The WAN Show - A Bank Account that Zaps You for Spending too Much?? - May 20, 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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the start of the show. You know, it's really good that you're the one who
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sings copyrighted theme songs and jingles um whenever we sing them on the
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show because I think your interpretations of them are very
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unlikely to get us uh to get us sued.
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That turned that turned from I think Indiana Jones
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into Star Wars.
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Like I I I it would be very difficult to attack.
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Which Harrison Ford movie is this from? I'm not criticizing you. I'm saying it's
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a good thing. Uh welcome to the WAN Show, guys. Sorry
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we're a little late. I know that you grow you've grown tired of our excuses.
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And there really is honestly it was I have never seen this one before. Please.
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So, the funny thing is is this is at
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least partially my fault, even if I didn't realize it a little bit. So, I
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had requested to XSplit, and this is actually really cool. I had requested a
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feature in the software because we had one camera in particular that you cannot
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turn off the output of the onboard
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microphone over HDMI. And we have one
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capture card that does not allow you to
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select a single mono channel and output
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it in stereo mono. Okay. So I requested
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a feature that was that would allow you in XSplit to clone the left channel to
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the right or the right channel to the left.
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They obliged. They provided said feature. So I was trying to set up the
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show today. I realized this. Okay. I was trying to set up the show today and I
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had levels on the microphone and I was talking into the microphone and the
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recorded file, which I always check now because I'm tired of you guys being the
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ones to inform me that uh that I'm doing
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it wrong. So, I did a pre a pre-recording and I checked it to
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discover that uh oh, there's there's no audio on the output file.
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Turns out my features there except it
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was cloning the empty channel because we
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have a mono microphone to both channels
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which the audio level monitor doesn't account for.
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So uh maybe additional feature is to check if the channel is empty and then
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make the default option to copy the non-mpy channel. One store range says
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pre-recorded to which I would reply I am either a freaking genius or uh big and
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tasty posted posted two Squirtles. I like Squirtle a lot. I like Squirtle.
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Yeah. Uh and we've got a bunch of you saying
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there's no audio, but we've also uh a I checked and b we've got some of you
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saying that indeed there there is there is audio. So um so there you go. That's
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what happened today. I have been diagnosing why I have audio levels on my
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on my indicator and no audio in my files, you know, because I'm not audio
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file and that's like, oh, dang. Um,
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snore, but whatever says totally not live. U, so there you go. All right,
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let's uh let's get into the show. We've got a lot of great topics for you guys
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today. Number one is of course Google IO, sort of a big deal. Uh, number two
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is after I scroll through all the Google
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things, um, NVIDIA has posted official GTX 1070 specifications. Pretty similar
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to what we were thinking, but uh, it's nice to have that confirmed. Yes. Also,
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there's an English bank that is literally going to electroshock you if
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you spend too much money, which is fantastic. I I I think that is wonderful
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and hilarious. Also, Uber is joining the race for driverless cars because screw
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employees. who needs them, who may or may not be employees, by the way. You
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know, because because Oh, if AI gets so sophisticated that we create a massive
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AI force to do all the work for us and then we have to pay them, wouldn't that
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suck?
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sponsors. Wow, that is a big sponsor call out. That violates our normal
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sponsor guidelines. Cookba. Cook.Ba.
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Cook.Ba. Blue Apron started by Vikings. Not true.
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Possibly true. Not sure. What the hell are you talking about? Cookba.
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That's what I'm talking about. Okay. So, I feel like the first thing that we
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should probably acknowledge
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um is the way we tried to pull the wool over your eyes last week with a
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pre-recorded WAN Show. So, to be clear,
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not a whole lot of forethought went into that. We sat down to record the show and
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I was like, "You know what? We should do it would be funny. We should pretend
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that it's live. We should pretend we're live." The internet connection there was
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awful. There was no way it was going to be able to be live. No, that was that
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was not going to be a thing. Um, and I
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will confess that while our plan did not
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extend to altering the time on the clock
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in the bottom right hand corner of my screen.
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Whoops. It did extend to um us starting the
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pre-recorded broadcast a little late so you guys wouldn't think something was
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up. And we did like a few people said this. Uh, we did say that like the
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chat's complaining about the camera or whatever else, which if we were noticing
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those things, we probably would have super noticed the massive glaring audio
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issues that we apparently had. So, I figured out after the fact what the
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audio issues had to do with it seemed like they were related to um the audio
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input from that recording camera
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not coming in anymore because the battery died or something. And then it
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just it took it took the microphone
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a bit to get its crap together. The weird thing about it is that we were
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using a single microphone. We were recording on a Razer siren, and that
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microphone was running the whole time, and that was responsible for both the
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left and the right channels, but only one channel was messed up. So, that's
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why the archive didn't have the audio issues, which took me until about 6:00
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a.m. to fix, by the way, because um non-fixed frame rate footage is a
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nightmare. Um when the camera switched to the webcam was causing a desync even
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in Sony Vegas, which handles um
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non-fixed frame or variable frame rate footage, not non-fixed, variable frame
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rate footage better than anything else. I went through Handbreak FFmpeg because
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I'm familiar with taking variable frame rate footage and turning it into
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something that Premiere can recognize with FFmpeg. There is a procedure for
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that. It's a pain in the butt, but it's doable. But I tried that. That didn't
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work. Handbreak didn't work. Premier didn't work. Vegas didn't even work. And
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to make matters worse, I didn't have any of those programs installed on my
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laptop. The internet was awful. So, I was trying to do all of this stuff
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remotely because I had actually already sent the file back to the office, right?
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And then I would have to upload them from the office to YouTube, wait for
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processing on a 55 minute video, and
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then I could preview it back in my hotel room to find out if the synchronization
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was working. That sounds horrible. Uh, question
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though, how does XSplit footage end up
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being mixed frame rate? So, uh, right because it's not always mixed frame
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rate. I think they have a I think they Okay, it was a new install. Okay.
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Because I was streaming off of a machine that I don't normally stream on. Okay.
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So, I hadn't gone through all of my all of my procedures. But the weird thing is
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that it wasn't FLV. It was variable frame rate MP4, which I think may have
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actually had to do not with XSplit screwing up, but with XSplit covering my
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butt when the camera changed to the webcam. Oh. So, I think we ended up with
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a variable frame rate MP4 that XSplit
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somehow managed managed to merge because the webcam was running at a different
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frame rate. Yeah. Okay. Cuz I was going to say I've used XSplit to record things
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a number of times and imported into Adobe Premiere and had no problems. But
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I do also know that people have had problems doing that. Yes. So, I wasn't
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sure how that worked. But we had no choice because the battery died. You know, the funny thing is about after
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that broadcast where I had and some of you actually noticed this is hilarious.
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My laptop was running off of a portable battery bank that couldn't output enough
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current to run my laptop. So, I had to constantly keep turning it back on cuz
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the overcurren protection was triggering. Um, but right after the
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show, I found an outlet on the wall. It was like right beside Yeah, that was
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that was rough. Oh, man. That trip was
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actually pretty tiring. I had a lot of fun. uh travel day back was uh was kind
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of a kind of a drag. It was I don't know. I just like went on my uh Yeah, I
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don't I don't mind layovers as much as most people do cuz I'm in like this
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place that has everything that I probably need and it pro especi
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mostly unless you're in like Malaysia. Yeah. Then it's fine. And most airports
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in the States have those things. So, I just like plugged in my laptop, plugged
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in my earbuds or my other headphones,
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which I bring both of just in case I get annoyed with one of them. Like, I don't know. I have everything that I need in
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my bag always, and I'm in a place that has everything else that I would really
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need. And it's just like, oh, okay. Well, yep. Yeah, I don't have as much of
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an issue with it either, which probably made me less empathetic than I probably
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should have been. Um, all right. So, this was posted by
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Suicidal Franco on the forum. Well, like the yeah, the general discussion thread
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was posted by Suicidal Franco and then we're going to have a bunch of like
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different things from like The Verge or TechnoBuffalo or whoever else happened
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to cover it. Yeah. So, uh, Google IO
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kind of a big deal. So, first up, our
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original article here is from Techno Buffalo. Let's go ahead and, uh, Techno
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Buffalo screen share here. Our good friend John Rettinger over there. No,
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no, Brandon Russell. So, one of his guys, but I'm sure John glanced at it at
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some point or another. This is the Google Home.
