests that lucas has which is great and like totally the goal to be clear
152:00 so thank you lucas for killing it um and uh we've been posting them on reddit well he's been
152:06 posting them on reddit and responding to some of the comments and stuff and trying to get it out
152:09 there because we're really trying to make this a space that you can go to to you know maybe you
152:16 didn't have the question maybe like me you've looked at phone chargers for a long time just been
152:20 like meh i don't know that's cool but now someone who is interested in it can bring you along the
152:25 path of like what is interesting about these things like can we look into them obviously super
152:30 cool luma field tests what is care mode what does it do yeah it does exactly this yeah now we know
152:37 knowing that is awesome like is it real or is it just bs you know yeah here's there here's their
152:44 marketing here's what we found this made me like interested in buying like a cool phone charger
152:52 yeah which i have never cared about once in my life here's the thermals of a charger yeah here's
152:57 how much it can actually dissipate before it reaches like a steady state here's how hot it gets like
153:03 damn LTT Labs there was there was a red thread over the weekend that i kind of missed until
153:10 work started again so i got to it way too late and it was already cold by the time i saw it and
153:13 there was a bunch of like like wtf is Labs doing it didn't really pick up a lot of steam but yeah
153:19 a lot of the comments were pretty consistent on like what's happening and then this got posted
153:24 yeah and it was like a massive wave of like oh my god this is awesome this is what we're
153:30 trying to do right now there are a lot of things that we're trying to do right now this is one of
153:35 them we're also trying to better support video production and do all this other kind of stuff
153:39 but we're trying to the like internal labeling of it and i haven't watched uh that stuff in a
153:44 long time but you know like the vibe in when the tv would roll into the class and you'd
153:49 watch bill nye stuff back in the day of like here's some interesting questions and this person went
153:54 and like sought to answer them and brought us along with them and showed us the the ways that
153:59 they tested things and how they did things and the results and stuff like that we want to do that
154:03 with uh we want it to be fun we want to be interesting we want to be engaging we want to
154:07 ask questions that you maybe didn't think of or if you guys ask a cool question we want to try to
154:11 seek uh an answer and share it with you and bring you along and this is like a huge fantastic
154:17 example of that so yeah yeah and that's it for our topics today it's time for after dark
154:27 mr daniel bassard you want to uh hit us with some merch
154:33 what did we agree to call them comms check out messages check out messages yeah sure we got
154:38 loads of check out messages that we do today i won't have time for all of them i do have to go
154:43 relatively soonish actually yes we i think we have enough time i think we've all right structured
154:48 this out well any insights as to why some hold on do we need a second Dan behind you putting the
154:54 metal on your neck you said i think we structured this so well and we definitely didn't contribute
155:00 to that yes you did i don't know you listened you did were great did we though yeah i wasn't
155:05 that's such a like head pat answer yeah you actually you actually did it was for one boys you
155:12 were good boys well Linus was i don't know about you you don't have any say in what we do
155:18 yeah not 50 that's for sure yeah no maybe maybe next time maybe next time you can say no
155:24 we're gonna do the sponsors now daniel that'll be fun i don't never use your full name
155:30 any insight as to why some lengths are cheaper than others doesn't seem to be based on length
155:37 can't wait for more normal sizes to be in stock um the price i can't remember oh um so if one gets
155:46 longer and cheaper check the data rate that makes sense cool good chat
155:52 um if jimmy fallon was on your show rather than the other way around what topics would you
156:01 want to talk to him about in this hypothetical situation you also have access to his broader
156:06 audience dude i wouldn't actually be super interested in leveraging his broad broader
156:11 audience i would love to have an extended chat with him about how the production works
156:16 and how it's worked over the years i watched a time lapse of them building their studio that
156:21 was nuts just the whole thing how the structure works how the individual players within the game
156:27 that is making that show function would be so interesting to me yeah like that like handler
156:32 that we had yeah what does that person's day look like yeah how do they work and i was i was very
156:38 surprised second time around to get a little bit more um an indication anyway more of an indication
156:48 that he is more involved than just like the guy who stands there and is or isn't funny depending
156:55 on your opinion clearly a lot of people don't think he's funny clearly a lot of people think he's very
157:01 funny because see i don't want one of the highest paid people on tv get over it i don't even care
157:05 about that at all i just find the production so but that's what i mean is like he's clearly more
