Peter was researching something the other day and one of our one of our videos that was
Me on tech wiki like teaching something was in the thread
That's of like the person teaching something to Peter, and I was like this is nuts
Ready yeah
Hey welcome to the land show guys we've got a great show for you today
I hope yeah, I actually haven't seen this guy in like a month three weeks something like that
Yeah, he's been like cavorting about in Asia. Yeah, perfectly innocent though. You know weird kinds of tourism
It was Taiwan not yeah, not not Thailand Taiwan
Oh boy
That's okay, because it's not about how you start it's about the big finish
Would you believe I'm trying to hire a new writing staff
Would you believe that this is like part of the process like how many dick jokes you can come up with oh and during the interview
No, no definitely not. There's there are bonus points for saying that they think I'm funny though only one person did it today
So you know I want to commend that one individual one person on their honesty. Oh
Yeah, I want to commend them on their honesty because everyone else
They're like closet thinking I'm funny because I know everyone thinks I'm funny of course. Yeah, not so much alright fine fair. That's fine
Yeah, no, I'm actually finally
Finishing up the writer search that I started four months ago or something like that
I've been traveling so much that I just have not had time to do it properly
And I would rather just have it take too long and go through everyone fairly versus
You know trying to spread it out over
You know many weeks, and then like the people that I evaluated at the beginning
Maybe I'm not using the same standards as the one at the end like I wanted to be able to sit down and like do
it in big chunks
and
So we've started our interviews. We're not quite done interviews yet, but we're looking to make a decision pretty soon
so we're gonna be increasing the writing side writing team size here by like
40 percent
60 percent how many people you hire math is not a strong point two to three oh wow I thought this is one position no
Holy cow yeah two to three are you that I've are you expanding channels?
Because that's a lot of writers to add on
So we haven't talked about anything yet, okay?
But actually so you don't attend Linus Media Group Monday morning meetings anymore because you're not an employee of line
I still get the emails and I poke through them sometimes just to make sure like the power isn't gonna go out or something so
You know I gay I actually gave like a big a big speech on Monday, so I was I was talking about
All right should we talk about some of the topics we're gonna have today, or should I just get rid of you know?
What I'll get right into this we'll talk about topics in a minute
Yeah
It's pretty on point so I was talking about
Some of the changes that have been taking place on YouTube lately, and how they've affected our channels
Yeah, you know YouTube won't admit anything
I've ever I've had correspondence with them not just with my
Partner manager who was quite a senior member of the team and who I I believe when he tells me
You know nothing changes or nothing has changed or that it's machine learning and nothing discreet was changed
But that doesn't mean that it isn't always learning and always changing
And I've even gone higher up the food chain than that and everyone insists. We didn't change anything
We tweaked no dials, but I just I have a hard time
I have a hard time buying it because we know from the other things that YouTube says like I went to Brandcast and
YouTube's talking about
You know
Raising authoritative voices when it comes to trying to make sure that they're a platform that promotes credible information
But can you raise an authoritative voice without suppressing? Yeah, another one you're saying yes, you can no
I'm agreeing with I see yeah, because no you can't yeah, you can't elevate something without pushing something else down
That's just the way it works especially when sorry to jump in here
Yes, I can but YouTube kind of at this point like has the population
like they don't really have a ton of
Expanding more to do other than people getting internet or people getting to the age where they can watch their own YouTube fun fact
They're no longer going to report on unique
unique visitor increases anymore interesting, you know why because they're already over 2 billion a
month
So like yeah, so like who do you go for nothing that they can do can sound impressive and sound like growth to their shareholders
Anymore, so they're just like this is have everyone we're doing great
We're just like we can't talk about it anymore though because like a point one percent improvement in fairness to us
It's still 20 million more people, but it's like it doesn't sound very marketable. Yeah, right
Yeah, so like if you're if you're taking this platform that like yes, it's expanding. Don't get me wrong here
I understand that but if you're taking this platform that has like this kind of set amount of users if you're I
Understand it's not how it works. Just hold on
If you start pumping someone you have to reduce push for other there's only
So many eyeballs and you know, there's been problems on YouTube understand. There's more eyeballs all the time that have been identified
Like the black hole thing with conspiracy theories or flat earth or fake moon landing or anti-vaxxing or whatever else
You know, there's there's things that are relatively low-hanging fruit
that
Hold on a second one moment, please
Technical difficulties
I'm just checking to see if okay cool. So in February YouTube demonetized anti-vaxx channels
Facebook YouTube to suppress anti-vaxxer content. This was from PC mag in March 7th good
So there's other sources so I don't have to be the source for this. So YouTube is suppressing anti-vaxx content
Now so there's no so there's certain things that I completely agree with because that's incredibly dangerous
Anti-vaxx content not suppressing it because anti-vaxx content is super stupid
So there's things that I agree with but there's also
Potential collateral damage. So one of the problems that was identified on social media in general not just on YouTube
Is that once you watch like if you go okay for lols, you know, you want you show a friend
some stupid Tai Lopez video because you're like
That guy, you know the guy with the knowledge, you know, remember that guy and they're like, no. No, I'm like this guy
All of a sudden you're you're recommended your ads
It's just full of all those bloody get-rich-quick YouTube gurus. Yeah, and it's so obnoxious
Okay, so there's this problem that's been identified in online on social media in general with echo chambers and with
One search for a given topic all of a sudden just putting slightly be interested in this
Yeah, or not just interested even just curious and all of a sudden
It's it's put in front of your face and when you're when you're not as media savvy
You might just see something on Facebook and go. Oh, oh, it's credible
It's printed in black and white like it's it's the craziest thing in the world
But that same just because something is printed in the in black and white doesn't mean that it's true that same
education that's been
trying that people have been trying to give to people since
1800s is still a big deal today and
So so what happens is you end up in this in this kind of this death spiral of fake moon landing?
the flat earth whatever just from watching one stupid video and a lot of the people that
perpetuate these conspiracy theories
Speak in a way that may not sound authoritative to you the educated viewer, but to other people
Apparently does so anyway one of the boys it might sound it might not sound believable
But they're trying to be authoritative almost always so like it makes sense that it might sound that way
exactly intent so so one of the theories we had was that in order to
prevent
You know these kinds of echo chamber II things from happening YouTube might have been
de-emphasizing
More niche content and then pumping stuff. That's safer
Now that was the theory and we were kind of like a well. We're tech. We're kind of niche
We're also a niche within tech like quite frankly a lot of the content that we upload would have absolutely
No place on
A more mainstream tech content channels like like Marquez's like come on
It wouldn't make sense for him to do his audience wouldn't like it
And it makes sense that it goes up on our channel gets fewer views etc etc etc
So we were looking at it going okay. Well, maybe part of this is we're just more niche
And so people because we noticed the biggest dip in viewership was on our back catalogue
Yeah, maybe what's happening is instead of people watching one of our new videos and then getting bombarded with our
Massive back catalogue of 4,000 videos something that had a huge benefit for us and generated a lot of subscribers
Maybe instead of that
Well, they're being fed some Marquez and some Austin and some gamers Nexus and whatever else and to be clear
We love all those guys and that's cool fine, whatever, but it definitely did have an impact on our viewership over the course of this year
so from there, I actually had some really great conversations at the youtuber YouTube creator summit and
Derek from Veritasium posted a great video. Did you watch that?
yeah, yeah posted a great video on his theory about why his shade ball video went viral and
Basically his theory it's funny because I in some ways I give you two like so much credit
Like the like the puppet masters or have all these different strings are pulling on his theory was so simple
That I forget whose razor it is where the simplest solution is home. Is that Occam's razor?
