All right, welcome to the WAN Show.
We are restarting due to some technical difficulties,
so you'll have to bear with us.
We've got a lot of great topics for this week.
The HP Elite X3 leaked.
A Hollywood hospital succumbs to a hacker, to a hacker.
And the federal judge orders Apple
to help the FBI decrypt an iPhone 5C.
Apple responds with an open letter.
Oh yeah, the last thing is the Pentagon orders Windows 10
to be installed on approximately 4 million devices
by January, 2017.
That's crazy.
Yeah, that's crazy.
We'll get to why that's crazy later.
In the meantime, I'm going to roll the intro.
But bow.
Or maybe they do want a redo of Windows XP
where they run it forever.
So they just are like, okay, it has been 15 years.
We are ready to run a different operating system
for the next 15 years and for some reason,
we've decided that Windows 10 is the one
that we're going with.
There are a lot of things I like about Windows 10,
but there are certainly some that I do not.
Okay, so let's kick this off.
For those of you watching live on Twitch,
were wondering what the heck just happened there
where I was literally mid-sentence,
literally not touching anything.
Well, that was my life in a nutshell.
I stand here totally innocently,
hands off everything, doing absolutely nothing wrong
and boom, stuff dies.
So this is the graphics card that was in the WAN Show PC
before we started streaming today.
For some reason, the shroud is like this,
which is not a thing that it was like before.
So that's confusing.
This is a 550 Ti that is no longer good.
So I'm going to go ahead and find out what's inside it.
What the heck is going on with that shroud?
I don't know.
I don't understand.
There's pieces of plastic falling out of it.
I don't understand what's holding this piece on
and I don't understand what made this piece fall off.
Well, something broke.
There's chunks of plastic falling out of it.
But the thing about that is that it hasn't been touched
since it was installed.
And no one ever touched a graphics card that hardcore.
Right there.
There we go.
Yeah, so they clip onto the heat sink itself, I guess.
So let's just, I've had enough of your crap, 550 Ti.
I'm trying to do it without like breaking it.
Breaking it.
It's kind of dead.
I know it's kind of dead, but it's only kind of dead.
Maybe that's part of the problem.
Maybe sometimes I just have too much faith
in hardware's ability to be like only sort of dead.
And I should just kind of go, okay,
we got one driver crash.
That's it, time for the bin.
Also, I'm sitting in a chair that some moron tilted
the base of it, like way back.
So I'm like sitting with my legs up like this, basically.
Like in like my body's in like a V shape
and it's making my back hurt.
So I'm in a totally foul mood today, but that's okay
because it's all about you guys
and we have a stream to do so damn it.
We are doing a stream.
Virtually hugging you.
Were they virtually hugging me?
Thank you.
You know what, Twitch chat, you should.
Okay, so we've already named their new slogan.
All right, so federal judge orders Apple
to help the FBI decrypt the San Bernardino killers
of iPhone 5C.
Apple responds with an open letter to their customers
that is obviously also intended to address the FBI's demands.
So this was posted originally by Blaze756 in the forum.
I'm gonna go ahead and pop up that message,
a message to our customers on apple.com.
The United States government has demanded
that Apple take an unprecedented step
which threatens the security of our customers.
We oppose this order, which has implications
far beyond the legal case at hand because on the surface,
this all looks very reasonable.
Okay, we need to get some information
off of this killer's phone
in order to better investigate the case
or whatever it is that they need to do.
Frankly, once you kill someone,
as far as I'm concerned, you're kind of fair game.
If someone needs to snoop around in your stuff
to find out how many people you've been killing
or how you killed them or where you put the bodies,
then I think you give that up at that point.
But Apple makes a good point.
What the FBI is effectively asking them to do
is build in a back door.
So they're asking Apple to make a new version of iOS,
circumventing several important security features,
and then they want to install it
on an iPhone recovered during the investigation.
So in the wrong hands, this software, which does not exist,
would have the potential to unlock any iPhone
in someone's physical possession
because that is a really interesting point.
The iPhone and iOS, the one way that you could break into it
would be an iOS update that does not have
the security features that Apple believes
should be in there.
So Apple actually made a choice in 2014 to remove itself
from being able to access encrypted devices.
So that means if grandpa Joe and grandma Jill
or whatever, one of them dies
and the other one can't get into the phone or the iPad,
Apple straight up cannot decrypt the device.
And there's a lot of arguments to be made
on both sides personally.
I totally respect that.
I think respecting the user's privacy is the right thing
for Apple to do, especially in the context
of what their competitors are doing,
whether it's Microsoft or Google,
where it's all about collecting customer information,
collect, collect, collect, monetize, all that stuff.
I think that's one of Apple's truly differentiating points
in the marketplace today.
And like a really good one,
and I found this kind of weird for a while,
and I'm happy that the tech community
seems to be getting behind Apple for this
because for a long time, we've been kind of talking
on stuff like the WAN show about that, you know,
really horrible Android security
and like all these other giant security problems
than Apple's just sitting over there
with like kind of a great ecosystem in terms of security
and like encrypted things and whatnot.
And everyone hates on them.
Everyone loves to bring up the fappening,
but that was not an Apple encryption breach.
No.
Like that was social engineering allowing people
to get their hands on someone else's data,
which there honestly, no amount of,
nothing Apple can do can prevent that.
No.
Yeah, see, it's already Twitch chat.
It's like, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Yeah, we know.
We know.
People are like, Luke looks so tired.
I am tired.
Yeah.
I don't even understand why it's been such a long week.
Like it just has,
everything I've done has just been hard this week.
Well, yeah, and like, this is my 10th video.
