What is up everyone and welcome to the WAN Show.
We've got a lot of great topics to go through today.
I cannot believe how quickly Dark Viper AU, sorry if I'm pronouncing that wrong, Dark
Viper responded to our plans to make a reaction channel, but he did, so we'll be talking about
that.
Let's react to that.
We're talking about perfectly good two-year-old MacBooks, okay I was with you, perfectly good
up until, I don't know, okay, so they're, for MacBooks, they're perfectly good and are
apparently being scrapped because of activation lock.
Okay, in all seriousness though, yes, MacBooks are perfectly good if they're two years old
and that's a bad thing, but it's also a bit more complicated than that.
What else we got today?
Uh, you know, stuff.
CNET issues mass corrections for AI-written articles.
This is actually hilarious, I'm excited for that.
It's like really funny.
And what else do we do, what else do we do?
Linus talks about washing his butt.
Really?
Yeah, why not?
Seriously, you don't want to do public backlash against Microsoft for reducing gamers' power
bills?
It's pretty funny too.
I don't even understand.
It's actually hilarious.
Okay, because I don't get it.
Yeah, you won't get it any, no don't read it now, let me tell you about it.
Alright.
Oh, we have a fun new segment to introduce this week.
It's going to be called Original Sauce.
That didn't help me understand at all.
The show is brought to you today by Kudos, Seasonic and The Ridge.
Alright let's get this party started.
I am going to get right out ahead of this and say I meant to watch Dark Viper's video,
but I actually haven't.
I did see that it went up.
I actually read the vast majority of the comments on it because that's how I consume YouTube.
I don't really...
That is true.
This is true.
I don't watch videos, I just read the comments on them.
I've watched this happen, I didn't really believe it the first time he told me.
This is actually true though.
You can actually get, you can, you can get a, okay, ah man, we're going off the rails
here.
We're going off the rails already.
I would make the argument, and this is going to be a controversial take, it sure is, I
would make the argument that you can actually get a deeper understanding of a video based
on reading, I'm not talking if you read like four comments, I'm talking a video that has
a lot of interaction, you read several hundred comments on it, okay?
I am arguing that you can get a deeper understanding of A, what was discussed, and B, the greater
context of it by reading the comments under a video versus actually watching the video.
People should try this.
With that said, I did make sure someone watched it, so I had our new end show writer watch
it and summarize it, and I will be responding.
So after last week's discussion of a future Linus Media Group reaction channel, GTA Let's
Player and commentator Dark Viper responded with a video essay entitled, is it even possible
for reaction content to be ethical?
Because if you guys remember last week, that was one of the sort of guidelines that I laid
out for what exactly our reaction content could look like.
Dark Viper praised my desire, apparently, I didn't watch the video, but this is evidently
true, to make ethical reaction content.
But he claims that reaction content fundamentally cannot be ethical and questions the impact
of a channel as large as LTT, embracing it.
Do we want to get to the end before we comment?
No, I think we can start commenting now, because step one, and I saw a lot of this in the comments
as well, which is how I processed the video, because I'm a reader, not a video watcher.
First of all, there are a lot, man, and it's not just this, whether it's when people feel
like we're not calling out a manufacturer hard enough for their pricing or whatever
else it is, people seem to really overestimate the amount of sway that I have.
I do not have the kind of power that people seem to think I have.
We are a substantial player in the YouTube space, won't deny that, I mean, I get my invitation
to Top Creator Summit or Creator Summit or whatever they call it now, and I look around
and I'm like, whoa, okay, I'm rubbing elbows with some pretty big online creators, apparently
they think I belong here, so that's cool, right?
Obviously we're not tiny little minnows in the ocean that is YouTube, but I do not single-handedly
have the power to make or break a style of content, be it pranks, reactions.
Some context here, I think that might be a category thing.
If you are someone who consumes a lot of gaming slash tech stuff, your name's gonna be all
over everything, so the perception might be an increased amount, you know what I mean?
I see.
The other thing is, Dark Viper, at least some degree, likes the channel, has worn LTT shirts
in videos before, so within his specific bubble, might be big as well.
And then another thing is, I think just as much as the statement that you said might
be correct, I think at the exact same time, in the exact same realm, the idea that you
underestimate is probably also true.
Because an aspect that I would bring up here is about the cannot possibly be ethical thing,
I saw that and kind of frowned for a second, I was like, how can that be, that doesn't
make, because we talked about how you could just, you would ask people first, right, you'd
get approval first.
Sure.
Is that fair?
So you're gonna talk about the power imbalance then?
Yes.
I see.
Because if it's a small channel, they might not want to piss you off.
I see.
Okay, I have been guilty of not considering that aspect of things before.
It's a tough and annoying thing to consider.
Yeah, I mean it's tough, it's really tough, because from my point of view, when I was
a smaller channel, yes, there were times when I definitely bent over backwards to do something
for a larger channel, but there were also times when I just either directly, usually
not directly, but would just kind of blow off a larger channel and just say, maybe someday,
and then just kind of passive aggressively never reply, I never really struggled with
saying no.
That some people might.
I can see how some people might.
But again, I have to come back to this, I don't have the kind of power you might think
that I do.
Like whatever negative consequences you might feel, I could somehow bestow, whatever a negative
bestow is, inflict upon you.
Yeah, that's a better word.
Whatever you think I could do to you, I probably can't.
And again, I've been told this before, like yeah, if you're a small channel, Linus dumping
on you could destroy your channel.
The fear might be there though.
Regardless of the possibility, the fear might still be real.
Yeah, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but I can't do anything about that.
I can't do anything about people's fear.
All I can do is tell you that...
And full transparency, I haven't watched it either.
I don't know if he brought up this argument, but...
Wow.
Most professional, most professional podcast.
Wait, we're doing what he wanted!
Good show.
We're not really...
Yeah, we're not only not gonna play your content on the show, we're not even gonna watch it.
We're just, we're just, we're just taking from the comments, okay?
Okay, no, this is a really good point from Joni B over on Floatplane Chat.
Realistically, if I dunk on a small channel, the backlash on me...
You're gonna look like an idiot.
Yeah, 100%.
I'm gonna look like a asshole.
And it's true.
Like, even times when we didn't even do anything, like, remember when, remember when Content
ID got enabled for the channel through our MCN?
And what happened was there were some smaller channels that were getting screen capture
of Unigine Heaven benchmark, identified by Content ID, and then their videos were getting
like claimed for monetization by us.
The immediate reaction, without anybody even asking us, even these content creators, nobody
took a second to ask, hey, is this on purpose?
Or is this a bug?
It was incredible.
It was incredible how quickly I was vilified.
And I was like, I had no idea.
And I will immediately, upon becoming aware of this, do absolutely everything in my power
to make it right.
But like, put down the pitchforks, please.
Like, there is no way with the number of times that I've been burned by even the perception
that I would do something anti-community, anti-other creators, or whatever it is, I wouldn't even
start to touch it.
And so I just, I mean, I've made mistakes.
I mean, there was that time I made the silly voice for Pokimane's take on something.
I don't even remember what it was.
It doesn't matter anymore.
Like I certainly make mistakes, but I mean, oh yeah, no, no, no, man, I can't do anything
to you.
If you're a smaller creator, you got to remember too, like you're punching up.
Like I'm a jerk if I go toe to toe with you at this point.
So anyway, Dark Viper argues that the prolific, oh, you know what, no, I haven't finished
addressing that.
So yeah, the potential for people to just feel like they're being pressured or coerced
into agreeing, that's valid.
We would have to find some way to address that.
I don't have any immediate ideas.
I mean, one thing is you could just reach out proactively with some kind of offer and
this would be tough because YouTube doesn't have a mechanism.
I mean, maybe this is something I can pitch.
That's a power I have.
I can pitch ideas to YouTube.
But maybe this is something I can pitch is like, hey, you guys already, well, no, not,
not even that.
Like I'm talking more along the lines of some kind of like a revenue share.
Like, hey, you guys already have the ability to tag a collaborating creator.
Well, what if you could just deepen that capability and you could tag a collaborating creator
for revenue share?
That'd be really interesting actually.
It might be difficult because people being in like different jurisdictions, for example,
that might not even have the same ad suitability for eligibility, right?
So it might play an ad that is not even eligible for monetization in that jurisdiction, right?
It might be annoying and they might not be willing to do it because of that, but it might
be one of those situations where just only certain zones can collaborate with other ones.
But that's like, that's, that's, that sucks, right?
That's, yeah.
That's why I said they might not make it.
Yeah.
See, that's not, that's not a creator centric approach.
I mean, I would say that even if there's some limitations, it would be better for us to
say, Hey, in, in the interest of, you know, a fair play, we really would like you to do
your best to kind of divvy it up 80, 10, 10 according to, you know, how much of the their
source content that we used.
I mean that way I think there's a, there's a very strong argument to be made that while
you should still stay well within the guidelines or pillars of fair use, at least then if you
you know, stray a little bit over the line or at least then if you have an agreement
with them, you can kind of say, well, everyone got paid.
So cool.
Um, so that, that would be, that would be one way to take care of it.
And for those of you who are, who are gonna propose that, you know, maybe we just like
issue checks or what I can tell you right now, the admin on this would absolutely destroy
it.
We basically just never react to anything and be like, no, like Yvonne's wrist would
be too tired to do much more important things if she had to sign that many checks.
Yeah.
Significantly more important things.
Um, so dark Viper argues that the proliferation of parasitic reaction content, uh, such as
certain kinds of live streaming has negatively impacted creators of original content and
has pushed more creators to also make reaction content.
I mean, yeah, I, I was, I feel like I was completely transparent with the community
last week.
I said, look, this is the lowest hanging possible fruit.
Like it, it boggles my mind.
It's it's one of those genres that I don't personally consume.
I don't personally get it.
Um, but I can't ignore the appeal.
People love it.
Like, do you know how hard Jake in particular has been a champion of react content here?
Um, whether it's, um, actually I think it was, it would, uh, Linus reacts to mean comments
was a James initiative more than Jake.
But both of them, you're even dropping fake GPUs.
I mean, this one's safe at least.
Yeah.
But both of them have pushed hard.
Like we'll have a week when we're kind of sitting there going, Oh man, we are really
going to struggle to hit quota this week.
And they're like, dude, do the easy just react.
We have had an issue for a long time.
This is completely ignoring the react content thing.
Just for a second.
It, it touches on this, but yeah, we have had an issue for a very long time of just
a rough using to take easy wins.
And if we're like, Hey, that project sounds not difficult and also highly profitable.
The answer is just like, no, we need to find the more difficult project, which has a less
likeliness.
No, it's not that it's not that I'm obviously exaggerating.
There are other reasons, but there has been some of that.
The reason is that I find it boring and I find it lazy and I don't respect it like that.
So then why are you doing a react channel?
Because we're running a business here.
I have a hundred people to support.
Yeah.
And this is the same reason why we used to argue to take the low hanging fruit.
It's the exact same argument.
I'm happy you're on our side now.
I was, to be fair, it wasn't always react content or if it was react content, this is
where we get into it.
It wasn't reacting to other people's generated video content.
It was reacting to user comments or whatever else.
Um, but yeah, I mean, it's one of the, like, sticking with what I like has been a winning
strategy for this channel for like 14 years.
And I get bored of something and I get bored of things like real quick styles.
Other people are likely getting bored of it as well.
They might not even realize they're getting bored of it yet.
And if I move on, it's like, it's classic showbiz.
Always leave them wanting more.
If I move on before you guys get a chance to go, Oh, I really wish they'd like move
on from unboxing.
You don't want to make that next season of the TV show.
If the next season of the TV show is going to be crap and everyone's going to remember
that show as ending really poorly.
Yeah.
It's class.
It's game of thrones.
Yeah.
Game of thrones right there.
Right.
As much as it sucks, you would rather firefly than game of thrones and too soon.
And the thing is that, yeah.
And the thing is that like, it's not wrong of me to trust that and say, look, I feel
like this is, I feel like this is cheap.
I feel like it cheapens the brand.
I feel like it looks low effort.
I feel like it does this.
I feel like it does that.
Um, you know what?
I've ended up being wrong in some of those cases.
No, the consumer was not savvy enough to recognize that this is low effort garbage and they want
more low effort garbage.
Okay, fine.
I'll give it to them.
Or they want to.
I mean, we figured that out with, uh, with video quality, right?
But what's critical, what's absolutely critical and what I will never back down from is that
for every upload that you do that is like low effort, like, okay, for example, um, we
uploaded a tier list for the first time or not uploaded.
We recorded a tier list video for the first time ever, um, right in the lead up to the
land show today.
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't even know what it is.
So we did, we did GPU tiers over 20 years.
Okay.
Yep.
Um, for every one of those you upload, you have to upload something original and thoughtful
and compelling or, or multiple things that are original, thoughtful and compelling exclusive
right now.
No, no.
It's going to go up on YouTube.
Oh, it's just not up here.
It's not actually understood.
Yeah.
Um, so just like ranking GPU generations.
Um, so first of all, we put way more effort into it than some people would.
Like it's not just live reactions to reasons why stuff like that.
Yeah.
We had someone working on researching it for like a few days and then I sat down and I
did a marathon like two and a half hour script review where we fact checked things and I
added some of my own things that I remembered and all that kind of stuff.
Like it's a really good video.
Um, okay, so that's not a good example.
But if we were going to do, if we were going to do some kind of low effort, low hanging
fruit content, there has to be a reason that people care about your two cents on reacting
to this or you know, unboxing that or whatever the case may be.
And so that's something that I will absolutely not be backing down on.
And if anything, we are quadrupling down on because that's a big part of what the lab
is going to do.
So when Jake and I do a silly vlog, like, you know, swapping out a couch or something,
you know, in a theater room, right?
When we also are like, Hey, and uh, we're going to change out the projector screen and
the projector because uh, the lab tested that and these are like the best bang for the buck
or they're the like, just like S tierist, uh, projector and screen or whatever else.
Uh, you're going to be able to trust that our low effort content and our, and our low
hanging fruit opinions are going to be backed by, by data, by, by due diligence.
That's what we're trying to build ourselves toward.
So we just have to be careful not to see that those view numbers and kind of go, well, this
gravy train will go forever because I've seen, and I'm not going to name any names.
I don't feel like it.
It's just not worth it, but I've seen large, very reaction focused channels that used to
do a lot of challenges or a lot of like comedy stuff and then just saw how well reactions
performed and then went to straight reactions.
I've seen them just nosedive.
Also seen them do the opposite.
Yes.
Yes, this is true, but I don't think anyone would watch beast reacts without the main
Mr Beast channel.
I just don't think they would.
Why should I care what this guy with like a weird mustache thing?
I've never watched any of it, so I have no idea.
Well it's just him, but reacting and they gamify a little bit.
They, they, they always find ways to innovate those guys.
But um, why would I watch this if I didn't know who Mr Beast was?
Well there's, there's channels that are entirely based around just reacting and they basically
have only ever been that way.
So like, yes, but it can work for some people back into the argument we had last week about
what reaction is.
Like I would argue that something like good mythical morning is heavily reaction based.
In fact, you've probably heard me make the argument, actually, I don't know if you've
ever heard me say this.
This is something I say to the new writers a lot.
Basically 80 to 90 percent of YouTube is reaction videos.
I haven't heard you say that.
I define it extremely broadly and the reason for that is that it puts them in the right
frame of mind to write a video for a YouTube viewer because a YouTube viewer is not the
same as a TV viewer.
Okay.
I think I see where you're going.
And so the reason that I would define YouTube viewers and the way that I, the reason that
I, or the reason that I would categorize YouTube viewers differently and the reason that I
would say that most YouTube videos are reactions is right in the name of the site, right?
YouTube.
That was the whole point.
The whole point was real people.
So no matter what it is, maybe it's a review.
My review of a new GPU is fundamentally a reaction video.
I am reacting to it.
You only care because you care what I think.
That's the whole point.
And only super produced, super sterile, like corporate run channels are not reactions.
So whether it's unboxing kinder surprises or whether it's, you know, uh, playing with
some toy or like whatever, whatever it is, whether it's like, you know, man, I'd say
like maybe, maybe tutorials would be a category that, that does not qualify as a reaction
video.
But I would also say that many tutorial videos are going to inherently include, they people
want that personality.
