Damn it, it looks like I have a hickey.
But it's actually just me scratching my neck right before the show started.
And on that note, the show has now started.
Welcome to the WAN Show.
Oh, this is awesome.
I messaged Brandon about 10 minutes ago, hey, can I borrow you for a minute?
I'm at the WAN Show set, and he pokes his head out the door as I'm recording the pre-show
starting bit deal, and thinks that I'm live, and goes back away.
And then I message him right afterwards when I was done, I'm like, oh, hey, I'm ready for
you now.
It takes him like eight minutes to see it, now he comes out, I'm actually live.
Brandon, I just wanted you to have a look at the color temperature of this light.
It looks off.
It's been on for quite some time.
Is it adjustable?
It's like, there's like voodoo magic that goes on around here, adjustable color temperatures
of lights.
He's actually kickstarted some legitimately color changing lights that are gonna be like,
now you can adjust the white point, you can adjust the color point.
I'm clearly just stalling for time while I wait for this dock to load up on my screen
here.
But that's okay, because it's here now.
We've got a lot of great topics for you guys today.
Luke's gonna be joining me on the show very, very shortly.
He's actually just finishing up a video right behind me there.
Yep, he's there.
See, trust me, it is the actual Luke.
Do I look better now?
I'm like really bright now.
But that's okay.
That's fine.
Don't worry about it, Brandon.
It's all good.
So we've got a lot of great stuff for you guys today.
AMD's Ryzen, did I say it right this time?
Ryzen has been detailed, it's gonna be octa-core 2.4 gigahertz dynamic overclocking, we will
talk more about that for sure.
Amazon's first prime air delivery has taken place.
Microsoft is bringing Cortana to fridges, toasters, thermostats, and space marine suits
near you.
And Crytek is sinking.
Wages unpaid, talent leaving.
Will there be another crisis?
I mean, yes, but not with a why.
So let's go ahead and roll the intro, which has no audio, long story, couldn't get it
working.
I'm going to use this time to post to Facebook that we are starting the WAN show.
Only audio on the left channel?
How does that work?
How do these things change?
Who changes these things?
Hold on a second, wait, what, how, how is this even possible?
How is anything that, it doesn't even have the, there's like a feature, there's a feature
in Xplit to mix them together.
Oh, here we go, copy left to right, let's try that, it was on automatic.
I don't know, go try that, go let me know.
Why is life hard?
Speaking of life being hard, Squarespace makes it so that your life is not so hard.
If that is to say, if your life is making a website on Squarespace.
Also iFixit, which again, maybe doesn't make your life easier, but does make your life
cheaper, which maybe came across wrong, but you save money, so there you go, you save
money on your repairs, so it's like it's harder to do it yourself, but you don't have to pay
someone else to do it.
But it's easier than if you didn't have the necessary, you know what, I give up, let's
just cancel Wanshow this week.
No, I can't do it, no, not because I'm sick.
No we're not canceling Wanshow, I'm back, I'm back.
All right, non-existent human figures, his or her left ear is now more used than his
or her right ear, you know what, I take no responsibility for any of that, Brendan I
think it looks fine now, thank you very much for your hard work, except for that bounce
card, oh okay, thank you very much, yes you may retrieve the bounce card.
You know, Brandon and I had a deal, we had a deal when we moved into this warehouse,
the deal was that he would get his very own corner of this 6,000 square foot space that
I acquired, and if I allocated him that corner, I wouldn't have to deal with all of his crap
all over the place, that was the deal, that covenant, that covenant, Brandon, has been
broken.
The only reason he doesn't have his spot is because it has taken him over a year to get
the set built in it, he had a budget from before we moved in to get that done, he just
didn't get it done, also, oh I have some other things that we just couldn't get done, news
for you guys, this one's really exciting, and closely related to the audio issues that
we had shortly before the show started here, so Focusrite, I don't know if you're familiar
with them, but they make, we actually have one of their doodads here, and the only reason
we're not using it is because we've had issues with our compressor and the microphone that
we've had hooked up to it, anyway, Focusrite reached out to us, and this is kind of funny,
they reached out about doing a review of some of their gear, and I kind of went, you know
what, I don't think that it is going to carry a lot of credibility if I come in and start
reviewing professional audio gear, and they're like, oh, yeah, you know what, get out of
here, you're supposed to be not on the show right now.
So they're like, oh, why is that?
And I go, well, you see, we've got this live show, and we can never get the audio working,
and it's taken literally years, and they kind of go, oh, well, we could help you with that.
And I'm like, well, heck yeah.
So the plan right now is for them to come down here next week, and we are going to share
with you guys all in one video everything that we've done to improve WAN Show over the
last little bit here.
So the new capture cards, you've noticed, actually, for the last couple of months, we
haven't had any capture issues.
The new lighting setup that we've got, actually, the lights themselves didn't change, but it's
really quick to set up now, which is pretty freaking cool.
We are completely redoing the WAN Show computer.
So Corsair's given us their new case, and we're going to do up the WAN Show PC.
And finally, Focusrite is coming in to, they are actually sending technicians, not just
gear.
They were like, yeah, we could send you all the gear you want.
I'm like, that's great.
We have gear.
That's really not the problem.
So they are sending us actual techs, either one or two, to come and not just set everything
up for us, but actually show us how it all works.
So I'm super duper excited, and it is going to be freaking awesome.
And with all these improvements, says JohnD03, why is the show still late?
Well, today the show is late because I had the brilliant idea of not working on the video
I was supposed to be working on today, which is a review of the Asus G20, which is freaking
awesome so far.
