Sorry For The DDoS - WAN Show July 21, 2023

what is up everyone and welcome to the win show hype hype hype hype hype Nvidia will not make their own version of the 16 gig RTX 4060 TI probably because it sucks uh in other sorry sorry we have no way of knowing that because they're apparently not sending out review samples because it sucks in other news glorbo has come to World of Warcraft this is the best news I've heard in a long time this is actually really funny and I promise you it's not just gonna be luke talking about AI for 45 minutes yeah only like 10. yeah but it's really funny yes what else we got uh the US government creates new security certain no that's not the one I meant to read uh proposed legislation requires platforms to snitch on users this is actually like a pretty big deal if it goes all the way through but as far as my understanding goes it has a ways to go so we should step on it now uh other than that we're going to talk about some water cooling builds really build of the month is apparently a thing now what introducing new like meta cancels the quest Pro oh basically just throws in the towel see you later yeah that's kind of a big rip yeah exactly Corsair buys drop yeah I don't really care about that you know that's uh me right what oh okay no it's it's not it's not Linus Media Group sold the Corsair taryn's going back [Music] wow the show is brought to you today by Google and YouTube shopping secret lab and kudos why don't we jump right into our headline topic The Accidental DDOS yeah we probably should have mentioned that of where'd that where'd that go where did it go where did that go it's not a headline topic yeah what I I'm so confused right now um um um um there it is whoops LTT accidentally ddosed metacat USB too many people took us up on the title of our recent video download these handy tools now and it took down the metacat USB site and that's apparently all there is to say about it we have a picture of the temporary page that they put up um where they were kind of redirecting people to the Discord or to a direct file download and there's a discussion question how many times have we recommended a service and accidentally swamped their servers quite a few yeah I think one of the earliest love hugs we ever gave to anyone okay where is this oh it's above new do I have an old version of the dock or something right now absolutely crazy okay I found it hey this is awesome so here's the temp page that was uh that was showing up on their site the site is currently having major issues due to the recent Uncle Linus video please bear with us as we panic and update our Surfers oh no no no brutal um I think one of the earliest love hugs that we ever gave was actually to noctua and this was way back when we were in the Langley house yeah I know that we've accidentally taken down like small software projects quite a few times uh for those of you who are new to medi-cat this is one of the tools that we featured in our in our handy useful tool Roundup earlier this week but there's some really good stuff in here password removal tools backup and data recovery all that kind of cool stuff and of course you do not have to you know buy uh you know this tool I think we hugged it again fix what already oh crap it's still sort of working oh no okay well they there's a lot of really cool tools and it's not one of those you know advertised on Facebook a miracle you know whatever fix your computer things it's actually like chock full of pretty good stuff and uh yeah you can get a little bit more detail about it from the video we published earlier this week because you sure as heck won't be going to this website right now to learn anything about it so if you set a calendar reminder to go back good job you guys maybe maybe the rest of the community can remember times that we have accidentally love hugged people you know got hugged a little harder I even saw that they they said they were like they beefed it up which is why I thought we'd talk about it on wancho I expected it to be a little bit beefier this time the the truth is though that this sort of thing is very very difficult to account for right that was why I wanted to talk about this because it used to happen on the LTT forum for example on a fairly regular basis and and float plane as well where we would have a sudden inrush of users from something like a uh you know launch of a Christmas album for example or a live stream of an event like the roast of me where we held up for the roast we we did but it was very challenging and we had lots of advanced notice it wasn't work yeah it wasn't the kind of thing where you can just have people suddenly you know come onto your site at 2X or 5x or 10x the volume and you can just live through it oh apparently we took down rack studs um yeah that was one of them there's been a ton that we're not necessarily going to remember because they happened in that like you know years ago kind of range but yeah yeah I remember taking down racks that's super cool product is there anyone else come on guys help me out here help me out here do you want to talk a little bit about you know what it takes to put mitigations in place or something like that because I think a lot of people just assume like it's because you're cheap or something like that okay certain degree sometimes yes but also but there's also a range to being cheap because if you're like uh I'm not cheap I'm just gonna put the blank check on AWS or whatever else like oh yeah they'll absorb it they'll make sure you're okay but it might cost you an arm and a leg so oftentimes it's a good idea to to partner with like a range of different solutions right now for the form and float plane uh we have kind of a doubling where we have DDOS protections from our server hosts and we also have DDOS protections on top of that from cloudflare as well and that doubling has been very good for us that's been going pretty well we also have redundancies in place in a lot of different situations so if something does get effectively like brought down it should be okay because something else can can Auto balance and pick it back up I've got some other good ones ventoy was apparently having issues after the recent software video as well uh shadow shadow PC um yeah apparently went down the remote gaming Service uh the USB tester or they were ovh owned I think so yeah absence uh the USB tester that we featured on handytech uh sold out in less than two hours after the video oh man thanks guys that's all that's all just recent stuff it's hilarious oh oh uh uh Windows 9 I think had a bunch of issues I was pretty sure Windows nine yeah after after we made our video about it yeah I feel like if you're trying to do like all of it yourself it's gonna be pretty hard oh Puget systems apparently had issues yeah it's I mean it's re it's really challenging even even at even with our team size being what it is occasionally we will have things happen that are like oops that's that's a lot of load and it can it can be really challenging and it's not easy our team size is hyper small for the services that we support it's not easy to to achieve scale like we've talked a fair bit in the last few weeks about how easy it is to make Twitter yeah and the like base portion of Twitter is super easy to make but making it so that it's available to hundreds of millions of users is is like the whole complication and it is a lot of complication like it's not something that should be brushed over but just being able to do the uh just the like user kind of side of of something like Twitter would not be that hard it's back hey now cloudflare protected temp page yep so apparently they were ready for the WAN show today so that's uh that's good hey good job everyone all right why don't we move into what I think is probably the other big news for this week and that's that Nvidia will not be making their own version of the 4060 TI 16 gig after launching Founders edition cards for the 4060 TI and then actually come to think of it I don't think they did do a Founders Edition for the regular 4060. oh man uh oh now I'm uh now I'm blanking on this yeah I don't think so so after doing a Founders edition of the 4060 TI 8 gig they are not following that up with a Founders edition of the 46 UTI 16 gig the one that's supposed to come in a hundred dollars more expensive so the 4060 Series has gotten really um I don't know what words to use complicated alarming frustrating remember when a 60 class card was like 200 High 300 low you know for a non-ti and a TI yeah this lineup starts at 300 for one that is very cut down the 40 60 is a lot slower than the 46 DTI um like it's it's three quarters the price of the 4060 TI and barely even three quarters of the performance they both have eight gigs of RAM so then you step up another hundred dollars that gets you a 40 60 TI a fully enabled chip but still with only eight gigs of RAM which is going to be a limitation today or if not today very soon then if you want the fast chip and you want 16 gigs of RAM they want 500 US dollars so here's what's going on the 4060 TI is set to come out soon however Nvidia has decided against participating in the launch apart from overseeing the testing process and regulating when reviewers can publish their results so basically they're going to provide a reviewer's guide and an embargo and pretty much let their Partners go to town reportedly they will not even produce or sell their own version of the 16 gig variant nor will they be providing review samples so that's a sign of confidence in this product what's really baffling about this to me is that if they don't think that it's going to be successful why don't they do something about it I mean everyone already knows that 40 series other than a couple of key skus I think 40 90 is moving well 40 70 TI is moving well but basically everything else is dead in the water why not do something make the adjustments I mean the Nvidia of yesteryear would have put some aggressive game bundles on these like these things would come with like two or three AAA games or something like that I mean I guess that's that's harder in the age of everything free to play with microtransactions but like you know still why you know why hasn't the graphics card industry adapted to the modern the modern gaming economy then why doesn't it come with a hundred dollars in Diablo for bucks or you know uh 50 bucks in Roblox or like remember those bundles when you used to be able to pick what you wanted yeah why doesn't it come with a selector so I get 100 bucks in you know whatever bucks I might have spent make it a compelling value there is also a bunch of modern games that do cost money not a lot but money they're not like full fat like 80 AAA games but still uh like crab champion and battle bit and stuff like that where there is there is a pay up front cost that could be included with these things doing like a more Indie approach like you get crab Champions and battle bit on a graphics card would actually probably work really well they're both very popular names right now I can see that moving cards this is just bizarre to me though like instead of making the product line good they're basically just going yeah the one good one we have we know it's overpriced so we can't I mean we simply couldn't adjust the price but that's the thing they definitely 100 could because we already know here hold on we can actually do the math on this all we got to do is go to dram exchange because everything else about this card is the same it's not like there's a completely different GPU core so we're going oh well the yields for this core uh could be very very different you know going from the 40 60 to the 40 60 TI you know maybe there is a difference in cost that is is not publicly available but when it comes to Ram it is this is a commodity product gddr6 is at a spot price of let's see um session average of three dollars per eight gigabit okay so eight gigabit times eight is going to be gigabytes so it costs about at spot prices mind you Nvidia is almost certainly paying less than spot prices about twenty five dollars 25 bucks so even if they were taking 50 points I always forget if it's points of margin or percent profit or whatever even if they were charging double of the actual bill of materials cost to them for this higher memory capacity SKU then it would still be four hundred and fifty dollars not five hundred dollars this is literally the exact same product plus 25 bucks of dram but instead they're basically just going yeah rather than have a reasonable pricing scheme we'll just take our ball and go home and you will just not have a 16 gig card because that looks kind of like how it's going to shake down Hardware in boxed has said that every Nvidia partner that they spoke to so far has said they will not be providing review samples either nor are they sure when their own cards will be available this thing could not be lower priority I mean okay yeah our notes Here say it's possible that the 4060 TI 16 gigs recommended retail price of 500 being only a hundred dollars less than the 4070 has made many board Partners skittish and that's absolutely true that makes a ton of sense um how on Earth could they possibly hope to sell this thing and one of the one of the real big challenges is that if you were to go all in and say yeah we think the 46 GTI is going to be a beast Nvidia will take a whole bunch of chips let's go let's build these things um the fact that Nvidia themselves is not going to be sitting on any inventory of it means that you could be basically out there on an island by yourself with no recourse no way to sell this thing you know what's really confusing to me too is you look at all these modders out there that are just upgrading the vram on on gpus what exactly would prevent board Partners from just putting 25 dollars worth of vram onto a 40-60 eight gig do you think there's some like uh agreements there that they can't do something like that oh almost certainly but I mean okay riddle me this I'm MSI I'm a sue some gigabyte or you know whoever I'm someone I'm someone other than EVGA I'm an Nvidia partner I have a 4060 TI eight gig okay and it's a little bit above MSRP it's like 439.99 something like that sure okay you the customer take it and plug it into your system you're like yup this is a 46 DTI 8 gig I sure hope this core is overclocked a little bit because I paid more than MSRP for this and then you go hold on a second what's this little switch on the card oh that's funny it doubles the video memory is this is this real or is this just fantasy oh it's real oh wow what a fantastic bonus I mean would anything prevent that I think so because I think there could be agreement saying that you can't change the memory on the board yeah probably I just hate I just I just hate the way it wasn't Nvidia just controls everything I was gonna say I think it was last winch out you're talking about how Nvidia just loves control and videos a control company yeah I I doubt they're gonna just let them be like oh we could just we can just double the ram that's fine it's probably not allowed um shaft 2K says the 16 gig is a completely different board design due to the bus width I don't believe the bus width is any higher I believe it's just um two dram modules per whatever hold on a second 40 60 uh TI 16 gig man bus with I could be wrong about that it could be 256 bit but I really don't think so because as far as I can tell that GPU so by GPU I mean the core not the card uh only supports on 128-bit memory bus yeah no it's 128 bit yeah they just they just double up the capacity in fact you know what it's probably just denser chips because eight gigs is not super high density these days um because I was going to say before maybe they've just doubled up the memory chips but no no what I suspect is that these are just higher density chips and it is literally the exact same thing unbelievable what if board Partners just added a physical slot to add more memory like the olden days you know what we actually have a video coming that's very much about that even though I actually looking back on it I think we've done a bad job of the title and thumbnail because it's it's called um uh starting at is the biggest lie in Tech like the starting at price and what we're what we're pretty much doing is taking a look at how manufacturers have manipulated starting at to make their systems in particular seem like a much more appealing option than they really are when the only way to get them up to a reasonable spec that has enough memory and has enough storage is to give the manufacturer an inordinate amount of money we do the math on this and I I forget I forget the exact numbers but I think apple is making something like 12 times the cost in margin on their SSD upgrades some of them like just ludicrous unbelievable profit margins on these things and and Dell was like better but not by much and we kind of dig into you know how the how the tightly integrated nature of modern system designs makes this far more lucrative and far more possible for these system manufacturers because you no longer have the option of just buying the base model today and then upgrading it down the line you either have to pay the ransom extortionate price at launch or you just don't have more RAM or in some cases even more storage I'm really you can't even change the storage however there's two sides to every story right and there is a performance benefit to the way that they're doing things a real one not an imagined one and that's actually the the example that or the the illustration that I use for this is what happened with gpus like man this would have been like 25 almost like 30 years ago a long time ago it it's a really good point that was brought up in the chat that gpus actually used to have expandable memory and this was in the form of like slots and and little like sockets that you could stick RAM chips into and stuff like that and the reason that they didn't was because of the bandwidth requirements because of the performance requirements every time you add Trace length and every time you add some kind of of pogo pin or LGA or socketed interface you are adding signal degradation and the more signal degradation you have the slower the speeds you have to run your memory at and for for gpus then and now like gpus can basically never get enough memory bandwidth which is a big part of why the 4060 series sucks so much because they're using only a 128-bit bus on what is purportedly a 60 class card um I forget where I was how I started this sentence the point is they they need tons of memory bandwidth they can never get enough and so the decision was made that you know given that there was probably going to be a fairly appropriate amount of memory anyway and by the time you needed more memory that GPU would be out of date anyway the decision was made to basically move forward with gpus always having soldered memory and those benefits do extend to Modern systems for example in ddr5 you ever notice that you can't buy a ddr5 sodium that's faster than like 4 800 yeah you can but you can buy systems now that have ddr5 running in excess of 7 000 Mega transfers per second Asus has one where they actually are doing a similar on package um memory chip similar to what Apple's doing with their M series Silicon that runs at like 7 700 Mega transfers per second or something like that and is only able to do that because the traces are like this long so I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's a little bit more complicated than manufacturer bad uh but also manufactured bad yeah because there is no similar argument for doing that with storage PCI Express can run over distances like so and Beyond moving on rcd okay asks why aren't CPUs soldered to the motherboards then well in mobile devices they are although it's for different reasons one of the big reasons is that you are able to reduce the Z height ever so slightly giving you thinner devices and perhaps more importantly more room for cooling mechanisms above the CPU which in most mobile devices is the main heat generating component unless you also happen to have a GPU um as for why they continue to stick with socketed CPUs and motherboards I mean it always comes down to cost doesn't it you just have to you just have to assume then that the cost benefit of being able to have one motherboard design that can have dozens of different CPUs in it is greater than the cost benefit or performance benefit and therefore cost benefits so they can charge more for it the cost benefit of soldering the CPU and then being locked with that inventory that is only sellable as a as a complete package during the CPU and the ram would be so boring yeah I mean that's basically the the high performance uh Nooks that intel was doing that they ultimately gave up on I don't think enthusiasts want that yeah and I don't know if enthusiasts will ever is a big word but I don't know that enthusiasts will ever want that it would really you're really not doing much building the computer at that point I do propose a solution in the video though uh match miles Scott says you can get 5600 megatrans for ddr5 sodiums I haven't seen them um the point Remains the Same but you are correct technically the very best kind Etc um anyway I do propose a solution to all of this in the video but I'm gonna make you watch it so anyway yeah because it's a good it's a good video it's actually a good video what are we talking about right 4060 TI um our discussion question is if Nvidia is going to put so little effort into making this thing a success why release it at all I don't know it's a really good question um I guess uh a lot of these things are such a far run out yeah I guess they don't want to pull a film studios yeah and just be like yep we're done making Scooby-Doo sequel but let's we're actually do you know did you hear about that yeah they just didn't release it right it is garbage Canada it's not just kind of done like it's not just shot like uh uh Batgirl where it's completely shot but not edited it is actually finished and the reason that it's finished so so people were actually working on this film for some period of time after the decision had been made they were working on this film they need to get it to a certain point for like a higher tax credit or something no it's because their contract was that they would finish it so they wouldn't get paid like like outside outside animators or something like that I forget the exact details but basically they're contract stipulated that they were to deliver