Standardizing Global Power

What is up everybody and welcome to the WAM Sh. We have a great show lined up for you guys this week. The big launch was of course, the steam machine, the ge cube, the Overpiced gaming console. callall it whatever you want Already having spent only Four additional days with it since we published our review I love it Probably three times more than I did when I first evaluated it. And I'm going to talk about why and it has nothing to do with gaming I'm going somewhere with this. Can that be topic one? There will also be In other news, Oh wit, it's actually the o, that's cool. In other news That's cool. Microsoft's June update fixed two hundred and eight security flaws while also introducing a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions. and that ties into why I am loving the steam machine so very, very much right now. What else we got this week, mister La Fignere? China's Ministry of State Security accuses spy turtles and spy fish of stealing sensitive marine d. kicked that. But if you want a more serious topic, his happiness around the steam machine might be able to come to you without buying it soon You can too, you too can run the steam Oh my goodness. You too can run Steamless on your own hardware. The show is brought to you today by AMD, Red Tiger and Shocks, along with our rap partner D brand, our laptop partner Razor and our chair partner who is also Razor. Let's jump right into our headline topic. Let's do the quick sort of rundown of the what want I'm so curious about your steam machine comments Yeah, that's the headline topic. Okaykay. You're literally slowing down me talking about the headline topic.. You're behaving like someone who instead of getting into the headline topic is going go and draw everyone's attention to the fact that it's Lime day with the freshest deals of the year.ray. You can shop Lime day now. There's combo deals, like loaded up backpack bundles we've got Commuter bundles with gift cards. We've got the screwdriver plus stubby screwdriver bundle for ninety nine USD. We've got deals on cable management arches, our new map of Siberia desk pad, other desk pads. All you gott to do is head over to LtTstore dot coma It's a great week to send a calm, a checkout message, We've got end of season clearance on a bunch of apparel Lttstore. com slash collection slash lieash day, head over there and send a checkout message. It'll go to producer Dan. Yp, we're doing it that early and he will curate it or he'll put it up on screen or he'll respond to it himself, usually in his fantastic snarky way. Anyway, what I actually wna talk about right now is the steam machine. Let's get through kind of bones of what happened this week for anyone who lives under a freaking block of comput Black cubic rock. Yeah That' exactly where I was going. We got the wavelength. We got the wavelength on today. I'm not sick anymore. And then I want to talk about why I love the steam machine so much more today than I did even just a few days ago All right Valve Engineer. Okay, this week, Valve launched the steam machine It's got six AMD cores, it's got about a seven thousand six hundred ish class GPU. It's got sixteen gigs of RAM, an eight gig GPU. It's got five hundred twelve gigs or two terabytes of storage, and it landed at a whopping one thousand fifty US dollars starting price, which A lot of wind O of the internet excitements sales because a modestly specked veryer small, compact That's why it gaming machine is fine As long as it doesn't cost more than a thousand US dollars and unfortunately, it Did Valve engineer Yazan Alddeat told Eurogamer that the steam machine price is significantly more than they planned. And we all know what that is because of, he added that while Valve was aware of component market trends, he didn't think anybody really expected or predicted the extent to which they were going to go up and are still going up In a Steam Machine FAQ from before the PC cononsole Hybrids price announcement, Valve said, The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping and pricing schedule. So we've known for a while that they were going to have to adapt the price Valve has not disclosed exactly what the price was expected to be, but what they did say is that And this came from Lawrence Yang. What they did say was that the increases to the steam deck were a good point of reference. for the price that Valve would have been considering for this before the price increases. You know what's kind of funny about this is that If not, for the industry going completely whack a doodle crazy on RAM and storage pricing I wouldn't have had to eat this I would have nailed it. Did you qualify it at all I did. So what I said was seven hundred dollars. I haven't watched about. sixars ninety nine cents. Yeah. Could be another hundred if things go crazy. And I think what people are estimating based on the steam deeck price increases is that it would have been around seven hundred fifty. So I would have been like I was right in there. I was bookeending what would have been the price of the steam machine. But what I said in the video was if I'm off by more than a hundred dollars My team and I will eat. Cake. I was not I don't think I was in that Beacause I think you were saying that with wasn't wereere' you hosting that video with David? David's on vacation H A are we gonna to like rush the set with LMG This is so much cake. I mean, I didn't say we'd eat the whole cake. Okay. You can have just a small piece, Dan, would you like a piece? I don't know what the quote was. I haven't I have the quote here actually. let's see here U Where's the white candle in the middle? The steam machine costs more than seven hundred dollars. I will eat a whole portal cake on Wand. That is not the quote Is it? Is it really? Let me just take it Can you play it shot? Can you play it takey rains shot? so ittll freeze first screenhot. that doesn't Where you from That's an Inagram post thing. I don't know. Sammys screenshot. Oh. Sammy is not a credible source of information. say in the video. Yeah, there's no way I said that in the video. I will eat an entire steam machine on camera. We all know that's not it Oh man What I will do though is I will eat an entire Dang segment of steam of steam of of portal cake. So this is a real type of Like portal cake is a type of cake, right? What is theack forest Black forest cake? Black forest cake. Dan, would you like the piece? Yeah, let me just throw this code up first. All right I will We gotta get the clip. You're putting the clip up, right? We're just listening to the clip. I don't know if I got sent clip ass was a. Does Full point headit chot have a timestamp for it Luke, how big of a piece would you like? Not not big. Okay M. Okay, that works. Here's a baby. I'll take that. I'll eat that. H's ay That I will accept. Baby dainty lady size piece. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you I am a dainty lady. Well, yeah, I brutalized it. so So your piece looks like that. My cake is alive. Yeah. Dan's cake, on the other hand, is full truth. I will come grab it in a second. I got you. I got you, Dan. I'll just don't have to get up the machine Okay, Mike, you's so clunky with it. I understand it survived. but it feels disrespectful or something. I don't know. bothers me Are you eating too, Sammy Sammy wants cake. Sammy wants c All right, Samy, you can cut your own cake because I gotta kind of get on with the show a little bit. I to get a show. Get on in here. Okay, I think Yeah, O of course Noki found it. That makes sense. Did you get that link then? Okay. Yeah, just waiting for the ads? Brilliant. All right. so in the meantime, Well, we know we at least have to eat some amount of cake. Okay. So we could just kick off with that while he gets his. Yeah we're gonna start eating cake. But what else is going on here? I still don't Okay, right. I know, I wanted to talk about pricing a little bit more. Yeah. Even though I have to eat portal cake. Do you need to keep reading the topic Unlike no, no, it's okay.. Unlike some folks, I'm actually not upset with Valve about the pricing because I think realistically what Valve is doing is they're just ' they're coming into this product launch without any pre negotiated supply So while it seems like They're out ahead of the schedule of price increases of someone like a Sony or someone like a Microsoft who by the way, just increased their pricing again this week. So that's one hundred US dollars additional for five twelve gig models, one hundred fifty on one terabyte models, and they are sunsetting the two terabyte model outright , honestly, I could see that. that makes sense. I could see that. But what all of that tells us is that Microsoft is able to put off these price increases because they've already been in mass production for years on this thing. So might have bought a year ahead of time or something. Xboxes quarter or whatever. Any Xbxes that are all going to be an increase. so they could either launch it at at nine seventy nine, knowing that they were going to have to go up to ten fifty or you know, maybe even beyond later, or they can make their best guess as to where we're going and then try to blend it as best they can. And I think that they were put in a really difficult position. Launching a product right now is kind of a nightmare. Brutal yeah We obviously launching almost any kind of product is a nightmare right now with the hormus and everything else going on. And then you also add on top of it, anything that includes any compute components, especially RAM. It's just like, oh my God Battery bank might be impacted Yeah I'm not surpris Because we're seeing like, I think it was like eight month lead times on some of the ICs. Yeah. Just because all the fab time is just for AI stuff. Well, aren't even like just plastics going up? It like almost everything is going up by a little bit because transport costs are going up. everythingverything's going up. blah, blah, blah blah blah. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing I can't blame Valvevabat. Oh no, dad. After some backlash about steam machine performance Valve has quietly changed. the pages CPU and GPU description from four K gaming at sixty FPS to to four K gaming whichich I think is a lot more reasonable and honestly, Valve should have known to should have known to do that right out of the game after the deck. Maybe if you make that mistake with the deck Sure, but Games are just too varied. I'm one hundred percent certain it will play some game at four K sixty. Sure. if don't starve together at four K. Yeah Yeah. no four K one hundred twenty. Let's go Barrow twenty twenty that's a deep cut. That'll that'll do it. U, But yeah, not everything. Not everything and especially and and and not even like you know An that's really, really recent. not at reasonable settings. It's just it's not it's not feasible. Like yes, I could I could render at an internal resolution of three hundred twenty p could upscale it and rub vaseline all over my screen. But like come on, let let's be real. And that's maybe fine. It's just not what was technically claimed at the beginning ep. Do we have that clip ready? Should we jump shouldhould we jump to that The the YouTube clip? Yeah Yeah, it's got it linked there at the top of the top. Do want me to play it for If you want loop As no audio? Yeahes Yeah I'm not a fair okay? Don't worry about that Two unsckpppable ads. Oh my goodness. YouTube, though preremium is rough man. We definitely have some thoughts on the current state of YouTube later in the show. By more than sixty US dollars I will eat an entire portal cake on the Wanh. What is a portal cake? You don't remember the cake is a lie? An entire cake And it's true this time. Okay. well Because I counted on you guys to help with the work You are gonna to help me eat it Gladly. We win as a team and we die as a team here I think that's going to Someone was taken out of context Okay, so I definitely said that you for sure said a whole cake. We as a team would eat it. Yeah. me. Dan, who else is still in the office ' we're going to need some more help eating this cake. We' a half hour Can you please can you please put out a out a coake go everyone that I can. Yeah That would be great Okay, anyways The cake will be eaten. We will finish consuming the entire cake. All right And while we work on finding some people to help us consume cake I would like to talk about why The steam machine is Yeah, why are you more positive on it? I'm I'm I Do we have a cake? Get on get on in here, Nicole. You got to cut it yourself. Yeah You got to cut a piece and then grab grab some cake. Yeah. This is the cake station. Yeah. All right Um How was my nickname in high school, by the way? The cake station wasasn't wasasn't at all. It is now. All right So in the hubub of hitting the review embargo for the steam machine Yeah Like I was you know, like I It landed in office. And there's so much price disappointment And we basically we dropped everything. Yeah. We had like an all writer hands meeting. Makes sense. We talked through, okay, what's our content, roadmap for this? whoo's working on this? who's working on that? Because we had we had something along the lines of like eight days to execute all the shorts and all the long form videos that we wanted to get done, including editing, which, by the way, massive shout out to Nicole and her team for getting all that done. Yeah, ARP Our pipeline is not like written, where once it's written it's written It's done. No from there, you know, Glen, who also showed up for cake, Glen and his team, they have to shoot, it goes to the editors, it goes back to the writing team and then to me for a review, and then we finally post it. there's a lot of steps, right And so in all of the like running around from this set to that set and reviewing this script and and experiencing, he had hands on here, I didn't really get a chance to like Take a deep breath. and just use it Labs is giving me FPS numbers and I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, that looks about right. And yes, I agree the experience it doesn't live up to four K sixty. But I didn't really get to like Jest Experience it And that changed on I guess it was I guess it was Tuesday After the review was up and then we had you know any lingering things we still needed to quickly test that were done. And it was finally handed to me and I went, you know what I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to use only the steam machine as my computer for like some period A week, two weeks, a month. I'm not sure. I'm going to start and I'm going to see how it goes. and then we can always change the title of the video. according to how long I end up using it. So you're doing a form of Linux I switched Kind of, But its but it didn't blow up immediately. But But it's not Lin it is good And let me explain that What I thought Valve was making with the steam machine was a competitor to the PlayStation fiveive. In fact, the vast majority of what Valve communicates. that they think that they are making is a competitor to the PlayStation five. Sure But whether it was on purpose or by accident What Valve created instead was the best competitor that I've ever seen to the Mac minini Think about it for a second Who else has done it The semic custom silicon from AMD. The own operating system. their own hardware design Valve is as a PC maker, The most integrated PC manufacturer outside of Apple They control the whole ecosystem. I guess because the custom ilican because there's a number of brand System seventy six included that sell computers that have their own their own operating system on it. but the custom siliconure. The moment You boot up a steam machine You are having The valve curated experience. Yeah in a way that is simply not true any other flavor of Linux or any other Windows desktop They have one person in mind in the creation of this machine and that is the customer Only Apple does it like that And I just kind of, and so I booted it up and I went, okay, yeah, forget big picture because I'm not actually gaming right now. I'm using it for work. Is that why you're haouling around with you? Yeah. you're like almost like laptoping. Not almost Yeah. So you're like hotel desking it everywhere you go And And from the moment I fired it up and said goodbye, Steam Big picture mode and started using it as a desktop, I went This is what I've been waiting for the whole time. That's so interesting to me. Okay, so why?? Okay, Okaykay, this is going to sound a little bit crazy. Okay 've to be clear, I didn't I've never owned a steam deck. Yeah. I've never actually really used Steam OS How is it any different? It's the little things. Okay, o. I fired up my settings. Okay, so first of all, there' I forget which desktop environment they're using. SteamlS, DTE, whichich one are they using? U How wouldn't the Microsoft sururface also come out under that category? Did the surface have custom silicone? You know what no It had exclusive silicon for a while in partnership of Qualcom But I can't think of a time when it had custom silicon. so sorry, uses KD pllasma. So so you jump right so you jump right into the desktop and it's immediately very familiar to like a Windows user You've got your You've got your not start menu it's in the cup You're going h You've got your not startart menu down in the bottom left, You've got your system tray in the bottom right. You've got everything works kind of the way that you'd expect Um Acept Just You know, better. So jumping into my display settings, for instance. Sure. On Windows. Your display settings are a mess They' just yeah, I will Um The fact that this still looks like this In the yearar of our Lord twenty twenty six is insane. He want to do anything with it, cllick advance. Here's a gigantic thing Okay. Here is some realistically kind of advanced settings to do with multiple display management, which I suspect that the majority of computers, remember, a lot of them are laptops, don't even have this So we don't even care about this a lot of the time We got our we got our brightness, night lightight color profile HDR. I have to go all the way down here To find resolution and scale. Scale is something I'm very likely to be touching the first time I open this. I have to click advanced to get to refreshate. To get to refreshate. Are you in? Commonly, incorrectly set up setting Are you insane that I have to go into a sub menu to access that? I'm surprised Windows doesn't att least notify you at this point that it's set low. It's wild. It's kind of like how when you look at the at like the best buuy product tag for a laptop GPU is still not on there on some of them it is But on a lot of them. It's not on there. It's like, my God, thats that's the first thing I want to know R? They've the gu it's crazy. and the SSD will still be under HDD, you know,. HDD, cololon? What kind of SSD? Like it's wild I just had to shop now it's fine. I just had to shop for a laptop recently and I was like blown away that GPU is still not on a lot of them Um So to Kia Plasma, just everything is on one screen I don't even have to scroll. It's all above the fold I can change my I can change I can rotate ninety degrees or one hundred and eighty degrees. I can do everything I need to do. it's Plasa's really good. There's is great that I haven't installed yet. I'll probably do it tomorrow that I'm actually pretty excited about It's fun. That's one of the really big things is whenever my My distro updates, I get really excited Andever Windows updates, I'm like, o And we'll honestly, we'll talk with that more in the show. But like I don't think that's just Me being hypocritical, it feels real Um And again, this is another KDE thing. So they use the KDE Discover software center for their for their like app store. Um Unlike previous Linux experiences that I've had, Every app that I've searched for has come up with meaningful options that I might actually want that are just curated for me. Everything about the Steam OS experience so far, it boots up So fast It sleeps and wakes without without flaw It shuts down so fast, which matters to me a lot more than it would to most people because like you said, I'm hoteling this thing around with me. I'm like carrying it around in my back, Which is not an average experience, but is a pretty cool one But it's working kind of viable Totally v. It's not that big It is So much more responsive feeling No unnecessary animation craft. Oh, this one. This one's been driving me nuts. Which if you want the unnecessary animation craft Probably at it. Yeah. It's Linux, so like Okay, okay, check this out. This has been driving me insane. Samsung recently pushed an update to one UI that does this Do see Do you see how it does a little wiggle on? The two above and below, the one that I'm dragging. Yeah. Okay, can you guys see this little wiggle Oops, it's gone. Yeah, it still works. Yeah. I can see it. You guys see the little wiggle? Distracting Distracting and annoying, I went, okay, well, that's fine realistically. I can just go into my accessibility options and I can turn it off U hereere we go. Animations. Okaykay, reduce animations. No problem. I'll just do that Check this out Now it does this. Hm It does a wiggle with a stutter. That's horrible Hold on, I forgot to switch to Linus Cam That's so bad Why Who is asking for this? and, more importantly If I say turn it off It means turn it the fuck off What are we even doing here Um The steam machine just feels Like a well Fought out experience more than More than and I've used KDE before More than Katie E bolted to some other distro does. Sorry, I'm not laughing because of that I'm laughing because it's more than Windows, which is just hilarious. I just it's man, it's kind of sad. And so I gotta find the humor in it. And so as much as I'm disappointed in the gaming performance of the Steam machine And as much as I don't love the price I recognizeed that Valve didn't really have a choice on the price, that the cost is what the cost is. I mean, Microsoft themselves acknowledged that certain key components of the Xbox have gone up, I think they said four x in price and probably probably more since then because that was a little while ago U So there are things about it that would still give me pause to recommend it to someone, especially as like a four K gaming console But when it comes to The desktop computer experience, especially now that Apple actually just increased prices this week as well, the Mac Mini is now a hundred dollars more than it used to be. Still a fair ways off the steam machine, Let them cook. Even Apple's not immune to the supply chain disruptions alsoso take some cake. Eat the food, Tina. Take the cake Nice, Nice, Vance. You don'tan to take the whole. Yeah, good. Okay. He's're gonna to eat it. time, pleaselease, Vance. Grab a fork. Have a good weekend No in the there you go right. Okay, cake has been eaten. As a computer distributed. As a computer, I love it. And if there was a steam book I would be talking to you to go to the in for team And I would be seriously like LMG on SteamMOS. Is there any reason other than maybe editors Is there any reason that the company could just be running st at this point to be completely honest? Yeah, yeah. Other than editors, is there any reason that we couldn't just be running steam DMOS I've been very bullish on SteamOS since Valve first announced the Steam Deck, because to me What Linux was missing was a clear vision, a focused Vision for what the user experience should be, what a smooth user experience could be And that's what Valve has done with a lot of help With a ton of help But that I think the pricing is just so unfortunate because it has distracted from what is otherwise such a complete package here Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED Tal I think that's all I have to say about that I, um I wish more people would get a chance to try it. And I hope that I'm not being too optimistic here, but I think pricing goes down Valve will be responsive to that. and I think that Maybe it maybe in a year Maybe in a year and a half, maybe more This should be more accessible to more people wood Can we skip to a future topic? Do you want to talk about the whole SteamOS? Yeah. likeike thing. Yeah. the next perfect soon you can run Steam O that What No you were right Dan was wrong. U soon you can run Steam OS on your own hardware. Valve has stated that starting with Steam OS's three point eight release, you can put together your own Steam machine using whatever PC parts you want. The first non beta release of SteamOS three point eight released just last week with patch notes including improved compatibility with recent Intel andMD