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There's al there's also home.google.com if you want to see uh news directly from
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Google. It's it's kind of Google's response to the Amazon Echo, which did
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we ever actually release a review on that? Okay, so the Amazon Echo, we we
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bought one, we got it here in spite of the fact that it's not available in
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Canada. We realized that nothing worked in Canada and we couldn't even like VPN
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trick it in any kind of it just didn't know how to do like with uh Microsoft
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for for Cortana. I don't think you have to anymore but for a while there to get
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it to work you had to VPN out to get it to work but then it actually was kind of
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fine. I understood why they didn't do it because it didn't know everything for
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most general things it was fine. Not Echo. Echo just Yeah. No. So, we had a
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contract writer that was writing techies for us for at the time, and we sent the
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Echo to him to do an LTT for the first time ever, and he basically disappeared
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off the face of the earth, and now he has an Amazon Echo. I was just going to
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say, got that Echo, though. He's a nice He's a nice enough dude. I I harbor no
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ill will towards him. There was some crazy stuff going on. He probably just
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misplaced it. His life was complicated at the time, but uh he has an echo and
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we do not. Yes. Um, Google L. Hello.
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Hello. Google Alo, I guess. Oh, really? We're not going to talk anymore about
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the Echo or I thought we were done. I guess I guess that was the problem. I
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feel like we stopped talking about the Echo, but we actually just Yeah. Anyways, you're right. You did it, too.
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Anyways, it will answer questions. It will play music. It will have LEDs.
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Thanks for them notes, bro. Um, it will be customizable with different colored
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shells. So, you can like if you just need to kind of put it somewhere in a
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dark corner where you don't really see it, you can probably get it in black. The one that they have in their main
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picture on home.google.com is in white, which looks like nice and clean and
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stuff. It can communicate with a chcast. That's cool. Which is actually quite
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cool. Y um, but it won't support multiple Google accounts on launch, but
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it might uh do that later. I don't know if you said it plays music. It does do
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that as well. So, that should tie in pretty well to the the Chcast tie-in.
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Uh, yes, because hopefully Chcast music or Chrome music or whatever they decided
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to I forget what they call it. Yeah, but the music version of the chcast can tie
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in with this thing and then it can play sound because I don't really trust this
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like tiny little speaker to be very good or useful in terms of playing sound.
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Google's branding sometimes in its simplicity gets complicated. Yeah.
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Because we're working with the Google store on like a Father's Day thing. I
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don't know if you know about this. I've heard about it. Um, so I'm I'm going to be um actually I don't know if the
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contract is signed, so maybe I won't be, but um in theory, I'm actually going to
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be showing a bunch of Google technology to my grandpa in not necessarily just
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like a straight up elders react TM uh
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type of ripoff, okay, that I will probably get, you know, sued for or
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something. Um, at least we know. But more it's more about, you know, here's a
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guy who I tried to set up with an internet connection 10 years ago with
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like a hand-me-down CRT monitor and like a cheap tower and and like I I tried to
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make it as affordable for him as possible and he loved it, but it was like it was like really hard on his eyes
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because the screens were small and stuff at the time. So So here's me kind of
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trying to bring that into the year 2016
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and show him some of the cool applicable things that some of Google's
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technologies would would allow. um things like better medication
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notifications and reminders. Um I'd love
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to see him try VR. Um so I've just Yeah,
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old people in VR are like So I think they're sending a smartwatch um a Nexus
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6P, so a nice big smartphone. I'll have to see if it has like old man vision
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mode. It probably does. I think it does. Well, there's an app you can get. Y um
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they're sending a Google Cardboard. Um
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uh that there's some there's some other stuff, too. So, I'm working on that. But
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anyway, getting back to my point that I was trying to make. Uh, one of the things that they were saying was, "We
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want you to be really clear that you're working with Google store." I'm like,
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"Yeah." They're like, "That is not a retail like Google store. It's like a
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website Google store." And I'm like, "Yeah." And they're like, "It is separate from the Google Play Store,
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which is not the Google store because the Google store sells physical items."
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The Google web physical store. Uh,
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Uh, so, so anyway, but doesn't the Google Play Store also sell
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devices or is that wrong? I think it has. I thought you could. I think it has
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at times. Yeah. Oh, man. So, so so so
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back to where we were trying to figure out chcast. I was going to suggest that
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maybe maybe it was like Google Google Music, but then no, that like play music
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because I couldn't remember what they call the damn thing. Yeah. And um that's
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a nightmare. Yeah. So, so, so
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like is it chcast music or which is
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different from Google? The best thing is we could have just Googled this the whole time. I know with their own
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software we could find it out. Um
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Oh, there's people commenting in the chat about the uncensored fbomb in one
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of our recent videos. What? What video? Oh, was it me? No. Oh, good. That Well,
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you wouldn't have edited it anyway. Like, it was an editor. No. Did I say
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it? No, it was an editor saying it. No, I said it. Oh, yeah. Wasn't me this
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time. Yeah. So, no, I just said uh I
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just said here is uh you know, gold star
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for Smartyp Pants is already knowing how like um IPMI or wake on land and like
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all that stuff works. I was just like, well, here's a gold star for the rest of
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you. Here's a video. Um and it was
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supposed to be I should have said that on the synergy video. Yeah.
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It was done by Yeah. Well, you know,
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part of it was seeing those comments on some of your videos as well where people
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will like people will watch our videos and they'll go, "Is this the first time
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you ever heard of Wake Land? I've known about this for 15 years." It's like,
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"Okay, yeah, that's good." What if it's someone's first year into computers,
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bro? Then why are you clicking on a video about Wakeland?
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Maybe just don't. Maybe just don't. I mean, click it anyway. We love your
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views, you know? We love to talk to you guys. Sometimes we make jokes and maybe
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maybe there's something in there that you didn't know about or or maybe
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there's something that we missed and you can help inform people in the comments.
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You could say something helpful or constructive. It's like I've known about
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this forever and so so I was I was proactively responding to those comments
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and giving them gold internet stars. Um
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which I think is important. You know, you like a gold star for something that
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you've known for a long time that I didn't. Right. Sure. Makes you feel like
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a big man. Yeah. Gold star right there, buddy. That would actually be wonderful
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if we all got gold star stickers. Like
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anytime someone around the office helps you, you like put a gold star on their
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shirt.
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You know what's you know what's horrible
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is like from my experience as a parent
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and as a swimming teacher managing kids
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and from my experience as a small business owner managing
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adults. It would probably work. The principles are really not very
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different. And you know what's really funny is what you're saying and joking
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about is really not that different from
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the kinds of principles you will read about in management books. The only
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difference is the physicality of it gold star because walking around basically
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doing the same thing. Giving people little attabo for doing something right
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is actually by far the best way to reinforce positive behavior and actually
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by uh by doing so eliminate bad
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behavior. Yeah, maybe I should get sheets of gold stars. I I think people
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feel like I'm patronizing them a little. Yes, I think that but that's that's why
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you remove the physicality because then it doesn't seem to feel so patronizing.
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What is that bad word? Um it's only bad
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in certain contexts, I think. Like cuz
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Okay, so let's break it down. Patron. So
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like But that's a different word. Okay. Because a patron is like you could be a
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patron at a bar. No, no. Okay, that's a different way of using the word. But
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patron can be the same as matron, which would be the male form of of of like a
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like a mother or a father figure. So patronizing, it's funny, we talk about
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how the gold stars would be more like dad and the kids means treating you like
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a child. Yes. So that's where that's where now that I've sort of because
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patronizing is so bad, but then like maternal instinct is a good thing. Yeah.
