Tech Youtubers *NOT* disclosing sponsorships?? - WAN Show June 15 2018
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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12,290 words · ~61 min read
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how about now i mean the mic thing is bumping
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we'll see what people say just waiting on the chat
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to stop pressing you have to pay respect waiting on the chat
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come on yeah
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yeah thanks twitch chat welcome to the show
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uh Linus is here minus two
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hi guys i'm Linus from maple ridge bc i
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enjoy socks sandals and badminton
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and annual employee reviews and apparently camping
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atlantis has gone camping john's on the show this week uh and we have a great
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show like every week i don't even know if we have enough topics to uh to call
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out in the intro thingy but we do a bunch of tech youtubers were accused of
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not disclosing computex sponsorships or being paid to go to booths and all this
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other kind of stuff jay from j's two cents has already released a full video
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about this i know a lot of people have been talking about this on a lot of tech
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a number of other twitter i'm not sure who else did like a full-on video
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besides jay but i know that paul and kyle and i think also some others at
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least addressed it on twitter yeah gamer's nexus was talking about it as
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well like a lot of people were talking about it on twitter and then i know jay made a full dedicated video outside of
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that i'm not entirely sure uh but we'll talk about that unsurprisingly everyone
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in the youtube tech review scene is friends
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so this got slammed down pretty fast with a collective effort of like what
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the f that's bull poop um anyways moving
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on we'll talk about that more later there's a rumor that an eight core
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version of the 8700k is coming this fall
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uh people are thinking that they're just kind of Intel is just
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kind of reacting to AMD because they don't really seem to have a logical roadmap anymore but we'll we'll talk
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about that later also at t closes the time warner deal is this like straight
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up like for sure these according um so i actually your arms look huge
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you're a machine i'm sorry he's off camera yeah nick is
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over here off camera flexing for us and trying to distract us from the show with
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his pythons uh yeah but yes um i talked about this on techlink today um okay yes
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this deal is apparently final so wow the judge approved it like two days ago and
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i think they were just sort of chomping at the bit to get it done so wow
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okay also we've got apple uh is trying to
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stop developers from sharing data on users friends that
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sounds good probably yeah i don't know um a rumor
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that the that there's an AMD Radeon rx 680
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which like an expected price range of like three to four hundred bucks
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and a rumor that Windows 10 is gonna run on a google pixel book
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which is pretty weird but probably a good idea and
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we're going to talk about smash brothers ultimate briefly maybe so yeah that's going to happen oh
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yeah that's actually pretty sweet okay there are no good topics today
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yeah but then like things that other people care about other than me
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people care about this
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do you want it that would be pretty cool
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yeah here oh right uh sponsors uh
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moss backpack savage jerky and uh ltx
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oh wow we're sponsoring our sponsor ourselves it's amazing
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and set that back and uh
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here we have so much ill-gotten money according to this first topic we're
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going to talk about that we can just sponsor ourselves yeah which i think we're going to bring nikon for us so the
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first topic of the day is going to be the tech youtubers accused of knowing
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you're getting up okay yeah yeah yeah okay i'll just like stand in the back
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i'll do a i'll do a slab squat in the back yeah but um well you're gonna get
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getting owned by the microphone it's okay i'll just figure it out yeah tech
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youtubers accused of not disclosing computex sponsorships so nick had the
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great idea of coming down as our businessman to directly address
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sure um it's pretty simple if we're paid by someone we we tell you
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that's literally it yes we visit sponsors booths yes we
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create coverage at sponsors booths um we say that right at the beginning of the
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video at the end of the video we do not charge an appearance fee to
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show up at a booth brands reach out to us they say we have
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interesting stuff and you should check it out and we say okay sure we might check it out and sometimes we do and
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sometimes we don't and that's literally how we do it so
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if you are concerned that the content that you're
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watching is paid for just check the beginning of the video and if it says this is sponsored by so
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and so then yes and if it doesn't say that then no and it also say that in the
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in the video description so it's literally that simple for for us
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yeah that's it cool short and to the point yeah i'm
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gonna i don't know from my perspective it's like
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i don't know it's it's literally that simple if we're paid by someone we say
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it and if we don't say it then we're not paid by them to make that content that's
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it yeah anyway cool and i'll add some like
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more kind of anecdotes but that's that's more or less it um i i think most people
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in the tech review space do sort of the same deal i can't think
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of anyone off top my head who doesn't disclose sponsorships that i've been
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able to notice but um like if if at a lot of the shows that
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i've done it's changed a little bit since i've been doing a lot of shows but
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a lot of the shows that i've done the majority of the videos that come out of
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that show are not have nothing to do with the sponsorship
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for that show so like say say
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Corsair because they sponsored a bunch of shows that i did in the past say
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Corsair is sponsoring it they were a sponsor at computex so okay that works
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we created 10 videos at computex one video was at the Corsair suite they
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were a sponsor of the show we said that it was sponsored by them
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um the other sponsor we had was glasspass who wasn't at the show and
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isn't a computer manufacturer so wouldn't be at the show so ninety
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percent of the videos were not about the sponsor yeah competitive yeah so so nine
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out of ten videos were not about Corsair and oftentimes we'll have it where like
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i'm gonna use Corsair again i've done a a show