platforms and greatly improved video memory management on discrete GPU platforms, which is I believe the key thing that they needed. During an interview with the Verge Valves Pierre Lou G Bye. Bfe. Close enough. Sorry. Stated that Valve has been growing has a growing team collaborating very closely with NIidDia for driver support in SteamMOS as well. He mentioned Nvidia support might not come this year but emphasize that it's being worked on While these are great improvements, the installation process is still geared towards a fresh install on a new drive and not installing beside an existing OS on a separate partition U which makeakes sense. So what? So is Windows. So is all of them. Macal as sure as heck is. Yeah. Discussion question, if Steam OS was in a state where it would have fully supported your hardware at the beginning of the Linux challenge Would you have chosen it for any of your devices? Are there machines you would install it on now No question, yes Really, interesting. That's so interesting to me. I don't think I would have changed anything, but only because honestly I hadn't used it And the zeitgeist was around cashy And I had recently been using Arch and cash's based on Arch. I know Steam OS is as well There's a maybe on the desktop, but I probably still would have gone cashy and laptop I'm pretty happy with Mint. I'm a mainstream normy little bit Based on your description. Yeah, it almost sounds like I would rather adopt it on My laptop 'ause you're talking about things just working in like ease of the approach of the maybe it's in everything install. I don't know. I think if I could have, I would have just put SteamMOS on everything. But the reason I couldn't was because no Nvidia supports. Sorry, you gonna try now W 'use you have a seven thousand nine hundred XTX in one of your systems, right? I do. a Dcrete MD card. My daily driver has a seven thousand nine hundred. Are you gonna try Um What I said at the end of the Linux challenge was true. I think I want to try a cut down Windows install first Okay. But the good news is I got time because Valve's not ready yet The collaboration with NVIidia is just ramping up, it seems. and You know, if I have from now until, if I give Microsoft six months And then Valvin NIidia come through like early next year on proper NVIidia driver support and steam. thenen I think that's a that's a perfect timeline that gives Microsoft a shot And then if they Whether they succeed or fail, I am going to want to give Daily driving SteamMOS a fair crack here And the coolest thing about bringing NVidDA into this partnership is you look at what they're doing with the RTX spark Look at the influence that NVIidia has on the gaming industry. If there's anyone that can get Linux taken seriously. It is probably then It's NvidDia Like name another company. that has their hooks into almost quite literally every game developer on the planet AJ in Full plane chat. this is like LMG, Full plane, AJ said I'm thinking of adding a GPU to my NAS and running a SteamOS VM for my TV ' pretty cool. It's pretty cool actually. That's cool. It was to AJ to come up with a cool. I was literally at the words out of my mouth. So ye he came up with one I sent it to Linus. I don't want to spoil it, but AJ came up with an idea that is aking sick. And if we do it, I'm pretty excited. but Commander Queen here says, if you need Linux pre inststalled, you really shouldn't be using Linux. But see, that's one of the reasons that I think SteamOS is so important because pre installed Linux here by the way. is fine as long as somebody is making sure that you know, a bunch of dependencies don't go out of date or someone is making sure that the latest kernel is working fine with the hardware that you're using or whatever it is. That's exactly where Steam OS comes in is because if you're running that hardware that they expect You are having that curated experience, You are getting those updates on a reasonable cadence Someone else is doing the busy workk for you So you can enjoy everything that's good about Linux and just be a user of Linux rather than a tinkkerer with Linux. And that is one hundred percent the experience I'm having so far Yeah and you can enjoy both or you can go for more a more like open up to you Um Distro or desktop environment or whatever on the Linux side choice. But yeah, that's that's, I think where the answer kind of lies is like There There are ways to approach Linux where yeah, you should I mean you should probably know how to install it There's also ways to approach Linux where're like you don't need to at all. I remember way back in the day, I had my mom running. I think you said it was a Bntu Probably Yeah on like a netbook justust 'cause it was like so cheap. Like three gigs of RAM or whatever. So it was the only thing that would run on it. And the netbook was so dirt cheap that if you added a Windows license, it would like double the cost. So like it just it didn't make any sense. And it was fine because what she needed was a browser and effectively Libra office So like my mom is familiar with Libra for whatever reason. just because that like series of events that happened. And it was completely fine. It wasn't really a problem because Ubntu was Um She wouldn't have installed it Atdos says, Linus, you said you shouldn't buy a pre built custom water cooling PC if you can't build one yourself due to maintenance. And I agree. sort of the same as Linux Except that I just explained why it's not the same thing This is Linux The fact that I that I can't install it doesn't mean that I can't run it, right It came pre installed on my phone. It's Linux based That's That's like the whole point. is that If you are rolling something kind of custom, something kind of cutting edge, U then yeah, that what you're saying is true But if you are running a curated Linux in the same way that if you're running a a custom water cooled PC where the technician checks in on it every few months to, you know, make sure all the seals are good. matance on it. Yeah, exactly. This is like running Linux with a maintenance contract, someomebody else is going to make sure that it's always working That's why it's different. U Hey. I really wonder what sorry I just thinking. I really wonder what the experience is like. I want to spend some time with SteamOS because it is arch based. So like it should actually be you should be capable of doing a lot of damage if you poke around under the hood, I think. I mean, it'smutable though So like, it should keep you doing too much stuper stimulus? Yeahah eresting It should be pretty hard to break it too badly. I mean I'm pretty good at it. Okay, so yeah I could probably do it. I don't think I would want to run that on my desktop then because I like the tinkering aspect So I'm not dogging on it's just I've enjoyed that part of it. Again, that brings me back to like, it might even seem weird But that might make it more I'm quite happy with mint. I have no desire to change. But if I was starting again from Fresh, that might make it more interesting for my laptop where I honestly don't want tona tinker at all. Yeah But I have been really enjoying running Linux on there because I swear everything you just said, it boots up really fast. It shuts down really fast. It goes to sleep perfectly fine. The updates are lightweight. It doesn't bother me at all. There isn't a ton of unnecessary stuff. I can just get into things really quickly. Like I am It has finally passed that test If I kept trying to run Linux for work years and I kept going back to Windows because it was in my way more than Windows was. And at this point, not even because Linux or Windows has gotten so much worse, which it has. Linux has gotten so much better that it's actually just very efficient And I am more productive running a lightweight, easy to use Distro on my laptop then any Windows install Very interesting to me And I don't think about it ever I never think about the fact that I'm Like, oh, I'm using Linux on my laptop. I just it just never comes up Meanwhile, on the window side of things On june ninth, Microsoft released the largest hatch Tuesday update in the entire program's twenty three year history, fixing two hundred eight security vulnerabilities, including thirty eight that were rated critical and three publicly disclosed zero days. Very good, very good, very good Since then,astic That same update has created bugs on every supported version of Windows, not just Windows eleven Bg include Recycle bin file nameame issues. When the confirmation dialog to permanently delete a file shows up, it displays the file's internal storage identifier, something like dollar sign, R four F seven A two C, instead of the human readable file nameame Nice Note that the list view still shows the correct name and the restored files come back unchanged, but the delete prompt is functionally useless for confirming what it is exactly that you're about to nuke Microsoft formally blamed that one on a security hardening change that closed a twenty three year old unchecked buffer vulnerability in the windowshell's desktop. INi processor The fix for that isn't expected until july fourteenth And the bug effects Windows eleven versions, twenty three H two through twenty six H one, Windows ten, twenty two H two, and every LTSC and LTSB version And Also Windows sererver from twenty twelve through twenty twenty five. There's also bitlcker lockouts on enterprise hardware Corporate devices are rebooting straight into the bititlocker recovery screen after installing the update One administratative reported pushing the update to three hundred machines overnight and forty two failed to boot by morning This is impacting mostly HP ellite book eight hundred forty G ten s, a bunch of other elite books and some select dell precision laptops The cause of this one is that the update's new secure boot certificate data changes the trusted platform module's boot environment measurements enough, so that Bitlocker treats the boot as potentially tampered with and demands the forty eight digit recovery key Oh, that's so annoying On HP entnerprise units that shipped with a one hundred megabyte EFI system partition the certificate refresh doesn't fit and errors out Microsoft's AI support tool told affected administrators who didn't have recovery keys that the only available resolution is a full OS wipe and Windows reinstalled, which means losing all locally stored data on the device Meanwhile, other issues that Microsoft hasn't formally acknowledged yet One drive seems to be broken on corporate PCs, the shortcut and file Explorers sidebar still appears, but it can't be used to access the files System freezes within five minutes of boot on some Windows eleven machines. In some cases, the freeze hits so fast users can't reach settings to uninstall the update. Over one hundred fifty blue screen of death reports in forty eight hours, including a DPC watchdog violation boot loop, where the system crashes during startup, reboots, and then crashes again in a cycle, broken word and Excel automation, and third party line of business apps, EG, commercial dental software, like Dentrics and soft Dent because of a change in how Windows Hs off C calls to office There's no confirmed link between the use of AI for development and this Catastrophe of bugs, but users on Reddit and Twitter are pointing to Sata Nandela's disclosure that roughly thirty percent of Microsoft's code is AI generated as a potential cause for these quality concerns H to not acknowledge that Really, isn't it? Sounds like you might hit the nail on the head there a little bit. Way to go, users on Reddit. You did it this time. Yeah, yeah, we did it. Yeah Mbe yeah. You foundound the culprit wasn't there a hold on. wasn't there a discussion question and stuff on there? Now we're shrinking it too fast. Did any LMG systems get impacted by this? notot as far as I know. I haven't seen anything. Yeah,s why that's why I collapsed it. Yeah. Overall, I just think it's I just think it's funny. What a refreshing experience I've had this week running SteamOS while also reading about the absolute hell that people are going through Windows right. I'm so happy that happens to you. Be I felt kind of insane this whole time being like, it's just working. Oh just like Linux. Yeah. I don't know what to tell you. it's just fine. It know My favorite is the short circuit where I have that laptop with Linux pre inststalled and I just I like install steam or something and then I go to reboot it and the entire the entire OS is corrupted. like I mean, and you saw the one with Wade's Dank pods machine I did nothing Since seen the laptop on, you told me to watch it and I saw it, yeah. I did nothing. You saw me. I did did nothing. He had hadn't he been running that fine for like months or so? The Bades machine. Yeah. Yeah. o yeah. Yeah. That was like his daily driver install. I did nothing to it So I'm just happy that it's happened once. at least we got one. Thank goodness. Yeah magical little box dude. You know what, even during Linux Challenge, like the things that worked well didn't always work Perfectly well. Sure. Like it's probably down to the media teech WiFi chips set that I was using in my weird Stictx Halo laptop, but I couldn't connect to some access points Where is this so far connect next to everything because Somebody made sure it would. You know, And so it's it's it's little things like that Somebody did QA on this hardware running that software.. And that's something that no Linux Distro can do unless They are, I mean, I hate to use systemy seventy six as an example here because technically they do that But like Pop OS was a dumpster fire when I went to use it. It not for anything to do with hardware software integration. I think some of I don't know a lot about like Distro development and stuff like that Also known as Effectively nothing. but I'm assuming they have like beta programs and stuff where sure, but there's a hardware varience. Literally an infinite number of hardware combinations. When you're talking about your striicts haloachine that's That's a super weird dart.'s a nichan. Yeah, exactly. The chance that you'd land on that is pretty low. And that's not that's that's not their fault. A lot of them are volunteers. Yeah Yeah. right. Yeah. So you can't you can't blame them for that. No, no, no. Whereas now somebody is being paid to make sure that the software runs on this and that it worksool as I'm. And the drivers work cor. I'm sure there's upstream benefits so exciting. A hundred percent. I it's just good for That's one of the reasons why I was so excited about the steam machine Um is just more Linuox attention will hopefully mean that things will get more better. and more like big companies behind it likeike Valve releasing hardware that runs on this stuff should result in more corporate money coming in and helping upstream benefits, it's based on arts, blah, blah U somebody brought up somebody brought up Red Hat, but yeah, Tyler two thousand three says, Red Hat question mark question, question. Yes, they they're paid, but they don't have hardware So even even then, like it's not It's not like they have a lot of sample machines and stuff. I'm sure they do. Yeah But it's not quite the same thing It's also not every distro. we're talking one distro's not super commonly used by exact random consumers. All right., Dan, that still just says headline topic. Are you okay over there Are you getting buried under Cbs? No, you were like halfway through one and I didn't want you to think that you had to move on to the next one. Oh, I see no, no, no, you're kid We use that as a what we should do next. Yeah. yeah, we we need that. moreore topics I can't be right. We've done like four All right, well now's a good time to do our creator warehouse. I put them up. they don't listen. I take them down, they do I don't know anymore Hey Wait He's not gonna listen to the cards now is he? No't, I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing Did you want to pull up the story and then I'll talk about sure. Okay. first up this week is the Net Nudes collollection, which is not what it sounds like It kind of is I mean, yeah, networking noodles. Yeah. Yeah. well, well yeah, but it's not everything that it sounds like. How ke is that design? What were you thinking? you got to zoom in more. You got to zoom in more. Look what's in there Keep going Keep going, keep going, keep going Keep going. You don't think they can see it? I think Yeahah, you can see it. too I can't go. You can't do that with fiber. Yeahah, the fiber optic can't do that. Well don't worry about it. That's bad. The The net noodles collection is inspired. the fiber By the cables it like that. By the cable spaghetti behind your desk and comes in both a t shirt and a hoodie with a ramen takeout inspired design. It's printed on our classic lightweight polyblelend tea, while the hoodie uses our classic one hundred percent cotton blank Both feature a mix of regular and puff print details to really bring the design to life The Net Nudes design hits a little too close to home. might be time to upgrade your setup. Good timing too, because our trrue spec cable lineup is fully restocked with plenty of lengths and connector options there they are and they are Flipping, moving. So if you want to make sure that you get the length that you need, then now is a really great time to put in an order. This is the first time I've seen genuinely all of them in stock I know And maybe ever. I know I're not even kidding. This is our first like big mass shipment since we launched. Do you know why they're back in stock becausecause we got a big shipment. Beause you push the big red button on the table Wait, really Oh That was the restock button. We had lost it Oh, I don't know. I'm just making up La. What? I thought he was being No, I thought you were serious. That is what the button was supposed to be for. It's like, a, restock. I don't know why? There's no batteries. There's no batteries in it.'t I didn't set it actually I'm not part of our social. S show you how easily we can be gaslit by Dad. No, ' no, no, no what this No becausecause Dave did tell me something about that He wanted me to like press the button live on. The cables are back in me stock. And then the cables will be back in stock. But then the fact that I pressed it early doesn't matter because there's no, it's not connected to anything. It's wireless Check out the Net Nudes collection at LMG. gG slash net Nudes with a Z and head to lMG. gG slash True spec to get some of our True spec cables. In other news, I'm going over to your laptop, Lime day is still going strong, but not for much longer. Don't miss out on deals like our loaded backpack bundles Our magnetic cable management bundles, we have up to thirty percent off select apparel and more. The sale ends Monday at eleven AM Pacific Time. If you're shopping with us for the first time, by the way, You will also get a ten dollar coupon towards a future purchase of fifty dollars or more. So head over to Ltstore. com before Lime day wraps up We have a daily deal today on the US site, we have old stock of the Precision Pro driver and a bit kit Today only nineteen dollars ninety nine cents each, so that's forty bucks for the combo of the Precision Pro driver and the bitset. And on the worldwide site, we have the Precision Pro kit, which is the driver and the bit kit for thirty ninellars ny cents so the same price. But it's like a combo instead of being individual These are't clickable. you more on the right There Right. All right, we got there Nice These have been It's pretty good. V popular. Yeah There there's some pretty good some pretty good lime day deals. There's a big, this is funny. Gotta love lumpy inventory. So that's explaining why it's a combo here and why they're individual here, because we have separate warehouses.ve had a lot of people ask us over the years, whyy don't you have a warehouse in this region? And why don't you have one in that region because we have a lot of SKUs and we're actually relatively speaking, a small company. and it creates a lot of logistical challenges when you're trying to perfectly balance your stock across all your different distribution centers and then run your promos according to that so that it's not confusing. So I don't have to stand here for like five minutes and explain why we have you know, three meter, one and a half meter and one meter cables on this site and Qestion. Yes, if you had Say you had ten thousand backpacks in the US and you had two in Canada And you wanted to have way more in Canada. That's your global hub because you're like, why are we out there? And we have so many down there paid shipping obviously you're have toay shipping again to try to get it up to the other hub. So that sucks, but that's just built in. There's nothing you newew about that. Luckily, it's hopefully not that far, but it's still going to suck. pretty far. You paid duties and taxes and tariffs and other funed things To get it into the states. Sure did. Do you now have to pay more? Sure do to get out to Canada and you don't get your American ones back to U. And if for whatever reason, I ever have to send those Canadian ones back to the states, guess what? I get to get. Oh my God. Okaykay. these are genuine questions. There's a bit more nuance to it than that. Maybe get some of it back or something. But in general, it is cost prohibitive do stock balancing like that. unless it is a very large quantity, such that you're taking advantage of economies of scale for importing.. And it's funny that you used backpacks as an example becausecause we actually had pretty much that exact situation. Reack pack. The commuter one. So we vastly overestimated how many we were going to sell in the US We stocked up bigly in the lead up to the implementation of tariffs because it was way cheaper to import them directly into the U S rather than brring them into our main hub and then transfer them And because the U S. market softened a fair bit because Whatever the headlines say about inflation and consumer sentiment down there. I can tell you from sort of a a company that has a lot of discretionary purchases and talks to other people who sell a lot of discretionary items that Things are soft Yeah. US US sales are soft. And part of that All sales are soft, aren't they?art Not as not as much. Not as much as US. Chatting with Chatting with folks at Computex, like like global brands Europe is still holding pretty strong. Um The US is apparently pretty rough right now for consumer electronics brands. I shouldn't say consumer electronics, I should say, more like IT, IT electronics, computer accessories brands. compputers and computer accessories ScrappyTP says flaccid Yeah, I'd say I'd say Faccid is a pretty good descriptor. It's still, it's still there. And it'll it'll it'll grow, it'll grow again, but at the moment it's a little spongy and and tired. It might need Maybe to S some excitement, some ome motivation to achieving en Gorgement. Yeah. S seems pretty good. An Any more on the store? I do think that shipping over one hundred twenty five bucks do we mentioned that Did it be not? I don't know, mayaybe You probably did Okay, I did not mention that. Anyway,im Lime day, go check it out. now's as good a time to get a deal as there will be for a while. We had a we had a long chat M and the creator warehouse leadership team. and we have determined that we've been doing too many promos That's not to say that, you know, we won't still offer deals sometimes, but It was getting to the point where there was like always a deal on. and I think that's It's not good for It's not good for maintaining the value of your brand and maintaining the margins that allow you to continue to grow in scale and operate. So you can expect to see us ll Probably do Lime day on an ongoing basis. We'll still do Black Friday. Yeah That makes sense. Basically everybody does You know, there's some seasonal deals. like that is a thing. But beyond that, I think what you're going to see is you're gonna to see us be a little bit more responsible with the size of our buys rather than over buy then and then promo. Well, and there was a lot of weird stuff. like the teriff frenzy was a very confusing time and you don't know how much to order. you don't know how much people are going to buy and sometimes you're trying to get that inventory down and stuff. Like things were a little crazy. I think I can because I did notice we were doing a lot of stuff too, but that's, you know, the world was kind of still is a little on fire. You know, maybe people are gonna do some stuff sometimes. It's okay. Dude, it's been I feel like the last few years, like five years, six years, like