Ahhhhhh, man.
Excited. We have great topics this week.
HDMI 2.1 is here. That's actually really cool. Every single time a display cable gets updated. I'm just excited.
It's a good thing.
It's like it's gonna be like more resolutions and more colors and faster refresh rates.
It's good. Everything just gets better. Also,
China is using DJI drones to spy on the US.
Rumor, allegedly.
Rumor, allegedly. Well, um, allegedly.
Yep.
Yeah.
Uh, EA Sports, UFC 3's egregious implementation of microtransactions.
It's so bad.
We'll be talking about that. And finally, our former employer,
NCIX.com,
bankrupt.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Okay, do you think I can roll the intro and adjust the tilt of the camera at the same time?
You got three, two, one.
Going.
Go.
He's off. He's going around the table.
He's grabbed the lever, twisting the knob.
Oh, the knob's broken off. He's having some issues.
He might have to go get a wrench.
The knob is broken off.
The intro is still going.
Oh, he's trying to turn the camera anyways.
Oh, I have to sit up.
Oh, I have to do an ad thing, though.
Oh, okay.
Dragging the ad into the place.
Thank you, savage jerky.
Go, buddy.
Thank you, Spectrum.
Thank you, Marsile.
Marsai.
Marsai.
Oh.
It's French.
For someone with a French name, you don't French very well.
No, I don't.
And I would know.
Oh.
Oh, my.
Oh, my.
Speaking of Frenching really well, though, HDMI 2.1.
Yeah, sure.
So this was posted by Silber.
I mean, it has to.
Oh, do you mind if I have the table?
This was posted by Silber Drachi on the forum.
And the original article here is from Engadget.com.
Let's go ahead and pull that baby up.
Boom.
HDMI 2.1 is here with support for 10K and dynamic HDR support.
And it is backwards compatible with previous HDMI specifications.
That 10K, by the way, pretty weird.
10K.
So 10K, it looks like, is going to be more like wide 8K.
Yeah.
Except that that still makes it 10K.
Yes.
Because the way that we define resolutions, because average Joe consume.
Okay, nothing against people named Joe.
Okay, let's go.
Average Jeff consumer.
Yeah.
Can't handle two numbers.
Whatever, Jeff.
Okay.
So that's why resolutions are just something K now.
It has to be a maximum of three characters or else you've lost them.
That's right.
Four, that's probably pushing it.
That's why swear words usually cap at four.
You can't go beyond there.
Okay.
It's kind of a thing.
How interesting.
So, okay, here, hold on.
Back to this chart that we're looking at over on Engadget here.
So this is, this is interesting because back in the day we had full HD and that was everyone.
We didn't really know that as full HD outside of like, you know, like the, yeah, I mean
1920 by 10, eight.
I think we called it 10 ADP back then.
And then full HD was, no, no, we did know it as full HD, but that was kind of like used
some people even side 1080p full HD.
Yeah.
Cause we, we called it full HD because of all the BS marketing that went on around seven
20, which was called HD.
HD.
Okay.
This is like, no, this is like real HD.
The full HD.
It's complete.
And then 4k was like, okay, it's, I get the four.
So it's like four times this and it's also about 4,000 pixels wide, but then, okay, so
this 5k, this is interesting.
We've got about 5,000 pixels wide, which makes sense.
That's consistent with the 4k naming.
Oh, it's something a lot of people don't know is that there was actually a 2k standard.
Yeah.
So it's a 20, a 48 by 10 AD, if I recall correctly, but that was only a DCI cinema standard.
That wasn't actually a consumer standard.
And then everything got really confused with 4k because this resolution 38, 40 by 2160
is technically UHD ultra HD.
It is not 4k.
4k should be 4,096 by 2160 because it would be four times 2k.
But then we weren't sure if we were using consumer nomenclature or if we were using
a professional nomenclature.
And then the 5k thing, I don't know, I don't know what the hell that is because that's
like widescreen 4k.
That's not 5k because 5k, the only 5k devices that exist are the Apple display on the iMac
and LG's 5k display.
That's also for Macs.
And then 8k is four times 4k, but actually this is four times UHD, which is four times
full HD.
So the K's never meant anything in the first place.
And also 7,680 is like dangerously not that close to 8,000 at this point.
And then 10k is now apparently four times 5k at a different aspect ratio than 8k, 4k
full HD.
You know what?
No.
That was probably horrible.
Sorry.
I'm sorry to all of you.
Sorry.
Sorry.
But I have to express my frustration.
Two numbers is not that hard.
We've been doing it since, you know, 640 by 480.
It was good enough for me.
It's good enough for the next generation.
I hate this.
I hate everything about it, except that with new HDMI, we can run higher resolution.
And I actually am excited to see ultra wide TVs.
The fact that these standards are making it into the HDMI specification means we're going
to see TVs like this.
Anytime you see a clip, there's one that's really high on Reddit right now.
Anytime you see a clip of horizon zero dawn, that's an ultra wide.
It's like, Oof, Oof.
That's probably how that game's supposed to be played.
TVs.
Apparently 480p was first gen HD.
What?
Was it?
Yeah.
HD CRTs.
Oh.
I think they could be, I think they could be like 480 progressive or something or something,
something.
I can't remember.
The HD term has been.
It's been bastardized.
Yeah.
There's a swear word that's not four letters.
Yes.
Someone in the Twitch chat informed me of that.
Yeah.
I said, usually.
I mean, we could have thought of a couple, I'm sure.
I think I said usually.
Cause there are some compound swear words that are definitely more than four letters.
So anyway, there's a bunch of other cool stuff, 48 gigabit per second.
