What is up, ladies and gentlemen? Welcome to the WAN Show. We've got a fantastic show lined up for you all today.
Our big topics this week are Razer has egg on their face due to the unqualified product they asked you to put on your face.
In other big news, NVIDIA dropped a new 12 gig version of the RTX 3080.
And everyone definitely cared about that. What else we got today, Luke?
Google calls for White House support to ensure that open source software projects are secure and you can mine crypto on your electric car.
Wow. Wow. Great. I'm really excited about that. I was just hoping that there would be more things I could mine crypto on. Let's roll that intro.
Yeah. The comments about you are so funny.
Luke has transcended shows brought to you today by Zoho CRM, Squarespace and Secret Lab. All right. Why don't we jump right into our first topic, which is, of course, what the heck is going on with the stream today?
Luke is missing from the nipples down, ladies and gentlemen. Look, I'm holding him up. I'm holding him up here.
Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Where'd you go? Where'd you go, dog?
There's a person in my household who is sick, so we're trying to be safe. So I'm staying home. I'm telecommuting today.
Doing that safe stuff. Now, there were a couple of people asking, well, why the heck didn't Linus just broadcast from home like you guys did?
And the answer is A, because this is amazing. And B, because my computer is hardcore broken. All right.
You're going to want to subscribe to my YouTube channel. That's youtube.com slash Linus Tech Tips.
OK, if you guys weren't familiar, it's my YouTube channel. Get subscribed over there because I'm going to have a YouTube short coming up over the weekend showing you guys the noise that my water cooling pump is making right now.
I can do the noise for you, Luke. Do you want me to do the noise for you? Yes.
OK, it sounds like this. That sounds like a pretty cool car. Yeah, that's a water pump. That's the noise it makes.
And it actually it actually rattles my entire rack. The entire thing is shaking.
Now, I'm not crapping on the Lang D5, not by a long shot, because that pump is probably nearly 15 years old.
So it's done its time. It's done it. It's done its duty, sir. It is time to retire it.
So I've actually grabbed another one. I just ripped it out of some like pump reservoir combo thing that we had lying around at the office that has clearly never been used.
And I'm going to replace it and hopefully I'll have my computer up and running.
But my machine is not running. So there was no way that we were going to be able to do this from home.
Now, let's talk about the other big story of the week. Razor's masks allegedly not as safe as advertised.
The Zephyr and Zephyr Pro were originally marketed as N95 rated.
So N95 means that 95 percent of airborne particles should be filtered if you are wearing such a mask.
But here's the thing. They actually have to be tested and certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Naomi Wu, a.k.a. Sexy Cyborg, did a teardown and checked the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to find out that the Zephyrs were not, in fact, N95 rated.
So Razor said the filters used in the mask were tested for 95 percent particulate filtration efficiency, but the mask itself is not.
And this is a problem for a number of reasons. Luke, why is that a problem?
OK, if you have if I had an N95 filter on my head, OK, then is that an N95 face accessory?
Yes, partially, for sure. Absolutely. Done. Solved COVID. Solved problem. See you later, COVID.
This is this is this is going to fix the world. I just changed the world right there.
I believe Spider-Man's eye covers are N95.
The exhale port doesn't have anything stopping you from inhaling through it. A bit of an issue.
So there's no filtration there. The filters themselves are actually pretty small.
And breathing through the mask in general is more difficult than a proper mask.
There's also other bits of mass that you can breathe through that aren't covered by the filters themselves.
Razer is removing all N95 references from their website and marketing and customers who purchased a mask will be notified, apparently.
OK, so this is interesting. We just got a merch message from Garrett I or L. Doesn't matter.
I asked for this pillow on Twitter in June. Oh, wait. So thanks. Oh, but the expensive edition pillow.
We'll talk more about that later. Also, Razer is being a meanie about the mask.
They are apparently refusing refunds according to this user and only doing returns after I really threw a fit.
Apparently four reps said no. So that is all allegedly at this time because I have no way of verifying that.
But if true, that is not not cool right now.
If you pull the rug out from under your users in terms of the features or functionality of a product,
if it's misleadingly labeled, you need to step up, do the right thing and accept the returns for it.
Right. Like if you don't like that, then you shouldn't advertise it incorrectly.
I don't know. This is not. Do you think there's anyone in the office that has purchased one?
I doubt it. Because doing a secret shopper thing where you try to return it would be pretty interesting.
It would be interesting. I mean, honestly, this is this is a story I feel like has been long enough that I'm I think I'm just not going to worry about telling it.
I don't I don't care anymore. Honestly, I'm at a point in my career where I just don't really give more.
So this is not the first time that Razer has misled anybody.
You know, they are they are not exactly known for being 100 percent forthright about the materials that they're using in their products.
I mean, I had an incident where I'm not going to name any names, but a high ranking Razer executive who I used to communicate with fairly regularly,
misled me about the origin of the Razer switches in their original mechanical keyboards that had Razer switches.
I was told maybe not to my face since technically it was a phone call,
but I was told flat out in no uncertain terms that Razer had engineered their own switches.
And it's one of those things where, you know, as a as an enthusiast and as a as a skeptic, as a lifelong skeptic,
maybe I wasn't a cynic yet, but definitely a skeptic at that point. Now I'm a cynic.
I smelled B.S. And, you know, there were a lot of signs that Razer had not, in fact, invented their own keyboard switch.
Like, say, for example, the fact that they had completely recycled wholesale the diagram from Cherry's website showing how the plunger mechanism worked in the switch.
I mean, you remember that, Luke? Do you remember that? It was ridiculous.
And no matter how many times I prodded and pressed, this individual insisted,
insisted that they had met, they had researched and developed their own switches.
And I went. I don't believe you. And so what I did is in the video that we ultimately made about that keyboard,
I basically just I actually don't remember exactly what I said because I was torn.
I was either going to say they're Kiowa switches, which ultimately is what they ended up being.
Or I was just going to say they're Razer switches. They're a Cherry clone.
They're being manufactured by someone else, obviously, other than Cherry, because Cherry would not even consider putting Razer branding on their switches.
Get real. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I basically just I decided not to go after them about it because you never know.
Right. Sometimes miscommunications happen and an executive might think something and they're just there.
They're there. It's possible they're completely ignorant of the situation.
And you don't want to you don't want the actions of one individual to necessarily turn into an attack against an entire company.
When the odds are I could have talked to just about anyone else and they might have been more knowledgeable about the situation.
The point is that misunderstandings can happen. And I had decided at that time to give the benefit of the doubt.
But, you know, seeing this situation now, I'm kind of looking at it going, you know, once isn't once is potentially a fluke.
Dev Snack says Razer's website still says this.
Razer switches stand at the forefront of keyboard technology and innovation.
Since creating our own mechanical gaming switches in 2014, we have continued to refine and design a variety of switches to suit every gamer and his needs.
Well, OK, we've got a couple of problems with this.
Number one, OK, you didn't create your own mechanical gaming switches in 2014.
They branded them.
You made a spec tweak to a huge contribution to an existing switch.
And number two, his needs, Razer.
That is not very 2022 of you.
That's actually that is actually not good.
Every gamer and his needs.
Generally change that.
They should probably change that.
Twitch is already flipping out over it before I even called them on it.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Rod Rod from BS mods.
Yikes. Girl gamers dot dot dot.
I guess they just can't buy from Razer anymore, right?
I know, right? Because it's only for his needs.
Going to have to support a better company.
Razer did a sexism.
Yeah, it's one of it's one of those things.
I I'm honestly not going to call to cancel Razer over over a misplaced pronoun that they probably put on their website many years ago.
But, you know, I do think they could improve their product messaging to make it more transparent.
And this N95 Razer mask situation is a perfect example of that.
So, Luke, did you run through the issues while I was while I was looking while I was thinking about this keyboard thing?
I forget. Yeah, we're already through them all.
OK, so Razer's removing the N95 references.
I mean, the discussion question on this one from Plouffe is what should the repercussions be in a situation like this where the damage is already done?
I mean, it's been marketed with that N95 moniker for nearly a year.
So there are conceivably people out there who wore this mask thinking that it was going to protect them from a dangerous disease,
who potentially were not protected from a dangerous disease, but it probably did a lot more than just having nothing on their face.
I mean, they've demonstrated time and time again that not just breathing into each other's faces is beneficial, even if it's not properly filtered.
So how do you measure how do you measure the damage that's been done here?
Yeah, I don't know. It's pretty intense. It's one of the reasons why companies in general should be very wary of jumping into health and safety stuff when it's not their field and they don't have expertise in it.
Especially when you're dealing with things like claiming that you have N95, whatever, claiming that there's a certain minimum level of something.
If you're making those plastic face shields, that's one thing. You're making clear plastic and it goes in front of your face.
You can see exactly where it covers. That's pretty straightforward.
When the beer and other various alcohol companies started pivoting and making hand cleaning stuff, that was fairly straightforward as well.
Making filtration masks is pretty intense and probably should have been done much more carefully.
And I'm not personally surprised that Razer was not careful when they did it.
Well, the biggest self-own here is just that there are certification bodies that absolutely exist for these products and they just didn't go through the proper channels.
Yeah, they just didn't bother. So at the very least, it's negligent.
I don't know that it's malicious. If anything, I think I've gotten more of a careless, it won't matter kind of vibe from Razer's errors over the years,
as opposed to a, you know, we fully understand the problems with what we're doing and we're going to do it anyway kind of vibe.
But Carol, you know, a careless driver that plows into a pedestrian, is it are they really has the damage any less than a malicious driver that plows into a pedestrian?
I don't know. That's that's the debate I'll leave for the philosophers.
In other news this week, Nvidia has dropped a new 12 gig 3080.
Luke, so exciting. Were you thinking, you know what I need? A GA-102 GPU that costs more.
Yes. Yeah. Is that what you're after? And that is better for mining.
And that's better for mining. OK, I wasn't even going to go there yet, but we can get into it.
It sports 8960 CUDA cores over the 8704 cord 10 gigabyte variant plus 256 just in case,
as well as 20 percent more cumulative bandwidth than the 10 gigabyte variant of the 3080 due to a 384 bit memory bus.
There's a clock speed bump to base clock is up 180 megahertz and boost clock nudges up 40 megahertz.
That's actually like pretty substantial on the base clock. Yeah, the note says that, too.
