That was like one of the sleepiest intros we've had you know
Welcome to the nighttime pod. I haven't even gotten that much done this week
Like yeah, let me let me have a look we use we use Trello now, which is actually pretty cool
I actually really like it
So we use Trello to track all of our tasks and and everything Trello is pretty cool
And so this week I actually only got like
She did five five videos shot of which I scripted none of them. So
Like on paper, I got not a whole lot done this week
But big meetings I had to have a lot of meetings and there's something about meetings that just makes you just
just hate
Yourself at the end of the day and then hate yourself some more at the end of the week
and then just when you're done hating yourself you hate your life and
Yeah meetings suck
So you never know like okay
Did we did we cover enough stuff and then if you do cover a new stuff the new question is did we cover too many?
things and waste time
Yeah
So, I mean, yeah, I got everything that I needed to do and like honestly the stuff that we did this week was pretty cool
So we finally covered the Porsche design laptop the EV tablet that surface competitor
That's like a few hundred dollars cheaper. Okay, and
great build quality great specs
Comes with the keyboard cover and a stylus
So we got a review that doesn't happen anymore
Dell sent us over what has to be the most badass projector that I've yet seen. Oh
And you're into projector. So that's HDR. It's laser. It's
5,000 lumens Wow, and it's 4,500 bucks
Which is a lot of money
Go buy a hundred inch HDR
4k TV. Yeah, they get quite expensive. Yes, once you get up there in
5,000 lumens like obviously it's not gonna work in a bright room with the Sun coming in the way that a TV might
Yeah, but in a dim room
But with the blinds up as the Sun was probably gonna set in about half an hour
It was super usable like very usable even with some of the lights on in the room
So I was super so if you live up here, it'll just always work great. Yeah, we don't have Sun anymore
Well, not this time of year. Yeah, and then John did a smart Christmas lights roundup. Okay, I heard about this
Yes, how was that? John was like super into this
He was like, hey, so I think honestly I don't think he's bringing any of that stuff back. I don't I think he's just keeping it
Because I think his ulterior motive is that he's just into decoration in a way that I don't think most of the other people here
Really are and yeah. Yep, and and he's into like
Celebrating festivities. Yeah, like his tree was up and it was badass when I went over there and the festive spirit
Yeah, so so I think he just had an ulterior motive
That was he wanted cool smart Christmas lights and he figured hey
Oh, I know that was part of it. If I make a video about this, then I'll just keep them
Yeah, so we made that video. How is it though? Like how was it? Um, most of them are terrible as you expect
Yeah, so he didn't get a lot of great lights out of it, but he did get a couple of those Phillips
I okay you goes which he really likes. Yeah, I was gonna
Phillips make a set because there's stuff seems to be pretty good
Yeah, so Phillips was the only one that had an app that wasn't total ass, but it's not like proper Christmas lights
I'm assuming no, no, it's just Phillips you but like green and red which is a thing that Phillips you does. Yes
The last one was we're doing our test build on air cooling in the Corsair
concept slate
The largest case of that not ever but certainly the largest
yeah, the certainly the largest case from a
a mainstream case manufacturer like mountain mods has done stuff like an ascension duality is
Gonna be bigger. How big is it compared to that huge fan text case? Ah
You know what? I don't know the fan text ones one case labs has definitely done something bigger the TX
10v or something like that like ginormous like dual ATX. Yeah. Yeah, like just
Just ridonkulous things ridiculous, you know from like a normal case manufacturer like your Corsair your thermal take your
Antac all those guys. This is the biggest that I've seen it's like curved tempered glass and like wow
I know like I know with with cases like this. It's not about selling a whole bunch of them
No, I wonder how many they
Really think they're going to sell and I don't mean really in like a derogatory way
Like I wonder like when they're like, okay, let's make this case like forecasting
You have to yeah forecasting but like what is the number I don't decide here probably not like I wonder
Yeah, I actually don't think they care. It's just a show. I think this one is just
Okay, you can't tool a case for less than a half a million dollars. Yeah, I'll tell you that much
This one was a lot more than that. Yeah, and
There's tempered alone. I'm sure is like not fun
They're not gonna sell a ton of them because if I had to guess and I'd be completely guessing I have no information
If I had to guess I'd say the Corsair concept slate is probably gonna cost
500 to 650 US dollars
So like this is not this is not gonna put my hand up to guess and was like five, okay
Yeah, so I think we're on the same page there and I was thinking that or higher so that that works
I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
And
In the video description, all right guys, so we're here in the Corsair suite where they have I would love to say one of the leaders of volume of pure enthusiast grade PC cameras to put that in your first effective compared to the Gigabyte Brix VR which holds a quad core core i7 processor and a GTX 1060
Like this is a lot more times. I think it's like 48 times head the internal volume
I know how on earth would you do right down here at the bottom and they even got a bunch of hardline
And hopefully hopefully it will do a great job
What's the like is it just like a crazy build or is there like a specific point?
It's like the streaming the powerful one is the workstation. Okay, so for quadros. Yeah
You know 128 gigs of RAM
18 core processor. Oh like basically
The finest
The absolute best. Okay, and then the gaming machine is a capable gaming machine. That's like
Hiding in there. So it's a 7700 K with a 1080 TI. Okay, and 32 gigs of RAM
So while your thing is rendering on your multiple quadros, you can still game it absolute full capacity
Yeah, you can get one of so Wendell over at level one text is releasing his kvms
I believe they're actually available on the store right now, but he's got two different models and their DisplayPort kvms
So we've actually got one of them in I've been
What he's saying? Yeah, so like he's making yeah, that's a product that already existed
But he basically made firmware for it. That isn't trash
That's cool. So right up until now a DisplayPort kvm has been pretty hard to come by especially one that isn't total
Yeah, okay that that asterisk on the end is super important
So it's DisplayPort 1.2
It passes through FreeSync as far as I know and he's even gotten it working passing through g-sync
the tallboy model is
$550
But it is a dual monitor kvm
Okay, so you would actually be able to run this
In fact, that's what we should probably do Jake in the in the showcase like show-off video for this one
It's we should have two monitors and then you can actually switch between your two systems like that
And it does audio. Oh, yeah, it's like totally badass. It's USB 3. It's like it's like crazy crazy amazing
That's the okay. So so the tall one model is the dual monitor one
Yeah
That's the main and then the for this the quad port single monitor one so you can switch between four different systems
That one's like three hundred and thirty bucks or something like yeah, so you've got you're looking at three ninety six for the single monitor
so that much and
660 okay, so I've had the pricing totally wrong
Um, so yeah, maybe and that's u.s. Dollars, by the way. I
Mean they look sick. Yeah, and
You know for for a high
Plug count kvm. That's actually not
Unreasonable there's some there's some that you can get at quite a bit cheaper, but not not anywhere close that feature set
Yeah, I mean you can spend you can spend that kind of money on VGA kvm still depending on the features. Yeah, so
People are asking for a link I'll drop one in chat. Yeah. All right. Thanks. All right. Why don't we oh, how do we roll the intro?
