Okay, guys, welcome to the WAN Show.
I think I'm live and I will be hosting the show
with a very, what is up with this Twitch user?
LinusLateTips, okay.
Okay, yes, I was a little bit late today,
but how could I run the show
without my special co-host here, huh?
I mean, if Harry wasn't helping me host the show today,
would you guys even be tuned in?
I didn't think so.
So that's my way of apologizing for being late.
Since we don't actually have a permanent WAN Show set yet,
getting the WAN Show going
involves tearing everything else down,
getting the WAN Show up and running,
and then bringing it to you guys about,
well, they're 16 minutes late.
Sorry about that.
So the good news though is today's show
will actually have tech news
since there's no one here to distract me
with his rugged good looks,
although Daniel Radcliffe does have pretty rugged good looks.
So I'll be just kind of focused on interacting with you guys
and talking about what actually happened
in the world of tech this week.
Our headline topics are, what else we got?
Actually, I'm just gonna pick random headline topics.
Oh, look at that.
Nick went and picked headline topics for me.
All right, so the Z170 chipset launched
along with Skylake enthusiast grade processors
to go with it.
I know we don't have a review.
Those of you who follow me on social media will know why,
but I'll talk more about this later.
Cherry has announced their Cherry MX silent switches,
or Cherry MX key switches, just not silent enough for you.
Well, maybe now they will.
I don't know, I haven't tried them yet.
Maybe they're totally loud.
We'll find out.
And there's a tool for unlocking shaders in your AMD GPU.
It's not the first time something like this has popped up.
So let's go ahead and roll the intro.
Bam.
Oh, crap.
Oh, apparently there's no intro sound.
Well, oh, I know why that is.
Okay, the only way I could figure out
to get rid of the stupid echo,
I don't know what it is.
Something in the settings is borked right now,
and I can't figure out how to get the HDMI audio
from the camera, which is being pulled off
of a microphone on the camera.
So it sounds horrible.
Here, I'll show you guys what it sounds like for a sec.
Hello, hello.
Oh, it's awful.
So that's why I have that turned off,
but because I have my system sound disabled,
you guys can't hear the WAN show intro.
So whatever, it is what it is.
Apparently we're dropping frames.
I don't know what to tell you guys
because I am not dropping any frames on my side,
and my bit rate isn't super high,
and our connection is fine.
So yeah, it may actually be a Twitch issue this time.
Apparently it sounds fine.
Oh, okay then.
Well, whatever.
Well, fix it during the outro.
I think the point is let's get going
on our first topic of the day.
So I'll go ahead and post the link
since I don't have my handy-dandy helper today.
Go ahead and click that bad boy.
Basically, well, this is kind of the big news.
Intel launched, partially launched
their Skylake codename CPUs.
Let's go ahead and post that puppy there.
Sorry, this takes a little longer
when I'm doing it by myself.
And their Z170 chipset.
So here we go, news item, is this gonna work?
Oh, okay.
No, no, no, that's super weird.
Well, let's just add a screen capture region again.
We'll go ahead and capture that window.
There we go, news item, no big deal.
All right, so Intel debuts
a sixth generation core processor family
and Z170 Express chipset.
Now, don't expect this to revolutionize
your gaming experience.
That was never what was promised
and definitely not what was delivered.
But what you can expect
is incremental performance improvements.
Now, not quite to the degree that I would love to see
on a more mainstream and more up-to-date platform,
because the thing that happens here, again,
is that the mainstream platform
actually overtakes the enthusiast platform
in terms of the processor architecture being used.
So the enthusiast platform, that is LGA 2011-3,
is now using Haswell-E,
while the mainstream platform,
which has undergone a socket change here,
that's something to note, this is LGA 1151.
So we've now gone LGA 1156, 1155, 1150, and 1151.
These are not interoperable in any meaningful way.
But the LGA 1151 socket now has
a more advanced microarchitecture
than the enthusiast-grade socket.
And the thing there is that the enthusiast-grade socket
gets a bunch of features that the mainstream one doesn't,
things like quad-channel memory,
things like up to, oh crap, memory doesn't,
I hope my memory serves,
up to 40 PCI Express lanes off of a single CPU,
whereas the mainstream one is still stuck at 20 PCIe lanes,
if I recall correctly.
And of course, this article doesn't mention that,
but it should be in the neighborhood of 20 PCI Express lanes,
which means that if you're running dual graphics,
you are splitting your top PCI Express 16X lane,
no matter what, to eight by eight,
which doesn't matter in terms of performance,
but if you wanna throw a bunch more hardware in there,
then you're pretty much hooped.
Also, it means that you are limited
to quad-core processors max,
whereas the enthusiast-grade platforms are limited to,
well, because you can hardly call it a limit,
they've got six or eight-core processors,
and then going up to 18-core processors,
if you wanna spend five grand on a Xeon.
So let's talk about some of the things
that have improved here.
Number one is DDR4 has officially reached the mainstream.
I just wish that the pricing reflected it immediately.
These things take time,
it'll take a little while for DDR4 to get cheap.
Now, what can happen is you could have
a Skylake motherboard that supports DDR3 or DDR4.
The architecture actually does support both,
and I would fully expect to see as we get SKUs
that are not K overclocking SKUs, which are coming.
So right now we've only got two SKUs,
the 66, or excuse me, 6700K and the Core i5 6500K.
So as we get more mainstream SKUs,
I would expect to see boards much like we saw in the past
with DDR2 and DDR3 on the same board,
although you could only use one at a time,
and I'm assuming the same will be true,
boards that support DDR3 and DDR4.
So you could buy cheap DDR3 now,
and then maybe higher density,
higher speed DDR4 in the future,
although I would be absolutely floored
if DDR4 makes any kind of a difference
in anything other than the use of the onboard graphics,
whether that's running games
or whether that's using some kind of GPU compute.
So let's talk specs.
The Core i7 6700K is the usual thing.
It's got a nominal frequency of four gigahertz,
so Intel has once again managed to stay
above that four gigahertz barrier,
even for a base frequency,
and it can turbo boost to 4.2 gigahertz.
Now, Intel was really ramping up
their turbo boost frequencies last generation,
and now they've really backed off of it again.
That is only a 5% increase with turbo boost.
So I guess one way of looking at it is
it's running pretty damn near
the maximum frequency all the time,
but another way of looking at it is that
you're not really getting any extra for your power budget.
I mean, maybe the cold hard truth
is throwing more power at this chip
just doesn't really do anything.
I mean, it's extremely efficient.
Both of these chips have TDPs of 91 watts,
so not a whole lot of power.
And let's go back to the, so the Core i5 6600K,
this is another change this generation,
is that Intel has really not gotten very aggressive
with their Core i5.
It's clocked significantly lower.
