Welcome to the WAN Show, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got a fantastic show lined up for you today.
Of course, the big news this week was Apple
making the very un-Apple move
of creating a self-service repair program
in the most Apple possible way,
because there was a gun to their head
and their arm twisted behind their back.
Gotta freaking love it.
In other big controversial news, Streamlabs,
which is now Streamlabs, not Streamlabs OBS,
has been involved in a public TIFF
with the makers of OBS, or Open Broadcaster Software.
Open Broadcaster Software, that's what it's short for, right?
I think it's just broadcast.
System, or is it system?
Software, I think.
What's the S for?
Uh-oh, wow, this is embarrassing.
Yeah, oh, Broadcaster, yeah, you're right.
Open Broadcaster Software, there we go.
All right, what else we got this week?
NFT Bay, a pirate bay for NFTs.
Wait, are you serious?
It's a pirated NFT?
Okay, we'll talk about that.
Wait, you didn't know that?
No, I hadn't thought.
You don't know about right-click save as?
Oh my goodness.
I mean, I know what right-click save as is.
Anyway, okay, what's the next thing?
NFT Bay, there's like 20 terabytes of it.
It's interesting, we'll talk about that later.
Also, I'm gonna jump to this,
just because I'm actually very happy this is happening,
which might make me sound horrible,
but the fall of Activision slash Blizzard,
Bobby Kotick is the worst of the bunch.
I tried to go out on a bit of a limb a while ago
and call it Bobby Kotick on Wancho,
because I felt like no one else was,
and now it's happening, and I feel validated.
It's good, it's good.
He's finally taken the sword.
Yeah, he's a horrible person,
but we'll talk about that later.
I've never gotten a sword in my life still before.
So here we go for the match.
So time for...
Yo, the match's over.
It's over!
Thank you, Atsuboji!
All right, who's in the cast for today?
So I'm gonna later mention eighth person vote.
So, I don't know that I Vikic oroof oroof oroof oroof,
and then we'll get in the race for the moat over$,
and then talk about cavalry.
All right, so we've got a bunch of great shows here today,
which your recon matched to my latest 1990s Onlyf games.
quick. Oh, wait, where'd it go? Okay, this is great. How do I open the bicep pocket on
the WAN hoodie while wearing it? Can you demo? All right, ready? There you go.
That's honestly how I've done it.
There's actually a lot of feedback about how a lot of the pockets on the WAN hoodie
V2 are kind of pointless. That's fair. We know, actually.
But if you find a point for it and someone sees you actually use it, it's super sick.
So it's just one of those things where we did it because the original one had a lot
of pointless pockets, too. And we were like, apparently people like that. So here we go, boys.
Do it again.
All right, let's go ahead and jump into our first topic today. Of course, it's Apple's
self-service repair program, or as we're calling it, ASER program. They announced it on
Wednesday. And this is a really big deal because Apple has famously made, like not just
passively, not by accident. Apple has famously intentionally made their devices more
difficult to repair in recent years for end users, for non-authorized repair shops. I
mean, they even refused to repair our Mac Pro, which there is a lot of confusion over
what happened with that saga. The number of people that have read incorrect reports of
what happened and assumed that we were somehow looking for some kind of handout is
mind-blowing.
They wanted to pay for it.
We broke it and we said, hey, mea culpa, we want you to fix it. We will pay you. They
refused. They would not do it. That is unacceptable for any company. That's ridiculous.
Because you don't want e-waste garbage in the world. They wanted to pay for it.
We were ready to pay for it. So at that time, Apple required a service ticket in order to
order a part, penalizing or even blacklisting Apple authorized service providers who don't
send the broken parts back to them. So what happened was not only would Apple not repair
it for us, we couldn't get anyone else to do it for us because and this was rectified
later. They did eventually approve a replacement. But the cost was ridiculous because to
Apple, a motherboard is apparently the motherboard CPU RAM, which is stupid, obviously.
Anyway, we did eventually get that sorted out. We ended up doing it ourselves anyway
because it wasn't cost effective, but they required a service ticket because once our
serial number was flagged in the system, nobody could order a board for us because they
would have to send back our serial number. Like they'd have to send back the board and
then Apple be like, no, like the amount of control that they exercise over this stuff is
just unbelievable. So what this does is it keeps these broken parts off the gray market
for independent repair and allows Apple's own repair service to enjoy an advantage in
repair in part access over even their Apple authorized service providers. So the TLDR,
Apple has fought independent repair at every turn for at least a decade. But this self-service
repair program or ASER is going to support the iPhone 12 and 13 to begin with and will
offer apparently more than 200 individual parts and tools, including display assemblies,
camera modules, batteries, and then of course the tools that are required to make the
repairs. It will be only available in the United States to start in early 2022, but
will expand to additional countries throughout 2022. Support for additional repairs and
M1 Max will come later in 2022. So your thoughts.
Uh, honestly, when I read this and I still kind of feel this way.
Yeah. I'm just waiting until I see it.
Yeah. I think that's fair enough. I think there's a hundred ways that Apple can make
this not make any sense, even just pricing. Yeah. If the pricing doesn't make any sense
because Apple forces you to buy, let's say, let's say not only the screen, but also all
of the tools required, even if you already own them.
There's also like right now we're in a chip shortage, right? So are they, are they going
to prioritize this? Right. So availability, will they even have stock?
Is it just going to be permanently out of stock and overpriced? Like, I don't know.
Maybe it won't be. I'd love to give them the benefit of the doubt. I think that's kind
of where I'm sitting right now. I think this is very cool. I'm happy they're stepping
in this direction at all, because even if it's ineffective, maybe it gets some more
people to start embracing this type of stuff. But is Apple moving in this direction or are
they just trying to appease? They've been pushed in this direction. Either way, honestly,
I don't care. As long as there's more right to repair stuff going on.
It's been pointed out that Wednesday happened to be, this is probably a coincidence though,
happens to be the deadline for Apple to take action on a pro-repair shareholder resolution
filed by environmental activists. Apple could have faced SEC enforcement had they not complied.
Yeah. Like I, I'm sure they didn't want to do this. That's the kind of vibe I've been
getting this whole time. The irony or not irony, the hypocrisy of all of this is that
Apple beats this drum. And I've been, I've been criticized very recently. I was criticized for
not pointing out HP's excellent access to service manuals and parts, which I actually did do in a
recent video, but that was not the only thing that particular critic got wrong about things
that I have or haven't said. I was, I was criticized for not pointing out HP's excellent
moves. And I've also been criticized for not pointing out that there are plenty of other
companies that don't do any better of a job than Apple. They might not go as far to prevent users
from repairing their devices, but certainly don't go out of their way to help with it.
And the reason for that is that it's Apple's hypocrisy that makes them such a target for me.
They keep talking about green, carbon neutral, the environment, blah, blah, blah. They have an
entire, they have an entire website, like, like sub site dedicated to how environmentally friendly
they are. And they use it as a selling point for moves that are frankly, blatantly, obviously
just about saving costs, like not including chargers with their phones. There happens to
be an environmental benefit, which is great. W is a W for sure. But don't pretend that that's
why you did it because whenever it is inconvenient, whenever it is not profitable, even in some cases,
when it would be profitable for them to just make these parts accessible, Apple actively fights
against people repairing their own devices and especially small shops repairing Apple devices
without Apple's blessing. And that is environmentally devastating. Throwing away,
shredding working devices, even in some cases, working devices that still are getting software
updates. Like we're not even talking stuff that would be a security risk to be on any network or
anything like that. We're talking working, actively supporting devices, supporting devices,
shredding those. There is absolutely no way to spin that into some kind of environmental positive.
And the Apple apologists will say, well, actually Linus, Apple recycles a lot of stuff. Good,
good for them. That's good. I'm not going to criticize them for that. What I'm criticizing
them for is resorting to the worst R when the first two Rs were absolutely accessible in many
cases. That's why I'm critical. Reduce reuse. Reduce reuse. But repair should probably be in
there too. It isn't repair and reduce kind of. Yeah, sure. I'm repairing is a means to reduction.
Yes. So that is, that is the first R the best R. So like, so yeah, I don't know. I, I, I will see
in the future. I suspect it's kind of a not entirely fully real move, but we'll see. Yeah.
We'll see. Yeah. I mean, Apple still has an opportunity here to completely blow us away and
I would love that. That'd be great. Make a very open to it. Even if it wasn't the full,
you know, transparency that we might want that, that someone like a Rossman might want, right.
Where Apple's providing literal schematics and part number ordering part numbers for every
capacitor on the board, right? Like even if they don't go that far, I'd say the vast majority
of dead iPhones that you just want a quick and easy repair at your local shop in the mall or
whatever, are going to be your broken screens, your broken lightning connectors, right? Those
like a button that doesn't work as long as that basic stuff is covered battery replacements.
These are batteries are consumables, even rechargeable batteries. They're consumables.
Yeah. As long as you've got all those major bases covered, I would consider this a win
for consumers. Obviously Apple could take it a step farther and they could just, you know,
no, I don't think I would even ask for that. So I'm not going to bring it up. I'm not going to
bring it up. I want to make sure that I'm being reasonable. Okay. Now, speaking of Rossman,
Louis Rossman did respond with mild skepticism, especially after Apple's independent repair
provider program in 2019. Yeah. Required independent repair shops to agree to replace
entire assemblies, even if the faulty component itself should cost significantly less.
He's been on this ride before. As little as $60 versus $300. So a keyboard issue, for example,
gee, were keyboard issues a problem for Apple in 2019? Was that a common thing? Just a little bit,
I think. I don't think anyone- Just almost all of them, I think. I don't think anyone needed their
keyboard replaced on a MacBook in 2019. That doesn't ring a bell. So a keyboard issue would
actually require the replacement of the entire upper chassis, including the trackpad, battery,
speakers, microphones, and of course the shell itself. I mean, that's ridiculous. But in order
to become one of these repair providers, you had to agree to perform the repairs like that. And if
you're found in violation, there can be penalties. So that's not really providing options. That's
just making the independent repair shop uncompetitive, right? Like forcing them to
charge $300 for a $60 repair is not reasonable. So Lewis called on Apple to sell individual parts
and not make this a meme, like the independent repair program. And if Apple takes it seriously,
has said he will swallow everything he said about them and move forward working together,
no grudges. Nice.
I believe that. I believe that. I think that Lewis absolutely can get very angry about things,
but I also think that he's a reasonable person who can get un-angry as quickly as he gets angry,
as long as you're doing it the way that he thinks it should be done, which by and large,
he tends to be right about. I would also say that in a lot of cases, when he is really angry
about something, we need someone like him to be angry about it. And it's very helpful to have him
being angry about it. Maybe not fantastic for mental health reasons and stuff, being constantly
angry, but we need someone fighting the fight. I think he will live a shorter life on account of
that. And I hate that because I love the guy. But yeah, it's very good to have someone fighting
that fight. Someone asked if there could be digital gift cards on the LTT store. There are.