I mean, review's not out.
Take this as early impressions, okay?
So let me just bring this, I thought I had the page up already.
Yeah, here it is.
Let's go ahead and screen share here.
So this puppy right here.
So take this as the early impressions that it is.
The G20CB, man, their names suck, but it's really small, about 10 liters, I think, nine
and a half liters.
It's got a Core i7 6700 in it.
And the model I've got has a GTX 1080 with 512 gigs of SSD storage and one terabyte of
hard drive-based storage, and it is unbelievably quiet for all the performance they have managed
to pack in that tiny little enclosure.
I'm really, really impressed so far.
Anyway, so instead of working on that, I was like, you know what'd be cool?
If I could find a way to get OS X Sierra running on a legitimately powerful laptop.
I was like, I'm going to try and hackintosh a laptop today.
And I ran into a wide variety of problems, everything from Apple's download server being
so slow, it took me an hour to download OS X Sierra on a gigabit connection.
So there was that.
There was the, I'm doing it through Unrate, I'm actually doing it through a VM.
Which might actually be easier for you.
Yes.
And I was like step-by-step guide, which is pretty much what I need to do any hackintosh
stuff because I'm not an experienced hackintosher.
The last time we did a hackintosh thing, I very closely followed a step-by-step guide
and still had problems.
Yeah.
So what were some of the other problems I had today?
Oh yes, right.
So the guide was based on creating the Sierra installer on Yosemite, I believe, or El Capitan
or something like that.
So the disk utility has changed and then I wasn't able to create an image doing a thing.
Anyway, the original image I created was on a 64 gig USB drive, so it was a 64 gig image
because I'm an idiot.
And it was one of those, I'm in a rush, so I'm doing things that are dumb and it's not
working very well types of days today.
Those are always brutal.
Yeah.
Not that you'd know anything about that today.
Yup.
If I'm going to be under the bus, I'm pulling you down with me, buddy.
That's fair.
I was trying to do a, I'm not going to tell you exactly what it is, but I was trying to
do a video on a laptop thing that I was doing.
It included a laptop and I'm going to go back and keep working on it now, but the brightness
was so low that trying to record it with a camera showed like crazy flickering.
And then I was like, I was the genius who came in and was like, Hey, why don't we just
capture it on a separate device?
And then, uh, yeah, it doesn't have an HDMI port, so VGA.
I don't think we have a single VGA capture device.
All right.
So get back to it.
Get back to what you're doing.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Everybody wants me to talk about AMD Ryzen, which is not the same as the Ryzen from Breaking
Bad in that it won't kill you.
Um, I am going to start with this.
So first of all, let's go ahead and HK zero five was the original poster on the forum
and the source for the article here was, um, video cards.com.
Here's a bunch of information.
Um, I'm going to kick off with this.
That name is terrible.
They might as well have brought back Duron as far as I'm concerned.
Nobody is going to pronounce that rise in it's risen.
Why are you?
And like, why would you even draw attention to something that your fans have been in denial
of for so long?
Why would you call the product risen?
Because let's face it, it is not rising.
It is risen.
Why would you call it risen?
That is an admission that you had fallen somewhere.
How many people are going to be disappointed about that?
Anyway, from the look of things, there's nothing to be disappointed about spec wise.
So we've got, um, here we go.
Where's the information on this page?
Here we go.
So the key info is here, eight cores, 16 threads, 3.4 gigahertz plus they've done some comparisons.
They've done some demos that lead us to believe it is something similar to Broadwell in terms
of the performance per clock, which would make this a very compelling CPU.
If it comes in at the right kind of price, 20 megs of level two and level three cash
and extended frequency range.
So some kind of a turbo boost or like GPU boost like technology that will reward users
who are cooling the CPU well, um, fully automated apparently with no user intervention required,
which is pretty cool.
Okay.
A bunch of, uh, caching stuff that, that, that, that, that, that, that, uh, temperature
speed and voltage monitoring and adaptively controls all of that stuff in real time for
lower power usage.
So that's cool.
Fine grain frequency control boost.
I mean, the reality of it is there's not a whole lot to say about a CPU, um, other than
that, like, yes, it's fast and it's power efficient.
So as long as you've got that stuff nailed down, then if the price is right, then you've
got my attention.
Here we go.
The AM4 platform, this honestly is more out of date than AMD's existing CPU's from a purely
performance standpoint.
Um, no, sorry, AM4 is not, AM3 plus was, I mean it was still PCI express 2.0 for crying
out loud.
AMD has been building GPU's designed to work best on an Intel platform for like three,
four years now, like a long, long time.
So finally AMD is bringing the platform up to date DDR4 and it looks like we're going
to get four slots there.
So dual channel DDR4 by the look of things, PCI express gen three, USB 3.1 gen two.
So 10 gigabit USB, NVMe, SATA express, I guess AMD didn't get the memo when they were working
on AM4 that SATA express is completely dead in the water, but that's okay.
That's okay.
They're still not going to have Intel exclusive technologies like Thunderbolt, but I mean
this is, um, this is actually almost an entirely separate discussion for WAN show.
Does Thunderbolt matter much?
And you can look at, um, you can look at a variety of different indicators that tell
us what industry leaders think of Thunderbolt.
So Apple equipped the latest Mac book pro with anywhere from two to on most skews for
Thunderbolt three ports.
But they also did this in a way that to me indicates that they don't, they were just
trying to give their users the utmost in expandability and flexibility moving forward in terms of
what they can plug into those ports because they're type C ports that support USB 3.1 gen
two.
So that's 10 gigabit Thunderbolt three.