It looks like about seven eighths of the speed
of the Core i7 at 3.5 gigahertz base,
although this one features a more aggressive boost
up to 3.9 gigahertz.
So it's got slightly less cache,
six versus eight megs of level three cache,
and no hyper-threading compared to the Core i7,
which means that my video,
let's see if I can find it, versus i5.
Let's go ahead and, yes, leave this page, I guess.
My video, Core i3 versus Core i5 versus Core i7,
still is very much accurate.
A full, what is it?
Wow, it's been over a year since I made it,
where I talked about the difference
between a Core i5 and a Core i7 being hyper-threading
and blippity-bloppity, et cetera, et cetera.
So good on Intel for not changing too much
and keeping my videos relevant.
Someone benefited.
Both of these chips will not ship with a stock cooler.
This is a move that is creating some controversy.
Now, to put this in the proper perspective, guys,
even though the Intel stock cooler is kind of unexceptional,
I mean, you're not gonna be doing any overclocking with it,
it is functional, but it does come with a cost.
So if Intel's assumption is,
okay, well, people buying a K-series chip
are probably overclocking,
maybe they're right to remove it.
But we've got people who are unhappy with the move,
saying, well, hold on a second.
I mean, it was handy, if nothing else.
I was able to test my system.
It's really quick to install,
so you're able to test your system,
make sure it's working before you go
and install a complicated water cooling setup
or whatever else, only to discover
that something is broken down the line.
And it doesn't seem like that much to ask
for Intel to spend the $7
or whatever the bomb cost is on a cooler like that
to include it in the box.
I'd love to hear from you guys.
Let's go ahead and straw pull this.
The thing to note, guys,
is that only the K chips seem to be affected by this.
So should you just pony up for a cooler
if you have a K chip?
Because the thing to bear in mind
is that there's pretty much always
a just about equivalent non-K chip
that's sometimes clocked a little bit lower
that is a little bit cheaper
and will include a box cooler.
So let me just get this, get this pulled.
There's no one to stall for me
while I'm trying to create straw pulls and stuff like that.
Got a lot of people complaining about being banned
in the chat.
Guys, we have a chat moderation bot.
So the only way to not get banned in the chat
is to not be obnoxious in the chat.
That is pretty much the way that it works.
So there you go.
We've got 62% of you saying that folks
should just be ponying up for a cooler
if they're spending the extra in the first place
for a K series chip with only 22% of you
being upset about it
and a whopping 20% of you voting for Turnip.
Apparently those Turnip shirts,
Vote for Turnip shirts have actually started arriving.
So that's pretty good news.
I'm always glad to see people posting me pictures
on Twitter of them in their Linus Tech Tips shirts.
Very good stuff.
Good news, well, this is more good news
because Intel has been doing this ever since LGA 775
and 1366 now is there is no update to the mounting socket.
So you could carry over,
you could carry over something as old as what?
Like a four or five year old water block or CPU cooler
if you still had one lying around
that was compatible with LGA 1156.
So you will have to make no changes to your existing setup
if you're just upgrading,
which is another justification for Intel
to just save themselves a couple bucks on these CPUs
since a lot of enthusiasts are the kinds of people
who are already gonna have a cooler anyway
that they're just going to upgrade to.
Blah, blah, blah, blah will be identical.
Yeah, first motherboards, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Um, okay, the 100 series chipset
does have some improvements as well.
So there's an increase to the DMI chipset bus bandwidth
to 64 gigabit per second,
which should help with storage devices
that run off the PCI express bus.
So things like M.2 or PCI express SSDs.
The chipset now features native support
for the NVMe protocol.
So that's the replacement for AHCI
that is optimized for flash based storage.
They're actually keeping,
so they just released these SKUs.
This is a really weird launch from Intel
and they're keeping a lot of the information
about what they actually changed architecturally
from Broadwell to Skylake private until August 18th.
This is gonna be kind of a funny period
for Linus Tech Tips build guides over the next little bit
because due to the move,
I still haven't done my Broadwell based build guide.
I've got a really cool idea for it.
I'm gonna be doing like a desk PC.
So I still don't actually know architecturally
if the chip that I'm using for that build,
which is already locked in with Intel
is gonna because it was supposed to be done
before Skylake launched.
But I don't actually know if that chip
is gonna make a whole ton of sense
for the rig that I have planned to build around it.
And then I'll actually have a separate build coming
for Skylake that's gonna be an enthusiast grade one
in like a really cool case and all that kind of stuff.
So stay tuned for that guys.
I've got another really cool piece of news.
So while Nvidia not once but twice in the last little bit
has run off and changed the overclocking policies
for their mobile products on their Maxwell GPUs,
they've actually disabled overclocking a couple of times.
I think they claimed the second time it was by accident
or something like that.
Oh yeah, the OP for the last article was Tiskin.
This one is Good Bytes.
Intel has promised unlocked overclockable
Skylake mobile CPUs.
So that is a, gosh darn it.
What is, what the crap is this?
No, I don't want a subscription.
I just wanna see this thing.
Thank you.
So here, this post from Ars Technica says that Intel
has committed to a full range of base clock overclocking
and improved memory overclocking
on their 2015 Skylake processor.
Actually that's really cool.
So we're also gonna have an overclocking guide
coming for Skylake and there's gonna be
some extra information for that.
A lot of details about why it's important
for base clock to be overclockable
and sort of other things like storage to not scale with it.
But they're also promising unlocked
overclockable Skylake CPUs for laptops.
Now, okay, I've said this before.
In fact, I said this very recently
when the whole Nvidia locking down overclocking
on their mobile GPU scandal broke,
where I kind of went, yeah, I don't care.
I've never really asked for overclocking
on mobile CPUs or GPUs because my personal opinion,
you can take it with however many grains of salt you want,
is that you just probably shouldn't do it.
The benefits of overclocking are higher performance,
but they come at a cost and that's higher power consumption,
sometimes significantly higher power consumption
and higher heat output,
neither of which you want in a laptop.
Now there may be exceptions
and I've had people criticize my stance on the whole,
well, you shouldn't overclock your GPU
and your laptop anyway position.
I've had people criticize me over it
because they go, well, hey, hold on a second.
What about like, you know,
Clevo shells that are designed with coolers this big
and you really legitimately could overclock it safely.
Okay, there are very, very few exceptions,
but most people probably shouldn't be overclocking them,
but I'm really interested to see what kind of designs
come out of guys like Clevo or Asus or MSI,
where they're still really sticking
with that thick laptop form factor,
whether it's on a GT80, a GT72,
or Asus' G75X series that we like so much around here
because they run so cool and run so quiet.
So stay tuned for that guys.
Again, we haven't really seen any details,
but we may have more info after IDF 2015
later on this month.
