what is up everyone and welcome to the wancho happy new year it's a new year same me a whole
new year yep it's a whole different number um in the date no new no new year resolutions wow
not even 16k good joke good job linus x can't afford mr beast uh mr beast and elon musk went
back i don't know if there was much forth but they definitely discussed the issue on x twitter
what was the x was formerly x twitter x twitter that's what hey that actually works does anyone
else call it x twitter no but i kind of like it cool um so we'll be talking about that as well
as just sort of creator monetization and why it is such a challenge for platforms like x twitter
to afford a creator like mr beast um the manufacturer sabotaged polish trains with drm
so we'll be talking a little bit about that what else we got did i manage to pick your two
uh you got one of them yes i'm now looking for a replacement and also trying to find the one that
oh yeah international hackers hit uh water supply infrastructure scary anytime anyone hits infrastructure
it's kind of like oh everyone kind of realizes that that can happen again for the however manyth
time yeah yeah oh yeah that thing yeah yeah that's that's why the nuclear football uses like floppy disks
or whatever it does that's it you got one but what about the drug dealers and the drones it's like a
year old article i guess there's there's follow-up information that's more new so yeah drug uh drug dealers
are using uh they're using drones uh because they'll use anything uh the last thing i saw was
avocados um cool i know they've put them in submarines this week before ces is historically
a super super slow week for news because everyone is saving everything for next week but everyone's
saving everything everyone's on vacation we can talk through some leaks and stuff it'll be fun it'll
still be a good show you guys don't even watch this for the news why who cares
show is brought to you today by manscaped squarespace and the ridge why don't we jump into
our first topic today which is a pretty small topic all things considered uh mr beast recently
had a random crypto enthusiast respond to him promoting a video on twitter um that he should
hey you know mr beast jimmy why don't you upload the video directly to the platform instead of just
posting a link to where people can go watch the video which historically does not perform very well
compared to an organic tweet now obviously it's mr beast so his video or his post is just i uploaded
go watch or i'll drop kick you and it has 66 000 likes yeah but for him that is not a ton of
engagement that's that's you know on the lower side so that's been the case for a long time just you
know simple short self-promotional tweets don't perform as well as when you try and come up with
something really engaging and really unique that you know serves the twitter audience really well
um so it's it's a really valid question why not just upload the content here and people can just
watch it um and jimmy responded saying okay hold on first elon musk pitched and he goes yeah yeah
10 000 likes 10 000 likes and so jimmy responded with i think a really actually um succinct version of
what i'll kind of try and talk to you guys about fair he basically goes my videos cost millions to make
and even if they got a billion views on x it wouldn't fund a fraction of it um colon forward slash
face um i'm down to test stuff once monetization is really cranking and this is a really good
point that i think a lot of people don't necessarily understand about platforms i've been asked
a thousand times about at least multiple dozens of alternate platforms linus why don't you upload
your videos here i was about to say to x as a as a just a variable that doesn't work okay uh linus why
don't you upload your videos to daily motion except we did yeah yeah why don't you upload
your videos to daily motion why don't you upload them to you know rumble or odyssey or any of the
any of the countless alternate video platforms and the answer is always guys the economics of it just
don't make any sense because it it can only be one of two ways right you've either got the ability
to get a lot of views with a very very low per view monetization rate that's youtube or you've got
the ability to get very few views with a very high monetization rate so that's going to be something
more along the lines of like a um uh what's that not master class but the one where where it's like
it pays out based on how many views you get i can't i can't remember but you know something like
like selling a course or something like that that's just about the highest possible cpm you can get
because each individual who buys the course is going to pay 10 or 20 or 50 dollars or 100 dollars
or whatever the case may be so there's your spectrum and the problem is that unless your name
is google and you happen to own youtube at least this is true in the western world the economics
of anything that's not paying like this getting less than hundreds of thousands or millions of
views just doesn't make any sense um floatplane sits kind of somewhere in between where people pay
anywhere from the ogs uh pay three dollars a month anywhere up to i think our highest tier is ten dollars a
month and even then you know we have to put a ton of work into making that platform appealing to people
we have to upload a bunch of extra content so it ends up being kind of a mix it ends up being our
regular content at a much higher monetization rate but then it ends up being this other much higher
cost content at a i shouldn't say higher cost it's lower cost but it's not going to other platforms that
also contribute to it so floatplane has to bear that cost completely on its own so we have this other
sort of exclusive or behind the scenes or whatever else it is content that sits on there
that is paid for by those subscribers so that kind of sits somewhere in between so there's kind of your
spectrum and the reality of it is that twitter x twitter's monetization is just not even close
i even if you're if you're a person sitting in front of your webcam i am not sure if even at you know
let's let's forget about mr beast because there's only one person if we do the math based on mr beast
there's only one person to whom that's relevant yeah and his name is jimmy um whereas if we talk
about it maybe more along the lines of let's say someone who would have a quarter million to a
million subscribers on youtube okay so you're someone who's getting realistically it's probably
somewhere between 10 15 000 views a video to you know maybe 250 000 views a video somewhere in that
range even if you could port your entire youtube audience over to x twitter you'd be looking at
maybe tens of dollars for that video which if it's just you in a webcam may actually be viable
but if it's anything beyond that you're you're probably paying yourself less than minimum wage and
you might say okay well are you really though because it's just purely incremental right
like why not just have the little x cherry on top of all your views on youtube or whatever else but
you got to understand from a creator's point of view at least if you're a business-minded one
there's an opportunity cost for everyone who watches on this platform where the monetization is
very low anywhere you're uploading you're theoretically trying to drive more people there
so like if it's worse why are you driving people there especially when most of the people looking
for videos are probably going to be on youtube anyways when you're looking for publicly freely
accessible videos so people often ask themselves or ask out loud even you know why is it that youtube
has this seeming monopoly on vaude content and there's a lot of answers for how it came to be
the way that it is right now but as for why it is the way it is right now you know why are why do
twitch streamers want to get a foothold on youtube why do tiktokers want to make a transition over to
youtube the answer is simple and it's that people like to be paid for their work and youtube offers by far
the best compensation for their work and that's not it's not just like oh it's it's all about the money
it's like think about it this way if in the morning you got dressed brush your teeth ate some oatmeal
and you had the option to go to one of six different places and one of them paid the most and you did the
exact same job and your job wasn't you know to manufacture um you know the train that runs over
people or you know the lever that doesn't seem to work to prevent the train from running over people
or you know whatever the case may be as long as what you're doing is not you know obviously morally
abhorrent yeah well which one do you drive to i i think it's a pretty obvious answer you go to the
one that compensates you best and youtube has this for better or for worse very powerful machine
that ensures that if you are able to get views on the platform you are able to be paid
luke's calling someone yeah don't worry about it well this is very interesting i know i would i would
love to know who we're going to be talking to live on the show today are we planning to tell them
they're live on the show we're not talking to anybody live on the show we are not talking to
anybody we're not talking to them okay wow this is very mysterious
anyway um we have we actually do have monetization enabled on x twitter and i thought i would just
share with you guys uh we don't upload a ton of video but we have uploaded some videos that have
gotten you know thousands of views or whatever typically uh man i'm trying to think i actually
don't know what a thousand views is worth on youtube it really it varies a lot but the point
is uh we have a pretty active twitter account fair amount of engagement and this should give you some
idea of why people don't really um why someone like jimmy might not bother so here's all of our all of our
payouts um for the last i guess you know three months or whatever um anywhere from you know 60 60
oh this i mean this could be 65 anything oh 65.99 okay i don't know it could have been there could
have been another there could have been another digit in there or something like that um
um let's say for the sake of argument how many typical views does jimmy get on a video 50 million
to 100 million is that a pretty fair range why don't we say 100 million sounds i don't really
look at them but that sounds about right so let's say jimmy is 100 times our size let's say we get 1
million let's take that let's take kind of a mid to upper range for him let's take a lower range for
us we typically get a million to two million so let's say we get a million views of video and let's
say he gets 100 million views of video he's 100 times our size he would make let's say for the
sake of argument did you say 50 to 100 yeah none of his get 50 oh okay so he's way above that now
yeah okay i haven't looked in a while yeah usually it's like like 80 to 200 is where i'm seeing most
of them okay so let's say 150 so let's say okay let's say he's 150 times our size so he would get
around 10 grand from twitter assuming he had a similar strategy to us you know trying to kind
of post every day and meme or you know whatever else that is i mean the that is not even a rounding
error um for him like i just it just it doesn't it doesn't register he could he could literally make
an offhand comment about man i'm trying to think of something totally totally trivial like it like
he could he could do a special edition popsicle stick with like mr beast on it and that's it's
nothing else it's a popsicle stick it sounds like a uh what was it sounds like a supreme drop yeah and
then he could make a tweet about the popsicle stick and it would eclipse his twitter revenue that he
actually makes organically from the platform like it's just it's just not a factor for someone like
that um so that's that's that's why i just don't think that as much as people want to see it you're
going to see this mass exodus from youtube anytime soon or ever such a ever such a big word but i just
don't see anyone else even really trying like bite dance tick tock maybe had an opportunity but
they haven't managed to figure out either the monetization of the platform itself or they
haven't figured out how to share in a way that is enticing to creators like you still have people
trying to migrate trying to migrate their audiences what do you want to talk about next how about the ai
key oh yeah windows machines at microsoft's behest are getting a new key on the keyboard for what is
this the first time since the windows key was added in 1994 yeah it's come on tell us about it yeah you
must love this it's great ai key i think it could make sense he is eventually okay let's let's i don't
think it makes a lot of sense now basically it's a key that opens up um whatever they call it windows
copilot um which if you end up using windows copilot in a very similar way that you would use windows
search then i think it kind of makes sense right now that's super obviously not worth doing
so maybe it's a little premature i'm telling dan before the show this feels kind of like when facebook
renamed to meta it feels like they're investing an immense amount of money not really getting the
product that they want and then doing something that feels more like a marketing push than anything
else to try to stir more news and more push around it because they still want this thing that they've
sunk billions of dollars into to be more relevant than it is the ai space
is moving fast and very exciting but is hurting on actual products that are usable by users um i i
pointed this out a really long time ago it was going to be hard for people to actually ship
um and a lot of things that people have wanted from the ai space have had issues shipping um including
copilot so yeah it feels premature to me i think one day i will probably actually like this but something
that they would need to do is change windows search back to actually searching your computer
instead of being this like weird internet thing because then if they had one button that was like
this is local and they had another button that was like this is ai stuff and it can search the
yeah uh the internet and it can give me links and it can do whatever that would actually be probably
useful i think one thing that's fairly telling is it's on the right side of the keyboard isn't it
yeah yeah the area no one uses uh here we actually have some of the least cast pressed
keys we actually have a bigfoot sighting style picture yeah there's better yeah no no just go on
tom's hardware which is the source of this this is intentionally terrible uh so just go on tom's
hardware and look at it yourself you know we're not trying to you're not trying to take their clicks
or whatever but i think it's this one yeah it's i think it's to the left of the windows key yeah um
um i actually i speaking of speaking of ridiculous things that microsoft has embedded in their operating
system to push their other stuff like we're we're getting super we're getting super close to
antitrust microsoft time again here i think um i was not aware of this did you know that there is a
dedicated windows shortcut key or a dedicated windows shortcut to open up linkedin oh that's
what i was gonna troll you with oh okay yeah someone posted it in chat there's a lot more than just
that actually there's like um yeah so check check this out check this out guys uh we're going to line
this laptop okay hold on hold on no no wait we can look at control alt shift win l opens linked
opens linked it like there's also key combinations for word excel powerpoint outlook teams one drive
one note and teams you don't need you don't need a shortcut for teams you need a shortcut to make
teams go away yeah yep man if i don't know if there's anything that makes me more angry what about
when it forcibly logs you out and then you can't even minimize it because it keeps forcing its thing up
yeah yeah that so you're like working on something important and it logs you out randomly in the
background and you have to go through its entire login process or else it'll force itself to the
front of screen it is amazing remarkable how bad that design is i also just don't really understand
why it logs me out we've we've looked into it you can't configure it to not do that it'll log me out
while i'm literally in the middle of using it i i was on a teams call today hung up and then it logged me
out i find i find the approach that some services take to security very confusing like if you're
gonna make the argument that i should be signed out every month because something then fine okay
well do it on my phone and on my laptop and on my desktop but then you have something like uh gmail
for example which logs you out i'm trying to think
man it says every month but i swear my work computer is way more often than that there's no way that that
only comes up 12 times a year but on your phone never logs you out and you could kind of go okay
well yeah but you've got you know biometric authentication on your phone or whatever but
i'm sitting here going well yeah but i have biometric authentication on my computer which one's
more likely to get stolen yeah which one's more likely to get left in a coffee shop
at least have some consistency to this and there's no consistency between the various tech giants i mean
okay whatsapp a great example for years facebook would allow you to leave whatsapp signed in
perpetually on your phone but wouldn't allow you to have it signed in or cloud synchronized with any
other phone now they do that and just you know i don't know why'd you change that i don't know not
sure uh but on the computer would log you out like all the time like i think it would stay logged at
seven 14 days or something like that and then meanwhile you've got something like teams that logs you
out on your phone all the time instead of just being like oh yeah no no the phone is the single
source of truth that you know you can use to authenticate your other devices and then you
know google's really funny because they'll sign you i'm trying to think of what no they don't sign
you out of anything on your phone but they are constantly signing you out on your computer and then
i'm trying to think if there's anyone that doesn't that never signs you out on your computer
um can't think it can't think of anything right now yeah okay yeah there's one and it's like gaming
stuff no i can't think of any productivity like work productivity style apps that don't log you out
high value accounts though steam like the value of my steam account compared to like my stupid
throwaway hotmail account or something which by the way no hotmail you can tell to never sign you out
oh well you're because your windows account is uh is tied to your computer right or your your uh
windows left so it's like it's it's flipping arbitrary so on my computer if it's my microsoft
account that i use to log in for authentication i can stay signed in perpetually but on my phone
where it's where it's managed by my organization and if there was ever a problem we can just recover
it no problem you have to sign me out every 30 days like it the whole thing is completely arbitrary
nobody agrees yeah you want to hear an interesting one yeah recommended by password managers
people are starting to store their 2fa in their password managers and there are security arguments
for this no from that's not what to do password managers and security researchers what yeah oh
okay you're gonna have to okay back me up so people oh a big people are storing their 2fa backup codes
yeah in their password manager yeah well now we're back to just one password again and that was a pun
yeah it's not a pun but it's a it's one password actually does recommend this no
uh like surprising amount of other people do this too it's interesting to me the one of the big
arguments for it is there's just no point in not because if they have this they have that
and i was like a kind of interesting argument because like if if someone gets into your password
manager do they really not also have your 2fa uh they might just have the one 2fa i mean one of the
ways that people commonly get past 2fas is by spamming login attempts and then like calling you in the middle
of the night and you know trying to get it or whatever else like while you're groggy and stuff
like they could social engineer one 2fa away from you without having access to your 2fa account
so no i actually what they're saying is if they if they had the if they had access to your password
vault yeah they may as well just have access to your 2fa but they don't because i don't store that
password in my password vault your password for your 2fa yeah i have it memorized yeah see this is
why i don't like it but this is like actually an argument that's being made by like smart people
which i find very interesting uh sort 2fa and let's see now i'm sad they even tell you when they
give you the backup codes they're like write this down print it out that's what you're supposed to do
backup codes are not those are different things oh okay i thought you were saying that people were
putting the backup codes some people do that too but that's that's not i don't think that in
particular is recommended just the 2fa so you can you can have like rolling 2fa but then the password
for it is in your password manager that's so stupid like you can literally have it to the point where
when you when you go like oh fill my login info for this site it'll fill the login and password and
then when the 2fa comes up it'll just automatically fill the 2fa and then you're fully logged no i i
hate the tedium of 2fa as much as probably anyone i kind of one of the reasons why i'm bringing this