157:09 than that which i actually didn't realize first time around yeah i have no idea i i would i would
157:15 love to spend just like a week there trying to you know stay out of people's way but observe
157:20 and just learn it would be very very cool well i think with his history doing it for so long
157:27 they're asking like if he was a guest on our show right no i know yeah so picking his brain about
157:31 fantastic how it's evolved over the years i think would be absolutely incredible very very cool incredible
157:37 my canadian neighbors what do you think is the most canadian thing about each other
157:45 thanks mate for the usb double c thick cords
157:54 the most canadian thing about you i mean your last name i don't have to go very deep
158:04 Lafrenière is about the the french canadianist name that i think probably exists that is a thing
158:11 left lure maybe um that's another one
158:17 what else what else we got here what makes someone canadian see it's a funny thing because
158:23 outside of canada it seems like there's a lot of stereotypes for canadians you know we're called
158:28 leafs like that's a pejorative yeah that's cool yeah i actually like it that was pretty good
158:35 yeah leaf yeah i'm down i mean it's biodegradable it's it's even like it kind of works because
158:40 like it matches the flag like if you're looking at all the flags yeah someone was like point
158:45 at the people you would call the leaf yeah you're f***ing leaf you know like yeah sure sweet all
158:49 right like i don't i don't even think that has like a bother me like a negative connotation to me
158:56 anyway i mean i i don't understand what people necessarily even mean by it um most canadian
159:04 thing about us yeah like i know i know about some of the um fun fact there was once a contest
159:15 to find the canadian equivalent of as american as apple pie and the winner was as canadian as
159:22 possible under the circumstances i think it's the war crime thing
159:30 yeah that makes sense they wrote a book about us
159:38 i don't know like i like i don't think luke's particularly into maple syrup um bc is kind of
159:45 weird like ball hockey but like you don't you don't even ice hockey so like no it's so expensive
159:51 yeah um i think that's maybe the most canadian thing about you that's already what i thought of
159:58 i had thought about this earlier in the thing is that you would love to and watch but have
160:03 never really done ice hockey oh yeah i i want that's actually extremely canadian because ice hockey
160:08 is really expensive yeah there is a i honestly is a kid too no money and too small so it's a pretty
160:14 big on the hitting game uh but like genuinely not that many people that i grew up with actually
160:19 played ice hockey right most people that i grew up with played ball hockey because ice hockey is so
160:25 expensive i spent lots of time on rollerblades but by the time i was old enough to like participate
160:30 in roller hockey uh i lived in the middle of absolute but no where so there was no one to
160:35 do it with yeah and roller hockey also has a pretty major expense problem as far as my
160:39 understanding goes it is cheaper yeah but it's still a pretty major expense problem
160:45 so that that that was my kind of answer is that you like it watch it would like to do it never
160:50 have by the way hear me out we got a um we finally got one we got it we got an led wall
160:59 this is yeah this is so incredibly unrelated did you see it no it's not unrelated it's very
161:04 related trust me so so oh we're gonna watch hockey on it we didn't get the wall oh but we did get
161:11 a wall hey um so i saw it in operation last night but it was it was just playing white bars
161:20 okay so like i i saw it in operation today one of the first thoughts i had was hey guess what's
161:29 coming up yeah winter olympics baby oh i really like watching the olympics so i sent a i sent a
161:35 note over to hr i want to do at least quarter semi finals watch parties yeah on the wall yeah on the
161:44 a wall yeah um dude this thing is incredible sick it's incredible sick very excited did they put
161:53 the long Linus image on it yet no probably not it will happen no i'm sure it will they'll also play
161:58 crab rave on it at some point almost certainly yep okay once upon a WAN Show Linus said something
162:09 like life is about sales and equating it to finding a mate would you expand on that more
162:14 assuming i'm remembering this somewhat accurately okay no uh i understand what they're saying yes
162:21 yes yes okay that is a topic so it's not quoting it exactly yeah so what i said was that everything
162:28 in life is aided by a familiarity with sales techniques is what i was is what i was trying
162:36 to get across and what i was explaining is that just because you don't work in sales you know selling
162:43 cables or or fancy blue screwdrivers or whatever whatever it is doesn't mean that you can ignore
162:52 the principles of salesmanship because everything from selling your idea to a colleague you can have
163:00 the best idea in the world but if you can't convince anybody else of it then the world will be worse
163:05 for you not being able to sell that idea do you kind of get what i mean and in the same way selling
163:12 yourself the value of yourself can help you make connections whether they're friendships or
163:17 whether they're relationships and so learning to learning to speak learning to to just sort of