this finished work so the film was done it was in the final stages when they made the decision to pull the plug on it and then it will never see the light of day even though it is completely done because it was more beneficial tax wise to write it off than to release it and have it make almost no money which is oh apparently the movie got leaked I was gonna say that's pretty these are the scenarios where you always just really want someone to leak it yeah that's uh I I I support that man so that's good the film industry is in a very have you been following that only vaguely because I no longer have family members in the film industry so I I don't I mean it matters but like it it's not it doesn't directly impact me as much anymore it is in a wild place right now man like it's writer strike is is I think one of the most brutalizing in both directions strike that I've seen of any strike in a long time well that and the actors jumped in with them so so basically you cannot you cannot produce anything and I am deeply worried about the situation because I don't think that they have as much leverage as they think they do they're going on strike at a time when the studios are losing money on major releases I mean when's the last time that Disney actually made money on anything um like even major tent pool Productions are not bringing in the kinds of profits that they used to and so you know I was reading a few weeks ago about how CW basically like pulled out of Vancouver so that was that was one of the networks that used to shoot a bunch up here in Vancouver and was one of the one of the cornerstones of the local production industry and they were just like yeah we're like basically canceling all of our scripted shows because they're too expensive forget it see you later um so so the networks are looking for excuses to cut costs and then you have a whole bunch of people voluntarily going okay you don't have to pay us right now and then the networks are kind of sitting there going like did you see that um that a legend of hoses or whatever alleged quote about basically starving them out um so something that came out today is that the Screen Actors Guild released guidelines for influencers yeah um for you know how to well I really think they could have done this in a more constructive way um because you know frankly I'm not a member of The Screen Actors Guild I will never be a member of The Screen Actors Guild so like you actually cannot dictate the terms of Engagement to me and there it was it was done pretty poorly their wording's pretty aggro yeah if you so much as post a picture of yourself putting on pink shoes to go watch the Barbie Premiere then you are in violation of the picket line and you're a terrible person you will be banned from ever joining The Screen Actors yeah yeah it's like bro I am not good enough to join the screen yeah and it will never be an actor and also like are you kidding me I you know this isn't even a paid engagement or whatever but regardless of their tone and regardless of whether they actually are the boss of me or not you know I I I fully I fully support them even if I feel like the battle is concerning pretty worrying you know when you're in like total war right and there's that bar in the bottom that's like green and red for the strength of your remaining Forces versus you played Total War don't worry about it when was it I don't know like a month ago what yeah I was just goofing around whoa yeah we pulled out a total war game for like a video and I was like a video I love no no I was like I love playing Total War and then like I went home and played some Total War and oh man lost so bad because I hadn't touched it since Rome Rome one yeah yeah Total War that lines up for me that makes sense yeah anyway um uh anyway so I have oh I don't make these decisions anymore I've had a vision that I will have a conversation with our with our new CEO um that I think we I think we should to the greatest degree the greatest extent that we can at least for you know some reasonable period of time you know let's say three months to start and we'll go from there um you know we want to be in full support and that means not only not taking money from any Productions I mean that one's fairly obvious in terms of crossing the picket line but we also just won't be promoting them in any way uh even if they aren't putting on pink dresses unpaid capacity I mean you're wearing a pink shirt uh I might be wearing pink underwear no yellow yellow today lttstore.com um but yeah we want to we want to support them to the the greatest degree that that we can so we're gonna do our best and to be clear this is not because of Barbie movie this is because next weekend [Music] last time whale so I'm wearing it because of LTX not because of Barbie just just you know not not supporting you know blah blah blah blah yeah uh have you guys done any promos or sponsorships with any studios in the past yeah we have yeah actually not very often it's kind of surprising surprisingly infrequent yeah like the number of video game movies and stuff like that that come out and it doesn't occur to them to go to gaming and Tech influencers I'm just like do people even try we tried doing a thing with hop am I a joke to you and I I thought Hot Wheels was going to be all over it and I I think they were just like oh we don't see the crossover but then they did a thing with Forza and yes obviously Ford says racing whatever but I'm like it's a game on PC that looks great people like building really nice PCS to play Forza with like how do you guys not see the crossover there's people that like Hot Wheels that like computers come on oh well anyways um should we move on yeah keep it chill in the chat guys um you know Union versus no Union is not a black and white issue if you think it is you're wrong yeah it's just not um it's nuanced and complicated and every situation is a little bit different um and this situation is very challenging that's uh that's all I have to say about that it's time for a couple merch messages if you guys are wondering super chats which bits those are not the way to interact with the show the way to interact with the show is with merge messages all you got to do is head over to ltdstore.com where we actually have a couple pretty exciting things to talk about this week you head over to ltdstore.com and in the cart you will see a box with to fill in a merch message when we're live and it will pop up down here thanks to producer Dan or producer Dan will reply to your message with his fingers like the oh my button's not working I can't show producer Dan anymore oh oh no it's working now cool okay or producer Dan will reply or he will curate a couple for me and Luke to talk about uh Dan do you have a couple for us to maybe show how merch messages work yeah sure let's see what we've got here question for Luke I recently started a job as a full stack developer for the government I'm wondering how you feel about the differences between private versus public and switching between the two oh like private public sector work I believe so yeah I believe so yeah um no I don't think I have a very satisfactory answer here um I they're both very legitimate lines of work I think there's a immense amount of red tape to jump through on the uh public sector side of stuff that can be an immense amount of red tape on the private sector side of things too exactly it depends what you're doing and it also the depends on where you are at in the chain if you're working in public sector but you are just you know dealing with the tickets um maybe there's no red tape for you to jump through you're just doing what you have to do so I don't know I'm sorry I really don't have a lot to say I have no issue like if someone applied here and they had public sector experience I'm just going to count that as the the same as someone who had private sector experience like it doesn't it doesn't mean anything different to me personally it might be particularly interesting depending on where you worked in the public sector and what you were working on but that's the same for private sector so yeah I don't know yeah absolutely I mean I think that there's some there's some general rules that you can kind of apply I mean at least here in cam it is all I can really speak to but here in Canada public sector workers tend to get for example pensions that are very good very very generous compared to what is typical in the private sector where as far as corporations are concerned I'm sorry you're not working for me anymore why am I why am I giving you any money um yeah yeah I also see people interpreting public sector work as like you're now on like the track you just stay in public sector forever and as long as you don't massively screw up you'll just like have a job no I I don't think I don't think it's necessarily like that and I don't think you necessarily have to have that attitude about it um I mean I think you might have interpreted that in a way that I was not trying to say it or maybe I said it poorly I don't know but I wasn't saying it as a negative thing oh oh I see what you mean yeah yeah I mean I Oh I thought you were kind of saying that people just feel like they can check out and just like no no not necessarily just like if you if you just keep pushing it's it's like very high job security basically right but not that you should necessarily slack off I know people that have been I know of people that have been laid off from public sector it does happen yeah for sure but like yeah good pension good benefits like it's a it's a good place to be in but you could get in a better place in private sector there's going to be a ceiling yeah there's there's going to be a ceiling in the public sector so there's no free lunch right there's always trade-offs and like we uh we we were actually trying to recruit someone for uh only tangentially related position from the public sector and when they did the math it was you know it was very it was very challenging for them they were kind of going okay so right the wage is higher but the odds of the government of British Columbia existing in you know 40 years when I'm reaching the end of my career is somewhere close to 100 percent the odds of Linus Sebastian and Yvonne ho existing in that time is you know pretty good but not as close to 100 percent and this is something that they need to factor in along with the you know the differences in pay today versus the you know the long-term benefit I think that something people don't necessarily account for is that pensions look a little bit more generous than they actually are in many cases this was something that I figured out with with life insurance a long time ago there was some there was some fancy life insurance product that someone was trying to sell us where basically when it matures you actually get back everything you paid into it and I was like how does the math on that work it's like oh right because they've been taking because they've been taking my money for 35 or 45 years or whatever and they're just giving me back you get you give you give me five bucks now I'll give you five bucks in 30 years yeah exactly exactly so that that's the math so when you when you look at you know whatever your pension is the math might look really really favorable today but if you were to just take money and squirrel it away now and build yourself a nest egg that is you know made up of an investment say for example that pay dividends uh then I don't know how does that pension compare and pensions aren't a sure thing is it feels like they used to be you're looking to change so they're they're not yeah you look at the way that public Pension funds are just getting the crap kicked out of them sometimes and it's it's scary man but I read a whole article on how they've you read a whole article yeah did you whole article I'm a good boy gold star I read a it's it's on the like the section of Pensions specifically right and how they've just kind of like ruined them over time they used to be a lot more secure they used to be a lot more guaranteed and now they've been just like trashed um to the point where retiring is like kind of scary because you just have no idea what's going to happen with your pension yeah especially because like with how long people are living these days you could be retired for 35 years assuming you retire at 65 and live to a hundred which is obviously unusual not common but happens but not unheard of yeah and you do not want to be 98 and totally and completely flat broke right that's a bad time yep all right Dan want to hit us with another yeah sure thing let's see um hi lld can you talk about the first time or the worst time you have accidentally violated an NDA oh I think one of the worst ones was with the pixel I think it was the pixel 4A or something like that pixel 4A or pixel 5A I went up a day early for 3A or something I don't know I know I was using it early and I was on Wan show and I pulled out my phone yeah I know hahaha it's okay companies I understand he does it to me too yeah I um I mean at least it's been an accident every time but there's been yeah there's been at least a handful of times that I have accidentally violated an NDA I think there's a video that was accidentally scheduled one day early or like one hour earlier one minute early or something yeah it's one of those things where a common time for ndas to expire is 6 a.m Pacific time and the reason for that is that it's still the previous evening is it previous or whatever whichever way the date line goes I can never remember but it's still the though the following it's still the following evening um in like southeast Asia and China and then it's still daytime in Europe so it's like yeah yeah it's like morning in Europe no no it's afternoon in Europe morning to like late morning in North America and like still evening in Australia and like China and stuff and so it's like a an ideal time from a global you know sending out emails and Publishing videos standpoint but most people in this company don't get up at six in the morning so we will sometimes have videos that are just scheduled to go live and nobody's there looking at them and if they you know include some information that they weren't supposed to or if they go up at five instead of six because we click the wrong button or whatever and people try to contact us like we're asleep right so sorry I guess yeah um not really much that we can we can do about that I'm just trying to find if there's anyone that has searching my inbox for NDA brings up um here's Result One to a hundred of many yeah I was trying to find if um if anyone you know would complain to me about anything but I I yeah I don't see anything generally speaking we try to be pretty clean about that stuff because it's a really quick way to not be able to get review samples anymore breaking embargo or violating a non-disclosure agreement and to be clear I know there's some people that are sort of just like anti any kind of agreement between media and manufacturers but it's like okay what what's your what's your favorite review samples at all if there isn't any ndas in place what's your proposed solution they have magical fairies that they give the phone or the graphics card to that all depart their headquarters at different times to ensure that you know the you account for the different flight times to all the different places that these devices need to be delivered so that they'll all get it at exactly the same moment you know you want Mark Rober to design packaging that literally is indestructible until it can be opened at exactly the same time like you got to be realistic right they they do their best to get everything out at kind of the same time ish and then they have ndas to ensure that everyone has a similar amount of time to work on their articles or their videos or whatever the case may be yeah I can't find any that's okay I'm over it what were you talking about again oh yeah sure let's do a couple more topics okay do you want to talk about your proposed legislation that requires platforms to snitch on their users this one is really rough once you start trying to break down like how it would work at all uh the Senate Judiciary Committee has forwarded a piece of legislation the Cooper Davis act that would obligate online community communication services and social platforms to report users to the DEA that the drug enforcement agency if the platforms suspect them of being involved in criminal drug activity okay the problem with this is that like the definition of criminal drug activity is I think we could say outdated at best oh yeah yep the bill does not explicitly require imbalanced imbalanced Maybe it's just it's also especially in the states well yeah that's what we're talking about and stuff oh that's all over the place it's so weird and like in some places it'll be better and I don't understand how this works so I'm not a uh but I'm not in that area I don't do those things um but in some places it'll be federally illegal yeah but I or I don't know I think it's usually the other way around where it's legal federally but illegal Stateside I think it might be able to be the reverse as well but I don't know how that works I I don't know um the bill does not require this is in quotes the bill does not require providers to seek out illegal activity by users end quote but if but it creates incentives for companies to incentives is is for companies to surveil their users and does require that once providers are aware of this activity they must report it or else face steep fines legal liability and potential criminal prosecution again in quotes proponents of the bill say that it would help crack down on illicit drug markets that have been proliferating on social media platforms end quote but privacy Advocates have criticized the bill as potentially furthering weakening and in quotes already inadequate privacy laws I strongly agree with that and undermining encryption yeah this is kind of brutal like I'm I'm looking at it going you know if someone um okay I I look I I don't personally partake so my ignorance may be pretty ignorant but you know I could see someone using a Facebook Marketplace for example hypothetically to uh to do some kind of transaction let's say uh you know you know how okay for example you can't buy lawn darts on eBay okay so everyone who wants to sell lawn darts on eBay sells the box for lawn darts and oh by the way if lawn darts happen to be inside it well whoops I had no idea so like I I could see people you know selling pictures of a marijuana leaf on Facebook Marketplace and like that's code for yeah I don't know maybe this is a thing maybe it's not a thing I legitimately actually don't know but then you know where's the line for this if meta I am selling an unknown brick yeah if meta if meta knows that people are doing this all of a sudden or if they suspect it even all of a sudden are they are they required to and especially a platform like meta where they're trying to gather any possible information about their users they they might have to like change what they're doing in order to not um expect these types of things the harshness of the penalty for failing to report is likely to encourage companies to over report users for protected Free Speech which may result in a chilling effect that prevents users from discussing past addiction joking or reaching out for help the Senate has yet to put the ACT to a full floor vote again it's not like it's this is not it's not through some people are super mad that I'm not a pothead and then others are like yeah I knew it mad that you're not a pothead yeah I don't know well I'm mad people people just like you know having things in common my Creator must do what I do or else I'm angry on internet I'm high on life okay got these ketchup chips dare that's great uh but yeah I don't know I hate this thoroughly as as someone who runs platforms this sounds like the worst yeah it sounds basically I mean even if we ignore the overreach even if we ignore the complete lack of sensibility in Narcotics laws in I mean really the world uh the inconsistency as well even if we ignore all those issues how on Earth could they possibly hope to enforce this how can you prove that they they knew that this user was uh how can they prove that the platform suspected a user of being involved in criminal drug activity I wouldn't be surprised looking at the like the wording at least for the penalties involved I wouldn't be surprised if there was some amount of like uh bounties for reporting your company for not reporting things so you could like make a bunch of money for throwing the company that employs you under the bus just go somewhere else um because I I I feel like they've the the only the only sites and services that would really be doing any amount of uh assessment of users at this level would be really big sites and services that have lots of money and have lots of employees and are probably at a point where they're like the the people coming to work here they don't necessarily care too much about the company at that scale so maybe they'll take the payday I don't know it just it just seems kind of whack to me personally yeah Bixby and float plane chat says suspicious activity reports are a thing for banking institutions for example to report suspected money laundering I feel like that's different well well no like in terms of how they could how they could incentivize the employees like what you're talking about okay yeah yeah I could see that and I mean drugs are one of those things where you will definitely get people with very polarized opinions about it you know you'll have people with the giant marijuana leaf on their t-shirt literally walking down the street holding a bong and then on the other side of it you've got the you know think of the children prudes who are like I there should be no drugs in the world they should take all the naturally occurring plants that have you know um Tylenol bad is not the one that's bark or something I don't remember not to that degree but like you know anything with a psychoactive effect should basically be put in a big fire oh but not close to people in Australia and we should get rid of all of it right like so you've got you've got both sides of this so I think you're going to have people that are just essentially ready to go to war over this immediately after something like this sort of pass I mean I man I was about to say I really don't see how this could possibly pass but like I don't know Wilder things have happened