basically since COVID, I've just kind of I found myself kind of going, okay, but like, When is just the business as usual For just a while. Is anyone else feeling that way? Yeah, yeah, for sure. You know, like to be clear I want to be I want to make this abundantly clear. I'm doing okay We're doing okay. We're we're fighting through it. Our team's doing okay. likeike we're okay. Yeah But like, yeah, how about just like six months sixix days. as usual, you know? Yeah. That for sure. Like you know like I feel Yeah, you know. Like the Canadian dollar is at like a five year low right now or something like that. Like it's just like it's always something, you know I was talking to a buddy from Venezuela I don't know on what would that have been Fourteen months low, excuse me, sorry any. Sunday Yeah, I think Th thenen I heard the news of all the earthquakes and I was just like, Oh my go. he's just telling me like things are going really well for him like bl blah blah blah. And then it's just like, oh yeah, like one of my friends is just missing happ Oh What do we what do we do man? Yeah, you know, condolences, but Um, It's it's yeah, yeah. a few days even would be pretty good. Six months would be great. I just I'm not saying no to six months. I feel like if I asked for a whole year That's being greedy I'm not asking for a year. I that's greedy. I be greedy. I think six months. Six months would be so. I feel like a lot of good could happen in six months. I think I could be fully reset and just ready to go hard again. Yeah And to be clear, I'm not even asking for time off. I'll come to work. Yeah. I just want it to not be a catastrophe. like I don't want fires to put out. Yeah. How about we just how about we have some time to work on fire prevention Fire prevention strategies. Speaking of whichitch comp. Do you see littens on fire again Really? O like, I don't know if like since like this is a week ago news, but like, yeah, Lyitton Cor littin N not as bad as last time, apparently Out of control six days ago, but three days ago says one home destroyed, which really is not as bad as last time Apparently lightning two days ago was was found to be the The reason for it anyway. No Luck Litton rescinded all evacuation alerts and evacuation alerts. Good to he Hey, one evacuation order that we cannot rescind is that we need to evacuate, expecting the WAN show to stream anywhere other than we created a new channel So we heard you. did it. re it. You do not want and the stream on the same channel. Yeah. So we're giving that a shot. I'm not promising that it'll stay this way forever because if viewership on the WN show is not sustainable, having this WN show dedicated channel we might have to go back putting it on clips But for now Guys, subscribe Yeah. Ring the bell, get over there. We w to do what you're asking if YouTube algorithmically allows us to make that sustainable, so it's just WN Show YT? Yeah. Go over, suubbscribe if you want notifications for WNhow. and then And then LG Clips is back basically. Whoops, that was a type of well, it figured it. Is it stained Is staying LG clips I think it's staying LMG clips. What's really funny they might have to change that. I think they might enjoy some inside baseball. There' some people on the internet U I guess noticed that the LG Clips channel was kind of like flipping like WN show s LMG clips, Wan showow, LG clips and then maybe it flipped some more times. I don't know We were basically equally as confused. So you know, sometimes things just happen and we' gott to figure it out I think this is just medium sized company stuff. hundred percent. I mean one hundred percent. That's why I like knowing Well intentioned actions by multiple people all at once are sometimes confusing. Knowing the people who are working on this, everyone's like doing their best and it's You know, they're competent, smart people. And they had good reasons. And they had good reasons. and I think it's just it's one of those things where The longer I run a company, the more I look at the seemingly incomprehensible stuff that corporate entities do And I just kind of go, yeah, that was probably just like Jeff in accounting didn't talk to Joe in procurement. and U and Kate Kate from, you know logistics was on vacation and like You know, Harold got called out early because his kid was sick at school. like realistically, that's probably there's probably no conspiracy theory. That's probably what happened. Douman' gonna human. Now and then sometimes there is. When we're talking about like the long term roadmaps of like, you know, can consume consume all the water. No it isn't a human right. L obviously that's, you know, evil top level decision making. but in terms of just the day to day shenanigans, I'm getting more and more forgiving of it as time goes on because I just see so much been here Again, from like good people who are doing their best. And This wasn't even a big deal to be clear. I was just saying it it was it was kind of funny. Like I saw it happen I was just like, huh Yeah there was something that I had wanted to Oh that works out Speaking of YouTube and its algorithmms, you actually want to insert one more thing about those channels. Wisdom there was a there was a oh What When you can talk about the channel No, we'll do that real quick and then we'll do comps.. I have to them first. Okay. we'll get this. we'come back There was a thought that maybe LMG cllips because you don't seem to be able to do it with live streams, but LMG Clips could U Cab upload Yes or something to try to help share. So we're probably gonna to try that maybe. We're definitely gonna to try some stuff because give us some feedback on how it goes. Moving it to a brand new channel and then just like hoping the Almighty algorithm blesses us is a bit of a long shot. Yeah. Especially when you look at the way that YouTube prioritizes the limited real estate that they have these days, Dan. you want to see some shorts? Can you fire up? You want to see some shorts, kid? I was having a particularly cranky Night. U Honestly, not even for any particular reason. In fact, things were going really good, or I shouldn't say night, this was sorry, day. Things were going really good. This was right in the wake of the launch of our Steam machine review. That was a top performer out of our last ten. Bang It did three plus million views is which is great. Our channel in our business would be sustainable forever with that kind of yourship on every video. We could M, that would be like like expansion, growth all the things. let's go. You know, everything's good What I was struck by was how big the swing is these days. Like it used to be that you had kind of a performance band for your videos. There was a ceiling and there was a floor. YouTube wasn't going to promote it any more than this, but they also wouldn't promote it any less than this. Nowadays There's no ceiling. You can do megab banger views if you happen to be the hottest thing on the platform at the moment, but there's also no floor could You can be the biggest channel and you can upload something that doesn't resonate and you could like just get no views. Um, not not literally, but But the band is much wider. And I was like I was looking at this video and how this was performing and I was U you know, I was partly just frustrated because I was like, man, it shows that our team still just knows how to crush it Like, we still got our Mojo I just need It's hardware manufacturers. So for the love of all that is good, give me something that people are excited about, please because when we've got it Mand did we ever execute on this? We were the number one and two for shorts in terms of video performance, we were number one And three, I want to say for long form. And then that might have actually changed to one and two across LTT in short circuit. And as I was going through and I was poking around and like, hey, you know, how are our videos performing compared to the broader internet I searched, as you can see, I searched for Steam machine. on YouTube And I was greeted by This to make it look. So for you guys, I'm looking at a TV over here that actually shows graphic that you guys are seeing on it. But when I look like this, it looks like I'm looking away from it. It kind of looks like Lawrence is looking at it. For me to look at it, I'd have to stare at the wall. Anyways Yeah, so so this is my my search result for Steam machine One to Three, four shorts And that screen is just short. My entire screen above the fold before I actually click and scroll. Dan, can you scroll me another screen here? We're trying to be friendlier to audio only listeners. I get a show more button As soon as I scroll down I get, which is more shorts. I get two long form videos. I get my own. I get one from Valoldemort. And then going below that, I get two more shorts. I scroll again, I get two more fucking shorts And then I get a showinger button. L like to note as well, if you go up to the long form, there's no show more. There's no show more. So the only show mores that you can do if you it's a screenshot, we can't check, but that show more button would just show shorts. Is that correct? Yeah, it wouldn't show long for. Is that crazy or what? Remember when search used to at least give you meaningful headers Like U you know, more for this result or it would tell you content creators you might enjoy. You know, like it would it would give you search results that weren't relevant to your search result, but at least it would tell you what the fuck they were Whereas now What even is this They're some short with four hundred views instead of more actual relevant steam machine content that's actually got any traction here. that's a steam machine. It is, but where's the where's the the hot Steam machine content. Why is that Above the Vverges thing. Okay necessarily I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. I don't necessarily mind that they try to like I think the YouTube allgum has always been really good at lifting up Where's my long form being lifted? not I agree. that I agree. Why do I have a short that's got like four hundred views Instead of a long form video that probably has more depth to it, like is there any wonder? Like, know, o you can take this down. get it out of my sight. You know, is there any wonder? you know, YouTube will make comments to me like, oh yeah, you know, for long form content, TV is really where the growth is. Yeah, you fucking think so. Maybe because on mobile, you're not even presenting me with the option. Is there a way to forcibly load that no, it's a TV app. It's not a TV website Be I would be really interested to see like a side by side of the experience of using desktop versus using a phone versus using TV. Sure. Because desktop still does show long form, just also shows a screen now. a lot of shows a lot of shorts. So here's here's the top of mine. this is just whatever account I have for we search for Linus tech tips U I guess so That's a search for LT I don't think I don't think it's entered. Oh okay. I was gonna say you got ad when show ad Yeah. Okay, no those aren't ads. o, never mind. Not an ad. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it looked like. I had like two car things and then I okay, yeah I noticice this account gets some like some old bangers. Like I remember this from eleven years ago. They all do. they all get old bangers. I get weird less on my main account. I got a legendary legendary poll. let me let me look this up. Left ear Here it is This came up Oh yeah. I had that a few few mons ago. This came up on my feet yesterday. Absolute the closet. I was like, what the heck are you talking about? There's no way and that I brought it up and it's amazing actually. Can we just play that on the the restci of the way? Definitely not. I don't think so But oh my God, I was proud of my algorithm when it pulled me that. And I was like, yeah, all right I'm doing pretty good. solid. yeah So yeah, basically so I was in a cranky mood about the amount of shorts content that was on here, whichich is very understandable. And I still don't run the YouTube app at all. I sent my rep an email I probably shouldn't have sent. I was basically just like Can y'all at least pretend that you care about long for No, I said I said, at least can YouTube at least pretend that Long form matters Brutal screen grab, not a single long form above the fold. Come on guys Yeah, I mean, I think it's fair. But I don't think Yeahah, I don't out a line here. The soul of what YouTube is And like I know we've talked about this for a long time. and I do understand that they're in a tough spot because When you look at like, you know, we know because we've talked about a WanN show before that they stopped publishing their like new user numbers a long time ago because they effectively like saturated the planet. which is Hilarious I thought And crazy. goodood job. Yeah. So now they're not even going for new users. They're going for like total attention time. and every business, especially at that scale is going to have some type of a metric that they have to fight for. and there seems to be timeim on platform, which is effectively when you distill it down to a creator basis, It's watch time on videos Um attention. They're competing for attention. and there's a lot of attention going towards Instagram and TikTok and all these other platforms that are running shorts. But again, I feel like, yeah, sure it's video But you're kind of rotting the soul of what YouTube is because a lot of shorts are junk And there are it all. And a lot of long form is junk. But I think the like percentage of long form that is junk way lower than the percentage of shorts that are junk I not comparable Well part of it is just the way that shorts are presented is it encourages Infinite scroll junk behavior. Itc Yeah, exactly. And it's like It's a widely accepted thing that shorts are like basically bad for you. And YouTube was not seen that way. ever And they're really getting dangerously close to brushing with that type of recentation. I think so which is not good, man I agree. I mean, I told you, I think I told you this, right? Last time I was at Creator suummit, I would tell any executive who would listen, don't lose your soul. Yeah Don't lose the identity of YouTube. Don't be TikTok. Don't be Reels. Be YouTube Because you have outlasted everyone. you outlasted vine. you outlasted. There a reason why the like dream job of all the kids was YouTuber, not content creator Like there's actually a reason Come on Yeaham Hurts hurts hurts my mind now. everything Speaking of everything hurting What do you want to do for your fortih Cums Let's get the calms done first. Let's do c. I just threw that in. It was like a throw away and he just grabsed I had to take the seg. Heust grabs that Just like all the people on LGT store grabbing some products. Hi, DLL, Luke Did you catch any of the Day nine AK Paul Mango's recent AOE two streamer Tourney I didn't even know this was happening. I don't really watch streams like ever Those were words in sequence ice Linus, how are the recertified drives from server part deals holding up. Good for parts deals. Good. I had a couple that T of the bath tub curve kind of conked out pretty early on, but Server Part Steals was they were on it and then everything's been really, really good since then. I don't hit them super hard, the ones at home But They're spinning And that's all you can ask Rus to do. I'll add one thing for that previous one. If he ends uploading any of it as vauds on his YouTube channel, I will likely watch it. I still check in with Dan Night's YouTube channel every once in a while I don't know why I typed inv Vod, here it is Nice It's 'cause you're a boomer. Yeah, probably Boom, Elimination round versus atriarch My worlds are colliding. Oh my gosh, I guess I'll check that out All right I used to watched day nine back in the day. Yeah, dude, episode one hundred. I had my parents watch it so they could understand who I was I kidding. and they liked it Nope. Imagine sharing interest. Day nine episode one hundred. Well my parents are based, but day nine daily episode one hundred is like actually really legendary If you're like a kid who cares about games and your parents don'tcessily understand It might work And number two Hello when sixty four d.l. W, look we got an upgrade Having recently met so many fellow creators, if you want to talk about that, didid anything interesting come up that you've been chewing on Oh. Um Man, yeah, I have actually N or like not even necessarily met, but like got to catch up with a lot of creators lately. I had the There was the Mr. Beast Coab, which have I even talked about on Wanhow yet? I dont I talked about shooting the fifty YouTube Legends challenge thing remember it No. No Noki says no No, you have not. I believe him. That's crazy So that was incredible. I got to I it was Even if I hadn't shot a video and even if I hadn't had an opportunity to win a million dollars to share with all of you guys, Um I think I would have done it anyway. It was so cool to get to connect with Um Some people I knew, you know, I ended up hanging out with Marquez a fair bit, but also, you know, meet some people that I never knew, people who were foundational to the growth of the platform in the early days. likeike I got to chat with Fred Yeah, like that Fred. That's interesting. Harley from Epic Mealime was This is what this is what I find is just So so cool about YouTubers and and I don't even want I don't even want to like lump myself in with them right now because' I'm talking about I'm talking about other people right now, but in general I found that these are not people who asked for fame went looking for it A lot of the time it really happened accidentally. Especially the people who got into it early on. but a lot of people early on YouTube were just playing around. They were justver they just wanted to make videos for whatever reason. And some of them ended up, you know making a lot of money and you know, enjoying financial or business success or whatever else. They were but they were just normal people When they got into it, they weren' like they weren't groomed for it from a very young age to like get into show business. They didn't think of a meta when uploading videos They were just uploading. Think of the algorithm or retention charts or anything like that And and so it was it was cool. and Harley was such a such a great example of this because he was just a super real dude teacher or something if I remember correctly. He just he kind to go back into the old knowledge. He was so down to earth and so funny And so honest Um he's like He was basically just like, I'm probably the most I'm probably the most unk wasashed up fallen off one here. Like you're hilarious man. Look, I'm not creeping anybody's numbers. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna deny orckn I'm not gonna what's the The opposite of deny, I'm not gonna whatever the thing admit. Sure. I'm not gonna to say you're right or wrong about that. Confirm. Thank you. There we go. But you're hilarious for saying it. So yeah, it was great. I got to hang out with like Nico from Corridor a little bit Man, you don't o, there were Okay, okay, this is interesting. This actually ties in really great. Someone in chat I forgot to copy their username unfortunately, but they said it's a bit hypocritical that you upload shorts when you clearly know they're bad for people. I don't think every short has to be bad for people We actually did a really fun short at the event. that I don't think is I don't think is bad for people at all. It's not it's not designed to be bad for anyone We went around and we talked to A bunch of YouTube legends and we asked for their tech hot takes And we got some really interesting ones. It's worth going and checking out. Is this Serays the least you could do YouTube is at least play the shorts. that you're gonna to like put all up in front of me Um Yeah, dude, just The atmosphere at this place was so cool because even the ones that I You know, didn't know well. Like I don't know if Casey and I had ever actually met. I don't think you have. But we Like We have a lot of shared experiences anyway Because you're doing this same game for so long You did daily up I have two, bro. He did daily uploads for years. He did daily uploads for I think years? I think so, yeah. So like there's a lot of the pace and the constant nature of it and stuff. like it's Yeah, so we actually hung out a fair bit. There's so many storylines that got cut, even just the ones that I experienced personally that got cut from the main edit. and I understand like you can't upload a four hour video to the Mr. Beast channel or whatever. I feel like this video could have been an entire season of content though. But like in the third in the third round Um when when we did the Mannequin Challenge. I feel the video's been up a couple weeks now. Expoiler alert. In the third round when we did the mannequin challenge Um We kind of divided into two teams becausecause you had to find the real people that were not mannequins. outside of the cube that we had to stay in And I got like kind of my fifteen people and we were kind of a team and then the rest, they kind of teamed up. so it ended up Half of people were going to advance. So even though Jimmy didn't say form two teams We like totally did because you had to monitor in three hundred and sixty degrees all of these mannequins that were like. in frozen poses And you had to try to find the real humans. And we figured by working together, we could find them a lot faster and then enter the data onto our iPads. So Casey was on the team with like me and Marquez, a couple of the beauty creators Um, And We all like got into our corner and we're like keying everything in people from the other team just saw that we were ahead. and came over and just kind of like Mingled and entered them before him And I felt so bad when he had to walk out I was so I was so unhappy because it wasn't technically divided teams. So did like in an input speed win. Yep And and in that competition it's fair game. It's fair game, but Yeah, like p, rip Casey, I'm so sorry. So just like all kinds of those sorts of things, you know, didn't make it into the edit, but it was a lot of fun just hanging out with those folks. had some really good chats. Epic gardening is so cool He is just like So smart That was at Creator suummit. That wasn't at the the Mr. Beast Cab thing. I met him in an event to definitely He's on it Yeah I oh, sorry, I guess I wasn't really done with the Mrter Beast thing. Yeah, it was it was it was a completely different scale of production than anything that I think I've ever been involved in How dead are we out of ten And you're good. Okay, cool. It was a production on a completely different scale than anything that I've ever been part of, let alone leaded. and I don't think I aspire to it at all If anything, I think what I took away from it is that I would like to do smaller productions. Oh I see what you mean I didn't realize you meant Aspire to like B style productions. I thought you meant because you're talking mostly about the other creators that were there. It is an unsurprising takeaw away for me that you were much more interested in like meeting the other creators than production as much as we fond about the production when we were on the Tent show Yeah. well, that's a different. That was like Oh, I know but it's related. It sort of. So Valon had like the glitz and glamour of the Hollywood sparkle. on it Whereas what Jimmy is doing is like It's Big But in like in a very YouTuber way It's totally different And I don't I don't think I aspire to either of them. If anything, the video that I had the most fun creating in probably the last six months, is Probably this one. No, this is just sh. Yeah way to go No, you're so s Lus. I clicked the channel icon and it went to the live stream. This current Wb show! It was this one Oh, it's a roundup at. Oh yeah. Can you believe this is legal again? No, I can't actually. That's a whole thing. but anythingthing is legal with enough lobbying and money He said, I was close. I you I still st you under the ground. I started down the path and then bailed. I turned around and ran. U unskippable lads. I'm dying. Here we go. This was probably the most fun that I' had making a video in like a solid six months It was right up there was like shopping for a PC at Costco with David, just like hanging out, just doing stuff. I I got to just Work in a computer shop for a whole day, just like helping customers, building systems. I built a sick W cooled system Let me see if I can find it That turned out great for like I never got to see