The WAN Show - NVIDIA GTX 970 Buyers All Get $30!! - July 29nd 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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all right guys welcome to the W show the
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what now lawsuit show the lawsuit show yeah there's going to be some lawsuit
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topics today no one is suing us for being late all the time you know no
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false advertising just going to say is how long we're when we're going to go
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live is it false advertising if you're just actually a
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failure um I don't know uh I mean this
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is starting to sound like sort of Kickstarter territory
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here so can you get sued for being terrible at
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life maybe maybe it depends not a clear
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answer there um however you can get sued
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for saying a graphics card has four gigs
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of memory if it does indeed have four gigs of memory but in fact uh an eighth
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of it runs at a lower speed so NVIDIA has settled the graphics card false
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advertising class action Microsoft also faces two new lawsuits
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over their aggressive Windows 10 upgrade tactics are you going to do two of them
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or am I going to do two more I'll do two more Verizon buys Yahoo for
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4.83 billion it's too bad they spent so much on it cuz I was going to make a
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play for Yahoo with my you know maybe 40
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bucks that I got in my wallet that might not be worth it that I it was going to
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be a tough call without that 40 bucks how would I go play badminton tonight
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that or you you could buy 20 cans of pop and 20 chocolate bars and I could feel
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really terrible the next day which is about how I'd feel if I bought Yahoo uh
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also using a VPN in the United Arab Emirates could get you fine could make
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you feel pretty bad speaking of feeling bad I almost missed that segue there uh
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could get you fined up to $545,000 so let's run the intro which is
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the only thing that I wasn't 100% sure if it was going to work today
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yeah is the audio good I'm not sure
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oh
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uh okay oh crap oh I forgot to do one
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thing I forgot to do one thing there boom now it'll work next time okay nice
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good job oh there was an option to reset the
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scene every time you left it uh no that that that is oh oh the whole scene so
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you could save what the scene was like and then it couldt to it every time it
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would be very specifically useful for us for that one scene I don't know that
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xplit will Implement that but we've asked for features before and they've done it so all right so guys
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with I it is with a a glad a glad heart
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that I can reveal that I have finally resolved all the issues that I had with
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the streaming setup here um we are using the Razer siren Pro which for whatever
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you guys always complained that the audio was too quiet and I think part of
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the problem is that we're using microphones with a cardioid pickup pattern as two people and so we we
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couldn't turn them up high enough without introducing Distortion siren Pro
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works well for sum reason in this application I don't know why the other
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thing is that we had a mishmash of capture cards from Elgato a media and
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Black Magic including cards from their deck link as well as their intensity
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lineup um it seemed like from week to
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week one or the other could be responsible for everything being
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completely bunged up we are now Consolidated we are using all epiphan
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capture cards um a combination of them and we actually have more input devices
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now so I can do this with Linus' screen or I can do this
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with Luke's screen who so we can both screen share now also
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this is a really funny bug that I hey we can prove that we're watching the show
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now oh yeah that's true cuz people will see the chat on my screen um H so uh
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this is a really funny bug that I was having with the Elgato card was where it
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would take like 8 seconds to switch scenes so I would bring up the uh I
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would bring up the article that we were talking about and it would be sitting
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there and I wouldn't be able to change to my notes on it and I would always
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just have to kind of kill 10 seconds after I clicked yeah so uh yeah this is
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a pretty interesting article that I'm planning to talk to you about but I
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don't have any my exact notes here's some kind of you know thing that I okay
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yeah blah blah blah here's what's going on yeah so we're pretty much solved as
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far as issues go I'm super thrilled and
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yes I got a sunburn thank you for making that observation I also got a spray tan
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on the same day that I went out and got a sunburn are you sunburn on your face
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oh yeah oh my face is like Wicked burnt like yeah I don't think my face is very
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burnt well you yeah yeah I did everything I could
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possibly do to not get sunburn including just putting a bucket on my head and
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like putting my shirt on every opportunity I had and I don't even know
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how much of this is spray tan or burn it's so hard to figure it out or Burn
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yeah cuz I actually and this was really hard but I went home had a shower and
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like scrubbed cuz I was trying to get spray tan off so I scrubbed a sunburn
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when I got home from the shoot yesterday should we I scrubbed a little bit but
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I'm not burnt as bad should we tell them what we were shooting and why your beard
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is shaved why I have a how long till it's
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going to be coming out it's going to be at least two to three weeks but should
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we should we tease it anyway maybe we should tease it anyway I kind of think
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so can we show the original I think we should tease it anyway I don't want to
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show the original and get the monetization pulled off when show cuz
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that'll probably happen Okay but we did
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as close as we could a shot forsh shot