you look at look at the look at the gong show that was like natural gas stoves or like ranges a little while ago like just how just how quickly people can form ranks aspirin and just go after each other also you know given the number of recreational drugs these days that are pharmaceutical products how how on Earth do you prove that I didn't need that Adderall I mean I didn't get it from a pharmacy in this case so that's that's one thing well that's I mean maybe they were closed that's if they're using it as a Marketplace but lots of these places they're also including just talking about it right and I I don't know but I I just looking at the things that I hear like you you hear about a lot of fatalities from fentanyl for example that's a big one in Vancouver we hear news about that all the time um but fentanyl is a is a drug they've given hospitals yeah so like what if someone is prescribed fentanyl well you wouldn't be prescribed it is it only ever administered at hospitals because the the amount of it to be lethal is like so tiny what if you talked about how it had been how you've had it before yeah but you just meant in a hospital even if that person doesn't ultimately end up in jail look at the amount of administrative nonsense that you're creating what a what a waste of time when police departments quite frankly have enough on their hands um someone in Philippine shot says you can be prescribed fentanyl for at-home use my dad had it no way that sounds terrifying lost Insanity says Hey so the state of Louisiana finally sent out an email today that those who were affected by the Department of Motor Vehicles hack that occurred they're providing a year of LifeLock to anyone that was affected by it but they finally notified people of it at least this is something that I've found quite confusing for a long time so you know how difficult it is to change a social insurance number or for our American friends a social security number um you know once you have it assigned to you you know how impossible it is to change your birth date for example like these these key pieces of information that can Aid people in committing identity theft or fraud um the fact that the only mitigation that is offered are these um these monitoring services like uh like LifeLock is one that I haven't heard of before but I've heard of it before I find it weird that they Grant you a temporary amount of time with a private service yeah well that's really weird to me that's exactly kind of where I was going with that so whether it's like TransUnion or LifeLock or or any one of those kinds of organizations why why is this a thing yeah this feels like one of those things where you look at and you go that's got to be lobbying oh yeah because the obvious answer is a permanent solution yes and the not obvious answer is one that you pay a subscription to some Rando third-party company that has had their own breaches in the past I don't know if LifeLock has but TransUnion certainly has forever and I'm sorry you're giving me one year so what if I'm a criminal mastermind I basically just go to do I'mma wait 365 days this information will all still be valid due to come on are you serious right now January 15 2023 thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks potentially allowing criminal hackers to access customer password managers uh the company revealed in a recent data breach notice cool no that's a nice hat I disagree this is from float plane chat they do know better I think they do know better I think it's just the oldest reason in the world man if you want to go down a good rabbit hole the uh the fact that um Turbo Tax exists at all God no okay you've already done this one yeah that's such that enrages me that should so not even close to be okay that's so frustrating like I I I understand government services and some private Services even you shouldn't just be able to like Crush companies from existing all the time and stuff like that but same setup should not be allowed to exist to forcibly keep completely useless motions in in like completely useless things in motion it's so incredibly frustrating people are mad about the U.S tax system yeah it's not as bad in Canada but it's still completely messed up it's still bad it's still ridiculous American Tax is just a complete utter joke there's like potentially worst and there's so much stuff that's so dumb one of the things that I was just outraged to find out as an adult is that when you buy a second-hand vehicle you have to pay sales tax on it and I'm sitting here going no you already taxed this yeah that's double dipping like am I if I okay if I if I could have a double dipping Rabbit Hole there's a lot of that there's an absurd amount of that like if I deduct something this year do I get to deduct it again next year because I gifted it to my wife like what are you talking about you guys just trade it back and forth oh I'm sure people do that it's it's such a joke man ah I don't know it's very very very frustrating the whole like we know exactly how much you owe but you need to tell us and if you're wrong you're screwed yeah what why yeah do you know how it works for corporate tax here not as much okay so uh you know how with personal taxes you um you have them deducted by your employer on your paycheck automatically right um or or you cannot right like you can you can go that option if you want I don't think that's something that we offer just because offering both sounds like a paperwork nightmare um no offense to everyone but people do not manage their finances very well so if people got their whole paycheck uh every time then in when April rolled around they would not have honestly that is very wise and I support this so like 25 to you know 30 plus percentage of their annual income that they would owe in taxes at that time so anyway the way personal taxes work they're due in April and tax season and you pay them at that time and the way corporate taxes work is based on your last year you will pay installments every month based on the last year and if it turns out you were wrong and you actually owe more than you owe interest for not like estimating it correctly so instead of it just like having a due date at the end of the year you need to be paying it continuously or you basically get boned it's absolutely ridiculous oh my God yeah I hate it I hate it so much I'm pretty sure they don't pay you interest if you overpay on it either but don't quote me on that don't quote me on that I'm surprised too I'd be I'd be very surprised I had no idea but someone said we don't do taxes in the UK it's done by the government that that is how that should work employees should be able to decide what happens with their money no no you're actually just wrong yep um because they don't get to anyway they owe it in taxes yeah um it's just that we don't want people to suddenly go bankrupt yeah that's really bad actually extremely chaotic yeah not not having those taxes on hand not having those tax payments on hand in April would be potentially devastating to the lives of someone who didn't manage their money correctly and most which is very common yeah most people are not able to just look at like ten thousand dollars in their bank account and go okay no I I should I should actually hold on to that um and like like Luke said the um the additional paperwork of handling it both ways would be extremely complicated that alone is like that makes it kind of not worth it in my opinion yep um where are we at what are we doing we're talking about proposed legislation for platform snitching yeah is that it we gotta do one more yeah let's let's talk about something else do you want to do build of the month yeah it's kind of fun yeah yeah so we we requested submissions for custom water cooling loops and we got some pretty amazing ones Dan do you have these or do I show them or like how does this work I have no idea I guess you showed it I was hoping we would have them in a in a different way of showing them this is you're the doc for you not me I mean I guess how to add spots work Dan I am made aware of them before the show yeah so we thought this might be as well nope cool well at any rate this is pretty sick Luke do you want to talk through them and I'll show them sure yeah oh that's unfortunate Dan how to fix I fix yeah you can just get rid of us for now this looks like that's harder flipping amazing simple but elegant also are those LTT Edition fans oh it's hard to tell with the red lighting I can't tell you know what no I think they're chromaxes I think they're chromaxes I think they came later but that would have been pretty sick this is from at Redneck engineer it's a 7950x 7900 XTX and all EK water block cooling components because that's how you redneck engineer no no I showed you guys how to Redneck engineer a water cooling system earlier this week that is how you actually redneck engineer water cooling this uh is the first ever custom loop with 3D printed chassis yeah I was gonna say that case looks 3D printed but it actually looks really cool 3D printed chassis looks sick uh by Dan oh I feel like I've read this name out before but I don't remember pronounce it sun sunk fist that's very wrong Sonic fist that sounds more right I'm certain I've tried to say that before or at De TOEFL mostly used Alpha cool parts those are really cool fans agreed oh yeah I really like those are those the are those those Lee and Lee ones uh uh you don't know and it's okay no all right I am actually really digging this open concept from Jan k yeah I like I like that it's not just a flat board it's a flat board but with angles with angles it's an angle board it's a parallelogram it's not just turned though it isn't because the the sides are oh yeah no no yeah it's a parallelogram yeah both sides parallel yeah very cool looks yeah kind of sick kind of love it I I enjoy board-mounted PCS but they often look junky and cheap this one does not look junky cheap it looks great the backlighting helps a lot that looks cheap but it doesn't look junky yeah yeah these holes two dual RADS and stuff like the the board itself doesn't exactly look necessarily expensive it looks like a project board from Home Depot but yeah um but it's done nice yeah yeah but the the system build is really nice I can also tell that um some adjustments were made to get the uh the fan connectors through the holes I've been there I've been there yawn I feel appreciate it I appreciate the shown work uh we've got two more one wow there's three more that is unreal old school from back in the thread Ripper Days by at XX Boosty XX and this is an honorable mention from DIY perks this appears to be something from an upcoming video I am a DIY DIY perks Fanboy and uh this this is this is part of why I tried to get him to come to LTX but it's just too far it's quite far yeah uh someday someday I'd love to get you out here man but we weren't able to make it work this time of course the main reason that we built all of this up for you guys and got you all you know whoa look at these great builds one the best one dishonorable mention this Avent guard use of garden pond pump by at uh spear83 uh is is just just beautiful apparently they did a reverse image search to confirm that it's not a common a common meme image and it is fresh this is it it's like looking at your 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kudos.comwan all right we will get to it Luke I promise we're gonna get to Global oh dang it nope I want to do yes I want to do something we're going to get to the merge messages we're gonna get to glorbo first I gotta talk about merch not messages that's right live unboxing Luke are you ready yes okay because you're doing it and Dan's gonna be on the camera oh boy and you guys are gonna you guys are gonna somehow surprise me and be half competent at this for a change yo you I'm giving us stuff we've never seen before well no I just mean don't you got Dan moving the camera all over the place I remember and then you've got my job let's move it out of the camera no that is not your job your job is to hold it still and Dan your job is to not Chase it too much I mean Chase said a little Dan dang it Dan what's happening he's turning off face detection the camera no longer knows where Luke's beautiful face is oh my God you guys are both killing me well what am I doing okay we're good oh my God that is that what I'm doing stop it okay you guys can't do that you're gonna give people motion sickness okay okay Dan you have to move to the right you gotta move to the rink yes that one it's centered in the frame don't forget there's a lower third oh my God I just got signed out of my Google account technically this is the best time for that to happen I don't even have the dog um oh man I think I remember I think I remember this password oh okay all right I think I'm back in the dark anyway we are finally launching it the LTT stubby screwdriver and I've got all the dates and everything it is going to be available at LTX we'll have all we have all four launch versions to show here on the WAN show um they're gonna be in limited quantities at LTX and the online launch is coming August 17th Luke do you want to start unboxing him sure you can sign up for a launch notification at lmg.gg stubby are you not going to comment on Sarah's packaging or anything it looks very nice I do also believe there would be a cardboard box of bits here six bits six bits so it comes with six bits it's a six bits drive it looks very very uh reminiscent of the full size screwdrivers that makes sense yeah it's the same box yeah well no it's small it's smaller it's not the same box yeah it's a smaller box but it is the same ratchet correct yes exactly the same ratchet same high quality knurling new tooling for the the shorter handle obviously and we had to do some work to get the same uh pop-up bit storage mechanism on the much much smaller driver oh I guess I asked you to do the unboxing um go ahead you can talk oh no it's fine yeah yeah this feels about the same but it's half which makes sense so there's six instead of 12. uh but it still pops in and pops out this will right now it's like taking a little bit but these work in slightly over time so as you use it it'll be it'll be a little bit less stiff the selector I think is identical is it even the same size it is the same that's because the ratchet is identical I'm assuming so it goes around it and I've got something really exciting to show the people do you notice anything different about the one that I am handing you now no way okay so there's a Black Shaft one so for the people that uh wanted to get the Black Shaft one of the of the full sized you will now be able to get a stubby in the same uh shaft color as the main full-size screwdriver that you had I had no idea we were doing this actually or if you happen yeah if you already have the Black Shaft full-sized one and you like the patina then you can have more patina this time smaller patina so there's a total of four skus available oh everything is fine yeah black and orange Plastics with a silver shaft um black and black Plastics with a silver shaft and then black and orange with a black shaft and all black blackout Edition with the Black Shaft and all black Plastics oh my goodness look at these uh that's okay I'm back to the wide Cam and yes yeah they do they do stand up that would have my goodness been a lot easier there you go really really excited to finally launch this um you know guys I know it seems like a simple thing like what like you just oh whoops that not that right very good oh I got this it seems like a simple thing you've never done this before like it's the same screwdriver but smaller right but that's a lot smaller but if you want it to be right dang it you have to it takes a lot of work okay gotta make sure that you know when you change the handle it doesn't change the tolerances somewhere else you got to make sure that uh you wait man we went back and forth a lot on whether it should have knurling at all because if you notice like one handing the knurling it's it's you can do it but it's it's cramped for sure yeah compared to the full size but then we're looking at it going everything is going to be cramped compared to the full size on this one that's kind of the whole point I like the knurling because like if I I can technically get there yeah and uh if if there was a bit in there as well it would give it slightly more Yep so it would it would work yeah it's it's it's nice it's nice to have I prefer it um I I advocated for having the knurling on it um we know that it's not the shortest stubby screwdriver in the market but we just were not in a position where we were going to be able to re-engineer the ratchet and make it significantly smaller so no way I think keeping the same ratchet was was worth the size I I think so too I also think six bits is going to accomplish a lot of what people are looking to do yeah given how many people say that the Roberts and bits that we include with the main screwdriver are useless anyway that's already three of the 12. then again people can build their own kits and they can have their own bit sets or whatever with the full-size screwdriver anyway and so some people will build out like torques or imperial hacks or metric hacks or whatever the case may be yeah um you might want to customize the the loadout but I think with six especially with something like this feels a little bit more specialized oh yeah well I think the bits are listed on the back of the box there so yep the included ones are Philips zero Philips one Phillips two uh slot four slot six and our classic magnet bit yeah that's gonna get a lot of what you're gonna try to do yeah it's a pretty fun pretty sensible pretty sensible one so just head to lmg.gg stubby and you will get a launch notification um it's not going to be cheap because guys the only difference in cost for us is 6 fewer bits which is not that much of the cost of a screwdriver and a few cents less of plastic and a few cents less of metal yeah so it's not going to be the same ratchet is in there the same high-end tooling from itd it was paid for yeah less of it because we didn't have to reshoot the you know the end cap and the selector ring and all that kind of stuff but we did have to we did have to redesign for the new handle so that was expensive got to pay for it somehow but um yeah I'm very very excited uh yes the bits are identical to the standard screwdriver so they are the same shorty bits as we call them uh in other news also happening at LTX is LTX so for the Merch online orders will be available until Friday July 28th at 3 pm so if you are not a float plane 10 tier member yet uh now is the time to become one if you want to order any of the LTX exclusive merch there's no link in the dock but hopefully I can find that for you guys extremely quickly here so you can see if any of that appeals to you you will also be entitled if you are at the 10 tier to a digital pass which gets you access to um basically a whole bunch of exclusive behind the scenes content that our social team is going to be producing while we are at the show let me just see I do not I do not know how to find the merch is it through buy tickets ah yes here we go all right cool so here's LTX 2023 exclusive and go to login dang it dang it dang it dang it well okay fine we've got these cool desk pads Vancouver dinosaur and I think this is called zero gravity or something like that profession if you want to do some browser typing go to lttstore.com collections slash LTX Dash exclusive I think it's nice there we go designer series desk pads available in these three super cool Styles we've also got the tie-dye LTX shirt look at Riley Thanks for modeling for us Riley love love to love to see it uh same thing in a hoodie man this hoodie looks so cool enamel pin whale plushy whale keychain passport and LTX 2023 flag all right I think I just have one last one last thing to Chuck in here oh yes we have a backpack update we have removed the stands on its own messaging from our marketing on the page because we've seen a lot of feedback from buyers that this feature really depends on how you load the bag so for example if you have a bunch of stuff in the front and only a little in the back then it's not going to hold that form and it's not going to stand um there's no changes to the product but we've removed that messaging based on feedback from buyers and we just want to be transparent about all of that all right want to hit us with some merch messages Dan yeah sure I've got quite a few here um let's see Hello lld with the LTT screwdriver be available to use bits from iFixit will the oh sorry oh that I um I spaced for a second there will the LTT screwdriver be able to use bits from Ice fixing well they're a standard quarter inch hex so they will use any standard quarter inch hex anything but I actually told a big fat lie a second ago when I said that I had no more merch updates because this is the reason you actually saw me driving the opposite direction when you were on your way to the studio to start the WAN show Mr Luke Luke does not care I'm busy doing work okay we're both busy doing work yeah well complain to my boss all three of us are busy doing work believe it or not this is work oh sorry I was watching YouTube okay sorry what's going on you're showing me the thing that you wouldn't show me earlier yeah I'm showing you the thing Dan you might need to uh man the camera again oh boy inside this iFixit Pro Tech 64-bit tool kit is something very special okay oh man you guys are you guys are hilarious I love it we're gonna do it right above all of the stubbies yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah do it which they can't see because the lower third but that's okay what okay that's cool okay so there's a couple of well they put tape on it okay you can put down the line you can put down tape in the thing in your left hand and you can remove the tape that's your right hand good gravy I thought you said there's a couple things though so I was looking for the other thing no no it's this so we are have been working for some time on a Precision driver and there are a couple of things that are special about this particular Precision driver one of them Luke has figured out that's extremely quickly here I enjoy that um it will feature uh yeah you could do that sure I might not spin as well anymore but the point is the plan right now is for it to have a hybrid ceramic bearing in the top we're also working potentially on a weighted top so that it will