Welcome to the WEN show, ladies and gentlemen.
It's prerecorded this week
because we have no idea what's going on.
Not a clue.
We're having a tremendous afternoon.
You know, the craziest thing about today
is that we actually pressed go for the first time on time.
Oh yeah.
And I don't remember the last time that happened.
It's been a while.
And then after 35 minutes
of trying different re-streaming services,
swapping ethernet cables, changing encoding settings.
We just, we can't push any more notifications to YouTube
because YouTube won't deliver them to you.
And we just, we have no choice.
We have no choice.
There's nothing that we can do.
Oh my goodness.
Please tell me that this isn't live.
Okay, I'm just, yep, cool.
I'm just gonna set these unlisted
and I'm just gonna call them broken stream, broken streams,
broken dreams.
Perfect.
All of them.
Best title.
Best title.
10 out of 10.
10 out of 10.
Viral hit.
Oh yeah.
This is in the new cat video.
Yeah, there's just, there's nothing I can do
about this at this point other than.
We do have, for when you guys do see this.
Oh good, the last one just went public on the channel.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
I love it.
Thank you.
Thank you, YouTube.
Appreciate this.
Don't know what's going wrong.
It's great because the YouTube diagnostic was green.
Oh yeah, it's like everything's fine.
Stream health was green.
Oh, don't worry about it.
OBS, all green, everything green.
Yep, no problems here.
Yep, so great.
So we just used up one, two, three,
I think four YouTube notifications,
which I believe is our daily limit.
So WAN Show basically won't get viewed this week
because algorithmic view serving
rather than just pinging people when we ask.
Although maybe they're saving us from ourselves today
because we just notified people four times in 15 minutes.
Yeah.
Anyway, we've got a great show for you guys today.
A lot of good stuff.
My phone only got one.
Your phone only got one?
If it helps, yeah.
Well, hopefully.
Should we restart this?
No.
No, we got this.
We've already restarted like four or five times
so whatever.
So we're gonna, the first big topic of today
is of course, Apple bailing reportedly
on the butterfly keyboard that they've been using
in their MacBook Pros.
So finally, so the original article here
is from macrumors.com.
We're gonna go ahead and fire that up.
There you go.
Apple to use new scissor switch keyboard in future MacBooks
starting with the 2019 MacBook Air refresh.
Wow, that could actually make the 2019 MacBook Air
like the notebook to buy,
assuming that they managed to put a quad core processor
in at this time.
Yeah.
I'd be pretty stoked on that.
That goes against our notes in the doc,
which is interesting
because it said the keyboard will likely not be ready
for this year's lineup and will be used in the MacBook Pro
but not until 2020.
Fascinating.
But they're rumors.
So either way, sounds like hopefully Apple is moving away
from the butterfly keyboard.
Yeah, your mileage may vary on these rumors of course.
Yeah.
So the, again, the rumor is that the new scissor switch
can improve the typing experience
by offering a longer key travel.
What?
No.
No, what?
Nobody was asking.
You know what I wonder?
It's not how keyboards work.
You know what I really wonder?
Was Apple trying to pave the way
for a haptic screen switch?
I could see it.
Judging by a lot of the stuff they've been developing.
Yeah, yeah.
Didn't they kind of feel like,
like kind of like a sharp, short,
almost like a force touch feel?
Yeah.
And their force touch is actually very good.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Or 3D touch or whatever.
There's differences between those two.
Is that even that crazy?
Like, will you look at the way the average person,
like the average person doesn't touch type even.
So if you're just Joe average
and they went and they put the touch bar in,
they went and they put these switches that are sort of,
I mean, they're in between lots of travel
and no travel whatsoever.
Am I boring you?
I'm sorry.
No, no, no, it's okay.
I know you're just tired.
Yeah.
Anyway, sorry, that's neither here nor there.
So anyway, the new scissor switch
can improve typing experience
by offering a longer key travel.
Cheaper to make,
but won't be as cheap as an average keyboard.
Apparently the butterfly does have the advantage
of being very thin,
which of course nobody was really asking for.
Yeah, I don't think that's been,
the whole design industry has been so obsessed
with making phones and laptops thinner.
And like, it's really doesn't matter past a certain point.
They've been as thin as I've needed them to be
for a few years now.
Yeah, like things were too clunky.