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and and like and and feeling cared for
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in the same way that your parents would care for you is something that we crave
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and something that we want. We just don't want them to act like they're our
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parents. Anyways, after all that, it's called chcast audio.
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We got there. Um, all right. So, original article here
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is from Techno Buffalo again. We've got Google Aloe, which uh heals your burns.
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Yeah, I needed some of that. Still sort
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of do. Yeah, Mexico was fun for everyone but Luke on the day when he got he got
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second degree burns on his freckles. Yeah, which sounds like a very specific
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injury, but it's a thing. Yeah, I didn't
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know that. Yeah, that's apparently a thing. The rest of my skin was like, I'm
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fine. Where the freckles are roasted.
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Wow, it was bad. H Yeah. So, I want you
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to find this. It's not that hard to find. Google him. find this thing
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because this ties into what we're exactly Yeah. Yeah. I'll I'll find the
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tweet. I'll bring that up. Okay. You you talk about it in the meantime. Okay. So,
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Snowden has tweeted about Google's Aloe thing. Uh he says that Google's security
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expert blogged discussing about how Aloe is unsafe by default. Um hours later, he
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erased that part of the uh uh blog. Um
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and he says below that, I believe I have it up. Google's decision
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Yep. There's another tweet actually. Google's decision to disable endtoend
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encryption by default in its new Alo chat app is dangerous and makes it
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unsafe and he recommends to avoid it for now. That has 8,000 retweets and 7,800
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likes. So, with that warning in the back
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of your mind, let's talk a little bit about what it is. Yes. Uh, it's a new
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messaging app for mobile only. To which
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you might kind of go, what the hell? Why do we need this? What happened to GT
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talk? And then what about don't we have
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Hangouts? And uh doesn't uh Oh, man.
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Doesn't Google own like uh some other
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stuff? I think Yeah. So, hold on. Who is Snapchat again? Is that Facebook?
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Snapchat is I think Facebook. I could totally be wrong though. Yeah. Snapchat
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owned by Facebook. I thought Google bought something. Anyway, the point is
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why do we need
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another messaging app? And maybe maybe
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this is more of a question for the people that use other messaging apps.
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Like I still can't quite figure out why people need um any more than just like
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yeah, one. I can't figure out what happened to that concept of like awesome
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desktop clients like Trillian that just
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um amalgamated all your different chats and made it it's like and I used
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Trillian for a long time. I loved Trillion, but they just couldn't keep
22:55
the bugs out of it because it feels like the
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um the chat platform owners were constantly changing things just to screw
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with Trillian. Um I don't know if it's really good these days. I'd love to hear
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from you guys, but um the answer is that
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it is meant to be a fresh start for Google's new communications division.
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You sign up with a phone number and you can connect your Google account to it.
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So it's WhatsApp but with additional
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nonsense. Yeah. Speaking of which, who
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owns WhatsApp again? That's Facebook. Owned by Facebook. Oh, okay. Yeah, there
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we go. That's Facebook. Yeah, I know that one. Yeah. Um, you can shrink or
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enlarge text before sending it in messages, which sounds super annoying. I
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mean, remember when MSN Messenger had the ability to change your font size?
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Okay, that was kind of cool. You had pink font. Yeah. No, I just mean that's
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not innovative, right? Okay. Remember when MSN Messenger added the ability to
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write with your mouse? Can Microsoft just make MSN again? I would actually go
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back. I would go back. Yeah, 100%. Like that. Especially if it worked on my phone. Oh my god.
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So good. I would hardcore go back to MSN. It was
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by far the best. It had like the ability to send files to people and it actually
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worked. Remote desktop control was built into it. I diagnosed so many computers
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that way. I was like, "Oh, do you have MSN?" "Yeah, okay, sweet. We can just do this." You know, now it's like a huge
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mess. We're going to have to implement a new policy for W show. Anytime we talk
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about a messaging app, we can't just talk about MSN. Okay, that's probably
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fair. We I think we MSN's emoji support
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was worlds ahead of what other applications were doing at the time.
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Your own and you could send them. Yep. Which was freaking awesome. Um I wasn't
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a huge fan of them when they implemented them, but when they when they introduced
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like the higher definition ones like
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that you had like all this variety like Yeah.
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Okay. So speaking of which, you can send and receive indicators, emojis, and
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custom stickers. They do say that uh
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conversations are encrypted on the wire, which means nobody on the internet
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can read them as you send your message, which is a funky way of saying that. Um
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they're they're the response to Snowden's thing about it being not end
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to end encrypted is apparently that that is done because of um the voice command
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side of things. Um my response to that
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is figure it out. There is some cool stuff to be clear
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like for example if you're discussing with a friend like uh hey we want to go
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out for dinner you can actually bring Google now features like recommending a
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restaurant right into the chat that's super cool which I can't think of any
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reason why you wouldn't be able to do with hangouts which also has video and
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works crossplatform. Why do companies think that single platform mobile only
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is better? That's very stupid. Um, one thing that I do like is the uh, if your
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friend sends you a message, Aloe puts some suggested replies at the bottom.
25:55
That's super cool because if your phone can tell that you're like working out or
25:59
you're at work or you're I thought work was in both of those. Or it can like
26:03
tell you're doing something like you're working it or that although you might
26:07
not want an automated reply unless it's a lie. Yeah. Like, hey, I'm petting the
26:12
dog. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um or like like driving or something. If
26:17
you're doing something where you don't really have time to respond, you can be
26:20
able to respond easily in a like pre-done little packaged thing, which is
26:24
kind of cool. Um this is actually a
26:27
suggestion, not for Aloe, but for a messaging application that I'm actually
26:31
likely to use, like maybe Hangouts. So, if anyone from Google is watching, this
26:35
was actually Taran's suggestion. I think he was like cuz I was just reading the
26:39
bit about how it has a feature where you can doodle on the pictures that people
26:42
send you or it can like suggest to you whether your the picture of your
26:46
friend's dog is cute or not. Yeah, I don't think that's that useful. Um, but
26:52
what about this? What if you could set
26:56
contacts to send you pixelated versions
26:59
of their images by default so you could tell if it's a dickpick before you open
27:04
it? I thought that was Edel. Was it Ed?
27:08
Maybe it's Ed. I don't know. Someone in someone here talked to me about that,
27:12
too. Yeah, someone in there was talking about this. I was like, that is
27:15
brilliant. I mean, who wouldn't want especially like at work like say say for
27:20
example if you know Hangouts wasn't a complete piece of trash and had a
27:24
desktop client, which it should have um so that you could actually have settings
27:29
that stuck with computers rather than just being accountwide. You know, there
27:33
are reasons that client applications still make sense. Um, so at work, you
27:37
could enable the feature that automatically blurs pictures so you
27:40
wouldn't have an awkward situation where someone, you know, walks and looks over
27:44
your shoulder and there's like boom, dickpick. Yeah, here's a good idea. Free
27:48
of charge. It's a thing. Um, speaking of good ideas free of charge, um, let's
27:54
see. So, that's kind of boring. Yeah, there's Google Duo, I guess, which is a
27:59
video calling app because they need another app for communication.
28:04
Okay, so as a companion to the brand new messaging app, yay, we're splitting it
28:08
up so we have more than one app to do the same thing. Yep. Um,
28:15
so yeah. Um
28:19
so basically it has caller ID which is
28:22
the unique feature where you can see a
28:25
stream of the person before you answer the call. Yeah.
28:30
Um
28:34
which I guess is the kind of thing that's going to lead to a lot of
28:38
accidental nose picking
28:41
while someone's looking at you while people figure out that that's a feature.