Crap. Um, well, we have good topics. Trust me. Oh
Hey
Hey if you're logged into twitch
Is there an easy way to get me an authentication?
Thing because otherwise I have to go on to the thing and I have to do the whole thing. Oh, all right
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right, nevermind
Okay, that's fine. I'll deal with it. Um, all right
Well, if I whispered and did had gestures while we're live on stream. Yeah, how's it going?
What? Sup, what do you what is for what the for this? Yeah, you don't need that. I don't need that
No, well, how do I do it?
Are you sure I'm pretty sure are you are you not logged in? No, try to log in. This is a new laptop
Okay, try to log in I already did
What oh wait
Okay, hold on I got this
Okay, cool
Okay, you know what we'll get back to you on that actually we won't at all. So don't worry about it
Okay, so the iMac pro this was originally posted by red round two
I'm posting the link in the twitch chat. Now. The original article is from nine to five Mac and
Apparently it's gonna feature an a10 fusion processor
Inside so oh wow, that's weird. What is that? Oh, hold on. Oh
That was close can I can I has
I mean it would have just shown me my topic. So I'm actually working on my every oh, yeah does good cool
I'm working on my review of the new blade stealth. This is the quad core model
Okay, so I'm super list oaked on this thing so far actually Wow, you didn't just include it in your other blade review
No, wow. Why would I do that? Wow, what just milking videos? What are you talking about?
You're drunk way to go you're drunk. They're both blades. You should include in the same video
I shouldn't have to watch two different videos for the plates and you know what?
I can't be milking it because it's obviously gonna get demonetized
That's the word blade in it. So wait, did that happen? No, well, okay. Yes, but not you got it back. Okay
That was like six years ago back when I did an unboxing of the original razor blade
Yeah, I had some I had some keywords in the description about razors switchblade interface
which at the time I said I didn't think made a ton of sense and
It got it got but canned so fast
You remember that thing right with the displays behind the program buttons. Yeah. Yeah, it was just so expensive and
Nobody cared it was pretty bad
It also was buggy. Yeah. Anyway, so it got demonetized and I had to appeal it. I filmed that video
Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So that was a long time ago. I remember and neither of us edited it
Okay, so the iMac Pro to feature a 10 fusion coprocer processor possibly for always on
Hey Siri, you know, okay, so I've got a couple things to say here
number one is that I was super confused when I read the headline for this and I was like, oh an
A10 fusion coprocessor and I was like, oh that's weird. Why would it why would they put an APU in there?
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought too. Cuz I want because AMD has their lineup of a 10
APUs and then fusion
Was what AMD was calling what they were gonna call their CPU GPU hybrid products that just?
Ended up being APUs, but there was really nothing
Hybrid about them. They were just yeah CPUs with onboard graphics
Anyway
Fusion was the branding that they were gonna use for that and I was like, oh, yeah and because I don't follow
Apple as closely as I follow PC stuff like yes, you know a11 bionic a10 fusion
I'm sure that lots of Apple people would have gone. It makes complete sense
Oh an a10 fusion like the you know iPhone 7
but I didn't and I'm dumb and you can all have a nice little laugh at me and
Anyway, so point number one is I got confused. Haha and point number two is that I think this is great
Yeah
I mean sure it's gonna handle
Smaller more different tasks like hosting. Hey Siri always on so you would just be able to say hey Siri to your computer
Yep, which would be cool. I guess if you're into that first, there's so many mics in our houses now
It's kind of ridiculous. But you know, whatever not in mind, but you're already being monitored by Wow. Oh, yeah, I mean phone. Yes
Yeah phone. Yes. Yeah. Hey Siri now. Yeah. Well, you probably have one on you
Yeah, no, I do not have an iPhone on me right now. You usually do that
I usually do it was a good man. Is that a smartwatch?
Yeah, I don't know if it has a mic but a lot of them do actually and you swap it quite often
Yeah, it's true. A lot of mics. This is a protract. It's actually kind of cool
We did like a sponsored spot for it, but I'm not being paid to wear it right now. I like it
It's it's got two screens. So this is a dumb screen. Oh
Is it an overtime? Okay. Yeah
Yeah, remember when these first came out and we were both talking about how this is how they would have to do it
Yeah, yeah, it's so cool. Cuz when it dies it lasts for like another month and a half. Yeah
Yeah, yeah
And it's just a watch and like honest tons of sense I get so many notifications
That it's impractical to manage them from my wrist anyway, so I I've but I got back in the habit of wearing a watch
Yeah, I'm like I'm wearing a watch now base and that's cool because like I don't know if it is charged sweet
You get some notifications on your wrist if it's not charged, whatever
Yeah, like I can tell someone's calling me when I leave my phone. It's not a useless thing strapped to your wrist
Right, which is cool. I like right. Yeah
But anyway, I'm glad they're doing this either way because this has been a thing that has confused me for a number of years
Why is it?
That there is anything
That this can do that my laptop and my desktop can't
that's
So stupid. Yeah, so I mean to add to that list
Why does my laptop not have GPS?
It would be great for and I know they can tell where your laptop
Yeah, have a great tech quickie coming on how they know where your laptop is that pretty well
It can do that really well, which is swell but that won't necessarily help with like a find my laptop feature
For example, right as it is those all refer are refer
Those all rely on the same Wi-Fi positioning that your Google Maps would for example
but this coprocessor isn't gonna give your
No, I'm just I'm just adding to my list of things that every device should just support and for some reason they don't
Right, but every device isn't gonna have a SIM card. Okay. Well, okay. There's another great question
Why the actual hell does every device not have somewhere that I can pop a SIM card?
Yeah, it probably should especially because and it and it should be more standard for
Phone companies to just like I don't know charge you five bucks for the SIM
But not charge you anything on top of that monthly right the monthly fee shouldn't go up
You should pay for the hardware because you have to ship it or whatever. Like I just don't get it. Yeah
How how is this? How is this not obvious?