double as a fidget toy right now that one is improperly balanced and installed by hand so my expectation my expectation is that the final one will actually run for a fair bit longer than that also there's a fun little surprise if you just pull on your fidget toy oh cool in handle bit storage wow I did not expect that at all sorry yeah yeah there you go and handle bit storage in the same way so three bits I think it's one of those things where it's not strictly speaking necessary because you're probably going to have your kit nearby anyway right but personally I find okay I can go back to the wide now I find that when I'm working on a project the odds are pretty good that I'm there's going to be a few bits that I'm going to use a lot and the rest of it I can probably just put aside and so this is somewhere for people like me to put them so they don't get lost while I'm working on a project and so that I don't have to have the whole bit set next to me um so I made the mistake of with one of the earlier prototypes putting my three most commonly used bits in the handle and I can see they're missing from my kit now uh because I the creative Warehouse team swapped out my earlier prototype with this one but what do you think of the Finish yeah it feels very nice it feels very premium um the the top is extremely distracting um I was I was very I tried to like turn it normally and it just like free spun and I was like whoa yeah but because I was trying to see like can I rotate it because it has a function as well right yeah it's a fun little fidget toy but also you Palm the screwdriver or put it somewhere in in your hand and then you can spin it freely from here which is the the nice part of this type of thing or you can spin it like that Etc it makes it very very easy to turn in the hand so is this a standalone thing um we're not 100 sure yet right now it's a thing we're working on making as good as we can and we're gonna figure out what pricing looks like we're gonna figure out you know what exactly the function is you know right now I'd be I'd be pretty stoked if we just you know could deliver a premium driver that if people wanted to upgrade their iFixit kit like I've had a lot of people ask like now that you guys make tools you know where's your relationship with iFixit at and I'm like fine I think I mean it's kind of up to them at this point but like I don't see any reason for people to stop buying iFixit tools just because we have tools and I don't think this is a direct competitor for their tools either would you provide the three bits that you most use along with this no probably not because when it comes to Precision drivers the three bits you most use is going to be you know whatever right so I think our expectation is that either we will create a bit kit and then you can use it along with you know all your zillion other iFixit things that exist or their replacement parts and guides and you know whatever else or we'll do just the driver and we'll intend it as like a premium upgrade for your existing iFixit kit or or any other kit that uses this uh same I forget the exact I forget the size of of these bids like something uh what what are they like eighth inch or four millimeter I don't even know what they are but anything else that uses these same size bits would also be compatible so yeah mine just I have it just sitting in my iFixit kit ready to ready to go at a moment's notice that's sick yeah very very excited got so much in the works right now no it's not an official iFixit collab it's just an LTT product very cool all right sorry Dan hit me with a merch message sure thing hello Luke given that the expo hall closes at six do you think Linus will actually be on time for the WAN show and will be will we be able to submit merch messages at the store booth at LTX during when we talked about that the answer is no well okay sorry the answer is yes we'll be on time um but as for whether people can submit merits messages in person the answer is no uh Nick actually proposed it to me he proposed a method by which we could do it where people would write them down there's another way to do it too um the answer is still no I I just I don't think the logistics makes sense and there's going to be so many there will literally be thousands if the merge sales are anything like the previous LTX and so you're just gonna have people tiring out their wrists for essentially nothing because we're going to get to a small fraction of them and it also means that like if your risks get tired from that like well maybe go to Physio don't forget about the other people whose wrists might get tired if they have to deal with that many merch messages so there it's just for practical reasons I just don't think it makes any sense all right hit me again sure about a year ago my brother asked if you would ever make a deodorant he has not stopped asking me to ask you again have you had a change of heart no um the reason that I haven't is that when it comes to anything to do with ingesting something or smearing it all over your skin and potential allergies and liability and Mr Beast this is this is this is hilarious to Me Maybe it's not hilarious to him but he actually went on the record recently um hold on I'm just gonna make sure that this is actually true not just something I heard uh good idea uh I don't know how to say sorry i k c h e r p j chirpage okay it says legal minefields and yeah I agreed um oh okay June 17th Mr Beast announced the end of Mr Beast Burger uh so there you go uh what I had actually heard before that is um is that he would close it down if he could or something along those lines and um I told you so like and it's funny because his his tweet about it is almost word for word exactly what I said you can't guarantee the quality of the order and when you're working with other restaurants it's impossible to control whereas uh you know he's finding feastables much more manageable which is which is great um and just the the liability of of a thing people eat that you have no direct control over the quality of is just it's just terrifying to me and even if it is something pre-packaged whether it's a feastables or a deodorant I'm not saying never anything is possible in the future I just it gives me the heebie-jeebies man like I I saw beast burger and I just went that's wild good luck you know I hope I hope I really hope actually that it's a huge success and you make lots of money and people get a lot of delicious food and all of this goes well but I just it's not something that I I'm exploring it's not something I plan to explore playing chat uh but Eddie burback has a actually a very very good video on these ghost restaurants that do stuff like you know Beast burger or whatever else yeah they make a bunch like there'll be one restaurant that isn't actually a restaurant it's a warehouse somewhere that no one can actually go to yeah and they just create food for these various customers which are not like you it's some brand that wants to have their name out there and they'll have options that are like hot wings and they make the exact same hot wings for like 27 different restaurants if you're ordering through an app on your phone so there like is no difference in a lot of cases unless you're ordering from established restaurants that have storefronts right there's a bunch of them around here actually yeah one of the ways to figure it out is Google Maps the address yeah yeah I mean I think if we ever did a food establishment I think I've talked to you about this before I would want there to be some kind of like really fun gimmick um I remember I remember picturing a bunch of different ideas yeah I pitched one to you a long time ago where the idea was that everything was like really messy to eat and it was supposed to be like a like a great place to go for a first date night yeah um just to be an icebreaker so that everyone is going to be awkward and there's kind of like nothing you can do about it so like the sandwiches are all definitely too tall to like fit them to fit in your mouth like don't give you a knife so you can't cut it yeah you know the the the spaghetti the spaghetti bowl is literally one long Noodle and you have a spoon and you have a spoon you know like like intentionally going hard mode just you know discuss two like loot boxes get some laughs real quick yeah we did we talked about you guys you have to order like you order like a veggie and a protein and what comes out is just what comes out and we try to bring out like really random weird stuff for fun yeah I think something like that would be really fun but they're the only way that I would do something like that would be if I had Direct oversight and you know I look at how hard it is to control the quality of a video then the the risk associated with delivering you know a video that has some deficiency that I'm not happy with and I look at food and I'm like yeah man I don't know yeah it's kind of terrifying that's pretty that's pretty tough that's pretty tough I think I just uh I think I just won't do that but you know anyway you know what the thing about Jimmy is that you can't deny his passion he's he's excited he he wants to build things he wants to try things um and I think a lot of people forget that he is really young we talked about this when um when we did that topic like a few months ago it was like Mr Beast for president or something like that um he's really young I think his heart's in the right place I don't think he did any of this with the intention of screwing anyone over or anything like that when he first started Beast Burger people were asking for companies like his to show up to save restaurants yep so like I said and then it shifted that whole conversation shifted to like oh now you're killing restaurants because there's like too many of these ghost restaurant things and it's reducing order from from normal legitimized restaurants and like all this like it yeah just because the conversation changed doesn't mean that it was one thing at one time um so yeah I don't know there's a lot of support for Beast Burger when it first popped up and I got people saying he's got too much money and doesn't know what to do with it no he doesn't I think he knows what to do with it yeah he knows exactly what to do with it build his business and it's not too much I don't think someone like that could have too much like obviously like to to eventually yes but right now no I I actually believe that he is dumping most of what he brings in right back into the business to make the most compelling content that uh appeals to his audience all right uh oh another merge message sure last one for you guys you hinted at getting an x-ray machine for labs I repair them and take images of my tools for testing but I wish I could bring my camera or a printer in what uh would you want to get imaged first oh wow what would I image in an x-ray machine I mean I think we'd have to do something totally self-serving like the screwdriver oh sorry to to send out a you know promoted tweet or something like that that'd be sweet yeah I want to jump back temporarily to the previous topic that Eddie uh burback video it he went into a lot of things that were really interesting and something that you were just talking about with food quality and being unable to insure it one of the problems with the ubiquitousness of all these crazy ghost restaurants going all over the place is that like Food and Drug associations are having a really hard time doing investigations for food quality for restaurants when they can't even figure out what the address for these places are because a lot of times the the address listed isn't even correct so you would have to be like a delivery driver to get the actual proper address to know where to pick it up and that makes it really really hard for these places to go do food inspection and they can't even find the damn restaurant so yeah that was kind of a big deal I haven't watched it in a while but it's a great video you should take it up what would what would your choice of food product for us be I already know my answer so if you need some time I can do mine do yours I have no idea I would like to make the tastiest crunchiest perfectest breakfast cereal oh that's pretty good that one yeah that I was not on that track but that's pretty good it would it lines up with what I wanted because I was going to say something it should be something that isn't like fresh so we could sell it through LTD store effectively and ship it the problem is that breakfast cereals like bulky like who's gonna buy breakfast cereal online that's like stupid totally a whole they literally sponsor us yeah I don't know like twice are they still around yeah oh okay it's a very it's a challenging business so the one that I know of has been around for quite a while okay when you're up against you know a four dollar box of you know Lucky Charms or whatever in the grocery store it's a lot more than that now actually well hold on a second Canadian yes General it's like seven Canadian dollars now but in the US I bet it's still cheap I always just assume things cost nothing in the U.S and that has changed a lot over the last few years so sometimes my assumptions can end up a little bit out of whack Lucky Charms cereal okay here we go it also depends on the size yeah you can get lucky charms for like five bucks yeah but that's how much how many grams that's family size okay it's America I looked up oh yeah here's a ten and a half ounce for four dollars because I am not you can get I am not building bananas are seven dollars I thought you were talking but I thought you're talking about Canadians oh you can get you can get a box of Lucky Charms in Canada for five bucks but it's 300 grams yeah so that's one bowl for Linus yeah yeah no it's the big no no that's not how I do that anymore no now that's like four bowls that I pour in little tiny portions so that I can eat it as crunchly as possible okay so the Strat has improved with the volumes the same yeah I do enjoy the Strat I will give you that yeah probably the worst cereal for me is Honeycomb have you ever eaten a bowl of honeycomb it just like immediately soaks though no well it's not that no no it's fine because I just pour like a like a tiny quarter of a bowl and eat it I just mean the sheer volume of it that you can eat in one system yeah because it's basic repair yeah it's like what can you eat more of honeycomb or like lettuce you know like I don't know celery I I could actually like I probably couldn't consume celery fast enough for my body to process it or for my body to to fall behind in processing it like it would be wild I could just sit on the toilet and eat celery for the rest of my life in one end out the other there's a visual for you it's still green and if they could like genetically engineer a long enough celery you could just stuff it all the way through the big question is cereal or milk first no it isn't that is not a question okay when you're doing these four bowls cereal is food do you drink them you decide how much food you eat and then you put the appropriate accompanying amount of milk are you drinking the milk between every bowl no I don't have to because I absolutely nail the amount of milk every time this man is a god get absolutely oh I'm such a line it's coming I mean I'll have him man you also have to monitor you have to balance as you go if you can tell oh man I took a really that one bite at the beginning was like loaded with Honey Nut sugars it's amazing how many Honey Nut Cheerios you can fit on one spoon right like I met oh that early bite okay I get like two Cheerios on this thing no more milky I get like three Cheerios on this one okay we got this okay more Cheerios let's go anyway what would be your food item I'm I'm really struggling with this because yeah that's like putting dressing in a bowl and then like adding lettuce to it stupid that's the best comparison I've ever that's the best argument to that that's from Conrad to the floor plane chat that's pretty so good that is good like you would actually never be beta enough to do that croutons croutons or Ranch first you put you put the dressing then you put the croutons then you finally put the greens it's all the croutons are saying before you get to eat it's just the worst possible way just scooping up Ranch from the bottom of the plate it's terrible it's like yeah I'm just gonna I'm just gonna put some actual cheese in a skillet and I'm just gonna melt it and then I'll like put bread on it after grilled cheese sandwich cause I'm an idiot laughs sort of in a way some places do that because they'll take a cheese wheel cut it in half Grill the flat side and then shrink onto bread no that is a thing that happens no no I think they also cook the bread though to be fair that's good I don't know I can't really think of anything because like what we're just gonna like what how many non-perishable things I would have thought you would do like a uh like a like a really good protein bar or something like that I was thinking okay so someone in the chat said protein powder and I was like no I was kind of thinking like some form of snack bar that isn't trash for you because I very recently looked at what's in Cliff Bars and was highly disappointed I'm sorry Cliff um sorry Cliff yeah and Joe and Sammy yeah yeah um but I I feel like that's like that's such a saturated Market that has to have already been done but I don't know if we go in this hypothetical scenario if we could make one I mean cereal has been done yeah chocolate bars have been done yeah I definitely don't want to do a chocolate bar but yeah if we could do like a protein bar that tasted good and wasn't trash for you and like had good macros that'd be cool I'd be willing to do a chocolate bar but it would have to be like absolutely incredible um and I just don't want to put in the work to do that like I I I'm one of those people who if there's chocolate in the house if it's not Lindor I'm just not going to eat it yeah yeah bad chocolate is like actually just not worth it at all not calorie worthy yeah um it's interesting that you chose Lindor do you why do you think is it the taste or the texture it's the texture I'm a texture person I was gonna say I prefer Lindor because of the texture by like a massive amount and I always put them in the freezer first I won't even eat them warm very good yeah very good so good because then you can suck on them for longer I've been yeah I know Lindor is kind of trash like high-end it's high-end trash but I'm not willing to spend the kind of money that like real good chocolate costs like if you give me like one of those 70 cocoa bars I'm like oh they're like nine dollars each or whatever like yeah it's like never gonna happen yeah I'm not gonna do that I heard and this is the one thing that has made me want to like break diet really bad because I want to try it remember Fruit Roll-Ups was it Fruit Roll-Ups Fruit by the Foot Fruit Roll-Ups not Fruit by the Foot Fruit Roll-Ups but particularly which one so it was kind of like a like with all the little shapes that you could poke out of them you can poke the shapes out but it was like a sheet apparently it has some and it was originally intended to be this way and they just like no one did it so they didn't bother advertised like this but apparently it reacts with cold in a very particular way so the idea is you put uh ice cream on it and then wrap the fruit roll up around the ice cream and it makes it really crunchy yeah okay I could see that so you and like but like significantly more than you would expect okay and it becomes hard so you you bite on it and like crystallize or something to a certain degree I think and it's supposed to just be like amazing and I want to try it but I don't even know like where I would buy a fruit roll-up people are so just like disconnected sometimes box in Buddha says Lindor is actually one of the lowest quality chocolates have you ever had an advent calendar chocolate dude you can get lint Advent calendars I know you can't but most of them are not yes yeah there's chocolate that actually tastes maybe maybe you're from Europe or something like that would explain it but over here in North America land we have chocolate that actually tastes more like plastic than cocoa oh it's so bad a lot of it like really a lot yeah you are you are objectively wrong it is not one of the lowest it just isn't one of the highest 100 it's like the KitchenAid of chocolate yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I always use KitchenAid tankles you know it's like it's like the high quality like but like still very mainstream brand and you could like definitely get better stuff yeah for sure yeah we've got other people backing me up here yeah chocolate sucks in Canada 100 percent so instead Fruit Roll-Ups are available commonly in all grocery stores in the US oh yeah I used to hear that but you gotta do to you got to do the perimeter strategy to stay away from the bad stuff at the grocery stores just only go around the outside really yeah what have I really thought about that yeah I'm trying I'm thinking about the layout of like the local Superstore so you walk in and it's not quite perimeter because the entire right side of the store is Ghost Town that's super story though yeah which has like uh like housewares yeah like clothes like cheap clothes and like crap like that yeah but then and I think the like the cosmetics and like um Pharmacy and stuff are over there do they have a pharmacy I don't know they definitely have like personal personal care products and stuff but if you go straight in it's veggies you go straight to the back you end up in cheese and then um Meat Land then Seafood then you come down this side it's uh juices Dairy um different cheese uh like not deli cheese like like packaged cheese if I recall correctly then you end up in the bakery and then you end up at the till so you don't see and I'm trying to think about again layout so you've got all your soft drinks you don't see the like soft drinks like cleaning supplies uh pet supplies and then I think it goes into well you miss baking supplies though yes that one is a little and and we don't bake because of the birds all the ethnic aisles are in there as well so all the like uh Mexican Southeast Asian uh Indian I do dip in because I need I I the amount of hot sauce that I go through is absurd okay so I go in to get hot sauce how's the Sriracha shortage treating you by the way I do Frank's Red Hot extra hot okay so you don't like everything yeah