That's pretty sick.
4k at 120 Hertz.
That's actually a lot more important to me than 10k.
Yes.
8k at 60 Hertz.
That's pretty sweet.
I guess personally, I'm really not that sold on above 4k at this point for.
Yeah.
But that 4k at 120 is like, that's pretty sweet.
I mean, 8k 60 Hertz would be great for like a gigantic projector, I guess.
Dynamic HDR, variable refresh rate.
Oh yes.
Thank you.
Finally.
Oh man.
I mean, I'm surprised that Sony and Microsoft haven't been pushing harder for variable refresh
rate because it would mask so many of the FPS dips.
In a good way.
In a good way.
Yeah.
Like actually like mask puts a potentially negative term.
I guess that's true.
Yeah.
But it is masking, but like it would, it would, it would look a lot better.
Auto low latency mode.
So that's cool.
And textual anti-aliasing, removing jaggies without noticeable blur.
That sounds like if they get it right, it'll be great.
And if they don't, then it won't.
And sub one millisecond lag.
Although that'll be up to the TV makers in terms of how they want to implement that and
how little lag there actually is because they are constantly dinking around with the signal
trying to do whatever it is that they're trying to do that I certainly wish they wouldn't
do.
Yeah, every time that I even think about maybe looking into a TV, which I don't, I haven't,
I've never technically bought a TV.
So I mean like if someone asks me or whatever else, I end up just being like, I wish I could
just buy a ginormous monitor because I don't even want this now.
Yeah.
Like can you get like 60 inch, 65 inch monitors?
No, I think the biggest is LG has a 42.
Cause like not only do I not want this stuff that's on the TV, like the extra stuff, but
like it makes it worse.
It's not like, Oh, that's not a benefit.
It's like, no, I really, really wish that wasn't there.
I would pay the same price.
Just please take it off.
It's so annoying.
I've got people asking me what's up with the iJustine thing.
So I went down there, hooked her up with a sick 150 terabyte storage server in pink and
white.
Did you see the picture?
It's sweet.
It looks really clean.
It's super cool.
And then while I was down there, I actually impromptu shot a studio tour of her place
because I actually didn't take a camera.
This is kind of a funny story.
So the original plan was for me to take a camera person down and I was going to stay
down for like two or three days and I was going to hang out with Jason and do, cause
he's actually working.
I don't want to say what he's working on cause his might still be top secret, but it's a
really cool build.
It's like sort of a collab except I don't need to be there.
So I don't need to be there for that anymore.
So we shortened my trip.
And then the other reason that I was going to take a shooter was that I was probably
going to do some kind of video for our channel with Justine.
And then I was like, you know what, forget it.
I just need to do a short trip because I've been traveling so much lately and you know
what?
I don't know if we're going to have time in one day to do the video for her channel and
one for mine.
Don't worry about it.
She already came up and she did a guest appearance for us on a thing that's never coming in on
a thing that it'll come out.
Eventually.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Forget it.
I'm not going to shoot a video.
And then what's funny is Yvonne booked a room with two beds just in case I like changed
my mind at the last second and took a shooter.
But I didn't.
But then I got to Justine's place and I was like, this place is amazing.
This place is unbelievable.
And so what I did was I actually borrowed her shooter and then just got the clips off
the SD card, carted them back here and it's actually being edited right now.
Nice.
You are going to be blown away.
And this is coming from the same person who just did a dead mouse studio tour.
Her place is unbelievable.
It's incredible.
It's cool.
Yeah.
I'm stoked.
I like that kind of stuff.
Do you want one spoiler?
Yes.
She probably has literally 50 Xbox One controllers.
Literally.
What?
Literally.
Okay.
One more spoiler?
Yeah.
Literally.
Every amiibo.
Literally.
Like properly using that term every single one.
Literally.
What the heck?
Literally.
Actually.
Literally.
Oh my God.
That's so many amiibos.
She is a way bigger nerd than I give her credit for.
There's a few I haven't been able to get.
I'm not collecting that many to be very clear.
I have like four, but there's some that I've wanted that I can't get.
Yeah.
So her place was super cool and I was really excited to.
That's pretty cool.
The entire chat.
I was just like, literally, literally, literally.
I found something that I thought.
Okay.
You know what?
Forget it.
We'll get to it in the video.
Okay.
Okay.
What were we talking about?
We were technically on HDMI, but I think we passed on in between things and we were maybe
doing DJI.
Should we do full play?
Oh, let's do DJI first.
Yeah.
DJI.
Wow.
So this was posted by WM Groom AK on the forum and actually we're going with our forum for
the source of this article here because apparently this was a really epic post.
Oh no.
No.
Engadget is the original source here.
Let's pull that up.
Uh, if it ever goes, it'll go, it'll go, it'll go, I'm going to post it in the twitch chat.
Come on baby.
Come on baby.
You got this.
There we go.
All right.
drone security claims that DJI drones are spying for China and it released a memo detailing
what it believes to be DJI's main targets.
Wow.
That is like some pretty serious business accusation going on.
So this is a memo from the Los Angeles office of the immigration and customs enforcement
bureau alleging that the data captured from DJI drone customers in the u s is being provided
to the Chinese government.
And the memo originally in August says that, and there's a quote with moderate confidence,
the Chinese based company, DJI science and technology is providing us critical infrastructure
and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.
The information is based on open source reporting and a reliable source within the unmanned
aerial systems industry with first and secondhand access.
So they conclude, and this is more quotes that it assesses with high confidence the
critical infrastructure and law enforcement entities using DJI systems are collecting
sensitive intelligence that the Chinese government could use to conduct physical or cyber attacks
against the United States and its population.