28:45
I I I can't think of a any possible
28:48
reason on the planet why I would want someone else's stream when they're
28:52
calling me to start automatically before I pick up the call. I know who it's
28:57
from. Why?
29:02
Why? And I mean, this is not like I'd like I
29:06
hope to I hope I guess like if you're
29:09
gonna do like a We're gonna get a little TM out here for a second, but if you're
29:13
gonna have like a FAP session with your partner and it happens to be their mom
29:18
that is using their phone to video call you, it might be a good idea for you to
29:22
know and be like, I should cover up before I answer this. Why would you ever
29:26
answer a video call naked? I mean,
29:29
you're just ready to go.
29:34
Okay. So, why would you be ready to go if there wasn't some kind of
29:38
pre-planning in place? And if there was pre-planning, wouldn't you know that who
29:43
was operating the other end? Because if if it's their mom while you're having a
29:46
discussion about video calling, maybe
29:49
maybe communications with this person are just so often uh that that you're
29:55
just, you know, you're just or maybe you want to like surprise them. It's the the
29:59
naked man tactic from How I Met Your Mother.
30:03
where you're like, I'm ready to go. And then it's their mom and you're like,
30:06
crap. Maybe I'm still ready to go, but it's not appropriate, but a little less.
30:14
Wow. Um, Luke getting his freak on here. I mean,
30:19
you know, uh, the Twitch chats Twitch chat's exploding
30:24
now. Sex each other. What? Says Tristan.
30:27
We can't do that. We're in person. It's got to be over the phone. It's against the Twitch regulations anyway. Come on.
30:31
get your act together, Tristan. Yeah. Um, so, okay, another app that I'm
30:37
clearly too old to understand the value of, so there you go. It's apparently
30:41
very simple to use and quick, as demonstrated by The Verge. I managed to
30:46
teach my 67year-old father, who was still running iOS 6 like 3 months ago,
30:53
how to chat on Hangouts in like 40 seconds. So, I'm pretty sure that a
30:59
video call in Hangouts probably wasn't that hard to use. The entire app is
31:03
approximately 5 megs. Five megs of duplicating a function of an app that I
31:08
literally by default definitely already
31:11
have installed on my phone if it's an Android phone
31:16
and it's mobile only because screw you.
31:20
Yeah. I screw you people who, you know,
31:23
want to sit in a chair at a desk and see a reasonable size image and not hold
31:28
something while they chat with somebody. Yeah. I mean, because that that ties up
31:32
one of your hands. Why is it always coming back to this?
31:37
One thing that is really annoying about the mobile only thing though, actually the main thing in my opinion is a lot of
31:41
work stuff. Like of course I'm going to usually use that app on my mobile
31:46
device. Yeah. to be completely honest, but if I'm sitting at a desk, it's
31:49
really nice to be able to not pick up my phone and access it there. Lenovo, if
31:53
you can figure your crap out, will eventually be releasing the Lenovo Link
31:57
32GB, which looks great and has been waiting
32:02
to get it ever since CES and have been on an email list so that once they
32:06
release it, I can buy it personally, bring it in here, and then make a review
32:10
about it. And they still haven't. Oh my god. What is it? It's a USB pass through
32:15
device kind of thing that you plug into your computer and then you plug a charging cable to your phone into and
32:20
then it makes it so that you get your phone on your computer which can already
32:25
be done with like ASUS includes that I think. But who runs an ASUS phone? Yeah.
32:30
And it's it's device agnostic so you can do it with whatever the heck you want.
32:34
Um it's very fast. There's some that you can do with like uh having your computer
32:38
be a server and your phone communicates with it wirelessly. Yeah, it's Wi-Fi,
32:41
but it's extremely fast. The Link has storage built into it, which is nice.
32:45
Um, and it has like a few other features like it can tell what orientation the
32:49
phone is in. Okay. And it like can you can drag and drop file there. There's a
32:54
few things that it could do. I can't remember exactly what they are right now that are better than the thing that the
32:59
app could do and the other solutions. It was it's
33:04
looks very nice and they likes his PC like he likes his girls oily.
33:10
Sometimes I don't need oil.
33:15
Sometimes it is good to go. Um, so the
33:18
Android N beta, speaking of being good to go, has started. It is an open beta
33:25
type of relationship if you know what I mean. And the full release will be
33:28
coming later on this summer. I don't need that. I have done absolutely. My
33:34
relationship is 100% satisfactory. I have uh no need for really that's not
33:39
what you told me.
33:42
Um I have actually done literally zero research into Android N and why we would
33:47
care because I actually follow very little pre-release uh news these days. I
33:52
kind of wait till the product lands and I go, "Oh yeah, I like this or I don't
33:56
like this." Because the reality of it is a lot of the features that get announced for products or software never end up
34:01
making it into the product in the first place or the implementation is just kind
34:05
of halfass and stupid anyway. Um so anyway, Android and open beta coming. So
34:10
it's supported by the uh Nexus 6, Nexus 9, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player,
34:15
Pixel C, and General Mobile 4G.
34:21
And that'll be a story that's the full release coming this summer, not like
34:25
more beteness or whatever people might have interpreted that to mean. Um,
34:30
speaking of coming this summer, coming this summer to a kitchen near you is
34:36
Blue Apron. And the Oh, by the way, this is cool. The first 250 people to use
34:40
this link get two free meals on their
34:44
first order. So, Blue Apron is the most
34:47
upsetting sponsor for me that we have ever had. Yep. Because it's only in the
34:53
US right now. Just going to complain. Yep. I know. I know. And it sounds
34:57
amazing. It sounds so cool. So, they
35:01
deliver farm fresh ingredients that are locally sourced right to your doorstep
35:05
in the right proportions for you to create the meal that they send you. Um,
35:10
they have two plans, a twoerson plan and a family plan. The recipes are delivered
35:14
in a refrigerated box, so the ingredients will stay fresh even if you're not at home. and they offer a
35:19
large selection of recipes and they're always adding new dishes to the menu
35:22
every week. Each menu is about 500 to 800 calories per person and the meals
35:27
can be prepared in 40 minutes or less. So with Blue Apron, you cook for
35:31
yourself, but you get a quality meal.
35:34
You don't waste food. Yeah, it's a huge thing. If you It says one to two people.
35:39
So like I live on my own. Wasting food if I want to make interesting
35:43
complicated meals is basically inevitable. It's like even if you buy
35:47
like one stupid thing of cilantro, it's more than you need. Oh yeah. And unless
35:52
you're going to use cilantro again tomorrow, it's all wilty and gross.
35:55
Yeah. Exactly. So like making anything fancy is really frustrating. And like I
36:00
just cook chicken every day. It's one of those things where it's like it's a fundamental problem with the system.
36:05
Okay. I end up buying a bag of carrots this big every time I buy carrots. Why?
36:10
because the bag of carrots this big at superstore costs as much as buying the
36:15
three carrots that I need to make pasta sauce today at Nester's market. So even
36:21
though I might only use three of those carrots and that's this is an extreme
36:26
example obviously I'm going to use more of the carrots than that we actually like do cook and stuff and munch them
36:30
and whatnot. Yeah. So yeah let's even if I'm only going to use three of these
36:33
carrots I'm still better off on my grocery trip to superstore which I'm
36:38
going to do anyway. I'm better off stocking up on stuff that I don't need
36:42
only to end up wasting it later than I
36:46
am buying the correct quantity from a place that sells lower quantity things
36:52
off the shelf. And carrots are not even the best example because you can
36:55
actually buy individual carrots at supertore if I recall correctly. Same with celery uh celery stocks. You can
36:59
buy individual sticks. Yeah, you can buy individual sticks. Funny story, more
37:03
expensive. I didn't realize that a celery stock was all of them and a
37:07
celery stick was one. Yeah, I used to work in the produce section very
37:11
recently. Um, so Blue Apron lets you get
37:14
out of your comfort zone, it actually takes if you can make the meal in 40
37:18
minutes. That is, and my wife and I have done the numbers, that is actually less
37:22
time than it takes to drive somewhere, sit down, like be seated, especially if
37:27
it's like dinner time and you got to wait 15, 20 minutes to get seated, order
37:31
your food, and wait for your food. It is actually more efficient to eat at home
37:36
and more affordable with Blue Apron. So, uh, I've talked about this for a really
37:40
long time. I want to add one quick thing before we're done. Sure. And I probably won't bring this up if we do sponsor
37:44
spots for them in the future, but I just want to bring this up here. Uh my
37:48
girlfriend, she has a uncle or like some
37:52
form of family connection who's this really fantastic chef and he had
37:56
basically this idea and made a Kickstarter for it and
38:02
checked out the Kickstarter and I was like, "Wow, this is a wonderful idea,
38:06
but the Kickstarter is bad." Yeah. And the Kickstarter failed and I was kind of
38:11
sad and now I just hope that Blue Apron comes up here. So, I again I won't do
38:16
this next time we do a spot for this, but um Ivonne and I have a business plan
38:21
for this from like about a year ago.