163:26 analyze something and figure out you know what's what's good about this what needs to you have
163:32 and is this a match these are just extremely valuable skills that we think of as like sales
163:39 you ick sales but can be very important just in life in everything that you do and one of the
163:46 examples i gave was yes finding a romantic partner
163:56 hi dll i hope that you're having a great friday Linus what was your favorite part of the process
164:00 of developing the true spec cables um i got pretty excited when i first saw the cable stock
164:07 um and i was like she thick um
164:13 like that was pretty cool um just like seeing i learned a lot all right that's that's one of
164:19 my favorite things about whatever it is whether it's like a like a content acquisition or like a
164:25 video remaking that's different from anything we've done before externally your most excited
164:29 communication was about like the facts yeah like this is really interesting like when we were down at
164:36 that uh land house yeah and you got the one person excited you were talking about the coaxial nature
164:41 and like all these different things like you you were into the the specs and how it became a thing
164:45 yeah i like to i like to i like to solve problems i like to learn about problems i like to um
164:54 i like it when something is just like better so
165:02 yeah i guess that's about it but yeah makes sense yeah just the the the shielding um learning
165:08 you know why every other cable is the way that it is and learning that it doesn't have to be
165:13 like that it was pretty cool
165:17 dear wan Dan thank you luke sure Linus did you
165:29 did you ever meet or talk to jason pamoa when you were at the tonight show i didn't get to
165:33 you mentioned being excited and you never talked about it afterwards no i didn't get to i saw
165:36 without his pants on nice this had a unique experience i don't know to be honest not sure
165:49 okay this one's for luke then it often seems like you're the voice of reason or morals on the
165:55 WAN Show what is the most memorable time you've had to step up and say something at LMG
166:00 oh not on the WAN Show i was going to be like okay that's a pretty obvious answer
166:06 i have no idea
166:12 it happens on the WAN Show a lot more explicitly than basically anywhere else that's not just
166:17 because Linus is on the show it's because it's live um there's a lot less like pressure to
166:23 correct when it's not live and people will much more often catch themselves because when
166:29 we're on the WAN Show it's about the next thing at all points in time and when you're in like a
166:35 meeting you might say something and then think about what you just said while someone else is talking for a little bit and then correct and it's like it's more casual right so it's like
166:43 i think it's less lan show is also performative to a degree like we're live we're not um so there's
166:50 pushing things to extremes because it's supposed to be a show we'll play devil's advocate we will
166:55 we will sort of we'll we'll be a little more a little more animated i wouldn't say that luke
167:03 and i are not like real on the WAN Show i think if anything pretty real it's a it's kind of a relief
167:08 to do WAN Show because we can just kind of kind of drop the charade um but it's still a show but
167:15 it's still a show an amount and number one is still make an entertaining show uh we can't just
167:22 go full business meeting on the show at least not all the time some yeah sometimes sometimes it's
167:28 useful actually um i don't know i'm not trying to cop out i just i don't know um you also gotta
167:34 remember that part of it is like luke's role on the show like just because i say something and luke
167:40 steps in and is the voice of reason doesn't mean that behind the scenes there aren't things that we
167:45 agree on i might my position might be a lot closer to his even if the way that i explained
167:51 it isn't great and his position might be a lot closer to mine even if he knows that you guys
167:57 can't hear that right now like my eye started twitching on that one um i'm wondering like i don't
168:09 know man like some of our some of our like biggest scandals have just become kind of a
168:19 mainstream opinion at this point like the ad block is piracy one is a great example
168:24 my thing i'm still honestly mostly just confused on that one because like i don't know you were
168:30 framed as like voice of reason on it but i don't think you ever actually like said you disagreed
168:35 was i framed a voice of reason on that one in general i think you were on that one i don't
168:40 know about that one i don't know how you said it originally you you do this thing sometimes where
168:46 you you calibrate on wancho that's true where you'll say something like that's really intensely
168:51 and dramatically and then get the feedback and be like all right well that's a perfect example
168:56 is that where we were like okay fine we'll call it privateering because i'm actually technically
169:02 piracy is this you know rigidly defined crime and it's not a crime what i'm doing and that's nice but
169:12 but functionally speaking i think it's just it just doesn't offend me
169:17 like at all well let's say just that people don't know why people get so upset about it's
169:22 because you're not an insecure little bitch maybe i'm honestly i just like i just don't care like