So that's 40 gigabit as well as HDMI, a display port, all that stuff.
So the idea was just like the ultimate versatility, um, like simplifying life for the Mac user.
Just you plugged your power, you plug your display, you plug anything into this and boopity
boppity blah.
This works except for one thing.
Apple apparently didn't think the actual Thunderbolt three functionality was important enough to
bother to have their laptop work with any Thunderbolt three devices that are on the
market.
I don't know if you guys have been paying attention to this, but go shop for a Thunderbolt
three peripheral that certified to work on the Mac book pro.
You won't find one.
And the reason for that, and I cover this in my Mac book pro review, which is coming
to youtube I think sometime next week, something like that.
Anyway, my Mac book pro review is coming, but I cover this and all the Thunderbolt three
devices out there right now are running a first generation Texas instruments chip set
for USB power delivery and all that nonsense.
And Apple specifically locked out any devices using that first generation chip set from
working in OS 10 Sierra on the Mac book pro.
So you can, you can boot windows, you can bootcamp into windows and you can run a razor
core or we've got an a kitty Oh external drive enclosure that works just fine.
You plug it in an OS 10 nothing.
It doesn't even give you an error.
It's not even like, Oh, Hey, so we're a bunch of like butt heads and we decided not to validate
for that older control.
I suspect there's a reason it might have to do with the, um, because it's a, like it's
a power management, like it's a power delivery circuit of some sort.
Like it manages, it might have something to do with the way that the Mac book charges
on any of the ports or, or something.
Or it could have something to do with the fact that I believe it also handles USB connectivity
and it only handles a USB 3.1 gen one speeds.
Like maybe it was like for the most seamless possible experience, everything that works
in this port is, is 10 gigabit USB three or that funny.
I don't know.
I'm trying to find a reason for them, but maybe Phil Schiller will post somewhere and
he'll talk to the verge and he'll say, Linus is an idiot.
He got it wrong.
There's a thousand reasons why this makes perfect sense, but it works in windows and
it doesn't even bother to give you an error message in OS 10 so, so what this means, what
I'm coming back to is Apple apparently thought it was important enough to put on their laptop,
but didn't think it was important enough for there to actually be any Thunderbolt devices
that plug into it for like weeks after the launch.
And maybe, maybe they weren't wrong because I was looking, I was actually trying to find
some Thunderbolt three docs cause I wanted to do like a roundup or something on Amazon.
And that was when I realized there was this whole issue cause I couldn't find any.
And what I realized was 99% of anything I could possibly want to do on a laptop, even
high speed external storage at 10 gigabit, I mean we're talking one gigabyte per second.
There's nothing, eight K red footage doesn't require more than one gigabyte per second
to a nice high performance USB type C SSD.
There's nothing that requires this.
And why would you want to plug anything into it that wasn't first party Macintosh anyways?
Really?
You came onto the show to contribute that.
Why are you even here?
Why even bother?
I'm bringing the hardcore arguments, okay?
So anyway, everything else.
So there's my dongle that, it's not in my bag cause I was actually doing something on
the MacBook just a minute ago, but I've got a dongle that does SD, micro SD, HDMI, three
USB 3.0s.
I think it's actually sweet.
And power in, pass through.
And I'm sitting here going, so that's like all the IO that I would have already had on
like a laptop that has IO, just like that.
And I've got three more.
Yeah, plus this doesn't even have an SD card reader.
And I've got three.
Oh yeah.
It has ethernet too.
It's a really cool adapter.
I'm going to have a video coming anyway.
And I've got three more that I can plug in like a type C to display port or a type C
to another display port.
Bam.
Now I've got dual external monitor.
I've still got one more.
So what do I actually need Thunderbolt 3 for?
And so I guess Apple kind of had the same thought is like, what, what is this actually
for?
I mean, I would even say 0.5% of users are ever going to plug into a MacBook Pro is handled
just fine by USB.
So bringing it all the way back to AMD's platform, not having support for Thunderbolt 3.
Does that matter?
Remains to be seen, but I would speculate that it will only affect some very, very niche
edge cases.
And most people won't care.
The main one for me on a laptop is support for an external GPU, because I think that's
the future.
As the price comes down for those external GPU enclosures, I mean, Alienwares is only
a couple of hundred bucks.
That's a lot more reasonable and the inter-compatibility gets way better.
That to me is how people are going to game in the future.
It's just like, we're not there yet.
In total?
Yeah.
You think everyone's going to be on laptops with external GPUs?
I think to make a prediction, like everyone will do anything would be shooting myself
in the foot, because someone's going to find this clip.
Maybe even not a large percentage of people for a long time, because you got to think
about the upgrade cycle, right?
People aren't going to want to just throw out a perfectly functional computer.
And the rate at which CPU performance is increasing, there's a lot of very perfectly functional
computers that are three, four years old at this point.
But I think, and especially looking at Skylake versus Kaby Lake, the performance increase
we're seeing, even on the laptop side of things, I think people are going to start to think
about in the next two to three years, gee, this laptop I have is still pretty darn good.
I just wish I could game on it.
And those are going to get cheaper and they're going to go, this makes a ton of sense.
And people are going to start to invest in it.
And Ed's doing a lot of gaming on his laptop already.
So it's an interesting, and like with, with blades being able to play like pretty much
kind of everything.
Yeah.
It's an interesting idea.
All right.
So, um, there you guys have it risen or rise in, you know what?
I am stubbornly calling it the Titan XP forever.
I think I'm going to stubbornly call it risen forever.
I think, I think I'm going to commit to that.