So anyway, we're welcome. Yes. Yeah, the simplest solution is usually the correct one. His theory was as simple as
YouTube has taken the
the the click-through ratio that you get with your with the the clickiness of your title and thumbnail and
it has
Shifted the axis so that a smaller difference in click-through ratio gives it a greater proportion
More promotion on the site and then a small difference the other way gives you way less
So instead of it being kind of linear if your click-through ratio is great
You're like way up here and if your click-through ratio sucks, you're like way down here
so that was another interesting theory because we have also had our click-through ratio decreased this year as
We've moved away from more click-baity titles and click-baity thumbnails, which sucks
But it's something that we've committed to our audience that we're gonna do. It just means that
Yeah, and then watch the video right away, yeah that actually makes a huge difference
Even if you're not gonna actually watch it right now if you drop what you're doing
Start the video put your phone back in your pocket
I don't care
But if you just just click and just go about the rest of you to go watch it later doesn't matter
that
initial click-through ratio
basically determines
Everything about how that video is going to perform
As far as we can tell that's Derek's theory and it's so simple. It might just be right. Yeah, so anyway
LTT has actually struggled in terms of viewership this year
it's actually it's back up in the last four to six weeks or so and we are tracking a really good direction right now, but
Coming back to our all hands meeting this Monday. This was a very very long story Wow or 12 minutes in coming back
I'm engaged right now coming back to our all hands meeting this Monday
I actually did stand up in front of everyone, you know when I stand up during the Monday morning meeting
There's usually a little serious good news everyone. Yeah, I
Basically went look this is something that I've really struggled with not just
Professionally, but also personally, you know trying to figure out
What am I doing? What am I doing wrong? What can I do to fix it?
Does the audience just plain not like me anymore?
Is is is PC hardware losing its sex appeal like I was trying to identify
what it was because unless I know what the problem is, I cannot fix it and
What I
Ultimately came to was that there was a combination of audience sentiment things that did need to be addressed
You know talking to the audience directly about things like doing less offensive thumbnails and titles that kind of thing, you know
Making sure we're appending the the brand and the product wherever that makes sense things like that. I thought that was part of it
I also thought that some kind of change whether a manual change or an algorithmic change on YouTube side was part of the problem and
then the bigger conclusion that I came to is that maybe if
We build our business correctly. It just doesn't matter
Because where LTT has struggled this year
TechLinked yeah has actually picked up nearly all of the lost
watch time nearly all of the lost viewership and lost revenue and
I kind of went well TechLinked was an accident
after the failure of channel super fun and
A bit of a stagnation period that we went through with Tech Quickie to be clear Tech Quickie's going really well right now
So massive shout out to John Dennis. Yeah
So after kind of a stagnation period for Tech Quickie, I was full like triple down mode on
LTT. I was like, okay, we just throw all the real LTT has literally ten times as much staff as any other channel even now
But what I realized is if I can't ultimately control it
Well, something that I can control is this diversification strategy
So TechLinked happened by accident my homeboy Riley lost his job because his company went out of business and I was like, yo dog
I've been trying to hire you forever you twit get out of the dumpster get get out of the dumpster get get my
Get on my and you know Riley he's driven to do the tech news. I think we all know this he's driven to
Do the tech news for the people?
so we created TechLinked and
TechLinked was a an accidental complete success like that channel is freaking awesome
I get my tech news from TechLinked like it's awesome. You get your tech news from nice
I genuinely watch it all the time
Yeah, it's great
I'm clearly a lot of people do TechLinked regularly gets half a million views a video even more only has like
700 800 thousand subscribers like it's outstanding. Yes. That's a great show
Um, anyway, so I was looking at it going. Well, maybe we're just maybe we're just thinking about this too narrowly
maybe the answer here is to
Broaden the net instead because that way every time
TechLinked struggles a little bit and it needs a needs a fresh a fresh coat of lipstick or you know every time LTT
Loses its it's groove or every time tech quickie runs out of things people need explained as if that'll ever happen
Something else can carry some of that weight and we can spread things out
The other really cool thing about TechLinked is that it doesn't rely on me
Yeah at the beginning of TechLinked
I was far and away the top performing host on that channel in terms of the views that each video would get like of the
Top 10 I would say
In terms of the views that each video would get like of the top 10 I was all but one of them
And then of the bottom 10 I wasn't in any of them like I was clearly my face was driving more clicks
Really interesting fact over the last couple of months. I've actually been on the bottom half
Which I think is great that is because it means that Riley and James and I mean we've had Dennis host
We've had Alex host we've had Yvonne host
it means it means that people are connecting with the team and
with the brand not just Linus Sebastian the person who quite honestly can't do everything forever and
so I was so so basically I had this the sort of magic moment where I
Went okay LTT is starting to recover which is good if we can hire
Dr. Bullet there, but also maybe it's not the future
Maybe it's just one part of the future and we can we can bring people more types of tech content that
Bring them happiness in other you know tech ways and that's been one of the great things about the channels that you guys have expanded is
like if you liked Linus Tech Tips, and you don't want an education channel or a news channel or a
Channel of us playing with weird toys and being very cringy you could just keep playing with it
weird toys and being very cringy you could just keep watching the Linus Tech Tips it didn't matter and Linus Tech Tips will
As far as I can tell carry on just as well as it has and other channels will keep carrying on
And you're maybe expanding. What are you expanding to are you saying at this point?