And if you aren't reacting, you're basically, you're a stiff out there.
I think this is a one word, two definitions scenario though.
Sure.
Cause you're using the word correctly, but you're not using the word correctly in the
way that modern content creators are using the word.
That's I, and I think they're both using it just like in different ways.
Sure.
Um, but yeah, that makes sense.
That's an interesting way to frame it.
Yeah.
So, I mean, yeah, dark vipers point that, uh, the proliferation of react content has
pushed more creators to also make it.
Yeah, sure.
No doubt.
Um, dark viper calls for Linus and other creators considering reaction channels to not only
find a way to limit harm, but also to, but to always create something new and transform
it.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Yes.
So way ahead of you.
Definitely.
Because I feel like at some point if all you do is just create derivative works, it hurts
the brand.
Right.
You won't be seen as an innovator.
Um, I, I think, I think that one of the reasons that people seem to feel like I have this
outsized impact on the platform or on other creators is because we have gone out of our
way to do things our own way for better or for worse.
We've reinvented a lot of wheels, which sometimes people have copied and whatnot.
Yeah.
Which some, and which sometimes have crashed and burned and thankfully nobody copied.
Yeah.
Right.
So I feel like, uh, we do have a reputation for doing our own thing, which is, which is
good.
And no, this is not, uh, this is not going to harm that, um, nerds up in Canada.
Yeah.
Dark Viper further argues that LMG did not make this decision to highlight small creators.
It's a business decision, potentially very profitable.
And I mean, I was transparent about that as well, so I don't really know what the point
of bringing that up is.
Yes.
I mean, it was a business decision.
Again, very clear.
You didn't watch the video and neither did I.
You might not say it that way.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
Fair enough.
But like, yes.
Um, yes.
Correct.
Yep.
Um, however, however, in order to make ethical reaction videos, we did talk about the necessity
of highlighting smaller creators and there have been video concepts that have been pitched
internally that have existed solely for that reason.
Uh, one that we've started a couple of times and then just, we've gotten busy or like the
writers gotten bogged down or assigned to something else or whatever else.
So it's not on purpose that we never completed it, but one was like a, like a small creator
showcase one.
I think James got as far as, um, like getting like 20 on a list and then he wanted to pair
it down to like six or something like that and then wanted to like really watch a lot
of the content so we could highlight some of the like really great things they did.
And so I think it was one of those ones where he just got a little too ambitious and it
didn't make it across the finish line.
But um, I mean, it is something that we do consider even if, no, you're right.
It wasn't the, the primary motivation for creating a reacts channel.
Um, JP note, Oh, okay.
This is the, uh, the writer.
Uh, part of the problem is that the term reaction content has an extremely broad usage and can
include everything from highly creative content like good mythical morning to zero effort
reposts where some jerk with a green screen stares into space in the corner.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fair enough.
Jaden in full plain chat said, I think you need to be more clear what you're doing.
Eric Viper's point is that with live streamer reaction reactors, it's nearly impossible
to have fair use since they haven't already seen the content and can't guarantee there
will be substantial content added or that, uh, only what's needed is included.
As far as my understanding, it's not a live streaming thing though.
Right?
No.
Yeah.
So I don't, yeah, no, no.
I mean, I think it's a fair point though.
And so yeah, I should clarify that it would be, it would be edited and the goal would
be to make it a highly entertaining standalone piece of content.
Like don't expect us to just start reacting to, I don't know, stuff that's outside of
our realm, but like, uh, you know, reacting to sports fails like, like why?
Our goal isn't to just go full variety, just broad spectrum, just shotgun approach to our
content creation.
Uh, the idea would be to find content that would be well within our wheelhouse to, to,
to discuss and comment on the whole mineral oil PC thing was like my thing for a long
time.
Yeah.
Um, and a group that has kind of carried that torch a little bit more has been toasty bros.
Nice.
Um, they have, let's see, do they have like a top videos thing?
No, they don't do that.
I know they've had, um, yeah, I mean if you go to their homepage and you go to custom,
you scroll down and see custom builds first mineral PC running windows 10 and filling
it up 4 million views from eight years ago, AMD FX 95 90 and RX four 68 core mineral
PC.
World's first mineral PC with windows 11 rise in mineral PC and filling it up.
They do mineral PC stuff.
I think reacting to some of that could be cool and can maybe boost them, but I would
only want to do that if they also thought that would be cool and that it might boost
them.
Um, so yeah, I don't know.
Well, I've been waiting for LTT sports reacts.
No, no, you haven't.
Luke reacts to Conrad's God tier dota gameplay.
I would actually, I would, I would do that.
No, that won't be necessary.
I would commentate.
Yeah, that maybe doesn't go on the channel, but I would, uh, our discussions question
here.
Uh, we've got two.
So one is that there's clearly a strong demand for reaction style content.
Is there value in providing the best possible version of that content?
So obviously I think so.
Otherwise I wouldn't do it, but I mean, you have no horse in this race.
Uh, I don't think you should just do whatever there's a strong demand for.
And I think you would make that same argument.
Um, and best possible version, if that best possible version is still trash, I don't think
it should be made.
Um, I think there's a lot of ethical questions, but if those can be overcome, that there is
potential for good.
I do think that's definitely a thing.
I have no idea what toasty bro's opinion of what I said earlier is, but if they thought
that was good, I think that would be a good example.
Um, I would somewhat struggle to see you finding enough of those scenarios every week, but
maybe you could, I don't know.
Well, I'm not saying it's not going to happen.
I just think it might be hard.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, as much as I do, creators are a little rough with communication from
time to time, um, myself included.
So like you might reach out a bunch and just not hear back, or you're going to hear back
in two months or you're going to hear back immediately, but then not get the confirmation
on the next thing for two weeks or whatever else.
So like, yeah, it'd be like that.
You're putting yourself at a lot of risk of, of communication woes, completely screwing
your production pipeline.
Um, and then that putting pressure on the team whose goals potentially and whatnot for
quarters or however it works, um, is based around getting enough videos out in that section
and then completely outside of their control.
Not necessarily cause they could shoot more broad spectrum.
They could hit up more people.
Yeah.
And we can react to our own stuff too.
Wow.
There's an ethical reaction channel.
Yeah.
I mean, he reacts to LTT, but you only react to your own things.
Oh man.
I came across the funniest video.
You could do like LMG members react to Linus talking, announcing news on the WAN show that
they've never heard of before.
We have probably, I have probably personally made more tech videos that I completely forget
than most other channels have ever uploaded.
Yeah.
Like for real though.
Um, we uploaded a video and this, this is hilarious.
I came across this today because, uh, as we were working on the tier list video, I was
like, yeah, hold on, what, what, what, what, what were the circumstances around the launch
of the GTX Titan?
So I was, I was looking at, was Luke in any of those videos cause I wanted to find one
that we were both in.
Yeah.
See, I couldn't remember yet.
I don't know.
I couldn't remember either.
So I went back and I was looking at our GTX Titan videos and we had one called early GTX
Titan benchmarks.
You click on the video.
It's about a minute long.
And basically before the NDA, I take the card and I've got it on the bench.
I'm like, yeah, here's our test bench.
I remember that we uploaded that.
I pulled the card off.
I'm like, okay, so what's really important when you're benchmarking is you get it correctly
positioned on the bench.
I pull out a fucking chalk.
I draw a line around it and I'm like, there, we marked the bench.
There's your early benchmarks.
No, but seriously, we're going to have lots of content coming on this card.
See you later.
I distinctly remember that being made, but I'm stunned that we actually released that.
That wasn't on April 1st or anything.
Was it?
Oh no.
February 2nd.
Wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, absolute, absolute move.
Like I don't, I don't know how.
That's rough.
I thought I could get away with stuff like that.
People weren't even mad.
People are so serious now.
I was going to say the space was very different.
Okay.
Tell me something.
Did they change or did I change?
I think a little bit of both.
The content's a lot more serious these days.
Like the, especially like content quality.
Think about the stuff we were releasing back then.
I mean, yeah.
I was taking a GPU and putting it on a bench and drawing a line around it.
Like that was a video apparently.
Yeah.
That's ridiculous.
If you, if you release that now, I think there'd be uproar because the average quality is so
much higher.
I don't know.
There's a, yeah.
Cause that wasn't that much longer than unboxing motherboards in a parking lot.
Yeah.
That would have only been what, like three years?
Yeah.
Something like that.
Three, four years later.
Yeah.
Speaking of that era, do you remember the video we did?
Intern search?
When we were...
The Jenga thing?
No, no, no, no.
That was, that was actually like hiring for a position.
This was before we actually had any money and we were like, I don't know, are like unpaid
interns a thing?
We were like...
Is this when we looked for Ed?
No, no, no, no.
This is, this Ed was there.
So remember, where's my C-clamp?
You don't remember this at all?
I, I'm getting some...
I'm in the backyard in my boxers?
This was in the garage.
Hold on.
All right.
Let's just bring it up.
Let's just bring it up.
All right.
We're reacting to our own content.
This I'm totally okay with.
I think there are no ethical problems with reacting to our own content at all.
All right.
Here we go.
Minus his laptop.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Look at this guy.
For some reason I remember this frame.
Yeah.
I was going for like a super, super...
Can they, can they hear this?
No I don't think so.
Oh, I'm muted.
Hold on.
There's your problem.
No ethical problems.
No, they should be able to hear it.
All right.
Hopefully it's not too loud.
Minus his laptop.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Look at this guy.
For some reason I remember this frame.
Yeah.
It zooms out in your ear boxers.
I was going for like a super, super...
Oh boy.
The garage.
I heard a f***ing C-clap in there.
I f***ing told you.
I didn't move it.
I was mentioning Far Cry, I think, or Crisis, maybe.
That makes, that makes sense.
We also maintain a level of professional...
Any who, um, fun fact, do you remember the person...
I remember the video now.
No, do you remember the person who like came in twice to basically like hang out with us?
I do.
Didn't really do any work, uh, which is fine because yeah, that's unpaid interns are not
legal.
Um, and we'd never even attempted to do anything like that again.
We didn't really know that.
Look, we were very desperate.
It was a desperate time.
Um, that person finished their education.
Oh, you had the stream audio playing.
Oh, oh, sorry guys.
My bad.
You can look it up.
Uh, yeah, that, that person finished their education and is currently, um, interviewing
for an engineering position for Creator Warehouse.
What?
That's actually super cool.
Yeah, I was working from home yesterday cause we were shooting at the, at the house for,
um, uh, AMD 30 day challenge and then I was doing something else there as well.
I can't remember.
Um, I remember he came in with a custom keyboard and he had the dust cover.
Yeah.
So he was in interviewing the day that I was shooting the AMD GPU challenge.
I was like, and so Nick messaged me, he's like, yeah, this guy didn't say anything about
it until he came in for the interview.
But like, do you remember someone by the name of like, yeah, like, oh, well he's interviewing
him for an interview right now.
Do you want to come say hi?
I'm like, oh, I wish I was there.
I would totally come say hi.
That's wild.
I can tell him how useless he was, but how fine that was cause we didn't pay him.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Amazing.
That's funny.
Amazing.
Um, so that's cool.
Uh, why don't we move on?
Oh, why don't we do our, let's do our new segment.
Yeah.
So our new segment is called original sauce.
This is cool.
Yeah.
I like this.
And basically it's just going to be, um, finding something that's a development in the tech
world.
Like we have people reach out to us all the time going, uh, here's something that's happening
or here's someone we think you might like to talk to you.
Do you want to have this person on the podcast?
You want to make a video about this?
And you know what?
The answer is usually no because they have the personality of, um, untoasted toast.
That's just bread or it's not really interesting enough for like a full video channel release
because we can't just upload BS anymore the way that we apparently used to.
So original sauce is going to be how we're going to tackle this stuff where we kind of
go, okay, yeah, we can definitely set aside the time to have an off the air phone call,
figure out if this is worth talking about and then compile some notes and let the community
know about it.
And once in a blue moon, it's enough that we ended up making a dedicated video, but
probably not, but probably not.
So we're going to the original sauce.
And in this case, what we're going to be talking about is case labs coming back from the dead.
So this was all compiled by the new WAN show writer who interviewed the new owner of case
labs, Emmiel Richterstedt, any who, uh, the new owner of the case labs IP.
So case labs was first founded in 1971 and shut down in 2018, citing high us tariffs
on the import of aluminum, a primary component of their builds, uh, which had, uh, gone up
in price by like 80% or something like that.
So they said their prices were just, uh, not going to be realistic.
They weren't going to be able to compete.
Um, Emmiel is a long time PC and gaming enthusiast who's been building his own PCs for over 20
years, and until 2021 he was the owner and founder of a consulting company that assisted
Swedish researchers in collecting data.
In 2017, Emmiel bought a case labs case for one of his builds, a case he loved so much
that when the company collapsed in 2018, he reached out to Jim Keating, the former CEO
to discuss acquiring it, a process that was delayed by legal wrangling and the pandemic.
So this is according to Emmiel, um, his approach to reviving the brand is cautiously optimistic.
Uh, heavy on the caution, uh, based on the finances of the former case labs, he believes
that the company was on a consistent upward trajectory with strong fundamentals, but the
basic combination of high overhead and an excessively niche market meant that it could
not survive the macroeconomic conditions that it faced in 2018.
So his hope is they'll be able to restart case labs as a boutique, uh, custom case producer,
but also expand into more general broad appeal products to give them a foundation of revenue
while maintaining quality.
The team is currently small and I would say that this is now me talking, I would say this
is going to be a big challenge because case labs is advantage was, um, expertise when
it came to small run, uh, metal fabrication.
It's unclear to me exactly what expertise Emmiel and his team are bringing, uh, but
it might not have started with that given Emmiel's, um, uh, previous employment, but
okay.
And I mean, and because they're not, they're not doing the fabrication.
Yeah.
So the team is currently small and this was one thing that I had actually asked the writer
to check in about because I had to have a case labs case that I like very much and was
sad to discover that I can no longer get replacement parts for and apparently that's their plan
to start with is to focus on replacements and parts, ideally by the end of this financial
quarter.
That seems aggressive.
Um, they're going to start with high demand items and then expand once consistent sales
are established, launch a survey in order to collect more data.
So if you're a case labs case owner, now might be a good time to get in touch and say, Hey,
I could really use more drive sleds or something along those lines.
They eventually wish to create and design cases and bring fabrication in house.
Um, and the current plan is to partner with an existing manufacturer in Sweden so as to
keep overhead low.
Ooh, that's questionable.
I don't know that low overhead and Sweden necessarily go together very well.
Well, I think in this case because it's a local, I guess so.
Um, but they also want to maintain a close eye on quality testing.
I admire the, I admire the, the will, you know, I admire the spirit here.
I think that, you know, resurrecting a beloved brand like case labs for those not familiar,
uh, they made highly customizable, very enthusiast, friendly enclosures.
I think that trying to resurrect a brand like that is really cool.
Um, but I do question a little bit the, um, I do think it's going to be extremely challenging.
I mean, there's apparently still enough demand for these, the style of case that mountain
mods still exists.
This is, this is surprising to me.
Uh, super cool folks over here from what I can remember.
It's been a long time and who knows, maybe, you know, Ben's not there anymore, but um,
you know, who knows?
Maybe, maybe they are.
Uh, but these guys make kind of a, a similar style of cube case.
I don't know who was the original in this style, but man, one of my, one of my favorite
builds I ever did was in the H2GO.
Uh, this is, was it, I think it was MATX, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It can do full ATX, but I did an MATX build so that I'd have more room for like a cool
reservoir beside it or something like that.
Yeah, these guys, these guys did some cool stuff back in the day.
Uh, but I just don't know, you know, unless case labs sort of reinvents themselves and
looks at different form factors or different styles of cases.
I don't know that they are going to be able to achieve the kind of volume that would give
them the growth that they might need to jumpstart this budding company.
I hope they have a lot of runway.
And if they don't, um, or rather, and if they do diversify, then I do wonder if they're
going to be left with what made them case labs, like if they're going to be left with
an identity, um, hopefully it works out.
I liked case labs.
I thought they were super cool.
It's, it's intriguing that they're bad, but I don't know if any of the original people
are there at all.
No, it doesn't sound like it.
Yeah.
So in that case, it's a brand name with some IP and not the people in case labs was a very
people driven company because you have to be when you're small and doing boutique things.