Maybe you need to work on the searchability on LTT store a little bit.
Well, there's physical gift cards, but are there digital ones?
Oh, we mail people those gift cards?
Oh, I actually don't know. Do we?
I just assumed they would be digital because it's like...
No, I think they're physical.
Wow.
Sarah did play graphics for the cards and stuff.
Wow.
Yeah.
Okay. Maybe we'll make digital ones. I'll talk to Nick.
Oh, I love it. All right.
So the reason why they asked that, which is actually kind of interesting,
is they're saying for Christmas presents... Yeah, Conrad said they're digital.
He said they're digital? Okay, I don't know.
Yes, they're digital. So the reason why they asked that was because they can gift people in...
They're all digital.
Overseas countries gift cards for Christmas and stuff, because a lot of these people
bundling their purchases because of shipment costs.
Sure. They are digital. Sorry. I was completely mistaken. So Sarah just did...
The graphics are great.
Yeah, they're great.
They're actually super cool. And I like that there's individual ones for the
different values of gift card that you can buy and stuff.
Tom Arnold made the intro where I come out of a box.
All right, let's move on to our next topic. I mean, I guess that's all there is to really
say... Oh, actually, no, there is a discussion topic here that Anthony put in for us.
Would repairability make you more likely to purchase Apple products in the future?
You, personally. I mean, you've even considered going iPhone in the last calendar year.
Yeah, I had to pause for a second.
You've talked about it.
Yeah. I don't know if it would make me buy them, but the question was technically more likely.
Would it make you more likely?
It would make me more likely to buy it. I still don't know if that would result in me buying it,
but I mean, it makes the situation a lot better. I'm trying to value repairability quite highly
in future purchases right now. And there's a few phones on the market that look like they have
considerable repairability, but the main one that I'm interested in is overseas only,
Europe only, I believe. So that's a little unfortunate, blah, blah, blah. But that is
a big, solid point for me specifically right now. So yeah, it would make me more likely.
Apple already does a great job on sustainability from a software perspective.
They support their hardware longer than anyone else.
There's very old iPhones still kicking it.
In the mobile phone space. Yeah, the iPhone SE is still getting software updates.
Yeah, very cool.
So all they have to do is do the hardware too. And then, yeah, that would make me more likely.
But it would also have to be part of an overall attitude shift
towards not assuming how I want to do things, right? I can quickly find phone apps by the way,
because I have like a template for my folders and I just use muscle memory. I know exactly
where everything is and I've been using exactly the same layout for many years.
Apparently one of our viewers, their favorite land show is the one from Japan.
Man, it has been a long time.
That was a heck of a show.
That was something else.
Oh man. Yeah, that was amazing. The camera setup for that will be something that I will never
forget in my whole life.
I am going, oh, just the fact that Edsel passed out drunk and...
We all forgot we were supposed to do WAN.
Yeah.
So like I, yeah, so he was like not able to really stay upright.
But he got the camera going and like sort of monitored it and everything. It was like,
it was actually pretty impressive considering the degree of...
Inebriation.
Yeah.
Yeah. So that's pretty cool.
I can keep watching the forums.
I'm finally traveling again.
I am going on my first trip in, I mean, technically I guess I went down to Seattle to
visit Valve to check out the early Steam Deck. Man, they keep kind of emailing me. I was like,
keep me in the loop, keep me in the loop. And they're doing that. And every time I see an
email from my Valve rep, I'm like, is this the one? Is this the one where I'm getting my unit
and I can start to make videos about it? Because I have so many questions to answer still.
I'm so excited.
Did you see in their developer event that they formalized, because I think this was
either rumored or expected at some point, but they formalized that SteamOS 3.0 is going
to be a standalone Linux distro.
Oh, so you can just...
Yeah.
Okay.
Pretty cool.
I've actually been wondering about that. That's pretty interesting.
All the benefits, the literal millions of dollars that Valve will have put into game
compatibility in Linux.
Like, is that episode six?
I think we jumped the gun. I think we jumped the gun on the Linux gaming challenge because
SteamOS 3.0 could potentially just, well, I still think it was valuable for us to see
where we started before.
Yes.
But once it happens, I mean, there's the potential that we could kind of go, okay,
let's Linux challenge again.
I'd try it again.
I'll try it again in a bit.
My kids were pretty stoked.
Well, I don't necessarily know if we need to like cold turkey it again.
For me, because I'm so convenience oriented, like I talked about this in some of the other
parts.
I have more free time.
In other parts, like when I have 45 minutes to sit in game, I need less than two minutes
of it to be launching the game.
Yeah, we haven't played Anno or Forge Alliance for like a month and a half.
I actually kind of cheated on you.
The night that you messaged me about playing SUPCOM, I didn't get your message because
I was like vibing playing Anno for like three hours.
Oh, that's actually pretty chill.
Yeah, I was definitely just, I couldn't sleep.
And I was like, oh, thank goodness I have.
Because honestly, that's one of the things that I'll do is when I'm tired but not sleepy,
I'll sit and I'll play a game that Anno is not what I have been going for because Anno
was a bit of a problem for me for a bit where I'd sit down to play for an hour and I was
just six hours later.
The game even tells you every two hours.
It'll be like, hey, you should probably get up and stretch your legs or get a cup of coffee
In a while, yeah.
So it wasn't Anno for a bit.
So not having Cave Story because that's what I was actually playing late at night.
Yeah.
Not having my save game when I started the Linux challenge was really, really,
really frustrating for me.
But that's something that I'll do when I'm tired but not sleepy.
So I was, I couldn't sleep.
So I was just like, okay, I'm just going to let myself get tired.
So I like fixed a couple of supply chain issues and then I was able to go to bed and I was
able to sleep.
Um, I forget where I was going with this story, but yes, I cheated on you.
I'm sorry.
It's good to be back on Windows for a bit.
I would like to just, I'd like to just stay on Windows for a little bit.
I've like almost exclusively been playing games that don't work on Linux.
Yeah.
Just to like, okay, I'm back.
What was I going to say?
But yeah, I, in some capacity, I would genuinely really like to try it.
Yeah.
And like, even if we weren't doing an official challenge, I would probably format, format
that drive and give it a shot.
Um, cause it's very interesting.
I'm stoked.
So man, once it comes, there's, there's so many questions for me to answer.
I'm, I'm really excited.
Um, speaking of people who are excited, Nick's been standing here going like this, like wanting
to, wanting to talk to y'all.
They won't be able to hear you on these mics cause they're super, all right.
All right here.
All right.
I know about the physical gift cards.
We dealt with it.
Okay.
Geez, everyone's riding me here.
Well, I don't know if physical gift cards.
Conrad knew and told us like right away.
Yeah.
Also the search is fine for gift cards.
Okay.
All right.
It's the filters is what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
Thanks Nick.
Um, I would recommend, uh, machine washing cold and then, uh, laying it out to dry for
the desk pad, desk pad cleaning.
There you go.
All right.
Why don't we move on to our next topic here?
The stream labs controversy.
Yeah.
So I have to confess that even as someone who sort of pays attention to the streaming
and technology space, I assumed, which I see now I shouldn't have.
I assumed that stream labs OBS as it used to be called was somehow associated with OBS.
I knew that stream labs OBS is like junk and you shouldn't use it.
So I'd never really, um, I'd never really gotten into or not junk.
What I, what I had heard about it was that it's more basic, like it's supposed to be
streamlined as opposed to fully featured.
So for my part, I was like, well, I think I can figure out how to use OBS, so I'm not
going to use the stream labs OBS, but I could see how there's a value to something like
this existing.
Sure, but I thought that they were just kind of like different streams of somehow associated
projects, but that's, that's not what it was.
No.
So what, what is the deal here?
I, they're, they're essentially just trying to own the entire software space for streaming.
Um, as far as my understanding goes, I've been trying to do this for a long time.
Uh, I have been frustrated with stream labs for a considerable amount of time because
they, I don't remember because it's been genuinely a very long time, but there was a service
that I used to use that disappeared.
And I don't know if they disappeared because they're like, ah, not enough people are using
us now because of stream labs or if it's because they got like bought out or copied or, or
what happened, but I know they disappeared and I was frustrated because I didn't like
the way that stream labs worked.
Right.
And I wanted to be able to use my old thing still.
And there was some issue with that, but it's, it's genuinely been like six years or something.
So I don't remember the details and I don't want to claim anything because it could be
wrong.
Um, but yeah, and then there's, then there's stream labs OBS, which I have exclusively
called slobs because I don't like stream labs and I find slobs to be really funny.
Um, and then now this is coming out and yeah, it's, it's annoying.
And a lot of their business practices for a long time have been very frustrating.
Um, it's, it's not just OBS it's, it's a slew of other companies.
Lightstream had a really, really interesting comparison that they showed where one of light
streams like front page where they show off, um, their features and stuff is, is practically,
you're probably gonna have to click on the image for people to be able to see it, but
it's practically identical to the page that stream labs put up, including the reviews.
Right.
Which is just like, what?
Stream labs said that apparently that was a test page for internal use that was not
meant to be published, which is still like, dude, you shouldn't just copy paste things,
including reviews for like an internal test site.
Just make your own thing.
Just use lorem ipsum like everybody else.
Yeah.
Like, come on.
Layers on your overlays automatically whenever you go live layers on your overlay.
Wow.
It's like word for word.
There's a few things you can find.
Like there's a few ways that they say something that is exactly different every time throughout
the whole webpage and stuff like, but it's, it's quite egregious.
It's, it's gross.
I don't know.
Bad, not cool business practices, um, copying, stealing, overwriting, stuff like that.
So with stream labs OBS, one of the problems that I don't think ended up showing up in
here is by having OBS in their name and then buying advertising space for the keyword of
OBS for searching in Google, uh, when people would search for OBS, let's see if it happens
now after the controversy.
No, it doesn't.
But for a long time or in the past or whatever, however you want to say it, um, if you search
OBS, it would come up with streamlines OBS.
Right.
Um, which is kind of blah.
So, I mean, apparently I'm not the only one that was confused and thought there was some
kind of association between the projects, but that was like kind of the whole problem.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I mean, stream OBS is open source.
Yeah.
Like, so technically someone else can utilize that code base, utilize the code base.
The name is a little, the name is pretty freaking iffy.
Yeah.
So the controversy led OBS developers to share their own woes.
When stream labs was developing, they were approached, or they were approached about
by stream labs about the use of OBS in their name.
OBS declined, but stream labs went ahead and not only used to the name, but filed a trademark
too.
Very cool.
Which is a super Dick move as it's, as it's called in the industry, uh, prominent streamers
like Hasanabi and Pokemains spoke out saying that they would no longer use or be affiliated
with stream labs if they didn't resolve the issue.
Why are they, why do they use stream labs?
Aren't they like professional streamers?