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at pax where Corsair was the sponsor and i covered like three or four competitors
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all positively and that was fine and everyone was okay and Corsair was happy
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and we were happy and everyone else was happy and just my experience with this
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which is like obviously a lot more limited than someone like luke but it's
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been a couple of years since i've been to a show for the company with ces but
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um a big part of my job when i was a ces at that year was just go around and find
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interesting stuff um sponsorship money any
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no those sorts of considerations had nothing to do with i was doing it was
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just walk around take notes if something is interesting get some b-roll of it
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maybe we can do a video on it that was literally it there was never anything
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shady exchanged in the background so yeah and that's that's another important
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point that i didn't mention um but like
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we don't do anything um where someone says you
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can't do this all of our sponsorships are just about
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what we can do um we don't do like exclusivity with anyone in the computer
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space at all yeah yeah it would be a bad idea
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for us too is tying our hands as to what we can do which makes no sense from a
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business perspective so the thing that always makes me kind of chuckle is that
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people go oh you guys just want money you just want money if you think we're
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all about money what would be more intelligent taking
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some money now and potentially losing the trust of viewers or taking more
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money in the long term while maintaining the trust of yours and partners
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like if you just think we're all about money the smart choice is for us to be
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honest about who we're being paid back because then we have long longevity and
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when you have a company of 20 odd people i don't know the exact number but
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somewhere around there and Linus media group is indirectly kind
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of whole propping up Floatplane right now like that's a lot of people and
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literally companies to support you want a long-term solution you don't want to
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burst of money in a short period i think when scandals or religious scandals like
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this pop up people tend to concentrate on short term like oh we have evidence
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of like this one deal that has this like impressive dollar amount on it maybe and
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that's obvious obviously like oh we have evidence of a thing that may
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have happened one time you know and that i think gets eyeballs against clicks as
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opposed to what you were just talking about where oh we're trying to like make
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as much as we can through like a long-term review of things and what's going to be sustainable for the long
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term that isn't particularly interesting to someone who wants to read about a
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youtuber scandal and like most tech youtubers that i know of that i've
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watched their show coverage of do it in generally the same way
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that we do i'm not saying anyone's copying each other i'm not getting into that that doesn't matter but it's you
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you go to the show you do like your little right at the beginning of the video call out thank you for bringing me
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to the show you make a video about whatever happens to be there that'll
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probably include one to two videos of the company that brought you uh plus a
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whole ton like the last show we were at 90 of
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the videos were from unrelated companies and then at the end of the video you
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often do another call out thank you for bringing me computex and then you move
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on it's worked the same way for like five years or something i think
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we're probably like on the more aggressive end of like
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actually doing content with sponsors like that's what made me laugh about
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this like list or whatever was that like gamers nexus was included yeah and
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they're like the least chilly people you could think of they will destroy
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everyone yeah yeah anyway i didn't want to make the whole show about this i just
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figured as well yeah i know well it was important to address because i know uh a
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lot of the other tech guys have been really vocal about this on twitter and
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jay made the video and i don't think we've really talked about it much we don't yeah we don't typically
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um we use the WAN Show for that kind of stuff so we decided to talk about it a
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little bit but yeah that's about it yeah okay thanks
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so yeah if you want if you want a little bit more information on stuff you can
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you can watch jay's video um i don't remember exactly what it's titled but i
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think it's his second most recent video give me one
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second it's called the truth about how i earn money and it's kind of cool because he
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goes into more stuff than just shows he runs down basically uh the like breadth
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of his business he talks about the merchandising line he talks about uh
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other deals that he's done and uh how he's trying to grow stuff like his uh
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personal branded merch and whatnot it's a little bit like the um the honest
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answers for you though yesterday about how we make money although we're not accusing jay of like copying us or
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anything like that it's just a good it's it's a good thing to do i think so yeah
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it was i think it was a good it was really good timing and a good idea for
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jay to do his now and we did ours a while ago yes for i believe a similar
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reason i don't remember or not i don't think
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there was one big specific specific event i think just there was a lot of
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fans were questioning i think there was a lot of toxicity like in the comment
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sections of some of our videos between like like the Intel fans the AMD fans the
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NVIDIA fans all going at each other and trying to say oh here here's who
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which which companies line his favorite NVIDIA shill thing or something like
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that i think yeah yeah because i remember in that video we talked about how like NVIDIA has giving us almost
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nothing uh we just make a lot of videos about them because people like their stuff
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that means they're the biggest player in the gp industry so we kind of and GPU
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videos do do really well um so yeah we
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have our honest answers thing jay has his truth about how i make money i
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recommend watching both of them i find them both very interesting yes even art
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like i knew all of ours already but even ours i think was was quite good um
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and yeah the fact that gamers nexus was included is hilarious because they just
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rip holes in everything they do so like yeah like their their their stuff is
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like so technical and in-depth and like if you know if if any youtuber is going
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to try to get away with that kind of thing they would be they would have the
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hardest road to getting away with it so why no i don't know but