Yeah, you know would be really sick if I could have a SIM in my laptop my phone my switch
Yeah, like everything and I just pulls from my one pool of available. I haven't I have like other stuff on my list
I can't I can't remember for the life of me right now. What?
Yeah, I mean, okay biometrics took
Forever and are still taking forever on laptops and desktops
Whereas they've been standard on mobile devices for about three years now. Yeah, like Windows. Hello is the thing. Yeah, that's
Not and not stand not standard at all. Yeah
So yeah, there's just like there's a bunch of stuff like that that I just look at I'm kind of going but why?
Why can phones do this and for some reason we aren't building this functionality into other devices drives me crazy
the LG gram Gen 3
That just rolled in okay, and it's got this
jank tastic fingerprint scanner on the top left of the trackpad that is not touch sensitive
So you can just like run over it and like your touch pad doesn't work there and I'm sitting here going
Like we've had we've had touch we've had touch ID
slash fingerprint scanners built into everything from side buttons to back buttons to front buttons to to frickin
Oh
Why
They don't even cost much you look at the you look at the teardowns for these phones
Okay
and it to be clear I don't think it's as simple as if the bomb cost for a phone like the
iPhone 10 is rumored to be what through three hundred and thirty dollars three hundred and forty three seventy whatever it is
It's somewhere in the 250 to 350 range something like that and to be clear. I'm not saying oh, well, then it should be $4.99 because
Unlike some people I do understand that there's a lot of costs associated with bringing a product to market including
Like really including the long-term support of said product something that Apple does
Generally pretty well and like literally zero dollar inclusion cost for all of the operating system and software. Yes
okay, so
You know, I'm also not saying they're not making enough money like they're clearly clearly making a lot of money but
My point is that when you look at these teardowns
The kinds of parts that I'm complaining about. I'm not even asking necessarily
for a
For a cellular radio to be built into the device. I'm asking why the actual crap
We didn't have a standard created five to eight years ago
Where every motherboard just has a spot where you can plug it in?
why don't we have a couple like we're talking little tiny copper wires for antennas to have a way to add this functionality very easily be
Built into the screen and it does exist
It's just something that's really not very common and another and it actually used to be more common
another example is something like it did to back when like Express cards were I think yeah, um,
And clearly it went away because there wasn't a ton of demand for it, but cell phone plans used to be exorbitantly expensive
Yeah, and and to be able to have something like data was like not unheard of like, yeah
It was it was almost not existent and someone in the chat has actually brought up. I lost the comment now
I'm sorry, but they said family plan SIM grouping
I've heard that it's way more common in the States and it's starting to definitely be a thing in Canada
But it's still not like a default thing
No
and and to be unlike it's even clutch the plans even if they
Exist and you can get them for businesses as well the plans even if they exist don't have device support so it's like I can't
Just pop a sim in my blade stealth, which I should be able to yeah
So my point then is that on a thousand dollar device or a fourteen hundred dollar device?
I think this one's a 512 gig and this is about a sixteen hundred dollar device
I think they could have absorbed a slot for a SIM card. I think they could have absorbed
A fingerprint scanner that isn't trash and that sits under a touch sensitive surface like a trackpad and you know what?
I think they probably also could have absorbed you look at how much the camera sensors
cost
Or even a rear camera on us on a cell phone. Yeah, it is a trivial amount
Why is every webcam not as good as like the one plus five T's rear camera?
Why and what's the excuse laptop cameras are actually like?
disgustingly bad and laptop mics
They could be a lot better man
so
Yeah, I guess that's it. I'm I was mad now. I've got it out of my system
I'll get mad about it again at some point, but I'm over it for now. Yeah
What else do we have for topics today?
Okay, yeah, why don't we do this before the sponsors oh boy
Intel finds critical holes in secret brutal
Management engine so this is posted by cubes the gamer on the forum
I'm gonna pull up the original article from the register and I think Luke's probably better qualified to go through
Well, this is some this is some pretty ridiculous stuff. Why this is a big deal
It's fairly self-explanatory
There's firmware level blog bugs that allow logged in administrators or some other people you can
Access it over the network, which is extremely scary
Yeah logged in administrators and high privilege
Processes so programs doesn't have to be a user
To run code beneath the operating system to spy on or meddle with the computer completely out of sight of other users or admins now
That's not the only scary part because it's going on to the processor. You can access things that are in memory
So you can like screw with other programs and you can take things from other programs so now meanwhile, hold on
Can I jump in and ask a question? Oh dear gonna ask a dumb question. Okay
now
typically
something like a password
In a perfect world in a perfectly coded website and or piece of soft
It has to be moved around but at some points in time would stay encrypted theoretically end-to-end, but in practice there is sometimes
While it's being moved around where it might not be encrypted for a jump
Got it. It should be encrypted the whole time. So if
Something has access to memory. It can grab stuff that would otherwise be like possible. I
Think so and what could be really bad about that is you could change something right?
So while a program is running you could change something that's in memory
Crashing it in a really special way or like altering something. Right? So it's an exploit that
Opens up to the potential for many other exploits. Yeah, I have obviously never screwed with something like this before
But it's it's pretty brutal
Here we go
There direct quote the flaws could allow an attacker to impersonate the ME SPS or TXE mechanisms
That's referring to management engine service platform services or trusted execution engine, which is a great name right now
thereby invalidating local security features
Like what you were just talking about load and execute arbitrary code outside of the visibility of the user and the operating system
This is where some of the special cottages like from your antivirus
Get owned so you can crash affected systems extremely easily this way
Brutal the things affected are sixth generation seventh generation and eighth generation Intel core processors
This is a long Intel Xeon e3 1200 v5 and v6 processors Intel Xeon scalable processors
Intel Xeon W processors Intel Adam C 3000 processors Apollo Lake Intel Adam
e3900 series processors Apollo Lake Intel Pentiums Celeron N and Celeron J series and Ryzen 7
No, I'm just kidding. It's all Intel. Oh
Boy, the holes can also be exploited by network administrators
This was the part that I really didn't like the rest of them are pretty brutal
The fact that there can be an attack vector. It's all that I mean
It's all brutal. We're talking like we're talking like AIDS birthday cake, like does it really matter what slice you take?
The problem that I have with this is it's it's it's quite easy to social engineer your way onto someone's Wi-Fi, right?
