Right? Yeah. Good. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah.
Part three. Wancho part three. So we've got a bunch of great topics for you guys today.
What are we starting out with? Starting out with a broken twitch page on your laptop.
We're starting out with FCC approves net neutrality rules and broadband is now a utility.
And also Leonard Nimoy has passed away at 83.
Intel is planning to drop silicon after 10 nanometers. So looking into some other novel
approaches to making microprocessors more powerful and more efficient and YouTube 1 billion views.
Viewers, excuse me, more than 1 billion views. We're talking like just sigh on just one video.
Um, so more than 1 billion viewers, no profits. So we'll talk about that a fair bit. So let's
jump right into the intro. And then, um, there it is. Hooray.
Okay. See that usually is critical.
Wow. That's awful. Can we fire whoever did this?
Oh yeah. You're going to packs. Hey, yeah. So that's going to be pretty cool. Yeah.
Yeah. Pretty excited for that. Yeah. This is your second year at PAX East. Yep.
Sweet. I've had, I've heard of a few actually interesting videos that should be coming from
there already, which is exciting. Um, it's nice knowing that there will be anything at a show
before I go to the show. Yeah. It's like, all right, we got to get content from this.
Sounds like nothing's being announced here. Okay. Cool. All right. That sounds like fun.
Although sometimes you get really good videos that way as well. So I don't know.
Apparently the intro has no audio for these guys. I don't know what the deal is with that.
Cause it was the same as last week. It's working for us. So I, that's why I,
that's why I didn't know that there's no sound in the intro. That's kind of weird.
That is weird. Well, we'll, we'll figure that out. Cause yeah, I can, I can hear it.
And usually when I can't hear it, you guys can't hear it. And when I can, then, uh, you guys can
too. So there's that. Um, yeah. Oh, right. The sponsor shout outs for the intro. So ha ha. Well,
of course there's PAX East. So PAX East, we're going to be powered by HyperX down there.
Wouldn't be the first time HyperX sponsored us to go to PAX East. Also mass drop and X split
powering the show today. So why don't we jump right into our first topic here? Uh, the FCC
approves net neutrality rules, reclassifies broadband as a utility. And then there are
some other net neutrality updates and FCC rulings from the hearings. So, uh, Tom Wheeler, uh,
chairman of the FCC or FCC chairman, excuse me, uh, says the internet is simply too important to
allow broadband providers to be the ones making the rules. Um, the new rules largely resembled
the open internet rules that Obama laid out three months ago. And, uh, allegedly up until last week,
there was language in the FCC proposal that could unintentionally allow internet service providers
to charge for sending content to consumers. So they've gone ahead and, uh, you know,
patched up some of those little holes and what's going on. I think Google and a few other companies
kind of jumped in there and were like, maybe change some things cause giant loopholes. Um,
there, there, there's some questioning here as we talked about on the, on the wind show before,
actually, it's kind of weird that Tom Wheeler flipped as much as he did. Um,
he was fairly adamant before about this not really being a thing. And now he's like,
rah, rah, this is definitely a thing, which is just weird. Weekly progress, which is, uh,
which is when has the FCC ever moved that fast? Um, which is like, hopefully it's all genuine
and awesome. And I would, I would love to believe that it is. Um, but it just, it makes me wary that
there's something in there that no one's really seen yet that allows them to do something that
we don't want them to do. And I mean, there's lots of sort of, I mean, it's not like there aren't
plenty of things the FCC has done in the past that have been somewhat questionable. I mean,
the whole nipple gate thing was I was reading one article that brought that up as a, you know,
do we really want these guys in charge of regulating really much of anything, um, you know,
based on that, you know, we're, we were dealing with fallout from that, you know, years, years
later from that, uh, that legendary super bowl performance. Yeah. Although not quite as legendary
as left and right shark or that, or that dress that's been making the rounds on the internet.
I could, I couldn't even believe how much every single feed that people have into me was exploding
with asking me what color and I actually thought it was a joke. I thought someone was trolling me.
So I looked at that, do you looked it up? I had it sent to me and I was like, I had it sent to me
from my girlfriend. So I thought it was an actual question and like she was shopping for the dress.
So I answered as if it was an actual question. And then like minutes later got bombarded by
everyone else and was like, what the heck? And then I thought it was just an elaborate
troll from her. And then realized eventually, no, this was like definitely a giant internet
thing. And it was like, wow. The funny thing about it is that image is not any more exceptional than
any other of the images out there where if you look at a white background, it's X color. And
if you look at a dark background, then it's Y color. It's actually, in my opinion, less
exceptional than a lot of them. Yeah. Like some of them are like really like mind screwy, like
awesome. That one is like, no, it was taken under odd light. Anyway. So Tom Wheeler write another
quote from him. So no one, whether government or corporate should control access to the open
internet. There is no more a plan to regulate the internet than the first amendment is a plan to
regulate free speech. Some people call this a secret plan to regulate the internet. That's
nonsense. That's a quote from him. And that makes me even more scared whenever anyone like points
out like, Oh, this is definitely not a secret plan. Well, the thing though, is that that's
been about the only sort of somewhat valid sounding criticism that anti net neutrality
supporters have been able to throw at them like, Oh, well, there's this document that is like
really big. And I wish I could tell you guys what's in it. Cause it's like really bad.
And, uh, you know, yeah, it's like super bad, but you know, whatever, I guess you could just
go with the flow here. So, so sketchy. Verizon is apparently salty as hell. Um,
and Verizon's like trying to throw back as much as they can, but at this point, um,
changing a platform that has been so successful should be done. If at all only after careful
policy analysis, full transparency, and by the legislature, which is constitutionally charged
with determining policy. I mean, a big part of the problem though, is that, um, American policymakers,
government officials are literally sending literally just signing letters that are written
by ISPs. So it's like no point in them actually existing anymore. Yeah. All right. Nvidia's CEO
and president on the GTX 970. And I promise this is the last time we're going to discuss the GTX
970 on this show. Um, Oh, we never, we never said who posted the last thing. I got all thrown off
by problems. So that was posted by Victoria secret. Did you post the link in the chat?
I did actually. Awesome. All right. So let's go ahead and fire up blogs.invidia.com. So Jensen
has addressed it directly now. Um, Oh, I don't even, I don't even, I don't even have an HDMI
cable. Awesome. Is the capture card at least here? Probably not. Probably not. It is. Oh,
it is. The capture card is here. Right. Cause we used the other one. The other one. Yeah. The
higher, the better, more better one. Yeah. Oh, you guys should see what he's doing right now.
It's actually kind of impressive, especially after a certain activities after a certain
last night activities. Right? Yeah. That was fun. That was actually a lot of fun. That was like the
most fun that I've had in an empty, uh, abandoned building. Yeah. I can probably agree with that.
Very long time. Yeah. Although it's not abandoned. Okay. Not abandoned. I guess if we're there,
it's not abandoned. So, so there's that empty. All right. Let's go ahead and see if my screen
sharing is, wow. Look at that. It just worked. Oh, did you know that your Norton requires
requires registration? Oh wow. You should get on that. And your computer is possibly under attack
for the next 10 minutes on the land show Linus registering Norton internet security.
Congratulations. Oh wow. You made a great decision. Let's have a look. I'm done with this
joke. All right. And it's over. So here's, here's the letter. So basically Jensen says,
look, we made the nine 70 as good as we could make it. Uh, we, we think it's a great card.
We think you think it's a great card. Um, we screwed up. It won't happen again. We're sorry.
So yeah. Um, one interesting point that, uh, we talked about on the wind show last week and I had,
um, uh, Luca P messaged me about was someone was saying that, Oh, well hold on a second.
Cause that memory on the GTX nine 70 that, that last slower 500 megs is actually not even as fast
as system memory in many cases, if you have a quad channel configuration or high speed memory.
And I kind of went, Oh yeah, good point. But what I didn't think about at the time was that
your system memory is ability to work as graphics memory is still going to be limited by PCI express.
So you're still better off having that memory on the card, even if it's slower than your system
memory, um, is able to communicate with your CPU because you're going to be limited by PCIe.
So I was like, Oh yeah, that's right. I completely, what do you want Nick?
I have an HDMI cable. They're just trolling you at this point. Yeah.
They are just trolling you actually. I'm sorry, Nick. You're being trolled.
Not by me. No, no, we, we have an HDMI cable. We fixed it like a while ago. Yeah.
Like if people are telling you to get us an HDMI cable, they're like trolling you hard. Yeah.
Bye Nick. Thanks for trying to help, Nick. Um, you're appreciated employee of the company.
The last article was posted by Hitsu one on the forum, and this one was posted by
Kryon on the forum. So I'm going to go ahead and pull this up. There's
any number of, of different sources on this. I mean, everybody is talking about this right now.
It broke what about six or seven hours ago that Leonard Nimoy has passed away at 83.