Because four tech quickies, one channel super fun.
Right.
Theoretically four LTTs.
See, I didn't even get that much done.
And one WAN.
Yeah, so there you go.
Anyway, so where are we at here?
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Like thanks to John, the tech quickies weren't that hard.
But like, it's still a lot of stuff.
And like, the one Linus Tech Tips that isn't done yet.
Oh.
Yeah.
I mean, it's possible that a few of the people
that are helping me are even watching right now.
I'm just like, oh, geez.
Wow.
That's gonna be a fun series to update in the future.
Sure.
Hopefully it'll be easier than this one.
Anyway, back to the Apple thing.
Apple has several days
before it has to file a formal response.
The Justice Department says
that Apple's defensive encryption is just a marketing stunt,
which I totally do not agree that that is the case at all.
And if neither side is happy with Apple's response,
the case will be escalated to the Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit
and could escalate as far as the Supreme Court
taking up to several years.
This is great.
Donald Trump, you are the man.
Donald Trump calls for an Apple boycott
until they decrypt the phone, basically.
It's like, okay, A, you've clearly shown
that you don't understand what the larger issue is here.
And B, I think that's about it.
I genuinely think that there is a very good chance
he will be president, though.
Really?
I really do.
We'll see.
I truly do.
I don't know enough about American politics.
Speaking of presidential candidates,
this was posted by Sam Fisher on the forum.
Original article here is from the BBC.
And John McAfee has offered to decrypt the phone,
says he only needs three weeks,
and he will use social engineering in order to do so.
And he is also, I didn't even know this,
but also apparently running for president as a libertarian.
What?
Yeah.
Hold on a second.
Let me just...
So if you guys don't know who John McAfee is,
you probably should.
You know that annoying software,
which by the way, he has nothing to do with anymore.
He left the company ages ago.
But that McAfee software, that's him.
He made commercial antivirus for basically the first time,
I think, is his sort of claim to fame.
He's kind of crazy.
Yeah.
In a very entertaining way.
Yeah.
But he's kind of crazy.
So I mean, he's got some of the right ideas here, though.
That's for sure.
He's keen to unlock the device himself
because he doesn't want Apple
to have to implement a backdoor.
And I mean, this is a really good point from Tim Cook.
And he says, the government suggests this tool
could only be used once on one phone, but that's not true.
Once created, this technique could be used
over and over again on any number of devices.
In the physical world,
it would be the equivalent of a master key
capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks.
No reasonable person would find that acceptable.
And I agree with him 100%.
Apparently, so does John McAfee.
So he basically says, if Apple creates this tool
and implements this backdoor,
it will be the beginning of the end for America.
That's maybe a little rough.
Which is, yeah, I mean.
That might be a little much, but.
Maybe a little bit sensationalist,
but says also that he will eat his shoe on television
if they can't break the encryption on the phone.
So there's that.
Anyway, here, here's the McAfee 2016 page,
just in case you were curious.
I don't think anyone is actually planning to vote for me.
Look at this picture.
Why is this website so bad?
I don't, right?
What the heck?
Uninstall the system.
Wow, wow, that looks horrible.
Pretty sure this is a joke.
I may be wrong though,
because I legitimately hadn't heard that he was running.
And I legitimately cannot possibly believe
that this is true.
I'm sure that Twitch chat is exploding right now.
But caught people saying, I'd vote for him.
I'd vote for McAfee.
You should.
You should.
Whoever said that in Twitch chat, good job.
That's awful.
Good work Twitch chat, we love you guys.
All right.
What is going on there?
I don't know.
I don't know, why is life hard?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Okay, all right, it's settled down, all right?
Everybody needs to just settle down, okay?
Thank you.
I hate this.
I hate today.
I just wanna go to bed.
Yeah, today sounds good.
I just wanna go to sleep and be done with today,
which I'm not gonna be able to do
because I need to fix that server after work today.
So, all right, this is good.
This was posted by Regnaroch Dell.
My back is so sore from sitting in this chair like this.
No, it's okay because I want the pain right now
because the pain will fuel my anger for after the show
when I go and find whoever set it up like this,
take their chair away from them,
rip it out from under them and put this chair under them
so that they can experience what they have done.
Wow.
That is why I want to sit in the chair.
So the Pentagon orders Windows 10 to be installed
on all 4 million of its PCs by 2017.
So if your company hasn't yet upgraded to Windows 10,
your IT department is quickly running out of excuses.
Actually, I can think of a lot of excuses.
Should we take turns coming up with excuses?
You want the low-hanging fruit?
Go for it.
Search?
Yeah, go for it.
Search, so you basically can't find anything ever.
On a computer that's running over there,
I needed to install heaven benchmark
just because I needed heaven benchmark.
I installed it and then typed heaven in the start menu
and nothing came up.
Okay, I've got, this is a fantastic demo.
This is my favorite Windows 10 searches, terrible.
And this is, I'm talking when the start menu opens.
We've got a couple of machines here in the office
that have issues with the start menu even opening.
Oh yes, yeah.
It's a global thing.
I know.
On my machine upstairs,
what I usually have to do to search for something
is click Cortana once, then click it and Skype.
What part of what I did sounded like
I'd like to talk to you right now?
All right, so what I have to do is I have to click it once
and then again, and then I can click the start menu
and then I can get that open.
Okay, so get this.
Okay, so this is a great tool, Rufus,
for creating bootable thumb drives.
So, all right, you've got a lot of great suggestions here.
Rufus Wainwright, yeah, I heard there was a secret chord
that Microsoft played
and it made their start menus work internally
so they apparently aren't aware of these bugs.