the payoff of this for like a one day build while I was That sweet Also working on other systems and troubleshooting stuff and helping customers I had to do a little bit of customization to make all that hardware fit in there. It was look how tight this fitting is. hold on. I should let's go back My boss gave me gave me an A for the quality of my work, which That's a Taiwanese A Yeah, that's a tough A. Okay. That's not like some t Some Nambi Pamby North American A. Yeah Yeah, I think it looks freaking awesome. Hold on. I'm trying to get that I'm trying to get that spot where you can see how tight that fitting is. These fans are cool by the way. It's like one frame And it has like three fans in it.'s pretty neat. Okaykay, well, whatever. we missed it. The point is go watch the video. If anything, sounds less reusable. Doing that video made me wanna resurrect the idea of like littleittle teech shop of horrors again where like our entire production actually just becomes based out of like a computer shop. We just get a computer shop and like There's no reason that we couldn't review a steam machine in the backroom of the computer shop. L we could still do reviews and stuff like that But I would actually love it if a lot more of our content actually revolved around customer systems customer problems Sorry, I'm just thinking on that idea. Just be Be all real, you know Yeah Be like the coolest retirement but not retired plan You know, you think the first? Maybe two months Itt be really weird because you have a bunch of people coming in with like troll systems and weird junk and then people would get Bored and then it would probably to start feel better and more normal and what you're kind of going for. But I suspect there will be a little bit ofing growing pains as people try to troll you at the beginning. Troll systems you say like this one. Wait, what? Did you actually put that on a customer PC? No, they put it on it Did they know you were there? We did tweet that I was gonna be there and they like rushed, set up their system like this and then just brought it in to get like some cable management done. Sure. Just so that I would see it. Yeah And you know what, honestly? I think I'm with scrappy DP on this one. I don't know that the trolling would be a problem. I think it'd be okay ure Be there would be real systems as well. And we can always decide what does or doesn't end up in the video. R Like that's where we get to make editorial decisions. Yeah, it kind of works that you're making money in a different way off of it because I worry somewhat that this is, you know making a tech review website in current year again where we're going into a field that is very progressed along the path of death Oh momom and pop tech shop. Yeah Yeah. they're like all gone. I mean, okay, here here. This actually kind of ties into what also Beltrx said Mother Fucker is forty and talking about retirement. That's why I said retired not retirement. Like it it's like how Pewdiepie's retired retired? He's posting gu's God forging the video sponsors on his likeg Itloads all the time, what are we even talking? It's like cares about certain metrics and stuff Sure, But' still working.'s And he's still releasing bangers. He's working. He's working. He's got sponsorships. There's no retirement when you're still taking like dedicated video sponsors. What do you mean Your goals and things might change. But you can retire from what you used to do. I mean, it's the same way that, you know, like, okay, Trevor Lindon is a local hockey player who played for the Kanux He retired Yeah, from hockey and now he runs like fitness gyms. He's still he's still doing stuff, obviously So that's that's what I mean. I mean like retiring from The like What we do is like review hardware And just I feel like I feel like running a tech shop would be the answer to so many questions You know, whyy did you build that system customer needs it. I feel think it might end up almost like clerks though. Why did you you spend a lot? Would I die at the end? No Soiler alert. No, you kind of spend a lot of time sitting around talking about whatever, because I don't think there's gonna be that much work. It's why they're all closing Um, I think I think that with our maybe there's room for like a high end shop. With our brand and with our reach, I think there is I think we could be like a boutique builder because we could build systems to ship as well So I see no reason why once we've got a tech shop, we couldn't also just be an SI Tell me why not. Let's stack on more industries that are struggling right now. Let's see how many we can throw into one buck. Hey, what's Warren Buffett say? When others are scared, be greedy, When others are greedy, be prudent, careful or something. So go into every industry that's actively dying right now. Hold on Warren. PC Repair and Gaming Bar Aiming bars in Canada or at least BC are U A lot of them have been forced to shut down Here it is, the famous Warren Buffet, quote freak the fuck out and panic seell everything right now. It's fucking over. No that's Yeah. definitely that wasn't him., for sure. No it was That's what he said. You can't lie on the internet. Exactly. Yeah, ye. spacearch st doing O misattribute quotes and make Linus eat an entire cake on the Wan show. Okay, so here's what he said. Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. I think I think we could I think we could survive Wha. Oh yeah, how is that going? I've been wondering Almost a little bit below where it started Okay So some people capitalized on the IPO and then some people are holding the bag for the time being time and then more stocks are going to release fromr all the people that haven't been able to sell them yet, and then that's going to keep happening over the course of the next few months, and we'll see what goes down. Listen Well I in a in a sane and logical world You are so right Yeah, who knows? That's why I'm saying, I'm not saying it's going to go down. In an everything's a casino world? Who knows Maybe This ain't financial advice, Els andGs Let's just put it that way I mean, would you take financial advice from someone who's talking about starting a mom and pop tech shop in twenty twenty six and an SI in a opponent shortage. Yeah and a new SI in a component ch it doesn't have necessarily preree existing deals anything? L Do you think, okay, tell me this? Do you think that LTT SI would do things like source secondhand components to build affordable computers Bed it would that kind of cool DDR four Machines RS. We'll put that right up on the sign. And it'll be really awkward when we're on DDR eight But the sign would still be there because you're a mom and pop tech shop. Yeah, I could just change the number. Get itll put it on top. across it out would Master chief from Halo two there or something. Yeah Hathos says, how would you warranty second hand stuff? the same way that anybody warranties secondhand stuff. You just have a limited time period for it And you eat it when it dies And then you just build that into your margin. I mean, it's the same way that I was going through the launch collateral for the it looks like we've got the branding for our socks. can I wearing them today? Oh man, Kate, w, bro, I need socks so bad, but I've been holding a., I'm not gonna be able to help you with that. If you need socks so bad, I got none of those I got socks so good. Okay, when are the socks so good coming Really soon. Okay. We unfortunately were not ready in time for Lime Day. We wanted to be Bridget actually messaged me right before the show and made my entire day U Just wanted to let you know they pass testing and inspection and are approved to ship. haveave a great vacation, she says. That's awesome. I sent her a grand total of six hearts. Met my day, Bridget, than you. That's great.' excited to see them. I think this is extremely not unique of me, but I swear, I just have a constant attrition rate of socks I don't know where the heck they go I will never understand And again, I't think this is unique. I he jokes about this from everybody all the time, but it' There's a monster thats veryy confusing to me. Dude, my law sock pile in my house is like this volume Almost none of them are mine. It's all my children and Yvan, Yvanne, she's one of the worst. I do the laundry in my house. so like And I'm on it. like I'm on the Lost sock boox. Like I will go like once a month, I will go through it and I will make make mates out of things don know I don't know how they do it. How do you lose your socks? They're attached to your fucking feet I can never explain it And it's weird to me because I'll go on like a trip And I'll lose no socks on the trip, which is when you more expect to lose socks And then I'll come home. and a few months will go by and I'll be staying at home I don't take my socks off when I'm not at home Where are the socks going They hate you No idea. They hit you in I bought like a bunch a while ago. Yeah. None of them have like open or anything. None of them have been thrown away because of damage. Yeah Probably like half of them are gone since I did that like huge haul. Yeah So it looks like our branding for our socks is going to be the forever sock Asterisk N forever U but we are going to be putting our limited lifetime warranty on them because we have achieved what I thought was impossible and made a very Durable. Breathable cushioned antimicrobial sock that I'm really, really proud of the quality of U and apparently we're apparently it's approved for shipping. so o, the timeline is Women sizes I don't remember. It like one size? No, no wor. Okay. Linus you caught me wearing a test pair the other week, didn't you? I think I did How do you like him? Dam It's a game. Yeah Cool they I was talking to Tatiana about it, and I'm like, I'm holding them and looking at them and I'm like, whyy am I always surprised? You think I would have learned by now. And then we had a really nice chat. She gushed about it for like six hours. That's all these socks. I love when people care that about stuff. It reminded me what I was fighting for here, you know, day in and day out. It's like it's so infectious of just I'm excited. caring about stuff is cool. I actually said just about exactly that to Tatiana the other day Okay, what I say to her? And Floopplane should be excited about the feet cam when we launch. Oh no, I told her this was this wasn't what We're not doing that. are they? Oh we are? I don't know the different names. Are they are they like tall or So their' full crew Okay, so that's why I don't know theames. Yeah does that mean? Full crew means like kind of up the up the calf Okay. We'll look at a half crew and maybe an ankle later, depending on how these do, but just again, programmer. You going to do it prorogrammmer sock. Everybody's been asking for a programmer sock So in terms of the colorways, Which as I think what you're referring. No thigh No programmer socks are thigh highs Thigh highigh. Oh, donon't worry about it. Don't worry. Probably not. It'd be like a hundred dollars. Don'tow that material. Don't worry about it. Okay Anyway anyyway Um you would se you would sell so many. I'm not kidding I'm not You hate money, donon't get shut. seeee Okay. This is like, you should do tall shirts and then you're always sold out It would surpass screwdriver. I do not know about that any That's hyper. I think I was talking to Tatiana. It may have been someone else because I can't find it. But basically I said something along the lines of like, It means so much to me that I can take my hands off the wheel And no that somebody cares as much as I do about something being awesome. Yeah. And she's a great example of someone like that internally here who just Like just gives us sh. And the funny thing about it, Dan is like you kind of you look at the thing and you go, whyy am I surprised every time? Every time? And it's because The philosophy in our products is not complicated It's it's The reason we're able to do this, the reason our true spec cables are so good, the reason the socks are so good, the reason the products are so good is not And I remember this all comes back to like a conversation I had with the Noct toist CEO like ten years ago or something. I went, You guys have the best products. You must have the best engineers. And he goes, no, And I'm like, that's not a very nice thing to say. And he's like, Well, it's not a nice or a not nice thing to say. It's an honest thing to say. We have good engineers The difference is that we give a shit. He didn't say it like that. He's a very proper person. But the difference is that we care and the difference is that we take the time to do it right. And it's the exact same thing here. I am not knocking anybody on the CW team They're great. I love working with them The reason the products are good. is not necessarily because they are the best designers and the best engineering folks in the world. They're great and I love them But it's because we just take our time and we just Air a lot And so you know, for the socks, like the reason they're good is just because we were willing to spend another, the copper infusion is really great. Oh, that was cool to hear about. I would I would never recommend to someone, wear your socks, wear the same socks for two or three days You won't hear me recommend that. You still won't to me However I wear my LTT socks for like two. sometometimes three, even four days Not work amount I don't work. Okay. I was I was say the amount this man's feet sweat. I saying a lot. He soaked through his shoes before. But o that was in Taiwan. mean that's f. And those shoes, I found out because I was leaving squishy marks under the soles actually have like a mesh in the in the soul.. It's not sorryoul source Two shoes, Tw shoes That's in Korea Sooul is in Korea then Anyway Sheeez had't even. I still got you. I still got you You got yourself. That was you're both laughing. Okay. Jeeus. Anyway, So the antimicrobial treatment was developed by a Canadian company and it's like a copper ion infusion thing. And I was looking through the data sheets because I'm actually the writer for the video for this And u It was like over ninety nine percent effective at like killing E coli bacteria or something like that. Don't quote me on any of this because I'm going to look at it in more detail and have supporting visuals and stuff from the actual test report when we do the real video, but it was like shockingly effective. And that's the kind of thing that costs a little bit extra is is we didn't have to develop that That's the thing is if you're willing to just pay to make a not crappy product This stuff already exists a lot of the time. It's just nobody else wants to pay for it and makes something that doesn't suck. which is so frustrating for me, but also creates an opportunity for me because now Now we have a whole company. That's your spot that does more than half of our revenue that just the ent the entire approach is just have good people Give them Give them time and space and be willing to pay a little more We got this got And I'm not saying we always do it perfectly, just to be very clear because I'm sure that if someone from CW was watching this, they might be going, well, I sure wish I had more time on that, or I sure wish I had this piece of equipment there, but the requisition didn't go through. We still We still operate in the real world where things are limitations. where resources are finite. But In general, we try, we make a good faith effort, and I think the results speak for themselves What are you guys talking about in flowplane chat? Probably programmer socks. No, they're talking about spermicidal socks Maybe the same thing. Maybe I'm not gonna do the feet cam Maybe that's a bad idea Yeah, you think, Dan? Yeah What are we supposed to be doing? Why does it say sponsors three and four? 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I guess they did Um I'm going to stand behind what I said about the PS portal I think that streaming is a huge part of the future of gaming, whether that's streaming from online services U like from Xbox or whether that's streaming from your own services, which maybe related to that cool idea that AJ had for Maybe, you know doing like some kind of cool self hosted like streaming setup such a sick ide. It's the implementation. It's an idea we've had before, but it's the way that AJ conceived of to maybe architect it that is pretty cool. And an alternate use for some hardware that kind Andving So I, you know, I think that as things get as things get less affordable, like I'm looking at, you know, what my house would look like if I was trying to make it more efficient And remember I had that idea of having the computers in a central location and then using either display cables or network cables or whatever else to not even have thin clients, but just stream the content throughout the house Man, I think I think with fast enough, low latency enough, high quality enough networking Something like that's very feasible. Like in a family of five, how often are all five of you playing? Could you just have three computers And then you just acccess a session at your various locations where you happen to be using them. You might even be able to have it so that like you could all five play at the same time But maybe the performance of the systems effectively scales down So, you know, if you're if you're all five of you playing the same thing Tools of resources Yeah I mean, we we man, when did we talk? We talked about this a long time ago back when likeing seven gamers That goes very far back. And I think I I think I pitched a concept where like, you know, the home Oh yeah computer Yeah Yeah was effectively a virtualized like server clause. Ancient when shows. You could put as much hardware in it or as little hardware in it as you wanted. and then split those resources according to how they were needed. I'd love to see better support for virtualization on mainstream GPU's. Yes. I think that's something that's really holding back that sort of Linus conceived future, and then also antiat. 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Oh. No I closed all the tabs there Yeah, I closed it too. The second link is this. site or something. Okay, I'm going put it here, which could only go well. Okay, so this video is from very laazy Pixels whichich the reason I wanted to show the video was actually I just wanted to be like, hey, that's so cool. Thank you for your order from LTTstore. com. I see you sticker bombed your steam machine That's one of our stickers. They copy exactly the sticker bomb that Valve had? because isn't that exactly how Valve did it Is it Did Zalve use our stickers? Yeah Am I tripping? I don't know, did they? I thought they had exactly that layout on the valve one Oh, apparently they did. A, that's cool Are you just learning of this? I don't know. Yeah no Chat s is the only reit' comments is so funny. Yeah, I hear. Yeah, so they did exactly the same. C you just wait, what How do they have that? Oh I'm sorry, Reill Dan. Chocolate over your. Oh, that makes sense. Oh, there's more here No well, I mean, you're worrying about it. No's on the floor Uh Imit The chocolate's a lie. What do we do it? I don't Does it matter? Anyway, we're gonna go to we're gonna to go to the website Yeah, how do they like perfectly copy that? That's wild. I don't know. Dan, do you wantanna remove the lower banner? That's why I was standing over there. so we have L c. Oh Oh, brilliant. D you could race steam controllers? You could totally It struggles sometimes, I think, with the like textured vinyl that we have on the table. I'm gonna bring it to you You can deliver the controller? Yeah It's actually shockingly accurate. I mean, you parked it right next to my laptop Now it seems like it's really trying to get it It really is. They can't see that at all. That that's fine. that should be censored. There. seend it. There's a. No' can't that. That's probably for the best. That's probably for the best. That's fun. That's pretty cool. So sorry, was what was there yeah, very lazy pixels. A developer has made a browser app that uses the newew Steam contontroller's rumble motors to scoot it around like a little RC car. No installs just a chromium browser with web HID. This illustrates how hackable the controller really is and how people are already finding weird fun uses for it beyond gaming The website says it was heavily inspired by Steam Hptic singer by Pila, Crazy Citic Oh you are moving my document. Sorry. Crazy Critic eighty nine and AAA gaming. I've never touched one of the steam controllers before. The Steam controller two or what K' of upset. All right. Moving on. Sammy says we just released a short where Elijah, Stehven and Spen raced with it, and we collabed with him on the post So I'm going okay, well, I'm going to work this out collabed with very lazy pixels So here's our three steam controllers D brand sponsor this classic Oh, Elijah's in the lead Oh he's being held back by his ven Being pushed, I think Oh and it's Elijah at first. This is hilarious. That's pretty good. Love it It is pretty good Anyway, pretty cool. People are already doing very creative stuff with it. This this is a great little great little post, but basically they made it walk to the dock and charge itself. Oh's pretty cute. L a room. someomeone's going to make a system that does that automatically. That's a matter Someone's going to make a system where there's like a webcam or something And it can figure out the position of it on their table and it'll walk itself back in. Someone's going to do that. That would be sick I know what my weekend's going to be Nice. The next eight years will I learn how to do that? Someone could figure it out, I'm sure. I'm sure there's a library that's already been updated with like steam machine identification. Do you want to talk about spy turtles and spy fish? Yeah Yes, Yes. I really I really do. China's Ministry of State Security U accuses spy turtles and spyfish of stealing sensitive marine data. That's a big deal They put out a we chat post warning that foreign intelligence agencies are using these sea animals to snoop in its waters. The claim is that large marine animals have been fitted with sensors and sent to swim in specific areas That's got toa be a heck of a thing to control, collllecting data like water temperature, salinity, and ocean currents in real time, then beaming it overseas via satellite Scia says the goal is mapping the seabed to find weak points in its coastal defenses and it's asking fishers to report any strange buoys or devices, apparently not ish or turtles, though. China didn't name a specific country or actually show any of these cyborg sea creatures, but the wider idea isn't totally far fetched. Russia famously deployed a beleluga whale In a camera harness spotted off Norway in twenty nineteen, and British intelligence said in twenty twenty three that Russia was training dolphins for combat The CIA also genuinely tried to turn a cat into a listening device back in the Cold War with acoustic Kitty. Twit as well as you might have expected at that point in time. Ever tried to get a cat to do anything. And if you've played, I don't remember what game it was some red alert game, I think. there was there was military dolphins Oh yeah. I don't remember exactly how they attacked things. Oh yeah toe eat Nice I mean, it's a lot more interesting than automated drone swarms of a million drones just automatically defeating anything they go against. How how much how How much of an admission of your own top secret programs are these types of accusations? Yeah. You know, like no el no one else is even thinking about spy turtles, China. Hit the edit Okay Someone probably is, but like Really Like I know there were those u there were those u robots Fish buy things that we saw recently Um, man, where where was that Here you go. L there are fish shaped fishaike drones But it didn't sound like that was what they were talking. They're talking like you think ones fitted with stuff. Were they trying to oversimplify it, maybe? Maybe. Like maybe just trying to rather than explain what a turtle drone is to any random we chat reader Were they just trying to trying to say It will just It'll look like a turtle, so for all intents and purposes It's a turtle. It has dangerous sensors and it report it. That seems more likely to me. That seems like the simplest explanation is they just didn't want to explain themselves Wait,ait. ait wait wait, we got to go back to this. You gott to go back to that thing They didn't drive it to the point. it did that automatically. They already did the thing I was talking about getetreed I made my steam controller automatically