up is i want people to like yell at me about why it's fine because i don't really get it because it
doesn't seem fine to me no it's not fine yeah i strongly disagree
yeah no no poll we really have to pull this you guys i i i well yeah fine i'll do i'll do a poll uh
safe to store 2fa password in your password manager so is that is that what we're asking uh sure yeah
okay i ah guys i don't know man okay let's let's bring up the results results time yeah no there's
like 10 percent oh oh it's swinging it's swinging the people who were very angry about this were
super quick to click no oh shoot it's uh it's covered a little bit there you go got that fixed
for you so it looks like good by the time the dust settles anywhere between a quarter of you
probably about a quarter of you think that it's totally fine to store your 2fas in there it's
definitely more convenient it's definitely more convenient yeah and i mean if you gave me the
option you know 10 years ago when we were just getting into the idea of biometric security if you
gave me the option to have a setup like this where i have to memorize one password that i just enter
all the time or if i have to start like entering my fingerprints and you know retinal scans and iris
scans and facial scans into every electronic device in my life i i would i would probably have taken this
path even with all the compromises here check this out like this is this is where like man i find this so
interesting here's an article on blog.onepassword.com right and there are other i'm just using them as an
example there are other password vault password storage password security sites that say the exact
same thing i'm just using one password as an example because this is the first one that i found
you've probably heard or read the advice turn on two-factor authentication everywhere it's offered
after all it's a great way to add an extra layer of protection to your online accounts but should that
include your one password account the short answer is no wait that's a completely different thing this is
this is a different thing wait what they're saying not to turn on two-factor authentication on a
password manager you need to unpack what 2fa does and how your data is protected by one password
security model this isn't the article that i meant to bring up but it's like there's still
there's so many hot takes in the one password hold on blog hold on what no i'm sorry i i can i can
how is it secured by design okay you're you're scrolling where do you want me to stop i don't know you
keep just well i know what two-factor authentication is so we can go past that how is it secure by
design okay you choose this password we don't know it and it's never stored on our servers
your secret key is along so yeah but that's not what the are they high that's not how lit
what the here we go here we go here we go that is terrible advice here we go
manages to obtain an encrypted copy of your data from our servers that's not that's not that's such
a that's such an outlier scenario that's not scenario one that's scenario seven a criminal
guesses your account we're not talking about guessing from a new device without your secret
key that's only stored on your devices so you don't have to type it every time you unlock one
password and your printable emergency isn't that just a second factor then
well what they're saying is like i i think what they're saying is if you sign in a new location
you have to authenticate that new location i think that's what they're saying you wouldn't
be able to sign into your account from a new device without your secret key that piece of information
okay so then hold on one password is just saying they already have 2fa
i guess this this isn't the page yeah i'm gonna go okay all right so that's that's fine then because
they already have a second authentication factor i mean okay i have uh i have a remote access um
service that i use that i do not have you know 2fa like i don't i don't have it in google authenticator
right um because every time i sign on from a new location i have to validate via some other means
so i don't need that kind but that's just really misleading because also recommending against adding
additional factors is interesting to me yeah i do see their point that two factors is probably
enough factors that you're going to get a notification that somebody's trying to sign
in static and you're going to get a chance to deal with it um however i i disagree that all factors are
made equal i don't think that that should be their default factor even um like their default second
factor something that is static uh like a some it's almost like a like a physical key a physical
key can be copied whereas a key that changes every time you use the lock cannot be copied and that's
how something like google authenticator works oh i wish i could find it i know they have an article
on this i found someone talking about the article because i can't find the actual root article all
someone would have to do is have your computer compromised with a key logger at a time when you
are re-authenticating and they could force you to re-authenticate if they had some kind of access to
your machine that allowed them to reroute you through a vpn or something because then it would appear as
though you were logging in from another location so i know i'm asking for a lot of stars to align but
that's not that far-fetched for someone to have some kind of for someone to have if they have some
kind of malware on your machine i don't think it's that far-fetched that they could route you through
some kind of um remote location and that they could have a key logger installed i don't i don't think
that's like science fiction um this so this this reads different than the last time i saw it i don't
know if it's been edited or maybe i'm remembering an article from someone else and just found this
one first so my memory might be skewed but here's the article it was linked in in flow plane chat by
a few different people um but yeah one password in 2fa is it wrong to store passwords and one-time
codes together and to be clear again one password is not the only company that supports this
they like all do i think i'm pretty sure lastpass does i know keeper does and clearly one password
does and i think the other ones do as well um and yeah they argue that it's like secure and fine
but they also say you know the correct choice is the one that works best for you you apparently okay
so this is apparently the um the the one password um key is only entered when you first set it up
yeah okay okay well then that's not too bad because they'd have to have the keylogger at the time you
first set it up yeah they might though yeah and you might you could potentially trick a user into entering
that um man it's not as bad as i thought it was not even close but i'm i'm not a huge fan and i also don't
really like the advice of of not having okay i should i should clarify when i say i don't like the
advice of not adding multiple factors i don't mean adding multiple alternate factors i was dismayed
when i realized that the way that google accounts handle a um a physical device like a yubi key
if you don't have your yubi key and you set up like when i when i initially set it up i was like it
it was at a time when i think we had just had an account compromised or something like that
and i was going like i want three factors i want my password i want my yubi key oh yeah and i want
my authenticator app some sites worked this way for a very brief period of time and now i don't know
of any that worked and what i didn't realize at the time was i was adding or factors some of them
were not and factors some were and google wasn't yeah i don't know of anything that is now like i just
said yeah but for a little brief period of time when we when we first got our yubi keys
some sites were and and that was actually very cool uh because if you wanted like hyper security
it felt like you had the you know the the two nuclear keys or whatever um but yeah now it's just
like various ways to bypass the thing um i don't know there's also i've found a lot of places that
accept yubi keys require two different ones yeah which is like so it's like yes i can use my high
security yubi key and i also have to have sms authentication enabled that's like the very worst
time sick yeah i don't know um yubi key has gotten i find with a lot of things that we use it's gotten a
little bit less useful over the years uh because more and more places that do support it require you to
have two enabled and less and less places seem to support it m4t z ess says if a key logger's on
your system you're already compromised that's sort of true because in many cases you are well
the expectation one of the reasons that you should use autofill with a password manager is that it makes
it so you don't have to type your passwords so if someone has a key logger even if they have man even
if they've they've got you good and they have you know remote access to your screen um unless they
can also access your clipboard um yeah man even if they can access your clipboard the autofill service
i don't believe copies the plain text of your password to the clipboard so as long as you're not control
c c control v pasting your passwords i i'm sure there's a way but it would be very difficult to
get passwords even if you had even if they had your clipboard and even if they had a key logger and even
if they could see your screen because almost every password field that i've seen in the last 10 years
just uses asterisks or dots or whatever else instead of actually pasting the text in there
one password apparently clears the clipboard after a time delay uh as far as i know it just edits the
html doesn't copy your password yeah
yeah all right
quinoj says be careful seemingly giving security advice uh i think what we're saying is fine
yeah what we're saying that having more factors is good and if they're strong factors then that's
better yeah what what i'm questioning is some people talking about how you can
my whole thing is i'm just very unsure about the idea of storing all of your two-factor in one
application the main argument i'm seeing around it is in general if someone is going to have access
to this thing they probably have access to your whole device um and that device is usually described
as a phone um remote desktop plus autofill plus developer tools equals compromise without 2fa
yeah there's lots of different yeah there's tons of different attack vectors yeah um i just question
the idea of reducing the layers because it feels like reducing the layers and i understand some of the
arguments like okay if they're literally in your phone then they already have it anyways it's like
well
i don't know i don't know about that because like the things that i hear getting compromised
more often these days are computers and i never have my two-factor authentication stuff on my computer
i know some people do but i don't like i never run off yet some people run offy in their browser
really yeah oh i don't do that okay yeah me neither yeah that just i mean
man i'm trying to think is this is this like a is this like a subconscious bias or does this
have a basis in reality i just kind of think i've always wanted the separation i think of windows
computers as just like kind of probably compromised
yeah am i just buying into the apple messaging i don't know well i do too so i don't know like i i
don't want to be in a position where my computer is the sole portal to any account but i mean in some
cases you can't really avoid it but i don't i don't like it and i i do try to avoid it um
i do that to be clear this is one of those things where but i disable autofill because i find
keepers at least is so bad it doesn't work very well that it it it'll also just like aggressively
take over certain things or it'll decide that the wrong box is the right one and it won't let me
progress on the website because it keeps trying to spam into the wrong box which is really bad
oh yeah okay that's uh that's a that's a that's a very interesting attack vector um
and security is just such a such a myth man
uh either way having a second factor definitely not a bad thing putting it all in one place i'm
just not sure if i can agree with that i think that's really the bottom line for me um
sms needs to completely not be a thing first for to fa uh do we want to move on to
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new here new clean in both elongated and round forms okay so the swipe plus
it's not inexpensive but uh without giving you guys too much information let me just say it's uh
you know it gets pretty warm you know the water the water gets pretty warm which is good um it doesn't
have rgb but it does have some colors uh some of the colors were were we were we were told our best to
avoid but we we definitely do have some uh some some nice different you know gamer colors that you
can you can set your swipe plus to uh we also have the regular swipe uh let's see if i can find that
there it is much much more economical this one is not heated and doesn't have you know the fan and the
carbon you know odor filter and all those kinds of wild features and everything it's just uh just a
simple bidet why does ludwig have a bidet as far as i can tell it really is as simple as he thinks
that people's butts should be cleaner i i actually i i can't i i i i really have you know checked his
i've talked to him about it i've checked his just external communications about it um i've i i i've tried
to to kind of analyze what his motivation could possibly be for creating a product like this
and why do you make a screwdriver because i just why do you make a backpack i think there should be
a better screwdriver and i think you make towels be a better backpack why do you make a kid's book i
why do you make kids toys because they i think they're good why are you making cable organizers
because cables should be organized extension because the screwdriver needs to be longer sounds
like the bidet's valid yeah um so anyway i um yeah i checked his butthole it's super clean
it's just i was just trying to get him he's all focused on something else yeah yeah
so now the knowledge of ludwig's clean butthole is definitely something i needed so now you can get
the swipe and the swipe plus on lttstore.com uh this is i think the second non lmg creator merch item
that we've brought onto the store the man j rig knife the jerry ring everything knife has been a smash hit
for us and maybe this will be a um splash got him let's go yeah yeah so someone asking uh brandon p lmg
is asking wait can i merch request a bidet i guess yeah i mean you there you go the the reality of it is
that your your annual budget for stuff from ltt store is your annual budget and the stuff that we
buy from ludwig versus the stuff that we buy from a supplier like the the it's not like the the lmg
stuff is free there is yeah and so you know we could yeah so the cost is the cost is the cost and
your budget is your budget is your budget so i don't see why not i don't know yeah um anyway yeah
these are great i've been using one for the i've had a swipe plus in my upstairs bathroom for
six months or something like that it's i i would have considered one of these but i bought in too
early before we started doing that because when there was the toilet paper shortages during the
pandemic i was just like screw this man yeah and got a bidet yeah it i wasn't open to it until i
traveled to japan yeah i was always like oh weird toilets uh-huh toilet paper makes so much sense
toilet paper makes no sense coat paper seems very very archaic and out of date at this point
it really it really feels like like sure to you know to dry off or whatever yeah like what sorry i'm
taking this like a whole wad of um
casey herp j1 on the float plane on float plane chat says not open to bidets very clenched
okay i go ahead stay clenched but uh anyway the point is uh what am i talking about yeah like why why am
i like you know getting my hand all up in there and like this like this wimpy paper and the manufacturing
you are literally manufacturing garbage when you make toilet paper why are why are we doing this
and like okay a little bit is is fine you know so you're you know your butt's not all wet when you
pull your underwear up or whatever but like
it just seems spectacularly wasteful then and an affordable bidet like the swipe at 50 bucks will pay
for itself it will pay yeah for itself yeah the the the the 50 dollar one probably rather quickly
actually yeah so i i yeah as soon as i as soon as i tried it in japan um like man the toilets they
have over there it's like it's like they're amazing yeah it's like landing on an alien planet and they
just have figured out waste disposal in ways that humans could never have imagined like i i've told the
story on land show before but i we pulled over at a rest stop on a highway and the bathroom was so
much nicer than anything i've seen in like you know a four-star hotel in you know north america like in
a hotel lobby or like a you know an up-class restaurant you know i'm talking public washrooms
obviously right uh it was just everything was clean the lighting was so bright and the toilet seat
was heated and this is like like in a shack at the side of the road essentially i don't even think
there was a convenience store like i i couldn't believe it yeah check teams yeah it's um
yeah i don't know i think for them too it's like it's it's gotta be one of those things where
i believe a lot of them are made there um and it's so ubiquitous there that the pricing is probably
not as bad like when i tried to get a bidet here it was kind of rough but the pricing also just makes
sense because you just do it once yeah and then it's just you just don't buy toilet paper yeah awesome
yeah and over the span of your entire lifetime that you are alive even a swipe plus will pay for itself
yeah because like for sure with my understanding um they don't really break that often either well
they're pretty simple devices yeah especially the the basic one is like a valve and a dial you're
still paying for water yeah we live somewhere where water is very cheap but i believe basically
everywhere that would still be a cheaper alternative than buying toilet paper yeah i think i i i i find it
hard to believe that a little bit of water uh would cost more than the paper that you would use for
that because it's not it's not like that much water now obviously this i'm sure there's like
an example of somewhere where that's not the case but i think most places that will be the case okay
uh so anyway um why don't we do a couple merch messages oh right merch messages how do they work
so instead of you know twitch bits or super chats or whatever else we have merch messages that way
whether we do or don't get to your message hey you get your high quality merchandise from
ltdstore.com in the mail uh sometime after the show so all you got to do is add the items that
you're interested in to your cart and then in the cart you'll see a little box that'll have a place
for you to fill in a merch message that'll go to producer dan boop there he is now he's gone and
he will reply to you or flag it for me and luke to respond to or send it to someone else internally
who can answer you or just pop it up on there if you have like a hi mom shout out and your mom
watches wan show which is unusual but not unheard of luke's mom watches man show yeah hi um yeah
exactly uh why don't you show us a couple to kind of show us how it's done dan yeah sure thing first
up here what is the weirdest or most obscure reason you've had to delay or cancel a product
or project sorry oh man most of the reasons for us canceling projects usually come down to
just them being fundamentally broken like not not working at all um i mean
i'm trying to think of something that we canceled recently we we didn't cancel but we delayed a desk
fan that is made out of e-waste hard drives recently um and the reason for it was that the idea was that
we would use the motor from the hard drive oh and we're probably still going to do it at some point
but the issue was that if we just ran those motors with no particular protection so the so the first
proof of concept i basically told the engineer who showed it to me or they the person in the engineering
department i don't know if strictly speaking they were an engineer it's a protected term in canada long
story uh i told the the the creator warehouse engineering department person who worked on it
uh to immediately unplug it uh put a label on it that it was unsafe and that no one should turn it
on under any circumstances and uh basically said okay so this is a much more complicated project
um let's see if we can figure out a way to make it make sense it ended up sort of getting a pin put in
it but basically what they did was they took the motor set it up with a little 3d printed thing
put a drone propeller blade on it and i don't know if you guys are that familiar with um hard drive
motors but inside a hard drive they spin at anywhere from real fast 5400 rpm to 7200 rpm i don't know if
you're familiar with drone propellers but they can be pretty scary um and that thing sitting on the
desk i'll tell you this it moved air i'm not too surprised it it moved some air i was uh i was
feeling cooled i wonder how fast it was actually spinning i'm not sure we could have because there's
gonna be there's gotta be a lot more resistance than it normally has i actually asked him to find
out you can put a piece of tape on one of the blades and then you can just hold like a thing up to
it and it'll it'll count how many per second uh i i don't know if anyone ever got back to me on