This is the first time we've seen
an officially overclockable mobile CPU from Intel,
even though they have done
Extreme Edition branded stuff before.
This is great.
I mean, this is such a crappy thing in general
that this news like hardly even makes it
noticeably more crappy in my mind,
except that it just kind of is screwing over Apple
for no logical reason.
This was posted by HK05.
And the original article here is from TorrentFreak.
Let's go ahead and pull this puppy up.
iTunes, and this is kind of a sensationalist headline.
We can expect this kind of one-sided delivery of the news
from sites like TorrentFreak, I mean, it's right in the name.
iTunes is illegal under UK copyright law.
Now, what they mean by that is that iTunes
actually suggests when you use it
and enables you to rip the songs off of your CDs
and then store them in iTunes
for use on your personal music playing device.
I mean, this is how iTunes and the iPod
revolutionized mobile music at a time when,
I was still carrying around a Discman and a CD wallet.
Remember CD wallets?
Remember when those were relevant?
Wow, I actually still have a couple of them.
I haven't bought a new one in a long time.
I used to like stock up on CD wallets.
Very, very different time.
Anyway, the point is that iTunes encourages
and enables that behavior,
but due to the High Court,
sorry, due to the UK High Court
calling the government's previous action
to legalize copying for private use,
so the use by yourself on other devices that you own
as unlawful after objections from music groups,
it is now unlawful to make a private copy
of copyrighted works that you own
without permission from the copyright holder.
So that includes just taking a CD
and putting it on your MP3 player.
You can't even, this is great.
So this is something that I've been thinking about
for a while and I thought maybe we should popularize
in some way, but I haven't really come up
with any way to do it.
But I mean, what if you had a,
like what if you protested this kind of thing
by taking to social media
and like what if people made videos of themselves
ripping their content?
So TV shows onto their file servers
that they can use to stream to their phones.
Like I love Air Video and Emit.
I use them all the time.
I store everything on my file server
and then I can beam it to whatever device I want,
wherever I want.
It's awesome.
What if you made a video of yourself
just ripping them and then shredding, shredding the discs,
just being like, look, I don't object to paying for media.
What I object to is being told how I can and cannot use it
because it's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous that you can't copy a song
to another format,
that they expect you to keep buying a new one
every time an HD DVD or a Blu-ray
or whatever comes out with slightly higher definition.
Anyway, I'm probably preaching to the choir.
You guys are pretty savvy folks.
But the point is that since iTunes
promotes the CD ripping feature during install
under the current law,
they are actively facilitating copyright infringement,
meaning they could face significant claims for damages
from artists and labels.
I mean, what a complicated relationship that is
between Apple and artists
where they've got their own content delivery platforms
on the one side with iTunes
and their new streaming service.
And then on the other side,
they've got these same folks
that are potentially gonna run after them
for breaking copyright law
that makes no sense in the first place,
but it's certainly beneficial
to the folks that sell physical media.
I mean, what a freaking mess they got going on over there.
Anyway, there you go, guys.
I'd love to, we should call it like hashtag shredded
or something, because it's like rip but shred.
Or what if you did?
What if you actually ripped the media?
Hashtag rip it or something.
I don't know, anyway, it seems like a cool idea,
but I'm not very savvy when it comes to hashtags
and online protests and all that.
So I'm sure someone can come up with a smarter way
to implement that kind of thing.
I think it'd be awesome though.
All right, more awesome news.
Actually, this looks potentially cool.
Now, I'm gonna be super real talk
with you guys for a minute here.
Oh, crap, I never actually posted that last link.
Sorry about that.
Here's the next one.
So this was originally posted in the forum by,
oops, I went to the wrong doc,
by Donatator, Donatator.
That's the kind of username that someone picks
when they really have never said it out loud to them.
I mean, Donatator might be kind of funny
because it's like, it would be like a past tense of eat.
You're the Donatator, like you ate a lot of donuts,
I don't know, but Donatator,
I don't know if that makes a ton of sense.
Anyway, the last keyboard that Cherry,
that, excuse me, that Corsair launched, the Strafe,
they sent it over to us for review and we kind of went,
gee, there's not a lot for us to say about this thing
compared to the K70, which, you know,
we already have a whack ton of them in the office
because we absolutely love that keyboard.
Like, what's the deal here?
Because it didn't offer a significant price improvement,
it did offer more programmability,
which is kind of a big deal, fully reprogrammable
with Corsair's utility engine, whatever, Q software.
So like, that's pretty cool.
But other than that,
they weren't really pushing the envelope in any way.
We didn't get a new key switch to talk about.
So it makes it hard to do a review of a keyboard
when you don't have like some shiny new feature
to talk about, whether it's RGB lighting
or a different form factor or whatever the case may be.
Now, so when Corsair sent me news
about their upcoming keyboard,
so this is off of a Hexus here,
their upcoming keyboard, I kind of went, yeah, okay.
I don't know if we're gonna review that.
And I had misunderstood the original message
because they said it's got a Cherry MX silent key switch.
I kind of went, okay, so you put reds on a keyboard.
That's exactly the same thing that you've been doing
since you first launched the K60 and the K90.
I mean, they had reds on them.
This is not new.
But no, I had completely missed the point entirely.
There is a new Cherry MX key switch type
called Cherry MX silent.
They have actually redesigned the key switch to be,
well, they're saying silent and Cherry's pretty hardcore,
but they designed it to be quieter,
even though reds and blacks are already quite quiet.
So what are they going after here?
Not just the tactile click
that you hear on a brown or a blue, no, no.
They want to eliminate the need for third-party products
like O-rings or dampening mats under the key cap
and make the actual entire motion silent.
So I kind of went, okay, yes, I do wanna see the keyboard.
So we will be getting one as soon as they're available.
And this key switch will be available
exclusively in Corsair keyboards
for a period of six months.
I believe the RGB exclusive was a year,
but neither Cherry nor Corsair
have ever confirmed that with me.
So I actually legitimately don't know.
But I mean, the partnership between those companies,
it looks like it's going well.
And I'm excited to see what a Cherry MX silent switch
actually ends up looking like.
So it'll be available in red and black variants,
which are both linear switches.
So we're not gonna get a clicky switch in a silent variant.
We'll think about that.
So they're both linear variants,
but the only real difference will be 45 newtons
versus 60 newtons of force required.
Did I say 16?
Hold on, no, no.
I think it's like centenewtons or something.
Whatever, grams.
I'm actually, I'm not that...
Okay, I'm gonna go off on a tangent for a second here.
I get a fair...
Is Harry moving?
Wow, it's like he's come to life by magic.
Sorry, anyway, I've received a number of complaints lately
from both users of the Imperial system,
so usually Americans,
and users of the metric system, usually Europeans,
that I don't offer translation from one measurement
to another in my videos.