charge itself. Now I don't have pro scroll down. trrking points are a bit finicky. It tries to remember success is not guaranteed, surprisingly easyer try yourself. RPM's tuned for Steam controller twenty six so d. You could get you know how you have the stickers on the And it's thumb pads. You could do that with fucial markers. Its it's just up on It's just up on the GitHubs. That's amazing How fun is the internet? Yeah, and they did it the way this is just completely what I expected. That's amazing This's just I expected this was going to take forever and they just W they already done Cool. Hey, want to hear something else that's cool? I need Okay Nope. Steam controller driving itself around is as cool as anything needs to be. We no longer need anything cool from now until forever No sorry, I got really excited. I want to read more about it before I really talk about them or what they're doing And I will do that before next show Somebody's no actually. Well, now you're over commommitted. Do we just look into it? Now you're committed. We can just look into it. Now we're committed. All right, You've committed us. Somebody made vinegar Oh really Finally, they reach out Literally right before the show. No way. Yeah I hope you're doing well I'm not entirely sure this is your actual email, blah, I guessn't worked. I'm Zack, founder of Convoke. I wanted to reach out because we actually built something based on the idea you mentioned on episode of WN Show It's a tool called vinegar. It's on g vinegar. com. I haven't looked into it I got this email We are not recommending to try it because we don't know what it is. It's a browser out on we don't necessarily know if it's going to steal all your stuff or not. Yeah. But for those not familiar, vinegar was Luke's concept for like the anti honey browser extension. Yeah. So instead of you know, taking a bunch of your data and harvesting your affiliate your affiliate cookies and all of that kind of stuff and funneling money into whoever has the best affiliate program, which is for a long time was Amazon vinegar would be a browser extension that allows you to use the convenience of shopping on the most popular platforms that have big affiliate programs But redirect you to where you can buy that item on some other website that doesn't pay for penis Rockets for Jeff Bezos. So thisn this isn't one hundred percent of what the vision for vinegar was But I'm assuming they're just starting and they've already got some pretty cool stuff going on. So U blocklist, this, you know, random, I guess Kit Kat is a product that is owned by Nestle You put Nestle on your avoid list, so just letting you know That type of stuff. So it's like that's pretty cool. Information That is now put in front of you, that is generally obfuscated by almost every company in the consumer space being owned by a bunch of other companies that filter down to like seven companies or whatever it is. Yeah. I'm going down into their features section. They have the brand ownership. so you can see who ultimately actually does own it. Congglomerate flags, this was interesting, spot when a product traces back to a company worth over fifty billionll And you can figure out who it is. Avoid lists, you can set up lists, source everything, blah blah, blah blah blah. The one thing that I noticed Um Independent alternatives coming soon. Okay, there's the thing. get suggestions for independent products in the same category that are similar to smaller companies. Okay. So that's not suggesting smaller stores, but I think that's going to be a very tough thing to do. So ome look I also noticed that they have a free forever tier, but they also have a premium tier, which I was actually kind of happy to see because the first thing I tried to figure out when I went on this site is how are they monetizing it Right? Because if just everything was free, then I'd be even more suspicious I do think it's worth being suspicious U I don't know if it's like on GitHub or anything, so we can figure out if it's spooky or not. I yeah, this is definitely some verify then trust level stuff just because it's a random outreach email, but yeah, totally. I mean, the logo is really cool. Apparently it's a Chrome extension for now, but I like I just got the email. I'm assuming these guys like just launched this. I am veryer interested in this And if I can get some information that it's not just going to steal all the data that I ever have that's in my browser. I'm definitely interested in running it. It sounds awesome Cool. Sounds very cool Yeah, I just Honestly, I saw that email and just like my brain blanked for a second because I was just like, Really? That's so cool. And you know, it needs some more features and stuff, but U, how we use data I don't think we're going to be able to Yeah, this will on the show. but it's just it's very interesting. I've got something else interest. I hope they do well by it There's a fun one A study published by Pew Research shows Americans are using AI wayay more than before. About half now use chatbots, which is up from roughly a third just a couple of years ago, with usage spanning work, search, and everyday tasks About a quarter of U SS adults useually chatbot daily And Americans report using chat GPT far more than other chat bots But seememingly running completely counter to this Even with that uptake attitudes are pretty skeptical Only about sixteen percent of those surveyed think that AI will have a positive impact on society while a large chunk thinks it'll be negative or just aren't convinced either way So The usage is hitting all time highs. Well, something I'm wondering sentiment has hit an all time low.omething with AI tools though is that you can't avoid them at this point. Yeah. So like how much of the increase of usage is actually people wanting to go out and use it, which I think there are a lot of legitimate uses for. I kind of think that a lot of people should actually use them for a variety of different smaller like assistant type things. likeike, hey, review this for me or whatever. as we've talked about too many times on WNhow But You mentioned search You included search. usage spanning work, search and everyday tasks. So is this included like how many people just went like Oh yeah, I use it for search thinking, oh, well, I mean, when I Google things, There's an AI result. I actually that is technically using a chatbot. At this point in time, Googling something is using a chatbot doubt that Um, And the main reason I'm saying so is this is not based on concrete fact, but the main reason I'm saying so is watching the decay of what we think of as classic search. U someome of our folks from Creator Warehouse earlier this week attended kind of a a direct to consumer brand webinar thing And pretty much all I wasn't able to attend it unfortunately, but from what I heard from the team Pretty much all anybody was talking about was how classic SEO is basically dead and completely irrelevant. And it is all about Fine tuning how to get included in chat bot search, which in this case means how to get a chat bot to index information about your product and surface it as a recommendation. for a customer Um it's pretty much hard pivoted. over a span of time that until now is completely unprecedented Like just crazy And so Kning that I don't think people are thinking of that kind of search as as AI chapbook Okay. I feel like you're probably right I don't know that for sure, though I don't know how the question was stage We don't know. I mean, it's pure research, so maybe it didn't suck, but You know, I recognize their name, which might be a good or bad thing. I don't know U At this point it's hard to tell. The study also found that most people feel that AI is moving too fast, with about two thirds saying its development is outpacing society's ability to handle it Um How do these survey results compare to your own experience with AI usage? Do you find yourself using it more frequently than even a year ago? And do you find your sentiment towards it? to be lower I would say I'm using it a little bit more frequently. I've been using using it more frequently Especially frequently over the last couple of weeks as I've been working my way through setting up Fedora on that workstation and getting Odysseus working, which I have it like Kind of working now. can I can chat with my Qen model I can get the like email client working, but I can't get it to do an AI summary of an email right now for some reason and I can't get it to do any kind of like u agentic tasks yet, so I'm still just kind of I've only had like a couple hours to poke at it over the last week, so that's interesting. Still kind of chipping away at it But I'm using a chat bot for a lot of that. I've been using Gemini pretty extensively just because I have a Gemini pro membership that's included with my work email It's a lot better than like ChadGPT was basically freaking useless because I ran out of being able to upload images after like images or something like that and And I was like, yeah, I need to be able to upload images. I guess I'm using Gin. Yeah Um I feel like my usage is probablyro pretty similar T about a year ago. I suspect once I get my local stuff up, I will use it more But that makes sense to me. Yeah. I like strongly suspect that. And more internal pressure for me of wanting to get my local stuff set up has been wanting to use it more but not wanting to use the public tools To be honest U So I don't think my actual usage has increased. And man, it's hard to tell if my sentiment has changed. I don't think so I'm giving myself a completely free pass on using the big tech AI as much as I want if it's to set up my own personal one. Yeah it seems fine. So that's where I'm at on that. I don't use it much outside of that though. As for my sentiment, I think my sentiment's actually up But with the giant asterisk of only because I'm really excited about local agents That's the that's the thing that I'm like This is the breright point in this sea of diarrhea. The only reason why I'm just not sure is I think I was already really excited about local agents a year ago. I just don't know. I sometimes have a hard time recalling I was excited about the idea of it, but it seemed out of reach for me to easily set up with my limited free time, which was why it was hard for me to really gain any momentum around that excitement. Yeah. I just knew it was coming, but I was like That sounds cool and also sketch Ifvon Fox in Fullplint chat says A friend works in finance. the CEO is pushing AI for everything and the answers are often wrong So they have to hide the fact that they did it not using AI to hit AI used target demands. I don't super think that the Pew research thing would have caught up too much stuff like that, but I do know that is a thing at a variety of different industries very funny to me Mhm. But Yeah. I already mentioned this a little bit earlier, but yesterday Apple raised pricing on many of their products Marquez posted a handy dandy little tweet with some of the differences. Some of them are pretty small. Some of them are pretty not small likeike the Max Studio, which has been a major player in the in the home in the desktop AI space as well as the price increase on the MacBook Pro. It's three hundred dollarars add. Even the MacBook Neo got another hundred bucks, which puts it right on par with the Dell XPS Oh shoot, what is the size of it? The new XPS that uses wildcat lakes. so Even Apple is not immune to the pricing pressure that DRAM and NAND shortages have been putting on the entire PC industry Um Hey, but you might not have to upgrade your system Because Windows ten support was just quietly extended until october twenty twenty seven No fanfare. This change was first spotted by Windows latest in an updated support document, and Microsoft confirms them it is a real change, not a typo Anyone who was already enrolled in the extxtended Security Updates program gets the extra year automatically with no action needed Enrollment is still free. Ish You either have to sync your PC settings to a Microsoft account Deem a thousand Microsoft rewards points or you can pay a one time thirty dollars fee That one license will cover up to ten devices. So it's three dollars per device if you happen to have ten devices To be clear on what the extended seecurity Udates program is, it's security patches only, so you won't be getting any new features, no bug fixes beyond security and no technical support Also, domain joined and MDM managed work machines do not qualify for this consumer program. The reason this is happening is the quiet part that Microsoft I guess is saying out loud now, users are refusing to move to Windows eleven, largely because their otherwise perfectly good PC's don't meet the TPM and CPU requirements, and people don't want to buy new hardware for an OS that they see as a downgrade. Microsoft's own wording frames the extension as giving customers more time to transition. but takeaway seems to be that this upgrade is going to happen on users' timelines not Microsofts and they're just going to have to be kind of stuck. continuing to provide support for Windows ten for a little while longer In other news, Microsoft is testing a hidden search setting that finally gives users more control over biging results on Windows eleven talking I. That's I mean, no, I got it. It's just interesting. or do. Yeah, and I don't think it'll win people back. but Microsoft is finally building a native toggle in Windows eleven that lets you turn off bing powered web results and search. Oh That cool, right? S sounds very different than the title, but yeah, that sounds awesome. So you can keep searches local instead of getting web stuff mixed in. That's This is honestly huge. It's just not it's sort of like the title was saying at all. The same update also includes another switch to hide Microsoft's store app suggestions from seearch This is it. This is This should have been like a title topic. That's incredible. What the heck? According to a G haacks article These controls, previously only available in the European economic area, of course, are now being extended to all markets They continue users in the European economic area have been subject to these subject, subject to these controls for some time It sounds so negative as part of Microsoft's compliance with the EU Digital Markets Act Linus has a comment here that says, while we're at it, can we eliminate any settings box that has the options yes and later? Yeah, no. yeah, that should be like literally a legally binding thing. That should be law. Yeah that every pop up I don't know how many times or never. The Unify app Okay, the freaking unify like like that I need to use to sign into my stupid to enter my building The number of times that it popped up going, Hey, how much do you like? Do you want to rad our app Now yes or later No I don't I don't want to I'm not interested. Don't bother me. I'm trying to I'm trying to enter the building right now. Such an inconvenient time. Like just no, no, no. It needs a no. and you know what Maybe I should I've rid it because it does seem like a perfectly cromulent app. but also that's up to me, not you. I've had that with like Epedia I needed to get up some travel details really quickly like it was time imperative and it's like veryer slow animating the screen's lagging. I know something's going to happen. Oh, slide up from the bottom. Do you want to wrate the app? I'm like Get out of my face. It's just like the Eedy app is like brutal at best So adding more junk on top of it is rough Anyways Lon was shopping for some shelving yesterday and she had to dismiss I kid you not, three pop ups. asking if she wanted to join the newsletter, offering to let her spin a wheel for a discount. Something else. It's like, I am trying to fucking buy something from you. Get out of my way Uh discussion questions. if you could redesign Windows seearch, what changes would you prioritize? These ones mostly That's why I was so excited about the topic. Let me get Microsoft Store apppp suggestions out of there. Let me get web search stuff out of there. I want it to search my system programs and files all I want it to do. I don't want it to ever do anything else. They could if they wanted in my opinion have a little For yourself any sense consent H Yeah That's pretty good Um What was I gonna say? U Oh right, we were supposed to read it. It It was a chart on screen that said, do you think Microsoft understands consent? The yes bar had almost nothing. And then there was a remind me in three days bar that had ninety nine point two percent of the votes. was posed as like a poll on Facebook or something Um I was I gonna say, ye, I would be okay with it if they had like a toggle button. Like if if, you know, the search bubble bar On the far right, there was maybe like a globe icon and you could click it and if you did that, it would do web result and there was a little store icon. you could click that. and if you did that, it would do store results. But if you just unchcked them, it would never do it again. I would be fine with that. I would just uncheck them and never ever, ever, ever use them You know, some people might like searching from their thing and if they want to, they should be able to, I guess. While we're coming up with ideas. how about don't pin anything that I didn't pin That'll be so sick. I sure as fuck didn't pin LinkedIn here Yeah, I don't think anyone ever Where's my new installed program Bring that back. Yeah. What did I just install Yeah Where is it Please? You know what it would be even kind of nice is like you haven't used this in a while Hm That seems unlikely, but So. File Explore Bile Explorer Falls under. One note. Edge Word Excel PowerPoint, sureure fine Outlook the store Settings fine. Razor synapse. did Come on man Are you even trying? Hest surface things that I want to interact with? Even clock being there is like pretty weird. I don't think I've ever gotten to clock through the start menu Maybe someone does I would probably click on the clock. Oh my god, you missed it. I clicked I clicked clock and this is what I got. Oh my God. Do this in the fucking background. Holy crap Are you kidding me right now Oh right j Oh Wait, there was no option other than get started, was there Is there just like a what are we doing? Didn't you click on clock Fuck Okay, there we go. we got there. Hay Hold on, what happens if I open it again Is it going to take me through the wizard again? Unbelievable. It takes me through the wizard to set up focus sessions again Wow I just want to know what time it is And meanwhile, it's like, how many clicks is it now to change your tim one Oz? It's actually a little bit better now. Okay, don'ind I'm not I'm not gonna harp on them for that Are you are you bringing out your mint to show? I just want to see Okay, Luke wants to see. Okay, wellll let us see too He long I'm going to the loot cam. Lot cam Aaking up I mean, I type in clock and nothing even shows up in the start menu because why would you find let let me clean up my deskop and Wow, you slob you have five whole things there Yeah I didn't mind the fact that they were there. I didn't want people to see what they were. Whoops O side You can't hold up your laptop here Oh, I see. I see. H we go. He got there. I thought I thought something was showing that you didn't want to show. No, no.. So I typed in clock. Let me do it again. Sure Nothing came up. I miss the L because why would you Oh yeah, won't web search it' okay. Yeah. So like why even would some seeven thousand files returned. But if I click on the thing in the bottom, it's just like just really likes roosters, Dan It' bd time and everything in date and time settings and everything's just like That allt just makeakes sense. Yeah And' those seven thousand results make sense too I don't judge What I would judge is Chrome testing an askk Gemini button that follows your text highlights around the web. as someone who Reads like this Yeah That would drive me absolutely bad crazy U This was spotted in Chrome Canary by Leo Piva sixty four and offers four options. askk Gemini share and a three dot menu Clicking Ask Gemini would drop your selected text straight into the Gemini side panel as a prompt so you can ask follow up questions without copy pasting into another tab. The three dot menu has a hide for this site toggle. But its settings link just dumps you on Chrome's generic content settings page rather than anything Gemini specific Google hasn't announced yet and there's no guarantee that this will ship, but it's the latest in a steady stream of Gemini entry points that are being baked into Chrome after the at Gemini address bar shortcut and a right click askk Gemini option Linus' note If this is anything like the way that autocompose emails gets in my way constantly, then it sounds like a huge L. It sounds like it. Dude, it is so Freaking annoying. I know that I can just click the reply all button at the bottom and that will work open up a new email reply. But remember when you used to be able to just click the empty text and start typing and not worry about if you click, not quite exactly the right spot and it starts autocomposing a stupid email I don't know about you guys, but my emails need to be composed by me. I have to make decisions. I have to I I I Like I'm trying to wonder Who it is at Google whose job and the decisions they make and the correspondences they have are so unimportant. that a feature like that seems like it could ever possibly work for them My dog just like died, but I got it I got it working again I thought you said dog. Oh, no. And then you were like so immediately over it. And I had to kind of figure out how that happened 'causeuse I didn't think your family had a dog right now. so I was Trying to catch up. What dog are we talking about? I said he was a bird person. Where did he hear that it died? Who is taking care of this dog? You have birds. Why are you over it so fast? was Yeah. Okay. Yeah, ye, I know dooc, dooc dooc the do doctor died. No, no no. You think if they were a doctor they would Stayed very healthy, Is this like the mechanic with the broken down car? L likes apples. The chain smoking doctor with like high cholesterola. Sorry. okay. Anyho? No, yeah, it said it it said it erred, which I've never even seen before. I clicked the reload button and it had like one topic from A very long time ago. I was like, this is bad. to just nuke the whole thing. releload it again and it's fine. Anyways, it's really cool story. Speaking of story, hold on There's going to be one You don't like the A twenty four one Is that a cool story It's it's An interesting story. Dh hand just like Welped from behind the TV. I dont don't know what he said. Google invests seventy five million dollars in A twenty four to develop AI powered filmmaking tools Google's deep mind is investing that money into that thing. Its first ever equity stake in a film studio Cool Do you understand the noise now? Yes, no, I already knew. The deal is a multiye research partnership. to build AI filmmaking tools starting with an AI storyboard generator rather than a text to video generator Importantly, it does not give Google access to A twenty four's film library or any data for training A twenty four labs head Scott Belsky says the tools will preserve creative control and won't look like the prompt based AI people are uncomfortable with. Oh, what the phrasing of that is Fody Uh It's kind of awkward since A twenty four's biggest recent hits hit is Brooms whose director Kane Parsons has called Generative AI a source of creative rot and said he'd erase it forever if he could About eighty five percent of Backroom's opening weekend audience was under thirty five, and a pew study last week found that roughly half of adults under thirty think AI will harm society. Predictably, fans are calling for boycotts. A twenty four is far from alone here, though, with Lion' Gate, Netflix, Disney, and probably more all making their own AI Movie moves Oh L, that was fine, but probably that too Yeah calmb. So I thought this was interesting because if there's anyone that I would kind of look at and go Maybe you won't screw this up It would be a twenty four. Interesting. I think you're going a different direction with that. I thought you werere going to say if it was anyone that you were surprised Bye That's what I was very surprised it's specifically A twenty four. I'm not surprised that anybody is. I think that anyone who is not looking at it as a tool And figuring out how they're going to use it to stay competitive is going to be left behind.. I do think that's fair So A twenty four is clearly a group that is not interested in being left behind Also clearly