169:28 if it's well i know it's because you're not an insecure little that's why it's that simple and
169:34 see this is one of those things where i'm gonna say this thing and then he's gonna he's gonna kind
169:38 of do the luke thing where he kind of like absorbs sort of my very direct energy and he laughs and
169:46 is likable and you guys like him for it this is so awkward stop perseving me
169:55 yeah i don't know i uh i think when i wear the hat i wear the hat proudly and just don't care
170:01 well yeah that's because you're not an insecure little bitch this is part this is this is part of
170:06 what i think Linus was saying the whole time which is that he's not actually judging you for it yeah
170:11 he's just saying that it is a thing and that's fine and back in my day everyone that i knew
170:18 wore the hat proud yeah i i didn't think who did when i said it i didn't think it was gonna be
170:23 controversial i thought this whole community wore the hat proud so at that point dude i was so
170:29 confused by the i'm still confused there's people who are still mad at me about it i also think
170:33 there's good reasons there's there's malvertising there's like all these other kind of things but
170:38 just just wear the hat dude whatever i yeah i don't know i don't know man we never said don't
170:45 do it we said what i said what i said was you need to understand the consequences yeah and
170:52 there are consequences there are consequences yeah like the erosion of independent news media
170:59 is a consequence of people not being willing to pay for it that's a consequence yeah okay the current
171:07 degradation of the youtube service maybe would have happened anyway but the rate that it's going
171:14 at is almost certainly a consequence of not every user contributing monetarily to the services
171:21 ongoing operation these are consequences not saying don't do it i'm just saying understand the
171:28 consequences and if you're gonna wear the hat just f***ing wear it wear it and just don't
171:35 worry about it and you don't have to it's not it's not like if you're like oh i'm very against
171:39 like pirating you know music and games and books the the only thing that i do in this field is ad
171:45 blogging you still wear the hat just with your your special caveats everyone has their own lines
171:50 everyone's lines are slightly different and that's totally okay and when someone calls you on it
171:55 don't go home crawl into your bed curl up in a ball and cry like a little b***h
172:02 and i think there's still i think on top of that there's a good argument of like
172:06 and this isn't it's not against the law to do ad blocking to be clear but even if it was
172:13 like at very few points if any in history has the law been truly a good moral compass for everyone
172:24 yeah we've had to have that conversation with our kids a couple times actually
172:27 like like just because it's a more advanced conversation i'm yeah i suspect those were
172:31 more recent yeah but like yeah i'm not yeah oh i need to go pretty quick all right what time
172:41 am i supposed to be where i'm supposed to be i was told uh okay oh okay that's not bad i thought it
172:49 was i thought it was six okay cool the minute told us on that all right which would have been
172:53 that makes sense remove yeah wicked smart yeah tell that to iran i'm sure the vast majority
173:01 of the people in iran feel that very strongly right now like yeah i don't think i have to
173:06 tell that to iran i think they know i don't think they'd hear it i think their internet
173:10 just turned off right come on team speak hello dll Linus i wanted to ask how your expedition 33
173:17 is going where are you act wise and how we and how are you feeling about it nice what is your
173:23 current party you don't even get the reference i don't but i really liked how Dan voice acted it
173:32 current party config is all ladies all the time um they're my girls and part of it is because i
173:40 just like their style and part of it is that i invested a lot of lumina points into them and
173:47 as far as i can tell that's the one thing you can't respect so um yeah lumina lumia whatever
173:54 whatever it is the the points that allow you to assign more abilities and whatnot that are not
174:00 directly equipped to them so um yep i've got my absolute fire goddess mile and then i've got uh
174:07 loon with the cheater ability so that she can one two punch the uh just the cheap lightning one
174:14 and then the like absolute atom bomb earth single target attack and then what have i got going on
174:20 with uh seal i forget basically she's just she's a nuke in general so good stuff um i have no idea
174:28 if that's the right meta i i i've been studiously avoiding spoilers and anything that will affect
174:36 the way that i play the game i'm not even gonna be looking at chat right now because i just want
174:41 to play the game and enjoy the game and if i ever do another run through then i'll be more than happy
174:45 to like search for stuff where to find you know that ability or that weapon or you know whatever
174:51 else but i want to explore the game world i want to immerse myself in it i want to have fun i don't
174:56 want to uh i don't want to i don't want it to become a job i want to play a game and i'm just
175:02 enjoying the heck out of them like ridiculously over leveled at this point just because i just
