And, sync.
We don't have to sync.
The plan is never to sync,
the plan is to float.
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Welcome to the Wan Show, you guys.
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Why not? Why not? Because the Wan
Show is already as great
as it possibly could be. It is the
greatest show. And we've got a lot of
great topics for you guys today.
So first up, Twitch.
To relaunch Curse
as social
Twitch desktop app.
So social.
Sounds very social to me. It's a very
interesting actual shift. I do
have a fair bit to discuss about that, even though I have
never once used Curse and very
rarely used Twitch.
Only once a week, but
other than that.
The first AM4
ITX board
appears.
Ahhhhhh.
Facebook strikes
a deal to livestream major league soccer
matches. Sorry, excuse me,
football. Football. Football.
Not hand egg.
It's not football.
Really? Are you going to be that guy?
That just has to go and be
all American
about it?
When I was a kid, we called
football the game with the ball with
the pigskin on it.
Nintendo
Switch sales are apparently
absolutely
crushinating everything
and, let's
see, wow, there was another really cool one.
Where is it? Scientists have stored a movie,
an operating system, and
an Amazon gift card
in a single spec
of DNA. So we'll have more
on this at 11.
So far we have zero viewers apparently. That must
be an error. I refuse
to accept that we could have zero viewers on the
land share. There are Twitch chatters.
I have 601
viewers. Alright, rock on.
So those 601 viewers can watch an intro that works.
Oh, oh, oh, and
I got this. Mute. Mute.
Everything is fine. Everything is awesome.
Good stuff.
This is going well.
Do you have music?
I believe so.
I'm busy. I'm on a new
laptop.
No, no, I got this. I got this.
I got this. I got this.
I fix it. I fix it now.
I fix it. Not you fix it.
I fix it.
I got nothing
for that one.
My space.
My space.
It's in a square.
It's a square.
My space is a square.
Terrible. Everything about it is terrible.
Alright, I got to get logged
into Twitch here which is
such an ordeal.
The way that we have it set up because
you know, okay, I can't give any
details because it has a lot to
do with the way that we have our accounts secured
but let me put it this way.
It's not easy. It is not easy
to lock into our Twitch account.
Are we doing the first topic first?
Is that what's happening?
Yeah, why don't we do the first topic first?
We got a lot of actually really good topics for you guys today.
First up
is going to be
Twitch to relaunch Curse
as social Twitch desktop app.
So this is
the original article here is from
The Verge and
as someone who hasn't
due to having children and
whatnot, who hasn't had a ton of time
for gaming in the last
five years.
I know, I know. I'm basically
an old man at this point. Except that
old people, you get old enough that you
actually could have time for gaming again.
Thirty.
No balls.
Three kids. I have balls, they just don't work.
Hashtag no balls
in the chat please.
Okay, you know that the chat
bot will ban them, right?
That's the plan all along.
If it turns into a spam test.
Yeah, so anyone who listens to Nick
ends up banned.
So
okay, so tell me
then as someone who may have actually
looked
at the Curse app at some point or another.
Yeah, what's up?
What is it? Why would anyone care?
Because it's been installed as what I
perceived as junkware on my stuff.
To be honest with you, Curse
was like kind of after
my time as well. Which is
really sad because now I'm an old person too.
But
yeah, I think it was mainly
just like a chat app that had some type
of integration with some games.
So it was
Steam but like not Steam?
Yeah, I think it was meant to be
like a voice and text chat
service essentially. I might be wrong.
But that was
my understanding. So it's Discord
but older and not Discord?
I
think so. So anyway, the new
Twitch chat, let us know if we're
wrong here. Because here's
my problems
right off the bat is that
there are
it's like an overflow.
There are so many
ways for gamers
to communicate with each other while
they're gaming. There's the
voice and text chat that's built into
the game. There's the one
that's built into your overlay
through whatever online platform
you purchased your game through if you're
a smart person who purchases their games
through an online platform.
So there's that. Then
there's centralized services.
Lots of people still use Skype but there's
ones like Discord for example.
Then there's self-hosted
solutions like Mumble,
Ventrilo.
Do we need
one run by Twitch? I don't
think so. People in the chat are saying
no you're wrong. Curse is a mod platform
for WoW. Yeah.
Like 10 years ago Curse was a big
mod platform for WoW. What we're talking
about is Curse Voice which was
what is being translated into
Twitch's desktop
app here is what my assumption is.
So yes
Curse used to be a mod platform for WoW.
As far as I know it hasn't been that
mainly in a number of years. But yeah
I really don't understand
why this needs to be a thing.
Like Discord is pretty
much the easiest thing to use that I've found
but there's
tons of self-hosted stuff.
There is you know even like
going back to the old days of Skype
when Skype used to be used for gaming
I
really don't understand
what the kind of
like value
that's being added here is.
And here's something that's really
funny to me is like
it feels
like everyone else wants
to move things to mobile
and move things to web apps.
And here it is a desktop
app. Now with that said as
someone who does genuinely prefer
having a desktop app like
Google Hangouts which by the way this
is hilarious. Google
is rebranding
their yes
messaging service again.
So yeah
we'll talk more about that later.
I would love it if that's one of my main issues with
Google Hangouts is that there isn't like a
first party Google Hangouts desktop
application and that it has to
run in my browser in a Gmail tab
or I can pop it out and I could like have it all
over the place but it's very disorganized.
I would prefer if it was just a desktop app.
I just don't really see
why for gamers it is considered
a boon to have more crap
running in the background.
So the apps going to include
community servers, screen sharing
which like why not just use
a business platform if you're going to be screen sharing.
Why would you need a screen share when you're gaming?
Voice and video messaging
and game content distribution.
So same thing
like you could get mods or whatever else
on it I guess. It's meant to give
streamers followers a place to connect
but doesn't Discord already do that?
And keep people
okay so here finally we get to the meat and potatoes
of it and keep people on the site
after game streams have ended
with features like communities
Twitch creative and Twitch presents.
So as far
as I can tell they pretty much went like
hey lots of streamers are using
Discord to manage their communities
why don't we just like
phase them out?
Okay
I mean I guess okay well now the strategy
is clear at least we've got that sorted out.
Yeah
So I guess that's
that's what it is. Yeah so the launch is on
March 16th and existing Curse
users will be upgraded to the new
version just like that. Enjoy!
It's kind of
it's kind of a funny thing like do you feel
a little bit like a
do you feel a little bit like a
baseball player where you just kind of
get we're getting traded you know
like when when one company
that you've you're kind of you've got your loyalty
to yeah does anyone still use Razer Comms
speaking of
is Razer Comms still a thing?