A group that cares deeply about artistic. Artistic intent And so what AI usage from A twenty four would look like is Fascinating an interestiming I hope they don't screw it up, but it will be it will be interesting I want a bolder prediction than interesting Oh I need a louter hper not. I need a Luke prediction. Yeah. Oh boy. Luke prediction time. No it doesn't show. need a market for Luke prediction I call it a prediction market tend to be based around They do tend to be based. People will use it and That's why if they will or not or if it will be successful Um I think their approach is interesting. because the storyboard thing feels like a brainstorming part of the process where a creative mind that's in there could look at it and be like, no and then redo that part or the whole thing or whatever themselves if they really want it I think earlier on in the process is better, later on in the process is worse. and it feels like they're only really talking earlier on in the process. I do Agree with Caine Parsons where If you could erase it forever then I think we'd go ahead But the reality is that you can't So Like Lina said, I think use it to accelerate yourself and compete or don't. but You know I Noki. A twenty four says We'd rather have a seat at the table than be on the sidelines while defending their decision Yeah And I think that's quite fair. I just I I'm not as familiar with A twenty four. I know I know I think I discovered what A twenty four even was Dan. Um So I know there's some people that like really deeply appreciate A twenty four stuff. Yeah, I'm a huge A twenty four fan They seem ever since I discovered them, they seem to be pretty in tune with like their people. U Let's just make a movie that's fun and Here's a bunch of money. So hopefully they don't step off it. One of the reasons why I think it's so interesting that they're the ones doing this is actually the fact that they did do the backrooms thing. Kind of more well known for much more budget conscious Duff I mean, they've done some they've done some reasonably high budget stuff and risk I think it's their risk. let's just make this movie that might not appeal. orr let's just bank roll this movie because I think they're they're like more like a publisher producer type company than anything else Its like I think in our back rooms, that's a domb meme from sixteen hundred years ago from Proto interternet. Yeahah, sure There's ten million do bucks go and make a fun film Yeah I don't even know what the budget was for that Probably not a lot. I'll say I think they'll be successful with it Because I think the that honestly that statement of the like we'd rather be at the table than out of the conversation or whatever it was Um makes me think they might be doing it for the right reason And that gives me more confidence that they'll be successful. mean It's a whole thing. I think I told you about someone that we know having a conversation with someone. I think it was A Nvidia. but I'm not going to specify who at NvIDia or the person that we know And they were laughing together about all the companies that are firing people because they're able to do the things that those people used to do with AI This was this was a very, very well informed person laughing with somebody who works at NVIDia about that reality. And they weren't doing it because Like, oh no, that's like impossible to be true which I think in some cases is somewhat valid. I think it's pretty obvious that a lot of these things are just disguised layoffs. but The reason, the core reason why they were laughing is because that's going to make you lose. Yeah The people who are going to win are the people who are going to retain their talent and accelerate them and get the so they don't have to do the crap that they don't want to do largely because of like mental state improvements for their people because if they're drudging through junk that they don't want to do versus if they get to automate a little bit of that and then do the more creative fun work that they do want to do, you're going to get higher quality output and probably more of it. And it's just like the proper use of this stuff can be very, very, very helpful Um It's just You also hear the person flipplint chat who mentioned earlier of that like finance CEO, that's like everything must be done by AI U, and then there's people like faking that their things were done by AI. U I even read something online like ways to make your work look like it was output by AI And it it was it was it was actually like a very serious They were being quite genuine. like different words you can use, it's like everyone knows the endDash thing, but it was like different words you can use in sentence structures to try to make it seem like it was AIO put, whichich is just like, what the hell? Like those companies are going to burn. The companies, I think, at least, the companies that just try to replace on masse like their entire staff because they're automating stuff or they think they are. I think those companies are going to burn. And I think the company or not do as well And then I think the companies that are going to start winning are the ones that are accelerating people. You see Nvidia hiring. What do you think's going on Like, I don't know And then meanwhile, Farewell, bung. Yeah. Are they just done done Is it over? It doesn't seem to be over, but okay It seems pretty rough I got a message, hold on. I got a message from boy As long as it's not a dead dog, I think I'm okay with it. No No, and I don't know if they want to be named here or not, so I won't, but they messaged me after I think it was last show. Yeah. And they said fun fact. I was watching Wan just so you know. we were talking about like the profitability and the difficulty with Microsoft Studios. Apparently, Halo Infinite costs eight hundred fifty millionars Well, there's no way they ever got that pack Also What? Like, o my God. Yeah, I think the out of the five W's or whatever, appropriate responses to that number would be what? whyy? How? teechnically one of the W's? Where could probably work? Yeah, where where where Where's the money even going? Yeah Be clear, I enjoyed the game. What? On what? On my PC. No, no, no, no Who's on first? I enjoyed the game. I just I don't understand where eight hundred fifty million dollars went. I didn't enjoy it eight hundred fifty million dollars worth, that's for sure Yeah, that was a bit of an eye opener. Seven of lesbians says hookers and blow I mean, it's as valid a guess as anything else, Luke I don't see you coming up with anything. No, just literally every word in the sentence. Doid you get a bulk discount at that point If you buy millions of if you buy hundreds of millions of dollars of hookers and blow? Yeah. you probably do. You get like one of those stamp cards. At least on the blow Maybe not the hookers I don't know. I feel like I don't know if the American government does discount. A a certain at a certain point. At a certain point, would a prostitute levels Would it be a better arrangement for the prostitute to just marry you and vice versa? you know, at a certain volume of business? Like would that just be more tax eff saave on the taxes? Yeah. So maybe there is a discount on both potentially that could be achieved. Cayman Islands prostitute account If the prostitutes are Irish Do you have to pay business tax Oh God We gotta get here. What's the topic? I'm sorry. Speaking of video games, Grand Theft Auto six' l launch price has been confirmed. This week, Rockstar announced that GTA six will be launching at seventy ninellars ninety nine cents with an altnate edition for niney ninellars ninety nine cents while the eighty dollars price tag has been tested by some others. Nintendo has moved to this as a standard pricing for multiple first parties switch two titles. I've seen quite a few AA's going in. y buck Honestly, I expect it even higher. I thought it was going I thought they were be genuinely going to push yeah, ninety or a hundred. Y. And I mean, if we're being real A lot of people are going to buy that ultimate addedition Oh yeah Wh what's in it? I think the initial wave. I think that apparently take twos stock like dropped on this news of the pricing announcement. I think and like because people were expecting a ninety dollars price tag, but I actually think this is a ninety dollarars price tag. I think enough people are going to buy the ultimate edition that they'll be able to blend it to something kind of approaching an average of ninety dollars because you know they're all they literally have already said shown that they are working on additional content for this ultimate edition. And you know they're going to want to make that as enticing as possible. And you know that big fans of GTA who are going to be coming into it with preordders. are going to they're going to want whatever's in the ultimate addition. Doesn't even matter what it is at a certain point Have they have they announced what's in it U, that's what I was trying to find. I haven't seen anything I haven't seen anything yet either, but I haven't actually looked that carefully for Here, hold on tech radar No disc in physical itions. There's a big controversy over the like the game data being on the disc This is an interesting one for me to follow because It's been a long time since I've put a disk into a game slot and the game just actually works without applying a bunch of updates game licens is on the disk. Yeah, I know. I think So just like a switch game I think that's the difference. I know, but the game license was already tied to the disc, Dan. Okay, It's always on DRM and stuff. The ultimate edition is just gonna to re everything. For that to happen I miss that I mean, I'm just trying to figure out what the difference is So's what's in the ultimate edition? GTS six's ultimate Eedition includes a sixty seven vapid Dominator buggy and Paradise Garage a ninety five groti cheetah Vvehicles and vapid Ganado retro build at Jason's saafehouse, vehicle mod shops, classic car collection, Shihzu Squalow, Hawk and littleittle Morgan revolver, personalized weapon variants T he Young Jin dollar sign compound and scores I don't understand half the things I'm saying or more. goodood time gear, stock three hundred five clothing stores, Sarah's Unisuck salon and electric Fang tattoo. All right, there's enough things in that list They will sell many an upgrade Ain't no way people are not going to be buying that ultimate edition Uh Anyway, as to the yeah, as to the disc being basically a license for the game. I mean, like I had someone who was over at my place The other day. Oh yeah, it was it was Hacksmith and pllasma Channel And I was showing them my NCIX collector's items shelf. And I was like, yeah, and I've even got like an NCIX brand CD wallet One of them, I forget who was like, what's a CD wallet? I was like, you're like my age. Remember CD wallets. and I opened it. They werere like, Ohh yeah, like to store your CD's. And it's like games have games have been even games in my CD wallet were effectively just a license for the game that ultimately you just downloaded on Steam and then you entered your product code anyway. Like as long as there's DRM that prevents you from playing the game without the files, I'm sorry, but I'm A I missing something here? Yeah, I meant that the hit me dan. instead of it being a download code that's tied to your account. S. Dk itself is the license code. and so I can give you GTA six and then you can play it at home. Well, then that's even though you have to download the whole thing. And I think that's maybe what some of the controversy is is that this kills the resale market. and big Stores like Game Stop and Best Buy can't seell use games and I can't finish GDAX and just give it to you Even if wait the game blame. So there is no disc in the GTS se. It's just a box with a piece of paper with a steam code on it or an Xbox code or I see o code. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I must have misread this then because I thought the controversy was that the disk was the license, but no What you're describing is actually Oh. Everyone's confused. So I went what's the difference because that's what we've had for a long time. No, there's no disk. So there is no disc. So it's like buying so it's like buying the orange box Yeah, or you know, buying something off of You're just buying a box No, no. I meant the orange box specifically. I don't think there orange box was whichich launched nineteen years. was more of an apppples guy, but my. Valvevess the orange box, according to theious or not. What's all? Oh my god. You could buy copies of Valve's the Orange Bx, which had half life too Episode one, episode two, Team Fortress two and portal in one package And I am pretty sure that there were versions of it just had a key in it and it was like a big controversy back then. I think the biggest difference is that this is now catching up to console folks So has has take two talked about the potential for being able to transfer licenses, Is that why we're really upset about it because there's no ability to transfer licenses. Yeah I seriously doubt there is a way to transfer licenses if you can't just hand some on the disk. No key says Hold on, hold on. Rockstar Games response to GTA six physical disc backlash claims a physical version of the game with a disc will come after a launch by December. So basically, this is just capitalizing on the pre laaunch pre order frenzy. Um And there will be a physical version at some point Oh so this is just a whole nothing. Well, they just didn't message it. It's not a nothing becausecause they could have just as easily had a disk version at launch, but they decided not to Because strategically, if I'm them, I'm sitting there going, well now hold on a second If we could have a version that's tied to accounts And have that be the one that comes out for the first you know, several months, H that be the only one available for several months then we are effectively going to Nooope The first wave of I played through the single player campaign. now I'm going sell this game Um delaying that that wave of secondhand discs for months after the game launch. And so anyone who wants to participate in that initial launch Hype cycle, Are you playing GTS? I'm playing GTS? Are you at this part? Yeah, I'm at this part. Anyone who wants to participate in that is going to have a non transferable copy of the game. And anyone who wants to wait for after that is not going to be getting a deal from those folks So I don't think this is like It' this is clearly not a like, you know Rockstar and T takeake two are victims of all this. They've clearly made a strategic decision here. It's just not as bad as it initially sounded Okay, Meta has just launched a cheaper alternative to the Ray Ban Meta Glasses creatively named Metag glasses. Meta's new cheaper Mag glasses start at two ninety nineents and are still made with Eessler Lgotica because of course they are because there's no other brands. But they drop the R brand Ray ban branding and built in display while keeping a camera Great. Open your speakers, meta AI, and hands free photo and video features. Critics continu to raise concerns about people being recorded without their knowledge, which will and is happening. And recent reporting has highlighted Meda's exploitation of facial recognition features that could identify people through the glasses. U and a bunch of people doing explicit acts in their bedroom.. Meta says the you added it that way What? Yeah, I did That's a thing It's like started recording by accident while people are doing stuff and they have a bunch of footage of it It's like Ash a think. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's great. Why is anybody wearing me wrong I have a pair of metaglasses and I have used them on occasion. quuite successfully, I might say. Oh yeah hold on Like some of some of this uh Some of this footage, wait, no, not that. Where what the? Dan How is YouTube Thatack search so useless. Some of the some of the footage from this video No then don'try about it Okay, some of the footage from this video would have been not easily captured if it wasn't for my metaglasses because I did not have a way to like carry a camera around with me and I did not want to subject one of my camera operators to this. I have mounted a GoPro Environment. hard at? Yeah, no It was I was already whacking my head on stuff. The GoPro wouldn't have stayed It's so much easier to just have it looking exactly where. It's definitely quite convenient Yeah U So so take this as the most sort of I actually do use this product and even appreciate it sometimes takeake Kind of surprise Oakley and GPro haven't team up But metaglasses I would think would be like a one hundred percent effective prophylactic Like How are people banging while they're wearing meta glasses? I don't think my wife would even look twice at me if I was wearing these she might look at me twice, but it would Like, come on They look like a different person Like, they go perfectly with my dorky braces. Come on Mhm I not they intend, they work for people. Okay. I also think the risk of possibly being recorded would work for people But anyways U Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth thinks the backlash of smart glasses is similar to the early reaction to smartphone cameras. No, it's similar to the early reaction to Google Glass, but anyways, arguing that people gradually became comfortable with the new technology through social adaptation, whichich is true We do accept a lot of things now that we didn't, but that doesn't mean that they're good things and that it's progress. disiscussion question. is society becoming the proverbial boiled frog when it comes to privacy? Yes Yes. Would you feel comfortable having a candid conversation with a stranger wearing AI glasses even if they told you they weren't recording? That's never come up yet for me. Candid? No. Yeah, no, I don't think so. why would I I mean, they could just as easily have a recorder in their pocket, though I mean, is it more candid of them to have their recording device on their face Well Someone could record anything Yeah, that has a camera on it I mean, the pinhole cameras have existed at the spy store on Broadway Street for twenty years. Th is like junk. These are good. I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference. If if all someone needs is it's easier to claim AI stuff if it doesn't look that good It's just It's like the same thing with UFO photos. All the UFO photos are super bad, I wonder why Although because they were in a hurry to quickly get the picture. Yeah. Obviously looks. they were moving so fast Government leaks have been really fun lately. U Okay performance We talked really interesting.' has been affected by mace. We talked about this right We're sure we did yes we.os a tweet. Yep. Okay. Uh what have we got? We got we got more. We got Cloudflare Is teaming up with Chrome, Edge and Firefox, so Lake Everyone, then on packed a way for websites to tell humans from bots without captures, logins, or extra tracking Coudlers working Google, Microsoft Mazilla, and Shopify. surprise saafaris on in here. To build private access control tokens or packed bots without any of that stuff and they're planning to submit it for standardization Pact works by having trusted sites hand your browser an anonymous token other websites will accept as proof Either. the visitor is a real human or an agent acting on behalf of a real human cus becauseuse the focus can't just be, arere you a human It's more should this traffic be allowed because Is it at the behest of a human which Yeah. going to be a bigger and bigger deal moving forward because Cloudflare's own data recently showed that bots surpassed human traffic and now account for fifty seven point eight percent of all web traffic This is really important. Pact is apparently designed so that sites can't leverage it to track or identify users of their browsing history Shopify's Ilia Grigorick mentions how Pact can help merchants block abuseive bots without driving real shoppers to abandon their carts over annoying captas or excessive tracking U O discussion question is considering that LT store runs on Shopify, have we ever had a bot problem? yes And do the benefits of a move like this seem to outweigh the cons? This actually seemems kindind of smart. It's like a It's like a crowdsourcing pack verification. that Instead of having every site live in its own little silo of like needing to identify the source of the traffic You kind of have everyone kind of go, oh, yeah, no, that's a real guy. We know because they like actually made a real purchase once And we like shipped it and it was real. I'm trying to think of bad things. Is it a way for like the US government to enact Um shhutting somebody down. C they could they target individuals How can this be used nefariously? I don't know There's probably something bad about it that I can't I right now. Sure, there's something nefarious, but it it's anonymous. It seems like an interesting idea. That seems like it would help. Yeah CatawS says it's what Apple did, but it's federated instead of private and open source. Yeah, I don't know I don't know that Iw is it open source? I didn't see that. But the fact thatire Mzilla' involved gives me some hope that it doesn't suck Like the other players, I don't necessarily have a ton of trust in, but Firefox, I mostly pretty chill for the most part. so Let's u Yeah, let's let's see how this goes Sgin of let's see how things go Yeah Fortih. Oh that. So yeah, Yvonne brought this up with me. She's like, what do you want to do for your fortieth? I'm like, nothing And she's like, well, peopleeople around you want to celebrate it. And I was like The way Cama explained it to me Yeah was that because I kind of somewhat feel similarly is it's not about that at all. And I think I would give you the same speech that you give to other people about weddings is it's an excuse that other people can make to get out of things to go hang out with you basasically it, right It's not even necessarily for you. Oh no, I know That's my wedding speech, basically, that it isn't about you. Yeah. And so when everybody makes it about themselves, you know, the father of the bride, mother the groom, blah, blah, blah, blah blah,'s it is about them U, But like if you think about the I don't remember I don't think it was it wasn't this year is the year before the one that we did for mine Mm Like those people, that group of people, it's hard to wrangle all those This is true. People together. Yeah. But she said organizing that was super easy Right because everybody was like, okay, it's for like milestone I will injure my ankle for this milestone He's never gonna to drop it. I will drop it when my ankle stops hurting. Is it still hurting? It never fully recovered no home I sprained my ankle quite badly. Remember that debrand tour that I did where I had the cane? That was not a bit. That was not a Willy Wonka thing. That was like my ankle was very injured. Yeah. actuallyctually, you know what, hold on It's pretty good now. I can barely detect it. Honestly, the tennis elbow bothers me more than this brain ankle. Is anyone else's mriage? It's not his point. It's a long conversation. Don't worry about it. It's not bad But it's Yeah, it it's an excuse that other people can use to actually come all hang out together. Right. And obviously you should have a good time too. But like Sometimes it can be tough because there's like conflicting obligations or whatever. but It's often an auto win to get out of conflicting obligations if it's like it's Well, this his forty I guess I gotta go. E though they might really want to M, I don't know. I don't know what I would do. Um Hordius As far as I can tell, most of the things that you like doing are the things that you do all the time. I mean, you know, it's funny. used to the Badminton tournament plasma Channel. I only met him once. I forget his real name. I'm so sorry. it was it Jay? I think it's Jay. He we were we were ripping around in go carts on like a gravel like field h just because like you could just drift like so easily. And we were like we were like on our way back. He was like, man, you got to You got, you got to live a little 'ause like we no like like ironically just yeah He kind of it's funny because like I think I created a very false impression of myself in my life because they kind of dropped in almost unannounced They happened to be in town and I was like, sureure, yeah, come on over tonight. I got nothing going on, which doesn't happen very often for me And then they caught me at a time when I had like really good food in the house. My aunt had just made borsch, Ukrainian style borsch. and so you know, was able to like offer them some, you know, food from my heritage. Um, which, you know, was cool so we enjoyed that and then we U man, we hung out doing something while the go carts charged And then we like went out go carting and then we played we played Ultimate Chicken horse and then watch And yeah, basically Like I think I feel like his impression of me was that I have a social life and like I I like hang out doing cool stuff. And I was like, o, I feel like I've given you a false understanding of my life. 