Yeah, but these cards almost never run at base clock unless you're like suffocating them.
So there's that. That's fair. Yeah. Base clock improves by 14 percent, but boost clock is only up 2 percent.
Blah, blah, blah. It's it's it's funky. It's weird.
This 12 gigabyte RTX 3080 arrives just days after the company announced a new RTX 3090 Ti with faster memory and better performance.
And. Oh, this hurts to say because the really high end cards being really expensive is one thing,
but a RTX 3050 for two hundred and forty nine bucks. Rough.
The 12 gig 3080 pricing will be determined largely by board partners.
EVJ has priced its own RTX 3080 12 gig at twelve hundred and forty nine dollars. But they're potentially not even going to be showing up in North America.
We have a weird note about that. I'm not certain if that is for that specific brand or if that's for all of them in general.
But it doesn't matter because you're probably not going to get them anyways. Nice.
So, you know, what's really funny is I was going to contradict you there and I realized that you're not the one who's crazy.
I'm the one who's crazy. You were going through the cards that Nvidia released recently going, oh, well, there's the 3090 Ti and there's the RTX 3050 for two hundred and fifty dollars.
And you were outraged. And I was about to jump in and say that's a great deal.
But I mean, what did the like let's go back. Let's go back a couple of generations.
Like what did a GTX 950 cost? Yeah.
I'm going to look this up because I don't remember the GTX 950 launched in 2015 at one hundred and fifty nine dollars.
You're not crazy. I'm crazy. Nvidia has managed to take that tier of product and increase the MSRP,
which, by the way, is not necessarily representative of the price you will actually pay by.
Hold on a second. I don't know how to use a calculator. So two forty nine over one fifty nine.
They've managed to increase the price by 50 to 60 percent.
And by the time you factor in your super clocks and KO, you know, all your different variants of the card,
you could easily be paying nearly double for the same tier of card that just, you know, seven short years ago was available for,
you know, one hundred and fifty bucks, you know, something that you could.
But as a kid in high school, you could conceivably work a side hustle and save up for in some reasonable amount of time.
And, you know, get your game on. You know what I mean? Now, obviously, it's going to be a lot it's going to be a lot faster than that card.
You know, technology has come a long way in the last seven years. So I'm not saying, hey, you should go buy a GTX 950 or anything like that.
I'm just saying that we've clearly been conditioned to accept that, you know, I mean, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Holy, holy. Two hundred dollars for a sub 60 graphics card. That's my thing. Holy crap. That's nuts.
I don't remember how much the eighty eight hundred GT cost when it launched. I think around three hundred bucks.
No, I think it was less, Luke. I think that I think that Nvidia, after they launched it and realized, holy crap,
we just completely irrelevanted our entire rest of our product line. I think they increased it.
Yeah. The 512 meg version, the higher end version was two hundred fifty dollars.
So going back 10 years prior, two hundred and fifty dollars bought you from Nvidia a flagship killer card.
And nowadays, two hundred and fifty dollars buys you literally the lowest tier G force card in their entire current lineup that they begrudgingly over a year later,
finally brought out to get more volume of cards into the hands of gamers instead of focusing on their higher margin, higher MSRP cards.
That's crazy. OK. Snap seven twenty five says all caps inflation.
And that's a fair point. Let's get into a U.S. inflation calculator.
OK, so let's have a look here. Right. The thing is, though, inflation is a funny thing because inflation for housing,
for example, is a really different number from inflation for food, from inflation for tech.
I mean, if you were to look at something like TVs or actually even personal computers as a whole, I was looking at a.
Yeah, I was looking at like a flyer from London Drugs from like nineteen ninety five.
Right. This is this is back in the like the Pentium era. Right. And to buy a fully equipped desktop setup was like four or five grand.
And that was just what a computer cost because gaming home computers for five grand.
Yeah. Having a personal computer was absolutely not a given.
So according to the inflation calculator, that eighty eight hundred GT, your flagship killer step down card that comes a little bit later should cost you three hundred thirty six dollars.
What kind of modern GPU can you buy for three hundred and thirty six dollars?
And the other thing to consider is that in some areas of tech, we've actually got more of an opposite inflation thing going on.
I mean, how much did a 42 inch TV cost 20 years ago? Riddle me that.
What's a 42 inch TV cost today? A fraction.
So if anything, it should be possible for technology to buck that trend.
I mean, even Intel, who's not exactly known for giving consumers a deal just out of the goodness of their hearts.
You go back to something like, you know, the Pentium four back when I first got into enthusiast computing.
You know, you could get a Pentium for Northwood, like.
So this is like a was it Northwood's Pentium for C, I guess, was the last generation of P4 before AMD made it completely irrelevant with the F164.
So that would have been in like two thousand four, two thousand five.
It was like five hundred bucks for an entry level P4 and Intel all these years later.
It's still like five hundred bucks for an entry level like like Core i7.
I mean, an entry level enthusiast chip, you know what I mean? So I think it's possible to buck this trend.
But I mean, hey, why do that when you when you don't have to write like if I'm Nvidia, the corporation, I'm doing a great job right now.
Finding ways to condition my users and really the entire market.
To think that this is what gaming should cost.
I guess that's really all I have to say about that.
I remember before I was into computers, I was I was pretty young.
I was I was looking into buying my first computer for myself.
This was like this is my I had worked a summer job in a pizzeria because I was like 13.
Like this was this was pretty early as the first time I was ever looking into computer components.
I was trying to talk to a lot of my friends about it, like my brother's friends, because they were older and more experienced with computer stuff.
Because I haven't really discovered Internet computer forums yet and whatnot.
And one person told me a decent rule of thumb would be for your for your somewhat important components.
And remember, I had like no money for your somewhat important components.
Spend about 100 bucks each.
Sure. And I roughly followed that for my I ended up shifting things around because I ended up finding forums and stuff.
But that was actually not a bad rule to get a working, usable gaming computer.
Yeah. At that time. That's so nuts now, like.
It sounds kind of sad. J.R. 6955 says, hey, despite the rising costs over the last years, Xboxes and PlayStation's still cost the same.
Now, that's a little misleading because Nvidia, unlike Microsoft and Sony, doesn't get to continue to make money on you after you own the product.
At least not to the same degree. I mean, I don't know what they're doing with everyone logging into Geforce experience necessarily.
There might be ways for them to monetize that data. I legitimately have no idea.
I'm not accusing them of anything. I just don't know.
But compared to what Microsoft and Sony are able to get in terms of residuals through game sales or
and with Microsoft so focused on Game Pass monthly subscriptions, it just doesn't even begin to touch it.
There's a reason that Sony and Microsoft are just trying to shift boxes rather than worrying about making money on them.
But that was always true. Right. Especially for Sony, who hasn't shaken up the business model to nearly the same degree that Microsoft has.
So, yeah. What is up with that? Right. Yeah.
Jaden mentions that phones have been creeping ever upwards as well. Oh, yeah.
Remember when the one plus one launched? What did the one plus one cost like two hundred dollars?
A lot cheaper than they are now. It's getting to the point where, like, it's really rough.
Like a lot of these phones, by the time you're a year and a half to two years into them, the battery is starting to feel really bad.
There's probably a lot of other very noticeable issues and stuff like that.
And it's it's rough to replace a phone that's like a grand or more when it only lasts like a year and a half to two years in a good state.
Yes. You can obviously use it for longer than that.
Yeah, I think that's something I'd really like the lab to spend some time on, because there are a lot of budget phones out there.
Like, on the one hand, yes, phones have gotten crazy expensive. It costs like thirteen fourteen hundred US dollars for a flagship.
Now, that wasn't a thing not that long ago. You could get a flagship iPhone for seven, eight hundred dollars.
Not that many years ago, when when when the first phone cracked that thousand dollar barrier, everyone went, oh, and then they just marched right through it.
I mean, Samsung has a phone for two grand now, Z Fold three. Right.
Yeah. But on the flip side of that, phones have also gotten cheaper than ever.
You can get a full on smartphone with, you know, like a big touch screen and everything for like one hundred bucks, one hundred and one hundred and low dollars off contract.
I mean, that would have been insane to six, seven years ago.
So there's this there's been this split. And one of the things that I would like the lab to do is figure out which of those value phones are actually not awful so that we can have solid recommendations to give people.
I mean, one of the big challenges with phones, too, is that unless the carriers are aggressively monetizing your data, like Nvidia,
they are in a position where the modern business world is expecting companies to have recurring revenue from their customers.
I mean, look what's happened to Adobe stock ever since they launched Creative Cloud.
Right. Compared to when they used to sell you a discreet perpetual license for each new version of the software.
Shareholders love recurring revenue.
And that's why Nvidia is trying to build out stuff like their cloud gaming service, because that way they can continue to sell you the same GPU over and over and over and over and over again.
Sure, it's at a lower price, but over and over and over and over again.
So if you want to sell things that the customer ultimately actually owns, like the like a phone from a carrier that from or from a brand that doesn't benefit on the back end,
like Apple does through the App Store or Google does through the Play Store, then you do kind of have to keep driving up prices because you look at the profitability of Android phones and how much consolidation there's been in that market.
It's clearly that they're not making that much money. Right.
Like that's the really scary thing is how many dead bodies litter the path that we have ultimately found ourselves on.
Yes, the prices have gone like this. But in spite of that, so many competitors have just died off along the way most recently.
And speaking of like prominent ones, LG just abandoned it. They're like, forget it. We can't do this.
I think that was a pretty intense market share percentage thing, though. LG phones were such a small subsection of the market.
Absolutely. But you would think if there's enough margin in the product, they could buy some market share, get aggressive on pricing.
But clearly there's not enough margin.
Traditionally, I don't know, pricing is a really interesting thing. And I think pricing for phones especially is a really interesting thing because I think people will go into a store and they'll look at an iPhone and they'll see the pricing of the iPhone.
They'll look at the Android phones and the ones that aren't priced near the price of the iPhone. I think a lot of market research is not done and they just assume they're really bad.
Unless it's priced like the iPhone, it's probably garbage. I know people that have shopped that way.
I mean, there's no doubt in my mind that Apple absolutely creates a perception of value in every market segment they move into.
I mean, you look at the way that people looked at headphones, right? Like 10 years ago, 15 years ago, outside of the audiophile community, the idea of spending $300, $400, $500 on headphones is crazy.