No stream labs like is like a lot of people use it.
They do?
Yeah.
Why?
I don't, I believe the alerts and stuff, the integrations of those things are like easier
or something.
I hate it.
I don't know.
I hate it because I'm not used to it, to be fair.
Right.
Okay.
I mean, floatplane chat, like, is there a reason to use stream labs?
If you're a new streamer, every like, no.
Okay.
Not everyone.
I bet you Epos is watching and he's like, oh, I don't.
And I'm the, I'm the streaming technician guy.
Um, but there's a lot of people online that will recommend you just go to stream labs
because I believe it's kind of a one-stop shop.
It gets everything going, blah, blah, blah.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, I mean,
I guess for, for my part, like a lot of the time I will just, I mean, I went Manjaro,
right?
Like a lot of the time I'll just be like, well,
we already used this and we don't use a lot of the alerts that normal streamers use.
Oh, I guess that's fair.
Like we made our own merch thing.
Right.
Which like wouldn't work with it anyways.
Right.
Okay.
So, I mean, no, it works with slobs.
I just don't think it would work with the stream labs alerts.
I just mean my general philosophy is if I'm going to have to learn the hard one eventually
anyway, I might as well just do it now.
Like it's kind of, you know how, you know, it's like learning physics, right?
Where every year you find out that everything you learned that last year was wrong.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I could go into a few stories about that, but yes, that's absolutely true.
Like, what's the point, right?
I might as well just go hard mode now.
Yeah, yeah.
Cause you're, you're learning how to learn, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
Um, so, so, okay.
Yeah, fine.
I guess professional streamers use stream labs OBS.
Now the discussion point here is I wonder how NCIX felt when you stole the tech tips.
I stole nothing.
I stole nothing.
Calling it Linus Tech Tips was actually the CEO of NCIX's idea.
And I bought the Linus Tech Tips channel and trademark and domain.
Okay.
I paid a fair price of $1 Canadian Canadian Canadian dollar.
It's extremely expensive channel.
Um, now this is interesting.
This is an interesting talking point.
Streamlabs OBS has been out for almost three years now.
Is OBS in the right for airing their dirty laundry now?
Well, apparently behind the scenes, they've been doing so for quite a long time.
Uh, they, they did say no to, to using the name initially.
Um, and, and, and this happens a lot in, in modern society, actually, where there will
be grievances kind of with quite a few people and then one group or one person will stand
up very loudly and then all the other voices will join them.
Right.
Uh, so I, I mean, it's, it's fairly standard at this point.
So apparently it's been ongoing.
EposVox has a good video on the subject.
So you guys can go, go check that out, check out, uh.
I'm stunned that EposVox has a video on a streaming subject.
Really?
I'm absolutely stunned.
Yeah.
Thank you for that, Luke.
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Now, what do you want to talk about next?
Should we talk about this?
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
What is this?
Well, I would like you to guess.
It would please me if you would guess.
It's not very heavy.
My first is, is it a phone?
No, it is not a phone.
It's not a phone.
No, my first guess was that it was like some weird sandal thing or something.
No, it's not a sandal thing.
That's incorrect.
Can I cheat at all?
Can I like read the back?
Sure.
Go ahead.
That doesn't help.
I think almost at all.
Earphones?
Headphones or earbuds?
Like earbuds.
What?
Made in 2019.
Why do you have these?
So, um, I only recently became aware of these.
Louis Vuitton apparently has a true wireless earphone line, um, that appears to be their
own product as opposed to just silk screening logo.
Genuinely really surprising.
Onto something else.
Well, I mean, it could be very, very OEMed and just, you know, branded.
Cause I thought it was going to be like, you know, the like designed by McLaren phone.
No, no, this is, this is actually their own product.
And I was naturally very curious to know what could possibly, what could possibly justify
$1,500 for wireless earphones.
Wow.
What could possibly justify it?
They don't even look good.
Well, that's subjective.
That's fair.
I mean, they might look good to people who care more about the logo than the actual
industrial design.
Yeah.
Yep.
So guys, uh, I'm really looking forward to reviewing these.
I'm actually planning to work on my review.
I'm going to be stuck on a plane for 20 hours.
So we'll have plenty of time to run through the battery and make sure that it's actually,
you know, as long as they say it is and, uh, listen to them.
Is that, is that unopened?
Yeah.
Do you want me to open it?
Kind of.
Are you going to do a short circuit?
No, I'm not going to do a short circuit.
I'm planning a full LTT review.
Yeah, then let's do it.
Okay.
All right.
You guys want, you want a live unboxing of the Louis Vuitton earphone?
Well, I mean, first we're going to have to, we're going to have to experience other aspects
of the, uh, like the paper falling out.
Hold on a second.
There's a, I thought there was a little, uh oh.
I might've actually misplaced part of the, part of the experience.
Drama.
Ah, yeah.
There's a little, there's a little envelope that it came with and I honestly have no idea
what was in it.
No, no, it's not this.
It's not this.
It was a little sealed envelope.
I'm going to have to run over to 105 and see if I can find that.
So, uh, thank you for shopping with Louis Vuitton.
Your product has been crafted by experienced artisans with exclusive materials.
Oh my.
Then packed with the utmost care following strict sanitary guidelines, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah.
Nouveau remersion d'avoir choisy Louis Vuitton.
Okay.
So there's that in French.
Uh, exchanges and returns.
AJ is judging you so hard right now.
Whatever AJ.
Every word.
What is this?
Uh, oh, this is my packing slip.
Oh no, it's a gift receipt.
Okay.
All right.
All right, live unboxing Louis Vuitton earphones.
I actually don't know if that's exactly the model that we got.
They apparently have a bunch of them.
What is this?
There's a thing here.
Oh, hold on.
There's a thing in here.
I think this is not, what is this?
But there's nothing, there's nothing in here.
It looked like there was something in there.
Okay, here we go.
Actually, it's fun.
Oh, it opens like that.
Okay.
Oh, look at that.
The presentation.
Presentation though.
Starts pretty strong.
Okay.
Eco-friendly packaging for the most part.
Cloth is actually terrible from an eco perspective, uh, especially if it's single use, but my,
my kids will get plenty of use out of these cute little baggies.
Yeah.
Uh, we've got some replacement ear tips, so I have extra small.
This, the presentation falls apart a little bit here.
This is just standard plastic printed bags with little ear tips in them.
Extra small, large, small for whatever has a different color of printing on it.
Maybe they source those from a different factory or something.
Oh, that's weird.
I have, wait, what?
I have two smalls.
Wait, what is SM?
Maybe SM is not small.
Why are they both labeled SM?
Okay.
I'm definitely going to talk about that in the video.
They didn't look the same size to me.
One of them.
No, it's a completely different thing.
One of them seems to be like a wrap for it to help hold it in your ear or something.
Okay.
So I got that and then what's in the other one.
I have no idea if people are even interested in this.
You know, what's the, what's the unboxing experience like of a $1,500 pair of earbuds?
Really far away.
Okay.
In the other bag, the extra large ear tips are in there for some reason.
Don't know why that would be.
There's a USB A to C adapter and then a C to C charging cable that actually has a leather.
Wow.
Okay.
I don't know if it's real leather.
Hard to say.
Is it attached to the cable or does it just fall away?
It is attached to the cable.
Oh, so you've got a nice little leather.
I personally love it when my cable ties are bulkier than they have to be.
I'm a big fan of that.
And obviously we're going to test the LV cable with our cable.
Ah, nice.
Okay.
Obviously.
So we've got our charging cable.
All right.
This feels reassuring.
Hold it.
Whoa.
It's heavy, right?
How much of that is this container though?
Oh, almost all of it.
I would hope.
I mean, is this a charging?
Does this charge?
I have no idea.
Hold on.
There's more.
There's more stuff in here.
The battery, it has some like, you guys aren't going to be able to hear it or anything, but
it has some weight in it for sure.
There's a little, it's got some weight to it.
Does anyone understand that?
Envelope with a cleaning cloth?
I can't open it.
Cleaning cloth.
I mean, that's like a, that's like a hundred and whatever dollar value.
How much does Apple charge for their cleaning cloth?
Is it 15 bucks?
I don't remember.
Hold on.
How much, how much is Apple's cleaning cloth?
I thought it was like ludicrously expensive or something.
Oh no, it's like 25 Canadian.
Okay.
19 US.
Sorry.
I must've added a zero to the, to the stupid price tag.
Okay.
Then we've got a manual.
All right, cool.
And this is it.
This is the moment, Luke.
I can't believe how freaking heavy.
It's heavy.
I feel like there's battery in there.
I think that's a charging case, which is actually kind of cool.
Nice quality, nice quality zipper.
Okay.
Oh no, this is just a case for the case.
Oh wow.
Okay.
Oh, packaging made in China.
Of course it is.
So what am I going to do with this?
I mean, again, my girls would, would love this.
Can you remove the lid of that case while it's in the blue one?
Uh, that's a good question.
So, oh, okay.
So it's like a case for your case so that you can case by your case.
Uh, they didn't really apparently think of that.
No, it, um, it kind of lifts it out a bit.
Yeah, that's a bad experience.
That's not the greatest.
Um, so this is like honestly sort of almost, uh,
completely pointless.
Yeah.
And then they have a window on their charging case, which is pretty bulky.
Unless you also own a purse, which I'm sure they'd be happy to sell you.
Um, at a pretty good profit margin.
Oh yeah.
Um, definitely you're not going to be carrying this around with you easily.
It's pretty, pretty bulky.
Uh, here are the earphones themselves.
The window looks kind of nice.
Yeah.
The window is kind of, kind of classy actually.
It's appears to be glass.
Oh, not like a plastic.
All right.
And the magnet or the hinge or something on that movement seems pretty intense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Feels pretty good.
Feels pretty good.
And then, uh, this is the first time I have ever paid for a Louis Vuitton anything.
I promise you that.
So this is my, this is my first, I'm a Louis Vuitton virgin.
Here we go.
How do I look?
Yeah, I don't think that looks cool or good at all.
I don't know.
I'm not exactly a, uh, you know, fashionista or anything, but wow.
Not into it.
All right.
Well, it does look different.
All it cost me was $1,500.
It would make you stand out, which I believe is a big part of the point.
I believe is a big part of the point.
Hearing, hearing me and Luke talk about like the point of luxury goods is probably not
an experience anyone was hoping for or needed on the land show today.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's going to be a full video of it.
I'm going to be evaluating them from a, from a performance perspective.
And you guys know how much, you know, I care about the additional little leather,
leather blue pouch that it comes with or whatever.
Yeah.
I expect them to sound 10 times better than AirPods pros.
They have to.
Or eight times or whatever, whatever the math works out to be seven times.
I don't know.
Unless that really weird red box on your head is, uh, is, is worth the additional cost,
but you know what?
Maybe it is.
I don't know.
Not for me.
All right.
Um, so I have not, I have not looked into these very much.