And the reason that I get complaints from both groups
is I will frequently talk about length in inches or feet.
And then I almost never use Imperial for...
Let me think.
What do I almost never use Imperial for?
No, I actually use Imperial for length and metric for length.
And then in terms of weight, right,
I will always use grams.
I'll never use, what is it?
I don't even remember.
Ounces, ounces.
Almost never use ounces.
I'll always use grams, but I almost never use kilograms.
I always use pounds.
And the reason for that is Canada is a metric country,
but because our neighbors to the south,
so many of our imports come from there,
both culturally and physically,
still use the Imperial system,
most of us here can think in Imperial for a lot of things.
Like all construction is done in Imperial here.
And I don't know,
it's probably not the case in Europe, I guess,
but I would never call a piece of wood,
like, I don't know what,
like a six centimeter by,
like, I don't know, like five centimeter,
like two would be like, what, three?
Yeah, see like a four centimeter by like eight centimeter.
No, it's a two by four.
It's a two inch by four inch piece of wood.
So yeah, I apologize for that.
The reason that I don't provide translations
is because I don't even think about it.
I just kind of, inches are a very convenient unit
because it's something that's an inch or two inches
would be like two and a half centimeters
or like four and a half centimeters.
Like it's not very good
for just a rough quick approximation
and the same thing for feet.
That's another thing, right?
I'll use feet almost always and rarely meters
because feet are kind of,
they're kind of more granular,
whereas centimeters are compared to inches are too granular
and meters are not granular enough.
I mean, 1.7 meters, like, what?
Can we just say five feet?
So yeah, I don't know.
Like, it's funny.
I don't even know my weight in kilograms
and my height in meters.
It's just, it's a Canadian thing.
All right, let's move on to our next topic here.
This was posted on the forum by Jaws.
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,
dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
Will they know he's stalling for time?
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
Open up the original article on fortune.com.
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
Rah!
News item.
So the original article here is from fortune.com
and it looks like Facebook has patented technology
that would allow creditors, money lenders,
to validate your eligibility for a loan
based on your circle of friends.
Now, if this sounds insane to you,
then let me remind you that it wasn't that long ago
we were talking about on this very show,
China's intent to catalog their citizens
and assign the social credit that would actually affect,
so your score was influenced by all kinds of things,
like the activities that you participated in,
the friends that you had, whether you lived at home,
whether you were married,
all kinds of crazy stuff like that
that affected your ability to start a business,
get a loan, sound familiar.
Ooh.
So, like I get it.
I get it.
This is really useful information for a lender to have
because it might, and it might even be,
okay, don't take this out of context, okay?
It might even be a good thing for some people
because right now the lending requirements
feel kind of arbitrary sometimes.
Linus Media Group couldn't get a loan
for the mortgage for this building, okay?
Could not get it until it had been in business
for two years.
Why?
Well, nothing to do with my personal credit,
nothing to do with my wife and business partner's credit,
nothing to do with Linus Media Group's accounting,
nothing to do with our sustainability as a company.
It was because, well, then it's just the rules.
Well, what if we lived in a world where responsible people
who try to do all the right things,
well, what if those people didn't have to wait two years?
Wouldn't that be a good thing?
Now, I'm not saying that that's how this tool,
if it ever exists, would be used.
I'm just saying that that kind of thing
could feasibly be beneficial,
but that doesn't make this any less scary.
And this is sort of the real me talking,
not that this is the part that you can quote.
This is absolutely terrifying because to me,
the government monitoring all this crap
is actually less scary than private companies
having access to all this data.
Simply like Facebook is gonna be able to access the,
essentially like a social credit score
based on your friends and the activities
you do on the weekend and the things,
maybe you post pictures of yourself
spending money frivolously,
maybe that affects your ability to get a credit card.
Like, I don't know, why does Facebook have this data?
And why is Facebook compiling it in order to provide it
to the companies who are,
you know, and remember guys,
your credit score affects a lot more
than just taking out a mortgage.
I mean, it can affect your ability
to sign up for a cell phone plan.
Like there's all kinds of companies
that are gonna want access to your credit data
and are potentially, I'm assuming they would pay,
they would pay Facebook for access to this,
but it's actually not clear exactly how that would work.
So to be clear, this technology doesn't exist today.
Facebook has filed a patent.
It is uncertain whether they will ever do anything
with the technology.
Who knows, maybe they're patenting it
so that they can hold onto that patent
and make sure no one ever uses it.
Although I really,
I think I'm giving Mark Zuckerberg too much credit.
I don't think he's exactly that sort of white knight,
but who knows, maybe benefit of the doubt.
But there you go.
I mean, to be clear, and another thing,
it's really important to know guys, is this isn't new.
You know, it's not like this is the first time
that someone has tried to take something
other than a financial history
to determine the eligibility of someone for a loan.
Because again, young people,
this is where I could see it being both beneficial
and extremely harmful.
Young people don't necessarily have
a lot of traditional credit score built up.
I mean, that was one of the reasons
that before I was old enough,
I think I was 16 when I got my first credit card.
And I got a limit of $500,
which, and I was a fiscally responsible teenager,
like I had a lot more than $500 in the bank.
So even if I, and this is another thing,
I don't really understand
how people overspend on their credit cards.
Tracking your receipts really isn't that complicated.
Anyway, so even if I did overspend on my credit card,
I had the money in the bank to pay it.
I have never paid credit card interest in my life.
But I got a credit card when I was 16,
because my understanding was that it was important
to use it and pay it off promptly
in order to build up your credit score.
Same thing with my cell phone.
You actually have to think about,
when you're too young to really be considering
crap like that, I mean,
you're not ready to buy a house or whatever,
but you have to really think about
establishing a credit history for yourself early on.
A lot of people don't do that and I totally get it.
So this could be beneficial for them
if they are otherwise responsible people.
But there's a lot of downsides too.
I mean, one concern that was brought up in the article
is that it could make it much easier
for predatory lenders to reach vulnerable people.
So you wanna talk about that South Park episode
about how pay to win games,
freemium games really target the people with gambling,
essentially gambling addictions.
And that tiny percentage of the customers
makes up that massive percentage of the revenue.
I mean, this could be a way for lenders
to try and find excuses to lend to people
who they know won't be able to pay back in time
and are just gonna have to pay massive interest
on whatever it is they're doing.
Oh, sorry.
There's a glass door between here and the editing den.
And Ed was gesturing emphatically.
He's casting spells on me now,
but he was gesturing and conversing with Brandon.
And it turns out that he wasn't looking at me at all.
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So let's go ahead and move on to,
I could really use some water.
Maybe I'll message someone because I am like dying here.
Brandon doesn't seem to be doing any actual work right now.
He's just wandering around anyway.
So can I get water please?
Thanks.