Oh yeah! Or is it part of like Synapse
now? No
Razer Comms is a thing
Razer Comms look at this you can see you can
tell something's a thing when it doesn't
just have like the
the top the top line here when it has like
lots of other crap under it that's important
mind you some of this is Razer Comms
lolscouter okay I don't know what that
is but mobile to desktop
free in-game overlay
connecting made easy okay
I forget what the point I forget
what the point I was trying to make was
I completely
forget what the point I was trying to make was
okay
so Twitch is getting this thing oh yeah
yeah right we're like you
you sign up for a service or you
give your like you create a profile with
a company and you give them personal information
like your phone number your email
your payment your payment
details or whatever the case may be and
just like you know one day
you're Jose Canseco
and you're like you're literally out in the field
playing and
it gets announced on the news
that you've been traded
you've been traded now you belong to someone else
and
they can just sort of acquire it
they can rebrand it they can change the features
the entire vision can change and
as a user you have
no influence here
at all
does it bother you
that you can be a Twitch streamer
so I mean we're okay because it's one thing
as just a user but let's say
you've invested significant
time whether it's
developing a mod
or whether it's building a following on a
platform perfect example of that was
oh that stupid platform
that I never got into Vine right
Vine we're just like boom now we're
now we're Twitter yep now
Vine's just blah blah blah
if you don't have Twitter followers if you're just a
pure Vineer you're done you're dead
where Twitch can just
kind of go oh yeah we're selling to Amazon
and Curse okay yeah we're selling to Twitch
which is owned by Amazon and it's just
like it's almost like an exercise in just
kind of collecting users
I mean yeah that's
at the end of the day that's kind of what it seems like
right and that's you know the game that
a lot of people nowadays
including us to a degree you're playing is like
how do you get more eyeballs
you know what I mean
like the acquisition of Twitch is all about
okay how do we integrate Amazon
products into this thing that's already
garnering you know hundreds of thousands
to millions of unique users per day
and sell through that
so
yeah from a user perspective
it kind of feels
you know it just feels crappy
to kind of go okay well here's this thing
that maybe I really liked maybe I really liked
Curse voice maybe I really liked you know the way
Twitch was before Amazon and now it changes
but
you know there's always two
sides to the coin yeah okay
fair enough
what's with your obsession with Jose
Canseco I like came in your
office the other day and you were like looking up like
Jose Canseco steroid something
okay okay so the
the back okay the backstory there
it's not here right now but I was
trying to I end up on these
tangents sometimes when I'm writing
no kidding no
kidding so I was writing up my video
on the LG gram 2017
yeah yeah and I wanted
a way to describe
the change in the
battery life
so what LG did was they
increased the overall weight
of the unit by about 10%
of which
all of it is
pure battery just like
cramming in more battery
so the line in the video
I wanted it to be it was gonna be like
more roided up than
X and I was trying
to figure out what could possibly be the
most roided up thing on earth
and so
I ended up doing a bunch of sometimes
just for one reference
or one line in a script
cause I think the finished script ends up being
something like more roided up than
late 90's baseball
or early 90's baseball or something like that
early 90's MLB I think is what I say
and in order to
write that line and make sure I get like
the era right and make sure it's about as roided
up as anything can be I actually
I end up down these
rabbit holes where I'm like okay
so is it Kenseko or
Maguire you know who's the who do we
who roided the
most wasn't Bonds part of that era too
well I think Bonds never admitted it
so and like I didn't wanna cause
remember too it's more than just
me getting the era of the
roiding right it's making sure that
it's confirmed and that I'm not gonna
get sued for libel
or like defamatory statements
or whatever the case I mean can you imagine
if that was the end of this story
if like
I busted my butt and
built this company and all these
people came together and helped
me run this company and we were all like
doing a great job and kicking
ass and then you were doing steroids so YouTube kicked you off
no that's not
like you don't get kicked
off YouTube for doing steroids
no but
if I made a careless comment
about some baseball
player who may
even have been on steroids
and they come after us they sue
us they sue my pants off
and I can't you know
get my pants back on
and Twitch
knocks me off their platform for not having
pants on
that could happen
did you see the guy on the news this morning who likely wasn't
wearing pants the thing where like he was on
he was interviewing about Korea
he's like a Korea expert his kids
come into the room and he's just he's sitting there
at the table like this and just like
looking back and then like somebody comes in and wrangles
the kids but he doesn't move an inch I'm like
that dude is not wearing pants
the second I saw that I'm like
that dude's only got briefs on man holy shit
I mean holy crap
sorry oops
this is a PG show
I'm not I'm not
on the live TV very
often
the CIA listed Blackberry's
car software as a
possible target so the original article
here is from Bloomberg
there was a big thing with
WikiLeaks this week we're not going to get too
far into it but we thought this
was pretty interesting just because Blackberry
is one of the few Canadian tech
firms that remains
and news news
about Blackberry is this just an ad news
about Blackberry really couldn't get much worse
than it's been over the last
yeah well ever
since Steve Jobs stood on stage and went
this is the thing that is
going to absolutely crush the rest
of the smartphone market
so in a nutshell
man like they're trying to rebrand
around security but
in a nutshell on Tuesday WikiLeaks released
over 8000 CIA documents
some of which detail cyber attacks
on iOS and Android phones Samsung
smart TVs all the Samsung
smart TV one was really creepy
what was the detail
of that one again I can't remember
it was something to the effect of like
it infects your TV with malware
and puts it in like a
fake off mode
so that even when
it's off it's still recording like everything
essentially
yeah there we go it's called the
weeping angel tool
and so the CIA could listen in
on Samsung smart TVs
and it's like I don't know about you guys
but I watch all kinds of stuff on my TV
okay
right
you know what I'm saying I mean big screen
TV right 4K
I mean what are we using Lord of the Rings
not necessarily
Lord of the something
I mean there's rings
out there let me tell you about rings okay
wow
wow well that got off the rails fast
I think there were a few of those
in the weirdest purchases on Amazon
yeah I think there were a few of those
anyway
so Blackberry's automotive software was
specifically mentioned as a potential
mission area by the
CIA embedded devices branch
it's used by 60 million
cars it's unclear at this time
if the CIA moved it forward with the attacks
but Blackberry basically said the only thing
they can say we are not
currently aware of any attacks or exploits
against Blackberry products or services
that's actually
that's a very broad statement yeah
we are not aware of any attacks
or exploits against
Blackberry products or services
very very strong blanket
statement yeah but they're not currently aware
so there definitely could be
um
so they make
specialized operating systems for industrial
products like this QNX makes
wind turbines anti-tank
missiles and most importantly
in-car infotainment systems
which by the way are terrible we should
do a video on like
in-car infotainment system
done right I was shopping for
a minivan back about
wow a year ago almost
six eight months ago something like that
and I drove a used one
that was from like 2005
or 2006 like it really wait
what year is it now? 17
crap no it was newer than that
sorry it was like 2015 or 2016
or something like that you thought it was 2007
just shut up okay
anywho
um the one I was
driving was the RES
so rear entertainment system version
oh yeah and so I crawled back
to look at it I'm like this is the worst
TN panel I've ever seen
are you for real
composite and S-video in
I mean that was all it had
it wasn't even like it might not have been two
or three years old like it was right before a refresh
or something like that and
but it wasn't like 10 years old either
and I was like this is stupid
you gotta be able to do better than this so that was when
I was kind of inspired I think we should do
something around that at some point I agree
um I think um
you know the counter
to this uh
you know the concern about
they have all these exploits blah blah blah blah blah
that I've been hearing you know people
in the know making is
okay well don't you want us to have
access to these that we know
what people are capable of
and so that we can spy on
potentially dangerous people
but we all know like
that's that's like if that was really
the objective they'd be closing the back doors
yeah yeah
so and that's that's the thing
where it's like yeah
if you guys are being totally honest that
these would not be a thing anymore
so okay let's wrap up this topic
and then I've actually got a new one
that I was inspired by an email
I just received to cover because it
feels like it's something that I
really should have talked about a long time
ago and I'm gonna I'm gonna do it once and
for all now so maybe I won't get these emails anymore
um
actually I guess that's pretty much it so
security research showed they could hack into a jeep
taking control area from the driver on the highway
Blackberry was quick to say it's tech wasn't involved in that breach
um but yeah
uh anyway uh okay
so
I just got an email um
from someone asking about
like under license doing a
French version of the WAN show
and I get people messaging
about this all the time
uh you know we'd love to work with you
to create like
a UK branch office of
Linus Media Group or
we'd love to work with you guys
to create a Punjabi
version of your reviews
or whatever the case may be
and
the answer is no
because the thing that
is special about
Linus Tech Tips or
the WAN show or
um
what do we do all day?