Some people are, some people are sort of really, uh, really concerned about the amount of money
I spent on them.
Okay.
So guys, first of all, I'm going to make a video about it.
So this is an investment.
Second of all, I'm going to sell these and hopefully I can find someone almost as stupid
as me to pay almost as much as I did.
And then it's all good.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Should be no problem.
There's like probably better ear tips you can get anyways.
Jia Jang Mian says, so no LV sponsor for Linus?
Yeah.
I don't think that that was ever a possibility.
I mean, when it comes to luxury brands, they want nothing to do with tech bros like me
because we do not give two hoots about the like cool font that you use to print your
name on stuff.
Yeah.
It's better have a performance story.
I mean, that's one of the things that I talked to the merch team for us about a lot is like
what is, what is the point?
What is the point of anything we're doing?
And sometimes the point can be memes.
LOL banana.
No problem.
Yeah.
But there has to be some kind of point.
Absolutely.
Rod.
Rod Rosenberg's in chat.
Oh, stop Rod.
And Rod said, I thought this was pretty funny.
Luke has a hard time spending money on stuff at princess auto.
Yeah.
Sounds about right.
To be clear, I have no problem spending money, but I don't like wasting it.
Yeah.
So, you know, I actually posted on Twitter recently.
I decided to, I decided to influencer flex for a change.
Cause it's not really something that I do that often.
Like usually anytime we're doing anything, even the gold X-Box controller had to have
an ROI pitch internally.
Like we don't just do stuff for, to LOLs.
And while we didn't end up being able to sell it, the absolute worst case scenario for it
is we melt it down and we still own a gigantic chunk of gold, which last I checked is still
doing pretty okay.
Not bad.
So like it's fine.
It's fine.
But I decided to influencer flex and post that I bought a gym.
There have been some super chats asking about the gym.
So the deal with the gym is that real estate in Vancouver is, has been a pretty good investment.
It's happening.
Particularly industrial.
It's something that I have not only wanted for a really long time, but it's something
that I have had.
I mean, I'm not going to use the N word.
I have, don't need it.
But I have had a really difficult time getting my girls started on badminton because there
hasn't been anywhere to play due to all the restrictions on gym spaces, particularly
municipally managed ones that have made it pretty much impossible to just go in and occupy
space and not be using court time efficiently.
I really want to get them started.
They're already, you know, two years behind when I started my son.
And the last thing I want is for my daughters to be like, Hey, we couldn't help noticing
that, you know, when it comes to trying to do this particular father kid activity, you
really gave our brother all the attention.
Like that is not, that is not the goal.
So I want to get them started on that.
It's also, I think it has the potential to be a really cool employee benefit.
So it's something that we, we bought as a thing that everyone who works at Linus media
group float plane and creator warehouse can use.
It's only about six minutes from our office, which is pretty cool, I think.
And we're not going to just have a badminton court in there.
So the idea is to have a badminton, we'll have badminton lines on the floor and we'll
have a net that can kind of be shoved over to the side.
And I want to have all kinds of stuff there.
So there's a little bit of space kind of at the front of the unit out of the way of the
court where we could have, you know, I don't know, rowing machine, bicycles, weights,
stuff like that.
I'd love to have just like, you know, some balls, like play some, have some nets, play
some indoor soccer, you know, slap around some, some, some ball hockey balls.
It's a ball hockey ball called hockey ball.
I don't think you call it a hockey ball.
It's just a ball.
Sure.
But it's a hockey ball, the orange one.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
You know, slap around some hockey balls, put some basketball nets up.
Like if people want to just go chill.
Yeah.
I think people just got, I'm trying to remember now.
I think people just call it ball.
I don't think it has like, I think it's a ball hockey ball.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's probably more specifically like what it is, but I don't think I ever heard anyone
call it anything else.
If you went to like sports check to buy one, it's yeah, it's probably called ball.
So AJ is apparently salty that he can't use the gym.
AJ, I have offered to pay your moving expenses many times.
For a lot of years.
So I don't even want to hear about it.
Yeah, AJ.
AJ, you have, you have.
At one point in time, there was almost a ice cream delivery robot in the mix.
I don't even remember if, know if you remember that.
What?
Yeah, it was mostly a meme, but we were trying to, we were trying to get AJ to move over
and he wanted like incentives.
And I was asking him like, what do you actually want?
You couldn't come up with anything.
So he ended up coming up with like a robot that would deliver him ice cream while he
was working.
And I was like, okay, but I was joking.
Yes.
Cause I'm not doing that.
Yeah.
All right.
Cool.
Moving on NFT Bay.
Sure.
Let's talk NFT Bay.
Yeah.
Kind of funny.
It's an art project.
It's, I believe it does actually work.
But I don't, I don't necessarily expect it to like stay around forever or anything.
There's over 20 terabytes of NFTs that have been right-clicked saved from the Ethereum
and Solana blockchains.
The website gives you free access to as many crypto punks and lazy lions as you could ever
want and everything else.
I believe it, he says somewhere that it's like trying to bring to light like what NFTs
actually are and how a lot of the images associated with NFTs are hosted on like web 2 style storage
spaces without guaranteed longevity of storage.
So the actual reference might 404 eventually and some other weird stuff like that.
But that's honestly about it.
It's interesting in an artistic sense and in a tech sense and in a few other different
ways, but there isn't really a ton to say about it.
And we probably can't put it up on screen because there are some lewd NFTs and we don't
know necessarily what's going to show up if we load the page and do know that before you
go to the website, if you are planning on going there as well.
Someone said only about 10 gigabytes.
Well, rip the notes.
But there's an amount, I don't know.
You know what?
I'm feeling lucky.
You're going for it?
There's an I'm feeling lucky.
Oh, OK.
Pirate NFT search.
I mean, I don't know, picture.
If I just search for picture, I'm feeling lucky.
What's the first picture I'm going to get?
OK, I didn't get anything too incriminating.
So here's some pirate NFTs.
We've got a pirate Pikachu, whatever this is.
It's a picture.
Yep.
The whole point of the stuff isn't isn't the actual picture.
An argument that is brought up often is you can go to the Louvre and take a picture of
Mona Lisa.
It doesn't mean you own the Mona Lisa, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, that is unfortunate.
OK, see you later.
Was there something bad?
I mean, I don't know if I would describe it as bad.
It was pretty tasteful.
OK, all right.
Here, you can have a look at it if you want.
That's fine.
It's on my screen.
I'll see you later.
Oh, my.
It's unique.
So there's that.
Is that it?
Yeah.
Because it's a...
Yeah.
See?
Nice.
But yeah, it's interesting.
If you've been paying attention to, you know, NFT kind of stuff, it's an interesting development.
I find it interesting that the dude's name is very notably attached to it.
Yeah.
Like he has an FAQ on his GitHub, and he's a person who's been around.
This is not his first rodeo.
So yeah, that I find very surprising, and we'll see where that goes.
But that's about it.
OK, cool.
In other fun, exciting, amazing news.
I don't know which one to go with.
Halo Infinite.
Halo Infinite!
It's back.
Yes!
Halo's back, baby.
Have you played?
So cool.
Yeah.
Not a huge amount, but I have played, and it's fun.
The main two things that I'm excited about aren't out yet.
But what's really exciting right now is the foundation is absolutely there.
The game feels great.
It looks great.
One thing that was just deeply refreshing for me personally,
I don't know why I care so much about this, and this hasn't been a thing for a long time.
I think I've just been so frustrated by modern, very, very modern last few years
UIs, that the UI, you load up the game, and it's just immediately beautiful.
Right.
Like, there's been so many games where, like...
You start out in some basement.
I don't even mean that.
I mean, you launch the game, you haven't clicked anything yet, and it's stunning.
Right.
Like, the backdrop is absolutely fantastic.
All the UI elements, the GUI, beautiful.
I know Jaden had some feedback about not being able to find things super well.
I didn't really care.
I just immediately went into a match because I don't really care about customizing my
Spartan too much.
Sorry for the 343 people that worked on that.
I'm just...
Whatever.
I'm sure it's great.
But yeah, it feels really good.
The gunplay and stuff is really good.
I found some feedback from certain people online that I think haven't played Halo in
a long time to be kind of funny.
They're like, wow, the time to kill is really long.
And I'm like, Halo.
Halo.
Yeah, that's the thing.
Better put a full magazine of needles into your opponent.
Yeah.
The whole idea is supposed to be that it's kind of hard to take a Spartan down.
You're fighting other Spartans, so it's pretty hard to take a Spartan down.
I think a lot of other people have also forgotten that in Halo, the shields and the health
are actually two very different things.
Yeah.
And if you remember, I think I played a lot of Halo 2, personally.
That was my main Halo game.
And I know in Halo 2, especially the plasma pistol battle rifle combo was like kingly,
because if you had a fully charged plasma pistol and you could hit someone with it,
the shields are gone.
Yeah.
And then you could triple shot BR to the head and it's just over.
And there isn't exactly.
It doesn't really feel like there's exactly that combination right now.
But you do need to mix up the weapons.
If you use Covenant weapons, they're better at taking down the shields and you use human
weapons that are better at taking down the HP, whatever.
I don't know.
It feels really, really good.
There's been some complaints out there that the battle pass progression is not great or
something.
Again, this is something I really don't care about because it's cosmetic items.
And I'm just trying to shoot some stuff, but Microsoft has already responded.
They've already been working on it.
They've given apology rewards.
They did a really, really quick stop gap solution of making it so that there was a challenge
of just play a game.
Yeah.
You just do repeatedly over and over and over again for points.
Right.
Okay.
So that there was like, you could progress a little bit easier right away.
And then they're working on a more long-term solution and they've given some reward for
people for dealing with it, which is great.
It's free to play, which has its positives and negatives.
Sure.
Any positive is that it's free.
The negatives are everything else.
Yeah, pretty much.
Every modern game, even like Forza, like a racing game has like rampant cheating in it.
Like cheating in the modern era is insane.
And it's, it's worst in the FPS space.
So having it free to play makes that even easier, but it also massively increases the
player base, which is very good for a multiplayer game.
So, yeah, I don't know.
But yeah, the two features that I am most excited for are both not in the game, just
co-op and forge.
A lot of my favorite experiences in Halo are not playing the game in just like a quick
match format.
Yeah.
So I'm really excited about forge.
Yeah.
And then another massive amount of what I like Halo for is co-op campaign.
That's also not in the game yet.
Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll load it up.
I'll download it once co-op's available because realistically I'm not going to play
a competitive shooter these days.
I'm not, I was never very good and I'm especially not very good the older I get.
So I just don't get a lot of enjoyment out of walking around on the map for four seconds,
getting headshot from someone I can't even see.
By some dude who's memorized all the locations of all the sniper spawns and whatever else.
Yeah.
I'm definitely more excited for the other modes.