Um, he announced his condition about a year ago, attributed it to years of smoking,
even though he hasn't smoked in 30 years. Um, but yeah, there's just, there's honestly,
it was, it was really fun. I read a variety of articles. It's you can't really get,
so everyone has a bit of a different spin on, on sort of his life and what it meant and,
and what he accomplished. And so I, I found myself just kind of reading for about, you know,
20 minutes, 30 minutes. And it's, it's actually amazing how people can be, can be kind of
crammed into this box. It's like, yeah, he was Spock when actually he did so much more
than just play Spock, whether it was stuff that was well-regarded like voice acting or stuff that
was, um, universally pissed on like his singing, um, and spoken word. So, so it's, it's, it's just,
I don't know. It's just, it's, it's, uh, it's, it's really interesting how it takes someone,
it takes someone passing away to really have a look at what they meant as an, as an artist and
as a human being. Um, and he seems like, it seems like as much as he got sort of shoehorned into
just being Spock forever, um, he didn't seem to mind it that much. I mean, you look at the titles
of the autobiographies, you look at, at someone, someone left a really good quote that, uh, that
was from him. That was, uh, I'm not Spock, but if I was going to be anyone but myself, then I,
that's who I would be something along those lines. So I thought that was really cool. Um,
yeah, I mean, other than my, honestly, uh, I was never like a huge Trekkie just cause we didn't
have a ton of TV when I was growing up. Did you even have a TV? We usually had a TV. That's CRT
that I still own. Right. That was like, I had that TV when I was growing up. Okay. I'm just.
Did you have a service for it? Not always. Right. Um, so yeah, I didn't watch a ton of it,
but one thing that really resonates for me with Leonard Nimoy is the narration of Civilization
4. Oh yeah. That was like thousands of hours of my life have been narrated by him. Right. And
because I liked the narration of that game so much, that's one of the few games of that style
that I would never listen to music over top of. Right. And like, I wouldn't watch Netflix at the
same time or anything. I would actually just listen to the narration cause I liked it.
And like, it's part of the reason why I struggled to really go to Civ 5 as much,
even though it's like a better game in my opinion, with all the expansions,
I'll still go back and play Civ 4 sometimes just cause I liked the narration so much more.
So yeah, I don't know. That kind of sucks a lot. I play a lot of Civ. So yeah.
Um, for our next topic, uh, some of you, probably a large number of you very likely noticed that we,
uh, we posted an Instagram picture last night of our new office space. So, um, I've got a little
bit of video that will serve as kind of a teaser for an upcoming channel. Super fun video. We're
hoping to have this released, uh, hopefully sometime next week. So let's go ahead and
go over to Linus's screen here. But, um, this is, this is it. This is the new space. This is
is Burkle being Burkle skateboarding around and, uh, yeah. Having fun being a construction worker
for some reason. He does do things. I'm sure he's talking. I can't, I can't, I can't hear him. I'm
going to mute that just in case it's like crazy loud or just being obscene or, you know, whatever
else. There's Taran being Taran. These guys are quite the characters anyway. So, um, I've had
quite a number of people request a new office tour already. And as you can see, there is not a whole
lot to tour. Some people in the chat are already like, what office? That's a warehouse. Yes,
that is a warehouse. Uh, and that's basically all it does right now. Yeah. Um, the, oh man,
the sound in there, the acoustics in there. Super bad. Horrendous. Just for fun. We, uh,
Luke, you were the one with the stopwatch, right? Yeah. Yeah. So we had Burkle dropped his skateboard
from like head height and then Luke timed it for how long it took for the bang to, to dissipate.
How long did it take? Seven and a half seconds. Seven and a half seconds. That is how much.
So bad. Yeah. I got people asking, where's the kitchen? Well, the kitchen, uh, will not be there.
Well, technically there'll be a little like kitchenette thing where there's like somewhere
to warm up your hot pockets, but it's not going to be a house. So there isn't going to be sponsored
by Mountain Dew and hot pockets. That'd be so epic. Doritos. Yeah. Just because no, no, no,
old school, just hot pockets and Mountain Dew. Yeah. So we can't have any of the like new,
amazing, exciting colors of Mountain Dew. Just classic crap pepperoni hot pockets.
Very nice. Yeah. Um, got people asking if the server will still be in the bathroom. Uh, no,
no, we are going to have, we should just have like a fake toilet in the server room. Just put a
toilet in the bathroom. Just don't even like plumb them or hook them up. Just like the entire joke
is they should be plumbed and the water should be on at all times. Just in case. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man.
That would be pretty fun. Um, got people asking about acoustic foam. Uh, yes, we are looking into
a lot of different options. Um, I can tell you right now, some of the stuff that's being quoted
is like not happening. Like, uh, if you guys paid any attention to the tip starter campaign,
we raised somewhere between what was it around 32 to $35,000. So something along those lines
check right now. So for one of the quotes that we got for, um, acoustic treatment of the ceiling
$36,000, uh, one of the quotes we got for acoustic treatment was $60,000. Um, so for,
okay. So first of all, for, for those of you who were upset that we crowdfunded helping with the
new place that should put some perspective on the amount of money that we raised and the amount of
money that obviously remains for us to pay for ourselves. Um, but uh, yeah, we are not going with
that $60,000 option. We've, we've actually gotten a quote on a very similar treatment for way less,
like a fraction of that, but it is same treatment, but yeah. Yeah. Basically the same treatment
actually. Is it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like one guy was just like fleecing us as far as I can tell,
or trying to, I think those other dudes are too. It's like what a bunch of like computer dudes.
Okay. 60 grand. The bathroom movement change. Yeah. I think, I think that's BS. I think they're
being butt heads too. Yeah. Hmm. So we're going to win some, we're going to lose some. And at
the end of the day, we're going to have, um, it'll be, um, an office space kind of where I was
standing in that video that you guys saw. And then other than that, it's going to be all room for,
for sets and for, for filming the stuff that we do now, as well as some of the other cool ideas
that we have for the future. Yeah. So there you go. Are we, are we going to tease what
we actually did at all? Oh, I think we should. Yeah. Should I, should I find like a clip or
something like that? Like don't show too much, but maybe just like a drag. I watched all of it.
It's awesome. All of it's awesome. Yeah. I don't know how they're going to make this short enough.
This is not the drag at all. Is this going to have to be like, like in separate parts? Like,
honestly, the lead up the race. And the thing is like every one of the races,
the whole thing is interesting. Right. All right. This is the end of one of them. Oh, no, it's not.
Oh, okay. Well that's a pretty good moment here. Let's, let's, uh, let's go ahead. Let's,
let's capture, let's capture that moment for the live viewers here. Hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on. I don't want to, I don't want to like spoil it. All right. So what would you do
if you were, you know, hanging out, having a pizza party with a bunch of your coworkers
in an empty warehouse? Well, we came up with one idea. Yeah.
All right. So there's a, there's going to be a lot of moments like that.
So stay, stay, stay tuned guys. Cause this is going to be one heck of a channel super fun video.
I'm happy you didn't show the part right after that. Yeah, I know that would have given away
the outcome of that race. No, no, this is like nail, nail biting. Like we,
we can't reveal anything to you guys. We're not going to tell you who made the semis.
We're not going to tell you how it went down because it is like, yeah, it was heat based.
Like it like came out, there was a loser's bracket and like someone came out of the
loser's bracket because that's fun and cool way to do things. Yeah. And like, uh, yeah,
it was actually different styles of races. I don't know if I can tease this enough. Like it's,
yeah. Do you think this will be better than connect four and I think so better than shot
collars. I don't know if it would be better than shot. Connect four had some great moments.
It did, but this was Epic the entire time. That was one thing that I liked about this.
That's why I said, I don't know how you're supposed to cut it down. Cause like, seriously,
I watched every single race over again and was like enthralled the entire time for every race.
I don't know. You even participated in, I know that's what I'm saying. Like even watching it
back was really cool. Um, so I, yeah, I don't envy the editor. That's basically all I have
to say because that's going to be difficult. We'll just do six parts. Every, every racing,
but one video, but like six sub parts. Yeah. Part one, one B yeah. Okay. There is a reason
that we did scrap yard Wars that way, by the way, scrap yard Wars. Uh, the Epic conclusion
is coming out in, uh, wow. About 31 hours. So, uh, hang on to your, hang on to your seats guys,
because it is going to be, I can tell you this, no matter who you were rooting for and no matter
what you expected, you will be surprised probably by the outcome. Yeah. And then, um, so it's got
good words coming out. Right. So the reason that we numbered it one, a one B in the first place
is that scrap yard Wars is very much a long-term plan for us. In fact, uh, we are setting up like
a dedicated set in the new building where we're going to have that me, uh, where we're going to
have tools and we're going to have, um, like a workshop type environment where we're going to
be able to do much cooler scrap yard war or like build lawn type stuff. Um, we are really,
really excited. We even have more ideas, which I won't taste too much right now, but like,
yeah, that style of content will definitely continue to be a thing. Yeah. I mean, we had,
we had people asking us, you know, Hey, are you guys gonna do more of these? Please do more of
these. The fact that the first one came out titled one, a yeah, more of them were already coming.