So you guys let me know in Twitch chat, if you, uh, if you, if you hate that, but, uh,
I don't think any of you will, I think you guys are probably going to be with me on this
one.
All right.
What other important topics do we have today?
The iPhone 6s reportedly explodes post charging.
The original article here is from yahoo.com.
That is a super big bummer for Nick light who just bought my old iPhone 6s off me.
What a loser and it's pink.
Oh, I hate that guy.
Um, so what, uh, what do we got in here?
Apple announced that it will be releasing an iOS update next week that will allow them
to better diagnose any battery issues.
On December 6th reports of exploding iPhone surfaced in China.
You know, we do have to, of course, you know, take this with a grain of salt because there
have been cases of exploding iPhones in the past that, and again, I'm making up statistics
on the spot, but it seems to me that well over half of them have been caused by unauthorized
third party chargers that were doing a bad job of managing apples, you know, proprietary
battery management algorithm nonsense.
So let's kind of keep an eye on this, but allegedly the Shanghai consumer council has
received eight separate reports of iPhones exploding, adding that it had seen a big rise
in the number of complaints against iPhones in the past two months.
On Friday and iPhone success started spewing immediately after it was unplugged from charging
then went up in flames.
I'm assuming smoke is missing from that sentence in my notes.
Apple blames the problem on ambient air during the manufacturing process said the problem
is limited to a small number of iPhone success devices manufactured between September and
October 2015.
Moving on to our next topic, this was originally posted by dat speed on the forum.
Facebook is now partnering with fact checkers to stop fake news.
The original article here is from the verge and basically they're, they're creating some
new tools for reporting hoaxes and as much as they've denied any responsibility for having
any kind of effect on the outcome of the 2016 us election, it seems as though internally
at least they are taking very seriously what others are alleging and that is that they
did have an effect.
So in a nutshell, here's what they're doing.
They've got tools that are designed to make it easier to report links shared in the news
feed as fake news and they're working with four independent fact checking organizations
to assess the accuracy of viral stories, Snopes, PolitiFact, ABC News and factcheck.org.
Facebook users who share a story that's been marked as false will be warned that independent
fact checkers have disputed its accuracy.
Facebook will use a variety of signals to identify stories that are likely to be false.
So this includes stories that people post but later delete and also includes lots of
comments about them being fake.
They will use these and other signals to populate a dashboard of dubious stories and fact checking
partners will get access to the dashboard.
They will then investigate the article's claims and mark it as disputed and link to their
own article debunking it.
If at least two fact checking organizations mark a story as disputed, users will begin
seeing a banner under the article if it appears in their news feed and we've got a picture
of what that banner would look like.
So here we go.
Let me just blow that up for you guys.
Disputed by third party fact checkers.
What else is going on here?
Yeah.
Facebook's product management lead Adam Masseri said they are focusing their efforts on the
worst of the worst clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain.
They also said they're doing more to eliminate financial incentives behind fake news.
So we'll also prevent publishers that use spoof domains like buzzfeedfeed.com or abcnewscom.co
from buying ads on the platform.
So honestly I don't know how much of an effect this will have.
How do I put this?
I'm trying to stay more apolitical on the show.
So certain people seem to be impervious to, here I'll put it in quotes, facts presented
by outlets that they have been convinced somehow are out to lie to them about everything.
And you know what?
Depending on which way your political leanings go, you could interpret that from either side.
So I think I've stayed fairly safe here.
But basically it's a well established phenomena that's going on right now.
Phenomenon?
Yeah, so just one.
That there are these echo chambers on the right and the left and that no one seems to
even if sort of an untrustworthy news source on one side or the other were to say something
that was factual, there's this inherent distrust that exists.
So I sincerely doubt that any kind of warning under an article in a newsfeed would really
do much of anything to cause the reader to not believe it.
And if anything, I think this is just going to create anger towards Facebook for being
part of the left wing liberal media dishonest whatever.
Or the other side as it were, if there are fake stories that, you know, if someone's
feed is just full of a bunch of stuff that Facebook's flagging as news, or as fake, and
they trust all these news sources, I think it's going to create distrust towards Facebook
as opposed to the other way around.
But I would love to be wrong about this.
So yeah, Twitch chat is not encouraging me.
They are basically going, yep, sounds about right.
People are going to believe what they want to believe.
So there's that.
Yeah, we've got people saying, hey, if it's worthy of being flagged as clearly fake, it
should be removed.
But then you're going to have, you know, the free speech, the people who don't quite understand
the difference between the right to free speech and the right to say whatever you want in
a private forum, you're going to have those people raising heck and all that stuff.
So this is a great question.
What about The Onion?
You know, that's a great question.
Like I personally probably wouldn't click on a satirical news story, like something
that The Onion would produce if it was flagged as fake news.
Do they classify satire separately?
Would fake news outlets hide behind satire?
These are all great questions and this is a very, this is a very, this is very challenging
water that Facebook is heading into.
I'm glad they're doing something, but I really think they're going to have a hard time finding
a middle ground that doesn't irk many, many of their users.
I mean, the good news for Facebook is they're in a position of power to do something like
this, where what else is there?
They're basically a social network monopoly.
It's like out of a hundred friends, you know, 10 of them might have WhatsApp, three of them
might have Google Hangouts, 15 of them might have Twitter, and I'm making up these numbers.
Don't quote me on these numbers, but like 95 of them probably have Facebook, even if
they don't use it super regularly.
So there you go.
It's like, it's like the modern white pages.
It's like, yeah, probably are listed on Facebook unless you like specifically went out of your
way to contact the white pages and you know, get your number removed.