Insane.
It's crazy. People just used whatever earbuds came with their Walkman. That was the norm. Or with their iPod, right? They just used whatever. It was iconic.
People were just walking around with their white 1499 Apple earphones. That was it.
Apple comes in, they go, hey, over-the-ear headphones. Well, actually Beats changed the game really before Apple did, but Apple has taken it up another level.
Apple comes in, they say, hey, look, earbuds are now worth $150 or $250 in the case of the AirPods Pros.
Over-the-ear wireless earphones, they're now worth, what is it, 549 or something for the AirPods Max.
I can't remember the pricing in US dollars because I'm a filthy Canadian.
But the point is that Apple walks into a category, declares it now to be worth spending a ton of money for.
They normalize that and then everyone else ultimately reaps the benefit other than consumers.
Their competitors reap the benefit, which I've always found to just be a fascinating pattern because there's no reason that someone other than Apple couldn't do this.
I mean, remember back again, this is probably back about 10 years ago when so many laptops had gross TN panel screens, right?
Just awful. IPS displays freaking existed, but it wasn't until they were TN and they were low resolution.
It was normal to find a 1366 by 768, 15 inch laptop display and it looked atrocious.
And all it took was for Apple to come in and say, Retina, create a value to high resolution displays that you can't make out, you know, every single pixel this big.
And all of a sudden everyone else goes, OK, I guess it's I guess it's time.
I guess it's I guess people will like this.
Well, no, you should have known people would like it before Apple told them to like it and you should have gone and been the trailblazer.
But I say that and then you look at a company like, oh, shoot, who are those guys that made the first true wireless earphones?
Help me out. It was a Kickstarter. We did a video about them.
The Dash, Bragi the Dash. How'd that work out for them? Do they still exist?
Bragi, oh, it's a Wikipedia article for some Norse, Skaldic god of poetry or something. Bragi, the platform that, what, something?
What is happening here? Bragi OS? Outperforming the Giants? Full control with your beautiful OET?
I have I have no idea what they have pivoted to, but where there would normally be a buy button, there is now a let's talk button.
Whatever that's concerning. That means solutions ecosystem.
What even is this concept customization manufacturing?
What even I don't even I don't even understand what they do.
OK, so they're like a consulting firm for like, oh, you know what, they probably license IP for wireless wireless audio then.
Because I'm sure they I'm sure they won some patents as part of creating the Dash.
Man, don't you love websites where you just have no freaking idea what the company actually does?
Yeah. I just can't. I don't I I don't know what to do with it.
Like, no, I'm not going to send you an email like how how ass backwards is that? I'm going to send you an email to find out what the heck it is that you do.
But anyway. Yeah. So being the first mover, hey, not necessarily a huge advantage in the rapidly moving space of consumer electronics.
All right. Why don't we go ahead and jump into our next topic? Why don't why don't I manage those incoming messages and you jump into a topic for us?
Luke, I feel like I've talked a lot here. I am dealing with a currently evolving situation that we should actually discuss what on the show.
But we should actually we should talk about some merch messages and we should probably talk about the thing that tons of people are buying.
No plans for Brian, the electrician merch. We love Brian, but we don't need to monetize him.
So it's not cheap. But then I never promised it would be.
In fact, it's so expensive that you guys will now understand why I ultimately originally canned this product.
The original intention, OK, for the CPU pillow was to fill it with 100 percent alpaca wool.
And I saw the price and I went, no, no one will buy this. No one would be crazy enough for this.
So we did a blend. We did an alpaca wool and regular stuffing blend for the regular green CPU pillows.
And then we sold so many of those that I was like, yeah. And there was this time that, you know, we thought about doing, you know, an alpaca one.
Wouldn't it be funny if we did an extreme edition one? And then you guys were like, yes, do it.
So we finally did it. It's black, gray and gold, which, by the way, Intel is what extreme editions should have always been.
They should have always had a black substrate because that would have been so much cooler.
They are otherwise the same as the other pillows, but they are 100 percent alpaca wool for that amazing squishy feeling.
Guys, to be clear, these are not bed pillows. These are not like head pillows. They're not really even intended for you to sleep on them.
These are decorative pillows, but these are going to be the bougiest tech decorative pillows on the market.
I promise you that much. Just like the originals, they have a little hidden pocket where you can, I don't know,
keep your things you like to hide or whatever. There's no there's no seal on the pocket.
So the dogs would definitely be able to sniff whatever's in there.
But there's a pocket and it's on LTT store dot com and it's not cheap.
We actually we actually named it the expensive edition pillow,
which was inspired by the the original nickname for Intel's extreme edition CPUs.
So they call them XE now for extreme edition. But originally it was EE for extreme edition.
So that was how they denoted them in the product name. So we decided, hey, we're going to carry on the EE.
We're going to carry on the EE legacy because, you know, that effectively is what it is.
So we're OK. Sorry. So we nicknamed them back when they were EE for extreme edition.
We nicknamed them in the enthusiast community, expensive edition. So we're carrying on that tradition.
This is the CPU pillow expensive edition. So I hope you guys enjoy it.
Oh, oh, man, there's a lot of holy crap. There's a lot of these coming in.
Look into that. I can start talking about the currently developing issue.
Sure. Why don't you hit it? So earlier this week, pretty early in the morning, I got a call from Apple.
I knew it was a call from Apple because I've received a call from Apple exactly one other time,
although I actually knew it was coming that time. And your phone comes up with just Apple as the caller ID.
So I was like, that's interesting. So that I pick it up and I wanted to.
I was very interested in what this was about. We've complained about Apple a lot publicly to do with our iOS app.
So I assumed it had something to do with that. And it did.
My customer service agent told me not long before this that he had dealt with a very interesting ticket where someone had cc'd Tim Cook.
And I just kind of laughed and was like, OK, whatever. And we moved on.
I'm sure this person also did other things other than just cc'ing Tim Cook because they said they were going to try to contact people.
And what they were trying to do was actually help us. They were trying to contact people at Apple to try to push them to allow us to take third party payments through the app.
What the customer service agent said, which is now much more relevant due to the stuff that has literally happened since we sat down to do this show.
Give me one second to find it.
I'm feeling very apprehensive right now, Luke. I would like this story to continue in an expedient matter.
OK. It's OK. Everything's OK is the final answer. If that helps. Everything ends up being fine.
That's very good to know.
So customer service agent Guy says something that is.
OK, where is it? We also can't collect payments on iOS due to lack of support for third party payment solutions, Stripe and PayPal, which is a little wacky.
And I've already talked to him about it. Whatever. The problem is for.
And it was it was a pretty confusing phone call in a few ways. If we do Apple Pay, they take 30 percent.
If we do in-app payments, which is different than Apple Pay, they take 30 percent. We can apply for a small business thing.
We've talked about this on WAN Show before, actually. We talked about the small developer thing.
Yeah, it's less as long as you're under a million dollars revenue. Yes. So you have to apply for it.
We would probably get in, but they take 15 percent unless you break that one million dollars revenue mark.
And then it goes up to 30. And our problem with that is our margins are actually pretty thin.
If they're if they're taking 30 percent on a five, I believe I don't remember how I did the math.
I don't remember if it was for a three dollar subscription or a five dollar subscription.
But at one of those two marks, because our costs are fixed, the creators just make whatever on top of our costs that they charge.
But there's no margin left, essentially. At 30 percent, there's no margin left.
So if we somehow broke that million dollar revenue threshold, we would immediately just make nothing off of all the Apple stuff.
So it's not really an option for us. Joining the small business thing doesn't save us because once we break past that threshold, we're potentially screwed.
I did ask and they didn't know right off the top of their head and I didn't expect them to because they weren't a master of this section of it.
But the person that I was talking to on the phone wasn't sure if the 30 percent applied to only payments that were past the one million like taxes or if it was all payments.
But either way, it doesn't it doesn't work for us. So we can't do that.
But we talked about a bunch of stuff on the phone because we talked about how we've had a lot of problems with the app in the past.
With them trying to use our log in for other things, with them denying our app for six months through a variety of different versions for no reason.
And I talked about how like a lot of these different problems, we don't know if they're actually problems or not.
People in the public have told us that we're allowed to do certain things with iOS apps.
We have then tried to do them and we have had our app denied for them.
We have done the exact same thing that other large apps on the iOS store have done to try to get around it that way.
And they have denied our app. At one point in time, we took to the exact error text from Netflix to just like we know this is a massive app.
Let's just do it the exact same way they do it. And we got denied because it wasn't allowed.
Like I went through all that kind of stuff and they were good. The person on the phone was very reasonable, very understanding.
It was a good phone call. But I was airing a lot of grievances and they were they were good at dealing with it.
But one of the things that they said was multiple times was that the app in its current state is fine.
And I was like, yeah, I know, because it just got approved. But I'm not really happy with where it's at because we can't communicate to people.
The whole problem where this was rooted in the person's problem that they had was they weren't a subscriber on floatplane yet.
They installed the app on iOS and then the warning was confusing to them because we can't tell them to go to floatplane.com to subscribe.
We're not allowed. So we're still not allowed to do that. So we can't resolve the core problem.
They want us to enable in-app purchases. But there's the whole 30 percent things. We can't really do that.
So we're kind of just stuck where we were. But I hopefully have a better understanding of the rules now, which is good.
Except while we're on the show, we got an email. And again, multiple times they said the app in its current state is fine.
While we're on the show, I got an email saying your app, floatplane, does not follow the app store review guidelines.
Your floatplane app, Apple ID does not follow one or more of the apps review guidelines.
For more details or contact app store review, visit the Resolution Center.
And I was like, oh, my goodness, this happened literally during the show.
So while you were sitting there talking about a different topic, I bring up the Resolution Center to figure out like what's wrong with our app.
And it's a it's a nicely written email from the person I was on the phone with,
following up with a few like references and documentation that I wanted so that I could better understand a few things.
But they sent it through the Resolution Center. So our app is now flagged.
It's nice. They're a nice person.
It's a it's a well-written. Thank you for your time on the phone today.
But as discussed, here's some a bunch of different links for a variety of different things that will help me in the future.
It's it's nice. I wanted this. I wanted it as an email.
I did not want it as a Resolution Center. Like your app is now flagged as not following guidelines thing.
I think our app is still up on the store. Oh, wow. My camera just fell.