We knew we were onto something. We didn't know it was quite that good. Yeah. Like we didn't know it
was going to be that huge, but you guys can definitely expect some more like really cool,
more TV format style content from us. It's going to be a, it's going to be a crazy year. Hey,
it's going to be interesting. Yeah. It was kind of weird being in the office last night.
Cause like going from, yeah. Cause I still very vividly remember freezing my ass off
in the garage wearing your winter coat while you worked upstairs, benchmarking Titan for a week.
Like it's, it's a little different now. I was legitimately upstairs because there wasn't enough
room for me. I wasn't blaming you at all. I'm just saying like this, this, that was an exact
scene that I remember. You know, what's funny is I would love to show Burkle. Burkle and Brandon
were over at the warehouse with me today and I would love to show Burkle the way that I had our
white box set up. Cause like, honestly, honestly, like we were where they want every set, like
pointing into a corner, like the original layout that they gave me was going to take up like the
entire thing just for WAN Show, green screen, LTT and the workshop. And I was just like,
that is four sets. We have that many sets now in a much smaller space. Let's re-cajigger this.
So, so I was like, we were kind of, we set aside places for some of the more permanent stuff,
like WAN Show, we're not going to move it. We want it to be very like cool looking in the
background and like have a kind of a theme to it. The workshop obviously isn't going to move because
we should have people submit ideas for what the background could look like for WAN Show.
We could definitely do that. We have someone helping us with the designs and actually
she showed us a concept that it's Esther, my wife's sister from NCIX. Yeah. So she showed
me some concepts for WAN Show, like with reclaimed, reclaimed wood for one side. And then like,
I think some kind of metal or whatever, like metal or something for the other one. And like
some pretty cool ideas, Brandon and Burkle were thinking. I had minor comments on that
just based on framing. Cause a lot of the stuff that she showed was actually out of what would
have been framing for the show. So we might be able to save money and then invest in better
areas. And check with those guys about like exactly where it'll be. But, um, but anyway,
so we, we kind of in between two sets, places where they wanted to put something was like
this flat wall and like quite wide, like 10, 12 feet of flat wall. And I was like, okay,
well why don't we put every, all the permanent stuff where it goes and then, well, any empty
spaces we'll kind of classify them as like A, B or C where A would be like prime real estate,
like optimal, like flagship content goes here and B would be somewhere in between and C
would be the worst. And this flat wall, they're like, that's a C. I'm like, this is better
than anything we have now. And they're just like, yeah, it's a C. Okay then. Well fine.
Yeah, I think, I think he'd probably, yeah, I have a little bit of an awakening if he
saw like, like the unboxing set in the garage, which was like my desk. Oh yeah. Like he had
to like move and stop working whenever I had to film an unboxing, which was fine because
at that time we were doing this ghetto dual camera setup feeding into like a capture PC.
And then we were doing like a multi-cam thing in premiere in order to cut. So one person
was doing B-roll the entire time live. And then the other person was doing A-roll the
entire time live. I still think that's a cool concept. Yeah. And I still think something
like that, like could be really neat, but conventional camera operators would need to
check their preconceptions at the door in order to make something like that work. I
actually, I personally prefer filming that way. That's why I don't mind filming stuff
like Super Fun is it seems more natural for me. Right. The, the like kind of run and gun
style, like, Oh, I got to kind of get in there. It makes more sense to me. The like, we never
learned to do it properly way. No, exactly. It's not right, but it like, it works. And
like, I can make sure that I have the right thing on camera and I can make sure that you'll
be able to see it once it actually gets blown up and whatnot, but like, it's not right at
all. That's fine. All right. Uh, speaking of things that are not right at all. Um, actually
this is, I guess it seems fine. This was posted by Clocklo 8003 on the forum and pebble has
the Kickstarter up for the, Oh, for crying out loud. Is that what is it doing? Something
about the audio devices? Like I think it's the, it's like the creative driver or something
like that on this laptop makes it spazz out every time I, every time I switched to it,
it gets confused about audio devices. I think I'm just going to remove that driver. I usually
do anyways, to be honest. Yeah. I can't see any reason why I need some creative control
panel on my computer to make my life more difficult. Yeah. Um, there it is. Okay. Yeah.
So every time this sound blaster thing comes up, pebble time, awesome smartwatch, no compromises
has raised 11 million from 51,000 backers on Kickstarter since it went up. Uh, this
went up what, a couple of days ago, something like that. Yep. Um, so it's going to have
a color e-paper display this time with the same, same, same battery life target. So they
figure around a seven days of battery life. So I'll probably get like four, four to five
on the bit of a heavy user. Um, it's got a more ergonomic curved design. Uh, they've
redone the software. So old apps will still work, but the way you access the apps is a
little bit different. And the way you access your notifications and messages is a little
different. Everything is time-based, which is actually both like pretentious and also
really cool and logical. Like it's like, Oh yeah. Okay. So you kind of go down to see
the future up to see the past and then whatever's present is, is there right now. I'm like,
Oh, that actually is a really smart way to see what's coming next. And you know what
I just missed and all that kind of stuff that actually feels more, you know how material
design is supposed to be like kind of papers on your desk. Yeah. The future past time based
thing actually kind of feels more natural than that. Absolutely. So three colors available
exclusively on Kickstarter. I got to imagine Kickstarter is like throwing a whack of cash
at them versus the other way around to run this campaign because there is absolutely
no reason for them to Kickstarter this other than just creating that splash and maybe helping
hype Kickstarter. I mean, they, they say right in their campaign video compared to last time.
Yeah. It's pretty much done. All we need is your support to all they need is orders. Yeah.
They could have just launched it. Yeah. They're, they're a pretty big company now. They said
they sold, they've sold a hundred million pebbles. So even at an average sell price
of let's say 149. So, or let's say, let's even say 140. That's still going to be $140
million of revenue in the short couple of years that they've existed. They're doing
all right over there. So, yeah, I, I would, I'm going to try and get a review unit. No,
I didn't order one through the Kickstarter. I'm, I'm, I'm sort of, I'm sort of annoyed
with them because my last ordering experience was so terrible and, with pebble. Yeah. Yeah.
With pebble. So I figured this time around, if they want to see me a unit, I'll review
it. If they don't, then forget it. Right. Cause honestly it doesn't look that revolutionary.
Like the animations on screen look nicer. They've obviously beefed up the processor.
It's a color screen, which is something that I've been asking for for a while. That's a,
that's a big improvement over the previous ones to me. Yeah. I didn't see anything about
the DPI of the screen. Like, I don't know if it's actually going to be higher resolution
based on that. They are promising backwards compatibility with all the existing apps.
I would probably guess no, but some of the, does this not have like a metal band option?
Not sure it's possible. It'll end up with one. It definitely has replaceable bands.
Yeah. So actually that's funny. You can see the thing that we're, yeah, you can see that
this, my screen sharing is not working again, which is awesome. So let's go ahead. Yeah.
That's just a black screen. There we go. There you go. So you guys can see how easy it is
to change it over. It looks like they've changed their charging mechanism yet again. Something
that was a real frustration for me with the pebble steel and I understand they improved
it. I just wish they would kind of do it right in the first place at some point here because
it means that I'm getting a new set of charging cables every single time I upgrade my pebble.