Tech Quickie or Channel Superfun
is not
the idea
of having
a podcast
about what happened
in the technology world this week
that's been done
people tune into the WAN show for some
inexplicable reason
that goes beyond that
apparently
because if it were as simple
as taking the
approximate format of the WAN show
which quite frankly doesn't have much of a format
it's probably the least
formatted show there is
here's the format
we have a list of topics
we're gonna maybe talk about them
a lot of the time we don't
that's the format
I'm gonna take you guys deep
inside the bowels
uh okay
what are you talking about?
no no bowels is not necessarily the rectum
like that's not where I was going
bowels of the earth is not
like dirty
can you get to the point? come on
so I'm gonna take you guys deep inside the bowels
of the inner workings of Linus Media Group
and the inspiration
for the WAN show
was some other tech podcast
that I had never
actually watched
but I was vaguely aware of
I was like
okay like this format
people seem to be watching it
let's like kind of do
that but then I never actually watched
it and I just kind of like
was like okay we'll just look at
like we'll make it the forums problem
we'll just look at the tech news
subsection of the forum
and we'll incentivize people to post
tech news there by calling
out that they posted tech news there
on this show and we'll create a positive
feedback loop where effectively
our show will get written for us
just by hosting a show
that was where the WAN
show came from I was like
we don't have time to
do seven video uploads
per week if we
set aside an hour and a
half on Fridays
to host
to just sit there
then that content kind of makes itself
that's the inspiration for the
WAN show and that's why
the vibe of the WAN show
is that it's just like
me and Luke or me and someone else
or Luke and someone else or someone
else and someone else
goofing around on a Friday afternoon
talking about tech
because that's all it really was
we needed to fill an upload slot
and we had this great resource that was our
community sitting there discussing the tech that they
thought was most relevant and we figured
hey let's take those two things
and let's put them together boom
the WAN show was born it's like
I don't know a lot of the time people I think
think we have like some
master plan master plan
and we're like out to take over
the world and you know what a lot of the time we do have
a master plan and we actually are kind of
smart but sometimes
the master plan is usually about
30% plan and
170% execution
that's right yeah just
we have this vague idea
it's like on a whiteboard that like someone
like that someone knocked over
and then kind of rubbed across the carpet
so you can't read it okay here's step one and step
two step three four five six
TBD we're just gonna do it
let's just go a lot of the time there isn't even
a profit plan like WAN show
these days is actually one of our
easiest spots to sell to sponsors
is that still correct? I don't know
I don't do that anymore like does anyone
do that anymore? I don't think it just does
itself
okay well anyway
we'll take that meeting offline
anyway for at least some time
the WAN show was one of the
we had no idea
how we were gonna make money on the WAN show
we were just like you know what
twit tv is a thing
all they do is podcasts
there must be a business model
here so let's just create a
podcast with all those other factors
that I told you guys
and like
surely someone will
want to get involved at some point
maybe someone will watch it and if they do
then maybe sponsors will care
that was the master plan
anyway getting back to your point
I don't remember what my point was
you were talking about regionalizing
our ideas and stuff right
it's about the people who are in the video
usually it's not necessarily
about the format of the show
or what's on the screen outside
of the people who are in it
the idea of creating a video reviewing
the iPhone 7
is not good
I mean it's a good idea
but it's not a unique idea
it's not gonna like
it's not going to make it so that the French version
of the WAN show
or the Indian version of Linus Tech Tips
or whatever the case may be
it's not gonna make that successful
if you want to have a podcast
and you want to have
a tech review YouTube channel
or Daily Motion channel
or whatever, they're French
do it
you shouldn't be licensing
our brand
to do it, that's not gonna make you successful
that's like, so this was
actually a great conversation that I had
back when I was doing the house painting thing
so the guy who runs
Student Works painting
in Western Canada
bought rights to the name
from the guy who runs it
in Eastern Canada
and those two companies
have zero affiliation
financially
I'm pretty sure they don't even write each other
Christmas cards, in fact I don't think the relationship
is very good
but then he has to pay money to the other guy
I don't think it's ongoing, I think he bought it
bought the license outright
bought the rights to the name so they could
they would carve up the territory that way
and what he said was
that was one of the biggest mistakes
he ever made
because, why?
no one in Western Canada
had heard of Student Works painting
he might as well have called it
Ass Works painting
I mean, probably not that
but the point is
he could have called it
Pro-Student painting
or Student Summer painting
or whatever, it doesn't matter
the licensing fee, the idea is just as good
and it's ultimately came down to him
to hustle
and build the brand anyway
regardless of that name
and in much the same way
that nobody should license the idea
of making
reaction videos from the Fine Brothers
nobody should license
the idea of the WAN show
from us
so I'm not saying that like
you're stupid for wanting to have a French
tech podcast, great idea
I'm saying that
what's a bad idea is
trying to clone what
we're doing because you should be out there trying to do
your thing
finding what someone else is doing
and copying it is not successful
in fact, well it could be but
I mean, it won't necessarily
lead to success, in fact
it is my personal belief that one of
the things that works about
Linus Media Group is the fact
that when we try to copy something
it's often without having
ever watched the original
where we just take the idea
and then it's really mostly
our own ideas, like I think
you know, and this is me
kind of going off on even more of a tangent
one of the things that I think
is really cool about the way that we make
videos is that I don't have any formal
video production training, at all
everything that we've done
has been through trial and error
and I think that you see, okay
not everything, we have people here who are
anyway, to wrap it up
my ideas are usually trial and error
why don't we say it that way, to wrap it up
you should be doing your own thing
don't try to follow in the footsteps of
somebody else, of course you should take
influence from others who inspire you
and who make you want to create
and do what you do, be inspired, don't license
yes, be inspired, don't license
and just
grind hard and you'll
make it happen
Lata, I didn't realize this was a
motivational speaking podcast, I thought this was
about technology
that's the thing, the WAN show is about whatever
the WAN show is about, and that's part of
what makes the WAN show special as well
am I actually fired? I would love to go play Breath of the Wild
next week instead of coming to work
no, you're not fired, you
had your time off, you spent it at Disneyland
you could have been playing Breath of the Wild
that is not my problem
that's true, that's true
have you played much Breath of the Wild?
excellent, it's like my favorite game
in years, literally
so, I'm down
yeah, it's excellent, it's like probably one of the best
open world games I've ever played
like hands down, so
like climbing a mountain
in that game is fun
really?
to me at least, like
there's like challenge in
exploring the scenery
cool, which is like something that I
haven't experienced in a game before, and of course
there are problems with it, and some of it gets repetitive
and blah blah blah blah, but it is the most
fun I've had in a video game in years
so, that's
I might have to play it then, I don't even have a Wii U
you can borrow mine after
ok, sold
next topic?
thank you Physical Media
heck yeah, actually do we need new sponsors?
oh, I don't know, maybe, I don't know what time it is
because this is set to the wrong time
40 minutes in, ok, yeah sure
why don't we do, speaking of the WAN show
being a good draw
for sponsors, Colton, does the WAN show
still sell well?
yeah? ok, cool, good job
people like the WAN show, sponsors
like the WAN show, ok
people like the WAN show, people like the WAN show
it's easy to sell
why uh, why is this, why am I
not able to open up a new frickin window here
what are you doing, wow
swear words, I said frickin, frickin is not
a swear word, you said frickin
you know what, eat a dick
wow
good thing we have the new audio set up
so hopefully that didn't rip
hopefully you didn't just destroy everybody's ears
um, yeah, some people
consider dick a swear word
well, it is, it's a dirty
dirty word, it is not a dirty
dirty word, you just have to shower once in a while
get the cheese off
and on that note
wait, there's food down there?