We had, there's pictures you can find of laptops
that are like clearly too thick,
but yeah, I don't know at a certain point,
it doesn't matter so much anymore.
When you can fit it in a file folder with like ease,
it's like, yeah, okay.
Yeah, it's probably good enough.
Oh man, YouTube chat is still going.
This is so simple.
It's fair damn net.
Why is this so hard to understand?
They have a switcher router down
or their upstream is getting hosed.
So while we were dropping frames, we measured,
what was it?
600 megabit up or something stupid like that
off of the streaming computer.
So no, no, that weren't it.
Not that, not that.
Yeah, I genuinely have no clue
what this could possibly be.
Two millisecond pings and 600 megabit up
while we were still streaming.
So no, that's fine.
Like we're actually pretty stumped.
Usually like a diagnostic process could just be,
do everything over again and then it'll maybe work
and you won't necessarily know what was broken
but it'll maybe work.
But we've done that like quite a few times.
And we also don't have time to do that right now
when the show is supposed to be going live right now.
So we appreciate your suggestions,
but unfortunately they weren't really applicable this time.
No.
I kind of want to just ditch this computer again
because I think it's haunted.
That's the only possible explanation at this point in time
is that that computer is haunted.
I made a joke last week, I think it was,
which is where like I should just bring my computer
in every Friday.
We just stream off of that.
But like at this point, I bet you would work.
The crazy thing, again, like I was afraid to,
like I didn't want to blame it on the network.
I could blame it on the network cable
that was running around the office
because we're talking 20 meters, another 40, another 20.
Like you're getting kind of close
and we're going through a switch,
although that theoretically should reset
the 100 meter limit sort of ish, I think.
Anyway, it's not an amazing switch.
And I was having an issue with an ethernet port
in the set earlier this week.
So I was like, okay, maybe there's a bad switch.
So we ran a cable directly to the server room,
which is not into a bad switch.
That's into like a $4,000 switch.
It's a little bit of a sketchy cable.
It's not a great cable.
But it looks like it's working just fine.
Yeah, and we had the exact same issue either way.
So I didn't want to blame the network
because the stream cart streams fine.
But that, yeah, that's why I've been saying
to this computer is not a problem.
I've been mentioning the stream cart streaming fine
for a while now.
So, but then the direct connection that didn't fix it.
So it's haunted.
It's haunted hardware.
That's the only possible explanation for it.
But it's been haunted for like six years.
Speaking of haunted, in other news this week,
three Florida towns are apparently infected by ransomware.
So this was posted originally on arstechnica.com.
Let's go ahead and pull the article up here.
Florida land, someone clicks link again,
giving Key Biscayne, Biscayne?
I don't know, Key Biscayne?
Ransomware, triple threat commodity malware attacks
seizes computers of yet another Florida town.
This is like ransomware is honestly the smartest thing
the black hat community ever came up with
because compared to other attacks,
it is so easy to deploy and is so profitable.
Like it is so lucrative.
I mean, compared to, you know, if you were,
let's say hypothetically, you were to deploy something like
a medium sized botnet, okay?
In order to deploy that, it's relatively straightforward.
You have to get someone to click on a compromised link,
approve running a compromised executable
or some kind of script on a webpage or something like that.
And basically for all intents and purposes,
they are a part of your swarm, right?
Sure.
Does it go about like that?
Sure.
All right.
So then from there, monetizing the swarm is the next step
because just infecting people's computers,
unless you just wanna watch the world burn,
doesn't have a nickels and dimes benefit.
Yeah.
So, okay, ways to monetize a swarm.
You might mine cryptocurrency on your swarm.
But you'll probably have to do it in relatively low amounts
because you'd have to mine fairly slowly
because you don't want people to reformat the computers
or go get them fixed or whatever.
Or whatever the case may be.
So really the key to a good infection is the user
not knowing that they are infected.
So mining cryptocurrency is an option.
If you wanna buy it, yeah.
You could fraudulently click on a banner ads
or YouTube advertising or whatever else.
So you could conduct like a click fraud operation.
You could...
Farm keystrokes.
Farm keystrokes.
Okay, yeah, right.
You could sell data.
All right.
So you could find these individuals that have,
so you could key log them.
So you could find when they've logged into something,
you could go, okay, let's go try that.
And just kind of, I'm sure there's an AI
that you could use to kind of try to identify.