So it's a tough situation.
Hopefully it goes well.
Yeah.
Cyborg cats asks, uh, this is over on float plane chat.
I wonder if LMG would or has ever considered designing their own cases or even pre-builds,
um, cases.
Yeah, sure.
We've talked about it.
Uh, I remember I basically designed what would turn into a pretty common small form factor
form fact, small, uh, small form factor case layout later with, um, uh, my bud Nate at,
uh, who was at cooler master at the time, I kind of sat there and looked at one of their
designs and I was like, yeah, but it would be better if it was like this and this and
this, and then it could be like almost the size of a PlayStation four.
And then we ended up seeing a bunch of cases that were like that.
And then one of the other things I was really passionate about was the idea of building
gaming cases that are designed for rack Mount.
And then, um, Oh crap.
What's the company that does a really, really good job of those.
Uh, now I don't remember, but you worked with them for a bit, didn't you?
They sent over a Sliger, uh, wait, yes, yeah, Sliger, Sliger exists and they seem to be
doing a great job of those style of case.
So for me, I would have to find something that nobody else is doing that I feel like
the market needs.
And it's just never really happened, at least not at the right time with us, having the
right resources in order to bring something like that to life as for pre-built.
I mean, I raised all of my concerns about the pre-built PC business when we reviewed
the star forge system that we did a little while back.
I'll never say never, but it's a tough business, very tough business.
Speaking of cases, let's talk about the challenge updates.
Yeah, sure.
Should we start with arc?
You really want to?
Oh yeah, sure.
I've got some things to say.
That's why I really want to talk about it.
I've got one thing to say, uh, I would like to apologize to everyone for my unprofessionalism
in the arc part three video part two and a half, whatever it was, uh, no, no, not that
at all.
I didn't realize that I do this, but I was apparently mouthing along to the script while
you were talking.
So we tried a really different format for that video.
I had no idea.
Yeah.
A prime messaged me.
He's like, yo, can you not do that?
I had no idea.
It's kind of, it's like feeding a baby.
These are the words, please say them.
Totally subconscious.
But we took a bit of a different approach to that video because what I wanted was for
it to have kind of a conversational format, but I also wanted it to have the structure
of, of a hosted, written, delivered videos so that it would be nice and tight and to
the point.
Want it to be genuine and conversational, but not wan show.
Yes, but have a bit of like a wan show vibe and, and people picked it up.
But one of the side effects was that, yes, it was nearly fully scripted.
We ad libbed a little bit just to kind of keep the energy up so that it wasn't just
taking turns.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Reading.
That was, that was your line.
But anyway, if I'd mouthed it, maybe I was going to say, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I was actually, I was really, I was really proud of it.
Like with notes from Luke, I wrote the vast majority of it for both of our parts trying
to kind of, you know, get his voice and also make sure that I was including all of his
points but, but keeping the structure of the video as tight as a fully scripted video.
But I screwed up, I'm sitting there reading the script along with you, but I'm supposed
to be just, you know, supposedly listening to new words I've never seen or heard of before
that are coming out of you and paying attention.
Anywho, what had you wanted to say about it?
Oh, you are doing it.
I don't think I would have noticed if no one mentioned it and I bet you that's going to
be true for a bunch of people.
So now like tons of people are going to watch this and just see you, cause it's not like,
you're not like fully enunciating, but it is moving a little bit.
Here, you want to just show the people.
Sure.
Let's see.
You can see it.
It's minor, but you can see it.
You want to go full screen?
One sec.
I think I got to go back.
Wait, wait, wait.
There you can see it.
It's minor.
It's minor, but he's doing it right after this.
If I remember correctly.
Yeah.
Right here.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Okay.
One second.
I got to go back.
Yeah.
Go back.
Go back.
It's really, it's really minor.
That's funny.
The worst thing ever.
A bunch of people in chat.
Yeah.
I can confirm.
Didn't see it initially.
Yeah.
I think most people wouldn't have noticed.
I want this to be very clear.
Just because something is scripted doesn't mean it's not our genuine thoughts.
I took all the notes that Luke provided me.
I took all of my notes.
It's just a way to, and this is something you've definitely heard me talk about.
Even if not the every YouTube video is a reaction video talk.
I give a lot of talks during script reviews and meetings with the writers, but you've
definitely heard me give the don't waste the audience's time talk.
Like density, density, density, density.
We were going to script it.
It should have been scripted, but we were just trying to, as a conclusion video to something
like this, it makes sense for it to be more conversational, but it also needed to be scripted.
And so what I thought about was just having like headers and then points that we wanted
to make sure we hit, but that wouldn't have achieved the density that I want to turn into
something that's way too long.
Cause you don't know when to end it.
Well, I do.
It had to be scripted.
Yeah.
I can, there's certain things there's certain.
If you're not the reason when she was three and a half hours.
If you want proof of this goat, you're going to have to dig.
But go back and find the Oculus gets bought out by Facebook when show, I think, I think
I talked about that for literally like an hour.
I mean, you ended up being right about basically everything, which was kind of, which is neat,
sad, but well, yeah, I got so much flack too.
People hated me for it because they're like, no, they said this wasn't going to happen.
I'm like, yeah, sure.
Whatever.
This is like common Luke W how things go.
I've been calling AI stuff very accurate.
I know.
Right.
Like very accurate.
Yeah.
Like even when I'm like, I don't know, I'm probably wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's going
to go exactly this way.
And then it totally does open AI announcing the GPT chat premium was like, Whoa.
Like the day after he's like, yeah, it'll be like that.
Or I really hope it's like that on land.
Shall we?
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
You got it.
You know, what's up.
So is there anything else to say about the arc?
Nope.
Nope.
Yep.
No, I mean, it, I kind of, I mean, that's the point of scripting it is that I was able
to sit there for four hours, take everything and put it into a nice little pack.
The most interesting thing to me was that we both had the reaction that after week,
like two or three, we just sort of forgot about it, but yeah, that was, that was very
interesting to me, but yeah.
Okay.
New one.
radion challenge my computer was fully bricked after swapping but not because
of AMD maybe hmm I believe that my BIOS was corrupted oh and it took a total of
between Jake and me probably about three and a half hours of troubleshooting to
get my system back to a bootable state and there were some compromises oh wow
were you were you planning to top that uh maybe oh no okay so there's gonna be
some spoilers here guys if you don't like spoilers but realistically you're
watching one show you love spoilers we do have the AMD radion challenge coming
yeah we I Luke and we added Jake this time all upgraded to the radion 7900 xtx
which actually I think for all of us is a substantial performance upgrade
massive upgrade I mean I went from a 30 90 which is a pretty darn good card but
I'll tell you playing halo infinite mm-hmm it's fast I think I'll feel she's
fat quite a bit cuz I went from Titan RTX which is still cooking to good car
totally solid but you know I'm not maxing the capability of my monitor in
every game that I'm playing no you're not yeah yeah so first thing you open
the box and just whoa this thing is enormous I've never had a card that I
was putting in my own system that came with a stand I he didn't get a reference
card by the way oh you got a reference card well someone ended up with a
reference card oh okay sounds good it didn't fit it's not in my system oh it
doesn't fit cool so someone had the infinite wisdom to like force me to
upgrade to water cooling because he knows that I don't like it so he gave me
a water cooling required motherboard oh yeah I remember that was cool that's a
good motherboard it is yeah that as rock x570 aqua I came up with a joke before
the show and I wasn't sure if I was gonna say it or not but I think I'm
gonna I think I'm gonna say it but my joke was it's like giving Greta
Thunberg of Bugatti okay sorry so yeah it didn't fit and the reason why it
doesn't fit is because the reservoir is sitting right there yeah and the case is
pretty small so there's like not really another no place to put the resume nice
so I like actually don't know what to do I'll figure something out I'm gonna
figure it out this weekend yeah like I don't know so wait you you you are not
gaming on it no yet ah it's not in there all right I got it I have to redo the
whole water cooling loop nice or something or an air-cooled card yeah
nice yeah nice so like nice I don't know cuz like oh man we used one pre-existing
hole and then we drilled another hole for mounting the reservoir yeah so
there's potential that I just crank it to the roof and the reservoir like
touches the top of the case cool and maybe it clears that way but then
there's a tubing run that's like really tight that goes right across there the
best part is the GPU is not a gift so he has to go back to his rtx Titan after so
it's not like he can just you don't take it out of the loop yeah it's pretty
funny it's terrible yeah you see I riser and
prop the card upside the case outside the case that's horrible spoiler alert
you might see some other solutions kind of like that
oh my goodness I would really love to not redo my water cooling loop so if I
can find any other solution I'm pretty much down nice yeah why don't we talk
about C now actually why don't we talk real quick about what merch messages are
those of you who are new to the show will be seeing these little merch merch
messages down here people with their little messages popping up or there's
probably some that are curated already maybe we'll do a couple of the curated
ones Dan our producer can read those out for us up Dan we can't turn his camera
on today because he's not wearing ltt store calm merchandise look what is this
a knock to a hoodie but no yeah well I mean I'm sure it's one of those I'm
sure it's a quality hoodie but geez man you gotta rep them it's not as nice as
the LTT hoodies don't lie I know it's really nice anyway the point is if you
want to get our producer Dan to check out your question maybe curate it for us
to address on the show or if you just want to see it slide on into our lower
third here the way to do it is to go into ltt store calm and you can pick up
a gift card you can pick up some comfy underwear hoodies we got all kinds of
great stuff over there and then in the checkout you'll see a little field mark
merch messages and you can put your message in and it'll go into our little
processing queue here the reason that we do it this way is that compared to
super chats on YouTube we are more likely to actually see them so if you
head over here okay nobody's actually sent any or maybe they have who knows
because oh yeah okay oh it didn't show up here but oh okay sure why not
apparently that's how this works now you know what oh it did manage to populate
the old ones maybe YouTube finally something yeah either way if you really
want to throw money at super chats you absolutely can but YouTube takes a big
chunk of that instead of it all going to creators and effectively you because
with merch messages we are still getting a significant cut of what you send but
you are essentially taking the rest which is the value of the product and
getting it back to yourself in the form of something that you can enjoy if you
really want to throw money at the screen you can just buy a gift card and then
never use it on ltt store calm not that I would recommend that I don't think you
should just throw money away which is why we do merch messages instead of
super chats and I've had a lot of people ask me okay Linus mr. merch messages are
better than twitch bits or super chats why do you leave super chats on then
well people really want to throw money at the screen like what I'm gonna stop
them there's no obligation that we're gonna respond yeah I could tell them not
to I can tell them I'm not gonna look at it but like and we we chose it to other
chat users as well yeah exactly that's their reason then go ahead yeah so they
really want to do it then like cool but yeah you should you should do merch
messages there it's a it's a better option yep cool why don't we do a couple
Dan hit me okay this one's from Michael the first annual chiplet summit
concluded this week and I'd like to know do you believe chiplets will be the
future of computers or is it just a patch until better technologies can
continue the trend of die aggregation future future I think you mean the
present yeah yeah chiplets are are well and truly arrived at this point I mean
man I saw some I saw some new like research paper stuff coming out around
like two two-dimensional something or other some some new kind of transistor
I'm like oh about Moore's laws coming back and like I don't know yeah man sure
if that if that plays out then then great I'm sure that manufacturers would
rather create monolithic dies rather than work on these super complicated
interconnects that are necessitated by chiplet designs but that has that's not
commercially ready yet and even if the researchers think it is there's a huge
gulf between researchers thinking something is commercially ready I mean
how many times have we have we seen researchers talking about how how soon
solid-state batteries are coming or graphene or you know whatever else it is
and then real actual manufacturers of products going like you guys have not
considered many of these things that are real problems in the real world so yeah
I think that I think that chip manufacturers would rather create
monolithic dies but if that's not an option then yeah we're just going to
have to we're just gonna have to rely on these on these high-speed interconnects
that are getting pretty sophisticated working very well yeah yeah so I'm
excited for more 3d stacking obviously but I don't think that 3d stacking is
going to deliver even though it'll help with density I don't think it's going to
deliver the kinds of cost advantages that consumers have enjoyed for the last
23 well 40 years basically as long as as microprocessors have been have have
existed because it's it's just not as cost effective as just as shrinking the
distance between the transistors so I yeah I think I think chiplets because
they help improve yields because they help optimize cost like we saw this
recently on radion 7000 series where I'm gonna get the names wrong because it's
the kind of thing that I look at in script review verify read out in the
video and then I don't need to think about anymore but I think it's the cache
and memory die that is on six nanometer and then it's the compute die that is
five nanometer TSMC or whatever it is because what they found was that TSMC is
five nanometer process doesn't really shrink cash and memory very much so they
were able to save some money which I mean kind of made its way to the end
product I mean it's relatively affordable compared to invidious
products so it's it's now it's the now and barring some kind of miraculous
innovation it's it's the future too it's been the now for a bit too yeah yeah I
mean AMD really led the way in terms of proving that chiplets could be
competitive with monolithic solutions
next yo Dan sup oh sorry one more money maybe two more
merch messages let's get yeah we'll do more towards the end of the show guys
it ends up being kind of Q&A people give us people kind of TS up topics to talk
about and stuff like that okay this is a YouTube focused one this is from Adam
hey Linus I'm a truck driver and download basically all my YouTube
content with premium does my view time count to YouTube analytics hundred
percent so does with one download you get a 100% watched I believe oh shoot I
have I have heard that discussed I don't remember the answer I don't think so
don't quote me on it if you like averages yeah it doesn't do that no it
either is like Netflix where you come back online and it updates your viewers
to your your view stats right or it's a hundred percent I can't remember which
premium download does that like download to device and you have to use the app to
watch it correct so it probably does that it probably pays attention to how
you actually watch that would be very logical but yeah there's there's there's
a lot of confusion among viewers about you know how premium actually
contributes to creators it's it's hugely beneficial to creators by the way and
this is even coming from someone who has their own video platform where they
would rather you go subscribe flip link calm premium is great for creators and
great for the sustainability of the platform overall because well it's a lot
more money than you can generate with an ad with an ad supported view I can tell
you that much and that even ignores the impact of of ad blocking for example
even if absolutely nobody was using ad blocking on YouTube paid subscribers at
the rates that premium charges even even not in the the highest like the highest
YouTube premium cost countries is so much so much more than ads apparently
spiffing Brit said that you get 100% wash time that sounds like the kind of
thing spiffing Brit would look into so that may not be true forever though so I
don't know maybe it might have been true for the like account that he used or
maybe he did watch it locally or something who knows I don't know I don't
know but the point is that the way that the watch time gets calculated is
generally smarter than I think people give YouTube credit for for example if
you watch it 2x speed that it fully counts it doesn't count as half the time
yeah yeah so it's it's by how much of that video timeline you consumed okay
one more and then move on yeah oh oh we didn't even talk about well you know
cool new stuff on LTT store that people could like get with the things so we've
got new patterns for our for our boxers and oh we covered it we've got a new
product the GPU plushie is here you've seen the CPU plushie now we've got the
GPU plushie here I mean there's no point showing the product page when we can
just show what it looks like that's right there's your IO there's your
backside show us your backside Luke show us your backside again oh beautiful oh
love it got it and there's some fans I think got some fans on there oh yeah
there's the fans basically it's just a cute little decorative plushie yeah
don't overthink it all right one more merch message then we'll move on to our
next topic yeah we'll get there we'll get there one more merch message okay
this is from Liz hi Linus and Luke I got a promotion at work oh it's a
completely new department though tips on what you would be looking for in a new
team member without much experience I doesn't sound like a good promotion Wow
are you sure you didn't just get like look thrown to the wolves yeah this is
interesting you know what's really how much experience you know what's really
funny this really depends on the role go for it does this remind you of anything
that ever happened are we going there are we wait for what like the recent
thing no I don't I feel like this is after me multiple times are you sure
that you weren't just like impossible to deal with in your current position still
valid mine and mine and Luke's relationship has been often complicated
by my role as his boss on the one hand I think we're friends you know it yeah
like like really though but on the other hand at one point in time I was his
friend his landlord his employer and I think there was technically like one
other thing all at once yeah left no no hold on sorry no anyway so our
relationship has at times been really complicated yeah so I mean I mean if he
fires me he doesn't get rent squatting in his house right so anywho there there
was there was a period where our work relationship was pretty challenging and
Luke got a promotion promotion you know why don't I let you talk about it it was
it was difficult on both sides I was a bit of a shithead and there was also
some other things going on I'm not gonna put all of the blame on me I think a lot
of it can go there though I own some yeah hundred percent yeah the things
happen I had a lot going on too and then and then I started doing full plane and
it came with a big bet a better title so it was a promotion in that sense not
really oh that's right you had that title at Linus media group that