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reenactment of the volleyball scene from Top Gun now mind you none of us are uh
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treaded enough for it except for maybe lonus but okay the funny thing about
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okay so we're talking body fat percentage when you say sort of shredded
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in that cont that what that means in that context cuz I'm I'm not uh like I'm
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not bulky enough but you look shredded that's what it's all you could you could
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be jacked as [ __ ] but have too high of a body fat percentage and not look
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shredded oh I see okay well so okay fine
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I might be shredded enough but I'm just not bulky enough like in the picture is
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he is Tom Cruz bulkier there he's bulkier there for sure um I kind of want
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to I kind of want to twet this right now or something so that I
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can um there's a picture of me with okay
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I I'll just even Teran okay there's a picture of me with all three of the
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other guys that are that are doing the volleyball game and I look tiny I look
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like even though even again like even though my body fat percentage is quite
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low I look like the pinest dude next to
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burkel who I'm pretty sure has forearms bigger than my biceps I think well yeah
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cuz I think my forearm might be bigger than your B yeah I think so and so
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between the two of bur's like massive so Burl's chest is like huge chest could
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probably bench press like by itself if
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you give it he could probably bench with his pecs my entire body weight but like
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not using his arms and Taran in the time
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I've known him has completely changed like he was like the stereotyp and don't
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take this the wrong way but he was he still has no Athletics athletic ability
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so he can't use his strength but he's he's quite strong now but he
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was like the stereotypical vegetarian
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and I don't I don't mean that rudely in any way you know vegetarian diet there
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are super jacked vegetarians there are lots of jacked vegetarians but it's like
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the vegetarian from like the Dilbert comic like the caricature of a
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vegetarian a super like to the tea stereotypical one yeah like the
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stereotypical vegetarian the guy was like you know six or seven inches taller
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than me and weigh about the same as I did it it was bad been very
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intentionally putting on weight and very intentionally working he looks good he
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looks good anyway so so I play Tom Cruz
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Maverick um some of you have probably seen taran's picture on social media
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where he he shaved oh man the pedo stash
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is far too real actually I'm I'm going to pull this up just it's gone now and
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that's probably a good thing it's gone now yeah he shaved it off oh oh he
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shaved the pedo stash oh yeah yeah yeah that's fine no I I thought you meant his
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his picture I doubt that's gone no I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure he tweeted a picture
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here where's where's the P stash where's the pedo stash no I don't see it I don't
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see it down maybe he took on the LT one
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maybe he tweeted on the LTT handle I didn't put mine on the LTT one because
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it's a CSF thing it's not LTD yeah it's the same reason I didn't tweet anything
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yesterday okay oh I can't find oh oh I
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feel like terrible right now like I really want to okay whatever you guys
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get no no it's okay it's okay it's ridiculous so teran's goose
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okay so um what's your character's name
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Iceman Iceman IC Burl is is it slider
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something I don't know I I don't remember anyway Luke and burkel are like
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the like mean Rivals and then Taran and
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I play Tom Cruz and and goose and it's
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just bad The Twist is that we use an
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inflatable volleyball that's like this big um um it
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should be good it should be good stay tuned stay tuned I'm not making it sound
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very good but maybe okay I think his name is either Stinger Viper Jester or
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Merlin I'm not sure which one I am Iceman you're Iceman all right excellent
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goose and Maverick were correct all right so let's move on to
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some actual news topics here shall we the original article here is from
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topclassactions.com NVIDIA settles graphics card false
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advertising class action so they've
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agreed to a preliminary settlement that will resolve claims in a group of
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proposed class action lawsuits that center around allegations that the
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company misled consumers about the performance B tweeted it and uh quote
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unquote storage capabilities of its product though it should be noted that I
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wouldn't call vram Storage I already
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posted that I wouldn't call vram Storage in sort of the strict sense of the word
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um NVIDIA says then that it will pay
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every buyer of a GTX 97
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$30 and they will pay $1.3 million in
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additional an additional additional attorney fees so there you go we had
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talked about this at the time we had said we felt like a class action was
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going to be pointless what are you going to get five bucks you know what $30
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looks is decent $30 buys you an appy and
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an entree but not a drink at a
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restaurant and I just order Waters yeah
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I drink water too so that's a good like big probably going to take some home
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meal yep that's right that's right that's going to be your dinner and your
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midnight snack while you're gaming on your gtx970 which is still a very good
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card yep so you know I we again I don't want
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to beat this dead horse anym than we already have you know like pure ghost
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loads out of that horse at this point um
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but the 970 is still a good card they