Yeah, you just log like, okay, they're on this page
and they entered these two things into these fields.
Sounds good.
There you go.
So you could farm user data.
And then from there, you could commit identity theft
or there's a variety of other things
that you could just get straight into people's bank accounts
transfer funds out of them.
So that can be pretty lucrative, but you've got it.
The point is that once a computer is infected,
you have to come up with something.
But yeah, also in that category,
you have to transfer funds out of those bank accounts
to another bank account, all in like whatever,
I don't remember what the term for it is, but like.
Fiat currency.
Fiat currency, yes.
So that's a little bit tough because it's quite traceable.
Ransomware by contrast is just brilliant because.
You're getting people to pay you directly.
You only have to get theoretically
as few as one computer infected with it.
It's just as easy to roll out as something like a key logger
if you basically, if you can get anyone to run an executable
and click through the prompts on their computer.
I mean, that's it.
You can talk all day, Mac, PC, Chrome, Firefox,
it doesn't matter.
Once you get someone to execute a file
and then blitz through the security prompts
on their computer, which most users will just do
without looking at them.
They're infected and an individual could pay hundreds
of dollars to unlock their computer because at least with
one of those other types of infections,
you can cut off the problem at the source
by just unplugging it from the internet
or formatting the PC or whatever.
Like it's something that can relatively easily be fixed
with ransomware, at least with the more sophisticated ones.
You just don't have your data and yeah,
you can reformat your computer,
but say goodbye to all your childhood photos
or whatever else it is that you store on your computer.
So an average person would probably pay two,
300 bucks to get that stuff back.
Well, okay, not probably.
There's a very high percentage chance
that an average person might be interested
or there might be things on that computer
that are worth two to 300 bucks to them.
So it's a decent amount to try to charge a random.
But if you know that you happened to get like a municipality
or a city or a bank or like some big entity like that,
you can charge potentially way more.
Apparently, first town Palm Beach County, no idea,
$600,000 is to be paid.
And second town-
That was paid.
Oh, Lake City, Florida is also gonna be paying
about 42 Bitcoin, which is about 460,000 USD
whenever this was written
because that price changes all the time, but 42 Bitcoin.
And then the third town, Key Biscayne,
got no notice about ransom.
Most of their networks apparently got back up
within four days after being infected,
but all of them were hit by the same method,
a city employee clicking on a malicious email.
Yikes.
That's pretty rough.
Big yikes.
In other news, Vodafone UK switches on 5G service
with unlimited data plans.
So the original article here was from the BBC.
Let's go ahead and fire that up.
It's live in five cities in the UK.
Boom.
Switches on in seven UK cities.
So in spite of all the concerns that people have
about the safety of 5G,
not just with respect to the RF effects on their body
or whatever else.
I was wondering, what are you looking at?
Oh, I was looking at my wrist.
Oh, oh.
Yeah, sorry.
I thought that I was-
Have you been exposed to 5G?
Yeah, I know.
Are you okay?
I've got the 5G rash.
Are you healthy?
So, yeah, I forgot.
So I was hydro dipping.
Oh, cool.
So I just, no, it's just paint on my arm.
Sorry, I had a bit of a panic moment there.
So anyway, the concerns about 5G are not just
with respect to the effects of the waves on the human body.
Yeah, it's taking down weather satellites
and crazy stuff.
So it apparently interferes with weather forecasting
or at least could interfere with weather forecasting.
Not that it's accurate anyways.
Well, yeah, but like,
I'm talking more than just like 70% chance of rain
or whatever.
I'm talking like hurricane warnings
apparently could be affected by this.
So it's a very serious issue, Luke.
And I think you should just grow up a little bit.
The weatherman said I would have more snow this year
and I didn't.
It's some upset.
It's weather predictor,
weather correspondent, not weatherman.
Oh, okay.
What year is it?
I think you need to not just grow up
but also get with the times.
Oh my goodness.
I'm so sorry.
Oh man.
Okay, in other news, did you?
What's up train?
Oh, we do?
Like it's broken?
Oh, okay, okay.
In other news, did you see the dumbest thing
on the internet of all time?
Actually, Nick, I'll let you jump in
before I get into this.
I haven't watched your most recent video yet.
I still wanted to do that thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I already sent you the thing.
Yeah, yeah, I'll do it.
I'll do it during the sponsor spots.
Cool, this is the best show.