It's it's like it's it's been proved so many times that in so many different situations
You can get onto someone's Wi-Fi pretty easily whether you overhear someone asking for a password or if you just oh, man
I really need to do whatever it oftentimes people will let you on the Wi-Fi
And then getting up to administrator access usually not the hardest thing once you're already on the network
Anyways exploited by network administrators or people masquerading as admins
Like I just said to remotely infect machines with spyware and invisible rootkits. Oh
God Wow, it's not it's not good. It's really bad
Okay, yeah, I'm asking for the link I'll drop the link yeah so far
So far, I don't think Intel has a plan
This it's a firmware level thing. So
Yeah
at the best case scenario
The best case scenario is they might be able to patch this via a BIOS update
Which is a terrible?
Solution because understand this too. This is fun. Not every BIOS update updates me
Yeah, okay
And in fact, I ran into an issue a little while back where I forget what exactly the problem was
I've oh man, there's this thing with I think it's Asus
Not Asus. It's it's what I think it's with z170 boards. I think it's that generation can't remember exactly
Anyway, the point is that you have to do like some kind of CPU juggling in order to first flash
So you have to go back to like an old CPU to flash the ME
I think you actually have to do something in OS then you have to pop that and you have to put in a new one
You have to flash the BIOS with that then you have to like put in the old one like it's some stupid juggling act
I wish I could remember but I wasted like three hours of my time a while back. Do you remember?
87 to 97 is that right?
Z87 z90 no, it's all of them Asus just has it documented so you know what to do
Anyway, the point is I believe the issue there was that ME couldn't be updated while you had the one CPU
but it could for the other the point is
Best case scenario they can update this with a BIOS flash, but that relies on a number of things it relies on the
Manufacturer of the actual motherboard to do something with okay relies on Intel to provide a fix it relies on the manufacturer
To do something with that fix it relies on the manufacturer to communicate to the end-user that they need to apply that fix
It relies on the end-user being able to run a BIOS update to be able to run a BIOS
That's that's like the worst. I mean we're talking stuff going back to sixth gen. I mean, there's there's stuff first
I mean, especially when you start getting into like OEM systems like Dells and HP's
There are systems that are not
That simple to run a BIOS update on like when you consider that the average user
It is intimidated by pressing delete and being presented with all these scary options someone in the chat
Sorry someone in the chat brought up like
Processes can edit memory for other processes. Yeah, I know that's already a thing, but this is undetectable by the operating system
Which is like the reason why it scares no permission and and it like it's it's that's a whole nother level
And I know you can screw with things without
Being caught and a lot of things are going to be caught by Windows
Okay, so I'm not done yet
It relies on the end-user to be arsed to go and deal with it because for someone who doesn't know how to update a BIOS
There's probably let's say conservatively an hour of their life that they have to set aside
To learn about this issue figure out how to do it and actually do it
There's gonna be I mean, there's good. Okay. Okay. I know that it's that it's unlikely but any machines that you know
Experience a power loss during this update. Well, they're gonna be bricked. They're gonna need to be replaced
So there's gonna be a service cost associated with this like
This is terrible. I'd love to hear Wendell talk about this
And we brought Wendell up on this stream
I just thought about him. That would be cool. So this this to me seems really bad mainly because you're going below OS level so you can
Do essentially whatever the hell you want. That's the scary thing for me. You can screw with other programs
You can make it look like other programs are doing the thing that you're doing
That's the stuff that's freaking me out, but I really wonder what someone like Wendell thinks
Yeah, I'm just sitting here looking at the business side of thing going things going this will not get fixed
Yeah, like that. That is the truth. Yeah, there will be many many
Millions of PCs out there that will be affected by this forever
Pretty much how often people have to do the bus
In like the people that are watching this yeah, like the people that are at this table
I have a Saturday night decent Saturday night calendar reminder. That's one and some cheese and update my bios
Like it's it's what I don't know. It was like three different ones
Had a little bit of friends and then I switched immediately after that
It's not common there. I would almost bet that probably above 80% of motherboards never receive one
Random statistic that I just pulled out of my butt, but it's yeah, it's probably pretty high
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I don't think it's in the doc, but yeah
the chat is
To talk about i'll use a light term of aggravated because we're not talking about net neutrality. Yeah
Ah, okay. I don't see it in the dog. No, it's not in there. Um
Honestly the reason that it's not in there
um
And the reason that we haven't made a video
Is that we already made a video
Um, we've already talked about it before
Hold on um, no
I mean the the cynic in me is kind of looking at everybody jumping on this bandwagon going like
like are you just
Out for views like why do you only care now when it's trendy?
Maybe i'm wrong. Maybe i'm wrong. Maybe it's not like that, but I just posted a video on the twitch chat
It's more than trendy right now. It's like coming up again
And well, I know that I know that the debate is sort of on right now, but here's the problem
So we already did that video that I posted two years ago. Um
It's quite good, but and there's nothing that we didn't already say
Net neutrality is good. You should care if you don't understand that for whatever reason then um
I'm sorry, we can't yeah, basically if we if we can't do this because we're in canada
and it's not an issue up here because you know, um, but
If you're in the states, you should be contacting local representatives. There's uh, what's the website?
Fight for the net or something
Fight sorry, this wasn't a prepped topic
Fight for the net battle for the net.com. Um, you can go on there. That's funny because it's battle net
I'll drop it in the chat. There's a contact them button, which i'm pretty sure
If you put in like your your information it like helps you
Reach out to congressmen congressmen and representatives representatives and congresswomen and congress
Whatever they identify as yes, we didn't assume anything. Yeah. Sorry, um, you know, we're treading on a sensitive topic right now
So let's make sure we're yeah. Yeah, let's make sure nobody nobody melts
Nobody melt nobody melts. Um, but this website is a good resource for a ton of different stuff
if you're looking for more information on it reddit is
So okay
We've got some people upset because I basically said anyone who doesn't understand that it's good needs to get themselves re-evaluated
I think there are better ways to fix the internet than through regulation. That's nice. But the problem is that
This regulation exists to fix other regulation
So unless you want to actually deregulate which nobody's calling for
Wow, really?
Unless you want to actually deregulate
um then
Nothing can be done. And if you were to actually fully deregulate everything it would create a whole host of other problems as well
Because one of the only reasons that smaller isps and smaller telcos
And smaller telcos can exist is the fact that this copper that was in canada. I believe it was um,
So here in bc i'm more familiar with our local stuff. You'll have to forgive me
But this is one of the reasons why we don't talk about it too much. It would have been bc tell
Back in the day. Yeah, and they were the ones who owned
All the copper because they were the ones who existed before the freaking internet and only certain people are allowed to put down copper
Because you're using government
Land to put the copper down. I mean the last thing that you want is like i've been to developing countries
Where the telephone poles are literally just covered in every random wire and people like I saw people
You know, they're not wearing safety vests. They don't have a truck with a logo on it. They're just like up there like running stuff
Yeah, that's actually a problem too. It's a huge problem. You have to regulate this stuff
There is no removing all the regulation and the regulation that is net neutrality
Exists to counter the other regulation that has to exist that creates
unfair advantages for certain companies
That's all there is to it. There is no debate
The only debate is who's getting paid
So there you go
So there's people in chat that are like
You clearly haven't a clue
What ag pi's intentions are?