that but suffice to say it was terrifying and um i was like okay well we have a lot of work to do
on you know controllers for this and building a safe propeller design and uh wow yeah this is obviously
a much bigger project you just put a cage around it like most desktop fans we could but we'd have to
design that cage and we'd have to go because the idea was we weren't really sure what that product
was at the time is this something that we make and it's like bespoke and it's numbered and we do a
hundred of them and it's done is it something that we make on an ongoing basis but it's like kind of a
boutique sort of handcrafted product is this something that we provide as a kit and we just kind
of send out to you the you know the cage and propeller and the and the arm maybe we get it injection
molded so it's not just like you know 3d printed and uh and we basically validate different models
of hard drives and you build it yourself like there's there was a lot of different ideas for
how we could bring it to market and right now i think we just won't do anything for now yeah uh
what else you got with for me dan happy new year in an alternative reality what would ltd look like
as a cable tv show in the 1990s i didn't watch like g4 tech tv or like steve dotto's show i didn't
have access to any of them personally yeah i don't think i i i'm trying to think in the 90s did i don't
think i i don't think my family had a cable subscription so i didn't really um i didn't really get access to
any of that but i would imagine we'd have kind of like a fun sort of colorful sidekick sort of
character like like a like a producer dan type of type of person um i would imagine that we'd probably
have a lot of guests on like that was kind of how everyone did things back then was you you kind of
had guests on to kind of show their their wares everything was so expensive like on the production
side like it would it would have to be in a studio there's no way that you could just shoot stuff at
home with any kind of decent quality in the 90s most of them as far as my understanding goes we're just in
like standard tv studios they would just have one of the sets so they could reuse those crazy expensive
cameras that they would use for basically everything news all the different various shows they would all
be in one studio i'd imagine everything would be a lot more tutorial-y like even back at the beginning
of ncix tech tips almost every video started with okay what's a tutorial we can do and what products
do we need to feature in order to get this point across and back then especially there would be a
lot of things to give tutorials on yeah and computers were hard very few things that you could just sort
of take for granted that everyone knows about and you're just sort of evaluating performance or
whatever else like if i if you did a gpu review in 1996 you would have to explain what a gpu is
you wouldn't just take for granted that people know what fps means i think that's what some of
them kind of were yeah but it was like what's a sound card and why could you possibly want one
and like how would you go about installing one and picking one stuff like that some of them i've found
i didn't have access to any of them uh but some of them that i found on like youtube many many years
later actually like kind of cool i i can think of one in particular that had this like kind of weird thin
desk and the the host would sit on like the close side and the there was usually a guest would sit
on the far side and the computer would kind of be in the middle and then it would be like this
presentation piece i don't remember the name of the show um sounds fascinating it was good though
good job i i described it because i'm hoping someone will recognize it and post it
okay flip play chat's super useful love you flip play chat
um all right it's time for us to pick another topic luke you want to pick one hold on yeah they got it
okay are we going to your screen i'm not there yet but yeah uh we will be
hilarious computer chronicles this hold out this old house is awesome d bradley 771
i've tried to i've had to use them when i was like working on a couple of other a couple of
things i don't know them or anything but uh great videos sorry i'm slowly going through youtube ads
here we go all right all right oh computer chronicles oh wait no that's the youtube channel
uh yeah but it's just re-uploads from like this old so this was the main here we go
and they would show like i guess this is probably like the trans phone wow informational transaction
appliance they would show like this is how you use the thing how many buttons does it have
oh a lot okay yeah
starfire pippin no way no way nice
i never figured out what happened to ours i wish we still had it yeah i
either someone stole it or it was misplaced but where would it have been misplaced i feel like if
it was misplaced it would have come up by now it's possible remember misplaced could mean
accidentally thrown in the garbage like that server that one time that's like stuff happened um
anyway wild for people that are wondering that's really good screen cap for back then
linus and i did a did a video on an apple pippin which is what's here right now i'm very surprised
we randomly landed on an episode that has the pippin in it um apple's game console yeah and
then it just like disappeared i don't have it i checked at home because you mentioned misplaced
and i was like did i just take it it's not there i found other stuff it's the kind of thing that luke
would like borrow yeah and be like i'm gonna check out this on my own time and then just kind of
forget about it never return with or come back with like nine years later like those gpus that he took
for his dad brings back e-waste and it's like hey i'm done with these yeah
do you want them like i guess you did want them yeah i mean you never honestly if we ever needed
to do a video on some old stupid gpu then it's better to just have them sitting in the warehouse
go ebay dumpster diving for one but yeah yeah no i i have no idea what happened to it which is really
frustrating because i don't want to buy another one i'm sure they haven't gone down in value and
ours was immaculate it was brand new in box when we got it in very good shape left it in perfect
condition like we fired it up once just to make sure it worked essentially yeah and it's a really
cool piece like it's it's yeah i don't know yeah this this show is like actually pretty cool i would
have absolutely loved to watch this if i knew it even like existed and also had access to it back then but
um it's kind of a cool because there are such good versions uploaded to this youtube channel
um it's kind of a cool time capsule to go look back at something we talked about this on wancho
not that long ago but the whole like the internet never forgets uh unless it does thing is is pretty
real and there's a lot of stuff from like the 90s and early 2000s internet eras that are just sort of
gone now um so it's nice to be able to have something like this where it is actually being
decently preserved dotto's don't forget about dotto's data cafe
i think you've met this guy yeah well i know steve dotto right yeah yeah i know steve dotto so this
was a canadian uh i've never seen this sort of similar idea uh this guy's great he's got a ton of
personality yeah um super fun guy super nice i've uh yeah very nice i i think i've only met him once
but really nice we brought him on wancho once actually i've i've been meaning to like collab
again anyway this is on netscape netscape navigator i i would i would i could totally cool i could
totally see myself doing you know something like what steve dotto did this is awesome and again like
surprisingly solid screen capture yeah he was telling me that um that was one of the big things
that they innovated was um using old cameras to capture from like to shoot a crt screen without
the scan lines that were that were pretty typical on other shows at the time he was saying that was
something they figured out really really early on but yeah yeah good old good old steve dotto
uh anyway but yeah a lot of old shows like i think you've talked about this too like made in canada
uh is like impossible to find no you can get it now cbc gem whole thing oh that's cool yeah and i uh
made my own copy just in case it ever disappears again
that's good that's good actually that's good genuinely uh but i like that um
um whoever's behind the computer chronicles was proactive about getting it up themselves i believe
this channel is official um and it seems to have like basically everything which is just awesome
it's really cool it's i mean it's such a it's such a valuable resource that no one's gonna watch and
then an ai is gonna scrape it and then we'll have access to it with no compensation for the original
creator hey did you see that um oh shoot is it the times hold on who's uh who's suing microsoft for
billions oh my
i think it's the new york times yeah new york times has filed a federal lawsuit against open ai
and microsoft seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots saying that copyright
infringement at the paper alone could be worth billions okay i don't know about billions but it
definitely could be worth something and what makes this even spicier is that um from my understanding
microsoft has released a statement saying okay so first the new york times said that uh
part of why they're so upset about this is that they have been in negotiations with microsoft and
open ai to use it legit legitimately and microsoft basically came out and was like uh okay yeah we
kind of thought we were still talking about this this lawsuit is still super disappointing this lawsuit is
super disappointing um what i suspect is that they were just so far away on the number that the new
york times has basically just gone yeah forget it um and so they know from negotiating with microsoft
and this might have been part of their play in fact that actually wouldn't surprise me that much they
know from negotiating with microsoft that new york times data has been given a very high level of
credibility in training and remember guys there's a lot of different aspects of training i'm not
you might think the new york times is a reg or whatever i don't feel like talking about that that's
that's not the point the point is that there's a lot of elements that you might be training a large
language model on and not all of them are necessarily the accuracy of the article i don't
care i'm not going to talk to you about that uh what we could talk about though is things like
punctuation and grammar so the the chat bot having any kind of sense of what a sentence
is supposed to look like yeah i would probably take the new york times over your twitter post
i know i know i know i know i know fake training thanks twitch chat real helpful appreciate you
oh boy anyway sorry i don't think this is in the doc but i just was reminded of this by
something else that i was looking at here um is this maybe doesn't sink ai but i know we've talked
about you know the arresto momentum of of ai that's been going on a little bit lately and i mean this
seems pretty if they win this pretty much anyone whose data was used to train these these large
language models is going to have to go back and prove they didn't use them or they are man every
everyone and their dog has been busted at this point multiple times yeah um i don't think it's going to
stop anything because there are people developing this stuff that don't care and enough of it is open
source that people are just going to be able to scrape on lower levels than corporate and you
won't be able to go after them properly and you won't know they're doing it and it's not gonna
matter cat's kind of out of the bag when this stuff got heavily open source with like llama and all
these other things like it's done man it's oh i don't mean there's anything that they can do to
un-pandora this box oh got it i just mean the big companies oh yeah some of them might get hit
real hard yeah are they are they done i think i think what is it called um when there's like a
landmark case i think it's called a landmark no but it's that precedent there we go yeah i think this
this is going to set precedent pretty what is it called when there's an avalanche
uh destruction um yeah i know a precedent i think is going to be set by this pretty hard because
these are two very major very recognizable in their space companies if you talk about news in
north america you probably know new york times if you talk about software stuff especially operating
systems you probably know microsoft like it's yeah new york times versus microsoft it's pretty big deal
we were yeah we were talking about this on the pre-show i um i ended up down a rabbit hole on like
yeah why boxers stood like this and it turns out there's a lot of very compelling reasons as far
as my understanding goes it mostly boils down to bare knuckle boxing versus not well it was it was
there's other things going on yeah mostly bare knuckle boxing but then uh one video i watched in
particular i wish i could remember who did it but i got a little bit more into why this pose is better
for bare knuckle boxing it keeps them at a distance more yeah it protects it was a lot more body shots
because you you were not punching people in the head uh you'd still go for the soft cheeks you'd
still go for the jaw hitting someone in the forehead can actually be really it can hurt your own hand
a lot yeah um you're also not doing like the big power punches as much so your rear hand is usually
back to protect your your body and you're focusing more on jabs with that front hand like it's actually
a very different style of fighting yeah so you but you so you get the old like here you see we're
fighting the bare knuckles yeah very good um do we want to talk about manufactured drm sabotaging
polish trains this was like last week or a couple weeks ago yeah but it's terrible a decent amount of
the news in the in the show this week is somewhat old but you probably weren't paying that much
attention in the news anyways because you were busy with holiday stuff yeah why did you tell them
fine it's fine you didn't have to tell them nobody has to know polis train manufacturer newwig here's
here's some news bidets are popular new og not as popular as screwdrivers though still
very popular hey you need both right do you do you need a screwdriver to install the bidet
i don't remember definitely a wrench yeah but that's not a screwdriver so not yeah sounds like we need a
wrench i mean i wanted to do a fail wrench what would that have been uh it was going to be a wrench
made of melted down failed screwdriver shafts from that supplier who shafted us uh yeah not got him
uh polis train manufacturer newog that's what i'm going to call it is under investigation by regulators
following allegations that had installed drm like software on its trains that caused them to fail
uh to fail to restart after certain set triggers in order to drive more service work to itself
one competitor sps i mean it sounds pretty smart to me
do you just get to do more you get more service revenue yeah which is probably good money
because they're gonna really want those trains back on the rails uh one competitor sps was hit
with fines equivalent to 462 000 euros dang because newag trains for the lower celestian railway it
serviced would fail to restart afterwards um i'm assuming after servicing uh the rail operator then sent
the trains to newag who easily fixed them for an additional fee suspiciously trains that hadn't been
recently serviced but had sat unused in storage for significant periods of time started failing in a very
similar manner in response sps oh man brilliantly in my opinion whoever had the the the thought of
doing this very good move sps hired a polish hacking collective called dragon sector sick name by the way
way to go on that one uh to investigate according to dragon sector the trains were intentionally programmed
to stop working under certain conditions such as certain components being replaced without a manufacturer
approved approved approved serial number these included an idle timer that would stop the train from
starting if it sat for over 10 days possibly under the assumption that it was undergoing servicing
after trains started failing after only being uh after only being stored a new trigger was programmed
in that added geofencing around competitors workshops so that the trains would instead lock up after being
brought to those facilities newag is denying these allegations and claims that these issues were
caused by third parties interfering with the train security features i love how often the security card
gets played yeah anytime a company gets caught doing something sometimes it is
legitimate yeah but i'm no i said when they get caught doing something scummy yes yeah it's amazing how because
most people either don't understand security very well or especially don't care their eyes just glaze over
the second you start talking about any kind of digital security or anything like that and i'm like
uh-huh is he badgering me to install a password manager again i i like my one two three four love
password you know or whatever the case may be um so if there's any way to get people bored of a conversation
it's to say oh it's it's in the name of user security and then just start saying a bunch of stuff and people
will just kind of gradually drop out of interest and you know get a go about their day the the private key
needs to go in the river and then like 98 of people just disconnect
anyway basically that's bad and it should be obvious why that's bad and uh this is a great
illustration of why companies like apple should not be allowed to do similar things and a great example
of what apple if left to their own devices might have eventually come up with for iphones
if they weren't ultimately able to stop people from repairing these things through serialization
and all the other means uh that they put in place to prevent people from repairing their own iphones and
from third parties it's it's somewhat stunning to me how many people will do this stuff
and not out their own companies i guess it's interesting i don't know i mean people did do far worse than
this for a paycheck yeah come on but like be realistic yeah think of the things you've done
the horrible things yeah no i just i think maybe it's my bubble of like finding recruitment kind of hard
but i feel like software developers like if you're like hmm i'm gonna defraud my own country basically
it's like yeah you could probably get another job um
sorry you're saying that software developers yeah have a tendency to
always be the good guys in the story no oh what do you how sorry sorry i thought you i thought you were
saying like someone would see the idea of defrauding their own country and then resign
from the job rather than go do it i'm saying in this particular case i think if you work in that
field you have a high chance of finding another job i can understand for some positions some jobs it
might be like this is the only way i'm going to get bread on the table i think a lot of people just
don't care luke i i think a lot i think a lot of developers would just develop a button that like
kills a random person and deposits a million dollars into the company's bank account as long
as they get a piece of it like i i don't know man yeah sorry i just wish that wasn't a thing that's
all i'm saying i i also i also think that i mean okay okay but like okay here's another thing look at
the okay look at the arguments around net neutrality look at the arguments around right to repair
especially when you start getting into the you know the apple ecosystem and the people who are just
kind of i don't know how to describe it other than brainwashed i'm really sorry um when we when
we when we made that video about the imac pro that apple wouldn't repair at our cost the number of
people that attacked us for it when we basically said yeah it's pretty obvious that just you know
replacement parts should be a thing at a reasonable price it shouldn't cost as much for just some pieces
of a component as it costs for the entire some pieces of a machine as it costs for the entire machine
including those pieces that doesn't make any sense the number of people that attacked us for it
when that's just math it's not political it's just obvious um so no maybe in some people's minds
it makes perfect sense that if you are the manufacturer of a train you should be the only
one who's allowed to fix it because you know yeah someone else might might bung it up or whatever the
case may be which is not an entirely illegitimate concern i just don't think that's what even happened
they were they were taking these trains off the rails i know i just i just mean as a preventative
measure not even just to not get other people to work on them though they were doing them doing it
randomly in order to get more service money well you know you got to make sure that they're running
fine and maybe that's the way it was sold internally maybe they weren't even honest internally with the
developers who developed this system maybe they just told them hey we have found that um the
customers for these trains are not performing service at the recommended intervals we need
to make sure that the trains are are shutting down at such time as the regular intervals should be done
or whatever and it wasn't coded that way and here's the i'm just i'm just saying there's a lot of room
for gray area i'm not saying they should do this it's obviously terrible i'm just saying that just
because a developer codes this feature doesn't mean that they agree and even if they do agree or