I don't know so it was really interesting because normally when you enter the hiring process, you know, you might go in and say
You know, I really want someone with
Um JavaScript experience or whatever. Okay, you set out what your your job requirements are. Yeah
Well, I am just looking at all my applicants and I'm figuring out what can I do with this person best applicants are and
Then I will I will
Create programming. It's actually there's some a little bit larger companies than flow plane
That do this in a lot of different spaces you try to find people that are extremely talented and passionate and you go like
Well, I'll make you super valuable. Let's go
It's it's actually if you can manage it. It's a very apparently cool way to do things
So not necessarily just the new people but there's people who are already
Here that the new people could come and alleviate some of their workload and maybe they could pursue a passion project
James and Riley have been really into talk linked. Do you know talk link? Yeah
Okay, totally different from tech linked because it's just one topic instead of many topics and it's long instead of short. Yeah
and
honestly the last the first episode kind of rough the second episode a lot better and
The I was I happened to eavesdrop on sort of a debrief
conversation and they had identified
Basically everything that they needed to fix and they're like they're iterating and they're they're going through that creative process
And I'm looking at it going like wow, like this is great. This is me witnessing the machine
Working. Yeah, and but they don't have time
Right. So James has produced I think four LTT's in the last two weeks because Jake's been on vacation
Anthony's been tied up preparing some of our really cool boots that we're gonna have for LTX. He's got ten years of PC gaming
He has ten gaming rigs to configure build and benchmark and set up demos on like
Oh, so he's been super busy. Alex has been tied up. He's actually putting together our like maker space next door right now
Yeah, like so James we've been leaning on him really heavily, but that means he hasn't had a ton of time for talk link
so, you know we could bring these new people and they could
Lift some of that load and then we can kind of spread things that we can figure out what makes sense
I mean each person a little bit more agile as long as we keep a really great team dynamic here
And as long as we stay passionate about tech whether it's news news is important Riley whether it's news or whether it's something else
Yeah, I guess yeah, we're we're gonna we're gonna do more stuff though, you know, I'm I'm I'm not done yet
You know, I was thinking about it not thinking about actually quitting but thinking about phasing myself out
You know, it's you've been sort of talking about it for a while. Yeah, I I was I was really thinking about it
I mean you and I chatted about it back at CES I think
And I've just been kind of considering whether like whether I'm done
You know and when the when the channels not performing well because at the end of the day, it's not up to me
It's it's not up to you. It's not up to the rest of my staff
Like, you know everyone here could go. Oh, no Linus, you know
We really want you to keep being the face of the company in the face of the channel and I'd go well
Yeah, that's great. But if the audience doesn't want it then like it's a nice sentiment, but it actually
Doesn't matter. Yeah, you could pivot to
Hear me out. You could pivot to like vlogs of you doing. Hey, hold on
I'm not saying daily vlogs or anything. Just what am I gonna be a family vlogger?
No, that actually isn't where I was gonna go with it. Hold on
hold on
You really enjoyed your like RC car hacking electronic stuff. Yeah, the guns going a little bit further away
just like you experimenting with technologies in ways that you actually want to and
Just like fumbling around and trying different things instead of trying to go with this like hyper entertainment or hyper
So we've done a bit more of that or whatever. I know
Yeah, but having a little bit even more freeform and being like offline detectives channel
So it could be like pretty separated if you want. Here's one problem with that
at
4,000 videos in I've run most of the experiments that I was kind of like
Wondering about when I was in high school. Yeah, I have so much more resources now than I used to, you know
one of the things I really struggle with right now is just
Just
Having too much resources
Like people got mad when I upgraded my gaming rig
So there's a couple problems one is that people don't think critically sometimes so they were like
Why are you calling a Titan graphics card slow?
So the thing is depending on what generation of Titan is it is it could be really slow by today's standards
It is it could be literally the fastest card on the market all the way down to slower than
Literally anything that Nvidia currently sells
And then, you know, you've got people that are frustrated because for me upgrading my personal rig is as simple as
showing up at Nvidia for a sponsored project of all things and
Saying that I've been finally finding time to play games lately
but Anno 1800 is like chugging on my system and then just being like
What? I'll put a graphics card in the mail people people get mad about that and I get it but the flip side of it is
The alternative I guess is for me to just not tell you
Yeah, because you could be an influencer
1 20th my size and I use the term influencer as like the I word
so let's say an online content creator literally 1 20th my size and getting something like a graphics card sent to you is
Easy, I mean even when we started Linus tech tips, we had 200,000 subscribers
Yeah, and one of the first videos that Luke worked on when we went indie was our review of the first GTX Titan
Like it's not like this is new. So the only
So if you're gonna get mad at me about it, you're well within your rights
but just understand that anyone else out there who is not telling you that
They got sampled a card for complete for doing a project or whatever
The case may be is probably just not telling you there are exceptions, but we believe in transparency if nothing else
Also, it's not for my personal rig. It's for a video
There you have it. So there's your full disclosure
Hey guys
I'm working on my personal rig. This video was sent or this video card was sent over by Nvidia
This motherboard was sent over by gigabyte
That's it. We are we are for fulfilling our obligation. And so if you want me to just say hey, I'm working on my personal rig
Here's the parts I'm using I could do that
But I just don't I don't think that's good enough and not just I don't think that's good enough
The FCC doesn't think that's good enough. So, I mean they don't have any jurisdiction. Yeah at all
And so but it's a good idea to I could just not
but for my part, I would rather take a little bit of negativity and
Just deal with it and there's people that are gonna be resentful but I guess my response to them would be
You know, where's your channel? Where's your investment in building something?
So that people want you to show their products on it like I'm not saying that anyone can be a youtuber
I'm just saying that
You literally won't know unless you're like really trying to do it
Give it a shot and then should people be should people resent you if someone sends you a graphics card
I don't know have you have you heard Taylor Swift's new song? I haven't oh boy
Do I sound like her? Please? Don't tell me I sound like her. No, actually no, no, no, no. No, no, no
Stop it
That actually ties in really well to what I would say right there is the title of song is you need to calm down
You're being too and then a part of the lyrics is like you need to calm down
You're being too loud and the whole thing is just like leave it alone
and this is I think one of those kind of situations where like he's he's telling you I
I have seen a lot of creators do a lot worse things where they hide it or there's something going on in the background
And they're not communicating that stuff him saying like hey, they sent me this card. It doesn't mean go buy this card
It's the best one. No, and I didn't say that. No, I have never recommended a Titan to anyone. No
Nvidia knows that they still sent it. Yeah, it means hey, I got this card. I might as well use it
It's gonna fulfill all the things I really care about
Sweet don't it's literally the fastest card. So cool put it in
I don't know and people are all over the map because on the one hand you've got people mad that I'm putting in an RTX
Titan and then on the other hand, you've got people mad that like what kind of tech influencer are you're not even running SLI
Yeah, yeah, you've got too many people in your audience at a certain point like you can't please everyone yeah, yeah exactly
This shirt is kind of pleasing though, we should probably do add spots. Oh, right and surely you mean the sponsor spots
Oh, right. Oh because our
Sponsor integrations and placements surely do not compete with YouTube's ad
Formats. Yeah, we should do a wan show on that at some point why we have to call everything sponsor
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Why don't we talk about the 64 core thread Ripper? Yes. So this is a rumor right now rumor status
This is posted by clueless gamer on the forum
It's definitely a rumor WCCF tech
They claim AMD is working on a 64 core
128 thread thread Ripper part for launch in q4 of
2019 now this was something that was
Very recently rumored to be going away all together thread Ripper was like on AMD's roadmap
And it was like any kind of off not on it. Yeah, and then now there's a rumor that we're still gonna have it
I'm gonna say something unpopular. Oh, I don't think this skew makes any sense
hmm, I think AMD has such a strong and I am take everything I'm saying as a
rumor and
The reason for that is that we haven't actually seen third gen rise in performance yet. Yeah
So I am we're coming back to this I am assuming based on AMD's
Numbers that they have provided that they are not lying
Yeah, and that third gen riser kicks ass riser. That's a riser riser rising
Sorry. All right, so I am assuming that they are not
Bull crapping around I kind of like riser. I want you to make a riser product line. All right enough
Here just twist a little
Oh
Thanks, yeah look like a nipple pinch
So I'm so I'm going based on that third gen rise and it's gonna be awesome so
Here's my here's my counter to thread Ripper pitch you already have
32 core thread Ripper. Okay that already exists on the rise in third gen
mainstream platform
You are already going to have a 16 core 32 thread chip. I
Would I would postulate that for the vast majority of workloads that is already more than enough
And I realize I'm changing my tune a lot because back when Intel was determined to keep quad core the maximum for mainstream forever
I was like
Yo, where's my course?