Um, yeah, I don't know. I guess that's all I really have to say about it. I still don't
think I'm fully ready for a smartwatch. Really? I'm still waiting for some more revisions
I think. Right. I don't know. I really like it. I've gotten very accustomed to it. I think
they're getting close, but I'm still waiting for a little bit more. G Watch R is my daily
driver. Um, Android Wear definitely still has some quirks, but I do, I do really like
it. Yeah. Um, one bad news about the, uh, about the new pebble time, well just pebble
in general, and this was posted by, actually the last one was posted by, I already said
that this one was supposed to buy Rafi on the forum, but uh, Microsoft was in talks
with pebble. Like one of the things that I actually, I personally complained about when
I was, uh, using windows phone for my last attempt to switch to it with the HTC one M8
windows phone edition. Um, one of the things that I called it as specifically a big problem
for me was the terrible pebble support. Like it could do some things, but like basic stuff
like incoming calls was not working. And uh, so we've got a little bit more insight into
what happened there. There's a good article on a windows central.com. Did you post this
in the chat already? Yeah. All right. Let's go ahead and pull this up. Oh, okay. This
is not the right thing. That's frustrating. We have, uh, we've already fixed that. I worked,
we worked on it today. Oh, okay. We fixed, it won't be like this in future docs. Ah,
okay. All right. So there's, here's the article on windows, central.com pebble Microsoft and
what could have been with windows phone. So Microsoft was in talks with pebble. Um, pebble
basically said, well, if you guys completely make the app yourselves, then, uh, okay. And
then, uh, pebbles pebble CEO stepped in when the app was done. So it had been in development
for months. They were done. It didn't have the store integration yet. No store integration,
but they had a plan to integrate Cortana, which would have been super cool. Pebble time
has a microphone now. So having Cortana support on the wristwatch would have been definitely
an improvement over, um, over the third party support that Apple and Google are giving to
someone like, uh, like pebble, especially given that they each have their own smartwatch
platforms now like it to me from, from a business standpoint, I would be looking at the partner
that is aligning with me more closely versus just sort of, um, personal to take distaste
for Microsoft and the mobile OS. Have we mentioned that he, yeah, you said he vetoed against
it. Allegedly the reason. Yeah. Allegedly the reason. So who knows? Uh, I don't want
to put too much on him, but it is a little frustrating that, uh, allegedly the reason
is that he has a personal distaste for Microsoft and their mobile OS. And it's like, okay,
he was not helping things at all. Yeah, it's not, it's not like it can get better. I mean
the, the biggest complaint that I had about, about windows phone and a lot of people were
upset that I gave it such a negative review and the negative review had nothing to do
with how good of a baseline operating system it is or you know how windows live tiles are
very beautiful and all these things. It was because as a user trying to like do things
in my day, it's not useful because the third party app support is terrible and I cited
specific examples. People are like, well, I don't have a drop cam. I don't care if you
have a drop cam. The point is when I go to the store and I pick something up off a shelf,
I would like for it to work without me changing my phone. I'm going to pick a phone platform
that I expect to get some kind of support. But with, with guys like pebble specifically
stonewalling Microsoft, how is that ever going to change? So I feel for the windows phone
users out there and actually I feel for windows phone users some more because there was, there
was another big blow windows phone. Here it is. Yeah, got it. Let's go. Do you want to
post this one in the form and the chat? So this was posted by rude and the article here
is from win beta.org please work. Look at that. It's like working all of a sudden. So
after Google partnership, soft card will be shutting down their Android app as well as
their windows phone app. So windows phone already had a contactless pay system. Um,
and Google has basically absorbed soft card acquiring patents and technologies and um,
and apparently the uh, the, the right to use them at all. So there's no particular date,
but there is an official statement that says it will be shutting down. All the wallets
will be terminated at some termination date, which will be provided soon. Yeah. Brutal
windows phone just got double slapped. Yup. Not good. And like these are all, both the,
the problem is that both of these issues are the main issue with the phone. You need more
app support and they just got slammed twice and it needs to be just generally more useful.
Yeah. Um, speaking of being generally more useful, the HTC one M nine will hopefully
be generally more useful than the one I made. Yay. Segue ways. This was posted by Koosman's
on the forum. Um, and actually it's a pretty good post. It's got some leaked, what look
like official HTC videos. So the, um, every time man, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, yeah, I know.
Right. HTC leaks every time. Yeah, but who doesn't? I mean there were S six leaks this
week. I know, but didn't, didn't they, uh, like fire two people last time or something.
If I recall correctly. Yes. Some, some kid posted them online and then both of his parents
got fired or something. Something along those lines. I think that's what supposedly happened.
Yeah. Um, so here I'm going to go ahead. I'll, yay. There's a quicker way to do this while
you're doing that. Some people in the chat have figured out what I've done with my shirts
and some people are trying to, they don't really get it, but it's black and blue. Get
it. Oh, get it. Or wait, is it golden white? I don't. Do you know it's black and blue or
golden white? Which one is it? What are you wearing? Can you tell what? Yeah, I can tell.
Jeez. I don't know. I got to ask the whole internet cause like, you know, I don't know
under a different light. Maybe it's different. Maybe the colors change based on the lighting
or the background. Okay. Who knows? Right. Yeah. We just asked the whole internet. See
what they think. Maybe post it on Facebook. I just, you know, the funny thing about, you
know, internet mean crap is that I know that if you know, as soon as stuff like this hits,
if we put our entire team in motion making some ridiculous video, Oh yeah. We could get
a ton of views, but I just, I feel like I feel like dirty. I feel like I'd like to believe
I'm above that. Like back when I think the first time I vetoed someone internally wanting
to do like some meme stupid video was Harlem shake and I was just like, we did it. We'd
never made it. It never saw the light of day. No, we filmed it, but we filmed like sort
of a similar thing. But I was just like, no. And you know, even, you know what? I have
a lot of respect for Freddie Wong, a lot of respect for Freddie Wong, but making a video
like every time about how stupid the thing is, is still doing it. Yeah. You're jumping
on the exact same hype train. You're just jumping on the other side. It is the same
bandwagon. And so I saw him do one recently that was kind of like that. And the reason
that I thought of this was because I remember back when they did Harlem shake, he, they
did a thing where someone walked in and shot the person that was doing it or something
like that. Right. Yeah. So I was like, so, so you're doing this more than once. If you
do it once where you're like, yes, we are above this. We're not going to acknowledge
this. It's stupid and you're fine. We should shoot those people. Yeah. But we should go
back and find like every like hardcore major meme in the last five years and like one video
destroying all of them and then just being like, all right, it's out of our system. We'll
never do it again. Or if we are going to start hopping on those bandwagons, then we should
do it properly and we should have like a channel for it. Right. Like if we're just going to
have a channel, that's just like, let's make really stupid videos. Have like a, get like
a crazy announcer voice and do it like a movie trailer. You're like in a world where blue
is white and black is gold. I don't remember how it's even supposed to go, but I think
the blue was cool. But regardless, um, how do you tell what people are? What, how do
you color coordinate when there is no such thing? So some of you probably noticed I was
playing that one M nine. Maybe that's what I was doing with their golden motherboards.
They thought it was blue. They didn't even know. They didn't mean to screw that up. It's
supposed to be blue. Just like all their old ones. It was us that was seeing the motherboard
improperly. It's a blue mother. Are people egging you on in Twitch chat? I'm not even
looking at Twitch chat. They probably hate me right now. Do it Luke. I think they're
behind a little bit. Yeah. All right. So the one M nine, the chin bar is still present.
It now has a two tone color scheme. Uh, the videos better get, yeah, someone's going to
do that. The videos showcase some new features. It's going to come with sense seven. It has
some photo editing stuff. It has custom themes, just like, okay. Um, one thing that's kind
of neat is it has some location based awareness, so it'll show you different icons and food
recommendations depending on the location. I mean there are after part aftermarket launchers
like aviate that already do that. Um, uh, it includes an ultra pixel front camera now
for better low light. Apparently a 20 megapixel rear camera. They've abandoned ultra pixels
there and they're just going for, yay, back to the megapixel race. Um, you know, they
held out for two years. That's pretty good. Uh, blah, blah, blah. Improved Boone boom
sound now with Dolby surround and is set to officially unveil at the M nine March 1st
press conference. I have not been invited nor have I been offered a review unit, so
I'm not sure if we're doing a review, but what we'll definitely be doing a review of.
Oh, a lot of people did unboxings of these. I thought it was kind of amusing, but we don't
really do unboxings on LTT yet anymore anyway, so I thought I would do it on the land show.
So it says start here for those of you who haven't seen it. And this is, this is pretty
cute. So it comes with, um, one of those rebrandable Kingston data traveler USB drives that presumably
has some press. Oh, Hey, a four gig. Here you go. Cool. Actually useful. So yeah, presumably
like a press deck on it or something. Um, and then this is, this is cute. Welcome to
the new Moto E press conference today. We're doing something different. You will probably
have enough events and press conferences to sit through next week. I won't, but I'm sure
important people do. Uh, so we're bringing the launch directly to you experience the
new Moto E the way it's. So start with your badge.
Except you didn't go to the conference. No, there isn't one. Oh, everyone gets this. Hold
on. Oh, so there isn't a conference. Oh wow. So this is the conference. Yeah. So there,
they got the little velvet rope and then you, you got a something. Yeah, here we go. What?
There's your seat. And then there's the presenter with the phone and uh, some like features
and stuff. And then you open this up. Do you have to rip it? No, not at all. Wow. And inside
is the Moto E. So this is the new second gen Moto E 149. Um, specs look pretty good actually.
It's got a, uh, quad core snap dragon hoop to do. Can't remember. Uh, 400 sounds right.
I'm going to click this thing and it's hopefully going to take me to the right place. Yeah.
Snap dragon for 10. It's got a gig of Ram. It's got a nine 60 by five 40 display, 23
90 million power battery. It comes with Android 5.0 lollipop and supports LTE now. So it's
still kind of like it's um, it's, it's just on the sort of thick side of kind of feeling
a little bit bulky. Also the fact that the, actually I don't even think it's thicker than
my droid turbo. Let me have a look. Yeah. Oh yeah it is. Not by much, but it is thicker
and it's smaller so it does make it feel a little bit, a little bit boxier. Um, but the
fact that the materials are less premium I think contributes more to the, the weird feeling
this, although it fits nicely in the hand. So I'll say that about it. Four and a half
inch screen if I haven't said that already. So guys, uh, I will switch to it now. I've
been putting it off because, and I'm sure Motorola won't mind this too much, but because
I like my other phone so much that it's hard for me to switch to other ones these days.