Yeah.
So DJI appears to be targeting users with the ability to disrupt critical infrastructure,
railroads, utilities, companies that provide drinking water, weapons, storage facilities,
DJI statement though, to be clear, this is all alleged, um, DJI statement says that the
memo was based on clearly false and misleading claims.
Um, shortly after, however, DJI released a local data mode, which allows users to cut
off drones from all internet activity, which they probably should.
What does my drone need to do on the internet?
I have no clue, especially in terms of reporting like camera and telemetry data.
Yeah.
Especially when I'm recording or like other than when I'm performing a firmware update.
Yeah.
Um, or I could only be down, I could see it reporting something like if I'm flying in
a no fly zone, like that kind of stuff's coming.
But again, that shouldn't be going to a foreign government, that's for sure.
That should be going to one that has jurisdiction over the area that I am flying.
When you have to, you have to register your drone or something now, right?
So that should be like when you register your drone, they like get a key or something.
Yeah.
Um, wow.
Pretty brutal.
So now the ice memo did focus on the drones used by companies and institutions, not the
drones flown by hobbyists.
So I don't know if you necessarily have to stop, you know, hovering your drone in the
bedroom to film yourself making a sex tape or whatever.
Um, I wouldn't recommend that either.
Either way.
Yeah.
Blades.
Yeah.
You know, blades and penises.
Um, not a good combination unless you don't want to have kids anymore like me, but there's
better ways to do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, speaking of which, I know you wanted to talk about stuff that's on float plane.
That's hilarious.
Okay.
It's actually so funny.
I can't even, one of Taren's scenes in this is so golden.
They're like, you know the, yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
So stuff that's on float plane right now.
Um, you guys joined, join the club.
It's cool.
All the cool kids are there.
Uh, we've got case made of radiators.
Literally coming out.
It's out.
Literally.
The radiators literally look at it literally case made of radiators.
Okay.
Um, achieving the ultimate 4k experience.
The first ever Nvidia sponsored Linus Tech Tips video of all time.
Literally.
I hope, I hope top comment on this thread.
I haven't looked yet is in video shows.
We'll see though.
I hope so too.
There's no way it won't be.
Uh, Taren hosted a video recently on the Elgato stream deck.
I have so many problems with that thing.
I haven't watched this video yet, but we'll see.
Um, let's see what else we got here.
We've got some exclusive stuff.
We toured the server room.
That was pretty cool.
Oh, where's the Chauncey fun one?
Uh, oh, it's coming.
It's coming.
Uh, Oh, that's already up on YouTube.
Uh, Triton 700 super powerful, super thin gaming laptop.
Very cool.
And there it is.
Cruel pregnancy prank gone wrong.
It's amazing how many people are giving us crap about that gone wrong in the title.
I would hope it's fairly obvious that that like naming scheme is, is played out at this
point and that anyone doing it now and people are still really doing almost 2018 exactly.
Anyone doing it now is clearly just being ironic.
It's tongue in cheek.
It's just, it's silly.
We all know it's dumb, gone sexual, gone wrong.
I don't think we've done a prank in a while.
Yeah.
So it's kind of a show back to like when YouTube used to be prank tube.
Prank tube basically.
Yeah.
Like I just, I, there were a couple of people who seemed legit upset about it.
No, no, it's just, it's, it's a joke.
It's just a, it's just a joke, bro.
It's just a joke.
It's just a joke, bro.
It's just a joke.
Oh my goodness.
That was the worst.
In all seriousness, this wasn't a very funny joke.
It was hilarious as an external person.
So there are actually, it is a, it is a two prank video.
Yeah.
So should I, should I say, you know, I'll say what the first one is.
Cause that one's right at the beginning.
Okay.
Okay.
So the first prank is when Yvonne got pregnant with our third, she and I got together and
we were talking about how guys are not that observant.
Like women can tell that each other are pregnant, like basically immediately.
I don't know how they do it.
It's like they can smell it on each other or something.
You called me on the phone.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Well I'll keep doing this.
So women can tell right away.
And I was like, no, there's no way guys would notice.
Like that's why we never ask, like we never bring it up because we can't tell the difference
between like eight months pregnant and fat.
And you don't want to run that risk because you're like, there's no way to win.
Right.
And she was like, no, they'll be able to tell.
I was like, they will not be able to tell.
And they certainly won't say anything.
And so she and I kind of made a little bet.
I was like, they won't be able to tell even if, and they'll think that it's me being mean
if I'm like constantly going after you about how you're getting fat, there's, they won't
be able to tell.
They'll just be like, Linus is an ass.
They will not figure out that you're actually pregnant.
And you have to consider that while he's being an ass to his wife, who's also an employee
of the company that we all work at.
He's also everyone's boss.
Yup.
Yup.
It's a really weird dynamic.
And this is great.
I would ask people like, do you think, do you think Yvonne's getting fat?
Meanwhile, she has actually gained 15 pounds because she is pregnant.
They'd be like, oh no, anyway, there's actually a part two to the prank that is not funny
at all.
But um, no, it's actually hilarious.
It's a good video.
Go sign up for float plane.
Having having the second part's not funny though.
Having nothing to do with it.
It is hilarious.
But like there are certain points in time where I was like, oh, this is, oh, this is
getting bad.
There you go.
There you go guys.
Go sign up for float plane.
One week early access ish ish.
It's not always a week, but it's like definitely early access.
So beautiful videos with top tier audio quality, top tier audio quality, drop that out there.
All right.
Speaking of top tier quality, why don't we talk about SC two Mitch's post on the forum?