38:26
That's that's actually pretty in line with the Kickstarter. I hadn't seen
38:29
that. Um, I was trying to convince her to uh to leave Costco. And even if she
38:36
didn't want to pursue a career at Linus Media Group, I still really felt like
38:41
her talents would be better suited to something bigger than running a
38:45
pharmacy. And we actually kicked this idea around and we came up with it
38:49
together where we would leverage the strengths of Linus Media Group to
38:53
promote and to uh provide video guides
38:57
to go along with the recipes. I would Oh man, I would have loved to do that. This
39:01
it was like it was a really cool idea. Oh, that would have been fun cuz it was
39:04
and it was I know the idea is not the newest thing ever like like food being
39:08
delivered. Um but we we sort of had this concept for how we could leverage
39:13
partnerships just locally and start it locally and then create this this kind
39:18
of this fun cooking with whoever it is.
39:22
Um and these personas and these these video personalities to go along with it
39:26
that we really thought could take it to the next level. and would be way cooler.
39:30
Um, but uh, so there you go. If Blue Apron's watching this spot, guys, video
39:35
video uh, video instructions would be like super duper cool. Um, and you guys
39:40
could have like a side thing which is like like call it like fun food and do
39:46
like not necessarily just like a meal. Do like have like a fun food Super Bowl
39:51
edition. and you know some really cool video content creators up in Vancouver,
39:55
Canada who would love to do more around food. I'm just kind of saying, yeah,
40:00
speaking of things that I'm just kind of saying, um, iFixit, I'm not going to
40:05
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41:42
sponsorships than any other brand? They've probably done more WAN Show
41:45
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41:50
probably a fair thing for you to say. Uhoh. Uh oh. Nick's Nick's given Nick's
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sending me messages during the sponsor spots. That's never good. It's always
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Um, they've got, uh, let's see. Yeah, you can you can dig into the code a
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43:26
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43:31
should. Those are old notes. Yes, they are.
43:35
Simple, power, be powerful, beautiful. I mean, how old is that slogan? I'm going
43:39
to go on Squarespace's website right now and see if they have like a new slogan.
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I don't think so. I think it's still you should. Still you should.
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Oh, hold on. No,
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I don't see you should anywhere. No.
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44:05
so we're not as cool as like Fast Company and Freeman's. Yeah. And what
44:09
the heck is hashtaggirlboss? I don't know. I'm sure someone knows, but I
44:13
don't. Over 1 million paying customers.
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Wow. You can do that math. Hey,
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pulling so hard. That's like the new World of Warcraft. Squarespace of
44:27
Warcraft. World of Squarespace. I mean, can you imagine an MMO based on website
44:32
building? The boss is like this really
44:35
complicated, extensive website. It's like Flash.
44:40
And inherently, because this is classic world of Squarespace, you need a 40
44:44
person team. And a huge part of the difficulty is just coordinating all of
44:47
those developers to create this like
44:51
intense flashbased website. You know what the worst thing about this
44:54
conversation is? is this sounds like exactly the kind of asinine idea that
44:59
would get thrown around in like a boardroom full of exec like how do we
45:02
gify building websites like well you know I
45:06
heard a world of Warcraft once you know maybe we need like like website craft
45:15
squares in spacecraft squares in spacecraft it's like Starcraft but like
45:21
not just stars all of face.
45:27
Oh no. Uh, all right. Android Wear 2.0.
45:30
Getting back on topic somewhat, is a huge new update. One about which I am
45:34
extremely disappointed. I recently
45:39
Oh, yeah. I recently,
45:42
completely my own fault. And I have no one to blame but myself, broke my
45:47
Zenatch 2 by diving to about 70 ft. You
45:50
should blame the Zenwatch 2. Salt water. Zenwatch 2 should have a warning being
45:53
like, "We're detecting water. You should resurface." Yeah, that's why I'm so
45:57
salty. Not because of the water salinity. Yeah.
46:02
Um, to be fair, I'm kidding. That was a
46:06
joke. So, it includes a new smart reply feature, allowing you to respond to
46:09
incoming notifications quickly by scribbling on the touchcreen. Well, this
46:12
just means you're going to get a new watch. Uh, I think it should be a
46:16
software update. I guess I I'll find out because I still there's still a Gwatch R
46:19
over there. I might just steal that. Um, but you know what I want is more
46:24
granularity in the control of what I do with notifications and ways to
46:27
synchronize across devices. That is really my only complaint about Android
46:30
Wear. It kind of already does everything I could possibly want it to do other
46:34
than the fact that it really makes me mad when I reply to something with voice
46:39
and then that email is still sitting unread in my inbox
46:44
because it's just why. Let me know what you think about this. I'm going to deviate a little bit. I was just
46:47
thinking in my head about how like you do the traditional watch thing and I'm
46:51
thinking about doing the fitness watch thing. Um I'm going to still do the
46:55
video that we had planned first. Yeah. Um should I say okay? So, I'm going to
47:00
benchmark um a bunch of traditional
47:04
fitness trackers against like a Fitbit,
47:07
not like a Zenwatch, but like a Fitbit against a chest strap, which is
47:12
traditionally a lot better um at accurately determining your heart rate
47:17
and then comparing how well the wrist version does. And then what I'm thinking
47:21
is take the top one, maybe two, and do a proper review on them. That's a good
47:25
idea. So, be like, "Okay, these ones are really accurate. These ones are probably
47:28
the ones you should be going for if you want a fitness tracker. Now, I'm going to properly review them. Are they
47:32
actually any good just as a usable device? There's huge amounts of issues
47:36
on that side of things. Holy crap. Um,
47:40
and like I'm very frustrated right now with the fact that the like more like
47:45
I'm going to say traditional, but that is so literally the wrong word. Um, the
47:50
like smartwatch side of things are kind of really bad generally. I'd like to see
47:55
the people who call you burger boy fight you. Burger boy. Someone called you Luke
47:59
Burger Boy. I would love to fight them too. Um the Yeah, the like smartwatch
48:05
kind of stuff is usually really bad at doing fitness stuff. The Apple Watch is
48:08
pretty good, but then it has other issues. And then the fitness watches
48:12
suck at being smart watches and we just need them to Yeah. do the thing
48:16
together. Um Yeah. No, I think that's a great
48:19
idea. I think that makes a ton of sense. Um,
48:23
so let's see what else it's got. It's there's updates to the fitness software
48:26
allowing you to leave your phone at home and track your activity automatically using a third-party app on Android Wear.
48:30
It's set to launch this fall. Uh, devs can create watch faces that show
48:34
information from any Android Wear app. So, that's cool. I guess those are both
48:37
good things. Um, let's move into some of our more rapid fire news for this week.