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anyways moving on to a rumor
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love them rumors uh we went from a rumor
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about us to a rumor about a tech company this is a wonderful show
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spicy though based on hardcore definite facts um so anyways there's a
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rumor about an eight-core version of an 8700k that could be coming this fall
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this is uh by guru 3d and it was posted by rakanov on the forum i'm going to
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post this into the twitch chat real quick what did i just do
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what am i doing i wasn't holding ctrl i see
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there we go um but yeah it's it's
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people are kind of speculating that this isn't really
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this wasn't really planned for oh that sucks am i using the right thing uh and
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whether or not it was planned for it does seem quite reactionary uh maybe it
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was coming i suspect even if it was coming it was going to be coming later
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then it did end up coming i kind of think the truth is probably somewhere in
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the middle as we try to get our technical issues worked out here
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yeah you want to keep going with that yes i will okay so uh but yeah what i was
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going to say was um you know there's a question here in front of me does Intel
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even have their own roadmap anymore or are they just being reactionary towards
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what AMD is doing it might be a little bit of both um
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because all of oh there we go it's working now all of Intel's difficulties
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trying to get a 10 nanometer chip to market have been very very well
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documented right like oh when are they going to originally
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release 10 nanometer like a year ago two years ago or something like that yeah
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yeah so so they have to do something to keep
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innovating clinical innovating in the meantime but um you know AMD did they
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force Intel's hand here maybe a little bit um i do think it's really ironic
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that we're seeing so what it's um how many years has it
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been since the fx series from AMD came out like seven years or so quite a while
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something like that so it's so so ironic
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now i think that Intel is reacting and trying to compete with AMD
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just by strapping more cores onto a CPU
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because an eight core i7 is not something we've seen on the mainstream
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consumer end you had originally or before you had to buy
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um an enthusiast platform an enthusiast motherboard to do that so
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uh but eight core version apparently coming uh this fall no pricing
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information on that yet but um it's interesting because you know um
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obviously this is gonna be the most course we've ever seen from Intel on the consumer platform but it's consumer yeah
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but it is kind of funny um you know seeing is the big knock on AMD for a
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long time was oh they're selling these six and eight core cpus but who cares
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they're not really giving anyone a benefit so yeah um but
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the thing was especially back then with Intel having so much of the market share
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no one was able to develop for that reasonably so now having
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AMD cpus matter a lot more uh to be
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completely honest and having Intel have to react to that
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and pump out a bunch of courses meaning there's a lot more cores across
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the field meaning it'll make a lot more sense for developers to push for it which would be really cool because i
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don't know if you guys remember this but i used to make cores for gaming videos
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and i would do like oh it's summer 2014
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how many cores do you need to game with and we stopped after i made like three
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or four of them because we were like well you could watch any of these and
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get the answer because it was the same thing every single time so hopefully
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this will actually mix that up and uh we can make another course for gaming
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videos yeah you know and obviously there's been development challenges just
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with how you know the stuff is actually coded to spread the word cloud out loadout
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among more cores but you know there might be more effort put into that now
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that what you were saying there's just more cores out there where you have a
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chip with four cores eight threads or you know six and twelve is just a more
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mainstream choice now so it's it's you always have to have one obviously the
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software or the hardware has to come first usually it's easier for the
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industry if the hardware comes first i know with certain games that have come
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out and stuff it's been like oh wow hardware really isn't ready for this yet
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yeah like nothing can run this yeah yeah exactly exactly and then that's usually
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a fairly uncomfortable spot for the industry to be in it's fun
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i enjoy that space but it's fairly uncomfortable for consumers to be
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constantly needing to replace all their stuff to be able to do anything so
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having the hardware first is good so we're going to get eight core out there and get people used to it and have
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developers start using it more often that would be pretty sweet and awesome
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absolutely it is it is a little bit of a kick in the pants for people who recently i
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i know someone specifically who like just bought a new processor uh that
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being said this isn't coming until fall so it will be a little while uh but like
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the 8086 i7 8086k like just came out
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yeah that was and it's pretty sweet but like that was like a nice little stunt
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for however many weeks that yeah chip to get but
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and then i was like oh coming this fall you've got an eight core version of an
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8700k so it's like it's like what if you like spend a ton of money and you buy a
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house and the house has like trim or
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it's um where the cabinets are a certain color or
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certain style that was that was in for like literally a month yeah and everyone
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thinks it's ugly this is yeah so if you buy the expensive CPU it's a bit like that so oh man yeah
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i couldn't give two craps about cabinets but i totally understand the reference
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um gotta get that resale value man it's it's great when you walk into someone's
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house who's been like perfectly maintained done a really good job of
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keeping their house up but they haven't changed a single thing in it since like
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the mid-90s they have like lurid pink wallpaper with like a water
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yeah it's actually so cool i just it's like a time capsule
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um okay and moving on to something that i
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know nothing about at all so good luck uh at
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t closes the time warner deal this sounds terrible to me
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i don't know i don't know anything about it uh a federal judge ruled on tuesday
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that att's 85.4 billion
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dollar bid for time warner was legal