Okay, it's the greatest.
It's the most amazing show.
So this was trending on Twitter last night
and I don't usually weigh in on political discussion
on the land show, but this just made,
this just, man, it made me so mad it could turn my hair red
and that's a joke to do with it.
Anyway, so there was a trending hashtag
over the last couple of days.
Hashtag not my Ariel.
Because a dark-skinned actress has been cast to play Ariel
in the live action Little Mermaid movie.
Okay.
And I just couldn't even.
I just couldn't even.
I see why that's a joke now.
Yeah, so yeah, so basically white people were mad
that Ariel is not white.
I don't, yeah, I don't get it really.
I don't know why anyone cares.
So the argument's getting made
and this is why I wanted to bring this up.
This is the part of the show
that's just sort of off topic now.
So the argument that was getting made
was that it's not true to the original,
like the original content.
And that's kind of where I was going with this.
It's just, it's a newsflash for everyone,
racist or otherwise.
The Disney movie is rarely, if ever.
Yeah.
The original source material.
Yeah, yeah.
They usually based on like fairytales,
which came way before that.
Cinderella, a lot older than 1950 or 60 whatever.
You know, the Sleeping Beauty.
Because there's like, there's interesting ones
where you know the Harry Potter and the,
what is it, Cursed Child or something?
Yeah, I haven't read that.
Oh.
Don't bother, hey?
Probably not.
Bummer.
I went to go see the play.
Yeah, was that any good?
Which was actually, the production was amazing.
The playhouse that it was in was fantastic.
I think the actors did a very good job.
And like how they used the production house
and the effects and everything were great, et cetera.
But I was actually a little confused when it first started.
I didn't recognize Hermione.
Because she's not white.
Right.
I didn't get that.
Once someone refers to her as Hermione,
I'm like, oh okay.
And then proceeded to not care.
Figured out the internet cared a lot.
And, but something that got brought up is,
apparently J.K. Rowling has said
that she was never intended to be white.
Really?
And that she was actually supposed to be African.
Sure, of?
For whatever reason.
More equatorial, that continent descent.
I can't keep up with what the terms are.
Yeah.
I give up.
And I'm like, and I read that and went, okay.
And moved on.
Internet, not okay with this.
Apparently in one of the books
it specifies that she is white.
So when you told me the aerial thing,
that's why my reaction was like,
cause now I'm wondering it's like,
maybe in one of the fairy tales,
doth it be your face happens to be pearlescent?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
But like, maybe, I don't know.
Anyway, the long and the short of it is,
I'm never clicking on a trending hashtag again.
Cause they never matter.
And I'm sorry that I ever did
because Twitter is the ultimate illustration
of everything that is wrong with the mainstream internet.
Twitter gives everyone a voice
and quite frankly, not everyone deserves one.
The thing that just drives me nuts is like,
that's actually the least important thing I've heard of
in so long is like the skin killer
of the character who plays Ariel.
It's like, wow.
Can we address the bigger issue here?
That the live action remakes
of the old Disney classic cartoons
are the most blatant garbage cash grab of our time.
They are worse than gaming movies.
I'm actually going to take that stance.
Really defend it.
Okay. Have you seen, have you seen Hitman?
No, actually.
It's actually okay.
It's okay.
Yeah. Okay.
I get really triggered about the Warcraft movie
because the amount of inaccuracies
and like why the heck is it live action?
Like the orcs, the orcs were never intended to be green.
They were red.
There's some that are.
Anyways, the Warcraft movie,
it drives me nuts because Blizzard is insanely good
at making animated cinematics and they always have been.
Yeah.
And then there's a live action movie
and everyone's like, what?
Cause they're.
What were you thinking?
Play to your strengths, ladies and gentlemen, please.
And then like change part of the story
and all this kind of stuff.
But if you went in there
and never knowing anything about Warcraft,
it's actually probably pretty decent.
Like there's some gaming movies.
I think a lot of people are going to take issue
with that in the comments, but please go on.
Why?
I just think they will.
I haven't seen the movie.
You told me not to watch it.
So I never watched it.
Oh, I wouldn't bother.
Okay.
Yeah.
But like, I think getting movies are
at the very least getting better.
And like Hitman, I thought was,
it was okay for a plane movie.
I didn't feel like I wasted my time.
Got it.
Okay.
So.