No, we know what's going on
We're on your side
Stop it
Like I don't like honestly we are on your side because it actually does matter like even though we're canadian and this doesn't
Theoretically affect us it super does does because so much of our infrastructure and the world's for that matter
Is reliant on what the regulations are for the internet in the united states not to mention that the canadian government has a long and um
Proud history of just kind of looking south at what's going on and kind of going. Okay, that looks all right
Apparently that won't happen at least with our current guy. Yeah
But you know, there's always what happens next who knows who gets elected next. Yeah and
stuff
Um, so there you go
You're canadian i'm out
Later later, uh, anyway
So there that's all I have to say on it. Do you have anything to add?
Well, like okay one of my big things is a lot of people bring up the idea of like internet fast lanes and like
When you go to battleforthenet.com, there's like a
Faco loading icon at the top and stuff
That's not the only problem, um
In countries where this isn't a thing where they don't have net neutrality set up
there's
there's been some screenshots going around of like I don't remember which country it was but
The second you try to open a browser it redirects you to a page and it's essentially a micro transaction store for being able to access
Websites and you get like a certain amount of data or a certain amount of time
On a certain website and you have to buy it with like coins that you have for that website
It's it's beautifully
Garbage and the issue that comes up with this is like I had to scroll down the list for a while to find facebook messenger
Because there's so many websites that people use these days that are super mainstream
And including games and all these other kind of things that you don't realize that some of the things that you use might fall down
Below other stuff and someone says tunnel bear. Yeah, that's great
Except that vpn traffic works because the isp lets everything through
The isp know that it's vpn traffic. They just have to let it through if it's now on a whitelist system
They'll just block all of that. So get owned or slow it down or slow it down
Or slow it down or slow it down. Yeah
In some situations though, you can block it. Yeah, they'll go. Oh you're encrypted. Um, I don't like it
Yeah, I don't I don't know whatever it is. I don't care
I don't know with the american specific version if they'll be able to block websites
But like there was an issue up here and I don't know what actually happened with it. But telus a local isp
Telus decided to block the website of a union. I can't support you guys anymore if you support pie
We're not what did we say that sounded like are you high not in favor of net neutrality?
I know it's legal in a lot of places but hold off on the reefer for a moment. Um, they're like
Like I don't know where that came from unless you're super stoned. Um,
There's there's issues with small business right now. We are in like amazon's north america
I know facebook is huge. I know apple is huge. I know all these other companies are huge. We are in amazon's north america and
amazon's north america and amazon is gobbling up small business
there's a lot of small business that still exists on the web whether that's brick and mortar that do a lot of work through the
Web or advertise through the web or have a website where people can see all their stuff whatever
All of that is going to get less traffic if it's slow and crappy or if you have to pay to access it than other things
This will extremely damage small business
Yeah, so there you go
Apparently i'm faking it. I don't know what i'm faking
It's not an orgasm though. If I was faking that you'd know
It would be really convincing. All right, let's move on to the next topic. Shall we would you not know that?
Well, no, you'd know that I was
Doing something right? Yeah, that makes no something was going on. Uh, the original article here
There's there's I don't I don't like the obscene pitchforking. I like I don't understand at all how anyone thought that we were defending
Like what are you doing? I fight with reason guys. Come on. Um, yeah, well when you don't have it
You gotta reach for whatever weapons in the arsenal
I'm happy that you happen to be fighting for the same side that i'm on but like come on use
Use your brain a little bit
Okay, um, okay last thing i'll mention is that some people were pointing out that those portugal screenshots were a little bit
Misrepresentative of what was going on and that makes sense true, but it actually changes nothing. Yeah
About any of this and i'm not super surprised because the only answer is treating the internet like a utility. Yeah
That's the only one
Um, okay phone lines are great
So bgr teases a potential galaxy x a bendable phone
Wow also one thing that I want to say on that topic. Oh, man, if if that portugal screenshot thing is i'm eating more of this
Fake don't share it
Fake news stuff is not going to help your argument. Yeah, it doesn't help anybody. Fake news is actually it hurts your argument
You're going to get caught you're going to look like an idiot
Anyways moving forward
So the galaxy x
Looks nothing like the iphone x so that's cool. Um
Well, what do we have here in terms of leaks we know that it's supposed to be bendable
Yeah, they've been trying to work on this for years now
bendable displays have been considered kind of like a
Sort of a holy grail of futuristic technology. Yeah bendable battery that like yeah
The bendable display we've seen at like weird conferences. You've seen people doing it for a while the bendable battery drives
That's that's very interesting for me. So support page went up on samsung's website for an smg 888 n0
No information on what it is, but that model number has been associated with galaxy x many times in the past
It already received various certifications from regulators wow, including the wi-fi alliance and bluetooth sig so
The rumor is that the device will be so complicated to manufacture
That it might see a limited launch before samsung is able to produce it on mass
So this is something samsung's done before just doing a limited review of the device
For example, and then figuring out when if ever to roll it out to the rest of the world at a later date
I personally think that this is going to be a really interesting device because
for the first time in
I don't know the last
Okay
You'll have to forgive me if i've missed a bunch in between because there was
There have been big chunks of time when I haven't really been able to produce it on mass
But the last time that I remember a phone that was really sold based on being a fashion statement
Aside from apple because apple does position their phone that way
But they do it subtly like they have they try to sell you uh face time or that you're gonna be
Do epic kick flips or whatever and your friends are gonna record you in slow motion
It's gonna be like awesome, dude
Like they it's more of like a lifestyle
Brand, whereas the last phone that I remember that was really about how cool it looks and how cool you're gonna look when you use
It was the motor roller razor
Yeah, yeah, that's that phone was absolutely about that. That was what it was all about
I don't think anyone actually cared about any other part of it. No, so it was a pain to use
It was like actually too thin. I never had one. Yeah, so I I never had one either but like I touched one
I was like, this is super dumb. Um, so
this
Since then would be maybe if not the first the best example i've seen because I don't think this thing's gonna be powerful
I don't think it's gonna be powerful and I think it's gonna have to not be powerful because they're gonna have to make compromises
On things like battery life. I don't think the display is necessarily gonna be the highest resolution because this brand new manufacturing technology
we're talking about
So I think this is going to be the phone that is pure fashion statement and it's going to finally
happen
where phones have gotten
Powerful enough for most people that you'll be able to produce something with very mainstream specs and that's what I think this will have
that
Is just cool
And that's kind of that's actually quite exciting. So I was talking to someone about this. I think it's literally last night
About how phones have gotten to the point where like they're all pretty much the same
There isn't really a lot going on like like the the craziest thing that happened was apple released like a really weird phone
And like they like turned the camera thing which was a fashion thing related to razor like you were talking about earlier
Or the the what was it called?