Jake's like super super torn up about it yeah Frank's Red Hot extra hot specifically there's like very few actual total ingredients all the ingredients are chill um and it the I find when it's extra hot I don't have to use quite as much uh I I do I really like the Frank's Red Hot uh what is it lime and something else and are you already you had me at lime so it's so good yeah it just makes everything you're eating taste like Mexican I'm a boring Tabasco boy um classic Tabasco my problem is red peppers and vinegar salt that's all that's it I've been eating my like really boring standard set up for so long of course you have that two to not be bored out of my mind I basically have to melt my face off so I just the entire top of it is just red nice sometimes yeah sometimes I will complete with extra hot as well not the normal Frank's Red with Frank's Red extra hot I will completely make the top of the chicken red and then flip it to the bottom so going through the rest of my aisles we've got your breakfast foods that are mostly just like the the story of how oatmeal became breakfast food is hilarious it's like brilliant marketing because it's essentially gruel which was like poor people garbage food um and then they're like it's pretty solid or you can eat it for breakfast TV commercials let's go Lobster also used to be poor people food there you go they would serve it in prisons and then cereal aisle I can't miss the cereal aisle so cereal aisle for the grocery store that I go to is uh like the shelves for it are right along the milk which kind of makes sense to me so you don't actually have to go to the inside yeah not Superstar yeah and then after cereal aisle there's like the natural food aisles uh which I can't they just taste so bad all of them literally all of them and then it's like ice cream and Frozen goods and then and then you're and then you're back over to to cheese and juices and milk and butter and all that kind of stuff yeah so you gotta dip in sometimes yeah I'd miss out on lot yeah I find like the hot sauce I know what aisle it's in and I know what end of that aisle it's in so you know you can remove a lot of Temptation by just going to only that aisle and only as far in as you need to go because a lot of the aisles it's like it feels like it's almost designed to get you lost in trying to find the right thing and getting stuck in the middle of the store and end up adding a whole bunch of impulse purchases because you're probably hungry because you're out shopping um so yeah got some stuff from float plane chat vng Supernova says gruel is not oatmeal it's far more watery and has no milk um most of the time we make oatmeal without milk here so this is one this might be one of those things where it's just like a cultural difference um I've never had oatmeal made with milk Cream of Wheat yes uh but even that has instructions on the side of the box for how to make it with water as well so I guess we're just like disgusting most oatmeal that I've had the vast majority of it has been with water yeah um but yes yes more watery but then it's still fundamentally the same thing it's just watered down um and then uh dicio says apparently Lobster was ground up shell and everything so not quite the same as what's eaten today yeah but it's still like I mean it's still Lobster but like with the shell yeah that's got to be kind of rough and like the antennas and stuff like I don't know do they even rip those off I have no idea probably not um yeah interesting yeah GM shippo says I'm American always used milk yeah that's the thing about America too though is you guys are like so Regional dependent oh yeah like you can go one County over in America land and like anymore they make pizza in a completely different way now yes well yeah like oh that kind of pizza that kind of pizza sucks this is the kind of pizza all right dude I thought it was just bread tomato sauce and like whatever you want to put on it just calm down no no no no no no people don't eat cereal with water calm down twitch chat um oatmeal oatmeal like like the cooked oatmeal um yeah like breakfast cereal a cold breakfast cereal with water would be something spectacularly awful yeah I really think you'd have to pry my milk from my cold dead hands at this point I will never drink a glass of milk but I I've tried cereal with milk substitutes and it is everyone who says it's the same it's not the same is um I was on a very particular brand of almond milk for a while there and it was not the same but I liked it because it had vanilla stuff in it I don't like vanilla oh so that's really tough we found a thing I like vanilla and I like ketchup chips yeah so we we do actually disagree about some things it's very rare that we disagree on on food but it's very we can pretty much order for each other at restaurants though still yeah should we do it should we do oh we're on two to three topics again uh we have been for ten minutes what were we doing were we doing merch messages I think you've been answering a merch message for the last 20 minutes I just turn out after a while we're doing glorbo comes to World of Warcraft let's go the best update wow is ever we promised the people World of Warcraft players on Reddit have successfully honeypotted an AI bot that was scraping forums for Community discussions to remix into news stories without human input on Thursday a post about a fake new feature called glorbo became rapidly upvoted with many users adding their own comments about absurd fake features that were supposed uh supposedly being added to the game so after an article about Wow's about the wow community's excitement for glorbo appeared on Z League's gaming news site the portal which Incorporated several nonsensical quotes taken directly from the subreddit it was listed under the byline of Lucy Reed who published 83 articles yesterday wow Lucy you go girl yeah more like Lucy Wright hey the article has since been it was okay that was awesome sorry did you say something where's the punch I actually was not listening I'm so sorry oh my goodness uh uh the article has since been removed but it's available in archived form Z league has posted 18 512 articles in just over two months or an average of 241 articles a day talking about fishing for virality oh man definitely going viral we're talking about it the original Reddit post was fantastic but I'm so excited I'll bring it up I'll bring it up okay the title is I'm so excited they finally introduced galorbo uh and then honestly this new feature makes me so happy I just really want some major bot operated news websites to publish an article about this I have to say since they started hitting uh hinting at Hearthstone in 1994 it was obvious they would introduce glorbo to World of Warcraft sooner or later I feel like dragonflight has been win after win so far like when they brought back Chen stormstout as the boss at the end of new karazhan absolutely amazing feel free to comment below what new features and stories you want to see in the future maybe you'll be quoted on some trustworthy news websites as well amazing uh literally in the article it included the quote of honestly this new feature makes me so happy I just really want some major bot operated news websites to publish an article about this that was in the article that was published which is amazing so good so so good huh is this glorbo I I was yeah I was gonna ask is that a-ir is that Meme right that is [Laughter] fantastic um I anticipate a new feature but apparently the original post has been updated um cheering for victory in words that I won't say um and talking about how they they updated it and pulled it down and stuff like that some players have reservations about the mandatory item click clack and its effect on casual players oh man this is amazing inclusion of clackside as a playable race yeah oh man all right this is this is pretty cool that's fantastic great work to uh everyone involved that's a win okay you know what else is a win we can apparently refurbish phone screens with lasers with freaking laser beams freaking laser beams attached to their heads yeah strange parts has a video and he broke one law of Linus already he starts his video with so but otherwise otherwise this looks absolutely flipping amazing they are repairing OLED screens that have bad lines in them using a laser you guys I'm not going to show you much of this because I want you to go watch it watch the video from Scotty hey he's coming LTX right yeah I think so yeah yeah Scotty's gonna be at LTX and is that the last one yeah so we want to make sure we uh I mean we would do this for anyone but we want to make sure we support them we're not just like playing his video for you uh but basically they don't have to disassemble the device they don't even have to turn it off it can't fix glass or Flex cables but it can eliminate lines on screens and fix issues with the middle OLED layer our discussion question is if this technique turns out to be economical uh what would that mean for the refurbishment market and I think the answer is fairly straightforward it would be freaking awesome yeah absolutely all right that seems to be like the goal they talked a lot in the video which you should go watch um about how there's you know improvements coming they talk about what type of improvements and whatnot um Activision Activision restore servers for retro Call of Duty games Activision has restored the multiplayer servers for its Xbox 360 era Call of Duty games over 200 000 Gamers played these decade old Cod titles over the past weekend outnumbering the players for Halo infinite and battle 2042 combined probably quite easily uh by midweek five of the top 10 best-selling games on the Xbox store were 360 era Call of Duty games with number one being 2012's Black Ops 2. it appears that Activision has neglected to enact fixes for long known exploits that occur that enable rampant hacking fixes for these bugs were available in multiple Popular Community run servers that Activision had shut down back in May as we reported on land show which is kind of a freaking joke our discussion question is well there's one thing but there's also some other things I mean I think there's I think there's a lot to kind of break down here one is hey uh you guys need to actually not shut down older gaming experiences uh two you don't get to just allow communities to do a bunch of work to keep your game alive and then capitalize on it while also throwing away the work that they did that made the game better while you were completely well you had completely abandoned your stewardship of it yeah and three our discussion question that's actually written in here is I guess those weren't really discussions that was like you suck snack division discussion statements uh what does it mean that games that modern games are getting beat out by decades-old titles in this way it means that modern games are not actually fun dude I you should play Battle bit did you ever like Battlefield I never got into a Battlefield game yeah okay so then maybe not but if it is actually like I haven't had fun actual genuine fun in Battlefield since probably Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 4 felt like a step back from Battlefield 3 but I really liked Battlefield 3. um battle bit is the first time that I've played a game in that format since then that I actually enjoyed and it's good it's fun the graphics are trash it feels like they're basically Roblox yeah yeah but like it doesn't matter and I think I've talked about this on on Rancho before and it drives people nuts but now I have like really good proof what really matters is is the game freaking fun or not yeah I don't care I would ha I I the amount of my brain that gives an F that the graphics in battle bit are trash is like near zero when I'm very much enjoying playing the game I think for a single player game I'd feel a little bit differently about it but for a competitive game I'd rather a really well balanced game that's not full of cheaters yeah and then like you know novel gameplay mechanics is kind of here and then you've got like um you know a positive Community I can live without that you know if the game is really fun and then like down here somewhere is is Graphics is usual Fidelity right and single player experiences I would almost argue that uh Graphics become more of a chance of being important but I don't think they always are I think there's plenty of single player experiences that don't have that fantastic Graphics but because the game's great I don't really care but I do also think that if Graphics are amazing in a single player experience that it can add a lot more to my enjoyment than it can in a moment yeah like Slap Shot rebound has crap Graphics but it's just dumb fun yeah so who cares so who cares just run around and like we actually got like annoyed when the graphics got more in depth because there's one way that you can make sure you're like heads invisible and we're like that's stupid yeah well that's a Cosmetics issue I don't know if that's like a like a visual fair enough yeah yeah yeah but yeah yeah someone said Minecraft is the best selling game of all time um yeah though Minecraft also can look real you can get really insane graphics packs for it but by default it doesn't well it's cool of RuneScape gang represent people RuneScape like people play all these retro games man like Graphics can make something that's already amazing like amazing Plus but it doesn't make something amazing like I I don't know I can't remember a single game that I was like yeah I loved that game because the graphics were so great I don't think that's ever happened I might love a game and be like yeah and I really like how great the graphics are but like I love the game because of certain gameplay features I wouldn't say Graphics but I could say I could love a game just based on a visual Style um like even though I ended up not finishing it because there were gameplay issues fantasian is beautiful and I I just liked exploring the environments one thing that I really like about Assassin's Creed Odyssey is I think the the setting of being in Greece and the graphical Fidelity that they had at this point in time their development process being in Greece is just a very beautiful landscape to be in unlike there have been times when I've just goofed around you know playing a game like Far Cry you know which at the time was groundbreaking in terms of what it looked like and just looking at the water and the you know the Landscapes and I feel like we're kind of past that now though trying to think of something more recent then because that that was totally a thing at one point but I feel like it's kind of passive it's definitely it was definitely part of breath of the Wild For me even though the that Graphics are not amazing but the art the art style was beautiful um I just I feel like the importance of like I've heard a lot of conversation about like oh making games these days is so hard because uh and then a huge amount of reasons but a lot of them being graphics and how expensive it is to have extremely fantastic graphics and it's like well it's gonna get cheap don't yes it's gonna get really cheap and valve's gonna eventually come up with a policy that somehow allows them to allow AI generated Assets in games without exposing themselves to Legal liability and they're not going to care after that and then we are going to get some amazing amazing visual Fidelity in games with shockingly low budgets that combined with over the next let's say let's say I'm gonna give a five-year timeline for this I think that's pretty generous we're gonna see procedurally or no not procedurally but we're going to see artificially generated assets we're going to see artificially generated textures we're gonna see um like like worlds and environments that are generated but then tweaked and then we're gonna see I hope if all goes according to what I think would be the ideal scenario for single a and double A developers to compete with the the visual Fidelity fests that that have become Triple A you know multi 100 million dollar budget games these days um I think we're gonna see I hope we're going to see a refocusing on writing and storytelling who knows maybe the gaming industry would be a great place for all those wha yeah folks to go just I mean throwing it out there just to kind of you know wild idea if if there was like a scrappy developer that was looking to do an incredibly incredible story driven game um I I'd love to see more focus on that so that's the one part of this that I'm saying I would like to see everything else is more of just what I think is going to happen um and then that combined with what will become the ubiquity of Ray tracing capable Graphics Hardware in that time that's why I'm giving it a five-year timeline because I think a lot of what I'm talking about could be happening today but you're going to need like if you're going to try and and build something with just like um you know random generated assets you're not going to be able to implement a lot of the tricks that developers have had to use to create a really um immersive um environment right whereas with Ray traced lighting well all of a sudden all you have to do is say okay I need lanterns and I'm going to put them here here these are my light sources I mean looking at what they did with uh was it um Oblivion I think it was with RTX remix oh man there's so many things I want to address from chat right now so cool uh I I there's been a few if I remember correctly there's a black flag update and a Unity update and I think it was also Oblivion they're all getting like RTX remix updates well I don't think Oblivion was actually getting one it was just a demo that Nvidia did ah okay Morrowind really was it Morrowind I don't think so no it was Oblivion here we go or wait uh oh no it is yeah yeah uh yeah it's Maryland here really oh but it didn't actually get it no no no yep Stills look still looks no no no it's not on yet so this is the capture tool and then they go through and show the AI texture tools oh I remember this yeah but they didn't give it to us give it to me yep and then they do lighting and then uh man and then it it starts to look really cool yeah custom assets um yeah this is this is pretty wild this is this is worth watching let's see if yeah here we go our Terrace remix yeah like that's wild that is freaking Morrowind Xbox original game like really like a OG Xbox original yeah so I'm imagining this future where you'll have you know single a or even Indie developers that are building games that have this kind of graphical Fidelity because they just For Better or For Worse are able to generate assets based on the you know library of work that came before them whether legitimately built on or not and if valve doesn't find a way to make this work another Marketplace will come and we'll eat their lunch I think this is disruptive enough that if there's a game that is compelling enough people will go to some other storefront and they'll buy it I mean look at um okay escape from tarkov would be a great example of this before they've totally screwed it up right people went and they downloaded their launcher oh no are there updates uh sword not sort of but not really there's a they have a leaderboard out for like you know like best KD most profit per run different things like that and uh they they launched it and there's all these names on it and stuff and you see some ratios and some stats there and you're like wow that looks really fishy uh users brought up their the last time they did a leaderboard because they've done this before uh and they had it's probably on the escape from tarkov subreddit but I'd have to dig it up but it showed all the people that had been banned off of the leaderboard and under the top 100 there's like five left see it I want to see if I can find it um that is ridiculous uh I suspect it's gonna be too hard to dig up now um I can do a quick topic while you look for that yeah well one second I want to address some some flipping comments really quick one person not angry Scotsman said crisis was only really well known because of the graphics memes um crisis was actually a very fun game to be honest I think it was a great game and it also had just mind-bogglingly uh crazy graphics and Far Cry was really fun Too Far Cry is a really good game I actually replayed it not that long ago and really enjoyed it and I didn't realize it until quite late in the game but part of the reason I was enjoying it at my current skill level compared to when I was 17 or 18 or whatever when it came out um is that the AI is bound to your frame rate so because I was playing it at such a higher frame rate the enemies were really hard I was like yeah this is like a hard game like I remember this game being hard but like why is it still hard I'm pretty sure I'm better at this than it was when I was a kid and then the other comment um that that made me want to jump uh was Avon fox said 100 hours gameplay versus two hours movie watch games are way better value for the cost uh to make and this is this is a very slippery slope argument in my opinion because I I don't think we're there right now but there was a point in time in gaming where games were essentially sold off of their 200 hour campaign off of their game time and having 200 hours of garbage is significantly worse than having two hours of just raw quality um you should value your own time that is important one of my favorite Shooters of all time potentially my favorite shooter single player uh experience of all time is Titanfall 2. it's like six hours six to eight hours but it shows quality they make sure that if they introduce a new mechanic before you're tired of it it's gone what is that that noise is the Overflow pump for the air conditioner okay so we're everything's okay and you even see game developers tacitly acknowledging this right like um square Square Enix for example they did remasters of or like pixel remasters of some of their older games and they include quality of life features like turning off Random Encounters I remember as a kid feeling like some of those environments were enormous you know the floating continent felt like Continental sized not because there was a ton of room on a SNES cartridge but because every time you took three steps you were fighting some stupid random encounter that was capable of wiping you out because you were 10 and it was hard right um so these games come back and it's like yeah you can just like do 9999 damage anytime you