In my decorated cup, please.
We'll see if he even gets this.
That guy, man, drives me crazy.
Oh, oh, I have kind of a, okay,
I am gonna get distracted by one topic today.
I have kind of a cool update.
I have been looking into offsite backup for some time.
Cloud-based storage is fricking expensive,
especially when the server that I'm looking to back up
nightly is a 20 terabyte server.
I mean, I'm not even talking bandwidth cost.
They want so much money to put 20 terabytes in the cloud.
Just like, whoa, this, you know,
server boxes from your blah, blah, blah.
I don't care.
You know how much a fricking raid card costs?
You know how much a license for an operating system costs?
You know how much it would cost me
to put like a free NAS box?
Somewhere?
Can somebody, for the love of all that is good,
please just rent me some rack space for a reasonable price
and I'll put my own server there.
I actually, this is like the first time
that I've heard myself saying this, but I love our new ISP.
I love our internet service provider here.
It turns out that they were willing to,
I talked to them about this.
They were willing to let us put one of our servers
in their data center that is here in BC,
but physically far enough away
that if there was an earthquake or natural disaster,
we would be spared from it.
So they're gonna allow us,
they're just gonna charge us a very reasonable monthly rate
per you that we take up in their rack plus power.
And I don't believe there's any additional cost for data.
And we can put an offsite server
that will actually appear to all of our local computers
as though it's on the local network.
So I am super stoked on that.
And that is a small new Office update.
There's actually gonna be fewer new Office vlogs
over the next little bit.
We are finally getting the real content rolling.
So we've got, yesterday we did Windows 10
versus eight versus seven gaming performance.
Today we filmed a final mouse review
as well as what else is coming on vessel
in the next little bit here.
Oh yes, this one's gonna be good.
Is 4K worth it?
And I'm not talking a hardware upgrade.
I'm talking online video.
And then I think there's a moving vlog
coming Monday on vessel.
And then next week I'm gonna be jumping into Pebble Time.
Our Skylake sample I think arrived today,
but it's at my house.
So I'm gonna have to double check.
The S6 active review is finally coming.
I've been using that thing forever.
So we are getting finally back
to our regularly scheduled content.
You guys will just have to bear with us
for a little bit here.
Now, oh, I just realized something.
Oops, oops, there we go.
I haven't had my lower third
in my little when show floaty see-through thing.
See, it's see-through, you can see my hand through it
for this entire show, oops.
All right, let's move on.
This is frigging hilarious, I love this.
So Best Buy posted a deal
where if you buy an LG G4 at Best Buy,
excuse me, a buy or lease, an LG G4 at Best Buy,
and you can get a 24 inch TV free of charge.
This was posted by TopWargamer on the forum
and this thing is brutal.
Like it is the worst thing ever.
Basically, I mean, first of all,
can you really call 24 inch a TV anymore?
I mean, what is this?
Like the late 90s, you know,
when you could actually buy a 21 inch TV
because CRT TVs were like kind of huge and bulky
and not to mention still expensive and stuff.
This TV is 720p, so it is basically obsolete
before the first, you know, engineering drawings
were ever made of what it was gonna look like.
And the offer is valid from August 2nd to August 8th.
So get on this now, activate an LG G4,
get pretty much the worst TV ever for nothing.
Apparently it normally retails for 149.99.
And what I wanna know is how they get off
charging 149.99 for that.
I mean, let's go on a site like Newegg
and find out what a 24 inch monitor is gonna run us.
I actually rarely actually shop for things
because of my job.
So it's, so for, okay, this is good.
So for a mere $20 more, we could actually get 1080p,
which would make it not a completely irrelevant
and horrible product.
No, for $10 more, we could get,
no, for exactly the same price, we can get a 1080p display.
So I think it's very deceptive to call the value
of that particular TV $150.
But if you were planning to get a G4 anyway,
then I did wanna bring your attention to it.
If you happen to be in the US
and you're not locked in terms of the carrier,
you can get a Verizon AT&T or Sprint versions of the G4.
So those of you on un-carriers are a little bit out of luck,
but that's pretty much it.
I mean, I guess there are other carriers in the States,
but the big three, the big three are covered.
Project Quantum, this was posted by HK05.
Look at all this tech news this week.
It's almost like this is a tech news show with Harry Potter.
Hmm, I don't know what it is.
I think my laptop's a little unhappy.
You guys can probably hear that the fan is going super loud,
but webpages are taking a little while to load
and stuff like that that normally isn't really the case.
Like apparently some application crashed or some crap,
something, something, Windows 10 Home,
something, something, whatever, okay.
Oh my gosh, I maximized it.
That is not what I want.
No, stop, stop, please.
So this was posted by HK05.
I'm gonna go ahead and post the link over here.
But yeah, webpages are opening extremely, extremely slowly.
Boop.
I'm not dropping frames though, which is good.
And yes, I know there's some background noise.
You know what else the background noise is caused by?
Air conditioning.
So our air conditioner was finally turned on yesterday
and it is so awesome
because I just naturally get kind of warm
when I'm working on, stop.
Yay, air conditioner.
What, what, what?
I said, yay, air conditioner.
Oh yeah, yay, air conditioner indeed.
Like I naturally get warm when I'm working on computers
and when I'm like hosting a show.
Like I just, I tend to run kind of hot as a person.
And when I'm doing that in a hot room, it is so brutal.
Like I'll just sweat through everything.
It's awful.
Having AC is the most amazing thing ever.
And we've got it, so we've got so many different zones of it
that we could even turn down the temperature
in like the room where we're doing WAN show,
which will be less of an option in the winter
it occurs to me now.
We might just have to, oh yeah,
we're not gonna be filming inside the office forever.
Well, I'm gonna enjoy it while it lasts.
Air conditioning is nice.
I don't remember where I was going with this.
Project Quantum may not actually reach the market.
So if you guys recall,
Project Quantum was like a concept PC that AMD showed off.
That was like, it was based on,
actually it was based on Intel CPU.
It's really funny how AMD really dances around the whole,
yeah, you should buy our CPUs.
But like when we do benchmarks for our reviewers guide,
we use Intel platforms.
And when we design a product that we might think
people might actually wanna buy,
we usually use an Intel CPU in that too.
So it has an Intel CPU unit.
Thank you, Brandon.
He got my message.
See, I have my water now.
Use Intel CPU, uses two Fury class Fiji GPUs.
So as effectively an R9 Fury X2.
So it's got a 4790K processor.
It's designed for 4K Ultra HD gaming
and in an extraordinarily small form factor.
So the idea is it's got like this external unit here,
but it's actually still quite small.
And I guess my response to this is who is surprised?
I mean, the viability of a product like that,
like the engineering that would go into mass producing
something like that would be extraordinarily expensive.