The original article here is from astute gaming, a site that I've never heard of, but neither,
but sure.
Why not?
There you go.
And the headline here.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
The headline.
Whoa.
EA sports UFC three, the single most egregious implementation of microtransactions to date.
So bad.
Whoa.
Have you read any about this at all?
You know what?
This is, this is not my deal.
I'm not a UFC guy.
I'm not an EA sports guy and I rarely even have time for gaming and I definitely don't
pay for microtransactions.
So I tend to pretty much ignore them wherever they exist.
So it offends me probably less than other people because this is a game I was never
going to play from a company whose game I was never going to still offend you.
Okay.
Hit me reasons why it should still offend you.
Run through what it is.
Okay.
Run through what it is.
Right on the top.
Every single technique, ability, fighter, stat roll, all of it is in quad is entirely
acquired and upgraded through a loot box system.
Okay.
Oh, where's the quote?
You can't actually like buy a fighter pressing the square button.
Apparently we're going for PlayStation here.
Pressing a square button to throw a punch at an opponent, the simplest and most obvious
mechanic in an MMA game will do more damage if players have paid money.
In an online PVP game, it will do more damage if players have paid money.
So good.
Microtransactions are also the only means of acquiring perks and boosts.
Boosts are powerful abilities that can be equipped for a small number of fights before
expiring and boosts are temporary enhancements that offer endurance boosts and durability
bonuses meaning you can fight longer, you can take less damage, and you can hit harder,
which is literally the entire game.
Boom.
So good.
So basically EA is saying that UFC gamer fans are just endless money teats that they can
suck on, pretty much.
Does that sound like about what EA apparently thinks of their audience here?
And you know what the interesting thing is?
When we rolled out the Keep on Diggin' shirt, that was because of Ubisoft.
I know.
But they've like taken turns.
Well yeah, because EA was like always crap.
Like the Keep on Diggin' was only relevant because Ubisoft's crappiness was like kind
of a new thing.
Like EA, I mean when was the last time...
Oh no, because I remember like at that time we did actually have some positive EA headlines.
So they've switched.
And like Ubisoft is not doing everything right now.
There's some extremely valid complaints to be made about certain games of theirs, like
For Honor.
But they also launched, this is a South Park game, South Park game was very fun.
It's quite a long game, lots of content in it.
I haven't heard many people complaining about that.
All the negative reviews that I've seen on Steam, because there's quite a few of them,
are people going, why the heck do I need you play?
That's not a new problem.
It's a consistent, that's been around for a long time.
It is a dumb problem, but it has existed for a long time.
Dude, I should play it.
Did that just come out?
Fairly recently.
It's nothing like Stick of Truth, right?
It's extremely similar to Stick of Truth.
Oh cool, I'll play it.
It's like basically the same game.
Oh okay.
It's just a different story.
Yeah, I'll just go play it.
Like the overworld is essentially identical.
Well yeah, I mean South Park.
Yeah, but like even...
It's a town in Colorado.
What do you want?
Yeah.
You want to make a new town in Colorado?
And you can't redo the art style, because it's South Park.
So it's like the same thing, and you do the same thing, where you go from house to house,
which I don't know.
There's only so many houses.
Yeah, yeah.
But it is a very good game.
It's funny.
Yeah, okay.
They said it has a completely different combat system.
I don't even remember the previous one, but yeah, it's not like super next level or anything.
Sure.
I would recommend playing it on as hard of the difficulties as you can push it.
Yeah, I will.
Yeah, Stick of Truth is pretty easy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Cool.
So...
But like, it's...
What do we even say about this?
There's like nothing to say.
You can't defend it.
No.
Like, you can't even play Devil's Advocate and be like, oh, well, you know, maybe if
the...
Nope.
Not at all.
And like, this ties in with, there's battlefront issues going on right now.
While that's going on, they somehow thought it was okay to throw out beta keys for this
game with this already implemented, and this being the style.
They take the microtransactions out of battlefront 2 and then what, just assume that everyone's
going to be super okay with UFC?
Like, oh, different target audience.
They're not even going to bring it up.
I don't think that's going to be a thing.
What is mom...
Hold on.
Oh, man.
Yes, mom?
Oh, boy.
Hey.
Hi.
I wanted to say goodbye to you because I'll be gone for three weeks.
Okay.
And I can't get ahold of you at any other time than when you're actually doing the show.
You haven't called me any other time.
Sorry.
Okay.
Where are you going, mom?
You just got low-key owned, man.
I did.
I did.
I'm going to Vernon.
I sent you over Facebook pictures of my bullet wounds.
What?
I sent you pictures of the bullet wounds, so you can tell me if you think they're any
good.
I'm practicing doing my bullet wounds for the war movie I'm going to be working on.
You got to preface that a little bit.
I told you.
You sent them 16 minutes ago.
Okay.
This is not fair.
You weren't going to be working on a war movie.
Yes, I did.
I did.
Okay.
Okay.
So I wanted your opinion on my bullet wounds.
Okay.
Sorry.
One moment.
Okay.
Well, in the meantime, I'm going to...
They look pretty good, mom.
They look good?
They do.
They look pretty good.
All right.
I will let you go, but at least I got a chance to say goodbye to you before I left.
Bye.
I hope you have a good trip.
Okay.
Bye.
Me too.
Bye, Linus.
Thank you for having a Friday show so I can talk to my son once in a while.
Yeah.
No problem.
Thanks.
All righty.
Bye.
Bye.
Oh, dear.
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Next up, we've got, oh!
What is this?
This has happened a handful of times, and people always go tinfoil hat on this kind
of stuff when it happens, but did you watch our video about this?