Welcome back. I caught it.
I had nothing to do with that. I wasn't there.
That was not my fault. I dropped nothing. Wow.
That was actually really close. It almost it would have if it actually falls from where it is, it'll whack its lens on the mount of my monitor.
So that would be bad. But anyways, I just I don't know what to do at this point, guys.
We released an update recently for iOS, so notifications work properly through iOS now.
Yeah, which is cool. They approved it actually very quickly. It hit the store very quickly.
We haven't had issues since the last time we complained about it.
I think the app is still up on the store. I'm going to have to send in an appeal for this informational letter that was sent in to make sure that that flag gets removed.
Because right now, if I go to like my admin panel for the iOS store, it says it has a big warning thing that says there are one or more issues with following platforms, one unresolved iOS issue.
It's again, it's probably fine. But this is just like, oh, man, it's such a mess.
Yeah, it's painful. And people that use in-app payments have to pay 30% for this trash heap.
And like to be clear, it's a problem on both sides. Android is having tons of issues recently as well. These app stores are just horrid.
Luckily, I didn't mind the conversation, so hopefully we can have another one to get it resolved.
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All right. What else do we want to talk about today, Mr. Luke, about how Google calls for the White House to support ensuring open source projects are secure?
What does the White House have to do with open source software?
I actually don't really know. I thought this was really interesting. I skimmed through it and still didn't really understand it.
To go over some of the notes, the White House hosted a summit on Thursday with big tech companies to discuss how to make open source software more secure.
The meeting featuring Google, Facebook, Amazon, Oracle and more comes in the wake of the devastating Log4j vulnerability that seemed to affect just about every tech company on the planet.
Generally, open source software or OSS or FOSS, which is a little bit different, is considered more secure because the code can be viewed by the public.
Yes, absolutely. This means that issues are often spotted and fixed quickly.
Unlike in private scenarios where we have seen companies do nothing until pressured by the media, like when the Equifax data breach in 2017, that was huge.
And this is a big reason to use open source software, but it doesn't, like with Log4j, it doesn't make everything immune to it.
It just helps because there's more eyes on it.
These open source software projects are run by volunteers or companies that are backing them, but whatever. Often run by volunteers, I think we should say.
And maintaining code and making sure it is secure is very difficult work and requires a lot of time, absolutely.
Most open source software projects rely on private donations and funding can be very sparse.
Again, usually, yes, and they did say most, some open source software projects are backed by massive companies like Apple, like Google, like Facebook, et cetera.
Sometimes huge consortiums of enormous companies.
Yes, yeah, yeah. Google's Kent Walker said, for too long, the software community has taken comfort in the assumption that open source software is generally secure due to its transparency
and the assumption that many eyes were watching to detect and resolve problems.
But in fact, while some projects do have many eyes on them, others have few or none at all.
Really, this is where I read that part, too, and I'm like, yeah.
And if I'm like 14 and I release some open source stuff, I mean, some developers at 14 are absolute wizards.
But if I'm like, haha, this open source software thing can tell me when my mom drives in the parking lot.
I don't think the government should be on, should have to make sure that's secure. I have no idea.
Google is asking that the U.S. government step in and assist in funding the open source projects that have become critical to so many companies.
Ah, they want more money from the government.
Got it. Android is developed, okay.
Android is developed on open source software to ensure there's proper oversight and the code is updated.
Ah, my care about this just went from like four out of 100 to zero.
At the moment, it is unclear what kind of action will be taken by the U.S. government or big tech companies.
But this is a good first step in making our tech more secure.
I don't think just fun, like throwing more money at Apple, Google and Facebook is a good first step.
What kind of open source software do you use in everyday life? Have you donated?
I have donated to some open source projects. I use such a massive list that...
I should donate to more, honestly.
Yeah.
I really should. I don't think I've ever donated to OBS, for example. I definitely should.
I mean, the amount of...
That's a pretty good point.
The amount of money being made in the streaming space, right?
Like, did you see that Streamlabs raised like $100 million?
I'm looking at this going, what?
How does that number make any sense?
I don't get it.
But, I mean, apparently there's enough money floating around in that space.
Like, to be clear, yes, I stream, but like, come on.
We do one live podcast episode a week. Like, this is not a streaming operation.
So, I was blown away to see a number like that for a streaming services provider.
I just don't... I just didn't understand it.
So, I guess it probably makes sense that OBS should, like, maybe make some money.
So, maybe I should just do that.
Yeah. And you've actually mentioned that offstream before, too, and I think that would be a good idea.
I've donated to a few in real life.
Oh, that's why OBS was on the tip of my tongue. I actually did. I actually did.
I donated to them recently.
Yeah, because we talked about it.
Yeah, because of the... What was it? That stupid OBS thing?
The Streamlabs thing.
Oh, yeah. Is that it?
Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
You were like 99% of the way there. You got it.
Wait. Maybe it's not Streamlabs that raised $100 million. Who was it then?
I was emailing some stream... Hold on.
While you look that up, there's another question here that says,
what kind of open source software is used by FlowPlane? Lots of stuff.
StreamElements raised $100 million. Sorry, correction.
StreamElements raised $100 million. Streamlabs are the jack butts that prompted me to donate to OBS
because they ripped off their software and branding because they were butt heads.
There you go. Thanks, guys.
SKHS Video Production asks, why was that one message read?
How are they color-coded, Luke, the merch messages?
I think people are selecting. If you spend over a certain amount,
which I don't fully remember what the amount is. I think it's 100 bucks.
Conrad will probably correct me here in a moment.
But if you spend over a certain amount, you get a little menu that lets you pick what color you want the background to be.
I'm pretty sure that's how it's currently functioning.
Got it.
I'm sure Conrad will ping me.
What's some other open source stuff that you use all the time that you feel like you should probably donate to?
Man.
I use paint.net every week to make the WAN Show thumbnail.
Yeah, OBS is open right now.
You know who I did donate to, though? Christopher Vandermoeten or whatever,
who makes the drop shadow plugin that I use for paint.net.
I was like, I can't believe paint.net doesn't have drop shadows by default.
Thank you for making this plugin.
I think I donated like 50 bucks or something like that.
I was like, this saves my life because I don't want to learn how to use Photoshop just to put a stupid drop shadow on something.
This is like eight years ago or whenever we started actually doing thumbnails for the WAN Show.
One of the problems with talking about open source and talking about donating for open source is that there's such a wide range.
Like for Floatplane, like AJ mentioned and Jaden mentioned, we use Node.js and like a billion or,
AJ joked, only a billion. I think we're at two billion now.
We use a lot of plugins for Node.js as well.
We use a lot of other open source stuff and we contribute to a decent amount of open source stuff too.
Personally, if I try to exclude work, man, I mean, we just got off the Linux challenge.
There's a lot of stuff included in that.
I was still using Ubuntu and Mint for a while after the Linux challenge was technically over.
And I would like to go back someday.
There's been a lot of stuff I've used in like little automation things on my own personal computer.
There's been a lot of different like weird stuff for games.
Like I don't know if you remember, but one night the Floatplane team played Among Us
and we used this weird little open source voice project thing so that there was proximity voice in the game.
That's cool.
Were you there? I thought you were there. Maybe you weren't there.
But yeah, we used this plugin thing so that you could talk to each other in game.
You just couldn't use Discord and you can only talk to each other if you were like right next to each other.
So it made it kind of realistic, which was interesting.
There's lots of little things like that that are pretty awesome.
There's even stuff that people should consider contributing to that isn't necessarily open source.
But it's a private project that people are not charging for.
It's free software or it's a free service or a free website or whatever.
And if you use it actively, you should genuinely consider contributing towards it.
One big one that's probably on a lot of people's minds right now is the bringing back the YouTube dislike button.
Oh yeah, that's a big one right now.
A lot of work has gone into that and I bet you a lot of you are using that and I bet you a lot of you are benefiting from that.
So yeah.
There's another really cool open source YouTube related project.
We've got a video coming about it soon.
Joe of all people created a, I don't know if I'd call it a script or a program.
It's something.
And what it does is it interacts with the YouTube API to check all of the comments on your channel or on your most recent videos and put them through like a spam scrub and then remove them from the channel.
And it can do it in like a minute.
The fact that that took a community member to make that is so...
YouTube?
Like deeply disappointing.
That's so Google!
Like come on. Oh my goodness.
Someone made a comment the other day that was like, yeah, we definitely needed the dislike buttons to go away for creator mental health when this is what my comment section looks like.
And it was literally bots replying to each other.
Yeah, that's my favourite.
And then eventually they talk about like the guru that helped them through a tough time in their life or something.
And it's like, OK, this is who we're advertising.
Life coach or, you know, crypto guru or something like that.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
I'm dying here.
Should we go through some merch messages?
We have a lot here.
We could do like a few now and then...
We should do a couple.
Let's not focus on the ones that are about merch.
Let's focus on the ones that are more like video topics.
Spencer asks, try and game on IBM slash any POS system.
I actually did a video a little while ago where I gamed on a 25 year old laptop.
Lots of fun.
But the thing is that without the nostalgia factor of playing games that I actually used to play on a computer like that, there's not really a whole lot that I can contribute with something like that.
Yeah.
I don't know how much you could contribute necessarily, but there's the whole Doom challenge thing where you try to get Doom to run on just like anything.
Could be interesting, but yeah.
Anonymous asks, would you ever consider adding more content to your build videos about the jank and the things that didn't work?
Sometimes we do behind the scenes on Floatplane.
Like we'll do cutting room floor clips and they'll show stuff that's too hot for TV in some cases.
Like stuff we couldn't really upload to YouTube because we just don't need the general public seeing it.
Or little deeper explanations into how we solved a particular problem.
There's not always a ton of that, but there is a little bit.
We try to plan our projects more now so that that doesn't happen that much.
Brian C asks, hey, it's been a couple of years since the thinking of retiring video.
How do you feel now?
Lately, you've been looking like you're having a lot of fun with the lab and videos.
I mean, really, it was it was an attitude adjustment at that time.
And, you know, that's ultimately the conclusion that I came to in the 10 million subscriber stream was, you know, I have the best job in the world.
And I, I have to I have to want to keep doing it because I want to.
I can't just focus on how I'm stuck doing it because I've got dozens of people that are relying on me to keep doing this.