For mainstream, I absolutely think so for some scenarios where you're trying to build out like serverless clouds and stuff by epic
Yeah, I
Just it feels
completely unnecessary
Because rise in whatever it is 30 90 something
Future of the epic processes
30 what no epic is epic is gonna be on there. So Zen 2 epic is gonna be called broom
Okay, coming. Okay, very soon. Okay, so I
Could still see them doing thread Ripper as a
2024
32 lineup or something like that, but that's three skews
It's hard to say if it's worth maintaining a completely separate socket and chipset platform for it
Because it's already like it's like it's it's so
Niche the only reason I could think of to do it would be to just
Put the screws to Intel
But even then it's totally unnecessary like we already kind of have Intel isn't gonna have
Anything to compete with even a 32 core thread Ripper within the next 18 months as far as I can tell
yeah, so this is just
when do we get to the point where we're honestly just giving up too much of our single threaded clock speed for the sake of
Having more cores and if we really need 64 cores
Why aren't we just getting an epic there is very very little that I can think of
Even for a workstation workload that needs 64 CPU cores. I hadn't heard the Rome you call that Rome like RME
Yeah, yeah. Okay. I hadn't heard the Rome news. So it sort of made sense to me
Is there specs out for what Rome will be up to 64 cores? So basically they're just repurposing Rome
Yeah as a workstation product, which I mean, I guess if you're building the damn thing anyway
Okay, maybe if it's easy
It
Doesn't make it yeah the thing about thread Ripper those it's overclockable. I don't know that I would recommend overclocking a 64 core processor
So it just feels like the the product without a customer
Because you're either a little bit lower than it probably or a little bit higher than it probably there's the it's fairly unlikely
You'll be right on so if I'm AMD and there's any truth to it would be fun the rumors here. Yeah, so, okay
If this isn't about building a practical product, yeah, and you don't actually care if anybody buys it. Yes, what's gonna happen?
Based on what we know what we're taking AMD's word for so far with third-gen Rison
It should have excellent performance per watt the sustained clock speeds that it can hit
should be pretty decent even with high core counts and
It's IPC improvements over last gen Zen are looking pretty good. Yeah, so with all of that in mind
Intel's
Highest end and like it's like full desperation move that W series 28 core Xeon
That the overclockable one that you can put on there's like three motherboards that exist for it or whatever
so so Intel's
best
Possible response without bringing back like skull trail dual socket overclockable systems is 28 cores
So what we know then is that if AMD goes 32 core
Which is what they currently have and what they could easily and comfortably do with the next-gen Threadripper
They will probably beat that processor by a little so when you're looking at the like
review that the halo product versus the halo product AMD might be on top but like
By a bit and it might depend on if it's like an AVX
512 enabled workload or whatever
If AMD releases a 64 core processor, they know that for the first time
ever
No, no, they beat it until the dual class. They beat them to dual core
So for the first time in over 10 years
They know that they will not just beat Intel at the top of the benchmark leaderboards. They will absolutely
Fucking destroy them. Pardon my French. Sorry button. Yeah, I need the button. Ah like we're talking
There will be benchmark graphs where people are showing, you know video encoding in ffmpeg or cinebench
Where AMD literally is outperforming Intel by a factor of two. Yeah
That's the only reason that I can think of for them to do it
It sounds fun and with how like successful they've been for the last little while
maybe that type of fun is becoming worth it where like the
The last round of processors from AMD. I would not have necessarily said the same thing
Well now that they're selling anything at a profit. They actually have some that's what I mean. Yeah
Yeah, that helps. Yeah
It's cool though, I don't know I've been very happy with all the same new stuff and with constant security vulnerability problems coming from Intel
It's it's it's good time over in that camp. So the rumor is that it would be socket compatible
with existing tr4 motherboards after a BIOS update
If there's speculation that it's probably a 14 nanometer part
There we're expecting it to be priced in the 2500 to $3,000 range
and
They're aiming for mid q4 2019 because they have something planned for CES next year's or at the very latest January 2020
Actually, I don't even know if these are Zen 2 cores which is interesting because if they're not 7 nanometer
They wouldn't be as far as I know forgive me for not having all the details about this rumor
Yeah, but we'll see we'll see how it goes
Either way the only way that I could see this making any sense for AMD is just as a gigantic
fu
Which is fun
Which is fun. Yeah. Yeah
All right, speaking of fun Xbox Scarlett announced you want to talk about this one?
Uh, yeah, sure. This is awesome, by the way, and if you're in the computer space to be like no console suck
No, it's awesome
Shut up because every time new really awesome consoles come out everything steps up a little bit because developers are gonna be making for
Compatibility across the platform and you want this this is good for you. This is very good for you
Also consoles are basically computers now. Yes
Extremely much so ports don't suck so hard. Yeah
Um, it's it's great. It's actually it's fantastic. Anyways, Microsoft announced it at e3 2019
There's a bunch of stuff that got announced at e3 2019
They're there. They're apparently will have a physical disk drive
Which is actually important to know because they've been talking about maybe not having that for a little while now
Can I interrupt for a sec here?
Ma, this is a really important comment clash in cube India says Linus got a great body. Thank you. Go ahead
Did I did?
Auto completes for you and I on YouTube recently just out of pure pure pure curiosity
Yeah, and one of your top ones is topless
Really or shirtless or something but effectively without a shirt on that's uncomfortable. So there you go. Cool
Nobody should want to see my weird chest hair tuft
It's a custom-designed AMD processor
Using Zen 2 and Navi architectures sexy from a pure processing perspective
It's four times more powerful. And while I was reading this I expected it to say the original Xbox one
But it's the Xbox one X which is that's actually like that's cool
Capable of running games at 120 Hertz frame rates now
I want to jump in for a second and say that that is a BS way to talk about the power of a game console
That's true. What game are we talking about?
What at what texture?
Resolution and this what detail them at what draw distance and this is gonna apply to the next note as well
Keynote says 8k compatibility for a brief second. Like yeah, is it a picture this stuff makes me so
Mad so there were people posting again on the personal rig update one
they're like
PC gaming is a joke because even with the Titan RTX, it was still only running at 70 to 85 frames per second
As if it's that simple
It depends on how much you crank up the details. You remember the console comparison video we did
Yeah at the last big launch. That was technically like the last big console launch. It's just been forever. You guys should do another one
Yeah, we totally should I was also thinking of doing a lot better
Doing a video called
Console marketing is stupid
Where we basically but PC marketing is really stupid too. I know but console marketing VR ready is
SLI ready that's really stupid and I don't have to accept that
so the reason that marketing a console as
4k is
that
Everything has trade-offs. I could run games at 4k on a six-year-old computer
What games?