I wouldn't tell you to eat it if there wasn't any food
I'm done
and we killed Nick, Nick's done
Nick's done
yeah, I mean
it's a terrible show
you don't want to have this show
you don't want to be the one responsible for this show
really?
this is a tech show, okay
can you keep things respectable please?
yeah, me, uh huh
okay, okay, tech topic, tech topic
then we'll do sponsors
I don't want the sponsors to accidentally tune in too early
and realize
realize what they're paying for
uh
okay, so Cladsen
posted on the forum
um, what has been
oh, by the way, huge shoutout to Cladsen
for being a floatplane pilot
woo
after sponsors we should tell people what's on floatplane
yeah, we should definitely do that
so as I was looking on YouTube about
rise and overclock, blippity bloppity, overclock
sleep bug, etc, etc
uh, basically
the summary of all of this
is that, um, and we've done
a fair bit of investigation, we're working on our own
overclocking guide, but when
the high precision event timer
is off
if your machine goes
to sleep
then wakes up, your benchmarks
will appear
to have higher scores
okay, so this is
actually because the system timer
is running slow, so
windows is clock
and anything that uses
timing is actually
slowed by a fair margin
so benchmarks, which measure
compute time, will score higher
so, uh, I believe these notes
are from Anthony, hold on one second
hey Anthony!
those Cinebench scores, those are your scores, right?
okay, cool, thanks man
okay, so
we got
1750 in Cinebench
pre-sleep, put the machine
to sleep, woke it back up
over 2000
so there seems to be a fair bit
of confusion out there right now
around Ryzen performance
because if people
are reporting benchmark scores
based on
some of the tips and tricks out there
that involve turning off HPET
and going to sleep and waking
those benchmarks
are not actually representative
of real performance
to be clear, Ryzen
does perform very well, but
what this seems to indicate
to us, and actually hold on
I'm just gonna... hey Anthony!
uh,
our scores on the Crosshair
did not change
after we
disabled HPET as long as we
didn't go to sleep, right?
yeah, so if all you did
go to sleep, take that off and sign
if it did, then it's here
got it, okay, so our review
was done with HPET
on, because we didn't receive
the reviewer guidance
that HPET might be bugged on the Crosshair
on would be correct
right? correct scores?
on means that our scores
while maybe not quite
optimal
are at least
not affected by the timer bug
not affected by the bug that makes them appear
artificially inflated
so there you go
yeah
so the window sleep bug
makes AMD Ryzen overclock higher
and gives better benchmark results
so it requires further
investigation, which is why our OC
guide is coming out probably
next week or the week after
and not this week
so like, as a relative layman
like, what would cause something
like that, do we have any idea?
basically the
the scuttlebutt
is that AMD
could have delayed
the launch of Ryzen
and squashed some of these
types of bugs
these bugs don't
appear to affect
like, you know, they don't appear
to cause risk of user data loss
or anything devastating
like that, but that there
are some definite
early adopter
quirks
and oddities that could
have been fairly easily dealt with
if they had put it off
a little bit longer
so that is sort of
that's our takeaway
and, you know, why
I know the question's coming
because it's a question that I ask
and we debated internally
and it's a fair question
why not report on this
in the Ryzen lunch review
and the reason for that is because
we can say with a very high
degree of confidence
that smart people like AMD
and Asus are gonna get
their heads together, they're gonna get feedback
from early adopter users who
again, it is my personal
belief know, or should know
what they're getting themselves into
buying a brand new CPU on a brand new
chipset, running a brand new memory
controller, brand new
PCIE controller, brand new freaking
everything, it is my belief
that AMD and Asus will solve
little, weird
bugs
in short order
that review, covering the performance
of the Ryzen 1800X
has to sit there for the next
decade, if all goes according to plan
and I'm not going to spend
you know, 20% of my video
the precious little time
that I have to talk to you guys
talking about some weird
crap we ran into, that by the time
you buy one, by the time it
gets put in a box
and gets transported on a truck
to your house and you plug it in
is going to be irrelevant
so that's why we tend not to
overdo it on that stuff
and the concern is obviously there with
you know
what if this is causing
people to make purchasing decisions based on
you know, inflated benchmarks numbers
etc, etc, etc
which are numbers are not inflated
which are numbers are not inflated
is causing people to
avoid purchasing something that
is legitimately very good
because of a very small
issue that will be ironed out in a number of days
yeah
or weeks or whatever, whatever it ends up being
that's, that's where we're at
okay, okay, another thing people can stop messaging
me about, paladon 123
Canadians don't like this, okay
what time is it in Canada?
we have four and a half time zones, okay
it is many times
in Canada, Canada is really big
we have lots of trees, rocks
water, oil
and time zones
that's what we have, not a lot of people
we do all live in igloos though
but at different times
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actually I have no idea what the issue is, probably just
needs a reboot
oh yeah, I'm working on a review of the new
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what's different about it? Kaby Lake
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in order to make sure that I'm not
okay this is something I've struggled with
in the earlier
days of the channel, I would
pretty much avoid
reviewing
a laptop unless it
was a new shell, so
do you know what I mean by shell?
yeah like clams are in them right?
no, so
laptops get refreshed a number of ways
they can get like a single
okay they can get a spec update
where they might get like
a new build out that you can do
for it, for example now available with 32
gigs of ram, where they haven't materially
changed anything about the actual product here
they're just giving you different options
they can receive a
complete internal
upgrade, so they could get
new motherboard, and in that case
you'd usually be required to build
a new motherboard for like
Skylake to Kaby Lake upgrade or something
along those lines
they can get, or like a new graphics card
these days, especially for
thin and lights, usually requires a new motherboard
built right into the same board
or you can get a shell
or
or like a chassis upgrade
where there's like a significant change
to the I.O. or the keyboard, the
screen, because for us
a lot of what we review about a laptop
is the usability
the day to day
interaction with the device, and so
keyboard, trackpad, display, that's right
so if the only change, like
the weight, we care about things like that
so if the only change is that
we went from a
6700 HQ
to a
7700 HQ
which
for all intents and purposes
very very similar, then I don't
have a ton to say about it, other than maybe we got
some battery life improvement
but in order to make sure that the piece of content
that I'm making is materially different from
last time, I had them send over
their graphics accelerator
external GPU thing
so they sent over one of those, and
I'm gonna tool around with that, and the review will
really be focused on that
rather than, and I'll make some comments on the
Kaby Lake upgrade, but there's not much to say, it's still a great
laptop, I still love it
but now with an external GPU
quick spoiler, are they
certifying
any brands other than Alienware for that
external dock? No, so there
it's used as a proprietary interface
instead of Thunderbolt
but what I also do want to do this time
around is I want to
look closer at whether the Razer
Core will work with this
because I had an experience recently
on the Dell Inspiron Gaming
was it the Inspiron Gaming or was it something
else? I've actually looked at a lot of Dell stuff
this year, we finally know the right people
at Dell to get
laptops in so we can
uh, yeah
the XPS 2-in-1 maybe?