doesn't mean they understand and even if they do understand it doesn't mean they agree and if even if
they agree it doesn't mean that they're not an idiot that's all that's all i'm trying to say yeah
but i disagree it's bad it's definitely very bad
um all right man i have to get signed back into the dock but people can see my hands so i have to fake
that i'm pressing keys that i'm not pressing and it's getting all oh i never talk about that trick
yeah i just kind of yeah okay you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes i type really funny stuff
i like that that's actually hilarious
i'm gonna i'm gonna hide my hands you don't get to see my hands i can see your hands you can no
oh you can see this well i can't see the this entire hand no okay have fun with your like one
letter you're gonna see me here i'm gonna enter one of the letters we'll just hope that whatever
letter i enter yeah is one that's like goes there yeah it was pretty did i get it i mean it was in the
alphabet nice but was it in the numeric uh uh take no chat his password has a characters in it
and it's definitely definitely english it might not be english there we go yeah most of mine actually
they mix it up sometimes not english i like that yeah that's cool i should use that
i'm i'm i'm hazarded i have one trick for passwords that i that i love so much but i
don't know if i want to say it because one of the reasons why it's good is because a lot of
like brute force password guessers never get it because they don't incorporate it
so i don't know if i want to like popularize its use i think i want to keep this one for myself
that's the thing though that's a bad mentality and you know that should i share it well but then
see then it's the constant like cat and mouse game right like how do you help people have better
security without also informing the other side and then how's the other side if i do their stuff
without also none of us have it yeah but but no that that is that that is
because it's a it's a great trick it's i would say that that is not an ltt attitude
we are a sharing is caring i am not saying you should
i technically don't work for linus media group anymore
i'm still gonna have to change your 700 000 passwords when you get hacked now
i never said people couldn't get me just to be clear yeah this is not a challenge i'm sure if
someone wanted to hack through my box or they could i can just say it i chat mostly says don't
do it but then some of them were like give us the tech tip because that's kind of you know that's
kind of what we do is give people tips that are useful for a little while until you know the ne'er
do wells go and update their and then we have to come up with a new tech tip and that's how we all
stay employed because there always needs to be a new tech what if i what if i arm people to potentially
figure it out themselves okay i like that yeah that's a compromise that's a good compromise a lot of
passwords can take characters that don't normally get typed especially that don't normally get typed
for passwords consider this
my passwords are all going to be emojis now
especially when you're when you're thinking about brute forcing because like when it comes to guessing
or social engineering or someone just getting in your password manager or anything like that or or a
key logging it's not going to matter what you do right like they just have your password now yeah
um but if it comes to brute forcing there's a lot that you can do to make your passwords more brute force
resilient while still not making them really annoying to uh like visually enter or whatever to remember
that's a big one for me is i like my passwords to be something that i can retain in my brain
for long enough to like it out into a keyboard or character map as it were yeah yep
confirmed luke's password is lenny face
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you hit me sure let's grab some here let's see um i hope your holidays were great merch messaging to
ask about hdr uh youtube on mobile your camera footage looks great especially skin tones but web pages
look dark and gray what's up with that that is a great question that i'm sure ed could answer
i'm sure it has something to do with you know peak brightness being white and that also having
some kind of metadata for being extremely bright or something yeah that shouldn't that shouldn't even
be it i'm not sure um it probably has to do with that we have to upload um
you know what it probably is actually that because the way that the metadata works on youtube
is more like hdr 10 rather than hdr 10 plus where it's per frame so it's it's across the entire
piece of content so if you have anything in the entire video that's supposed to appear bright like a
specular highlight a candle or something like that then that's your 100 brightness so anything else is
probably going to look dimmer and more gray by comparison because we wouldn't want to actually send
a 100 full white um every time we do a screen capture uh i'd have to i'd have to double check
because we have people internally whose jobs are to understand that stuff better than me it's the kind
of thing that whenever i'm making a video about it i'll like brush up on it and go oh yeah yeah that and
kind of re-figure it out but um yeah that would be that would be my guess i think that's something you'll
probably continue to see because one of the complaints that we've gotten not just on hdr
content but sdr as well about screen cap is that when we capture white as white and people are you
know a night mode user or like our dark mode user or they're watching at night it can be very jarring
when we go from the host who's you know lit in a reasonable scene to just like an all white page um
so i that could also just be something that we adapted for that
linus and luke if you could design the ultimate futuristic tech gadget that hasn't been invented
yet what features would it have and how would you envision it transforming daily lives
oh man i mean i i feel like with the the the boundless human imagination that exists out there
there's no way i'm going to come up with something that someone else already didn't like uh the idea of
being able to conjure anything by just you know rearranging atoms or whatever so what are they called in
star treks not synthesizers the the food things that they yeah i don't remember earl gray hot
yeah exactly yeah yeah exactly right like the being able to go anywhere instantly being able to have
anything instantly ironically i suspect it would actually take a lot of the um fun out of things
out of certain things yeah um you know some part of part of the fun of like replicators there you go
part of the fun of a trip um we're apparently going to japan and as far as i can tell
90 of the excitement about this for yvonne is the preparation not the actual like going there like
if you could just walk into a hollow deck and be there immediately i actually think it would i think
it would reduce the satisfaction for her
yeah for me it would be why are you laughing you don't think i'm an expert on yvonne's satisfaction
maybe not
for me i think it would be things that actually get me off devices more um and i i think that could come
in the form of uh input even like you i i see a lot of people i don't do this i don't actually know
why but i see a lot of people dictate messages through voice and i think that's kind of the
direction that i'm talking about um is like yeah i don't necessarily want to sit here and type this
whole thing and while staring at the screen if i can just press one button and talk into it i don't
want to talk to things i need a neural interface yeah but that's what i'm saying in that direction
i'm not saying that because we basically already have that yeah so yeah like things that can get me
off of the device maybe different input methods whether it's neural or whatever else um
things that uh like we've talked about this for a long time being able to wear glasses that are
basically a rolodex yeah i almost don't want it to do anything other than be a rolodex yeah just like
tell me who that person is and why i'm supposed to know them why i'm supposed to know them how many
times have i met this person uh especially if it's more than zero um like yeah and and it i don't
know i don't even necessarily want it to be creepy you can pull this information from my contacts yeah
you know like don't don't search the internet have it be local i'd be happy to do a little recap
yeah like yep you know hey this is important for next time i see you know whoever right there's
there's ways to not be awful but it will be awful yeah 100 oh yeah it's gonna end up being
connected to some creepy database yeah it's gonna tell you everything about and it's gonna
everyone as it learns from your usage it's gonna upload that to everyone else as well it's gonna
be horrible yeah but a non-horrible version i'm gonna use it because it's gonna be super useful
yeah but yeah things things that make it so that i actually spend less time manually myself using the
devices and the more the devices stay in my pocket or stay closed or whatever else and doing things
sounds great to me gurgie 008 says make me neville's remember all from happy from happy potter that's
a funny typo happy potter i can i i'm imagining adam sandler as a magic golfer
i thought he like makes okay that movie was great but i thought he makes like good movies now um oh
man um anywho i thought his most recent movie like went really well um i don't know what one it was
hustle i think i'm not sure adam sandler makes whatever movie he feels like as far as i can tell
all right hit me dan hey hey dll i'm currently listening after i cleared out my fridge that just
died got any good appliance failure stories for the audience uh i mean other than
oh man uncut gems yeah there we go that's what i was thinking that was a long time ago was it
yeah i don't keep up with movies these days yeah that's fair um every appliance i've experienced
died dies very unspectacularly when fridges die it's pretty bad especially if you don't notice for
a couple days oh but i mean like the device itself just stopped working like it didn't
oh yeah oh our oven had a bit of a problem the other day oh uh we have a we have a bosch oven and
fortunately it has error codes that work so at least i know what the problem is that's nice but
we went to uh we went to bake some banana bread we had three loaves in there at work dude you're not
gonna know that meme but i love that meme cool it's so good all right anyway so we were gonna make
some banana bread yes some of it might have come to work um and suddenly there's smoke all throughout
the house and the banana bread is not definitely not gonna be good i liked it uh this is well before
the timer was supposed to go out it's not like we just didn't notice it and the door was locked we
couldn't even get it open oh so it turned out what had happened was like a runaway temperature event
so the heat just kept going past what it was set to past the thermal safety limit for the oven which
caused it to lock itself down and then it basically had to it it did manage to safety shut off so it
was i looked it up and it was one of two things it was either your temperature sensor has gone bad
which it wasn't because the thermal shutdown happened or it was your relay wasn't working properly
for the so it sent like a disconnect signal yeah the daughter board that was supposed to
handle the relay right um it has worked people said okay you can reset it like this and then
assuming the temperature sensor is good sometimes the relay just magically starts working again so it's
worked fine since then but it was a little sketchy like it smelled like burning like not like burnt food
like burning they came out black yeah they're supposed to be brown you know golden yeah when the parts
where it splits at the top because delicious banana bread anyway i love that dude banana bread that
worked it hell yeah my mom said okay that's when you wait for things dude good things happen to you
dude that's number five what that's it's number five autocomplete for banana bread okay
okay do you know this so this is just like a damn daniel like random viral clip yeah yeah yeah do you know
this one dan yes uh it checks out yeah yeah okay yeah all right old it's good i'm old so it being old
is i i just i mostly just quote vines constantly in my entire life yeah yeah road works
i sure hope it does see you just have to say one little line god i miss mine yeah yeah me too
all right uh well cool yeah sorry i didn't i did not get the reference i didn't think you would
i did it for them
all right uh you got one more for us dan yeah sure let's see hey dll i'm a pc repair tech and a veteran
have you oh i read that as veterinarian so did i that's a weird combo yeah that makes
and i had the same thought i was like huh i hope they're like one shop that'd be neat
you got the one counter just put your computer on it you got the other counter you put your dog on
it so my laptop and my dog just don't put your dog on the computer counter they're gonna put the usb
diagnostic drive in the wall trying to turn the dog on and off again it's like it's not working
okay sorry yeah anywho um yes a pc repair tech and a veteran yeah i assume so uh have you all done
any or plan to do any how to not get scammed online videos that i can share with my elderly
customers oh we've touched on this a little bit but it's like it's so hard now it's really hard
because we can't cover everything it changes nobody wants to watch it the people like the people who are
gonna get scammed i don't know how to say this respectfully you're probably not watching it's
not like the resources aren't out there to find some of it's getting really rough some of it's
getting really actually very hard yeah i i got a i got a spam call that was really good like if i was
if i was even slightly less of a competent adult human being i i could have easily given valuable
information over the phone people are doing uh voice spoofing of specifically i'm not going to
get into the the reasons why for this but specifically mom's daughters oh yeah and they're
like screaming in distress and stuff like that's oh my goodness the one i got they um it came up as
from my bank so i did answer it because i'll just ignore anything that's not from anyone that i
recognize these days yeah um so it came up as my bank and they basically were like yeah there's been
some fraudulent activity don't worry we've locked down the card we're gonna get everything reversed
for you but uh we do need to to check some things with you and um then at some point you know everything
sounded fine i was like i was talking to them i was like yeah sure i mean yeah that sounds pretty bad
no i didn't use the card um and then as soon as they asked what's your uh can i just verify the
credit card and i was like well you should be able to tell me which one and they're like it's the one
that starts with the first four digits and i was like yeah but every credit card issued by your bank
your financial institution starts with those first four digits that doesn't tell us anything uh you need
to tell me like the last two and they basically were like no i need the whole number and i kind
of go okay well um the tip i would say for this is always hang up and call them back okay well hold
on we're getting to that okay yeah um so i basically said well how am i supposed to know that you are who
you say you are and they said well i mean i called you from the bank and i go yeah but that can be spoofed
and they're like uh and i say look i'm just gonna call you back click uh because a lot of people
don't realize that the phone number that someone's calling from can be spoofed so they can just
tell it hey i want this to show up as 1-800 whatever when i call the person it's getting freaking
sophisticated and there were things about the call that made me uneasy like the extremely long delay
on the line but it wasn't until i looked back that i went oh that's probably because they were calling
from very far away they're probably overseas somewhere yeah um and they did they did not
have an unconvincing accent three seconds or something yeah yeah always call that call back
the number on the back of the card except nothing else yep yeah i do that for basically any institution
that calls me if it has anything to do with payment or or changing pretty much anything um if the thing
that we're discussing could hurt me at all or if they ask for any form of authentication then i call
them back yeah like i've had back when why do you need to authenticate me you called me yeah back when
telus used to be cool um they used to call me every time that i had to renew my contract and they would be
like hey uh we're gonna give it to you like either cheaper or you get the same price and more features
yeah and i'd be like sick yeah do it up they'd be like okay bye like i'm not gonna call them back
for that whatever yeah it's fine um but if they're worst case scenario is you don't get the better
features yeah but they didn't ask for any authenticating things they didn't ask for any payment
stuff they didn't ask for whatever they just yeah it was fine so that was fine
it just it was one of those things where i was i was on i was having a particularly like
groggy day i hadn't slept well because this was this week um and uh yvonne's in recovery mode and
not sleeping well uh she just yeah no she um had three of her wisdom teeth out they were impacted
and the ones on the bottom were growing in sideways so the bottom is already the worst
and then they were under the gum and growing this way so she had to go under it was like when was that
um beginning of this week yeah she's been like replying to emails because she's gonna say
things insane but like she's been answering things i know i talked to her about she should relax
it's quite a like genuinely there's a lot of trauma you're preaching to the choir in your mouth yeah
we were doing ice pack rotations in the same conversation she goes yeah i'm was feeling
worse today because i think i overdid it yesterday and then she goes but i think i should be able to
push tomorrow and i'm just like who do you think you are luke lafreniere
i just i have a type
yeah ridiculous anyway the point is i hadn't slept much because yes ice pack rotations and everything
i i loaded up on we had like four ice packs in the house i was like we probably need double that so i got
a bunch more ice packs and got all the different the drug cocktails like felt like old people like i put
together like a medication schedule for her and everything um what was she eating congee um nice
further pureed cream of broccoli soup um she's able to do like uh she was really tired of that
after a couple days and on day three she was able to do overcooked instant noodles and she was like this
is having like soggy instant noodles i i broke up the pack first yeah so they were like little tiny
pieces of soggy instant noodles yeah um and then the egg i put in like extra egg because i think she had
zero protein since the whole thing started so i like trickled it in and like stirred it so it was
basically just like kind of like a cloudy almost yeah yeah um but she's just like this is so much
better than what i've been eating it's horrible i can't remember the name of them and i'm sure
floatplane chat will again be able to point it out but my i can't remember the the doctor name for it
but dentist guy that does surgeries um orthodontist is that right uh no i don't think so that they do
like um braces and stuff all right yeah yeah i don't know either way um he suggested this like
drink that you can just get at like save on or whatever else um oral surgeon yeah okay sure i
thought it was more complicated yeah what's an oral surgeon yeah yeah what's the like name behind it
what's a uh what's a uh what was this what's a landmark case what's the word this darn it um
um no but yeah it's it's this drink um tooth fairy so we we bought floatplane chat got you
we bought like a bunch of this one type of drink because it was recommended by
the guy um yeah is it pedia like ensure yep yeah that's the one uh and we figured out that it's like
very common for like you know old people that have trouble chewing because of various things might be
going on um and it tasted really good really so when i was on all the drugs i was like this is
great yeah just i'll just have this this is no problem oh is it just like full of sugar when the
drugs started fading i was like why does this taste so good it's basically a milkshake like actually does
it bring all the boys to the yard though probably it brought me to the yard um nice where's the can i get
a nutrition label um ensure nutritional info okay we're going to your screen not yet yeah you never
know what might come up you search for things on that internet okay here we go it does have a lot of
the vitamins where is its information it's got a bunch of protein can i go to your screen so that
we're not just imagining this it has nine grams of protein but it also has 18 of your daily sugar and
in 220 calories oh wow oh yeah okay so it's it's sugar it's basically a milkshake
and they'll even flavor them like milk chocolate vanilla strawberry so it's like but when you're
having milkshakes for every meal it's like whoa okay that's how they get you all right isn't corn
melatodextrin just like corn syrup is that in there is that the second ingredient after water
so it's water and corn syrup and then the next one is sugar the next one is like milk effectively
oh it's a thickener sorry it's it's thickened water and then sugar so yeah nice yeah with with