Like I don't have, like, as long as it's not shroud or something, which I've literally
tried to do, you know, I am, I am pretty comfortable just, you know, trying to shoot a guy who's
trying to shoot me at the same time.
But for me, I don't have the time at this stage in my life to, like you said, memorize
all the routes that someone might take and do all that research, right?
Like watching YouTube videos where people are doing this kind of hardcore analysis.
Okay.
At the moment of spawn, you need to basically start counting four and a half seconds.
And if you can get to this point before that, they can't hit you.
So you can get set up so you can just slide down this thing and get in position.
And if they've gone this way, you'll probably be able to get like three free kills.
It's like, I don't, I can't, I can't.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I can't.
Yeah.
That's like all my favorite stuff in Halo is just playing with friends, not online matchmaking
personally, like blood gulch with some buddies.
And you're even good at video games.
So that's like very different video games to get over it.
Um, what was I, what was I trying to say?
There's a, Oh yeah, this is an interesting topic.
Y'all have been watching me for years.
Yeah, you did.
And okay.
You can't even say that because you did that challenge.
What challenge?
For people to come play you in video games and you just trashed.
Yeah, but those were like nobody's.
No offense.
You're lovely people.
That's the audience, man.
I know.
And they're wonderful.
And I love them.
And you beat them.
Well, yeah, but they're like, they, they were.
I'm not saying you're shroud.
No, you're not.
But I don't think nobody is.
I, yeah.
Well, it's not that I'm good.
It's that Conrad says I would destroy Linus one V one in any game.
I don't know if that's true.
I think it might be a lot of games because Conrad's one, one heck of a.
Yeah.
Any game I think is probably a bit of a stretch.
Conrad, do you want to, you want to put lunch on that?
Cause I'm pretty sure I can find a game that I can absolutely shit wreck you at.
Epic.
Uh, he's probably going to take that.
Um, what was I going to buy me lunches?
Um, man, I had some, Oh, right.
This is an interesting topic and one that I've been somewhat bottling, but with the
release of Halo infinite, I just can't do it anymore because I didn't want people to
jump on this negatively because of the Linux challenge.
Yeah.
But this has been a bit of an interesting year with gaming.
There's been a lot, there's been some good releases.
There has been, there's been a lot of really subpar releases.
A lot of people have been pointing and saying like, this is kind of the releases that are
coming from COVID.
It makes sense.
There's a lot of disruption in studios, et cetera, et cetera.
It's like, okay, okay, okay.
There's been quite a few, not what we were hoping for games.
Microsoft out of freaking nowhere drops three bangers at the end of the year.
Right.
Age of empires four, forts horizon five, halo infinite.
Each one of them, the communities are very happy with it.
That's the thing that matters the most to me.
I believe they're all like selling well as well, but the communities are happy with all
of those.
And like the chance that you were going to piss off the age of empires community with
a bad release was really high.
Extremely high.
It's been really so long and the games are so beloved.
And that's also true for halo.
Yep.
That's less true with horizon.
I think the expectations were lower for halo.
That's probably fair.
I mean, age of empires three was a solid entry in that series.
Yes.
The quality, the quality of AOE had not really plummeted, you know?
Yeah.
So that I think, no, I think age of empires and Forza were much higher risk than halo,
but halo is obviously going to be the bigger mover in terms of it being a more popular
gaming genre in general.
So the fact that they got them all right is extremely impressive.
Maybe just buying every game studio as a strategy.
I know Bethesda had nothing to do with any of them.
Yeah.
And I think like something else that I want to give them praise for as well, which I don't
think it was in the notes here, but it was in my tweet feed was the stability of that
launch.
Right.
It was like a, what do you call it?
A surprise launch as far as my understanding goes.
They just kind of dropped it out of nowhere.
But I also believe there was like a mass, I think peak concurrence for like 250, 300
K on the first day or something.
Um, that's peak concurrence, not total amount of players to be clear.
And as far as my understanding goes, their multiplayer was completely fine the whole
time.
You contrast that with the owners of AWS launching new world and just completely everywhere.
It's, I don't know.
It's, it's really, it's quite impressive to see Microsoft game studios kind of come out
of nowhere because I don't, someone might be able to correct me here.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention, but for the last while, I don't think there's
been strong Microsoft game releases.
Microsoft game studios releases for the horizon for was pretty successful.
That's true.
But like that long ago, I believe almost every fours of horizon, which is borderline, just
a copy paste of the previous game has also always done well.
Um, that's fair.
It's kind of hard to go wrong when you're selling people, essentially NFTs of cars.
Okay.
They're not NFTs cause they're not even unique.
So get wrecked.
No, they're very easy to get.
It's a fun game.
It's fun game.
I'm not trashed on it.
I'm just saying it's a, it's, it's a bit of an easy win.
Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair.
The game looks beautiful and you race cars that are really fast and they give you lots
of dopamine hits by giving you lots of spins and free cars and money and blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah.
Um, so yeah, I don't know.
Flight simulator.
Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Flight simulator was a big, big W.
Um, anyways, either way, I just found that pretty interesting windows.
On the other hand, I noticed that Conrad has not responded to my challenge yet.
So Conrad, let me know if you accept and I will choose a game and you will be embarrassed.
I promise.
Uh, why don't we talk about the fall of Activision blizzard?
Shall we?
Okay.
Yeah.
This is another really fun one for me.
It's at the point now where Microsoft had to issue a statement saying that they're going
to have to evaluate their relationship with Activision moving forward.
Like this is finally getting the momentum that it deserves.
That's not just blizzard, right?
Because Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision blizzard.
So that's, that's includes cod is essentially what I'm trying to get at.
Because when this first, when I first read that I was like, oh, why does that matter?
Microsoft doesn't do much with like Hearthstone or wow or whatever else.
But that, yeah, that includes cod.
That's a big deal when you're talking about consoles.
PlayStation has also had some murmurs about similar things as well.
So this is, this is a big pressure for a massive moving game, which is call of duty.
More than 800, I believe it's significantly more than that at this point.
Activision blizzard employees and contractors have signed a petition
calling for CEO Bobby Kotick to be removed.
Good.
Apparently he knew about all the alleged rapes and other sexual misconducts for years,
if not the entire time.
Uh, he allegedly told an employee that he would have her killed.
Um, I don't remember all the details behind that.
I did read that.
I just don't remember this moment.
I believe he might've done something to her directly.
I don't remember.
Don't quote me on that.
Um, I, I know the, the quote of saying that he was going to have her killed was a thing.
I just don't remember the context around why.
I don't know if she knew things or things were done to her or what.
There's kind of no good reason.
No, I'm just trying to, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's totally very clear.
Yes.
Uh, it has also been reported that he's likely the one who penned the original email to employees
claiming all of these recent articles were false or only partially true.
Um, good guy.
The petition also calls for a new CEO to be chosen without Kotick's influence.
Um, he has substantial portion of the voting rights of the shareholders.
He owns a lot of the company.
Uh, the board of directors made a statement on Tuesday.
Uh, the goals we have set for ourselves are both critical and ambitious.
The board remains confident in Bobby Kotick's leadership commitment and ability to achieve
these goals.
Uh, this contrast very strongly, the no tolerance policy that Blizzard recently pushed out,
which is not applying to Bobby Kotick.
Um, the rat.
It's horrible.
Get him out.
He's terrible.
I've been trying to push this for, I think like two months now or more more than that.
I think.
Yeah.
Like, you know, this dude knew what was going on.
It should have been so clear from the start.
I'm very happy this came out.
He has a history of this type of stuff.
I found it.
It's not hard to find.
It's on Wikipedia with citations.
Yes.
Yes.
Which is key.
Yeah.
Um, like I just just stop.
Just stop.
I don't even know what else to say.
This is just horrible.
Get them out of there.
Clean it all up.
Blizzard needs like, Blizzard needs to fall back and regroup in a like really intense
way.
Um, yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Um, Hey, we sent out a new LTT store newsletter.
If you're not subscribed to it already, I will take a look at it for you.
But we're going to have a new sticker pack for next year.
I actually love, love these.
Um, this is, this is going to be a pin soon.
Sarah designed a pin based on this graphic.
Uh, what else we got in here?
Hey, look, look, there's a classic, got the Linus and Luke, uh, couch thing.
It actually was going to be a fist bump, but I had concerns about the sticker ripping where
the fists meet and I didn't want to just have like a big ugly border around it.
So, um, those are cool.
It's gotten to the point where I get involved in like a lot of like very random little things,
um, sort of running the company.
Uh, fortunately none of those things involve, um, me needing to be, to be ousted, which
is good.
Yay.
Not Bobby Kotick.
Yeah.
Very nice.
I've set a very low bar for myself.
Be better than Bobby Kotick.
Yeah.
Um, so that's neat.
Apparently.
Yeah.
Someone, someone actually brought up in flow plane chat and I remember reading about this
as well.
Yeah.
One of the problems that they're having right now is that buying him out, um, would be so
costly and difficult.
Um, and that there's potential, I don't know if this was true or not.
There's a few things in here that like this news hasn't marinated enough to really know
all what, what out of all of it is like super legit.
But I think there's a clause in his contract that like makes him additionally very difficult
to get rid of.
Great.
Outside of just needing to buy out his extremely substantial amount of shares.
Um, so I, I suspect there's something going on there.
I suspect that's why the zero tolerance policy found a very quick, found out very quickly
that it's not exactly zero.
Um, yeah.
All right.
We should probably do some merge messages cause there are some really good questions
here.
Some of them are not really good questions are just ones that I had meant to pop up on
the thing, but I didn't catch it in time because the, uh, the delay is not long enough.
Conrad, um, Jersey Statham says the subliminal messaging finally activated in my brain.
Nice.
Love it.
You were a little slow, um, slow on the uptake, but that's good.
Eventually we got through to you.
That's the goal.
Um, James M says celebrating getting my daily driver to number 20, 25 and times by extreme
on hardware bot, pretty freaking awesome.
Looking forward to the, uh, air conditioned daily driver that you guys teased last week.
Yeah.
That's going to be a heck of a video.
Lots of, lots of fun.
Me and Alex.
Um, Oh my goodness.
Okay guys, when I announced that we're talking about them is not the time to place orders.
It's the time for you to have already placed an order.
Uh, all right.
I can say we can't do all of them.
Um, uh, Michael V says in terms of environmental impact, I love what Microsoft did with the
ocean plastic mouse, but if they cared, wouldn't it be in more flagship devices that anyone
actually wants?
Um, yeah, I think that's a very good point.
However, one of the challenges around sustainable materials can actually be getting enough of
it because you can only make what happens to exist, right?
So you don't necessarily want your flagship product that you're going to make the most
of to be made out of a material that you can only get if other people like waste and throw
away other stuff.
Yeah.
So that's, that's tough.
Um, yeah.
Uh, Jonathan A says, you said before a big issue with some distros is you can brick them
just by updating.
Well, I mean, I wasn't generalizing about that.