'a I was joking with Yvonne. I was like, when's the last time like the boys have come over and we've like, oh, we played croquet while we waited for the go carts to. Oh I said Yeah croquet And like with the family, like my kids joined us, they all happened to be available, which doesn't happen very often. So like All these stars aligned for me to just seem like the coolest guy with the coolest life and he happened to be just like hanging around with me for the evening. But it's funny that you also say that like the things that I would like to do are the things that I do anyway because that is stuff that I would do anyway. Last night we had we had family game night because the kids are finally out of school, which is nice and we played golf with friends And it was like Chaotic and frustrating and annoying, and I realized that we had the game setting such that if you run out of time, you get the maximum number of strokes plus two penalties. So I was like in the game until I like ran out of time because I didn't think it was that big of a deal. and I got a fourteen stroke hole. and I was like, okay, well, I'm out now Um And so yeah, like what would I do any different? I don't know It doesn't have to be different. I feel like it'd be kind of crazy for it not to involve the jets Going somewhere would be kind of cool before I get rid of it. It's not going to be much longer Yeah, sure. And it will never happen again. No, I'm thinking But whereere would I even go? I don't even travel for fun. Even like traveling. That's why I was. That's what I'm talking. I to help you with an idea when you don't even like that. That's what I meant. You You like Bammonton and you built a Bandmondon center Like you made the things that you like be near you. You don't need to fly. I mean, you can if you want. It's funny. I like I travel, I go places because usually because other people want to do it And while I'm there, it's just like, what would I like to do tonight? you know? it's like, Well, what I'd really like to do if I ever had any time to do it is watch a movie in my own theater. I have the best theater. Maybe it should just be a planned day. Yeah where you do those various things. So maybe you have like a little bad attorney, you do a little barbecue. I would be socialized out by theater I have a very limited social battery, even for people that I really like Oh, I wasn't even talking like inviting people. Oh, I see. Yeah So My fortieth birthday celebration, which an excuse is about other people and not me is an excuse for me. to have them not blow off whatever it is they needed to do, but actually go do' fine. It's fine I think that's fine Oh There can also be components to it. Like if you did a Badmonton Turnney thing like midday Ish, there's other people at that Doesn't like that? No, it's not that it's not something You don't have to run an attorney. I know What the heck would I do I don't know, we could just we could We could do movie night Yeah We've missed a lot of movie nights ice Sammy says, Float plane exclusive. Linus does what he wants for his birthday. You assume, Sammy that shooting a video It's what I always end up doing when I have nothing to do anyway. Oh Sexy Putin, sixty nine says, Have you ever tried crack I mean, Hey, I've always told Yvonne that when I reach like my body is decaying like I've said the same thing. Late into senior citizen years. looaded up, brother. I'm gonna heard I heard heroin really great That's really funny. very little life left do like nothing Yeah and both have the plan of just like once I'm on the door. I had my forty year doctor's appointment yesterday because I'm not gonna be around for my actual like fortieth birthday or something. and so Yvonne was like, well, I booked it a little bit early. just go do it because I'm taking in the kids for their stuff. whatever. And so I was like sitting down with my doctor and she's like, oh yeah, so you're blood results are your blood pressure is excellent And you know, I'm going through the thing like you smoke No Alcohol? No. Recreational drugs? No And we're just kind of like talking through the rest of the thing. and then I was like, I was yick yking about something because u I was I was shooting an AMD ultimate tech upgrade. actually for u Wh one were we doing that day? Oh, yeah, it was for Robert from Creator Warehouse. And one of the big upgrades was a seven hundred dollars espresso machine And so I was so I was joking with her about that and how U, you know, can't I can't imagine like needing one of those in my own house because Like if I eat a chocolate bar too late at night, there's dark chocolate, there's enough caffeine in it that I might have trouble sleeping. goes, but you don't consume caffeine either. I'm like, no Really boring. She's like, no, no, boring is good I'm your doctor. Boring is extra good. no, but I'm We' b want to do for my birthday? Nothing. I'm gonna drink water. Chilled. Chilled water. Chilled water is pretty good. feeling feeling adventurous. I do think that's a pretty normal I'm a bit older now, birthday for a guy though is like I would like to drink water. No, I would like a break Seriously though, I think that's pretty normal Oh man I don't think I'm gonna come up with this Dan, Chat La Croix has too much flavor. Yeah, so my my my go to like, I crave soda. I love iced tea. That's that's a weakness of mine. I haven't had one in over a year But I love it Um and my My methadone is buoobly or bubbly or whatever it is. So we get the bulk pack at Costco. and whenever I go to the fridge because we keep our fridge stocked with all manner of soda pops and alcoholic beverages and stuff just because guests come over right and you want to be a good host So I like crave a drink and I go to the fridge and I'm like No I really want that one. take this one instead. And it does two of the three things that my iced tea does. It's cold. It's carbonate, well, ic tea iss not carbonated, but like you know, a fizzy soda pop or whatever. So it's cold, it's carbonated, and it tastes like shit. but At least it does two things, right? And that's like good enough for me to get fluid in me and not be thirsty anymore and not drink the thing I actually want U that doesn't answer your question. Ride your bike I bike whenever I want. This somewhere cool leave you alone when do. My bike's not that comfortable go on a long trip on it's more of like a street bike. It's like U your bite to the track That sounds like a lot of hassle. I don't think it is. It's definitely a lot of hassle. Okay. Yeah. I don't need that much hassle. I mean, I have to drive to the track. I have a homebodyody. Okay, so he's not leaving the house. That sounds great. This is what I'm saying then. Just have like have a day where you give your phone to Avune And that's there's no way I want that Why? I like my phone This was self serving. I wanted this to happen. What if you did something like gardening? Gardening? That' no. What if I did bardening? What if I did something like call up Dctor Kavorkian Gardening. I mean, you pl some flowers Yeah, in no way. To be clear, I'm willing to do that kind of stuff. Like we did we did hanging baskets for Yvonne for Mother's Day, which was fun because I didn't have to do any of the flower stuff because the irrigation system was clogged. so I diagnosed that. Basically, I did water cooling while everyone else did gardening and it was perfect Yeah, that makes sense. water cooling plants. Yeah. Intermitt water cooling plants. much U Jeez, I don't know. do you have any hobbies besides work? Gas racing says G get a massage, Crystal pipes in with he doesn't like people touching him Which is so true. You said do you have any other hobbies besides work? and it's like Badminton, which he basically said he doesn't want to do Well, it's not that I don't want to do. it's just it's not special. I do Badminton all the time. No, I know, but it's not about it being special. It's about it being a good day. Craft a good day It doesn't have to be special. Craft a good day. I couldn't do that even if I like Like I could do that. I don't do that No practice doing that. How does somebody do that? Why If you could craft a good day for your fortieth btht you craft a good day? Why why isn't a dayad for you Go play sleep in a little bit. Go play Badminton in the early mid afternoon area Come home I don't know, hang up by the pool, have a little barbecue thing and then go watch a movie and then go to bed H have a nice and like he have some good heavy two iced teeth Have as many iced teas as you want day. That's crazy. And have some meals planned out. That'. Have a v plan some meals out that you think you'll like So you have good food, you have good activities, you don't over exhaust on social energy and you sleep Okay Okay It's a good day Okay. and and it's not an insane day. And when I'm done with everybody in my house, I can tell them to get the fuck out Yeah, okay Yeah, they can go somewhere else. Yeah You can even give like U you could even like get a vgh to police that or something. Yeah, o. All right Or even just pres schedule if you do have people over and you said you wanted to watch a movie in the theater room. So just preschedule When the movie's done Everyone's leaving. Okay, I'll think about it Give them a little handout card off so that they. Y shoes are by the back door. Yeah, okay. so that the exit is like as fast as possible. Think about it. I hope you enjoyed the movie. Get out Stay the path says it's your house. You can always do that. It's not that simple. It's not that simple. There'scial there's social pressures. It's Hey children, I love you, but dad needs you to go somewhere else. Yeah, it doesn't really it doesn't really work like that At least I try not to I try not to work like that because it's not polite U, All right, I'll think about it Or maybe I won't think about it at all and I will just let the day pass and And maybe that will be the way that I want to. Maybe maybe ignoring it is what I really want to do. I don't know. You didn't even plan your own schedule. I think I know what's going on Yeah, have Vans plan it for you. Yeah , it's fine Anyways, open source NVIidia NVK Vulcan driver now supports DLSS. The community built open source NVK Vulc. Okay, I thought I had actually kicked this this topic. It's pretty cool. But the feature' like buggy and it's for the drivers that are like the not proprietary driver that like doesn't really work very good. So it's like progress, which is cool. I've used some of it But it's we're a ways off from this being something that you're going to run. So the headline, I think is good enough for now It's a lot of like like this This whole topic is pre compiled binaries and indK uersca experimental It isick. It's not well enjoyed by an audio podcast so we can leave it. Ado said Luke is an example. He doesn't kick anyone out of his house This is fun though. Here's a channel you might want to check out. It's called Bud and Pal, really. This yourgo like the logo, bro. A lot of work went into that logo. You know what? That is a bonafide guaranteed no AI logo I mean, that's fair. That's what that is. So Sammy and Luke started a channel. You guys might want to check it out It's not self promotion if I'm the one who does it. So H you watched any of it? No. Yeah, I didn't think so. I don't watch videos. You know that. Have you read the comments? No D I just assume it's good actually offended. It's you and Sammy. I just assume it's good. It was fun. What's fun I don't know how much I can talk about it ' because like you said, self promotion, whatever but, you can talk about it all you want. A lot of the goal with this was to Classic. Classic. The only thing that would make this better would be Cic sense Yeah, I'm disappointed. Yeah, I'm actually pretty disappointed that it's not comic sense. All right, I'llad the comments for you. You don't have to read the comments. I'm even going to leave a comment. hi. Oh from Wed. A big part of the goal is to just get out of U the normal like make something different. Yeah And this was very different to anything I've ever made. There was a lot of Back and forth debate on what it was even supposed to be. we were making it. But it was fun. I described it as a like wrinkling brain exercise Um, That's a very deep cut. L used to have. or not Lot Eed used to have a folder our on our work NAS. called wrinkling brains That was just disorganized dump of random stuff that wasn't organized at all and drove me absolutely crazy. Every time I saw it, I'd be like, why the fuck is the wrinkling Brains foolder still here There needs a place for everything, everything in its place. We can't have data disorganization will destroy our company, don't do that. And then it would always still be there wrrinkling brain. That isn't actually what I was mentioning though. Oh, it's like keeping your brain wrinkled. Oh like not smooth. Yeah It's trying to get me to do things that I'm not used to. There's that whole thing of where a lot of loss of neuroplasticity comes from just doing the same thing all the time. So this was like I do travel in fairly chaotic ways, but not like this And I never really make content like this. And like I think Sammy andi's approach to making content is very different. Yes. So having us try to do something together. Sammy isn't anyone's approach to making content is very good Um, But it was it was yeah, it was fun. And honestly, the fact that we came out of it with something that was watchable was crazy. But people seem to be liking it, comments seem pretty good Samy' a wizard like that then did you just Seriously, you couldn't have been a little more constructive She just did this From the official account. You're making us all look bad, Dan. I signed it. I know, but Anyway, go check it out Budon Pal, the most Canadian the most Canadian name, Bude for for YouTube channel. I love the description too. The description is two friends taking gaming to the limit because we thought that was gonna be the channel for a little while. Yeah. And' not travel? that at all. This is what I mean by. This is great. We don't know what's going on. Oh my God. I just trying to mess around. I'm trying to learn things and explore and stuff. It's been really interesting watching the stats on it. Because like I tweeted it out And Sammy tweeted out and like I posted on Discord. We did stuff like that. Yeah. But a lot of the you know, the audience that would go to it quickly from that donon't know us for this type of content. Right Yeah. So the watch time was actually really low rightight off the bat where I over time as I think Sammy was theorizing this as like people who might actually like this type of content found it. that aren't necessarily justust like pree existing fans of ours. The watch time just started cranking And's it's been really interesting watching the like overtime progression of how it's performed and magine with who and all that kind of stuff on a brand new channel making content that is very dissimilar. to what either these people have publicly made before Um D R part I thought the Draan part was pretty funny. I had Sammy stand in the rain told them that he was supposed to do a debrand segment and then we didn't record the audio And I just dubbed the audio of the DVran spot. So Samy was just standing in the rain for no reason. And thought I thought D Ran would love it. And I got an email from a robot afterwards that was like, Yep. Nice. That was pretty great. Nice U But yeah, it was fun. It was a really good experience. I don't It's extremely insanely unsustainable to do these very often. I don't have that much vacation time and We're not going anywhere. So ool So a travel vlog from someone who is not going to book travel explicitly to make travel vlogs. Pretty much. Nice. Soid like my family vlog, which still hasn't published an episode. Yeah. Samy and I were talking today where it's like maybe we'll do something like that like once a year Oh yeah, cool. And like maybe that channel will get some other content in between a little bit, but like this scale of thing would maybe be a once a year thing. It is harder to grow a channel with very dissimilar content being uploaded to it, I can tell you that much. So if the goal is to grow the channel, then strategy is mostly wrinkling brains. But if the goal is to just not let your memes be dreams, then We had a bunch of conversations before making it of like what success would look like. And for I was like, hey, I don't want to make I love Taiwan, so I don't want to make Taiwan look bad I don't want the video to just genuinely be bad Hello, Hi Sammy. Why are you still here? It's A you For me Oh right, that makes sense Um, I'm trying to get Luke to go on the Canadian railway. longest railway in North America. I just think it's gonna be so boring. It's going gonna be fun. It literally Over half of it iss just going to be wheat fields I literally have ridden from here to Montreal on the railway U Luke is right. Yeah. I can make a fun See, is this was basically us off camera the whole week, just arguing about everything Lse on, all right. I sa. Sammy, why are you standing F feet away from a near field microphone. I don't know how this works put your face near it and talk. Hello. It's a microphone. don't I I just came to say hi. Dan, could they even hear him? Yes. Okay, thank you. see, this is why we have one professional here on the show. one out of four. Good job, Dan But Somebody said who is who, who's buddy, and who's Pal? You'll find out next time. Is that like a season two reveal kind of or like cliffhanger kind of thing? I don't think. I think it's just gonna to be a like, you'll find out next time and then next time we say you'll find out next time You find nice in They'll find out soon You'll find out soon. Okay. I don't know. The goal is to have fun and experiment with things and learn and Have a good time. All right. Speaking of Sammy, our flow plane announcement, Lime Day is still on. Don't miss your chance to save. and if you arere a supporter plus member You can get free shipping on orders over one hundred dollars hundred in the US or over one hundred and fifty dollars for Canada and worldwide While you're on the site, by the way, check out some of the extras that went out this week on flloatplane. Not only do we have an hour long exclusive from when I worked a full shift at Guangha Digital Plaza Who would have thought a ten hour shoot would result in a ton of unused footage? Lul. But we also have extras from Steve Chan's AMD ultimate upgrade Fun fact, both videos have the same windows problem where you try to set up a PC without making an account and both times linus Isn't his best? What does that what that mean He's not here anymore What does that mean? What does that mean Also socks So Tatana talks about the forever song not actually going to last. I like the naming. I think our naming's been getting better. True spec was was wicked. Foreversoock seems really good It's a team effort. Trceback, I think was Dave Forever Sock was one that I don't think I came up with, but I pushed for it Um, because I thought it was u Like I was the one who it was actually, we were naming it right around the time that Thunder Whatever, that Marvel movie came out. U Thunderbolts. Yeahah, with the asterisk on. I was like, why do we just do that? Let's call it the forever sock and then just be like forever, asterisk. It's not actually going to last forever and that's okay. because I think it gets across Like it's the only sock you're going to want forever Oh, And it'll last a really long time. We have a limited lifetime warranty, blah, blah blah., Can I put you on the spot here? He can put me on any spot you wantready God Darnto was fun. Yeah You said it's the only sock you're going to want I stand behind that. Darnough makes Darn good socks U I mean, I think I've been very open with the fact over the last six years. Me talking about us making a soc goes back six years. We found a l show clip U And a huge part of why we took so long was that I wasn't willing to make something that I would wear and go, I wish I had my darn tuuffs and making something that I would be happy with after wearing darn tuffs for so long was really hard have a ton of respect for them. At one point in our journey, we approached them about manufacturing the socks for us because I was basically like, I give up Why don't we just see if Darn Tough will OEM them And they weren't able, whether it was capacity or just not their business model. I don't remember the answer, but they weren't able to do that. So we were like, okay,'re gonna we're gonna keep chugging along. ch ch ch. don't want to go on the train U, it's a major pain reference. The point is that we kept we kept chugging along and we eventually managed to build something that I'm really happy with But I wouldn't even say better than Darn tough. I think they're different than Darn tough. We have CSPs that are different than them and they're both really high quality products. I respect other companies that make high quality products and just because we have a presence in a space doesn't mean that all of a sudden their product is bad or that I don't appreciate the things that are good about it Dan's just onght a rip this week I should be a copywriter. Yeah, yeah Is that it Are we doing I think it's time for after A dark. Oh my gosh. Buton How are we doing in that regard, Dan? Not too bad. notot too bad. It's interesting I have gotten Better Have you gotten vicious Vicious. No I'm still gentle. It just doesn't affect me as much. I was looking at some of my previous statistics And Yeah, this would be overwhelming in the past, but Breatzhee through it Wow. Let's see. Well, I mean the first one here is about socks. Darned tough enjoy here. But they always wear prematurely just above the heel. Will LDT socks have any kind of reinforcement there? I'm hoping yes. So it is pretty typical for anywhere where you're changing the knit for you to have to join them and for those spots to be a little bit weaker. U There's no getting around that. And there you know, there will be places where eventually, like it's forever asterisk. like it doesn't it's not going to last forever, and there will be wear pointos eventually I have also made that observation and I I think we I saw our abrasion resistance test report. It came back very strong I think we're going to have extremely strong abrasion resistance, but nothing will be perfect forever and it's really going to depend on the way you wear your socks and especially it'll depend on your footwear So I've noticed that with socks and sandals There are different places that a sock tends to wear compared to if you wear more traditional footwear for instance. So your mileage may vary, which I know is such a Such a corporate answer anyytime we're talking about wear on a product, I think it's someomehat merited We've seen some pretty extreme scenarios that some of the audience has like that coal miner. Yeah, we didn't think that the LTD backpack was going to be used for coal mining. Did't see that coming U We should send them a pair of socks and just see what happens I didn't think that freaking Ty in from Creator Warehouse was gonna wear Testa socks by wearing them outside in the gravel. It's barefoot. It's a limited lifetime warranty. We're not going to like cover hitting them with a blow toorch. you know or scraping the walking without lifting your feet on concrete. you know, you got to have common sense and all of this, right Um L like, o man, yeah, 'use Tatiana told me that Tynan managed to wear a hole in some of his test socks. and I was like ' it hadn't been that long. And she's like, donon't worry he like goingo out of his way to wherear a hole in them by walking around in gravel and on concrete hard And I was like Apparently a lot to What a time and thing to do That would be. I had all my carpet replaced with sandpaper. Your socks are terrible they like I made my floor a convey liivving room eighty grit. So we're all just gonna have to have a little bit of. We're all just gonna have to have a little bit of common sense, you know? about all of this. H. Hello, Wanda, DL. Do you think Nvidia partnering with Intel to work on a chiplet GPU without having to be without having to bet the farm like AMD has to do with Ryzen could lead to better yields and power draw than monolith Q m. No, it wouldn't lead to better power draw than monolithic designs, but it would almost certainly lead to better yields Anytime you can do like a multi a multi chip package or chiplet, a multi chipt package That is going to help with yields. That's a big part of why they do them. But for me the most interesting thing about, you know, something based on, you know Panther Lake and Um, you know, like an RTX fifty series GPU would just be the pairing of that incredible X eighty six compatibility pererformance power efficiency of like Panther Lake And then the other all the above for, you know, NvIidia's latest RTX GPUs, it would kind of put the best of all worlds in one place for me seeeeing now RTX Spark, I kind of doubt that that's coming, but I'd still love to see it Nvidia seems completely invested in Windows on arm now That by, maybe not Who knows? Maybe they'll just But their IP in anything as as long as there's customer demand for it Loving the polos and screwdrivers. Linus, my wife wants to know what your favorite song on Taylor Swift's newest album is I don't even know what her newest alum is called to be perfect Oh no life of a show girl. I did know that. Okay. that's her latest Um S what are the song? Oh my Godd, look how Her one album Has a longer Wikipedia article than most Wikipedia articles? Are you kidding me, R? Every Wikipedia article is longer than Luke's. Oh my go God. Okay track listing Um No this one I don't know. I don't I don't listen to albums. I just I just find a song I like and then I go play radio. So I guess I'll um Oh, I'm so sorry to let you down. I'm a bad swwifty Bad, Swiftty. I don't even prefer the Taillor's versions of things Oh, her voice changed a little and it's not the nostalgia that I want So I listened to the Not Taylor' version once. Badwifty. Rude Yeah. Bad swwifty. That's not good. I would not admit that publicly. Rough. I know. You That might be Can we take this dream down? Yeah That might be one of the biggest like threat things you said on the show I'm going to enrage the Taylor Swift Phantom Yeah There's a lot of them. They can take you down like bees. Just because you have the same thighs does not mean you can say stuff like that I don't have the same ones. I have big thighs, but I think hers are better Maybe you're redeeming yourself. Hey boogers. A phrase of linuses that stuck with me is there are two kinds of right Right And right enough At least wear one of those Any other surprise phrases of clarity from the set? I don't remember saying that. Sorry. There are two kinds of right Right And right enough, We are at least one of those When the heck did I say that Nilk, you got a timestamp? Doid have really What does that even mean? Sometimes I wish there was the possibility for back and forth with Cs Can we get like a chat service going? No Noki says, I was gastered then I was exited. Give me am inud. It even Ohh, it's not it's not high enough yet. Hold on. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna spam chat so that I can there we go Give me an inute Frantically typing that into the keyboard. Oh ye I'm imagining I' imagining're just sitting there then won't see a million times. Oh, ' move it over the pip. Yeah, ' it was below the thing. Oh, I see.. I just I had to do this. Nice save. Nice sa. Don't ban. D't ban Don't t me out. Well, we'll come back. why's got Rocket League referenceces. Yeah. My son plays Rocket League. Yeah And I come over and I say, Are you winning, son? And then I see stuff. You see him spamming nice save? I taught my son good manners So yes, It's amazing how many like Gamer habits I recognize he picked up that I definitely didn't teach him It's just gamer culture, man. It's a thing It's a thing Not the words, though Um Okay up next Okay, Noki says there are one thousand nine hundred and twenty seven references to write in W and show. hold on. I'm trying my best boss man. Oh, it could have been from an LTT and says I think it's the august twenty twenty three thing, but BRB. Oh Larty. Well, you got a few more. Let's move on for now. Hi from Shanghai. My son, Six and I, a weird name for your son, I've been playing local co op games. Unravel two, It takes two, split fiction, lots of tape to tape Any suggestions for some classical local co op? It sounds like you've already found a lot of the really good ones. I just heard about peak because I live under a rock. so I downloaded it yesday. It's on Steam Summer saale for like four dollars or something like that So I picked it up, I'm planning to play that with the kids. Among us is genuinely fun. Yeah. I find it's also really fun with kids. We we were down at pack last year and I was down with my brother and a buddy of mine that's been coming down to passing me for years, but most of my crew has fallen off ever since COVID. pause on all that. So there's just the three of us But we ran into T my brother's friends that I also grew up with and' friends with Um, and they had their son's there. So there there was a bunch of us and we went to the VR freeplay section and they had among us VR. That's Probably some of the most fun I've had playing games in a long time because you're in VR and I was trying to I was trying to convince one of the kids to vote out his own dad. And the kids like six or something. and eventually I just started yelling and I put my arms up in the air and I was running after him in the game. And I could hear him like three seats over from me just start screaming and running away. And it was so funny. it was so funny. So just like when you made that little girl cry at a Mario Kart tournament Terry. small children is very fun. That's what we're gonna to do for Luke's fortieth. We're gonna get him a bunch of small children and he can make them all feel bad Perfect, pererfect, perfect. Pancrad says he thinks he found it Ah Okay, Dan, I've got it up. But yeah, it was funny. It was very funny And I was yelling you have to have toe your dad. You have to vote your dad. And then eventually I got him to actually do it. and it was it was great. It was it was just it was very fun. I was right, Nice Yeah Okay were ready? I think I was. I don't remember So we' see. And right enough And we are at least one of them Okay, hold on, right and right in I got those holes right. It's to the card itself and widening the holes. Okay, now we find out if I got those holes right. Well, there's two kinds of right. right and right enough. And we are at least one of them Oh I didn't think that was didn't think that was worthy of remembering for years. I guess what I was it's hard to know whatever ones of your own phrases are worth remembering Yeah Luke twenty twenty six. Can we please immortalize that? Oh my. Can that be at the very top of his Wikipedia page? Oh. Speaking of which, where we are on that? Hold on nowhere, probably. I don't know. You're becoming quite important. You are, after all, the co host of the Land show, which is what did we call the company again? It's an important company What What's this company called Do tell me actually say it? Are you not supposed to? No, I don't know. I don't remember what it' called. Isn't it adequate media? Yeah, yeah, addequate media. It's probably good enough. Yeah, co owner of addequate media. Wikipedia. Okay, hold on. let's see How close are we? Luke's Wikipedia article. Okay, here it is draft. So can we get that canan we get that as a quote at the God, look at all this Oh, people have been people have been on it. People have been as recently as a few months ago. tryrying if you'd like to continue working on the submission, o okay, hereere we go. So yeah, we need to known for his known for his Frequent Wisdom Equment with a brick. Equipment with a brick Okay Um Noki says, why didn't I remember that? Oh yeah, Pancras used Filmot. This filmmot is crazy. Yeah. It is so useful. I don't know if you guys have seen this tool before But basically you can just search for a channel Are we one word? I think we're one word there it is. that's the one U so you can just do that and you can search for socks and this was how I found your oldest reference was like super long time ago. Yeah, on WN show. What is this? . That doesn't make any sense placelace one of the items verify Well, it doesn't make sense to a bot like you, but I'm a human, so I passed it. So yeah, so basically I just went through and I found the oldest Wan show that I could find where I talked about socks And some of it is not related We're doing holiday shopping with squelching socks and if you want to be wet, our sponsor, Vessi. So more results. It's an amazing way to find that one time that we talked about Something really cool Great tool Yeah. occasionally, you hosted the Wan show alone some socks, they all feel great. it was isuentia It's an hour of just Luke You remember that? I occionally hosted my I'm saying that my socks are not. I always thought I brought a guest on condions. I remember I brought a lot of guest on. Like I brought my brother on, I brought my mom on, I brought me too. I tried to please on. It didn't always work out. Yeah, there's I mean, there's a crazy amount of stuff we've done that I have no memory of. but I don't remember solo hosting Wayan. Yeah. That's a thing. Cool Way to go. G job. H short, tall and Dan. Linus, how often do you use your VR? With my quest two I spend half the VR time troubleshooting issues. I hope the steam frame will be less frustrating. I'm gonna be honest I pretty much haven't touched my VR setup since I tried the Steam frrame Now that I have glimpsed the future, High quality displays, higher resolutions compact form factor, nothing Nothing excites me anymore. That isn't the steam frame and it's wirelessness and like incredible freedom of motion. I I just have not felt compelled to go into a virtual world And I'm just patiently waiting right now Look, have you tried your big stream beyond yet? No Damn What? The frame's gonna come out before I know if I should buy a PSB or not. We were like, justust finishing having organized the place and then I went on the big trip and then I've been sick and then ye wow The BSP will always mean backstreet boys to me by the way, Dan If that makes it better, I will continue to use that abbreviation The back street boys have just been sitting in your closet this whole time my closet. I'll take one in my media console. I have a little drawer You give in the can? Wendell teaches a course at Eastern Kentucky University on software development. True. If you could teach a college course, what would it be about? Um Man, I don't think I could teach a college course on anything Yeah. The stuff that I know' kind of special. Wrong Like I could teach a business course But like I don't know a thing about proper business. I just kind of like wing it I think I think We could probably both, but like a samminar Yeah college course. I don't think either us are doing that. Like I told the like I told the I told the middle school, the local middle school that it came up in conversation. I told them I'd be happy to come in and talk about sort of like the behind the lens of social media and like what the influencer industry is actually like. And they were really interested in that because I was just like I was talking to the principal of the school and I was basically just saying like You know, onene of the things that I talk to my kids about a lot is what you see on social media is what people want you to see on social media. It's not what's real. You know, you got someone posing on the beach with their fancy drink with their little umbrella whatever But what you're not seeing is like all the setup and how actually they're just sitting there editing away on their laptop for the vast majority of the time. It was just that one second that they snapped the shutter that they actually looked like that And, um you know, talking about all of the players that are vying for your attention and in some cases, your money and how it all works. and they were like, oh yeah, that's really interesting. Yeah, I could do a I could do a session on that, but cl like do a masterclass I think what you're describing is a masterclass. No No, because it's more like it's more like like a warning than an actual like actionable thing. It's like, it's like, here's all the things Yeah would watch out for on's that's a masterclass. Yeahah. I've never watched a masterclass No I haven't done that either I've never signed up for masterclass. That's not a dang dam is it? My mom got us masterclass subscriptions for Christmas one year. U, and there was like If remember correctly there was like a reason for everybody, like a suggested thing that we go check out and she suggested Gary Kasparov's chess Okay for me that was actually pretty sick I Rubscribe But I did the whole Gary Kaspar thing within that year. and was it was cool. Mis. McQueen says a class on being an ons screen persona. Again, though, that would be like okay, so that has the same problem as like running a business. I run a business obviously. It's been reasonably successful, obviously But that's not because I like am good at it or know anything. I do a lot of things that I do intuitively and instinctively. It's not I don't know it. And it's hard to teach something just because you're good at doing something or reasonably good at doing something doesn't mean that you Understand the theory and you understand the fundamentals and you can teach it in a way that is structured that other people can follow along with. I mean, from what I've seen about master classes, it's not necessarily you're teaching it to people who don't have any idea what's going on. You're teaching it to like more akin to peers of some kind. Sorry, I'm still hung up on college level course. likeike yeah, I don't know, mayaybe I could do a master cllass on that, but I wouldn't consider myself a master of that anyway. I'm okay at it Like I sounds like master talk That's exactly what the Messiah would say Thanks. Thanks, Brian. Oh my. O course. I actually rewatched it not that long ago. You would be surprised how many people have not seen that. No, I wouldn't What? The life of Brian noody's seen the life of Brian, Dan. The only reason I even know what it is is because my mom was was a Python fanatic. I seen the life of Brian Did you get the reference No, ye What did you even say? I didn't That's what the Messiah would say. Yeah, I don't like I did. Yeah I would get some references from it, but I haven't seen it a long time. Life of Brian is it's a movie that is that is hard to appreciate because it would be In my opinion, it it's actually This is okay, this is, this is going to ruffle some feathers. But I actually think it's the kind of movie that would benefit substantially from a remake Like are reimagining with actually good actors and like Okay No, I'm serious though because a big part of like the the premise and And the script is so ridiculous and it's so Funny But it's hard for people who are not Python heads to enjoy because it's just full of Monty Pythonisms And like you could just say North Americans Yeah they all liked um the what's the The nights one nice you say knee. Yeah, what's that from? It That's from the Holy Grail Holy Grail Yeah. North America loved that one. They did. Life of Brian was a little more Python. a little Pythony, yeah. Yeah. Like the bits, like they drag on for too long, which is funny. That is funny yeah If you're into that and is pretty off putting if you're not. Yeah, but I think sometimes you can make things for a particular type of people and not worry that it doesn't spill over. No, you can, but it's if you want something to be easier, It's like a candy coating It's like, yeah, you can make a medicine that, you know, makes people feel better. Buckleys. Sure Or you can put a candy coating on it and more people can appreciate it and both are valid But I like buckcys. and that's fine I just think that that's a movie. Life of Brian is one of the Python movies that I think could benefit from being a little less Python Whereas like holy Grail is unapologetically Python all the way through and it doesn't even really have much of a point Like the point of it is that there is no point and spoiler alert, at the end, it turns out it wasn't even set in the past anyway Like it's just the whole thing is just utter camp and silliness purely for the sake of utter camp and silliness. Whereas life of Brian actually like is like it it's like deeply funny. It's It's an amazing And I think it's even funnier today than it was when they released it, notot that I was around when they released it, but just looking at how utterly out of place You know, the actual you know, second coming would be today likeike how how challenging that would go Um, yeah, I think it just gets funnier over time. I I still remember the opening Blessed are the cheeseemakers Greeks shall inherit the earth That bud Grek you always get it. It like G. Because they were standing way at the back and they wouldn't be able to hear. There were no avI systems back then. Yeah. it was great Yeah, but I think it is a little maybe dated, but it's also not very North America centric It's a different different style. It's definitely a different style. And like I watched all of Monty Python, like when I was in in high school, I was like, Monty Python's funny right? I'm going to watch it all and I'll admit a lot of it did not resonate with me. likeike I it's like honestly, it's like any sketch comedy show Like you watch Upright Citizens Brigade or you watch Whitest Kids you know, you watch Monty Python I mean he help, Tim and Eric Yeah, a lot of it doesn't hit. U or at least it doesn't reson not every not every sketch can resonate with every viewer. But I do think that watching it all primed me for enjoying life of Brian more than I otherwise would have I think that's a very good way to put it. Yeah, Kids in the haall is another example of just like a lot of it's like Not very funny U and then occasionally it's like This is absolute Gold platinum Frankinsense and Murr all rolled into one.ike it's amazing O the next Hey Sbby, Lauffy and Bessie What helps you with big life decisions? I want big up grades to the house. the pain in the A Zoning restrictions find a different house in the city with features more money Back to the rural and drive is easy It helpels you with big lif. I mean, talking through, talking it through is huge, you know I think in a lot of ways, people around you can know you better than you know yourself. And so when you're really stuck on a decision You know, sometimes I'll just tell Yvonne and she almost never actually does this. which crazy but'll tell her, Can you just decide for me because realistically even if what even if what I want be okay with whatever it is Yeah. and even if what I want right now feels like this, you probably know better what I need. so It would be swell if you'd just tell me what to do Um big upgrades to house equals pain on the butt zoning restrictions, find a different house in a city with features equals money, move back to rural and drive equals easy. I think there's some things that I would consider is like if you if you back to rural and drive Go do that drive Dude really seriously think in your soul Do I want to do that every day? And then do the math of like the amount of extra driving for moving out there, compound that over a year fig out how much time is lost and be like, is that okay with me? Am I the type of person? you know, maybe it is. Am I the type of person who kind of likes a long drive alone? Am I going happily just listen to podcasts there and back every day? And this isn't a huge deal for me. It's a way for me to disconnect socially and get some of my introverted alone time or whatever, it's fine Or do you finish that drive and just feel like you just lost part of your life and you'll never get it back And that might help you aim a little bit. of different house versus zoning restrictions is maybe try to do the things And if you get full blocked, Consider moving Speaking of mostly shows that I found unfunny but had like particular bits that really resonated with me. If you've never seen the ass pennies sketch from Upright Citizens Brigade. Oh my go. It's one of my personal all time favorites. I thought that was an isolated sketch. I didn't know that there was stuff around that Well, there's nothing around it.'s just it was uppright Citizens Brigade. It was a sketch comedy show. No, what I mean? I thought that was just like a one off. Oh no. I think that's a very old from like Proto Innet. I just assumed that was a joke somebody No it was on comedy Central Crazy. Up Citizens Brig Back in the day, man Hey there Timbry Firate You've mentioned using Odysseus Triumver it yeah sure Urect correcting pronunciations is not something Luke gets to do often. Nope It's true. it's let him basask on rightight after I said it, I was like, Ohh wow. I got That's not normally me. It's the wrong base language. U he Triphir. You've mentioned using Odysseus for some of your AI prompting. Have you made use of any coding specific models? And how has that gone from you I am still working on getting it all set up. so I'm going go with Let me get back down that. Yeah. unfortunately honestly I think Dan might be the best option for this because I have been waiting to use models like that until I build my local stuff and my local stuff is not done. I've sourced some of the hardware, but I'm still waiting on other bits and I'm trying to get it very One of the GPU's mostly, but alsoing in there? Everything else. I have one GPU which work kind. Uh a for thousand ninety plan is two of them But plan might fall through if one that I'm trying to source doesn't come through. I got a spare that I haven't blocked yet You can either play with or borrow Nixon Mashing doesn't seem to matter bor. I've been trying to keep an eye on used market for U, some What is it Zen three thread rippers Was that it? I've got one of the original thread rippers sitting on the floor of my office that I'm too ADHD to sell. But yeah, too many computers. I've got some a bunch of used market components that I've been trying to keep an eye out for. It's It's rough out there, kids. So it hasn't been going too fast and I haven't been like You know, I've been traveling I haven't been like super chomping at the bit to get it done. So I've been trying to snipe out some deals. There's been a couple messages I've sent. U and just hasn't really worked out because I low balled probably too hard, but It is where it is Last one I got for you. Hi Luky Poo. If you were the president, CEO of Technology of Earth and you could change one standard, what standard would you change That's an interesting question Yeah, a combination might be good. I'm gonna think of something, but I think I have mine How? Do I have to say how I would change it? orr can I just point at it and be like, I want that to be better Yeah, yeah, I think that's fine. That's fine. You could submit it to your committee. You are a CEO. I wouldn't expect you to do real work. Well, I'm the president CEO of Technology of Earth I gues, exactly. you would definitely delegate. Yeah So DNS Interesting. I would get rid of it completely Okay, I think just manual lookup tables. If we could make it really, really good Th then we wouldn't have any problems. All computers would work all the time. There'd be no more tech issues. Wait, yeah. You're gonna get rid of an entire industry. I should every product. Yeah, that sucks actually. It destroy everyone's jobs. Yeah, I take it back I actually do have an answer. I was going to go with a pretty low hanging fruit. I would standardize on I thought DMS was low hanging fruit. That's pretty specific and monumental. No, I'm going I'm going even lower hanging fruit. I would standardize on a very safe H voltage universal power standard. That's. Nobody so that we could have thinner conductors And so that nobody would ever have to carry around an adapter to plug into A power outlet ever again. You don't have to include a bunch of junk with any international products that you' selling. That's pretty good. I like that. seven hundred eighty volts. Yeah I was just I was just yeah, someone in chat mentioned it. I was actually doing that pututting Jeff's shirt sideide gig out of business with that one L. Yeah, I was I was channeling Jeff Gerling right there I u but I didn't want to put his shirt business out You know? It're just destroying multiple industries. All right. We got one last one last comm here. 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