I just hate switching phones and it's something I have to do every time I do a review, but
I really like the Droid Turbo and I really don't like not using it. So, um, yeah, forgive
me Motorola. I will start my review. I will work on it and then I will review your, your
inexpensive cell phone and then I will switch back to the other one. I'll review your inexpensive
cell phone and then switch back to your expensive cell phone. Yep. That's funny. Um, all right.
Lenovo CTO. Hey, look around. We're not the only ones with crapware infections. This is
supposed to buy op code on the forum. A Lenovo, but as of two days later, Lenovo promises
cleaner, safer PCs. So if you guys haven't been keeping up, I'm going to pull up the
arse article here, hopefully. Yep. There it is. If you guys haven't been keeping up, there
was some, uh, adware, um, issues with select Lenovo PCs that were shipped in about Q4 last
year. Basically it allowed, um, it allowed a, it allowed your access to secure websites
to not be secure at all. Yeah. Yeah. So this, this adware app could basically see completely
unencrypted information that you were sending to HTTPS secured websites. Um, because it
just had this backdoor nonsense that holy crap, how did this not get caught? Yeah. Um,
so yeah, I mean, is there a whole lot for us to really say about this other than that?
No, there's some cool things that Lenovo is hopefully doing. They said they're going to
do, so hopefully they actually follow through, but they're, they're planning on, and like
maybe this won't be super helpful for everyone, but it will be super helpful for some people.
Um, they're planning on listing all included software on the outside of the box. So you'll
know everything that's coming with it, which is not really a thing when you buy a laptop.
So that is actually a nice change. Um, part of the problem that might suck with that is
places like Best Buy, if you're buying it from there, um, aren't going to list that
and you're not going to see the box. You're not going to see the box until it's at the
till. And I don't know if this is a requirement for online retailers to actually list everything.
So they might just not list it because I don't think it's necessarily up to Lenovo what gets
listed by the online retailers. Um, so I don't know how much that will actually change. Um,
hopefully with that said, they've also committed to install less bloat on their machines, less
overall, which is great. They're going to give people a six month subscription of McAfee
to anyone who was affected by the, uh, by the super fish software. It's like, thank
you. Or you could download flash. Let me promptly not install that, but then get a free trial
anyways. But everyone checks that box. So what do you think is going to happen? I don't
know. Just say, um, so this is posted by command man seven on the forum. Um, the last one was
posted by opcode. Did we say that? I don't remember. Okay. Uh, so this is also an Ars
Technica post here. Intel forges ahead to 10 nanometer will move away from Silicon at
seven nanometers. So super exciting. Yeah. So they're trying to keep up with Moore's
law. I mean, it is, he did work for Intel, so it's like kind of, you know, Intel kind
of started this thing. So it's kind of up to them to keep it going. Um, so they're looking
at new materials, they're looking at 3d packaging, so potentially stacking guys on top of each
other. Like we've seen happen with NAND flash quite recently. Um, I'm not really sure what
else there really is for us to say, you know, because a lot of people have been talking
about hitting the wall for a really long time. So they're, they're doing what we have been
saying for a long time, which is change your game up. And the thing is that people that
are not Intel, uh, have been saying, Oh, you know, we're reaching, this is going to be,
this is a hard wall. We're, we're coming up against a wall. Intel is saying, no, this
is just a Silicon wall. We'll find a new wall. We'll, we'll, we'll change the game up. We
will start stacking things. We'll start kind of stacking things to 2.5 D or whatever. Um,
and we're, we'll change materials or reduce something else. Very cool. So they're trying
all kinds of different stuff. They're looking into indium gallium arsenide as a replacement,
but they're trying all kinds of other stuff. Graphene, gallium nitride, uh, carbon nanotubes.
I mean, that's a material that everyone in their dog was talking about carbon nanotubes
like five years ago. And like, what has become of it? We're still talking about it. We're
still talking about the problem is creating a wall, not a ton of it's being used for necessarily
this yet, I guess. But the problem is creating large structures with it is not, it's very,
very difficult. So I'm excited to see all that talk about all the potential that carbon
nanotubes have. I'm excited to see that actually turn into something that I can own and hold.
So a big problem right now. Um, so there are planned indium gallium arsenide transistor
is 22 nanometers in length, which might not sound that impressive. Um, but you know, remember
they've had all this time to work on silicon. Yeah. They need more like research and development
time essentially so they can get used to working with it and whatnot. Then they can improve
upon it from there. So indium gallium, indium gallium arsenide's ability to conduct electrons
is about five times better than silicon. Um, materials already widely used in fiber optic
applications and in radar systems. Um, they're also looking into, uh, not only 3d packaging
but also two and a half D packaging where separate dyes are placed side by side on an
interposer. Um, all kinds of new and exciting stuff. I, uh, I, I am super cool. I hope that
we see like performance kids. I have to, okay. On some level I have to, I have to believe
that Intel still does want to improve single threaded performance. So if we had a new material
that somehow allowed much greater clock speeds, they would give it to us. Um, so I'm just
going to kind of throw that out there. Yeah. Silicon's been a big issue for that for a
long time. So I guess we'll see. Yeah. And it's not like it's just Intel talking about
it. You know, Nvidia is talking about how, you know, it's basically we're optimizing
for heat output and power consumption and you know, performance is improving and we're
going to do that too. But you know, we're, we're trying to go, I mean, I think part of
the problem is they've had to backtrack so much for so long. It was megahertz race and
you know, a coup de corps race and just the race to these ginormous, you know, hot power
consuming chips. And it's taking a while to dial things back to, back to more same levels.
Cause I can tell you, I mean, you know, in an office like here where we're running more
than one computer, more than a couple hours a day, it definitely helps to have more power
efficient machines, even if that's not exciting on a benchmark score. And even if you might
necessarily not be paying for your power. Um, Oh man. So we're made of blue and black
HTC very poorly, but they made it. Wow. Oh, what? Oh, it's a gift. Golden white. Oh, it's
a gift. Yeah. It changes. Yeah. Wow. So anyway, uh, now seems like a good opportunity to thank
our spotters. So let's start with, um, hold on. I'm sure I want to start with something.
Let's start with X split. Yeah. We're big fans of X split around here. So it's funny.
I had, I had some people say on our last X split spot. So hold on a second. What's the
difference between us going to X split.com and downloading the free broadcasting software
versus going to X split.com slash Linus and downloading the free broadcasting software?
Nothing. It's still free. Go to the slash Linus one though. Yeah. You want to use the
Linus URL. This is the URL you were looking for. Exactly. Thank you. Uh, so basically
for those of you who aren't aware of what X split is, it's what powers our show. It
allows us to do things like, Oh wow, look at this. Wow. Whoa. We changed our lower third.
Holy crap. There was a transition. It allows us to, you know, manually select our bit rate,
change up what servers were broadcasting to change up what audio source we're pulling
in from because the default on the computer was a freaking webcam today. And it was the
entire Twitch chat exploded bad audio. Well, we, that was, that was user error. I apologize
to anyone from X split who's watching this right now for the bad quality of the beginning
of this stream. It had nothing to do with you guys. I had the wrong microphone selected.
Um, so we should talk a little bit about their, about the capabilities. So they powered countless
live streams and recordings around the world. They've got a very powerful, very robust piece
of software. I don't think we've had X split outright crash on us in well over a year.
Like it's been, it's been extremely stable for a very long time. Um, and we absolutely
love it. We both use it whenever we game stream and we both use it whenever we went show because
we do that together. So that would be both of us using it. Um, if you're into game, if
you're into game streaming, by the way, game caster allows you to change some of your stuff
through an onscreen display rather than relying on tabbing out of the game. Also the new X
split V2, uh, so their latest revision has much better game detection they had previously
to the point where instead of manually selecting a game and telling it to cast it, I mean,
you've found that it's been able to stream games that aren't even on their list. I have,
I have games that are like early beta not released. I got a game code from the developers
games and it's auto detecting those properly, which like I understand how it's doing that,
but it's nice because you don't have to have all these crazy scenes set up and stuff. You
just have one and you just move your webcam to a non annoying place for the game and then
you're done. Yeah. I also like how flexible it is. Like I'm even able to stream, like
there's some pretty broken stuff about streaming X wing. I don't know if you know this, but
I'm on like a 1440p display and the way that X bling X X bling X bling X bling X the way
a X wing flying like a G thing launches is like if this is your screen, it like it does
like a Faco full screen thing where the game is actually running like here, but it's like
full screen. So I use X split to capture like that screen region and then it like captures
it fine. But there's a lot of, it has a lot of flexibility. That's great. Speaking of
a lot of flexibility, Luke will be heading to PAX East. We're sponsored by HyperX and
Phantom glass and I guess I should probably actually have the thing up there. So is that
next weekend? Yeah. Holy crap. You don't know that. When do you leave? Thursday. Wow. Yep.