Basically like that.
People are like, we want Luke.
They want you, Luke.
So that's one thing I have in common with our viewers is you're just going to step in
and contribute something completely worthless to my topic.
Once again, is that what you're up to?
No, I'm not talking about anything.
I'm not talking about anything.
No, forget it.
I'm talking about Facebook.
No, I'm not anymore.
Website.
Can you not bump the table and knock everything over?
Other than linustechtips.com that has ever been created.
The best.
They have the best.
Also, I heard that Colonel Mortis made Facebook.
He's the CEO.
That's why Linus Tech Tips is the only website that's better because he also basically runs
it.
All right.
Okay.
So speaking of the Linus Tech Tips website being awesome, oh, well there's a post that
I had meant to make on linustechtips.com last night and never did.
So speaking of Linus Tech Tips being awesome, this is a, what's it called, shameless, yes,
entirely shameless plug for the forum.
Actually, Luke, I do need your help for a minute.
I'm logged into my admin account.
Is there anything that I'm looking at right now that is incriminating?
Not right now.
Okay, cool.
I won't change the page.
I will not do that.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm good.
I'll be good.
So at some point, Luke is just going to take away my admin account on the forum.
I'm sure that it will happen and I'm sure that I will deserve it to have happened.
But basically right now, exclusively for float plane club members, nerd sports in its entirety.
We bought back the rights when vessel went kaput is up episodes one to five, volleyball,
lacrosse, dodgeball, hockey, and curling.
Watch the Linus media group crew take on, hi guys, thank you for that.
Actual athletes in all of those sports on the float plane club.
So if you guys are wondering how to join the float plane club, it is pretty straightforward.
All you do is head over to the Linus Tech Tips forum.
We've got an item on there in the store.
Ah, my nose is itchy.
Item on there in the store, float plane club.
There you go.
So you go ahead, you buy that item.
It's a subscription and you get early access to LTT videos.
We're building our own streaming platform, which Luke has been very hard at work on and
we've got it working up to 1080p streaming that users are reporting looks better than
YouTube's 1080p.
We've even had people telling us it looks better than their 4k, right?
Yeah.
And we're not done yet, by the way.
Shout out to Eric and Katman and Mortis and everyone else.
Shout out to Eric, Katboiler, Mortis, yep, that's fine.
I got it.
Yeah.
We're trying to get him to change his name.
Like maybe we should get like a change.org thing going.
Maybe everyone in chat suggests a new name for Katboiler.
Yeah.
New names for Katboiler.
That would be amazing.
I'm not.
Jake, even though he hasn't been on the slack in like a few weeks.
Yeah.
Um, all right.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for all the pilots.
Anyway, good news for everyone who doesn't want to join Floatplane Club though.
So while they're all up there so you can binge watch, you can also check them out on YouTube,
on the channel Super Fun Channel starting this weekend.
So we're going to be releasing them one per weekend for the next five weeks and everyone
will have access to Nerd Sports.
So we're, we're really excited to, uh, we're really excited to get that going.
Wow.
Most of these suggestions from Twitch chat are terrible.
Like beyond terrible.
Kat Griller, Kitty Boiler, Dog Roaster, Kat Vagina, Dog Freezer, Cow Wanker.
None of those are better.
Yeah.
None of those are.
Kat Diddler, Pussy Grabber, uh, yeah.
Kat Broiler.
We got, we got to do this.
Slightly different.
Um, Oh, okay.
Oh, okay.
Hold on.
Hold on.
We got to take, we got to take a short break here while Luke records part of his video.
And what I want you guys doing now, because all of your suggestions for Kat Boiler's name
are awful.
They're bad.
You should feel bad is I want you guys to try and figure out what video Luke is filming.
So I'm just going to be quiet for a moment here.
Restarting the computer took forever.
Two minutes and 13 seconds to be exact, go from clicking the restart button to having
Firefox up on the Linus Tech Tips page, and it didn't really get much better from there.
Loading Fox, it took a very long time to the point where I was worried that it wasn't going
to function at all steam.
I was actually 100% convinced failing all the way.
Restarting the computer took forever from pressing the restart button to having Firefox
loaded with the Linus Tech Tips homepage on it took two minutes and 13 seconds.
I could also go on ASMR on this.
Maybe we'll do the whole next topic like this.
Okay.
Crytek is sinking, wages unpaid, talent leaving.
The original poster for this was PatrickJP93 on the forum.
Now there have been rumors swirling around Crytek, makers of Far Cry, Crysis, Crysis
2, Crysis 3, and CryEngine.
I'm pretty sure they did other things too, but there's at least that going for them about
there being all kinds of instability, wages unpaid, but they've denied it and denied it
and denied it, and things that actually returned to stability until... I'm talking about something
else.
Get out of here.
What?
So things had been financially stable at Crytek until June of this year.
Around that time, Crytek's Frankfurt office discovered that they weren't going to be paid
on time, the upper management ensured employees that all financial problems would be worked
out by August 2016 and that there would be enough money to remain stable for at least
18 months.
Payroll was two weeks late for July and August, September came and payroll was five weeks
late.
Wages for October and November have yet to be paid, December's pay is due in about three
weeks time.
Get Guru reports that their source says there has been no indication of financial issues
until June of this year, but those still at the Frankfurt office have submitted a legal
letter to management informing them that if wages for October, November, and December
aren't paid in full by the end of next week, they will stop working.
Those at the Budapest studio have apparently already stopped turning up to work.
The company has about 700 employees, though it's hard to say if they actually have those
employees if they aren't paying them.