I just happened to have that problem.
Garuda actually creates a restore point at each update.
That's fair.
Although my issue, Oh, it apparently gives an option to restore it before the OS boots.
Okay. That's super cool.
Uh, also says I'm visually impaired.
Can you make merge messages visible at cart?
Um, I'm not sure if I quite understand the question.
I don't.
Can you make them visible at cart?
Um, I'm sorry.
I'm not.
Yeah.
Maybe someone in float plane chat can tour fire.
Uh, this is not technically to support, I guess.
Yeah, but you should send it to float plane support.
Yeah.
Support at float plane.com.
Yeah.
I know that's like kind of odd, but yeah, send it there.
Uh, Matthew asks, what are my thoughts on the channel?
Super fun house video.
Um, Matthew says best channel, super fun video ever.
I am no better than nerd sports.
I have not watched it.
So Dennis and Ethan asked me if I could not watch it so that I could do a reaction video.
And so we haven't had a chance this week has been super busy gearing up for my trip.
I haven't traveled in a while.
So all the kind of the workflows are a little rusty.
Okay.
It's been a couple of years actually.
And, uh, we, we just haven't gotten it together.
So I'm going to sit down.
I'm going to, I'm going to watch it and you guys will get to hear all of my thoughts as
I go through it.
I will say I was straight up stunned that it took so long for me to find them.
Yeah.
Which I had, I had to, yeah, I had to put myself in your shoes a few times cause I'd
be like, Oh, that was the mistake.
He's got them.
And then you wouldn't get them.
But I had to kind of think like, okay, you've got kids in the house.
You're probably used to these like random noises all the time.
Like, yeah, like stuff moves around in my house.
My wallet was missing for three months because my daughter put it in her school backpack.
So at the end of the school year, it was just in there.
I had no reason to open that.
We didn't find it until September.
Oh my goodness.
And I was sure that it hadn't left the house because I hadn't left the house.
So I was like, well, it's here somewhere.
Like unless it was stolen by the insulation guys that are working on the insulation in
the roof, which I don't think it was.
They seem like good blokes.
Then it's in here somewhere.
So I didn't replace any of my cards, thankfully.
Yeah.
Cause I knew I had it.
It was just a matter of where it searched the house high and low.
So many times I was driving around with no license for like almost three months.
Oh, that's not good.
I mean, I have a license.
I just, the air tag wasn't on me.
I thought it was pretty interesting.
So, so I, I I've read some of the comments on it.
So I do know some stuff I legitimately blanked.
It looked like an air tag to me, but it didn't compute.
Have you ever, have you ever seen someone that you know?
Well, but in a context where you wouldn't as easily recognize them.
And it taken a while.
Yeah.
So I tend to, because your brain's like that can't be.
I tend to be a very associative.
I tend to have a very associative memory.
So if I had seen that thing on Jonathan Horst's desk, I'd have gone.
Okay.
Yeah.
Boom.
Oh, you're working on an air take video.
Yeah.
I don't own an air.
I've seen air tags twice.
Once dbrand sent them as like a sponsor spot and I looked at it.
And one other time when I looked at Apple's event, that's it.
I don't use them.
I don't own any.
So, so when I pulled that thing out of my pocket, I was like, oh, this looks like an
air tag, but there's no reason that an air tag should be in my pocket.
I I'll put this down and I'll figure it out later.
I'll deal with it later.
And because it had the dbrand sticker on it, none of the Apple branding was visible.
So I thought conceivably it could be some weird little thing that my daughters have
that has like a picture of it's like a little like toy or like a tiddlywink.
Like I didn't know what it was.
I was just like, oh yeah, there's like this thing in my pocket.
I'll deal with this later.
So I hacked it on my nightstand because I was like, there's no reason for this to be
in my pocket.
If I had, if I had thought, even if I thought this is what do you think from that?
Yeah, I wouldn't have, I honestly wouldn't have thought anything of it.
I'd have thought, oh, this made its way.
Must've like seen it somewhere weird and picked it up to maybe one of the camera guys put
one in one of the camera bags so that we wouldn't lose our camera bag for some reason.
And then left it in there and it fell out when they were at the house.
People come in and out of my house all the time with tech crap.
Maybe it fell out and maybe one of my kids was playing with it and it ended up in my
pants.
That is a perfectly, that is a perfectly conceivable way that an AirTag could have gone from Jonathan
Horst's desk to my pants pocket entirely innocently.
And I just, it's, it's my, I got my weekend brain on like, yeah, yeah, there's people
that on account of that and I, I think some other things, I don't, I don't, I don't
think other things are sure that it is staged and I'm like, yeah, I'm sure it wasn't.
I, yeah, not only did I know that it wasn't cause I was actually supposed to be a part
of it.
Yeah.
I don't know if you even knew that part.
Uh, no, they told me that.
They told me.
Yeah, yeah.
They didn't make it that far.
I'm not surprised guys could have done a better job.
They were trying to make it interesting, which is, I mean, the job.
I get it.
I mean, it worked.
It's the first banger channel super fun that we've had in a very long time.
It's a fun watch.
And it's a fun, they, they did a fantastic job.
Like I'm looking at the analytics and it's, uh, it's gone from kind of like leveling
off to schwomp algorithm do like, so it's, it's going now.
Great job, Ethan and Dennis.
Um, I did see one comment that they were surprised at my reaction to finding people in my house.
Like my first, my, honestly, what I was thinking when I walked up to them and I was like, did
I ruin the video was this was the wrong move because I knew it was Dennis a hundred percent.
Cause he was smiling the way that he does.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so I was like, the, a move now would have been to pretend I didn't see them and like,
then start messing with them, flip the script.
That would have been the aim.
Oh my goodness.
That actually could have been so funny.
Figure out what they're doing.
Cause I have access to the security cameras.
I could have easily tracked their movements.
So I could have figured out what they're doing.
I could have started messing.
It started messing with their stuff, which would have been amazing.
Put like the body pillow, the kind of stuff I could have done.
Like I could have put like, I could have put a bunch of, you know, those, those anchor
speakers that we did the a hundred speaker thing.
I could have put a bunch of them, like stash kind of around the bed and then just like
triggered them in the middle of the night and stuff like, man, there was so much potential
and I totally wasted it.
But I don't know how else you react to that though.
Because like when, when, when you spotted him at first, it was such a genuine, like,
what?
So how do you not do that?
You know, like that's, yeah, I, yeah.
Oh man.
Oh well.
If Ethan had hid better, I might not have like caught them.
But Ethan was just like standing there.
Yeah, that was.
And as soon as I saw Ethan, I was like, channel super fun.
Dennis, it could have been anything.
If Dennis had just played it cool and been like, oh yeah, did Yvonne not tell you we're
going, we're going running today?
I'd have been like, oh yeah, no, she didn't tell me.
Why were you in the backyard?
Okay, whatever.
You know what?
Forget it, it's just Dennis thinks.
Like if, if, if Ethan had hidden and Dennis had like played it cool.
Yeah.
They could have gotten away with it.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
And Dennis could have done whatever it is that, you know, arts and crafts night with
Yvonne or whatever, like they see each other outside of work.
They could have done whatever.
Dennis could have left, could have snuck back into the house and I would have been none
the wiser, 100%.
100%. One thing that this has definitely brought to light for me is that my wife could
absolutely be having an affair.
Like my observation level, you know, clearly, clearly extremely low.
So, you know, if anyone was thinking, man, I'd love to make a move on that.
But you know, Linus would, you know, use his YouTuber influence to make my life miserable
or whatever.
Clearly I'd never notice.
What else we got for merch messages here?
Max asks, what is the floatplane release schedule for the remaining Linux challenge
videos?
They're coming.
Yes.
Part two is edited.
I believe the plan is for it to go up this weekend.
That is the goal.
If I just delete these, are they deleted deleted or like, what is it?
What happens?
Can I delete them to just manage ones that I am not going to do anything with?
You can.
They'll just be like gone though.
I think there's a deleted.
Well, that's fine.
It's the deleted things a little weird.
Yeah.
Maybe it could just be archive and then it could just go down to the very bottom.
Yeah.
Cause there's a deleted section.
So yeah.
Archive would probably make.
Yeah.
So if I could just, yeah, I'll just delete the ones that I've already dealt with here.
Yeah.
McHale says, could you please make an LTT about the current state of optical media technology?
Things like triple layer disks, M disk and so on.
I believe we covered M disk at some point.
That may have been on NCIX tech tips.
Yep.
You and I did an M disk episode like 10 years ago.
So yeah.
So the current state, yes, we did do that.
The current state of optical media appears to be not that different from nine years ago.
So I guess no updated needed.
Look at this guy.
Look at, look at his hair.
It's ridiculous.
He looks like an idiot.
Why is the TV behind him instead of screen capture?
Look at this.
Why doesn't he care about his appearance?
It's awful.
There's a bunch of glare on the TV.
Whatever.
Premium.
As if it would have looked any better if you shot it.
Wait, you did shoot it.
I did shoot it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So there you go.
I was probably asleep.
Probably.
He used to legitimately fall asleep in the chair.
Mins says got some chicken nuggies.
Very nice.
Um, all right.
Hey, thanks, Michael M.
Love it.
And Merry Christmas.
Alex is the message there.
Dara found out this week.
I'm having a daughter.
Heck yeah.
Getting the ABCs of gaming for the daughter and a friend of mine who's also having a baby.
Fricking a fantastic.
Love it.
All right.
Delete now.
Okay.
I already responded to this one.
Uh, John G, when are you going to start selling LTT pants and socks?
I want to wear LTT from head to toe so that if I'm going to be a walking advertisement,
I can at least do it properly.
So fun fact.
You ready?
I am actually wearing.
Prototype LTT socks.
Yes.
Finally.
They are Merino wool.
They have, uh, extra padding in the toes and the heel.
They have extra venting on the top.
So whether you have an open shoe or a closed shoe, uh, you can expect to get a little bit
more airflow on the top.
Um, they right now are extremely close in terms of the density of the weave that I wanted,
like in terms of durability.
Um, I still need to wash this pair to find out if we've solved the pilling problem.
And I would still like to see if we can reduce the slipperiness of the sock.
I like a little bit more grip, but overall, um, this is my first day with this demo pair.
I am pretty darn happy.
Um, and if you guys want, I can, uh, I can go get some pants right now.
So why don't you do a couple more merge messages and then I'll be, uh, I'll be right back.
Yeah.
Good.
All right.
Um, AJG says, when's female clothing coming to LTT store?
As far as my understanding goes, they are working on it in addition to other kind of
more like sizing options, things like, like tall, wide, et cetera.
Um, but, but it takes time.
It's difficult to do that kind of stuff.
Uh, allocation right now is difficult, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Um, but yeah, it's, it, it is a, it is something that they want to do.
Also female underwear as well, as far as my understanding goes, that is also included
in the previous statement that I said, but I could be wrong.