Like the only company I could think of
that might even begin to consider
creating a product like that would be someone like Razer,
where you look at what they did with laptops
and they went, okay, we're gonna reinvent this.
We're gonna make a MacBook Pro, but with a GPU in it.
And I really don't see Razer doing this
because they are already investing
in the Android gaming space.
So they think the little gaming box
is gonna be Android based.
And this is not what this is at all.
So it came out of AMD's innovation lab.
They did it just to demonstrate what can be done.
But the latest word on the street is that,
and this is from chief gaming scientist,
Richard Huddy from AMD.
I don't know whether we have an OEM
who is committed to building something like it.
We built it as a concept PC.
So like concept cars, it's not usually practical
to take it straight to market.
That wouldn't make a great deal of sense,
but it's not far from that.
I would think that if we have the right kind of conversations
with some OEMs, then we might well turn it
into a real product.
In that case, it will probably be a very small number,
maybe only one or at most a handful of PC manufacturers
who would bring it to market potentially.
It's a custom piece, not a high volume piece,
but it is a thing of beauty.
Speaking of things of beauty,
this is actually looking pretty good.
Samsung, they really got my attention with the S6 Edge
and the Note 5 is looking like it's gonna be
a pretty impressive little piece of kit as well.
Let's go ahead and pull this puppy up here when I can.
Doop, doop, doop, Note 5, et cetera, et cetera.
So this was originally posted on the forum by 6God.
Let's go ahead and drop that in the Twitch chat.
Boop.
And the original article is from Droid Life,
if I recall correctly.
Here is the Samsung Galaxy Note 5.
They have gotten their hands on it.
It is big, although if you were expecting anything else
out of a Note series phone,
then you probably had another thing
coming in the first place.
And it gives us a couple of improvements
that I don't know about you guys,
but I've been hoping to see for some time.
So we've got a spring-loaded stylus.
You can actually see that in the, there we go.
They've actually got a couple of other shots here.
So you can see that in the bottom.
We've got a spring-loaded stylus now.
The fit and finish of it looks absolutely beautiful.
So gone is pretty much all the plastic.
It's very, they're probably not gonna like me saying this,
but it's very iPhone-esque looking on the bottom.
I mean, it's undeniably similar looking to the iPhone
on the bottom there.
I said the same thing about the S6 Edge.
It'll be available in 32, 64 and 128 gig configurations.
There is a screenshot showing their air command
so you can add things to it like Instagram
or whatever the case may be.
I've got a call from someone
who is not gonna be relevant right now.
Wham, thank you, smartwatch, I love you.
And it has a regular USB port.
So they have done away with the whole USB 3
and have not even gone with USB 3 Type-C.
So that's a bit of a disappointment.
I would have liked to see USB 3.0 Type-C implementation
just because the flash storage on phones
is getting fast enough
that USB 2 is a significant bottleneck.
But I'm really glad that they did away
with that USB 3.0 Micro B connector
because that thing is the worst connector ever created
in my mind.
So there you go.
I think the actual unveiling is gonna be next week
at a press event or something along those lines.
But it looks like now we pretty much know
everything we need to know about it.
3000 milliamp power battery, also very unimpressive.
I recently switched back to the Droid Turbo
since Brandon is using the S6 Active
to do B-roll for the review of it.
And I gotta say, whenever I'm reviewing a phone
that doesn't have a 3500 plus milliamp power battery,
I really, really feel it.
I love having the flexibility to be 530,
so most of the way through my day
with 70% of my battery life left.
If I get a GPS all over the place,
not having to carry a battery bank with me
is huge and absolutely fantastic.
This is really funny.
Here we go.
So there's actually two sort of related pieces of news here.
Number one, wow, I actually have a lot left to cover here.
Holy smokes.
So number one is that Microsoft is now giving up
to 20 weeks of parental leave,
which is apparently a big deal in the States.
So yeah, I had no idea because in Canada
we actually get a year per child.
Now, to be clear, that's not a year fully paid.
That's actually a government thing,
like it's an employment insurance thing.
So it's capped and it's like a percentage of your salary,
something, something, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,
but we actually get a year of leave.
So I kind of went 20 weeks.
That doesn't seem that great.
But the good thing about it is that it is now with 100% pay.
So it's actually at the discretion of a company.
So I know that for my wife,
because she has a managerial position at Costco,
a significant portion of her parental leave
was actually topped up.
So the company can contribute additionally
to what the government is already paying.
So like that's something that I thought was pretty cool.
The fact that they now give up to 12 weeks for a dad
or an additional eight weeks for mom.
So up to 20 weeks of fully paid leave.
And I had no idea, so I'm getting back to my point.
I had no idea this was such a big deal
because in Canada we get a year, duh.
Apparently in the States, parental leave is like horrible.
Like you only get a little bit if anything at all.
And even in Washington,
I think the law was something along the lines of like,
you had to give like eight weeks or something like that.
And it was at the employer's discretion
if it was like paid at all or something along those lines.
So I can tell you as someone who has had a couple of kids
in the last bit, it is so important and so awesome
for mom to get to spend a ton of time with new baby
when they're first born.
Especially if you want to breastfeed
versus formula feeding and all that kind of stuff,
which has health benefits, antibodies and all that stuff.
Yeah, anyway, so not to be outdone, also this week,
Netflix has announced that they're offering
unlimited paid parental leave for a year,
which I guess is another way of saying
that you've got a year of parental leave.
So here we go, federal law in the US
requires 12 weeks unpaid leave for parents.
So I was wrong, it's 12, not eight.
And so this one is now available
for both birth parents and adoptive parents.
They'll earn their normal salary
and is intended to help the company keep valuable employees
according to their talent officer or a talent officer.
It allows parents to set their own work schedule,
letting them return on a full or part-time basis
and take leave as necessary during the first year.
So many are skeptical about the new plan's efficacy
as in competitive industries like tech,
employees are often looking for any advantage they can get.
But MarketWatch speculates, and this is really interesting.
This was actually posted by,
oh, actually we don't have a forum source for this one.
So MarketWatch speculates that this could cause,
oops, there's the doc.
This could cause new parents to take less time off
than if they were given a set amount of time.
So this was an internal study done by Ernst & Young
that found that for every 10 extra hours of vacation time
employees took advantage of,
their performance rating from their bosses climbed 8%
and that those who took frequent vacations
were less likely to leave the company.
But the reason for this,
and so the reason for this might be something called
work martyr syndrome,
which means that in competitive workplaces,
employees are looking for any leg up they can get
on their performance reviews.
So they think that it will look good to their bosses
if despite being given unlimited vacation time or whatever,
they actually take even fewer days off.
Very, very interesting stuff.
Like the whole psychology of vacation and time off
and all of that, all that good stuff.