yeah, that's the one it was, it was the
XPS 13 2-in-1
12, 13, whatever it was
anyway, the point is that thing
when I plugged in a Razer
Core with an external graphics card in it
it specifically said
there was a message that came up, blip, not supported
but if I just told that message
to GTFO my desktop
then it actually worked
so I got scared off by that
message last time I had an
Alienware 13 in the shop
and I never really pursued it any further
so I wanna know when I'm investigating
this and its external graphics
solution, how does it stack up?
how does it stack up? how does the performance compare?
because those kinds of apples to apples
comparisons are lots of fun for me and I know that
the whole external graphics card thing
is still in its infancy, like most people
are not that interested in it right now, but I mean
that's where I get my jollies, right?
like weirdo tech that's
gonna be like accessible
three, five years from now, but
that is like really buggy and you know
entertaining therefore for me to play around with
on my weekends that I would otherwise spend with my children
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it's like what
speaking of things that you should do
you should care
about the variety
of AMD motherboards coming out
so there it is
I believe that's Biostar
with their racing brand
yeah Biostar
yeah I know it's very racy
it's like edgy but
like the old word for it
so here it is
the first AM4 motherboard
pictured over on videocards.net
there's a few things that we can tell
about it just from looking at it
number one is
that it appears to run
off of only a four pin connector
so it is my expectation
that people would be
encouraged to run like a 1700
or less on here like 65 watt chip
although there's no reason that you
couldn't get away with an 1800X
you just probably wouldn't be doing a ton of overclocking
there's not much in the way of VRM cooling
here
so this looks like not like a balls
to the wall like an ROG competitor
but more like kind of a mainstream decent board
you got four
SATA ports right there
no M.2
that I can see
so that's a little discouraging
unless it's on the back which I have seen in the past
so don't quote me on that
USB3, PCIe 16X, 2 RAM slots
looking pretty good
I mean to be fair they don't have much room on that board to begin with
so they may have just been prioritizing
like okay we're hitting this certain budget target
we don't expect that people in this range
are going to be buying M.2 cards yet
yeah you know what though
this is something I really wish that AMD had done differently
with AM4
is this socket
number one is
AMD has now done this
three times
so they had their
original socket 940
okay
then they had socket 754
so those used a particular mounting system
so it was a single screw
on either side
and then it came out to like a plastic clip bracket
thing like this
and the problem with that was that third party coolers
had two anchor points and that was kind of crappy
then they fixed it with
uh crap I think
939 also still had this
so I think it was AM2
was what the first one was called anyway
they fixed it they put four posts
but like they still mount their own stock
coolers with this stupid thing so I kind of went
okay fine I realized
why you changed it this time I get it
fine this time
all they did was move the hole slightly
so all they've done for no
apparent reason
is kill backwards compatibility
with old AM3
AM2 AM2 plus
coolers and they've
still got all this bulky plastic crap
all over the socket like if they had gone
and they had kind of like gone
okay mounting holes here like done something LGA
2011 style where it's just got threaded
holes around the socket
that would have been super cool
I really don't like the way they did this because it takes up a lot
of space it moved the mounting
holes and all of this as far as I can
tell was done for no reason
other than to decrease compatibility
with older coolers so that
cooler manufacturers can sell you a new AM4
bracket or cooler like that's the
that's the tinfoil hat guy
in me kind of going I really can't think of
another reason they would have done that. It's not that tinfoil
go back to it for a sec someone says
Linus it's on the back look next to audio
you can see screw holes
uh
um
yeah I can see
screw holes
never miss a screw hole
uh next to audio
yeah not necessarily so I
do see these but
those okay and those look
like M.2
mounts but they wouldn't actually go
all the way through necessarily
like that's not what they would look like on this side
I don't know what that is
um
yeah so I didn't want to say
positively that that's what that is if I wasn't sure
there's a lot of people saying there is M.2 on this one
so maybe it's on the back cool so maybe it is
uh
that's boring is this interesting
Facebook streaming major league
soccer matches does anyone care about this
I mean people in the rest of the world apparently
James does
people in like
here's the thing in Canada if you played soccer
as a kid like 95%
of your games were rained or snowed out
so like that's why no one cares
about it here
awww
okay so Facebook scores a deal
to livestream major league soccer matches
that and I'm pretty sure nobody cares about MLS
I think John does
well yeah but John cares about
every sporting league
on earth like you could
hey John do you watch
professional cricket
would you
he says no
okay so no cricket
alright nevermind I take it back
but like okay
okay a sport
that's interesting to Americans though
I guarantee you
he follows not only like the
top league like the national league
but he follows like college and like
sometimes even high school
a lot of the college stuff that he follows
is because he went to Duke
that's true he follows his college specifically
and I think that's much of a much more
significant thing in the states
yeah oh yeah here that's like super not a thing
like I think UBC
has a hockey team
Thunderbirds I think that's what they're called
yay
let's do the Thunderbird wave
that's not
no you gotta do the wave
you gotta do your
I was doing the Thunderbird this was the Thunderbird wave
that's a thing?
I don't know but I'm a bird
that doesn't look like a Thunderbird that looks like a freaking
Nancy Brown
it's not a car
it's not a car Linus
so Facebook has secured the rights to stream at least
22 live major league soccer
regular season matches in English in 2017
and to enhance the video content
with various interactive elements like
Facebook specific commentators, interactive graphics
fan Q&A and polling features
basically
the reason that the headline
is like the nail in the TV
coffin is that
the money in advertising
is going to
online platforms
online companies like Facebook and Google
and the like
and it's gotten to the point where
they're getting very close
to being capable of buying
the rights to things like
broadcasting
live sports
I don't think you guys talked about this last week
but YouTube TV
they have I think 40
40 channels that would include
stuff like live sports
and um
just broadcast television
and they've bought up the rights to this stuff
and people are saying that yeah TV is in
massive trouble because of this
because not only do they have 40 channels
it's only $35 a month compared to
a cable subscription which
up here I think averages between $80 and $100 a month
something like that
I wouldn't know I've never paid for one
I have a bundle that's like
discounted but um
yeah I think a standard like decent
cable package is between $60 and $100
yeah so um
basically the point is
and I see Facebook
as a I see what Facebook's doing
as a bigger threat than what YouTube's
doing where as far as I can tell
Facebook's approach
here seems to be
give the content for free
like spend the buckets
and buckets of cash
that you make by advertising
to your user base something you're already
doing through other media
through other methods anyway
keep people
on the site drive up more
interaction by having this content
basically eating the cost of the content
to get more data from you
where as I think YouTube is
sort of in between that
where they're trying to
get a more traditional
subscription fee from you with that said
I don't think that it's impossible
that Facebook would try and get you to pay for a subscription
at some point in the future
either
Twitter did a similar thing
I think this was just last year
with the National Football League
the NFL where they're doing
some of the games
and I believe it's a similar thing I don't think
that you have to pay I haven't tried it
but I don't think you have to pay I think they're just eating the cost
on that
dun dun duuuuh
oh my gosh
Pizza Hut smart shoes
the original article here is from
Slash Gear
let's go ahead and bring that up
they do look amazing
by the way
I would wear these
one of the stranger wearables
entirely advertisement focused
Pizza Hut smart shoes
the shoes are high tops
they refer to them as pie tops
all of the pairs are being made
all of the pairs will be given to the media
and individuals considered to be influencers
can we get some?