Maybe hit up Nick on Twitter.
Um, and then it says also sup other AJ watching on flow plane.
Nice.
Heck yeah.
Brandon R says, thanks for being half my closet and keeping my love of tech alive,
going to school, uh, for networking.
Now keep up the great work.
Go flow plane.
Heck yes.
Thank you very much.
Bought a bunch of bananas.
Anonymous said, just got HTMI 2.1 two by two switch and was wondering if that cable
tester you have can test anything with HTMI splitters, splitters, switches, and capture
cards.
No idea.
Sorry.
Uh, Christopher H thoughts on what is this?
TLDR lab, open source slash LTT licensed community contributions.
Ooh, yeah, I doubt it.
Um, maybe there's certain ways that we can like validate that stuff.
We can maybe look into that.
Um, I'll maybe check that thread out later, but there's a lot of potential issues there.
That's a, that's quite the minefield.
So yeah, PS Luke hope that 59 50 X is still slinging bits after the period.
Absolutely is.
So heck yeah.
Cool, nice.
I like the zipper pockets too.
We wanted to, uh, oh, I guess you guys probably won't be able to hear me very well.
I'm just going to change real quick.
Oh, okay.
Oh, uh, I don't think so, but if you're legitimately behind the chair, yeah, it's fine.
It's okay.
It's fine.
It's okay.
All right, there we go.
Land joggers, ladies and gentlemen.
That matches the hoodie pretty well.
Of course it does.
It's made out of exactly the same material.
Oh, they're wan joggers.
They're wan joggers.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, cause they have the logo on the other pocket too.
Yeah.
So there's, it's like a stealth logo.
Yep. Wow.
That's super cool.
Extra pockets on the inside.
Dude.
Once you have those in socks, when that's cool.
I don't have to own any other clothes.
Yep.
Another zipper pocket on the back, just in case the condom pocket.
That's actually our internal name for all pockets that have no obvious purpose with
the joke being that like our audience definitely needs lots of condoms.
When they buy this merch, they do.
So we've got the orange drawstrings.
Another zipper pocket.
Kind of like cool.
Just like accents, things like that.
Yeah.
I think the fit's awesome, obviously.
Sorry.
I know you guys can't really hear me very well, but I'm back now.
It looks good.
So that's them.
Wan joggers are on a ship and they're coming.
Man.
We've got, there's so much stuff coming.
We've got some nice like stretchy shorts.
So those are, those are done and they're just on the way.
Yeah.
I pulled this out of the size run.
Sweet.
This is final, final spec.
Awesome.
Yeah.
I'm extremely excited.
And these are, I mean, the only, the only problem is that they are, we just won't have
enough of them.
Conrad asks, aren't those just American Apparel sweatpants?
Absolutely not.
These are our own custom.
They're using exactly the same material as the Wan hoodie.
Someone asked if the zippers are YKK.
If they're not, my merch team is fired because I told them we only use YKK zippers.
Actually, I think some of the little hidden ones might not be.
So the only time we don't use YKK is when there is for whatever reason, not a YKK one
available.
Yeah, it is on the sample.
Sometimes we don't have YKK zippers on our samples because they're just a fit sample.
But when it comes to actual merch that we ship, I'm just like, it's one of the few blind
brand loyalties that I have is that whenever a factory tries to sell us on anything, I've
been a YKK zipper.
I'm just like, and it's a big problem because they've had supply issues, like everyone
and costs have gone on zippers.
Just really sucks.
Because it's not just, we talked about it as a silicon shortage or whatever, but it's
like materials, like kind of almost in general.
Captain Observant asks, why is the zipper backwards on the stealth hoodie?
Because most people wouldn't notice, but you're Captain Observant.
Uh, it's, we just didn't think about it to be perfectly honest with you.
The zippers backwards?
Uh, it's, it's on the opposite side.
Usually it's like one side for female clothes or one side for male, but it's different rules
in Commonwealth countries and the US.
I don't know.
Bridget explained it to me once and I glazed over.
I was just like, whatever.
I don't care for me.
I don't have a muscle memory for that.
I just figure it out and zip up my jacket.
Like I don't, I don't, I, it doesn't cost me a lot of extra brain cycles.
So, uh, anyway, so hopefully that answers your question.
It's coming.
It's coming.
Uh, I heard you answer a few more.
Are you deleting the ones that you're done with or?
Uh, no, I'm getting a little lost in how this organization is.
Okay.
So the curated ones, I've moved them ones down there that were not ones that I wanted
to show up there, but were ones that I wanted to.
Okay.
Then everything in incoming is done, so I'll delete them up.
You can keep going.
Perfect.
All right.
Uh, Julian says, love your videos.
Hey, thanks, Julian.
Have you guys considered making a video comparing different search engines?
For example, I use DuckDuckGo, not for its privacy, but for the convenience of bang search.
No, I have not considered making a video about, uh, comparing different search engines.
Um, yes, no, I have not.
Um, I don't know that we would do that.
I think that's probably, that's probably going to be a tough sell.
I don't, I don't think that would perform particularly well.
Um, Paul says undies.
Hi, I'm Paul.
I don't know why I moved that into curated.
Oh, probably because I just missed the notification because Conrad didn't give me enough time.
Speaking of which we have an update on the Conrad challenge.
Uh, Conrad says I can pick any game, give him two weeks to learn it, and he will beat
me.
Conrad, I'm sorry to do this to you, but I really just, I'm kind of feeling hungry and
I really want someone to buy me lunch.
So I choose Beat Saber.
I'd give you two months to play Beat Saber, but I've been known to, I don't think you
should have any training time.
I've been known to make concessions.
I think he should just play you like right away.
He said any game, boom.
No, there was no, I'm fine with two weeks.
I don't think you, David, David still owes me, uh, still owes me a, and I beat you at
Beat Saber, uh, uh, challenge.
He says the end of the month, by the way, for the people who keep up asking about that.
All right.
So Conrad, uh, you've got two weeks to get better than me at Beat Saber.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Okay.
Epic.
Good luck.
That could have gone a couple of different directions, but that was...
Yeah, I could have gone with Forged Alliance.
That's, that's a game that is not easy to pick up in two weeks, even if you're a very
experienced gamer.
Um, like Luke is a better gamer than me.
Pretty much any genre.
Like we sit down and play a conventional, uh, RTS like Starcraft or something like that.
And he will absolutely destroy me.
Not Forged Alliance.
Forged Alliance is just, it hits a little different.
Not even close.
Um, it's like a full-time job keeping up with the meta, even though it's like a 12 year
old game or whatever.
Okay.
What else we got here in the merch messages?
Uh, any plans for heavier winter wear asks Eric W.
Yes, we do.
So remember if you are subscribed to the LTT store, um, newsletter, you'll have seen that
we did a post about this like 3d printed down style like material.
Um, we have a jacket that would be meant to kind of go on top of a hoodie.
Like it's not a super insulated one, but it's like a layering up kind of shell, uh, waterproof.
Uh, we're working on that.
We also have a windbreaker that's even lighter than that.
It's just a pure shell.
We're working on that.
Um, I don't know if either of those is going to make it for this winter, but the thing
about LTT stores is that we're not really constrained in the same way that a lot of
more traditional clothing businesses are.
If we, if we miss a season, we're like, F it, we'll launch it anyway.
That sucks.
Oh, well.
Yeah.
People in Australia can buy it.
What do, what do we care?
I mean, we care obviously.
It'd be nice to, you know, we have literally millions of dollars deployed right now in
merch that we have purchased, but have not received and cannot sell and therefore cannot
make back our investment on.
Uh, obviously we definitely want to sell stuff, but it's not like we're under the same kind
of pressure where if we, if we miss it by a month, you know, now it's on fire sale and
we're selling it at a loss, whatever, various current fashion trends, whatever.
And we literally can't reuse it next year.
Like it's not like that.
So it makes life a little bit easier for us.
But that, uh, man, I really like that, uh, that, that shell jacket with the, the printed
down type material inside it.
It's super warm.
It's super comfy.
It's got like a really nice hand feel to it.
I really like it.
That's a garment where sometimes you start with what your goal is in terms of the finished
product.
So with WAN hoodie V2, we started with the goal of making WAN hoodie, but like better.
Um, and then we went and we found, we sourced materials and we sourced construction methods
like we figured it out.
Um, with the jacket, we found a material we really liked and we were like, let's make
a garment now.
So it can kind of go both ways.
I was asking Bridget about it.
And apparently that's actually more common than you might think to find a really cool
material and then be like, okay, we have to do something.
What can we do with this?
What is its best application?
Yeah.
Um, thoughts between valve index or HTC Vive.
Money is not an issue.
Well, money is not an issue.
I mean, the index is obviously the way to go Jose, but I also just got a review unit
of the Pimax 8K or Pixmax or whatever they're called.
I think Pimax and also their 5K one, which I believe supports an even higher refresh
rate than the index.
So I'm going to have a video coming on those once I get a chance to really try and daily
drive them.
Also, like, is he talking about the, the Vive flow or I'm not sure which it almost doesn't
matter because if you're going for the highest possible performance, the index is, is better.
It's it's there.
Christian asks, what's your favorite color?
I feel like I've answered this question on one show before.
I'm not six.
I don't have a favorite color.
Um, do you have a favorite color?
Not really.
Okay.
I used to like answer that with red, but now at this point it's like, well, no, not really.
I don't know.
So I don't know.
Um, good album.
Good album.
We released recently.
Oh, um, uh, this is a cool suggestion from anonymous.
I think it was last one show.
Someone asked about fashionable anti-static wrist straps, but I was wondering if it would
be possible to make an anti-static watch strap.
So you just get a watch strap.
That's like just a broadly compatible watch strap.
Then you just have like an anti-static do hickey on there and then you can just clip
on and clip off and you never have to take on.
I like standard G shock with a little, yeah.
Would be awesome.
That's actually a brilliant idea.
Yeah, that'd be sweet.
Um, I like it.
I'm going to email it to Nick.
Nice.
Do you want to do another one while I do that?
Sure.
This is from anonymous.
Very qualified for LTT lab position has published four academic papers and one patent, but can't
start for at least six months PhD thesis defense and don't have Canadian work visa.
That's a bit of an issue, but if you have those kinds of credentials, it's a lot easier
to get you in here, which is one of the reasons that I didn't bring that up to the same degree
as I have in the past in the hiring video.
So you have to have like mean credentials like that though.
Um, he says, should I bother applying?
Absolutely.
I would.
Yeah.
Yep.
Luke, what led you to using, Oh, that jumped around.
Oh goodness.
Um, angular over react view or others, uh, love the channel and love what LTT is doing
for tech.
Um, my developers were like, Hey, we want to use this.
And I was like, sweet.
Okay.
Yeah, no, there was, it was a good management.
Luke, it was a conversation over a decently extended period of time, but, um, two of the
main developers that do most of the work that would be that part of the project wanted to
use angular.