We've got, this is a really interesting one.
Microsoft updated their terms of service on August 1st
in sort of a scary, in sort of a scary way.
I'm gonna go ahead and pop this link in the forum.
So this was originally posted by The Stranger.
Although The Stranger, I think you misspelled the,
you've got it spelled T-E-H, just saying.
Just kidding, I know that's an intentional spelling error.
This was posted by The Stranger and Windows 10 updates
can now disable pirated games and unauthorized hardware.
So this went into effect on the 1st of August
and the terms are valid for everyone using
Microsoft services such as Office 365.
Oops, I put up the wrong hand.
Well, whatever, I'm just gonna have to put this away.
Office 365, outlook.com, Xbox Live,
Skype, OneDrive, Bing, and MSN.
Although software using a Microsoft account
is covered by the terms,
meaning that the terms also affect most Windows 10 users.
And speaking of, maybe I'll rant about that
a little bit later.
So it is unclear what the company means
by unauthorized hardware peripheral devices.
Maybe we're talking unlicensed game controllers.
Maybe we're talking like, Lord only knows.
But yeah, we don't really understand
what exactly they're gonna do with it,
but they could prevent you from playing counterfeit games
or using unauthorized hardware.
So back to the whole having to have an email
to actually use Windows 10 thing.
Man, is the way that they've implemented this obnoxious.
Let's go ahead and I'm just gonna pull up
the control panel on my machine here.
I'm just gonna close anything that might be incriminating.
Can my typing just work, please?
That'd be super awesome.
Oh, that's weird.
I straight up don't know what's happening,
but I cannot type.
Okay, well, I guess I won't.
But the point is that the control panel,
when you create a new user account for your computer,
you actually have to, this is great.
Like they've hidden the ability
to create a local user account
that is not tied to any kind of email account
so well that I suspect 99.9% of people out there
are just gonna enter their email information.
You actually have to say, when you create a user account,
you have to click.
This person does not have an email address.
In order to get to the menu
that allows you to then get to another
sort of weirdly worded thing to click
to create a local user account.
I upgraded the blade to Windows 10.
I upgraded my desktop to Windows 10.
And that is one of the things
that really, really annoyed me.
What if I don't want to tie my email account to the computer?
What if that is not what I wanna do?
I still can, but most people are not going to think
to click that the user doesn't have an email address.
They're just gonna think, oh, well, there's no other way out.
I guess I just have to enter this information.
Speaking of no other way out,
I actually did figure out something kind of cool.
So I'm gonna go ahead and share, hold on a second.
Okay, so maybe I can add screen capture.
I'll just share my screen with you guys here.
So we're gonna have some video section here.
So I did figure out, let's just put that away, this.
So I had said in the video I released last night
that I couldn't figure out how to pin things down here.
It turns out it is super duper simple.
So that's pretty cool.
I have so much crap in here.
And yet I don't think I can get rid of any of it.
It's like scanning utilities
and like rapid storage technology, like Chrome, Synapse.
I was gonna take Synapse off.
And then I realized for a second, I was like,
oh, I probably can't take Synapse off.
It's like an actually a Razer laptop,
like the keyboard and touchpad probably need Synapse drivers.
Yeah.
But the reason I wanted to take it off
ended up being a mistake anyway.
I thought that there was an issue
that Synapse was causing with like mouse lagginess,
but that didn't end up being the case
and it totally resolved itself anyway.
Oh, more bad Windows 10 news.
Windows 10 telemetry.
Let's go ahead and pull up the Ars Technica article here.
So you guys should definitely check this out.
So they've actually updated it a couple of days ago
since I first looked at it
with a few more Windows 10 features
that gather up your data and or behavior
and send it back to Microsoft.
They also have some suggestions on how to disable them.
So by clicking through Express Settings,
which I have to confess I did
because it never used to be a problem.
All it meant was that I had to like change Bing
and Internet Explorer from being my default.
Oh, that's another thing
that really annoys me about Windows 10.
When you click make Chrome my default browser,
it brings you to a menu
where you then actually have to click and turn off Edge
and make Chrome your default browser
instead of just doing it.
So by clicking through the Express Settings
during installation,
you allow Windows 10 to gather up your contacts,
calendar details, text and touch input,
location data and a whole lot more.
It is sent to Microsoft
so that it can be used for personalization
and targeted ads.
The easiest way to disable it
is to turn them off during the upgrade
or installation process.
And there are actually a registry and group policy edits
that are needed to disable all tracking.
So yeah, pretty cool.
There's a tool created by a Reddit user
to disable Windows 10 tracking with one click.
Thank you, Reddit user.
You guys can go ahead and check that out.
I will go ahead and post this link here.
Bippity boppity, just like that.
So guys, if you're using Windows 10,
I'm actually not personally endorsing that one click thing
because I have no idea
what that Reddit user actually put in there.
But it seems that some people are reporting
that it's all good
and that it helps and that that is a good thing.
I've got another news article for you here, guys.
This is posted by samcool55.
Let's go ahead and wait for that page to load.
There we go.
Post that in the Twitch chat.
All right.
Boy, it is, I really need a producer for this show.
I've had so, this is so funny.
I've had so many people contact me and tell me,
hey Linus, you know what I think would be a great idea
for the WAN show?
You guys should have a producer
to like do the lower thirds
and bring up the articles and post the things and all that.
I'm like, yeah, that would be great.
Sort of cost money
and would involve like completely re-cajiggering
how the sort of the infrastructure of the show works
and all that kind of stuff.
And yes, it is the kind of thing that professional shows
have and we are very likely to introduce at some point,
especially now that I can't believe
we have almost 10,000 viewers again.
I don't even have a co-host.
I got airy over here.
We have almost 10,000 viewers again.
So I guess we're getting to the point
where with 10,000 live viewers
and like 150 to 200,000 archive viewers,
we probably should invest in something like that.
I had never really intended for WAN show to grow like this.
It was supposed to be,
I originally called it the live stream
and I treated it like Q and A
and then it turned into this thing.
It got like a life of its own.
So the original article here is from overclock.net
and the activation of cores in Hawaii, Tonga
and Fiji GPUs is apparently, this is great,
is apparently something that requires a massive disclaimer
right at the beginning.
So there's a, wow,
the versions are rolling out extremely quickly here.
And I just wanna say before you guys use this,
I'm gonna go ahead and, oh yeah,
I know I posted a link to the thread in the forum.
Before you guys use this,
if you've already got a fully unlocked chip,
something like a 290X, don't run it.
There's nothing to gain.
There's nothing to gain at all,
because all it does is it unlocks shaders
that were hidden away.
So if you have something like a 290,
this is something that has cropped up before, 7950s.
We're being flashed way back in the day to 7970s.
So it's only if you have hidden ones,
it can unlock them and make them usable again.