I want one
we actually have a piece of content planned soon
called wearables that aren't crap
although I don't
I don't want to burn bridges
with Pizza Hut as a potential future sponsor
but
if I had to eat pizza
it would not be your first choice
it would not be my first choice
it would not be my second choice
it would not be my third choice
to be fair we have some really good pizza joints
it wouldn't be my chain choice
to be fair
we have some really good pizza joints
and Panago is a thing
we need to get Panago as a sponsor
yeah good luck
aren't they like only Western Canada?
really? is that right?
I assume they were like
just BC in Alberta
yeah yeah yeah
we were here for school
ate Panago all the time, loved it
moved back to Ontario and now he's like
dude I wish I had Panago
it's still chain pizza
what's that really good local one?
Jim's
Jim's Pizza is so good
it's not Jim's Pizza
there's two locations
in Langley
go screw yourself
if you're in Langley you should eat Jim's Pizza
and I'm not talking Langley Virginia
okay?
sorry
sorry CIA we know you're listening
that's
that's funny
you made up for the not funny thing you did earlier
cause that was very funny
so the shoes themselves
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whether you can accidentally order a pizza
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ha ha ha
ha ha
great
okay so this was originally posted on the forum
by Cloaked
and this is
ridiculous
yeah so Google is
um
ah man this is just
this is just terrible
so the original article here is from Android Police
Google officially splits Hangouts
into Meet and
Chat
new apps
meet and chat
why
why
oh why
wow this seems awful
yeah it really does
so it's literally just Hangouts
video and Hangouts text chat
except now you need two apps
like
holy
actual crap
and this is great
so Cloaked actually did a wonderful job
of this news post
doing a good job of putting quotes from the original article
a really good link to the original article
and his or her own
feedback as well as
going and searching out this tweet
from
um
so Harrowine, Harrison Hopkins
sent a message to
Justin Newbertini
Justin Newbertini sorry
uh hold on where is it
there we go here we go so
principal engineer Google technical lead
for Duo co-lead for
Allo so basically the guy
in charge
so you want us to use four apps to talk
to people Allo, Duo, Google
Messenger, Phone
the point stands all in one apps
are not the f- what
oh
so you think
have you ever used
Justin have you ever used
an Android device
have you ever
experienced your pocket
being on fire because some
bullshit Android app
is sucking battery
for no apparent reason in the
background do you have any idea how
hard I try to install
fewer things on my Android
device in particular because
I am so tired
of being like my phone's running
really hot what do
I have to force close today
no
more apps is not the future
at all if
it doesn't fit on a single home screen
it is not going on my
phone we actually use
hangouts predominantly
here at work as our internal
messaging chat the reason
for it is that it actually does
work it's easy pretty great
it's cross platform it's a single
thing that works across Mac
PC Android
iOS everything if you
message someone on it if you
message someone who works here on hangouts
the odds of them seeing it in a timely
manner is pretty good
why
could you how could you
possibly think
that instead of just having
a button for a voice
call a button
for a video call and a
text box for a text message
how could you possibly think
that opening up a different
app is a better idea
so hangouts meet
okay
is video conferencing with
the goal of making online meetings
as painless as possible
meetings can be started simply
by sharing a link no
fiddling around with logins plugins
or native applications
up to 30 participants so basically
you can have a direct
a dedicated dial in number
if you're G Suite Enterprise customer which we
aren't because they introduced G Suite
Enterprise after we bought our subscription
services like oh yeah G Suite Enterprise
it's like ever so slightly different and better
it's going to cost twice as much
screw that screw that
screw hangouts meet this is
stupid because there's nothing here that hangouts
meet does that hangouts doesn't already
do just fine or that couldn't
easily have been added you can already
send someone a link to a hangouts
and they can join hangouts
chat is apparently going to be
more like slack or microsoft teams
than previous hangouts supports
multiple virtual rooms for each topic
threaded conversations
integration with other G Suite
services in a filterable search
so it's going to be yet another thing
that because Google can't
make up their freaking mind and
stay behind a
communication application yet
another thing that's garbage you know what else is
garbage
the Google SMS app that comes
built into Android you know why
it's garbage because when you switch to
another Android device it doesn't sink
that's garbage
I thought the whole point of
Google was backing up all
your crap you know what else is stupid
the fact that when you back up an Android
phone and restore another one it
doesn't back up your home screen shortcuts
that to me is just
fundamental stuff that for some
reason Google can't clue in
that people need you know what else is garbage
tell em, shut up
what's that called you were
explaining this to me the other day
the guy in the rap song that's just like
yeah hype man
okay get out of here hype man
okay you know what else is garbage
go in
the contacts app I'm even moving my
hands like this the contacts app
you can't have multiple
people for a single contact
how am I supposed to enter
my grandma and grandpa who by the way
do not have individual cell phones
how am I supposed to enter my grandma and grandpa
as a contact
okay
tell em
okay well I'm angry now
you know what's kind of funny actually I'm kind of over it
I kind of got it out of my system you know what's kind of funny
this is like showing a very big
difference between Google and Amazon
two of the giants in the US right now where
Google is trying to separate everything
and segment everything and Amazon
through Twitch is trying to integrate everything
into one vertical
I think I think integration
is the way forward I agree
but it's just that's really interesting
to see these two different approaches in like
an overall
vision for how the future of technology
is going
but you know that's just my opinion
I've always wanted a rant channel people were like
this should be a video like I would I would love
to have a rant channel it's just it's something that
doesn't make sense for Linus
Media Group's current direction
um currently currently
we'll see uh Nintendo
Switch sales are apparently absolutely
crushing it and
Gadget says the Switch is the fastest
selling console in Nintendo
history with Zelda being the best selling
launch title the company's ever seen
which is sort
of taken for granted given that
they didn't ship it with a game
and it's the only game
for the console so if it's gonna be the fastest
selling console it's gonna have to be the best selling launch
title well I wonder if
they're factoring in Wii U
Breath of the Wild sales oh actually
I'm not sure um
beating out Mario 64 though
so best selling standalone launch title
yeah that's fantastic you know I've never
I have tried multiple times to get into
Mario 64 never managed to do it
really? yeah oh it's a great game
just never managed to do it great game
I should try again at some point
I own it on Virtual Console on my Wii
so I just need to like go play it
you should get uh get little man involved
yeah well no I'm
once you graduate him to the 64
first game first game I'm gonna
play with him is gonna be Final Fantasy 6
my favorite game of all time
um and you know what he's getting really
close kid can read
so like yeah
that doesn't mean he can understand the weird
winding path of a Final Fantasy
game no but 6 is a lot
I don't even understand the weird winding path
of a Final Fantasy game it's less weird
okay it's not entirely
not weird it's just it's a lot less weird
um
come on
see she's not
past her probation yet
which means technically she's not supposed to be on camera
well I mean she did drop the
very famously
drop the uh
oh hey Max actually can I borrow you for a sec
come on over here for a sec
come on have a seat
have a seat
um so we've had some
of our viewers accusing us
of faking
of faking or staging
the drop of the rise in test
you're right behind the microphone by the way
um so Max
can you tell me did you
stage that for comedic effect
what was the objective when you
dropped the uh
the test bench there
I don't know why I would stage anything for comedic
effect um
like that I think the scream of