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shouldn't have done that no I think they deserved this yep definitely um I didn't
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think it was going to work cuz I thought they were going to get away with in the
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legal Court like there's technically four there and there are like and there
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are that's the funny thing about it is they it is misleading and they do
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deserve it I can't imagine they saved a lot of money building the card this way
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I don't I don't feel like it would be 30 bucks a card because they did put four
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gigs of RAM on it like they they they bought the the memory they they put it
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on there so they actually had to pay for the memory and then they had to pay crap
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pay out to their customers as though they didn't so now yeah I don't know
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lesson learned right don't don't screw with the internet so the overall
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settlement amount was not publicly disclosed within the court papers it's
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going to be a lot but NVIDIA did say that there would be
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no cap on the total amount it would pay and they would pay all consumers who
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purchased a 970 graphics card I guess I don't count cuz mine are review samples
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that'd be pretty sick though if we could turn in our 970 for 30
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bucks go get some dinner some appies pretty sweet I mean with the amount that
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we had would you get I don't think we had that many 970s at least two yeah we
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had yeah 60 bucks and it's US dollars so
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like oh dang yeah $600 what's up you
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know um that is pretty sweet though and
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I'm happy that it happened this quickly and I know some people are going to be
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like what like this happened forever ago
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but these things sometimes take like what was it ddr2 or something there was
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some like $15 rebate or $20 rebate on ddr2 purchases oh I don't know and it
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happened like 10 years later something insane there was an Intel one that was
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like six or seven years down the line everyone got 15 bucks or 10 $10 or
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something like so 30 bucks is I feel a pretty good amount of money and it
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happened relatively recently afterwards yeah it was the right it was the right
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thing for NVIDIA to just settle it cuz that's why it got done so quickly was
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that they settled it rather than dragging this out into a really long Court battle I mean to be clear I don't
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think they'd have settled it if they thought they could win it but yeah um I
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uh what was I going to say right there's no form up yet to like
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apply to get your $30 just in case anyone's like scrambling trying to get
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their money um I think this Top Class
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actions website is going to post something about it once it's up um so
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they're trying to get you to sign up for their newsletter I would probably just come back to this website instead of
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signing up for their newsletter so basically um there were a total of 15
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consumer class action lawsuits that were Consolidated in Northern California
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NVIDIA denied all allegations of wrongdoing
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and then entered into the settlement terms uh and agreed to the terms of the
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settlement and then U the $30 is not
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arbitrary it's calculated to represent a portion of the cost of the storage and
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performance capabilities the consumer thought they was the consumers thought
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they were obtaining when they purchased the card which what that's like around
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like 11% of the cost yeah something like that a pretty pretty more than fair is
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what I would call that cool speaking of
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there's something to be said for like you think you buy a product and you don't get that and it wasn't even
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necessarily as much about the money right so you should probably get more
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than the difference which is probably what happened but I don't think that's usually how these things work I have no
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idea so no all right let's move on to
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our next topic here another lawsuit topic the original article here is from
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extreme Tech I'm going to pull this up you want to post it y all right
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Microsoft slapped with class action lawsuits over Windows 10 upgrade
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practices so they're facing two more lawsuits over company over their
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questionable upgrade tactics both suits are seeking class action status the
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first one was filed in the US District Court of in Florida and alleges that the
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Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade prompts violated laws governing unsolicited
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electronic advertisements which is a really
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interesting way of tackling it because
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you could sort of make the argument that
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and this is this is kind of getting into a pretty fuzzy area here you could sort
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of make the argument that let's say apple putting in iTunes update
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notification in the bottom of your screen all the time is like is like
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advertising Impressions because they're showing you the Apple name and the
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iTunes name and the and and there or
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like if they had like a logo or something in there like you could you could almost take it one step further
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and go but then it's like putting a brand name on something is that
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advertising then if it's unsolicited because the
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Windows 101 was an entire window that
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popped up on your scre it wasn't like a notification in the corner it was like
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Hey upgrade to Windows 10 and it did it all the time and would do it forcefully
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okay but hold on a second so so I so yes
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they basically put a billboard on your computer that is different yeah but they
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weren't trying to sell you anything however in this day and age so
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much software is free to play
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that is there really a difference between an ad for installing the Twitter
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app for example and an ad for installing
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Windows 10 if Microsoft was making the argument that Windows 10 was uh Windows