And I feel like every live action Disney movie
is going to be a waste of time.
So here is, I guess, you know what?
I've challenged you to defend that,
but I actually don't disagree with you because to me,
what I'm glad you brought up was whether it was a waste
of time or not.
Yeah.
So my, that is exactly my issue
with the Disney live action remakes.
So I only watched part of Beauty and the Beast,
not because I wasn't in the room the whole time,
but because my attention was super not focused on it
because it was very, very boring.
So at least.
This is the live action version.
Yeah.
At least with most video game movies that I've seen,
they at least tried to put a spin on the story
and or the characters, or just use the original story
and characters of the game as a,
as a jumping off point and do something
completely different with it.
As long as it's not made by,
I don't remember how to say his first name,
but Uwe Boll.
Yeah.
Like I don't, I can't think of a video game movie
that tries to just steal the plot of one of the games,
but just make it a movie.
Do you remember the old Final Fantasy movie?
That was, yeah.
It was nothing like.
No.
Not even close.
Any of the games.
But it's good.
I would have made the argument
that that just shouldn't have been called
Final Fantasy anything.
Cause it was just completely off topic.
I would agree.
Yeah.
But it's good.
But it's still, it's okay.
But going back to the Disney live action movies,
they just, it's in some cases,
it's even the same bloody songs.
Like they didn't even, they didn't, they didn't,
they didn't do anything original.
Like, okay.
It's, it's, it's reimagined.
Seems like they throw expensive actors at it.
Oh yeah.
Cause they know they're going to make a billion dollars.
And they know the names of the actors
will help them make ludicrous amounts of money.
So, so this is a, it's a, it's,
and that's my problem with it is like,
I feel like my time is being wasted
because I'm being told the exact same story
in the exact same way with the exact same songs.
And I'm somehow supposed to get over the fact
that Hermione Granger is Belle for whatever reason.
And French, I guess.
And I just can't, I just, I don't get it.
And so to me, it just looks like it's entirely
a bean counter decision.
So someone went, okay, we can do a remastering
of the Lion King now on Blu-ray in 3D
with some, some DVD extras and behind the scenes.
And we can do a big campaign.
We can do a theatrical release
and we can print ourselves $150 million or whatever.
X years later interviews.
Or we can do this.
We can spend twice as much.
We can spend $300 million,
but we know we're gonna get 900 million,
one and a half billion.
Like we know what the return is
because we can just take it almost
as a straight up formula.
We just go, okay, here's the year of the original release.
Here's what it grossed.
Here's what the overall like,
because they thought,
I'm sure they have figures for all this.
Here's what the overall merchandising numbers were like.
So here's how many adult humans today
with children exist that loved this movie.
Yeah, and they can just draw a freaking trend line
through it and go, okay, cool.
So that one's worth about 1.15 billion.
If we put the Disney machine to work
and pump out all this stuff around it,
that's gonna cost us about 350 million.
So we could either spend, you know,
5 million redoing the same movie
or 10 million or whatever,
you're adding 3D and get our 150 million.
Or we could take a bigger risk,
but it's not a risk.
And we could generate a much bigger return.
Let's work on that instead.
So that's why we saw one of these things
and now there's an explosion.
Because they're like, oh yeah, it worked for sure.
Let's just do it again.
And I was never that into Beauty and the Beast.
So it didn't offend me,
even if I didn't particularly enjoy the live action thing.
Like I was just bored because it was like,
this is the same movie.
But now instead of the,
because I love animated movies.
I was gonna say some things are better animated.
Some things are better animated.
Some things lend themselves to imagination better
when they're animated.
How to Train Your Dragon wouldn't be as good a film
if it wasn't animated.
Neither would The Incredibles.
No, no.
And so I just, I wasn't like offended,
but I actually just found out,
apparently they're working on live action Mulan
and that kind of annoyed me.
Because, and we had a big debate in the office today
about which is a better Disney film, Mulan or Hercules.
Do you wanna weigh in on that?
Did you ever see either of them?
Oh, okay.
It's been a wild amount of time since I've seen either.
And an exceptionally wild amount of time
since I've seen Mulan.
But probably Mulan?
I mean, there's no right answer.
I mean, no one would agree with you
if you said Hercules other than David.
Okay.
Yeah, but like, anyway, the point is.
Yeah, it's been a very long time.