Just playing Rufus.
Here we go, Rufus USB, Rufus and Murdog, whatever that.
Oh, look at this.
Oh, it did find a search result on my computer.
That's weird.
Why did it find the folder, but not the executable?
Why?
There was something I was looking for on my computer.
I can't say the name
because it'll spoil the video that's coming up,
but I typed in the name of the program that I needed
and it gave me the config file and not the executable.
I was just like, why?
I ran the executable so many times
and I've never read the config file.
It's just frustrating,
because Windows 8, it works fine.
Windows 7, I can search for Rufus.
I'm very sorry, you guys.
I just realized I accidentally killed
all of the entire thing, Twitch chat.
Do we not have this?
No, we don't.
No, the compressor is not working.
Sorry for screaming, sorry for screaming.
Anyway, I'm upset about that
because I search for Rufus a lot
because I never remember where I put it
and apparently I'm Kylo Ren.
You just cleaved everyone.
That's a good analogy, good job, yeah.
His voice is the unstable light saber.
Yeah, thank you for that.
This is my mask.
This is my I'm tired mask.
This is how I'm hosting the rest of the WAN show.
It was a long week.
All right, anyway,
so this'll be the largest deployment of Windows 10
since it's released six months ago
and represents a huge milestone for Microsoft
because if there is anyone that it is difficult to get
to upgrade their Windows operating systems,
it is the military.
So the funny thing about this
is a lot of the machines being upgraded
are gonna be Windows XP machines
or newer machines that are running in Windows XP
just for the laws.
So the upgrade will include Windows Hello,
which is their biometric security system
that's embedded into the OS
that allows you to use fingerprint scanners
or even retinal scanners to sign into Windows.
Or yes, it actually allows you to use a variety
of different authentication methods.
Yeah, I kind of feel like Windows Hello
hasn't been vetted to the point
where I would want it deployed in a military application,
but-
Maybe they did.
Yeah, I doubt it.
Yeah, I don't know, man.
Well, man, sorry, usually I can contain yawns
for the sake of having something resembling
a modicum of professionalism throughout this show,
but I am just bushwhacked.
My whole family got sick this week between-
Did you get it?
No.
I'll ask you earlier today if you got it.
So between my son and daughter and wife,
there were probably somewhere between 15 and 20 upchucks
in the last three days.
Like everyone was sick.
My aunt got sick, our babysitter got sick.
I am still not sick,
but my aunt was saying apparently this bugs,
you can stay contagious seven days
after you stop showing symptoms.
So there is still plenty of time for me to get hit by it,
but let's go ahead and talk about this.
It's kind of a big deal.
The HP Elite X3 leaked before Mobile World Congress.
This was posted by Casual Gamer on the forum.
Let's go ahead and pull up the wmpoweruser.com,
windowsmobilepoweruser.com.
That's the kind of site that you start thinking like,
someday Microsoft will get their crap together
and there will be someone who wants to visit this site.
Anyway, this does look like a pretty darn cool little device.
It features a Snapdragon 820 processor,
four gigs of RAM, 32 gigs of storage,
to up to 200 gigs of expandable micro SD storage,
IP67 water and dust resistance,
a 16 megapixel rear camera, front camera.
Ah, yes, this is where it gets really interesting.
So it's got a type C USB 3.0 connector on the bottom
and apparently support for Continuum.
So if you don't remember what Continuum is,
because Microsoft talked about it
and then promptly there was nothing that used it,
so we all forgot about it.
Continuum allows you to have the desktop-ish experience
with your mobile device by using a USB type C adapter
to go out to HDMI or some kind of a display output
to a full-size monitor and even breakout to USB input devices
like a keyboard and mouse, pretty freaking sick.
So because there is an ARM compatible version of Office,
what you could do is you could actually work
on like Office documents on your keyboard and mouse,
save all your work to your phone,
unplug, bibbity bop, off you go,
and you can use it as a phone.
Continuum also allows you, I mean, this is all in theory,
I've never personally used it,
also allows you to use your phone as a touch pad
if for whatever reason you are one
of the bizarre human beings who uses a touch pad
when they're at their desktop
as they're like, for some reason.
I know people that do that.
I do too, and people are like, yeah, gestures.
You know, here's a gesture.
This is called the right finger down gesture.
Brings up the contextual menu a lot faster
than, you know, touch and hold.
And people are like, oh, but like gestures.
And I'm like, here's a gesture.
It's called shortcut keys on your keyboard.
Keyboard shortcuts?
Yeah, thank you.
Keyboard shortcuts?
Some people will get that.
Oh, right, people are upset
we're not posting the links in chat.
I forgot, and apparently you forgot.
Anyway, we're sorry, we're sorry, we suck.
We're terrible, you guys can hate on us all you want.
To be completely honest, I know you're in like a,
everything has to suck right now mode,
but that is my job, it is my fault.
That's okay, I can take responsibility for that one.
But that's okay, that doesn't help me,
everything sucks, now you suck.
I had faith in you.
All you've done is drag me down even more now.
Way to go, Luke, no, it's okay.
I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.
That's worse, no.
All right, this is a cool topic.
So this was posted by Camish SS on the forum
and it is the Ringing Bells Freedom 251 Smartphone.
I'm gonna pull up the gadgets.ndtv.com article here.
This is by far, okay, can we not?
Wow, wow, I have never seen a pop-up like this.
Site will open in five seconds.
If you do not click it away,
it clicks on the pop-up for you.
That is awesome.
You are a terrible, terrible site, Gadgets360.
Look at the ads.
Oh, man.
Whoa.
Wow.