milk protein in there as well so it's it's basically a milkshake um yeah malt detection it's the uh the
like corn based the the one added thing that they they do give you is it is pumped with like vitamins and
stuff but still so are vitamins which you can just buy yeah they're not even expensive
oh my goodness for how cheap vitamins are it's actually kind of amazing how unmotivated i am to
just take them yeah i just never i'm always like yeah i'm gonna like take vitamins now and then i do it
for a week and then i just am distracted i i thought it was hilarious because i um i was taking
i'm still taking athletic greens to kind of flush out my diet because i eat a lot of the same thing
all the time so i'm sure i'm missing some stuff speaking of which confirmed luke will be doing a
float plane exclusive with the 100 success meal showing you guys how to make it i haven't made it in
years so i'm gonna have to practice wow so basically you're saying once you're in a relationship
you don't have to try anymore yeah or you can try other things that don't need to have
that type of success rate as much because what a lesson because you're getting there anyways
i can i can hear emma being taken for granted from here what that no um what was i saying anyways
luke is single in three two one yeah no no no emma's great yeah um what was i gonna say
what was i even thinking of you totally and generous apparently
i'm sorry emma's mom and dad um but they don't watch this do they sure do
that doesn't sound like my problem all right vitamins all right vitamins yeah yeah yeah yeah
so um i started taking athletic greens to round it out yeah vitamins what is in that stuff
what's in those anyways um and i i confidently said i don't just a high fiver
i confidently said that i was getting sick less yeah and then like very shortly after saying that i
got sick like twice in a row and one of them lasted a really long time yeah that was nasty
i don't know travel man travel gets you yeah travel and gatherings yeah both of those two things are
travel girllings
yes especially both that's what i was trying to say i know oh my goodness
win 789 says meh if her parents don't know you're doing it by now
that would be a little weird yeah yeah no we've been abstinent for uh
what are you guys seven eight years eight eight years good gravy i think good gravy i mean it must be
i'm hiding behind the mic oh god
dan save me what no that's not saving me get out of here why'd you face so red ah um
drug dealers adopt drones according to a recent vice report law enforcement around the world are
noting a marked shift in using drones to move drugs across international borders over the past few
years driven in part by consumer drones being becoming larger and increasingly cheap in 2021 spanish
narcotics police captured a drone with a 13 foot wingspan whoa um capable of carrying 330 pounds of cargo
while this was a mass manufactured droid or drone built in china um built in china in 2022 spanish
authorities okay yeah found three submersible drones that were manufactured specifically to
ferry drugs and capable of carrying 440 pounds of cargo wow drones are also being used to deliver
drugs and other contraband into otherwise difficult to reach areas within countries such as
prisons as reported by officials in the us and canada i read an article about this a while back
apparently it's really difficult to stop them because it wouldn't be a giant 13 foot wingspan one
that's just like yeah coming up to a prison it would be little zippy ones going and you know they have
time out in the yard or whatever else um there's very little incentive i don't think for the the people who
work there to be have 100 constant monitoring of the all the skies in the area yeah like it's it's a
really difficult problem you could drop it from pretty high too although last october the uk government
introduced no fly zones around all of their prisons which of course i mean if you just have a regulation
that's gonna stop it that'll keep out the ne'er-do-wells yeah sure that's a big drone 13 feet and that
would be able to go pretty high probably probably but then would it be better to keep it low from
like a radar standpoint i don't know no idea i mean i'm not involved in contraband smuggling so i
don't know enough about radar no very little about this world isn't radar specifically worse at picking
up small objects i don't i do not yeah but that's why i was saying if it is pretty big it could
probably get up high but it's also but it would probably have a lot of space in between the arms
i suspect stay low i suspect those arms are thin yeah but if you have like 330 pounds of anything
i'd imagine that's fair i mean considering that they can pick up a little whirly bird or whatever
like that's probably gonna have some substantialness to it yeah 330 pound capable drone could smuggle the
prisoner never mind the drugs yeah man i wonder if anyone's tried i'm surprised we haven't seen
a jailbreak yeah just a drone with like two bars on the bottom just like get jacked in prison just
it's arm day every day and all you do is just like hangs yeah until you just like jump up grab the thing
and it freaking goes man it'd be dangerous as heck but like compared to staying in prison would i try it
yeah i think so wow would you do it if someone arranged a drone to just show up in the yard
would you grab the bottom of it and go i think it depends on like how long your sentence is you're
in there for 10 years let's say 10 years you will be you know 40 whatever by the time you're out
if i have a chance of getting out of the country and thus not an insanely high chance of just being put
back in i don't think you have to get out of the country no like if you go legit and just like
live a quiet life i think you could probably go somewhere like interior bc or like you know oil
fields alberta or something just like work in an unofficial capacity you could probably lay low
you don't think people are going to report like the guy that wants to work but refuses to give you a
i think you'd be surprised how many people are just like that anyway
regardless of their pasts i was another article i was reading recently was about the sort of
uncomfortable truths that are being unearthed by services like 23andme um and i just want to make
my position on them clear you shouldn't use them they're super super bad just for you but also for
anyone related to you uh anyway uh but what was interesting about this was there's this family that
found out that like grandpa was a completely different person from who they thought he was
he never played with babe ruth um he like had a completely different family that he just abandoned
and this was just it didn't match anything they knew about him they knew him as like a loving father
and grandfather and didn't realize that he had just walked away from his responsibility in the u.s
before he moved up to canada or something like that i don't know allegedly um
um that's unfortunate anywho 10 years i have heard of a crazy amount of people finding out that like
their parents like someone cheated on somebody or something because they're like huh i don't have
anything from this line that's weird um yeah and also just like family lies in general yeah uh that
that might come from oh yeah we have irish you know heritage or whatever it's like don't
what are you talking about no we don't in some cases i've heard that those were very well intentioned
actually but it was eventually forgotten that it was a lie if that makes sense yeah that makes sense
uh because like they did so to avoid persecution or yada yada yada yeah uh but then eventually the
lie was kept so secret because it was so important yeah that it just was forgotten eventually but
top 10 10 drones that get you out of prison that'd be a good video
man the the propellers on that thing would be scary as
f**k see like an april fools video like how to break out of prison am i am i gonna have to buy
another cantaloupe it's smuggling drones oh man
so you smuggle in a swarm of tiny drones yeah in people's butts
and they all work together to lift you
was that the first video you worked on or something dad
no it was one of the first requests i got for a video um i don't think i've been here very long
i was working in logistics and of course it was like oh hey we need a cantaloupe for this video
uh why why do you want a cantaloupe oh it needs to be an analog for somebody's butt
we're gonna put a phone in it
butt phone butt phone all right i should have stayed at my last job
what what they didn't have butt phones at your last job no boring i signed up to manage inventory
not in butt phones inventory the butt phone yeah technically we also had to do that we have to
find it first oh it's very uncomfortable time to play find the phone we knew exactly where it was
oh okay oh boy what even is this show who knows oh wow a griff aviation 300 can carry 227
kilograms or 500 pounds of weight it only has a flight time of 31 minutes you could get pretty
far in 31 minutes but you but that's yeah 15 kilometer range sorry griff yeah griff aviation there's
an ehang 184 that can carry 220 pounds and go 30 kilometers that's far enough away that you'd be
kind of hard to track down i'm looking at there's a joav cw-80e that can carry 55 pounds and it has a
flight time of 840 minutes or 100 to 200 kilometers which is like wow okay what am i looking at how big
is it tell me how big it is 30 the one i was looking at was a griff aviation 300 not 30. this
i hate websites like this looks really annoying oh yeah i would like it to take forever to navigate
your website why don't you make a site like that thing also doesn't need to fully take over the
screen it only covered half the screen with information how big is it how about a single
picture with any kind of a banana or something six i need something for skill how about a banana
that's perfect oh this is useless forget it i give up okay
uh what else we got brands use ai influencers i mean this is pretty funny here here i got it you got it
okay but that's a mountain funky looking how luke how is that supposed to help me know how big it is
okay here we go here oh wait max size here we go it's 3.4 meters long
wait oh 3 400 meters wait what is even that okay i don't know that looked i'd sorry i i thought it
okay sorry what is it so i'm i'm reading this off of a tv over there i thought it was 3.4 meters
which would kind of make sense but height is is that 600 what sorry what 0.6 meters would make more
sense oh 3.4 kilometers size length that doesn't make any sense probably it's probably millimeters and
there was a typo yeah okay so 3.4 meters then probably yeah they're about that yeah okay okay
that's a very six meters for height yeah that's that's about how how big they should be yeah so
mills is what they were going for there yeah um there is a space oh they all have spaces never
mind i think it's just a typo brands are apparently increasing increasingly buying paid posts from ai
generated influencers such as ai tana lopez a pink-haired model created by spanish agency
the clueless they run an wild instagram account for ai tana with over 250 000 followers many of
whom seem to believe she is real despite the account being labeled as ai she also has a man
you know i find the term npc to be extremely disrespectful when used to apply to people
but i just can't really yeah i can't really um you know what in fairness powered by ai doesn't
necessarily mean anything that could mean that you are sponsored by an ai company or something like
that especially when when you look at the whatever that icon is i don't know balloon or something
barcelona's digital muse at the clueless.ai you might think powered by ai is like
yeah just part of the like i'm pushing the company thing yeah all right so that's a thing that is
definitely a thing that exists i had seen if you go to the top of her pictures yeah i had seen that
top right one and didn't realize it i saw it on an unrelated article and i just
scrolled right past it and no part of my brain was like that's not a real person according to the
clueless ai tana typically earns around 3 000 euros a month but can earn up to 10 000 with each advert
being worth over just over a thousand euros her sponsorships include big a supplement company
she also has a fan view account where they post pictures of her in lingerie the uk's advertising
standards agency says there are currently no rules requiring virtual influencers to disclose
that they are ai generated and many do not do so a primary attraction of virtual influencer
campaigns for companies is that they are significantly cheaper per impression up to 91
cheaper based on an instagram analytics report on a virtual influencer post by h m they also give
the brand a far greater deal of control and eliminate the complexity and risk of dealing
with human beings that have opinions and reputations
i mean i mean we talked about this before i think i said a number of years ago if i was smart i'd be
transitioning to be a vtuber i think this was back when we were on the set that was at the opposite
end of this building that for quite a while but like man for real though yeah geez
yeah there's been a bunch of accusations that i've seen that like a lot of the followers are
uh like paid bot accounts and stuff but i mean if they're getting paid that's working yep so here's
here's the clueless ai so here's their i guess they have an oh i can't like click on anything because
instagram on desktop just well i'm not logged in yeah but come on i don't know yeah they want you to
log in i need that data exactly sony got fined for sabotaging controllers french regulators have
fined sony 13 and a half million euros for allegedly damaging the reputation of third-party controllers
via a 2015 ps4 update that intentionally caused unofficial controllers to frequently disconnect
further regulators say that sony selectively refused to communicate wait no way elijah
follows her and didn't know no way actually
i'm actually speechless i thought she was real no joke yeah and if you scroll up there's what i thought
this chick was real i follow her wow always full of surprises this guy yeah life man
why do you follow elijah don't don't answer that
elijah get out i flew the fifth
she's hot oh i gave you i gave you a warning they didn't even care there was no right answer and yet
you still managed to pick the wrong one
he probably hasn't seen war games has he no ah okay well i yeah anyway wow uh further regulators
say that sony selectively refused to communicate the access criteria for its official licensing program
to certain third-party manufacturers and used language that was imprecise because it allowed them
to apply the criteria in a discretionary manner man i can can can europe like do something not cool
this is this is great this is great you should have clearly laid out guidelines they should be fair
for everyone and third-party products should work just fine as long as they follow the guidelines and
you know properly interface with the device and you shouldn't go out of your way to break them like
this all just seems like such obvious stuff i'd wish it didn't take what what is this from 2015
yeah i wish it didn't take eight years to deal out sort of piddly fines it just seems like there
should be a much faster way they might have had to figure it out this is kind of a weird thing to figure out
i guess so i just i i wish the wheels of justice moved a little faster sometimes yeah
obviously you don't want to you know wrongfully yep you know whatever but
just see you know this train thing is probably going to take years to resolve when it just kind of seems
like don't do that you know stop um would be would be good yeah uh someone had an interesting point
um
that i that i want to kind of follow up about that i don't remember her name the ai person
uh i can't even find it in the doc but that that ai created influencer chick yeah someone had an
interesting point um at least in the us i think you can't copyright ai created works
so anyone can be her yeah and then i guess what would they have to have like uh like a fan account
you know disclaimer on their thing like but would you even i don't i guess not yeah so like you could
just ai create images of her doing things that are very bad for brands and then just post them
i guess you could but then it seems very how would you get any traction very attackable position oh
i guess yeah well okay yeah i see what you mean so you wouldn't really be able to be a huge ai
influencer but you could have a an army probably ai micro influencers yeah pretty easily yeah yeah
that makes sense because it's a very assailable position anyways moving forward um twitch
bans pretending to be naked i don't know how they're going to enforce this because it seems
like what they were trying to do with that whole sort of
thing recently with the artistic nudity thing was they were trying to make the rules so more more
clear and more open so that they wouldn't have to deal with this constant sort of argument about twitch's
rules and the interpretation and the uneven um enforcement of them and now they've gone and
they've given themselves a rule that seems like it's going to be very difficult to
enforce evenly twitch is updating its content guidelines to ban implied nudity following a surge
in nearly naked streamers covering their various parts in black sensor bars and streamers using
strategically placed objects and careful camera angles to give the impression that they
are nude according to twitch's post about the update while some streamers were correctly labeling
their content as containing sexual themes which would prevent them from showing up on the home
page others were not actually talked to yvonne about this um a couple times after that stream i had
meant to kind of come back with a bit of a more nuanced take on the whole thing because
i think that during that wan show i basically was like well i mean realistically this is kind of what twitch
is anyway at this point you might as well get used to it it's been this way a long time and you know
realistically those miners that you're so concerned about are like six keystrokes away from seeing this
stuff anyway but then i said on the show that this was not a non-user of the platform i don't really use
the platform and so i went out of my way over the next couple of days to fire up twitch first because
i was just talking to yvonne about what we were talking about on wan show and i was like oh yeah there's
this whole thing on twitch and i brought up twitch to show her to talk to her about it and immediately
there was like breasts in my face and i didn't realize how bad it was yeah if i just wanted to
use this site to see what i'm here trying to see even if even if i am you know super open-minded about
you know pornography or whatever else and even if i was a pornography enthusiast
maybe that's not what i'm on this site for right now and maybe i would actually just like to watch
someone play video games or something else anything else and so over the span of the next couple
days i was like okay let's play a game called i'm going to open the twitch app having never clicked
on one of these streamers before in my life although i was logged into the work account so strictly
speaking i don't know if nobody's ever used it for that i don't think many people have the work
twitch account i don't think so i think it's basically me yeah i don't think it's many it's
not just you but um oh dan apparently and me and i see probably aj and probably yvonne and
well yeah but they would like vaughn would never use it um and definitely not for that as far as i know
i mean i'm not saying it wouldn't be cool but oh no the point is
i decided to play a little game called i'm going to open the twitch app and see how long it takes
how many scrolls it takes for there to be boobs in my face and it was basically instantly every single
time and and i i even was like like look at how bad this was and without even looking i scrolled
it in front of her i was like okay how many boobs were there and there was like five and to be clear
he doesn't mean like he means a a a very noted focus on that yeah yeah i don't mean that there
happened to be you know mammaries i mean like that was obviously the point because this was at the height
of the whole uh you know cutting off the frame right here and the implied nudity thing that was
going on right in the wake of the artistic nudity uh rule change anyway um elijah said the first time
i showed my wife twitch she thought it was a cam site technically correct yeah so cleavage is still
allowed however under boob is explicitly forbidden so to everyone watching on twitch where's the line
where's the line like on a guy i don't know yeah is it just female presenting nipple where's the
under boob that too i mean that's a tumblr thing right under boob do you even have any i don't know
do i have nipples we'll never know look there you'll never know um oh boy all right
yeah elder scrolls 2 daggerfall revived in unity so sick i want to play this i want to play the
warcraft 2 campaign huh someone redid warcraft 2 in warcraft 3 reforged oh yeah i want to play the
warcraft 2 campaign apparently it's only half of it now but maybe if they get some more maybe if they
get some more support for it sorry this is not the topic that sounds great though that's a really good
idea for a project in that game here uh game spot um warcraft chronicles of the second war okay how
much traction does this have because hopefully it's a lot lorecraft designs yeah they got 166
thousand views 18 hours ago warcraft 2 tides of darkness ah ah that's really cool so cool i can't
wait to play this they say look it's a little janky we're gonna have to patch some stuff warcraft