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imposing no conditions on the merger all of this despite a lawsuit from the
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justice department arguing that the deal would be anti-competitive and oh my
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goodness how is it not i don't understand i can tell you a little bit
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about that please don't give me one quick second before you do that sure i i
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kind of bait and switched you there we're gonna use uh theverge.com for our
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source and thank you to sherman tanker for posting this on the forum you're
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good to go okay um so
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so when i was in law school just a quick disclaimer i didn't learn a ton about
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antitrust if you watch like if you watch tech wiki and the videos we've sort of
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done like law and tech a lot of it has to do with intellectual property because
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i took a lot of intellectual property in law school so talking about copyrights
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and like what you can do with content online and how you can share it and that sort of thing um but here's why i can
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tell you about antitrust and just in case you even know what antitrust is um
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antitrust law basically concerns companies that get too big the idea of
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antitrust law is to prevent monopolies is to prevent one company dominating the
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marketplace for a certain thing you know
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imagine if the only company out there making monitors was lg for example that
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wouldn't be good you would have no choice in what you could buy so uh so
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with this um what's happening is at t which is
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obviously a huge telecommunications company they run you know back in the
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day that are most known for running phone networks these days they're a huge isp
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um they just bought um time warner which
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includes um some really big like media properties uh hbo cnn um warner brothers
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basically everything warner brothers does is owned by time warner so
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what this is called is called a vertical merger and the reason it's called a
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vertical merger is because you have one company buying another company that does
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something different or more specifically
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one company provides the other company with with supplies or it's a plot or
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supply chain right so um in this case time warner is providing content they're
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providing like i said they're um they own hbo and cnn so they're
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providing game of thrones or the sopranos or the wolf blitzer show or
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whatever people watch on cnn i don't know i don't watch cnn anymore but um so
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and but you know att is the isp so um
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they're providing the content that att can deliver down their pipes so
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that's what we mean by a vertical merger and there's also a horizontal merger
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which is a little bit simpler where one company buys another company that does
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basically the same thing imagine if ups bought fedex for example right that
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would be a horizontal merger but so when when the government so is that like a
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vertical merger would be like you you buy functionality and a horizontal
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merger would almost be like you buy market share yeah that's that's not a
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bad way to put it roughly yeah you're buying functionality you're buying supplies like to help you somehow you
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know right so um like imagine if mcdonald's like have their own farms
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that's vertical integration you know tesla has purchased a few like
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manufacturing companies yeah and like like companies that are into like tools
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and manufacturing and whatnot so that probably helps them vertically
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i'm not sure exactly how to classify that because i think um i think also
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manufacturing yeah yeah i'm not exactly sure but anyway so um so
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so specifically talking about this um so the justice department of the u.s took
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um 18t to court afraid that this would make att too big um there's like an
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anti-trust concern here with just way too much market power but um legally
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it is um and i was actually looking at the judge's decision which is like 200
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pages long and full of legalese obviously earlier but one key thing he
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mentioned was that in a horizontal merger courts usually
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have a little bit easier time deciding you can just say oh you're buying another company that does something
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similar so let's just look at how much market share you'll have now and if it's
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too much market share we'll just say you can't do this it's easy a vertical
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merger is a lot more difficult because you're buying a company that does
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something else so these sorts of cases they tend to be very fact intensive
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there is very case-by-case basis and
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just based on that alone the government immediately already had a tougher time
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proving its case to go in front of a judge and saying and say hey att buying
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time warner is going to be really bad for consumers it wasn't good enough for
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to get the court to buy it and the judge said get out and they let 18 to do the merger
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and that's kind of it so so
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people are saying this in twitch chat and i i there's one guy just says bored
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other than that dude that happens uh on every every story we talk about though
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um i've someone said this in twitch chat
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and i've read this before online in some in the 80s or something they broke up at
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t because it's too big yeah um and now
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they're letting them merge and become bigger the idea back then and obviously
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you and i were both well what what you were you i was not
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alive okay luke didn't exist and i was like tiny in the 80s i was born in 87
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but um back in the 80s before like everyone had the internet um
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att ran a bunch of they provided um don't
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completely quote me on this but i think what happened is they had both long distance and local um
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telephone service and they just controlled so much of the
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telephone market i know they were a huge deal in telephone back in the day yeah
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they could just control so much the telephone market and what ended up happening is the us government broke up
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their local operations into they call them the baby bells and these were
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companies that were spun off as independent but they served like
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different chunks geographical chunks of the us but that's a little bit different
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because we're talking about the same things phone service this is a little
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bit different because you have an isp buying the folks who own hbo right so
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it's a little bit different att was divested in 1983 by the united
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states government it had natural monopoly over the community telecommunication lines such as
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television exactly and they were the only group basically that's right so
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yeah so that's quite a bit different than it is now the baby bells were
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stripped up into pieces like south south atlantic bell etc they've slowly