How are any of the providers here okay
with the amount of ads?
Wow, all right.
Scroll down.
Wow.
Ads on the side and then all of a sudden
it's just like, ads.
Wow, 10 Canadian dating sites that really work.
I wanna know what those Canadian dating sites are.
I've never even heard of this.
That's top seven.
Top seven?
We couldn't even get that right.
Even the website's called top 10.
I'm just disappointed Ashley Madison isn't on here.
So yeah, I'm pretty much done with that now.
That's disappointing.
All right, so here we go.
Ringing Bells is set to officially unveil
the Freedom 251 smartphone.
So the price is because it costs 251,
I believe RS is rupees because this is in India.
I'm fairly sure that they also have the rupee in India.
We also have the rupee in Canada now.
Ever since the dollar it's slid
with the price of oil anyway.
I digress.
So what that's equivalent to is approximately four dollars.
Four dollars.
I mean, real dollars, not Canadian dollars.
Four dollars.
Making it the cheapest smartphone in the world.
And it goes on sale, I believe,
yesterday.
Looks like it was yesterday at 6 a.m.
Now there are some issues
with the way they're bringing it to market.
You have to reserve it online,
which if you're gonna go, okay,
this is the device that's gonna connect the Indian people
who have no devices and no connectivity,
then they may not have an internet connection
or a device to do that.
But maybe they have a buddy or a library or whatever else.
Hopefully they can get that figured out.
And the other issue with this launch
is that it is unclear at this time
whether this is an ongoing price
or whether this is-
A promotional starting price or something.
Yeah, whether it's just a promotional starting price.
If it is an ongoing price,
obviously it's heavily subsidized.
In fact, let me just pull up-
Government.
I think it was indianexpress.com
had a really good article about it as well.
Here, let me just pull this up.
This site is significantly less obnoxious,
but let's see if they have any dating advice.
Apparently the government has been giving them
immense support through the Make in India program.
However, this is what's weird
because there's actually a sticker that is covering up
that it is actually an adcom icon four,
which is significantly more expensive.
So it's just got a sticker on the rear panel
to conceal that branding.
So that's not even an Indian-made device.
What?
So I don't really-
Maybe the sticker.
Get that, yeah.
They buy the phone and call it a component
and they put the sticker on it
and then they're like, boom, it's made.
Yeah, so let's talk specs.
So to be clear, that other device,
I think costs about the equivalent
of something like 40 or $50.
So that's closer to what it actually costs
to make a device like this.
I saw an estimate that it costs about $40
to manufacture this thing.
So the issue, if this is just an introductory price,
is it sets a really unrealistic expectation
for smartphone pricing because we are so far away
from $4 being achievable for a device
that's running Android 5.1 Lollipop,
a four-inch QHD IPS display.
Wow.
Yeah, is that even right?
I'm a little bit worried about whether
that QHD IPS display spec is right.
All the other ones are like, wow, that's impressive.
That one's kind of ridiculous.
Might be HD.
It's gotta be HD and I would be surprised
if it's actually IPS.
Do you wanna investigate that?
Yeah, I'm already looking.
Anyway, it's got a 1.3 gigahertz quad core,
a gig of RAM, eight gigs of storage, expandable storage
by up to 32 gigs and a 3.2 megapixel rear camera,
1450 milliamp hour battery, 3G support,
dual SIM support and a one-year warranty.
Four-inch IPS display resolution unspecified.
There you go.
All right, so that's more like it.
So that- No, wait.
Did you know the name of that phone
that they're just re-stickering?
I can look that up.
Yeah, but I mean, you never know.
They may have actually made some changes.
Like it's possible that they reused tooling, but then-
Oh.
So remember, there's a lot of corners you have to cut
to sell a smartphone for $4, okay?
So if like a bunch of casings were like a bad batch
or something, and they were like,
gee, we don't know what to do with these.
Whoa, whoa, don't throw those in the garbage.
We'll put our phone in it.
I don't- That could actually be a thing.
I think that's entirely impossible.
No.
So the other sort of negative takeaway,
if this is not ongoing pricing,
is that it actually does nothing
to revolutionize the connectivity of India
and the Indian people as a country
and as the people in that country.
No.
Especially because like,
if it gets out that it's not a permanent price,
a whole bunch of people are just gonna buy it and flip it.
Yep.
And then you end up with it costing,
and that's one of those things that frustrates me,
is like, I don't mind stuff being expensive, actually.
Like, I don't mind charging a fair price for a good product.
If you have a good product that is worth X amount,
I would rather see the manufacturer take that margin
that they earned by designing
and bringing this good product to market.
I'd rather the manufacturer take it
than some jerk on eBay.
I would rather the manufacturer take it
than some jerk on eBay.
Oh yeah.
So you couldn't get where I was going with this?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's kind of like the, it doesn't work this way,
but how annoyingly frustrating it is
to have to purchase scalped tickets.
Yep, or brand new game consoles,
like PlayStation 4s and to a lesser degree, Xbox Ones.
Back when they launched.
Yeah, for sure.
When something is in severe demand
and people just grab it and flip it, it's really annoying.
It's not even as easy to get anymore.
Yeah.
It's way more expensive, which is dumb.
And it's actually really difficult and hard to get,
which is dumb.
Yep, and we're just,
we're lining the pockets of jerks on eBay, couriers.
Who else?
I mean, there's, depending on where you buy from
and who you sell to,
there's potential double taxation
involved in something like this.
Because, you know, these people aren't set up
as like resellers.
They're not gonna write off that PlayStation
that they bought at Best Buy
as a taxable business expense
and then collect tax from the buyer and submit all that.