That really thin phone the motorola razor motorola razor. Yeah. Okay. I was just making sure I didn't pull that name
But um, but like it's it's it's mostly a fashion phone with like weird face recognition stuff
And that's not that surprising and samsung going in a similar location is is actually with the same name, which is hilarious
Is is probably good because in terms of internals, there's not a lot going on
They all have the same freaking processor. They're all running the same freaking stuff
It's become boring
The battle for the inside of the phone. Mm-hmm
Yeah, it's um, i've reviewed a lot of phones in the last couple of months and they've all been pretty similar. Yeah
So so doing something interesting with the body of the phone is cool. That's awesome
That's like exactly what they should have moved into next, you know, it's not awesome this segue
Into something that's not awesome
Posted by dr. Macintosh on the forum. The original article is from qz.com. So that could have been a good segue
Except I ruined it. You just intentionally trashed it
Google admits that they've been collecting android users locations even when location services are disabled oops
What oopsie daisies
So they've said
That they didn't use the location data. They collected using this service
They never used or stored it and the company is now taking steps to end the practice. This is a quote
By the end of november android phones will no longer send cell tower location data to google
At least as part of this particular service, which consumers cannot disable. So
What was going on for a while was even if you disabled location services didn't use apps and didn't have a sim card
Android phones would be gathering your location data and sending it to your mobile device
Android phones would be gathering your location data based on cell towers and transmitting it back to google and this says since the beginning of
2017
Um, so basically at this point like we're going to continue talking about this but at this point from from the
The topic that we haven't talked about yet
Which is the uber topic where they like leaked an obscene amount of user data
Didn't report it for like a year and paid hackers to cover it up to this doesn't look nearly as bad as that
Yeah, well
Are you sure?
Well, okay if we believe google's story about this then it's not nearly as bad as that because what they're saying is
In january this year and and it's only been this year
And they're saying that it's only been an entire year
They're saying that we looked into using cell id codes as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance of message delivery
We never incorporated into the network sync system. So the data was immediately discarded
And okay, so like I don't know if I trust that but sure so so yeah
The idea was they were using the addresses of multiple towers to triangulate a phone's location something that they apparently weren't doing before
Um, basically what I was saying is if you want any form of privacy just don't use electronic devices
And don't know anyone who uses electronic devices. Yeah, or that are connected to anything. Yeah
If they're not connected to anything you're good. Yeah, so why don't we get into the uber thing?
Yeah, oh my god, this is actually kind of trash
Uber paid hackers to delete stolen data on
57 million people I mean at least they at least they paid the ransom
Um, this was posted by blue chinchilla eating dorito on the forum
And uh, the original article here is from bloomberg. What garbage what?
Is it just me or has
Did uber not?
Um position themselves as like the good guy new age company that was gonna like
Be like better guys than all the taxi
that into the garbage can and then threw gasoline on top of it and then threw like
Tnt on top of it and then threw all that into a furnace and we're just like, yeah
That's basically what uber's doing. I thought okay
So there's a lot of people really excited about being able to tip through uber
I'm not and you want to know why because I thought the entire
point of this
I thought the entire point of uber was that we were doing away with the things that were wrong with the cab industry
And that's that you never know how much to pay
Cabbies are jerks if you are if you don't tip them really well
I've legitimately had my bags thrown on the ground because I didn't tip enough
um
And I thought that they were supposed to pay the drivers adequately
such that that wasn't going to be an issue anymore and see I didn't think the idea was that they were gonna like
Nickel and dime the drivers to the point where then they go. Oh, you know what?
Actually the uh boatloads of money that we're making. Oh, you know what? We're not gonna give this to the driver
Could you top them up actually you you the passenger?
Like yeah. Yeah, why don't you top them up? Let's go. Let's do it the way the cabbies did it
Are you kidding me?
And it drives me kind of nuts because I really liked that as well. I like not having to deal with that
But I would have rather paid more natively
And not had to tip
me too
Because now i'm in this weird situation where I I know that they're not getting we don't have uber here. So I
Literally only ran into this once since the tip update came out. Yeah, so it's not cheaper anymore at all
No
And you still have to tell and you have to tip
And like you legitimately feel like a jerk if you don't tip. Yeah, because they're not getting paid enough
Which is just like a thing uber drivers are not paid very well
so what
Can you just charge me more so I don't have to do that
oh
like
Tipping is actually dumb. I hate tipping
Uh, you know what everyone to make the right amount of money and I want to pay you more for things
And I want to not tip it's the same with the thing with loot boxes. Like this is a not great opinion
I wish games costed more
really
the
Super unpopular opinion. Tell me more. I'm good. I wish I had popcorn at this. Yeah
Yeah, because like everyone in the chat is currently loading firearms. I'm
Yeah, your price of games haven't gone up in a long time
Yeah, I think a snest game was about 50 bucks
It's they've been pretty similarly priced for a long time and that was 20
Wow, and there's arguments for the other side like you don't even sell freaking physical games anymore. So it should probably cost less
Yeah, but there's a lot of risk involved with making a game. Yep. That's also more expensive to make a game
It's also way more expensive way more
To make a game these days
Uh indie studios are taking huge risk on games and then are not expected to charge more than like 20 for a game
Yeah, because a lot of indie games are like 15 25 bucks
Um, I would and to compensate these things and you can all say whatever the heck you want
You can tell me i'm wrong. You can tell me no digital distribution is cheaper. You can tell me no
There's more gamers now you tell me no
There's there's more mainstream gamers now meaning that a lot more games are being purchased in general. Yeah, sure
Say whatever you want
They're compensating for the fact that they're not increasing the price of the game with loot boxes
And other weird crappy things like cosmetic purchasing
Now with certain games in my opinion. It makes sense. Sure. League of Legends is free. You can buy skins. That's great. Sounds good
How have fun?