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consolidated back into companies like att verizon yeah that's right when i was
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a kid our local our local phone provider was belle south and they were one of the
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x 18 t companies so interesting okay
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all right well moving on from that just in case you're hashtag bored yeah and i
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like that dude in chat was it was really funny because this happens right as the
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net neutrality repeal yeah that was a thing so yeah
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so hope hopefully there won't be fast lanes for game of thrones but i guess if
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you're a game of thrones fanatic you'll be happy about that but the most pirated
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show let's see how that goes for them um
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apple tries to stop developers from sharing use data on their users friends
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this immediately sounds like a good thing to me but i don't really know yet
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uh it's posted by anova 5 on the forum
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and the source we're going to use is bloomberg bloomberg how we feel so pro
25:16
when we use bloomberg as a source like because you turn on bloomberg tv
25:20
there's always financial stuff going on i didn't even know bloomberg tv was the
25:24
thing it just seems very pro you know anyway it has a cool name okay um
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apple inc changed its app store rules last week to limit how developers use
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information about iphone owners friends and other contacts quietly closing a
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loophole that let app makers store and share data without many people's consent
25:41
yay good thing thank you apple for closing a said loophole i think that's
25:47
kind of the gist of it i'm gonna get this uh nice lady off the screen because
25:51
i don't know what she's actually talking about and we're gonna go back to here um
25:55
but yeah apparently many developers ask
25:58
users for access to their phones contacts only use it for marketing or
26:03
sometimes or sometimes share and sell the information all without permission from
26:07
the people listed in those digital address books that's the problem is that
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your phone your address book those people's information
26:17
other companies running apps are able to take that and sell it
26:22
whereas that's supposed to maybe only be used for like sharing things or seeing
26:27
if you have other friends that are online you know how some games you can like
26:31
import your address book and then see if your friends are online well they might
26:34
sell that and that's bad i feel like this is a gdpr thing or it might be
26:39
like they may have done this responsible gdpr like i don't that's just me speculating
26:43
but it seems like the timing seems like that might be why
26:50
well i think because this sounds like something that will be absolutely not
26:53
allowed by the gdpr yeah where your data is getting used and you
26:58
have no idea what's going on with it i just think in this case both companies
27:03
might be at fault uh so i think apple's trying to close
27:07
their end but this is also a problem for app developers they would both be in
27:10
trouble or that law if apple for not like securing the data and passing it on
27:14
and then the app developers for using it without permission so so apple's
27:17
probably just taking care of that it needs to be taken care of um the new
27:21
app store review guidelines bar developers uh sorry the new app store
27:27
review guidelines bar developers from making databases of address book
27:31
information they gather from iphone users sharing and selling that database
27:35
with third parties is now forbidden probably should have been already but
27:39
whatever an app can't get a user's contact list say it's being used for one
27:43
thing and then use it again for something else unless the developer gets consent again obviously this can still
27:48
be abused but i think it's a vector for apple to rip you off the app store so if
27:53
they catch you doing this you'll get you'll get tossed right um anyone yeah
27:57
anyone caught breaking the rules may be banned this sounds like an extremely
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easy rule to break and probably not that hard of a rule to get away with breaking
28:06
um but at least they have it written out now that they can give you the boot if
28:09
you do break it uh when users like like honestly yeah no it does this whole
28:14
thing reminds me the reason i'm laughing a little bit is of in Android p i think
28:19
they took away the ability for apps to use your camera and microphone in the
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background which was cool but i was like what were they doing before yeah like
28:26
what were you gonna be like all the time before Android p
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ah yeah uh when users install apps and then consent developers get dozens of
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potential data points on people's friends contact lessons contain phone
28:40
numbers email addresses profile photos and tons of other stuff as you probably know so that database of information is
28:45
probably quite valuable so now what they'll probably have to do
28:49
is sell it to themselves as another company and then anonymize the data and
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sell it that way so it'll add one more loop that they have to jump through for
28:56
apple to not be able to catch them so all right at least apple has cleaned
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their hands uh but this will still remain an issue um just in case anyone was
29:05
wondering moving on i just sort of assumed that everyone on
29:10
the internet just knows everything about me yeah easier way to live yeah
29:15
yeah another rumor because this show again is
29:19
only about things that are confirmed 100 true uh rumor AMD Radeon rx 680 the
29:25
Radeon rx 680 will reportedly be powered by the navi GPU architecture um and will
29:32
feature eight gigabytes of gddr6
29:35
with the performance of the gtx 1080 or gtx 1080i or so an expected price range
29:41
of 300 to 400 bucks that's actually really good because looking at the
29:45
stories about what NVIDIA is going to be allegedly because like you said this
29:49
these are all 100 percent confirm facts in the show of the show but um yeah but
29:53
anyway um but seriously there was um everyone saying or a lot of people were
29:57
saying july 30th for um the um
30:00
what's the code name for the next um not volta but it's um oh twitch chat
30:05
preferably screaming at me with it right now i was writing about this earlier today and i've already forgotten it
30:11
NVIDIA roadmap what is your thing called
30:19
nope that's old just search that's hold
30:22
on i'll get it here hold on
30:26
twitch chat streaming at me right now i'm sure touring touring touring touring
30:31
like like oh yeah touring your amp here here was the one i had in my head so um
30:35
they're supposed to be releasing snorkel they're supposed to be releasing touring
30:40
at the end of july but it's just going to be the higher end
30:43
silicon to begin with as a tradition you know yeah so and the the rumor is that
30:48
the the high-end card will cost between 1000 and 1500 depending on how much vram
30:54
you get with it so something like this could be really appealing if you could
30:57
say oh well i don't have a thousand dollars but i can spend
31:01
350 bucks on something with 1080 like performance so yeah uh someone in chat
31:06
said please please please make this
31:10
square bracket anecdote poopy for mining
31:13
and great for gaming um
31:16
i doubt it eight gigs of gdr6
31:22
should probably be pretty smoking for mining um well i mean i i don't i don't know if
31:27
you can you know really make a card like that
31:30
you know what i mean because uh memory is super important for mining
31:33
oh no i know but my point is just more like if he's worried about price yes
31:37
looks like it will be affordable because obviously there's this huge artificial
31:40
inflation with the pricing um we'll have to see like immediately after this card
31:44
comes out a bunch of miners going to get their hands on of it on of it a bunch of
31:48
miners will get their hands on it we're both i feel like we're very slow today
31:52
it's been like a long week yeah it has been a long week um so
31:56
we'll see how it how it goes but looking at its price point looking at
32:00
its performance this could be a big card for mining but mining isn't all super
32:03
hype right now yeah uh so maybe it'll be okay things
32:07
changed quickly yeah like a couple months ago it was completely different story and also this is an interesting
32:11
side note andy will release a navi 20 on
32:14
seven nanometer as a high-end GPU in the 2020-2021 time frame oh boy so seven
32:19
nanometer GPU from AMD so keep your eyes on for that
32:23
they're smashing it man it's cool i'm happy for them
32:27
speaking of happy savage jerky i have a new favorite it's
32:31
mojo jalapeno that's habanero my friend oh no oh no that was habanero sorry no
32:37
that the other one do we have another thing over there this is habanero i'm very sorry it is mojo jalapeno i can't i
32:42
was like holy cow i'm slow today no i i flow today look at me anyway
32:47
this is my new favorite one i haven't had it before moho is my like was my
32:52
like my main squeeze before uh but now i've
32:56
got some mojo jalapeno in my life and i i like it very much is there any one of
33:00
these you like would you want one absolutely oh my goodness sriracha bacon
33:04
done this is a new pack there you go oh my goodness perfect sriracha bacon in
33:09
case i prefer they're straight out you want
33:14
beef jerky they're both really good they are really they're both very very good
33:17
i've to be fair anyone who has the like bacon flavors i prefer the beef jerky
33:22
ones oh okay yeah yeah it's it's not a uh savage
33:26
jerky so what are your specific things so whether you like dead pig or dead cow
33:30
savage jerky will have something for you got you covered
33:34
especially if you want some jalapeno um
33:39