No, no one's gonna do that.
So they're just kind of go,
okay, yeah, I had to pay 10% tax on it.
So now it's 440 plus whatever markup I want.
Like, we're just giving it away.
So tell me something.
Would you be okay with surge pricing at launch?
No.
Would you rather the manufacturer have it to that degree?
Oh, wow, that's a disgusting hole to go down.
No, the reason why I say that
is almost everything that I buy doesn't sell out
and I don't have to buy it online scalped.
Okay.
So if we just start doing surge pricing at launch,
they're just gonna be like,
oh, well, 10 people bought it.
Time to engage third price mode.
Okay, so hold on a second then.
I mean, is there a difference between surge pricing
and just the early adopter tax?
The early adopter, yes.
Like what if the surge pricing that I'm talking about
was not necessarily like,
oh, you know, the factory is a little behind.
Let's hike up the price.
What if it was only at the beginning?
What if they were like,
okay, for the first 10 days,
the Xbox two or whatever they call
whatever the next one's gonna be,
the Xbox two costs $600.
After that, it will be $400.
So if they actually had a tiered launch,
so if you knowing full well
that you can buy one for $200 less in like,
let's say some finite and reasonable amount of time,
would you be okay with them just bending over
the people who must have it on launch day?
I wouldn't care and would just wait, but.
But are you okay with the concept?
I think it's dirty marketing.
Is it marketing to like jack up the price temporarily?
Oh, cause like you make a premier crowd.
Like maybe you make it so that
because people aren't just gonna just have that.
So like Halo as a launch title
is gonna have like this 10 day event right at the beginning,
which is only during the high price time.
And like you can get some special skins
if you play during the 10 day event.
I think we just single handedly solved
the console scalping problem.
If anyone from Xbox or PlayStation watches this stream,
how much you wanna bet there's gonna be, okay.
No, this doesn't solve the problem.
It literally makes it worse.
No, no, no, it solves the problem for them,
not for anyone else.
How does it solve it for them?
Oh, so you think, oh, well, hold on, hold on.
Okay, so let me recap this.
Cause I think I jumped,
I think I lost your train of thought here.
I think I'm back on it.
So what you're saying is if normally a console is $400
at launch and we go, okay,
there's a two week event where it's $600.
You think instead of them Ebaying for $800,
they're gonna eBay for $1,200.
So you think we've just, we've single handedly made it.
Way worse.
Yeah, 100%.
Twitch chats like, damn it Linus, stop giving me some ideas.
That's okay, that's okay.
I don't think anyone from Microsoft's Xbox division or did,
did PlayStation break off from Sony now?
Do I have to call it PlayStation?
I don't know.
I'll just say Xbox and PlayStation.
I don't think anyone is actually watching this,
but like, what if, oh man.
Oh, how do, okay.
So how do we,
how do we make it more expensive without making it enticing?
Because that way, no, because, no,
because that way people don't want it that bad.
But no, no company's going to be like, all right,
let's make, let's make our product less enticing.
Let's hike the price and make it worse.
No one buys it.
Microsoft was trying pretty hard to do that with the connect.
Oh my God.
Okay, let's make it less enticing and cost $100 more.
So maybe we're not giving them ideas after all.
Maybe, maybe.
They knew about all of this already.
Oh man.
Okay, here, someone in Twitch chat,
this is a pretty good idea.
No games during the first two weeks.
So you're just like everyone's favorite game
when you look on social system settings.
Or, or it could be all only early access games.
So the people that were screwing over
are the people who deserve it the most.
The people who pre-order everything.
Oh my God, that should be the new launch titles
for consoles.
Yeah.
It's all early access games.
So they don't call it the launch.
They call it early access.
So you actually pay more to get an early access console.
Yeah.
That is literally like, they could even call it like,
like, like, like, like Xbox, like 1.9.
The two can even be like slightly flawed.
Yeah, but then you know, those will be worth more.
That's like having a coin that's got a head on both sides.
Like everyone's going to want the flawed one.
Even like a dead flawed one will probably be worth.
I guess you could put the innards of a working one in it.
So it's like insane console pricing.
You should.
Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Yeah.
Yay.
You know what?
I guess that leads us pretty well into our sponsor's box.
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Yeah.
I have a serious feeling that's going to become a meme.
You should.
It's just going to be like some like random image in the
background and then that you should thing over top of it.
Oh, I think that's already happening for sure.
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You should build it beautiful.
That's pretty good.
Next up we've got linda.com,
which I actually finally started like actually not just
like playing around with it to validate, okay,
these guys are like real and they're not just a total scam
or anything.
I am starting on some networking stuff because I am a
networking noob and Johnny,
the network guy let me down pretty hardcore this week
released it.
Cause I specifically asked him this, I was like, okay,
I'm doing a point to point guide.
So you can have 10 gigabit NICs linked directly between the
computers.
And they both have WAN connections with a separate NIC.
I'm like, tell me the guidelines.
Cause I knew, I knew there were guidelines.
I was like, tell me the guidelines for what IP addresses
I can use.
And use public ones.
And he used public ones.
He was like, yeah, it's fine.
And you know what, realistically, it's probably fine.
Unless I happened to want to access that particular HP.
It turns out it was HP reserve IPs.
Unless I wanted to access that particular HP site.
It wasn't like Hewlett Packard.com.
It was like, who knows?
Yeah.
It would have been fine.
I would have literally never run into that,
but I believe in following best practices.
And I asked him not once, but three times, are you sure?
He's like, yeah, it's fine.
I'm like, are you sure?
He's like, yeah, it's fine.
So half the comments on that video are Linus,
you need to get a new network guy.