At what image quality settings pong
exactly
I could run I could I could do whatever that this laptop
I could run a game at 4k
120 frames per second if I don't tell you what game it is and what it freaking looks like that is not
meaningful information
it's like it's like having a multi variable algebra equation and
you've only got one number and
Everything else you've got variables X Y Z A B C gamma freakin
It's all over the place. It would be cool if they tried to maybe use a first-party title
Like for Microsoft pretty easy one to call out. Halo if they were like halo and more will run at
120 charm or something
Anyway, I'll let you finish. I'm gonna let you finish but I'm gonna let you finish
Apparently there's a quote saying we're seeing over 40 times performance increase over the current generation from the SSD and
Yeah, yeah. Yeah to be yeah, I probably just said that because the SSD is being used as virtual RAM
so it's gonna share a little bit and moving through worlds without waiting for screens to load is
Going to maybe happen sometimes with some games
That's so funny too because it's like they're like, yeah
What an innovation an SSD? Yeah, meanwhile, we're like, hey
Yeah, you mean like when people were upgrading for freakin like
Wow burning crusade
And to be clear people have been manually upgrading consoles with
It's it's honestly like burning crusade days
That was kind of when people started upgrading and putting Wow on an SSD so they wouldn't load when they went but it like come on
Oh
Halo infinite is confirmed as a launch title, but also to be clear. Halo infinite's coming to PC and Xbox one X as well
It's possible that a new elite controller a series to know that's available prepared that's coming
I'm excited. I love my elite controller except when it broke. It's actually the only Xbox controller
I've ever had break is my elite controller. That's kind of sad. How did it break d-pad?
So I was playing crosscode and use the d-pad to switch between the different elements. Okay, I'm starting soon
You said something about sorry. You said something about keyboard and mouse versus controller. Should I keyboard mouse it?
It's I think it okay, I've never actually played it on keyboard and mouse
So the only experience I have with the keyboard mouse controls. I
I didn't even realize you can play it with keyboard and mouse because it's like a
Top-down sprite based RPG and I just grabbed a controller the first time I played it was like duh
This is that's really how you do that. Yeah, so the only reason I even know you can control it with keyboard and mouse
It's cuz I was sitting on a plane and I kept like accidentally like aiming and firing at stuff
And I didn't realize I was touching my touchpad with the back of my hand
So I kind of played around with it a little bit and it seems like particularly for quickly aiming
Keyboard and mouse would be way better. Yeah, that makes sense. That's kind of a rule. I really enjoyed
like the laid-back
console experience of using a controller with it and
Like you're good enough with a controller that it probably shouldn't matter. Okay. Yeah, like I could do it. I beat the game. No problem
There were challenging parts, but like I could do it and it wasn't so
Did you ever play psychonauts? No, I I played a demo can count so psychonauts towards the end. It's like
It's like kind of unfair
like there's some really frustrating parts that are like
I'd say
amazing game design for a very skilled player
like you should be able to
you
Should be able to beat it on the first try if you're really really good unless it's Dark Souls or something like
Obviously there are games that are designed to just kick your ass over and over and over again. Yeah
But I'd say most games if they're balanced correctly if you're really really good and you are
Mastering every new skill as it comes at you
You should be able to beat a level on the first try like psychonauts like really really tough. So I'd say crosscode is
Is everything is beatable on the first try if you've been paying really close attention
With a controller. There's no I never felt like it was totally unfair. Okay. Yeah. All right fair
Current Xbox one accessories will work with scarlet, which is cool and apparently launching holiday 2020. So
We're still quite a ways out
But yeah, yes, Jim. This is bacon jerky
It's pretty legit actually
But yeah, that's scarlet. It's not coming for a while, but it's very exciting. It's cool
We should maybe stay on the Microsoft path and jump down to the Xbox game pass for PC
Yeah
so basically
It's like a steam like thingy
But it's a subscription based. It's ten bucks a month or five bucks a month if you sign up during the beta or
One dollar if you sign up now, but it's ten bucks a month
over a hundred PC games available at launch
And it's not game streaming. So you still need to like download the game and play it off your computer and stuff
So here's some of the games
Here, I'll just screen share with you guys
but oop doop doo
333 results
Honestly as with pretty much all of these things so here let's filter by PC games. Sure
Hooray
108 results that's more like it. Yeah doop doop doop doop doop. A lot of it is stuff. I have never heard of
Forza
Sea of Thieves. Here's a war. Here's a war. Bunch of first-party stuff
I think the most interesting things in here are going to be the first-party games other than that
They're gonna be mostly things that could have been very cheap if you caught bought them on certain sales
or things that you're probably not gonna be super interested in just because
Unless you're like equally interested in literally every game genre because there's a whole bunch of different game genres
Maybe this is a really good game. Is it wrong if I'm a little offended on by someone trying to capitalize on mr. Rogers
He was so against that kind of stuff. Is that supposed to be hello neighbor? Come on wearing like a plaid sweater vest
Oh, it's a super creepy game though. It's it has nothing to do with I
Hear ya, I see where you're going. You can't say hello neighbor without it. Yeah being Fred Rogers
I got you, but you're trying to like I've never played it
But I think you're trying to like break into that guy's house and he's trying to like catch you
hmm, and then
Yeah, I think he's holding a shovel cuz he attacks you
Highly recommended bro. Force is amazing. You can I played through it
So these fires great
I
Actually really enjoyed Lucky's Tale
Really? Yeah, did you not? I don't think I played it very much. Oh, yeah
It was like it's like the one thing that I ever played on the oculus. Yeah, I didn't
But I had bought an oculus so I don't even care yeah, so because I bought one for LMG yeah, so I
Ran that on an unauthorized system with no
It's interesting. Cool. So we called this so hard and we got so much crap for it. Mostly me, I guess
Not not the crap. I mean the calling
But VR you guys didn't even cover the new stuff
Did anyone complain? I'm yes, actually I need to cover the quest people are mad but not the rift s
Who cares about the rift s? Yeah, there you go. Oof. Yeah, no one cared about the rift s
People do care about the quest the quest seems to be doing pretty well. I'm really skeptical about it
But I am trying to maintain an open mind
I will I was I was gonna come here and say I understand but I think you should cover it
Because I don't think Linus tech tips should lose
The foothold of covering VR content because I think it will be really big at some time at some point. All right
Cross codes in game pass. Hey, hey, I already bought it. So whatever that's cheap. Yeah, I
Love that game so much. I wouldn't it's not like
I'm gonna play it again. It's hard not necessarily recommend it. It's not me. Oh, no, I'll recommend it. Okay, no problem
It's not my favorite game or anything. But if I'm being really honest
I think it's better than a lot of the RPGs that I treasure
Having played as a kid. Oh, like I think it's objectively better. They've got some nostalgia glass
I've it. Yeah, like I think if I'm being honest with myself or Breath of the Wild Oh Breath of the Wild is the
Greatest game of all time. Do you hear about Breath of the Wild 2? I don't think I care. Oh
What was magic about Breath of the Wild was how?