I didn't think about that until today. Wow. Okay. So those two videos, the fall. Okay.
You need to film those early in the week and then we need to do like part one of hard pipe
before you go. Whoa. Yeah. All right. Next week just got harder. Oh, I guess I just spoiled
something hard pipe. Yes. Thank you. I just spoiled something. We are going to be doing
a hard pipe tubing water, cool build logs. So this will be similar to mineral oil. It's
going to be the first time for both of us. At least that's what we're telling each other.
It's our first time. It's our first time. Um, you know, so it's a lot harder. So we
are going to be doing that. Um, we're probably going to be doing it in multiple parts cause
neither of us have done it before. There's going to be a fair bit of trial and error.
Um, but we're just, we're just kind of hoping to have some fun with it and take you guys
along for the ride. Hopefully Lee Harrington doesn't just like rip us apart cause it's
terrible. No, I'm probably, I'm sure he will cause we're going to make like every mistake.
I'm going to go, I guarantee you, I guarantee you, Darth Beaver, Richard Surros is going
to have like Facebook messages in my inbox, like half a dozen of them for every video.
Like yo dog, I was terrible man. I told you man, I'm going to coach you on how to do this.
And he's going to be like, I could have helped you. No, no. He actually straight up offered,
but I just want it to be a voyage of discovery. So you are just going to go for gold. So study
his videos or no, no. Oh yeah, no. We're just going to, we're just going to do our best
and then like on camera, if we can't figure out, we'll resort to like a lot of extra tubing
looking up guy. Yeah, we do. Okay, cool. Yeah. Primo chill sent us a bunch of stuff. So,
uh, so guys check out our paxies coverage next weekend. It's powered by HyperX. Um,
as usual, our call out for HyperX is going to be to check out their YouTube channel.
So that's youtube.com slash HyperX. It's actually youtube.com slash Kingston HyperX if you want
to get to it a little bit more reliably, but they dropped the Kingston out of the branding.
So I like it. You know how YouTube channels have a, like an actual straight URL and then
they have a vanity URL. So usually youtube.com slash HyperX works, but I've had problems
with it sometimes. Yeah. I've had like when I, um, when I was linking people to subscribe
it in annotations, it wouldn't work. So when you're doing the annotations, make sure you
do slash Kingston HyperX. Okay. Might not work. Yeah. Cause I always call out slash
HyperX because it's always worked for me. Yeah. So just, it's just one of those quirky
things about, uh, you know, good old, good old YouTube that we love so much. All right.
So our last sponsor today is Massdrop. So we have drop slash when show and you and I
each get to do a live unboxing today. Okay. So you want to go first? Sure. Well, I talk
about what Massdrop is. So Massdrop is basically, um, they're like a, they're kind of like a
deal curator. So they work with the community to find the deals that the community wants.
They then work with the manufacturers and distributors to get the best possible pricing.
And then the more people commit to buy, the lower the price goes. I actually, uh, Massdrop
is, I tweeted this earlier this week. They're my least favorite sponsor because they like,
they, they, they sponsor us and then they take my money right back. Oh yeah. I bought
a zoom audio recorder on, uh, on Massdrop the other night. It's like, well, there goes
$230, but I saved like a hundred bucks. Yeah. And I, we've needed one of those realistically
for like two years. So it's like fine. I bought blueprints, stopped using Brandon's of like
some pretty cool stuff that you can use in posters. So they've got lots of keyboards
and lots of just random stuff. And that's what we have today. We have a couple of sort
of random things to show you. So what is this? This is a Monoprice speaker, a Monoprice speaker
in like the craziest packaging. You got this, bro. It's it like comes apart. Yeah. Anyways,
I'm going to start opening the ostrich. It looks like a little spaceship. So it sits
like this, but it like looks like a spaceship capsule. I don't know. I like that. This thing
is ridiculous. Why can you open it? Whoa. What does it do? Oh, that's cool. And then
you can close it. You can be like, do you want to drop the base? No, I want to turn
it up. Turn it up. Yeah, I get it. It doesn't make it good. I have a feeling. I have a feeling
mine is going to be just as good as yours. It has a little attached cable in the bottom
so you can plug it into your phone or whatever. This has reversible colors. And this one is
midnight gray. This is the ostrich pillow. Oh, that's pretty cool. So basically it's
for travelers. Okay. It's by studio banana things. So I already liked the name of their
banana thing and share your napping images and dreams. I get, it doesn't really come
with instructions. 95% rayon, 5% elastomer. There's like a label on it that under penalty
of law not to be removed except by the customer. Oh, so I guess I can take that off. Yeah.
And then basically it's got like a drawstring here so you can tighten it up. Choke someone
out. And then yeah, in a nice way. And then you put it on your head. Wow. Over your eyes.
And don't do that. Ow. That's just, yeah, that didn't sound comfortable at all. And
then basically the idea is this is a pillow. So you just, there you go. Lay on the side
of the bus or like your neighbor on the airplane. That's actually pretty cool. That's actually
pretty decent because there's quite a few times where I've tried to use like my bag
and it's just not great because there'll be a book or a laptop and then there's always
like that little bit of light and it's just super annoying. I wonder if you could turn
it around and lay on it backwards. Ow. I got my earphone in. So that was a terrible thing
that was happening, but that's not too shabby. I kind of wish it wasn't full of those little
odd, like those little styrene balls. Um, cause I find those make me really, really
warm. Oh, okay. But like this concept is very, very cool. Some people might like the warm.
I know. So that's, that's a very much of your mileage may vary there. Yeah. But it's reversible.
That's cool. So there you go. Mask drop. They have things. So you can rock out at a beach
party with your portable turn it up speaker. I'm not sure if this is beach party grade.
You can rock out at your small beach party with two people. Your miniature beast, your
mouse beach party. And then when you're tired and going home, cause you're old like Linus,
you can sleep on the bus. Done. Mask drop provides everything. Oh, check this out. What?
Um, okay. It's a done deal. The order has been placed. Our phase change phase change
integrated case is arriving sometime next week. The amount of people that have been
asking for this on the forum for like a year, the amount of people that have been asking
me to cover phase change in some meaningful way since the very beginning of Linus tech
tips is like crazy. So for those of you who don't know, phase change cooling has been
around for pretty much as long as computer enthusiasts have been, have known that running
your CPU at lower temperatures makes it overclock higher. And what it pretty much amounts to
is an air conditioner has a hot side and a cold side. So it's got a condenser and an
evaporator. And if you take the evaporator and instead, excuse me, instead of having
like a gigantic fin array and then a big old fan on it that blows cool air into the room
while the condenser blows hot air to the outside, you have the condenser, um, just blow hot
air into your room, which hopefully is air conditioned. And then you have the evaporator
just be a little thing that sits directly on your CPU. So we're talking like negative
10, negative 20. Um, some multi-stage units can even do much, much lower temperatures
than that CPU temps. So, uh, we just worked with, um, uh, little devil or I think they
go by LD cooling. So we just worked with LD cooling. They weren't able to like sample
us a unit or anything, but they were able to give us a significant discount so we can
use, can I help you? Oh, thank you. So we can use their, uh, Lee and Lee case with an
integrated phase change cooler in the basement. All white for our whiteout build guide. All
white. So we're going to have that Subronco, uh, limited edition motherboard, the hall
of fame, nine 80 card. We're going to have a sub zero CPU with like white sleeving on
it. Yeah. Oh, this thing's going to be sick. This will be the fastest machine we've ever
built. Uh, well maybe not quite cause we're only putting, we're only putting one graphics
card in it, but like we could just put more graphics cards in it. This will be the fastest,
the fastest, um, the fastest we'll be able to CPU things up, uh, ever. So I'm excited
three machine, the best dirt three machine. Yeah, exactly. Yes. Uh, Apple bot camel audio.
This was posted by press to park. Um, original article here is from Mac rumors. Can I help
here? That eyebrow. There you go. I thought I got what the Twitch chat was yelling at
me about, but apparently it was on your eyebrows. So there you go. So they make music plugins
and effects. Um, do you want to go ahead and post this? Are you already on it? Um, blah,
blah, blah. There's some speculation that they're planning to use their technology to
make garage band better. Uh, there's some speculation that it just has, you know, more
to do with Apple just getting deeper and deeper into audio. So through the acquisition of
beats, so maybe they're planning to like relaunch beats is music streaming service with some
kind of technology here or something. So, um, a lot of it's just assumptions at this
point in time. They acquired the company, what they're going to use them for. We don't
really know. We have a quote actually on that. Apple buys smaller technology companies from
time to time and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans. Exactly. Yeah. Well,
okay then. Thanks Apple. Thanks. Yeah. I think any of those guesses are pretty good. Um,
Mercedes chief laughs at, uh, Apple's rumored self driving electric car. This is posted
by Victoria's secret on the forum. So our original article here is from motoring.com.au
and uh, basically the statement was something along the lines of, you know, if Mercedes
announced that they were building a phone, would Apple be shaking in their boots? No.