For Johnny.
That's okay.
Johnny's mostly pretty good.
Anyway, the point is, I started on the basics.
I have to say, for me, it was a little frustrating
how basic the very basic beginner course was.
But I was like, okay, no, I'm gonna power through this.
Because there might be some weird term or whatever.
Yep, yep, I have a better understanding
of a ring topology network than I did before.
As irrelevant as that is in the modern age.
But it's okay, it's okay, they're laying the groundwork.
So I'm working on that.
And anyway, so lynda.com is used
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Even if your facial hair does suit you,
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If I don't shave this, it gets really bad.
Cause they don't, I don't get like those cool beards
where everything just goes down like in a nice line
and it goes, mine's like.
Is there such thing as a good neck beard?
Well-
Cause you're literally pointing at your neck saying,
if I don't-
Well, it's like this section of my neck.
Okay, okay, so that's okay.
And when you grow it out, it turns into this,
a big full beard.
Ah, I see.
Theoretically, but mine's just like, and it's bad.
At least you have facial hair.
I just look like my face is kind of dirty.
Yeah.
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All right, so let's move into our next topic here.
This was posted by Giving TNT on the forum.
This is the Reflex, the revolutionary full collar,
high definition bendable smartphone
that you won't have your hands on anytime
in the next five years.
Very cool technology.
It actually includes not just a bendable display
and obviously internal components of some sort,
not just a bendable display, but also haptic feedback.
So what the example they're showing right there
is bending the display to flip the page
in some kind of a graphic novel or comic.
And it actually gives you haptic feedback.
That's like flip, flip, you're flipping the page.
Isn't that cool?
When you're playing Angry Birds, for example,
what it can do is it can have like a very tactile
sort of experience with the stretching back
of the rubber bend and then the releasing of it.
Yeah, pretty cool.
I've actually got an Angry Birds arcade game
at the Castle Fun Park out in Abbotsford now.
It was new the last time I went there.
So I think it's pretty new.
It's probably pretty new, yeah.
It's actually pretty clever.
So it's just Angry Birds on a giant touchscreen display
at the end of like a long tube.
It's probably about the size
of like the small like basketball thing.
And then it's got a launcher,
which I wish was like a slingshot, but it's not.
It's just a pinball pulley thing.
Well, that's okay.
Cause you at least have a thing you can hold
and kind of the experience is all right.
And it's just got a little inflatable ball inside
that you fling and it's a touchscreen.
So it knows where it hits and then you text the head
and it knocks down the crap.
That's cool.
I was like, yeah, yeah, okay.
I guess that's worth $1.20 a play.
Are you for real?
Castle Fun Park.
Yeah.
The good news is that my kids are young.
So they don't actually realize half the time
that the game's not on.
So like we go there with four people,
we kill like an hour and a half, two hours.
We spend like 20 bucks.
That's awesome.
And like the pool tables there are really crappy.
So no one's ever really on them.
So we go and like when we get bored of the other stuff,
we load up, it's like a buck 20 to get all the balls.
We put them in the middle of the table
and then the kids just like using the sticks
or my daughter actually just gets up on the pool table
and just puts them in the pockets.
And then my wife and I just walk around
and like grab them before they go down
and put them back on.
And as long as no one's waiting,
no one's ever really yelled at us.
We just got like a one-year-old like crawling around
on top of the whatever.
They don't really care.
Again, as long as no one's waiting.
They're pretty chill.
And we're there, we're spending money.
I mean, there's like two employees working for minimum wage
and no one else there ever.
So it's probably fine.
I finally got my son to go in the...
When's the last time you went there?
Pretty relatively recently.
Okay, so did you see that like break the lasers
or dodge the lasers room?
So every time we've gone there,
which is like three or four times now,
I've been like, do you wanna go in there?
He's kind of just kind of a shy kid.
Anyway, he's like, so the last time I was like,
I was just like, cause I thought he would like it, right?
Okay, we should give context.
It brings you into a room that's all like matte black
on the inside and there's random lasers
shooting in a bunch of different directions.
And you have to work your way through the room
without tripping the lasers.
There's two different games you can play.
I'm gonna describe this one first.
Without breaking the lasers
and then hold your hand on a panel
and then someone else has to do the same thing
and they have to hold their hand on the panel
and you have to work your way all the way back.
Or they just have lasers going all over the place
and you have to run through
and cross them all as fast as you can.
And it's timed.
And it's timed.
So anyway, I asked him if he wanted to do that one
cause I figured for a three-year-old,
the just break all the lasers
is probably gonna be the easiest thing.
If he goes, no, no, I wanna do the other one.
And I go, oh, okay.
So what I didn't realize is that A,
two-player mode costs exactly twice as much.
And B, once we went inside,
if you play two-player mode,
dodging around the lasers and holding your hands on the like,
they look like hand print scanner things.
Like it's kind of, ooh, stealthy.
You have to split up.
So we're in this dark room
that he never really wanted to go into in the first place.
Finally gave in to me about,
and I'm like, go over there.
Don't touch the beams.
Okay, hold your hands on there.
And he's just like,
so at the game, it only lasts like a minute.
The game turns off.
He's like, dad, I wanna go outside now.
I'm like, yep, we're never going in here again.
This is his Space Mountain.
My dad took me on Space Mountain when I was like six.
Never forgave him.
Still remember to this day.
I didn't ride a roller coaster for a decade.
I'm dead serious.
Like, and I didn't enjoy roller coasters
until I was in like my early twenties.
Whoa, yeah, all right.
Like that was one of my scarred for life experiences
as a kid was riding Space Mountain
when I was a really little kid.