League of Legends and games like that that are free games that sell some skins. I don't really care about that with something like destiny 2
In destiny 2 I paid full price for the game. I have to pay for every freaking little
Damn dlc thing that they want to release for every single little boss impeach luke that they want to keep going
And there's the bright engram store where you buy randomized loot boxes that give you
Cosmetic items back in the day you would play the game to get the freaking cosmetic items and it actually dilutes from the game
This is something that I don't think. Wasn't that questing? Isn't that what we called it questing right? Yeah
In in most games that has something like that you would you would go on a quest and wow
You would get the new cool item. You could wear it around town. It sounds good
What this actually hurts is it literally makes it so that there isn't as much to do in the game
right because like
Killing the butcher a bunch of the butcher is a bad example because he always drops the cleaver. But yeah
whatever someone else who drops
A special drop like once every 20 times you want to go there and you want to do it with your friends
You want to get your friends on to go play it because you want that item now
You can just buy it that literally takes content out of the game essentially
Because you're not going to do it as much because you don't care because you could just spend two dollars to buy it
And that two dollars is probably worth your time. So you might actually do that cosmetic items and loot boxes are
Cancerous literally they're eating away at games and breaking them down and diluting them and making them worse
Current games are worse and you know who's responsible
If you've ever bought one, you're the problem. Yeah
So there you go loot boxes are essentially tipping. I don't like tipping. I don't like loot boxes
I would rather pay more and buy the whole damn thing and be able to experience the whole game
Okay, I want to push harder. I want to get all my friends on I want to fight and push that boss in freaking. Uh,
What is it called the raid whatever in destiny 2?
I did it once
Twice one we're already done
What what we cleared it like the first time I tried it. That's ridiculous. What happened to that?
There's no like effort that has to go into games anymore. Not all games
I know but a lot of them cuphead great game
But then there's no I don't really care about doing it again
There's no like special ship that I can get from there there's no special sparrow that I can get from there
Can I pitch something sure
Okay, one of the problems and I understand you're all going to hate me. It's okay. They don't actually oh one of the problems that dlc solves
or that some kind of ongoing payment system solves is the
The server uptime and the feast or famine nature of being a game developer
Where not every game can be counter-strike
No, and still be selling
Literally 20 years after it first comes out and that is a huge issue something very unpopular that i'd probably be better off
Just not saying at all
Um, so
Yeah, what happened was I accidentally bumped the machine which seems to be causing it to blue screen right now for some reason
So it probably just needs to like take apart reseat everything put it back together. Uh, anyway
So I was hanging around with the monolith guys
And I was like, okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it
Guys, yeah a couple weeks ago. Yeah, and what was interesting about this
Was that I was hanging around in a game studio
For a game that for our game studio that just released the game
like
A two-year effort game just launched
And there were still lots of people
still employed
still with jobs
Okay. Now hold on a second. Now you can think about this from the perspective of the
Uh, the individual like the the worker. Okay, the the artist or the programmer or whatever the case may be
um
Obviously people prefer to have a steady flow of income and predictable employment with benefits, etc, etc, etc
And you could kind of go well, you know what they knew what they were signing up for in the game industry
Maybe not too bad for them
Okay, step back for a second. That may all be true
But what about the company one of the biggest challenges as a company is attracting talent
attracting and retaining
Good talent if you want to have a chance in a highly competitive industry
Like the games industry and you can see why this evolution is happening
you need to be able to offer employment packages to people that might include free lunches or
super fancy twelve hundred dollar chairs or
Whatever perks it is
That elsewhere in the industry companies are offering or you are going to end up with no staff
The inability to make any game let alone a good one and you are going to go out of business
So effectively what's happening is
Whether you agree or not
Whether you like it or not the fact that this business model works is turning anyone who doesn't adopt it into
Dinosaurs and the problem is not the workers if they have the option
And if you say that you wouldn't you're either a liar or you're a unicorn, okay?
if they have the option to take a job that will continue and
Gives them lots of benefits and that they can rely on getting up in the morning and going to
Like, you know think about someone like a composer, you know monolith has a dedicated composer who does the music for all their games
so
What do they just so they release the game and it's just like see ya
I guess you better go find some other music to compose if he has the option to take the job
That's see ya or the job that so continues because he's still doing he's composing music for cutscenes and dlcs
And all that kind of stuff, but I don't think anyone's upset with that. No, what people are upset about is is the fact that this
this culture of
Microtransactions exists and that it's that it's making it so that
Okay, so you're saying they should just charge more for the game in the first place
But that still wouldn't solve the problem the feast or famine problem
Because no business is going to forecast going
Okay, we're going to charge a hundred and thirty dollars for our game
And then we're just going to keep everyone on staff and make no money
for
And we'll just pay out of out of our coffers for like the the year until we're like getting close to the next release
And then it's crunch time and everyone will just kind of work that whole time like that's not viable
I think you could have
because I think
DLC being planned for because this is something that seems to trigger people is is dlc being planned for
Before the release and it's planned for before the release because that's the way that you avoid feast or famine
And that's the way that you provide people to steady job and some people scream about that
Yeah, oh my god, you're releasing the game. You already have a release date for dlc. That's crazy. Blah blah blah. Yeah
I don't think that
Is hurting thing. I don't I don't i'm not a huge fan
Of course, I would like every single thing in existence to be in the game when I buy it right away. Sure, whatever
But I don't think that
Is ultimately that terrible what I would prefer they did
Was have a steady schedule releases. So I actually like the concept of what destiny's release idea is which is
DLCs over time I bought destiny 2
With the amount of stuff that i've done within destiny 2
I am happy with my initial purchase of destiny 2
I would like more please sir. I will buy your next dlc raid and I will fight ocerus. That sounds good
That sounds like a good transaction. Thank you very much. I knew that was coming. I'm happy to pay for it
I'm happy with my initial purchase. I'm sure I will be happy with the ocerus dlc. I am pissed off about the bright
Angrams that's a separate thing entirely and I wish that I had more to do in the game because I wish the bright
Angrams weren't there
I would have been happier to pay more for the dlc that's coming up and I would have been happy to pay more for the initial
Game if the bright angrams were not in the game all the content and items that are in the brighter grams
All the content and items that are in the brighter grams were in the game and there was mechanical processes to get those things
Right, so i'm totally okay with dlc
I loved the idea
One of my favorite things ever was the battle chest for warcraft 3 where you get the game in the expansion