probably didn't I mean to be yeah to be fair it was kind of fake and then it was
kind of real so that's that's better yeah
because title was an improvement yeah so are you sure wasn't that I think it
depends a lot so they say any tips on what you do for a new team member
without much experience you said promotion so are you joining as a team
member are you know eating this no they're leading a completely new
department I think it's basically what yeah so Luke went from being part of
video production at Linus media group to being the leader of float plane yeah
yeah and sick now though you know what yeah yeah I was gonna say that what's
cool is that it actually like super worked this was it was I think I in I
think I softened it a lot I think probably you have a different memory of
how certain things went at that time than are like actually real and I have
receipts for a lot of it did I say mom's spaghetti what cuz I'm pretty sure I
said mom's spaghetti at some point probably one shot one opportunity oh
yeah definitely okay so then I was pretty upfront then I guess yeah about
what this was like okay build something yeah fucking did it just so there you
go I think honestly the role change did
actually solve a lot of the problems that like I was having with things I
wasn't sure me neither like this is worth biting yeah I'm really happy with
with the team that we have that's the main thing I'm happy with yeah float
plane like existing and working seems like a fever dream like the fact that
that even happened at all is like kind of wild and then we do tons of other
stuff at this point now yeah that's like very impactful business on Yvonne
umbrella corporation like I just talked to someone from the inventory team about
like how cool the inventory system is yeah I'm gonna say their names one of
them I'm a hundred percent certain I can say the other one I'm 98 but I think
it's okay Peter and Tyler do a lot of the work on the inventory system and
they launched something recently that was like super cool like we we do a
bunch of infrastructure stuff not just in flow plane under the umbrella
includes the labs web development team who are killing it under the umbrella
includes Conrad one Conrad he's killing it like yeah AJ said going on almost six
years now yeah we've been going for a long time the team's actually like big
for a project that so many people called doomed and continue to call a failure
it's going pretty strong so yeah the checks like they clear right like that
six years later still still still toiling away at this failure of a
project yeah yeah I don't know it is what it is it worked out if you're
leading it yeah I mean so then fine you you did it maybe there maybe they're
being prone to the wolves it's a sink or swim moment which is part of the name of
float plane yeah maybe okay what did you how did you build the team I don't know
dude find an AJ and a Yuki as fast as you can if they're not named that you're
doomed I'm kidding no it sounds like the team might already exist if that's the
case there's going to be a lot of eyes on you and I think you specifically said
without much experience it sounds like that might mean that you're lacking
confidence here try to step into the situation without the lacking confidence
but try to step into the situation with humility at the same time ask the team
what they need what type of things they think you should move forward on and
educate yourself very rapidly you've been very kind about it I totally
misread it yeah so they're joining a completely new department and they want
to be a junior member yeah they want to be what that department is looking for
enthusiasm yes ask lots of questions and don't be afraid to ask questions but
take notes this might be don't ask the same question again counter current
culture but you might want to put some work in outside of ours to like
familiarize I know I know I know but they're they're asking for for tips and
if if you're looking to if you're looking to impress a new department yeah
be growing and be growing rapidly and if you can do that within hours great like
I'm not you don't have to do this but if you're feeling the burn when it's
outside of work you might be able to make your day better by just prepping a
little bit more the whole without much experience thing I keep coming back to
that don't try too hard be yourself I hate that device you gave me a hard time
about dunking on float plane subscribers okay I'll explain why the J Citron we
approve we we like you still you're still yes yes and and the be yourself
part absolutely yeah I'm not I'm not telling you to be any different but
socially but you don't try too hard think yeah don't push yourself to the
point where you're exhausting yourself too much no I think you misread this did
I yeah I think it's like don't try too hard like be yourself like you're like
don't laugh too hard you know oh yeah okay yeah then unless you're awful then
be someone else what I I'm specifically talking about effort level sure don't I
wouldn't try too hard to necessarily fit like I wouldn't focus too much on being
able to sit around the lunch table yeah without it being awkward I would focus
hard on being a valuable member of the team yeah for sure because if you're a
valuable member of the team you want to talk to apparently you were right they
said that cycle if you're a valuable member of the team it's not even one
right even if you don't socially fit in super well people don't like that you'll
still be respected even if you're not like people's BFF right and usually if
you're respected because you're a valuable member of the team that'll just
kind of happen with time k-chirp this is this is pretty good this is a pretty
good way of kind of summarizing I think what you did a good job of oculus thing
about there no great boss ever asks his team to consistently put in work after
hours but they sure do notice it yes that's a really that's a really good way
so a short-term burst at the beginning to get yourself maybe not up to speed
but at least closer show show some effort is never a bad idea like I was
really impressed when you don't want to be doing this long-term James who didn't
have a ton of technology coming in here compared to some of the other writers
that we hired Anthony Alex Jake at that time right like these are highly
technical people who just like did tech things for fun for laws right so James
coming in I was really impressed when he asked for funding to buy this like
textbook about display technology and I was like it was like 200 or $300 or
something like that I was like okay I'm not buying this we're not gonna read it
but if you're actually gonna read it and he did then yeah sure yeah like of
course he's like yeah I and he's like yeah I read the whole thing on my own
time like because the reality of it is that what you do during work time is
work but what you do outside of work time you could almost think of as like
qualifications yeah like you wouldn't have been you were kind of hired based
on having a go-getter kind of attitude so yeah I mean by all means yeah I
didn't ask him to and you don't you don't want to do this long-term no it's
not sustainable you're gonna burn out really hard you gotta have a life it's
gonna be bad for you and it's gonna be bad for your employer to a certain
degree because if when you're burnt out and you're showing up to work it's this
is a line I know you've heard you're no good to me dead yeah if I see someone
going too hard that's that's what I always default to like hey yeah look
you're no good to me dead like yeah you're like you're a warm body but
you're not here right yeah you're better showing up and doing the work then
showing up and doing the work too hard and then burning out and disappearing
and doing that cycle a bunch of times so put in put in a little bit of extra
effort at the beginning to get a little bit of a boost on that experience yeah
might be a decent idea or not depends you're gonna have to vibe this out a
little bit it might be a decent idea to kind of ask the team for some resources
for things that you can catch up on depending on the vibe though they might
use that as ammo against you so it might be a good idea to find the resources
yourself and try to catch up as best you can it just depends on the type of
people you're dealing with all right why don't we move into our next big topic
here perfectly good two-year-old Mac books are getting scrapped because of
activation lock while new pro models SSD is found to be worse than the
predecessor ooh some bad news for Apple this week last week computer repair
store owner John Bumstead claimed that shops like his are being flooded with
Mac books that cannot be refurbished or resold thanks to Apple's activation lock
feature leaving no option but to sell them for parts or more likely for scrap
the feature which comes on max with the t2 security chip introduced in 2018
allows the user to encrypt their data so that only the user can access it using
touch ID the problem is that nothing even a factory reset can disable the
lock unless the original owner turned off find my or used the erase assistant
prior to turning the laptop in Bumstead says that previous owners are rarely
responsive being in large part companies and schools that are upgrading hundreds
or thousands of machines and while he's heard of ways to bypass the t2 lock
those methods don't survive a reset which would screw over whoever buys the
resold device as Apple insider points out Apple does have a process for
removing activation lock from used devices provided that eBay or whatever
gave you a receipt but the method doesn't work if the previous owner
hasn't removed the device from their account Bumstead wants that fixed like
this now I have a link here apparently ah cool so here's a here's a solution
that is proposed when we come upon a locked machine that was legally
acquired we should be able to log into our Apple account enter the serial and
any given information then click a button and submit the machine to Apple
for unlocking then Apple could explore its records query the original owner if
it really wants to and then if at the end of the day there are no red flags
the original owner and the original owner doesn't protest within 30 days the
device should be auto unlocked like never gonna fly that has to go through
Apple absolutely never going to fly if it has to go through Apple and even if
it didn't have to go through Apple like one of the things that I pitched to our
writer before even looking at John Bumstead's ideas was you know how okay
no you probably don't but okay Dan you know how when you're logging in on an
Apple device it's pretty common for a two-factor code to just kind of pop up
on your other Apple device that's logged into the same account yeah we had that a
lot the other day yeah I get that a lot on our teleprompter which is really
annoying anytime Mac address is off-site shooting somewhere and it's like I am
trying to read the script anywho you know I think that it would be pretty
chill if the device is still in my account if someone else had it and was
like hey requesting an unlock I could see Apple selling that as a feature hey
for that previous owner or potential theft victim here's the current
whereabouts of your machine did you like know about this that could be pretty
useful and for the recent acquirer of said machine it would be great to be
able to send a ping to the previous owner that's like hey I bought this it's
still in your account can can I use it that would be great however that also
assumes that everyone would kind of act in good faith in this situation say fair
play here is gonna be an issue which could which could be a big problem and I
could see Apple getting stuck as like kind of like an arbiter of these kinds
of disputes which they're not gonna want to do they won't do it yeah and I think
they're gonna make privacy arguments about you know locations of devices
being passed to to new owners and things like that but bottom line is we gotta we
gotta have some kind of solution right and if this other news is anything to go
by the new solution is not to simply just upgrade to the newest MacBook in
somewhat related news the SSD and Apple's newest entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro
so this is with the m2 pro processor 512 gigs of storage it is significantly
slower than its predecessor in the 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro so with the m1
processor and 512 gigs of storage though confirmed by multiple reports evidence
was first shared by Daniel of YouTube channel zone of tech who clocked the
2023 models SSD at just shy of three gigabytes a second right and 2700
megabytes a second reads and that is Wow half a gig and over a gig slower
respectively than the 2021 model he guessed correctly that Apple is
apparently pulling the same thing that they did back in June replacing the dual
NAND chip configuration in the m1 model with a single chip and this was
confirmed by youtuber max tech and nine-to-five Mac Tom's Hardware further
notes that the new m2 Mac mini features similar SSD performance degradation
compared to the m1 Mac mini from 2020 confirmed by Twitter user at table or
own and youtuber Brandon geek a bit I mean the new one comes in $100 less than
the original MSRP but like what is what is the deal with this it's kind of whack
like really not a fan I wonder if it's I wonder if it's like the YouTube quality
thing in what way I wonder if they like no people don't care yeah I could see
that I mean it's just it just sucks though right like a consumer if I buy m2
is it not a fair assumption that it is better in every way than m1 just as good
or faster yeah I mean there are certain situations where sure I can I can see
some justification for this okay so say for example an electric car if you go
with a top performance spec it might have less range but there's a there's a
there's a logical reason for that if I get an m2 processor theoretically I
would expect it to have a better storage controller like it shouldn't I go that
that's not that the only thing you could reasonably really assume is that maybe
the battery dies faster sure yeah maybe the same kind of it exactly exactly the
same sort of trade-off yeah but yeah no I think you're absolutely right I think
it's pretty clear that Apple is taking a you know whatever these plebs won't
notice approach you know realistically it's less about the hardware it's more
about the experience it's more about the ecosystem and it's just it's frustrating
and the thing is like I'm not the one who should be mad about this yeah Apple
users are the ones who should be mad and yet it feels like Apple's users are the
ones most likely to just take it not really care over and over and over and
over again I don't understand it which is probably why they're doing it I don't
know I I really suspect it's the man speaking of which I've brought up the
YouTube quality a few things YouTube quality thing a few times today because
it's plaguing me it will refuse to play any video that I open at anything other
than the lowest possible quality and I have to change it every single time nice
there's no learning happening because I do it every single time nice and out of
spite I put it on the maximum possible one despite that like I don't need that
necessarily I'm usually playing it in a small window on a side monitor I don't
care but no now it's going full take that screw you man take that I'm so
annoyed I have a feeling that like because I'll leave open like say the
lo-fi thing or whatever sure cuz I'll like just listen to music or it's on my
speaker so the birds will hear it or whatever I I play for premium but boy I
use it but I'm like wondering if they're like oh it's he's using too much let's
make him use less or something I don't know but wow that's annoying I don't
know going back to the the locks on the on the MacBooks like mmm and then
there's a lot of different ways that you can kind of try to tackle this right
like obviously if you just had removable SSDs that are not tied to the t2 chip
that would address the refurbishing the main issue is data privacy right but
that wouldn't well no the other main issue is device ownership right like we
talked just last week about the benefits of encrypting devices reduces the value
in stealing one exactly it makes them worth so much less for a thief and so
it's not like I don't understand the benefits of doing it this way but there
has to be a way to tackle it right so one of the one of the ideas here was
from Jam amp have students or parents you know sign that they agree to pay for
locked laptops that are returned you know instead of shifting the blame to
Apple shift the blame to the users who are not unlocking these bloody things
yeah like it was said that if it's like last week computer repair stop owner
claimed that shops like his are being flooded with Mac books that cannot be
referred well they're coming to you directly it sounds like so just try to
get them do it at the door obviously if it's a school the delivery person might
just be like huh just leave them but like some effort should be done there I
think there's got there has got to be a way to do this and if Apple actually
cared about the environment the way that they posture that they do then they
would solve it like let's let's be real here their R&D budget has enough room in
it if they were legitimately motivated to deal with this problem that they
could find a solution and it's one of those things where I realize I'm coming
in here just kind of going yeah here's a problem see you later like I don't I
don't have the perfect solution but I also I'm not the one who should have to
like I'm not the one who is manufacturing mountains of e-waste
that do not need to be shredded I'm not the one saying oh just care so huggy
muggy much about the environment that we I make the greenest devices ever
that's you that's you that's you're the one doing that it's apples hypocrisy
that bothers me so much about them I saw I saw comment on on a floatplane
exclusive recently that was Jonathan Horst reacting to something or other
from Apple like their new announcement of something and it was like you know
you've corrupted him the longer he works there the more he sounds like a like a
cynical like non Mac person I'll tell you something about Jonathan Horst so he
was hired because he is analytical and maybe a little cynical but still loves
Apple that was exactly that was exactly who we were looking for for a role like
that because we didn't want to be like every other Apple channel or we just go
oh yes yes please please just put it in my mouth right like we wanted to we
wanted to love Apple but not in like a super submissive kind of way we're not
talking 50 shades here yeah yeah yeah we're talking like a healthy
relationship space gray okay that's pretty good best line of the way I'm
trying to top that but I'm a fail anywho right off of that should we go to
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got to do this public backlash against Microsoft for reducing gamers power
bills okay okay yeah this is great okay I will talk you through this no no no
don't I don't know give her to read it okay Microsoft issued a recent press
release announcing a new optional shutdown mode as an alternative to the
previous sleep mode so sleep I think we're all pretty familiar with the
concept right the device goes into a very very very low power state but it's
still on effectively still juices flowing through the silicon okay but the
benefit is that it wakes up really fast like you need to play some call of duty
now it is nice yeah it's great sleep is good I love sleep yeah love who needs
sleep yeah well you're never gonna get it who needs sleep tell me what's that
for anyway the point is politicians and media figures decried the move as an
attack on gaming with one Fox News segment describing Microsoft's change to
the Xbox as power settings as a conspiracy targeting children this is
this is despite only 20% of u.s. gamers being under the age of 18 and despite
that being a phenomenally L take representative Troy Nels I don't know
how to pronounce this an elected official okay I told I told the new
writer not to editorialize but this is really funny representative Troy Nels an
elected official and adult man tweeted they want to take your guns they want to
take your gas stoves and now they want to take your Xbox what's next I love
that sorry that's a that's a good line that editorial ization gets a thumbs up
Fox Likewise published an article subtitled Woke Brigade I wish this was
fake but no I am actually on Fox News calm Woke Brigade is after video games so
is this how they branded it because I don't understand having the option to
shut down being a bad thing like I genuinely being as open to other ideas
as possible alternative ideas yes go ahead I don't get it it's just an option
to shut down it's not mandatory right it's an option you can still sleep it
right am I missing something is anything actually changing they just have another
button right they have one more button did anything else change they are
automatically applying the new mode but you can go back to the old mode so it
goes into it so so shut down mode takes about 15 seconds to turn on so right now