So if you guys are thinking,
you wanna pull one over on your kids
and give them an experience to remember
when they're really young, then Space Mountain.
I wanna go back and do the Ninja one.
You should.
Oh, you should.
Oh man, I didn't see the switch.
I caught that.
I wanna go back and do the Ninja one,
but with tighter clothes.
I was wearing a baggy shirt.
So I'd try to like arm over something
and the shirt would just cross it.
We should do the Ninja one.
Cause quite frankly, I had a terrible teammate last time.
I'd be down.
I'd be down.
I'm kind of big.
That's okay.
To try to dodge lasers,
but I'll wear tighter clothes and I'm super down.
I'm down for anything that involves
you wearing tighter clothes.
God damn it.
I mean, do we have to invite the ladies on this double date?
I mean, technically no.
Technically no.
We probably should.
All right.
This was posted by the point blank on the forum.
Original article here is from Android police.
The CAT S60 is the first phone
with an FLIR thermal camera built in.
Now this isn't the first CAT phone.
Although the first one I kind of looked and went, okay.
So it's a ruggedized phone with very middling specs.
It's very expensive.
I'm not that interested in this.
Moving on.
This one has got my attention.
This is very cool.
Same thing, somewhat middling specs.
I think they quote OctoCore Snapdragon,
which oh no, no, actually they say it's a,
it is a Snapdragon 617.
So again, not top of the line, but certainly capable.
4.7 inch HD capacitive multi-touch.
So that's only 720P,
but it does have auto wet finger and glove support.
It is drop proof to 1.8 meters,
which is pretty darn impressive.
So that's about five feet for the Yanks out there.
Has a strengthened die cast frame,
optimized battery performance.
So 3,800 milliamp power battery, combine that
with the 720P screen and these Snapdragon 617.
That thing is going to haul when it comes to battery life.
And it's got 32 gigs of storage,
three gigs of RAM, runs Android Marshmallow coming later on.
Super bright display, typical 540 nits,
not too shabby Gorilla Glass 4,
but it is all about that thermal camera.
So check out this picture.
This is back on Android police here.
This is the first dual camera implementation
that I've seen that makes any sense.
The one M8 was just stupid.
Like, oh, we have a depth camera
so that you can do this stupid gimmick
that looks terrible and is bad.
This is cool.
So it combines the thermal camera with the regular camera
to give you real image clarity
with the thermal information overlaid.
How freaking handy would that be for a contractor?
You want to know which pipes got the hot water in it?
Bapow!
It's actually really good.
You want to know if some wires in the wall are heating up?
Bapow!
Very, very cool.
And I can see this being useful for all kinds of stuff.
Like even for me, like is something
in that system overheating?
Bapow!
We're going to get tired of that bapow thing eventually.
You should.
I'm never going to get tired of you should.
No.
Until I come up with a new catch phrase
and we find some way to make it ridiculous.
Yep.
It's like, heaven forbid they came up with something
with like swear words in it.
Like Squarespace, F yeah.
That would be the best company motto ever.
Everyone would know about it.
It would be in the news everywhere.
Yes and no.
It seems like people get over it like a shit audio.
Like no one really flinches anymore.
That's true.
But like they did put the.
Like F-C-U-K.
That's not edgy anymore.
Yeah, that's true.
Clothing brand.
Yeah.
People just get, people will become immune to anything.
That's true.
Yeah.
Wouldn't become pretty numb to like Reddit.
That's the word I was looking for, numb.
This was posted by Yummy Chicken Blue on the forum.
The original article here is from Forbes.
Apple finally addresses the Error 53 issue
that causes people who replace their home button
and then upgrade their OS to not be able to use their phone.
It just would brick.
So Apple's former stance on this was, well,
you had your handset repaired by a non-authorized technician.
So I guess we'll just break your phone because you're a jerk
and we hate you.
Yeah.
So apparently Error 53 was supposed
to be a factory test that was not
intended to affect customers.
And all it would just say was the iPhone could not
be updated, an unknown error occurred.
Fortunately, they finally issued a patch.
So it's build number 13D20 in the most current mobile
operating system, iOS 9.2.1, that
will allow people dealing with the Error 53 issue
to plug into iTunes and update.
So yay.
So it'll restore bricked iPhones.
Some repair dude who has like 50 Error 53
bricked iPhone sitting on a shelf somewhere
is just like, yeah.
So stoked.
However, the patched version of 9.2.1
will not permit Touch ID to start working again
unless it has been verified by an official Apple technician.
So you'll have to take it to an Apple repair center
to verify that it is properly secured.
The official stance here is that there are shady technicians
out there that could allow malicious access to your data
otherwise.
I mean, that is maybe not a bad point.
There are some pretty skilled folks out there
who could solder some pretty cool grabbing things
while they're in flight stuff and put that into a phone,
I suppose.
So as long as they are willing to allow me to repair it myself
and at least just give it the old, hey, you did it OK,
then I'm all right with that.
It is unclear how much Apple is going to be charging,
however, for this verification.
I don't know.
That doesn't mean no one knows, but I certainly don't know.
Speaking of things that I don't know,
I don't know how the crap this works.
Alofox posted this on the forum.
Original article here is from The Verge.
Five dimensional glass disks can store data
for up to 13.8 billion years.
So we have officially preserved the King James
version of the Holy Bible for people 13.8 billion years
from now.
And that will work, apparently, even up
to nearly 200 degrees Celsius.
So to put this in the appropriate context,
a standard sized disk, so that same Blu-ray that
is now capable of holding 128 gigs of data,
would be able to hold 360 terabytes of data safely
within glass.