And you know what? Honestly, sometimes it's still a grind.
It's no secret that content creators burn out left and right.
And I can tell you guys there's a good reason for it for the smaller ones.
I feel like a lot of it is just feeling like they have the whole world on their shoulders.
And every video they upload is this expression of themselves that even if ninety nine percent of the feedback is positive,
that one percent just gets right under your skin because it's such a personal attack when you create something and someone goes out of their way to tell you how terrible it was.
So I think there's a lot of that. And then on the other side of the spectrum, the ones that have scaled up like us and built teams where,
no, the whole thing doesn't rest on their shoulders in terms of the content.
Well, there's a different kind of pressure because for me,
the big one is trying to figure out how to make sure that every person under this roof and many not under this roof.
I mean, I'm not going to name names, obviously, because this is people's personal life situations.
But I know that there are families of people who work here where there's one income supporting that family.
And it comes from Linus Media Group Incorporated. Right. That check has to arrive.
It's got to arrive in full and on time. And that's something that puts a lot of pressure on me sometimes to to take a deal that I don't feel like doing
or to tackle a project that is going to require me to lose sleep over.
But it's. And it's exhausting to be clear, I'm not complaining.
Like I said in that video, I have the best damn job in the world and you guys are you guys are what make it possible.
But that doesn't mean that it's not a job. Right. That doesn't mean that I'm not tired sometimes.
So, yeah, I'm tired. I'm still tired. I'm more tired probably.
But I am trying to channel that tiredness into innovation.
And that's where I think I have a lot of fun with LTT store creating like finding problems.
This this shirt that I'm wearing right now is so freaking awesome because we had a problem with getting supply of good quality hoodies in,
you know, colors that we wanted with a good fit, good materials.
Solving that problem has been such a journey and now finally seeing the fruit of it.
This is not available for sale yet, guys. Sorry, it'll be up at some point.
But it is so exciting and it's it's just it's a different creative muscle to get to flex.
Right. Sitting down with the merge team and talking through, you know, injection molded plastics issues or making judgment calls on like metal finishes or,
you know, talking through design elements like this, this blank hoodie that I'm wearing is is actually printed already.
So it's got a little LTT logo on the front. So this was done with kind of like a splatter effect in the original design.
I kind of went, ah, yeah, you know what? I think it it obscures the it obscures the text.
It changes the branding, but I love the colors. And then the design on the back is super cool.
It's kind of like retro inspired. Lloyd did it. Oh, that's sweet.
That's actually awesome. So it's a blown up CPU. I think he did an amazing job of the concept.
I love the color palette, but I was like, hey, I think we should do this and this and this.
And getting to be part of that that design process and working with creatives like Sarah and Lloyd, the engineers,
Bridget, Hannah, Matt, that team is like over 10 people.
I think it's crazy. Working with those guys is is so much fun. Like creating something physical.
It's just different. It's and so I've been having a lot of fun with it and just finding problems and solving them like the backpack is such a great example.
We just found a problem. Like there's not a tech backpack that really speaks to the IT techie.
You know, there's a thousand camera bags, but there's no like, hey, I need a tablet and a laptop and somewhere to put my my switch.
And maybe even like handheld PC, we need all these sleeves. Right. So we're able to we're able to tackle that.
So I. Yeah, I'm really enjoying that. I'm also really excited about the lab.
I think the lab is going to change online media with the vision that I have for it. We have some amazing applicants.
I have someone in mind who I want to run it, who is oh, gee, tech media that I'm that I would be really excited to be able to work with on a daily basis.
And I'm going to I'm just just going to really enjoy being part of that.
Like, I'm not I don't have the education to do a lot of what those guys are going to do.
Right. But what I do know is enough to ask questions and enough to learn.
And I'm really excited to learn again. So I want to bring in a team of people to to teach me more and that I can teach about,
you know, what the consumers need and how we can present that, present that data in a way that's palatable and useful.
And I just think it's going to be so exciting. So that's that's what really gets me out of the bed.
It gets me out of bed in the morning right now. No, we don't do internships.
Sorry. It's just like there's so much confidential information around here and it's so disruptive to our workflow.
We're just we haven't reached the kind of scale where we can make it make sense for us yet.
I'm sorry. Tried to follow along with the Linux challenge.
I couldn't get an eGPU and couldn't get all of my monitors to work at the same time.
Any suggestions for where to look for solutions? I mean, honestly, that was the problem for me.
Ultimately, that was the problem is there you run into a weird edge case and it's hard to find an up to date solution.
Luke, did you did you flag that because you've solved it? No, I didn't.
I didn't think I flagged that one. Oh, that was a message. Yes.
Yeah, I don't I don't think I flagged that one. I don't have suggestions necessarily where to look.
There's there's lots of Linux resources out there. There's lots of places that would be very happy to help you.
It's going to take some serious work. Yeah.
If you're good, you can if it's not solved, if you're good, you can maybe be a part of the team that solves it.
But this is this is part of what's involved with being on the Linux side of things is fixing stuff.
This is super cool. And then MMT reform. How have I not seen this?
This was flagged by Jonathan F here. Have you seen this?
Apparently it's got like detailed schematics and stuff.
So this is an open source DIY laptop for hacking, customization and privacy.
It's thick. The battery pack is just six, eighteen, six fifties.
OK, that's that's pretty interesting.
OK, full disclosure, guys, I am an investor in framework. OK, so that's out of the way.
Oh, boy. What can I say about this that I can see why framework took the approach that they did.
Making it kind of, you know, sleek and a little more consumer, a little more attractive to more like your average consumer.
I'm 64 bit development tool teaching tool. Can you can you arm based?
Yeah, I was going to say, can you can you go look at the CPU socket? There's no socket.
So it's a free scale. I am X 85 MQ with four arm cortex, a fifty three core.
So this is not powerful. This is more about just how much does it cost to order?
It's like a grand. OK, well, that makes it a little bit of a tougher sell for me.
Yeah, it's 1100 euro. So to. Oh, assembled is 1300 euros.
So it's 200 bucks for assembly. So that's a bit of buying this. You should probably assemble it yourself.
That's like the whole point. Tougher sell for me. Pretty cool.
Definitely cool concept, though. Good to have others in the space at the very least. Absolutely.
Absolutely. Can't agree more. Victor, I'm a first year at UBC whose grades aren't good enough for CS.
All right. Fair enough. Any good ideas for an enthusiastic tech nerd?
I just love coding and software design. Just bad at studying for exams. Thanks.
There's a lot of work you can get without a degree.
There's also a lot of places that will hire junior developers like you're not probably not going to make a ton of money right away.
But there's there's places that will hire junior developers in order to train them up.
There are people that are legitimately better in a working environment than a testing environment.
But if you if you if you couldn't hack it in computer science, make sure you do some personal projects and stuff.
Make sure you're you're decently capable because you don't want to make a fool of yourself when you when you get into a workplace.
But it's not the end of the road. You can you can find a place to work for sure. Don't give up.
Madison P, your boyfriend just got called out.
All right. I was curious if you guys could try to pronounce my user name. Gaming Dominari.
Oh, that's not that hard. I'm pretty sure I got that right. Ever thought about doing LTX East?
Honestly, right now, we're not even sure if we're ever going to be able to do LTX at all again.
I mean, you can't plan things. How how are you supposed to?
It takes a year to put together a convention like that. Ten months, if you're if you're if you're in a hurry, like it's it's non trivial.
You can't just decide tomorrow you're going to run a convention. And when you don't know if there's going to be some stupid outbreak again.
How are you supposed to book things? How are you supposed to to buy and rent equipment and materials?
I just I don't know what to do, to be honest with you. I'm I'm extremely grateful. Again, back to having the coolest job in the world.
I'm extremely grateful to you guys that I have a job where I don't need to be in the events business because it looks like an absolute nightmare.
I don't know how they'll survive. I don't know how I could, in good conscience, hold an event right now, knowing that it's going to turn into a crock pot of disease.
And but I don't know how I could not if my entire business was reliant on me hosting events.
So my options are potentially, you know, put others in harm's way or put myself in harm's way.
Great. It's the it's the trolley problem, except I'm in front of the trolley. Perfect.
You're in front of the trolley and you have the lever. What do you do now?
Exactly. Jim N., now that Mint Mobile is a sponsor, when can we expect Ryan Reynolds on the show?
Hey, consider this a formal invitation, Mr. Reynolds, my fellow my fellow Vancouver boy.
What probably quite early, but what kind of features do you think we'll see in the SE3? Do you know what the SE3 is, Luke?
I was really hoping you would know.
SE3? Like iPhone SE3? Is that what we're talking about here? OK.
Apparently there's a bunch of rumors. All right. Well, that should give you some idea how much I know about what might show up in the SE3.
I wouldn't be surprised if it does not get an OLED display again.
Now that Apple has so few features that they can use to differentiate a lower tier phone.
I wouldn't be surprised to see it get an LCD display again.
Other than that, I don't know. I really don't know what I could say. They might kneecap it with really limited storage options.
Mr. Gigor says, if you were forced to rename every brand under you, what names would you go with?
That is not something I'm going to be able to come up with on the spot, because other than Linus Tech Tips,
which was come up with by my former boss at NCIX because they wanted something that was similar enough to NCIX Tech Tips,
but separate enough from the NCIX brand that if I said anything stupid, they could just blame it on me.
All of our all of our branding has actually been pretty, I won't say well thought out, but it has at least been carefully considered.
You know, Tech Wiki was a joke. It's a play on words. It's a tech wiki.
So the idea was that it would be a repository of information about various tech terms and technologies.
And then there's a sex joke built into it. So it's a tech quickie because the videos are supposed to be short.
So it's tech wiki, but tech quickie, then tech links. OK, that one we didn't put much thought into.
There were a bunch of names for that internally, but we settled on the one that was rubbing salt in the wounds of my former employer,
because Net Linked was the name of NCIX. That's what the N was short for, Net Linked Computer Inc.
So when I created the show Net Linked, it was supposed to be the viewer's connection to Net Linked.
And we were linked over the net to Net Linked. So you were Net Linked. You know, so that was the idea.
So Tech Linked is just, LOL, see you later, Net Linked. Short Circuit was done kind of by committee.
I don't think I came up with that one. It's good. I think it's really good.
It's short and it's an overview. That was where the circuit came from. It's a short overview.