yes if I press the button on my controller and I say like Xbox turn off
in the past it would have gone to sleep and now it shuts down yes if I say Xbox
go to sleep does it go to sleep well yeah you just change it to go to sleep
mode but I have to go into a menu that does yeah which you're a slack-jawed
drooling gamer so you probably can't handle I I don't get it I don't get it I
don't understand it's an option I wish this was fake Rick DeVos a political
commentator and owner of the Orlando Magic said just another small marker on
the shoot we are zooming down where every functionality experience and
general service level degradation is celebrated as a great and glorious
victory for the planet slash justice etc I don't think it's a great and glorious
victory I think it's an option would they would they do you do you think they
would have gotten less flame if they didn't make it the new default no I
don't know hard to say hard to say this is great
alongside Fox's article which is apparently playing media in the
background thank you very much I will navigate away from that site now Fox
included helpful a boomers guide to what an Xbox is imagery a Microsoft Xbox
controller is seen at the electronic entertainment Expo or e3 in Los Angeles
June 17th 2015 Xbox has remained one of the chief major video game console
companies alongside PlayStation and Nintendo actually it would be Xbox
Microsoft has remained one of the chief video game console companies alongside
Sony and Nintendo but good try I mean I'm being pedantic but like frankly
you're asking not master chief the protagonist of the halo a series in the
Xbox series X the halo series is one of the main intellectual properties
associated with the Xbox brand if not its flagship cool so our our writer who
I told not to editorialize too much called these figure one and two local
boomer explains what an Xbox is okay again I think I think I do I I've been
I've talked against a lot of the editor ization I think again this one's
actually probably pretty fair if you have to explain to someone what an Xbox
is you're gonna sound like a boomer this is great so the the shutdown or sleep
options have always been there all they did was change the default one and the
idea is that it's it's only okay so here it's it's not a lot of power when it's
sleeping I think it works out too it's like okay we're gonna do the default
though you press the button yeah is that the only case because I feel like if you
voice control and you tell it to sleep it's gonna sleep and if you voice
control and you tell it to shut off it's gonna shut off I don't Xbox neither of
us Xbox yeah neither of us know yeah let us know I at least know what it is
Master Chief Xbox no it's halo intellectual property anywho it's it's
not a lot of power it's I think it's like a watt and a half or something like
it's a very it's a very small amount but on average Microsoft expects this to
save gamers about a dollar a month on their power bill and when you factor in
that there are literally millions of these machines sitting idle it's
actually a substantial savings yeah and you would think in a place where not
that long ago there were like rolling blackouts like in large regions of the
country because of like a power crisis that any sort of effort to save power
would be would be welcomed and you would think that if a concern would be the you
know strain on the grid of things like electric car charging and that being a
good reason to you know keep using fossil fuels for to power vehicles you
you would think that if that's a legitimate concern for you that any
effort to save power would be welcome but I just I guess so apparently
apparently they're mad because of how it was worded carbon-aware yeah it was
advertised as like a carbon-aware update but imagine getting hung up on like
words imagine that like just because like it's an option and you can change
it I apparently they're also upset about the whole slippery slope thing but again
it's an option and you can change it I have like the exact opposite anger with
the switch I hate that the switch cannot be turned off yeah it's so annoying this
is a battery-powered device I want it to work the next time I pick it up the next
time I pick it up might not be for like a week I don't want it to go to sleep I
want it to shut down it doesn't take that long to turn on just like come on
you know what takes a long time with the switch initial charging before you can
use it yeah if it's dead it's gonna stay dead for like a really long time before
it allow you to turn it on that's super annoying I want it to shut down that's
not because of power consumption reasons that's because I want it to work the
next time I pick it up that actually annoys me a lot this is very confusing
to me you can't voice control an Xbox series is that what the new ones called
just series yeah it's really stupid Microsoft's naming scheme for Xbox is
actually the worst thing you can definitely power off the switch yeah but
you have to like hold press the power button for a while and then navigate to
it just pressing the button doesn't power it off and I don't think you can
change a setting to make that happen maybe you can I don't know it's just
annoying you mad bro I just don't get it I'm more confused than mad I'm far more
confused than mad I don't think I'm mad at all I think looking at it from the
outside it's just funny like seeing them talk about like this is the halo and
stuff is just entertaining but I don't get why you'd be upset because it is so
easy to change back I can totally understand like hey okay every day you
come home from work you play an hour of Xbox or something and you've only got
your fixed amount of time because that's when like the kids come home or
something and now you have to do whatever and you don't want to wait that
extra amount of time you want to turn it on you want to work okay sure just have
it go to sleep every time who cares it costs a dollar a month okay really I
mean I'm mostly just kind of rallying you up right now so the the problem is
just in the way that it was messaged as being green and eco-friendly yeah carbon
carbon conscious I don't get why they care and all that kind of well because
because for a certain group of people the the burning of fossil fuels and the
emissions that we put into the environment are a non-issue and a
fabrication that are scaremongering I saw a really interesting of someone
someone asking Greta Thunberg Thunberg I can't remember the point is you know
asking her really uncomfortable question which was it was something along the
lines of it's unseasonably warm here in Davos so where's your climate crisis now
it's like are you actually I can't and she laughed and they're like yeah she
had no response no her she had a response her response was you're a
flippin idiot and you are undeserving of actual words that that was the response
you just didn't understand it because you're a flipping idiot my thing is if
if you believe all that just why do you care like why do you it's just an Xbox
like yeah but like now it takes 15 seconds to turn on like if if you don't
if I change that one setting let's let's realistically up this story can you
figure out how to change that setting yeah no but that you can but then oh if
we flip this around and Microsoft is like you know what let's pump it well
we're all tired of boot times right boot times suck we're changing the
default behavior from sleep I understand that's not what it is we're changing the
default or sorry we're changing the default behavior from turning off to
sleep yeah because you know what it's worth it
megawatts send the extra buck screw the power grid nobody cares screw them all
sleep is great more power no boot times I don't care cuz I could still change
the setting right yes why does it matter change the setting anytime you want I'm
gonna be like that's weird and then change the setting if I want it to shut
off which if I own an Xbox I would want it to shut off because I'm probably not
gonna use that often but I mean I do own an Xbox Wow I forgot I don't use it that
often I'm happy it's off but if I used it every day and there has been times
like I played Halo I played a ton of Halo 2 if I was playing Halo 2 as much
as I did back then maybe I'd want it to sleep I was a kid at that time maybe my
dad wants it to turn off I don't know but like it's an option I don't care
what the company thinks why would I care what the company thinks well what if
they take away your sleep later slippery slope then they're jerks and I don't
and then you can buy a PlayStation yeah like honestly the consumer chooses at
the end of the day but then again the consumer chooses unwisely a lot all the
time microtransactions let's talk about that I don't want to talk about
microtransactions this is really great though dark 24 hour on float plane every
time a user saves power on Xbox I have to leave on another light to combat the
saving now what anymore lights lights now I'm dark 24 and I don't have any
lights I'm gonna be late 24 late bright yeah I just don't because it's entirely
in your control I just don't understand why people care this feels like it's the
outrage it feels like they didn't have anything to care about that day yeah I'm
agreeing with you so they so they just threw it this because there's nothing
else to throw it which is just like that's whatever I just I think you will
be a happier and more fulfilled person if you care about things that matter and
I'm not saying that the things that matter you have to agree with me on
maybe we're at odds as long as you think it matters it's fine I had the power
consumption numbers wrong series consumes 11 to 13 watts according to the
Catalia in twitch chat in standby mode and 0.5 watts in off mode so it's like
10 watts it's like something yeah so about a buck a month apparently cool all
right let's talk about your butt uh okay yeah how's it going it's Canadian it's
Canada's it's Canada's but triple-a Canadian beef yeah ham okay so more
specifically Linus has had one of Ludwig's bidet oh yes I think they have
a name right I got Ludwig white plus I have white plus I have the swipe plus
this white plus going yeah it took me a while to get it installed because North
American bathrooms don't have a lot of power in them that's true you'll usually
get one but what is it EFI grounded outlet or whatever it is like by the
sink for your your shaver or charging you toothbrush or whatever and not much
else so you won't typically have an outlet anywhere near floor level or near
the toilet because you know water and bathrooms are totally a thing and so
well the SEO for this is kind of rough I googled swipe plus and it was like far
down huh laptops not working anymore that's interesting well it's not the
first one it's not the second one not the third it's the seventh anywho check
your HDMI cord so I had to get a power outlet put into my bathroom so that took
a little while but now that I've got it this is not my first experience with a
bidet I my first traveled yeah my first time using one was when we went to Japan
and basically I I think I've told this story before but as we were driving to
somewhere far from the airport I had to use a rest stop bathroom and I was blown
away by the quality and cleanliness of it totally was on the side of the road
and it was probably the nicest bathroom I had ever been in in my life including
like like washrooms that you know multi million dollar hotels in Vegas and stuff
like that like it was just wow this is a really nice bathroom like I can't it
doesn't smell like rest stop bathroom at all yeah there's a there's a unique
scent to that yeah it's amazing and I you know I have to I have to confess
like I was I was kind of sitting there going like man imagine sitting at like a
business meeting you know because if okay if there's if there's a Japanese
stereotype it would be that culturally there's a lot of focus on on business
you know not everyone obviously but I think it's it's pretty fair to say that
you know Japanese business has definitely been a core part of their
culture for a very long time and the first thing I thought was man if I was
sitting at the boardroom table with some you know filthy foreigner who I knew had
a stanky undercarriage would I feel like I had the upper hand yes sir I can't
even clean himself like an animal disgusting that's funny now with that
said you know came back to came back to North America where bidets are not
common and you were a stanky but I was a stanky disgusting foreigner yeah you
know using this like what like like toilet toilet paper I'm sitting here
going like yeah why do we do this we literally manufacture this so that we
can flush it down with like the best example of manufactured waste yeah it's
it's like it's like running on it it's like running on it it's like imagine
your whole job is to produce toilet paper you spent your whole life running
on a treadmill producing absolutely nothing of value like great right like
it it's like it's emblematic of just the pointlessness of everything toilet paper
production so I yeah I came back and I was like okay I guess I'll use toilet
paper now but I was but I've always been like kind of curious about it like or
not curious about it I've always been kind of like interested in upping my
game and so when Yvonne and I ran out the house I was like hey do you want to
put in like fancy toilets and she's like I don't really care okay I kind of over
it okay that was the effort yeah I was about it because I like I've been to
fancy toilet stores at like Aberdeen Mall and stuff like that we haven't had
a lot of options in North America for a long time no you can get them yeah you
just got to go to like the more the more Asian style shopping centers and stuff
yeah yeah so like at Aberdeen Mall I remember stopping by this like fancy
toilet store we're like they start at like $1,500 and go go into thousands
right all these like heating and pulsing features and all that anyway when
Ludwig's thing came along and I was sitting here going hey we've had such
success with the Jerry rig everything knife on LTT store why don't we like
carry more creator merch okay sure but obviously I'm not gonna just carry
something without verifying that it's not crap and I can verify it is not
crap yeah cool um you know it's it's not the highest end option on the market
it's designed to it's not priced that way either no it's not it's designed to
be retrofitted to your existing toilet they have a non heated non you know so
that's the air drying yeah the regular swipe is pretty darn affordable and it's
just 50 bucks I didn't know it but it's also just a nozzle that sprays cold
water at your sphincter yeah it's priced accordingly pucker up yeah then the
swipe plus thank you for that and then the swipe plus has the heated scene and
the lighting you know so the water doesn't look yellow and yucky and like
it has like a carbon filter in it so that you know it it takes the toilet
water from the from the dryer or that like the toilet smell from the dryer and
does it just like pump it out into the room and all that kind of stuff and yeah
it's been it let me just say that feeling clean well no I we don't have
one here at work and I I did you know I thought we in the lower bathroom here I
didn't use it yeah there is one there from that Amazon we've got choice clean
but dirty but yeah I feel advantageous right now there you go there you go
boys a winner I I've had one for a while when there was that toilet paper scare
with the pandemic hmm I had already been thinking about getting a bidet and then
I was just like you know what let's just remove ourselves from this equation
right and to be clear you can still use a little bit of toilet paper in fact I'd
recommend it just for like drying off we do but you use a very very
significantly lower so much less like where you need like a mitt to you know
deal with some of the you don't need a mitt anymore yeah you don't need a mitt
anymore it's you just need you just need some like drying base some extra drying
and mine has like a fan thingy so you can get most of the way there yep yep
but I mean you're sitting there on your phone anyway yeah might as well turn on
the drying fan yeah so it's like if you spend the whole time it's fine but yeah
whatever so we would still get toilet paper but like other people are like oh
I need like all this amount to like make it through whatever amount of time so I
got how many people and for us like for the two of us to get through a role is
gonna take like a long time yeah whereas before it was like gone right so I don't
know that was it's been good and when I try coming for your toilet paper next oh
geez when I traveled to France and then Greece that was two weeks of not being
able to use it and yeah I felt gross yeah I didn't like feel like oh I'm like
significantly cleaner or anything after we got it it just felt kind of neutral
yeah but then not having it I'm like oh yeah no I get it yeah like I can go both
ways at this point we only have one on the the one toilet I'm gonna get around
to putting like regular swipes on the other ones cuz I'm not gonna get power
plugs put into every bathroom just just like put like yeah yeah whatever but I
do I do prefer it I will say this white plus with the warmed water is definitely
a plus compared to the cold water the warm water is nice it's a difference
maker yeah yeah yeah the thing is in like the guest bathrooms or whatever
people might not even use it yeah I wouldn't want to drop a bunch I wouldn't
bother yeah yeah I need to use the washroom real quick because I drank a lot
of water before the show started so here's the question to talk about are
you gonna use the bidet toilet or not well I will but I'll be back fast enough
that it won't have been that okay so I guess I'm supposed to find a topic I can
do merch message okay I'm gonna steal one Dan isn't even here I think is Dan
here nope nobody's here I'm alone so I'm gonna find a merged message do I want to
find ones that I should actually answer and that shouldn't be answered by Linus
so this might take a second you're gonna have to stick with me I'll jump on this
one I haven't even fully read it yet but I think I can answer it hi Linus Luke
and Dan or in this case just Luke I'm an aspiring game developer and I'm about to
release my first indie game on Steam that's super cool
congrats that's awesome if you guys could create your dream game what kind
of features or content would you choose Linus isn't here but I know that oh
what's the name of it ah there's a game that he likes a lot which is like no
pixel art kind of top-down II puzzle an RPG game Final Fantasy my brain went to
rune world but that's not it that's definitely no escape I don't the name
maybe he'll answer when he comes back but it's a really cool crosscode thank
you dark 24 dark 24 found enough light bulbs it's crosscode so he like kind of
wanted to make a game for a long time and then played crosscode and was
basically like this is what I wanted to make so there you go there's a good
example of of his I've always been interested in making games I've had a
lot of different ideas over the years something that I've wanted to do for
quite a while now and actually a couple months ago I downloaded unreal engine
because I wanted to start messing around with it and I was messing around with
some things and then I was like yeah this is too much work and kind of stopped
and maybe I'll pick it up again one day but I've always wanted to make a a like
story based firefighting game I thought really I thought would be really fun
firefighter simulator I've never seen someone do that hmm there might be good
reason no I can't think of a firefighter career mode yeah heck yeah I think it
could be kind of sweet I think there's a lot of dynamic situations you could put
the player in I think there's a lot of choice and the world reacts to it type
of things that could happen that way I think that could be pretty sweet the
question was why is everybody talking about my favorite games the question was
if you could create your own dream game what features of content would you
choose and I brought up crosscode okay yeah yeah fire watch I thought fire
watch was I think that's a completely different thing yeah a story based yeah
it's like a story based about living in a forest yeah I don't think it's a you're
not a firefighter no no yeah yeah wasn't that you might deal with fire but you're
not a firefighter it's a different thing was it was there a game or was there a
book for the film adaptation hold on a second I don't even know any who cool
film that yeah there was a film adaptation apparently oh no it's coming
okay well anywho film have an adaptation of what firewatch oh really yeah that
kind of makes sense to be a figure yeah CNET want to talk about CNET yeah let's
do it I have no idea they were doing this yeah I'll jump on it CNET issues
mass corrections for AI written articles why did they do this CNET has put a hold
on their use of AI to write articles after publishing over 70 AI generated
articles primarily on finance related topics an additional thing just in case
you don't know finance is one of the highest CPMs you can have also known as
those are a lot of the articles they're gonna make a lot of money on the first