I only just found out they're doing a live action,
one of that, and I'm just like, what were you aiming to fix?
And if you weren't aiming to fix anything,
because that was just not even that old of a movie.
It's like 1996 or 98 or something.
I guess that was a while ago.
It's pretty old.
It's pretty old.
Oh.
It's like over 20 years old.
Shh.
Was I really 10?
It's quite a while ago.
What?
Hold on a second.
Oh, man.
98.
Yeah, it's 21 years ago.
Darn it.
Darn it.
All right.
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It is limited in both quantity and time.
All right, so what else do we have for the show today?
It's actually a nuts deal.
We got a little bit off topic there.
Just a little bit.
How did we get there?
Talking about keyboard switches?
I don't know.
I got super mad,
because honestly it consumed a lot of my time
because it was one of those things
where I couldn't look away from the stupid.
And I was just...
Oh, right, the Twitter topic.
Yeah, I was just scrolling my phone like a zombie
until I finally went, whoa, enough internet for today.
But I think that's the whole,
oh man, we got to not get caught on this even longer,
but I think that's the whole problem
with those types of issues and why they start trending.
Because you're like, oh goodness.
And then people weigh in after feeling that.
Instead of just scrolling forever like you did,
they'll weigh in and then scroll forever.
And then wait for people to reply to them
and then they'll reply to those people.
And this whole thing that should have never mattered at all
is now trending on Twitter.
Is now trending on Twitter.
It's madness.
Fantastic.
Speaking of madness,
Trump is apparently to lift some restrictions on Huawei.
The original article here is from engadget.com.
Let's go ahead and pull that up.
He verbally stated that U.S. companies
can sell their equipment to Huawei
during a G20 summit in Japan.
Not clear which companies
are allowed to do business in Huawei.
Not clear exactly what hardware either
because he said they can sell hardware
that doesn't have a great national emergency problem.
And they're still on the Commerce Department's entities list
which is like a big issue
if you wanna sell anything to them.
But he's verbally said that you can.
So I don't think anyone knows what this really means.
Huawei has apparently scaled back phone production
since the ban was announced
due to the loss of official Android support
and other partnerships.
And as much as I'd love to say that
this means everyone can go back to business as usual,
that is often not the case
when it comes to random off the cuff statements
from this particular leader of the free world.
So we just thought we'd say,
hey, something was said might happen.
It might mean something.
Don't know stuff.
Nvidia's Super graphics cards are out
and the word on the street.
This is according to videocards.com
is that in response to Nvidia's Super launch
of the RTX 2060 Super, RTX 2070 Super
and RTX 2080 Super,
AMD is going to lower pricing
of their Radeon RX 5700 series ahead of the launch.
So they had already announced pricing if I recall correctly.
Yes, they did for their new Navi series.
And I don't believe they have announced
what the new pricing will be.
So right now it's a bit of a mystery
and they're really cutting it close to the wire here,
aren't they?
Because the launch is in two days
and incidentally that two days timeframe
happens to land us on a Sunday,
which means that all of their partners,
like stores where people might buy these graphics cards
might not have their business administration staff
in the office.
And I guess this opens up into a pretty sort of,
not a rant, but into a grievance that I guess
this is an opportunity for me to air.
AMD needs to stop launching their products on weekends.
Today we received not, but yeah, you know what?
I don't know.
I mean, everyone knows what's launching
and when it's launching.
Today we received not one, but two last minute updates
that affect both of the launches.
And for that reason, we have multiple people on staff here
that are being forced to come in on the weekend
in order to get our videos done on time.
It's not right, it's not fair,
and it's completely unnecessary.
There's a reason why a huge amount of industries
release things on Tuesdays, you dodge holidays
in a huge amount of countries
that you might not have planned for on purpose
because one country might have a Monday off
for whatever reason.
So you're fine in terms of long weekends
and you have a big part of the week ahead of you
to fix things within standard hours for the whole industry,
whether it's the person selling your product to end users,
whether it's your side offering support, et cetera, et cetera
you have the meat of the week ahead of you
and you don't have problems with long weekends.
So instead, AMD and their board partners
have probably been scrambling last minute
to get some POS rebates or other kinds of support
issued to their reseller partners
in order to make sure that their pricing is competitive.
And so, yeah, it's just, it's one of those things
that I wouldn't even mind if it wasn't so unnecessary.