Oddly different it was I had no temptation whatsoever to download the DLC
Okay, I was just like I was like, you know, that was a great contained experience
Yeah, you know when you finish a really great book. Yep, and
You close the last cover and you kind of sit there and you go wow
They didn't produce season 8 I'm awesome
Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of done. But I man I put so many hours into Breath of the Wild like I just I
Yeah, I I tried to tell myself no Final Fantasy 6 is still my favorite game
But it's just not like Breath of the Wild Final Fantasy 6. I still I adore the characters
But if I you know if I go back and I play it as an adult who knows my way through the game
There's actually not a lot that happens
Whereas and you know what?
I think the same is probably true for cross code cross code can get a little grindy at times not that much actually happens
But what's great about it is I absolutely adore the characters. I still there's a strong connection there
I wouldn't back and played some of
Morewind recently. Yes more wins the game that I've always said is my favorite game
and I think I
think it still is but but I don't think I would have the
Time or the patience now to play it the way you did. Yes and to get out of it what you did
Yes, that makes sense. I don't think I could extract the experience I had with Morrowind anymore, which makes me really sad
But like you done growed up. Yeah to a certain degree cuz like the thing with Morrowind was I
The game starts they give you this like package thing and you're supposed to go give it to someone
and it was worth something so I just sold it all the time and
And that was what started the main quest. So I actually really thoroughly enjoyed the game for like months
Before I realized the game had a main quest. Yeah, and I was like, oh
God and then this unlocked this whole other part of the game
It was it was very interesting to wander and explore and I don't have the now
I'm like I have time to play game
I must extract enjoyment out of game as much as possible not just I'm gonna go enjoy myself
And that's what was so magical about Breath of the Wild to me
so most of the games that I've
Loved a lot have been because I love the characters like even some of the less popular Final Fantasies. I
Actually know most of them the characters are kind of cliche I've really loved six
So it's because I love the characters
And that was something that was a little bit different for Breath of the Wild because I loved the exploration
not the
like the link character is
Utterly uninteresting to me
Okay, there's not much to know. No the Zelda character is
She might as well be Princess Peach. They are completely interchangeable to me. They're like
a damsel in distress, but over the years because
you know empowerment they have become strong independent women and
That's great, but that doesn't that's still
completely two-dimensional
And you know what I'm sure that there's like
supplementary manga or something
Like sure yeah some type of additional some people only play the games and you got a gig
Yeah, well if you read the lore you gotta give me something to work with here like link is literally a silent protagonist
And and that's that's a storytelling mechanism
But but what was magical about Breath of the Wild was definitely the exploration and what I usually love about games is the characters
So it's just it's hard for me to admit that my favorite game is not one that's about the characters
Especially because I would never go and explore a world that I've already explored, but I might go have a story
Retold to me about characters that I love so for me Breath of the Wild has no
Replay value whereas I have played Final Fantasy 6 through to the end
At least half a dozen times and like and almost through probably 20 times to reaffirm all of these points
Yeah, it's on the same map
Yeah, yeah, there's no it's like effectively and you said I wouldn't buy a DLC they were they in in one of their interviews
they basically said it would have made sense to be a DLC if DLCs were conventionally seen as like
Multitudes bigger than what they are. So it's an expansion pack. It's basically we're back to that. Yeah it well, okay
They're saying it's like the Majora's Mask. I
Never played Majora's Mask me neither actually, so I don't know how accurate this is
But the Majora's Mask to Ocarina of Time except it's on the same map. It's an expansion pack. I don't even know if yeah
It's like a really big expansion pack. Yeah, but the expansion packs are really big. Yeah
Three oh, no, I was going further back than that. I was actually gonna use Warcraft 2. I'm trying to remember
Don't don't tell me don't tell me it's Warcraft 2 tides of darkness beyond the dark portal
Yeah, it's it's beyond the dark portal
They'd be on the dark portal campaign is just as long as the tides of darkness can remember quickly frozen throne campaign is just it's
Just as long you're right. It is and and like completely overhauls and changes the game
But like the same sort of Supreme Commander's expansion pack had a campaign that was just as long and added a race
Like it's an expansion pack
Yeah, we just don't call them that anymore. I guess some would die. Oh, it's possible
All right time for all right
It's actually was there anything else you really wanted to hit today because otherwise I was gonna do some super chats
Uh, we've we should maybe talk about
Ltx because there's a thing. Oh, right. There's like a ton of ltx news. Yeah
Um
Okay, VR RC car is going to include four cars but isn't a race anymore
It's now a first-person-view experience. So we're designing the tracks and it'll include some fun little Easter eggs for you guys to find
That's probably a good idea we'll be playing Robo Recall vacation simulator and
Winlands 2 at the VR experience booth that will include 8
HTC vibes a big step up from last year's three vibes. Yeah, and because we couldn't find a sponsor for it
I have to buy them. Oh
Yeah
One of them is gonna be my personal vibe cuz I don't say I think you guys have
I'm gonna have to I don't think so. I don't know where it is. Oh, I don't think we have it. Sure
I don't know. I'm not accusing
Okay, either way if it's there it'll be there. We have new guests
Dare Bowers gonna be there. Oh sweet Romans coming Steve from memory Express and the hardware Canucks team
So Eber and Dimitri, you're gonna be there. Nice. Yeah, so we have we are spending so much money a lot
Even more apparently, um
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Planned events. Oh, wow. Okay
Panel AMD vs. Intel panel PC do's and don'ts industry insights with MSI. That's gonna be great. We're gonna have cliff out
Oh interesting. Yep. So and I already sent him a lot of my questions like maybe like yeah
Tell me who's hard to work with
Should be good. He's pretty sure he's gonna get fired
We're gonna be playing like a Family Feud sort of funny thing
And then we've got a panel running a YouTube business the earlier so that should be an interesting one now
I'm not the only one on all these panels
We're actually gonna be leaning on some of our creators to come up and help us with these
Twitter slash float playing Q&A with LMG part one and two is at
1130 on the second day
World of Warships tournament with Linus never played the game. So that'll be interesting
So apparently I get it I get like a stacked like special ship. That's like LTT colored and stuff
What so like people so I because I don't know how to play the game. I have kind of an advantage
So I don't know
PC versus Mac panel budget versus performance panel award ceremony and a farewell
MSI is apparently sending us 20 little lucky dragons to sell and build on the floor plan. Oh my goodness. We're showing the floor plan
Look at all the updates today. Well, those view OC seats. Oh, yeah, we expanded it
Heck, yeah, okay. So here's
What we're looking oh my goodness is a little small I can't read all this stuff. It's gigantic though. So this is
590 by OC seats. This is PC free play where the systems are already there
VIP slash staff slash crew be OSC. So that's where you'll be Luke. Okay, here's a stream zone
So this is all kind of like dream hacky things. Then we've got the stage then over here
You've got LT X and I'm having a hard time reading. So the VIP staff crew be I see that's float plane
It's gonna be in there as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah
Um, and then over here is the indie zone. I believe this is the case toss
I can't read any of this stuff. But maybe it's I don't know
It's super awesome. Oh
Yes, so this is a problem
free geek
Huh is
Actually kind of in trouble
So we just wanted to take a moment to shout them out big time for being such an amazing supporter of LT X
Without them. We wouldn't have been able to get the hundreds of dead motherboards to use as the motherboard house of cards booth
They provided 20 plus cases to throw at the infamous case toss
They sourced 20 computers for us to use in the PC build workshop like dead components that people can learn to assemble
Yeah sent us a number of unique motherboards for the guests that motherboard booth
A lot of this would have been difficult if not impossible to do without them
So free geek is a Vancouver based nonprofit community organization that reuses and recycles donated electronics
They offer education job skills training and provide free or low-cost computers to the public
They've been an integral part of the event and they're in a bit of a tough spot right now
because
Recycling rates are falling and you know what not too much details
But we'd really appreciate your guys's help to help them keep their doors open it what they do is kind of important
so it's a free geek Vancouver org where you can go to learn how you can contribute because
you know everything from
scrapyard Wars to
retro mods to our sleeper PC series like they have hooked us up in ways that are
like not money, but just
PC community
Relationship ways and this is the kind of stuff you want in the PC community because if you think back to your current or maybe
Younger self depending on where you're at
There's a point in time where if you're really into PCs these types of outlets is what you need to lean
Maybe the only way that you could afford one. Yeah to be completely honest. So so inspiring new young or or
Less financially fortunate minds in our space is how is how it grows. Yeah. All right, so guys go check it out
That's free geek Vancouver org and we should go ahead and call it some super chats
Yeah, Mari says finally YouTube premium got sick of ads good stuff. And thank you for the two dollars
Jamaican you two presumably Logan frozen sniper you guys to sup Spencer Connor says what were you doing with Gavin?