articles were published in November of last year under a CNET money staff
byline only by clicking on that byline could a reader learn that the article
was artificially generated despite the claim that these articles were
thoroughly edited and fact-checked by a presumably human editor over half now
carry corrections pretty almost every time we've talked about open AI I've
brought up the confidently wrong thing I can't believe they actually just did
this but anyways mistakes included confusing basic finance terms and making
basic financial math mistakes that's another thing Dan and I were talking
about this before the show people keep on trying to get chat GPT to do stuff
it's not made to do and then they're like lol dumb and it's just like what
stop making it do math it's not made for that what are you doing oh my goodness
anyways I'm not surprised that was a problem it there are tons of examples of
it being bad at math because it's not it's not made for that some corrections
stated that CNET replaced phrases that were not entirely original okay plagiarism
so yeah that would be interesting to see the exact examples of that the editor in
chief stated CNET plans to continue using AI tools into the future of course
there and to be clear I'm not against that part you just need to vet it
properly like the the in quotes thoroughly edited and fact-checked by an
editor yeah it should have just actually been it sounds like it wasn't maybe
someone tried to make their job easier or something I'm not sure meanwhile
BuzzFeed announced that they will be using AI to create entertainment content
but stressed that their newsroom will remain human-generated and stressed that
they will not replace existing workforce with AI that's the right way to do it
online publisher medium has announced AI generated content will be allowed if
clearly disclosed while many publications and writers that use medium as a platform
have already banned AI authored works there have already been cases of AI
enabled theft rephrasing and republication of copyrighted work lots of
it yeah just so you know a technique that could be used to evade traditional
anti plagiarism tools and one of the problems sorry go for it I was gonna say
as I'm going through my Google News feed I will often read an article on a site
that I wouldn't have otherwise visited because it's just in my Google News feed
where I go okay this was very clearly three articles basically mashed together
because it's super redundant in a way that no decent human writer could ever
I just navigate away immediately as soon as I figure out that it was AI generated
but it's a lot of them and so something I want to make clear here is I am very
interested in the idea of chat GPT regurgitating basically word-for-word
something that someone else has written I'm looking for examples of that if you
find examples of that somehow get them to me don't email floatplane support by
the way we have I'm not aware of this that keeps happening oh okay Luke is not
float plane support no that's Joe and Joe's very nice about it but it takes up
Joe's time and there are lots of other things that Joe could do like supported
customers yep yeah so like Joe's job yeah which is cool yeah what was I gonna
say oh yeah so what I'm what I'm not saying here hmm is that the plagiarism
plagiarized content got spat out by chat GPT naturally Oh what might happen is
they fed it stuff right if you feed chat GPT things it's gonna take from it
because it thinks that you want it thinks you gave it to it yeah but
actually someone else yeah so like that could be happening or it could just be
doing that on its own I don't know which one it is I just don't think we should
automatically pin chat GPT for this if that's what they're using I don't they
don't even didn't say that they might be using something else it's probably chat
GPT but we don't actually know now would be a pretty good time to be like an
anti AI like like detection company oh yeah there's some spinning up yeah I
bet there are and they're probably gonna get some fairly lucrative contracts from
like schools government agencies lots of stuff like that yeah I could totally see
it man new investment opportunity let's go oh I thought he was investing hacking
the main frame rage investing into these companies but yeah anyways consequently
there is a massive surge in demand for AI text detection as you were just
mentioning especially among educators as I just mentioned someone in the chat
before the show was actually I don't remember your name I'm sorry someone in
the chat before the show was talking about how they're they teach eighth
grade u.s. history and they were talking about how they've warned other teachers
at their school and they're going to be teaching the kids in that class about
chat GPT because they see it as a valuable research tool because I was
like why how did okay so you teach history how did teaching them about chat
GPT possibly come up there and they made an interesting argument yeah no there we
go yeah it's yeah no they made an interesting argument of the why I'm
teaching them how to research and I'm not teaching them to to just trust it
immediately but it's it's a it's a step right so they can ask it questions they
can off-board from that into more specific searches they can do whatever
I'm like oh my goodness that actually does make sense it's just very cool but
they had to warn the other teachers right yeah because they're gonna teach
them that in that subject because it's super powerful tool in that subject
especially because it's history so it doesn't matter that's not trained on
recent stuff but other classes might not be super stoked about it it's interesting
right very interesting coming back to what you had said about you know being
like adamant that chat GPT should be a paid tool because when things are free
they inevitably turn to garbage I read a really good article I found it on
pluralistic dotnet here it's from Cory doctor oh anyway I read it somewhere
else not here but you should you should read it it's it basically did a way
better job of explaining that thing that you and I are always talking about but
never do a perfect job of explaining how like you know how I'll refer to like
okay and one of our pitches to creators for a float plane early on premium we
would basically say we are not the Silicon Valley model or like we're not
our benefit is is that we take a sustainable approach to building this
platform rather than taking VC funding which will inevitably become a problem
at some point I was never able to properly explain why that will
inevitably become a problem and so this this article is called tick-tocks and
shit if a cake oops I missed my right button well all right
shitification and basically talks about that cycle and how any new platform that
is VC backed starts out by pleasing its users until it grows a big user base
then moves on to pleasing its partners which helps it grow its its revenues
then moves on to pleasing itself which helps it enrich itself and so you know
how I've talked a lot about how Amazon used to be great for shopping my
particular favorite feature was people who looked at this item usually bought
yeah these yeah well that feature no longer exists because as this article
points out Amazon has reached their endgame where it is all about generating
value for themselves for their shareholders where there is no benefit
to having organic search results there's no benefit to having good pricing
everybody's already locked into Amazon so they they point out that out of the
first five pages of results for cat bed fifty percent of the results are
sponsored because effectively buying placement is the only way to get
exposure on Amazon now because they moved past pleasing the customers which
is when we had features like that now they've moved past pleasing their
partners bad thing to do yeah exactly a happy partner happy life right they've
moved past pleasing their partners so they just essentially have them all
bidding on each other bidding against each other because that's the only way
they can survive which means the pricing sucks because everybody has to absorb
these exorbitant fees to participate on the platform and they're just focused on
money money money money money money and anyway so it's talking about how tick
tock is starting to enter its second stage of vacation that's really good
article guys I'll link it in the chat go check it out but it basically talks
about how like they have a button to boost creators like giving them like a
ton of views and it's the equivalent of the carnie allowing one user to win the
big teddy bear so they walk around at the fair all day so people think that
it's possible to win the teddy bear but then they have a button that makes it so
the ball will pop out for everyone else so they can just collect your money yeah
really really really good article so I'll drop that in the in the chats while
we move on I forget what you were talking about but good job discussion
question what is it okay to use AI what will the impact of BuzzFeed's decision
be what are the pros and cons of anyone being hypothetically able to compete
with BuzzFeed style of content using AI I mean we're gonna see I'm not even
gonna try and speculate how this is gonna play out but it's gonna be
interesting that's for sure those are those are extremely difficult questions
that I think could be discussed for for many days and I think there will
genuinely be entire books based around individual questions that were in that
whole line of questioning a prime in floatplane chat says Amazon does this
customers who viewed items in your browsing history also viewed but that's
not the one I'm talking about in by there used to be one that was customers
who viewed this item ultimately purchased these so you could kind of
rely on crowdsourcing the research now that probably created sometimes undue
momentum for certain skews and might have made bad products or products that
had been replaced by better ones stickier than they should have been but
man every time I used it I like got a pretty good one yeah if I didn't really
care about getting exactly the right thing or enough yeah I wanted something
that was 95% it was the best I don't buy stuff off Amazon but I do use Amazon and
I'll use Amazon sometimes for the frequently bought together thing because
it's a nice way to find adapters and converters and stuff I find you can find
like the right thing to make that thing work along with the rest of the stuff
that you might have because it will like link it and usually if it's said
frequently bought together you know they will actually work together which is
kind of nice yeah then I go find it somewhere else and buy it there because
I don't like Amazon which is fair yeah but then you might like them if they
were still consumer first yeah most of my issues with them are about how they
treat the people that work for them at low levels you mean the contractors that
work for other companies that are not Amazon's problem yeah basically and and
wasn't gonna say how they how they tend to just crush small businesses and stuff
I don't think they are good right but that's so you'll really enjoy this
article because talking about how like crushing small businesses by out
competing them and then clawing it all back after is like the whole thing yeah
yeah all right well what else is there for us to talk about here is there
topics left or you just merge messaging in a wave of faulty GPUs possibly
caused by crypto miners offloading improperly stored equipment so that
happened thank you for preparing that topic but I don't know that I'm gonna
talk about it much more than that yeah I haven't the dyes are cracking yeah
which is bad yep Oh Samsung ignores widespread SSD failures until they get
news coverage here's some more news coverage Samsung don't do that yeah bad
yeah like drives that had been barely used were reporting like massive hits to
their estimated durability remaining and Samsung was alone and then it went kind
of viral okay okay it's not clear still what exactly the
problem is I think Samsung has some lessons to learn about transparency if
they just said what it was then we would be telling you guys hey here's what it
is here's why you shouldn't worry about it too much here's how they're gonna
fix it but instead they're just leaving it a mystery and you don't want mystery
around a storage product yeah so all I can say now is don't buy a 990 Pro so
that's not better Samsung you need to do better yeah that's legit Google drop
support for on hub this sucks on hub routers which were first released in
late 2015 so not that long ago will still operate as Wi-Fi routers but will
no longer receive firmware updates and it is no longer possible to control the
router remotely nor to access and change settings we were pretty against cloud
control routers right I don't remember I hope so Meraki or whatever oh oh I know
what you're talking about no no it wasn't Meraki it was a it was like a
budget Cisco product that you're talking about the one that you inherited from me
that you cannot change the password on right ah still have that crap it was it
was someone was an AP it was someone's like consumer brand was it ruckus is I
don't remember hold on I don't know it required some kind of account and then
I thought it was Meraki was it are you sure it's not it might I mean I don't
know anyway the point is that it's a white box I plug it in I know the
password yeah I can't believe you still use that thing well I don't now because
my apartment small but I still have it nice apparently Meraki is the budget
Cisco product okay yeah so somehow he ended up with a router that had
licensing that allowed us to change everything and then he didn't want to
pay for licensing I get it and now nothing can be changed but it does still
work so I guess this is basically that it's still set to his old password
because he was using it for a while and before it ran out of its license
licensing I don't know who did this probably you but someone was wise enough
to set it into AP mode hmm that was probably me so that its value would be
extended yeah if you think about it at all you're not gonna want it to function
as a router so it's it's an AP mode with a fixed password that you can't change
which is like a security problem for sure but it technically works I mean I
theoretically it's been in a box for a couple years but there is no plan to
transition on hub to any other means of control this sucks yep the Google
support page literally suggests buying a new router yeah oh man man what Google
hardware were you trust at this point just their phones I don't even know if I
trust those to be just EOL'd you think they're gonna EOL pixels I don't know
maybe knows I mean they EOL'd the Nexus line they just axe everything see you
later yeah yeah I know what we do pixel now it's totally different I mean
remember okay tablets they used to have tablets what happened in the Nexus 7
where's that where's that at yeah Google sketch man yeah it's what I thought you
might buy a product and then just not have it anymore did was Google the one
that had that weird camera that was supposed to like automatically record
stuff hmm hold on that's ringing a bell AI camera auto record is that is that a
thing it's not a thing that happened yeah Google clips look at this stupid
thing did they ever actually release this thing AI camera yeah here it is
hey Dieter go away yeah and supposed to like that they all the promotional crap
for this was just oh man it was so stupid it was like like videos of like
dogs and stuff or whatever like why would that be there why would you ever
have a camera anywhere unless you intend to do something with it man so dumb like
it's just obviously stupid the second they unveiled it how did this make it
past how did this make it past some idiot pitching it and getting like fired
like I just don't I don't get it you know this this reminds me of a
Kickstarter project so I will still look at like Kickstarter every once in a blue
moon because I find it interesting but ever getting you know hammered by a
certain project I I don't back anything anymore but what I'll do is I'll try to
find the the like company page hopefully they have a company page instead of just
a Kickstarter page yeah and I'll bookmark that and I put it in a little
folder and every like I don't know six months check in on it see how it's going
literally zero things in that folder have launched zero so happy I didn't
back anything and that reminded me because one thing that I found was like
it's a little and I know it's a little bird feeder but it's an outdoor bird
feeder and it has a camera in it you know that's just called an outdoor bird
feeder right well they can outdoor bird feeders just actually no it's just
called a bird feeder generally speaking they go outdoors there's bird feeders
for indoors you're actually a crazy bird man yes you know this right yeah see Dan
agrees yeah I get it I just that's why I said I know before I started this fine
but there's this there was this thing that it's so it's a bird feeder for
outdoors yes so it's a bird feeder carry on and it has a basically a webcam built
into it yeah does it charge life by solar power because if it doesn't you're
never gonna charge that I think it does I don't remember it better been like
years since I bookmarked it sure but it detects when it birds in front of it and
will record a little video for you Wow well that'll improve your quality of
life doesn't seem that complicated yeah it's big launched it I don't know
at this point there's other ones on the market I didn't buy those because I was
just like I don't know I'm kind of over the idea to be honest but just out of
interest I'm still like tracking it I just check in every once in a while to
see how it's going and yeah they hasn't launched yet no no shipments yet would
you like to hear something interesting though no don't tell no no I hope this
isn't what I think it is regarding the coal bar the hammer crowbar combo we
have apparently heard back from them and Nick has a conversation scheduled no
next week no he's doing this only to hurt me I I hope like I hope I hope
people in the audience understand that that is the only reason there is no
other reason there's no business he knows it's not a good business decision
he a hundred percent knows it's not a good business decision yeah there's no
way he thinks it's actually like worth the content that's gonna come out of it
he just knows it will hurt me that is the only goal if this is this is this is
deep trolling this is trolling on another level that I don't know if you
guys actually understand I disagree I think he thinks it's a great product no
he doesn't I'd use it look at his face look at his face you know he does this
that's literally the Linus troll face there's a reaction on float plane and I
think on twitch that is literally that face it's just me smiling just cuz I'm
smiling Luke Kyle come on just cuz I'm smiling doesn't mean I'm trolling nice
Kyle let's go how could you do this to me Kyle Kyle okay if Kyle has a
significant amount of involvement with the like design process then maybe it'll
actually be Kyle and his team you know we have four people on the like tool
engineering team now right like we are working on stuff I know that because I
read through the audit that Dan did for me on everyone who's changed their
passwords in the company so there's gonna be a message sent out to the
managers and executives at Linus media group about how that wasn't bleeping done
I see so we're gonna get a one-week extension to next week okay if it's not
done by next week we're gonna waste a lot of time and it's gonna be awesome
because Dan or I are gonna have to sit down with every single person that
didn't update their passwords which is basically freaking everybody you know
I'm just gonna be sitting down with like Vance right which is gonna be a massive
waste of time the reason why I thought about it Kyle was because your team did
it I did know that and I appreciate it and that's why I thought about it
Kyle's team did it and logistics did it to be fair logistics had like four
passwords that they adopted I have a lot of passwords yeah and it can be this is
the thing and this is the reason why I spent the messages specifically to
leaders of teams and technically all the executives twice because you guys need
to do your jobs and delegate get it done okay I know you have a lot of passwords
I do a prime says I did it good good job see look this is why you need a crowbar
no he doesn't need a crowbar um never mind could the coal bar collab is
canceled here's another good topic for us AMD calls out AMD for bad value GPUs
this is funny but I respect it AMD's own blog recently published a post titled
never a better time to upgrade with Radeon graphics within it one graphic
compared AMD's GPUs on value for the money showing FPS per dollar their
latest flagship GPUs come in at less than half of the FPS per dollar of AMD's
best value GPU the rx6400 for reasons unknown the graphic is arranged with the
worst value GPUs at the top and the best at the bottom total FPS is featured more
prominently with big red bars so I guess they are arranged in order of more FPS
yeah it's pretty straightforward under that graphic there's an explanation in