175:06 want to like fight everything and explore everywhere and it's been it's been an absolute
175:10 blast i'm really enjoying the game i'm on the third act um what else can i say that would not have
175:16 any spoilers in it to speak of um how's it going where are you act wise how you feeling about
175:23 yeah really really enjoying it though such a such a good game even playing for a while though yeah
175:26 i think i well it's hard to tell my my hours in game get kind of messed up when i um i didn't
175:32 mean it that way using the gpd win five and it doesn't go to sleep and the game is open so it
175:36 gets like an extra eight hours on it overnight so steam says 50 hours but it's probably more like
175:42 30 35 but yeah i've yeah i've been enjoying the heck out of it i um i have completed all of the
175:51 beaches those of you who are in the know will know so someone said that i hadn't done the most
175:56 frustrating one yet when i said something about one that was very frustrating i have i actually
176:01 did not find it as frustrating as the one that i had done before it was just kind of there's a
176:05 little bit of luck involved in one of them but i have done them all and gotten the utterly worthless
176:12 rewards from all of them and i proudly have my worthless rewards a couple more here bingledongle
176:21 dingledangle how absurd are your plans for tech house can we look forward to voice activated
176:27 chandeliers of fruit or local llm butlers in the wall not absurd um gi are our our our buyer our
176:35 target for it is meant to be like you know a guy gi yeah you named your theoretical buyer yeah
176:42 that's kind of neat yeah his wife is gal gi and gal yeah nice gi and gal so gg we kind of we kind
176:48 of created a profile forum and there was some concern raised in the community that um you know
176:54 the things that we were doing might not have wife acceptance factor okay so this is a way to keep
176:59 that in mind but this is a hundred percent we know from the start that that was going to need to be a
177:04 thing gal needs to accept it yeah exactly so we need to make sure that it is acceptable to her
177:10 so there will be places that are going to be a little bit more guy zone but one of the things
177:16 that jordan was doing today as he went through with um with our camera crew and got some before shots
177:22 was he he brought um someone with two x chromosomes to ask the important questions like
177:29 where would i put a full length mirror things that we and gi may not consider but
177:37 we absolutely do need to accommodate stuff like that so should be a good balance
177:45 Linus how do you like the garment i've been wearing one for many years and i love
177:50 it's fine i i think i just might not be a smart watch person i think that might be the bottom
177:55 line for me i might get a casio calculator watch or something because i think i'm just
178:01 those are pretty sick i think i'm just over it those are pretty sick yep
178:07 and the last one i have you can you can get like baller casios um
178:12 um watch custom i'm not a watch guy uh i can't be i would lose it immediately nice i don't know
178:22 if i want to like advertise this guy's site um i don't want to get an analog watch my brain is
178:30 usually too tired to figure out what sounds good yeah digital this guy customizes casios what
178:38 makes them like a bunch of different that's cool this one i think it looks pretty sweet
178:43 i haven't seen that before but it reminds me of like 80s cars but not super cool there's a
178:48 there's a bunch of different types oh my goodness there's so many again i would never buy one for
178:52 myself i would lose it instantaneously how is the watch market so big that like this exists
178:57 i just don't understand it yeah it's the only fashion accessory for men that's so not true
179:03 belts earrings oh there they are okay not earrings if you're cool you can have the
179:10 deadly wrist things of like leather strips and stuff yeah some people do that and pull it off
179:17 cuff links okay maybe not as much of a thing anymore yeah last one i've got greetings earth humans
179:25 have you had issues with unexpected items being put through the ct scanner who's the first to scan
179:29 their lunch and have you found issues with non standard materials not that i'm aware of i don't
179:34 think anybody yet okay yeah not entertaining we have a pretty good company full of pretty reasonable
179:40 people it's a really good question but i don't think we can answer it super well i'm i am certain
179:45 there has been some things you might not necessarily expect scanned but lucas would honestly be the
179:49 better person to ask that maybe next time you see him post a Labs article on reddit you can give him
179:54 an ask binky draws says Linus consider watches are cool if you like mechanical things totally cool
180:02 and i can go to a bulgari store and i can look at it and i can be like whoa that's cool
180:10 and then i can leave it sounds like what i would do it might skip the first step it's like the zoo
180:16 i could i could go and i could see an animal and i'd be like wow cool animal and then i could go home
180:24 there was i don't know i heard about this watch one time where they're like oh it tracks the like
180:29 phases of the moon that's so cool i was like wow that sounds really let's learn all about it so i
180:33 looked it up and then was like have you ever seen it i think so i think i know the one you're talking