I'm trying to think of what other branding we have. I mean, carpool critics did get rebranded too.
They're just movies. I came up with carpool critics because I really liked the casual vibe that they had,
because they were actually carpooling when they came up with the idea that they would just talk about movies in the car and they were like,
oh, this should just be a podcast. But they're just movies. They feel better, represents the tone of it.
Am I missing anything?
Floatplane?
Oh, Floatplane. Yeah.
I don't know what the heck to call it.
It'll either take off or it will float, but it definitely won't sink like the vessel that preceded it. So that's the name there.
Almost every one of the names has a story behind it. I curated this one because basically I just wanted to tell this guy like, no.
Just because if we were going to rebrand anything, it would take a lot longer than just randomly sitting on Wanshow to do so.
Oh, for sure.
Like even Floatplane, which is probably one of the more controversial of the names, that took us a long time.
A lot of names are taken.
Yeah, that's really tough.
It's a problem. Like getting domains for things is like a huge problem. So you really got to get fancy with it sometimes.
MAC address. So MAC address I actually thought was pretty clever. I can't remember if that one was me or someone else, but it's where to go for everything MAC.
And also it's nerdy enough that I think it speaks to what type of MAC viewer we're trying to attract, not just the it's magic, don't tell me it's anything but magic viewer.
We want people who are like, I get it. MAC address. Ah, got them.
So, yeah, I don't know. I really like our branding. I'm actually really proud of our branding. I think the team does a great job.
Like I said, some of these I don't even remember if I had anything to do with. I don't know if I came up with them.
In many cases, I don't think I came up with ShortCircuit. I might have been the one to come up with MAC address, but I'm not sure.
I'm going to call that one maybe 30%. It might have been me. ShortCircuit, less than 5%. That was me.
So I'm really proud of our team. I think we do a really good job of it for a company that's not focused on that.
We don't hire outside consultants to do our design work. So like MAC addresses branding was done by Sarah.
TechLinked and ShortCircuit were, I believe, both done by Lloyd. Like, we just do everything in-house and we just spend time.
We try to get it right. And I'm really proud of it.
Channel super fun. Channel super fun. Channel super fun. It is what it is. It's a channel and it's not just fun. It's super fun.
That's the only rule.
Renovating our second story house in the US and one of our Ethernet cables for all rooms.
Do you recommend Cat8 for future proofing and where should I get it from? Infinite cable.
I don't believe Cat8 is actually rated for higher speeds than Cat6a. Is it?
Ah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 10 gigabit per second and lower at 100 meters. Yeah.
So. Oh, no. OK. It's rated at up to two gigahertz. OK, that's pretty cool.
So I don't know what the cost difference is. If it was me, I actually didn't.
So I did wire my house recently and I just ran Cat6a. So I think 10 gig.
Oh, man, I'm going to regret this, but I think 10 gig is the most that a residential.
Oh, is he going to say it? Luke, is he going to say it? I don't know.
I think 10 gig is all that a residential address could ever need. Really?
Even with like localized gaming servers. Yeah.
Gaming servers don't need a ton of bandwidth. We'll see, dude.
I don't know. Come on. Shut up. What do you mean they don't need a lot of bandwidth?
What would they need bandwidth for? Well, if you're if you're doing all of the encoding and everything,
you're streaming video. Oh, oh, oh, oh, that, that, that, that, that.
Even then, 10 gig is lots for your whole house.
Every single member of your family. We're talking 10 gig per link, right?
Like I'm not talking total switching capacity. I'm talking per link.
And remember, remember, my house has conduit in all the places that I intend to put computers.
I can run frickin hundred gigabit fiber if I really feel like it. So, you know, whatever.
I'm I'm good. But in terms of what I actually need for a network connection,
it'll be interesting once the COD comes out in 2030 and it's like
580 gigs to start finding other ways to manage things.
I mean, I'm going to go multi gig Internet as soon as I possibly can. You know what I think is going to happen is more.
I mean, did you notice that micro? I don't know how this slipped under my radar,
but Microsoft stealthily added peer to peer to Windows updates for a bit.
It is so awesome. I freaking love it.
It is so much faster and there's going to be so much less congestion.
We just need to go to more peer to peer. If my next door neighbor in my apartment complex has the latest COD.
Why am I not just pulling it off of their machine? The power savings.
Right. Like the energy savings, the network congestion savings, freaking game changer.
We need to get we need to get more of that going. I'm super into it.
And, you know, yes, there's a there's a small cost to my neighbor.
But that's the thing about peer to peer is they also reap the benefit of it when they download the next big thing that I got first.
I'm a share it back to them. I love it. I'm super into that.
So short answer, no, I would not bother to go with cat eight personally, especially if there's an additional cost, if it's the same cost.
Yeah, sure. Fill your boots, right? What do I care?
The most expensive mistake I made at NCIX as a category manager.
Oh, OK. I guess I made a few. There was the time that we blew like three or four grand on these cases that I had priced,
like hundreds of dollars below cost from it was either mountain mods or I think it was mountain mods.
So that was that was a big, big oopsie. There were also some times when I brought in inventory that just didn't move and we just had to sort of bundle it out at a loss.
So I made I made many thousand dollar mistakes. I don't think I ever made a ten thousand dollar mistake, though.
So I actually had a pretty clean track record. My biggest mistakes were usually down to data entry as opposed to decision making,
because I'm not a very detail. Shut up, Luke. I'm not a very detail oriented individual.
I tend to be detail oriented. Is there a way that you could show that desk pad configurator video without leaking one or multiple things?
Yeah. Is teams even on this laptop? It's not. I could probably email it to you.
If you emailed me a you know what, if you uploaded it to float plane.
Then I could you just publish it on float plane without notifications, because that's a feature we have.
And then I'll just fire it up on float plane, which I can get into. All right.
We have a team working on Channel Superfund, Jacob W. It's just been a little bit slow.
Why don't we why don't I do a topic? Well, while you're figuring that out. Sure.
The word apocalypse. This was put in by Jonathan Horst.
What does your world grid look like? Can this this discord I'm in that nobody has shut up about word?
I haven't actually looked into it. I know nothing about it.
You may have seen these grids posted by friends on social media for the word puzzle game called Wordle.
That's created by developer Josh Wardle for his partner.
And it's a simple non monetized game that is completely web based.
This means knockoff wordle apps started appearing in Apple and Google's app stores almost immediately.
Some with one week trials and thirty dollar subscriptions.
The developer of one of these knockoffs, Zach Schacht, started bragging on Twitter about the success of his app,
saying we are going to the moon. This created a firestorm on social media,
where Schacht doubled down on his legitimacy, questioning that wordle has a trademark on the game.
His Twitter account is now private. On Wednesday, Apple removed all copycat wordle apps from the app store.
And in a neat turn, the creator of an older wordle app, which is still in the store,
Stephen Kravoda, committed to donating the proceeds from his apps new popularity to boost West Oakland.
Discussion question says nothing. So this was just one of those. Hey, here's a neat thing that happened this week.
You know what else was neat that happened this week? If you can't buy a PlayStation five, guess what?
You can just buy a brand new PlayStation four. Except you can't because they're still in a stock.
But Sony has allegedly decided to build more PlayStation four than originally planned.
Might be roughly in the neighborhood of a million PlayStation fours.
Originally, they apparently wanted a quick generational transition,
but the chip shortage means there aren't many PlayStation fives and work from home slowed
or delayed production on a number of PS5 exclusive titles.
So there just aren't that many PS5 exclusives, though several will launch later this year.
Below is what's out right now. Astro's Playroom, Demon's Souls, Destruction All-Stars, Death Stranding Director's Cut.
I mean, the regular version is on PS4, so I'm not sure if that counts.
And Ghost of Tsushima's Director's Cut, which, again, the regular version is on PlayStation four.
That is, for Sony, not much of an exclusive game list.
So the idea is to get more people into the PlayStation ecosystem in whatever way Sony can.
The issue is that, as Luke pointed out, PlayStation fours are also sold out.
So considering the PlayStation five catalog is basically doubling this year,
our discussion question is, is this too little too late? Is this basically manufactured e-waste?
Luke, what do you think? I don't know about manufactured e-waste.
I suspect if someone has a PlayStation, like I don't think PlayStation fours are just going to get thrown out.
There's a lot of pretty solid games on PlayStation fours. Like I mentioned, there are a lot of non-exclusives that run there.
It mentioned like these. This is the short list of exclusives for PlayStation five.
Yeah. There's also games that released for PlayStation four that are really bad on PlayStation four, like Cyberpunk.
So I don't know how much we should necessarily rigidly follow that list. Sure. That's fair.
But like I said, I also don't think that they're just throwaways once this is all over.
So, yeah, I don't know. Manufacturing some more PlayStation fours, as long as it doesn't reduce the manufacturing of PlayStation fives. Why not?
You know what? I like it. Solid take. Solid take. Are you ready to show off the are you ready to show off the configurator?
Yeah, I'll just post it as is right now. OK. All right. I'm going to fire it up.
So it should be visible publicly, right? Yes.
Yeah. All right. Let's hope for the best. Let me know when it's up. I'm refreshing. I'm refreshing.
He's working on it. We're going to be talking about cryptocurrency mining on cars shortly.
Man, it is just getting to next level cringe. How many rando crypto schemes are going on lately?
I just don't even know. On TechLink today, we talked about Jack Dorsey's new thing that's like trying to solve the problems of crypto by making it decentralized.
And so that everyone can get mining stuff. And I'm like, that's not that it's not a solvable thing right now.
I don't want more mining. I would love to see more work done in finding more and interesting ways to make it so that people can gather crypto without just wasting astronomical amounts of energy.
That would be super neat. Whether it's like proof of stake or whatever else, if we could have more things go in that direction, that would be awesome.
I'm not even trying to take money away from the big guys here. Just throwing away all of that energy is very odd. Very weird.
And there's certain places in the world that are run off like hydro dams or whatever, where it's not really that big of a deal.
Or places that have very, very good availability of either wind or solar power. And again, it's not really that big of a deal.
But there's also a lot of places that aren't like that. And there's other interesting stories coming out where I don't remember what country,
but it's a very small one. And their whole power grid got like, shreked by Bitcoin mining after some other, I believe it was after some other country,
banned Bitcoin mining in their country. So one moved to that little country to Bitcoin mine. And then there was rolling blackouts and all these different types of problems.