you guys know these guys as of now it's like the least surprising sponsor
33:43
spot ever yeah i mean savage jerky is to the wan
33:46
show as fresh books as to tech wiki by this point pretty much um
33:51
so that's a good thing
33:54
their jerk is made with great ingredients no nitrates no preservatives
33:59
they've got 13 different types of jerky 13 different flavors of jerky i
34:03
should say people seem to love the sriracha bacon i'm super not surprised that john
34:08
grabbed that one maple buffalo bacon is also super
34:12
popular they also make barbecue sauce hot sauce and spice rubs
34:16
they also have carolina reaper hot sauce which is the world's hottest pepper yes
34:21
it's not the world's hottest hot sauce so you can actually like eat it and it's fine
34:25
but it is made with the world's hottest pepper which is pretty insane they've even got
34:29
an awesome savage jerky gift tool bag that's really cool yeah
34:34
which includes four packs of jerky hot sauce herb blend or spice rub and it
34:38
makes an awesome gift i've never seen you want to bring up a picture of
34:42
it yeah give me a sec savage jerky tool bag
34:47
is pronouncing the ancient an urban canadian thing a lot of americans just
34:51
british thing i think canadians flip it back and forth interesting because herb
34:56
and herb both sound perfectly fine to me there we go because canadians are weird
35:00
the more you know here it is what the heck
35:08
that's a but you get a husky tool bag
35:12
a straight up husky tool bag is included okay i was expecting that was going to
35:16
be like kind of a fakeo part of it but it is not um you get four bags of jerky
35:20
one bottle of hot sauce one bottle of uh
35:24
herb herb blend or spice rub uh one
35:27
savage jerky uh koozie i've screwed that up before i
35:32
think it's all i totally called it a kazoo oh
35:35
but it's it's a koozie that's great and two savage jerky stickers that's
35:39
actually pretty cool and this isn't in my notes but
35:43
i always warn people when there's certain special dates coming up on my twitter
35:47
but i'll do a WAN Show warning here it's father's day on sunday
35:51
so if you need something and they can get it to you fast enough i don't know
35:55
what their shipping speed is but this might be a decent idea
35:59
um jumping back to other sponsors let's do
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right and sorry savage jerky but the the link over here savage jerky.com use
36:09
offer code LTT save 10 uh so you can save money on the on the
36:14
tool bag if you want to get that or you can just buy some buy some bacon and
36:18
save money on it saving money on bacon is always a good thing
36:22
and moving on we have moss backpacks i love these bags and i do the same thing
36:27
every time because it just makes me super happy but all of their bags have
36:31
this really bright orange inside and it's lovely how well it shows up on
36:36
camera too because it's just awesome and it really proves my point it's extremely
36:41
easy to find stuff in here let's let's grab
36:45
mojo jalapeno it even has orange on it it's still going to be super easy to
36:49
find cross branding look it's right there look how easy that is it's a black
36:53
package in a bag that's often really really hard to find because most people
36:57
make their bags with uh with black inside it's like a small touch it makes
37:01
a big difference you know it really does i i i have a backpack that has an orange
37:05
inside and i will never ever go back it also has the like the air porter zippers
37:11
so you can lay your bag out like that
37:14
really easy so you can get through everything super wide open uh it's got
37:19
nice little like mesh things you have a bottle in there or some cards or
37:23
whatever it has a little card that explains how you can use it if you don't want to
37:27
listen to me um and i like this too
37:31
you guys aren't going to be able to see this very well but in the thin top
37:35
zipper you know how a lot of bags will have like the the small zipper at the
37:38
top this one right here if you open that up
37:42
the pocket inside is like a reinforced area it's not
37:47
i don't think it's plastic or anything and it's covered in like a felt-like
37:52
material i probably called it wrong i'm not very good at identifying materials
37:55
but it's a very soft type of material that's on top of some
37:59
formed cup like shape so if you put something in there that's relatively
38:03
fragile and you have big stuff in here
38:06
that whacks into it it'll be okay because the cup thing is going to keep
38:09
its shape and project protect whatever you put inside that's actually kind of
38:13
cool that's a good idea i haven't really seen that in a lot of bags before
38:17
we're showing off their other one as well if you want this is the black pack
38:21
if you want a different type of bag um
38:24
one thing that i really like about these guys too is they'll have uh on on
38:28
different bags they'll have um this guy can i pull this out
38:32
uh-huh it's a wall plug why do you need a wall plug for your backpack well it's
38:37
and it nicely tucks on the side of the bag as well so you don't even have to
38:40
open up your bag to get access you don't have to open up the main compartments of your bag to get access to it that wall
38:45
plug is for this this has a standard plugs you plug your
38:49
laptop or something into it it has two usb ports one of them is already plugged
38:53
in because the cable feeds through to the front of the case but you could unplug it put whatever you want in there
38:58
the cable that comes with it is actually nice it's reinforced with a spring so
39:02
that the cable isn't gonna like get damaged in your bag which makes
39:06
sense because it's gonna stay in your bag um i don't know i think that's
39:09
wonderful because you could just get home plug your bag into the wall and it
39:13
automatically charges everything that's in it just waiting around the airport you just want to charge all your stuff
39:17
at once boom done
39:21
someone tweeted me after the last moss backpack sponsorship um
39:25
talking about like oh that's just expecting trouble because someone's
39:29
going to plug it into the wall and walk away from it and it's going to get determined as a bomb
39:34
just don't don't walk away from here don't walk away from it like
39:38
most the plugs and airports the people designing these airports
39:42
generally know that people want to charge their stuff so most of the plugs
39:45
are near seats have a sit
39:48
do whatever you need to do if you want to go get some food or go to the washroom unplug take your backpack with
39:53
you like you normally would so that people don't think it's a bomb in an airport that's like they say over the
39:58
loudspeakers the whole time do not leave luggage unattended it is still luggage
40:02
despite having a plug that was what i was going to say like i'm pretty sure
40:06
they would treat it an unattended bag as suspicious even if there weren't a cable
40:10
sticking out of it yeah like it doesn't matter so yeah yeah so that has nothing
40:14
to do with anything great backpacks i love the plug feature
40:18
i love the orange i love the cup thing that they're doing uh but yeah uh check
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it out at the link below if you are on
40:26
uh youtube or just check them out on kickstarter if you look moss backpacks
40:30
on kickstarter kickstarter interesting um
40:34
and should be good to go i think they're doing another campaign because these guys definitely have had laptops out
40:38
before i i personally know someone who has
40:42
bought them off of their website so i'm assuming it's a it's a
40:46
new thingy they're doing on on kickstarter uh
40:50
i'm assuming that's the black pack with their kickstarter rank anyways beyond
40:54
there we have ltx ltx expo if you want to come visit the team meet the team
40:59
meet me even though i'm not on the team that makes sense um come to ltx it's a
41:04
meetup an interactive tech event the interactive part here is important i
41:09
feel like it always takes away i feel like
41:12
we need to get like testimonials from people that go next time so we can play is it just an event about passive
41:18
absorption yeah things i feel like it takes a little bit away from it because
41:22
it's an event we're holding and i'm the one talking about it but ltx is
41:25
legitimately one of the coolest events i've been to i've only been to one because there's only been one uh but the
41:31
interactive part is super cool because you go to these conventions and when i
41:34
went to conventions when i was younger they were a little bit more grungy a little bit less planned out and there
41:39
was a little bit more uh hand-on action because like i remember
41:44
pax when i first went there they'd just be hucking prizes out of the booths
41:48
there'd be more hands-on stuff because uh it was a smaller con it was a smaller
41:52
con they weren't as worried about things then they started getting in trouble for
41:56
different stuff and they had to close it down we are keeping that in mind we don't
41:59
want to get in trouble for stuff but we're keeping all the booths interactive
42:03
so like one of the really cool things that's coming this year is how to delid
42:06
your CPU so you can bring a CPU and you'll have professional people showing
42:10
you how to delid it in person
42:13
where else can you get that i literally think nowhere
42:17
really cool every single booth is going to have some
42:20
type of interactive setup with it current booths include a
42:25
blind cable management competition brought to you by cablemod a d-litting
42:29
workshop so you can bring your cpus and we'll show you how to delete it case toss 2.0 hopefully you'll do better than
42:34
i did multi-headed vr a 20 pc lan
42:37
brought to you by ibuypower the 12k ultra wide gaming setup and tons tons
42:43
more i guarantee you there will be tons more uh there is already tons more i
42:47
don't know why it's not listed here probably because it'd be way too much to say there's also going to be food
42:51
music cool systems to look at more room more swag and more special guests than
42:56
last year there will be exclusive live unboxings just like last year and more
43:01
you can come hang out with us the tickets start at 35 canadian and you can
43:04
check them out through the link below or because you're watching on twitch
43:08
right now uh get or unless you're watching this later that's i said right
43:12
now and that's relative so if you're watching it at 5 49
43:16
uh pacific time uh
43:20
yeah on on friday then the link is just ltx
43:24
expo.com but if not link below it's only
43:28
2650 usd for our american viewers it's
43:31
nothing yeah it's not it's not that expensive
43:34
and it's a really fun convention i want people to go i want people to go because