48:40
Uh, original article here is from pcgamer.com or GeForce.com if you want
48:44
to get it directly from the horse's mouth. Uh, NVIDIA posts an Overwatch
48:49
advertisement. uh GTX 1070 specifications, which is super exciting
48:54
because it's actually quite a bit cheaper and it's probably the more
48:57
relevant one because that is that is
49:00
that is a thing. Well, the the 599 price point versus the 379 price point is like
49:06
whoa a lot more people are going to be looking forward. So, this is going to in
49:10
terms of performance effectively displace the Do you want to come say bye
49:14
to the W show people? No.
49:20
Oh. Oh, goodbye people. This is This is Ash. You
49:26
may recognize him from such YouTube videos as videos that he's made. Um
49:32
I'm I'm sure the Twitch chat's going to freak out and you're already going to be gone. Anyway, it was really nice hanging
49:37
out today and lunch and all that stuff. Is that a high 10? Yeah. Okay. Yes. Bye.
49:42
See you later and we'll talk soon. Um, so yeah. So at $37579
49:50
for not a Founders Edition. Yeah. Wow.
49:54
It's going to have the performance of a GTX 980 Ti. It looks like
49:59
cuz a 980 Ti is that's a thing. I mean, that is a good VR experience. Yes. And
50:04
you will have the new stuff which almost matters more uh depending on what you're
50:08
doing than the like raw performance because you'll have SMP simultaneous
50:13
multi-projection. Anzel if you're into that kind of stuff but mainly SMP. SMP
50:17
makes stuff like VR and multimonitor support like crazy amounts better. Um so
50:23
yeah, looking pretty cool. Okay, so you're really still Oh, we never
50:26
actually talked about what the specs are. We did a bad job. Okay. So the it's
50:31
still a GP 104. So that's not big Pascal, that's like smaller Pascal. Same
50:36
guy as the 1080, just a lower bend one. Yeah. So the core clock is 1506. The
50:41
boost clock is 1683. Very close to 1080.
50:45
Yes. Do remember that uh clock for clock
50:48
on graphics cards isn't really a thing. Um although 1080 versus 1070 it will be
50:53
more of a thing, but like compared to other generations, don't necessarily do that calculation. Uh, your VRAM clock
50:58
speed is 8,000. That is GDDR5, not
51:01
GDDR5X. You have 8 gigs of RAM. Your bus
51:05
width is 256 bit. Um, there's some
51:08
question mark specs on here, so I guess they haven't fully released everything.
51:11
I'm pulling up the one, the official one from NVIDIA here. Oh, sweet. Okay. Um,
51:15
yeah, it looks like they are not being 100% clear about everything. They've
51:20
released a lot of specs. 150 watt TDP,
51:23
um, two slot cooler, blah blah blah blah blah. The 1080 is being released on the
51:28
27th. So, I believe it's being released for sale on the 27th. And then the uh
51:33
launch date of the 1070 is June 10th.
51:36
So, is that rumored or is that confirmed? That's shown without a
51:40
question mark on here. Okay. So, I'm assuming that that's confirmed. Yeah,
51:44
that's from the PC Gamer article. Um, I actually haven't gotten a confirmation
51:48
from NVIDIA exactly when 1070 is dropping. So, okay. So, don't don't
51:52
quote don't quote us on that. get us in trouble because we talked about um 3way
51:58
SLI not being a thing on the 1080 on the WAN Show and I got this frantic email
52:03
from NVIDIA. Yo guys, they were like, "Actually, guys, Luke was like super
52:08
sick during that part of the presentation." Yeah. Um that's not a
52:12
thing to be fair. The way that they're doing it is really dumb. Yes. And it's
52:16
like kind of sketchy and it's probably going to suck a lot, like way worse than
52:20
it normally does. And we'll probably have a video on that. Yeah. And we super
52:23
don't agree with how they're doing it. Yeah. I I haven't talked to you about
52:27
it, but I don't agree and I assumed you don't agree. I don't agree either. What is your reason though? We might as well
52:31
talk about it. I think software unlocks for a product that you bought to enable
52:34
functionality that you gave me with the last generation product is a dick move.
52:38
Yep. Um I understand the reason why they're doing it because these are
52:41
people with more money than cents anyway. Um well, I think part of it
52:46
because the way like it is I think uh yeah, I'm still a little misinformed.
52:51
I'm waiting till we get the actual bridges. So, I'm probably going to get another mad email from BDR. Sorry. Um,
52:56
but I think if it's being enabled, it's through the back end through DX12 and
53:00
not at all through their stuff. So, I think they don't want it to happen. But
53:04
I think because of DX12, they don't have
53:07
a huge amount of choice because they'll either look like the super bad guy for
53:12
locking it down no matter what or
53:16
they'll look like kind of not very good
53:19
if they have it enabled for everybody and then it just sucks. I think it's
53:23
just going to suck the same amount as it always has. Really? I think it's going
53:26
to suck more. You think it's going to suck more? Okay, well then stay tuned.
53:29
Let's find out just how much. Yeah. Um,
53:33
but yeah, I I do kind of agree with the like if you're going to SLI, you should
53:37
probably stop at two. Yeah. Kind of mentality anyways. So, if you're going
53:41
to SLI, you should definitely stop at two. Three and four is for people with
53:46
more money than cents. It is legitimately not better. Take it from
53:50
me. How many video cards do you think I could take home at the end of the day if
53:55
I felt like it? That'd be annoying because then they
53:58
wouldn't be in inventory, right? But I But I get you. How many could I? Yeah, a
54:03
lot. I mean, I could just I could just So many titans. I could just Okay, I
54:07
could like call up anyone. Literally any video card maker. I could say, "Hey, I
54:12
need four video cards. I'm doing a personal rig update video and they would
54:16
be in the mail." Literally any video card maker.
54:20
I do not run those because it's a bad
54:25
idea. Yeah, it's it's an bad experience. NVIDIA themselves in an extremely
54:30
difficult demo that they were like pushing really hard to run ran two-way
54:34
SLI with a physics card, not three-way,
54:38
not four-way. So, like,
54:42
so please don't. Speaking of please don't, don't spend all your money. You
54:47
love this topic. I absolutely love this topic. It is so cool. Okay, so there's
54:52
an English bank um what is it called?
54:56
intelligent environments or something. I don't even really care. But it gives you
54:59
like a wristband and if the funds in your account go
55:03
below an agreed limit, the band kicks in
55:06
and will hit you with 200 with a 255 volt shock.
55:12
I hope it does it every single time that the value continues to go further down.
55:17
So it's like, man, I really want to buy a sandwich cuz I'm pretty hungry, but
55:21
I'm going to get electroshocked. And I really hope that like people don't
55:25
just take it off because that is so fabulously hilarious. There's another
55:29
thing. Um Oh, no. Oh, no. No. It's a British firm giving bank customers an
55:35
electric shop. So, no bank has actually announced support yet. So, it could be
55:40
across multiple banks, which is really cool. And they're looking to add more
55:45
functionality like the ability to turn down your Nest heating to save on your
55:49
energy bill if the funds are low.
55:53
Honestly, I think with the way that Okay, I forget who I wanted to add more
55:59
and be like if you leave the house and the the central heating is still on,
56:04
it'll just like shock you like every 10 minutes until you remotely turn it down.
56:10
Like, I want this thing to just be like, "Hey, you're screwing up. Hey, fix it."
56:14
This is why you shouldn't design the product. But I was having But I want one
56:17
for myself. Just mod it. Yeah, I'm sure there'll be
56:22
mods. I'm sure you'll be able I'm sure any company that designed something to
56:26
electroshock people, I'm sure you could convince them to make a more hardcore
56:30
version. I'm sure they'd be down. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but I was talking to to
56:34
Brandon about this where he's like, yeah, like it seems like our generation
56:38
doesn't save money, like can't save money. And I, you know, part of the
56:43
conversation with him was like, look at the way that, you know, everything from
56:48
the smell in a retail store is designed.