3 reforged is a dumpster fire but um man ah so it's remade and like you know that looks sick
theoretically more modern but hey warcraft 3 reforged was a dumpster fire so you know it looks
as good as it's gonna look but i can't wait to play this i've never played the warcraft 2 campaign
what yeah so this is like perfect warcraft 2 is where it gets playable warcraft 1 trying to go back and
play it as a warcraft like you can only select like four units at a time yeah like it's and the
two would have been i i'm sure warcraft 1 was fantastic when it first came out the two factions
are completely equivalent almost i think necros and clerics have slightly different spells but you
i don't know unless you could do like 500 actions per minute or you're not microing that stuff like
it's impossible the interface is terrible um so so uh the maps have are like very limited resources like
even playing against the ai as a teenager like i would have difficulty breaking through what ai is
hilarious because you just have you played one but not two i played one with you oh that's right
yeah why did we do that the first warcraft game i ever played was warcraft 3 and i loved it oh
warcraft 3 is amazing i love warcraft 3 i love frozen throne i put an insane amount of time into custom
games i kept somehow losing the like cd keys so i probably bought like three or four copies of that
freaking i bought like three but every single one of them was worth it to be completely honest
because i put a ton of time into warcraft 3 and specifically warcraft 3 custom games i played an
insane amount of winter mall wars that's why i'm so excited about that new mode that you found for faff
um survival survival mode yeah i i think once we kind of get it it's gonna be really fun because it
reminds me a lot of some tower defense games and stuff like that yeah which i always loved i love
tower defense very fun yeah
oh hey uh if we're gonna report on whenever he's a complete a**hole then i guess we should also report
when he is not a complete a**hole um logan paul is apparently finally offering refunds for that
crypto zoo thing i don't trust it that's fair like the anchorman meme where he leans back and goes
i don't believe you or whatever it is yeah all right well we'll see show me when it's done
okay and then i will i will happily give that's fair that's fair because i completely agree if we're
gonna you know we're gonna throw people under buses we should also give them props and they do good
stuff absolutely but i just it's only right don't believe it until it's done that's oh apparently
there's a catch oh no oh you agree to not sue and stuff oh no coffee zilla is apparently already on
this get them coffee oh all right
yeah yep okay yep cool yep gotta sign an indemnity thing to all right well all right now behold the
yesterday msi teased an upcoming gaming handheld and today images and benchmarks leaked onto social
media indicating that the new device apparently called the claw
will use intel's core ultra 7 155h and eight arc alchemist xc cores for graphics unlike the legion go
and rg ally which use amd according to the benchmarks posted on geekbench the device will have 32
gigabytes of ram here is a leaked image of the msi claw courtesy of at wnxod whatever that is
that looks like an ally sure does
uh leaked geekbench information okay i'm a little surprised to see them use intel but i also don't
have any familiarity really with the core ultra 7155h and i don't really know exactly what these arc
alchemist xc cores are going to perform like but if it's anything shy of you know steam deck i think
they're gonna have uh an uphill battle ahead of them but i'm i'm excited to check it out i'm i i love
i love my ally i ended up sticking with the ally i love the screen on the steam deco lid but um
nothing i'm playing right now will benefit from that screen as much as i need the extra performance
so right now it's all about performance i'm playing a platformer that i'm just realistically
not gonna say because i don't feel like it did i say platformer it's more of an open world fantasy
game yeah um and i just don't feel like having a conversation about it but it definitely requires
performance and so i uh i'm sticking with the ally for the time being that makes sense
why not a psp i'm gonna i'm gonna have some time this weekend because not try final fantasy again
but i'm i don't think i'm getting that thing yet oh we made him a new computer yeah uh we have to
make sure it works before we give it to him so that's a whole thing i thought it was i thought
you were just gonna give it to me not knowing to be completely honest no i was fine with that no
no that's content oh okay yeah if it doesn't work then that's content so that's good got it
um but yeah i still have i still have my computer with the amd card laying on top of it um which i'm
also fine with um but it's very unstable in this one part of final fantasy but uh i have some time
this sunday so i'm gonna check if there's a new driver update and if there is i'm gonna give it
another shot because i want to keep progressing not one person knows what game i'm talking about
good yeah that's fine yeah i'm just i'm amazed at all the terrible guesses why would i got it
immediately why wouldn't i tell you guys if i was playing baldur's gate 3 like yeah
greatest greatest game i what would you say the best game in the last decade is because that's been
the new conversation is is baldur's gate 3 the best game in the last decade um you're not gonna like
this but uh i i think breath of the wild is the wild and i think it's a strong argument it's an
absolute masterpiece yeah um i think it's a very strong argument there's other people in chat even
saying breath of the wild wow no no it's not in the last 10 years come on also that
legends zelda t-o-t-k cheers of the kingdom oh the tears of the kingdom was uh i didn't get
into it if you're comparing the two on their release i think you've got to go breath of the
wild yeah breath of the wild was a moment in gaming man yeah and this was on a console that
hadn't sold a ton of units yet right like that's another thing to consider is to switch yeah tears
of the kingdom released to an install base uh that was an order of magnitude a lot of people bought
switches for breath of the wild yes like 100 um and yeah that's fair tears of the kingdom is breath of
the wild but better but greatness is not the same as goodness and breath of the wild was great yeah
um yeah breath of the wild if you yeah for sure i haven't played last of us part one um got some
people talking about that genshin impact i want to play genshin impact but i mean genshin impact
my understanding of it is kind of yeah breath of the wild but gacha and newer yeah um i gave it a
good old solid shot because a member of our team an esteemed member of our team suggested it quite
highly and i tried it and it wasn't really for me titanfall 2 i can see why people really like it
though titanfall 2 had a great story really enjoyed the gameplay but i don't think there was anything
that said greatness to me like you have to have innovation too i feel and i think this might be a
negative reflection on where shooters are right now more than it is a praise for titanfall 2 i think if you
narrow it down to shooters i think titanfall 2 was the best shooter in the last decade but i like i
just single player maybe but single player definitely i mean when you talk greatness though greatness has
a connotation of scale did you play titanfall 2 multiplayer no yeah but scale small i'm sorry but
if you want to talk greatness i i honestly think you have to have conversations about fortnight
over titanfall 2 i'm sorry like fortnight has done yeah sure for a different generation than you
that you might you might not be into yeah but they have innovated in a way that is changing the industry
for better or for worse did they things like i don't think anyone has done an in-game events the
way that fortnight actually care i genuinely don't know are you kidding me and then eminem's
one recently i didn't even know he had one huge okay huge i'm yeah mr marshall mathers still brings
the crowds i'm not surprised so you know you gotta you just have to kind of minecraft isn't the last 10
years yeah you could make that argument if it was in the last 10 years yeah but no yeah minecraft
changed gaming in a big way
yeah anyways that conversation is literally cropping up around that game which i think is
oh hey uh we have uh mr chu just posted flips and chat did you see the video of the kid who finally
beat tetris yes i was riveted i couldn't look away from it i can't i can't believe that that is human
capability like i i can't even fathom watching this kid play oh it's crazy do you know about
the whole rolling thing yeah yeah fantastic what fantastic what so cool and and how he he missed the
one break point the tension lost it the tension in that gap like what yeah i couldn't believe it
very good the fact that someone else was racing against him at the same time and i think either lost
their run or paused or something and then switched over to watch him win and was like congratulatory and
very cool about it was also just like a fantastic reflection so wholesome on that community um
um yeah very very cool very very cool yeah so when we say beat tetris for those of you who are not
familiar it doesn't end yeah but eventually the game crashes it can theoretically get to level 255 but
then it just loops back to level zero or one or whatever but it will crash before it gets there
i think is the issue i i think it gets to a point where you i i don't i don't know if you're saying it
runs out of memory runs out of memory yeah some some problem happens or or the amount of things that
can cause it to crash apparently some news anchor like crapped on him that's stupid yeah yeah what
do you not have basically told him to go outside and touch grass i mean it's not a terrible idea but
the kid didn't look like super unhealthy or sickly or anything he probably does touch i would also
so i actually agree but i would i would also throw out there that in my opinion he just set himself up
for a career as a successful famous streamer yeah and he streamed the whole thing and if i remember
correctly he was on twitch um but was removed because of age restriction reasons so i think
he was streaming on youtube or something but like tons of people know his name now he could play
other games this skill is going to transfer to other imagine for a second if he took that and was like
you know what i'm going to resurrect guitar hero let's make guitar hero cool again guarantee you'd kill
it he'd kill it created a career for himself at 13 and you're going to tell him to go outside and touch grass
come on yeah how it's like how much do you make as a mid-tier news anchor or whatever like i think
this kid's gonna do all right might outscale you before he's like 15 yeah like maybe what were you
doing at 15 maybe hold your horses a little bit i don't know just like oh y'all need to look up clone
hero right now okay i do know about clone hero it's super cool um this is the same way as people beat pac-man
yeah riley and i had this debate earlier to uh was that today yesterday uh we had this debate
yesterday um i i think a community can determine a beat point for a game if there isn't a clearly
distinguished one or okay well this one they did have a beat point but it had only ever been reached
by an ai player it hadn't been reached by a human one that was the crash apparently there's like a
percentage chance of crashing at various stages yeah here's where the confusing part gets though
because he had planned to beat it at like level 154 or something and ended up beating it at level 157
so the argument is like could someone beat it at a higher level
i mean watching me that i doubt it but sure i don't really care as personally riley didn't agree
but personally i don't really care as long as the community decides on a point if that makes sense
yeah but you can decide and then someone will break past it anyway because that's how people are
and then what was the point of deciding it anyway i don't know yeah i mean i just i know there's enough
speed running communities sure there's enough of these types of communities where they kind of have
to come up with something right because it doesn't make a lot of sense and i'm personally okay with them
doing that because why do i an organic game crash an organic kill screen i think that's valid i mean
no one can ever be the first to get that again and i've heard that now the the competition moving
forward is going to be like getting a higher score before you hit that crash whether that's through
getting more like tetrises which is where you clear four lines at once i think um not really i was
actually decently into tetris for a while there but not anymore um or just other yeah other various
ways of making try to try to manipulate your score to be higher before you hit that crash point and i
guess that could maybe be by getting to a higher level i don't know anyway incredibly cool riveting
and that news anchor lady's a jerk apparently like in the same breath pretty much she congratulated a
16 year old darts player cool because that's it's so much more outside and athletic than tetris honestly
though
i mean come on please the finger rolling thing is so sick it's so cool i love that too that like they tend
to wear gloves i think because the the fingers like slide better by by wearing like like it looks
like cotton gloves i don't know so interesting absolutely wild uh oh i think it's time for wancho after dark
okay
dan processing unit just like
oh okay
i was gonna check and see if he's streaming on twitch but then i realized he's 13 he's probably not
allowed on that campsite
a blue scooty blue scuddy which yeah
is like actually a sick name i actually it's it fits like you know he's 13 he's playing games what's your
name i don't know i have a color i like a lot and scooty sounds cool yeah let's go i like
the name all right it's got to be hard to come up with names apparently who was banned from twitch
for being too young yeah fair enough i mean he doesn't even have fully developed breasts yet what
would he do on that site
yeah dude like trash on this kid his most recent video the the first time anybody somebody has ever
beat tetris two million views come on all right
uh dan hit me sure after getting into computers through your videos i'm graduating this year
and starting my dream job in cpu design whoa that's super cool do you have any optimistic messages
going into 2024 for my doomer generation i don't um there's no hope it's one of those things where
i feel like i'm in a really awkward position where i i am a participant in you know the whole millennial
you know being crapped on thing that happened like i i i did join the workforce at a time that was
not great um worse basically sorry the worst yeah the worst a little bit better than me pretty much
um i mean still terrible like i i i joined the workforce right as the 2008 financial crisis was
happening and you joined right as it had happened yeah both of which were really terrible terrible
times um i i i i watched as property values went up faster than i could earn money to put a down
payment on something fortunately i was i was lucky enough to find a teammate really early in my life
that put us both i can't stress enough finding the right person to partner with for your life is the
most important decision you will ever make bar none because it has a waterfall effect on absolutely
everyone else i was both lucky and i'll give myself a little bit of credit for being a good job
interviewer i guess but you know yvonne and i found each other and put ourselves way ahead of
our peers uh just by by teaming up very early on um which is what allowed us to get into the housing
market it's what allowed us to fund linus media group time well it didn't feel like a good time
totally the value of that house had gone up double in like four or five years or something absolutely
like it was but looking back at it now it's great it's like hilariously low yeah like but
psychologically at the time totally watching the the trend line it was it was terrifying because it
seemed like it could burst at any second so i understand and i sim i not just sympathize with i have
felt a lot of what people feel but as someone who got out um and you know now run a successful
business or hire someone to run a successful business uh like i feel like i i'm in this
position where i can't really talk about it anymore i don't really know what to say because i don't have
solutions i am doing fine um but i get it so it's like yeah it's crap um yeah i'm pretty sure a lot of
people probably would have told you you were nuts when you got that place yeah but then yeah again looking
back at it now it's like it's a bargain yeah but like it's like less than an apartment yeah like
over half a million dollars on just like like the place to live like are you kidding me like our i
forget what our mortgage payments were but they were a lot like if we weren't doubling up our incomes
there's there was no way yeah impossible yeah well i mean maybe her income not mine though
but yeah it's uh i don't know and it's it's crazy to think that it was so crazy back then
and how bad it was back then is like a joke compared to how bad it is now yeah and we got lucky in a lot
of ways man like when we when we bought the units that we occupy here that the one not the one i'm
sitting in but the one that i would be sitting in if i was on the other side of that wall
uh they cost us three hundred thirty thousand dollars each canadian um let me just see if i can
rymar for sale surrey commercial let's see if let's see if there's any for sale here right now
uh oh no well so yeah elijah is saying like i wouldn't what would that be uh abbotsford
i would in like abbotsford area a uh where was it oh no i lost it
lots of people are talking yeah i can't find any right now but they've they've basically like
quintupled or something like that i i don't know 780 square foot apartment
not close to here like decently far out 400 grand anyway my point with these is that we got really
lucky with the ones that we got at the in the first place but then experienced a lot of the same
frustration as we wanted to expand yeah and found that the prices were going up so fast that as we
needed more space it was becoming unaffordable as fast as as we could make more money for fortunately
we have run a very successful business and things have gone well and we've managed to you know find
the space that we need but you can't be just like a solid business anymore even no it's not enough
very yeah or take outside money which we we're lucky enough to never have to do yeah like it's it's
brutal yeah south surya detached house starts at 1.5 million dollars canadian so you know 1.15 1.2
real dollars but still it's i don't yeah we say okay so here's here's another one of the problems
too though is in saying real dollars i think that somewhat diminishes the fact that people here make
less yeah so like that's that's something that's also complicated either because people here have
access to socialized services that other people have to pay for like when you actually break down
everything sort of depends it's not as black and white and regionally it's very very different yeah
and also in certain career paths it's very common for those jobs to cover that for you depending depending
it's so it's it's all it is never if you think it's as black and white as socialized health care
bad or you know this job good or whatever benefits package downsides and upsides to it is always shades
of gray if you think you know for sure you're wrong it's that simple i'm sorry and i know that for
sure which means i'm wrong only sith deals in absolute yeah exactly uh yeah elijah's saying
minimum wage still 15 bucks yeah that's also just like what what are you supposed to do with that
you're a sith now what's going on he's obi-wan kenobi you know you can kind of pull it off with
the beard clone wars era obi-wan it's not bad it's actually pretty good anyway sorry i have no good
news and it looks like it's gonna get worse yeah it's only getting worse like with interest rates
being like they are i thought like housing prices would at least go down yep not happening like what
the what the crap i can tell up still
so you're just gonna have these like gigantic corporate overlords that own every place to live
and then you'll just basically be
well there's their mercy record levels of canadians leaving the country because they can't afford to live
here yeah which is like and then then it's like microcosms down to uh there's also tons of people
leaving the province we're in yeah for other provinces inside of canada so this is like a
multi-step alberta has stopped running ads to encourage canadians to move there because they're
like oh this is a lot of people yeah
please don't eat me before before he would have even heard you say that elijah was like can we start
a smaller ltt in alberta because everyone in canada is like oh boy gotta go there it's the only place i can
afford to live yeah well no that's gonna change oh man well the maritimes was good until covet and
then apparently a bunch of people like moved out of the city and started just work from home there and
like yeah price is up drove prices up like crazy yeah
we just
uh yeah let's start our own city elijah we've talked about it just stop we're not
cold cold cold cold cold cold you'd do great you could do it you do supreme taryn can run the
business you can run the cults i'd make way more money than him cults seem to be very profitable we