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8.1 Service Pack 4 or something like if
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they just kind of said okay uh yes it's a service pack that makes everything
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look the same oh by the way we're going to call it Windows 10 now like if they
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weren't calling it a different product they might have gotten away with this
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not being called advertising but if they are effectively
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trying to get you to download and install a a different product from what
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you have then I actually I kind of see that holding water yeah and the length
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to how aggro they went about it m um all right so the second suit this
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is more along the lines of what I expected from Windows 10 class action
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lawsuits so this one alleges that Microsoft installed Windows 10 on users
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computers without consent and they've already paid out $10,000 in a previous
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US suit over similar circumstances and this is a case where because it's a
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Windows operating system and not part of
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video memory that still functioned but just like wasn't what I thought I was
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getting this one I can see people getting significant payouts for being
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put out by this situation where their computer doesn't work or their computer
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doesn't work the way they expected I mean which I hope that happens because
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I'd like to receive some money for the like half a day that I lost because of
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that I mean and it could be a lot worse than that it could be you know but it's
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only not worse than that because it was me yeah like if it I was I my system is
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set up that it's not that big of a deal like if it's your you know I'm not going
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to say your mom because your mom's fairly techsavvy if I recall correctly
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she's like she wouldn't not be able to find the control panel because you
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changed the version of Windows would she or like not be able to find her programs
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she would know to look for the control panel okay like would she not be able to
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find her programs she could find her like her Internet Explorer find internet
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stuff she can all that so let's talk about if it's someone who legitimately
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wouldn't be able to use their computer even if the upgrade worked correctly
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there's going to be people saying I have like my mom would be fine yeah there's
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going to be people out there though that would have not been able to use their
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computer for potentially weeks I guarantee my mom would call me and be
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like everything looks different I'm scared and on top of that would have had
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to take it to a shop to have it restored to its pre- Windows 10
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upgrade they could be paying a lot of money per instance in the case of that
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$10,000 one they ended up buying her a new computer if I recall correctly like
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it was a new laptop which I think is unjustified personally but I think
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they're very much just trying to get it to go away but with that said the paperwork involved in having a computer
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serviced by some shop somewhere like building a a service network
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Countrywide and remember people could have been getting Windows 10 upgrades in
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the middle of Tim Buck freaking 2 Kentucky
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like it could be easier to just ship them a computer from dell.com yeah yeah
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which is kind of Terri
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um oh dear all right so I I'm upset
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about that kind of stuff and I wish that like ah I don't know it's it's
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frustrating and frustrating that it also wasn't
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easier cuz like I'm trying to build some land rigs right now but like I don't
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have enough cases and I'm trying to like get cases essentially for free so
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there's been like delays on it and whatnot um so I haven't built all of
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them yet I've built a couple of them but that means there's a few of them that I
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haven't done operating system installs on yet so I guess they're just going to
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stay on Windows 7 because I have keys for that I don't have keys for Windows
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10 and I don't really want to buy more operating system keys for land
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rigs that don't need it right everyone can run dx11 that's fine because dx12 is
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kind of borked at the moment anyways yeah you're working on a video about
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that right trying to yes trying to I'm going to leave it at that
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there are certain reasons why I am not currently able to complete it that are
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making me frustrated but I'll stay away from that I should
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um I think I'm getting the rest of the information that I want on August 4th
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but then I'm leaving for a while on August 5th so it's probably going to be
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a bit Yeah but yes there's a video on
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Vulcan the current state of Vulcan and dx12 that is on the way so Microsoft
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told the Seattle Times that it believes these suits won't succeed although I
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mean they have to say that what else are they going to say at this point one
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quick thing that I want to interject someone in the chat said if Vulcan succeeds you won't need Windows 10 or
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dx12 it's a good point Vulcan works on like everything Android Linux that's
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true assuming that the game works there's only four games that supports
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right now yeah one of them is dota so
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doesn't matter
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nice no but no DOTA is a very important game but it's very easy to run and you
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don't need like Oh I thought you meant specifically DOTA is a very important
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game I didn't mean DOTA doesn't matter I mean like it being featured in Dota the
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cool part of that mean means that it's very like you can play it on whatever
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you want that part is cool cuz Vulcan is on everything right
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okay context of that got a little weird sorry I was like wow so much hate no so
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much salt it did not mean that at all
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though is important game they've done really good thing for Esports I like how
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they do their tournaments I just realized that the um
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or like it only the most loyal of our viewers are watching right now oh you