They had to ban it as well. And they were like, we're going to raid Bitcoin mining places to make them stop mining because we need our country to have power.
Like, that's crazy. Obviously, that's not happening everywhere. That's a minority. It's still processing, by the way.
But it's just it's it's interesting. I don't know. I would like to see a lot more coin related stuff that requires significantly less power.
That would be something that I would be very happy to see.
So Tesla owners have devised methods to turn their eco-friendly electric commuters into cryptocurrency. Model S owner Chris Alessi figured out a way to power his Antminer S9 ASIC using the battery.
Seriously? OK, that's not using the Model S to mine crypto. That's just plugging a crypto miner into your car, allowing him to mine that sweet, sweet Ethereum.
OK, this headline was extremely misleading. There's also there's also he's using like the internal CPU, I believe, and something else.
OK, so using his lifetime of free charging on Tesla's supercharger network, a perk that was available to Tesla's purchase before January 2017, he gets to run his mining machine for free.
He's also mining Monero on the car's Intel Atom based SOC via an in-browser miner, and that's going to be contributing about this much of the overall mining power of that particular setup.
Siraj Raval, proud Model 3 owner, has found another way. By hacking the Model 3 software, Raval has gained access to the CPU and then piggybacked five GPUs that connect to the car's battery.
It's a computer with wheels, he says. It's so simple to hack. Unfortunately for Raval, he doesn't have unlimited charging, so he has to charge his Tesla at home.
So he still has to pay for all the electricity that he consumes. Considering that lithium ion batteries degrade over time, this seems like undue wear and tear on the vehicle.
Yes, thank you very much. Whoever prepared this topic, new writer who is unnamed as of yet, not to mention the loss of efficiency from charging and discharging a battery before delivering the power to the system.
This whole idea is fun, I guess, but not practical. Discussion question. Wild idea. Find a really steep hill. Use regenerative braking to power that ASIC. Free money.
And then never go back up the hill.
You know what else we actually made a video about this week is did you know that Norton is bundling crypto mining into Norton 360 now?
What?
It's next level cringe. However bad you think it is, Luke, let me just reassure you. It is way worse. Way worse.
What? What do you mean? Do we have notes on this?
No, no, there's a full video coming about this very shortly. However bad you think it is, it's worse. I promise you.
That is my personal Linus Tech Tips guarantee.
Does the user profit from it?
Yes.
Okay.
We did a whole, we did a whole investigation. We benchmarked it. We dug through all the fine print. It's going to be one heck of a video.
Man, that's weird.
All right, we're not going to be able to do all the merch messages today. I'm sorry, guys. We just plain can't.
Radeon GPUs, once availability is better, we're excited to use them more.
Luke, has Linus ever come into work on a bad BO day or is he as tidy as his OCD makes it seem?
No, he's good.
Thanks, Luke.
Yeah, no problem. That's usually my issue.
Yeah.
I've been a lot better with that lately.
That's good.
Just saying.
I actually keep a stick of deodorant in the little pen holder thing by my desk because I am pretty cognizant of my smell.
And I'm a religious teeth-brusher. I honestly, look, I don't want to get judgy right now, but people who don't brush their teeth regularly, I can't.
I'm so sorry, but I cannot. I cannot be near you. I cannot be in an enclosed space with you.
It's awful. You need to brush your teeth all the time.
Okay, Alex says, would you all do a new video on the new DLSS features? Yes, we'd love to. It's not on the docket just yet, but we do want to cover it at some point.
Unable to get a 5120 by 1440 monitor to run at more than 60 FPS on a Thunderbolt 3 link, but it does 240 FPS with a DP 1.4 cable. Any thoughts?
So depending on how your Thunderbolt is connected to your display portness, they, that might not be a DP 1.4 link in it.
So sometimes the Thunderbolt port is connected to your onboard, which doesn't have DP 1.4 or something like that.
So that could be something to do with it. It also could be that the monitor simply doesn't support DP 1.4 on that input.
I'm not 100% sure. It could be the hub you're running through is not DP 1.4. Anonymous. Yes, I absolutely think that it could be argued that, and I think we did argue that YouTube removing the dislike button is anti-consumer. Definitely.
Max asks, what's the next TV monitor technology that you're excited to see come to fruition?
Honestly, that Quantum Dot OLED that Samsung's showing off. Yes, they sponsored a video. Full disclosure, but it looks flippin' amazing. I'm super jacked.
No more game show episodes planned. Jonathan, will you develop sandals to go with the socks? Linus, I think you know the answer to that.
Is it possible to get captions done for LTT videos? The auto-generated ones can take up to 24 hours to appear. I cannot function without subtitles.
Given that they will be automatically generated in a day, we've weighed the benefit of creating them ourselves and decided not to at this time.
The automatic ones are good enough for the vast majority of use cases, and it is very disruptive to our workflow to do them ourselves.
Frank says, I buy way too much merch, but the quality is totally worth it. Any plans on restocking the party shirt or any other fun designs? Yes, we have some really fun designs that were actually created by Matt on our team for the upcoming swim trunks.
And not all of them are going to make it onto swim trunks, but so many of them were super cool that we want to do another long sleeve, maybe a long sleeve or another short sleeve button up with one of those designs, maybe some other fun stuff.
It is just so cool to make tech stylish and fun, you know?
I recently purchased a 3070 from Micro Center and was impressed. They are limiting purchases in person, one per person per 30 days, verified with government ID.
When will the women's underwear and sizes be released? Not that soon. We are working on it.
Our own label stuff like this, like this is a blank hoodie, but it is like our own LTT label. That is going to, wait, did we do LTT?
Oh, interesting. If we are going to bring on other creators at some point, we should probably do like a creator warehouse label. I should have thought of that.
We can't have like, I don't want to name any names. Could you do labels for the individual creators? Like could you guys have an LTT label and they could have a whatever their brand is label?
We could, but one of the things that we want to figure out over the next year is how to do a lot more of our printing on demand. Right now we stock a lot of printed garments and it is really stupid.
It would be way less, it would be way more efficient for us to just stock blanks and then print them sort of next day or in two days and then ship out orders.
So we would want to have all of our stock of blanks be consistent. That is something we kind of got to figure out.
Yes, we want to add the size that people are wearing to the pictures. When will background play or picture in picture on float plane iOS be coming?
I mean, when will developing for iOS not be horrible?
Yeah, pretty much. Have you guys had any failures that have inadvertently led to new ideas or products?
I feel like everything we've done has been kind of intentional. I mean, OK, here's something that's happening. The GPU wasteland limited edition mouse pad we did.
We saw some tweets where people were saying, oh, I just immediately wanted to color it in.
And so we're actually working on doing a coloring sheet that we're going to have available as a free item with your order once we get them.
So you will hopefully I think you probably saw the note from Nick about that, Luke. We will hopefully have a feature where you guys will be able to select your free working on it.
Cool. So you'll be able to choose between your sticker pack or the coloring GPU wasteland coloring sheet.
And then I want to add like pins and stuff like that in the future as well, which I think would be really fun.
Griffin B, as a laptop connoisseur, what would you put as your laptop tier list?
Yes, XPS 13. I'm particular to the two and ones. Full disclosure, I'm an investor in framework. Obviously, I love their mission.
So, yeah, framework. Great. As long as you're willing to compromise some things.
Right. Like it's not a convertible. It doesn't have a touch screen.
Well, there's things like that. Doesn't have a dedicated GPU. I think the Flow X 13 is. Those are some of my favorites.
Hey, guys, been watching since USB reviews and unboxings from the park.
What was one big purchase in the early days of LTT that Yvonne hated but was a success or one that she was right and failed?
You know, I think that we've probably made the joke about Yvonne being tight with the purse strings too many times because you guys got to understand that she's been very supportive of everything that we've done.
You know, sometimes she'll ask, hey, do you really need that? And if we say yes, then, you know, it's her job to in many cases.
You know, enable us like she she takes it really seriously to enable us to achieve whatever it is that we're dreaming of.
She knows that she's great at those fine details and keeping the machine running smoothly.
But she also knows that compared to her, I have this like crazy vision out in front of me that sometimes she acknowledges is just doesn't come as naturally to her.
So that's what makes us a really, really good team. And so she trusts me.
I trust her and, you know, everything from, you know, every major, major decision, you know, buying our first camera, buying this building.
We don't do anything unless we agree on it. And that goes for work.
That goes for parenting. I I saw a lot of examples growing up of parents who were not a good team.
And I saw a lot of examples professionally of leaders who were not a good team.
And to me, as soon as you create an environment where people are undermining each other, it's just a matter of when your downfall will come, not not if.
So we agree on things. We do them together and we either win together or we lose together.
It's that simple. Joel F., don't be afraid to lay lay it on me for some custom Beat Saber song recommendations.
Oh, bloody heck. I don't I don't have my I don't have my library handy.
So it's really hard for me to make recommendations. But if you tune into one of my streams, I promise I'll do one in the next week or so.
Then I will I will get that for you. I'll show you some of my favorites.
No, Jason, are we do not, unfortunately. Are you guys still going to send out new shirt styles to people to test?
Yes, we are planning to do something like that, but it will probably mostly be local.
Anonymous asks, I haven't seen a PIA spot in a while. Do you guys still endorse them?
We are cautious right now. We have not stopped working with them,
but we haven't done as many spots for them because they've made some moves lately that we're keeping a close eye on.
So we are we are in a holding pattern right now. Chris M., upcoming solar car Aptera.
I'm very skeptical of what a solar car would be. No, Zach S., not at this time.
Do you recommend getting the new Intel chips or waiting to see what Ryzen 7000 looks like?
Ryzen 7000 looks like it's going to be banging. So that's pretty exciting.
But Alder Lake, it's pretty banging. So that's pretty exciting. I don't know what to tell you.
Being a CPU shopper is pretty good right now. If you're looking for performance.
We're finally at a point when there's no wrong time to buy because there's something great now and there's something great coming.
I don't know how to lose. Have you tried a barter king style thing where you start with PC parts of a fixed value,
see what you can trade up to within a week?
Honestly, because PC parts are so commoditized, I just don't see it being successful.
It's not one of those things where maybe you could trade someone a bicycle for a broken ATV and then fix it or something because they really need a bicycle.