small type of how these results were achieved all cards were tested at max
settings except the rx6400 which was tested at medium settings thereby making
all the more expensive GPUs look even worse in terms of value because this
number is basically a big pile okay I respected a lot less know that part
discussion question today AMD's marketing department just ritually
disemboweled themselves now or would poison be cleaner okay I respected it at
first because I thought they were like not shying away from things that people
in the industry generally know which is like the maximum to your card is not
gonna be the best price for performance but sure you're gonna get the best FPS
and stuff like I thought they were doing a decent educational thing and then I
heard about how they did it yeah and now me maybe poison yeah the 6400 being at
medium settings like I get it you don't want to show that it gets like no FPS
22 FPS yeah but also no you don't get to do that that's not how benchmarking
yeah it's like super not okay yeah yeah that's ridiculous that's pretty cool oh
wow we have an ltx 2023 update oh a cool one let's go for those of you who made
it this deep into the show thank you oh nice yeah ltx 2023 ticket sales will go
live on Monday February the 6th at 9 a.m. Pacific time you must create an account
on the store in order to complete your checkout you can do so in advance by
visiting tickets dot ltx Expo calm tickets are first come first served and
they will not be held so make that account now now or when someone stands
over you with a crowbar I don't need a crowbar they will go to whoever
completes the checkout the fastest we do not have any kind of like verified
actual gamer thing which would have been cool but I was told that the float plane
team is quote busy and quote yeah the VIPs from the cancelled 2020 and the
whale VIPs from Oh whalen VIPs from 2022 have apparently been sent an email with
instructions on how they can access tickets in advance for a pre-sale event
as promised oh cool so we're making sure that we're taking care of the folks who
won the ticket sales lottery before but didn't ultimately get to go to something
that's that's pretty good that's pretty good yeah that's exciting man I'm I'm
excited ltx is gonna be a blast we have like so much so sweet yeah like it was
it was cool you know up until the last one but the last one was a totally
different level the last one made all the previous ones feel like cringe
really kind of yeah yeah agreed and they were fine for what we were at the time
but they were fine but I didn't really want to invite anyone to them you know
what I mean like randoms yeah yeah like they were for they were for I I'm
always hesitant about the word fan because you know I see a lot of what we
do is meet up not fandom but like viewership I I want I want to earn it I
don't want fanatical you know following or whatever agreed the first ones were
fan meetups you know that's what they were and that's fine that has a place
and the last one was like an expo that was actually super sick I invited I
didn't invite any of my friends to any of the previous ones yeah I invented
some invited some of my friends to that last one and I've been to class yeah
yeah sometimes I've I'd struggle okay it's okay me too you were a figment of
my imagination along it's Fight Club your Brad Pitt you've been soloing the
way you never actually brought another person onto the land show yeah I've been
selling it the whole time yeah I live in your walls where's that voice come but
yeah the last one was great so if this one is a continuation or an improvement
then it's gonna be fantastic I'm excited well we've got stir fun it and chase I
don't think it's involved yeah it'd be great it's gonna be great yeah yeah
let's do some merch merch messages yeah okay if I can I inhaled some water
earlier thanks for making me laugh you're welcome it was my pleasure okay
this one's from Austin I really do enjoy your pain though yes that's why I work
here thank you this is from Austin Luke Linus in an earlier show you said
sometimes yeah as you scale up in a business you have to become less
efficient can you give some examples of that oh sure I mean yeah the easiest
example of that is I brought in Luke to write scripts right so so now we went
from okay let's ignore Ed who edited videos and Yvonne who did all the
accounting and stuff so let's go back to the original four-person team but let's
pretend it was only two let's pretend it was just me and Luke if it's me when I
want to write a script all I do is write the script and that takes let's say four
hours okay now I brought in Luke we have double the number of hours so cool we're
gonna get two scripts every four hours but a script still takes four hours and
when it's done now I have to review it which takes maybe 30 minutes so my time
certainly got more sometimes longer so my time certainly got more efficient but
overall it took more hours to deliver a finished product and you basically take
that multiply it times however many levels of management add the game of
telephone that exists for every different team and individual that's
involved in providing feedback on whatever it is and you go from you know
a public communication from me back in the day being like something on reddit
hit to six seven eight people are involved to make sure that I don't put my foot in
my mouth about a warranty or something like that right there's a there's also
like team coordination you can't all be running around with chickens like
chickens with your head cut off so you start needing to have meetings and then
yeah okay you try to control that so you start building processes to make it so
you don't have to have that meeting okay but that takes time and and now you have
to train people because you're trying to bring on junior people but that takes
more time and just every added person every single one every additional person
that you bring on reduces efficiency almost across the board by some amount
it might be really small yeah but it's some amount and hopefully that added
person adds more than the efficiency that they take away from the rest of the
team but that equation is always happening that's why small teams are
good that's why small teams get a lot done yeah yeah yep because you have you
have less reporting to deal with you have less extra documentation yes even
on a small team even a team of one you should be making some amount of
documentation but you can be making more if you're on a big team absolutely yeah
it's just it is what it is and it's frustrating but there's nothing you can
do about it it's just going to be that way yeah and like in theory you know
Luke's script that he spent four hours on would be absolutely perfect and I
wouldn't need to review it because he did it as well as me but no offense but
I'm a much better writer than Luke and the standards for the channel sorry the
standards for the channel aren't gonna change it has to be to my standard so I
have to look at it and that's gonna be a consistent problem if you're in a field
that I will call artisan create creative yeah yeah if you're if you're in a
creative line of work because you're gonna have a way that you like things as
well and there's pretty much no way that the person that you hire is gonna make
things exactly in the way that you like them yeah and also aside from preference
I am just a better writer than you yeah you didn't hire me as a writer it's true
I really didn't I had hired him to be a camera operator yeah which you're even
worse now in theory right you you hire people who are better at things than you
Luke is a much better manager of development then I have no I have no
idea where to even start but then the inefficiency goes the other way because
now Luke has to explain to me what the crap it is that he does in a weekly
floatplane digest document that he creates because otherwise I and the rest
of the executives have no idea what each other are doing and in a meeting where
I'm able to provide any feedback and ask questions it's inefficient but I don't
see another way to do it I think it's it's inefficient and it is efficient
because it's an efficient solution to a problem but it's a problem that's
created inefficiency yeah this is great best line of the wan show actually goes
to a prime not to you Luke wrote a great fantasy of a resume that's true it was
complete don't do this to me by the way I've caught people doing this this is
not a suggestion but I definitely lied through my teeth on my resume sure I had
I had never filmed you're not running for office anything that resume would
have been really good I told you in the first interview though right I think so
I'm pretty sure and then you're like okay we'll just film this thing and the
camera that you gave me couldn't even zoom so I was like nice easy mode and
then I kept kind of cheating because I got all my friends to comment bomb the
video really positively I've told you this part too just makes me cringe every
time let's go get it done don't do that yeah don't do that to me I did it so
I'll be able to catch yeah it's it's like a classic never bullshit right like
it's man what did someone try to ah see I'm not okay I'm not gonna name names
but there's a number of kind of prominent personalities among I would
say men in my peer group over the last I don't know five to ten years that have
turned out to be total butt heads and basically one after the other I've kind
of gone uh-huh yeah and because there's this playbook right where they will they
will they will start with unassailable fact in in any given you know talk or
any given video or lecture or whatever else it is they will start with
unassailable fact and perfect logical connections between their points and go
and in conclusion a thing that isn't actually quite fact and people who are
not listening critically and analyzing what's being said will assume that
because every linkage they've seen up until now was flawless the last one must
just be something that they don't fully understand and as someone who didn't
spend a lot of time or pay a lot of attention in that class but
fundamentally understands what they were trying to explain it basically it
basically seems to stem from an inability for most people to follow
along with like a philosophical argument philosophy is basically math but for
words so you you have to theoretically like if you are doing it well you have
to prove your point go full QED but you use words instead of numbers and so when
done when done really well what you do is essentially create a bulletproof
argument you you create proof for the point that you are trying to make now
obviously many philosophical arguments cannot be yeah fully proven yeah and so
you create a lot of you create a lot of opening yeah you create a lot of opening
for bad yes but done well it's supposed to be unassailable it's supposed to be
proven and so as someone who is at least familiar with that concept I I look at
the way I look at I look at it and I go they know what they're doing right
because I understand their craft well enough to recognize it done well and
then now that I know what they're doing when I see it not done well I go oh then
they're probably doing that on purpose too these are bad people and it's it's
been it's been kind of hard for me to watch to be perfectly honest with you I
don't blame you next up okay we're in the oh god we're in the same sort of
vein on this this is from anonymous on average how many hours a week do you
guys work and how does it compare to the average hours of the rest of your staff
too many and I hope more than I have better balance these days but the
lines between work and not work for me are extraordinarily blurry theoretically
I take every Monday off but I think you know for a fact that I do plenty of work
on Mondays and look and it's often not even subtle like he's like filming at
his house of the film crew he's just not at work he's at home filming with a film
crew yeah I mean that doesn't we try not to do that any more than we absolutely
have to like I I am setting aside time like I'm scheduling time for things that
yeah but you also try not to like stay after when show and film videos yeah more
than you absolutely have to or push when show back because of filming videos more
than you absolutely have to but that happens every single week well okay but
the point is that yeah and so okay a lot of what I do is also I don't know if
it's work or not but I like it never really turns off so like on a Saturday
I'm sitting checking analytics and reading comments on the video that
released that day like I never I shouldn't say never but almost never
like maybe one out of a hundred I don't check community sentiment when we
release a video so I'm working every single day from that point of view but
it's not like work work it's like I mean I was gonna say it's time I wouldn't
have spent doing anything else anyway but that's probably because it's so
ingrained in me that if I have a moment of downtime I should be looking at
channel analytics and read comments so I don't know am I addicted is it work I'm
not sure somewhere in between probably I think pretty ask pretty much any like
social media personality and there they probably are wired pretty much the same
way because I don't think you'd survive otherwise yeah I've had a lot of team
expansion over the last little while so there's just been a lot of stuff to do
and like it's it's fine I'm not complaining about it I don't even think
I've mentioned it to Linus much no key 1119 Linus's work revolves around
YouTube so technically him recording in his house is still work and that's not
technically it just is work yeah that's my point my point is that it's no
different it's just at home no no that just is work that's not that's not
technically anything there's no gray area there but yeah I don't know okay I
know I do know some people on my staff work more than they should though I've
had more than a few conversations telling people to stop crunching yeah
and I never told them to crunch in the first place yeah they're just like
passionate people that care a lot which is cool yeah but yeah my favorite is
yelling at people to fill up their time sheets properly it's like well actually
cannot work for no pay mines filled out right now yeah you you actually I
shouldn't have to fill one out I still I will die on that hill that's
ridiculous that's absolutely ridiculous makes no
sense and it's complete BS I work way more than that many hours so like hold
on a second no I I just I thought I fucks to give about it that I had in
here but it's just if I have to fill a time she should have to fill the time
sheet that's all I'm saying I do fill out a time sheet why I just delegate it
all right fair enough I'll take that I'll take that wow all right that's a
that's a next-level move you have much to learn still learn from Linus oh my
goodness Wow okay moving on okay this one's from Brian Linus I didn't realize
that you were a Star Wars expanded universe fan it's typing in one number
a day it is it is crazy I used to be salary and I had to fill in the time
sheet it doesn't make any sense yeah I agreed that parts also like actually
it's actually wrong how we do it just not allowed overtime why are we doing
this just pay me if Adam but it's like you bookmark it you set an alarm it
takes less than 30 seconds I still did it every day I'm not I'm not I still
don't think he should do it but the fact that it's delegated it's great why don't
you just fill it in the same for like the next six months and then if anything
change is they're gonna see it ahead of time they'll know that you did that
what's wrong with that it's not today oh man so look the current system is
designed to ensure that everyone gets paid fairly for their time I don't think
that's how salary works like legitimately I don't know how your
stuff works I know how like everyone who's hourly I know how everyone really
works yeah yeah I really should have to build a timesheet I don't know I don't
know what the deal is and I honestly I haven't really looked it up so I could
be wrong I have no I'm pretty sure salary we have an actual HR person now
so I'm pretty sure we've like looked it up it's honestly it would take more time
to have the discussion with them about it and it would be for me to fill up the
sheet which is why I haven't done it yet so deal with it yeah it's just still
ridiculous apparently they check once a week to make sure that you are a keeping
up and B not filling it out ahead yeah that's awesome yeah that's why you can't
fill it out I knew that bit but like it created enormous problems when people
were filling them out ahead or when they were falling behind because then
accounting has to waste a whole bunch of time having stupid conversations they
don't have to have like hey no you actually weren't there that day can you
please go fix that like no no no no no no no they have better things to do
with their lives than chase down people's inability to track their own
schedules they actually have a lot to do we actually have a very complicated
accounting situation because of floodplaining creator warehouse and
receiving all of our not all of our money but a lot of our money for
different things from foreign currencies and like it's a very complicated job for
an organization our size our accounting is ridiculous like we've gone to not
small accounting firms and gone hey can we just can we just offload this to you
they've been like no for real and it's like fair yeah I don't even I didn't
blame them like the the fact that we have Yvonne to help create systems and
to build our accounting department and to basically learn from scratch how to
how to how to CFO like a very complicated company is a miracle so one
of flow plane shots just said you guys just reminded me to fill up my time
she's and I didn't even marry her for her math skills though it is why I
started dating her well it was kind of how it wasn't how we met but it was how
we like you know got close was she was tutoring me in math okay so she like
totally accidentally was spending a lot of time with me even though she knew I
had a girlfriend so I always joke about how she stole me which she hates like if
you want to bother Yvonne at ltx ask her to tell the story of how she stole me
don't warn her about it don't like don't like blow her up right now just just
just wait wait until ltx show up at ltx be like hey can you tell me the story
because she won't watch one show she won't see this okay we can keep this our
little secret tell me the story of how you stole Linus she'll she will just
feel like I feel like you're being mean right now it's hilarious setting her up
to not enjoy ltx though no no she'll enjoy it I'll enjoy it
however much she enjoys it I will enjoy it more oh my goodness that is not
always worth it it'll be worth it trust me what you should do is not ask her
that but just tell her that Linus said that no that's not gonna be as much fun
it'll be funnier the other way trust me okay moving on sorry I derailed that
sorry keep going this one's from Brian Linus I didn't realize you were a Star
Wars extended universe expanded yeah you've read this already didn't you yeah
I tried to then I immediately pull us back oh it's my fault I think you mean
was a Star Wars expanded universe fan or extended or whatever it is last week you
referenced Jaina and Zek do you have a favorite book slash character slash
moment from the expanded universe well none of its Canon so that's cool
instead we have just like absolute dog crap for Canon I would I would honestly
if they put me in charge of Lucasfilm tomorrow the first thing I would do is I
would go DC Cinematic Universe on the whole thing and I'd be like okay this
this this this and this all garbage we throw it all away now we're starting
fresh like there is so much trash that makes absolutely no sense in the Star
Wars Canon now that you can't even build a you can't even build a universe around
it that makes any sense anymore and it's it's junk and it should be gone as for
my favorites I mean yeah I was about that age when the young Jedi Knight
series came out that that was you know pretty enjoyable for me like it wasn't
challenging reading but I did love the stories love the characters I'd say
probably the the first Grand Admiral Thrawn is he started a vice admiral I
don't know it doesn't really matter yeah yeah the the the first Thrawn saga
Timothy Zahn hopefully I'm pronouncing that right yeah it's on too good to be
writing like crappy throwaway Star Wars fiction yeah I was gonna say most my
favorite books I'm just going through like a list right now are written by him
a lot of them are the Thrawn ones yeah
but yeah yeah Thrawn trilogy heir to the Empire Dark Force rising the last command
so good you can I think anyone can write a dumb character but not anyone can
write a smart character something that I found interesting I shouldn't say that
writing a dumb character well is also a very talent skill thing I dropped the
Jeep a very talent skill yeah this is the guy that's better at writing scripts
than I am writing not speaking them actually I'm better at speaking than you
too that's true sorry sorry I'm spicy today holding things how many times have
you dropped that is it like three or four right there oh you happy that did