want because we know this stuff is actually kind of boring and you can just explore the world like I I that would be a much if I if I was to give that game to my kids Final Fantasy six is the one that I I enjoyed the most personally if I was to give that game to my kids I would absolutely give them the pixel remaster they don't need to fight that boss battle nine times to have the you know the fun that I did and and to to experience the story that I did so uh I'm gonna share my screen really quick I found it [Music] um so I don't know 100 what exp rating means in this in this frame but these are the top 100 tarkov players for exp rating uh if their name is a dash see how you can see this name right here yikes if the name is a dash they're banned uh you can't see behind our frame here right now um but it's all dashes for for that section of the leaderboard we go here there's oh there's there's three names that's good all of the rest of them are dashes we go here there's there's a few more there's five six names all the rest of them are dashes uh for all the rest are dashes it's just like man now that was the old leaderboards uh but if you take a gander at the new leaderboards it feels like it might be going in the same direction uh because there's a few things on there that are like hmm this person's like the the ratios on some things are just very very odd um and either the escape from tarkov client is like calculating things incorrectly or things are not exactly above board so Elemental exposure there is a Chrono Trigger SQL it's called Chrono cross dbos my Final Fantasy 6 growing up was Mario RPG yeah I saw the oh my God have you seen the remake it looks no yeah uh legend of the Seven Stars remake Nintendo's gonna get my money again got him it appears to be a super one month ago it it appears to be a super uh true to the original remake uh which is fine because the game was already perfect wait for it so that was the original SNES graphics and so they've done a bunch of stuff here that may or may not be designed to mislead us uh but essentially it from what they've shown look even the way that he moves around in the environment how it's um I forget what this view is called isometric or whatever yeah like you've got your like the grid-based movement yeah yeah is true to the original game um this looks great I would play this yeah have you ever played legend of the Seven Stars technically I own it but I have not played it it's really good yeah it's really good you should play it um and like it's one of those games where honestly other than a couple of modern gaming um Comforts I just don't really see what they would need to change about it it's not very challenging um it's more just like as an adult you just you just play through it as a kid it was hard but yeah yeah yeah yeah that's so good so good um but there's a couple more topics that we have to do before we do man after dark because we did tease them meta has canceled the quest Pro and reportedly stopped our reportedly canceled the quest Pro and reportedly stopped all development on the quest Pro 2. their plan is to continue to build Quest Pro headsets only as long as current stock lasts when they launched it in October of 2022 it was criticized for its awkward fit along the forehead its cheap feel and its underwhelming software platform apparently by January meta had already told its suppliers that no further components for the quest Pro would be needed even before dropping the price from 1500 to a thousand dollars in March our discussion question is what's behind the lack of enthusiasm for meta's more expensive VR headsets and I think the answer is that they just didn't offer a compelling value add over meta's entry-level headsets I also think they've just been going in the wrong direction really um what would be better I think Apple's approach is going to be better I think Apple didn't go quite full bore enough for what I would personally like to see but I feel like they are prepping everybody for it adequately by having that attached battery but stacking all of your battery in your compute hanging off the front of your face is just like actually stupid why are we still doing this like with the amount of money that you're investing in this how did you not know this was dumb like come on and I I'm very appreciative of Apple which is a statement that I feel like I don't say all that often um but for having this tether which is not going to be very annoying because it's tether that is contained on you um and moving that battery weight off of the device that's a huge benefit and eventually if we can take compute off as well fantastic that's one of the reasons I still use my index yeah because most of the new headsets that have come have taken advantage of the lightening of the displays and the housings and the uh lenses and then gone yeah now we can put more other stuff still in front of your face I haven't seen a genuinely compelling enough device to move to from the index this whole time and like that that's a problem that's a mistake I think they're just absolutely going in the wrong direction big screen Beyond has a lot of potential um my problem with it is that I can't get it working um I sent them I think I sent them now that I think about it I haven't heard back in a while which is pretty unusual for something like this um let me just see if I actually ever pressed send on this oh oh no I never I never sent the email oh crap you know what I think it was is normally uh or it used to be when you uploaded a YouTube video um you could get the link to it before it was done processing but um oh wait this has 33 views though did I did I not send uh okay I don't know you link it internally uh I don't think so um okay well I will send that to them shoot so I'm the one who wait they emailed today how is this not uh um yeah ever since they cut ties with with Palmer lucky I oh wait I don't think they've really been going in the right direction oh shoot no they replied to me what the heck why are there their emails are getting automatically marked red uh okay uh oh this is awkward shoot I just sent them the same video again ignore last email I will try tonight shoot um I'll mark that unread uh cool anywho uh yeah I just can't get it working so I sent them this video of doing everything that they told me to do supposedly it's supposed to just work and then the first time the first headset I had it worked other than that whenever I had OBS active the mic wouldn't work coming out of the headset and I was like well this doesn't work because I wanted to stream because it was still under embargo for reviews but you were allowed to stream with it I'm like how on Earth am I supposed to stream with it they're like we've never seen that bug before no idea they sent me another one that's apparently better in some other ways as well and they were like okay try this one and then it just didn't work at all and so I sent them um this video that I recorded where I'm basically like yep here's my drivers here's um the latest version of steamvr here's the headset definitely plugged in correctly here's me doing absolutely everything you told me to do and it doesn't work at all um So based on their email it might be something to do with some kind of Bluetooth wake something something uh uh Lighthouse trackers V2 something so hopefully it's hopefully it's fixed and it's pretty promising I have some concerns I have a bunch of notes on it already even though I haven't managed to actually um like a game for an extended period of time with it like the the rubber I feel like they need something a bit more breathable they need at least a breathable option especially because quite a few of the VR experiences that people are as far as I can tell right now really engaging in are like Fitness ones especially if you like if you have a reason to spend a bunch of money on a super lightweight headset there's a good chance it's because you're moving around yeah um because if you can if you can attach work or health to something the amount that people are willing to spend on it just cranks if you're like oh this could this can oh you're having a hard time getting out of the house but you want to be physically active but you find a lot of the at home like calisthenics workout stuff really boring well you could like do the VR boxing or or beat saber or whatever okay now this is going to help me shed weight or do whatever else now I will spend a bunch on this product if it's just for gaming or whatever else depends on the person but I think yeah your higher likeliness if you can attach something else to it Corsair bot drop yeah um of course I announced they have bought audio and mechanical keyboard company drop they apparently don't plan to make any changes before assessing the non-keyboard aspects of drops business I have no idea what that even means uh they say drop will remain a separate brand and will continue to handle all existing warranties purchases and customer support requests they always companies always say that when they acquire other people be that way for probably one to three years and then it will change and then um the discussion question here is what's the best way to handle acquiring an established brand I gotta be honest with you I don't know we've had a lot of people even like members of the audience for example uh suggesting that we buy smaller Tech channels to to build the Empire and I'm kind of sitting here going why what would that actually do if they were doing great then wouldn't they just continue doing great and if they weren't doing great then why do I want them mythical has seen some actual success with that um fair enough I I understand and agree with your argument to be honest but I think there can be exceptions to the general rule and I think mythical has been hitting pretty well there um yeah yeah like oh man this is a perfect example from Madi underscore CH in float plane chat like Logitech and blue mics they've gotten to the point now where they aren't even continuing with the blue branding yeah that's that was a weird move that's actually kind of stupid yeah I agree like if you're buying something that's working why unworking it unless it's a competitor I guess and just make it seem like you're competing they could just be buying the IP like I'm sure blue owned a bunch of patents and stuff so that's probably true it's not that I don't understand it I just mean but you could also just keep selling blue mics and have a distinct identity for that brand all the people working on that were literally already working there and it was working or why would you or why did you buy them so someone in full plane chat said yeah uh or key man in Philippine chat said mythical bot Smosh and just sold it back that might sound like it was a failure I think that's extremely not true though I haven't talked to anyone there about the specifics of all of that but to me it really seems uh like mythical stepped into kind of save Smosh yeah that was the vibe I got and then when they were ready to take it back over they were highly accommodating of letting them take it back over it was like very bro move um and I really respect what was done there I don't think that was like a failed business decision I don't think you can look at them selling it back as a failure in an in any other way in my opinion I would look at them selling it back as like a major success I think that was very very cool and good of them the whole Smosh story is is very interesting um um yeah I don't know but they they also invest in in other uh channels as well it's not just Smosh so yeah and another news Jesus has taken on the Nook so we can still have Nook PCS they will just be from Asus rather than Intel which is great if you want those and you didn't want to buy them from any of the other handful of Manufacturers that also make knuckle likes very cool don't you love that term nikolikes knuckle likes it's pretty good I didn't I didn't come up with that I think it might have been James or something with someone else back in the day millions of military emails at least by typo and we didn't tease it huh all right fine you can do it if you want I was going to do man after dark oh okay I think this is hilarious I'll try to go through it pretty quick millions of U.S military emails have been leaked over the last decade due to a common typo confusing the US military's uh Special top level domain dot mil for dot ml the top level country domain of Mali I would even bother go through the rest of this I just think that is very funny uh there's a feature in in Gmail Google workspace that warns you if you're emailing someone that's outside of your workspace so maybe they need something like that maybe that'll stop them from sending millions of emails to the wrong place amazing um and I think that's it time for wancho after dark let's go after dark time you know you can't say same bad time same bad Channel this week why not because it's not oh different bad time same thing no that's right wencho is going to be during LTX next week so it's gonna be later earlier earlier it will be on time but the next day oh it's on Saturday that's right no Friday Wan show yeah that doesn't count as the streak ending I agree I was wondering about that it's like do we all fail together are we going down in the ship as one or are we just counting it not a failure counting it is not available to email because I will go I will be in Denver for that reason I will absolutely attend this sounds amazing and I appreciate you reaching out uh hit up support.com shamelessly leveraging her position so good with absolutely look how little shame he has I literally none I told Linus last Friday was it Friday I don't remember it was last week sometime um that I am like my future of travel I am 100 planning on it just being I'm just gonna like find cool people in the community that can get me access to really cool things and just go do that because wow fantastic so good yeah negative Shame about this yeah I think that's I think that's accurate so excited look at his face he's beaming oh I I saw that in the in the merch messages dashboard I was like yes that's amazing I think there's actually a couple of those so you might have another one that you haven't seen yet sick um okay up next a high lld any update on the magnetic Cable Management gear I'm hoping you also do some sort of adhesive backed magnetic pad for people with wood desks um the update is that right now I'm speaking we were talking about uh labor action earlier on in the show and the port of Vancouver is it's been will they won't they will they won't they will they won't they for the last few days but the last time I looked which was well before the show started today um they were looking at um walking off the job again and from what I've heard every day that they are on strike is going to cause multiple days of delays because of the build up of shipments so we are not going to be getting any shipments of anything until all of that gets resolved however my understanding is that our final production is basically ready to ship or has shipped already or something so that should be launching sometime in the near future and yes it will include adhesive-backed metal plates that have holes in them so the idea is that you basically put the backing thing or you put the metal plate onto the magnet stick it exactly where you want it to go the adhesive holds it in place while you slide the magnet off if you pull it off they're so strong it might pull the adhesive backing off then you screw it in and then it is permanently installed um really excited about that product but unfortunately I don't have an exact timeline to share it this time any new float plane features that are coming up in the pipeline that you're excited about oh yeah the new player check out the new player it's on the beta site you can go to beta.flowplane.com and and you'll be able to see the new player right now the live version of it has a dare I even say it the live version of it has a dark mode chat that you can enable if you want so that if you go into the the like theater view full screen player mode and you're watching something like Wan show it doesn't have this glowing white bar on the side um so that's a thing uh and and there's other cool new features with the player uh I uh it's full transparency Jaden was showing me all the work that he did on the player and I was just like smiling nodding while I'm thinking like wow this this really looks like how it's always looked and then I asked him because I was like man I really can't tell what's different I asked them to load up a version of the live site so I could see them side by side I was like whoa okay it's very different it just like it just feels like it kind of was always this way like it's it's not drastic in the way that you're gonna Lurch because it's so crazily different or anything but it is very noticeably different if you put them side by side and it's definitely an upgrade so you can check that out and that that's the main thing that's coming there's lots of features in the pipeline um but that's the only one I'm going to tell you guys about now the the beta site is how you're going to be able to see what's coming in the future generally moving forward we do plan on continuing to use that so yeah all right let's see here how did last week's international shipping shake out oh yeah very good question I don't know he hasn't had the heart to check rough yeah nobody told me um so maybe it's not that I didn't have the heart to check maybe it's that nobody wanted to tell me hello sir you're on the WAN show sir this is a Wendy's double for you um spicy chicken extra lettuce I want a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce don't be front and sun no seeds on the bus sorry can I get you a Frosty um sorry grilled or crispy sorry um okay anyway the point is that uh the WAN show audience wants to know how much we ate it on the shipping promo last week you look for numbers what are you looking for here I mean numbers are good no Nick I want your shoe size number is that right well it was nice it was nice working with you too so this transaction do I thank you do I thank you for the information do I I think you do actually because it's your fault it's not his fault oh I see yeah I mean it was all right um so maybe not then like is that is that net yeah that was positive really oh obviously yeah but that was over the entire three days what about that day what about those orders like are you accounting for handling costs and your profitability calculation just asking God I love this company I love okay he holds me to account you know oh my god I've been enjoying telling him the same thing it's very good computer is taking forever that's a feature not a bug it's ready for you to compute anytime he tried to turn it off old Mandel shows up at your house and just turns it back on [Music] summary so yeah um I want to see what we did about 30 percent profit that day wow even even counting the shipping so really yeah buddy okay I'm gonna I'm gonna can I follow this up with you next week yeah you know that like people bought backpacks and stuff oh yeah you did do the call out yeah but you know how much backpacks cost to ship right yes okay all right okay no no that's not necessary okay all right thanks Nick okay goodbye wow people really bought them backpacks we were talking uh in the parking lot after the show about how like there's certain people that uh might be in shipping situations where they just would have never ordered so some of the orders were like huge because they were like okay now I'm gonna get all the things I wanted I'm just going back to last Friday here I have some you have some concerns about that being accurate uh no no no I would always uh I would always trust my team to not be that I need to look at the report then why'd you ask him to talk about it next week I would I like talking about uh money a lot okay okay so okay that okay I'm I just for the sake of clarity um sir screw it net sales that day was wow three hundred twenty thousand dollars we're gonna have to talk to the Taran about Rancho gross profit was 120 000 and if we spent eighty thousand dollars on shipping and shipped 14 000 units of stuff at an average handling cost of like a couple bucks each uh I think made money is generous um with a thirty percent come from that's that's the that's the gross profit for the day uh before the shipping shipping is not in there yeah so okay I see all right yep that's cool that's fine next merch message overall though overall though Nick is Right lime day was a success uh we moved through a lot of dead stock uh we are net positive overall online day even if the Friday we'll do the math it's three percent if the Friday was questionable uh three percent three percent profit oh you worked back at ncx back in the day that was probably all right don't forget that there are cost no because that's still not net there's other costs some okay so some of the products that we were selling for example are dead stock so our cost calculation in here doesn't include the uh storage fees that we've accrued for those over the last two years in some cases so also there's there's almost inevitably going to be some amount of returns yep administrative overhead Etc yeah it's it's um it's if you can do a wild promo and you can be flat for the day I consider that a w I'm not criticizing the team I'm not saying anything went wrong what's your idea foreign well it's it was it was a it was a team effort collaborative yeah it was it was a team effort like like Nick said it was it was collaborative um and so if you can run a crazy promo that makes the community really happy and excited and people were excited they were like yeah absolutely a ton of posts on the subreddit and all of that I got a bunch of messages about it and if you can if you can by some miracle not lose your shirt on it shout out everyone who by the way you know ordered screwdrivers why it like is floating on the line well no that is why yeah because the previous two days were actually a much much lower uh gross profit percentage so this one was like 30 or something like that the previous two days were much closer to the wire but people paid their own shipping right so they they overall like made money yeah not much but they made some and then the Friday you guys helped a brother out ordered backpacks ordered screwdrivers we gave you a handful of like relatively high margin items and you guys were like let's go yeah sure I'll get that