And for that reason, we were also not concerned about Apple trying to become an automaker.
Um, Apple's not accustomed to the low margins and the auto-making automotive space, uh,
blippity bloopity bloppity. What I kind of have to say about that is, um, don't get caught
with your pants. I was just going to say that's the wrong company to like spit at when they're
trying to do something. It's just like, I don't know. That's silly. Also they're electronic
cars. It's a very different space. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it's a budding brand new space.
Not an established, you know, a hundred year old business the way that internal combustion
engine cars are. And like, yeah, they've been making electric cars for a long time, but
like the, like people actually buying hordes of them is a very new thing. Yeah. No, no.
The technology is not that new. Just like the internal combustion engine wasn't new
when someone put it in a car. Um, but the it's, it's happening now. Yeah. The business
is changing very, very rapidly. It's in its infancy right now. So, um, I don't know. Just
reading this, I was like, dude, yeah, no, I don't know. Like maybe Mercedes doesn't
have to worry because Mercedes will probably still sell cars. But like if Apple fully does
get into that, I'm like there, there is interesting statements in here where we don't actually
know what the goal is of Apple getting into cars. They might just be doing it to understand
more. Yes, people are right about that. Who knows? We don't actually have official statement
from them, but I would not be surprised at all if they were trying to make a car and
I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was awesome. So, so here's, here's kind of a funny thing.
Uh, blah, blah, blah. Cars. This is from the article. Cars cost a lot to develop and Apple
runs at a 25% return on investment while an exceptional ROI for our car company would
be 10%. So considering that income imbalance, um, I'm going to just guess Zechi was clearly
be mused by the concept of Apple becoming a car manufacturer. Right? So can I point
you at Apple owning a, what was it? Something like 80 plus percent of all the profits in
the smartphone space in spite of they're not even number one market share. Can I point
you at that? People have demonstrated time and time again that they're willing to pay
more for an Apple product and to ask people to pay a mere 15% more is well within the
realm of the possible. Yeah. Can you think about that? So on a car purchase, let's say
your car is, let's say it's $40,000. So like entry level is often within like the haggling
price at a lot of dealerships. Mind you, Apple won't haggle. No, but I'm saying, I'm just
saying like that's, yeah. So let's say $40,000 would be kind of like the entry level
for like a pretty nice vehicle sort of. That's where that's about what Tesla's, uh, aiming
for with their upcoming afford 35 on those lines. If Apple asked for, you know, 4,800,
you don't think they would win anyone over. You're spending 40,000 already. You might
spend an extra 7,500, 8,000. Uh, they might have a champagne gold finish on it. Um, I
think, I think you're basically an idiot to not think that Apple can get another 15% out
of a customer. So there's that people are mad at you because they're saying it's 15%
more on a car and on a phone. So it is a much bigger dollar value. He knows that. I just
said that. And people are also mad at you because they're saying it's 15% more than
a Mercedes. He also knows that. Yeah, I know that too. I mean, 15% more on an iPhone is
15% more than a galaxy, which is also, you know, a luxury, you know, flagship smartphone
that doesn't change the fact that people are going to give Apple more of their money. That's
just how it is. I don't. Okay. An extra hundred or two is a lot easier to get than an extra
couple of thousand dollars, but you're also making much different style of investments
and you'd be saving in different ways and possibly getting loans and stuff. That's right.
And when you, and remember, remember the way that automakers sell cars is with that monthly
number. Yeah. Okay. So when we're talking two 29 a month versus two 49 a month. Yeah.
Come on man. It doesn't sound that bad when you hear it at that scale. That's right. And
that's going to be your 48 months or 60 month financing or whatever the case may be. I don't
think, I don't think even Apple is, has enough hubris to imagine that people are just going
to plug down cash for their cars every time they buy them. They're going to have financing
options available. They're going to be attractive. Look at the way Apple has been building relationships
with the banks. You think they're not going to be able to figure out a way to make that
happen? I think they will. So yeah, watch out guys. Watch out. YouTube. This was originally
posted by Overlord and our article here is from Engadget. Wall Street Journal. YouTube
isn't making money even with a billion viewers. Oh God. Is that Nick again? I don't know.
Someone was at the door. Is it locked? No. We only lock it when we're doing other things
in here. Yeah. Yeah. Shouldn't be a problem. So despite Gangnam Style having over 2 billion
views, hosting countless other viral clips and netting over a billion users per month,
YouTube can't seem to turn a profit. How's that? Well, blah, blah, blah. There's a lot
of infrastructure costs. A lot of YouTubers are circumventing the 45% YouTube tax by selling
their own advertising. Also, it's hard to sell and this is, this is one of the big reasons
why we are actually looking into Vessel as a video platform. Google has a hard time selling
ads at reasonable CPMs for online video. So without giving you guys exact numbers that
will be sort of helpful to you, but I'm going to try and be helpful to you without giving
away anything that I'm not allowed to say as part of my agreement with YouTube. Looking
at what someone like Vessel is claiming they can accomplish by offering curated content,
so just from creators that they hand select and from not, from having what they're hoping
I guess, more similar to broadcast TV is a more diverse audience. So one of the big problems
for YouTube according to the article is that, what was it, 9% of viewers make up 85% of
the traffic, which is horrendous. I mean, an advertiser is not going to pay as much
for that versus more unique impressions. So Vessel, let's just say, let's just say multiple
times higher CPMs. So that could be anywhere from, is two technically a multiple? I guess
I think so. So anywhere from two to more than two. Let's just say that much. I don't want
to say any more than I can. I think that's pretty safe. So being able to offer much higher,
being able to sell ads at very low CPMs means that even though YouTube has to show you the
viewer a lot of ads and has algorithms on the back end that optimize how many ads they're
showing you without fatiguing you as a viewer to the point where you just quit your browsing
session, even with that, thanks to the very low CPMs, they are not able to turn a profit
and that's where competing video platforms may have an opportunity to take a crack at
them. But of course, the sheer audience size of YouTube is still going to make it a very
attractive platform for content creators. And while we are very interested in Vessel,
if you haven't heard of it, these guys reached out to us about a month ago and pretty much
the way it works is your content would be on Vessel and also on YouTube, but it would
go up to Vessel first. So they've actually got some very, very significant, just from
the thumbnails back here, you guys should recognize some very familiar faces. So yeah,
could be, it could be, it could be a pretty interesting, it could be a pretty interesting
thing. So we are definitely considering moving, maybe not all channels, but at least some
of our content over to Vessel. And so YouTube will still get the release, but it might get
it anywhere from, I think three days to a week is what content creators are typically
doing. I guess this is also a good opportunity to talk about some of the changes that YouTube's
made recently that are generating, maybe not a ton, but at least some animosity from their
content creators. So YouTube is kind of going, hey, you know, those ads that you guys are
selling yourselves, that's really going to affect the way that we're going to be able
to monetize our content because we can't, our algorithms for how many ads people are
watching and you know, how that affects their viewing experience. Hey, those don't work
if we're not controlling the ad placement. So we need you guys going through the proper
channels to do your advertising. Oh, I have a note from Ghost. Maybe I should explain
what CPM means. That's how many dollars are you're selling for per thousand views, cost
per mil, not million, mil, like a thousand. Yeah. So, so blah, blah, blah, right. So,
so they don't want content creators baking in their own ads, but from our side, looking
at what a typical video CPM would be, what we get through something like AdSense is not
even close to comparable and would not help us sustain our business. And we don't have
access as creators to tools where we could, you know, like, you know how a pre-roll will
run across, you know, a video, whether it's Nike or McDonald's or whatever else, we don't
have access to fill those slots ourselves. Like we don't have the dashboard that would
let us sell our own ads and then populate those spots. So the only options we have are
to bake things into the content. So, so basically for the longest time, it's been kind of Wild
West content creators have been able to largely do whatever they wanted, even though a lot
of what people have done is technically against the rules, no one's ever really cracked down
on it. And so now all of a sudden they're taking that capability away from us, which
means that we have to find over the next little while, some new creative ways to, to make
sure that, you know, I don't have to lay off all of my staff and stop making YouTube videos
and get a job flipping burgers in order to, to keep the lights on and keep this whole
operation going. So I sympathize with YouTube and I understand, I totally understand the
reason they have to do this. Clean ad free content is much easier to sell ads against
when you, so that you're not overwhelming the viewer. Yeah. But the flip side of that
is they haven't given us the tools and they haven't given us the capability to, to sell
our own ads at reasonable CPMs and they haven't provided the CPMs that we need to keep growing
our operation on. So there's a bit of a, there's a bit of a trust gap, I would say on, on my
side anyway, where YouTube doesn't work with me directly at all. I know a lot of creators,
my size or even significantly smaller where YouTube is in communication with them. But
other than a blog post that I did back in 2010, I want to say, about finding your niche
and it was on like the, the creator's blog or whatever the equivalent was back then.