don't need money yeah from we have linus yeah company store do the whole shebang yeah yeah
imagine all of the money that the company makes never actually leaving siegen says we do in linus town
again yeah
you know yeah i live in prince george make decent money but will never own due to rent and housing
prices yep yeah i think that's true for
most basically an entire generation of people yeah which i don't know how the heck you could do it
like even okay unless you have parent money or something this is going to get me cancelled by
someone but like speaking of parent money even being in a position where my kids can afford to
stay in the lower mainland because i can just facilitate that yeah is that the life i want for
them yeah all their peers are going to leave yeah none of their high school friendships will remain
or they'll just be peers with people who are also kids of people who can do that and which is also
highly questionable yeah like
as a parent of
rich kids i um still don't want my kids hanging out with other rich kids yeah
um i i want my kids spending the vast majority of their time with down-to-earth people who don't take
things for granted and stuff we've actually been talking about doing a um doing uh
uh an experiment not an experiment because it's not really an experiment when you just do it but
yvonne and i have been talking about moving out of our house for a year um
furnishing and accessorizing a place based on two sort of median ish incomes and living like that for a
year because i feel like um are you doing vehicles too well it'd have to be yeah yeah like i feel like
you can talk about it all day but i don't think that my kids can possibly fully understand that most
people don't have a sports car and a theater and all this stuff that they for them is just life for me is
sweat blood and tears yeah and for them is just it appears it appears i mean and i'm guilty of it
sometimes for christmas um you should you should come into my building we could have piper stays
together it'd be great for christmas santa got the family uh a bamboo labs 3d printer which is
as much for me as it is for them which is how they end up with a lot of the stuff they have
but most people don't have a 1200 3d printing setup i uh
yeah i don't know man i i i feel like i feel like there's a lot that they could learn and i don't
think i don't think a month is enough yeah i i think
i paid so much for that pool that i am loath to give up a summer with the pool but i think if we did
an entire school year like there's already a lot of things that we do pretty well like my kids don't
go to the cafeteria at school they always take a lunch i feel like it without the summer
without the summer you think so because the summer is going to be the most concentrated point in time
where they hang out at home and do home things well remember there's in my experience when i was
growing up there's lifestyle changes we're going to have to make regardless of home like they are not
going to be able to be in as many programs as they are like they just they they they do you know
martial arts and dance and and choir and band and like like all some of it's you know run through the
school or whatever but some of it costs money and um they're gonna have to make they're gonna have to
make choices house swap give him my apartment i don't think i don't think he wants to be living in
his house for a year um funny funny idea though um yeah i don't i would uh yeah because like i'm
thinking back when i grew up we did a lot of things but one that was kind of i'm sure if my brother and i
like really desperately wanted to my parents would have tried to find a way because they were like
that um but ice hockey was kind of not really in the cards because it was so expensive ice hockey
especially at a competitive level was extremely expensive because a lot of those teams were like
flying around and stuff to play games yeah um and the gear is wicked expensive and you're growing out
of it all the time so you'd have to buy new gear all the time but something like ball hockey for
example like we were going to do ball hockey pretty much no matter what um you just needed sticks and we
never had the cool sticks we never had the nice sticks yeah um but like we could do it we could play
football we played football all the time my parents had me in a lot of programs is what i'm kind of trying
to argue to a certain degree i don't know man don't sacrifice your children's development this is
a different kind of development he's trying to get them more like it's yeah they don't take this the
wrong way i don't know man we um it's it's it's something we've talked about i mean i do think
there's ways that you can concept you can keep kids more grounded regardless we have a lot of rules um
um we they they lead pretty structured lives and stuff like they don't just get to do whatever they
want yeah and so even though it's it's a funny thing even though we have a lot of different stuff
that they're allowed to do the really good stuff they they have to sort of they have to pay for it
in doing you know practice this or chore that or whatever else um like i probably played more video
games than my kids do at uh at my son's age because he's just like yeah it's there but he's
not allowed so he's like a really good kid it's kind of shocking i don't get it
but uh yeah i don't know i uh all in all terrible idea why i don't really get that i don't think
taking away the extracurriculars is a good idea yeah i i hazard that one a little bit too but i don't
understand why any of the rest of it would be a bad idea elijah seems like a funny rich issue
this is a joke we are spoiled so i will buy another house to teach them how to be humble
i did think that was pretty obviously wouldn't buy it just throwing that out there yeah like
obviously um you'd set up a lease holding company which would own the house in trust so that you can
defer your taxes sorry i wouldn't
um yeah see this is another one jph 290 says i know this is not exactly perfect but you can have
the kids see what poor is really like in another country that that to me actually had exactly the
same problem as as that other thing is like what we're going to learn what it's like to be poor by
being rich enough to jet set around the world and witness poor people in their natural habitat like
i that seems so much worse but i i don't know i mean i'll tell you this yvonne did a uh did like
an outreach program thing when she was a kid and did you know like they built something while they
were there in the community yeah and for her that was extremely impactful but then yvonne like me also
grew up in a house that had to budget every month so was it that or was she just already grounded and that
you know was the final hit on the nail and then it was you know cemented as part of her personality
over there i i don't know i don't know i've i've just i've read some really interesting no guys
stop okay we gotta stop this is important we gotta stop there's a comment so in a housing crisis
you're going to collect yet another house in your housing quiver no no no stop
stop stop i'd make sure someone's living in ours and no i wouldn't be buying he's not buying it he
literally said he's not buying it okay stop oh man i love this i like hamburgers you hate hot dogs then
no i didn't if i didn't say something then i didn't say it can we can we agree on that maybe um
um sorry what was i what was i saying before right yeah um something that i've read about a fair bit
is how the like the the the number of generations oh that wealth lasts that wealth lasts and it's like
three crazy and then it's gone like every single time because it it's there's all kinds of problems
with it but it's not not technically every single time not it is very common but it is
extremely common um there are particular families that have found a way to make it go for like
literal ever um but that's a part of that might just be the incredible wealth of those families
because you can squander a small fortune very easily but with a big enough fortune you can squander
really hard and it just is a perpetual motion machine yeah i only learned recently about why
people um hate billionaire philanthropy so much it's not the like the image cleansing aspects of it
but the fact that i think it's in the us they only have to spend put i think five percent of the money
into what they actually say they're doing so if their returns on the money they put in are greater than
five percent they actually make money overall and it's a tax and it's tax free so you just get yeah
it's a whole it's a whole thing i just i just learned about this recently i don't actually know much about
tax havens and loopholes and all that kind of stuff i pay my taxes um oh boy but uh anyway the
whole thing about about wealth not lasting multiple generations is because the attitude and mindset
that makes you start a business and take risks and build it is not passed down by living in
opulence as a child and so the kids might have witnessed a little bit of it but the grandkids
are completely detached from any of the hustle that ultimately led to that success and they just
blow it or something so
why do you hate housing linus i know right yeah balmer is about to make a billion a year in dividends
he could squander a billion a year and still be richer yeah exactly i don't think that's the only
one i think some families have very strongly baked in preserve the wealth stuff sure and there's but i
think that's very abnormal there's communities and cultures that also have very different attitudes about
money um than others yeah yeah tough man i uh anyway the point is just i want my kids to be good
people i want them to be your kids are pretty real people i want them to stay that way i agree i just
like it's um i think that there's a lot of time i'm not i didn't say that to dissuade you from
any further effort yeah there's just there's a lot of developmental years left for things to go
really really wrong oh yeah and so you're entering some of the worst ones this is this is a super
first world problem and i 100 understand that but i will do anything to keep my kids from being
douchebags yeah because that's like the worst that's two people that grew up not wealthy at all yeah
uh more on the poorer side i it's obnoxious i didn't like the rich kids me too like at all me too no
offense yeah um but me too like they just kind of sucked no offense there are exceptions um absolutely
like i know yvonne talked about one of the people she worked with that one of the pharmacies he worked
at i'm not going to identify anyone but they grew up like jet set lifestyle and didn't want any money
for mom and dad not because they had a bad relationship everything was great but didn't
want anything wanted to hustle like like 100 grind set and just super down to earth and i'm like yeah
but like you can't point at an exception like that yeah and go okay well then it'll everything will be
fine right like even if the odds were 33 then two out of our three kids are going to be so like we gotta
we gotta figure this out man yeah like i i've i've definitely met some exceptions too but a lot
of the times it's just like excessive out of touchness um so like even if there's no intention
there yeah it's like oh you need a replacement part for that game why don't you just throw you
into a new one yeah exactly i i've told you this a story a billion times but uh there was a person uh
when i was in a certain class at a certain school there was a person who dropped they were holding
their laptop like this yeah and they dropped it and it smacked into the ground and they just laughed
and my brain just shattered because i couldn't understand at all you'd protect that thing with
your life yeah yeah and if i dropped it which like okay sure i used to render ltt videos yeah holding
my laptop open so it would cool better walking between classes like it was sketchy but if i ever
dropped it i would be like broken um not laughing about it like it's just it's there's some there's
some like context aware things where your automatic reaction in certain scenarios if you've never had
any exposure to like life being difficult is going to be not really okay to the people potentially
around you my kids don't value money yeah at all that's not good it means basically like i remember
jobs i mean yeah of course and then what happens so okay but they haven't needed one totally like what
would a kid get a job for well what did what did you spend your money on i mean i bought just like
dumb stuff i bought candy i like saved and i would buy really early like sort of big ticket things
um like i i would buy i bought a gpu upgrade for our family computer the biggest purchase i don't think
i've ever talked about this the biggest purchase i think i made with like allowance money like as a
kid was i paid for the cable internet drop from the street i remember you told me about oh i have
told you about this okay um my parents agreed they would pay the monthly bill if i paid the
installation and that was it was hundreds of dollars it was i didn't have money but i had all
my five dollar a week allowances and birthday money and all that stuff and i was like i want always on
internet let's go um but like my kids have always on internet they have a switch they have a gaming piece
what on earth would they buy yeah i don't know like i have all the cool toys because i just like
most of the games i make videos about setting up toys and i like i'm assuming they have cool toys
this is all the stuff that i wanted when i was a kid right yeah so then they just like already have
it yeah i don't know most most of mine was saving up for computers or computer parts or games or when
i was very young it was candy um yeah elijah my my son does value money to a degree not like i did when
i was his age though like i wanted it you know whereas i think my brother and i wanted money so
bad we didn't really have a traditional allowance but sometimes my mom would set up certain chores
that we could do for money that were kind of like extra um and i remember for the snes my brother and
i were on like uh you you mentioned this term earlier we were on a grind set for that snes i think
my mom was just like making up chores at a certain point um like going and like digging up rocks in the
backyard and like sorting them so that it was less rocky ground stuff like that um but eventually we
got enough money to buy a snes but my mom also hooked it up there because this was a lot i don't
think craigslist was like a thing i don't know how she found it but she found like some dude we bought
a snes off in a parking lot um and i remember like sitting in the car with my brother while my mom goes
out and does this deal for a snes in a parking lot recognizing at that age like this is kind of
sketch but she got it to us because it was way cheaper than luke stolen goods left from yeah right
here baby yeah i don't know um but it was yeah it was like it was when the n64 was already out
so it was a last gen console um but i think that was honestly i don't know if it was because we
weren't as wealthy or if that was because that was less of a big deal back then
i don't know because i still thought snes was like super cool when n64 was around i thought it's
just a different style of games like n64 was more attempting to do 3d stuff and snes was more like
perfecting 2d stuff i don't think either of us had as much access to advertising at the time though
ah that might be it yeah like i didn't see a lot of ads because we didn't have cable so yeah fair
yeah i was kind of the same way like yeah i was like oh he just has this toy yeah like that friend
has that one and that friend has that other one and i didn't really see them as like better necessarily
i got really stoked when i figured out one of my friends had an original ness because i was like
whoa cool i haven't played any of these games before like i didn't really see it as like this one is
newer therefore better yeah man this has definitely created some uh
man this has definitely created some debate in the chat i don't remember the last time i saw chat
this active people are everywhere from like this is a great conversation to you know this is the most
entitled horse that i've ever seen in my life or whatever just let them be kids though they can learn
that later they can't learn that later though like that's the thing it's so formative later kind of is
now yeah anyway uh was that one merch message yes good gravy how you doing dan yeah i'm good okay
i want to hit me again sure uh let me find the thing uh hey dale all question for luke i'm a recent
software dev grad but i feel as though i'm not skilled enough for entry-level jobs in your experience are
graduates given some slack to learn on the job one imposter syndrome is a hell of a thing in the
software development industry in d industry oh my uh industry largely because a lot of people are
you know learning constantly or googling things or stack overflowing or tragedy between uh things
constantly um and i think there's some insecurity around that despite that being a thing that everyone
does um so don't beat yourself up too much uh there is absolutely or there should be absolutely
opportunities to learn and grow on the job for a junior uh because there should be opportunities
to learn and grow on the job for everyone in the stack uh including seniors uh that being said if you're
being actively paid you're going to be expected to produce something of value um so it's not like you're
just going back into school but this time school pays you um you actually have to make things that
bring the company value um you're just going to have as a junior you should have more time and
opportunity to work through those problems uh than other people may have and you should
hopefully have access to it depends on where you end up working you might be the only developer there
um but you you may depending on where you go have access to seniors that you can um you know bounce
questions off of but you should try to solve it yourself first you should take the opportunity to
try to do that and then if you get hard stuck then you can bring it to them and see how you can move
forward um but but yeah i think that would be my answer don't shy away from applying uh places are
probably going to send you tests and things like that and do the tests and if you don't get callbacks
after the tests don't worry about it just move on to the next one and keep going uh you need to
get in somewhere you need to start getting some experience on your resume and you need to start
getting some experience just as a developer as a person so just send it um don't take it too personally
don't get too imposter syndrome uh before you end up getting a job um uh work on your portfolio
if you can keep training keep moving forward we're all gonna make it
hello wan.dll long time viewer first time shopper linus i've noticed their increase on camera time
have your littles expressed personal interest in content creation how do you respond um they love
being in videos but i think they specifically like being in videos with me like i think they like
doing what i do they're kids right they um i i i'm just grateful they still think i'm cool
as cool as i can be uh they actually were in shooting a video with me today that um i think
is gonna be just a blast we build luke a computer but with a twist i don't know how much i want to
say about let's not say too much let's let's let the people experience it um it's a really really fun
video i'm very excited for you guys to watch it and i am also very excited to watch it yeah yeah it's
gonna be great that's all i'll say so um as for just making videos on their own no i don't think
they have a ton of interest in it and i i'm not sure if i'd even encourage it really i want them
to i want the more i think about it the more i want them to find their own path um i'm not as they
get older i'm also not gonna shy away from showing them as much as i have in the past like if they want
to participate i think that's pretty cool we'll pay them for their work uh that's something that
i've talked about a lot in the past is um content creators who seem to think that their children are
their property and they can just exploit their labor and just take all the money never been a fan of that
doesn't really make a ton of sense to me but i also think that um but i'm also not going to go
completely the other way and just go yeah my you know my kids should never be on camera they um
i i doubt it's going to have a significant impact on their later life if they build a computer or two
like we have a very different kind of channel than some of the channels that do based around your kids
yeah do feature their children a lot you know experiencing milestones or doing embarrassing things
or whatever else like my kids like they're building a computer like what who cares like it just um
i i doubt there will be a ton of negative impact on on their later life from being in a video with
dad on his youtube channel at some point when they were a kid it just seems kind of far-fetched
um and they're yeah they're uh they're
they're having a lot of fun with it and it's it's fun to do things with them yeah it's it's been okay
because like blocking them out completely i think would be weird but having them on all the time
would be weird yeah they show up every once in a bit i think that's cool i think it's it's on people
to kind of find the balance that works for them yeah like um it also depends how much they want like
what's inside you know talking to the dad uh and and actually and and lincoln as well like they for