The M-Cable?
No, I didn't.
Interesting.
Okay, so this has happened a handful of times, where with no intention of actually ever working
together, we've done a review of a product.
In this case, it was the M-Cable from Marsai, a product that claims to improve the image
quality of a device that it's attached to.
I didn't see this video, I have so many signs going off, please explain.
It's over $100, it's $150 for an M-Cable, and what they claim, well you can see what
they claim.
I'm reserving judgement because we only take sponsors who would believe it.
They claim pixel and graphics rejuvenation, advanced contextual anti-aliasing, contrast
and detail enhancement, lag-free real-time processing, and an automatic movie mode.
They claim, and it works.
So inside the cable, see how there's a USB connection?
Yes, I did see that.
It is actually a powered signal processor.
And I saw on the TV end of the cable is like huge.
Yeah, so it actually works particularly well for certain applications, one of which is
anime, so I think you're holding the Cinema Edition, does a great job of low resolution
anime collections.
You got a bunch of 480p anime, it cleans up a lot of the lines, a lot of banding.
That 2006 Warcraft video I got?
No, so there's a limit to the tech.
So we hooked it up with original Unreal, and it looked really good.
The M-Cable Cinema is actually apparently also great for streaming content.
That isn't something that we tested extensively in ours, but we did take a look at a lot of
down-sampled content, and it managed to do a really good job.
You guys can't see it, because it's way too small, but up in this corner, and I'm sure
if you go to their website, which is probably on screen, it shows that there's a processor
and stuff going on within the cable.
About one millisecond lag, we did not notice any discernible lag, even in CRT optimized
games like Super Mario World.
It's pretty awesome, and it even supports frame rates up to 1080p 120, so you can legitimately
game on the Gaming Edition here, and yeah, you guys should probably check it out.
The best use cases we found for it were older consoles, but not too old.
So you don't want something like a NES, but something like an N64, PlayStation, PlayStation
2.
That makes sense actually.
You can clean up the quality of it a fair bit.
Because to be fair, a NES is already pretty clean.
Old anime, streamed video, oh sorry, that's where I got confused.
By streamed video, I don't necessarily mean live streaming, although it would help with
that, but any kind of internet video where it's pretty good, but a little bit of tidy
up would probably not be a bad idea.
It's great for that.
And guess what?
VR.
Lots of people are using it for VR, because the displays are low resolution and it cleans
up the image a little bit, and apparently the results are fantastic, though I actually
haven't tried that personally yet.
It's interesting how a type of content is specifically better.
That actually makes sense.
So check them out at Marsaiinc.com.
This is one of those situations where we intended to do a useless tech over 100, ended up spending,
Anthony spent an entire week, because we knew we couldn't come out and say this thing is
really great, unless we absolutely proved it.
Like if we were going to come out and say it's junk, that would be easy.
Because we've done that before.
We made a video on the $1,000 silver HDMI cable.
Based on that their claims were BS, which they obviously were, and that's easy.
That's cheap, easy content.
So we were intending to do more cheap, easy content, and instead-
And you got screwed.
Paid someone for an entire week to make a video.
But then they turned around and now they're sponsoring the land show, so I guess that
worked out okay.
Huzzah.
All right, last sponsor, they're back.
I'm going to do something hot this week.
By the way, someone said their background looks fake.
It's not.
Our background looks fake?
You can see, I can pick things up from- Yeah, I'm going to type.
I'm going to type on this.
Underwood.
The keys don't come back up.
There you go.
This is like the world's most convincing- That's my, oh, it's out of the frame.
Convincing fake.
This is an Nvidia ammo box.
Why don't we have it showing the top secret?
It's the wrong way around.
Because it's a secret, you donk.
Oh.
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
It's so much cooler.
All right, all right, I'll put the top secret.
There's the Nvidia crowbar too, for- Yeah, that's hidden.
That's a secret.
There's a lot of cool things that are hidden, there we go.
That was the container that anyone who reviewed the GTX 590 got the card in, and it was such
a terrible shipping container.
My first one was broken, because they just put packing peanuts and an anti-static bag
in there.
Oh no.
And it's just a metal container, there's no shock absorption, so my card was totally broken.
So we're in the chat, wow, CGI has come a long way.
Oh, you dicks.
All right, what do you want today?
We're going hot?
You can do whatever you want, but I'm going with the ghost pepper buffalo sauce.
Did you do it last week?
No, I ate an entire pack of the maple bacon.
I think we both said we were going to do it, or I said I was going to do it, and I don't
think either of us did it, so yeah, we'll do it this week too.
All right, I'm going for it.
I'm preparing myself.
These guys really do make frickin' hot jerky.
And not just jerky, they also make barbecue sauce, hot sauce, and a spice rub.
So their Carolina reaper hot sauce uses one of the hottest peppers in the world.
The jalapeno, no I'm just kidding, the Carolina reaper.
Their jerky is made with great ingredients, without nitrates or preservatives, and the
goal is to create a snack that is full of flavor and spice that's not bad for you.
It's definitely full of flavor, and it's definitely full of spice.
I'm starting with a small piece, I'm working my way up to it today.
They've got 13 different flavors of jerky.
I'm going to regret that.
Some of the favorites, did you eat the whole thing?
Yep.
Oh, being the sriracha bacon, maple buffalo bacon, and traditional flavors, I'm partial
to the mojo.
Me too.
And the, uh, which one's the one with the white and black packaging?
Is that the salt and pepper?
Classic.
Classic?
Is that classic?
No, classic is red.
Traditional?
Traditional is red.
No, there's one with a white and black package that's really good.