despair was comedy enough
just no
okay this has been
so fun
alright thanks Max
bye okay so the way it went
down was
against the advice of
Brendan and Max
I propped up the test bench like
that knowing
yeah I propped it up knowing
that I would be standing right next
to it to catch it
the doorbell rang
Tyler wasn't in the warehouse
and I was like oh I'll grab the
door Max Max
can you keep an eye on that she's like yeah I'll watch it
so she's standing there
like this and
she kind of goes it's not moving at all
and oh shoot I left
the camera on I'll go turn off the camera
before she even made it to the
camera which is why the camera was still rolling
before she even made it to the camera
it started to fall so that's
why you saw her like dashing over there
trying to get it that's how
it went down it was not the intent
although what I will say is that
mostly uh
everything survived the Titan XP is fine
which is great the RAM's fine
the only thing that chips fine
our 1800X is fine the only
things that died are the cooler which
got super bent
um and hey actually
hey Max where's that cooler do you know
okay
we should Instagram it
and
yeah do you know where that cooler is
can you bring it over here yeah
so the cooler died and our cross
six died so the board died
is the does the board have physical
damage oh yeah oh yeah it was like
can you bring the board no I bent it
back already oh yeah never mind
yeah so it was like it was like
bent it was like bowed oh man
because it fell down we could have
the cooler and got like 50 million
views yeah probably
but like I don't think about yeah
yeah yeah here can I I don't think about
that stuff like no
not in the moment that's like there
was one video recently where you were like
wait this one's fine oh no this
oh nevermind
that's not fine nothing is fine
um is this already like reconciled
removed from inventory marked dead all that stuff
I believe so but I'm gonna help last
okay so that's like in that
there's a video recently where you were like you
can tell when there's a problem and then
there's a problem
and that was a problem
so see it looks kind of okay from here you got a couple
bent fins and then you turn it to the side
oh no
so that's that's the angle that the
so those heat
pipes are bent AF
it kills me to
damage a Noctua cooler because it's like
the bee's knees but yeah it's dead
it's dead it's dead fan survived
so there's that
um were they LTT fans
no no it was just a
normal brown one then who cares
um what else we got
here oh yeah Microsoft is launching
an Xbox subscription gaming service
this is different from the other Xbox
subscription gaming service
so this is like playing games
online as okay so
this is streaming games
online okay it is
getting really hard to describe
online gaming services yes
because you stream a game that is
being played on a server
far away being processed on a server
far away yeah like why don't we have a
word for that um
i don't well we do it's called game streaming but
unfortunately that could mean almost anything yeah but like
game streaming is
the same like is
perceived the same as streaming a game
yes so like why don't we have like a
separate word for it we could call it
gaming on demand we should coin it yeah on
demand gaming no that's stupid
well that's what it's called though we
should call it burr blogging no that's
stupid no no that's stupid and not funny
so you're now what you're what you're minus one
dude i don't even you were you were you
had pulled even and now you're minus one what happened
to you man you used to be cool no
i didn't that's accurate
coming this spring to the xbox one
the xbox game pass
will give console owners access to
over 100 xbox one and backwards
compatible cloud gaming for 9.99
a month yeah cloud gaming thank you twitch chat
it is part of the cloud um
what if it's not so initial supported titles
include halo 5 guard did anyone care about
halo 5 guardians nba
i think people cared about halo
5 because it was supposed to be like the
return of halo to pc but then the pc
version is total garbage soulcalibur
2 soulcalibur
2 i played that when i was like 12
huh how old is
that game yeah when did soulcalibur
2 come out
wow soulcalibur 6
was one of the auto completes on uh
wow
it is the sequel to soulcalibur
which was released in 98
and it came out no no hold on hold on
the game was released on the namco
system 246 arcade board
before being ported
to the playstation 2 gamecube and xbox
in 2003
wow they're really uh
really bringing their a-game there
there that a-game there great game
library yes
um so partners providing
at least some support include take 2 warner brothers
capcom bandai and microsoft studios
if microsoft studios wasn't providing
support then ea is apparently a
holdout because they offer access to
their xbox one titles through a 30 dollar
per year subscription called ea access
sweet game stop shares
apparently fell 7.8 percent on the
announcement i mean can get who's still
investing game stop why is game
stop still a thing okay so the point of investing
is that you expect growth
so even
if you still believe that game
stop has like
games to rent to people or
sell to people or whatever
you couldn't be expecting it to grow
that business well that's why it
fell was that there was
less demand yeah but like who
still has their money in game stop
anyone who's watching right now
take your investment dollars out
of game stop dude we don't we
we do not certify this investment
advice as advice
by a financial advisor
please consult your financial advisor
before making any financial
decisions and determinations consult
your financial advisor before
ripping all of your money out of your game
stock game stop stock
portfolio and investing it in
almost anything else you know what i'm gonna go buy
game stop stock and then when they
come out with like the next
big thing the next big game stop
i'm just gonna roll up in my lamborghini
and laugh at you in this
piddly little office that we've got going i'm
just kidding that's
that's you know yeah good luck with that thanks man
scientists scientists
scientists are so cool they have
stored a movie scientists are
cool an operating system
and an amazon gift
card in a single spec
of dna so the original article
here is from science alert
dot com there you have
it the highest density
data storage device
ever created
i mean number one
bear in mind of course that this
doesn't necessarily mean anything i mean you
store a movie at like
a super low bitrate and the
computer os could be anything but this is
dna i know it's still cool
dna it's stored stuff in dna
before i just mean like saying
like but like okay
saying a hard drive can hold a
billion movies doesn't tell you
anything about the quality that it's
stored like you have to say
it's blu-ray quality or you have to say
you know whatever yes i understand
what you're saying anyway um
this dna encoding method
approaches the theoretical maximum
for information stored per
nucleotide they were able to
recover the stored files with zero
errors and their strategy is capable
of recording two hundred and fifteen
petabytes of data on a single gram
of dna
no i was i was reading there was
the day that this research was announced
there was an ama with like the
um the lead scientist
lead researcher whatever lead cool guy that's what
we're gonna go essentially the lead dope guy
yeah um and
dope af lit guy there were
a bunch of questions about you know doesn't
start on dna make it you know
subject to environmental factors
and wouldn't it be difficult to store
and apparently there are
you know relatively low
cost solutions and even
stuff like gigantic server rooms could be
relatively easily
converted this is you know
uh ten years out
a long time away and this is
all just stuff that i read on the ama
um but server rooms
could be relatively easily
uh transformed into areas that
could store this stuff safely
with a half life of like four thousand
years
which is like
way longer than any other physical
medium we've uh
we've come across so far
so that i think is the really
exciting part is that this could be like
an incredible long term storage
aspect
sorry i moved
on to the zombie proof 3d printed
mobile house um
so the researcher spent seven grand
to synthesize the dna and another two
thousand to sequence it so
yeah cost need to come down a fair bit but
uh very cool
zombie house
yeah um so the original
article here is from tech crunch
passive dom is
a zombie proof autonomous 3d
printed mobile house
um
apparently it's very efficient
compared to brick it could be made
off grid in a cold climate
with some upgrades uh so without
like a complex and expensive engineered
heating solution the frame is made
of 3d printed carbon fiber and