If I stopped paying you guys, would I still have you?
Thanks for that, Berkel.
That wasn't for Linus Media Group, Linus Media Group accepts no responsibility for any of
that.
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No you can't, because then that would bring out my audio tube and that would suck.
Okay, I'm waiting, I have to do a pick up thing, but it's cool.
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It's a trick.
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That's actually how that would work though.
It's like, yeah Linus, you know, I mean it's great.
You had one really good day.
And now we're just not going to pay you anymore, because you're clearly done.
Everyone on Earth has a Squarespace website now.
So the gig's up.
There's no more advertising to be done.
All right, let's move on to iFixit.
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It doesn't have all the stuff that their ProTech Toolkit does, which I love, by the way, I
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It doesn't have as many bits, it doesn't have as many pry tools, it doesn't have as many,
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It only costs 20 bucks, and with offer code WANSHOW, you can save five bucks off a purchase
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So you can get this puppy for 15 bucks plus shipping, and you can start saving money and
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It's got really most of the basics that you'll need, so your slot, your Torx's and your security
Torx's, it's got your stars, so those can come in handy, it's got one of their prying,
actually a handful of their prying guitar picks, it's got their suction cup, that's
great for removing displays from some more stubborn modern phones, really, oh, and it's
got their ESD safe tweezers, the only one that I ever use, really like that one.
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Western Digital is announcing high capacity 12 terabyte and 14 terabyte helium filled
hard drives.
The original article here is extremetech.com, and oh, I am not in the corner of that anymore,
but don't worry about it.
This ad's gonna go away pretty freaking fantastic.
So the 12 terabyte is an eight freaking platter design.
Eight platters in there, and the 14 terabyte is a shingled magnetic recording design.
So the 12 terabyte is gonna actually perform significantly better, but like, holy crap.
I have spent some time with Seagate's archive drives, which are also shingled magnetic recording
drives, and they're like, actually not that bad for archival use, and 14 terabytes per
disk would mean that in something like a Storinator 60, I mean what does that freaking math work
out to, you'd be able to put, so 60 drives, 60 drives, you'd be able to put 60 terabytes
plus another 40% of that, so that would be another 12, so you'd be able to put 72 freaking
terabytes in a single Storinator XL60.
Wow, unreal.
I mean, never mind it being absolutely terrifying that if one of your drives dies, like if you
were actually using these in a desktop, that you could lose anywhere from 12 to 14 terabytes
of data, but of course that's just the usual very strong argument for not just redundancy,
but backups, so there you go.
Yeah, I guess that's pretty much all there is to say about that.
Amazon's first prime air delivery, can I talk louder?
Amazon's first prime air delivery has happened.
It's official, it was posted by Pighammer on the forum, the original article here is
from KitGuru.net, and here it is.
It happened December 7th, 2016, fully autonomous, hold on let me mute that volume there, it's
a two minute video so we're not gonna watch the whole thing, but like, blah blah blah,
there's some footage, blah blah blah, something something, Fire TV, of course they ordered
a Fire TV, because they wanted one of those, and there's a drone, and there's presumably
another drone, taking videos of the drone, drone while you drone, so you can drone while
you drone, fulfilled, there it is in the yard, wow, frickin' future man, frickin' future,
I am like, super excited about this, like super excited, anyone outside of a fairly
dense urban center, I'd imagine this isn't gonna benefit them for quite some time, but
man, the idea of, not just from like a consumer standpoint of, it would sure be cool if I
could order crap under two kilograms, crap under two kilograms, and so there's two customers
taking place in the trial right now, due to the fact that they live close enough to the
fulfillment center, so as long as you live close enough to a fulfillment center and your
order is under two kilograms, I am super excited to be able to receive stuff within like potentially
hours or even minutes of ordering it, because that's like super amazing as a consumer, but
I am also excited from just a, like an efficiency standpoint, I mean, compared to sending a
truck to your house to deliver a pack of batteries, think about the efficiency of being able to
use a little electrically powered device to do the last mile, because there's a huge variety
of ways that they could deploy this, like Amazon could just have a truck kind of drive
out to some, you know, intelligently, you know, determined optimized point, and you
know, kind of like in Phantom Menace, sorry, I shouldn't be talking about Phantom Menace,
we all agreed not to talk about that movie, I'm sorry, anyway, like in that movie, where
the droids like slide out of the back of the tank thing and they like deploy, and then
they don't deploy in the air because they're walking droids because, you know, for some
reason they thought that would be a good idea anyway, there's a hundred different ways that
they could make it so that delivery to people's homes could be less environmentally impactful
and just generally more efficient than it is today using this kind of technology, so
that is super duper exciting, I mean, yeah, you look at the more traditional way of getting
goods and it is inherently more efficient than having a distribution hub and then vehicles
driving out like a spoken wheel type system out from there to drop off to individual customers
because you would carry, you know, pallets at a time of stuff like milk, for example,
so while yes, the consumer is effectively doing the same thing, where they are driving
their individual car to and from like some kind of a hub, they are picking up more than
one thing at a time and they're usually, like if they're clever consumers, they're consolidating
their trips, so the grocery store gets a consolidated large shipment of eggs or milk or whatever
the case may be and then the consumer comes and buys eggs and milk and, you know, this
weird little container in the shape of a goldfish cracker that fits goldfish crackers in it
because his kids wouldn't shut up about it and they wanted it so badly and it was only
like three dollars, not that I'm speaking about from personal experience on that last
one.