Whatever.
The one with the white and black package.
Anyway, use offer code LTT to save 10% on their products at the link below.
Sea salt.
What was it?
Something pepper?
Cracked pepper and sea salt.
That's really good.
Okay, I'm going to keep working on this.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm going slow and steady wins the race, man.
Windows 10 is bringing tabs to every, Microsoft is bringing tabs to every windows 10 app.
The spice flipped that around on me.
Nona Hexa posted this on the forum.
Microsoft is planning to add tabs like the ones in your web browser to apps and windows
10, allowing you to group apps together.
They're calling this feature sets.
So say you're working on a word document and need to research data on the web or grab notes
from PowerPoint, you can create sets or tabs of these tasks in a single window.
Honestly, I think this is actually pretty sick.
Yeah, that sounds great.
I really like this because oftentimes I'll have a few different things that are for one
thing.
Honestly, my preferred method is just to have more monitor space so I can have it all open
at the same time.
You're going to have windows seven anyway.
That's so 8.1.
Are you running 8.1?
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm excited.
I wish this wasn't news because I wish this was a thing ages ago, but I'm not going to
be down on them for like doing something good.
So it would also be really cool if like on the taskbar at the bottom, you can have your
set icon down there.
So you could like click on it and then it would bring up the multiple things instead
of having it all in one because oftentimes I want to copy between them and read one thing
while I'm typing one thing and having it all in a set actually isn't very conducive to
that, but it'll still be really nice and except not for me.
So Oh, well, although 8.1 is getting painful because I think it's like less than 10% of
people are using it.
So like compatibility for my platform is like really not great.
So file Explorer, even notepad and they'll eventually be extending to app that have custom
title bars like Photoshop.
And they're aiming to let iPhone and Android users start sets and then resume them on a
PC or vice versa.
Oh, I'm getting my spicy hiccups dang it.
All right.
This is pretty bad.
This was posted by Hey yo on the forum.
Let's use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency even when you close your browser.
That's new.
Well, yeah, like we've heard of we talked about the Pirate Bay.
Yeah.
And another one.
I don't remember who was but and another one.
But this is new.
It's always it's always been kind of a short term thing because it's only lasted while
you were on that page.
Yeah.
Luckily for these websites, a lot of people just leave things open in tabs.
Wow.
Look at this.
So they've got a pop under that's opening up another tab that is running this in the
background.
So you see once they close it the CPU usage goes away.
Wow.
At least you can still close it.
So one researcher recently documented 2500 sites actively running crypto mining code
in visitors browsers.
That's a lot of sites actually.
Yeah.
That's pretty brutal.
I wonder what these sites are though.
So basically in a nutshell.
So the one that they're focused on is mining Monero.
So this is like I don't know.
I think everyone should be offended by this like some people might not think it's that
big of a deal but this is using your electricity and your CPU resources.
So like your investment to just make money from a site ranking your CPU and it's potentially
making your CPU run really hot which can potentially reduce its lifespan especially if you're on
a mobile device and speaking of a mobile device if you're on something that's battery powered
this is going to destroy your battery life if it's a technique that's being used on any
sites that you visit regularly.
Right now the technique works on the latest version of Chrome running on the latest versions
of Windows 7 and Windows 10.
At the moment no indication that it's being used on other browsers or operating systems
so your incompatibility saves the day.
That's hilarious.
Freaking brilliant.
It's the Apple approach.
You know we are secure because no one's making viruses for us.
You know what's interesting.
That's not in the doc.
Have you heard about that.
Yeah I did see that.
Hilarious.
You know what's interesting is our render server like the one that does our final export
before we upload yeah almost never errors out on a render in fact I'm not aware of it
ever having done it.
Windows 8.1.
It's the embedded version the windows.
Yeah that's what I'm using too.
All right dude messaged me today it's it's like the third a few days ago it's like the
third year anniversary of the like Windows 9 thing.
Oh really cool.
So this is sort of a big deal.
If you're into like that sort of thing but our formal or our former employer oh yeah
has here we go where is it is kind of crazy.
Yeah so here hold on I'm going to bring this up search civil by party name.
So netlink computer inc.
Oh wait hold on.
So here's some here.
So here you can see I actually didn't even know you can do this of course that makes
sense so you can search for lawsuits or like you can search for court cases by party name
to netlink computer inc small claims small claims small claims small claims four times
over the over the last.
You know since 2011 and boom netlink computer inc bora group inc v netlink computer inc
supreme bankruptcy December 1st 2017.
So this just went down.