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didn't because it didn't uh it didn't push oh
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my that's okay um there's a couple more things on that topic
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Microsoft getting wrecked yeah yeah basically them what their statement is
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still in there Microsoft stated Microsoft's
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marketing scheme falls short of certain uh protections which must be afforded
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wait what okay I was doing this maybe
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I'll just pick off okay um so basically
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they said that upgrades to Windows 10 are a choice not a requirement which is
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one way of putting it I guess and that they offer free customer support to
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those that run into trouble have you ever tried to contact Microsoft customer
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basically the worst um I don't actually think I've had a worse customer
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support thing from anyone they say
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people who update to Windows 10 can roll back their prior system for 31 days
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which doesn't help people who are not techsavvy and whose upgrades don't
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complete successfully yeah or if it fails like mine did not completing
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successfully yep um yeah so basically
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the lawyer that filed the Florida lawsuit said that Microsoft's marketing
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scheme he calls it falls short of certain protections which must be
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afforded and then claims that the damages owed to Consumers who have
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struggled with the new software May total tens of millions of
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dollars wrecked and I'm kind of leaning
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towards I hate to do this but I might have to agree with a
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lawyer um cuz I'm sorry John yeah
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because I am leaning towards him being more correct about this totally think
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he's right I think it's going to cost them tens of millions of dollars yeah
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100% what no no no it's all good John don't
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worry everything's fine all right speaking of everything being good you
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and I had some more experience than usual yeah with Dollar Shave Club razors
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each so I don't think I've clean shaven
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since 2012 I think in the first wow I was in I think I'm clean shaven then
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yeah it sounds about right I think yeah so it's like weird and I didn't realize
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how like spiky it is if you're trying to let it grow
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back yeah so like this morning I woke up and was like H oh my hand stuck oh it's
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like sandpaper yeah holy crap anyways I
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did use Dollar Shave Club razors to do it yep and I used Dollar Shave Club
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Razer to shave my chest for the first time I didn't show a nipple so on Twitch
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no I've never first time ever yeah I've never shaved my chest I've never really
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felt the need I just have kind of like this weird TFT in the middle like I
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don't have a lot of chest hair yeah is it enough that like if you wear deep V
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it's just like no cuz they grow down oh
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yeah like it's just kind of like this weird like thing I got you going on and
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then it's kind of weird like all over the rest of like my shoulders and chest
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I have like these individual random really long ones random really long
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hairs like it's bizarre but I shaved my
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chest for the first time I used I believe it was the four
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blade I I I actually borrowed luks we were at we were at the spray tan place
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and I was like shaving my chest in the bathroom it was the executive very
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strange experience was it no no it's not the executive that's the six blade one
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oh yeah no no no no you have the one you have the step down yes the one in the
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middle um anyway so dollarshaveclub.com why don't we actually talk about their
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their offer um has a special offer for new members who join today you get a
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free month of the executive Razer that's their top tier when you buy a tube of Dr
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Carver shave butter which by the way I also used for my chest shaving
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experience because you do not want to
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shave blind over a nipple no nope that's
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not a thing you would want to do so being able to see what you're doing shave shave butter goes on clear is
27:38
definitely a plus um it's trippy because
27:42
back when I did use to clean shave I had foam stuff so I'm used to like oh you
27:46
can see it when it's ready but no you just you can still see your face
27:49
perfectly fine yeah it's actually kind of Handy um so yeah basically that's the
27:54
offer right now all you got to do is go to dollarshaveclub.com Linus if you live in
27:58
Canada the United States or Australia
28:01
and you can be a member of the club enjoying all the great benefits like
28:04
razors and other bathroom supplies including the shave butter their After
28:08
Shave and their one wipe charlies's delivered directly to your door once a
28:12
month so you can use a fresh razor blade all the time and always feel good and
28:17
always get a nice clean shave and you can save money compared to going to the
28:21
you know Pharmacy or chemist or whatever it is they call it in the various
28:25
countries around the world the chemist po the the
28:29
yeah Apothecary is that how is that I think that is the right yeah Apothecary
28:35
Apothecary anyway uh the point is you save money it gets delivered right to
28:39
your door you don't have to leave the house to look like you leave the house
28:43
and yeah don't think we've ever gotten a
28:47
complaint from our viewers about Dollar Shave Club which is about the strongest endorsement that I can get for anyone I
28:51
always get comments of people being like oh you have a beard how can you
28:56
advertise Dollar Shave Club One I shave down here all the time two otherwise
29:00
you'd have a neck beer yeah it goes down to like here it's really bad so I shave
29:04
it and then it goes back up
29:08
hooray all right so more more Windows 10
29:12
crap the original article here is from pcgamer.com Tim Sweeny thinks Microsoft
29:19
will make Steam progressively worse with
29:23
Windows 10 patches this is my screen and then sorry go share my screen and then
29:27
go to your thing oh share your screen and then it oh I could do that did you
29:32
post it in twitch chat right I did so for those of you who don't know Tim
29:36
Sweeney is the co-founder of epic games um and created the Unreal Engine and
29:42
stuff you know and stuff so like sort of a big freaking deal like he's right up
29:47
there with your CarMax and your new definitely an important guy uh
29:52
believes that Microsoft will work to make Steam progressively worse in order
29:57
to force develop Vel opers onto the universal Windows platform with the
30:02
endgame goal of essentially closing the open PC gaming ecosystem a funny thing
30:09
about this kind of I'd love to call it tinfoil hattis but he's a really smart
30:15
guy and a Savvy guy and they are not the same thing he's a smart guy he's a
30:20
well-connected guy he's a Savvy guy and
30:23
he's saying that he thinks that's the direction it's going so you know how we
30:28