Like it's just not just not really like that. What keyboard are you using these days, Luke?
It's a oh, it's a drop bare bones keyboard with I don't remember exactly what it's called, but it has the high frame.
And then I put my own novel key. I don't know if it's Sherbert, Sherbay, Sherbet.
I don't know how what they intended you to call it. I haven't heard anyone from the company call it anything.
But those switches. Yeah. All right. Yes.
We do want to do a T-powered PC for sniffing bread eventually. It's on the list, but there's just been so much going on and no plans for a GPU pillow at this time.
No idea when short sleeve long sleeve will come back because it's probably going to be reliant on when we can get our own long sleeve blanks.
We're just not going to rely on we're just not going to rely on the suppliers that we've had to deal with up until now.
It's just been horrible. Do you think GPU prices have reached a steady state?
Nvidia did come out and say that they're expecting things to stabilize towards the end of 2022.
The funny thing about that timing is that it seems to coincide with when Intel is going to ramp up their production, not when Nvidia is going to come to the rescue.
I don't know if Nvidia had an opportunity to come to the rescue, but yeah, hopefully this year we'll see things kind of come back to normal.
And I'm really hoping that it's going to that Intel is going to help.
Now, Samuel M says, if Intel isn't using their own fabs to produce arc, will we even really see a change in GPU availability?
I think we will, because they're going to be using a different node than all of the other current gen GPUs.
So this is net new capacity that is going to be coming online.
Andrew W says, you shouldn't have you have given me the power you shouldn't have.
You let me type anything I wanted into a box and now I will type in this box something I didn't need to.
Hey, thanks. Jacob W, you'll have to maybe tweet at Nick if you want to know when restocks are coming.
Love the lanyard, had mine for three years. I work on diesel generators.
This is the first I've had that survived. Heck yeah. Just don't get it caught in anything because it is strong enough.
It'll like not break. We'll pull you in probably. Paul says, wanted to give a quick shout out to Visual 6502.
It's a transistor level simulation of the Moss 6502, which powered the Commodore 64, among many other things visualized in your browser.
That's pretty cool. For more transistor level goodness, go to Silicon Pron dot org.
That's super cool. Joshua had my birthday last week, received my first order on my birthday.
I'm loving the crew. Next letter made way more than I should have. Can't wait for short circuit hoodie.
Would you recommend buying the extreme edition pillow? No, absolutely not.
The extreme edition pillow is a pure flex item.
This is not practical in any way that having a pillow this big,
full of alpaca wool that serves no purpose other than to be a decoration is silly.
But you guys asked us to do it, so we did it. I'm not going to recommend it.
It's there and you can buy it if you want. Ten percent of them are already gone and we are not going to restock them because they're ridiculous.
But Joshua asks if there's anything else on the store that I would not recommend.
No, I think everything else I can stand behind. Any plans for bedding? Yes, we would love to do bedding.
I won't catch you live, but we'll listen to the show in the car tomorrow. Shout me out since I know you saw this.
All right, Justin C. What are the chances of an LTT green screen desk pad? Oh, interesting.
Yeah, I thought that was kind of interesting. Yeah. Cool for like streaming board game nights and stuff like that.
There's also I don't know if this would be useful, but I know a decent amount of like first person shooter streamers and stuff like that.
They have two cameras. They put one of them at their mouse. Green screen desk pad.
I actually kind of like it. That's an interesting idea.
OK, where's my OK, do you want to do a couple of merch messages while I send that to Nick? Yeah, let me bring that up.
I like it to go.
That's a really good idea. Oh, you know what I could do, actually, I bet this is done processing now.
Oh, processing. No, because we're having an issue. Oh, for sure. It is unfortunately.
Totally unrelated, but it's affecting that extremely bad timing. Hey, that's fine, because I've got another way to show it.
Check this out. This is the desk pad configurator. Hold on. I'm going to start again at the beginning.
So we're going to be adding this to the store. Luke, you want to talk them through it?
Yeah, so Conrad's been working on this for for a while now, and we've actually talked about it on WAN Show a few different times.
But the idea of the desk pad configurator is not to configure desk pads.
It's to configure your desk so that you can know, because we have so many options for the different sizes of mouse pads that you can get.
And a lot of people have different sized desks and getting the measuring tape out and all that kind of stuff can can be a little bit of a barrier.
And some people are just guessing because people don't necessarily have measuring tapes and whatnot. So.
We built this thing where you can throw your peripherals on the desk, you can actually decide if they're RGB or not.
I think the RGB peripherals. There we go. They look pretty good with the with the Northern Lights desk pad in particular.
You can change the desk pad surface to make it look a variety of different colors.
Maybe we'll add some some different ones in the future or just keep it how it is.
Not sure. But yeah, you can change the size of the desk. You can change the mouse pad option in terms of which size it is.
I don't know if it's currently in there or not, but you can change which theoretically you'll be able to change which type of mouse pad you have.
So if you have GPU wasteland or potentially if we end up making a green screen one, you can do that one or Northern Lights or whatever.
You can move the mouse and keyboard, everything around. You can tilt things. You move the monitor around.
You can make it look like your desk so you know how well it's going to fit, where it's going to fit, all that kind of stuff.
So you can be more sure when you're shopping. You can also switch between metric and imperial units, which is pretty nice.
Yeah. So I thought that was a pretty cool, pretty cool idea.
And I think it's going to make it a lot easier for people to make sure that they get their configuration just right.
I mean, that's our main I think that's one of our main advantages is having all these different sizes.
And I think for a lot of people, it can actually end up being a disadvantage because it can be kind of overwhelming.
Like there's all these different sizes and it's really hard to visualize.
We've had people messaging go, wow, this is a lot bigger than I expected.
I mean, the dimensions are on the site, but I get it. That happens, right? Like, oh, man, what's that thing Yvonne bought?
And legitimately a lot of people, not a ton of people these days have just like a random measuring tape sitting at home.
And if they don't, it's quite a barrier to like buy a mouse pad to go buy a measuring tape.
So it takes this really awesome thing of having a lot of options in the mouse pad just become a little bit confusing.
So we're trying to remove that confusion.
I remember this time Yvonne bought this like floor standing dollhouse and it arrived and we put it together and she's like.
Yes, we're going to do excess shirts. It'll happen.
Great job on the colored merch messages. We talked about that earlier in the past.
Linus talked about sending out the tall and thick to the community. I'd love to help.
Yeah. You know what? Matter of time. Someone said, did you ever fix the stereoscopic effect on your Virtual Boy?
I know how. No, I didn't bother. But you're not going to spend a bunch of time gaming on Virtual Boy.
No, not so much. I've been rewatching past WAN shows, which has been making work tolerable.
Quick question. Any plans for pullover hoodies? LOL. Wearing one. Not a fan of zippers.
Yes. Yes. This design is coming to the store shortly and it's going to be freaking awesome.
How far out are the short circuit hoodies and a restock on black short circuit long sleeve?
The hoodies are okay. You know what? I don't want to. I don't want to promise anything. I'm sorry.
Matthew asks, do you think Steam Deck will actually convince developers to increase development on Linux?
Yeah. And I think it already has. It would be part of my answer there.
What are the chances of hiring a dedicated sysadmin or a dedicated IT team?
I mean, it's probably the kind of thing we're going to have to do eventually, but not yet.
We technically have one at Floatplane.
Today, as your fans see it, Floatplane is a subscription based video streaming platform.
Is it more than your fans see or will it become more?
Are there any goals for the company that you are willing to share now or in a Floatplane focused video?
I think you should field this.
There are, I guess, something that we're working on, which I guess we can talk about here.
Our internal name for it right now is Floatplane as a Service.
It will probably have a different name in the future, but it's been very easy to just call it FAS for now.
But Floatplane as a Service is just part of the idea of we wanted our own platform.
And since the beginning, a lot of creators have reached out saying that they are interested, but they want their own platform.
They don't necessarily want to join someone else's.
And then we have watched a decent amount of those creators end up going down the same rabbit holes that we have and have had a really, really hard time.
So the goal or idea of Floatplane as a Service is to be able to provide the back end,
to be able to provide the video player, the video uploading, the everything that Floatplane does,
but to be able to do it on other people's websites for them so that they can have their own website,
they can have their own subscription stuff set up and we can just provide all the back end muscle.
So, yeah, it's still going to take a while, but that is a direction we are definitely going in.
And other than that, we're still pumping new features into Floatplane. We're still trying to do new, cool things with it.
We will always be, well, it's hard to say always, but we will very likely always be heavily video focused and subscription based.
And yeah, that's it.
A lot of developers at my company use laptops, especially MacBooks, to do programming. Would you consider adding more compile benchmarks?
Absolutely. Once the lab is up and running, we want to really flesh out our benchmarking suite.
Omar says Apple fanboy watching LTT since the fire truck video stoked Mac address is finally a thing.
Are we getting content on ancient Apple history? Not probably that much.
Every once in a while it's fun to do something, but not for the time being. As for where's Riley with more tech longer?
What a wonderful question. He definitely will be working on it.
We might need to grow the tech link team in order to facilitate that. We're going to see how things go in the new year.
Oh, green screen desk pad. I already talked through that. Just been waiting for a reason to get my spout lid.
Hey, nice. Please open a storefront soon. Yes, we would love to.
I do want to do LTT store, not com like an in-person store.
Michael B asks, do you think console makers will ever support ultra wide monitors?
A lot of games already ultra wide. Would it be difficult to add to consoles?
Man, even just like the Xbox series S generated so many complaints from developers having to target multiple performance profiles.
I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Hunter C asks, why are your Facebook videos cropped? Is that a Facebook problem?
No, it's a problem with what performs well on Facebook. I don't make the rules.
I don't have a working car, but I have two luxury pillows. For crying out loud anonymous, you are not the target audience for this.
You're supposed to have a working car first, then you buy a luxury pillow.
Noah D, last last merch message for the day. I know you like the Lambo so much.
Why not check out some student racing series? I'm part of a formula SAE team in the US.
I thought it'd be cool for you guys to come check out some of the tech behind some higher level.
That actually sounds super cool, but I'm not going to be traveling anytime soon, so I don't want to promise anything.
Hey, thanks, Jordan H. And that's the last one. So I think that's it for the show.
Thank you guys for tuning in. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye.
Yep, agreed.