My formal my former employer is I mean is the site still up oh no I think it's still
loading no no I'm pretty sure it's still loading oh oh yeah there we go the site's still up
I really don't know that I would necessarily recommend apparently shopping there though
getting your stuff after you buy it has been a little bit of an issue recently for a while
yeah so I yeah I haven't done any I haven't done any pre like sort of research here but
I'm heading over to the I'm heading over to the forum okay restructuring okay important
service announcement we figured it's time to write a formal post about the restructuring
wow I'm pretty sure this thread has been pruned because I know that there were other things
in here before huh alright NCIX supreme bankruptcy confirmed okay what is supreme is there sub
supreme bankruptcy I have no idea it sounds crazy like what but wow yeah I've had a lot
of people no fire to box I did not cause this no I mean that okay I don't know I don't know
well how much should I talk about right now scale of one to ten like a six or six okay
like not not that high so I left partly because I saw a great opportunity in content creation
online and partly because I had some significant we're getting closer to a three fundamental
disagreements with senior management okay particularly the owner over what exactly we
needed to do in terms of our direction as a company I also left this was a significant
part of the reason for my departure I also left because the people that I had been mentored
by their the people that I had really felt like I learned a lot from were departing and
they sometimes for very good reasons I'm not going to defend the conduct and job performance
of at least one of them but some of them were forced out by extraordinarily in my opinion
extraordinarily poor management decisions and that ultimately led me to believe that
I could do it better so I had an opportunity and I thought I could do it better and I thought
that my company made my way would be something that would make me happier to get up in the
morning and go to it's made me happier well I'm glad to hear that I know you're having
a moment I just want to add some comedy yeah thank you and that was ultimately why I left
I didn't agree with the strategy I thought and this was something that I pitched about
six and a half years ago I thought the direction for us to go and I meet by us I mean I was
at NCIX I was one of the top product management people there I might have been a category
manager at that point can't remember anyway I was basically at or near the highest rank
that you could really have in the company there before and I don't want to you know
the odds of anyone that this might apply to ever watching this stream are pretty low but
my opinion of some of the people that were hired in senior positions couldn't possibly
be any lower so you know that was that was there were some bad decisions there as well
anyway where was I where was I going with this right so the direction that I had wanted
to go was to try to get acquired and the way to try and get acquired is to have some kind
of a value that somebody else would want and it wasn't going to be the website let's be
honest it wasn't going to be the logistic system and you know I can't say too much about
what NCIX had because you know I don't want to I don't want to be disrespectful of their
privacy as a company but I will tell you that it wasn't you know robot arms and you know
robot eyes and automated conveyor belts like what state of the art warehouses were doing
even back then it was not that so it wasn't going to be the warehousing system it wasn't
going to be the inventory management system I can tell you that much it wasn't going to
be the super talented team and there were talented people on it obviously like I was
part of it I think I was pretty talented there were definitely talented people on it but
I don't know that that was visible enough externally and I think that you would end
up with a lot of in order to acquire a team you'd have ended up with a lot of dead weight
and I don't even necessarily mean in terms of people like the locations that we had leased
I think at one point there were three locations in Richmond which is a small city just to
give you guys some idea of why that wouldn't be a good idea so my concept for what we could
build having seen the partnership between Nvidia with the shield and EB Games in the
states where I think the shield was initially only available to preview it at EB Games in
the states and I was like why would they make it exclusive to them and I could be remembering
some little detail of this wrong maybe it was a Nintendo system I don't know whatever
the point is the reason that they partnered with them was that they still had at that
time anyway 4,500 locations which has a value another thing that I thought could have a
value would be a distribution system slash business model that combated one of the biggest
difficulties of doing business in Canada which is extremely high shipping cost it deters
customers from shopping online and it enables brick and mortar to continue to be competitive
here because shipping a case across the country from Newegg is like seven dollars shipping
a case across this country from NCIX could be as much as 30, 40, 60 dollars depending
on how remote you are so you know it was a constant refrain from customers shipping kills
the deal you'd hear it all the time so the concept that I pitched was like an NCIX lite
these would be extremely small stores like maybe 600 to 800 square feet really small
stores with really small storefronts that were effectively kind of ordering kiosks and
the idea was that you'd have technical services so you could walk into small communities like
a Kamloops and displace the mom and pop shops with a trusted brand believe it or not at
the time we were a trusted brand you could displace those mom and pop shops as a trusted
brand you could probably cover your lease and your employee overhead with the services
business that you're doing then you would stock like two skews tops of every category
so that if someone walked in they could build like something basically the computer at any
given time which is pretty easy to define it's really easy to do so right now you would
stock assuming that you there is inventory you would stock the 8400 for Intel and you
would stock the the Ryzen 5 1600 or something along those lines and then you'd have like
a motherboard for each of them you'd have an 8 gig stick and a 16 gig stick and like
obviously multiples of each of these but the idea is that if someone just like wanted like
the computer right now like the bang for the buck sweet one that everyone wants you could
just walk in and buy it or we would build a system and it wouldn't be a complicated
system but we would have a network of trucks that would crisscross the country constantly
between the two locations that we had in the west and in the east so that the model would
be you can shop online and you can ship to your house or we'd have these little tiny
low overhead locations scattered across the country and you could get free pickup at any
location and this was well before Amazon started doing pickup someone in the chat whoa and
sex actually sounds really cool this was an AC never happened he was pitching I pitched
this this is what I wanted to do instead of these monolithic high overhead extraordinarily
expensive retail stores in order to you know I the writing was on the wall like seven years
ago Amazon was going to kill us all like the people who were paying attention knew this
already so the idea was to build this infrastructure so that when Amazon decided to hit the switch
and you can see now they're running around acquiring people that have infrastructure
that they like like Whole Foods the idea was that when they came in they could buy us and
that never happened if I'd had the resources I think that could have been the way for me
to never have to work again like if I could have built my like I even to go back like
if I was the one who had the resources that I have today even that might have been a model
that I would have pursued I really believed in it I thought that it was a great opportunity