It's using, and I am not a physicist here,
but it's using something to do with nano-gradings that
change how light is reflected and encodes
the data in five dimensions.
And that's why they can store data so densely compared
to traditional optical disks.
Scientists believe this could be commercialized
in the not too distant future.
Another big deal this week, this was
posted by Spaghetti Carbonara on the forum,
is that Twitter shadow banning is apparently real
and happening every day, says an inside source.
Now, I don't know how much of this is tinfoil hat wearing.
I didn't have time to look into this report myself,
so we just have to trust Colton to have done it correctly.
Seeing which, that whole 5D thing,
literally in the article, it says
that the location in space is on the x, y, and z-axes.
So it's not 5D.
Unless it's like a location and a trajectory and something
else, but it's not moving.
I hate it when people do that.
Anyways, moving on, some Twitter shadow banning thing.
Yeah, so there were rumors that Twitter
had begun shadow banning politically inconvenient users
that has been confirmed, allegedly,
by a source inside the company.
According to the source, which I don't know if we can believe,
because whenever it's source, we're
calling this rumor, Twitter maintains a white list
and a black list.
The white list is people who are of Caucasian descent,
and the black list, no, I'm just kidding.
It's the more, the more, you didn't even catch that,
did you?
No.
I said the white list was Caucasians.
Oh my god.
It's just a joke.
The white list is apparently users
who are OK to broadcast their tweets all over the place,
and the black list is apparently users
that are being somewhat or fully shadow banned.
So instead of just banning the user directly,
their content is hidden from the public view.
So this is a pretty common practice
on things like online communities.
In fact, we're going to be working
on a shadow banning feature on the Linus Tech Tips forum.
The way that we're planning to use it is very, very different
from this, however.
So what they're effectively doing
is hiding these blacklisted users' content
from the public view.
So Twitter users have allegedly, this is a rumor,
been reporting tweets from popular conservatives, members
of alternative rights, cultural libertarians,
and anti-PC dissidents that have been disappearing
from their timelines.
Interesting.
Yeah, so kind of a big deal.
I mean, I saw someone's comment in the thread that was like,
oh, whatever, no big deal.
It's just Twitter.
I mean, it's like this private company,
they can do whatever they want.
But when you're as big as Twitter,
when you have as much influence on the world
and the way people perceive it, you
have kind of a responsibility.
Yeah.
I mean, back to how we plan to use shadow banning features.
The way that we had discussed it was giving people
timeouts from each other.
If there are users that cannot get along and are starting
flame wars with each other all the time,
we might start implementing shadow bans
between those users.
So they just straight up can't talk to each other.
And we would tell people that we're doing it.
We're like, look, we're giving you a timeout.
You're done.
You're not talking to each other anymore unless you
create duplicate accounts, which, by the way,
is against the terms of service.
And we'll get both of your accounts permanently
nuclearized.
Then we'll ban them both.
So basically, there are valid reasons.
If you have a platform that you have to moderate,
something that people don't necessarily realize
is that community sites are at least partially
responsible for the content that's on them.
We can't post Google ads on linustechtips.com anymore
because of some questionable material that
was posted by members.
Bunch of people posted anime porn.
Thank you for that.
So ultimately, we have to moderate this site.
And if we're having problems, then shadow banning
can be a very effective way to get rid of it.
But I think you have to maintain a certain level
of transparency.
And you have to maintain your integrity as well.
You can't just start shadow banning
people you don't agree with.
I mean, if that were the case, I actually
posted this right in the thread.
I was like, my response to you, misanthrope,
is proof that we don't believe in censoring people
that we regularly disagree with.
Because I do believe that linustechtips.com,
aside from being excellent to each other
and abiding by the terms of service,
I believe it should be a place for open discussion.
And we allow any criticism.
I mean, the only personal attacks we don't allow
are from members to members.
You can go after an admin in any way you want.
I would way rather you publicly attacked me
than you publicly attacked some other user on the site.
So our users and our moderators, because they are volunteers,
you guys, OK?
They're nice people.
Our users and our moderators are off limits.
But if there's something you don't like,
you can let me or Luke have what for about it,
if that's what floats your boat.
I also want to cover this real quick.
If there's a moderator that does something that you don't like,
we're not a fan of you trying to spit roast them
in front of everyone on the site because, again, they're
volunteers and they're really just trying to help everyone.
And it's really kind of shitty when
you're trying to help everyone and you get publicly roasted.
Yeah.
So be excellent to each other.
You can message me about it, and we can talk about what happened.
You should.
You should.
You should message me about it.
And there's been a lot of stuff.
There's some times where I'll be like, yeah, no, you're wrong.
Sorry, bye.
And then there's also times where it's like.
Sometimes permanently bye.
I've seen that happen.
Yeah.
You're wrong, and honestly, your punishment
wasn't severe enough.
That has happened.
It has also happened where I went, OK, maybe they
were having a bad day.
Let's make this a little bit easier.
So yeah, anyways.
So that's pretty much it for the WAN Show today.
Thanks for watching.
Subscribe to Deaf Guy 91 for the pizza today,
and we will see you again next week.
Same bat time, same bat channel.
Bye.
Oh my goodness, the YouTube video announcing the stream
never went up.
I guess that means I don't have to pull it down.
But this is one of the weeks I actually
remembered to pull it down.
So there's that.
Whoa.
Why does it look weird?
I don't know why anything is weird.
Why is it weird?
I don't know.
I just, I hate everything.
Sorry guys, no after party today because I'm super tired.
And I want to go home and sleep.
Actually, I want to fix the server
and go home and sleep.