So I'm sorry, I'm not going to butcher your name.
Um, so I, I'm going to go with Ivy, your initials, um, Hey from Brazil, any chance of an iOS
job position opening?
Um, we have one dev that actually does both Android and iOS for us.
And he is, that's probably the word that I would use.
So we don't need another one right now because he is too overpowered.
Um, pretty much.
Yeah.
You heard it here first, but, uh, there's probably going to be a raise in his future
when we talk about that pretty soon.
Heck yeah.
Yeah.
I think that guy's name was Isaac.
Um, Oh, is that, I think it's just a, I think it's just an interesting spell.
Oh, like a more like Southern American spelling.
Yeah.
Got it.
Uh, Joe says I started watching your videos back in 2014.
They helped me much in my career.
We don't know.
We don't only use angular, just to be clear.
Sorry.
Um, building my first PC, I started mining this year.
You helped me get ahead.
So time to pay it back a little, um, mining, not exactly a popular, popular thing with
the PC community at the moment.
Although, can I, can I kind of go off script a little bit here?
I think there's a lot of closet miners in the gaming community.
Yeah.
Like I think there's a lot of hate, but I think there's a lot of closet.
When there's, when there's so much hate around a subject like that, a huge amount of the
population that is receiving the hate is just going to not talk about it.
So you don't know they're there.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
I think that's a, I think that's a bit of a thing.
So there's that.
Uh, Hey, thanks Joe.
Uh, anonymous.
You should make more all black stuff.
Really nice for work.
Also an all black desk pad would be cool.
We have an all black desk pad coming.
It's going to have like a circuit design, kind of like the wall in the lounge, but it's
going to be black on black.
So like stealth circuit desk pad.
We've actually had a lot of feedback that, um, people in, in different like working
situations are able to wear the all black stuff.
Um, like last show when I was just doing these, we had feedback from multiple different
people that they worked in environments where they were not allowed to wear things with
branding and logos, but they were able to get away with the stealth stuff, which I found
pretty interesting people in, in like filming departments that can't wear anything other
than all black stuff.
Uh, there was another one that I don't remember the context, but he could only wear all black
stuff.
Uh, yeah, it was kind of cool.
Yeah.
I mean, honestly, the, where that came from was wanting the product to be good enough
that people would want to buy it.
Even if it wasn't.
Merch.
Yeah.
That's the idea.
That's where the whole stealth name came from.
Like repping a brand without, without wanting everyone around you to be like Linus, who's
Linus, you know, that kind of thing.
Or without, um, yeah, without having to defend it for one thing.
And then the other part is because I feel like it puts more pressure on us to do better
than just, well, we took this cafe press thing and we silkscreened our logo onto it.
Um, we didn't always have the time and resources to do that, but it's definitely something
that we're trying to do now.
Um, uh, Petruch says, love the show, given Apple's repair programs, how do you see right
to repair factor in with integrated SOCs considering their performance and efficiency improvements?
So you're never going to be able to repair an SOC like yourself.
Um, but that doesn't mean that right to repair can't still make devices with SOCs more
repairable.
So, you know, whether it's, um, making schematics available so that you could swap the SOC or
whether it's, um, whether it's at least not going out of your way to put encryption
keys on the SOC, where there's no way to where all your data is gone immediately.
When you lose access to it, there's no way to even enter the, the shared, uh, or not
the shared, whatever the there's, there's no way to decrypt it.
Hmm. Even if you knew the password, right?
If the, if all the encryption data is stored on the SOC, even though the storage is somewhere
else, like there's ways that you can make a device more repair friendly, even if it's
tightly integrated, which does have clear performance benefits.
So it's just an attitude problem at the end of the day.
Uh, Cody says, I play Warhammer Vermin, Verminetide 2?
Vermintide.
Vermintide.
Oh, is it just spelled wrong?
Maybe, but it's, it's Vermintide.
Is that a new game?
No.
But it allows you to select the number of CPU threads the game can use.
Would you consider trying that game for CPU performance tests?
Probably not.
Probably not.
When we are looking at games that, um, can stress a CPU, it's not necessarily that we're
looking for that.
I mean, if we wanted to restrict how many threads it was using, we could do that, um,
manually.
We could either disable cores on the BIOS.
We could, um, I think, I don't know how well it works, but you could pin the process to
certain cores using windows.
Um, and really what we're looking for is games that are not very graphically demanding
so that they're just, so that the CPU becomes the bottleneck.
Um, that's, that's really what we're looking for.
Uh, there's the organic chemist one.
Wait, oh no, the organic chemist one was a different one.
Oh boy.
I deleted it and now it's gone.
I feel terrible.
Uh, the point is I don't think we do have an organic chemist position, but then there
was a, there was a wife and the wife had credentials.
Uh, control F chemist.
Uh, no, it's gone.
Oh shoot.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Uh, I feel bad, but there is really nothing that I can do about it now.
Uh, Ihor says, have you considered constraining the width of LTT store to some centered container
that doesn't span across the whole width of your screen?
They include in that comment, it looks a little weird on ultra-wides and they are correct.
It does look a little weird on ultra-wides, um, because it, it spans really wide.
But if you're looking at me, like you're waiting for me to answer this question.
No, I'm giving you feedback.
Cause I don't, I don't know if you've tried it or not, but it spans really wide, but I
believe it only shows four products wide or something.
Um, so it is pretty funky.
Uh, and we are looking into doing more that one of the things that's holding us back a
little bit from doing a lot of theming changes to the store right now is that there's this
new hydrogen thing coming out.
Um, it hit more of an open beta recently, but we were in more of like a closed beta
program with it.
Um, and we want to use that, but that is going to involve like a whole redo to the store.
So I don't necessarily want to do a ton of little stuff like that right now.
Um, cause I'd rather put that work into the whole remake of the store.
Got it.
But yes, I hear you and it's, it's not great.
Henry, could you consider a supplement to the Linux challenge, maybe episode seven where
Anthony or someone goes over what to look for in a Linux distro for gaming and some
that are particularly good for game compatibility for a new user.
I think what we already learned through the Linux challenge is that Linux people are not
going to have that much difficulty in any distro.
Obviously some will be easier than others and non-Linux people.
It is a barrier that is not reasonably overcomable.
If your only goal is to play games, if your goal is to play games and to learn Linux as
a hobby, that's a completely separate question.
In which case, go do your research on that or go distro hop for a bit.
That's sort of the whole point.
Cause that's what you're doing.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, Joshua, uh, VMware workstation pro 16 added support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1
for virtual machines and games.
It would be interesting to see a deep dive into what can be done with this feature.
Um, yeah, maybe, maybe we haven't tooled around with VMware too much.
And it seems like there'd be a bit of a learning curve for us to figure out what to do with
something like that, but it's definitely cool.
Uh, Zachary says my father-in-law is the director of an amazing international nonprofit called
curious learning.
There's, uh, apps and content to increase literacy in developing countries.
Would it be worth suggesting they reach out for a potential collab?
We don't do a ton of collabs just for the sake of collab.
And we tend to try to keep things pretty on topic.
And by on topic, I mean like hardware on topics.
Software is not really something that we've got a lot of audience overlap with, believe
it or not.
Yeah.
There's certain categories that you would think, um, intuitively would perform really
well for us, but I was actually having a conversation with, um, our tech Wiki writer, John, about
how, you know, gaming topics are not performing particularly well on that channel.
And he's like, what are they just not gamers?
And it's like, well, it's not that they're not gamers.
It's just that that might not be what they consume on YouTube.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, Michael asks thoughts on some chip manufacturing be moved to the U S and how slash when it
will affect this shortage slash the market.
Well, not for a few years, but yes, it should help, but it also won't affect certain things.
Um, like for example, one of the issues with the automotive industry is they're still just
using a bunch of outdated crap that nobody wants to build more fab capacity for.
So if they don't change that, then it's not going to help.
And, and this is part of your question of a fab capacity takes a long time to bring online.
And even when it is online, as far as my understanding goes, it takes a bit to get it
efficient as well.
Chris E uh, yes, more land themed products like the pants that I'm wearing right now.
Uh, we'd love to get your thoughts on DIY perks, custom PS five chassis.
I haven't actually seen it.
Uh, sounds cool.
Everything DIY perks does is amazing.
Yeah.
Chris B uh, this topic reminded me that I could use new water bottles.
So I went with the stormtrooper look one in hopes it won't hit anything and we'll stay
dent free for longer.
That's very funny.
Very funny.
Chris, get it?
It won't hit anything.
We've actually had that joke a couple of times on the way in.
Have we already?
All right.
Well, that's a shame.
Uh, my, uh, or Mal asks any word on the new kids' book?
I haven't started it yet.
I'm sorry.
Oh, you are making one though.
Uh, I want to do a counting book.
I want to do a colors book, shapes book.
I just, uh, also is LTS 2022 happening so far?
That is the tentative plan.
We're going to try.
We're going to give it a shot.
Uh, Hunter been watching since the Langley house.
Love the way your channel is going.
Would you say secret lab chairs are comfy?
So they sponsored this show full disclosure.
Like they were a sponsor of the WAN show, but, uh, before secret lab had sponsored
us, um, we talked about them in Alex's Intel extreme tech upgrade.
And as far as I can tell, they're using exactly the same materials as Maxinomik,
who I've been an advocate for through sponsorship and not sponsorship for many
years now, I think that they're good quality chairs.
Uh, they don't have a lot of the same issues as the other gaming chairs.
They are still, they have that look.
Right.
But, uh, the material quality is significantly better than a lot of the
really bad gaming chairs out there.
Um, final two last two, Eduardo.
Oh wait, this is more asking about LTT socks.
Caridy answered that sub Eduardo and Matthew can float plane get merch
discount codes like the YouTube join channel.
Uh, yes, I don't see why not, but I don't know if we have a mechanism for it yet.
Uh, we, we can, we can get it working though.
Okay.
Do you want to like throw that in the doc or whatever?
It's there.
And do you want to throw this show to being over?
Yeah.
Thanks for watching.
Bye Anthony says short answer re good distro for gaming.
There isn't a best distro for gaming distros are a little more than package
management and defaults.
Yeah, that's fair.
There are some that are set up to get going more easily, but as we've seen,
easy isn't necessarily universal depending on package stability and hardware
configuration.
Also, the, the easiness in my opinion is almost nothing like you pre-install
the graphics driver, which takes literally seconds in a lot of operating
systems and in some distros distro, sorry.
Uh, and, and like in, in the case of mint, it was this big pop-up in the corner
that was like, do you want to do the thing?
And I was like, yup.
And it was like, cool.
I did it for you.
And that was the only gap.
Cool.
Like, it's not the hard part.
Um, pick the distro that has the most comfortable defaults and go from there.
Linux challenge part seven is now over.
Fair enough, Anthony, mic drop, mic drop Anthony.
All right.
And we're done.