a
Couple of really cool things. So Gavin is FOMO guys. I think he knows what you're doing. No, they don't that videos not up yet. Oh
So we did a couple of things we determined once and for all whether 240 Hertz
Monitors have an advantage over 60 Hertz for gamers. Oh
Yeah, and in a bunch of really interesting ways. So does it affect reaction time?
Does it affect your kill rate?
Does it affect the way that you aim?
So we used slow-motion
1,000 frame per second footage to watch
How a gamer reacts at 60 Hertz versus 240. Did you watch ed? We did. Okay good
Huh?
He's a lot better at 240 Hertz
But I won't spoil anything else about it because the findings with me and Gavin were also interesting but in completely different ways
Yeah, I was I was I was hoping you were doing a spectrum
But if you weren't doing a spectrum, I was hoping it was that we were yeah
So we had Ed at the top at the top end
We had Gavin as more of like a casual and then we had me as sort of like I used to be okay, I guess
You're good at games my aim is fantastic actually my spread was pretty close to Ed's Wow, but
What game my my kill time was much higher?
We used csgo with an auto snipe. Okay, and then we had we had a target basically at an
undetermined time
Well, the reason for the auto snipe was we wanted to give the if you got a headshot you took him down in one
We told everyone to go for headshots
But if you hit a body shot
We wanted it to be possible to take down the target in the time that you had while they ran across the hallway
okay, so you basically had to you had a pixel that you had to point at and
Then you didn't know when that was going to come and you had to take him out as fast as you could as he ran
across
So yeah
Really really cool test and then what we did with the knowledge that we gained from working with Gavin
Was we produced a second video the next day determining once and for all
whether wireless mice
So we devised a mechanism to hit a mouse
complete a circuit
Light up a light to show us the exact moment that they make contact and then we were able to use
one millisecond frames at a thousand frames per second to see how long it takes the
The crosshair on the monitor behind it
To start to move so we were we weren't able to actually determine down to one millisecond which mouse was faster
Because we don't have the equipment to measure that we can't intercept the signal from the mouse
But we were able to tell if any monitor on the market could possibly
Give you the feedback fast enough that you could detect a difference. Yeah, and it's gonna be a really really interesting video
So that's what I was doing with Gavin
Commissioner says if the 64 core threadripper was cheap not sure where you're going with that because it sure as heck won't be
sup, Jason will Briggs westerly
Hi Derek, it's YouTube premium gives free super chats
I think that's what like most of this is Zach says put it towards some tooling for the mill
Oh, man, that workshop is gonna be freaking awesome
See Bart hashtag save channel super fun 20 bucks. If only it were that
20 bucks, you know, what's really funny is it is not impossible that channel super fun could end up resurrected as part of this
diversification push we'll see
It's not dead. It's just you want to support you want to know a fun a fun little fact here
Yeah, remember the pigeon the pigeon was it. I think it's called a pigeon
Apple pigeon
console
Pippin, oh the pippin. Yeah. Yeah the at mark. It's that it's probably paid for itself by now
Has it it's like three million views or something. Really? Yeah, how much did we pay for that stupid thing again?
I think it's 500 bucks. Oh, oh, I can literally buy like a brand new Xbox one X for what we paid for it
The worst console and like a game and some controllers
Yeah, three million views hell yeah sup Nick
Oh, oh he wants us to talk about the marriage. So this this is our hot item right now
This hoodie is finally for sale. Yeah, did you get one yet? Okay. Oh
Oh, really? Ouch Nick is my savior because my luggage was lost you lost it note
I did not know an airline did
Yeah
An airline did a hundred percent. Okay, and my sweater was in there, but Nick Nick swooped in and got me
All right. So this is the one he did
But either way this is the one that's like the hot seller on the store right now. It's LTT store calm
It's got like a little but it's got a little logo here
It's got the phone pocket on this side that holds even really big phones. This is an early prototype
So actually the we had enlarged the phone pocket after this one because it didn't really fit very well
It was like hard to get it in and out
Also this one see how yours goes a little bit lower
We made it about an inch longer because this is an early one because it was always riding up on me like that
I also have a rather tall torso and it fits on me perfectly fine. I know some people
Ask about how different fitting things work. So yeah, we changed the zipper to YKK instead of whatever this is. That's that's good
Yeah, so we made some quality and some wearability improvements. That's why these projects take so
Long because you're sending feedback. You're waiting for new samples. You're sending more feedback
You're waiting for new samples if it was just as simple as like getting a shirt printed
This merch stuff would have paid for itself ages ago as it is. We're okay
So we're making money on every item we sell but we're deep in the red in terms of the total investment that we've put in
But honestly, I'm so much happier
Wearing our stuff. Okay
Party the the stuff I was most upset about losing in that like, okay one random little tidbit
I lost literally every single pair of bottoms that I own except for these shorts that I'm wearing in that luggage
So Wow, I don't have very many bought gonna take you a long time to get free bottoms to replace those bottoms cuz I know
You won't pay that's why I only had that many. I know it's cuz trust me the same jeans
I've had for like seven years. I believe you
But okay as an outside source the shirts are insanely comfortable
The constellation one is actually my like favorite shirt, which is also gone out of stock right now
We're working on getting more the problem is we can't get that color of shirt. And so we're working on an overseas source
But unless it meets the standard of the ones that we are using now
We are just we'd rather be completely out of stock and not sell anything then compromise anymore. I'm just tired of it and it's insane
I'm just gonna step it again still outside source your shirts are 20 bucks
Basically, no influencer shirts are 20 bucks right now $20 a shirt is the like five to ten years ago pricing for most of this
Kind of stuff which is pretty awesome. The shirts feel great. The printing is great. The sweaters are thin
Yeah, which is usually bad, but it's not no
It's like a French Terry. Yeah, like it's not like a cheap thin it
I haven't had a sweater like this before so every thin sweater that I've had sucked. This one's fantastic
I slept with it over my face when I didn't have a another option while I was in Taiwan
It was great and then it's gone. But I was really sad and I got a new one
We're trying to we're trying to keep the pricing reasonable. That's like yeah the big 60 bucks for a sweater again
It's sweaters are kind of expensive, but it takes us a long time to make this stuff. So yeah. Yeah
Go buy some pants. Well, I have to now. Okay, so I will we'll start
Lloyd really wants to do joggers. So joggers would be dope. I I don't really like them though
So my my my new thing with the merch actually, I I listened to a talk from Kris Jenner of all people
You know what? You can say what you want about the content, but you have to respect the business savvy
and she was like
look
focus
focus on what you actually are passionate about and
it's a lot harder to screw up and
So I'm going you know, so I I so I got back to the office and I canceled the joggers project
Because I don't care about them. Okay, and I was like, nope, we're gonna do stuff that like I care about a lot
So the underwear that's coming. Yeah, it's really nice. Okay good
Cuz I lost also a very high percentage of my underwear the underwear
Underwear fairly soon literally my entire wardrobe is to be LTT stuff the underwear. I'm okay with it's like really nice. Yeah
Anyway, Connor says can you recommend a battery pack that can power a USB C powered laptop?