were giving Microsoft high fives for
30:31
bringing PC uh Xbox games to the PC platform for car seeming like they cared
30:35
about PC Gamers we might have gotten
30:39
ahead of ourselves because they might might want them to not care they might be trying to turn PC Gamers into Xbox
30:44
Gamers we we might have the exact right amount of carrying a few months ago yeah
30:50
uh one of one of the things that is directly directly worries me in this is
30:55
one of the last lines in the actual article if my laptop stops freezing I
30:59
will get there um it says it it risks W
31:03
turning Windows into a closed platform risks neutering new breakthroughs such
31:07
as VR and that is uh before they had a chance to flourish and that is actually
31:11
a pretty good point Steam for all the shortfalls of things like green light
31:16
steam is not perfect we know no there's tons of problems in the VR section on
31:21
Steam there's so many entire Pages worth
31:25
of just terrible useless pieces of trash
31:28
and it's kind of a problem for VR right now but at the same time someone who
31:33
creates something can get on Steam surprisingly without that much
31:38
difficulty and that can also be relatively important for VR right now
31:42
because the second someone tries something that's purely Innovative and
31:47
is amazing and works really well for the platform it can push out quickly and
31:52
they don't have to jump through hoops and it's not a closed
31:56
ecosystem this is great uh Big T 1971 asks if the W show is
32:01
sponsored by fake tan this week kind of
32:04
no but the tan is definitely fake or the fake T is real look at this side of my
32:09
ARM yeah compared to Linus's
32:13
face there you go this part didn't get that much spray T like can you imagine
32:18
trying to play VR games without valve
32:22
and Oculus just basically stepping up
32:26
and creating their own entire ecosystem yeah for them
32:30
yeah and like I'm going to take a very
32:34
quick aside I promise we won't talk about it for too long for all the flak people gave me in the Oculus Rift review
32:39
from the Vive Community even though it was a negative Oculus Rift review which
32:42
still confuses me about um Oculus supporting developers and how I should
32:47
have talked about it more even though I did say that they were only supporting
32:51
timed exclusives without a time they just wanted them to release on Rift
32:55
first anyways Oculus has deeply funded
32:58
like 70 games or something at this point and that's actually pretty cool so so I
33:04
mean we're giving Microsoft kudos for
33:07
basically removing horrible things that
33:11
they had before but they've actually
33:15
done very little to help VR compared to
33:19
what companies like valve and Oculus are
33:22
expected to do completely on their own I mean not completely on their own and
33:26
valve has their own just be clear as well valve has their own VR funding
33:29
stuff that they are doing so like both of those companies are doing awesome
33:34
things in terms of helping VR stuff so anyway um it's to summarize sort of this
33:39
was actually in an interview with Edge magazine so to so to summarize sween's
33:42
comments he basically goes okay look every PC game for the last few decades
33:46
has used win32 and it's been responsible for the vibrant software Market we have
33:50
now but also for malware any program can
33:53
be a virus and universal Windows platform is as an anti as an antidote to
33:59
that it's sandbox it's much more locked down but the risk is that if if
34:03
Microsoft convinces everybody to use it then they phase out win32 apps and if
34:08
they can succeed in doing that then it's a small leap to forcing all apps and
34:12
games to be distributed Through the Windows store which as we've seen
34:17
already has it just ter doesn't work
34:20
with higher frame rate doesn't work with anything like just crappy it's like
34:26
oh yeah every game runs full screen Window mode now why how about not how
34:32
about not that I mean how are we supposed to do things like oh I don't
34:36
know uh Benchmark a game using an
34:40
application like fraps that jumps in in
34:43
between the program and the driver and the output and overlays things like this
34:48
sounds like the kind of stuff that is not going to work very well if you lock
34:52
it down and you go look okay every game runs at 60 FPS 1080P and 4K like I it
34:57
wouldn't even Sur surpris me and I've seen games that don't support certain
35:02
resolutions just because I don't know um
35:05
we just didn't think of it uh like like it wouldn't surprise me if you had a
35:09
4096 X 2160 monitor which is 4K by the
35:13
way 3860 by 21 or 3860 by 3840 X 2160 is
35:18
UHD they're not the same thing if you had a 4k monitor like it wouldn't
35:21
surprise me if it didn't work properly because that standard kind of took a
35:25
couple flaps of its gigantic wings and then face planted into the sand cuz no
35:29
one cared um and I've seen stuff like
35:32
that before where weirdo resolutions like uh 1440 by 900 just aren't
35:40
supported for some reason I don't know I hate it I hate the
35:44
idea steam's been around forever I think if they try to do this though they're
35:47
going to run into crazy anti-competitive problems let's hope in
35:52
terms of legality especially because steam has already been established for
35:56
so long yeah you don't think they're going to fight it that's uh but his
36:00
thing is like if over the years they force patch Windows 10 to make Steam
36:04
buggier then people will welcome the Windows store with open arms because
36:10
they'll blame valve I mean blaming valve is a very popular thing to do they'll
36:13
blame valve for steam being crap when ultimately it had nothing to do with
36:17
them blame valve but worship new yeah
36:21
that's kind of how works all right maybe I'm more sunburnt
36:24
than I thought I just scratched my ARM and it's like really burning now mhm
36:28
okay Verizon the original article here is from CBC News Verizon confirms 4.83
36:36
billion takeover of Yahoo's Core
36:39
Business this does not
36:42
include Yahoo's shares in Alibaba which
36:46
are worth a lot by the way or Yahoo Japan which counterintuitively is a
36:52
separate company and actually has very little to do with normal yah
36:58
so it includes their advertising content
37:02
search and mobile activities apparently Yahoo owned 34% of Yahoo Japan that's
37:09
weird yeah go figure
37:12
right um like did did Yahoo have content
37:17
in search like does anyone search on Yahoo I guess Verizon must think so I
37:22
think they also owned a lot of other things even though it wasn't Alibaba or
37:26
they just bought yeah which they acquired just over a
37:30
year ago this is a great sorry sorry Verizon owns AOL so Verizon seems to be
37:35
collecting like this these defunct web
37:39
companies like web 1.0 companies yeah uh
37:44
so just a year ago we acquired AOL to enhance our strategy of providing a
37:47
cross screen connection for consumers creators and advertisers what whatever
37:53
that means what does that mean um and
37:58
this is great this is the rest of the statement from Verizon the acquisition of Yahoo will put Verizon in a highly
38:03
competitive position as a top Global Mobile Media company and help accelerate
38:07
our Revenue stream in digital advertising so Yahoo will be integrated
38:12
with AOL I guess maybe I'm missing something
38:16
here but but every time we talk about Yahoo we we we don't understand it yeah
38:22
maybe we just kind of have because okay like even the farmet people I don't know
38:28
anyone that's on Yahoo specifically or
38:32
sorry AOL yeah no I mean as an ISP I
38:35
think aol's pretty much gone aren't they yeah I think I I mean maybe twitch chat
38:39
I mean I don't think anyone watching videos on Twitch is is going to be on
38:44
AOL but um maybe people watching the archive at 240p or 144p are going to let
38:51
us know that they're on uh that they're on a yeah Yahoo answers okay okay sure I
38:58
encounter Yahoo answers from time to time although not as much as I used to
39:02
yeah not as much as I used to these days.com comes up a lot it's like a pay
39:07
site how are they getting submissions like do they pay the people who answer
39:11
the questions I don't get it maybe that could be a good answer if so that's kind
39:15
of brilliant cuz the answers on there are really good but if you want to click
39:19
anything else from an answer page it prompts you to buy a membership but if
39:24
you look at the name of that question page that you want to read and you go
39:28
back and Google it then you can go read that one for free so it's actually just
39:32
the right amount of being accessible to everyone but putting a barricade in your
39:38
way if you don't pay I don't know I think I think it's a really interesting
39:42
Yahoo m is apparently very popular according to uh brim brimal who um whose
39:50
parents probably use yaho so they bought in
39:53
gadget yeah that's part of it
39:58
okay sure yaho Sports
40:03
okay okay so there's some content
40:06
there okay all right moving on this is
40:11
pretty scary understand I guess they like bought all the people that are
40:14
technically out of
40:18
touch right cuz I I don't even know who gets their sports news from Yahoo sports
40:22
or like people that use Yahoo mail but it still exists and people do use it I
40:26
just yeah I only know like I'm pretty sure yvon's parents use Yahoo mail okay
40:30