I have never heard from YouTube except when I've reached out like, Hey, I never got my
silver subscriber plaque. Could I get that? And like stuff like that. Super not helpful
actually. Or Hey, my channel got hijacked. Can you take a month to get it back to me?
That'd be great. Thanks. Like that kind of thing. So, so yeah, I don't know. I feel like,
so they, they have some ideas. They're hoping that their music, music key and some other
ideas can help turn a profit through YouTube. I think there's, there's a lot of potential
to, to, to create, you know, like a premium, a premium YouTube where people pay a monthly
subscription or pay whatever for, for ad free access, for example. And I mean, maybe that,
maybe this is a precursor to that. You know, that's why they need to remove the ads that
are baked into the content. So people don't complain, Hey, I'm paying for this premium
YouTube access. I'm still seeing ads. So creating a better user experience, all that stuff like
totally get why they're doing it. It just means that we're going to have to look for
other creative ways to make sure that our business doesn't suffer. And, you know, my
employees and children continue to eat and all that stuff in the meantime. So expect
to see, you know, us try out potentially, you know, other video services like vessel
expect to see us, you know, have more merch available in the next little bit. Expect to
see us pushing the whole changing your Amazon link to one with our affiliate code thing
over the next little bit. There's going to be some new ideas we're rolling out on the
forum to make the community a little bit more fun to participate in as well as see if we
can drive a little bit more revenue there because I don't know if a lot of you know
this, but Google actually cut off our AdSense on the forum a couple of months ago. It has
been generating zero revenue for a couple months other than our contributors who are
just, I mean, for contributors, we don't have a lot of perks for them. They just contribute
out of the goodness of their hearts and to support us. And that's the only thing keeping
the site going and contributing to the time that we spend on it behind the scenes as well.
So most of the times outside of hours, most of the times outside of hours and like, so
yeah, we just, we're going to need some, we're going to need some new ideas. We do have cool
stuff coming. We do have cool stuff coming. I've been saying that for a little while,
but like it's actually very close. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. One last thing because we're
getting kind of overtime by a bit. If you scroll down a fair amount. Yeah. I want to
show you something. It's, it's at the end of the main. Can I just mention this dying
light thing? Yeah. Okay. Posted by nine shadow. You want to show the, yeah, yeah. There's
a dying light edition for 250,000 pounds. Um, that comes with a zombie proof shelter.
You also get to go hang out with the devs and like a bunch of other stuff and they let
you win. Custom built zombie proof shelter provided by tiger log cabins. Uh, people thought
it was a joke is not a joke. It's like the, uh, whoa. You get your face, you get your
face in the game. Only one, my apocalypse edition will be sold and it's available exclusively
through the UK retailer game. Unbelievable. Okay. We can move on to the next thing. Uh,
it's kind of like the saints row thing where they sold like the car or whatever. Okay.
So scroll a lot of the way down. It's just before the, it's right here. Oh, okay. Yeah,
sure. Um, Seattle police body cam. Do you want to start talking about it? I don't know
anything about it. Okay. So I don't know a ton about it. It was, uh, one of my buddies
sent it to me like way earlier today and I've had a few tweets and stuff about it. Um, but
apparently the Seattle PD actually has a YouTube channel for their body cam footage. It's now
there. It's actually been a lot easier for them to, uh, handle. Uh, they, they have some
new method where it used to take them about 60 minutes to like properly blur out everything
in the shots and whatnot for a minute of footage. And now, uh, they can do it a lot faster.
I don't know exactly where the spec is for that, but they can do it way faster. There's
an example video in here of some of their footage. Um, yeah, so they're now actually
using YouTube. So yeah, you'll see, you'll see like, uh, you can see a lot of what's
going on to be completely honest, but you'll see like when it, when it kind of peers up
at people, it blurs them out a little bit and stuff. And there's a lot of stuff that's
like purposely blurred out, but you can kind of see what's going on. So it's a, it's a
proper body cam and then yeah, they, when it, when it kind of points up, it blurs out
a lot and then once it comes back down, it, it lessens the blur by quite a bit. Interesting.
Yeah. So there you go. You came up with the solution that I totally said was ridiculous
and shouldn't be a viable solution. It probably shouldn't be, it probably shouldn't be, but
you know, whatever. Apparently it took half a data process, four hours of raw video, which
is a lot better than 60 minutes for one minute. You know what I've like, you know what kind
of baffles me is that there isn't a tool for just like, seriously, can someone, can someone
come up with this YouTube, you know, while I'm, you know, complaining about you not giving
creators tools. Why isn't there a way for us to blur something out after the fact? Yeah.
Like really, why isn't there just a tool for like in real time while we're watching a video,
we just have like a, like a blur brush and like we just hold down and like move around
according to the video to blur something like that seems like, it seems like the kind of
thing that should have like obviously been a thing for years. Like the blurring tools
that, that are built into programs like premiere and Vegas are all like this key frame based
stupid complete stupidity that has, that is takes so long compared to like if I just had
like a mouse scroll wheel and that changed the size dynamically. So I could just play
the video at like half speed or something and then I could just like change the size
and follow something around on screen to blur it. That would solve 99% of it. Have it add
like five seconds before and five seconds afterwards so that your delayed click gets
taken care of. Like it is unbelievable to me that tools like that don't exist. Done.
The Apple watch event is announced for March the ninth. This was posted by overlord on
the forum. Tim Cook has some pretty bold statements to make about the Apple watch in general.
Something along the lines of, you know, it will replace your wallet, it will replace
your car keys, it will do important things that make you happy. My response to that is
maybe the third gen one will because that first gen one is a gigantic turd if it's only
going to have like four hours of screen time. So spring forward is the the announcement.
Select media have been invited. Of course we have not. Oh, uh, is our, is our camera
working? That would be a pretty convenient time to stop the stream. Um, okay. All right.
Outro. Uh, well, hold on. Let's just see if there's anything else that we should be talking
about. Uh, but yeah, that's fine. Uh, so this, this is, this is cool. 60% on a, on a nine
to five Mac readers poll. So out of 3,100 peoples are not satisfied with current gen
iPhone battery life and want Apple to thicken the next iPhone to improve battery life. I
agree with them a hundred percent. I don't understand why we need a cat, why we compromise
on a camera bump, but we won't compromise on just making it a little bit thicker. Yeah.
Uh, that was posted by op code. Um, this is interesting. Intel will rebrand the atom processor
to X three X five index seven. Um, because they didn't have enough overlap with BMWs
naming already. Yeah, seriously. Yay. Just get it over with and become one company already.
So can you guys just, you know, sleep together? Just go get a room so that this stops being
awkward for everyone else. Thank you. Um, Google's new AI has already learned how to
crush us at 49 games. Uh, so this was without being actually a gaming AI posted by Rohit
Kumar SP. Um, so this is sort of similar to the conversation that Luke and I had a little
while ago about how, um, all I could figure out how to do was identify the idea of cat,
which is actually really impressive, but it's actually kind of a big deal and was actually
a pretty old experiment by the time that that he was saying that. Yeah. So, uh, so what
was it? How many games? Like 29, hold on. Uh, no, there were, there were a significant
29 games. It surpassed the performance of expert humans and outperformed the best known
algorithmic methods for completing games in 43 instances out of 49 games total. So the
AI just kind of spent all its time playing old arcade games and learned how to play them.
It's not a gaming specific AI. It's an AI built to try to find better ways to do things
in general. And just a really easy way to do that is to throw Atari 2,600 games at it
is they're very formulaic. Yeah. So what's cool. So they gave, um, they automatically
rewarded the AI with like a treat for getting, for passing levels and getting high scores
in the same way that you'll get like, um, you'll get a chemical rush whenever you feel
like you accomplished something. Um, so yeah, pretty freaking cool. So here was the machine
strategy when it first got, got its hands on breakout. Yeah. This is actually pretty
sick once it gets a little bit further in. I don't think it goes any further in. It's
just showing us. Oh, I've seen a different gift then. Yeah. So it's just showing us like
it didn't really know what to do at first, but if it gets, but if you give it a reward
every time it scores or beats a level, then, uh, it figures out how to do better. Okay.
I'm supposed to do this and then, Oh, okay. I can do this faster, better or whatever.
Yeah. Fascinating. All right. So thank you guys. Oh, is there anything else you wanted
to talk about? Nope. Okay. Thank you guys very much for tuning into the WAN show. We
hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thanks to our sponsors, HyperX, Massdrop, and XSplit,
and we will see you guys again next time. Bye. You gotta play the outro thing. I will.
There it goes. Oh, there it goes. Apparently there's no sound.
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yeah, I think I just have to select a different, um,
So the audio devices on this thing just went completely haywire. Yeah. Hold on. Let's,
let's try it. Let's try it again. Let's try it again. So, uh, I can't hear it anymore,
but I bet they can. We're still broadcasting.
Yeah. Yeah. There's sound. So yeah, we fixed the sound on the outro. Anyway.
Yeah. All right. Good night, everyone. Bye.