it's not worth it now oh no you'd never make it now no but I should buy NCX and do that
I couldn't afford NCIX not because I couldn't afford like what NCIX is net value is right
now but I couldn't afford NCIX is overhead the monthly expenses even with all the layoffs
that they've done there's still a lot of employees there's still a lot of buildings there's still
a lot of inventory so when we didn't do that and when we continued marching down the obviously
no longer viable big box retail path I figured out that I had to get out so ultimately the
reason that I ended up leaving NCIX and taking this guy with me and Ed with me thanks for
coming along bro yeah that I was thinking that five-year thing it's actually like seven
or something or eight or something yeah it's kind of ridiculous so anyway sorry I forget
where I was going with that right so so what happened when I left was I had decided to
leave and the reason that I was able to take the Linus Tech Tips channel and so to be clear
I take no pleasure whatsoever in NCIX's demise you know and I've seen a lot of horror stories
online but however they've treated other people everyone there all the way up to Steve the
owner and marry his wife they have always treated me with the utmost kindness and respect
I have not had personal bad experiences with anyone there from from HR to my colleagues
to I shouldn't say everyone there were some there were some supportive hiring decisions
made but at the very highest level the at least the people that I consider to be at
the highest level you know I take no pleasure from this I learned a lot there like I am
everything I understand about business at what to do right what to do wrong was ultimately
from them I didn't go to school for business management I don't have an MBA I don't I don't
actually have any formal education everything I learned was school of hard knocks and NCIX
was a stupendous proving ground for me so you know I take no pleasure in this but where
was I going with this but how you got the channel right how I got the channel so so
ultimately I was able to right right right so I'm very grateful to them for giving me
the opportunity to build up this channel and then ultimately take it with me because the
deal was look I'm leaving because I disagree with some of the stuff we're doing and you
my boss is gone who I loved and that sucks and so I'm out so you can either let me walk
away to another retailer and I mean you know I didn't have four million subscribers and
a team of you know 19 people that's like a world-class video production team like I hadn't
built any of this yet yeah we were pretty far from yeah we were a long way away from
this but for me personally anyway my stock was high enough that I could have walked into
literally any electronics entity and gone like this and I would have had a job so I
wasn't concerned about getting a job what I was concerned about was building a team
and building something and making sure that Luke and Ed who were both out of work if I
walked out of there and didn't manage to take them with me making sure that they stayed
employed so the deal was look I'm leaving but if we can work out a deal where I take
the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel the trademark and any associated assets which now that this
is going on I'm really happy we did buy the book with a lawyer get to that more later
but if I take all that stuff with me I'll sign a non-compete for I believe it was two
years but it ended up getting extended to three and for pennies on the dollar I'll come
back and I'll continue to support the NCIX Tech Tips channel so that you don't have to
replace me immediately also I'll give you as much notice for my departure as you need
so I had originally planned on giving somewhere between a month and six weeks notice I ended
up giving about five months notice although in fairness I phoned in about the last three
weeks of it but then I had trained my replacements for pretty much everything I didn't really
know what to do all day five months like I tried okay I tried so the fact that we the
fact that we acquired those assets legally is really important because if some if the
like the bankruptcy lawyers if whoever NCIX's creditors are were to find that it had an
asset that was worth a significant amount of money and let me tell you Linus Tech Tips
is worth a significant amount of money both as a brand and as a YouTube channel at this
point although you know no I'm not going to say no thanks to NCIX but most of that development
has been done in the five years since I left but if it was found that that asset wasn't
transferred tidily then it could also be found that NCIX still had some claim to make against
it and then their creditors would as well so Steve I trusted to never do anything untoward
with me but creditors all bets are off I really didn't you know I didn't think it would come
to this I take no pleasure in it but that's what happened and yeah for some context there
we broke off at what 240,000 subscribers something like that yeah we're now at 4.8 million yeah
there's kind of been a lot of work done yeah we've been we've been going pretty hard on
it so yeah so a Linus Tech Tips documentary no no that probably won't happen we actually
tried to do a behind this like a behind the blow type thing here and it was a total disaster
we brought in a third-party film crew they like shot a bunch of stuff then they submitted
a rough cut that was awful totally unusable and then we tried to edit it together ourselves
but by then our team was like 60% bigger so like different yeah like a third of our staff
wasn't in the video and yeah it just didn't make sense yeah all right so what else do
we have for topics yeah that was wow that was kind of a freaking downer of a topic man
also took a long time I'm surprised people are still watching sheesh let's find something
exciting it's pretty interesting yeah I guess so it's like learning that before Coke came
out it was green I'm like I'm like down let's just find like something like one cool topic
to do and then these are all terrible oh tinder tinder tests using AI to suggest who to super
like they're testing a new feature called super likable that intermittently presents
a card on your screen and offers you a bonus super like that can be sent to one of four
people present presented on the card the original super lake was designed as a way to signal
your interest in a potential match was stronger than others but users have a limited number
per day wow how many of those could you possibly need per day wow I'm not I mean like I'm sort
of pre online dating so I don't really get I wonder in like a social hub sheesh like
somewhere like like deep like LA or San Fran if you just like go through a few hundred
people and you're just like yeah there's many more you know what I mean I don't know because
I don't feel like it's like that up here huh I don't know okay well I'm bored of that already
because this is way better yeah there's officially Mario yeah so I like super need some okay
this also isn't the first time that Nintendo has tried to do cereal I thought it was kind
of interesting because right now they're huge because the switch is like wildly wildly successful
but at a previous time of them being huge they also tried to roll out cereal and this
one is not just cereal the box itself is essentially an amiibo you tap the box on your switch and
you get stuff in game wow it unlocks gold coins and hearts in Super Mario Odyssey hits
shelves mid-month okay I'm down for that all right well that's pretty much it also oh lol
max root access issue oh yeah if you have a Mac and you're watching the show you should
maybe look it up on your own it's not in here but I'm pretty sure if someone literally just
attempts to sign in as username root with no password they just have all the stuff all
right yeah I'm not entirely sure on all the details it's not in the dock but if you have
a Mac look into it because it's a big deal so thanks for watching guys we'll see you
again next week same bat time same bat channel down there no don't be down
apparently it's patch so just update yeah there you go yeah
what an issue