yeah sure um one of those and the lime Day stuff that's at Cost come on here we go um and so that day ended up being okay but that's not the kind of thing that we could count on overall like it's not I I feel like some people might have heard that phone conversation and gone okay well you guys should just do free shipping on orders over 150 forever but that's not actually the case because you can't run a business with all the overhead associated with running a business and reinvesting in new product development come on like this oh [Music] um with like razor thin profits so that's that's how you end up being NCIX um don't exist anymore so yeah overall lime day was a big success um massive shout out in our community and um and our team and uh we're not going to do that kind of thing all the time okay here we go hi all love the Show recently received my 13th gen Intel framework 13. do you think that single cable e-gp sorry e-gpu setups are a viable option in 2023. in my case it's for games like CS go and Eve online uh yeah that's a person who picked their games and just stuck with them yeah Counter-Strike and Eve I like my space games I like my gun games and I like them both hardcore yeah unforgiving yeah yeah I mean you could pick up a very very egpu enclosures have gotten shockingly affordable all of a sudden really yeah I just I just looked into it yeah I stopped paying attention to them for a few years and they just quietly fell down in price by like 200 like um I was trying to think I'm trying to remember where I was shopping the other day what the heck is egpu.io wow this is a this is a very slow website um anyway that okay totally useless absolutely those things are expensive no I was on um oh what's that what's that Mac brand that OWC that's the one I didn't even know it so yeah so cool yeah I was on OWC and they had an egpu enclosure no I want to stay on the U.S site Jaden's asking a good question sure are there any real options other than Razer core yeah absolutely this thing maybe how about this thing for 279 dollars whoa yeah Razer core is 550. yeah 650 watt power supply you can basically power like whatever you want full length full height double width cards so you will or you are a little limited into you can't put like a 40 90 in it or whatever but that is very reasonable works I mean because a lot of them back in the day were kind of sketchy um I don't see any reason why it wouldn't the no no really like like yeah no it's not as it's not as sketchy these days okay but yeah these these things are freaking affordable um and so if you if you you know get a GPU like it's especially if you think of it as like a long-term investment if you are definitely gonna be a laptop guy or a laptop gal forever and you're gonna want to upgrade your GPU you know at some point then you can you can start to do the math a little bit differently you can amortize the cost of your enclosure over multiple GPU upgrades so instead of costing 280 dollars okay well now I've bought myself two egpus so you like you upgrade it down the line now it costs 140 each time or you know I'm gonna use it for three generations which might be optimistic but we'll see uh and you know now it cost me 85 per generation or whatever the case may be um yeah I know I definitely think it's viable I would like to see I would like to see an 8X external interface at some point that actually takes off but right now it seems to be very early days like framework has that thing that they're building out of the Caboose of the framework 16 but that's not really external it's not even hot pluggable and then Asus has their XG mobile thing but it's highly proprietary um I don't know MSI had that one way back in the day where the laptop just had a slot in the back and you just like plugged it into the dock it just hasn't been standardized so I don't I don't I don't know what if anything we would see that would replace Thunderbolt at this point but I would like to see something that doubles up the lanes or I mean at the very least moves to gen Thunderbolt 4 gen 3 bandwidth I can't remember but we need more bandwidth basically it's the one that you brought up was it an akitio yep yeah okay sounds good I found the same thing I was hunting around oh yeah yeah good reviews at least yeah 15 of them yeah okay yeah there you go Linus how did you develop your writing and editing style for LTD scripts is this just something you figured out doing so many scripts or did you also get some advice or inspiration from somewhere so many so many I'm also just I'm a sponge I'm an absorber you know when I when I encounter something that I like I go and then I you know I try to I try to integrate that into into what I'm doing so um and I and I I read a lot of comments I take a lot of feedback and some of it's garbage sometimes you guys quite frankly suck at giving feedback um but other times a lot of times people don't actually know what they want yeah other times you guys are really great at giving feedback and it's it's hugely beneficial so so don't stop doing it also like I know you don't watch a lot of YouTube videos but I know you pay attention to what's working on YouTube um to a certain degree at least yep oh yeah I'm watching I'm watching you know what is showing up on the home page and then you know incognito tab absolutely yeah how do you all feel about the new Microsoft intra ID name for Azure active directory uh we talked about this before uh it's stupid okay I believe yeah they just rebranded as yours like oh yeah okay whatever okay yeah there's I probably forgot because I just don't care negativity around the brand right now cool um with slow regulation and wide attack illiteracy Gap how do you keep people aware of emerging Tech and the risk that they can pose for example scammers mimicking people's voices it's hard just keep saying it you know tell your friends tell your family tell them to tell their friends tell them to tell your family word of mouth is shockingly powerful still even in the internet age it doesn't the power of Word of Mouth doesn't go away like we picked our flooring contractor for our new house just based on what the previous owner said that she used and liked because you know she seemed like someone who had her had her act together and it seemed like the quality had held up quite well since you know 1990 whatever when they built that place so we just went with the same thing because people don't want to do a bunch of research yeah contrary to what you know Reddit thinks they just they want a good option and if and they and they trust someone they have a personal connection with far more than they they trust an endorsement from someone that they don't have a personal connection with yeah hey llnd when shipping the replacement zipper pull on the backpacks would it be possible to order something from the store and just have the polls thrown in with the shipment to save money for you I don't think we're gonna have any way of managing that and I suspect we're probably going to end up shipping the polls from um from Asia directly rather than shipping them across the ocean and then shipping them again because that would just feel pointless and stupid so if there's any way for us to do that that's what we're going to try to do question for Luke I'm currently producing a tennis challenge in gransby and we've run into many glitches with ndi what's the most stress you've been producing something uh live and how did you manage what about me I feel like you're a better person to answer this oh every single Wan show and extremely badly yeah I mean you're basically um performing live in front of you know anywhere from 10 to 20 000 people and your boss and his former boss yeah still sort of and but one of them's antagonistic which one were you pointing at it looked like Luke but that doesn't seem right you know those those guys oh both of them I mean sometimes you know what you're doing okay you have to trust in something um sometimes it's yourself and most of the times it's not but if you're getting glitches you get one glitch that's not good enough you need to have it be more robust than that yep five nines five nines every every day of the day yeah every day of the week every day of the day it's okay it's late I think I heard I think I literally heard a yawn next up hi dll was researching some stuff and saw that all the major OS makers are starting to push app sandboxing at some level how do you think anti-cheat devs will react if when this becomes mandatory I haven't heard about this what is uh what is this sandboxing sandboxing is good um anti-sheet devs I don't know because they don't like the VM stuff I'm not sure I really don't know I I'm not sure if there's some some way that they can try to hmm honestly it's it's a battle that must be fought but it's a losing battle um in my opinion so I feel bad for the entity Developers I have pretty much given up on like really wanting to be competitive in shooters because as far as I can tell every single shooter game is Just overrun by cheaters um so I don't know I don't know I have no idea sorry for someone with little professional experience but a lot of hobby experience in basic coding python HTML Etc is data analytics a good starting point or seek other options absolutely could be um yeah you can do some data analytics stuff in Python you can do data analytics on a lot of different things um I'm not 100 certain what the question is is that for like I don't know if you're asking for like in order to get into a profession or to do something that you think is fun um if you're trying to get into a profession there's lots of work out there for lots of different Developers I don't I don't think specifically like like bringing yourself into the specialization of data analytics is going to necessarily do the greatest thing for you uh when you could be a little bit more broad um but I am also certain that there is jobs out there for data Linux so yeah yeah I can't believe we didn't cover this oh oh it's live I had a question about this as well go for it I know at least one person on my team that is going to buy this Jake already pre-ordered it too yep so exciting man these guys are crushing it DIY Edition pre-built um they had such an incredible response that oh my they are now not shipping until q1 of next year whoa every model every single model every single model oh my gosh a lot of people that were like the second this drops I'm buying it which I I never hear with something like a laptop maybe for a graphics card but people believe in the mission their second attempt the first first product great second product cool wow um these guys are absolutely crushing it over there I'm super excited for them super proud of them uh super happy as an investor that like I didn't just put my money in a fire because I was willing to but if I don't have to that's great um tell me something how would you guys feel at this point if they did another round of funding and I re-upped is that is there any additional conflict of interest at this point or is it even possible well no here's the thing because initially the way that I sold this to the community was I really want to support this Mission and I feel like it's been working today now I don't think it matters and I'm willing to kiss the money goodbye my well I can tell you now my intent is really different this time around I'm looking at it going how about I make some money by putting it in framework because these guys are heading for the freaking Moon I think that's still does that matter valid because if you're helping them head to the Moon I think that's good because you want we've talked a long time ago about how like if you want to enact change doing so in a way that makes you money is actually often the best possible way to do it because that's the best way to ensure that you continue to have funding nobody seems to care yeah they're like let's go you already have money in the system it literally changes genuinely nothing Well changes the percentage I own okay why does that matter I mean I don't know it matters a little I don't think it matters I think that's why everyone's saying do it I'm just I'm just I'm excited good of you to ask I'm like I I'm like yeah I mean it is good that you have seeing the way they're executing I'm just sitting here going I mean yeah take more sick it's the most exciting laptop on the market to be clear I don't have any money right now um I have nothing in it at all so my statement came from nowhere yeah um like I actually I actually don't we uh we got the keys for the Badminton Center oh yeah that makes sense that you would have no money in the market I actually have no money relax Dan we kept a float for payroll that's okay maybe they'll pay me one day oh come on I can't say that I know I'm just kidding no there's no concern if I want to be serious there's no concern okay I trust you very much yeah don't don't trust me trust Yvonne and that's what I was saying I mean we have an accounting team now like five people in the accounting team it's like when did this happen I don't get it you know um it happened just after I started but yeah anyway the point is that when when it when and if they were to do another round of funding if I had if I found you know you know a couple hundred thousand dollars between the couch cushions like would anybody begrudge me that doesn't matter sounds like no if you did what sorry if you hid money in coach no if I if I found a couple hundred thousand dollars between the couch cushions and wanted to spend it on framework oh is that okay I'm not literally finding it you're getting hung up on finding it in the couch cushions it's more fun to do that though it's a joke that's where all the money went he actually had so much alpaca wool we need to figure out what to do with it we own like two hundred thousand dollars of alpaca wool give it to framework laptop well laptop cover yeah Linus Tech tip make your make your framework laptop smell for a limited time when you order a laptop get a miniature laptop cushion made out of uh made with alpaca wool stuffing I think say 1988 in float plane chat has probably the best take here it could make a difference if he invested a significant portion of his wealth right now if they go under it wouldn't be good for Linus's finances but um but it wouldn't be life-changing so yeah I think that's I think that's I I think that's a better take than just go for it but that's someone talking about it from a defense of you standpoint they're wanting to make sure that you are not too invested sure but they're they're helping me they're helping me sort of frame it correctly okay but it's still what the question that you were asking was is it like ethically okay for me yeah and they're saying yes as long as as long as I don't have as long as it's not like the company fight or flight for me to like make it work or not not fight or flight as long as it's not do or die so as long as you make it by Twitter and then abandon Tesla yeah yeah yeah or or start behaving in a way that negatively impacts Linus media groups because you're too focused on this because I'm too focused on uh on framework fair enough oh man I it's been it's I know I still haven't done the CEO incoming q a stream with you flow playing chat I'm so sorry but anyway here's something the kind of thing that I might talk about in it if I were to ever get around to doing one I will at some point I just stop it stop shaking your head you said you're gonna do it like a month and a half ago I will do it I will do it just calm down anyway I had a really refreshing conversation with our new CEO today um it was cool because he came to me asking for me to make a decision about something it was you know whether or not we'd be comfortable working with a makeup brand and um everyone does that which is why I don't want that job anymore so I said I know what I would say but how about this why don't you tell me what we're gonna do and let's see how closely they match and he basically goes well they're an established brand they're reputable uh this particular product seems to have pretty solid overlap with our audience they have Deep Pockets I don't see any reason why we wouldn't do this and I go cool that's exactly what I would have said and now next time we don't need to have this conversation at all and I can trust that we're in good hands perfect so yeah I'm I'm excited I think it's going to be I think it's going to be really good it's been it's been amazing how long we haven't worked together and haven't really like we will we'd like hang out at events and stuff sometimes or we'd like text sometimes but probably the grand total of time we've spent together since we both left NCIX is like maybe 20 hours quite realized how how much of uh and I might be projecting here it might just be wrong but how much of your like communication style and certain other things came from him because it's been really weird it's been really weird working with him because it feels like I've worked with him forever but I've had probably actually like five or six like not including the retreat like specific meetings with him about work but it feels like I've had like hundreds and I'm just like this is this is odd I don't know I can't tell if that's positive or negative positive it's a positive I told him at our last one I I he was asking me about something that I'm not gonna specifically bring up yeah but I told him like a bunch of things and then ended it with like I was concerned and was pushing back when Linus was like originally pitching bringing you on yeah Luke was one of the strongest sort of well because from my perspective and he understood this as well from my perspective I've had two bosses ever that I've worked with that I thought were good and I've had a lot of jobs I was when I was growing up I was like my mom in that way I would just rinse through jobs all the time and I like hated the leadership at all of them and I liked working with Linus so so far with my track record the chance I was gonna like the new guy was really low and I was like I don't want to like leave because I don't like the new leadership like that would suck so I was highly concerned about that but the way that working with him has been so far has felt eerily familiar and it's just like oh okay this is cool all right this is fun the pitch I gave you guys it feels like more Linus he taught me everything I know now I'm concerned For Better or For Worse well I got everything down but what I do know came from there and like I brought up I brought up one of the the things that I was happy about was like you and Yvonne seem to be endless Wells of effort but you are two people yes and you are shouldering significantly more than two people worth of work no matter how hard you tried you weren't gonna be able to do it so it just whatever so certain things would get kind of left aside or not addressed or whatever and now having a person who can do that so you guys can focus more on what you should be doing just makes a lot of sense and it's good yeah that is going to take some time for things to actually really start happening uh because he's only actually been here for like technically two weeks so like whoa now it's very much in observation mode right now yeah just like makes sense yeah no it's been good yep all right moving on clear purple screwdriver went how dare you curate that let's skip uh let's get back more positive cash flow please um I mean answer the question I've already shown a clear screwdriver I think you guys saw that um I think that if we were to stop at clear that might be kind of short-sighted however I will say this we are not anywhere near doing anything beyond uh the next three colorways that we have planned and that does not include any tinted clear Plastics you probably want to see how well those alternative colors do we want to see not just how well they do in terms of sales performance we we're not even there yet first we need to see how well they do in terms of uh in terms of are they manufacturable because we're not redoing our molds to do clear plastic that is not on the table and the way that clear plastic behaves when cooling compared to the really durable chemical resistant really awesome Triax material that we're using right now is different and we know that we've had prototype clear drivers for probably about a year so are you going to be selling them with like uh like a caveat of like it's not as durable yeah absolutely yeah we'd have to it's not um so like a lot of like workshops and stuff that are trying to outfit their workshops with screwdrivers will probably stick with the the Triax material ones but maybe if you're just like I build computers sometimes you can get one of the clear ones well it'll be better than that at um like it'll be good it's just Triax is great right fair enough so you know it's not like oh yeah this is a piece of crap and it's just immediately shot it's not like that at all I mean think about what you probably did to your clear N64 controllers right and they're all fine and it's fine many many decades later but this is Triax right yeah okay okay cool so um yeah we've we have been aware of the demand for different colorways we had intended to do different colorways much earlier the problem is that you people ordered so many of them we've sold 150 000 screwdrivers so keeping up with production getting stubby going all these different colorways this put strain on our limited production capacity and that of our partners so we can't just go to pH and say hey we need you guys to parallelize your operation immediately so that you can start running six different projects for us at the same time that's not a thing right yeah Logistics is complicated the real world is really complicated especially when you're trying to do anything at volume like look at the stupid Carabiner replacements for the backpack that's taken a freaking year as well and it's not because we're not trying it's not because we're not constantly iterating and working on it it's just that even once we have a solution we have a solution now we have a solution today but it takes time to manufacture a hundred and fifty thousand of anything right like if it was just one backpack yeah I could have I could have you a replacement probably like in a couple days because we've like got some samples here but it's not one backpack and we want to do it in a way that's fair to everyone so it's it's really just it's like really challenging we would have had new colorways like way sooner if you guys didn't keep