but like so they bought everyone who over 50 technically out of touch yeah
40:34
yeah okay all right this is some scary
40:38
business right here if you get caught using a VPN in the UAE you could facee
40:43
fines up to$ 545,000
40:49
us wow so they introduced a federal law
40:55
Banning the use of vpns to try to avoid paying for expensive Voiceover IP
41:01
Services which is a very interesting reason to care about people using vpns
41:06
it's a royal edict from the president uh making it illegal for
41:11
anyone in the country to use a VPN or secure proxy server that's such a weird
41:17
reason you could face jail time by the
41:20
way and fines of between 500,000 to 2
41:25
million UAE Duram it was announced this week by the UAE
41:29
president and because this is just like an edict like I think this basically got
41:35
sprung on people I had not heard any Rumblings of this I had no idea maybe
41:40
I'm Maybe I'm Wrong uh the wording is apparently ambiguous and technologically
41:45
illiterate but it basically seems like you're not allowed to use systems that
41:49
hide the fact that you're committing a crime or covering one up and if you are
41:53
routing Network traffic you could be evading the eyes of the state while
41:57
breaking the law wow so there's a tweak law taken
42:02
from the site Emirates 247 that says whoever uses a fraudulent computer
42:06
network protocol address or IP address
42:09
by using a false address or a third-party address by any other names
42:13
for the purpose of committing a crime or preventing its Discovery shall be
42:16
punished by temporary imprisonment and a fine of no less than 500,000 Durham and
42:23
either of these two penalties wow that's awesome
42:27
understand even through reading the article um I don't
42:31
understand like like this section right here VoIP uh over-the-top apps have been
42:36
a thorn in the side of Telecom operators around the world because customers no
42:39
longer need to pay international calling rates to speak to their beloved ones
42:43
they can just speak to them on Skype WhatsApp Facebook Messenger Viber or
42:46
SnapChat or whatever the hell else and so on and so on yeah but UAE is one of
42:51
the first governments in the world to actually regulate on behalf of so can you not use those because you don't need
42:55
a VPN to use Skype WhatsApp Facebook Messenger fber or SnapChat no but the
43:00
problem is that in the UAE they have um
43:04
pretty crappy filtering systems in
43:08
place okay yeah so they're like they're filtering the internet there people are
43:12
using VPN to get around their already restricted internet access so this is a
43:16
really interesting fact from our notes Here uh less than 15% of the Kingdom's
43:20
inhabitants are locals with the rest of the population made up of expatriates so
43:25
many of those people probably want access to private corporate networks and
43:29
the internet without being limited by that filtering system and it looks like
43:33
I mean I I I I'd like to say that I can't
43:38
imagine them actually enforcing this because it seems insane but if they were
43:42
insane enough to implement this law in the first place maybe they're insane
43:46
enough to enforce it I personally wouldn't install a VPN because I
43:51
wouldn't be the one to take that bullet just to find out right that's kind of
43:57
ridiculous unless some VPN steps up and goes like we're untrackable we'll pay
44:00
your fine yeah but they could they can imprison you oh yeah good call I don't
44:07
want to go to prison y freaking ridiculous all right 711 this article is
44:13
from the verge.com just made the first commercial delivery by
44:19
drone I mean can you the the the the
44:23
marketing for this just writes itself look up to the heavens for
44:28
7-Eleven a you know what would be kind of great
44:33
if you're like out playing soccer or
44:36
something you just had like a slurpie delivered to you I know right so it took
44:39
place on July 11th actually and uh they
44:42
partnered with drone startup flirty to make the delivery to a private residence
44:47
in Reno Nevada they delivered a chicken sandwich Donuts coffee candy and
44:52
Slurpees Slurpees the goods were packaged into
44:56
two containers each separately flown to the home and the Drone flew autonomously
45:01
from the store to the household using GPS to
45:05
navigate wow so they've selected a store from which to deliver and surveyed
45:09
customers within a one M radius to see if they'd be willing to take part this
45:13
is not the first delivery that flirty has made but it appears to be the first
45:17
that a customer had placed as an order with the store and then had it delivered
45:22
like the first sort of proper transaction yeah um 7-Eleven said it
45:26
plans to continue working with the drone company but uh didn't lay out a timeline
45:32
for rolling out the service to a wider region right pretty cool hey yeah I mean
45:39
we in our in in my like still functional
45:42
somewhat you know aware adult lifetime I could live to see a world
45:48
where a self-driving car picks me up in
45:51
the morning I'm like hungry or whatever
45:54
and I go okay yeah I want like a sandwich here's my specs uh deliver it
46:00
to my work I arrive at work in my self-driving car having been on my phone
46:03
the whole time cuz by then I guess that law won't be in place anymore unless
46:07
you're driving it in which case it's still better not to be on your so that
46:11
law wouldn't has never been in place but I could step out of my car have a drone
46:15
basically drop a freaking sandwich in my hand I could walk in sit at my desk eat
46:20
my sandwich my car could be running around cting other people around making
46:24
me money very possibly in your lifetime you might not have to go to
46:29
work te T commuting is like a huge
46:33
research section yeah I don't know about it for this cuz I was kind of still
46:37
planning to do this okay you're wanting
46:40
to be hosting when your career's ending
46:44
when my career's ending no I was thinking this could happen in like the next 5 to 10 years uh yeah but you were
46:48
just talking like survivable life span
46:51
oh no I mean before I reached the point where I'm like all decre and I have no
46:54
idea what's going on yeah like while I'm still about as functional as I am today give
46:59
or take okay yeah yeah it's pretty crazy
47:02
loving it um all right I don't know how
47:07
interesting that is sponsor spot I'm sorry sponsor spot we already did it did
47:11
we Dollar Shave oh yeah yeah we did it early yeah no we didn't no we did it on
47:16
start drastically late yeah okay the XI
47:21
me notebook air is Now official and according to the Windows central.com
47:26
headline anyway you will want to buy one
47:30
so they're going after the 13.3 in MacBook Air and they it's apparently 13%
47:36
thinner I haven't actually looked at this yet 133% thinner and 11% smaller
47:41
while managing to offer a similar sized screen their laptop is called The
47:45
Notebook air they couldn't
47:48
like be even slightly creative are they
47:51
going to get sued for that they should call it the notebook oxygen nitrogen
47:56
carbon dioxide mix mixure yeah I kind of
47:59
feel like they should get sued for that um so features a brushed aluminum body
48:03
laminated 13.3 in full HD display edgo Edge glass sixth generation core i5 and
48:08
an NVIDIA 940 MX card so it actually has
48:12
a dedicated GPU which by the way you won't be using to game on but you could
48:17
be using it to accelerate things like Adobe Premiere with a you know cineform
48:22
codec video content um something that we have shown off in an ASUS Zen book in
48:26
the past though that Zenbook is not thinner than a MacBook Air so that's
48:30
pretty cool it's got two usb3 ports an HDMI one 3 and half mm Jack and a USBC
48:36
port and there's no xiaomi branding at the front but you can customize the
48:41
front of the notebook with stickers yeah very cool so here's uh kind of a cool
48:47
look at like Star KN as like a a skin on it today the race to that uh I don't
48:54
there's a lot of in this article there's a lot of like you might need to be sued
48:57
for that like you it's China it's so like wild
49:03
wild Orient yeah but are they going to sell this in other places yeah so yeah
49:09
they can get sued for that I don't know it's not my problem no but like so this
49:15
is no mentions as of now regarding availability outside of China there you
49:20
go okay so Vio acquired by Chinese tech company
49:25
Leo for 2 billion this is one of the
49:30
sketchiest sponsor deals that we have
49:33
ever turned down by the way you don't know about this um but I actually I I'm
49:40
at the point now where I don't even want to know who they were or why they cared
49:45
but someone approached us about doing a sponsored tweet um speculating that Vio
49:52
might be acquired like by a large tech
49:55
company and then putting like Google question mark Apple question
50:00
mark and we were like well which one is
50:04
it and they're like we can't tell you and we're like that's stupid we're not
50:09
doing that yeah we don't know what your agenda is but we don't like it don't
50:14
talk to us anymore good call um and
50:17
basically it was and like to be clear guys actually this is something we
50:21
almost never talk about we almost never talk about sponsor deals that we turn
50:25
down yeah um but it happens a lot cuz
50:28
there's a lot of sketchy crap out there um and it's really it's really