And if you went at the beginning and you bought the base game
Then frozen throne comes out and you're like, oh my god, it's so good. That was awesome
it doesn't make as much sense anymore because
Um while I love that model and I would prefer that model. It doesn't make as much sense anymore
It's a very difficult thing to pull off something too that I think we're all forgetting is how pissed off we were about that model
Back when it first showed up with brood war. I wasn't okay
A lot of people a lot of people were a lot of people were pissed off that all of a sudden they had a copy
Of a game starcraft that wasn't compatible with in multiplayer with all their friends
And it was the same. Okay, that's that's pretty poo but a lot of a lot of studios have fixed that you can have the newer
You can have the newer the multiplayer is on its own layer and then single player is on his own layer
Um, I I do agree with that. There's been trash at every stage and we've been mad every time. Yeah
I think this is a new tier of trash in my opinion probably. Um, I think we're getting old well
Yeah, that's true. And i've thought about that too, though
But this is the first time that it's reduced the content that there is in a game
Right. Okay, that is directly there is actionable reasons
Why these cosmetic items because there's there's no way you're going to look at a game like destiny 2 that is extremely
About what your character looks like and go
There really isn't that many cosmetic options
When you make destiny 2 you would have made that game with a lot of cosmetic quests and weird things
Maybe an option for this thing that's kind of tedious and annoying and most people aren't going to do it
But then this one dude is going to go know what this is going to be my thing
I'm going to have the watermelon colored armor that requires you to
Kill these one dudes a whole bunch for whatever reason and no one else is going to do it
And everyone will look at me and think that i'm cool because I did it
That's content
That that's being able to show up when you're in your buddy's fire team and he goes. Oh, wow, cool
You got that thing you got the hand of ragnaros you killed rag so many times that you got the hand of ragnaros. That's amazing
That's super cool. It does no damage, but it looks cool
Well, well the the the the not directly lining up but like there's there's there's there's no no
I know my point is just like sometimes you go and you get a unique item just for the sake of having it not because
It's yeah. Yeah, like like the idea of transmog so I was talking about this the other day
The idea of transmog drives me crazy too transmog is the idea of being able to take an item and make it look like another item
Oh, okay that in my opinion dilutes the idea of
The original item yeah and makes it easier for people to digest
The idea of just paying money to look cool
Instead of playing the game to look cool. I think transmog is like the gateway drug
Of just paying money for something to look cool because you can just make things look like whatever you want and the game
Becomes less about actually working and getting the cool things
Yeah, I don't know
I don't know
There's situations in games like destiny 2 and lots of other games where you can look at
Something like the raid or look at something like another piece of content and go there should be more here
There should be another objective. There should be a side thing
There should be whatever so that I can get this other item that should be in this game and probably is
Just hidden behind a paid box and it sucks when that objective that goal that mission that quest that whatever
Is no longer in the game because someone probably thought about it
it might have even been there on a certain build of the game and then someone else went
That's a cosmetic item. We can probably get away with putting that in a loot box
That makes me sad Elon Musk won a bet. Yeah original article from Ars Technica
He said he would finish the world's largest battery installation in a hundred days or it was free
It has 100 megawatts capacity a world record and they finished it on time
100 sorry 100 and 100 megawatt 129 megawatt hour battery installation. So huge capacity and huge power delivery capability
And uh, it's the largest megawatt rating for any grid connected battery installation in the world
and uh
one of the snarky asides in the article is that this may be the first time that Elon Musk has ever delivered a
That Elon Musk has ever delivered anything on time let alone early. So you have to make him bet
That's that's what we figured out because apparently musk said it would have cost tesla 50 million dollars or more
If the company failed to meet the deadline, so I guess he was like, all right, sure. Let's do it
That's pretty cool, oh gosh pokemon go creator raises 200 million dollars ahead of a harry potter game launch you're gonna play it
Don't sigh
Oh
Don't even like don't even pretend to to be like
Oh those silly people who are gonna play harry potter game
Shut up
I to be fair. I did drop off of pokemon go pretty quick. Yeah, but that's not what I said
I said you're gonna play this
Yeah, probably
Thing the biggest thing that annoys me about yeah, niantic niantic whatever
Yeah, you want to call them is that everything seems so half-assed like I I used to play
Um, yeah, what was it called ingress? Yeah
Yeah, I used to play ingress a lot back when like not that many people played ingress
I even played ingress when the game hadn't released in south korea. I played harry potter
So the only people playing it were travelers harry potter was cool. You're like and edzel and I had like go hipster
That's sad edzel and I had control of like most of soul. It was it was pretty freaking cool. Um
But I remember even playing that game. I was like, wow, this is really, you know
i'm really just clicking the button and
Tapping it a bunch and nothing else really happens. It's it's all super randomized
There's really not a lot of substance to this game really cool concept though. So i'm gonna keep trying
Hopefully they update it and hopefully it's cool
And then pokemon go came out and it was like wow, they really just skinned the previous game
There's really not a lot going on here people apparently don't believe we're live because the time on the computer is wrong. Oh
What is it
That's the right time. Wait, what? Yeah, I don't know. They're just drunk. A lot of people don't understand that canada is really big
It's right. Yeah, I get that question all the time. What time is it in canada? I'm just like, oh man
That's not a thing because you know what you know what not making matters we should we should just do it
We should have a canada time. Google is not helping. Okay, because if you google what time is it in canada?
Oh my god, you actually get see this is the problem with eastern canada is they really do think they are the only canada. Yeah
um
So it's just like i'm surprised it's not toronto though. Um, but yeah, they're just what time is it?
So that's our capital. That's what time it is in our capital in not our capital. It is literally three hours earlier
Yeah, and then if you go further east it gets literally an hour and a half later
Yes, that's right. We have four and a half times
And that is without some island in the middle of the pacific america
Yeah, we don't even need that to have four and a half time zones. Okay. Yeah
What do they have in the states four? I think i'm not entirely sure. I think eastern is as eastern as it goes
Yeah pacific to eastern. All right, because we have um, but they have this here called does alaska reach out into another one
Oh, i'm not sure it might yeah
I don't think does anyone count alaska. I do. I have free shipping on something. It's lower 48
Okay
I mean they only count the lower 48. So why am I expected to count?
I know people from alaska that are great people
I know people from alaska that are going to heal me when classic wow comes out. So I have to be nice to them lordy
All right. So thanks guys for watching and we will see you again next week. Same bat time same bat channel
What are we gonna do about this? We're gonna slice them together somehow. Oh, dear
Here I will figure it out. Alaska has its own time zone
I still don't count it. I do. Nope. Alaska should be part of canada. I agree. We screwed that up pretty bad
Uh, all right
Mr. Black Friday