ordering so many bloody screwdrivers and keeping the production going but I mean to be clear keep doing it like appreciate you guys he just spent all his money on a Badminton Center please you can keep buying screwdriver don't forget the lab oh yeah yeah you had already spent time I not only like when I said I don't have money I said I meant I don't have cash in terms of like actual like money it's actually like negative like I I have debt I have much debt on the lab right now tends to be how this stuff goes don't forget about the debt on the Badminton Center either but uh look I'm not asking for I'm not asking for your pity obviously everything over here is going great I'm really excited about what the lab's doing really excited for the Badminton Center and like you know we're we're killing it we're killing it um but we we appreciate y'all a lot yeah I I thought about the carabiners for the or the the whatever the polls for the backpack recently because um my the bag that I bring to the gym which no I cannot use an LTD backpack for this because I go in the pool and then shower afterwards so I need a wet area and the bag that I go to the gym for has a ventilated there's your winner oh my HR um uh it has a it has an area for wet clothes that ventilates out which is great yeah um the the shoulder strap thing the class like came apart like it yeah it like bent slightly too much so it doesn't really close anymore and it'll just come off it's so annoying but I was like I'm not gonna get too mad because we're going through similar stuff LGT gym bag win that would be kind of sick yeah I would love to do more bags bags are like shockingly big business I recently became aware of this like influencer bag brand I'm just I'm looking at it going like okay and they're they're doing just like obscene amounts of volume like how many people needed like luggage luggage has always been so weird to me yeah like the fact that like Willowbrook Mall had a luggage store in like the early 2000s that's all they did and they were around for a long time I was like how wow how many luggage nobody's ever in the store when you go there yeah like I don't know and like everyone that I know that has luggage their luggage is like ancient they bought it like 10 years ago yeah we still have it like I mean if we did a luggage we'd make sure it totally kicks butt or whatever but like yeah I just don't know what we'd be adding to the conversation I'm sure there's actually some to add to the conversation when it comes to luggage uh in my opinion there's there's a lot you could do um my thing is just like how many of those stores exist and how they are able to revenue that much that they can stay around is wild to me how do they even Revenue yeah hello dll thanks for all your videos and the WAN show quick question what happened to the NCIX PC still happening uh we've just been really busy in the lead up to LTX and the people who are helping Tanner with the uh with the NCIX uh wall PC are busy getting ready for LTX oh you're gonna make me read this one okay how did we do my absolute Giga chats any word on the backpack well when the backpacks start shipping with the new zipper poles sorry zipper pulls I'm eagerly waiting PS tell my friend Alex he's an idiot um all right I was gonna edit the last bit Dan rude wow how could you say that on this show he knows how he knows how can you be that mean to Alex L huh I've just I'm just reading the copy on the prompter gosh that's what they pay me to do um yeah backpacks shipping zipper pulls new zipper pulls um I don't know it depends on production lead times it depends on if we're able to figure out how to um ship directly out of Asia it depends on whether a boat full of backpacks ever actually makes it through the Vancouver port we are running short on our original 40 000 unit order though we're running pretty low so we're gonna see how that goes luckily for you this European forgot to order last week uh for all of you what's your favorite meal to make yourself it's not really a meal but man I cannot resist like spicy instant noodles yeah that's a that's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me too yeah with a poached egg and not poached no I scramble it I I throw in some egg just to have some like justification for consuming that garbage you don't poach it in the broth no I I can't handle yolk on its own the taste of yolk is disgusting I have to scramble eggs to eat them um I have kind of two there's the inverted chicken cordon bleu thing which I won't go into again um and then get some laid and then there's also this uh I started making this soup do you know Zuppa Toscana from Olive Garden nope okay well it's a soup from Olive Garden that's super good um and for my birthday every year I used to bring my family to Olive Garden and we would get the soup salad and breadsticks combo because it was unlimited for all of them and I just have a whole bunch of Zuppa to scan it because I love that soup um and then I went and wanted to make it for myself one day because I was like maybe I should just make some of my own and I realized how incredibly bad for you it is because it's made with just like heavy creamer and right you know that kind of stuff so I was like okay I'm gonna make my own version of this I'm going to try to accomplish making the reasons why I like this thing but without so much of the bad stuff so using like chicken broth and things like that instead of heavy creamer and I I don't know what to call it anymore because it's almost everything in it has completely changed I use like kale and chicken broth in a very specific type of sausage and all this other kind of stuff so whatever my version of that is but I love it I like it more than the original um it's like good for you now and stuff and uh I like making that but I make it fairly rarely it's very much a winter soup what did you call it uh the the the soup that you like Olive Garden version was I believe it's just called Zuppa Toscana but Zapata Theseus if you've changed everything in it I love it I do believe everything has changed and that is still how I reference it so yeah royalties please absolutely um up next hey lld I think we'll ever see a Mainline framework style decent phone I mean I'd love to see it but it's going to be a whole new set of challenges and it's going to be really difficult man I don't know what else to tell you ldx merch ordered thanks for me signing up to float blame for the first time ever question for lld what is the best and dumbest convention swag you've either purchased or have been given wow I'm 100 certain there's been a lot of it but I feel like I wouldn't remember it because I just throw it out um yeah I was hoping you would have something for this I curated it because I can't remember a single like convention swag item that I've ever been given I still I I literally have I have a tile from Nvidia on my keys right now oh okay that's not dumb though no it's sweet but that's my problem like I I remember a fair amount of convention swag um there's even been some like actually really cool shirts I didn't like the brand but Astro gaming had a really cool shirt back in the day um like bad screwdrivers were really common in tech for a bit there yeah like really awful screwdrivers yeah MSI had this pen I was so traumatized I made my own MSI had this pen set whereas all these different colors of pens but all the pens were so bad that would just never work I got a really cool one from iBuyPower back in the day you know they're like like cougar like like logo it was thumb screws for your PCI slots but I remember those that's pretty cool those were sick weren't they gold too yeah yeah those are very blue there's been a bunch of really cool swag but honestly like if it's trash swag it doesn't even make it out of the convention center I'll just garbage can it before I'm out um or just not take it in the first place if that's an option I think I still have a teeny tiny little pillow from a yacht convention I went to once there's like three by three inch tiny little pillow that wears for fabric samples if you wanted your yacht couches to be done in this fabric that was kind of weird Nick corrects me it is not two hundred thousand dollars of alpaca wool it is less than one hundred thousand dollars of alpaca wool that's good all that means to me is that it could be 900 or 99 000. 99 of alpaca wool it's still not two hundred thousand it's less than half of what you thought that's true hey Linus and Luke when looking for buildings for lmg have you ever looked at taking over a dead Mall the company I work for is leasing a hundred thousand square foot facility for a car museum there aren't any yeah not here this is we don't have that we're not in America yeah I mean I'm sure there's parts of Canada that have that same problem but Vancouver ain't it Chief yep ltt.dll two questions one thoughts on how I could donate my old 5950x motherboard and RAM to computer science students or and two would you ever sponsor Tech students or hire interns once Labs is up um as far as donations go I have no idea um how to make sure that it gets to the right place I mean that's something I think pretty much every charity struggles with as for sponsoring Tech students are hiring interns once Labs is up apparently we already do we've taken on some internet paid um we've we've taken on some interns and uh Gary's coordinating all of that I basically told him I think it's stupid and a waste of time and he said he thinks it's good and not a waste of time and I said okay see you later they have a type of task they have some tasks in a category that I do believe it makes sense for I don't think it would make sense for um like float plane I've never thought it made sense for float plane but uh some other tasking I think it's I think it's smart I think he's doing the right thing and giving people a really cool opportunity so I think it's working in both for both sides good this one's for Luke hey uh LDL I work at a company that makes spacecraft mechanisms and other spacecraft Luke seems to have a good time at Nasa if he had a chance to visit a company like us would he want to I told you there was two yeah I bet you forgot all right this is amazing email us yeah archive and it's gone do you expect Apple to try and avoid the EU mandating USBC and removable batteries on phones in the current coming years yes hey LVL what are the chances yeah easy what are the chances of getting some jeans from LTT I work in HVAC and I've been cooking no no jeans jeans are really hard yeah it's a difficult material to work with and people have wow do they ever have expectations when it comes to Gene fit and sizing I think the closest you're going to get from us is our upcoming cargo pants for the time being hey Luke could you talk a bit about float plane's monthly internal Dev day I'm trying to sell the idea to my boss I'll also Linus I forgot to use the free shipping code you're welcome I uh we've been struggling to actuate it recently due to um goal structures and stuff like that but effectively how it works was it's supposed to be the the last Friday of every month we have something called creative day um and the idea behind creative days you get to work on whatever you want [Music] um and it's whatever you want as long as it could plausibly maybe bring benefit to the company there's only ever been one time where I've shot something down and every everything else has been accepted there's been some really fantastic things that have come from it there's been some stuff that we will definitely never use and won't see the light of day that's fine mostly because we get the really fantastic things if you're trying to sell this to your boss something that we got from one of those is the thing that you used to talk to me right now which is merch messages at the bottom of the screen which by the way is quite profitable yeah two person's boss it works well um we're we're gonna get it it's been kind of not really used for a little while now but we're gonna get it going again the labs web team uh did a version of it recently and what might happen to the float plane one is how it works might change a little bit what the labs web team did was at the end of the quarter they had a little bit of not much but they had a little bit of time that was kind of spare because they they finished their goals just slightly ahead of time so we did a little hackathon and that was awesome we got some very very cool projects out of the hackathon and what we learned from that however is moving forward it's very likely that we will theme these types of events uh because an issue that we had with the float plane ones and an issue that we had with the labs ones is people were a little lost for what to do and I find when people need to be creative it often helps when you kind of put bumpers on there like bowling bumpers like kind of keep them in a bit of a lane you can get them to generate ideas kind of easier sometimes so yeah hi dll any updates on selling things at Microcenter I'm an associate and would love to see your products in the stores yes the button down makes a great killer work shirt I I only I only curated this because of the great plug for the button-down shirt uh no updates sorry dll a game called food court uh build your perfect meal example of my favorite fries or fresh McDonald's favorite Burgers Harvey's favorite onion rings Etc what perfect meal would you get I'm gonna add the stipulation that it has to be fast food what's your fast food combo okay so mine is the something they have to remember yeah are we are we okay Canadian yes so Canada terrible fast food across the board all of our fast food is k w is way better than yours that's the only one we got okay so um I would probably I'd probably just go for the classic a w teen Burger which is not the same as the American one the American one is actual literal garbage and I wouldn't feed it to my dog um I'm gonna go with Tim Hortons the Tim Hortons lemon iced tea um it's just their their brewed iced tea is is really good and my fries have got to be McDonald's I'm sorry I man when the kids like ask for McDonald's I almost always when they ask for fries I almost always say yes so I can steal a few I don't want to eat a whole thing of them because it's like really yeah it's just garbage yeah but I I eat a few every time yeah McDonald's fries but I'm going with a Wendy's spicy chicken with extra lettuce and added bacon just makes a whole world of difference beverage oh I want to take back my beverage but go ahead ditch the beverage no beverage get a frosty ah that was what I was about to say chocolate frosting yeah yeah I was like as soon as you said Wendy's I realized I screwed up my beverage yeah the the teen Burgers a very good choice but the spicy chicken just there are definitely days where I would prefer the the teen Burger but I think overall if I'm going for percentages I'm more often going to want the spicy chicken but like I really the the added lettuce and the added bacon like so good hey alinus would LTT exist if you never met Luke oh this is a good one um yes I mean it existed before Luke so the answer to that question is sort of self apparent however would LT would lmg yeah exist in its current form without Luke and I think the answer there is definitely not yeah um a lot of the key ingredients were there um I was there Yvonne was there Ed for that matter was there so that's that's three quarters of the original team Luke wasn't involved in the hiring of Ed although here's the thing um by that time Luke already had my ear and was I shouldn't say wasn't involved he didn't make the decision but we talked about it and it was the conversations that we had that was part of what led me to gain the confidence to leave NCIX and go on my own Luke has also been a key guiding star for our corporate moral compass I think that we're both really well aligned however there's a certain kind of gravity effect right um when you have like-minded people around you it's easier to stay on course versus when you're just in a bubble surrounded by people who don't have the same alignment so your question is really difficult to answer because almost everything that's happened since we met has been impacted by the other so yes because it existed already anyway line sectors was already a thing so but no um not exactly like this I mean I don't I have a I've thought about this before I have a feeling I I don't think so I mean there'd be no when show yeah there'd be no Forum I had no capability to put up a forum which was a big part of how we've created the community we have and it was bigger than it was more important when we initially went um the people user account hasn't changed in like a really long yeah so like a lot of the formative stuff right was um so what Linus is saying is you've encouraged his destructive personality okay this destructive personality has worked out pretty good yeah pretty good overall I think everyone everyone here is employed at least partially thanks to this destructive Personality yeah I played here everyone here would be employed anyway but I don't um I personally this is the thought process I've gone through I don't think you would have stayed at ncx though no yeah but I don't think I don't necessarily think lmg would exist or it definitely wouldn't exist in the same way I I feel like you would have it might have just been LTT potentially that might not have been lmg yeah or you might have joined someone else what was the what was the group because I did push pretty when there was conversations about yeah creating lmg I did push pretty hard for you to do it yeah absolutely so I think the chance that you would have just potentially gone and worked for some of the other kind of options that were on the table at the time because there was a few if I remember correctly uh would go up I don't know necessarily that it would be guaranteed but it would go up we were both pretty down with the concept of like internet video being the next thing at the time um which ages us a little bit um but yeah so I think it's it would definitely be possible that you could have just decided to split off and do it anyways by the way shoot I shouldn't have sent you those videos I sent you earlier did you like look at them in detail not really good don't oh why just don't don't worry about it okay I remember them pretty well that's fine okay we will give no details about what that was hi dll great show question for Luke did you ever watch Dragon Ball Z abridged I'm asking because there's a really tall Android that always shout out to five bird when he sees a bird reminds me of you I curated this we're not answering that's the stupid question but but I just thought it was really fun and awesome stupid question I'm just I'm bugging you I'm bugging you no I haven't yeah that's really funny but but I knew he hadn't so that's what made it the question not the important part to me I just thought yeah I just imagine Luke doing that it's very fun beat saver at LTX I can't go but I'd love to know how about bad Linus's Godly skill in Laszlo Supernova can be beat by good luck I'm very excited uh actually I'm I'm pretty Rusty I haven't been playing enough lately so I'm like not that strong and the endurance matters a lot in the really hard songs do not take that as he is bad that man is terrifying shall we move into potentials yeah hey dll Luke do you still play and recommend Orna what do you think of the latest update thanks for the show I do not play it anymore uh somewhat somewhat begrudgingly I heard after I quit that they changed some things that made this a little bit better but the entire reason why I played that game and the entire reason why I enjoyed that game was because the thing that I didn't like in the past about Pokemon go which I heard might be fixed now is that uh the first thing I ever tried to do I was like I'm gonna go get a Geodude and I hiked a mountain and then realized that there's basically no Pokemon out in the wild orino wasn't like that you could go anywhere and there was there was stuff there's things to do so it encouraged wandering it encouraged going out and and going for a walk or even jumping on a bike or or going for a run or whatever and taking pauses every once in a while to do things it it encouraged getting outside the problem that I had with Orna was once you got to a certain point it like discouraged that uh the the things that you gained benefit from were like doing crap in your town which was naturally going to be built around where you lived so like you it it literally made it actively bad for you to go out for a walk and I'm like this is the whole reason why I got this game again I've heard they've updated and maybe fixed some of that but yeah I do not play anymore because of that reason um yeah that's it are there any trendy services that you still use and think is worth it what does that mean this is a tough one I have Services I subscribe to like I subscribe to home assistant I don't think that's particularly trendy um I actually genuinely don't know what this means oh like a I think a trendy service would be something like like a meal prep service or something like oh you know or like uh or like I I would say like uh what's that bike that everyone loved and then hated or something because they had a bad commercials yeah yeah or like a Peloton subscription like do you have anything like that not really no I I promote the idea especially if you're trying to learn how to cook um to subscribe to one of those uh ingredients delivery services because that come with like a recipe subscribe to one of those for like I don't know like two three months or something and then cancel it and then I don't have any mystery boxes or like no yeah those are super dead eh I think I haven't heard about those like I have no idea I mean but that's probably good so I don't know I I don't know if it's terrible or whatever yeah yeah yeah um but I just I would imagine it would be pretty okay no I'm trying to think the only things I can think of for subscription is like the YouTube premium does chat GPT code no up next I think this is our last one actually so lld nope I replied to it okay we're done we'll see you again next week same no other more different bad time yes same bad Channel correct bye [Music] it was fineliner [Music] thank you [Music] [Music]

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

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Length: 209min 58sec (12598 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 21 2023