56:51
Like the amount of research and like psychology that goes into making people
56:56
buy stuff. I mean, I'm not saying that,
56:59
you know, oh, poor you. You bought that $200 pair of jeans and now you can't
57:04
afford your rent. You're such a victim. I'm not saying that. That's not that's
57:09
not what's happening here. But I am saying that you are up against forces
57:13
that are bigger than you probably realize when it comes to people trying
57:18
to get your money from you. There's even like uh road signs that you can drive
57:22
past that emit the smell of like steak before you come up to a steak shop. Like
57:26
there's there's some stuff out there. There's
57:30
lots of stuff going on. So it's refreshing to see intelligent environments giving a crap. Um, and my,
57:36
okay, my reason for this, a bunch of people in chat are calling it's the Pavlock wristband, by the way, is what
57:40
the product's called, which is kind of funny. U, but they're calling me Masso
57:44
or whatever, which is like, it's fine. I get where you're coming from, but my
57:47
actual reasoning for this is, uh, myself and a lot of other people, I will self-
57:51
admit this, find it easy to put things off because I'll just be like, "Oh, I
57:55
have something more important to do right now." The importance of things
57:58
increases when you are literally being electroshocked.
58:04
And if like I left the heat on and I'm like, "Well, crap. I'm doing whatever
58:07
right now. I'm driving right now. I don't want to do this." If it's like and
58:11
I'm like, "Okay, I should probably pull over, deal with this, and then keep
58:15
driving." Because honestly, that's fine. It's not going to take me that much time
58:19
to pull over to the side of the road, deal with it, and keep driving. It's not a big That's a crazy background. Um, but
58:25
likeh it just I don't know. I want it. I
58:28
think it would be good. Um, Uber joins the race for driverless
58:34
cars. The original article here is from The Verge. Meet Uber's first
58:38
self-driving car. It's a Ford Fusion hybrid.
58:42
How exciting. Um, so I mean this
58:46
shouldn't come as any surprise. I think two weeks ago we were talking about Lyft
58:50
working with whoever the crap it was to deploy a fleet of them like immediately.
58:54
Um, I mean, the amount of money that
58:57
someone like Uber could save. Remember, how much you can charge for a service
59:01
doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the cost of providing the service. It has to do with how much it costs
59:06
someone else to provide the service. So, if you are the first one to have a fleet
59:10
of driverless cars, you can effectively just make mad bank because you don't
59:15
have to pay the person that someone else has to pay in order to compete with you.
59:19
Um, there's not really a whole lot to say other than that. The things I'm
59:23
going to find interesting are like uh refueling them, recharging them, those
59:29
sort of things. Are they going to have to pair up with gas stations to make it
59:32
so the driverless car can drive up and there'll be an attendant that will fill it? And if you were a gas station, would
59:36
you want that Uber contract? Definitely. I sure would. Holy crap. Yeah. Um or are
59:42
they all electric? Do they do they know like like Roombas to go like pull back
59:47
into a parking spot so they can keep charging and then keep going or like how
59:51
was it Tesla talking about like wireless charging pads that but like but are they
59:56
going to have to program intelligence for them to like go home for a while and
60:00
charge? Um sounds fairly simple actually. It wouldn't be that bad but
60:03
like that would be really interesting to drive by like the little the little nest
60:07
of cars that provide all the Uber transactions for the city. Is this going
60:11
to become cheaper for a lot of people if there's electric driverless cars that
60:17
you just call on your phone and are there extremely fast than owning a
60:21
vehicle for sprawling cities like Vancouver like they're like where just
60:24
it's just this like suburban sprawl because there's already go-karts. I can
60:29
see this legitimately eliminating the need for people to own at least own two
60:34
cars. Like maybe they only need one now and they really like legitimately needed
60:37
two because they commute this way and that way. Yeah, he's talking about like
60:41
families. Yeah. Yeah. Not individuals needing to own two cars. The biggest
60:45
first world problem ever. Yeah. It's like, oh, which one should I drive
60:48
today? I mean, this one like looks cooler, but this one's more utilitarian.
60:51
I'm not sure. Yeah, I know. He's talking about like families that have to go different directions. Um, speaking of
60:56
going different directions, I'm going a different direction. I'm going backwards in terms of topics. What if your bank
61:02
account went below your limit while you were like in the checkout on like a porn
61:07
site and your hand was like occupied?
61:11
This is EP Pete's asking about what if you get a shock while you're kind of,
61:14
you know, busy. Well, then it's worse. Well, then it's worse. I guess you just
61:18
got to deal with it. So, you probably shouldn't be spending your last Yeah,
61:21
you should then be more aware, right, of what your current bank account is
61:25
through like watching like a a live cam or something like that and you're just
61:28
kind of throwing money at it, then you should be more aware. And you should probably be shocked. That's your fault.
61:32
Okay. Yes. Okay. Entirely. If you want to throw money at it, you
61:36
need to set yourself a limit. Yeah. And play within the limit. That's how
61:40
gambling works. That's like financial tips. Yeah. Yeah. Just the tips.
61:44
Exactly. Um unless they want more. Let's
61:47
see. Oh, this is horrible. Um, a
61:51
California dad accidentally
61:54
uh live streamed child's birth from the delivery room. Um, the mom says, "I was
62:00
okay. I was just focused on pushing. It's a beautiful thing. Nothing to be
62:03
ashamed of." Good response. I've had two kids. Um, I don't agree with that. I
62:08
don't agree with that either, but I have you accidentally live stream. I agree
62:12
that it was the right right response.
62:15
Um, you know, given this given the
62:19
circumstances, how do you again, how do you accidentally live stream? The video
62:22
was shown through Facebook Live has now been viewed over 300,000 times. Um, and
62:28
to be clear, guys, we're talking about this news topic. We are not recommending
62:32
that you go, you know, I would recommend that you don't. I would recommend that
62:35
you not because, you know, it's one of those things where for the 12-year-olds
62:39
in the audience, it might sound pretty cool. It's not. Nope. It's not like kind
62:44
of gross even. Yeah, it's not. Um, I
62:47
don't want a kid. Let's see. Let's see what else we uh
62:50
Let's see what else we got. Oh, yeah. This sucks. Uh, so I knew about this
62:54
already. This happened a while ago actually, but Oculus DRM kills the hack
62:58
that ports games to competing headsets. Um, they had already figured this out
63:02
when I was trying to play Ly's Tale on the Vive, which I believe I should have
63:06
every right to do. I have already paid for an Oculus Rift. They just haven't
63:11
shipped it to me. So, why can't I play Ly's Tail on my Vive anyway? Anyway, I
63:16
wish they just had it exclusive to the store, not exclusive to the headset. Uh,
63:20
I Yeah. No, I I understand their
63:23
perspective, but I also fully understand my perspective. I shouldn't have to play
63:28
on the headset I don't want to play on if I legitimately own the game. Even if
63:32
it's a game you can only get by buying a Rift. To be fair, if you owned both, the
63:37
uh setup use case of Ly's Tail would play better on a Rift, right? But I just
63:42
want to play it. I know. And if you don't own both, then that's better. The
63:45
reason why I say that is just because the Rift is more comfortable and lighter and it's just a seated experience
63:49
anyways, so it's better for that. So, they had it they had tweaked it so that
63:53
when I tried to do the hack, uh, your controller wouldn't work. So, maybe now
63:58
it's even more uh has been patched up.
64:01
Really good feeling that someone's going to beat that because if they're just making it so that your controller
64:05
doesn't work, I got to imagine someone's just going to make a thing that tricks
64:09
it into thinking that it's a different controller, you know? I gotta imagine
64:13
that in the world of like dorky dorks who code dorky things for other dorks
64:18
and don't have money. That's always the best combination. Yeah, VR is going to
64:22
be like a thing for uh for for hacks. Um
64:27
speaking of being a thing, Nokia wasn't a thing for phones for a bit there.