AMD could have easily launched this
on a different day of the week.
A few days was not going to affect the overall impact
of this launch, you know,
if their advertised performance claims
are anything to go by, it's just rude.
I just don't get the point, what benefit is there?
And the thing too is like AMD might've thought,
well, we're gonna be ready well enough ahead of time
that it's not gonna be a problem,
but they should really just know themselves
a little better at this point.
This is the second time they've dropped a driver update
on us on a Friday before a weekend launch in three launches.
So like, guys, know your own limitations,
you are never ready on time.
So with that in mind, plan to not be ready on time
and to be sending out last minute stupid emails
about everything that's changed the night before
and so that there's some kind of a contingency
for all the people that are reliant on you
keeping to your word and keeping to your schedule.
Or at the very least, not keeping to your word
and not keeping to your schedule,
but at least having some kind of plan.
So it's really, really frustrating.
Speaking of which, apparently the re-recordings
that I need to do for one of those videos is ready.
So I might just have to cut this WAN show
a little bit short so I can get that done here.
Is there anything else
that you had really wanted to talk about today?
The Amazon thing is not that interesting.
We can run through it real quick if you want.
We can do it really fast, sure.
There's a question, should Amazon be held liable
for third-party seller of products?
The US appeals court ruled that Amazon
can be held accountable for faulty third-party sales.
Third-party sellers selling either defective
or dangerous products, items,
includes items not directly sold or fulfilled by Amazon.
There's a lot of sellers on Amazon.
I actually kind of wish there wasn't
or I wish it was a little bit more obvious
because it's not that apparent.
That you're buying from some random.
Yeah, they do communicate it,
but it's not kind of blasted to you
and it's really annoying when it happens.
Because a big part of the reason why
at least I shop on Amazon
is because I know I'm dealing with Amazon
and I'm actually not that interested
in shopping on Amazon to deal with other groups.
If I wanted to shop on some random website
with products that might be sketchy or crappy,
I would go to a website that specializes in products
that might not have been imported correctly
or might not adhere to the same safety standards
that someone like Amazon would have to make sure
that they are.
So apparently nearly half the items sold on Amazon
are through third-party sellers.
Oh, I actually had no idea.
I had no clue either.
That's kind of wild. That's crazy.
I wonder if that means half the listings.
Yeah, I have no idea.
Not the actual volume.
I bet you it's listings, not volume.
Yeah, because the volume would have to be,
in order for it to be half of the items,
like half of the packages sent,
like the vast majority of listings
would have to be non-Amazon listings
because I'm sure Amazon watches
for anything with high-volume stocks.
Yeah, yeah, Amazon Basic.
Now we have our own version, ha ha.
Amazon Basics butt plug.
Give it time.
I was gonna say, one day.
There's been no comment by Amazon yet.
So the origin of the case was apparently
a gal by the name of Heather Auberdorf,
who sued the company in federal court back in 2016
when a retractable dog leash snapped
and whipped back at her,
causing permanent loss of vision in her left eye.
Whoa.
So the lower court will rule on
whether the leash itself was defective,
but that's where this whole debate
seems to have come from.
Right.
So that's it for the WAN Show this week.
Oh, we do have a blog post from you guys
over at ltxexpo.com.
This is coming up so soon.
22 days, we've got a BYOC update.
Here is the seat selection, dreamhat.com
slash ticket slash ltx19.
So if you haven't chosen your seat yet,
now is the time.
Registration updates.
When you arrive at the Vancouver Convention Center,
please visit the registration desks
located in the lobby area first.
This is where we will scan your ticket
and give you a wristband that is specific
to your ticket type.
Make sure you keep your wristband on
for the whole weekend, by the way,
if you have a multi-day ticket.
We don't have replacements.
Straight up.
These are the registration hours.
And note that registration is open a day early
and early on Saturday if you wanna come in
and pick up your wristband ahead of time.
Highly recommend if you have a BYOC ticket.
Do it.
If you haven't bought your ticket yet,
go to dh.je slash ltx19 to check it out
and here's the map.
Woo, see you soon.
Super cool, I'm so excited.
All right, so that's it for the WAN Show this week.
Thanks for watching, guys.
We'll see you again next time.
Same bad time, same bad channel,
hopefully without any streaming issues.
You should make a video of just like redoing it.
Fixing the WAN, we've done that.
Do it again.