Alright, Twitch introduces AutoMod, a self learning moderation tool, so this was posted
on the forum by Novus Bal and the original article is from KitGuru.com and they are going
to be using machine learning to help police chat, this has got to be one of the best things
that I've seen come out of the Amazon acquisition of Twitch so far.
We have actually put a fair bit of work into our own moderation bot and it is baffling
to me that Twitch had not invested in this kind of thing before, so AutoMod will be a
chat bot that uses machine learning and natural language processing to police chat rooms.
It is not entirely intended to replace human moderators and Twitchline's tagline for the
announcement is, moderators are the sword, AutoMod is the shield, which is super lame.
So Twitch notes that streamers can configure AutoMod by selecting one of four different
levels.
So these levels affect how aggressively AutoMod holds back messages under four categories,
identity, sexual language, aggressive speech and profanity.
When AutoMod flags a message, it lets the original sender know that moderators will
review the messages contents before it's sent to chat.
Meanwhile the message is shown to mods for approval.
So yes, their slogan makes sense, it's just lame, that's all.
And we can agree to disagree on this if you want.
Speaking of Twitch and streaming, this is kind of a big deal.
I mean, League of Legends is getting reported on in the Wall Street Journal, League of Legends
esports contests lure newest fan, Major League Baseball, 10 cents Riot Games in a $300 million
deal with MLB unit to stream competitive video gaming.
So now, Major League Baseball and the NBA are getting involved in big league gaming.
So BamTech was spun into its own company from Major League Baseball and Disney, as well
as the National Hockey League, oh sorry, from Major League Baseball, Disney as well as the
National Hockey League own a part of it.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the agreement calls for BamTech to pay a minimum
$300 million through 2023 to Riot Games.
In return, they'll get exclusive rights to stream and monetize the company's popular
multiplayer online battle arena game.
BamTech plans to launch a League of Legends streaming service with apps for smartphones,
PCs and other devices.
It will also handle distribution on existing streaming portals like Twitch and YouTube
gaming.
Wow.
Unreal holy actual freaking crap.
Speaking of unreal holy actual freaking crap, Microsoft is bringing Cortana to fridges,
toasters and thermostats.
So just in case you were thinking that you needed to be able to talk to your toaster,
you will be able to do that soon, assuming you get some kind of supported device.
Though to be perfectly honest, and I would love to hear from you guys in the Twitch chat
on this, I have never been compelled to replace an appliance for any reason other than my
old one broke.
Are you guys on the same page with me here?
Is anyone going like, yeah, I like super duper need that, but what what could I possibly
want my oven to do other than what it does already?
Like five years from now, what if you could leave a bag of popcorn in your microwave before
you go to work and then you walk into your door and just say, hey, microwave, make that
popcorn, and it's just ready in two minutes.
Why would you want to preheat your oven before your home?
By the time you've finished preparing the thing that goes in the oven, it's already
preheated.
Not, not if it's a frozen pizza.
Boom.
You guys are giving me so much cancer right now.
So so okay, thermostat, fine, intelligent thermostat, sure.
But honestly, it's going to be the same problem as it always is, where like, you've got your
Nest thermostat already, because you're the kind of tech junkie that buys internet of
things devices, you've got your Linus lock, which is a thing, by the way, you've got your,
you know, Samsung smart fridge that you can bet your bottom dollar, they're not going
to care about putting Cortana on, and then you've got your Cortana toaster, and none
of it is going to work together at all.
So it's just stupid and pointless.
So 510 years from now, when everyone gets over their egos, and there's actually some
kind of cohesive ecosystem, I'm still calling it the I home, okay, where Apple just does
the whole thing themselves, then you'll have my attention.
But for now, and like, okay, and like when a smart fridge comes out, that actually has
like cameras all over the inside, that keeps track of like, like, not just cameras, like
it needs to be able to like scan my milk, my milk carton and know how full it is and
stuff.
Like when that fridge exists, I'm down.
But until then, I super don't care and neither do a lot of people.
Um, all right.
This is great.
So this was originally posted by no one on the forum, the original article here is from
MacRumors, Apple will apparently charge $69 to replace, um, hold on a second, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Here we go.
So battery service will be $49 each on AirPods out of warranty, $69 each, and if you lose
an AirPod, they will charge $69, which is only slightly less than half of the price
of AirPods in the first place.
If I recall correctly, though, I haven't actually gone and bought them yet and I don't remember
because I am an idiot.
So let's go ahead.
No, I don't want apple.ca.
No one knows Canadian dollars.
So if I talk about things in terms of Canadian dollars, I'm just shooting myself in the foot.
I thought they were one for another 159.
Okay.
So it's still only a little less than half of one.
Um, yeah.
What is there to say about it other than that?
I guess I will be reviewing the AirPods.
So they went on sale Tuesday morning.
Uh, the earliest I'm able to get them is Sunday.
Apple stores in Canada are going to get them.
So I'm actually, I'm coming in on Sunday, Burkle's coming in on Sunday, Tyler's going
to be helping us out and we are going to be slamming together.
So I've already got all of my other wireless headphones like charged up, firmware updated,
ready to rock.
I've got the braggy dash, I've got the Jaybird freedoms and then I've got some regular ear
pods with the lightning connector and I'm going to be whipping together a video for
you guys that's going to be coming out on Sunday.
I can already, I've never heard them before, but I'm pretty sure I can already tell you
how it goes.
They're expensive.
They sound like, okay, I guess they don't stay in your ears as well as some other solutions
and I don't personally feel like the, the absence of a cable in between them contributes
much to the experience.
But if you want to watch that again, but longer with glam footage, then Sunday will be the
time.
Yes sir.