I don't know anything from like like anchor stuff. He's pretty good. Yeah anchor just go anchor I guess
Yeah, we can gaming there's about I'm getting so many free super chats guys, thank you twigs dark stalker as Aral Lee gamer
Matt
Aaron also Marcos. This is the new CPU shirt and it's super cool. Yeah, I like that
Like tech. Yeah, but if you but you can also identify it. Yeah. Yeah
A distro tube this show is cool
Have you guys ever considered switching to new left new slash Linux find out more about free software software freedom and the new project?
At new org. Oh
Thank you, sweet. We had never heard of that
Let me get right on that for our Adobe Premiere editing workflow
Well, I'm not
I'm not trying to be a hater. We use Linux where it makes sense like our storage servers, for example
all of Luke's float plane crap runs on Linux, yeah, but
We're not ready to advocate switching to Linux for like a media production environment. It's not it's not a thing yet and
Before you send another super chat, which I appreciate by the way about DaVinci resolve. Yes, we're aware of it, but it doesn't do everything
Michael Freddy from Lazar Lachlan Danny
Arash thank you very much
Midland says good evening guys wondering if there's a way to clone an internal SSD to an internal software raid one SSD array
That is a tremendous question and I have actually
Tried to figure out how to do it. I don't know why with the Intel raid when you create it. You can't just say
Hey
All of that that one drive that one's good all of that to the other one, too
You have to clear them when you create it and it seems like the kind of thing that I do know that there are
Like there are values that you that you write when you create a raid that kind of tie the two together
It just seems like the kind of thing that someone over the last couple of decades might have engineered a solution to by now
Yeah, as far as I'm aware
I
Don't know of a way to do it. I'm sorry
Rehan says the search on flow plane is there but doesn't seem to be effective. Yeah, I know they're working on it. Yep
There's actually like a fix for it, but it's just not up yet
Lorenz, sorry, don't think about quitting. I really miss you lately on the channel. Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere
A QWERTY to be honest. I love all the other staff. But if you're done, I am too
I like having the variety but I'm here for you
Well, I appreciate that but also I'll appreciate the support for the rest of the staff because they're awesome
Niche
Requests podcasts interesting Ben Burrell says water cool the new Mac Pro. We're gonna create our own. This is a podcast
Yeah, this is a podcast by the way. We already have a podcast
Jaxwell said story driven podcasts. No
like reply all
Watching your rig upgrade Thunderbolt config. Is it still in the closet?
okay, so I had to rip the gigabyte board back out that night and put my old board back in because I don't have a
Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter
So really sad story, especially because Brandon I stayed late to finish that video. Oh, no, so I ended up reusing that motherboard in a
You know what? I won't spoil it, but there's more videos coming up. That narrative is far from done
Now bill says hey Linus you're paying too much attention to the feedback great to have the feedback
But do you like man? We enjoy seeing you stop do the stuff you enjoy. So that's good
That's important. But also I do need to take feedback because it does matter too. It's just like filtering it. That's the key
Dave just because I want to one-up a rash since 2499. Oh, thanks to him
Luke needs a chair that says that float plane
He does. Oh
Yeah, that'd be cool. What a terrific point
Okay
And in like blue Jesus Franco says YouTube gave me this so here you go
Game breaker says yo Linus. What did I miss? I only joined like a minute ago
Are you for real bro, we're just gonna recap the whole the whole land show
You know what you can't blame a guy for trying
You gotta respect that at least at least you took a shot. You gotta try things. Yeah, but yeah, you know what?
Yeah, shoot for the moon, right?
Because you miss if you miss then it might come down on an old lady somewhere. Yeah
Thanks, you and I Jake says would love a vlog channel. No, I'm out. I'm done. I'm telling you man
I actually have a pretty good vlog channel idea. I don't have time to do it right now though, but it's like it's pretty different
It's pretty different
Oh wow, I don't know if I can get through all these
Whenever we do super chats like earlier in the show and people like oh wow
They're actually gonna remember super chats today. We get a bunch of them and then we can't finish them. I
Would strongly recommend if you guys want to like do super chats do them earlier in the show because then we'll get to those ones first
if
you don't ice xro says, what do you think about this setup an
epic 7401 P with 64 gigs of DDR for ECC 5 gtx 1080s and a 4 by 480 gig SSD on an
Mz31 ar-0 motherboard sounds like like a machine learning
Setup or something. I don't be careful weird config what you're inviting is config feedback from everyone
Oh, yeah. No. Oh, right. Yeah. I'm sorry. I don't do that go post on the new builds
A section of the forum. Yes. Thank you Luke. Good call. No problem. Um, I
Do this stuff sometimes? Okay. All right
But up but down it down
Make sure okay. Yeah, and we're done. No guys. Bye. See you again next week. Same bad time. Same bad channel. See ya
Whoops, there we go
So upset that it's still not up
I am blur says I have two friends that are 4xl and can't ever find youtube merch that fits
I think right now we only go up to 3xl guys
Man we could we could try but what I'll say is that even 3xl a lot of the merch that we source is like
Like like the the really nice shirts that we're talking about how great they are
Are not available in that size. So even our 3xl I believe is a different shirt. Oh, really? Yeah
All right. Bye for real