them that was a thing they did together and they bonded over and like it's super memorable and stuff
right like that's um like yeah did the family you know does the child actually want to do this too
yeah that's huge because if so then you know sure run with it but if they just hate it all
the time then like what are you really doing yeah i'm not going to force anything yeah
hello ltt so i've got the lt steam deck and it has sticky buttons so valve rma have you experienced
sticky buttons or heard of it um i haven't heard of it specifically around the steam deck but uh
something that i did want to talk about the reason i curated this one is that even mature devices can
still have a lot of differences from one unit to the next and one of the things that can cause
a plastic part to fail um can be worn out molds and i was just i was just wondering and i'm now i'm
going to wonder aloud exactly how many steam decks valve has sold because i can tell you right now
it's probably enough that valve has had to remake the plastic molds for the steam deck possibly multiple
times which is a tens of thousands of dollars process if they want to do it on shore uh with a
with a high degree of quality um to make like a really long lasting mold that was it yeah and as the
molds wear out you can run into tolerance issues exactly like this so i do wonder maybe if you know
they had a worn out mold and it didn't get replaced in a timely manner or you know whatever else i
wonder what the differences are between the first team deck and the last team deck theoretically you
know they they are the same but as it gets plastic flowed through it more more and more and more times
they they do change a little bit i don't know a ton about the exact materials processes that are taking
place there but it's something that i did have to learn about with the screwdriver because we had to
make a decision actually it might not have been screwdriver it might have been something else but
at some point we were making a decision between um different molding materials and whether we wanted
to go with the more expensive one that would last much longer or the cheaper one that would last a
shorter period of time and it comes down to how many you think you're going to sell because
that cheaper material is great as long as you're only going to sell 10 or 20 000 of them but if you're
going to do hundreds of thousands then you want to really invest in a super high quality
mold which costs a lot more because it's made out of harder materials that are not going to wear out
as quickly that was it i just thought that was cool i want to talk about that from what i can find the
three million unit number that people are throwing around for the steam deck is a estimation i don't
think valve has announced it yeah there was a research research firm omdia they reported that the steam
deck sold 1.62 million units in 2022 not sure why they think they know that or not i haven't looked
into the report at all uh and then their report estimated that the steam deck would pass 3 million
units sold um sometime during 2023 but that that's a complete estimation and that's not valve necessarily
saying the 1.62 million units that's a research firm not sure where they got it from it might be very
good information it might not i suspect it's a lot more than that at that price i feel like it is too
with that kind of reach no idea there's just we just don't know i just the number of them i see
around like i that is your yeah like i'll put a photo like on the ferry or whatever you see them on
the ferry yes i see i see steam decks in the wild man so it's i don't know man i uh i suspect there's a
lot of steam decks out there i'm always pretty surprised at how many people have them i also
think it's kind of interesting that when i say i don't have them how surprised people are because
they're like what i do like that's very often the response that i get um so yeah they're they're
they be out there um yeah key pass and sync thing was the best decision i made what do you think about
not being able to disable google prompts i store two fa secrets in it because it's the most secure
thing i have i hate that not being able to disable google prompts like it asking you to
store passwords no no google prompts that's when you go to sign into something and it's like i just
sent a notification to your phone just click okay or press a number or whatever i'd like to be able
to choose um that's the only thing i hate about it overall it seems reasonably secure-ish and secure
as anything else i think it's actually pretty good yeah yep
i do agree though i would like to be able especially because it's yet another or factor yes so yep
can you talk a little bit about what is required to get one of the fare phones to work on a canadian
network i want one but see that it doesn't come with canadian bands when uh when stock um i didn't
really have a ton of issues using it i didn't set up anything special i just used it um it's
possible that my particular carrier uh uses bands that the fair phone just supports or that my area
has good coverage of the particular bands that the fair phone does support your mileage may vary
but it was that was not my issue with it by the way i managed to get i started carrying my iphone
in my other pocket well i was i i've switched off the fair phone now i'm back to the note
um i wanted to use the one plus open but apparently bell took it for ce he says for ces so he can you
know do more planning like okay um anyway so i'll wait i'll get it from him after ces but um
good job though yeah so i i started carrying around an iphone so that i did the ways so i could record
the buggy behavior from the fair phone man i've got everything from the earpiece not working on phone
calls to the main speaker not working when watching videos to the brightness going like this like
high low high low high low high low in a dark room like just
it's going to be a really disappointing review
that sucks yeah i'm bummed i wanted it to go well hey dll hope y'all are having a good night
which companies are you most excited to see at ces i'm really excited to go to hisense apparently
they made something that just on the tv i just bought like absolutely makes it look like a clown
product for joksters the new thing like incredibly bright sdr it apparently can do double the peak
brightness 10 000 nits what's going on is there was there like a new technology discovery or something
he's he's checking if he can say i think that's what my guess what is a context for 10 000 nits oh
thank god okay this is not proprietary secret information oh yeah oh you're wondering about
what you had said already oh yeah oh no oh oh that's not much worse um 10 000 nits
you're like blind so is that a flashbang 40 000 local dimming zones oh how big is the tv 110 inches
so it's a little bit smaller but more local dimming zones but more so you could move a mouse
pointer around on this thing and get barely any blooming as far as i can tell wow
absolutely and i'm assuming you could get it in north america without having like a chinese phone
number and they claim 95 of bt 2020 for what are you 2020 yeah that's what i'm talking about man
this thing sounds wild and then right next to them on the show floor tcl is supposed to be there
with a north american version of the thing i just got oh yeah so wow i guess i didn't need to import it
i mean it's a cooler story that you did that yeah and like yours is special now we it was it was worth
it for the content to deal with importing it before it was available in north america like i i i'm really
glad we did it and it's for the gram yep yep anyway i'm really looking forward to that i also want to see
all the weird ai stuff so exciting hello linus as someone who loves folding phones do you think apple
will eventually make one if they do do you think it'll help make folding phones go mainstream i
don't know apple seems almost
resistant to doing anything cool with their phones lately what what have they done it's felt very safe
like put like more holes in it like i just don't really or less yeah or less i don't know man like
it's uh it almost seems like they're stuck in a rut where they recognize that what people love about
the iphone is that in six years seven years having not paid attention to tech at all people can go to
the store say my iphone is slow can i have a new one and it works exactly the same way that their old one
did like that's great from from like that that's great from a customer consistency customer experience
standpoint but it's not exciting it's just boring oh so boring happy new year dll luke i'm thinking of
getting a budgie or two and was wondering if you had any tips or resources for me i had a cockatiels
growing up but uh so i have some experience with owning birds emma my my girlfriend is more knowledgeable
about birds and and the care of birds than i am i like to think i'm no slouch in that regard but
she's she's much better studied um look up because i don't want to say it and be wrong look up uh the
things that you shouldn't have or be doing near your birds or probably in your home at all some of
that is like cooking with teflon some cleaners are also included in that um they are like mostly made
out of air um and if airborne things get into them uh like i mean we were happy that our budgie gained
weight and became 30 grams um so they can they can be completely taken out and no longer be alive
very very very fast um so you need to make sure that there aren't bad contaminants that you're not
like cooking stuff that can overwhelm them uh that you there's no people are saying no smoking in the
house they're not kidding um no smoking in the house um that that can be really bad for them um
they're very very fragile beings as birds they hide when they're sick um they don't want to look like
easy targets to pray so they hide when they're sick there's some ways that you can kind of tell look
it up this is something you're going to need to know because again they can die very fast they're
not super resilient so you need to get them to a vet very quickly if something does go wrong um also
be very active with their environment when you first get them they'll be very shy uh they might
hide in their little box for a long time stuff like that but they're very social animals they're
going to want to hang out with you but you need to constantly poke them out of their not actually
not actually physically poke them tips but you need to shake the cave if they're sick just shake
the cage but like change up their environment give them give them something that they're not
comfortable with yet um last night i just put a random recently cleaned so that i knew it would be
safe uh but a random sock near their cage just one that they hadn't seen before so that they would
be like what's that is it safe is it stimulation yeah keep them active keep them stimulated they're
they're smart and they're very social so keep those things rolling spend actual time with them
um and change up their environment and stuff so that they have to learn new things get used to
different things um accept different things as safe they'll also accept things as safe faster and more
easily when they're needing to do it all the time um and that includes you so if you're having a hard
time socializing with them if you're having a hard time like getting them to land on you stuff like that
um get them used to getting used to things yeah anyways i'll stop there hey dll i've recently tried
to stop shopping on amazon but i'm at a loss on where to find all of the things i used to shop for
how do you find storefronts for high quality reliable products well lttstore.com
you're getting all the brownie points tonight oh man um i i just i google um i look for places that
seem pretty credible there's easy ways to make mistakes like that like i almost bought uh badminton
shoes from a site that was just fraud once yikes yeah um so you know look for independent
i do reverse thumbnail search by the way that's one of the things that i do okay um i try to figure
out if the exact product pictures they have are from elsewhere sure but if it's from the manufacturer
site that's fine by the way a lot of smaller sites will not take their own do their own product
photography they'll just borrow from the manufacturer but yeah um one of the other things you can do is i
i don't know reseller ratings used to be a thing um i i haven't i buy views i buy a lot of stuff first
party these days yeah like when i bought the the bamboo printer i just went to bamboo's website like
i just i don't more places offer that now yeah it's so it's more possible thing now yeah um i remember
being frustrated actually quite recently because i wanted to buy something and the manufacturer didn't
just sell it amazon only stores are very annoying no it wasn't an amazon only store it was just
there was just something i wanted to buy and i was on the manufacturer website and i was just like
i just want one of these why don't you just sell it to me um like what's your problem but it makes
sense like setting up e-commerce is not easy right yeah a lot of overhead a lot of legal issues and
stuff too um before i forget uh you mentioned you're excited to see all the weird ai things at ces
you should like keep a tally of how many of them you can like break oh no that sounds like too much work
you're an ai fridge no you're helping me buy a car yeah or like learn how to make napalm yeah yeah
i like that that's often what you reference from the book because it's my favorite part
my um my sister-in-law has a smart fridge which i only found out when we visited over the holiday
and she actually uses it oh like to play music in her kitchen and i was just kind of
yeah it has a screen on the front and you can like load up youtube music videos i love the ones
that kids her kids love like watching music videos in the kitchen i just sorry i just it was one of
music videos it was one of those product categories that i first saw at ces 12 years ago or whatever
and i was like well this is stupid this will never be a thing that matters and like yeah in my house
where i realistically could have bought a smart fridge if i really wanted to with a screen on it
i so your kids could watch me one thousand percent decided not to do that because it
seemed like you'll have to watch music videos on all the other screens in the house yeah i um
i'm sorry i've gotten completely distracted because apparently alex jones made a video game
yeah when was this for your fridge no but this was a this was a bit ago i think was it if i'm
thinking of the right thing um no this is this is from like two days ago two days ago
oh boy
uh
all right well good luck with that everybody wow the website is alexjonesgame.com
all right
oh boy
yeah wow it should should do you see the like
wow it's all reviews right now are overwhelmingly positive
um
yeah okay so there's videos of a ton of different people playing it so i think i've seen like
thumbnails for people playing this game which is why i knew about that
um i wonder if uh they have asmon's permission to be in their trailer
well they must have sent them the game yeah i guess interesting that uh seems like an unlikely
collaboration there's also i mean there's other streamers in here too it's not just asmon
all right okay uh sure let's move on uh how long until we can get vr headsets that are able to be
true monitor replacements i think it's a bit apple vision pro that i it is i don't know the the people who
have tried it say it's amazing i haven't tried it yet if it's as amazing as they say maybe it's super
amazing otherwise i would say we're probably a bit off we just had kind of a big leap and i would say
maybe it's the next leap or the one after that where you can like really comfortably replace the
high dpi monitor that's right on your desk but one of the issues i have with it is yeah the comfort
side of things i don't think i would want to do that for eight hours in a day um
i wear headphones for eight hours a day what if it was just as comfy on if it's just as comfy sure
but it's not headphones aren't on your face yeah but it becomes just as comfy but i mean that might
be the break even point right it basically needs to be just as comfy it needs to be that
comfortable wearing headphones yeah and like i wouldn't even want to wear these all day i hate
these yeah these suck so like it's not even like headphones in general haven't just solved this like
some of them are good some of them are going to be better than other ones i i feel like i could wear
my my sennheisers that i have at home forever and it would never be a problem um but these are are
not these are not okay um so yeah i have a headache right now yeah like i'm not sure if it's the alex
jones game or these headphones i think i'll put that on my list i'll get new headphones through here
um okay another one for you uh hey dll i'm a teacher in texas and this year our standardized tests
the written responses both the short and the long form will be graded by a custom trained ai
how do y'all feel about ai as a grader uh that sounds really dumb
i don't know if i need to elaborate on that let me get this straight we're concerned about the
students taking shortcuts by using ai but we're actually going to enshrine
the teachers right to take shortcuts by using ai in the in like the worst way
the grading portion really come on
is it gonna hallucinate somebody's essay
anyway okay you hand in an essay on like pony boy or whatever is it pony no gold
stay golden pony boy yeah i don't think the book is is it the book called no no no no no no
no no no no but you hand in a an essay on pony boy it's a good song um i think it's by sophie i
don't remember yeah outsiders yeah yeah you handed an essay on pony boy from the outsiders uh and it's
like your essay on war and peace all right how's these various but i just hallucinated a different
essay for you i'm gonna grade that one if you don't mind i did perfect and like it's not gonna
show it's work so how is like if if a teacher has to vet it all anyways aren't they just gonna have to read the whole essay
at which point why don't they just grade it
yeah exactly it's a book what it
all right ai graded him uh
hey linus did you hear about city of heroes developer officially licensing the biggest fan
server i didn't but that sounds super cool yeah i curated this i did not hear about this either that
sounds awesome that sounds super sick so what is what is officially licensing a fan server i don't
know city of heroes has been dead for a long time okay um i'm assuming what this means is they
legitimized this fan server because sony's not doing anything with this dead game anymore um so
maybe you have to own a copy of the game similar to how forge alliance forever does it uh which is
great fantastic solution in my opinion um i don't know i know none of the details i've never heard of this
but them it it sounds good super cool um in other like kind of cool sounding news for a change
um this i also didn't know but this is a uh merch message from tony c uh thoughts on rockstar
buying modding platform cfx and ncsoft giving official blessing oh wait oh no this is the ncsoft
thing uh okay hold on rockstar buying cfx okay no i don't have thoughts on that no i hadn't heard about
either of these things sorry i've been buried under a rock this week apparently but the ncsoft one is
super cool sorry i thought i misread this so the license that sony gave the city of heroes fan
server the fan server i saw the name for a second i think it's called homecoming yeah
fan supported homecoming server for for city of heroes receives official license from publisher ncsoft
surprising players the license allows the admin team to continue development
my god that's amazing that is and this is sony who's done this uh it says it's i think it said
sony and what i don't know and what you said but this says ncsoft okay that's kind of amazing
yeah ncsoft's decision to embrace the fn server not sure what that means um shows a shift in
sentiment giving hope for future community content in the gaming industry this is
awesome what should happen this is amazing if it's one thing if a game dies out because the
developer can't maintain it anymore or whatever else and uh no one cares fine then just let it die
i guess but if the community wants it to keep going if they're sure small but dedicated enough they
should be allowed to yeah i don't know if uh someone else misspoke or if i misspoke or or what uh but
yeah sony has definitely nothing to do with this well that makes more sense you didn't say sony
that makes so much more sense okay yep sorry verbal typo it's getting late um yeah my bad all right
last message i think it's being very cool dll playing games with my kids is my favorite thing
to do and they're getting better they're finally starting to walk straight linus what are your
favorite games to play with your kids oh um man anything anything they like um you play faff with
little man now yeah yeah um the uh teenage mutant ninja turtles beat them up was pretty fun to play with
them um uh i was one of linus's kids that day uh ultimate chicken horse um they they really like
that just the the trolling and fun party game uh one of my favorites is take links house party it's a
vr game super niche but it's a lot of fun and the kids just love the silliness of it can't play it all
the time no no it's like fantastic when you pull it out not very often it's a hit every time yes it comes
out yeah you want to kind of limit it though and i think that's pretty much it for the show hey
thanks guys for tuning in we'll see you again next week same bad time same bad channel bye
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