43:38
i want to keep doing it because it's it's literally last year's was more fun
43:43
for me than last year's pax was and i've been going to pac since i was yeah the
43:46
last year's ltx was very enjoyable i agree 100 with that even like as an
43:50
attendee i'm going to be 100 honest here i didn't invite most of my like personal
43:55
friends to ltx last year because i was like it's probably just going to be a
43:59
fan meetup there's going to be a few things to do but it's probably mostly going to be a fan meetup and then i was
44:03
like holy crap i feel pretty bad because it was really fun and none of the none
44:07
of them came so i didn't invite them so wrecked um but they're invited this year
44:10
because it will be good uh moving back to normal news
44:15
whoop wrong screen i gotta stop beating that savage jerky man it's so good nope
44:20
keep going who cares okay uh it's your bag as far
44:24
as i'm concerned that's true you don't have to stop
44:27
uh let's move on
44:31
new iOS security feature has already been bypassed oh boy
44:36
this was posted by captain to fire on the forum and our source is the forum
44:42
but yeah iOS 12 introduces a new usb restricted mode that makes it harder for
44:47
law enforcement agencies to thwart iphone security usb restricted mode
44:51
requires that an iphone be unlocked with a passable with a passcode when
44:56
connected to a computer via usb if the device has not already been unlocked in
45:00
the last hour wow meaning phone hacking
45:03
and forensic tools shouldn't be able to unlock phones
45:06
in an email obtained by vice a forensic expert claims that grayshift has already
45:12
defeated apple's new usb restricted mode in a beta build usb restricted mode is
45:17
currently in beta testing and will launch the public soon according to
45:20
apple is this big like cat and mouse game
45:23
between apple and the government yeah and this is just the latest chapter
45:28
of that there was some um and there was some district attorney
45:32
down in louisiana who was saying that apple was literally
45:36
promoting criminal activity by doing this and i'm just sitting here like if
45:40
you want people to take you seriously and be on your side maybe don't say
45:45
things like that but regardless of how you feel about it
45:48
um this the fact has already been defeated
45:52
is a little bit humorous to me just because like i said there's this constant arms race between it's just
45:56
like apple and these um these law enforcement folks who
46:01
because the fbi has been lobbying for years and years to
46:04
try to force apple to have a back door into their products if they want to do
46:07
an investigation so yeah i think um
46:12
it could have something to do with the beta-ness of the build because they they beat it
46:15
on the beta possibly um and we have had security firms lie
46:22
about beating apple's security before eventually they've kind of figured it
46:26
out but they've lied in the early what do we know about gracious who knows
46:30
off the top of my head not a ton i've heard of them before um
46:35
gray shifts
46:40
ah they sell phone unlocking services
46:44
grayshift iphone unlocker
46:48
mysterious fifteen thousand dollar gray key promises to unlock iphone x for
46:52
whatever yeah they're they're a phone unlocking thing i've heard of them before i just
46:56
wasn't sure to be fair if it's that i'm starting to remember a
47:00
little bit more about them now if it's them they probably did it oh um
47:05
so wrecked i guess um
47:09
yeah oh well we'll see if it holds through with the beta but even if it doesn't
47:13
when you've got groups like grayshift constantly consistently going after your
47:17
stuff and making a profit on it in a government-sanctioned way you're
47:21
probably boned yeah you because you you have an
47:25
incentive especially everything's hackable right so like at some point
47:28
yeah that sucks um microsoft to help
47:32
walmart get rid of cashiers oh my microsoft is reportedly working on this
47:36
was posted by no one maybe uh but our sources are technical.com
47:43
microsoft is reportedly working on technology that removes the need for cashiers and checkout lines in stores
47:47
similar to amazon's technology already implemented in its amazon go brick and
47:51
mortar store so microsoft is essentially doing the
47:55
same thing as them the exact technology isn't explained but
47:59
it may be linked to the company's new connect
48:02
for azure project this project builds on connect's current
48:06
abilities and can be used to execute spatial mapping and motion tracking
48:11
while it's unclear how far along microsoft is in developing this
48:14
technology the company has reportedly shown sample tech to potential partners
48:18
and has even talked to walmart about implementing it directly uh amazon is
48:22
expected to open new go locations in chicago and san francisco soon microsoft
48:27
is making interesting moves this is a big deal to me because
48:32
because okay so amazon go they're putting the technology they have one
48:36
store in seattle they're playing two more okay
48:40
and they're gonna put in whole foods right i mean they're i mean they're not
48:43
as big as walmart but they're a big chain this to me is like microsoft
48:47
saying okay well i'll see your little dinky
48:50
operation at whole foods and i'll raise you walmart
48:54
you know so we're talking about like the biggest retailer in the us and
48:59
microsoft is trying to just it looks almost like because amazon's trying to
49:03
like own the full stack essentially
49:07
like they they want the store they want the technology in the store they want
49:10
everything and microsoft is like no we don't need everything we just want to
49:14
have this we'll see if they can do it because i think the challenge here is that microsoft's sort of cloud
49:19
processing processing capability it's not quite as big as amazon's as with aws
49:23
so we'll see how that works out for them yeah um that's quite interesting
49:28
we'll see though because microsoft buying github and making this move right
49:33
now is probably what the kind of stuff that
49:38
they need to do i don't know if it's best for consumer interest but if i'm
49:42
just thinking about this from a microsoft point of view this is the kind
49:45
of stuff that they need to do they were they were early with the whole Windows
49:48
thing they were early and on the ball with technology back then then they
49:53
tried for quite a while with different hardware stuff obviously xbox was quite
49:56
successful but outside of that Windows phone
50:01
okay zoom was amazing well the product may have been good but it just didn't
50:04
catch on the marketplace for two different things so zoon music software
50:08
was sweet and the zune itself was amazing it just didn't it didn't they
50:13
were just like the party they were just late to the party because by the time zoon like was like really
50:18
you know people started reviewing it positively like oh ipod was already a
50:21
thing so yeah yeah but yeah i wish i do
50:25
really wish um that zune kind of took
50:28
off but it didn't so i feel like everyone is pivoting their business a
50:33
little bit these days like it feels like every large firm is doing it to some
50:36
degree so it makes sense because a lot of the guys have been doing the same thing for a long time speaking of
50:40
microsoft steam is dropping Windows xp and vista support in 2019. uh this was
50:47
posted by sc2 mitch on the forum again we always have one from him uh it's they
50:52
they're starting on january 1st 2019 steam will officially stop supporting
50:57
the Windows xp and Windows vista operating systems to pay respects this
51:01
means that after that date the steam client will no longer run on those
51:05
versions of Windows
51:08
i suspect it's just not getting updates
51:14
they could lock out access to the steam they could because it's essentially a
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browser i don't know what they're going to but they could so the newest features
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in steam rely on an embedded version of google chrome which no longer functions
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on older versions of Windows yeah so i don't think you'll get updates
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for the remainder of 2018 steam will continue to run and launch on Windows xp
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and Windows vista but other functionality in steam will be somewhat limited
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new features such as the steam chat will
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not be available i don't know if people running those
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systems will care so we'll see gmail
51:48
can remind you to reply that's actually super cool as part of its new design
51:52
gmail has started resurfacing old unanswered emails with a suggestion that
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you should reply by bumping the email uh thread to the top of your inbox gmail
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also breaks the chronological order of your inbox which is kind of poo but you
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can probably disable this gmail lets you disable all smart features
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the very next note some users don't want smart categories
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important emails first and smart reply suggestions
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you can tick off the boxes suggest emails to reply to and suggest emails to
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follow up on if you don't want to see this orange text ever again i do want to
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see it personally so i'm going to leave that there this is me spitballing um i'm
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but i'm guessing they probably integrated like the um the priority
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feature you know like where it marks certain things so they use important
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because yeah because because you would hate you would hate you know
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for it to tell you to reply to an email hey walmart.com sale you know say 50 on
52:48
paper towels you know and you wouldn't get nags to reply to that but
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yeah so some someone in chat said steam did a hardware survey a while back they
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probably saw it wasn't worthwhile to continue support yeah i recently checked