fiberglass the entire house is recyclable
and it's 36 square
meters and costs 60
thousand euro to pre-order
they have a special zombie apocalypse
package that includes armored glazing
and alarm system extra toilet paper
storage and a bible
that's uh so while this all could
be nonsense it seems they actually have a
real model built already and all the technology
is somewhat feasible so uh
there you have it there's that
wow
interesting
um yeah i guess that's pretty much it
for me
that is telling us that we should instead
of doing like tape storage for long term
we should uh do dna storage
yeah we'll just like get right on that
we'll just build out like our
dna research lab and
you know the next unit over no
problem we got this
100% down all right
that would be some videos right there
um well that's i guess
how how's your week been how's my week
been surprisingly tiring
actually this is um
just recently so you're only just
now seeing on the channel
a lot of people seem to think that i that i
don't write videos for the linus
tech tips channel um
and that people just write everything for me
90 plus so tech quickie
aside which john's been writing pretty much since he
started so linus tech tips
wise 90 plus
percent of what i hosted
did until like two weeks ago
was written by me and like
i remember talking about when we uh
when we hired tyler and he was uh
helping me out with a couple scripts here and there
when i said that we had a new guy that was helping with
the scripts um
people someone posted a comment on a
video slightly after that
saying like wow that was a really great decision to hire
the new guys the today's video was like way
better written than usual like i
wrote it
anyway
the last couple of weeks have been crazy because
our three new guys started and you're
starting to see now on the youtube channel
a huge uh
shift in things being
completely written by me versus
me sitting in more of like
an editor in chief role
so most of my time now is taken up
by meetings sitting down
looking at products figuring out the angles
that we're going to tackle them from
um reviewing notes
reviewing finished scripts reviewing
like the guidance for the editors
reviewing the final videos so i'm
more like a like a managing editor
than
like uh like a writer
these days what's really
cool is it has allowed us to do
some really amazing pieces of content
in
a time period that previously wouldn't
have been possible um
like the uh the windows 9 analysis
some people didn't like that
it had kind of a clickbaity title
and thumbnail um
but if they sort of
remove their their
prejudice remove their bias from
from this situation
a little bit and look at that video
objectively what
was it it was about a version
of windows that microsoft
doesn't want you to know about it actually was
it was about taking a microsoft
os that is not commercially available
modding the crap out of it
to take out all the telemetry and
monitoring and background processes
that you don't care about and get a more
stable smoother operating windows
that's what it was about
and it was a massive
amount of work huge
massive amount of work it took like a week
of benchmarking to set up
all four of the different os
environments that we were testing on identical
hardware to run a huge
suite of benchmarks to really analyze
their performance and to do
all the work that was involved in taking the
guidelines from windows 9
and creating a more palatable version of windows
10 and then creating a blog
post so that you guys can replicate this
on your own taking windows 9
which is not actually possible to
buy unless you have like a special education
license or something like that
and making it applicable to our
viewers great piece of content
objectively and took a
ton of time and was a lot of work
that wouldn't have been possible without the writing staff
same thing for stuff like our ryzen
coverage it would not have been as
good gtx 1080 ti
it would not have been possible to test
so many games on intel
and on ryzen something
that very few other publications did
and so a lot of those
things are coming through there's some growing pains
there's a video coming now that I'm not
that happy about the cohesiveness of
like the overall flow of the way the b-roll cuts
and stuff like that but
basically what's happened in the last two weeks is my job
has changed in a big way and I'm adapting
to that I have only fully
written two videos aside
from the ryzen launch coverage which obviously
I did because I was the only one there
in the last two weeks which
previously would have been eight to ten
that's crazy
so it's bananas
you're not working any less that's for sure
if anything it's actually been more work
it's been kind of crazy
like you hire a bunch of people
expecting that to reduce your workload
but you actually just end up
doing more things and different things
with all of that said
I do not plan to entirely
leave behind writing I like tinkering
with stuff I like being in the trenches
and so I will absolutely
continue to be involved I'm writing the
DJI Mavic review that's upcoming
I mean it doesn't help that
no one else here can fly a drone
I was going to say there's specific stuff like that where only you can do it
yep
I'm writing the Alienware 13
so I'll be taking on I think
especially stuff that I find particularly interesting
and I think that that's another really
cool thing about the three people that we have on board
is they're all really different so I think you're going to see
a different and a new level of
passion that goes into the projects
that people are working on because nobody has
to do everything
so that's going to be really cool
I guess all that leaves
is our shout out for Flowplane Club
so Flowplane Club
Flowplane Club is where you can get a
mostly good experience
watching
okay it's in alpha
well it's in a
very early stage early access
we can't really say alpha beta whatever
it's in a very early stage very early stage
so right now the way it works is
we're using it as an early access
player for LTT channel super
fun and tech quickie videos
over on the Linus tech tips forum
the plan is to move it off the forum
at some point in the future but
we're not going to promise a timeline for that
and basically the way you sign
up is you go over to the store
you go to the Flowplane Club
which I am not going to screen
share because I have no idea what's in my other
browser going to open up twitch here
boom there we go going to paste that over there
there you go that's where
you can join the Flowplane Club
is twitch chat even working? yeah there you go the LTT
bot was just taking a second to kick in
and you'll have a week's worth
of videos
that you won't find on YouTube
so it should be about 10 videos that you haven't
seen so these
this week there were a lot
of releases so that content
goes to both platforms immediately
you mean simultaneous releases?
I mean product releases
oh yeah yeah yeah so like 1080 Ti
so 1080 Ti is already there
and the Intel Extreme Rig Challenge
but what actually happens is that whatever
was released on Flowplane before
doesn't go to YouTube yet on that day it gets pushed forward
by another week so what's already there
is the Asus G701
we've got a tech quickie
on why do electronics get
hot we've got
viewers choice episode 2
is over there so where we take the most popular
items you guys are buying on Amazon
will they be the same will they be different? some of them are the same
some of them are different we've got the Dell XPS
27 audio file grade
AIO computer
what else have we got over there
every
AMD video card tested
that's actually a pretty cool video
LTT EVG
that one's on YouTube already
yeah so there's
oh yeah server room update vlog episode
3 out of 3 the finale that's on there
that's a great thumbnail
great thumbnail
that one would have been on YouTube by now but it's been pushed
by some of these simultaneous releases anyway
and it's coming to YouTube
very soon
is it coming very soon?
should we do a sneak peek?
what do you mean?
should we do a live demo of float plane club
working? oh gosh
so the bit rate
is higher for playback for our
1080p so 1080p looks better on float plane
also you can download
I have to be in Luke's shoes this time and hope that it works
we're going full on
we're going 1080p man
let's give it a sec
oh like I said it
mostly works
okay
what's up?
what do you want?
oh wow that was quick
oh rut row
way to go Linus doing a live demo
wah wah
oh whatever it usually works
it works like
most of the time
that's why we're saying it's very early stages
it works most of the time
okay so I think that's
pretty much it thanks for tuning into the WAN Show
we will see you guys again next week
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