64:31
They're returning to mobile with Android phones and tablets. I was just thinking,
64:35
you know what, we don't have enough makers of Android phones and tablets.
64:40
Yeah, when I read this I was like, "Wow, I don't care." So, yeah, I guess we're
64:44
in the same boat. So, Microsoft is offloading Nokia's old phone business to
64:48
Foxcon subsidiary and a company called HMD Global Oi for 350 million. It's
64:52
probably more than it's worth. Um, Nokia has revealed that HMD is also acquiring
64:57
rights to use the Nokia name on smartphones and tablets for the next 10 years. Headmounted display. No, no, no,
65:02
no, not headmounted H. Anyway, um, so
65:06
there you go. Nokia's involvement in the new devices will be very limited. So
65:12
basically it'll be Chinese smartphones and tablets with Nokia name on them.
65:18
Sure stuff. So there was one more topic that I wanted to hit before we close out
65:22
the show today and I Oh crap. I forget
65:27
where it went. Where did it go? What are you looking for? Where did it go? Oh no.
65:32
Oh yeah. No, I guess that was it. I just wanted to um Yeah, I just wanted to show
65:38
nerd sports. So, it's really funny. Um there was an
65:43
issue with our network connection. Last time I tried to show you guys a teaser
65:48
from a Nerd Sports episode that made it look like Vessel didn't work because the
65:52
timing was perfect. Um so, that's not actually what happened. So, this is my
65:59
followup to that where I wanted to show you guys some clips from the hockey
66:03
episode of Nerd Sport. So, all five episodes are out now and vessels
66:07
available at the link under the WAN Show uh for with a free oneweek trial. So,
66:11
you can actually check them all out and then decide if the early access is worth it for you or not. Um, so if you're like
66:17
Nerd Sports is behind a payw wall,
66:20
I mean, just if you can watch five episodes in a week.
66:25
Yeah, these guys were they were mostly nice except when they celebrated after
66:29
knocking over Dennis. Yeah. Is that was
66:33
that you trying to help him out? Yeah. Yeah.
66:37
I I couldn't skate either. A bunch of people have sent me things being like,
66:40
"I thought you'd be better at hockey." I'm actually pretty good at ball hockey.
66:45
I went like, "Uh, you're better than Colton. I went like
66:50
skate." Oh no, Colton.
66:56
So, this is them skating around in hula hoops. So, for those of you who don't
67:00
really get the whole nerd sports concept, we almost got that one. That
67:03
was you passing to me, I think. Oh, that was actually pretty good. That looked
67:07
not bad. I screwed up the shot. I remember I apologized to you about this
67:10
like so many times. You Oh, no. Oh, we
67:14
both almost got it. There was a few times that we did that, but I screwed
67:18
up. Oh. Oh, wow. So, at that point in the video, they're actually playing with
67:23
little plastic hockey sticks, skating with hula hoops, and I think they're
67:27
holding pineapples or something like that. So, the idea behind Nerd Sports is
67:31
that is not just that nerds go up against real athletes, but that we
67:36
actually try to level the playing field. Yeah. Um, as creatively as as we can and
67:41
uh sometimes we have to go pretty hardcore in order to get them to uh to
67:47
be competitive with us. that sequence like if if you ignore the fact that
67:50
those guys didn't have sticks and couldn't skate because they had hula
67:54
hoops around each of their skates looked pretty good. Like that looked like a legit like cool scoring chance. Yeah. I
67:59
like Yeah. To to reiterate my hockey thing, I played a lot of ball hockey.
68:03
Played on like a national level. It was great. Could never afford to play ice
68:07
hockey. Ice hockey is like easily one of the most expensive of that type of
68:12
sports. Um like the gear is extremely
68:15
expensive. Like American football, you
68:18
get your gear from your club and then you give it back at the end of the year.
68:22
Ice hockey is not that way. You buy all of your own gear and it's extremely
68:27
expensive. Could not afford it as a kid. Never was into ice hockey.
68:31
Not very good. I knew like where I should be and what I should be doing and
68:37
was just not really able to do it because of the skates, which was so
68:40
frustrating. So my the extent of my hockey experience
68:46
is watching it on TV. Yeah. And I uh I
68:51
had played ice hockey at like a company event about I was still in university.
68:57
So this was must have been about 10 years ago. Um for about 20 30 minutes
69:02
and I had never I had I I had done a lot
69:05
of like I'm pretty good on rollerblades um inline skates, excuse me. I used to
69:11
be. Yeah. like I I am pretty fast. I'm pretty stable. I'm I'm pretty good on
69:15
rollerblades. And I had done a lot of like skating around on the concrete slab
69:19
at home with the orange ball and the hockey stick. And the way that that slab
69:25
was set up, um there were no walls anywhere. So if I missed the net, I had
69:29
to go hike. Um so I I'm like an okay
69:32
shot with a ball. So like I I know the wrist action. Yeah, it's different. Um,
69:37
but the extent of my ice hockey experience was like that 20 30 minutes
69:40
at like that company thing. And the extent of my ice skating experience is
69:44
probably less than 10 hours on ice, including all my elementary school trips
69:48
to the rink. Yep. I wouldn't be surprised if I was similar. So, we did
69:51
our best, but uh it was not good. Um,
69:55
and then the last thing, the thing that Nick was bugging me about is that he
69:58
wants me to do a call out for the foil shirts like the ones that I am wearing
70:03
right now. Those are limited edition shirts. I'm going to go ahead and post those in the Twitch chat here. Boom.
70:07
There's the silver one. And uh here's the gold one. The gold one. Actually,
70:11
the consensus around the office seems to be that the gold one looks better. So,
70:14
maybe check out that gold one. That's the second link I just put up if you want uh a limited edition foil shirt.
70:20
Not this at all, but the idea of what I'm doing that ties into this. Can I
70:24
call that out? Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh I'm doing a charity stream starting afterparty,
70:29
but not but it's Oh, it's not starting tonight. So, I'm going to be doing an
70:33
afterparty tonight for sure. Um, which is going to be setting the whole
70:36
afterparty thing is going to be working on like DOSBox and like setting up a
70:40
whole bunch of stuff because I'm doing a charity stream starting tomorrow,
70:43
Saturday, at noon PST, which is going to
70:46
be I think like 27 plus hours long, which is ridiculous. I'm starting in
70:50
1990 and you better be conscious when you come in on Monday. Yeah, it's the
70:55
reason why I'm starting at noon is so that I have enough time to sleep for
70:59
like 12 hours or something before I have to come to work. Um, yeah. No, it's it's
71:03
okay. It's it's planned out. Um, so I'm going to be doing a different game every
71:08
hour, starting with a game from 1990 and iterating the year every time. So the
71:11
first hour will be Super Mario World from 1990. The second hour will be
71:15
Civilization 1 from 1991. And then I think it goes like Wolfenstein 3D Doom
71:21
and like progresses all the way through and there's a bunch of different games
71:24
throughout the way. It's not like what was the best game from that year. It's
71:27
what was the most like influential game on me. So there's a bunch of Elder
71:30
Scrolls, there's Halo 1 and two, there's like some some series stuff like that.
71:36
But yeah, I think it'll be a lot of fun. And it's going to be a giant charity stream for Extra Life. So come on by.
71:41
Should be fun. All right. I uh posted a link to Luke's channel in the uh in the
71:46
chat there. So guys, check that out if you're into that sort of thing. Got
71:49
people asking you to play Total Annihilation. I still need to teach you Supreme Commander so we can play
71:53
sometime. It's such a good game. I think there's still like an underground like
71:58
group that maintains uh rankings and servers and stuff like that. That's
72:02
awesome. You know, a game was really good when that happens. It was just too
72:06
cult. It's too niche. Yeah. All right. So, good night, guys. Thank you for
72:10
tuning in to the Wshell. We'll see you again
72:13
next week. Same bat time, same bat channel. Bye.