A video on installing windows?
There's an NCIX tech tips.
So you could do that.
All right.
Oh, this is exciting.
Posted on the forum by dat speed.
LG is taking a 4k HDR monitor with USB-C to CES HDR is coming finally.
So AMD has got support for HDR.
I actually don't know about Nvidia's HDR status.
There's no content.
Yeah, I'm doing it all right.
There's there's like no content.
Actually my 4k Blu-ray is it worth it video is coming to YouTube very soon as well.
Should be a really good video if you're interested in HDR, but in a nutshell 4k Blu-ray does
not run on a PC.
So there's, there's really other than content creation, I guess there's really not much
reason to care about HDR on the PC.
But damn it, it's coming and I'm going to be trying to get one of these from LG like
ASAP because I think it would be flipping bananas to have like float plane club now
with better streaming quality than YouTube and with HDR, which nobody will be using also.
Actually Oh, this is another very important announcement for you guys.
It's official as of today, we're going red.
We were looking at our, uh, looking at our accounting books.
It's almost year end.
So this is the time for us to make any kinds of, you know, key investments.
But, um, we had an internal meeting and we kind of went, okay, we've got some equipment
budget leftover this year.
Let's talk about some stuff we need to do.
So we're going to be changing up the LTT set and we are, uh, it came up that a big mission
for us is to have float plane club streaming quality be better than any other streaming
video quality on the web.
And we kind of went, okay, how are we going to achieve that shooting on a Sony FS5?
So sometime in mid January, our order will arrive.
We will be getting two red cameras, a red weapon with 8K sensor and a red Epic W. We
are going to be getting new lenses and we're going to be going full on sharpest possible
image quality.
So get excited guys.
We've got, um, we used to kind of keep up with the rat race.
It is the whole like, you know, let's be the first ones to 4K and let's get an external
recorder and let's do this and let's do that.
But we'd allowed ourselves to fall behind a little bit and we are not going to let that
happen anymore.
We are moving into a red ecosystem.
So stay tuned for that guys.
It is going to be a bit of a learning curve for us, but it is going to result in some
seriously sharp looking videos.
All right.
Is there much else that's important here?
Oh, he's still going.
Oops.
So the Microsoft surface hub was originally posted by Ali Zaidi 2000 on the forum.
The original article here is from Ars Technica.
Let's go ahead and pop that up.
But the surprise hardware hit the surface hub.
Apparently the conference room computer is now a billion dollar business.
Are you freaking kidding me?
I saw this thing and I went, wow, that's a really cool proof of concept.
That's pretty neat.
I didn't think they'd actually sell that many of them.
It went on sale earlier this year.
So the conference room computer, it's the surface range of touchscreen computers is
getting a whole lot bigger.
The surface hub is, it's like an all in one system.
So it has OneNote, Skype for business office and universal windows apps and it puts it
in the conference room.
It's a single integrated device.
They first showed it off in January.
It includes dual 1080p cameras for video conferencing.
They run a special version of windows 10.
The big one supports an 84 inch 120 Hertz 3840 by 2160 screen packs a fourth generation
Intel Core i7 paired with an Nvidia Quadro K2200 graphics card and the smaller one is
55 inch 120 Hertz 1080p uses a Core i5.
They've both got 128 gig SSDs, 8 gigs of RAM.
They don't just replace a whiteboard, but a projector as well.
And both of them work as Miracast receivers and have HDMI and VGA inputs as well.
So tell me something.
Do you guys want to see a review of a surface hub?
Like we looked at it, we went, Oh, sure.
That's kind of neat.
But like we never even thought to request one and we've actually got a surface studio.
One of only, what is it four in the country, two in the country.
And Luke's working on a review of that right now.
And uh, well not like right now, right now he's doing it right now.
I'm on, but soon, but soon.
And maybe a great follow up to that would be the surface hub.
Yes.
So thanks for tuning into the WAN show you guys.
We will see you again next week.
One quick thing before we go.
Did you see that?
No, we're not talking about Nostalrius.
It was in last week's WAN show.
Oh no, no, no.
That's not until this weekend.
So we'll talk about that next week.
Did you see the GIF thing and the, and the, and the tech quickie episode thing?
No, I didn't.
Okay.
It's short.
It's short.
I don't know where it is.
Just look for GIF.
What is this?
That's okay.
Yeah.
So we'll just watch the GIF.
It's, it's wonderful.
Watch, watch it with the stream.
Uh, yes.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, so here you go.
Let's go.
Linus's screen.
ATM.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
What is this?
Do you see what just happened?
What?
Wait.
What?
We'll let it play through again.
I want to like GIF sometimes you need another take.
So see this screen and everything.
See how it goes up.
Yeah.
See it again.
Yeah.
So you know how in this tech cookie that I linked here, we talk about chip cards and
the security that comes with chip cards and the idea that someone might put a cover on
the card reader that skims your card when it goes through.
I'm pretty sure I hosted that one.
Who the hell installed that?
And in this situation they went even more hardcore and installed like essentially an
entire ATM on top of the one that was there.
How would anybody not notice?
I'm assuming that looks like some crazy like foam seal thing at the top.
What the hell?
So they must've just walked in and just unbelievable.
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah.
All right, so thanks for watching guys.
We'll see you again next week.
Same bat time, the same bat channel.
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There's no music in this one.
It's not playing back MP4s properly for some reason.
So this is like an MOV.
No that's not the music you're doing it wrong.
No no everything you do today is wrong.
Everything.
Everything.
At least I finished that video.
I fixed it.
It's only like super late but I did it.