50:32
interesting for us because we have that Insider perspective seeing who took the
50:38
deals after cuz yeah you know like we'll
50:41
see a tweet that doesn't have a sponsored hashtag on it or like and it's
50:45
the exact copy from whoever yeah yeah so
50:48
it's it's really interesting for us seeing who's on the take and being
50:52
upfront about it and who's not unfortunately I'm not getting involved
50:56
in that kind of stuff publicly I'm sorry I'm sure the twitch chat is already full
51:01
of people saying why don't you guys say
51:05
no not going to happen um just not
51:10
interested in in being like the next
51:13
sort of whatever drama Channel but um
51:18
yeah I'm really glad we didn't we didn't take we didn't take this one cuz I just
51:21
I had a bad feeling about it and I I'm glad that I trusted myself yeah and who
51:25
the hell even is l um they're they're they're huge they're
51:29
like a big deal but they're are they Google or Apple no they're not Google
51:33
they're not Apple but they're they're Chinese and they're that's a pretty misleading tweet then yeah
51:39
so Vio founder and CEO William Wang will
51:42
continue to all own 51% and Leo will own
51:47
49% of inscape uh blah blah blah blah blah blah
51:51
blah so VI be operated as an independent subsidiary is Vio still really like a
51:56
thing uh and that's VI's Data Business by the way oh yeah Vio is a thing as far as I
52:01
know last time I checked they were the number one TV maker in the
52:05
US okay yeah they're not they're not really as much of a thing in Canada okay
52:11
um I don't know that they're still number one but they were at one point
52:14
maybe that's my problem it's I don't shop for TVs yeah the last TV I got I
52:20
traded a friend an h100 and some
52:23
Dominator RAM for it
52:27
and the TV before that doesn't exist so
52:31
that's my shopping for TVs experience all
52:37
right um yeah I don't really have much
52:40
else to say about that are we are we is that it is that
52:46
the show is that everything interesting that happened this week I don't know Apple sold its billionth iPhone so like
52:50
good for them I guess good job Dota 2
52:53
released full VR spectators terrifying
52:57
actually like one iPhone for every seven people on Earth well
53:03
not it's a weird way to look at it because huh a lot of people would have
53:08
just been replacing iPhones I don't mean one out of every seven people on Earth
53:11
ph's an iPhone I just mean yeah like if you walk if you were to like walk down
53:16
the street one out of every seven of like like as you just like walk and look
53:21
at people like every time you walk by seven people like an iPhone rolls off of
53:25
a factory line like that's kind of the visual that I had in my
53:31
head that makes sense oh this is interesting so the
53:36
original article here is from overclock 3d. net NVIDIA's Pascal Titan X will not
53:42
feature faster fp64 or fp16 performance
53:46
so this was one of the marks of the original Titan was that it could handle
53:49
double Precision um I think not quite as
53:52
well as a Quadro but better than a GeForce if I recall correctly um and so
53:57
it was popular for Cuda programmers it was it was for more than just
54:02
gaming but the new Titan X will be much
54:06
like its Maxwell predecessor and it will not have that feature it is just an
54:11
ultra powerful gaming GPU and nothing
54:17
more um yeah I don't know I guess that's
54:21
pretty much all I have to say at this point it's been kind of a tiring week I
54:25
have finished like nothing this week but
54:29
I have a lot of stuff on the go I've got my USB type c versus micro head toad
54:34
real world how many plugs comparison
54:37
I've got a really cool idea for reducing the size and weight of the tether on the
54:43
HTC Vive um so I've got that rolling
54:46
right now I've got the Predator G1 desktop from Acer I've got the Gigabyte
54:51
Aro 14 laptop I've got um I'm sure
54:55
there's other stuff that I've got on the go right now but like this week has just
54:58
been frustrating cuz I've worked on so
55:01
much but finished nothing I've got what
55:04
CPU should I buy I'm I'm finally I can't
55:08
believe I never did it before but I'm finally doing what CPU should I buy so
55:12
I've compiled this ginormous like comparative database that I can use to
55:17
kind of go this one if you're this person this one and like have that be
55:23
like a really good Final Answer um
55:26
I I got mostly scripted on three videos
55:31
and then reached out for a comment from a particular company and they pushed it
55:37
back and then I pushed for that meeting and then they pushed it back again um
55:44
so I just like wasn't able to do those
55:47
three videos which were like two reviews and
55:51
then one like what the hell is going on with this thing video um so I lost like
55:56
my videos for this week so that's
56:00
cool although that means there will be easy videos later yeah the work isn't
56:06
wasted yeah which is nice I guess there's another really there's another
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really frustrating one for me the
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um uh pimp my Wi-Fi episode 2 basically
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that call that I had just before we started the show that was actually one of one of the reasons the show was a
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little late today uh that call that I had confirmed that the problem is
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tus really once again in my life tus has
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managed to screw me yep so the the
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wiring what is it sorry what is it basically the problems that he was
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having with the system were not related
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to my system that I put in with help from ubiquity that's running great but
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his internet keeps bugging out because
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and they've even replaced his modem at this point but because the like wiring
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is bad and there's a technician coming tomorrow which is a Saturday which means
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that whatever's wrong with it must be super wrong with it because Tellis
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normally does not come out on a Saturday that I'm aware of
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yeah all right oh also someone in the
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chat speculated that what I was talking about was a Titan XP it is not um I also
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got completely dodged on that and at this point I think they're just not
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giving us one oh really yeah I asked
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three times I think no response oh okay
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so it's like available in like three days or something isn't it August 2nd
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yeah okay so I don't
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know well thanks for tuning in guys we'll see you again next week same bat
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Time same bat Channel I got to say it was pretty refreshing not having any
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technical issues on the show um huge
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shout out to epan and you guys can get used to hearing this over the next
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little bit because they didn't do like a formal sponsorship but they did provide
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us with the capture equipment and I did say that I would definitely be giving
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them a shout out we're actually planning still to rebuild the W streaming PC so
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that's still going to be a thing that happens and I'm going to give you guys more details once we've been through a
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number of seamless shows on the new capture cards that are just working
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properly I'll give you guys all the full details about what we're using for the
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setup here so yeah there you go guys apparently the audio is messed up
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now well people are asking for Afterparty I will be doing mine like I
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normally do and I will be going home cuz I'm tired it's really hot yeah it's like
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super hot sunburns make you really tired I wonder what the science is
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behind that sorry I wonder what the like science is or biology is behind sunburn
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making really I don't
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know yeah yeah but why do why do you get like
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shaving sub