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it out because i was i was uh having a bad day and i was really frustrated with
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the fact that my uh stream deck
53:09
from elgato didn't work on Windows 8.1 and it would like it hurts my brain that
53:14
that doesn't work and it's so confusing because it's actually a pretty sweet
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piece of tech and like alternatives that actually do
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all of the same things uh are way more expensive in in most
53:27
cases and alternatives that do almost the same
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thing well they don't they don't do quite the same thing like they'll do this um yeah
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and it's not even that i need it i don't i could just use a midi
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controller but i like it's cool it's nice and small
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the buttons are all framed you can change what this shows on the screen it's a really cool device and it only
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works on Windows 10 doesn't make any freaking sense to me and what drove me
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nuts was because people
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have hacked it and forced it to work on other operating systems by shaking by
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just all they did in the one case was they took out the check that checks if
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you're on Windows 10 and it just works
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it doesn't work anymore they they updated it and now it doesn't work but
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it did for a little while and i can't find what's the rationale to stop it
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from working on Windows a1 i haven't got what i think of as a
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satisfactory answer um i'm sure there's something what they've
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been saying is it's just too much to support but what drove me nuts about
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that was that just taking the flag out made it work but then
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technically they have updated it since then and it doesn't work anymore i doubt
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they forced that guy's hack to not work so they probably just used something
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that doesn't work on previous versions of Windows and now it doesn't work it's
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just the thing that drives me nuts is i
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looked into the steam hardware survey and all the people not using
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Windows 10 is a pretty huge market share
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and i can't imagine that it wouldn't be worth the dev work to
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have that available market share now something that they may have done in
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terms of market research is looking at well the people that aren't using
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Windows 10 are they willing to buy it maybe they're not using Windows 10
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because they don't have the money to have a newer computer that's possible
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i don't see the merit in that but that could be what elgato is seeing i i
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wonder if it has to do anything with just some sort of cya kind of security thing where they're
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just saying oh well it's an older version of Windows it's just kind of
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less secure by default and we don't want to be blamed if something goes wrong
55:34
with our product because they're running like an old version of Windows it could be as simple as that so who knows
55:39
yeah um someone said it was free to upgrade yeah but some people with like
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i'm talking yeah some people no that's a good point
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i don't know i don't know what their reasoning is uh
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i i i can't understand it doesn't make any sense to me but anyways i was
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looking up steam hardware surveys to try to justify my rage because i really
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really really want this thing to work but i cannot use Windows 10 because i
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will rip my eyes out um so
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anyways i can't use the freaking stream deck because i can't find the executable
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for the version that works uh with just the flag taken away i i can
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find i can github download the like hack
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that removes the flag that's fine i can't find the executable for the
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installer that works that way and i don't care about whatever new updates
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they have it doesn't matter to me at all um
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so yeah anyways that's why i've seen yeah there's basically no one running xp and
56:37
vista on steam anymore moral of the story there we go because i
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looked at the steam hardware surveys and yeah it's a pretty small percentage
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someone in chat said Windows 10 is 55.5 percent Windows 7 is 33.57
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Windows 8.1 is only 4.07
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yeah that's fine my thing is if they make it work for Windows 7 which is
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33.6 essentially percent of the
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audience which is a huge percentage uh
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it will work for 8.1 it will
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it's or it'll be one of those situations where we can just remove the flag of
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them saying that it won't work for 8.1 and it'll install just fine i'm not
57:17
trying to say that everyone uses Windows 8.1 i realize i'm in a very small
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category there but Windows 7 is huge and i want to lean on that to be
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able to get support for older versions of Windows that will essentially include
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Windows 8.1 yeah because 7 to 8.1 compatibility is like very good
57:35
um going two more is a little bit more of a stretch though so
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yeah yep yep anyways that's it for the WAN Show
57:44
oh is that it yeah i think so there's no other topics super smash brothers is
57:48
going to have 65 characters for switch is that not in here
57:52
i'm looking right at it why did i not see it what other news did i miss that's
57:57
basically it though okay yeah i must have just scrolled right over it yeah
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it's a bajillion characters i think they said
58:04
every everyone who's ever fought in a smash game is in this game okay
58:09
is it true though because i saw people talking about
58:13
waluigi was waluigi ever in a smash game
58:17
i don't know maybe it's a trophy i don't know if you could actually select him to
58:20
fight though i forget
58:25
whoa motherboardvice.com
58:28
has a counterpoint f waluigi he doesn't
58:31
deserve to be in the new smash bros that's a little aggressive guys
58:35
now he's kind of an irritating character i think he might have a point oh my goodness
58:40
it's uh yeah so everyone
58:43
that's in super smash bros ultimate except for waluigi essentially while
58:47
luigi missing from super smash bros ultimate
58:51
i don't care someone might care
58:54
maybe he was left out intentionally maybe
58:57
maybe he'll be dlc could you imagine
59:01
i could just imagine the storm that would happen if they had like the
59:06
waluigi dlc yeah that would be really funny this would be great yeah cost 60
59:10
bucks for one character uh so there there is a new uh score
59:14
counter that pops up during one-on-one fights when anybody is ko'd uh each
59:18
fighter has gotten some kind of graphical tweak to some degree which
59:22
makes sense there's two new playable characters ridley the alien pterodactyl
59:27
boss from the metroid series and inklings the squid kids from splatoon
59:32
they were already in mario kart yeah they just added them to
59:36
smash now so i don't know if uh yeah anyways uh fighters must now choose
59:41
their battleground stage before picking a character that's different
59:45
it's always the other way around right yeah that's weird that actually makes sense it says due to professional
59:49
players favoring certain stages for certain characters yeah okay that makes
59:53
sense uh a picture in picture preview window when
59:57
any combatant uh when any yeah when any combatant is launched off the screen
60:01
that also makes sense to me um but yeah apparently it will launch on
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nintendo switch on december 7 2018.
60:09
cool just in time for christmas sounds like i'll be getting yet another game
60:12
for my switch on december 7th 2018. they should have released it on black friday
60:17
just to see the meltdown oh god i'm really happy they did it just
60:21
like just like the parking lot but whoopings yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i
60:26
would love to see that hyrule fight club 24 7. pretty much hyrule castle is the
60:31
is the is the only map for me boy um
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but uh yeah anyways that's actually it for wancho
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that was probably loud sorry headphones jesus and we'll see you next week when
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your ears stop bleeding