But the thing that you guys need to understand
is the way that chip binning works
is sometimes chips are used for a lower grade product
because they just have to fulfill the demand
for that product.
Sometimes chips are used for a lower grade product
because they're broken.
Well, not broken, they work.
But the parts that would have made it qualify
for a higher end product don't work.
Like if Intel has a CPU that has six megs of cache
versus eight megs of cache,
like I talked about with the Skylight K processors,
some of those core i5s might have fully functional cache.
Maybe they just didn't reach like a power target
at that frequency or whatever.
There's a lot of other reasons a chip can fail
other than not working out right.
They've got their power targets, their heat targets,
whatever the case may be.
Maybe that cache works.
Maybe that's the thing that was broken.
So by unlocking it, you could potentially
be unlocking broken stuff on the chip
so your mileage may vary.
So there you go.
Hmm.
Ah, this is good.
So this was posted by 13ca350.
And the original article here is from wired.com.
I'm just gonna go ahead and post the, I hate.
There's gotta be an extension for this.
I will try and find it after the show.
But I hate the way that in Google Docs
it creates that stupid google.com slash URL
that goes on forever thing
instead of just allowing me to copy paste
and like right click copy and paste things directly.
I actually have to navigate to the stupid URL every time.
100,000 followers?
People are saying something about 100,000 followers.
Is that on Twitch?
Oh, I guess that's on Twitch.
Huh.
Look at that.
We have almost 100,000 followers on Twitch
and I've only game streamed like a half a dozen times
in my life.
Go figure.
Researchers hacked a Model S
but Tesla's already released a patch.
Thank you Tesla for treating this
with the appropriate amount of gravity
and appropriate expediency of your response
and all of that good stuff.
So if you guys recall, we talked about the whole thing
that happened with that Jeep where it was hacked wirelessly
and Jeep's response was like, well, actually
you guys probably shouldn't be talking about this
because now you're making like this information public
so other people could do it.
So please don't do that.
No, no, no, no, no.
Tesla has instead worked with,
looks like who was up to this this time?
Yeah, Mark Rogers and Kevin McAfee.
So they executed the attack
and Tesla has already worked with them
on the six vulnerabilities that were found in total.
They've developed fixes and addressed all six
through a wireless update already.
So basically these guys were able to control the vehicle
through a laptop over a physical connection.
So not even nearly as terrifying an exploit
as that one that was done cellularly.
And they were able to plant a remote access Trojan
on the Model S network while they had physical access.
Then they were able to cut the engine remotely
at a later time.
They were also able to shut the car down
at a low speed of five miles per hour.
They discovered that the infotainment system
was using an out of date browser
which contained a four year old Apple WebKit vulnerability.
So theoretically, if someone made a malicious webpage
and a Tesla's system visited that page,
the site owner could gain access
to the infotainment system and control the car
by taking advantage of a privilege escalation vulnerability
and gain additional access to the car's control.
Although that wasn't tested.
So, but either way, it's patched.
So there you go.
So yeah, what can we really say about this
other than that, good on you Tesla
for doing things the right way
because if everyone kind of sat around
and was complacent and kind of went,
well, if you don't fix this stuff,
then it's not gonna affect someone's buying decision.
I don't have to fix this stuff.
Then we can just all not fix this stuff.
It's good that someone is running out
and getting competitive about it,
about the security of their smart cars.
And I shouldn't say smart car
because that's a specific car,
but they're connected cars.
Lordy, what are we gonna call these things?
Of the security of their connect,
see now I don't know what to call them, cars.
Let's just call them cars
because they pretty much all have the features now.
The security of their car, someone's taking it seriously.
And hopefully that just raises the bar in the industry
and forces everyone to play along.
More Windows 10 news.
This was posted by Ragnarok Dell on the forum.
Let's go ahead and pull up the original article here
from pcworld.com.
There are already more Steam users using Windows 10
than there are any form of Linux.
Although this shouldn't be any surprise
to anyone who has participated
in the Windows 10 upgrade experience,
because let me tell you, it is pretty darn seamless.
I had my laptop up and running,
everything working 100% within a matter of like an hour
or something like that.
So it was super duper, no big deal and awesome.
And even for pirates,
I actually validated this very recently.
Even for pirates, the upgrade process
is pretty darn seamless,
depending on how they pirated their Windows.
So I was just like, okay, people are telling me it works.
Let's find out if it works.
Okay, it works.
Very, very interesting.
So when you go ahead
and you basically provide Windows for free,
whether people paid for their old Windows
or didn't pay for their old Windows,
you've effectively just made Windows 10 free.
And that is some pretty revolutionary stuff right there.
It is no surprise to me whatsoever
that people are jumping right on that biz.
So I think that's pretty much,
I guess that's pretty much it for the show today.
Let me see, do I have anything else?
I'm sure there must be something.
PC World article.
No, I think that's pretty much it for the show, guys.
Oh no, no, there's another really little piece of news.
So this is from theverge.com.
The YouTube 301 view freeze will no longer be the case.
So this was posted by cyberneticitition,
okay, whatever that username is.
Now, the reason that videos would stop
at 301 views in the past
was because YouTube was validating
whether that video was actually getting views really quickly.
Like this is back when a video getting 300 views
within the first minute was a big deal.
Now it's not.
There's lots of users
that can rack up the views pretty quickly.
So they had to validate whether the views were real
or if they were coming from a botnet or something
to artificially inflate that video
and make it look like a big deal.
So it would hit the front page or something like that
and then get legitimate traffic.
That was a real strategy for a bit there.
Not that I ever did that.
Now they're doing away with that.
So the 301 plus stall will be taken away.
So as long as the views are validated views.
So the validated views will come right away
and the ambiguous ones will be added later
once Google has ensured that they are genuine.
Yeah, I guess that's pretty much it for this week.
So thank you for tuning into the show.
I hope you guys, oh, no, okay.
No, I do have one more that I wanna do.
So this is supposed to buy red silver spine.
And the original article here was from TechRadar.
Let's go ahead and copy these into the appropriate places.
Wow, 10,000 viewers and almost 100,000 Twitch followers.
What a day today, hey?
But basically, the article is you don't need
a crazy powerful PC to run Windows 10.
Someone got it running on an AMD Athlon 64 3200 plus.
So that is a 12 year old CPU with 256 megabytes of memory.
I mean, anything prior to that, you're gonna have issues.
Apparently it was just throwing out errors,
but there you go.
You can, not that I'm saying you should,
run Windows 10 on a 12 year old computer
if you really wanted to.
So thanks for tuning into the show.
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I will see you guys again next week.
Same bad time, same bad channel.
Maybe by then we will have 100,000 Twitch followers,
which didn't even occur to me that we had.
See you guys next time.
Bye.