180:39 about
180:44 sounds like a fatigue for the first something i think it's a rolex
180:50 32 and a half thousand dollars we got it oh an entry level one nice yeah that's that's so cool
180:58 32 and a half thousand dollars pre-owned yeah that's great and it looks fantastic yeah it looks
181:03 beautiful yeah nice great starter watch for yeah the low income like you know what if someone had a
181:10 if someone had a little like one and a half time if someone had a little watch museum
181:14 and they had the watches and they had like a little placard that you could read about it and
181:19 that could actually be quite interesting especially if they had like versions where you
181:22 could see the the motion or if like they had a little interactive like like like blow-up thing
181:27 that so you could see how what everything's doing inside you can turn the thing yeah which makes the
181:32 motion move could you watch that is like could you take a novelty picture with the watch that'd be
181:36 so cool probably not and uh yeah i pay a lot for that i would i would enjoy the heck out of that
181:42 museum experience probably be pretty sweet but i it's just it's not the kind of thing that um i
181:47 think they look super neat yeah i'm not gonna buy one um i don't know man i don't know what it would
181:56 take for me yeah people like g-shocks my my smartwatch is round and it has a screen in it
182:03 and then it can display pictures of those other watches on my watch i had this conversation
182:09 enough with somebody the other day that basically went like i understand the concept of jewelry
182:15 but i think i would just rather have the raw metal that's a wait someone else said that no no that was me who said that yeah i was gonna say that's
182:28 a it's a very lightest i was having a conversation with them about jewelry um that could actually
182:34 be an art piece jewelry statement which makes it even better how much how much just like wearing
182:41 wearing a hunk of gold that doesn't tell time on your wrist yeah
182:47 you know it's subversive like that's actually good that could probably sell for a lot of money
182:51 i've got nowhere to be it doesn't matter what time it is i've seen one that was like a little
182:58 tiny whiteboard and it had a micro marker like attached to it and you could just write the time
183:02 on it that's cute mine is just reinvented the bracelet how big oh no you got a gold wire it
183:12 just manually bend it around your ARM don't you have like six piercings i do i have a bunch of
183:18 ear piercings i think they're gold they might also just be sterling silver i don't even know what they
183:25 are and in the entire time that i've been on the internet they haven't changed except if i lost one
183:30 so i i really don't i don't think about it a lot gold bar bracelets exist you've got to be
183:36 kidding me gold bar bracelet okay let's let's check this out let's check this out that's not a gold
183:41 bar no i want to see a gold bar yeah no this is not i mean with the amount of money that it would
183:49 cost to buy that moon phase watch you can buy it the the googles are i think these things might
183:55 be out of date there's a lot of disagreements um but it's like 7.3 troy ounces which i don't
184:03 necessarily know what that converts to um but i think i'm looking for doesn't exist okay sorry
184:10 i'll go over to you it'd be like a no i already closed it it'd be like a bar of gold on a strap
184:14 yeah that's what he's talking about yeah like would you want it to be a gold strap or just like a
184:19 leather strap with a bar of gold stuck on it because you want all the gold condensed right
184:23 yeah that's smart yeah so i was thinking more of an unrefined like lump we're talking this thing
184:28 yeah on a on a strap yeah yeah yeah but would you want it to look like a bar because to me the
184:36 kind of i just want the raw metal it would be like an unprocessed hunk of gold um like like you would
184:41 melt it down it'd be 100 gold i think but then it would just kind of like be in a lump if you were
184:45 like a prospector and it was like gold that you like mined or something totally then that's badass
184:52 yes but if you're just trying to flex then no it's got to be it's got to be like proper no this
184:57 wasn't flex this was art statement okay like it's got to be it's got to be four nines royal
185:03 canadian mint i've got a gold plus a leather bar a leather band awesome you know that streamer who
185:09 did the i've got your whole house on my wrist thing yeah actually i've got your whole watch on my wrist
185:15 i love that i think i can see an entire series where you have um you have different watch price
185:23 points and they're all leather bands but the cost of the watch has a different amount of gold in it
185:29 so like 35 000 of gold if a patek philippe that's like 1.2 million if this big lump of gold but
185:35 they're all like the same watch and then you can just compare your lumps of gold and it would be
185:41 the same mode depending on like market forces i was going to say all the pricing for the watches
185:45 could just be market rate absolutely sorry excuse me five nines the royal canadian mint was the
185:50 first to reach five nines that'd be a great art series somebody should do that line is gonna
185:54 borrow 27 million dollars actually it's less after today it's just a it's just a small project
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