not hit you yes we can pretend this one might and there's a monitor in front of
them and it skimmed right over that's okay minus Linus owns the monitor that's
pretty proof I should have put on his camera on your time sheet at Linus beat
me as a comment it's very soft though something that I found pretty
interesting was I did the audio books but listening to the audio books for the
prequel series prequel series yeah like the prequel movies yeah oh there's
audiobooks there's books for them that makes sense and they're like way better
right they probably explain a bunch of stuff yeah just like it gets hand-waved
away I was like way more interested in it you will find this plot coherent there
was a bunch of scenes where they explained like what characters were
thinking in the moment right like the scene where Palpatine there's a few
different scenes in Palpatine's like throne room thing his office whatever
there's one of them where and and I watched the film to check this part and
it's in it but it's so subtle no one's ever gonna pick it up he like moves his
hand slightly and in the I don't know if this was like they added this afterwards
so it wasn't actually planned for because it's so subtle but it's like he
thought about pulling his lightsaber out and that's where it was hidden but he
like decided not or it was in his chair or something I don't remember it's been
it's been years since I did it but the audio books were actually like way more
interesting got it there's a lot of like little subtle things going on which
there's a lot of subtle stuff in the prequels because it's like a political
series more than anything yeah so there's a ton of subtle stuff that they
add in I didn't give the prequels enough credit when they came out and part of it
is their own fault because yeah Jar Jar Binks is actually just in defensively
terrible and annoying and like the Darth Jar Jar plot was real it'd be so much
more interesting the slapstick you know r2d2 has a jetpack now just like
utterly unnecessary cannon-breaking moments that just destroyed the immersion
for me we're still objectively awful but the actual like political story behind
it was so much more coherent than I mean anything before or since yeah honestly
yeah yep at least in the movies
fron yeah yeah and I loved how he was like like an alien in the like like the
racist Empire and like talking about that experience and everything yeah just
really good books okay I've got one here from an anonymous with new react channel
would you consider doing a proper reaction to the verges infamous PC build
video as a sort of retrospective it's actually the video and its reception
that started my own PC building journey probably not what if you did it to your
video of building something here with him um well then I mean I feel like okay
again this comes back to my my whole thing where why are we making this video
is the question that we ask right when we start every video project why are we
why are we bothering what are we adding to the conversation and for the original
verge video I mean there were multiple people internally that at the time were
like hey we should do a reaction to this and I looked at it and went no I think
everything that needs to be said has been said what are we actually adding
million times to adding to the conversation nothing let's stay the
course let's do our own thing and ultimately that's what we did and by
biding our time I think we ultimately did the best response to that video
which was to bring Stefan onto our show and with him so you guys how to build a
PC properly I think that was that was the me way to react to that the me way
yeah yeah that's the reason I wouldn't do it because I don't think I'd be
adding anything to the conversation make sense okay this one's from Zachary hey
Linus and Luke and Dan I love the new plushy I went to Walmart today and saw
an RGB power strip of all things what is the most egregious addition of RGB to a
product you've ever seen I haven't seen it yet but we're hoping that Ludwig will
customize the swipe plus to add RGB to the bidet and then you'll carry it we're
hoping that we'll get the RGB version if not I mean the other one's good too but
I would like it to be RGB for gamers
just have like activity detection yeah are you gonna have an RGB thing I have a
bidet no I know but they did oh oh oh oh does it have RGB in it though I don't
know I don't think so as long as you can turn it off I never really care yeah
okay um you call yourself a gamer this one's from Braden yeah I'm like
definitely not aesthetically having almost broken both of my wrists this
morning by slipping and catching myself with my hands made me curious if any of
you have broken any bones tell me the story is it a no it's a no all right I
have not broken a bone but I have fractured one that's a break yeah when I
was when I was I'm sorry I haven't broken my screen but I have fractured
every time I say I broke it and then I talked about it more and bring up that
it was a fracture people like oh yeah break it and I'm like it's just it's a
whatever degree whatever yeah I don't know it's they're all broken yeah that's
stupid yeah whatever anyway um but when I was younger I grew really fast I was
basically this tall in like I think it was grade six and my bones were like
real thin that makes sense I was taking some big old pills for it and also the
kind of stuff because I was like fragile and we were snowboarding and I crouched
and then went to like sit back and put my hand back and everyone just heard her
like yeah it didn't even hurt that bad but I was like that's probably bad and
we went down cuz like I was fine I could still snowboard so I just got up and
snowboard it down which the guy was mad at me about but I went to the like
medical place we're at Cyprus the mountain we went to the medical place
and he put a thing on it and let me go and was like don't snowboard anymore and
I immediately went back and kept snowboarding because that's obviously
what I would do and it was fine every time I would fall I would just you know
not fall on that and that was it it took a little while to recover and then I was
fine I haven't broken anything since then
you're an idiot it was fine yeah I know I know but you're an idiot sometimes I
can't I can't like I can't you probably would have done something similar no I
wouldn't have I could see it happening I well I wouldn't have checked to see if
it was broken I wouldn't have known there you go this is really funny my
sister the one that did the build is that better I don't think that's better
she that's where she broke her arm as a child at least mine was in his and when
they did the x-ray they found I think it was two other breaks on the same arm
that she just hadn't noticed I guess and just kept like playing or doing whatever
it was she's doing and they just healed like like they were like what about the
green stick fracture or whatever like hairline fractures or whatever like so
the the one that she went in and got x-rayed actually had other breaks in it
that had already healed I do have a story about how I've never broken a bone
though because I've fallen off of plenty of horses I did martial arts for years
I've done my fair share of dangerous sports be it skiing snowboarding I think
if there's anything else I've done that's particularly dangerous I don't
know just stuff a lot of horseback riding like I've fallen off of horses
at height I've been bucked and stuff like that but one of the one of the keys
is knowing how to fall properly if there's any if there is one reason that
my kids do martial arts training it is to learn how to fall because the
difference between falling like this and falling like this is this hurts a lot
and this breaks your wrist fall on the meat and since spread out the force yeah
like you fall like this turn your face to the side don't go face in first you
know all that all that kind of stuff hit the ground make sure you exhale when you
hit the ground otherwise you're gonna get winded all those little things yeah
I played a lot of like pretty brutal sports and did a lot of to put it your
way fairly idiotic things throughout my years and I never broke anything else
after that because I was usually pretty good at falling just that time like it
shouldn't have happened my bones are just thin as heck so I just like it what
I don't know I didn't really do anything wrong I like crouched and then leaned
into the snow it should like not be a bad situation but it just I don't know
just was Wow horses not popular in float plane chat tilt Lord says my sister's
horse kicked her in the face and messed up her teeth Mike Reed goes horses are
jerks though to this day my sternum pops when I stretch because of an encounter
with a particularly kicky horse my dad had when I was a kid yeah I got kicked
in the head once fortunately it was by a full I mean she wasn't just born but she
wasn't full grown because otherwise may not be here man it was one of only three
times in my life that I have blacked out but it was for such a short brutal it
was for such a short period she got me like right behind the ear that's bad
back of it is bad three inches higher and to the side and she would have had
me in the temple yeah a little lower and she would have had me right in the stem
of my neck so it was like it was like right here she probably wishes she got
me there cuz boy was I ever mad at her I I was out for however long it took my
head to go from my standing height to about here so I didn't actually fall
down like I was conscious to catch myself got it and there's that so
there's a there's a process for getting horses to submit I forget what it's
called anymore but basically you like separate them from the herd and so
that's what I had been trying to do and she had because because it's it's to
it's to help train them and so that's what I had been trying to do and she
like got past me and I like tried to go for her and she like like just like went
wild and got me and man I was like determined I was like no you will your
head will go like this and you will be calm and I'm not leaving this riding
ring until that is done like so mad I mean you never never you never hit them
like you never actually behave aggressively toward a horse because
that's not how you build a relationship with them but this this process is
actually something that they do do in the wild where they'll they'll separate
one from the herd to discipline breaking a horse well no breaking is wild
breaking is yeah it's a day it's kind of a different thing okay I don't I forget
exactly what it's called I don't know stuff man I was mad I grew up with a
bunch of horse people but no offense to any horse people listening I just never
really cared I think it's part of breaking them or something but like yeah
it's a whole thing I have no idea it's a whole thing moving on okay this one's
from Ryan have you seen the Ferrara systems silicone based active cooling
tech if their claims about scalability with better nodes works out seems to
have an interesting implications for future tech yeah we're in touch if they
have an actual demo we can actually show you guys then we want to do a video about
it for sure make sense yeah yeah that'd be pretty awesome there this one's from
Alex with a daughter on the way I have been thinking about how much my dad
impacted me I now work in IT and I think back to when he let me play Halo as long
as I didn't tell mom do you have a moment in your life that started your
love for tech I hope to inspire my daughter to dream big to I mean gaming
yeah like I still remember playing tie fighter like wanting to game and not
being able to unless I figured out how to use the computer that was that was I
think that's the root of a lot of tech people from our generation yeah for me I
there was a buddy that I would carpool with to school and he would be dropped
off at our house and then we would drive from our house but he would be there for
like half an hour before we left and he was my best friend so we would want to
play Diablo but the only way that we could play like it wouldn't detect the
other computer on land right so we had to figure out like how IP stuff worked
so we could play together and my dad my dad was fairly competent so he was able
to kind of lead us to water but he wanted us to learn so he didn't just
tell us exactly how to do it but he like guided us along the path to figuring it
out and then we have would have to do it fairly often and then my dad gave me a
computer that was like broken that I was able to tear apart and I like broke it
way more nice and then nice felt really bad whereas usually in the rest of my
life I'm just like oh I just mess with something and who cares like it doesn't
really matter but I was like you know I actually wanted this thing to work yeah
so from there I'm like okay I should probably do better now I want to figure
out how to do this better yeah exactly that was that was a lot of the drive
okay this one's from Daniel when Nintendo decides to make their next
console would you like to see a similar form of the switch a move back to a
fixed console station or something new I have an opinion here I'll go first I
guess fixed console station and I know that might be really yeah or more of a
focus on it maybe maybe if the dock enables more power which was something
that I think a lot of us were hoping when before the switch came out of that
an eGPU in it or something like that because 60 FPS doc we were hanging out
fairly recently and you busted out the Wii U yeah and that was really fun
that's totally fun we didn't play Wii U games played Wii games yeah it was great
play some Wii sports let's go co-op is like a dead meme at this point yeah like
it's so hard to find co-op games and I think if there was more focus on the
fixed console experience more games would be made for it you know but I
think a lot of switch games are made with the switch being mobile more in
mind and when it's mobile it's usually single-player yes there's some Nintendo
titles that are like okay one player gets one controller and you can play
with the little switch propped up with the little leg thingy that breaks way
too easily but I don't think there's that many that are made for that I'm
gonna have a bit of a maybe controversial take here I trust Nintendo
to innovate and do something different as much as I trust them to be generally
anti consumer and money-grubbing so yeah they're gonna want to change the
controllers you have to buy new ones etc yeah I'm gonna go with Nintendo knows
what's best for for innovation in gaming and doing something different than what
Sony and Microsoft are doing and if they decide that you know a switch is you
know the best they can do right now then I'm into it if they think it should have
four screens or like you know a waggly dildo for a controller then I guess I'm
into that too let's let's go we already made the week yeah yeah I know that was
the joke yeah thanks welcome to the party to me that the
switch was released in 2017 and we still don't have a new one I don't count the
OLED but yeah anyways moving on okay this one's from Charles hey Linus just
fixed a really annoying issue with my PC which wouldn't let it boot past the bias
what was the hardest tech issue you've encountered and how did you fix it hmm
no idea hardest tech issue you've encountered oh man the one I had to
solve for the AMD challenge actually was pretty difficult and I think that you
know ten years ago or whatever I probably wouldn't have been able to see
oh I don't know Nvidia's whole 680 I platforms like super flaky hardest tech
issue I survived on that that wasn't it 780 I think yeah yeah it was it just as
bad survived on there for a while yeah tough times hardest issue I don't know
I've had so my whole life is just tech issues yeah this is a hard question
because you'd have to drill through practically half the waking hours of
every day for the last 25 years the stability of the land show stream yeah
that's the one that probably plagued me longest I mean we we would reinstall
windows swap out literally every piece of hardware it would crash anyway we
could both go home and stream stably yeah but we couldn't couldn't stream
with the way NPC we both tried it yeah just Linus I tried to fix it yeah I've
tried now yeah I think this is my side as well the way NPC is cursed yep I am
I'm gonna always be cursed no all right I'll bring a priest in sounds good you
need some holy water and then I'll break it too but yeah yeah don't have a great
answer okay last one I've got here is from anonymous hey Luke I was just
wondering if me making a float plane resolution upscaling AI tool would be
against the terms of service or any other rules and yes I'm one of the I can
see the need for for 1440p cringe take just run it in 4k my dude it's just bit
rate man come on I don't think it is I don't care legal legal T's and C's are
hard I don't think it is I'm not personally mad about it I think it's
unnecessary I a lot of the AI resolution upscaling stuff that I've seen in the
past is not good but I mean I mean yeah if you're just if you're just downloading
the video and then watching it upscaled like you're not even really doing
anything you could just use existing tools like right oh yeah just do that
you just do that yeah yeah I mean you can't you like auto download the videos
anyway and then you could just like you'd have to sort of make that point an
upscaling tool at a folder at the folder and then just have it out somewhere like
there's got to care what you do like if you're capable of doing this you're
definitely capable of doing it a smarter way yeah yeah yeah wait waste your time
because you could have just downloaded or watched the 4k version all right two
more last two Luke as your team grows will you add product managers yep and
how do you calculate ROI from a product side there are many things that this guy
gets me to make that I tell him enthusiastically before making it that
the ROI makes no sense so sometimes I don't calculate it because there's no
point because I tell him it's terrible and he's like we're doing it anyways and
I'm like gotcha but we're a privately held company so we can just do cool
stuff that doesn't make any sense to be completely honest yeah I'm not mad about
it there's just a lot of things that we make that aren't really ROI focused so
if he's like I don't care then cool I don't care either but if it matters then
it matters I don't know it will you add product managers yes I have to Dan from
the labs website side is doing that very well it's it's going great AJ has been
taking on more leadership responsibility recently he's been doing a fantastic job
of it and then there's actually gonna be some more news in that regard relatively
soon but yeah it's happening not for everything right but when the team
working on that thing is getting relatively big and there's a bunch of
teams it makes sense for that relatively big team to have someone leading it
kind of with me because doing it all myself is going to be problematic but
yeah and finally where'd it go ah Benjamin asks how much of the LTT
channel views happens on videos older than a month six months five years it
ebbs and flows sometimes a lot of the viewership is just coming from whatever
is fresh and whatever we can do to to generate as good as possible as good a
push as possible on that new content and then it just falls off a cliff and then
six months later the rules totally change and that content that just kind
of went and then died right out of the gate is back with a vengeance I actually
messaged my contact recently saying like hey I'm not complaining but I I do
always get unnerved by what I perceive as big swings in algorithmic behavior
and this last month has been a doozy we're on an upswing for our back
catalogue that I haven't seen the likes of in probably a couple of years and
it's following a downswing the likes of which I had only seen a few times in the
last five years and I'm just kind of sitting here going guys you're sending
me very mixed messages here I mean they're not you know you ask someone
like okay so Todd had a search and discovery and he'll always tell you okay
make evergreen content just focus on quality focus on viewer satisfaction
it's like yeah I always do that but in terms of the actual day-to-day
performance of the videos they send it doesn't always reflect that way far less
consistent messages yeah and so yeah it's it's all over the place not gonna
lie but what I can say is it also depends on your content strategy right
like we try to make sure that every video has what I call learning outcomes
so that even if you watch it five years down the line and the the actual parts
that we're talking about are completely obsolete and irrelevant there will still
be something that you can learn from it so that'll help that'll make it more
likely that people will come across it and more likely that it'll be
recommended because it's more likely that people will be satisfied by that
particular video this is great anonymous okay fine one last one one last one I
got your screwdriver the day after you announced it two of my friends said it
was overpriced both of them have ordered one since nice and with that I will see
you again next week same bad time same bad Channel bye